Avalyn Kailie Gilbert was born to Andromeda 'Andy' Parker and Grayson Gilbert, yeah I know it's surprising right that Grayson would father a child by someone other than his wife Miranda but let me take you back just a bit to understand how this came to be.

Andy never had the easiest life growing up, in the eyes of her family she was a disgrace much like her elder brother Kai she was a siphon and so her home life was less than ideal, so when she turned 18 she left, she ran as far away from her family and coven as she could get she did try and convince Kai to come with her but he was determined to win the merge so he stayed behind.

Andy ended up in the small town of Mystic Falls, Virginia, and not long after she arrived in town she met a charming man by the name of Grayson Gilbert. She felt an attraction to him, and he felt the same attraction toward Andy but the problem was that he was married. Even though he knew it was wrong because he was married, he still started an affair with Andy that no one else knew about.

It was their little secret until things got complicated and what I mean by that is that their affair resulted in Andy getting pregnant with Ava, Andy was now carrying the child of a married man. But once she found out about the pregnancy instead of telling Grayson about it, Andy broke off the affair.

And so on the 21st of May, 1992, Andy Parke gave birth to a beautiful and healthy baby girl whom she named Avalyn Kailie (after her favorite sibling) Gilbert, she knew that if her former coven and family namely her father Joshua found out about her daughter that they (he) would try and take her from Andy and raise her because Ava was a member of the Gemini coven and Andy refused to let that happen she would not let her precious Ava grow up the way she did because there was a chance that Ava would inherit her mother's siphoning ability.

So with a heavy heart, Andy wrote two letters one was addressed to Grayson explaining everything about the situation, or well everything minus the supernatural parts anyway, and telling him that Ava was his daughter, and the second letter was addressed to Ava, to be given to her when she was older, explain to the girl that Andy loved her more than anything in this world.

On May 30th just nine days after Ava was born, Andy placed the baby carrier in front of the door on the Gilbert porch, she rang the doorbell and before Grayson opened the door she ran away but she did make sure that someone would come right to the door before just leaving Ava there.

Grayson was surprised to find a baby carrier with a green-eyed baby staring up at him and then he noticed the letters and picked them up and seeing one with his name on it so he opened the letter and skimmed through it learning that this was his daughter, Ava's birth certificate was also in inside the letter addressed to him, he put the letters into his pocket to put them up but kept the birth certificate out and picked up the baby carrier, and diaper bag and bringing them inside the house.

"Who was at the door honey?" Came the voice of Miranda Sommers-Gilbert, Grayson's wife.

"I don't know, but somebody left a baby on our porch with nothing but a diaper bag and her birth certificate that says her name is Avalyn Kailie but the last name is blank and the parent sections are also blank."

Miranda walked up and saw the little girl in the carrier and picked her up "Hi, there little Avalyn." Ava stared at her with wide innocent green eyes and the woman smiled at the child, and so the couple adopted Ava officially all the while Miranda was clueless that Ava was the result of an affair that her husband had.

And not even two weeks after Ava was found on the porch, the family of three became a family of four when John Gilbert and his girlfriend at the time Isobel Flemming had a daughter that they both decided to give up for adoption, and Grayson being the doctor that helped deliver the baby adopted his newborn niece.

But this story isn't about Elena, this is Avalyn Kailie Gilbert's story, so follow Ava through the good, the bad, the ups, the downs, the happiness, and the pain. As she finds out about the supernatural and discovers secrets about herself in Gemini.