Their New Beginning

(Chapter one)

Elena couldn't help but feel anxious as she saw the "Welcome to Mystic Falls, Virginia" sign. She was finally coming back home from her three month honeymoon in Europe with Damon. Three months may have seemed like a long time but Damon wanted it that way. He wanted and needed to get away from Mystic Falls and Elena didn't really mind. So much had happened, like with Katherine coming back for instance and they both needed time to relax and heal and even three months didn't seem long enough. But the honeymoon was just as she had always pictured it. They went sight seeing, visited all kinds of museums and tourist attractions, and of course..there was the time spent in the bedroom. Elena couldn't help but chuckle under her breath as she recalled the nights spent in the hotel room. One night in particular couldn't help but play in her mind...

Flashback

Damon was sprawled out on the bed after a long day of touring all throughout Italy's cities and he was tired. He was laying alone as he waited for Elena to finish up in the bathroom. As much as Damon loved Elena and as much as he loved making love to her, tonight he was just too exhausted. His thought's started to wander off to Elena when he heard the bathroom door open. He looked up to see Elena standing there with her hands behind her back and a shocked expression on her face as she stared at the ground in what looked like disbelief.

"Elena? Is everything okay?" asked Damon as he raised his eyebrows.

"Um, yes...everything is fine. Well, I mean I think it's fine but you may feel differently..." she mumbled as her face was still faced towards the ground.

Damon looked at her questioningly and then said, "What do you have behind your back?"

Elena looked up at him and all she wanted to do was run. What was happening to her couldn't be possible...Damon had even told her it wasn't possible. Maybe the stupid stick was wrong.

"Elena, are you going to answer me or what? What's going on?" he was beginning to get annoyed and anxious.

"Damon..." she gulped. "I'm...pregnant."

Damon's eyes got wide with disbelief and his mouth dropped slightly. How did this happen? Vampires couldn't reproduce or at least that's what he had heard. There was no way in hell that test could be right.

"That test must be wrong. Vampires can't reproduce!" he said in shock.

"I know, I know but I've taken at least five tests and each one comes out positive Damon. I haven't been feeling good for the past couple of days so I decided to research pregnancy for the hell of it and I had all the symptoms. I've been getting sick, I've been tired, and I've had swollen and tender breasts." Elena walked over to Damon as he just stared at her stomach. "I'm so sorry Damon..."

"Sorry?" he asked. "Why are you apologizing?"

"I'm sure this is the last thing you wanted..." she said sadly. Elena was hiding the fact that she was overjoyed. She was going to be a mom and she couldn't be more happy.

"Elena, I never said that. I'm just shocked because I thought it wasn't possible but obviously the source that supplied me with information about vampires when I first turned was wrong. Really though, I'm happy." he said as he looked up into her face and smiled.

"Really?" she asked.

"Of course. I have always thought about having children...I'm just shocked. That's all." he said as Elena smiled up at him.

"We're going to parents.." she said.

She was going to have a baby. A child was actually in the process of growing inside of her. It was something that she had always imagined as a child. She used to help her mother take care of Jeremy when he was a baby and she was a natural. Elena placed her hand onto her stomach and smiled.

"We're home." said Damon as he turned and looked at her. He then looked down to see her hands on her stomach so he reached down and placed his hands on hers. "We're all home." he smiled.

Damon grabbed all of their luggage because even though Elena wasn't that far along, he refused to let her do any lifting.

"Damon, it's okay. I can help." she said.

"Go inside. I can handle it. Besides, I can get all our stuff in the door before you probably even reach the steps of the porch." he winked at her and then he was gone.

"Yeah, real nice of you...just leave the pregnant lady." she yelled out into the air but she knew Damon could hear her.

Elena walked up the steps and opened the door. All the lights were out so she figured that Stefan must be out somewhere. She reached up to the light switch and flipped it on and she jumped backwards and almost landed on her butt.

"SUPRISE!" shouted everyone as they all jumped out from behind various places in the Salvatore living room.

"...you guys scared me!" Elena said laughing. "But what are you all doing here? It's not my birthday or anything."

"We know that silly but we all just missed you so much that we had to throw a welcome home party for you and Damon!" chirped Caroline as she grabbed Elena into a tight embrace.

"Aw, guys...thank you!" smiled Elena. "But where's Bonnie?"

"Oh, she couldn't make it..." whispered Caroline as she saw Elena frown. "She is at her grandmother's house supposedly but it's okay, everyone else that loves you like Bonnie does is here! Mingle! Tell us all about the honeymoon!"

Elena nodded her head as she saw Damon smiling at her from across the room. She walked over to him and pulled him towards the couch to sit down.

"You planned this?" she asked him.

"The blonde girl planned it. All they did was ask me for our returning date and time. I had absolutely no idea that this is what we would home to. I think we should have stayed away longer." he smirked.

"Oh shut up." said Elena as she rolled her eyes and pulled Damon onto the couch next to her. "I missed home."