Addison Gilbert POV*

After the last couple of days that Lena and I have had, I finally got both of the Salvatore brothers numbers programed into my phone. I deeply regretted that fact though, when this morning, I woke up to a call from the raven haired idiot way before I wanted to wake up today.

However, I still rolled over and answered as nicely as I could in these circumstances, "Screw off."

"Good morning to you too short stuff," He said back, most likely sporting a smirk on his stupid face that I am way to attracted to for my own good.

I groaned and rolled onto my back before asking, "What do you want, and why does it have to be right now?" in a really whiney tone. I mean, what can I say? I love my beauty sleep.

"Addison, we have a world to save."

I'm sure that if my eyes were open I would have rolled them, "Don't be a drama queen darling, it doesn't look good on you."

He chuckled and said, "Whatever sassy pants, just listen." It was quiet for a few second before I heard him say, "Rise and shine, sleepyheads."

I would assume that he had put me on speaker because I could hear the startled gasps and the sounds of sheets rustling and I couldn't help but laugh. The first voice I heard besides Damon's was my dear twin's, "Damon! Please!"

And it was quickly accompanied by Stefan's, "What are you doing?"

"Oh, stop being smutty." I snorted at him.

I don't know for sure, but I have a sneaking suspicion that they aren't decent by how startled Stefan sounds, "Seriously, get out of here!"

"If I see something I haven't seen before, I'll throw a dollar at it. Now listen, we have some very important business to discuss." Well if Chloe wasn't awake before, she probably is now with how loud and hard I'm laughing at the moment.

"And it has to be right now?" That was my twin for sure.

"Well, we have lots to do, now that we're all friends and working toward a common goal." Oh, so that's what this is all about. He should've just let me sleep.

There was a little bout of silence where body language was probably being how the three were communicating, so I took the time to get up and find that I was correct. Chloe was trying to sit herself up in her crib, so I swooped in to be her knight in shining pajamas.

After changing Chloe out of her dirty diaper, I started my trek downstairs to start getting some baby food and a bottle ready for my stink bug while still keeping the phone pressed to my ear. I was just starting to feed Chloe when Damon ordered everyone around suggestively, "So, in order to open the tomb, we need to find the journal to get the grimoire to undo the spells. First things first-since you are Elena Gilbert, you're on journal duty."

"Since when am I helping? And why cant Addie do it? She's a Gilbert too." Lena asked slashed complained.

I can feel the smirk he's defiantly tossing her in my bones, "Well, Stefan's helping, and you've taken up residence in Stefan's bed, Ads hasn't, ergo..."

"Plus I have better thing to do tonight, like beat Jeremy at his video games and let his ego take a huge hit." If I was in that room I probs would've caught a hand that looks distinctively like my twins with the back of my head.

I shoved a spoonful of the gross pea carrot spinach stuff into Chlo's mouth and rolled my eyes when she spit it back out onto the tray of her highchair. I was so caught up with my defiant baby that I jumped a bit when Stef spoke, "You don't have to do anything that you don't want to do."

"I'll look for it tonight." She grumbled.

"You should check with Jer." I offered, but if anyone heard it they didn't let on.

"Good."

"How do we know that this journal will hold the location of the grimoire? We're really going to take the word of this vampire? He seemed like a bit of a dimwit." Well, I don't know about that, he was smart enough to use a ruse to get into the house.

"In lieu of any other options." What a dramatic smartass.

"OK, what exactly is a grimoire, anyway?" Really twinny?

I spooned Chloe the last of her icky veggie baby food and said, "Really Lena? Use your context clues!"

Damon laughed and told her, "It's a witch's cookbook."

I can perfectly picture the look cast upon Stefmiesters broody face right now, "Every spell that a witch casts is unique unto itself, so every witch would document their work."

"Yeah. Cookbook." Damon and I both said at the same time as one another.

I gave him a mental high five as I started moving around in the kitchen to find myself something to eat. I had pulled a yogurt out of the fridge when Stef asked, "What about our mystery vampire? Dimwit obviously wasn't working alone, so whoever's out there knows who we are."

"And I don't like that disadvantage," I'm not surprised, "so... Chop, chop." There was a brief pause before he spoke again, "You know, I really like this whole menage a foursome team thing. It's got a bit of a kink to it." He and I both chuckled at his remark, "Don't screw it up."

I assume he had walked out of the room before he said, "I'll see you and Princess later Sassy Pants."

I smiled to myself, "See you then Drama Queen." I enjoyed his little laugh before it cut off, signaling that he had hung up. I set my phone down and glanced at Chloe with a somber face, knowing that the both of us are really going to miss him when he is gone with Kathrine.

—~•+•~—

That night when Lena came home from the boarding house with Stefan, they were in the dining room going through the box of Gilbert trinkets from civil war era Mystic Falls. And while those two were screwing around with that stuff I was busy sitting in my room and folding all of the laundry that I took the initiative of doing today.

And when I was finally finished doing that I went downstairs to bother Lena and Stef's couple time. And it seems that lil b and I think a lot alike, cause the kid left his room at the same time that I left mine, the only difference between us was that one of us had a baby with a death grip on our hair. But don't you worry, I'm used to my daughter trying to rip out my hair, so it didn't really hurt all that bad.

Yet, I also took this opportunity to pass of my little stinker to my formerly emo brother and let him play with her for a little bit because mama needs a break. Well, either that or a stiff drink, but that's not really an option at the moment.

After that whole ordeal I was point man down the stairs and into the dining room only to find Lena with a box containing some muzzle type thing. "The hell is that?" Was the first thing I could get out of my mouth, because that thing looked sketchy as heck.

No one had a chance to answer because of Jer-Bear entering the dining room behind me, but I didn't look the look of remembrance flash across Stef's face. "What are you guys doing?"

"Hey." She greeted Jeremy, but shot a glare at me for no reason, "Just going through some stuff, feeling sentimental. Dad had this old family journal from years ago. I thought I'd dig it up."

Our little bro sat down on the kitchen counter and leaned Chloe back against his chest before asking, "Johnathan Gilbert's journal?"

"Yes sir," I answered.

"What do you know about it?" Lena added.

"I just did a history report on it." Oh yeah, I remember that!

"Oh." I hope she feels dumb, "So where is it now?"

Jeremy shrugged, "I gave it to Mr. Saltzman. He wanted to see it."

I sat back and observed the couple as they exchanged a look... What is that all about?

—~•+•~—

I was pleasantly surprised later after Stefan had left when Damon showed up, and it was kind of odd. He rang the door bell, strange I know. He normally likes to show up in my room late at night and try to scare the crap outta me. And it was so cute when I opened the door and the first thing he did was scoop the baby out of my arms and say, "Princess! Its been too long!"

Apparently we're having a little Gilbert and Salvatore family dinner, so Damon is showing off his cooking skills right now while wooing Auntie Jen. In doing so he is also making himself even more of a dream guy, which is really screwing with my head and I really need to stop drooling over this guy I might possibly never see again.

I'm currently sitting beside Jenna on the counter, bouncing Chloe on my knee while she intensely watches Damon slicing a tomato. Jenna is a lucky one though and is sporting a glass of wine that she's occasionally taking sips from.

The two somehow went off on their own conversation about ex's and such, "My father never approved of anyone I dated, which only made me want them more. Of course. What about you two lovely ladies?" Damon scooped up the sliced tomato and placed it into a bowl.

Jenna spoke up, "There were a few guys. Logan isn't the only loser I've dated."

And I informed, "I dated this one guy freshman year, but we broke up after a few months, and now I have a kid, so my love life is going nowhere fast."

Damon smirked in my direction as Jen patted my shoulder comfortingly, before asking her, "They ever find him? Or is he still missing?"

Jenna laughed nastily, "He's not missing. He's in the Bahamas working on his tan. Very entitled, that one. Marches to his own drum." You can say that again, "He's a Fell. They're all snooty." When I glanced over at her I noticed that she had drained the rest of her whine, and couldn't help but chuckle at her.

Damon was also chuckling at her and he grabbed the wine bottle and came over to Jenna filling her glass again causing her to raise her glass at him. I was then getting up from my spot on the counter as he went back to cooking and jumped when he said, "Hello, Elena."

Jen and I flipped around at the same time right when Lannie girl entered the kitchen, looking shocked that Damon would be here. Jenna greeted her after that, "Hey. Where have you been? We're cooking dinner."

"Is Stefan with you?" He asked her.

I gave her a sarcastic smirk when her eyes flittered to me, and she rolled her eyes, telling the blue eyed vamp, "Um - he'll be here soon."

I left the kitchen directly after that in favor of playing video games with Jeremy while Chloe played on her little play mat with her blocks. I could've eves dropped on Damon and Lena while they both were setting the table, but screw that, I need my full undivided attention on the screen so that I can beat my little bros ass at this game.

And once I did kick poor little Jeremy's booty, I left him to play by himself and watch Chloe while I went and played mediator between Damon and Lena. It was no surprise when I walked in and the first thing I heard was Damon sarcastically asking, "Are you lecturing me?"

I watched the pair sporting a board look when Lena put a hand on her hip and cockily asked, "Do you need to be lectured?"

"I just want her back. I'm sure you can understand that." Well... Ouch, I should've just stayed in the living room with Jer.

Lena gave me a knowing look before answering him, "I can understand that you would do anything for her, yes."

I leaned in the doorway and ran my eyes around the room, purposely not looking at the man, especially since I could feel his on me. He let out some small grunt before saying, "Then you understand what I will do if anyone gets in my way."

He then brushed past me on his way out of the room, and Lena and I were both left there slightly disturbed, yet both for a different reason.

After that nice little get together in the dining room, I was back in the living room, only this time I wasn't the one play games with Jeremy, Damon was. He had Chloe on his lap, and he didn't seem to mind it when she would reach out and slap at the controller every once in awhile. And to everyone's (Jeremy and Mine's) surprise, he was still winning.

"You said you never played this thing before." Jeremy accused the man, who sometimes wouldn't even look at the screen in favor of glancing down at the giggling baby in his lap.

Damon didn't acknowledge the accusation, just shrugging and telling the kid, "I'm a fast learner. Quick reflexes." I tried my best to hide how amused I was when Jeremy's phone went off and he paused the game, my amusement was defiantly caused by the look on Damon's face as he did it if you'd like to know.

I noticed Jeremy contemplate answering, but ultimately decide not to and hang up on whoever was trying to get ahold of the emo boy. The vampire seated beside him noticed the same thing and asked the boy, "Who are you dodging?" I wont lie, I'm a little interested in what Jer Bear is gonna say.

"This girl Anna. She can be, uh, persistent." Sounds like a bitch to me.

"Is she hot?" I need to stop the eyerolling, someone might think I'm dramatic like Damon.

"Yeah, yeah, but she can be weird."

"Men!" I whispered to myself as I stood and started walking to the kitchen, having enough with the guys.

Damon got one last thing in before I was out of ear shot though, "Hot trumps weird, trust me. I mean, look at Addie." I flipped him off without looking back and joined Jentastic and Lannie Girl in the kitchen.

And the second I walked in, Jenna was on my ass, "He is ridiculously hot! And did vyou see him with Chloe? That is dad material right there!"

"Shh!" Both Lena and I shushed her at the same time, then gave each other a glare for doing such a typical twin thing, and we are not typical twins.

I looked over at the raven haired man holding my little bug and told the woman, "A big drama queen is what that man is."

"And an ass," Lena added, and I can just envision the dramatic eyeroll he most likely just executed.

After that Lena went back to going through the old Gilbert boxes, which caused Jenna to ask, "What are you doing with all this stuff?"

"I thought there might be something about my birth parents." And just like that I wanna leave.

"Have you two told Jeremy?" Jen asked us.

"I want to, but..." Lena cut me off.

"We will. When the time is right."

"That's bullshit," I groaned out, catching a look from Jenna in the process, but before the scolding could commence the doorbell rang.

"That's Stefan."

And that's how we all ended up outside, baby included, "Well?" Damon asked his confused brother. "Who took it?"

I leaned on the railing of our porch and watched Stefan carefully as he observed Damon holding Chloe, almost in a trace before finally answering, "I don't know."

"You know what, it's that teacher. There's something really off about him." I like Mr. S, sure he's a little nosy, but who isn't now a days.

Seems, Steffie agrees, "No, he doesn't know anything. Somebody got to it right before me."

"Who else knew it was there?"

Stefs eyes traced to the window where Jeremy sat inside, and Damon followed his eyes, and when he noticed Jer, he started to make a move to go talk to him. "No. Damon, leave him out of it!" Lena begged, trying ot stop, him. Meanwhile, I'm still chilling against the railing confused as to why Lena thinks Damon will hurt Jer over a journal that he gave to his teacher to read.

"Why, what's the big deal?" Chloe and Damon are sporting matching bitch faces right now, and its very amusing to me.

"Damon!" That's a last ditch effort if I've ever heard one miss thang, and it was also very ineffective.

As Damon walked by me to head into the house, he stopped by me in order to link our arms so he could drag me along with him to talk to my lil bro. He sat down on the arm of the couch and I sat beside him, and was a bit shocked when he placed Chloe onto my lap. He then struck a convo with the formerly emo teen, "So... I heard you found a really cool journal from back in the day. Who else did you show it to?"

"Huh?" Jer asked, only causing Damon to get a bit agitated.

"Don't ask questions, just spill."

Jer-Bear chuckled at the man, "You're kidding me, right?"

And before Damon could lose his patience with the kid Lena jumped in, "Jer, did you tell anyone other than Mr. Saltzman about Johnathan Gilbert's journal?"

Jer-Bear looked at me like 'are these people serious' to which I just shrugged. He sighed and asked, "Why is everybody so obsessed with that thing?"

"Who else did you tell?" Lena, you don't make a very good good-cop.

"Just that girl Anna." Big oof bud.

"The hot, weird one?" Of course that's what he remembers from that conversation.

"Yeah." I've said it once, and I'll say it again... Men.

"Wait, who is Anna?" Stefmiester asked.

So I answered, "Jer-Bear's girly friend."

Damon gave me a unimpressed glance before telling him, "That's what I want to find out."

Lena's phone started ringing, so she went upstairs to answer it, so I conveniently took this time to go change Chloe's diaper, give her a bath, and a bottle before bed, just figuring that was the end of the conversation. Well more like I just didn't care enough to be there, if there even was going to be another half to it.

I guess when I was upstairs taking care of everything I wanted to do, and lulled my little girl to sleep shit started to go down. And it only look a little over a hour and a half to happen, that's gotta be a record or something.

Anyways, I just got Chloe 100 percent asleep and turned around jumping when I noticed the blue eyed vampire standing in the middle of my room. I didn't even get the chance to question him, because he had already grabbed me and he vamp zoomed me out of the window he came in. And it was scary, because I've never done that before.

—~•+•~—

The next thing I know, I was standing in the middle of the woods with Damon's hand over my mouth and we were watching Stefan and Elena digging up a grave. I kept looking between the strange couple and up at Damon in confusion. He. Looked. Mad.

Once Stefan pulled a old book (probs the grimoire) and started to flip through it, Damon decided that would be a good time to reveal himself, "Well, what do you know?"

Damon kept his hold on my arm once we stopped in front of the pair who hand flipped around at the shock of hearing his voice. I gave the two my best mom look so that they hopefully saw how disappointed I was in them, while Damon lips curled into a snarl. "This is an interesting turn of events."

Stef at least had the decency to look a little sorry, "I can't let you bring her back. I'm sorry."

"So am I. For thinking for even a second that I could trust you." These two need some freaking family therapy.

"Oh. You're not capable of trust." Ass, "The fact that you're here means that you read the journal and you were planning on doing this with just you and Addison."

"Of course I was going to do with just Addison, because the only one I can count on is me! She's never stabbed me in the back! You made sure of that many years ago, Stefan. But you..." He paused and looked at Elena who was behind Stefan, "You had me fooled."

What a bitch she is sometimes, "So what are you going to do now? Because if you try and destroy that, I'll rip her heart out." Mine or Lena's?

Stef glanced down at me, probably thinking Damon was threatening me, "You won't kill her." I'm not so sure he's gonna try to kill me Steffie.

Damon nodded, glancing down at me, before vamp speeding over to Lena and putting her in a chokehold. And since I had been leaning on him, not supporting myself, I ended up taking a tumble into the little mud puddle beside me. "I can do one better."

I watched from the ground as Damon bit into his wrist and shoved it against Lena mouth and forcing her to drink his blood. "Give me the book, Stefan, or I'm snapping her neck. And you will have a vampire girlfriend."

My eyes constantly flicked between the brothers, wondering how this was really gonna end, "Let her go first."

Damon roughly pulled his arm away from Lena's face and yelled, "The book!"

"I'm not going to give this to you until she is standing next to me." That's probably the smartest thing you've done since you decided to cross Damon like a dumbass Steffie.

"Problem is, I no longer trust that you'll give it back!"

"You just did the one thing that ensures that I will." yet, Stef relented and slowly put the book down onto the ground, "Okay." Damon shoved Lena away from him and she ran to Stefan very unsure, then jumped over the grave into Stefan's arms.

Stefan wrapped her up in his arms, and the pair came up to me, and he momentarily let hero to help me up. Stefan looked to be expecting me to leave with them, so I glanced over at Damon in curiosity, "Go with you sister." Was all he said, so I ended up following the two out of the woods, and going home with them.

—~•+•~—

Once we were home, and I had taken a quick shower to wash off the mud from my body and hair, I was chilling on Lena's bed while her and Stefan talked in the bathroom. I was for sure ignoring their conversation, not giving a shit, Lena just didn't wanna be alone in her room with just Stefan. So I was being a wonderful person and appeasing her.

I think Stef was sharing his pity party of a life with her, but I was too busy reading Fifty Shades a Grey, which I had started last night when I couldn't fall asleep. It's a lot better then I thought it would be.

I hadn't looked away from the book until Stefan cleared his throat at me from the end of the bed, causing me to look up at him with a raised eyebrow, "Is there aspirin in your bathroom?"

I shook my head at him, "Nope, try the kitchen, or just ask Jenna. All that's in my room is the baby stuff."

He nodded and left. I went back to the book and let out a puff of pain when Lena plopped down beside me on the bed and smacked my stomach accidently when she landed. I set the book down, and almost screamed when there was a sudden blur of dark hair going around the room. I didn't get the chance to though, because I was too busy getting a hard smack to the face and then straight darkness.

I'm gonna go ahead and blame this one all on Lena...