"Caroline, do you want to stay the night?" Damon asked his daughter's friend later that night.
"Sure, if you don't mind…" Caroline replied.
"I'll just call your mother right away… Why don't you order some Pizza for the three of us." Damon said while Rachel nodded and grabbed her phone.
Damon dialled Liz's number, watching the two girls deciding what they wanted on the Pizzas.
"Damon, is something wrong? Do you need me to come over?" Liz said as soon as she picked up the phone.
"No, I'm fine… I was calling to ask you if Caroline could stay the night with Rachel… Tyler cheated and I think Rachel would like to have some girly company…" Damon said, trying to ignore the fact that Liz seemed to be still very interested in him.
"Sure, no problem! Do you need me to do anything for you? I hope Rachel is okay…"
"It's fine, thank you!" Damon said before he added "I have to go."
"Okay then… See you tomorrow!" Liz said before she hung up.
Damon didn't even know they were planning on meeting the next day…
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Alaric arrived a little before the Pizza did and Damon invited him to stay for dinner while the girls took their pizzas upstairs… They had chick flicks to watch!
"Thanks for inviting me… I know I have no right to ask for explanations but… I really need to know what happened to her…" Alaric said as they both sat down with Bourbon.
"It's okay, I understand. Before I answer your question, I need to know I can trust you to keep a secret from Stefan… What I'm about to tell you, only my daughter knows, along with an old family friend who isn't here right now…" Damon said.
"You have my word that I won't say a thing to Stefan." Alaric said.
"So, you know that Stefan and Damon were turned into vampires in 1864?" Damon asked him.
"Yes, I do."
"Do you know how it happened?"
"Yes, a vampire that looks like Elena Gilbert changed them… It's the same vampire that attacked my wife…or changed her…I don't know exactly what happened… I was hoping Damon would be able to tell me what it was that Isobel wanted exactly when she contacted him…" Alaric said.
"I'm about to trust you with a very private family secret now… A secret that concern my daughter, who she really is, what she is and what she will be… I have a feeling I can trust you…" Damon started…
He did feel a connection to Alaric, they could be friends.
"Thank you, I promise you can trust me."
"I am Damon Salvatore… The Damon Salvatore that died in 1864… I'm wearing a magical bracelet that ages me so I can actually act like my daughter's father… It all started one night in a bar when I had a one night stand with a selfish bitch who happened to be a witch…" Damon started.
He kept on telling the whole story, taking off his bracelet and telling everything to the man that, he felt it, would be one of his closest friends soon. He told him who Rachel was and what she would be after her 18th birthday, he told him why he didn't want Stefan to know anything about this, he showed him how his bracelet worked and put it back on, knowing that from now on Alaric would see him as he truly is all the time.
It took them about an hour to get it all explained and by the time Damon was done, they had finished the pizza.
"Wow, that's some story…"
"Yeah… So to answer you question, I remember getting a letter here a few years ago… Zack send it back to me… Isobel Fleming wanted to become her researches… I never answered… I guess she found Katherine… Why her though?" Damon said.
"I don't know… There is a room full of Isobel's researches of the supernatural and of Mystic Fall's at the university… I called earlier to have it all send to my apartment… I thought maybe I'll find more information than I did in the few computer files she left…" Alaric explained.
"That's good... Katherine is a selfish bitch… She wouldn't have changed Isobel if she didn't find something in it for her…" Damon said thoughtfully.
"In one of her files, Isobel said that both she and Katherine where from the Petrova bloodline…" Alaric said.
"I know Katherine used to be called Katerina Petrova… She became Katherine Pierce only after she moved in America…" Damon said.
"Katherine looks exactly like Elena Gilbert… If Isobel is from the same family…" Alaric said.
"Elena was adopted… I didn't research it but maybe you could find out more with Jenna…" Damon said.
"Maybe…" Alaric said before he added "I'm not really sure if I'm ready for this though…not yet anyway!"
"Well, take your time… if there's anything I can do about it, let me know!" Damon said.
They spent some more time talking about vampires and how to kill them, how to protect themselves. After a while, Alaric looked at the time and realised he needed to get back home to grade some papers.
"I better go, I still have papers to grade… Thanks again for your help! I will keep the secret, you can trust me!" Alaric said.
"I know I can!" Damon said with a nice smile before Alaric left.
I hope you liked it. I know the friendship and the trust between Damon and Alaric is moving fast but I didn't want to waste much time on it.
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Lorelei Candice Black