Authors note: Hey I'm really happy about all the reviews and I went back and reformatted the first 2 chapters. So I'm looking for a Beta so if you are interested or know anyone I would love that. Thanks so much. ~Lizzy
Damon smirks at the slightly smug face Elizabeth is giving him as he pulls out his phone. Damon presses call on Caroline's contact.
"Hello?" Damon hears on the other end of the phone as Caroline answers her phone.
"Hey Baby Vamp I need you to come over here and dress Elizabeth. I don't understand baby girl's clothing." says Damon.
"Fine. I'll be over there in like 5 minutes. And you better have an extra nice blood bag for me when I get there." Caroline says and then hangs up. Damon hits the end button on his phone and then looks down at the little girl on the changing table, entirely occupied with grabbing her own feet and staring at the ceiling babbling to herself. Damon then smells the most God-awful smell in his entire life.
"Oh my God! What in the hell is that smell?" Damon all but screeches and then looks down to see Elizabeth with a slightly disgruntled face. Damon then hears Stefan race up the stairs and to the room. Damon turns around and looks at Stefan as he enters the room.
"First off, don't swear around the baby. Secondly, that so called God awful smell is Beth. You need to change her diaper." says Stefan in an almost patronizing voice. Damon just glares at Stefan and shakes his head.
"Nuhuh, No way am I going to change the baby's diaper. That can be your job. I'll go hangout downstairs to Blondie arrives." says Damon gesturing for Stefan to change the baby. Stefan then grabs Damon's shoulder and keeps him from leaving the room.
"No way. You're practically her father now so you can change her diaper. I'll be downstairs waiting for Caroline. Just change her diaper before Caroline gets here." says Stefan, who then sprints from the room before Damon can stop him.
"Damnit" says Damon as he turns to the table where Elizabeth has begun to wiggle around, her face in a pout and her nose is all scrunched up.
"Ok Elizabeth, let's do this" says Damon as he carefully pulls off Elizabeth's pajama's and slowing opened her diaper.
"Oh God. That is terrible. Auauauauuauaaugh" Says Damon as he swiftly tries to wipe Elizabeth. Damon looked at his handy work and realized he had just smeared it around some more.
"Shit, I need more wipes" swears Damon. Damon pulls out 5 more wipes and struggles for a couple more seconds but finally gets her all cleaned up. Damon wads up the wipes in the diaper and throws it in the little trash bin next to the changing table. Damon then grabs a diaper from under the table and tries to secure it in the way he saw the first diaper but fails.
"How complicated can this be? It only has the 2 sticky straps." Mutters Damon under his breath as he attempts to secure a diaper on the wiggling baby 3 more times.
"What on Earth are you doing?" Damon hears the feminine voice behind him. He turns around to see an amused Caroline standing there with a smug grin on her face. "What the great Damon Salvatore stumped by a little Baby's diaper? Aaaaaw poor Dwamon." She continues in a baby voice. Damon gives her an indignant glare.
"Hey this is harder than it seems. Anyway I have more important things to do. How about you finish with her then go and do something girly with her." says Damon handing her the naked Elizabeth and then exiting. 'I can't let people see me with the baby' thinks Damon as he leaves and down to the living room 'It will show emotion and emotions are bad and hurt me'. Stefan looks up from the book he was reading on the couch as he sees Damon enter the room.
"Hey what are you doing?" asked Stefan as he sits up straight on the couch looking up at Damon.
"I came to ask you what really happened with Elena and where you went afterward because it sounds like she bitched out and you left pretty fast. So I want to know where the hell you went with that brooding little face of yours." said Damon with an unwavering stare straight at Stefan. Stefan sighs and stands up and walks to look out the window.
"Huuuuh, I was expecting this. So I told Elena what was happening and she immediately thought you um..." Stefan suddenly falters in his words, "She thought you ate Beth" Flinching at the end of his sentence. Damon lets out an angry growl behind him.
"She what! What the hell does she think I am? I'm not a child killer." Damon growls out, saying the last line with conviction. "How could she think I would eat an innocent baby? I would never in my 172 years would I do that. And especially not with Elizabeth."
"I know that. I told her that but she insisted that you should not be trusted with a child. I tried to tell her that you are good enough to be Beth's father, but she has it in her head that me and her should raise Beth as our own since we can't have children." said Stefan still staring out the window. Stefan could hear Damon pacing behind him.
"What does she know about me or anything? She is just upset because I have made mistakes that have caused bumps in her perfect little Elena world. Well she needs to grow up and realize what world she stepped into when she got involved with you and me. She decided to step into a new dangerous world and just expected to keep her perfect normal life, well now is wake up time. She is fine but she needs get over herself because she isn't perfect either." Rages Damon. Stefan turns around, slightly agreeing with Damon.
"Well if I were you I would go talk to her later today, maybe at lunch. You two need to settle these problems between the two of you if anything is going to get better. I know that you aren't as bad as people seem to think." says Stefan. Damon turns to look at him with a sudden look of discomfort.
"But what if she is right? I can't do emotions. I emotionally cannot be a father. That's why you should be there for Elizabeth, not me." Says Damon looking down. Stefan sighs and puts his hand on Damon's shoulder.
"Brother, I've seen you with her. I know you don't do emotions but you can with Beth. There is no backstabbing and heartache. Beth is a safe emotional outlet. You have a connection that I don't understand with her. Grow off of the natural connection and draw and just be there as her father." Says Stefan with hope in his voice, hope that his brother would finally bring down some walls to help the baby. Damon just looked back at Stefan, rebuilding his walls and not letting his brother see any more into his silently clawing insecurities and emotions inside. Damon nodded and walked over to the couch and flopped down.
"I'll go have words with Elena this afternoon" is all Damon says before picking up Stefan's book and began to skim through it. Stefan just nods and then rolls his eyes at Damon stealing his book.
"Oh and to answer your other question, I went hunting to blow off steam before coming back to the house." said Stefan. Damon just looks from the book and nods at Stefan. Stefan then turns and vampire sprints from the house to go brood while hunting.
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~Caroline (While Stefan and Damon are talking)
Caroline looks at the door for a second as Damon leaves with a sad look in her eyes. 'Why can't he just show other people he has emotion? That he cares about us?' she thinks as she sets Beth down on the changing table. Caroline gets out a diaper and quickly puts Beth in it.
"What should we do about your clothes? How about pink?" Caroline asks Beth as she starts to ruffle through the dresser to see what to dress Beth in. Caroline held up a frilly pink dress and Beth just grinned at her and giggled.
"Well you don't seem to talk much you silly little girl so I'm taking that as a yes." says Caroline smiling down at Beth. Caroline then swiftly stands Beth up and pulls the dress onto her.
"Aaaaaw you are just such a pretty girl. Oh yes you are." says Caroline as Beth grins at her after she finishes buttoning up the dress. Caroline then carries her into the guest bathroom and set Beth on the counter and started brushing her light blond hair into a little ponytail. The ponytail stuck out like a little fountain near the top of her head. Caroline then picked her up and took her back into the bedroom and set her on the floor.
"So what should we do today? I think we should go visit Bonnie and Elena and introduce you. We will have a girl's party and talk about boys and play with you. It'll be great. Hopefully Elena wont freak out or anything like that." says Caroline as she pulls out some stuffed animals. There was a black bird, an orange car, a brown puppy, and a black bat. Beth immediately grabs the black raven and gives it a hug before flinging it around in her tiny fist. She then releases it and it flies forward and hits Caroline in the chest. Caroline just grins and picks up the cat and makes a "meow" noise and flops it over to Beth. Beth grins and picks up the cat and shoves its head into her mouth.
"Oh no Beth, don't eat the cat." says Caroline as she pulls the cat from Beth's mouth. As she is she realizes that Beth has several teeth. 'Well I guess she is older than we thought, she is just small' thinks Caroline to herself. She is pulled from that thought as Beth lets out an angry shriek.
"Aaaahh!" shrieks Beth as she pouts at Caroline for pulling the cat out of her mouth and grasp. Caroline just smiled and handed Beth back the cat but stopped her from putting it back in her mouth. Their battle of wills continued for another 5 minutes until Caroline gave up.
"Fine, put the silly orange cat in your mouth." says Caroline exasperatedly. Beth grins at her and happy hums as she shoves the cat back in her mouth. Caroline just grins and laughs a little at the satisfied smirk on Beth's face. 'She is definitely perfect for Damon to raise.' thinks Caroline. Caroline then grabs a diaper bag from next to the changing table and packed some diapers, wipes, pajamas, another change of clothes, a small blanket, and a brush. She then walks over to where Beth was sitting and put the bat and puppy into the bag.
"Ok Beth let's go downstairs and grab some bottles for you and head out to my house." Caroline says as she picks Beth off the floor, who was holding the raven and cat in each hand. Caroline then carried her downstairs and into the living room. Caroline sees Damon sitting on the couch, leafing through a book. Caroline smirks to herself and then sneaks up behind him and sets Beth on his lap and then sprints into the kitchen to get Beth's bottles.
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~Damon
"Aaaargh. Oh my God, What the hell Caroline?" yells Damon as Elizabeth is dropped into his lap on his book. Elizabeth just giggles and grabs onto his shirt and pulls herself up to try and stand. Damon hears Caroline giggling in the kitchen at his reaction and he rolls his eyes and then looks down at Elizabeth who was again trying to pull herself up to stand on his lap.. He grinned until he noticed what she was wearing.
"Caroline what the hell did you put Elizabeth in? Why is she in a frilly pink dress?" yells Damon. Caroline walks back into the room with the fully packed diaper bag.
"She is dressed in a frilly pink dress because she looks adorable in it and she likes it. Now can I take her to my house to meet Bonnie and my mom and have a sleepover or are you gonna go all protective daddy vampire on me?" says Caroline.
"No go ahead and take her." says Damon, trying to sound indifferent. Caroline sighs and picks up Beth.
"You know you should call her Beth cause when you call her Elizabeth it just sounds too formal for a father to call his daughter." says Caroline. Damon looks at her with a slight glare.
"I am not her father. I'm just taking responsibility for my actions." Damon says. Caroline just gives him a sad look.
"You know, it's not bad to care about other people and to let them know you care and have emotions" and with that said Caroline then turned and carried Beth out of the room and out the door. Damon hears the front door shut and sighs.
Damon slumps back into the couch. 'Now what to say to Elena.' Damon thinks. Damon then sighs and decides its time.
"Looks like it's time to figure all this shit out." says Damon then races out the door to the Gilbert house.
Authors Note: Hey you guys I updated again this week to make up for the last couple of weeks. I'll probably be updating once a week. Please Review and if you want to Beta or know someone who can Beta me please PM me. Thanks!
~Lizzy
