"She likes you!" Katherine whispered.
Damon nodded. "Well I'm not all bad..."
Katherine laughed and poked him, winking.
The baby babbled and then said a single word.
Katherine gasped. "Did she just say...?"
Damon's eyes opened wide.
He was in shock; he'd always wanted to hear a child say that to him and now that it was actually happening... it just felt so surreal.
He smiled down at the little girl and laughed still in shock.
Katherine pulled the blanket from the baby's face and stared at the beautiful little thing.
"We look odd don't we?" Damon asked with a happy smirk.
Katherine looked at him confused. "What do you mean?"
Damon stared down at the baby with blonde hair and green eyes. "Don't you see...?"
Katherine was too wounderstruck to notice the big picture.
Damon reached down and brushed through the baby's blonde hair. "Her hair..."
He pulled his hand back and did the same to Katherine's hair. "...and you're hair. See the big difference?"
Katherine sighed. "Oh..." she frowned. "I don't care, but yes, I see how it's a little odd." she smiled at him.
Damon looked around realizing something.
"Oh my... we need to make room," Katherine said exactly what he was thinking.
The baby babbled some more and said another word.
Katherine and Damon looked at the cute little blonde baby and smiled.
"Well, she knows us now..." Damon laughed.
"Wow, she said- she actually said mommy," Katherine sighed.
Damon smiled and hugged Katherine.
The baby reached out for Damon again and he sighed and took her out of Katherine's arms.
"Daddy's here," he smiled as realizing he could get used to this.
Katherine took the blanket off of the baby and looked it over. "It's ripped... but-" she looked at it and turned it over. "Car- Carol- Caroline?"
Damon looked down at the baby. "Caroline must be her name."
"Hello Caroline," Katherine smiled.
Caroline giggled and babbled, reaching out for her.
"Mommy!" she giggled.
"Aww," Katherine looked at Caroline. "Be right back okay?"
"I'll be here... with," he looked down at Caroline. "Care." he smiled.
"I like that!" Katherine yelled from far away in the house.
Damon smirked and sat down on the couch by the fireplace and held Caroline in his lap now just tickling her.
Caroline giggled and giggled.
Elsewhere, Stefan wiped his mouth; bunny blood always seemed to stick to his mouth for some reason.
"Why can't I just go back to the good stuff?" he asked himself.
He stopped at the front door.
He shook his head, it couldn't be a baby he was hearing, could it be?
He sighed and opened up the front door and walked in slowly.
"Damon?" he asked.
Damon stopped tickling Care and looked around nervously. "Uh," he looked down at Caroline. "In here..." he told his brother.
He didn't know what Stefan would think of Katherine's birthday present...
Stefan walked into the living room and opened his mouth wide in shock.
"Damon!" he yelled thinking Damon had the baby for other reasons.
Damon reasurred his brother by gently tickling Caroline.
"It's not, what you think..." he told Stefan and continued tickling the child.
"Wow," Stefan didn't know what else to say.
He thought Damon had found a baby and was going to kill it, but he was wrong.
"Hello Stefan," Katherine whispered and walked beside Stefan to Damon and Caroline on the couch.
"You wanted this? You did this?" Stefan asked.
Katherine smiled at Caroline. "Damon found her for me..." she explained.
Stefan sighed and just nodded. "Okay..." he looked at the baby in Damon's arms. "It looks so out of place," he laughed.
Damon looked up his brother. "You're telling me, brother..." he smiled.
"I was so interested in the baby that I didn't even see until Damon told me," Katherine giggled and pat the baby's head gently.
"Kat, did you make that bed?" Damon asked looking at her.
Katherine shook her head, Damon opened his mouth, and she put her finger on his lips to stop him.
"I made a whole room." she smiled.
"Oh," Damon managed to get out with Katherine's finger still placed on his lips.
She laughed and took her finger away.
"Do you mind carrying her to her room, Stefan?" she asked taking Caroline and handing it to him.
He shook his head. "Uh, where exactly?"
"Right beside Damon's room..." Katherine told her.
Stefan nodded and took Caroline there.
He laid her down in her little crib that Katherine just made for her from a few boards in the house.
"Nice work, Kat," he smiled looking at the pretty amazing crib just made out of things around the house.
Katherine kissed Damon and smiled.
"Thanks." she kissed him on the cheek.
Damon nodded. "You're very welcome..." he smirked.
Damon rubbed her back. "Do you think we're the right parents for her though?" he asked suddenly worried and nervous.
"I hope so," she bit her lip. "If we aren't... well, I'll find her mother and reunite them if I have to. I promise."
"Wow, that's very sweet of you," Damon smirked.
Katherine rolled her eyes. "Shut up, Damon."
He laughed and kissed her.
He hoped that everything would go well with them and Caroline.
Stefan would like her and treat her like another family member and all would be right in the world... hopefully.
Stefan smiled at Caroline.
She was one of those babies that looked even cuter when they were sleeping.
And that's just what she was doing, sleeping.
He looked around the room at all of the random things Katherine had found around the house that made it look like a real baby's room.
There were little paintings, small baby toys from Damon and his childhood that he'd almost completely forgotten about, and just other random things around the house that just tied the whole room together.
He looked at the baby one more time and went to the doorway and looked back.
Stefan looked around the room one more time and stumbled upon a bunny in the crib with the little baby.
His eyes changed and he knew he scared the baby.
"Shit," he cursed, but it was far too late.
He made a sound and the baby woke up and saw his eyes, which scared her, and started crying.
Katherine was the first to hear the baby's cry.
"Damon, it's Caroline!" she cried and ran upstairs as fast as she could.
Damon sighed and ran after her with his vampire speed. "Stefan?"
Stefan was standing over the crib.
"Stefan, what did you do?" Katherine asked.
His eyes went back to normal and Caroline stopped crying.
He turned around with the bunny in his hands.
The head was ripped off and the fluff and stuffing was all over Caroline and the crib.
Caroline whimpered and reached out for her parents. "Mommy! ... Daddy!"
Stefan dropped the bunny and ran out of the room before he killed his new neice.
Katherine walked in to her new daughter and picked her up.
She wiped off the "bunny remains" from her and sighed looking at Damon.
"Why did he do this?" she asked him.
Damon shrugged. "Must be the cravings..."
Katherine tried to calm down Caroline by bouncing her in her arms.
"Can you clean all of this up?" she asked.
Damon looked at the crib and nodded. "Of course..."
"Thanks," Katherine kissed him on the cheek. "Call me when it's done so I can put her back to bed."
Damon nodded again and bent down to pick up what was rest of the bunny's body.
Katherine walked back down the stairs with Caroline and sat down on the floor with her at the fireplace.
She reached out for her and Katherine found a little ball for her to play with while they waited for Damon to clean up the mess in her room that Stefan had made.
"Mommy! ... Play wiff mee." she giggled and threw the ball to her mom.
"Aww," Katherine smiled and handed it back to Caroline. "There you go."
"Roll," Caroline said and rolled the ball to Katherine.
"Good job, Care," she said and poked her on the nose.
Caroline giggled and continued playing.