Oh, I forgot to put a disclaimer in at the beginning so here it is: I don't own Vampire Diaries or it's characters. Okay, so I hope you like this chapter :) Thank you to the ones who are reviewing and to those who favorited/alerted my story. I'm glad you like it and, Judity74, I will do my best to keep updating quickly. Also, thank you for the comment, Sortoflovely, about my writing DE well. :) Hope I can continue that!

Elena had been driving for quite awhile before anyone tried to call her to see where she was. She had left a note for Jenna telling her not to worry, she was fine, she had to find her mother, she would be back in a few days tops. She knew that wouldn't stop her aunt from worrying, much less from calling, but it seemed like the right thing to do. Jenna called about when Elena had expected her to. So she had time to prepare herself for the call. It was the usual 'what were you thinking?', 'I want you home this instant', 'how could you take off like that without telling me?' speach that lasted so long Elena thought the battery in her phone would go dead before she even got there. The conversation ended with a very angry 'fine'.

Elena knew Jenna wouldn't stop worring until Elena was back at home, and then she would be in major trouble. But, right at this moment, she diddn't care all that much. The second call was also one she had been expecting, even though she hadn't realized she had been expecting it until it happend. But, somewhere in the back of her mind, she knew. As soon as her phone started ringing she glanced at the caller ID and answered it.

"Hello," she said.

"I know you were wanting to avoid finishing our conversations, but don't you think this is a little extreme? I mean, I would think that after last night, you would be looking forward to being back in my presence again," she could practically hear the smirk over the phone. "However, I can't seem to find you anywhere this morning, which is really a shame, for you. Since I assume you're not going to this extreme just to avoid me, I have to believe you're disappearence has something to do with what you were researching last night. Am I right?"

Elena let out a sigh of exasperation. She hated how he wouldn't give up and how he seemed to understand her so much better than anyone else but, when she thought about it, these were the same things that made her lo...No! This is not happening. I am just really, really tired and I am obviously not thinking straight. She told herself sternly. She nodded her head and seemed to regather her confidence before she spoke.

"Well, I'm not really sure why you want to know," yes, you do, a small voice in the back of her mind thought, a voice which she mentally buried. "But...yes, you're right. I am going to be out of town for a little while. A few days tops. Guess you will have to find someone else to argue with while I'm gone."

There was a momentary silence on the other end of the phone. Not very long, but still, for Damon it was unusual.

"Out of town? Elena, what were you researching?" he said, all teasing leaving his voice.

"I already told you, it's not important," she said equally serious.

"If it wasn't something important, you wouldn't have left town. Where are you Elena?" Damon asked, still with a serious tone, but also with another emotion mixed in. Could it be...worry? No, Elena thought, that's not possible.

"I'm not really sure," she said. Which wasn't technically a lie, she wasn't completely sure where she was, she just knew she was close.

"Elena-," Damon started, but Elena cut him off. "Damon, look I really appreciate the concern, odd as it is, but I really have to go now. I'll be home soon. Just look at this as an oppertunity to think up all sorts of new arguments and innapropriate comments for when I get back," Elena said, sarcastically.

"Oh, don't think I won't. You and I will have many things to discuss when you get home," Damon said, and just the way he said it sent a chill through Elena. He seemed to be back to his joking self, though his voice maintained a barely noticable edge. One that probably only Elena could notice. "Also, you should really watch the sarcasm. You're getting as bad as me," she could hear the smile in his voice at this comment.

"I'll work on that," she murmured into the phone. "Bye, Damon"

"I'll see you soon Elena," his voice held a certain promise to it while still maintaining it's light tone. As she closed her phone she really hoped what he said was true. A hope that, until a couple of days ago, she never would have thought she would have. She also hoped this was true because she was getting an odd feeling in her gut, something telling her, warning her, that things are about to get very dangerous. Which, considering the day-to-day lifestyle she already leads, a feeling like that is never good.

Back In Mystic Falls

Damon was angry as he hung up his phone and put it back in his pocket. Of course, anger wasn't exactly a new emotion for Damon. Now, Damon was heading for the police station. He needed to check the history on the computer Elena was at. He had to figure out what she's up to. He would compel all of the officers that were in there which, it bein Mystic Falls, was not many. Then, he would be able to hear when someone was approaching the station door and he could either compel them too, or hide. No one would even know he was there.

This was proven true when Damon walked in the door to about 4 startled looking police officers. Damon had all of them compeled within a minute, then he walked over to the computer Elena had been on and sat down. Thankfully, it had already been logged onto so he didn't need to exert the extra personal effort to get it out of one of the officers. Damon went to the history and looked at the searches made around the time Elena had been here. What he found were repeat scans on Isobel Pierce. Oh no, Damon thought. The odd thing was that he really should known that this is what she's been up to. Elena had been obsessed with finding information on her mother ever since she found out she existed.

Damon opend the last search Elena had looked at and found an address. He laughed to himself when he saw that the address read, Atlanta GA. Then he looked at the address again to make sure he had it in his mind before closing out of the page and walking out of the station.

What am I going to do? Damon thought. He could only imagine all of the different ways she would find to get into trouble, and, of course, he was going to have to go save her. It wasn't like anyone else could do it, most of her friends were human and they would only cause Elena more trouble if they showed up, that is if they knew about vampires in the first place. Stefan would probably go save her if he knew, but Damon didn't trust him with Elena's life. At least, not as much as he trusted himself. Especially with the way Stefan had been acting all heart broken and depressing lately. It was really pathetic, but, if he had been the one to get dumped by Elena, he would probably be acting the sa...Woah, okay, this has got to stop, Damon told himself. Why do I even care what happens to her? Why should I go to so much effort to save a human? Damon asked himself.

Because you are connected to Elena, you have feelings for her, a small voice in the back of Damon's mind told him. A voice which Damon realized he had been hearing for a long time, ever since he met Elena, he had just been ignoring it. He tried, now, to do just that. There's no way I have feelings for Elena. I don't feel. Of course I have to save Elena, but only because the look on Stefan's face when he finds out will be priceless, Damon thought with a smile.

Damon was still smiling as he reached the boarding house and zoomed upstairs to pack a few things before taking off after Elena. As he got into his car and started driving he started thinking about Elena, he just hoped that when he found her, he would still be able to save her. A grim smile spread over his face with this thought, and he unconsciously pressed his foot harder on the gas. As he sped down the road toward the address he had now memorized, he could hear the murmurings of the small voice from earlier in the back of his mind. The voice was still small, but, it seemed that with the recent events it had gotten stronger and more noticable than before.

Elena

As Elena pulled up to the house that the address had led her to, she noticed how secluded it was. But, she supposed, that was to be expected. Elena took a deep breath and mentally prepared herself for what she was about to do. There was a good possibility that she was getting ready to meet her mother for the first time. She just knew she was in the right place. The pull to her mother was almost exploding with intensity the closer she had gotten to the house. Now she could feel it even more, she could feel her.

She got out of the car and walked up to the door, completely confident, then she knocked. She waited only a few moments before the door slowly opened. As the woman stepped into the door frame, Elena let out a gasp, the woman looked so much like her. She could see the family resembelence in every feature of the woman standing across from her. She could only imagine the look she had on her face, as she looked at her for the first time.

The woman held a suprised expression on her face for all of a minute before a slow, vampiric smile spread across her face. Then she spoke.

"Well hello Elena, I don't believe we have been properly introduced. I'm Katherine."

Soooo? Sorry this chapter was short but this is all that I had planned for chapter 3. What did you think of my writing in Damon's P.O.V? I was a little worried writing for him because I really didn't want to do anything. . .un-damon like. (if you know what I mean) Please leave me your thoughts on this chapter and I promise to try to get chapter four up as soon as I can. :) But there won't be any updated tonight for sure because Vampire Diaries will be on...:)