"Good morning, Estelle." My father greeted me the next morning.

I smiled as I took a seat at the kitchen table. My dad handed me a plate of bacon and eggs, I eagerly too it and started eating. He sat a mug of warm blood in front of me, grabbed some breakfast for himself and joined me.

"Thank you." I told him, "This looks delicious."

We both ate in silence for a few minutes before I asked, "So what's on the agenda today?"

"We are attending the Historical Society's High Tea. They are holding it in my honor, and as my daughter you are coming with."

I groaned, "A high tea? Really dad? Do I have to go?"

He didn't even register my whining. "Eat up and go get dressed. Wear a nice dress. We need to leave in 45 minutes."

I could see there was no way I was getting out of this so I hurried to do as he bid. 45 minutes later we were on our way to the High Tea. My father introduced me to the Mayor Carol Lockwood, she quickly commented on how she couldn't believe I was his daughter. Elijah made some off handed comment about how he had me when he was young which effectively ended that line of questioning.

Mayor Lockwood tried again sipping her tea, "Have you spent much time in Richmond for your book? There's such a wealth of history there."

Elijah responded, "No, I'm focusing mostly on the smaller regions of Virginia. Lots of research. Strictly academic."

"That's fascinating."

They exchanged small talk for a few minutes, I made the occasional comment when asked or prompted to by Elijah. I scanned the room while listening to the conversation observing all of the going ons around me. I let out a small gasp when I saw Damon kiss a woman across the room. I couldn't hear what was being said by the woman Damon and another woman who stood with them.

Damon didn't stay long with the two women and made his way over to us. I was dying of curiosity, but knew I couldn't ask him about the woman now. Damon greeted Mayor Lockwood who quickly introduced Damon to me and Elijah.

"Elijah, Estelle, I want you to meet Damon Salvatore. His family is one of Mystic Falls' founding families."

Damon studied Elijah," Mm-hm. Such a pleasure to meet you."

"No. Pleasure's mine." Elijah replied back as the shook hands.

I merely nodded to Damon, my curiosity was killing me. So I quickly excused myself and made my way over the the two ladies, who were now near the refreshment table. I snatched a cookie and then introduced myself to the ladies. I discovered that one was Elena's aunt Jenna, and one was Andie, Damon's new girlfriend who was also a reporter.

I talked to them for several minutes, while Elijah and Damon talked to Mayor Lockwood. Eventually they excused themselves and slipped into the study, I followed discreetly. Both of them ignored my presence, as Elijah asked Damon what he wanted. Damon responded that he wanted to talk.

"Where's Elena?" Elijah asked.

Damon responded calmly, "Safe with Stefan. They're laying low, you know, bit of a werewolf problem."

"Oh, yeah, I heard about that." I snorted, yeah of course he did from me!

"I'm sure you did since it was your witch that saved the day." Damon drawled out.

"You are welcome." Elijah smirked at him.

Damon frowned, "Which adds to my confusion on exactly why you're here."

I could see Elijah clench his teeth, "Why don't you just stay focused on keeping Elena safe and leave the rest to me."

He moved to exit the room, but Damon vamp-sped in front of him, blocking the way out. I tensed, knowing my ex-husband was about to do something stupid.

"Not good enough."

Elijah grabbed Damon by the throat and pushed him against the wall. I winced as Damon grabbed Elijah's throat. Elijah easily pulled Damon's away from his neck crushing Damon's hand in the process.

"You young vampires, so arrogant. How dare you come in here and challenge me?" Elijah growled.

I winced, knowing my father was ticked off at my ex-husband, enough to kill him. I knew I couldn't rescue Damon from his stupidity, besides I would be stupid to get involved. Elijah barely even glanced at me, keeping his attention solely on Damon who he held up against the wall by his neck.

"You can't kill me, man. It's not part of the deal." Damon gasped out.

I covered my eyes with my hand, Damon was really pushing my father to the edge. I peeked through my fingers as my father growled out. "Silence."

He picked up a pencil off the desk beside them and stabbed Damon's neck with it. He let go of my ex-husband who fell against the desk. Damon pulled the pencil out as Elijah wiped the blood off of his hands with a handkerchief.

"I'm an Original. Show a little respect." Elijah ground out. He held the handkerchief out to Damon, who grabbed it and placed it on his wound. "The moment you cease to be of use to me, you're dead, so you should do what I say. Keep Elena safe."

Elijah turned on his heel, grabbed my arm tightly and escorted me out of the room without a word directed to me. I whimpered at the rough treatment and he immediately relaxed his grip, but didn't let go. He led us over to the Mayor, thanked her for a lovely time and we left.

I didn't say a word as we drove to the apartment, I could see Damon had pushed my father too far. We reached the apartment and he parked but we didn't get out of the car.

"Why didn't you intervene?" My father finally broke the silence, turning to look at me curiously.

I sighed, "I love my ex-husband but he was asking for it. He has a problem with respecting elders, from what Stefan has said, he always has. Their father was a bit of a jerk, and is also the reason why they died with vampire blood in their system, he shot them."

"He does sound like a jerk, but that's no excuse." My father muttered, I knew he was thinking back to how his father had killed him and his siblings.

Nik had told me the story once, during one of the nights he was drunk. After his little brother had been killed by werewolves, my grandfather Mikael has set about to find a way to make his children immortal. My grandmother, Esther did the immortality spell that made them vampires and Mikael had killed them all by running a sword into their hearts after they had had what they thought was Wine. They later found out that it wasn't wine but the blood of the first doppelgänger, Tatia.

"No, it's not. Damon is hardheaded, if I had tried to interfere it wouldn't have made a difference, other than to have escalated things. "

Elijah nodded. "Besides," I told him, "As much as I love him, my loyalty is to you. I trust you to make the right decisions. Damon's actions are questionable a lot of the time."

I leaned over and kissed his cheek, "I'm going to go over to the boarding house and check on Damon. Maybe I can talk some sense to him."

"Not likely," Elijah muttered.

I smirked, "Even if I can't, it seems he has a new girlfriend and I want details."

Elijah raised an eyebrow at the news and I got out of the car and apparated to the boarding house. I entered in the house quietly, not sure what mood I was going to find my husband in. Suddenly I heard some loud banging from the library, my instincts told me something was wrong so I quickly texted my father and then cast a disillusionment charm on myself.

I quietly made my way to the library where I found a man on the ground with a knife plunged in his stomach. Damon was tied up in a chair being tortured by the werewolf Jules and some men who I assumed were werewolves.

"So I hear you have the moonstone." Jules said.

Damon laughed cocky as ever, "Oh, if you only knew the irony of this moment right now. Let me tell you how this is gonna go. You're gonna torture me, I don't talk, someone loses a heart. Last time, it was your boy Mason."

Jules replied calmly, "This time it will be you."

I was worried now, I couldn't take on all of them. My spells didn't react well with werewolves, and since I was half vampire they were just as deadly to me as they were to regular vampires. I really hoped my father was going to be there soon. I watched as Jules threatened Damon with a gun loaded with buckshot.

"Where's the moonstone?"

"Get over it, honey. You're never gonna get it." Damon responded.

"You looking for this?" Elijah entered the room and leaned against a banister, tossing the moonstone up and down in his hand.

He walked down the stairs to stand beside me. He hissed for me to remain hidden in a voice only I could hear. I assumed he had caught my scent again like he had at the house. He had told me that at the house he wasn't even sure I had been there, he had caught my scent but had nothing to place it to, until after he had found me after waking up. Most vampires and werewolves never picked up on me being present when I was hidden like this, of they caught my scent they would brush it off because there was nothing to visually to connect it too, and invisibility was something that was impossible, right?

Elijah placed the moonstone on an end table and backed away. "Go ahead. Take it."

One of the werewolves used his wolf speed to rush towards the moonstone, but Elijah, being quicker, plunged his hand into the wolf's chest and ripped out his heart. The wolf fell down dead two other wolves tried, and they too met the same fate. Jules sped out of the house, knowing if she stayed she would be killed.

Elijah walked over to the last remaining werewolf, "What about you, sweetheart, hmm? You want to take a shot? Yes? No? Yes? Where's the girl?"

Damon frowned, "I don't know."

Elijah shrugged, "It doesn't really matter." He punched the werewolf in the face and the werewolf fell to the floor unconscious. "You can come out now Estelle." He said as he removed the chains that held Damon to the chair.

I removed the charm silently as Elijah asked Damon, "So you realize this is the third time I've saved your life now?"

Damon didn't respond as Elijah made his way out of the room. He grabbed the moonstone as he went. He paused briefly to tell me not to be too long and that he would see me at home before leaving the house. I moved to help Damon but he just waved me out.

"I'll talk to you tomorrow," he said. "I'd rather you go home now, while the dogs are still running. That way I know you're safe."

I nodded, "Okay, but I want details on Andie."

Damon blinked in surprise, I guess he hadn't noticed me talking to her at the tea. I smirked telling him that I had met her and Jenna at the tea. I waved Good bye and walked out of the house, apparating home arriving at the same time as my father.