It was early Sunday morning, when Damon heard his phone ringing. Yeah, he could seriously puch this annoying moron in the face. Whoever the hell that was. "Yeah?" He said half asleep and half irritated.

"Hey Damon it's me, Stefan. Were you sleeping?" His brother asked. Damon rolled his eyes. Of course, who could it be? That broody brother of his.

"It's just seven in the morning on Sunday Stef, what else could I have been doing. Collecting daisies?" He said sarcastically.

"Look..I'm sorry," Stefan sighed "but I really need to talk to you. It's pretty important." He said nervousely.

Damon huffed in frustration. "Right now?" He asked trying to sound more calm as possible.

He heard Stefan hesitating on the other line. "If you can.." He said with that victim tone.

"Fine. Meet me in thirty minutes at the Grill." He said.

"Okay. I'll be there." Stefan replied, haning up the phone.

Damon huffed again before streching his body and rosing up from the bed. He went over Andie's side, slapping her ass.

"Time to get up." He said while heading to the bathroom.

"Suck it Damon, it's seven in the morning! Why don't you bring your ass over here instead.." She said frustrated, then continuing with a seductive tone, trying to reach his leg with hers.

He chuckled and rolled his eyes. Chicks could be so irritating, especially in the morning. "Oh I would love it babe..but I have a meeting with my baby bro." He said, closing the door behind him.

It's not that he had a problem with kicking Andie out of his bed. After all, they weren't in a real relationship, Damon made it clear from the beginning. They had fun together, she was a distraction. But that didn't mean that they couldn't see other people, as Damon sometimes did.

It was okay for Andie, but Damon could sense that in the last few weeks it had started bothering her..not that he would care anyway.

He was ready in ten minutes. He put his leather jacket on, heading for the stairs of the huge boarding house, when Andie grabbed his arm.

"Call me later, okay?" She asked, smiling tightly and a little hopeful.

"We'll see." He said with the same smile, patting her lightly on the cheek.

Once at the Grill, he ordered a very needed coffe while waiting for his brother. He could seriously pass out right there on the bar.

"Here's your coffee, Mr. Salvatore." Ben said with a smile.

Damon thanked him with a smile. Stefan and Damon's father, Giuseppe, owned the place and other buildings in the town. Both he and Stefan worked at their father's company, but in the past few weeks Damon really felt like doing nothing. His angsty relationship with his father didn't help at all.

He had always known that his father preferred Stefan over him, and Giuseppe didn't even worry to deny it, but recently it had become so unbereable that Damon decided to quit for a while and just be a layabout. He had never told anyone about his insecurities about his family, he was too proud to, but even if he didn't show it, it wasn't something that Damon really enjoyed. He had now got used to it, but before he had suffered because of it. He loved his little brother, though. They always had each other's back.

He felt someone tapping him on the shoulder and he turned around to see Stefan smiling apologetically at him.

"I'm sorry if I have woken you up this early Damon, but it's about Jamie." Stefan told him seriously. At that, Damon grow serious too.
"What happened to him?" He immediatly asked.

Jamie was Stefan's son. He and Katherine Pierce, his highschool girlfriend, had a child when they were just eighteen years old.

Little did he know, though, that Katherine disappeared right after giving birth to Jamie. She had already graduated when she gave birth to him, and she left a broken Stefan behind. That of course had been one of the biggest shames of their family, according to their father. He hadn't talked to Stefan for two years.

At first Stefan was devastated; he truly believed in his love with Katherine, and even if he knew that it wasn't going to be easy, he thought that they were strong and real. But now after five years he hadn't heard from her not even once.

Luckily Stefan after a rough and dark period, had finally gotten over Katherine. He was now with Caroline Forbes since two years, and he seemed genuinely happy.

"Don't worry, he's okay. But father wants me to go with him for a business trip for the next two months. We're having a huge tour for promoting the company..and I've tried to avoid that, but I just couldn't. You know him." Stefan said.

Damon sighed. "So what exactly do you want me to do? Take your place in the trip?" He said, trying not to sound irritated even at the idea of spending two whole months with his father.

Stefan seemed uncomfortable. "Well, I've proposed that to him but he said.." He began.

"..That he would have wanted you anyways." Damon finished for him with a blank tone, now so used at this for his own good.

"Pretty much." Stefan said looking at his feet, clearly embarassed. Damon had never blamed his brother..after all it wasn't his fault if everyone always preferred him. But sometimes he could almost hate him for being always the golden boy, when he was just the black sheep.

"What I wanted to ask you is if you can take care of him while I'm gone. Keep an eye on him. Jamie is really fond of you Damon, he loves you. You're the only person that I trust around him.." Stefan said, looking deeply into his brother's eyes.

It was true, Jamie truly was the only one who ever showed genuine love and affection to Damon, and he really loved his nephew as well. He just didn't know how to take care of a kid, he didn't actually know if he could.

"Stefan, look.." Damon began serious, wanting to make this clear to his brother.

Stefan cut him off shortly. "I know what you're thinking, that you're not good enough, that you don't know how to take care of a kid…but Jamie is a very mature and indipendent boy. He knows how to behave. Plus, it's not like you really have better to do." Stefan said the last words a bit accusatory, raising his eyebrows. "And don't worry, you won't be alone. There's this girl, Elena, who is Jamie's nanny and she has pratically become a big sister to him. She's amazing with him. Elena was in highschool with me and she's one of Caroline's best friends. She knows how to handle Jamie, and she will help you a lot. I can assure you that." Stefan said trying to sound reassuringly. He knew that he was asking a lot to him, after all Damon really didn't know where to begin with a kid, and with his fancy lifestyle full of sonority girls, he probably was the last person who you would ask something like that. But Stefan trusted his brother, and when he had first told Jamie about him being away for two months, Damon and Elena were the first people he had asked for.

Damon seemed thoughtful for a few moments before repling with an unsure smile and sigh. "Okay. I'll do it."

Stefan smiled warmly at him, and pulled him into a hug.

"Thank you." He said while patting his shoulder.

"Whatever..now get off, you make us seem gay." Damon said awkwardly. Thruthfully, he just wasn't used to this kind of display of affection, and it made him feel uncomfortable. He've never done it with anyone beside his mother when he still was a little kid…

Later in the afternoon, Stefan showed up at the boarding house with Jamie.

When things with Caroline had started getting serious, Stefan moved in with her, leaving the boarding house all to Damon. To be honest, Damon didn't like the house quite much. It was a beautiful and huge house, that's for sure, it's just that he didn't know what to do with it and it felt somehow cold and empty.

He could as well prefer a big loft, preferably out of Mystic Falls.

"Uncle Damon!" Jamie shouted when he saw him, throwing his arms at him.

"Hey kiddo..I've missed you." Damon said, putting on his knees and holding him.

"We're going to have a lot of fun together. I love this house." Jamie said smiling.

"You can bet on it." Damon replied, giving him high-five.

Stefan smiled at their interactions, but then cleared his throat to quickly talk to Damon about some things.

"Go in the kitchen if you want, I've already bought you some junky food that you like so much." Damon said winking and ruffing his hair, amused at how Jamie ran straight into the kitchen at those words.

Seeing his brother's concerned expression, Damon rolled his eyes. "We will be okay. Stop worrying."

"I know that. It's just that I've never left him for so long. And we have to make a couple of things clear, Damon." Stefan pointed out, almost like he was talking to a kid.

"Go ahead. Purge. Get it out, what's on your mind?"

"First of all, no junky food before dinner or before going to bed. Don't be too consensient with him, if you have to scold him sometimes, do it. He's always going to school, just if he's really sick you don't let him. And another important rule Damon…I don't want him to see your sonority girls go around the house, you have to behave while you're with Jamie. You can't just let him walk into you while you're having sex or God knows what you do in this house." Stefan said serious, and a little disgusted.

"Something else, Captain Obvious?" Damon asked sarcastically. "Don't worry Stefan, I'll behave. Jeez, it's not like I'm a nymphomaniac or a complete nut." He said annoyed.

Stefan gave him a pointed look. "Well, I love sex, of course..but I can handle myself. You're not talking to a horny teen-ager you know. Drop it." He finished, rolling his eyes at his brother's annoyance.

"Okay, okay..I was just saying." Stefan said, holding his hands up in defense. "Anyway, Elena is coming over later. I told her to pass even just for a few minutes so you get to know each other and talk a little."

"Mmh..how is this Elena chick? Is she hot?" He asked with his usual smirk.

Now it was Stefan's turn to roll his eyes. "No Damon, don't even think about it. Elena is a very good girl and I don't want you to play your little nasty games on her." He said seriously.

"I was just asking! Chill.." He said, still smirking a little.

"Otherwise I should rethink about that 'not being a horny teen-ager'." Stefan said cocking his eyebrows.

"Just shup up already and go say goodbye to your son." Damon said.

Stefan said goodbye to Jamie, quickly reminding him of a few rules, some of them were even on Damon's list and he could just wonder if his brother had been up all night memorizing them. Jamie, though, seemed really mature for his age as Stefan had always said. He didn't do whims or crying when Stefan left, he was a very quiet and sweet kid. He had been well educated.

"Is Elena coming today?" Jamie asked once Stefan had left, popping on the couch.

Damon sat beside him. "Yup. Your dad told her to come over to talk to me, she's going to be here in an hour or so." He replied smiling.

"Good." Jamie said smiling, laying down on the couch.

Earlier today, Stefan told her that for a couple of months Jamie would have stayed with his brother. Elena was really fond of Jamie, and the idea made her quite anxious. Stefan was a very good person, so his brother would be as well, Elena was sure of that. But her overprotective side for Jamie made her still nervous about this change. She knew all the problems that Stefan had been through in his life, and even because of it, Jamie had grown up as a very close and quiet kid. So being apart from his father for two months could have been a little hard for him.

She was going to meet Damon, Stefan's older brother, in an hour at the boarding house which was almost twenty minutes away from her house. She knew that the huge maison belonged to the Salvatore's, but she had never thought that someone indeed lived there. It seemed very huge for just one person. But maybe Damon had a wife, or kids..who knew?

"Jeremy! Have you seen the keys of my car?" She shouted at her brother.

"I'm packing, Elena, if you haven't noticed yet! Anyway yes, they're here. And Aunt Jenna wants to talk to you." He shouted back.

She rolled her eyes and huffed. At the moment her family was in some changes too. Her Aunt Jenna, who took care of her and Jeremy after their parents death since they were in highscool, together with her fiance Alaric, who was her history teacher at school, had bought a new house to move in all together.

Elena couldn't be happier; Alaric and Jenna had been dating for years now, and it was about time to make the next step. She deserved that. They both did.

While Jeremy wasn't exactly thinking of moving, Elena at the age of 23 though that she had to find her own place. Even for that she was working as a nanny for Stefan's son, while studying at university.

Elena had always loved kids. She had always loved taking care of them, maybe having a little brother and taking care of him for all these years helped her to understand that. She was indeed studying child pshychology and in the future she wanted to be a social worker or a psychologist. She still wasn't sure.

"What's up?" She asked to her aunt, who was still packing in the kitchen.

She had a somehow apologetic and worried expression on her face. "Elena, look..today we're finishing packing, and we're moving in to Ric's while waiting for the new house to be ready. I didn't remember though that Ric's house isn't that big, and we have already Jeremy sleeping on the couch...could you find like another place to stay until the house is ready? It's just for a few weeks." Jenna said, biting her lip nervousely.

Elena's jaw dropped open. What? And she was telling her this now? Where the hell could she go? Caroline locked the house after she had left with Stefan for his trip, and Bonnie no longer lived in Mystic Falls. She had no place to go!

"Jenna! And you're telling me this now?" Elena spat.

"I know. I'm sorry. Forget it, we'll find a way." Her aunt reassured.

Elena sighed in frustration, and then she thought about something.

It may have sounded ridiculous, but she could ask to Stefan's brother if she could stay in the house just for a few weeks, working more and not asking money. That could work…maybe. After all that house was huge.

"Don't worry. I may have something in mind. Now I have to go." She said, quickly kissing Jenna on the cheek and heading out.

Twenty minutes later she was at the boarding house. She felt a little nervous, and she didn't know why. Maybe because she was about to ask to a complete stranger if she could sleep in his house? Probable. She still had Jamie's excuse, though. And she loved spending time with him anyway.

She had opted for her usual comfy ponytail, a cute tank top, a pair of skinny jeans and her beloved All Stars. Casual but still very nice.

Wow, the house was really huge. The more she got closer, the more she saw it. She knocked twice, swallowing nervousely. It reminded her of those old style houses that she saw in the movies, full of vampires and those stuffs.

After a few seconds the door flew open, and she had to keep her jaw from dropping and her eyes from wide open. The man in front of her could as well be the most beautiful creature she had ever seen.

Black raven hair, which seemed to be so soft that you would want to pass a hand through it, breathtaking body, and a handsome, if not flawless, face. What took her breath away the most, though, were the eyes.

She had seen blue eyes before, even pretty..but these. She couldn't explain. The depth and the uniqueness in them was mesmerizing. Ocean blue eyes. She quickly shook her thoughts away when she saw the beautiful featueres of his face turning into a smirk, a cocky one she could see.

Wonderful, they hadn't even introduced yet and he had already caught her staring and drooling over him.

"You must be Elena." He said, his voice revealed to be as sensual as the rest of his body. A shiver passed through her at the sound of it.

He quickly took her hand in his, and when she thought that he was going to shook it, he took it to his lips, kissing her knuckles.

"I'm Damon. Stefan's brother." He said with the smirk still in place.

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