Like father like daughter

12

Hello?
Bailey!
Erica! Are you okay?! People have been talking about you at school! What happened last night?!
It's a long story. I need your help. Can you meet me at the house?
Umm... yeah. I'll leave during lunch. It'll be like 20 minutes. Is that okay?
Yeah. I'll see you then. Thank you!!

I then hang up and sigh. Now I need my backup backup.

Hello?
Damon-
Where are you at? I'm on my way.
Weird. Umm. I'm at my house.
Okay. Open the door.

I look at my phone then limp my way downstairs and to the front door. There I see Damon. I smile and he does the same.

"I was in the neighborhood." I roll my eyes and nod with a 'of course you were' and then I lead him to my bedroom.

I hand him the note and he reads it then looks at me shocked.

"Sweetie, I think you're in a bigger war than my brother and I were, and we died during an actual war." I drop my face into my hands and let out a long sigh.

"I just wanted to finally find my dad, and now all this... I just wish this would all go away." I notice Damon looking at me with a sadness in his eyes and I realize I should change the subject. "You know everything about me, but I know little to nothing about you." He looks at me with a smirk this time.

"Not much to know, little M, my mom died when I was younger, grew up with my crappy father, raised Stefan, went to war, fell in love with a monster, tried to save the monster, died doing that, became a vampire, now I eat people." I laugh and she gets does as well. Damon's actually kind of cool.

"Was the 'monster' Katerina Petrova?" I ask and he nods.

"Except she changed her name and was going by Katherine Pierce. Shes a brat." I nod and then there's a knock on the door. Twenty minutes already?

I pretty much leap off of the bad and limp-run towards the door. I open it and see Bailey. She smiles and I do too. She wraps her arms around me and for a minute I'm in heaven.

Then she pulls away and I look over to see Damon has joined us, but he keeps eyeing me. I cock my head to the side when we make eye contact, but he looks away and gives a slight shrug of his shoulders.

Bailey smiles at Damon and he gives her a small one. Bailey must be the most liked of everyone here. So far, she's the nicest, so it would make sense.

"So what's up?" Bailey asks me, bringing me back to reality.

"Well, my foster parents are both dead now, but apparently, they have something to do with my real mother. Somethings going on, and I have to figure it out. My foster mom said there was clues all around this house, I just have to put them together. I figured you're smart and a witch so maybe you can do kind of spell or something?" She nods and I smile.

"Why is Damon here?" She asks with a laugh. Oh that beautiful laugh!

"Well, he seems pretty destructive, so I'm thinking maybe we can test his dumb luck and maybe he'll break the right thing. Plus, he's been on this journey with me this long, why take away the climax... that came out wrong." We all laugh and then Damon pulls a bottle out of a cabinet. I roll my eyes but then notice there's something inside.

I take the bottle from him and see a note with a picture on it. A picture of a beautiful woman... who looks like me.