Elizabeth: "Amen to that. I may be an only child, but I can relate to the whole wanting to be taken seriously as an adult thing you've got going on there."

Damon: "Thank you for your concern and kind words. He just really knows how to piss me off and it wouldn't be so bad if I couldn't predict what he was doing, ya know."

Elizabeth: "I have a little motto for you to live by the next time your dickhead brother comes around to rain on your parade."

Damon: "Really. What's that?"

Elizabeth: "He can take his self righteous act and shove it sideways up his ass. Don't let him get to you. You're obviously not that old Damon that he can't trust anymore and you obviously have made a new life for yourself. If he can't see that, then too bad because he's going to miss out on a lot of good things."

Damon: "I like it. It's right up my alley. Shove your self righteous act up your ass sideways. You're brilliant."

He puts his arm around her and she smiles up at him like a girlfriend would. Suddenly, a thought hit him. Elizabeth could be a half breed. Wasn't the woman he found dying on the side of the road pregnant? He had to have changed her for a reason other then to piss off Stefan with more vampires running around his clean little town. He had to have felt something for the unborn child or he would've just drained Jean like any other victim. Did that make Elizabeth some sort of half vampire half human accident? Was that even possible to do to a human who was pregnant? It would make sense Jean drank Vampire blood while pregnant. The baby would have Vampire blood in its system when mom died. They both technically were dead with Vampire blood in their system. Holy shit! Stefan would have kittens if he knew what he did. It was beautiful. He tried not to grin like the cat that swallowed the Cannery at the thought of doing something no other vampire in history had ever done. He was an evil genius.

He marveled to himself and wondered if Elizabeth had any clue that her mother gave her vampire blood in utro. She had no idea the potential she had running through her veins. He couldn't wait to unleash it.

Elizabeth: "Hello? Earth to Damon, are you in there?"

Damon: "I'm sorry. I was just thinking about how lucky you are. I didn't mean to space on you."

Elizabeth: "It's ok. You're allowed to space out and think about how lucky I am to be with you. I feel lucky."

Damon: "Be with you? Does this make you my girlfriend now? Wow, we had one kiss at your house. We haven't even gone out to dinner yet."

Elizabeth: "I'll let you know at dinner about that "girlfriend" thing you just brought up."

She gives him a playful wink and goes off to do her rounds. Damon goes into the lounge. Jessica is sitting at the table eating her lunch.

Jessica: "Hey Damon."

Damon: "Jessica, what a pleasant surprise."

Jessica: "Yeah. Imagine finding someone eating lunch in the break room."

She rolls her eyes like he's nuts and he comes and sits down at the table across from her. His wheels turning in his head said he had to make friends with her so he could get what she knows about Elizabeth out of her.

Damon: "So, what can you tell me about your girl Elizabeth?"

Jessica: "Oh no. You're not using me as the middle woman to go between your love affair at the office. You ask her yourself."

Damon: "Must you be so suspicious? I'm just asking for the best friend's opinion on her best friend. It's nothing like using you as a middle woman. I swear. If you want, this conversation never has to leave you and me. I did ask for her address from you, remember?"

Jessica: "Well, I suppose that may justify me scooping a little for you."

She gives him a flirty smile much like the one he used to seduce his victims. It felt different coming from someone else to him. She leaned forward towards him to make it seem like she was going to tell him a huge secret in this empty room. She never gave him that address and she didn't much care.

Jessica: "Well, what do you want to know?"

Damon: "Everything you're willing to dish. The basics, has she had any boyfriends?"

She puts on a game face like they are playing 20 questions. Not giving too much detail, but not really leaving anything out. Giving just enough so that Elizabeth couldn't accuse her of telling him too much about her.

Jessica: "Yes. 4 that were serious and she has dated a few. But, she will tell you the nature of those relationships over time."

Damon: "Ok. So, there is no current serious boyfriend in her life."

Jessica: "No there is not."

Damon: "Does she live alone or with someone?"

Jessica: "You already know she lives alone. You went to her house. Her Gran looks in on her and she takes care of her Gran."

Damon: "Are her and her Gran close?"

Jessica: "Yes. She is very close to her Gran and she makes sure she approves of the serious ones. Gran is a tough cookie to crack. So, you'd better be extra charming and extra sweet to Elizabeth so she brags on you to Gran. The better the rep, the more likely she's going to embrace you like a Grandson."

Damon: "Ok, sugar up the Grandma. Good advice there."

Jessica: "And one more thing and I want you to take this seriously because it is the number one most important thing ever. Especially if you want this to be a harmonious relationship between you and me."

Damon: "Shoot."

Jessica: "If you screw this up and break her heart, I will drive a stake through that vampire obsessed heart of yours and leave you out to burn in the sun, understand?"

Damon: "Ouch. That sounds like it would hurt a lot."

Jessica: "Yeah. I hope it does. I will rip out your throat if you screw her over, got it?"

Damon: "Loud and clear."

Jessica: "Good."

She puts on a happy face again.

Jessica: "What are you plans after work this evening?"

Damon: "Dinner with Elizabeth. Why, what's up?"

Jessica: "I invited Elizabeth to Malloy's after work. She didn't mention a dinner date with you that little sneak."

Damon: "It's not really a big deal. It's two friends having dinner together."

Jessica: "Yeah, two friends that had an intense kiss last night from what I was told."

Damon: "If Elizabeth told you that we bungeed off a cliff together, would you believe her?"

Jessica: "Ha, ha. You're full of jokes today. No, ass I wouldn't believe it because Elizabeth is afraid of heights. So, putting her on you back and scurrying to the top of the nearest pine tree may freak her out a bit."

Damon: "What's with the vampire references? Everyone knows that a vampire doesn't climb trees. That movie has it all wrong. It's for entertainment purposes. It's not a motto for how to live the vampire life. I'm sorry to break it to you."

Jessica: "Really and why wouldn't a vampire climb a tree?"

Damon: "How the hell should I know? Do I look like an expert or something? You women are really obsessed and need to get over it. It's just a bunch of stories also known as works of fiction. It's also known as imaginations running wild and crazy with the idea of eternal love. Who doesn't want someone to love them like Romeo and Juliet? It's the same thing only someone used Vampires. Big deal."

Jessica: "Someone is touchy. You need to relax it wasn't a personal jab at you."

Damon takes a deep breath and calms himself down a bit. He realized he was starting to jump down the poor girl's throat over a common pop culture reference. How many normal guys would get that pissed off over some stupid ass comment like that? Yeah, just bring the whole "You're crazy" scenario home.

Damon: "I apologize. That had to sound like I was some sort of nut case or something."

Jessica: "No worries. You didn't sound like you were nuts. You sounded almost offended like someone was attacking your pride or something."

Damon: "Well, I have pale skin and light eyes. I must look like I could pass for the living dead some days after a 12 hour shift. It makes sense that someone would mistake me for a vampire."

Jessica looks him over once.

Jessica: "Hmmm, now that you mention it, no you don't look anything like the undead. You're just projecting it on to yourself because Elizabeth has an obsession with those old Salvatore Legends and your last name happens to be Salvatore. So, there's a natural curiosity there."

Damon: "Yes. There is a natural curiosity. So, exactly what do these old Salvatore Legends say? I mean, since they're my ancestors and all it might be worth looking up."

Jessica clears her throat and puts on this dramatic narrative tone to her voice.

Jessica: "Well, I'll give you the Google version of it. Basically, there are two brothers Damon and Stefan and they lived in Mystic Falls. Stefan is the nice one and Damon is the wicked evil one out to destroy everything Stefan has for his own selfish purposes. Basically, Damon is messed up beyond anyone's help and has been pining away for 145 years over the same woman. Fast forward, there was a huge fire in a church that claimed the lives of many vampires including said love of Damon's life. This event repeated itself some time later and half the town was destroyed. Elena was caught up in it because Stefan was her man and her best friend was a witch. Damon was blamed for the whole thing. End of story."

Damon: "Wow. I really was better off not knowing that little story. Glad I didn't look it up."

Jessica: "See? The whole story is completely boring in every sense of the word and not worth a second thought. But, here Liz is trying to make sense out of where her mother would fit into that story."

Damon: "Her mother? What the hell does her mother have to do with the Salvatore's and the fire at the church?"

Jessica: "As far as I can see nothing. Her mother would have to be over 200 years old in order to fit the bill. I don't see that happening."

Damon: "You're saying her mother would have to be the same age as the Salvatore's in order to fit the bill, so to speak."

Jessica: "Yes and 200 year old women don't give birth to daughters who are 28 years old today. It doesn't add up. If she were a 200 year old woman, there's no way she'd have birthed Elizabeth."