Chapter 1

Gracie's POV

I was playing in the living room and suddenly there was a knock at the door so I go and get mommy and tell her someone is at the door. She gets up and gets it.

"Damon?" Mommy asked.

"Bonnie" the man said.

He leans down to my level. And said "You must be the beautiful Gracie."

I nod my head. "May I come in?" he asked.

"No!" Mommy said.

I look at her confused. She usually always lets people in. He leans down to my level again and said. "Gracie I am your Father. Tell Bonnie to let me in." he said sounding mad.

"Who Bonnie? And you not daddy. Daddy died." I said sadly.

He went back up to Mommy and said "You told her I was dead?" he asked.

She nods. I look up confused. I don't get grownups there so weird! I finnaly just ask Mommy.

"Who this?" I ask. She sighs and says

"Gracie this is Damon your dad" then turns to Damon. "Why are you here?"

"To get Gracie" he says. My eyes widen.

"No! I can't let you do that. She is with me." Mommy says.

"I'll fight you to get her back. She is mine. I went through a ruff spot. I need her now." He growls.

"What happens when you go through a very ruff spot? Beat her? Give her a way? She is happy here. Leave."

He looks like he wants to kill Mommy so I butt in. "I have a dad and a mom. Why can't he live her with us?" I ask.

"He is a bad person Gracie. I love you more. And he doesn't. He would give you away or hurt you so you will stay with Mommy, okay?" Mommy says.

I look at Damon and he looks like he will kill Mommy. And then sees me staring and softens and says. "I would not hurt her or give her away. I would love her and Stefan will love her too. She is half me half her mom. Not you. And I could win in a fight and court wise I would still win. I'm her father. You are her godmother."

I run to the back door and run outside into the trees and climb up one and then I here mommy and Damon screaming my name and then mommy says. "This is your entire fault! She was just adjusting to the new life style too"

Damon looks confused and says "What 'Lifestyle'?"

"When she gets scared she always run and hides. I finally got taught her that she doesn't need to be afraid of everything. And she was getting better!"

Damon looks sad. And then says "I love her Bonnie! I want her back! I will kill you if I have to get her from you."

"Damon! No! She needs me! And if you kill me Gracie will never forgive you!"

"She needs me more! I'm her Father! And I will kill you. Gracie won't mind." He said with a weird looking smile-ish thing.

Just then he snapped her neck. And I couldn't help it. I gasped and started crying. Damon looks up and finds me in the tree and he climbs it really fast and gets me down.

He grabs me and I scream. "Mommy! Pweessee don't hurt me!" he sighs and puts me in the car I just sob to sad to move. He comes back about 3 minutes later. With all my stuff. I grab my teddy, Harry, and hug him close. I fall asleep and he wakes me up and says "Were here."

We are at the big house. Just then this man walks up and says "Hi Gracie. I'm your Uncle Stefan." I smile at him.

"Gracie Bennett" I say he frowns and looks at Damon.

"Didn't you tell her?" He asks Damon. He frowns and says

"Not really. Just told her I was her dad." Damon says.

He put me down and I run and go into a room and look for a place to hide. I go into a library and hide under a table not wanting the mean man to hurt me.

Damon's POV

As soon as I put Gracie down she runs. I sigh and look at Stefan.

"She runs and hides when she gets scared. Bonnie told me she gets scared easily. And snapping Bonnies neck right in front of her didn't make me the nicest person on her list."

"Really Damon! She is not going to take that we are vampires well then. Are you going to get her?"

"Yes, let me go find her."

I use my supper hearing to hear her crying in the library. I walk in slowly and I hear her breath hitch as I walk nearer and nearer. I lean down so she can see me and then I say "Hey Gracie! Why are you scared?"

"You killed my Mommy! And you're going to kill me" she said. I sighed

"No Gracie I would never kill you. I had to kill Bonnie, I needed you. I missed you. I wasn't with you those days because I cried and got mad over Your Mommy's death. Not Bonnie." I said to her.

"Who Mommy then?" she asks.

I sigh and say "Your Mommy was the nicest person, ever. She was so pretty. She had brown hair and brown eyes and the most beautiful smile. You would have loved her."

"Why is she no here" she asks.

"She died."

She gasps and then says "Did you kill her too?"

"What! No! Gracie, I wouldn't do that! I would never ever do that!"

"Why you kill my Mommy then? I saw you!" she screams.

"Gracie that was not your mommy that was like your babysitter for a couple of years."

"Now I have no mom." She states. I sign and nod.

"What you do have is a Uncle Stefan, and a very awesome Daddy though." I say smiling.

"Yeah, I no had Uncle before." She says. Well I'll have to tell her she has two uncles.

"Gracie I have to tell you a secret!" I whisper yell.

"What?" She cups her hand by her ear and I say

"You have two Uncles now!" I whisper in to her ear.

She is smiling then nods. I smile too.

"When can I meet them" she asks.

I look at my watch and say "In about 20 minutes." She smiles.

I go down the steps but I don't hear foot-steps behind me so I freeze and say "Gracie, I will not hurt you, I promise. You will love your uncles. You are safe." I promised then I see her coming down too. I smiled happy I can convince my daughter when needed. I see Stefan at the end of the stair case then I feel Gracie grasp my hand like it will save her life. I look down at her and see she looks like she will get eaten today.

I say "Gracie he is one of your uncles, remember? You're Uncle Stefan." She looks like she is trying to remember something then looks at me and get out of my grasp and run to Stefan and gives him a hug.

I feel jealous. This is my daughter and I have never gotten a hug from her but she just goes up and hugs Stefan. Stupid Saint Stefan.

"Hey Gracie!" he says.

She blushes and looks down and says "Hi Unclely (uncle-ly) Steffie." I burst out laughing, he hates being called Steffie! By a- oh my I don't know how old Gracie is!

"Gracie how old are you?" I ask.

"Umm" she holds up 3 fingers. I nod. And sit down, Gracie sees me sit so she crawls on my lap and asks "I no hate you anymore but why you kill Mommy?" she said barely above a whisper.

I say "Because I needed you and she wouldn't give me you."

"But Mommy said it's not good to kill people even if I'm mad." She says.

"Bonnie taught you that?" I ask. She nods.

"Did you kill someone before?" I ask. She nods with tears in her eyes, I regret killing Bonnie and asking Gracie all this stuff instead.

"I killed Troy." She whispers. I sit there stunned that she can kill a person.

"How?" I manage to get out.

"I got really mad because he said he was 'gonna steel all my toys' and I cried and told him 'no' but he was and I did something. Mommy said I used my 'Vampire Power.'" She said crying.

I held her there and sighed. Poor Gracie.

Then Jeremy came in the room with Stefan not too far behind. Me and Stefan turned Jeremy right after Elena died because we knew Gracie would need family and she would probably be a Vampire later on in her life since she is part Vampire. They were laughing and such until they saw Gracie in my lap with tears in her eyes. They quickly ran up to us in Vampire speed to see what was wrong. But it only managed to frighten Gracie more because of the Vampire speed.

"Damon, what did you do to my niece?" both Stefan and Jeremy asked at the same time. While they did this Gracie crawled behind me and used me as a shield I sighed and said

"Wow, wow, wow. Stop. I did nothing, we were talking and she said something and I asked her a question about it and it made her sad. Now if you would back up a little bit so Gracie doesn't have to stay behind me the whole time would be wonderful."

They backed up but not by much only a little. I signed but said "Gracie, you could come out now I want you to meet someone." Then whisper yelled to Gracie "Remember the surprise we were talking about earlier?" she giggled and came out. I felt very prod I got my daughter to giggle.

She held my hand tightly and said "I'm Gracie Bennett."

I signed. "You're Gracie Marie Salvatore." I corrected. She nodded.

"I'm Gracie Salvatore." She out streached her hand and smiled at Jeremy.

"I'm your Uncle Jeremy!" he said excided and picked Gracie up and twirled her around. She smiled and giggled. Once she was done she went up to hug him and said "Mommy Knew a Jeremy once she said 'that I would have loved him and he was amazing at drawing.'"

Little Gilbert looked confused and then I whispered so low so Gracie couldn't hear it "She is talking about Bonnie, you worms for brains!"

He chuckled and said "Oh you mean Bonnie, yeah I'm that Jeremy. I'll show you what I can draw later, okay?" he asked she nodded enthusiastically.

"So Gracie what do you do for fun?" I asked trying to make conversation. Because I am a little bit pissed that she went on Stefans lap and not mine.

"I like to play with Harry and draw and watch movies!" she said happily.

"Okay, wait who is Harry?" I asked.

She giggled and looked at me like I was missing something huge. Then she went upstairs and got that bear. Now I get it, wow I was missing something huge.

"Oh wow don't know how I missed that." I muttered. Then Gracie started laughing.