Dear Diary,

So we have made it yet another year with our little ladybug. It is hard to believe that she is two years old now and she has grown and learned so much. She has quiet the personality now and those terrible twos definitely peak through every now and then. She likes to test the limits even though she know I will tell her no but she tries anyway and also will see if daddy will give her a different reaction. Yet when she is told no by us both that is when the screaming and temper tantrums start. The little diva throws herself on the floor with her arms flaring and legs kicking up in the air. Her new thing is throwing all her toys and books around the house because she is mad. The first time she did it was a couple days ago, Damon was with her and while she screamed in the middle of the room he picked up all her toys and locked them way for the afternoon. The look on her face when all her toys were locked away was quite priceless as you could see the wheels turning in her head thinking maybe that wasn't such a good idea.

As terrible as the terrible twos can be she is actually very good most of the time and flashes the adorable smile and giggle of hers. Her vocabulary is growing like crazy over the past few months and we have to be very carful what we say in front of her, as she has no problem repeating it. She understands a lot more now and is able to respond when we ask her questions or when we tell her to do something.

So as we celebrate her second birthday, Damon and I think about how far we have come how much we have all grown and just how proud we are of our little lady bug and can't wait for all the new adventures she will go through. Happy Birthday Lady Bug.

Elena,

"Happy Birthday to you!" everyone sang as Elena set a Winnie the Pool cake down with a big number two candle in front of smiling Claire. Her big blue eyes widened at the sight of the cake and then she clapped along to everyone singing.

Damon was standing behind her high chair and he leaned forward to press a kiss on the top of her head, "Ok Lady Bug just how we practiced" Damon whispered and then watched as Claire did a big inhale and then blew out the candle with everything she had. "That's my girl," he said to her before giving her another kiss.

Elena and the others cheered as she blew out the candle and then Elena swiped a bit of icing off the cake and dabbed it on Claire's little nose. Claire let out a giggle as her mom got the icing on her nose and while Elena took the cake away to cut it, Claire was occupied in getting the icing off her nose.

Everyone had gotten together at the Salvatore house for the big birthday bash for Claire. Caroline and Tyler seemed to be back to their old selves as they chatted and played with Claire. The two seemed to be so in love again and put their issues with Klaus behind them. Jenna and Alaric although busy planning the next big wedding in Mystic Falls weren't about to miss Claire's second birthday for anything. Jenna was even emotional during the party as she thought about how much Claire had grown when it seemed like only yesterday she was being brought home from the hospital.

The only one not present at the birthday party was Bonnie, who had run off to Atlanta with Connor in hopes or making her modeling dream come true. It had been quite an interesting few days after Bonnie left as her mother and everyone kept calling her repeatedly and begging her to come home. Yet it was no use they couldn't talk Bonnie into coming home and Connor had her believing he was the key to her success not her family and friends. When talking to her over the phone wasn't working it left Bonnie's mother no choice but to drive down to Atlanta herself and hopefully bring her home. Elena hadn't heard anything from Bonnie no matter how many messages she left her but today was about Claire and she had to put her worries aside.

"Here you go baby girl," Elena said as she brought a piece of cake over to Claire as she sat in her high chair.

The happy two year old immediately reached out to get her hands into the chocolate cake and mush all over her face. "Yummy cacalate!" she chirped meaning chocolate.

"I think she likes it" Stefan said with a chuckle as he watched his niece eating her cake.

Damon was standing beside him and he had a huge smile on his face. As he watched her with a big smile on her face Damon couldn't help but think back to when he ran into his mother in the park and the awkward moment they had together.

Flashback

Damon was sitting on the park bench with Claire on his lap, as he looked both shocked and angry with the woman standing in front of him. The last time Damon had laid eyes on her was when she dropped him off at school all those years ago.

"Wow Damon, look at you" she said with a smile on her face as she got a better look at her son. "You have a daughter," she acknowledged of the toddler in his arms.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Damon snapped at her as he stood up getting ready to leave as he had Claire on his hip in a protective way.

"She is beautiful," she said ignoring Damon's question. "What's her name?"

"No I am not doing this" Damon said in anger as he shook his head. "You lost any right to know anything about my life," he told her with a growl.

"I am your mother Damon," she told him.

"No your are just a woman named Theresa who walked out on Stefan and I," He told her and then before she could say anything else Damon walked off and left her standing there speechless.

That was the last time Damon had seen her and to this moment he still couldn't believe that he had ran into her or that she was even here in Mystic Falls. He hadn't mentioned seeing her to anyone and he hoped that she would just disappear again from their lives. They didn't need her growing up and they sure as hell didn't need her now.

Damon was preoccupied in his own thoughts that he didn't even realize Elena was talking to him until she reach out for his hands and pulled him back to reality. "Hey you okay?" she asked him.

"Yeah I'm fine" Damon told her and then pressed a kiss you her forehead as he wrapped an arm around her and they watched their daughter.

"Well if you are feeling left out I have a party hat for you" Elena teased as she held up the cone shaped Winnie the Pool party hat in front of his face.

"Not going to happen," he laughed as he swat the hat away. She had tried earlier to get him to wear it but Damon said he wouldn't be caught dead wearing one of those. Elena tried batting her eyes at him but he knew what she was doing and told her no matter how cute she was he wasn't falling for it.

"Sorry of course you are too cool for it" Elena said as she rolled her eyes and then snuggled in close to Damon and pressed a kiss to his shoulder. Damon wrapped an arm around her and he gave her a kiss on the forehead as they stood there watching Claire. They suddenly heard the doorbell go and they both looked towards the front door.

"Who could that be?" Elena asked, as she knew everyone was already here.

"I'll check it out" Damon told her, as he had to pull away from her and headed for the front door.

"I'll clean up the chocolate monster" Elena said as she crept up over to a chocolate covered Claire to wipe her face with a cloth as the girl squirmed hating this part of the routine.

As Damon made his way to the door he could hear Claire's cries as if getting her face cleaned was the worst thing in the world. He couldn't help but smile as he got to the front door and pulled it open only to reveal Theresa Salvatore standing on the front step. When Damon's eyes met hers the smile on his face fell immediately, instead he clenched his jaw and furrowed his brow at the woman who had abandoned him and his brother all those years ago.

Theresa stood there nervously as she had her hand claps in front of her as she look at the son who look so much like her. She could read the anger all over his face and he wasn't the least bit happy that she was here. Looking around at the Salvatore Estate of her brother in-law she saw many cars parked on the driveway and party balloons and décor inside and outside the house. There was obviously some kind of party and given the child style décor it was definitely for a child and possibly the one she had met in the park about a week ago. "I guess I'm interrupting something, a party?" she asked.

"Yes you are, try coming back in another fifteen years" he snapped at her and then started to close the door on her.

"Damon wait!" she begged as she stepped her foot in the door so that he couldn't close it.

"Get out or I'll make you leave!" he warned her and his tone was anything but friendly.

It was threatening, suggestive that he would use force to get rid of her if needed. It reminded her a lot of the temper her husband had except for the fact Damon had that look that he would actually go through with his threat unlike her husband who just yelled. It wasn't hard to see that Damon obviously grew up with a lot of anger and he didn't even hide that it was all because of her. "Please Damon" she begged but he didn't seem to care.

"Damon lets go, Claire has started opening her presents" came Stefan's voice as he came running over to the front door to find out what was taking his brother so long. When he reached the door he saw Damon looking angry and pissed off and then he saw a woman in her fifties standing on the other side of the door. Her eyes suddenly fell on him and while he had no idea who she was, she knew whom he was.

"Stefan" they woman said as she got to see her younger son for the first time since she left. He was only two at the time she left and he had grown so much since then and had a lot of her in him. "Wow look at you" she said as she was taking everything in.

"Do I know you?" Stefan asked her as his mind was thinking who this woman was.

"She's no one" Damon snapped and then went to close the door again, "and she is leaving, we have nothing to say to her," he said forcefully.

"What's going on you two, Claire is getting impatient" came another Salvatore voice and before anyone could do or say anything else Zach was at the at the front door as well and his eyes fell on his sister in-law who had abandoned his nephews. He looked just as angry as Damon and poor Stefan stood there unsure as to why they both knew this woman and he didn't. Stefan turned back to look at the woman again as he tried to place a name with the face. She was obviously nervous and that only increased when Zach appeared at the door. "You have some nerve showing up here," Zach growled at her.

"What's going on?" Stefan asked again and begged someone to fill him in on who this woman was.

"I'm your mother, Stefan" she told him with a slight smile and then watched as Stefan seemed both shocked but unlike his brother and uncle he seemed curious about her.

"She isn't our mother, whatever she was she threw it away years ago" Damon snapped and then turned to leave but just as he was turning around Elena came around the corner to see what they were up to.

"What's going on," she asked Damon, as he seemed to be pissed off about something.

"Nothing, lets get back," he told her as his arm wrapped around her.

"You're my mother?" Stefan said in aw and this also got Elena's attention making her stop in her tracks. Looking over at Stefan staring at the woman standing on the front porch and then looking up at Damon she knew exactly why Damon was upset.

"Its so great to see you after all these years" Theresa said as she looking at her son.

"Its time you leave" Zach said forcefully and shut the door on her before she could object. When the door closed he turned back to see Damon standing there angry, Elena shocked and Stefan confused.

"Did you know she was in town?" Stefan asked looking between Zach and Damon trying to figure out who knew and how he was never told about it.

"I saw her a week ago" Damon responded with a sigh. "When I was at the park with Claire," he added as he looked at Stefan, his uncle and then at Elena who was still wrapped in his arm.

"You knew for a week?" Stefan asked sounding a little upset.

"She doesn't matter" Damon said firmly.

"She's our mother" Stefan stated in anger.

"No she is not! Theresa is just as much a stranger as any other person who comes to town" Damon told him in anger not understanding why Stefan was getting all upset over a dead beat mother.

"Listen now is not the time to discuss this" Zach told his nephews.

Before anyone could say anything else they could hear the running of little feet coming around the corner and then the birthday girl appeared with her Winnie the Pooh party hat on. "Come Mommy, Daddy, come now!" Claire ordered as she reached for her daddy's hand and started pulling him back into the main room where all her presents were.

"Okay I'm coming" Damon said with a chuckle as he took Claire's little hand as she pulled both her parents by the hands to where her presents were. Damon gave Stefan a quick glance and a look to drop the conversation for now as he focused on Claire and the rest of her birthday. He also knew that him and Elena would be having a talk about this situation as well since he hadn't shared the news with her. Yet right now the focus was on Claire as they helped their little girl celebrate her second birthday.

Watching the clock in The Gill, Elena was just about to go on her break during her evening shift. Wearing her black skirt, white buttoned quarter length sleeve blouse and her hair tied back in in ponytail the smiling waitress cleared the table of her last customers.

With Damon being home to take care of Claire, this gave Elena the chance to pick up an extra shift at the restaurant and not having to worry about finding a babysitter. She had four more months to raise enough money for school and although she had a college fund and possible scholarships she would still need some money when it came to rent and Claire's daycare.

Elena finished wiping a table and collecting the dirty dishes, before she started to head to the kitchen. Hearing the chimes of the front door Elena looked back and saw Bonnie standing there looking so frail in a dress style that would be skin tight on most girls but seemed baggy on Bonnie's frame that was drastically fading away. "Bonnie!" Elena cried as she set the dished on the table again and then ran over to give her friend a hug. "I have been so worried about you, you never called or anything" Elena told her frantically and then gave Bonnie another tight hug. "When did you get back?"

"A couple hours ago" Bonnie stated.

Biting her bottom lip Elena begged Bonnie to wait for her while she ran the dirty dishes back to the kitchen and informed her boss she was going on break. Taking the dishes back Elena stripped off her apron and then quickly ran back to find Bonnie sitting at one of the booths in the back corner. Slipping onto the bench across from Bonnie she gave her friend a smile because she was happy she was finally home.

"I had my audition and I should be hearing back from them in a couple days" she told her with a smile.

"We were worried about you" Elena told her friend as she reached out and took hold of her hands across the table.

"Look I already got the lecture from my mom" Bonnie said as she rolled her eyes. "This is something I really wanted and I'd hope you would all supported me," Bonnie stated with a sigh. She hated how her family and friends weren't standing by her while she went for her dream of modeling. Connor was there for her and helping her all the way as she was preparing for her the audition in Atlanta why not them.

"Bonnie we do support you, its Connor we don't trust" Elena explained. "Some of the lengths he has you going to for auditions has us all really worried" Elena responded. "You're not eating and we are afraid for your health."

"Well I'm fine" Bonnie told her not wanting to talk about it anymore.

"Elena" came a voice and when she turned in the direction of the voice she saw her supervisor Alice as she appeared. "We got a customer and she has requested you as her waitress" she announced to her.

Elena was a little confused that she was being requested but as Alice pointed the customer out she realized who it was. Her heart started pounding and she got very nervous as she saw Mrs. Salvatore siting at a table reading through her menu.

"Who is that?" Bonnie asked as she too looked at the woman in her fifties.

"That would be Damon's mother" she answered as she got up from the booth and quickly made her way to the kitchen to get her apron and begin serving a very awkward dinner to Theresa Salvatore.

"Damon's mother is in town?" Bonnie said to herself completely shocked at the women that everyone in town knew had left his sons and was never seen again years ago. When she saw Elena coming back into the dinning room as she tied her apron on Bonnie could see that Elena was nervous as she headed over to Theresa's table for her first ever interaction with Damon's mother. Deciding to stick around to make sure Elena was okay Bonnie got comfortable at her table and stayed for a bit.

Taking a deep breath Elena slowly made her way over to Theresa's table as she was flipping through the menu to see what she wanted to order. Reaching for her notebook in the pocket of her apron, she got to the table and forced a smile. "Hi how are you today, welcome to the Mystic Grill" Elena said trying to act as normal a possible.

"I'm good thank you, this place has really change on the inside" Theresa said looking at the newly remodels dinning room. "Have you worked here long?" she asked Elena.

"About four months" Elena answered.

"Must be hard with a toddler at home" she responded and then watched as Elena looked away from her. "You are the mother of Damon's daughter right?" she asked Elena and noticed she was making the girl nervous.

"Yes" Elena answered as tugged at her sleeves of her blouse because she was so uncomfortable.

"Must be hard being a teenage mother, with school and finding time to be there for your daughter" Theresa asked

"We make it work" Elena answered, "Now our specials today are Broccoli soup and Minestrone soup" Elena add not wanting to talk about her personal life with someone who left Damon and Stefan when they were just kids.

"I'll have the Spaghetti and a Caesar salad," Theresa said as she gave a smirk much like the one her son does as Elena wrote down her order and then walked back to the kitchen breathing for the first time since she walked up to the table.

As Elena moved to stand behind the counter, Bonnie came running over to see if her friend was all right. "You okay? What did she say?" Bonnie asked as she looked back at the woman who seemed to be sitting there looking pretty confident in herself.

"I don't know" Elena said honestly as she bit her lip and was getting really uncomfortable with having to serve Mrs. Salvatore. "Maybe she is using me to get closer to Damon and Stefan but whatever this is mess up" she said as she place her hands on her hips.

"Tell Alice you want someone else to take the table," Bonnie suggested.

"Salad is ready" called out the guy from the kitchen as he set the plare on the counter for Elena to take over to Theresa Salvatore.

With a sigh Elena picked up the plate of salad and looked at Bonnie one last time, "There is no one to cover for me" she stated and then walked nervously back over to the table. Doing her best not to make direct eye contact with the woman, Elena set the salad down on the table with a forced smile.

"I must say Claire has your smile" Theresa said as Elena poured her a glass of water. "She is a very adorable little girl" she added but wasn't getting any reaction from Elena.

"I'm sure you have many questions about me" Theresa said when Elena refused to answer her earlier comments.

"No not really" Elena stated and then walked away and left Theresa to eat her salad.

Making her way back over to the bar counter Elena did her best to hold it together. She didn't know what this woman had planned but Damon had made it clear she wasn't to be apart of his life, hers or Claire's. She had left him without as much as an explanation and when she came back she didn't give him an apology or anything when they first met in the park. Leaning against the back wall she tried to calm herself down and remind herself that she was just another customer and nothing more.

"Spaghetti is up" was called from the back and then Elena looked over, at the plate of spaghetti for Mrs. Salvatore that was place on the counter and waiting for her.

Taking a deep breath Elena fixed her apron and then moved to get the hot plate of spaghetti and returned to the uncomfortable situation. Theresa was just finishing her salad when Elena arrived back at the table. She pushed the empty plate forward to leave room for her spaghetti and gave Elena a smile. "Being a young parent is never easy," Theresa said even though she knew Elena wouldn't respond.

"You haven't even been able to experience what this world has to offer and you're stuck here," Theresa told her.

"I don't see it that way" Elena answered her.

"Maybe now but time will change that. I was a young parent and wasn't ready to give up my life to children when I became a mother. I know that when you were fifteen being a mother wasn't something you wanted."

"I did what I had to do, Damon as well," Elena responded.

Theresa shook her head and let out a nasty laugh like she thought Elena was a stupid romantic teenager. "You are likely seventeen or eighteen and have no idea what you want from life and same goes for Damon. He is going to find himself tied down to you and Claire when he could be off seeing the world. Once he realizes that this is what the next eighteen years could be like he will feel trapped and need an escape. I did and he is a Salvatore and family outings are not something we do, in time you will be alone with your daughter and Damon will be long gone."

Elena clench her jaw not want to snap in the middle of a restaurant but the claims this woman as making as if she knew Damon. She didn't know him or her or anything about them. She was a selfish woman who left her young children because she didn't want to be a mother. Now here she was trying to place some doubt in her mind about her and Damon's future. "You know nothing about us" Elena said and then walked away in anger. Grabbing at her apron she threw it to the ground as she just wanted to get the hell out of there and get as far away from that excuse of a mother as fast as possible. Telling her boss she needed to leave early for personal reason Elena grabbed her purse and walked towards the door.

"Elena!" came Bonnie's voice as she ran over to her just as Elena was leaving the restaurant and doing her best to hold back tears.

"I need to get out of here," Elena told her as she wiped her eyes and head out the door.

"I'll give you a ride" Bonnie told her as she wrapped her arm around her friend as the tears started to fall no matter how hard she tried to keep them back. Who the hell did this woman think she was just showing up and trying to cause problems between her and Damon? What right did she have just showing up out of the blue and going on about how she didn't want to be a mother so young and that Damon would be the same? Elena had only spent twenty minutes with the woman and she already hated her.

Bonnie pulled up to the Salvatore house with Elena sitting in the passenger seat doing her best to forget all about the run in with Theresa Salvatore. The woman was worse then she had expected and seemed so cold and nothing like a mother should be. Even after missing them growing up and everything life experience her sons had so far she didn't' seem to care. It was all about her, what she wanted, what she was missing out on by being a mother.

"You okay?" Bonnie asked as she put the car in park.

"Damon was right, she's not worth it" Elena said with a sigh and brushed a loose strand of her hair behind her ear. "I'll be fine," she said with a nodded and then turned to give Bonnie a slight smile. "Bonnie it's you I'm worried about" she added.

"I'm fine, I just want to know I have your support" Bonnie told her.

"You do, trust me Bonnie" Elena told her honestly as she turned in her seat to face Bonnie. "It's Connor I don't trust Bonnie" Elena said with a worried look.

"I love him," Bonnie said with a smile, "and he loves me, he is going to help me" she added and poor Elena's face fell as the words left her mouth.

"Love him? Bonnie he is hurting you," Elena told her. "Making you starve yourself, is not love, and those pills and stuff he is making you take do you even know what they are?"

"Look Elena you don't like it when I voice my opinion about Damon so please back off about Connor" Bonnie told her.

"There is a difference between Damon and Connor, Damon isn't making me starve myself to please him," Elena told.

"Can we not do this?" Bonnie groaned. "We have prom coming up and I'd rather not spend our time fighting over boys."

"Okay, just be careful" Elena told her with a worried look and leaned over to give her a hug.

"I am" Bonnie responded.

Elena gave a nod and then with a sigh opened up the car door and got ready to step out. She wanted to help Bonnie but it was obvious that Connor had a bigger hold on her then Elena thought. She was terrified for Bonnie but it was going to take more then a talk in a car to get her to leave him.

"See you at prom?" Bonnie asked.

"Yeah" Elena said with a smile and then shut the door as she stood on the driveway and started up the front steps of the Salvatore house. Turning around when she got to the door Elena saw Bonnie pull away and head down the street. She was so worried about her friend but whenever she tried to help her she was pushed away. If Bonnie continued on this path she was on she was going to get seriously hurt. Connor was only in it for money and the only way for him to make money was for Bonnie to make money. The question was; to what lengths would Connor have her go to and what would he do if she didn't succeed in getting modeling jobs?

As Elena stepped inside the Salvatore house she let out a tired groan and tossed her purse to the side. It had been a long day with school then work that she was looking forward to just putting her feet up and maybe even going to bed early. Tiredly leaning against the wall she took her black dress shoes off one by one and then set them on the matt next to a pair or little yellow toddler ones. Standing back up she could hear the soft voices coming from the main room as well as the giggling of a little girl. Like always it brought a smile to her face to hear Claire's giggle and after a long day it was nice to come home to that smiling blue eye little girl.

Making her way into the main room she remained as quiet as possible so she could catch a glimpse of Damon and Claire together without them knowing she was there. As her feet moved across the hardwood floor she saw Damon lying on his stomach on the couch watching Claire as the little girl was standing in front of him and talking away to him. She could her Damon chuckle as some of the adorable things the little toddler said as she was holding her plush lady bug toy. Staying quiet Elena watched as Damon leaned forward to kiss Claire on the nose and then seconds later Claire leaned forward to plant a kiss on Damon's nose.

"Thank you Lady Bug" Damon said with a smile just as the little girl swirled on her toes and skipped away.

She wasn't gone for long and soon came back over to see her daddy with a piece of wrapped up chocolate. "cacalate, open peas" Claire said happily as she held up the treat she had found on the coffee table. Damon smiled at her and then Claire handed over the chocolate so her daddy could open it for her. As he unwrapped it he then took a bite of the piece of chocolate to make it smaller and then held up the smaller size piece for Claire so she could eat it. "Dank ya" Claire chirped and then popped the chocolate in her mouth with a huge grin as she chewed on the chocolate.

Elena leaned against the doorframe at the entrance of the room with a smile, as she hadn't been spotted yet. She watched as the two bonded over chocolate and as Claire chatted away to her daddy. She was getting so big and learning new things everyday. She watched as Claire finished her chocolate and then started looking around for the other piece that Damon had bitten off. "Cacalate? More cacalate?" Claire asked.

"It's all gone" Damon told her and watched as Claire processed this but still looked in her daddy's hand for the rest of the chocolate.

"All gone?" Claire repeated as her arms went up with her palm facing the ceiling.

"All gone" Damon responded.

At this point Elena decided to make her presence known and let out a giggle. "You know sooner or later she going to realize she gets less chocolate when she lets you break it in to smaller pieces" Elena told him.

"MOMMY!" Claire squealed and then ran over to Elena and lounged into her mother's arms.

"I'm sure I'll get a few years and lots of chocolate until then" Damon responded as he sat up and turned to look at Elena.

"Oh I don't know about that," Elena said as she lifted Claire up and held her on her hips and gave her baby girl a kiss. "She already knows to wake you up in the middle of the night instead of me."

"Yeah about that, how did you teach her to call for me instead of you?" Damon asked with a questioning look. Ever since he had returned home from school and when Elena and Claire slept over here, whenever Claire woke up in the middle of the night she would call out for Damon to come and get her while leaving her mom to sleep.

"She's a very smart little girl," Elena said as she smiled and pressed her forehead against Claire's as she held her in her arms.

"You're home early, I thought you worked until 7pm?" Damon asked as he got up off the couch and moved around the room so that he as standing in front of Elena. His hand came up to run through his daughter's dark brown hair as he watched Elena let out a stressful sigh.

"Yeah I asked to leave early," Elena told him with a slight smile but it was obvious to Damon that there was the reason she left early wasn't just because she wanted to go home.

"Everything okay? What happen?" Damon asked her as he leaned against the back of the couch and crossed his arms over his chest.

"Well you'll never guess who I had as a customer" Elena said still holding Claire and bouncing her up and down as the little girl played with her mom's hair that was mostly tried back in a ponytail. Elena then walked further into the room and then set Claire down on the floor so that she could run off and play.

"Who?" Damon asked as he followed Elena with his eyes and tried to figure out who had upset Elena.

When Elena turned back to look at Damon she didn't say anything, instead she let her eyes do the talking. After a moment Damon obviously understood what she was getting at and gave Elena a look of disbelief, "You're joking?"

"Nope, it was your mother" Elena said as she bit her bottom lip.

Watching her Damon could tell that Theresa had obviously said something to upset Elena and Damon found himself growing in anger. Pushing his body off the back of the couch he moved to close the gap between him and Elena as she bowed her head trying to hide the fact that she was upset. "What did she say?"

Looking back at Damon with her sad eyes she tried to think of what to say. She had been awful and even though Damon had no interest in getting to know his mother some of the things she said would hurt him. "Lets just say she doesn't care about not winning Mother of the Year" she ended up saying while her hand came up to run up and down Damon's torso.

"Forget about her, she isn't worth it" Damon told her and as Elena gave a sad nod she wrapped her arms around him and got some comfort. With a long sigh her head rested against his shoulder, she turned to watch Claire playing with her dolls and found herself thinking about how she could never walk away from Claire as Theresa did to her children.

Shaking her head and knowing she couldn't let Theresa get under her skin Elena pulled away brushed her hands over her face and let out a heavy breath. "I'm gonna give Claire her bath" Elena told him and then moved to take the little girl's hand and head towards the stairs.

Once she was gone Damon was left in the room biting lip as the anger in his eyes was growing due to Theresa. She had no right to go up to Elena and drag her into the mess she created when she left him and Stefan all those years ago. Damon had made his mind up long ago when it came to Theresa; she wasn't his mother and because of that he didn't owe her anything. She was not going to be apart of is life and she sure as hell wasn't going to be a part of Elena and Claire's life.

The anger not subsiding and Damon quickly grabbed his leather jacket that was hanging over the couch and headed for the door. He was pissed and had every intention on finding Theresa and giving her a piece of his mind. Luckily Zach was coming down the stairs and notice the angry state his nephew was in. "Whoa where are you off to?"

"Going to tell that bitch to say away from Elena and Claire" Damon yelled in anger as he headed for the door.

"I don't think that's a good idea," Zach yelled as he picked up his pace and got between Damon and then front door. He could see how pissed Damon was and didn't want his nephew doing anything stupid. Damon didn't hide his feelings towards his mother and when it came to Elena and Claire he was very protective. "Come on let's talk about this" Zach suggested as he guided Damon into the library.

"She had no right to approach Elena" Damon yelled in anger.

"I understand" Zach answered as he took a seat at his desk while Damon continued to pace the floor.

"Why is she even here anyway? I doubt it is to rekindle any relationships," Damon asked turning to his uncle for answers. He knew his uncle was a rich and a well connected man, if he wanted to find someone he could and was sure he had kept tabs on Theresa his sister in-law after his nephews father drank himself to death.

"Last I heard about her she had separated from some rich financier in California" Zach told him as he shrugged his shoulders. "But that was a year ago" he added.

"Well maybe the greedy gold-digger is looking for more money," Damon suggested.

"You're wrong Damon" came Stefan's voice as he appeared in the doorway of the library after hearing the conversation his brother and uncle were having. He had heard their voices as he was leaving the kitchen and then his mothers name came up so he decided to see what was going on. Damon was angrily pacing the floor and Zach was sitting at his desk watching Damon accusing their mother.

"Don't start Stefan" Damon snapped at him as he looked at his brother standing in the doorway.

"She's our mother, how can you accuse her of such horrible things" Stefan yelled as he stepped further into the room.

"No she gave up being a mother when she walk out on us" Damon responded.

"Boys" Zach said not wanting this discussion to get too out of hand.

"She made a mistake and she wants to make everything right," Stefan said as he stood up for the mother he never knew.

"How would you even…"? Damon stopped mid sentence as he pieced it all together. Stefan had hardly said three words to her when she stopped by on Claire's birthday so there was no way he could get the impression or believe she wanted to make things right unless he had met up with her again. "Have you been talking to her?"

Stefan gritted his teeth not liking that his brother was trying to to make it sound like a betrayal that he would want o get to know their mother. "Yes I have" Stefan stated, "we have talked on the phone and I'm going to meet her in half an hour.

"NO YOU'RE NOT!" Damon yelled. "Theresa isn't here to get to know you, she is here because she wants something."

"What if she wants to make up for leaving us," Stefan asked desperately wanting to believe his mother had good intentions coming back.

"She had years to come back but she never did, even after dad died she stayed away" Damon snapped back completely against Stefan getting to know the woman.

"You may not want to get to know our mother but Damon you had five years with her. I have no memory of our mother, I just have old pictures and stories that you have told me so forgive me if I would like to get to know the mother I never got to know" Stefan yelled in anger.

They stared at him very worried about what Stefan was getting into by wanting to spend time with Theresa, but before either Damon or Zach could respond to him Stefan's phone rang. Reaching for his phone Stefan back way from his brother as if he didn't want him to see who had texted him and by him doing this Damon had a pretty good idea who. After reading the text his thumbs started to move over the keypad and then he sent back a reply. "I'm going out," Stefan announced.

"Where are you going?" Zach asked as he watched Stefan heading out of the library.

"None of your business" Stefan yelled back as he stormed out.

"Yes it is! I am your guardian so what you do is my business!" Zach yelled as he got up from his seat and followed Stefan towards the front door. "Now let us try this again, where are you going?"

Rolling his eyes Stefan turned back to face his uncle as he was standing there waiting for an answer as to where he was running off to. "I'm going to see my mom" Stefan told him.

"NO YOU ARE NOT!" Damon yelled as he too came running down the hall. He wasn't about to let his little brother go out there and get his heart crushed by the mother that left him and Stefan all those years ago. Stefan was only two at the time so he grew up knowing nothing different but Damon, he was abandon at school one day and never saw her for years. That was a feeling Damon didn't want his little brother to experience when Theresa ended up taking off and leaving again.

"This is my decision, and I want to get to know the mother I never got the chance to" Stefan told them. Damon and Zach both stayed silence and were forced to watch him walk out of the house all the while wondering how they could stop Stefan from getting his hopes crushed when Theresa didn't turn out to be mother of the year.

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