I changed what Evie looks like. If you check Chapter 5 it will tell you at the very end what she now looks like. I just made her look less like Katherine and Elena. I didn't really like how much she looked like Katherine. I wanted Damon to have completely moved on from Katherine.
Evie's POV
I head to Damon's place to drop Blaise off before going to meet Sheriff Forbes.
"Morning you two," Damon greets us in the doorway. He takes Blaise, gives me a kiss and kisses Blaise's forehead.
"Morning Damon." I greet and Blaise coo's and smiles at him.
"Good morning for him I take it." He guesses.
"Yeah, he seems to be in a good mood." I reply. "I should get going. Sheriff Forbes wants to talk about Vicki's disappearance."
"How's Jeremy?" Damon asks. I know he's concerned about him.
"He's still upset but understands. He's glad to still have his memories." I tell him. I give him a kiss goodbye. I kiss Blaise then head to the Sheriff's office.
I see Elena, Stefan, Matt and Jeremy already there.
"Where did Vicki say she was going?" Sheriff asks us when we are all seated.
"She didn't." Jer replies.
"Did she tell her brother where she was going?" Sheriff questions.
"No she didn't say anything to me. She told Jeremy to tell me that she was leaving town." Matt replies this time.
I stay quiet. Not really knowing all the details that everyone else knows. I tried to stay as far out of it as I could. Only being around to support Jer when he needed it. I was never friends with Vicki so it wouldn't make sense if I suddenly started sticking my nose in her life.
"Is there anyone I can talk to that may know what happened to her prior to her leaving town?" Sheriff Forbes asks.
"Stefan Salvatore may know. He came by the house to see her but she wouldn't talk to him." Matt passes on the blame still upset with Stefan.
"What was he doing there?" Sheriff questions turning to Stefan.
"I was trying to help her, I knew that Elena was worried about her brother, he was dating Vicki and she had a drug problems, so I tried to help." Stefan lies.
"So you got involved because Elena asked you to?" Sheriff clarifies.
"I asked Stefan to help. I thought that, by helping Vicki, he was helping my brother." Elena lies defending Stefan.
"What was her behavior like those last few days before she left?" Sheriff continues on her questioning.
"Up and down, very sketchy, like she was coming down from some major partying." Matt replies.
"Any signs of aggression or violence?" Sheriff asks.
"None that I remember." Jer replies.
"No." Stefan says.
"No." Elena parrots.
"Actually there was that one day about a week ago. She wasn't really aggressive. It just seemed like she was having a really bad trip and became really flighty. She suddenly left our house as fast as she could." I reply remember the day she was turning.
"Oh yeah, I remember that. She was very flighty." Jer suddenly remembers.
"So you believe Vicki really has left town?" Sheriff asks.
"Yes." Matt replies sadly.
"Yes." Stefan parrots.
"Yes." Elena says.
"I'll miss her but...I think it's for the best." Jer says in a very practiced way.
"I don't know her well enough to say. But if her behaviour that one day is to say, then yes I believe she did." I reply as honestly as I can.
Stefan, Jer, and I all leave. We wait in the parking lot. Jenna's waiting with us. Matt comes out walking past Stefan.
"I was trying to help her Matt. That's all." Stefan tells him trying to get back on his good side. Matt ignores him leaving.
"I think it's a little too soon." I tell Stefan. "Give him some time." Elena comes out and heads over to Jenna and Jer for a second then walks over to Stefan and I .
"You okay?" Stefan asks seeing the look on her face.
"I don't think the Sheriff suspected anything. Jeremy had no memory at all. All he knew was what Damon made him know." Elena says. Good she bought the compulsion.
"Thank you." Stefan says.
I walk away from them to give them some privacy.
"What was that about?" Jenna asks.
"I'm not totally sure." I lie.
"Where's little man today?" Jenna asks. I know she misses seeing him. She hasn't gotten the chance to spend that much time with him lately.
"Damon has him right now. I thought better he have him. Just in case Sheriff needed us for longer. I didn't want him to get cranky. You can spend some time with him tonight. I'll carve it out before bath time." I tell her.
"You better." She playfully glares at me. Jer laughs at us.
"How bout some uncle time?" Jer asks playfully.
"Well, if Tyler comes over he will get some time." I tease back. He mock glares at me.
"Now that's cruel." He says with a laugh.
"Damon said you have an open invitation to his house. You know that. You can go see Blaise there whenever you want." I tell him lightly pushing his shoulder.
"It's weird going there without you." He says pushing me back. Elena walks over to us looking sullen.
"Want to head back with me?" I whisper to Jeremy. He nods and we quickly walk to my car and get in.
Damon's POV
I see Lexi sleeping in Stefan's room. I'm holding Blaise who is giggling away. I lay next to her putting Blaise on my chest. He's just in his diaper because I keep is hot in the house when he's over. Lexi starts to wake up. I look at her holding Blaise's hands while he sits on his knees rocking back and forth on my chest.
"Boo." I say. Lexi just groans. "Hello Lexi. What an unexpected surprise."
"Unexpected surprise? I think the wrong brother went back to high school." Lexi replies still not fully awake.
"How long are you here for?" I ask her curiously.
"Just for Stefan's B-Day." She replies still not looking at me.
"Oh, you mean you didn't come all this way to see me?" I tease her.
Lexi snorts. "That's it Damon. After a century I finally realize death means nothing without you. Do me."
"Why are you so mean to me?" I ask her with a pout on my face.
"Uh, have you met you? You're not a nice person." Lexi replies.
"Because I'm a vampire." I tell her like it explains everything.
"But you're only the bad parts." She replies only having seen me before I met Evie. Evie and Blaise really did change a lot of things for me.
"Teach me to be good." I tease. Lexi flips around going to grab my neck.
"What the hell is that Damon?" She asks shocked seeing Blaise for the first time.
"A baby, I believe is what they are called." I reply.
"Did you steal a baby Damon?" Lexi asks looking appalled. Blaise starts bouncing on my chest and giggling.
"No, he's my son. His mom had some stuff to do today, so she left him here with me." I reply honestly.
"How? Vampires can't have kids Damon." She tries to tell me.
"You don't need to tell me that. But somehow I ended up with him. He's a good kid." I tell her making silly faces at Blaise. He giggles away having the time of his life.
"I'm surprised his mother trusts you." She says with some attitude.
"I guess you don't really know me then. You also don't know her. She would never keep her son from his dad." I say lifting him up and getting out of the bed.
"Well, don't ruin my time with Stefan, 'cause I'll hurt you. And you know I can do it." Lexi threatens leaving Stefan's room.
"Scary one isn't she." I say to Blaise. He just coo's to me. "Guess it's time to feed you little man." I head downstairs to feed him before having to go see the Sheriff later today. I get a text from Evie saying that everything went well at the station.
Evie's POV
Elena is sitting on the couch. I'm sitting beside Jer working on an assignment while Jer is doing his homework. Jenna goes and sits next to Elena.
"You're wallowing." Jenna tells her.
"So are you." Elena replies with a sigh.
"My wallow is legitimate. I was dumped." Jenna tries to reason.
"Yeah. Well Logan's a jerk." I reply with inputting my opinion.
"You didn't get a brush-off e-mail say: 'I'm leaving town. See ya.'" Jenna tells us.
"Wanna keep it down over there?" Jer asks us. I put my hands up in a surrender motion.
"Why? What are you doing?" Jenna asks him.
"Homework." Jer replies.
"Since when do you do homework?" Elena asks him in shock.
"I gotta finish this. I'm way behind and I have a quiz tomorrow so..." Jer trails off going back to his homework.
Jenna and Elena share surprised glances.
"What do you think? Alien?" Elena asks her.
"Some sort of replicant." Jenna replies with a chuckle.
"That Alien can hear you." I tell them.
"He can hear you all." Jer replies. We all laugh.
Damon's POV.
Blaise and I head down to the Sheriff station. I have Blaise in his stroller which he isn't to happy with. Sheriff invites us in.
"Mister Salvatore, come on in. Could you get the door for me?" Sheriff invites.
"Sure." I reply shutting the door behind us.
"Oh, I see you have our resident heartbreaker. How is he doing?" Sheriff asks seeing Blaise she walks over to him and says hello.
"He's doing good. Not liking being in his stroller too much but he's getting more used to it with the daily walks his mom and I take him on." I swear the whole town opens up as soon as they see Blaise. He is the towns sweetheart.
"I understand from Mrs. Lockwood that your uncle is out the town." Sheriff says sitting back down at her desk getting right to business.
"Yes he is. But I spoke with Zach. He filled me in and asked if I could bring this to you." I tell her handing her a box of vervain. I did talk to Zach about it. He is glad I'm going to continue to supply the town. He was surprised at me turning a new leaf.
"Vervain." She says when she opens the box.
"That's all we have at the moment, I hope it's enough." I tell her lying through my teeth. I do have more. I just don't want to give it all up.
"It's a small circle...Founding families, a few city officials." Sheriff says seeming tired.
"And your deputies, of course right? Are we any closer?" I ask her faking concern.
"I think our facts are wrong. We've always believed that vampires can only come out in the dark. What if that's changed?" Sheriff start questioning. That is not good. I need to play dumb as possible.
"So is that even possible?" I ask her acting confused.
"We've exhausted every other option. We have to consider the vampire may be walking around during the day. Right in front of us." She replies still stuck on that thought.
"Hm. So what's the next step?"
"We're now looking at anyone new to town, since the deaths began. Should turn up a suspect or two." She says. That is not good. I was new to town when the killings started.
"And I, of course, will do anything I can to help." I lie to her.
I need to find someone to blame this on tonight. Blaise and I leave the station after saying our good-bye's quickly.
I take him to the grill with my to meet up with Caroline. I sit down at a booth and pull out one of Blaise's bottles. I give it to the server to heat up for me.
"Oh my god where have you been? It's really good to see you." Caroline says giving me a quick hug and taking Blaise from me. I give him to her for a little bit knowing she will probably be more agreeable holding him.
"You wanna throw a party here at the grill tonight?" I ask her trying to get her help in my master plan.
"Oh, why don't you do it?" Caroline asks confused. The server comes back with Blaise's milk. I take Blaise back and start feeding him.
"Because then Stefan and his BFF won't come. I need a lot of people. Big crowd. Invite everyone." I tell her.
"And why am I having this party?" She asks still confused.
"Because you're gonna help me solve this town's little vampire problem. Besides I didn't tell you but it's Stefan's birthday. He doesn't want anyone to know so don't tell anyone, but I thought a party might do him some good. And I want my crystal back." I reply with.
"Oh, Evie has it. I gave it to her to hold on to for when you told her it was safe to give it back. She hid it in Blaise's crib somewhere." She tells me. My eyes light up.
"You absolute genuis." I tell her, my smile lighting up my face.
"Thanks." She says smiling. "Well, I got a birthday not birthday party to plan. Bye Blaise." She leans down gives him a kiss and hurries off to plan the party. I decide to text Evie.
I got Caroline throwing a party for Stefan's birthday. I'll kill the vampire here visiting Stefan to get the scent off mine and Stefan's back.
Wouldn't it be better to kill someone from the prison nearby. Actually there was a child rapist who escaped. You should track him down and use him. No one will miss him. If you piss Stefan off by killing his guest then he will be less likely to do you any favours.
That sounds like a good plan. Do you mind if Stefan and his friend look after Blaise while I track this guy down.
Yeah, they hopefully can look after him till you get back. Give Stefan and his guest my number in case they need help or something goes wrong.
Evie texts back being the easy going person she is. I know she doesn't trust Stefan as much as me, but she does trust that he will protect our son. Blaise finishes eating and I burp him. I then put him back in the stroller and we head back to the house. Getting back to the house I hear Stefan and Lexi talking as I put Blaise in his crib for his nap.
"I'm just jealous of your restraint. I have none. I delight in hedonism. Speaking of which, what are we doing tonight?" Lexi asks as I reach the doorway of the room. I head on in.
"Funny you should ask." I join in the conversation.
"Well I wasn't asking you." Lexi scoffs.
"There's a party at the grill. You'll love it. Banquettes, Tacky wait staff, All of Stefan's friends." I inform them trying to get my plan into play.
"Yeah, I don't want a Birthday party." Stefan replies being a buzzkill.
"Well, It's not for you. It's a party party. No one's gonna know it's your birthday. Caroline's throwing it." I tell him.
"Damon, stay away from Caroline." Stefan tries to threaten.
"We're friends it's cool. It's important for the town to see us out and about like normal folk. We need to blend." I say. I then see Lexi's blood bags. "I prefer mine at 98.6."
"Let's Go. Please?" Lexi begs Stefan.
"Oh, I have some things I need to go do. I need you to babysit Blaise for an hour or so." I tell them. "He's napping in his crib in my room. Evie's number is on the counter in the kitchen." I leave to quickly track this guy down, so I can get back to Blaise faster. I can hear Lexi questioning what they are supposed to do with Blaise while I'm gone.
Evie's POV
I answer the door after the bell rings.
"Elena won't call me back." Bonnie says.
"She's wallowing in her room." I reply.
"Well come on," Bonnie drags me upstairs into Elena's room. Elena is lying in her bed her blanket over her head. "You up?" Bonnie asks her.
"No." Elena replies. Bonnie heads over to her and tries to pull the blanket off her face. Bonnie gives me a confused look. I just shrug my shoulders. "No, no!"
"Why haven't you called me back?" Bonnie asks her.
"I'm sorry." Is all Elena says.
"Are you gonna stay in there forever?" Bonnie asks.
"Yep." Elena replies.
"Move over." Bonnie says then gestures at me to do the same. We both get in the bed with her. I'm on one side of her. Bonnie on the other. "I'm officially worried. What's going on?"
"I'm tired of thinking...of talking I..." Elena says with a sigh.
"Can I get a one-line version so I can at least pretend to be helpful?" Bonnie asks her.
"Stefan and I broke up." Elena gives the one liner.
"I'm so sorry. Are you okay? Right stupid question. I know I've been kind of MIA when you need me the most. I suck." Bonnie self depreciates. I just give Elena a hug.
"You wanna make it up to me. Get my mind off of it." Elena tells her.
"Just remember you asked for it." Bonnie says sitting up and pushing the blanket down. She gets up and closes the window. She grabs one of Elena's pillow and rips it emptying it of feathers.
"Hey!" Elena and I both cry out in shock.
"Be patient." Bonnie says calmly. "I need to swear you two to secrecy."
"It's kind of a bad week for that kind of stuff." Elena tells her.
"Swear, 'cause I'm not supposed to be showing you this." Bonnie insists.
"I swear." I say quickly hands up in a surrender motion.
"OK, I swear." Elena gives in.
"There's no windows open, right?" Bonnie checks with us. We both nod. "There's no fan. No air conditioning."
"None. What are you doing?" I ask her.
"Grams just showed me this. You're gonna love it. You ready?" Bonnie preps us.
"Bonnie what's going on?" Elena asks as Bonnie levitates a feather in front of Elena. She levitates more of them. I laugh loving it. Elena just watches in shock and amazement.
"It's true Elena, Evie. Everything my Grams told me. It's impossible and it's true. I'm a witch." Bonnie tells up.
"I believe you." Elena and I both say.
"It's Weird huh? After all This times joking about being psychic. I really am a witch. You don't think I'm a freak now, do you?" Bonnie asks.
"It's so cool. With great power comes great responsibility." I squeal with excitement.
"No of course not. Bonnie I just...don't understand though. If your Grams asked you to keep all this a secret, why did you tell us?" Elena asks her.
"You two are my best friends. I can't keep secrets from you." Bonnie replies.
"Awe you're too sweet to us." I say giving her a hug.
"Where's my nephew?" Bonnie asks.
"With Stefan and his guest I believe. He is probably still sleeping though. Damon put him down for nap before he had to head out." I reply.
Stefan's Third Person POV
Lexi is getting out of a shower. "I'm almost ready." Lexi says.
"I can't believe you actually think that we should go to this thing." Stefan says.
"It's not like I'm asking you to run outside midday without your ring. I mean, seriously, it's a party." Lexi still tries to convince Stefan.
"A party that Damon wants us to go to, you know? So my question is why? I think he's up to something." Stefan scheme's
"Who cares? What can he possibly of all those people in a public place?" Lexi asks
"He knows how to keep a low profile, believe me." Stefan replies knowing Damon.
"Okay so he'll behave. Come on. One day a year I get you, one day that you're not brooding and existing in your own head." Lexi tells him.
"It's my birthday, yeah?" Stefan confirms.
"It's my day. And that guy that jump naked in the Trevi fountain and got drunk on the torch of the statue of Liberty, that guy can take a break from all of his worrying for one night and go to a stupid party. So quit your whining" Lexi says then hits his butt. "and go get ready." Then they hear a cry.
"Shit what do we do?" Stefan asks looking terrified.
"We go get him." Lexi says heading into Damon's room. She sees a little boy with black hair screaming, face red. She picks him up and shushes him. "What's his name?" Lexi asks turning to Stefan.
"Blaise." Stefan replies watching Lexi.
"Your okay, Blaise." Lexi keeps bouncing him lightly.
"He won't stop crying what do we do?" Stefan asks still freaking out.
"Try calling his mom." Lexi suggests.
Stefan runs downstairs to get her number.
"Hello?" He hears on the other end of the phone.
"Evie it's Stefan. Blaise won't stop crying. What do I do?" Stefan asks her clearing freaking out.
"You've never babysat before, have you?" She asks with a sigh. "Generally after he naps you need to change him and then feed him. Don't forget to burp him after."
"Okay, we will try that." Lexi says into the phone as Stefan hangs up.
"I guess we have to change him. Any idea how?" Stefan asks Lexi.
"Watch and learn." She says as she sees some diapers and wipes in the living room. She lays him down on the mat and quickly changes his diaper. He quiets down a little but is still whining. "Feeling better little buddy. Let's get something into you. Do you know what he eats?"
"Damon will feed him from bottles generally from the fridge. He heats them up in a pot of hot water." Stefan says doing what Damon does. He tests the milk on the inside of his wrist like he's seen Damon do then feeds it to Blaise and he goes quiet drinking.
"Alright go get ready. I have him." Lexi says shooing him off.
"I have a new appreciation for Evie. She is a miracle worker." Stefan says as heads into the shower.
"It's open! Come on in." Lexi says after she hears a knock on the door.
Elena and Evie both walk in to see Lexi in a towel bouncing Blaise lightly while he drinks his milk.
"Oh my God! How...uh- wh-...Who?" Lexi asks seeing Elena thinking it's Katherine.
"I'm Elena. Who are you?" Elena introduces herself. Evie is pretty much forgotten.
"Lexi, a friend of Stefan's." She introduces.
"Is he here?" Elena asks before Evie gets a chance to introduce herself.
"He's in the shower. Do you want to wait?" Lexi asks her.
"No." Elena replies.
"I'll tell him you stopped by." Lexi tells her.
"That's okay." Elena replies walking out.
"Sorry about her." Evie apologizes. "I'm Evie."
"You're the mom of this little monster." Lexi says tickling Blaise's tummy.
"Yeah, that's my boy." She says fondly.
"I guess you're here to take him." Lexi offers.
"Yeah, I need to get him changed for the party later." Evie tells Lexi taking Blaise into her arms. He finishes drinking and Evie burps him with ease and efficiency only a mother could have. Lexi looks at her in appreciation. "Bye, nice to meet you Lexi." Evie says leaving.
Evie's POV
I arrive at the grill with Blaise in my arms. I put his headphones on him so he can be here for Stefan's birthday. We got him a gift as well. I see Damon at the bar and I head over. He takes Blaise from me right away.
"Hey, how did it go?" I ask him.
"It went well. We are ready." He tells me. "Why did you bring Blaise?"
"Jenna couldn't look after him. She had to go do something. We also brought Stefan a gift." I tell him holding up the bag we got him.
"That was kind of you." He says as Caroline walks up to us.
"Evie!" She hugs me.
"Amazing party!" I compliment.
"Thanks," Care replies.
"Oh, I almost forgot. You have my crystal, Evie." Damon confirms.
"Yeah, I do safe and sound," I confirm.
"Are you two having a good time?" Care asks us.
"Blaise and I just got here. But I have no doubt that we will." I reply with a smile.
"Yeah, I am." Damon says giving her a smile. Damon and I both see Lexi and Damon excuses himself. I follow him. "Where's my brother?" he asks her.
"He said he'd meet me here." Lexi replies.
"Buy you a-"Damon starts and trails off as Lexi walks away.
"I think Elena believes that Stefan is now seeing Lexi." I tell him.
"Really? How did that come about?" Damon asks me, leading me over to the side of the grill, where it's quieter.
"When I went over to go pick Blaise up, Elena wanted to go with me. Lexi was there feeding Blaise in a towel." I reply.
"Wow, I didn't see that coming. Blaise normally sleeps longer." Damon says.
"Yeah, they called me freaking out. It was pretty funny."
"I'm sorry. I really did think he would sleep till I got back."
"No harm no fowl. He didn't get hurt and Stefan learned a little bit of how to look after a baby." I reply not upset at all. I see Stefan enter the grill and walk over. Matt walks past him.
"Matt, just hear me out please. I was just trying to help Vicki. I went through something similar once, I'm really sorry." Stefan apologizes again.
"Don't be. It's not the first time she's run off. Turns out Vicki's just like our mother; I can't count on either of them. Thanks for trying." Matt dismisses forgiving him.
"Hey," I greet.
"Hey," he greets in return.
"Blaise and I got you this." I say handing him the bag.
"Thanks, you really didn't have to." Stefan says.
"I did. You got saddled with Blaise for a while. Least we could do was get you a birthday gift." I reply as he pulls the bottle out of the bag.
"My favourite bourbon. How did you know?" Stefan asks with a smile.
"Damon helped pick it out." I reply. "Enjoy the rest of your party."
I walk away and head back to Damon who is sipping bourbon in the corner of the bar bouncing Blaise. Blaise in little jeans, Metallica t-shirt and his leather jacket that Damon got him. I just have him in socks because I was afraid he would lose his shoes at some point.
"I need you to take him while I go finish the setup to the plan." Damon whispers to me handing me Blaise.
"Alright, sounds good." I reply.
I position Blaise to be sitting in my arms that way he can watch what's going on. Elena arrives and I head over to her. She is watching Stefan have fun with Lexi.
"Hey Evie," she greets with a sigh.
"Don't be upset. He's going to act different with his best friend." I tell her.
"True, she's 350. So he's known her longer." She replies.
"See, so their familiarity is higher then yours." I say.
"I just wish he was like that with me," She says wistfully.
"Give it time," I reply. Damon comes up behind us.
"Stefan smiles. Alert the media." He jokes.
"You haven't given him a lot of reasons to be happy lately." Elena blames him.
"Oh, you're right. Poor Stefan persecuted throughout eternity by his depraved brother; does it get tiring being so righteous?" Damon asks getting upset.
"It flares up in the presence of psychopaths." Elena shoots back.
"Ouch! Well, consider this psychopath's feelings get hurt." Damon plays hurt. Pretending to not be upset, but I know he is. He's tired of constantly being blamed for everything.
"What did you do to my brother?" Elena asks upset. I look at her confused and concerned.
"I'm gonna need a less vague question." Damon says.
"When you did what you did to Jeremy's memory of Vicki, what else did you do to him?" Elena elaborates.
"You asked me to take away his memory of fangs and all the bad stuff. You wanted me to take away his suffering." Damon explains.
"But he's acting different. He seems okay with everything and a little too okay. I mean he's studying; he's not doing drugs; he's not drinking; are you sure you didn't do something else?" She asks still not getting it.
"Elena, I took away the suffering." Damon tells her and then takes Blaise and walks away.
I notice he heads to the washroom. If I was to guess he is going to change him. I look around Caroline looks to be having fun dancing enjoying herself. Lexi goes to the bar. I see the bartender pour for shots of what I could only guess is tequila. She walks over to Elena and I.
"Oh! The famous Elena." Lexi greets her.
"Towel girl." Elena greets back a little rudely. I give her a glare.
"I've been called worse. Here." Lexi says offering Elena and I a shot. I reject mine. Elena takes hers. "Evie, where is the little man?"
"With Damon. I'm still breastfeeding, sorry." I tell her.
"You're all good," Lexi says taking her own shot and mine.
"I didn't know that you guys could drink." Elena says in shock.
"Oh yeah, it helps curb the cravings, but makes for a lot of lushy vamps." Lexi explains.
"You know, I've never seen Stefan drunk. He always seem so..." Elena laughs and then trails off.
"Uptight?" Lexi offers.
"But not with you." Elena says. I roll my eyes. Her and I just went over this.
"Well that the benefit of knowing someone for over a hundred years. You can just be yourself." Lexi says pretty much the same thing as I did.
"Yeah, he can't be himself with me." Elena says sourly.
"Well not yet. The first step was him telling you. The rest comes with time." Lexi repeats.
"You seem so sure." Elena keeps pushing.
"The love of my life was human. He went through, what I imagine you're going through: denial, anger, et cetera. But at the end of the day, love really did conquer all." Lexi tells her and then gestures to the drink. "Are you going to drink that?"
"Go for it." Elena offers and Lexi takes the shot. "I'm scared."
"But you're here...'cause you're crazy about him, I get it okay? I mean what's not to love." We all look over to Stefan and watch him lean over the pool table taking a shot. I'm pretty sure he is listening to us. "Listen. Take it from someone who's been around a long time. When it's real, you can't walk away."
"Hey Lexi. It was really nice meeting you." Elena says finally seeming to like her.
She laughs as Lexi drinks the last shot. Lexi walks back to Stefan. Eventually Elena heads over to Stefan to talk. Damon and I stand close to the bar. Him holding Blaise in one arm, slowly drinking his bourbon. Lexi walks up to us with drinks.
"All right, the shots are a bribe. I need you to answer a question. What are you really doing in Mystic Falls?" Lexi asks him.
"Have you tried The Brittle. It wins award." Damon teases.
"Cut the crap." Lexi says getting annoyed.
"Okay, I have a diabolical master plan." Damon explains as a guy bumps into me.
"Sorry," I apologize turning to him.
"Don't you look like a pretty thing." He whispers creepily in my ear.
"If I told you it wouldn't be very diabolical, now would it?" Damon continues.
I see Sheriff Forbes walk up and inject the man who was creepily flirting with me with something. The man collapses.
"What are you doing?!" Damon asks alarmed.
"Thank you for the vervain; now if you'll excuse me." Sheriff says as he deputies drag the guy off.
"Oh my god!" I hear Stefan exclaim.
Damon hands me Blaise and disappears. Lexi and I meet eyes. We head out to watch. The officers and Sheriff are taking the guy to the police car when he all of a sudden comes back to himself and throws the officer off. Sheriff shoots him with wooden bullets, but the man is too strong. Damon appears and stakes him. I see Stefan shield Elena from the scene. The guy goes grey dying. Damon turns to the Sheriff.
"You okay?" He asks.
"Thank you. Get him in the car quickly." Sheriff says nodding.
"All right." Damon agrees.
We head back in.
"Is it usually that intense." Lexi says.
"He just wanted to make sure the town thought they got rid of their vampire problem." I tell her. Sheriff comes into the grill and arrests the bartender. I head over to Damon, who is standing outside the grill, and he takes Blaise back to give him a cuddle. Sheriff walks over to us.
"Pretty handy with that stake." Sheriff tell him.
"It just...reflex. I guess the adrenaline kicked in." Damon lies.
"This nightmare is finally over." Sheriff says in relief.
"Yeah call a lucky break with that witness, without her you wouldn't have been able to ID the vampire." Damon adds more details then he probably should know. I nudge him essentially telling him to shut up, so he doesn't blow it.
"We're lucky. Well thank you again." Sheriff thanks and then walks away.
"You're welcome." Damon replies.
Damon and I head back to his place. Damon and I run through Blaise's nighttime routine with him and put him donw. Lexi walks in with Stefan as we reach the living room after we finished.
"What the hell was that Damon?" Stefan yells.
"Quiet, Stefan. We just got Blaise down." I say.
"Told you I'd take care of it." Damon says with a smirk. "Come on, I did this for you. To get them off our trail."
"You never do anything for anyone but yourself." Stefan says in anger. Lexi and I just stand their awkwardly as Damon storms off upset.
"You know his original plan was to kill Lexi?" I ask.
"What?!" Stefan exclaims shocked.
"The council needed a dead vampire to stop looking for a vampire." I say with a shrug.
"But he killed a random vampire." Stefan says still upset. Lexi is just listening.
"I told him not to kill your guest. I didn't want to be that cruel. The man was an escaped child rapist not that the charges would have stuck because he was good at covering his tracks." I explain. "Damon did so many children a favour with getting rid of him."
"But.."
"But, nothing. Damon has changed. You refuse to see that." I cut Stefan off walking upstairs not wanting to continue this discussion.
Damon never confronted Bonnie about the crystal, because he had no idea who had it. Evie had it this whole time. Bonnie has no idea about the crystal. She will learn about it though and Emily is taking her over. Emily's part will not disappear. Bonnie is still having the strange dreams though.