Authors note:I hope you enjoy this because I enjoyed writing it. Half of this wrote itself in History with Ruby.

Disclaimer:I don't own any of the characters.

I just stood there in shock. Ruby knew my mother? How? When? Where?

I somehow made my mouth move, "You knew my mother?"

"Yes I did Elena and I will answer all you questions."

"Ok, why don't we go for a walk?"

"Sure."We started to walk away from the house to the centre of town, heading towards the graveyard without meaning to.

"So explain."

"Well I was bored. I mean living for so long does get boring sometimes and I decided that I would go to a University to try it. That was where I met your mother. I wasn't paying attention to where I was going. I was too busy trying to remember where my first class was and I walked straight into her. She apologised and asked if I was new and I admitted I was. She was new as well and then we talked for a while and we had the same first class and from then on we were friends."

"So you were friends. Did she know anything about you? I mean she was researching vampires."

"I was getting to that. I had her over at my apartment for dinner and she cut herself really badly. I was ok and I helped her clean herself. To thank me she gave me a hug but as she pulled away her hand that was bleeding caught my lips and a bit of the blood ran into my mouth. I felt it and tasted it. My fangs came down and she jumped back in surprise but she didn't scream or run away. We became even greater friends for that."

"Isobel knew you? I… it's too hard to believe." I couldn't believe it. Isobel knew Ruby. It is a small world.

"Yes Elena. We were such great friends. She was the first friend I had had in so long. She didn't care about what I was but it had to end at some point. She wanted to stay at Duke and when she did I couldn't stay because it was my time to move elsewhere but before I left she gave me that bracelet and I gave her one in gold with golden fangs on it."

"You must have been very important to her if she thought you were worth caring about."

"I guess I must have been. We kept in touch for a while and it was one of these times she let it slip to me that she had a daughter. She told me that she had left you with some good people but by then my interest was piqued and so I researched you as much as I could and then when I finally found you I visited. You were only 8 at the time and I came at night for a while and-" She turned to stop and face me at the sound of my gasp.

"Oh my god. You are my guardian angel."

"Your what?" She asked with a smile on her face as she was clearly amused by what I said.

"My Guardian Angel. When I was 8, my parents told me that I went through a stage where I thought that someone was watching over me. They thought it was my imagination but it wasn't was it? "

"No. I guess not. It looks like we have known each other for a long time."

"Yeah I suppose we have. Here you can have your bracelet back." I said while touching my arm to remove the bracelet."

"Oh no. You can keep it."

"But Ruby, Isobel gave it to you and she doesn't care about me."

"I think she cares about you more than she lets on, after all you are her daughter and don't worry, I have the other half of the heart." She pulled a necklace out from under her top. It had the second bit of the silver heart.

"Now Elena. I have to go. Damon is waiting for me. He is taking me to New York." She smiled and disappeared. I sighed and I turned around to go back home. I got halfway home before I heard a car pull up next to me. It was Bonnie.

"Elena, hop in. Were you coming back from a visit to your parents' grave?"

"No I was talking to Ruby. We went for a walk."

"Who?"

"Oh right. You haven't met her yet."

"Just get in the car and explain to me who she is while I drive."

I got into the car and buckled up, "Well Damon disappeared and when he returned, Ruby was with him. She is a vampire and she is really nice."

"Not another vampire."

"You should give her a chance. She hasn't done anything wrong except break me and Stefan up."

"Right that's it. If she does anything else, I will give her an aneurism."

"Bonnie, don't. She apologised for it and told me something about my mother that you wouldn't believe."

We walked into the house, all the while Bonnie kept her mouth shut but I knew she was bursting to say something.

When we reached my bedroom and I had closed the door, she exploded,

"I can't believe she knew Isobel."

"I know! Me neither." We went over to the bed and sat down.

"Well at least we know that she is going to be away with Damon all weekend, which means that he should be out of our hair." I sighed.

"Bonnie. Damon isn't all bad."

She rolled her eyes, "Yeah because we all can see that."

I gently smacked her arm and she looked at me in fake surprise. Her expression was so funny I couldn't contain my fits of laughter.

We were sprawled out on my bed when Bonnie said, "Elena, why did you think you were going to be sacrificed and not say anything about it."

"Because Bonnie, I know how you guys would react and I know that if there is a choice between my life and all of yours, I know what my choice is going to be."

We sat in silence as she contemplated this and I knew that it wasn't just the thought of me dying keeping her silent.

"What's wrong?"I asked.

"Oh nothing."

"It is not nothing if it keeps you quiet."

"Ok. I'll tell you. We had to put Luca under a spell to make him talk to me. So this morning I was about to come to you, his dad shows up and he….. he… takes my powers away from me."

I sit up suddenly from the bed and instantly regret it as I feel the effects of moving too fast."What!"

"Calm down it is not that big of a deal," I give her a look, "Ok it is a big deal but I don't know how to deal with it."

"We could try and find Lucy. She may know what to do."

"Maybe so but without my powers, I can't locate her. Maybe we can talk to Stefan." I really didn't like where this conversation was going.

"No. I would rather not face him so soon."

"You are going to half to face him sometime. I mean school starts again in 5 days."

"I know but I just had a huge fight with him. It is too soon to talk to him again."

"Yeah I understand. So what are we going to do about Elijah then?"

I opened my mouth to speak when a familiar voice came from the doorway. "You are not going to do anything."

I lifted my head to look at him. "It is part of our deal Elena."

"Oh yeah! Which part of the deal said that Bonnie could have her powers drained?"

"I am sorry but she could have done something that might damage our chance of killing Klaus."

"Right." I watched him as he stood, not moving into my room when I realised that he couldn't. This house, the original was burnt down and the only rooms that remained were the living room and my room and he hadn't been invited in.

"What did you come to tell me Elijah?"

"I came to say that I will very shortly make Klaus aware of you."

"Well that is less time than I thought I'd have."

"Well we need to move fast Elena, otherwise the location of Klaus may change I won't be able to find him." He nodded his head at me once and then disappeared. Bonnie who had remained silent throughout this opened her mouth to speak.

"I'm fine Bonnie, if that was what you were going to ask."

She dropped her eyes but said, "I was actually going to say that we should probably tell Stefan what happened."

I sighed but nodded and grabbed my keys from the bedside table.

Damon's POV

I looked out over the dark waters at the grand city before us. I was at the Statue of liberty with Ruby. She was standing there with her eyes closed and just letting the light hit her. She was beautiful. The way the moonlight lit her face made her look like she was an angel.

"You are staring."

"No I am gazing, completely different." I walked up behind her and wrapped my arms around her waist.

She leaned into my body, "I suppose, gazing is all right." I let out a small laugh and kept her close to me.

"Damon, you can be very romantic when you want to be."

"Oh I know." She let out a giggle.

"I love you Damon."

My breath got caught in my throat. I so badly wanted to say those words back to her but I couldn't as I don't love her the way I love Elena. "Do you trust me?"

She nodded. "Ok." I lifted her up so I was carrying her bridal style. I then pushed myself off the torch and we fell towards the ground. I could see her smile while we were plummeting to the ground. We landed unscathed on the ground as I steadied my balance.

I put her down and spun her to face me.I gingerly put my hand up and tucked behind her ear a loose strand of hair. "Thank you Damon. It has been exhilarating."

I smiled at her, "So what do you want to do now."

"How about some dinner?"

"Sounds good."

"Fresh or blood bank? That is the question." I let out a small laugh.

"That is really bad, you know that?"

"I know but I don't care."

"But…"

"But now since you made fun of it, we are going to go shopping." I groaned and she laughed while she grabbed my hand.

Chapter 9: Elijah Returns

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