Sorry, it's been so long. I had a million tests and I still have an essy to write. This chapter is short, but it's all I could do in the little time I had. I don't know when the next update will be, but it will probably be in a week or so. I hope you enjoy this chapter anyway!

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Chapter Fifteen

We Can All Look Beautiful

Stefan looked out the window. Sage was on his way, he'd be there in a day or two. Sage had also contacted some trustworthy allies. They were on their way, Stefan reassured himself. He felt something ram into his legs. He turned his head around to find Miranda hugging his legs. He smiled.

"Bonjorno Miranda. What brings you down here so early in the morning?" He asks as he picks the child up.

"Momma and Daddy tol' me go downstairs." She says in her little girl voice.

"I hungwy." She says as she wiggles out of his arms. She runs to the cabinets and reaches up. She's far from reaching the cereal cabinet. Stefan takes out her Froot Loops and pours a small bowl of it for her. He sets it on the table and Miranda climbs up the chair and starts to eat. He hears Elena and Damon descend the stairs. Elena was giggling and Damon was smiling a real smile, the kind that reached his ears. Stefan had never seen his brother smile in happiness, EVER.

"Hey Stefan." Elena says cheerily, giving him a hug.

"Ugh." He says, scrunching his nose.

"You smell horrible." Elena gives him a hurt look.

"You smell like my brother." He says with a fake grimace. Elena swats his arm and sticks out her tongue. She grabs the cereal and pours herself a bowl. Damon punches his brother in the arm and wraps his hands around Elena's waist. She leans into him and inhales his scent as she closes her eyes. The moment is broken when Miranda comes running over to them and hugs their legs. This almost knocks Damon over as he's only standing on one leg, the other is in a cast so he couldn't put any weight on it. Elena grabs Miranda and brings her to the table. Damon grabs the cereal box and pours the rest of it in his bowl. He sits at the table and they all eat. Stefan watches them silently. Elena catches his eye.

She smiles and whispers: "I for one like Damon's scent. It smells like Axe and… smoke." She says. Stefan laughs along with Damon. Miranda joins in, but doesn't know why they are laughing. Finally, after so many years and painful times they are a family.

Outside in the woods the demons watched them. Soon it would be time to execute their plans. All they needed was Damon's leg healed up and then they would kill the Salvatore's from the inside.

Damon lightly snored as he slept on the couch. Miranda was watching him and plotting to trick him like she did with her mommy. She grabbed her Mommy's nail polish from her purse and painted her father's nails. She checked that he wasn't awake and then she grabbed her mother's lipstick, blush and her black pencil. She put on the lipstick the way she saw her mommy do and then put the blush all over his face, and then she started to draw with the black marker. She giggled at how pretty her daddy looked and then ran up to his room to play with her dolls.

Damon heard snickering as he slowly woke up. Stefan was standing over him.

"What the fuck's your problem little brother? You woke me up!" He exclained. Stefan burst out laughing, he was crouched down, holding his stomach. Miranda ran into the room.

"You look pwetty, daddy." She giggled and then ran out of the room.

"What the hell?" He exclained. "Is this some kind of joke?"

"You could say that." Stefan said cryptically. Elena walked into the room and did a double take.

"What the- Oh." She started laughing.

"Miranda!" She yelled out between bouts of laughter.

"What?" He asked as Elena took a picture of him with her phone.

"What the hell, Elena?" He asked confused. "I totally feel like I've walked into the Twilight Zone." This just made Stefan and Elena laugh harder.

"Look…in the… mirror." Elena gasped. He gave her a questioning look and did as she said. He looked in the mirror and almost jumped back at the sight before him. He looked down at his hands to find his finger nails painted a bright pink. But, that wasn't all his toes were painted pink too.

"What the hell?" He yelled outraged.

"Miranda!" He yelled out.

"How the hell do I get this stuff off?" He asked Elena. He heard the little girl giggle.

"Not the big, scary bad boy anymore, are you?" Elena teased. Damon half ran, half limped after his daughter as she squealed out of the room. He chased her until he had her in his arms tickling her.

"You think this is funny?" He asks. Miranda nods and giggles. Mrs. Flowers walks into the room and drops her basket of flowers and yelps. Damon stops tickling his daughter and Miranda looks over at Mrs. Flowers with big innocent eyes. Mrs. Flowers has her hand over her heart and breathes in to catch her breath.

"Oh dear, Damon. You scared me half to death… the way you look. I thought you were a demon attacking this poor little girl." She smiles warmly at Miranda.

"You look absolutely ridiculous. What ever possessed you to do that to yourself?" She asked. Damon shook his head.

"It was her." He pointed to Miranda.

"Oh, don't be such a child my boy. You can't blame that on this innocent little creature." She said, pinching Miranda's cheeks. Miranda scrunched up her face at the contact.

"Daddy looks pwetty wike mommy now." Miranda said. Mrs. Flowers laughed at that and picked her dropped flowers and left the room laughing and shaking her head.

"Baby, why don't you let daddy clean up now?" Elena said, as she walked into the room.

"No, daddy looks pwetty. I wike it." The doorbell rang.

"Gotta go." Damon said as he hopped up the stairs. He had to leave before anyone else saw him like that. Now, all he had to do was figure out how to get nail polish and makeup off.

Elena answered the door, assuming it was Bonnie or Meredith.

"Elena?" The woman on the other side of the door said in disbelief.

"Aunt Judith?"

"Oh, Elena. It really is you?" She said, hugging her niece.

"How?" She asked.

"It's a VERY long story."

"I have time, dear." She said as they walked to the couch. For the rest of the afternoon Elena told her aunt everything that had happened to her over the years.

"Wow." She said afterwards.

"I knew I recognized Miranda's eyes, and her name..." She shook her head.

"Wait! I am going to kill that boy. He knocked you up. That's what a mother and father is supposed to do; beat him up, and since they're not here I'll do the honours." She said, getting up from the couch.

"Damon, get your butt down here now." Judith yelled out.

"Aunt Judith! You don't need to do that." Damon hopped down the stairs, he recognized that voice, she was probably angry he hadn't told her, her niece was alive. Instead she yelled at him for knocking up her niece. When she was done Stefan walked into the room with Miranda. Miranda recognized the woman and to everyone's surprise she ran over to her yelling: "Auntie Judif!" She hugged her legs, then moved on to Damon's legs and then settled herself in her mother's lap.

"Now that that's settled. I came here for a reason. The demons contacted me. They offered us a deal." She said, patting Miranda's back.

"They want Damon in exchange for my husband." She said, not meeting anyone's eyes.

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