Previously:

So, instead of Lena and I leaving the house together, she ended up staying there to do some very questionable things. And in light of that, I went home by myself.

What I wasn't expecting was to get a frantic call from my dear sister about an hour after I had finally got Chloe to sleep. She was rambling like crazy, something about her looking like someone, and that I needed to come get her.

I knocked on Jenna's door to let her know that I was going to pick up Lena, and that Chloe was asleep in my room. After she let me know that she heard me I took off towards the boarding house and about half way there, the radio went all funky.

I looked away from the road and fiddled around with it, before giving up after a few seconds, and when I looked back up there was a person standing in the middle of the road right in front of my car.

I slammed on my brakes, but I wasn't able to stop and the person ended up hitting my windshield. It was terrifying, because the next thing I knew the car was flipping and I'm finding myself super glad that I decided to leave Chloe at home with Jenna.

When it was all over, I was stuck in my seat upside down, and when I looked out at the road I saw the heap of whoever I hit laying in the road. I was not expecting it when the dude started getting up like nothing happened and then was making his way towards my car.

And that is when I started screaming bloody murder.

—~•+•~—

Addison Gilbert POV*

The man kept getting closer and closer, and I just couldn't seem to get my seatbelt off. But for some reason, when he was right outside of my car, he turned and did that vamp speed thing away. It didn't make me feel any safer though, if a vamp is running away, what other terrible thing could be gunning for me right now?

A second after the dude disappeared in the other direction, and I had finally stopped screaming, another figure popped up outside of my car. And I screamed again, and turned from the window, not wanting to look at the person that was probably about to kill me.

I stopped screaming though, when I recognized the voice speaking to me, "Addison? How ya doing in there?"

"Damon?" I asked him in confusion, because right now the whole world is spinning currently.

"Ads, are you stuck?" He asked, reaching into the car, and looking around.

I nodded the best I could while being stuck upside down, and told him , "Yes, I think its my seat belt. Damon please, I'm stuck!" I could feel the tears running from my eyes at an awkward angle and flowing into my hair.

"Shh Shh Shh." Damon tried to get me to quiet down. "Let me get you out of there baby, okay?" He then instructed me, "I want you to put your hands on the roof." So I placed my hands onto the roof, just as he said, "Just like that." He praised me, "You ready? 1, 2, 3."

Damon then ejected my seat belt, and caught me before I could smash down onto the roof. "I got you." He assured me as he picked me up and walked away from the wreckage. "Are you okay? Can you stand? Is anything broken?" He asked somewhat rapid fire, not really giving me a bunch of time to answer.

But I guess even when he gave me the option to answer, I just rambled out, "I want my baby... I need Chloe." I started crying again as I told him this. He went to set me down, but I swayed the second my feet were on the ground and he caught me again before I could go all the way down.

"Whoa sweetheart, you're fading fast." He paused and grabbed my chin, trying to get me to focus on him, "Addie baby, look at me." Once I finally did look into his piercing blue eyes, "Focus. Look at me. Okay."

I slowly nodded but then something else popped into my eyes, "Lena said she looks like her." Oof, I am getting very woozy.

"What?" was all the answer I got before I fell into the world of unconsciousness. But I don't know if it was a fever type dream type thing, but I felt a hand brushing against my face and a small pressure on my forehead, and I suddenly felt like I was flying.

After that I slipped fully into deep sleep.

—~•+•~—

When I came to, it was bright and I was pretty sure I was sitting in a car, question is, why? Oh and also who am I in a car with right now. However, I figured it all out when I heard a familiar cooing sound, followed by, "I think mommy is waking up Miss Chloe."

And when I opened my eyes, I glanced around before spotting a way too hot Blue Eyed Asshole sitting in the drivers seat giving me that annoying smirk he always seems to have on his face. "Morning Addie."

I sat up and groaned at the pain that spread across my ribs, before finally connecting a few dots in my head. "Damon, where are we?" I turned in my seat, and caught a glimpse of my happy daughter giggling and playing with her feet.

"Georgia." Um what?

"What? No! Why the hell would we be in Georgia and why is Chloe is us?" I exclaimed.

"Before you passed out, you said you wanted your baby, so I stopped by your house, went in, compelled your aunt, packed stuff up for Chloe and changed her clothes. Then we left." He recounted to me like its just the most normal thing in the world, and that it happens everyday.

I had no idea what to say to that, so I just asked, "Well, did you at least grab me a change of clothes?"

He chuckled at me but sobered up when he noticed how I was clutching my side as I sat up some more, "How are you feeling?" I don't know if I have ever seen him this serious before.

I nodded and told him, "It's just my side, its sore."

He sighed and looked back at Chloe before telling me, "There's no broken bones. I checked."

I then got to the root of what was going through my head, "Did I total my car? All I really remember about the dude I hit is that he got back up." I glanced up and our eyes locked, "Who was that guy?"

"That's what I would like to know."

"What did you compel Jenna about?" I asked him as I noticed Chloe's diaper bag on the floor.

"I told her you were gonna be out for a few days and that you and Chloe were fine." I acknowledged him with a nod as I rummaged through my bag, finding that he did in fact pack me a change of clothes, and also saw that my phone was not in my bag.

"Where's my phone? I need to call Lena and make sure that she's alright. I was driving last night to go get her." And that was when I smelled it. "Damon, your going to need you to pull over."

He did as I said and once we were on the side of the road I got out, and what a mistake that was. I nearly fainted again, but Damon was swiftly at my side steadying me. I thanked him, and continued to change my stink bugs dirty diaper. Once she was all good, I situated her back into her car seat and shut the door.

I put the diaper in one of those doggy doo bags so that the smell would be suppressed at least a little bit. And that's when my phone started ringing. I rolled my eyes at Damon as he smirked and answered the phone before I even had the chance to ask who it was.

"Addison's phone...!" Cocky ass.

I couldn't hear whoever was on the other line, but I assume it was either Stefan or Elena. "Addison? She's right here. And, yes, she's fine."

I observed him as he listened to whatever the other person was saying before looking at me, "Your sister wants to talk to you."

I groaned in irritation before meandering over to where he was standing and held my hand out for my phone. He placed it in my hand, and after him doing so, I lifted it to my ear, "Lena?"

"Are you okay? You were coming to get me last night, and then you stopped answering you phone, I was worried!"

"Lena, I'm fine I promise, you know Damon wont let anything happen to me." I paused, "Now what were you so upset about last night when you called?"

I could hear her eye roll, but when she spoke next she sounded sad, "I found a picture of Kathrine last night, and I look just like her."

I didn't get a chance to ask her anymore questions, because my phone was being pulled from my hand, "You have a good day. Mm-hmm. Bye-now."

I gave him an unimpressed look as he shoved my phone back into my pocket, and all he did was say, "Come on Short Stuff, we're almost there."

I followed him back into the car, and asked him, "Can you explain to me where exactly that there is?"

"A little place right outside of Atlanta." He gave me a amused look, "Come on sweet heart, your gonna love it. Stop worrying about your sister so much. Step away from your life for five minutes. Five minutes!"

"Do you promise that I'm not gonna get it trouble with Jenna?" I questioned because honestly, Jen doesn't need to be worried about me all or the time, I don't want her to be.

"Yes." He simply stated.

"Well okay then." And we're off.

—~•+•~—

There were a few more stops for bathroom breaks and a chance to change my clothes, and stupid discussions. Then there was me trying to hide how hot I found it when he would go all non scary vampire when interacting with Chloe. And while Chloe was getting in a nap, we finally got around to talking about the wreck.

"What did you do with me car."

"I pulled it off to the side of the road. I don't think anyone will bother it." Jesus, that smirk is gonna make my ovaries explode at some point, probably in the near future I'm sure.

"Do you think the person hit was a..." He cut me off mid question though.

"From what I could tell, yeah..."

I blew out a long breath and stated, "Oh that's just perfect, get rid of one gain another." Oh yeah, earlier he said something about someone that wasn't him staking Fuckface Fell. And I say good riddance. "So, do you think you might know him?"

"If I've never met him, I wouldn't know him. I mean, it's not like we all hang out together at the Vamp Bar & Grill."

I was going to scold him, but got distracted when we pulled up in front of a bat called Bree's Bar. He started getting out of the car and getting into the back to remove Chloe's car seat, so I scrambled out after him.

"Is a bar the reason that we're in Georgia," I asked him as I gathered everything back into the Diaper bag. "Are you sure they're gonna let us in, I mean we've got a baby with us and I'm obviously underage."

He rolled his eyes and pulled out the carrier, "I'm very sure sassy pants, now lets go."

I returned the eye roll and followed him in muttering, "Alright drama queen, I'm coming bossy."

I heard him chuckle as we entered the bar. And it was quite the surprise when he set the car seat on the ground as a women called out, "No. No, it can't be. Damon. My honey pie." She jumped over the bar and walked up to Damon, and proceeded to grab his face and give him a big smooch.

I felt my eyes widen in shocked, and I had to look away from the pair, so I brought my gaze down to me sleeping daughter and grinned when I saw her twitch like she always does in her sleep. I'll have you know that it, along with everything that she does besides like, pooping, is absolutely adorable.

I was distracted from my little bug when the lady that was just swaping spit with Damon yelled, "Listen up everybody! Here's to the man that broke my heart, crushed my soul, destroyed my life, and ruined any and all chances of happiness!" Damon grabbed my hand, picked up the carrier and moved towards the bar as the women started pouring shots, "Drink up!"

Both Damon and the lady shot their drinks and then her eyes found me, and skimmed over to the seat between me and Damon holding the my sleeping baby's car seat. She had some look in her eyes but she seemed to mask it and asked, "So, how'd he rope you in?" She then poured me a shot.

I purposely ignored the shot sitting in front of me and told her, "Actually no, my sister is actually dating..."

What is with everyone cutting me off? "Honey, if you're not roped, you're whipped. Either way, just enjoy the ride." I suppressed the urge to roll my eyes as she smiled and poured some more alcohol.

Instead of being all broody (I don't wanna be the new Stefan) I forced myself to get over my annoyance with this situation and asked, "Okay. So, how did you two meet?" while trying to hold the most genuine smile I could muster.

"College." She told me.

I looked over at the raven haired man shocked, "You're telling me that you went to college?"

"I've been on a college campus, yes." Damon told me with a wide smile.

The women (I'm starting to think that she's Bree) piped up again, "About twenty years ago, when I was a sweet, young freshman, I met this beautiful man, and I fell in love." Must be nice, "And then he told me about his little secret, made me love him more. Because, you see, I had a little secret of my own that I was dying to share with somebody." Awe, a witch I would assume.

My suspicions were confirmed when Damon whispered, "She's a witch."

Bree gave him a loving (gross) look, "Changed my world, you know."

"I rocked your world." And I hate this conversation.

"He is good in the sack, isn't he?" Bree asked me, but continued, "But mostly he's just a Walk-Away Joe."

"Well I don't really remember," I said sarcastically while giving Damon a bitch face.

Bree gave me a knowing look before asking Damon, "So, what is it that you want?"

—~•+•~—

I went outside after that crazy conversation and talked to Jenna, and she just confirmed what Damon had already told me that he compelled her to know. And after that whole thing, I went back inside and spotted Damon and Bree arguing over something on the other side of the bar.

At some point she said something that pissed him off enough to storm outside. I raised my eyebrows, but was distracted when I heard that familiar gurgle/coo of my happy baby. I gave her a huge grin as I lifted her out of her car seat, and laughed when she gave me a cute little baby giggle.

Damon popped up beside me and gave Chloe a toothy grin, "Well look who's awake." He took her when she reached out for him, "Did we have a good nap baby?"

I couldn't help but smile at the pair before I caught an intense look from Bree over Damon's shoulder. We held each others gaze's for maybe 30 seconds but the look was broken when Damon asked me, "Would you say that its time to give her a bottle?"

I confirmed his thought with small nod, and got to preparing a bottle. Once I was done, I handed him the bottle. I watched as he maneuvered her where he wanted her and coaxed her into taking the bottle.

After she was done about 15 minutes later, Damon asked, "You wanna take a walk?"

I thought for a second before agreeing.

—~•+•~—

When we got back from our little walk, Damon ordered us some food. After we had gotten our food, Damon and I started to discuss the whole Kathrine Elena situation, "So what, is Lena and I descended from Kathrine in some way?"

I bounced Chloe on my knee and shoved a fry in my mouth while he answered, "If you three were related, it would mean Katherine had a child before she was turned."

"Did Stefan think he could use Lena to replace her or something?"

Damon smirked, "Kinda creepy if you ask me." He paused and watched me pull the onions and pickles off of mu burger, "Come on, what? You don't like pickles or onions? What's wrong with you?"

I gave him a look, "Says the man that drinks blood to live. Also I've always wondered, does food even do anything for you? Since your, ya know..."

"Dead?" He finished for me, "And I don't need food, but as long as I keep a healthy diet of blood in my system, my body functions pretty normally."

I ate another fry as we held each others gaze's and just when I thought I might have figured out whatever was going through the man's head, Bree popped up out of no where again and handed Damon a beer. "Here you go."

"Thank you." Damon told her.

"You want one?" She asked.

I shook my head, "No, but I'd take a Dr. Pepper if you had it."

She smiled and nodded, "There you go." She told me after getting it.

Damon looked surprised, "You don't wanna drink on your proverbial day off?"

"No, because someone's gotta take care of the baby while you drink all day. Plus, I'd probably be such a lightweight, Its been a little over a year since the last time I drank."

He tossed an arm over my shoulder, "Oh let loose mama bear."

I shoved him a bit, but not hard enough to push him off, "That's not happening drama queen.

—~•+•~—

I don't know how it happened, but at some point Damon actually convinced me to take a shot, and after awhile, everyone seemed to be gathered around us at the bar and taking shots. And at some point, my cardigan came off.

"Ready...Go!" We all downed our shots. I took mine down quickly and smiled, leaning into Damon's side. I glanced up at him and noticed he had a little trouble taking the shot. "Awe, honey. Do you want one of Chloe's bibs?" I sarcastically asked him and patted his face.

He ruffled my hair and spitefully said, "Sorry I can't unhinge my jaw like a snake to consume alcohol."

I gave him a mom look, "neither can I drama queen, that was like, my third shot."

Some woman called out from behind us, "Honey, a girl your age should be on the floor!"

I rolled my eyes at the stupid woman, and shook my head no at Bree who was wondering if we wanted more shots.

—~•+•~—

Later, I was playing pool with a random girl, and keeping watch on Chloe who was playing with her mobile on her car seat. I was distracted by my phone ringing, so I put down the pool stick and went over to the car seat where my phone sat.

I picked up the phone, and took Chloe out of the seat as I moved to go outside. "Hello?" I asked, though I already knew it was Elena.

Though it seems it was just Stef calling on Lena's phone, "Addison, where are you?"

I rolled my eyes, "Stefan, I'm fine, you don't need to worry about me."

"Addison, you know that he's dangerous..." I cut him off after that though, because bro, tell me something I haven't heard since I freaking met the dude.

I shifted Chloe higher on my hip and I told him, "Bye now Stef."

hung up and moved to put my phone into the waistband of my leggings, but a hand was suddenly coving my mouth, making me drop it. But luckily I kept my hold on my defenseless daughter.

The rando dude made me stand on some stairs by an electrical tank, I screamed, "Don't Damon!" But I was too late in warning him, because he was whacked by a man with a wooden plank at vamp speed. I ran towards him as fast as I could with my baby in my arms.

I watched in horror as the man started pouring gas onto Damon, and to try and stop him I yelled, "No!" I tried to get closer, but stopped when the man looked back at me and flashed his fangs at me.

"Who are you?" Damon groaned from the ground.

I jumped when the man yelled, "That's perfect! You have no idea."

I tried to interject and get his focus off of the man on the ground, "Why are you doing this? Please, tell me what he did to make you do this?"

"He killed my girlfriend." He yelled at me before turning his attention to the Blue eyed vampire, "What did she do to you, huh? What did she do to you?!"

"Nothing." Damon spat out.

"What, I don't get it," I pleaded.

The man yelled at me again, "My girlfriend went to visit Stefan, and Damon killed her. Got it?" He finished it of by hitting Damon with a bat.

I ignored his groan of pain as I figured everything out in my head, "Lexi? Lexi was your girlfriend? She told me and my sister about you. She said you were human though, not a vamp."

"I was." The man confirmed.

"So she turned you?" I asked, sympathy lacing my voice.

"If you want to be with someone forever, you have to live forever."

I sighed, "I know she loved you, she said so. She told my sister, 'When it's real, you can't walk away.' And she was right."

"Well, that's a choice you're not going to have to make."

This caused me to lash out, "No! Please don't do this! Don't kill him!"

I screamed in terror, causing Chloe to also cry out, when he struck a match. "I'm doing you a favor."

I held in my cry and bounced Chloe to calm her down as I told him, "Lexi loved you! And she was such a good person! And that means you're good person too. Be better than that asshole. Don't do this. I'm begging you! Please."

I flinched and held back a yelp as he picked up Damon and threw him into a building. I ran over to him and looked over my shoulder at the man still standing there. "Thank you"

He looked me over before saying, "It wasn't for you." Then he turned and left.

I knelt down beside him on the ground and helped him get up, "Are you okay Damon?"

He just nodded and reached out, at first I thought it was for Chloe, but when he wrapped his arms around me I hugged him back. We were wrapped up together with Chloe between us, and we stayed like that for a few minutes before getting up and heading back to the bar.

—~•+•~—

Once we got back, the place seemed dead, and we spotted Bree taking a shot at the bar. I went over to where Chloe's car seat was sitting on the table near the pool table to pack up as Damon approached Bree.

"We were just leaving, I wanted to say good bye." I heard Damon inform the witch.

I kept quiet in the back as Bree responded flatly, "Good to see you again, Damon."

"No kiss?" He asked in a snarky manner.

This caused Bree to turn around, "I'm full of vervain. I put it in everything I drink." Probably smart, also probably not gonna protect you from everything.

"And you're telling me this why?"

"Lexi was my friend. How could you?" She turned to run, but Damon was in front of her again, so she yelled, "The tomb can be opened. An- and that baby, she's yours."

This made me butt into their conversation, "Are you sure? How?"

"I heard of a girl that could conceive from a vampire because she was the only hope of continuing the Petrova line." She looked between me and Damon, "It was you two! That baby is the product of a vampire and a human, but it somehow still human."

I stood there in shock trying to process what she had been saying, but it wasn't me who asked the next question, "Are you sure?" Damon asked looking back at me, then back at Bree.

"Yes, do a blood test if you will, find a witch to do it." I nodded, understanding what she was telling me.

"Addison, grab your things and take Chloe to the car," He told me after a minute of silence.

"But..." I tried to telling him I wanted to ask more questions, but he cut me off.

"Addison, NOW!"

I gave Bree a sad look, knowing what her fate was gonna be, before picking everything up and heading out of the bar. I sat in the car awhile, waiting for him to come back, which took about 10 minutes. Chloe had already passed out a few minutes ago and I myself was nodding off when Damon got back into the car.

I wanted to ask him questions, but I was so tired, so I just stayed quiet. We stopped at a roadside motel for the night, and all that went on was a little bit of small talk and innocent cuddling. Chloe slept between us on the bed.

We got up in the morning and taking turns showering, I even took Chloe in with me and got her clean with me. After awhile we got back onto the road. Neither one of us talked about the fact that Chloe was not just my daughter, but our daughter.

—~•+•~—

When we got back into Mystic Falls, we both went to the Grill because Lena told me that she would pick me up there. We both went in, him carrying Chloe in her car seat and we went to the bar.

Damon ordered, you guessed it, Bourbon, once we got settled down. I looked around to see if any of my friends were here, but I didn't see any of them.

I did, however, notice Mr. S sitting down the bar a little ways. So I called out, "Hey Mr. S!"

He glanced at me and gave me a forced smile, and turned back to his papers sitting in front of him.

Damon gave me a strange look, "What's up with that guy? Isn't he the new History Teacher?"

I shrugged and nodded at his question.

—~•+•~—

After Lena came and picked me up, we sped to the house, and when we walked in Jenna was furiously flipping the pages of a magazine. She turned around when Lena and I walked in, but it was weird because she wasn't mad at me, who had just wrecked my car and totaled it. She was mad at Lannie girl who must not have come home at all the past couple days.

She stood up, and she, was, mad, "I don't set a lot of rules, Elena. Not with you. I trust you to tell me the truth. Where were you? Why would you lie to me about it? I thought that we were closer than that." Oh boy.

"Now is not the time you want to talk to me about lies." Umm... What now?

"Don't do that. Don't turn this back on me. I didn't do anything." I just stood in the doorway, unbuckling Chloe as Jenna followed Lena to the stair case.

Elena stopped and said some words that changed my life forever, "Okay...Question: am I adopted?" What? "I trust you to tell us the truth too, Jenna. How could you not tell me and Addie? I thought we were closer than that."

I stood there holding Chloe in shock while Jenna answered, "Elena, I didn't...they asked me not to."

I watched as Lena yelled, "I don't want to hear it!" And stormed up the stairs.

Jenna looked back over at me, sighed, and asked, "Are you okay? I heard about the accident and the car looked terrible."

I nodded and walked over to her, and wrapped her in a hug. She pulled away and asked me, "Are you not mad?"

I shook my head, "No, I'm sure they would have told us at one point, so its really not your fault." I leaned back, away from the hug and moved up the stairs, "Night Jen."

"Goodnight Addie."

I let out a groan as I walked up the stairs. One mystery gets solved, only for another to pop up... Great, that makes me really happy. Is one normal day just too much to ask for anymore?