"Diana hurry up! We are gonna be late for the Christmas dinner!" Evalynn yells from the bedroom, "can you believe it my baby girl is growing up so fast?" Kai says laying on the bed, Evalynn zips up her dress and turns around to face him, "really, you've been saying this since she was 2 and now she is 16." Kai rolls his eyes at his wife's comment, "all I'm saying is she is still that little girl who was crawling on the floor to me," Kai puts his hand in the air, "you're gonna be a lot more fun when she's dating," Evalynn says while putting on her earring, "haha hilarious," Kai fakes a laughter then his face turns more serious, "please tell me she won't date anyone in, at least 10 years." "Jeez go ask her yourself."
They are gonna have a Christmas dinner at the Caroline's, the whole gang will be there, Damon and Elena got back into Mystic Falls a few days ago, so is Liv, Hope and Lizzie will be there too, Diana is super excited to meet them again. Kai is wearing a burgundy sweater with a pair of black jeans, Evalynn is wearing a red mini dress, as for Diana, she's wearing a red crop top with a pair of black ripped jeans, then she chose her favorite black coat. "How are you not cold sweetie?" Kai furrows his brows asking the girl who's standing in front of him, "because I'm not dad." She gives him a fake smile, "cute attitude." Kai shakes his head.
Evalynn knocks on Caroline's door after arriving 5 minutes late to the dinner, "hi Care, please don't kill me," she hugs Caroline and they starts giggling together, "hey auntie Care!" Diana gives Caroline a big hug, "you are so much taller now, wow!" Caroline grins wider. "Come on in, and I miss you Kai." She gives the heretic a warming hug too even she knows he is not a hugging person.
"Merry Christmas!" Elena says while running towards Evalynn, "Elena! Merry Christmas and how is New York?" Evalynn almost shouted due to her excitement, "it's been amazing, you should visit us sometimes, oh Diana you are beautiful," Elena's gaze turns to Diana, the last time she saw her is probably when Diana was 14, two years can change a lot for a teenager, "hey auntie Elena, where is Damon?" Diana's eyes searched a bit behind Elena but didn't find her uncle Damon, "miss me?" A smirk appears on Damon's face while he walks down the stairs, "isn't this my favorite little witch plus siphon in town," Damon gives Diana a friendly hug before she went to find the rest of the gang.
Liv is sitting on the couch watching the Grinch along with Jo, Alaric, Lizzie and Hope, "my little niece!" Liv shot up from the couch, "come here, we are watching the Grinch," Jo pats the space next to her, Diana runs to the couch and sit in the middle of them, Hope is sitting next to the round table on the floor eating some candies with Lizzie next to her, "do you want some?" Hope looks up to Diana, "I got jelly shots." Lizzie says next, "yes to the jelly shots and the candies!" Hope and Lizzie unloads half of the snacks they have to onto Diana's palms. After a while, Jo and Alaric went to helps out with everyone in the kitchen.
"Dad! They are playing your film on the TV, come and watch!" Diana shouts from the living room, Diana covers her mouth with her hand tries to hide her giggles while exchanging looks with Hope and Lizzie, half of the gang came to the living room along with Kai, they are all waiting for the little show. "Ha the Grinch, well done kiddo," Alaric said while laughing, "you really do got the grumpy vibe mate," Enzo pats Kai's shoulder, "he's right," Stefan backs Enzo up, "although I do think the Grinch talks less," Bonnie shakes her head in amusement, Kai clenches his jaws and sent a death glare to Diana's direction.
Liv and Jo just keeps giggling, "Diana is my favorite Parker now," Liv said playfully, "I'm still here." Evalynn rolls her eyes, "is this because I banned you from dating," Kai groans, "what? Buddy you're ridiculous, she's 16 she can date," Damon rolls his eyes, "see! Even uncle Damon says I can date! And thank you Damon! I love you!" Diana looks at Damon with her puppy eyes, "love you too kiddo." Damon gives her a smile before walking back to the kitchen with Elena in her arms.
Kai sighs and rubs his temples gently with his hand, "Hope has a boyfriend as well dad," Diana protests, "she is 5 years older than you," Kai looks at his daughter with a god help me look, "we are supernatural being and you are talking to me about age? You're such a hypocrite because you were the one who banged a girl at the age of 15!" Diana suddenly cover her mouth with her hand after realizing what she said. "Well I'm going to the bathroom, Lizzie you coming? "Yep, love to go to the bathroom with you, I will show you Caroline's soaps." Both of them escaped the living room as soon as they could.
Evalynn's mouth hung open after hearing Diana's words, "you sold me out!" She points her finger at Diana, "sorry mom." Diana looks at her with guilt on her face, Evalynn can feel Kai's intensive gaze on herself, "can I go to the bathroom with Lizzie and Hope? I really wanna see auntie Care's new soap," she looks at her dad, "what no!" Both of her parents said at the same time, "ok... Just shooting my shot!" She looks at her laps trying to distract herself.
"Dinner's ready!" Caroline's voice comes from the kitchen, "coming! Now go get Hope and Lizzie." Evalynn shots her daughter a look hinting her to run, "thanks mom!" Diana says quickly before she disappears. "Sweetheart you can't just do this every time." Kai complains and his lips formed a pout on his face, "come on sweetie, you can't treat her like she is 5 forever, she is old enough to date, nothing is gonna happen to her, you need to relax," Evalynn holds Kai's hands in hers, "I'll think about it."
After everyone is seated at the table Caroline holds her glass in the air, "Merry Christmas everyone!" She said with a warm smile on her face, "Merry Christmas!" Everyone said at the same time. "Aunt Jo did you make this?" Diana said after swallowing her food, "actually it was your dad," Jo smiles at her niece, "how can't you never make this at home?" Diana looks at Kai with disbelief in her eyes, "because you rarely eat at home?" Kai said with sarcasm in his tone, Damon clears his throat, "why don't we talk about something else hmm? How is your chipmunk diet Stef?" Damon turns his head to his brother.
"Seriously Damon, you can't come up with a better topic?" Caroline rolls her eyes, "what? It is a good topic, a very deep topic, worth the discussion." Damon sent another piece of steak to his mouth after speaking, "you can ask about the kids' school," Elena looks at him innocently. "Ric how are the kids doing at school?" Damon said with a giant fake smile on his face. "Very good actually," Alaric said with amusement in his voice, now Damon is ran out of topics.
Evalynn holds her empty glass, "can I please have more wine?" She looks at Caroline, the blondie quickly snatches the bottle from Stefan and pours her another glass of wine, "yea me too," Bonnie said and passing Caroline her wine glass, "yea me next," Kai says, "so is mine." "Mine is empty too." Liv said with a grin, "guys..." Damon looks at everyone unamused, then everyone burst into laughters.
Everyone is lying on the couch after the feast they had except for Kai, "Diana can you come here? Just one minute." Kai waves his hand gesturing his daughter to come to the dining room, "what is it dad?" Diana walks to Kai and stands in front of him. Kai put up a spell so no one could hear them, "right, I thought about it, the whole dating stuff." He rubs his palms against each other, Diana raises one of her brows asking him to continue, "I was being overprotective, I never had a relationship with my parents, it's just you grew up so fast, I don't wanna lose you, I'm sorry about the way I acted, I should've been more mature."
Shock was written all over Diana's face, she suddenly hugs her dad out of the blue, after a second Kai puts his hands on her back hugging her back, "dad you will never lose me, I will always be your daughter and love you, no matter how old I am dad, and I forgive you," Diana said softly, "did mom talk to you?" She looks up and asks Kai, "yea sort of," Kai chuckles and looks at his daughter in his arms, "does that mean I can date now?" A mischievous smile appears on her face, "yea but if that douchebag hurts you, I swear I will give him the most excruciating death ever."
Diana chuckles at Kai's words, "I'm serious." Kai said, "I know and I love you too. No matter what happened or how old I am, I will always love you and mom, and you are a really good dad," she smiles, "I will always love you and your mom too, come on, let's go back to the living room now."
Later that night Diana stayed at Jo's place to have a sleepover with Lizzie and Hope, Evalynn got back home with Kai pretty late. "How was your talk with her?" Evalynn asks Kai while hanging her coat in the closet, "pretty good, frankly I didn't realized how mature she is until that moment." Kai almost looks proud of himself, "well I'm happy you guys fixed things, I'm just really proud of you for talking to her, I know being a dad is new to you, but I think you are doing a great job," Evalynn cups his face, "we raised her well sweetheart," he pulls her into his arms.
"Can you believe it? We've gone by this far now, I mean look at this, look at us, Diana is just as kind as you, I did the most for her beautiful part of course, I mean my genes are just perfect," Evalynn rolls her eyes in response, "thank god she is not as arrogant as you," she chuckles, Kai bites her shoulder lightly, "ouch." She looks at him and slaps his arm playfully. "I love you Evie poo," he rests his forehead on hers, "I love you too Parker," she laughs under her breath while running through his hair with her fingers.