We were now on the living room talking when I saw the hours and it was already too late, Hope should be already in bed.

"Okay, it's more than time for bed." I said to Hope.

"I am not tired" She said with yawns in the middle of the sentence, and I noticed that Hope made Caroline smile.

"Honey, if you go to bed now, I can tell the bedtime story that you like so much..." Caroline said.

"Really?" Hope asked smiling and with her eyes sparkling more than ever and Caroline nodded with a big smile on her face. "Let's go daddy! You are going to hear the best bedtime story ever."

I smiled and Hope dragged me into her bedroom along with Caroline, Hope lay down on her bed and I put the blanket above her and I seat in a side of the bed and Caroline seat in the other side of Hope's bed, making Hope being in the middle of me and Caroline.

"Now that I am here like you two want, I want to hear the story of the boy and a comet."

"Okay. Caroline you may begin the story" I said with a serious look making Caroline chuckled.

"It was a comet. The boy saw the comet and suddenly felt his life had meaning..." She said and I couldn't help but look at her, because I identified with the boy, I smiled and then look back at Hope "And when it went away, he waited his entire life for it to come back to him. It was more than just a comet because of what it brought to his life: direction, beauty, meaning..." She said and I saw from the corner of my eye tha she looked at me and then she looked at Hope "There are many who couldn't understand, and sometimes he walked among them." She said making me remember Tyler saying that Caroline would always hate me. "But even in his darkest hours, he knew in his heart that someday it would return to him, and his world would be whole again... And his belief in God and love and art would be re-awakened in his heart. The boy saw the comet and suddenly his life had meaning." She finished and I looked at her again smiling, because I could identified my relationship with Caroline in that story, then I looked at Hope and saw her sleeping.

"She is so cute when she is asleep..." Caroline said.

"Of course she is. She is just like her father." I said making her smile. How I loved her smile. How I love her eyes sparkling. And how I love her...

We then went to the living room where nobody was, I went to where were the drinks and offered a cup of bourbon to Caroline which she accepted.

"So... where did you hear that story that my daughter loves so much?"

"In a TV show that I saw in 2003, it was called One Tree Hill...One of the characters on the show once told this story and Hope asked me to tell her a bed time story that she never heard, so I put aside every stories that had a princess and some prince charming or a knight in shining armor... " She said and I kind of think that I was an idiot for thinking that she was talking about me and her.

"Well, Hope was right it was the best bedtime story I ever heard off..."

"Maybe... But I always loved was the story of a Disney movie"

"What was called?"

"The beauty and the beast" She said and I smirked

"So it's like us?"

"Of course not. You never put me prisoner in your home and you are not a beast." She said smiling.

"So what am I?" I asked curious.

"You are a person who is attracted to the darkness and sometimes does things that can make people think that you are a monster but in fact what you do is for the sake of your family and the people you care about." She said surprising me, I knew that she saw good in me but saying this out loud...

"Do you really believe all that?" I needed to ask.

"Of course. You are a good person, you just don't show it that often. Once Damon told Elena that he doesn't like to be the good in him because when people see good they expect do, and I think it's your case... You don't like to get attached to many people because you are like me... You have afraid that someone hurts you or betray you."

"You have those fears too?" I asked.

"Yes. But I don't show it. I don't even know why I told you that I had those fears..."

"I hope it's because you trust me" I said smiling.

"I do trust you, more than I wanted to..."

"Really?" I asked and she nodded, we stand there looking at each other's eyes, and I just now realized how closed we were, I got even closer now feeling her breath in my skin, we were inches away from each other and continue looking deeply into each other eyes, when I was leaning to kiss her she said that she was tired and went to bed.