Sorry for the later update then usual...

but i'm a little sick today and it slowed me down...

hope you like the next part...

warning : flash forward...

i'm building up to the point the series start...

POV Damon

I drop the girl to the floor. She tries to stand up so she can run but my compelling will keep it's effect. If I don't undo it, she'll never talk again. I walk slowly toward Sam who is hiding behind a trash can. She shrinks away in a corner. She keeps doing that till the light of the streets falls on me and pulls me out of the shadows.

"Ow Damon, it's you…"

That's all she says. She thought I was someone else, even though she has been following me.

"Why did you follow me?"

"You weren't there…" she says accusing.

She reaches up to my face and wipes the blood away with the sleeve of her pajamas.

"And how will you explain that one if someone asks questions?" I ask her curiously.

"Nosebleed…"

Sometimes her mind is so far ahead of her that she already seems to have the answer for questions yet to be asked. She doesn't have a problem with me at all. I get some comfort out of that…

8 years later…

I hadn't looked forward to today. Sam turned 16 today. As a gift I bought her a car. She kept reminding me of how many times she had to ask me to drive her somewhere. She really thought I couldn't get a hint when given one.

The last years had been refreshing. We were a good team. That girl could come up with excuses. It should be a crime to be so good at lying. That's one of the many things I learned her. She had to be able to lie her way out of problems. Like that one time I got arrested and she came to claim her father. It was still a story she loved to remind me of.

"How in the world did you get caught? You're Damon Salvatore…" she giggled.

She rubbed my favorite answer in. She compared me once with Jack Sparrow who gave his name as answer for impossible things. So did I sometimes, it just hadn't worked this time.

I couldn't have known the girl I bit, was wearing vervain and was the daughter of a policeman. I had called for her in my brain. She came immediately. She gave the best theatre I've seen in years, tears and everything. We're unstoppable.

We moved over the years mostly because of me except for that one time. She had broken a kid's nose because he thought, I was weird. That's hitting a nerve in her book. The teacher had to pull her of the boy with all her strength. I'm still impressed the teacher succeeded because I sometimes can't pull her away.

But something was eating at her from the inside. Every birthday again I saw it burning in her eyes. A desire to be anywhere but here. It hurt…

"If I wouldn't be here when you come home what would you do?" she asked me once.

I was reading the paper and was so shocked by the question, I just couldn't answer first.

"I would look for you…"

"And if I asked you not to?"

The conversation always ended there. Every time I tried to ask her why she was asking those things, she changed subject. I had a bad feeling about today. We had bought her car, went for dinner while she wore a beautiful dress. We had fun but the glint in her eyes was there again.

I think I stopped myself from thinking about it. I knew somewhere deep in my heart what was coming. I even knew it wouldn't end with a proper goodbye.

I was right.

Here I am standing in out house in New Orleans with a letter in my hand in an empty house.

Dear Damon,

Don't look that way, I'm not dead…

I need to do something, I just don't know what yet.

We both knew this day would come…

I couldn't stay with you forever.

I'm going to try and find my mother.

I need this closure…

Who knows, what I'll find…

I'm scared, yes I'm talking feelings…

Don't look that way, I'm not turning into Stefan.

I'll be alright.

This is not goodbye because I'm coming back.

All at it's rightful time and place.

I put my new number on the card,

And will change it every 2 months like you taught me.

I'll stay out of the neighborhood of vampires

And won't stay in the same place for longer then 3 days.

See, you don't have to worry.

Please don't be mad…

Sam

Will Damon be mad or not?

review please...

hope you didn't mind the flash forward.

but don't worry, in the future we'll have flashbacks...

you'll still get some insight in their little adventures...