Elena screams. While I'm trying to wiggle around to get Blaise. He's still crying. The man runs away and a second later Damon appears.
"Damon?" I ask seeing him. "Blaise!"
"I got him." He says he pulls Blaise's seat out so he is still in the main part only leaving the base. "Now let me get you two out of there. I want you to put your hands on the roof." Elena puts her hands on the roof. "Just like that. You ready. 1,2,3." Damon breaks Elena's seat belt first. He carries his car after she passes out. "Are you okay, Evie?"
"Blaise?" is all I can push out, terrified for my son.
"He's okay. Just scared. Let's get you out of there first. Then we can both calm him down after. Hands on the roof like your sister." I put my hands on the roof. "That's a good girl," He rips my seatbelt and catches me. "I got you. Is anything broken?"
"No, I need Blaise." I say as he puts me down to walk and I stumble to the ground trying to get to Blaise.
"Woah, take it easy, Evie." He says as he helps me stand again "Whoa, you're fading fast, Evie. Evie, look at me." He grabs my face. I try to focus on him but its impossible. "Focus. Look at me. Okay."
"Elena says she looks like her…" and I pass out.
What seems like minutes later I blink trying to shield my eyes from the blinding light.
"Morning."
"Damon?" I ask.
"Yeah, sweetie. You're awake before Elena." He tells me.
"Blaise?"
"He's doing good. He just ate not to long ago and is now sleeping away."
"Where are we?" Elena asks finally waking up.
"Georgia." Damon replies. I give him an alarmed look.
"Georgia? No, no. No, we're not. Seriously, Damon. Where are we?" Elena asks again not believing him.
"Seriously, we're...we're in Georgia. How ya feeling?" He asks.
"I...I..." Elena stutters.
"There's no broken bones. I checked all three of you." Damon tells us. I give him a grateful look.
"But my car...there was a man...I hit a man. But then he got up, and...who was that?" Elena asks confused.
"That's what I would like to know." Damon admits. Elena suddenly start scambling around checking herself for something.
"Where is my phone? OK. We really need to go back. Nobody knows where I am. Pull over. I mean it, Damon. Pull over! Stop the car!" Elena orders.
"Oh you were so much more fun when you were asleep." Damon says.
"I would like to hold Blaise for a little bit." I tell him quietly.
He gives me a look of understanding and pulls over. Elena gets out of the car, she limps weakly and leans against the car. He speeds around to grab Blaise for me and opens my door handing my Blaise. I hold my sleeping baby tight to my chest.
"We don't have anything for him." I say weakly.
"I keep a spare diaper bag in my car. It's easier then carrying one around with me." Damon admits to me. He goes to check on Elena.
"Hey." He says to her gently. She gives him a funny look.
"I'm fine. We have to go back." Elena insists.
"Oh come on. Look. We've already come this far..." Damon tries to convince her.
"Why are you doing this? I can't be in Georgia. I wrecked my car. I have to go home. This is kidnapping."
"That's a little melodramatic, don't you think?"
"You're not funny. You can't do this. I'm not going to Georgia." Elena tries to stay firm while I just quietly hold my baby. I just keep playing with his hair.
"Well, you're IN Georgia. Without your magical little necklace, I might add. I can very easily make you...agreeable." Damon informs her. I give him a glare. He better not. Her and I may not always get along, but she is still my sister.
"What are you trying to prove?" Elena asks. All of a sudden a phone rings. "That's my phone."
"Mmm. It's your boyfriend. I'll take it." Damon answers her phone. "Elena's phone...!" I giggle and he looks back giving me a smile. "Elena? She's right here. And, yes, she's fine." He continues on. "He wants to talk to you." He offers her the phone. Elena shakes her head. "Yeah. I don't...I don't really think she wants to talk to you right now." There's another pause "You have a good day. Mm-hmm. Bye-now." And with that he hangs up.
"Look, no one knows where I am. Can we please just go back?" Elena asks trying to convince him still.
"We're almost there." Damon says.
"Where is there?!" Elena exclaims.
"A little place right outside of Atlanta. Oh, come on, Elena. You don't wanna go back right now. Do you? What's the rush? Time-out. Trust me. Your problems are still going to be there when you get home. Look. Step away from your life for five minutes. Five minutes!" Damon tries to convince her.
"Am I gonna be safe with you?" She asks.
"Yes."
"You promise not to do that mind control thing with me?"
"Yes."
"Can I trust you?" She asks.
"Get in the car. Come on." Damon tells her helping her to the car. She gets in behind me. He takes Blaise and puts him back in his car seat.
"Is that the same car seat we had an accident in?" I ask concerned.
"No, this is the one from my car. I kept the carrier in the trunk just in case I needed it." He replies. "I didn't know if the other carrier was safe so it's in the trunk now."
"It's garbage." I say with a sigh. I'm gonna have to buy a new one.
"You can have this one. I'll get a new one when I get the chance." Damon offers.
"It's alright I can get one." I wave him off.
"No, I'll get it." He insists and I finally surrender. "So, will I have to convince you to take five minutes away from life?"
"No, I won't need convincing. We are just having an early family vacation." I reply.
"This is not our family vacation. I will take just you and Blaise on a true family vacation." Damon says taking my hand in his and kissing the back of it.
"So, where's my car?" Elena asks.
"I pulled it off to the side of the road. I don't think anyone will bother it." Damon tells her.
"What about that man in the road? Was he a...?" I ask scared.
"From what I could tell, yeah..." Damon replies.
"You didn't know him?" Elena asks.
"If I've never met him, I wouldn't know him. I mean, it's not like we all hang out together at the Vamp Bar & Grill." Damon says rolling his eyes.
"Yet." I say with a smirk.
"Yet?" He asks looking quickly at me then back at the road.
"There isn't a Vamp Bar and Grill yet." I reply back confidentially.
"So you decided to do that?" He asks.
"Yeah, the more I thought about it the better I thought the idea." I reply. We pull up to the front of a bar with a sign that says 'Bree's Bar' on the front of it.
"Where are we? You brought me to a bar? Damon, we're not old enough. They're not going to let us in." Elena says pointing to her and I.
"Sure they will." Damon replies confidentially. I wish I can his confidence. We get out of the car. I grab Blaise's carrier with him in it and head in behind them.
"No. No, it can't be. Damon. My honey pie." The woman behind the bar says. She then grabs Damon and kisses him. "Listen up everybody! Here's to the man that broke my heart, crushed my soul, destroyed my life, and ruined any and all chances of happiness!" She shouts pouring shots for everyone. "Drink up!" Damon and her both drink the shot. "Ahh. Whoo!" She turns to Elena. "So, how'd he rope you in?" She pours Elena a shot.
"I'm not roped in. Actually, I'm dating his..."
"Honey, if you're not roped, you're whipped. Either way, just enjoy the ride." The bartender interrupts Elena.
"Okay. So, how did you two meet?" Elena asks.
"College." She says.
"You went to college?" Elena asks Damon.
"You know I've been on a college campus, yes." Damon says with a smirk. He winks at me because that's where we met.
"About twenty years ago, when I was a sweet, young freshman, I met this beautiful man, and I fell in love. And then he told me about his little secret, made me love him more. Because, you see, I had a little secret of my own that I was dying to share with somebody." The bartender explains.
"Bree's a witch." Damon whispers to us.
"Changed my world, you know. He rocked my world. He is good in the sack, isn't he? But mostly he's just a Walk-Away Joe." Bree says.
"Not anymore." Damon says. I smile looking down at a sleeping Blaise.
"Anymore?" Bree asks.
"I have an amazing girlfriend and a son now." Damon tells her proudly.
"A son?" She asks confused. He takes Blaise's carrier from me and sets it on the bar so she can see. "Oh my god." She says slowly in shock. "So, what is it that you want?"
Elena leaves to go call Jenna. I texted her in the car stating that Damon and I were taking a road trip for the day. Just for a break. She okay'd it. We sit down and Damon takes my hand while rocking Blaise in his carrier.
"Is there another way to open the tomb?" Damon asks Bree.
"No," She replies.
"Come on, there's gotta be another way."
"After all these years, it's still only Katherine. How do you even know she's still alive?"
"Well, it's not only Katherine. I owe Katherine. Without her I wouldn't have my girl and my son. You help me get into that tomb, and we'll find out if she's still alive."
"I already did. Twenty years ago. Remember? Three easy steps: Comet. Crystal. Spell."
"There's a little problem with number two. I don't have the crystal."
"That's it, Damon. There is no other way. It's Emily's spell."
"What about a new spell with a new crystal that overrides Emily's spell?" Damon asks almost desperately.
"It doesn't work that way, baby. Emily's spell is absolute. You can't get into that tomb." Bree tells him.
Damon and I head outside because Elena is taking a long time. Blaise in Damon's arms.
"You okay?" Damon asks concerned.
"Don't pretend to care. I know you're gloating inside." Elena tells him upset.
"Elena, quit being a bitch to him. He could have just left you in the car." I tell her finally getting pissed off at the way she treats Damon.
"Says the whore who got pregnant by someone she doesn't even know," Elena snaps back.
"I told you it was Damon." I say.
"You're just saying that so you get a man to look after Blaise that way you can go whore around some more," Elena says then storms off. Damon puts his arm around me pulling me into a hug. Blaise in between us.
"She will come around. I know Blaise is mine and that's what matters. Let's head in and see what Bree has to say." Damon offers. He takes my hand and threads his finger into mine. We head inside and sit down. "So, Bree. How was I able to reproduce? I sure haven't before."
"Well, vampires can reproduce with the doppelganger line. The doppelganger line needs to always be able to reproduce to keep the balance of nature." Bree explains.
"So, why isn't he part vampire?" I ask a little confused.
"He would turn if he died." Bree tells us. Damon has Bree get us burgers and fries while I digest the information.
"Are we going to continue to let Elena think I'm lying to you? Or will we tell her the truth?" I ask Damon.
"Let her keep thinking your lying. She hopefully then won't use Blaise to get to me." Damon says holding Blaise up on his knees and lightly bouncing him up and down. Blaise is chewing on his fist and smiling away. I take out my phone and take a video of it. I couldn't pass up the opportunity. "That better not go anywhere."
"I want it for our and Blaise's memories." I say.
I text him a copy. I always send him copies of the pictures I take with Blaise in them. I don't want him to feel like he doesn't have enough pictures of him. I know the background for his phone is a picture of Blaise and I sitting watching the sunset. His lock screen is a selfie I took of Blaise sitting in my lap. Me cuddled up beside him. Both of us smiling. Our food comes and Elena comes in. I notice Damon ordered three meals. Probably making sure Elena doesn't starve. Despite how ungrateful she is. She takes the food and start discussing Katherine with Damon.
"Let's just say that I'm descended from Katherine...does that make me part vampire?" Elena asks.
"Vampires can't procreate. But we love to try." Damon says with a smirk while he's eating. "No, if you were related, it would mean Katherine had a child before she was turned."
"Did Stefan think that he could use me to replace her?" Elena asks.
"Kinda creepy if you ask me." Elena and I both pull the pickles off our burgers. She used to eat them till she saw me not eating them. Now she refuses to eat pickles. "Come on, what? You two don't like pickles? What's wrong with you?" Damon jokes eating our pickles. Blaise starts to fuss getting hungry. Damon notices right away and pulls out my cover. I quickly get Blaise latched and he starts drinking.
"How can you even eat? If technically you're supposed to be..." Elena trails off.
"Dead?" Damon whispers and then laughs. "It's not such a bad word. As long as I keep a healthy diet of blood in my system, my body functions pretty normally." He reaches under my cover and rubs Blaise's back a little.
"This nice act. Is any of it real?" Elena asks. I glare at her.
"Here you go." Bree hands Damon a beer and me a bottle of water.
"Thank you." Damon says for us.
"I'll have one too." Elena says.
"Hmm?" Damon asks surprised.
"Time out, remember? For five minutes? Yeah, well that five minutes is going to need a beer." Elena tells him.
"There you go." Bree says setting down the beer in front of Elena.
Damon drinks his slowly. Blaise finishes eating and burps him. He also heads to the car to quickly change him. I head to the corner to play with some of Blaise's toys with him. I finally look up after Blaise falls asleep to see them all doing shots.
"Ready...Go!" Bree calls out. They all do their shot. Elena the fastest. She claps her hands and does a little dance.
"That's three!" She looks at Damon and pretends to pout. "Aw, do you need a bib?" I just roll my eyes. She always gets this way when she's drunk.
"Sorry I can't unhinge my jaw like a snake to consume alcohol." Damon jokes.
"Whatever. All right. Who's next? Another round, Bree." Elena says.
"Honey, you should be on the floor!" A woman calls out.
"I am not even drunk. My tolerance is, like, way up here." Elena says reaching up to the sky. She is so drunk. Damon walks away from her and joins Blaise and I while Bree gives her another round of shots.
"Blaise out?" Damon asks me.
"Yeah, all tired out." I chuckle with a smile.
He picks Blaise up and rocks him. Just holding Blaise while he's sleeping against Damon's shoulder. I sigh looking over at my sister now playing pool. She then heads outside the bar stumbling. We walk out to see Elena's phone on the ground we walk around the building and see Elena hanging on to a tank.
"Damon, no!" Elena calls out. I look around and see a man fall from the sky and Lexi. Lexi stops the man.
"Evie!" She calls out running to me to give me a hug. "What are you doing here?"
"Elena crashed her car with Blaise and I in it. Damon rescued us and took us on a road trip." I explain. Damon speeds over to my side same with the man with Lexi.
"Lee this is Damon's better half Evie and their son Blaise. Evie this is my man Lee." Lexi introduces. Lee nods.
"Sorry, I got upset that he was originally planning on killing Lexi. I'm glad he didn't though." Lee admits shaking my hand hello.
"I understand. I would prefer you didn't kill my son's dad. He might miss him and frankly I like someone who can reach the top shelf." I joke.
"No problem," Lee says cracking a smile. Lexi is trying to coax Blaise out of Damon's arms to hold him. Lee smiles at the sight of her now holding Blaise.
"Auntie Lexi is here little buddy." She coo's to a sleeping Blaise. Lee just chuckles.
"Congrats on becoming an uncle." I say sarcastically.
"Apparently she adopted a nephew." Lee says with a laugh. Elena jumps down from the and storms over.
"Why wouldn't you save me Damon?" She asks pissed off.
"Because you could clearly jump down." Lee says.
"But he should have come to save me." She turns to Lee pissed off.
"Isn't he with your sister?" Lee asks confused.
"No, my sister is using him for a babysitter." She says storming off again. I roll my eyes.
"I have no idea why she is being such a bitch but I apologize for her." I apologize to Lee.
"It's not your job to apologize," Lee says brushing it off.
Damon disappears for a few minutes heading inside the bar.
"How's Blaise been while I've been gone?" Lexi asks.
"He's been good. Dad keeps him busy as always." I tell her.
"Yeah, Damon definitely give him his undivided attention most of the time." Lexi says with a chuckle.
"Is this really the same guy you were telling me about? The douche bag?" Lee asks confused.
"Evie changed him without even meaning to." Lexi says with a smile. Damon comes back and takes Blaise from Lexi.
"We should get heading back to Mystic Falls, Evie." Damon tells me.
"Yeah, I guess." I say not really wanting to head back.
"We can have Lexi and Lee visit another time. I know they would love to come." Damon says while Lee and Lexi both nod agreeing.
"We will have to visit for his first birthday. We can't miss it." Lexi says giving Blaise a kiss and they both disappear.
We all get back in the car Elena comes back and gets in the car. We drive back to town.
"So, why did you bring me with you?" Elena asks him while we are driving.
"You were there in the road, all damsel-in-distress-like. And, I knew it would piss off Stefan. I also didn't think Evie would let me leave you behind." Damon says with a laugh.
"I think I would have been fine with it." I mumble under my breath.
Damon drops Elena off at his place that way Stefan and her can talk. Damon takes Blaise and I back to my place. After I put Blaise down I go sit with Jenna on the sofa.
"How was your day out with Damon?" Jenna asks.
"Well, Elena being there wasn't all that fun." I reply. "But other then that it was a good time. I got to see some friends that I wasn't expecting."
"That's good. You needed that time. Even if Elena is in trouble for lying." Jenna says with a laugh.
Jenna is agitatedly flipping the pages of a magazine on the sofa when Elena walks in. Jenna turns around. I look up from the book I'm reading.
"I don't set a lot of rules, Elena. Not with you. I trust you to tell me the truth. Where were you? Why would you lie to me about it? I thought that we were closer than that." Jenna asks her upset.
"Now is not the time you want to talk to me about lies." Elena snaps pissed off.
"Don't do that. Don't turn this back on me. I didn't do anything." Jenna says.
"Okay...Question: am I adopted? I trust you to tell me the truth too, Jenna. How could you not tell me? I thought we were closer than that." Elena asks.
"Elena, I didn't...they asked me not to." Jenna stutters but doesn't deny it. I sit there in shock.
"I don't want to hear it!" Elena yells stomping up to her room and slamming the door behind her.
"We're adopted?" I ask Jenna still confused.
"Yeah, you two are." She nods. "I honestly thought your parents would tell you. I never thought I would have to."
"It's okay Jenna. None of us were expecting their deaths." I tell her understanding her position.
"Your dad has some journals he wrote in around the time you were born. You can read those if you want. They are in a box in the attic." She offers.
"I think I'll do that." I say smiling walking upstairs slowly. I turn around to look at Jenna. "Have a good night Aunt Jenna." I walk up to my room and lie down in bed and just stare at the ceiling.