AN: Hi guys! This is my first fan fiction so any and all reviews and tips are welcome :) I've kind of had this idea floating in my head for a while and couldn't find anything like it so... here it is:

Disclaimer: No recognizable characters (or plot ideas from the show) are my own. Also, the title is taken from the song from Newsies (the Musical) of the same name.

The nurse brought the baby over to the bed, handing the infant girl over to the shaking woman lying in the hospital bed.

"My beautiful baby girl... it kills me to know I will never know you and see you become the amazing woman I know you will be." The woman looks over at her friend standing in the corner. "Elijah, you know what you have to do. Just, make sure she has a good life, with a normal family. One where she never has to know the hurt of the supernatural world."

"Although I disagree with you keeping her existence from her father, you have my

word." Elijah tells the dying woman. "Goodbye Sarah. You do not deserve what life has sent your way." With that, Elijah took the baby from the woman – Sarah – and looked into the nurse's eyes. You will forget what you just saw. Neither the mother nor baby in this room survived childbirth. You already took care of the baby.

The nurse nodded at Elijah and he left the room, searching for parents he could change the lives of. He enters one room; wearing a lab coat he swiped from the hospital, and sees a man and a woman crying. He checks the report on the table and sees their child is in surgery, but the odds of survival are low. Elijah clears his throat and makes himself apparent to the couple. Your baby survived surgery and you should be able to leave in 24 hours.

He repeats a version of this message to the nurses and doctors who come in to check on the parents to give them the (no longer true) bad news that their daughter did not survive. The family is ecstatic and Elijah takes leave. He has done his part in making sure the baby has a good life, but it is time for him to get back to his own.

15 years later

"Lily! Lily! Earth to Lily, can you even hear me?" Annabelle Chow, my best friend, pulls me back to earth from a rather pleasant daydream. "I asked if you if we're sleeping at my house or yours tonight?"

"Sorry, I'm sorry. I'm in another air space today. And how about mine? My mom doesn't get home until late tonight." Annabelle and I have had a 'school is over' sleepover tradition since the summer after seventh grade. Annabelle and I met in homeroom in sixth grade, and although we've only been friends since middle school, it feels like we've known each other forever.

"We can watch more TVD!" TVD, or The Vampire Diaries, is a show Annabelle and I are absolutely obsessed with. We haven't been very fast at watching it though, because we only watch it together.

"I'm looking forward to it!" Annabelle smiles and goes back to watching the clock as the minutes ticked by until the end of our last day of freshman year. "By the way, what are you doing for your 15th birthday? You normally do something in June or September."

"That's the issue with August birthdays. It's looking like more of a September year, seeing as I haven't planned anything yet."

"Well, you know I'm always up for a pool party." She laughs and tosses her jet-black hair over her shoulder. I'm confused for a second, because Annabelle never plays with her hair, unless she's flirting. I glance over my shoulder and see Jack Forester smiling at her and turn back.

"Anna! He totally likes you."

"You think? I mean I've known him forever and we always get along but we haven't really talked or anything and it's summer so is there even really a point?" Annabelle rambles on and I shake my head, laughing at her.

"Wow, you must really like him. And who cares if it's summer? Summer is the best time because there are no restrictions – no school, no homework, and if it doesn't work out, no one knows." I try to reason.

"I suppose so, I guess I'll talk to him later." Annabelle goes back to pretending to listen to our teacher tell us about summer reading. The bell rings and she stands up and starts walking to the door, but I pull her back and point at Jack.

"Go."

Damon's POV

Ding-dong. I open my eyes, drowsy and tired. I glance at the clock – it's 9:30 AM – and wonder who the hell is at my door. It can't be Stefan, he and Elena graduated and went to college in New York. Plus, Stefan has a key. Barbie is in New Orleans with Klaus (of all people), which pretty much leaves Alaric, who isn't dumb enough to show up this early in the morning. I get out of bed and throw a t-shirt and a pair of sweats on and head downstairs, trying to remember if I had plans today. I'm only half paying attention as I'm think while opening the door, and I look up to find none other then Elijah Mikaelson at my door.