This chapter is gonna make a few of you reading this either really happy or really mad! Ha :D

Damon made his way to the bar, unnerved by Elena's avoidance of his text messages and calls. He was planning on stopping by her house to see what was up. A women, who also happened to be a vampire, was already at the bar with a buzz. Damon startled her when he sat down. Damon simply nodded at her and ordered a drink from the bartender.

"What brings you to Mystic Falls?" Damon asked, sipping his scotch. The women had an accent, and her words were beginning to slur together from the alcohol.

"I'm looking for my friend," She looked at Damon with a pretty face. "maybe you've seen him. His name is Trevor." Damon shook his head. "Ahh, I see." The women went back to her drink.

"What problem are you drinking away?" Damon took a big gulp out of his glass. "Other than looking for your friend?" He swiveled in his stool. "And I didn't catch your name." He smirked.

The women laughed. "Cuz I didn't give it." She waved over the bartender and ordered a martini. She turned her entire body to face Damon. She stuck her hand out and smiled. "Rose." The name coming off her tongue was almost as sweet as the flower. "And I've been running for as long as you've been alive." She snorted and turned her body away grimly.

Damon raised an eyebrow. "Oh yeah?" Damon stifled a laugh. Rose looked too pretty to be running from anything, maybe she was just drunk. "From what?"

Rose touched her nose and glanced at Damon from the corner of her eye, bringing her voice down to a whisper quieter than any human's hearing, "Katerina Petrova. "

Damon choked and sputtered on his drink. He slammed his glass down, receiving glances from other people, and bore his eyes into the side of Rose's face. "What?" His forehead wrinkled.

"She betrayed me and Trevor." Rose took a swig of her drink before she clumsily slid off her bar stool. "Well, I've got nowhere to go, but I better be heading out." She gave Damon a small smile, then turned her back to him.

"I can keep you safe." Damon spoke up with his eyes set on his hands. "You can come stay with me." He thought about what Elena's reaction would be. She would probably complain about how she didn't want any girls shacking up with him, but he wasn't going to let this women slip away after what he had just heard her say.

"Swear to me," Rose remained facing away, "that come tomorrow we will still be friends." Her voice had changed to that of a young girl who was afraid.

Damon swallowed his mixed emotions and said, "Yes, I promise." Damon didn't have friends. He had Stefan. And then he had Elena. But he never had a real friend before. He couldn't be sure this was real. "Come on, I'll take you home." Damon helped Rose to his car, with her smiling at him all the way.

"Home." She breathed. Her smile grew. Rose had a home and Damon had a friend. It was all new to both of them.

Honestly, I can't wait to write the next chapter, Haha! This one was so fun. :) Send me your reviews.