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Chapter 1

Damon went to the door to answer the knock that had sounded on the big door only a few moments before. Stefan and Elena were out on the back porch talking in low murmurs. He had been in the library reading a book and getting increasingly bored.

He threw open the door expecting to find a sales person on the other side- at least he might break the boredom a little if he could mess with the head of the unsuspecting salesperson. Then he could send them on their way.

Instead Damon found a woman standing there looking around the elegant yard in curiosity. She was wearing short denim shorts and a low cut purple camisole top, not what your typical sales person wore. He took in her dark curly hair that glinted red and gold in the summer sun, and a pair of green eyes. His gaze continued downward past the delectable show of cleavage on down to a pair of tan legs that seemed to have no end. Damon pulled his eyes away from her shapely legs to find those crystal green eyes taking a leisurely appraisal of him as well. He smiled and dropped his lashes in a flirty gesture.

"Can I help you?" Damon asked with charm. She returned his smile.

"I'm looking for Mr. Salvatore." Her voice was feminine with a sexy southern lilt.

Damon quirked his lips into his most charming grin, "I'm Mr. Salvatore." He watched as she looked him up and down once again, her expression seemed to say that she had taken his measure and had found him wanting.

"Stefan Salvatore," she clarified and her tone remained cordial but her body language told him that she wasn't into playing games.

'Too bad,' he thought because he was about to show her how fun games could be, that is if she wasn't just passing by.

"You are looking for my brother. He's this way." He closed the door behind her.

"I wasn't aware that Stefan had a brother."

"Then you mustn't be all that close to him," Damon said subtly fishing for any hint of her connection to his brother. He couldn't stop himself from covertly checking out her body once again.

"It's a shame," she said as she ignored his attempt at information gathering. She followed him as he began leading her through the grand house.

"What is a shame?" He asked as they walked.

"It's a shame that chivalry is dead, even for vampires. You'd think that you had been raised that it is not gentlemanly to stare at a ladies ass." She threw a coy smile his way, her green eyes mischievous. Damon recovered quickly from the knowledge that she knew about them.

'What interesting relationships Stefan forms,' he thought before answering the strange girl. "It would be a shame," he said to her as they neared the door to the porch, "if you were a lady. In my time a lady wouldn't dress in shorts so short as to invite a man's eyes to wander. A lady would never say ass either." He smirked as he opened the door to the porch and lead the way outside.

"I've brought you a guest, little brother." Stefan and Elena looked at Damon as he announced a visitor. The girl moved out from around Damon and beamed a smile at Stefan. In return his own face lit up in a delighted smile. Elena looked between the two, it was unusual for Stefan to smile so genuinely for anyone but her. Elena looked the other brunette over; she looked around her age and was undeniably attractive.

"Camryn? What are you doing here?" Stefan asked as he got up from the white wicker chair he had been sitting on.

They met halfway for a hug big enough to lift Camryn off her feet. Damon took a spot on the wicker love seat next to Elena.

"Seems Stefan wasn't a monk, after all, before meeting you. Are you jealous Elena?" Damon taunted and Elena glared at him in response.

In front of them Stefan and Camryn had pulled apart and were in conversation.

"I'm moving into Liam's place. He's in Europe for a while and I've decided that it's time to move into the family home. Or what's left of it anyways."

"Is she a …" Elena whispered to Damon.

"Not that I can tell," he paused. He watched as Elena looked the girl over again. Stefan seemed to remember himself.

"I'm sorry." He looked to Elena then back to the other girl. "Camryn, this is my girlfriend, Elena Gilbert." The two women smiled at each other. "This is my brother, Damon. This is my friend Camryn."

"Very nice to meet you, Elena. It's about time that Stefan got a little less broody. I'm glad he chose such a beautiful girl to fall for." Camryn looked Elena over; she looked exactly like a picture she had seen of a woman Liam's past. She couldn't wait to ask Stefan about that one.

"How do you two know each other?" Elena asked as Stefan moved back towards her to sit on the arm of the couch, draping his arm across her shoulders. Camryn sat in the chair the Stefan had been sitting in. Damon watched all of them, staying quiet and accessing the situation. He wanted to know how to exploit the situation later on.

"Camryn's father is a friend of mine. I used to drop by their place every couple of years to stay for while," Stefan answered Elena then seemed to realize something and turned back to Camryn. "If Liam is off traveling and you are here, who is watching things at the ranch?"

"Actually, Sean is."

"Unbelievable. Isn't he too young to be in charge?"

"Sean's going to be 35 this year. You've been away for a long time, Stefan. He's found a girl and wants to settle down and get married. That's kinda why Liam and I had to make ourselves scarce. It's hard to explain how your father and your older sister both look so much younger then you to a new fiancée'."

"35. The last time I saw him he was what 16? We were teaching him to drive. He was away at college the last time I came."

"Time out," Damon interrupted. "The rest of us are a little confused here." Elena nodded her agreement.

"Are you a vampire?" Elena questioned. Damon had said she wasn't but surely that was the only explanation that fit. Camryn smiled. It was the most logical deduction.

"I'm something- else," she responded cryptically. A cell phone interrupted Camryn's answer. She found her phone in her pocket looking at her caller ID. "It's Liam, excuse me for a moment." She got up and walked down the steps of the porch and out into the woods that surrounded the house. Stefan and Damon could still hear her side of the conversation.

"Hey daddy, how's Europe?" pause. "Yes, Stefan is actually in town." Pause. "He's got a girlfriend." Pause. "Yes, she's pretty and extremely nice from what I can tell." Pause. "She knows what he is." Pause. "We've both told you over and over that there isn't ever going to be anything between us." She laughed and Stefan blushed. Damon filed that tidbit away for later use as ammo against Stefan. "Hey, how come you never told me that he had a brother?" The conversation drifted off as she walked away deeper into the woods.

"Interesting friends you have Stefan. You never said what Camryn's last name was." An idea was forming in his head, one that couldn't be possible, vampires were unable to sire children.

"McCrea," Stefan responded with a challenge in his eyes.

"Like the founding family?" Elena asked trying to keep up with the conversation.

"The same. Liam McCrea is her father," Stefan answered her.

"There hasn't been a McCrea in Mystic Falls in generations." Elena continued.

"That's because he was the last of his family line. He was turned right before we were," he answered again.

"By Katherine?" Elena asked. 'Is there anyone that woman didn't turn?' she thought.

"No," Damon answered this time. "Pearl. She thought it would be beneficial to have a council member on our side. He didn't agree and he left before the fire."

Camryn walked back up onto the porch. She didn't return to her seat.

"He says hello, to you Stefan. He hopes to meet you, Elena." Camryn turned her green eyes to Damon. "He wanted me to tell you to keep your damn hands off. He really doesn't like you Damon. Something about you courting his girl before the war." Damon smirked.

"I remember that. She only wanted to wish me a fond goodbye, a very fond goodbye." Damon smirked and Camryn rolled her eyes.

"Perv." She said and Stefan smiled while Elena giggled. Damon just looked at her in surprise. "Anyways, I should be going. Liam tried to keep the house intact all these years with contractors but I'm not going to lie it's a pit. I've got lots of work to get started on and lots of contractors bidding to do it. Let's see how much money I can sink into bringing it back to its former glory." She walked over and hugged Stefan goodbye. She waved to Elena and walked back into the house to make her way back out to her truck. Damon watched her go. From inside he heard her quiet voice.

"You're staring at my ass again, Damon."

"Wear longer shorts next time," he mumbled to himself.

A laugh echoed back to his ears followed by the masculine chuckle from his brother, who had heard the whole exchange. Elena looked confused.

"Spill, little brother," Damon demanded. She was just what he needed to brighten up a boring day.

"Nope," Stefan answered happily. He liked having the upper hand over Damon.

"Tell me or I'll go find out for myself. I'm sure your little friend won't like my methods of interrogation."

"I wouldn't try her if I were you," Stefan warned.

"Please, Stefan?" Elena added with a gentle hand on his arm.

Stefan sighed, "I'll tell you because you will just hear me telling Elena later anyways. She's human, at least in the way it counts. Her heart beats and her blood looks no different in a lab. She has all most of our strengths and none of our weaknesses." He paused and watched as Damon and Elena thought this possibility over. "Her mother came to work on Liam's ranch not knowing that she was pregnant. Almost immediately they fell in love and began a relationship. They were into blood sharing." Doman and Stefan shared a look.

"Wait. What's blood sharing? You don't mean they were drinking from each other do you?" The thought was repulsive to her.

"It's a common practice for vampires to compel their partners to drink while in the act. It's known to intensify the climax for both of them." Stefan answered, he didn't add that most vampires didn't even have to be compelled. "They had already shared many times before they found out that she was pregnant. Obviously they stopped as soon as they found out. They were scared for weeks that the inevitable would happen and she would miscarry. Somehow she managed to carry the baby to term. They were married and Camryn was born a McCrea. It appeared that the blood sharing had no effects on Camryn as she grew up, until she hit puberty. She starting exhibiting odd characteristics. They were little things at first, better hearing, not needing her glasses; all things that could be brushed off. At 19, while she was away at college, she went through something that caused the final changes to take effect. She came home convinced that she had been turned somehow against her will. Liam was forced to tell her about the theory that the blood sharing had given her special traits. She hasn't aged since then."

Damon jumped up thinking. He paced around the porch.

"Damon what are you thinking? Don't think that you can mess with her." Stefan said to his brother.

"Oh don't worry, Stefan, I won't do much. I'll just show our neighbor a little fun." Damon left them alone on the porch.

"Are you just going to let him mess with her?" Elena asked Stefan.

"He has no idea what kind of trouble he is stepping into. Camryn is every bit as strong as he is. She will give him a run for his money. Besides, maybe this will side track him for his other pursuits for a while. If it gets out of hand I will step in and see what I can do to help her."

He leaned over and kissed Elena. When they pulled apart she was brimming with questions that she began asking Stefan.