He pulls Elizabeth's chair out for her and she sits down. Jessica gives Elizabeth a look like "Are you OK?" and Elizabeth nods. Damon leans in like he's telling secrets.

Damon: "I know about your little secret. You can stop hiding the fact that you know me now."

Jessica: "Hiding the fact that I know you how?"

Damon: "You know the whole vampire history thing. You know I turned Lizzie's mom and you know that I am the same Damon from those stories in the flesh and blood. You know I can turn from your best friend into a deadly as hell killer if you piss me off and you're trying to be cautious because you're afraid I may kill both of you just to keep the secret quiet. You also can't believe I am saying this in a public place and you're glad it's loud in here so nobody gets nosey and turns around. How am I doing?"

Jessica's eyes get as big as quarters and she goes to say something, but nothing comes out of her actual mouth.

Damon: "Yeah. I can read your mind. So, I've known all along. Do I want you dead? No, you're not a threat to me. Am I going to attack you? No, again there is no threat. Yes, it is possible for someone like me to exist among you and be social. You don't know a thing about me so don't jump to the conclusion that I am some sort of demonic killer out to end the human race. I had enough of that in Mystic Falls. If I want a history lesson, I'll call Stefan to come over here and brood over all the fallen people. By the way, I was defending myself. They saw me as an enemy. That tomb was opened and we thought we closed it back up. They just did what vampires do best. Survive the given situation."

Jessica: "Well, thank you for the clarification. I've never seen you eat or drink blood. How the hell are you in a hospital surrounded by it and not feeding off the first person with a gushing wound that comes in?"

Damon: "That's my little secret, honey. I'm not telling you that. Let's just say that some of those miraculous healings are due to a little unnatural cleansing of the wounds."

Jessica gets a look of disgust on her face and shakes it off.

Jessica: "That's disgusting. You lick people like an animal."

She shutters again at the unsanitary conditions of the human mouth.

Damon: "Licking has nothing to do with it, my judgmental human friend. A vampire's blood heals everything. I am just so quick with it that nobody notices a little extra in the already bleeding wounds."

Jessica: "OK. Seriously, keep that to yourself. I don't want to know any more about your medical practices. I'm going to throw up. I'd like to be able to eat dinner without the image of that in my head, thanks."

Damon: "A vampire talks about bleeding on a human and it's disgusting and you're about to lose your appetite. A human takes a life and loses a limb in a battle field and you feel sympathy. That's the same thing in my book."

Jessica: "I'm a nurse. I see it all the time. I just don't want to hear about it at the dinner table. So, what did you ask, Elizabeth?"

Damon picks up a menu and starts looking over what sounds good for dinner. Elizabeth and Jessica are half looking at the menu and mostly wondering what's going through Damon's head at his cool as a cucumber exterior. He was actually getting a kick out of making Jessica nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof at this particular second. It was appealing to his inner evil person that was lying dormant for some time now. He almost chuckled out loud as she struggled to keep the conversation sounding normal.

Elizabeth: "I didn't ask anything out loud. He pulled a bunch of thoughts from my head after I asked for the huge chunk of my life that is missing to be returned to my head."

Jessica: "What? Speak English. What huge chunk of your life that is missing where?"

Elizabeth: "The stuff Gran won't talk about and Dad never brought up once. Almost like mom never existed in his life. That chunk of my life. The first 18 years of my life."

Jessica: "You know what happened the first 18 years of her life."

Damon: "Oh honey, you didn't tell her about your vampire heritage? I thought she was helping you find information about yourself for some time now."

Jessica: "I know about her vampire heritage, Damon. I was just wondering what the hell you would know about the first 18 years of her life. That would mean you were around when she was growing up and I've known her since she was 15. I've never seen you anywhere in her life or at any of her events. So, I don't see where you would know anything more then we do."

Damon: "Jessie, my sweet innocent pet. A maker has a special bond with their fledglings. Ok, let me break it down in terms you both will understand. When I changed Jean, Elizabeth's mom 200 years ago she was pregnant. Jean was dying and I didn't want the baby to die. So, I gave her my blood in hopes that the blood would get to the baby in time to save it. Well, for extra measure I bit mom and gave her my blood that way also. There wasn't any time to lose. I didn't want Elizabeth to die before she even had a chance to come into the world. So, my attempt to save both of their lives worked. Jean died with my blood in her system. So, technically as a human, she was gone. Both of you were dead. No records of either one of you coming into the world or leaving it. Hence, this is why you couldn't find anything on your mom or your birth. It doesn't exist in any data base. The only ones who know it happened are your mother and me. Your father came later in the picture and they raised you for the purpose and intent needed."

The waitress comes to take their order and they all put in food orders and Damon and Elizabeth both order Whiskey.

Jessica: "Make mine a double, please."

The waitress goes to put the order in and brings their drinks.

Elizabeth: "So, my growing up was normal."

Damon: "Yes and I wandered away from your mom and found Catharine when she met dear old Dad. See, Pops was anti Vampire. He didn't even believe we existed in this world much like you two. The first 18 years of Elizabeth's life were normal human years. She grew up and became a normal human child. She went to school and graduated and did all those normal things. Gran never talked about it because Jean never told Gran about her vampire lover and she never talked about being changed. It was easier for her to make everyone believe she was dead and gone. There would be no questions and your normal life wouldn't be interrupted by curiosity as to what the darker side was like. She didn't want you ending up like her."

The drinks come and Elizabeth takes a big comforting sip off her drink. She wanted to just down the whole thing and tell the waitress to bring the bottle to the table.

Damon: "Basically, Gran was paranoid for no good reason. You were raised as human as they come."

Elizabeth: "Wow. This is a lot to take in on one night."

Damon: "Yeah, tell me about it. First, I find out I have a rogue and now I find out my rogue had a daughter. So, I have a daughter too because my blood was in her heir when she was taken. Imagine finding out all of this after being told for as many years as I am alive that I will never have kids. I can't have kids in the traditional sense. Now all of the sudden, in the flesh and my own blood, there is proof. Try digesting that."

Jessica: "How about the true existence of Vampires in the real world. Try digesting that one after being told all your life that there is no such thing and those are all good movies and story plots. Now, here in the flesh, and not drinking blood, is an example of the true existence."

Damon flags down the waitress.

Damon: "Is it possible to get bottle service at our table? It may just be easier to bring the whole whiskey bottle over here."

Waitress: "Of course."

She goes to get the bottle for them. Damon notices Jessica fidgeting a bit nervously.

Damon: "Would you calm down and relax? I'm not going to kill you. Hell, I don't even want your blood. Although if you were bleeding I would gladly lick it up for you."

Jessica: "I'm sure you would."

Damon: "No need to censor yourself around me. I'm not always inside of your head. So, you can think things to yourself without me calling you on it. If you secretly think I'm an asshole, it's still a secret until you come out and say it to my face."

Jessica: "Damn, I wish I had your ability to read a mood like that. That would come in real handy on a first date."

Damon: "Yeah. You could tell if it was going south before you even left the house. It's not always good to know everything. That's why I stay out of people's heads unless they are plotting against me and I feel it. Then I want the heads up on what's going to happen next."

Jessica: "How do you do it? Can you teach anyone to mind read?"

Damon: "I'm not a school teacher teaching his pupils. It's an ability you either have or you don't. It's not a special secret. Like compelling is."

The food arrives and they eat. Damon's phone rings and he excuses himself from the table.

Damon: "Can I help you with something, Stefan?"

Stefan: "Are you still at the hospital?"

Damon: "No. I'm having dinner with Jessica and Elizabeth. What's going on?"

He tried to read what was going through Stefan's mind that he wasn't trying to say over the phone.

Stefan: "There's someone out there after you. They think you've created some sort of mutant child."

Damon: "A mutant child? You've been watching too much Syi Fyi channel. I'm not out creating mutant babies or some sort of crazy species. What the hell have you been smoking on?"

Stefan: "This is serious, Damon. They're out to punish the maker and destroy the child."

Damon: "Let them try to destroy the child. I will kill them where they stand before they even come into my town."

Stefan: "How did you make a child?"

Damon: "It's not a child in the traditional sense of the word. I changed a pregnant mother and the baby and she both died with my blood in their system. So, she has vampire blood in her heir."

Stefan: "Our bodies do work like normal, Damon. We can reproduce in the traditional sense."

Damon: "That's kind of hard to do being that we don't have a heart beat. We have no pulse. There are no human fluids in our bodies. We are the walking dead. That is still a fact. So, no, we can't reproduce in the traditional sense and that is why we have our children of the night."

Stefan: "I didn't call for a lesson in Vampire 101. I called to warn you to be careful and be on the look out."

Damon: "Dully noted. I will watch out. Besides, I am the fighter and the survivor. I can take care of myself."

Stefan: "I know."

They hang up and he goes back to dinner with the girls.

Damon: "Sorry about that. Seems my brother forgot I am the older and stronger one out of the two of us."