14. Smile

"I don't want to go to sleep already." The petite girl exclaimed, her ice blue eyes shining up to the two persons that had tucked her in. The guy smiled down at her as he sat down on the rocking chair next to her bed and pulled the young woman down on his lap. She smiled at her daughter. "Alright, honey, how about a little story before you fall asleep?" Bonnie asked the young girl. "Yes, please." The girl laughed and smiled at her parents. "Okay, Mommy will tell you a story. What do you want to hear?" The man replied. "Mommy can talk for herself." The young witch replied and hit him playful on the chest.

The young girl watched her parents as they playfully fought with each other, but suddenly she interrupted. "Why did you fall in love with Daddy?" "Why wouldn't she fall in love with me? I am awesome and I am hot." Her father answered cockily. "Yes and you aren't conceited at all." His daughter answered. The young mother couldn't contain her laughter as the jaw of her husband dropped at the words of their daughter. "Hello, young lady, I am your father, you will not talk to me like this." He stated, trying to sound serious and to act his role as a parent. She stuck out her tongue at her father, who stood up and started to tickle the little girl. Bonnie watched her husband and daughter. "I'll tell you." She interrupted the banter and smiled at the girl that had inherited her caramel skin, contrary to the ice blue eyes of her father.

It was a quiet day in Mystic Falls, the sun was shining down and there wasn't a single cloud in the sky. Katherine and the Originals had been defeated a long time ago and peace had settled in. All of us knew that this would not last forever, but we had soon learnt to enjoy and to live the moment. And so we all had decided to spend the day at a little water fall that was located on a meadow in the forest near Mystic Falls.

I was sitting on a large rock in the middle of the small lake on the foot of the water fall and felt the sun shining down on me. In the water beneath me, Caroline and Tyler were playing volleyball on the green next to the shoreline and Stefan was laying on a blanket with Elena on his chest. Damon had decided to come with us, but had disappeared quite a while ago, probably to suck some innocent college girl, that was wandering around near here, dry. But I didn't really care. Life was too good to think about the homicidal vampire right now.

Of course, as time had passed I had let go of the hate and blame I put onto him, but I still did not really like Damon. Those human parts, Elena and Stefan were seeing in him, I still hadn't found them and as long as it wasn't proven that there was more to him than a vampire, I was not ready to see anymore in him anymore.

"Hello, little witch." Damon's voice whispered next to my ear and I rolled my eyes at him as I turned to face him. "Hello Damon." I answered before looking away again. My gaze locked onto Stefan's hand that was playing with Elena's hair, as I tried to block out the slightly annoying presence of the vampire next to me.

"Come on witch, I am bored." Damon whined next to me, causing me to sigh deeply. "What do you want?" I asked him annoyed. "Entertain me." He answered, while raising his eyebrows suggestively. It clear as cristal what he was hinting at and it was also clear that I would never agree to that, but in that second an idea popped up in my head. I was slightly bored too and why shouldn't I have a little fun. "Alright." I smiled seductively at Damon and scooted closer to him, he quickly hiding his surprise behind a cocky expression. But what he didn't know was that I had trained unspoken magic and so I formulated a spell in my head as I scooted closer. When our noses were only inches apart, I smirked at him. "Did you really think it was this easy?" And a second later a loud splashing sound was heard.

Elena and Stefan shot up from the blanket they were lying on and Caroline and Tyler looked over shocked. It only took them seconds to realize what had happened before they all burst out laughing. Damon was lying in the lake, his hair dripping down his forehead, he glared at me."Sorry, Damon. I really don't know what happened? Did you slip?" I asked innocently, hiding my laughter. "I'll kill you!" Damon pressed out through gritted teeth, before he jumped out of the water and leapt into my direction. He too fast for me to react and so his body slammed against mine and both of us descended, more or less graceful, in the water.

As soon as I reached the surface again, I glared at Damon. "You just ruined my hair." "As if there was anything left to ruin." He answered cockily. "You..." I jumped at him, splashing water straight in his face.

An Hour later I dropped down on the shore, Damon falling next to me. I was gasping for air, but at least he seemed out of breath too. I turned my head, watching his profile next to me. "Truce?" I gasped. "Okay." He answered and then it happened. Damon turned his head, his gaze meeting mine and smiled. He smiled and I froze, shock written across my face. It was the first time I had ever seen him show anything clearly human, let alone any happy emotion and now he was smiling at me.

His hair dripped down his forehead, his eyes were beaming and the smile illuminated his features. He smiled at me and I couldn't get myself to tear my eyes away from him. That picture in front of me captured my whole attention. I was speechless and unable to formulate any clear thought and this jsut because he had smiled at me.

"And his smile was all it took?" Linnea asked her mother curiously. "Yes." The young mother answered and smiled herself. "Your Daddy, he was a handsome bad boy and I always had a thing for bad boys, but what had stopped me from crushing on him, was that I never found anything human in him." "Yes, your Daddy is one smoking hot badass vampire." Damon interrupted them, causing Bonnie to once more roll her eyes at him. "He is always acting this way, but what made me fall for him, was the human in him. He can be the most caring and loyal person in this world and he would do anything for those he loves, and that day I saw all those sides in him, when he smiled at me."

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