Big thanks to: TheEternalCrow, The-Originals-Rock, Guest Terra Nova-Falling Skies Fan, lovemehatemetilldeathdowepar t and DarkJosey66 for your lovely reviews, to all who followed and favoured my story thank you so much I'm glad you like it so here's chapter 2.

After about Chapter 6 or 7 (Yeah I know, a while to go LOL) it will be at least the 12 years later mark to where she's 17 but that's just how I want the story to go. There's pics up on my profile to what she looks like as a child and what she'll look like when she's a teenager.

Anyway...

Chapter 2.

The little girl known as Evelyn, had been with the brother's a few weeks now and had taken the hearts of more than just Damon Salvatore, probably everyone who hung around the boarding house because for the first few day's Damon didn't go anywhere with her, kept her in the house in case she was taken away, but then again he could always compel the authority to believe she was, but of course they were filled with vervain. The first person that she'd met outside Damon, Stean and Elena was Elena's brother, Jeremy and she took to him straight away, demanding his attention but of course everyone who entered the boarding house gave their attention to the adorable little thing.

Damon was sitting with her on the couch as she kicked her legs while reading the book he'd bought her. He watched the five year old carefully and she sensed that he was staring at her and looked up at him, her green eyes staring into his own and she grinned at him before looking back down to the book she was reading. The door shut behind Damon and he turned to look, to see it was Elena, with a bag and nearly rolled his eyes.

She knelt in front of her with a wide smile to which Evelyn looked up at her and tilted her head to the side. Damon knew that Evelyn. "Good morning Evie" She said. Damon had to hide a scowel, so predictable as soon as he started using it everyone started using it. Typical.

"Good morning Elena" She replied with a smile.

"I bought you this" Elena said and pulled round the big bag that she had been holding.

Evelyn only moved slightly, still holding onto the book, Elena pulled out a dress type of shirt from the bag and showed it to her, Evelyn giggled and sat the book on Damon's knee, still opened at the page she was reading and she jumped off the couch. The dress was a flowy white with a little bow at the top, and there was a little black cardigen to go with it. She smiled hugly at Elena and squeezed it to her chest and then her big green eyes looked up to Damon.

"Can I wear it Damy? Please" She asked.

Damon couldn't deny giving her anything, she'd taken over his heart with in days of being around him.

"Of course" He smiled.

She took Elena's hand and the two left the room and Damon waited paitently listening to everything the small girl was telling Elena. Elena had sort of taken over the mother role for the little girl, even while finding it hard she still did it. When Damon noticed that Evelyn was becoming closer with Stefan he half panicked, his brother had taken the love of everyone he loved, so what was to stop his little Evie from falling into that same pattern, but unknown to him the little girl had managed her own thoughts.

No matter who she enjoyed the company of, Damon was her favourite, nobody would come close to him, not in a million years. Elena helped her put the dress on and then fixed her light blondish golden brown hair, which fell straight, she noticed how silky it was against her skin and she smiled. Elena scooped her up and let her rest on her left side, when she walked back into the room, Damon noticed how perfectly Evelyn fit on Elena's side as if she moulded in.

The little girl put her arms out to Damon, who merley smirked at Elena, he took the little girl from Elena and sat her on his knee. Just then Stefan came into the room and smiled at Evelyn, who smiled back shly.

"Hello Evie" Stefan said.

"Hello Stef" She replied, she also had taken up Damon's nick name for his brother.

"Hey Damon, are you going to send her to school?" Elena asked sitting next to him on the couch.

Damon frowned "No" He replied. What was there to teach in school that he couldn't teach her ?

"Why not?" Stefan asked.

"What is there to learn in school that I can't teach her?" Damon said.

"Damy's goin to teach me" She said in a sing song voice.

Damon stood up, still holding onto her.

"Where are you going?" Elena asked.

"Out" He said nodding "We're going a walk aren't we Evie?"

"mmm-hmm" She grinned.

Damon didn't wait to hear the reply he got from Stefan and Elena and walked off, out into the sunshine with Evie in his arms. He'd like to hold her eternity, keep her like she was but he knew she needed to get older. Would she stay with him? How he hoped so.

The two of them walked around the street, people giving them weird glances. Nobody had ever seen Damon Salvatore walk around with a child before but he didn't care, he loved it.

"Can we get ice cream damy?" She said with a large smile.

He smiled back down at her "Of course we can Angel" He said and he picked her up.

How had such a little thing become such a big part in his life when no more than two weeks ago the only woman he was interested in was Elena? Right now he was glad she'd been abandoned, well not in that sense, he was glad that he'd found her when he did because he knew that he needed something like her to keep him going.


Evelyn and Damon were sitting on the couch again later that night as Stefan sauntered into the room with a box. He knelt in front of Evelyn who smiled at him and Damon eyed him carefully.

"Evie, I have a present for you" Stefan said.

Her eyes gleamed at him when he handed her the box, she opened it with her very small fingers and stared at it.

"What is it?" She asked naivley.

"It's a bracelet, will you wear it for me? It'll keep you safe"

Damon knew instantly, vervain. A little part of him felt jealous that he hadn't thought of it first but at the same time he was glad that his brother had thought of it.

"Yes" She nodded and Stefan ruffled her hair before standing and walking off.

Damon picked the bracelet out of the box and put it around Evelyn's small slender wrist.

"Have you had a good day Evie?" He asked.

She looked up at him and nodded "yes Damy"

He sighed, thinking about something "Do you...want to go to school?"

She stared at him for a moment and then shook her head and moved onto her knees "No..Damy can teach me" She giggled.

"Oh can I now?" He asked raising an eyebrow.

"mm-hmm" She smiled, the blush creeping onto her face.

"I don't know if I can teach you, Stefan think's I'm pretty dumb" Damon grinned.

She pouted "Damy's not dumb" She said folding her little arms.

"Is Stefan dumb?"

She giggled "No"

"Yes he is"

"no Damy"

"yes Evie"

She laughed and hugged him and she yawned.

"Are you tired?"

Damon could tell that she was but she shook her head "no"

"Yes you are Evie"

"No Damon" She huffed.

He picked her up in a swift motion and was on his feet, she squirmed in his grasp.

"No Damy! No Damy! No Damy!" She said kicking her feet.

"Bed time" he said holding her still.

She still tried to squirm when he walked into the room that he and Stefan had given her, he sat her on the bed and she scowled up at him.

"If you're tired you need to sleep" he said nodding.

"but I'm not sleepy" She said but her tired eyes told Damon otherwise.

"If you go to sleep now" He said sitting beside her on the bed "I might consider taking you out tomorrow"

She frowned but nodded anyway "Ok"

"Good girl" he said going into the closet and picking out her blue pajamas, that Caroline had given her because she found the little girl so adorble. He handed her them and walked out the room, waiting until she called his name, like she had done for the past two weeks.

But nothing came and Damon peaked into the room to look to see that she was lying on her side on the bed, facing away from him. He listened to her heart beat which was beating normally and her breathing was even, she was changed though which was a good thing. He walked into the room and sighed, why had she become such a big part of his life? Why did he need her to move on?

He pulled the covers over the small frame and stared at her for a long minute before kissing her forehead and walking from the room, quietly pulling the door closed but only enough so that the light could get in because she was scared of the dark, she hadn't told him why yet, probably because it maybe embarressed her.

He walked into his own room and lay on the bed, his eyes closing waiting for the morning to come...