Only Fools Fall in Love, Call Me a Fool

Chapter One

A/N – Hello there! *Squashes you all to my chest* Thank you to anyone that is reading this, they amount of time I have made you wait for it I am grateful to anyone that hasn't given up on me! I did promise you this after Home Is Where You Are but I got a couple of request for prequels then some stuff happened in my life and then the emotional bullet that was the end of S3 and I am currently writing my own original story so that is time consuming but I am back now and I come with this gift. If you can remember so long ago at the end of HIWYA I set it up for Caleb to come and visit Mystic Falls and this is it and everything that will happen here! Enjoy!

Alaric woke that morning to Damon pressing butterfly kisses all along his neck and across his left shoulder. Lifting the arm so that the other vampire could move in closer to lay his head down on his chest Alaric sighed and said,

"Is it really morning already? Seems like five minuets when we went to sleep." He then kissed Damon's coal coloured hair as Damon smiled and pressed a kiss to the blonde's chest and splayed his long fingers out over his partner's stomach.

"Well after our activities last night stretched well into the small hours it might actually have been five minuets." He told him as Alaric reached out a hand to his bedside table and grabbed his cell phone, pressing the return button to light up the screen he saw that it was nine thirty six, dropping the phone back into it's place he turned back to Damon slid out from under his grasp before positioning himself over him and smirked as he said,

"Still got just under three quarter's of an hour until we have to leave, what can we do to fill that time?' Damon answered him by smashing his lips to those above him.

Running about fifteen minuets behind Alaric threw himself into the passenger seat of Damon's car as the older vampire fired it up and pressed the gas a little more than he maybe should have but it was that or explain to a sixteen year old why he was stranded at a strange airport by himself because you lost track of time. Because they were both in a rush they missed Stefan watching them out of window, he smiled despite himself, he was glad to see his brother in a stable and loving relationship, even more so now that he wasn't. He had ended things with Elena a about seven weeks ago, he found that he couldn't take how clingy she had gotten lately, he didn't know the reason why but he knew he couldn't live like this so he had done the best thing all round and broke up with her. She was hurt and pissed at him at the moment but he knew some day she would come to see that it was the right thing to do, they could both move on now.

***DS&AS***

Alaric didn't scare easy and as he was a vampire and any physical harm that came his way as a result of a five car pile up might not be lasting he was so close to kissing the hard surface when he toppled out of the car in the pick up bays by the airport, Damon's driving was getting more dangerous as he got older. Throwing a dark look back at his boyfriend threw the windshield to which Damon tried to give an innocent look back, and failed miserably, he proceeded through the thong of people coming and going from the small airport. He had told Damon to come along to meet Caleb off his flight with him but the other vampire insisted he would wait in the car to give Alaric a few minuets alone with his nephew as that would be near impossible when everyone met him as they were always fascinated with new comers.

Damon watched as his boyfriend's tall frame disappeared into the sliding doors of the airport. It had been just over three months since Damon had met Caleb, a miniature version of Alaric in physical appearance and he had a lot of the same personality. The teenager had been his point of contact when Alaric's family had found out about him and their relationship, it all turn out well in the end but Damon had found that he quite liked Caleb and he was looking forward to having him stay for a while despite Stefan's comments that is would only make them more domesticated than they already were but the vampire knew that his brother would like Caleb. The only thing that was causing them any concern was the fact that half of the people that the kid was going to be around were some kind of supernatural creature, he, Alaric, Stefan and Caroline were vampires, Tyler was a hybrid, even Jeremy could see to the other side, the only kind of normal people were Elena and Matt. He seriously doubted if they could keep everything from him.

Inside the airport Alaric was having thought's along the same lines, with so many supernatural beings around how were they meant to keep it all from him? At least witches weren't a problem anymore as Bonnie had left with her mom. At times the vampire found himself asking if this was the best idea but another, larger part of him was saying that he only had a limited amount of time he could see his family before they noticed he wasn't ageing and he was going to take every second that he could get. All thoughts of if this was a bad idea or not were swept from his mind as he spotted Caleb walking though the doors ahead of him, stranded behind a family with small kids as they walked at a snail pace in front of him, side stepping them he rushed over to his uncle, dropping his bag at their feet he engulfed him in a massive bear hug, it was a good thing that Alaric didn't need to breath because he just had the wind knocked out of him by his nephew.

"Missed ya uncle Ric!" he exclaimed before pulling back so that Alaric could see him,

"It's great to see ya, Ca." Alaric couldn't believe how different Caleb looked from a few months ago, he had hit a growth spurt and was about the same height as Damon now and he was a lot broader as he had filled out his frame somewhat. Bending down to scoop up the bag the vampire then threw an arm around his nephew's shoulders and started to guide him towards the exit asking a few questions as they went like,

"You joined the NFL or something?" and

"How was your flight?" by the time Caleb had reassured his uncle that he hadn't joined the NFL without telling him and that the flight was fine apart from he was stuck behind a couple with a screaming baby that heavy rock though head phones didn't quite drown out they were walking through the sliding glass doors and the taller of the two was leading them towards the car.

Damon, who had climbed out of the car to catch some fresh air glanced back towards the airport from looking in another direction at some poor man trying to change a tire while his wife stood there telling him how utterly useless he was, to see Alaric and his mini-me coming towards them, he noticed that now Caleb had grown about half a foot and was filling out his shirt a lot more he appeared to look even more like his uncle. Pushing himself from his position leaning against the driver's side door he strode over to the side walk to greet the teen.

"Hey Ca, it's good to see you again." He told him, pulling him into hug has Alaric went to throw the bag in the trunk. Returning the hug Caleb said,

"It's great to see you too, I missed y'all.' He told them both as Alaric joined them again.

"Thanks for having me."

"No worries kid, we're glad to have you." Alaric told him as Damon began to walk back around to the car door, stopping before he got in to say,

"Come on then, climb in, we'll warn you who you need to avoid while you're here."

"Yeah, he is number one." Alaric whispered after Damon disappeared into the car.

"I heard that!" Damon called from his seat. Caleb chuckled as his uncle rolled his eyes at his boyfriend's words before climbing into his seat; the teenager took his seat soon after wondering what the hell he had let himself in for.

***DS&AS***

Stefan was in the sitting room as he heard his brother's car pull up the boarding house. He put his book down and checked that there was no incriminating evidence that anything supernatural lived in here. Satisfied that there was no glasses of blood, blood spots, vervain or anything else vampire related around he walked towards the door and swung it open just as Damon climbed out of the car, the trunk was open, Alaric and Caleb stood behind it so he couldn't see their house guest just yet. Damon walked up to him and leaned next to him against the door.

"Alright brother?" Stefan nodded in reply before turning back to see the other two people present.

"Stefan, may I introduce Caleb, Ric's nephew?" Damon asked as the teenager came around the car.

"Caleb, this is my brother Stefan." With his bag slung over his shoulder Caleb looked over at the vampire in question, Damon and Alaric didn't miss the way that his eye's widened or his jaw slackened slightly when he first set eyes on Stefan. The vampire himself was too busy extending his hand towards the younger man to notice and he was also too preoccupied with keeping his facial expressions under control as not to give away the fact that was immediately attracted to the new comer.

A/N –Well? What do with think? First as the chapter as a whole and secondly the Stefan/Caleb thing? (Can anyone think of a name for them?) I know it might be a bit of a shock but I wanted to get rid of Elena and give Caleb a romantic relationship (but don't worry, this is still a Dalaric story and always will be) and I can only write slash and this is a slash fiction so just roll with it? I hope they will grow on you as they will be all fluffy and cute and I will also explain them both being into guys in the next chapter that will be posted soon, no more than five days.

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