Chapter 2.
Damon pov.
I woke up when I felt Elena run out of my arms and into the bathroom. Her morning sickness was horrific. Every day I'd wake to find her puking practically everything she ate the day before, and I really think we should speak to the doctor about that when we go today.
I'm so excited to see my baby for the first time. I know Elena is too, and that she was thinking about it before we went to bed last night. I rolled out of bed and went to hold Elena's hair back for her. She was throwing up for about ten minutes after that.
"Thanks." she said as she stood up and flushed the toilet. I smiled in response as we walked back into our room. Elena started to undress, and as I watched her I noticed that the baby bump was slowly growing, becoming more visible. I was about to say something when Barbie and Stefan walked in.
"Right guys, I'm going to give you funeral jobs. Elena you need to-" CareBear began, but stopped when I walked in front of her and cut her off.
"No offense Blondie, but right now me and Elena are getting ready to go see our baby, so your funeral jobs will have to wait or go to someone else." I said, with a hint of sarcasm in my tone. Elena didn't pick up on the sarcasm as she pulled on her top and sat on the end of our bed in tears. "Oh my God how could I have been so stupid, it's Bonnie and Enzo's funerals today." She sobbed, and I sat next to her and held her close as she let her feelings out. Caroline sat on the floor infront of Elena and took Elena's hands in her own. I hadn't even thought about Bonnie's funeral yet, but I shut Caroline down without even realising that she was BonBon's best friend too. I hadn't even considered that Bonnie meant as much to everone else as she did to me and Elena.
"Elena, you are not stupid. I am, I completely forgot about your ultrasound and trust me, I know how exciting they are. I know you have a lot on your plate and I shouldn't have dropped the funeral bomb on you, especially not right now. I'm sorry." she said, tears forming in her eyes too. I looked at Caroline and placed my hand on hers and Elena's, about to apologise for the way I spoke to her.
"Barb-" I stopped when I saw the glares she was giving me and chuckled, then deciding to correct myself. "Caroline, I know Bonnie was your best friend too, and I shouldn't have been so disrespectful to you. I just don't know what to say in these situations, I haven't lost anyone and felt it the way I did when Elena and Bon-Bon died, and I never consider how much other people were affected by them as well. So I should've at least told you no in the nicest way. I'm sorry, Care Bear. More for the way I spoke to you than for not stopping the nicknames." I said, watching her smile and stand up to hug me. I hugged her back and then released her, watching her laugh and cry at the same time. Elena was laughing and I hadn't even realised but she was videoing my apology to Caroline. Dang it! Stefan took Caroline in his arms and lead him and Caroline out of our room. I got ready with a still crying Elena telling me to hurry my ass up because we only had ten minutes, when in fact the clock is an hour fast. I couldn't help but laugh as Elena took out her phone and realised this, laughing too. Eventually she stopped crying.
I made us both a bacon sandwhich before we left and drove to the clinique, arriving with barely five minutes to spare because of road works in the town square. We quickly checked in and signed all the forms they had given us.
"Elena Gilbert." called a nurse. When we stood up she smiled and led us into a small room with tables and about fifteen scanners. "Hello, if you could just get comfortable on the table and roll up your shirt so you are ready when Doctor Fell comes in to begin." she said, taking the forms from Elena and signalling to the medical examination table in the corner of the room. She then left us and closed the door behind her.
"Doctor Fell as in, Meredith?" Elena asked, confused. Meredith had left Mystic Falls years ago, why was she suddenly back? I was about to tell Elena this when Meredith walked in, looking very similar to the last time we had seen her, hair knotted in a bun, robes loose and free over her legs, a small vial of vampire blood in her pocket that I could smell from here. She looked at the papers in her hands, confused then looked up, surprised to see us.
"Elena? Damon?" she said, looking even more confused than before when she looked at Elena and saw the faint baby bump. "How is this possible?" she asked, walking closer to Elena and hugging her gently.
Elena began to explain and I just sat in the background, slightly amused at the whole situation. I noticed that Meredith's hair had faint streaks of grey running through it, and was about to mention it but realised that would just be mean. So me being the dick I am, said this
"Meredith I think you need to dye your hair again, or can vampire blood cure grey hairs as well?" I watched her blush and Elena try to keep a straight face. I knew she was mad at me for bringing that up but anyone had to admit, I really am funny when I am being mean to certain people (cough cough Meredith). Meredith shook her head and went back to Elena, reading her charts and then walking around the room to grab a tube of blue gel out of a mini fridge.
"This gel is very cold at first, you might want to brace yourself. Damon, you might want to hold her hand." Meredith said, looking concerned. It was a tube of gel from a fridge. And she was about to rub it on my pregnant fiancees stomach, so I walked over to Elena and held her hands. Meredith squeezed quite a lot of the gel onto Elena's stomach, and I winced as Elena squashed my hands in hers. That gel must have been cold...
Meredith spread the gel around on Elena's stomach. When that was done she found a scanner with a screen and wand attached to it and pulled it over next to the table Elena was lying down on. Next thing I knew, Meredith was moving the wand around on Elena's stomach where the gel was, and there were two rhythmic thuds filling the room.
I looked at Elena and she looked straight back at me, her eyes teary.
"Does this mean what we think it does?" I asked Meredith, feeling my own eyes burn with tears. Meredith looked at Elena then at the screen and then at me.
"Congratulations! You're having twins!" she said, smiling as I ooked down at Elena and pressed my forhead down to hers, kissing the end of her nose as we both sat there crying. "Do you want to have pictures printed?" she asked. I lifted my head from Elena's and knew Elena, she would want one for each of us, one for Caroline, Stefan, Jeremy, Ric and one for our room. I counted them and when I had the final sum, she had too and we said at the same time, "Seven" we looked back and forth between eachother and the screen. We were both crying.
Meredith nodded and gave Elena a cloth to wipe the gel away, and went to the screen and pressed the print option, putting in the final details, print 7 to the printer at the back of the room that I hadn't noticed until Meredith went to check it was working. When she had that sorted, I heard the machine working its magic and printing the seven copies we had asked for. Elena was still wiping her stomach down when she remembered to ask the most important question that I had completely forgotten too.
"So they're both healthy?" Meredith looked down at Elena and smiled.
"They're both healthy and, how far along are you?" she asked. Elena looked down and started counting on her fingers. "I told you one week ago, I found out the day of the wedding and then I was about four or five weeks so I'd say about six weeks." she said. I looked at her in confusion. If she was four or five weeks along by the time of the wedding then that would mean she was pregnant as a vampire. That can't be right, can it? I mean I am still a vampire, and I am getting a syringe to take the cure from tonight or tomorrow. But anyways, what happened happened. We are having miracle babies.
"Oh, Meredith. Is it normal for Elena's to be throwing up practically everything she eats? I wake up every morning to find her vomiting and it'll go on for like ten to fifteen minutes." I told her. She looked concerned, then as if she had just figured something out.
"You became human again the night before the wedding, but were a vampire for four or five weeks of your pregnancy. That would mean they were conceived as vampires. Try drinking blood again." Meredith suggested. It then clicked for both of us. Elena looked happy, sad, scared and confused at the same time.
"But when you take the cure, it runs through your veins, and is your blood. My blood is the babies blood too, so what must have happened is the cure runs through their veins and where I'm still readjusting as a human, they could be too. That is possible isn't it?" Elena asked. I know where she's going with this. She hated being a vampire and she doesn't want our children to grow up as the thing she hated being. Meredith took this under consideration, and had another idea.
"I'm going to take a syringe of your blood, Elena. Then I am going to inject it into your womb. Where the babies are. That should definitely make them human." Meredith said. She took out a syringe and did as she said she would, filling the syringe with Elena's blood from her arm. Elena nodded and held my hand tightly as Meredith plunged the needle inside her womb. Meredith nodded, signalling it was done and told Elena to eat something when she got home. I was thinking. I want to be a human with Elena, so what better place to take the cure than in a hospital? I looked into Elena's eyes, and looked back at Meredith.
"Hey, Meredith. Can I borrow a syringe?" I asked. I could see Elena looking at me shocked. She knew what I wanted to do. Meredith hesitated before walking over to the cabinet where she keeps her syringes and pulled one out, handing it to me curiously. I stuck it in my pocket and helped Elena to her feet. She rolled down her top and we walked out the door, hand in hand, after thanking Meredith as she handed us the pictures.
Elena pov.
"Damon, are you sure?" I asked. I know Damon loves me and he already loves the babies, but I also know he loves being a vampire. He's been a vampire for a century and a half and now he wants to throw it away just to live once with me. God, I love him.
Damon nodded and I took the syringe from him. I slowly put it in my thigh, as I could not be bothered to struggle single handedly with my arm. I drew the tip of it back, looking back and forth between Damon and the syringe as Damon's eyes began to stick out and turn red as the syringe slowly filled with my blood. He turned his back and took a deep breath.
"I love you, Damon Salvatore." I said as I pulled the now full syringe out of my leg and took his arm in my hand. I pulled him towards me and kissed him softly. I then pulled away and gave him the syringe. I nodded and he sat down next to me on our bed, watchig him as he turned the syringe around and jabbed himself in the chest, pushing down on it and emptying the contents inside his body. He pulled it away and smiled. "I love you too, Elena Gil-" but he was cut off as he just passed out, lying on his back on the bed. He stayed like it for hours.
I was starting to panick when I heard him gasp and saw him shoot upwards. I ran and sat next to him, taking him in my arms and holding him close. He pulled away and looked me in the eyes.
"How do you feel?" I asked him. He thought for a second and then grabbed a pair of tweezers, jamming them into his forefinger and watching as it bled but did not heal.
"I'm human!" He laughed. He wiped his bleeding finger on his jeans and leant in to kiss me passionately. We hugged, kissed and talked for hours. It seemed like a fantasy, this perfect night. Then Caroline and Stefan walked in.
"Hey guys, how was the ultrasound?" Stefan asked as Caroline played with his fingers which were entwined with her own. I reached over the bed and grabbed my bag, pulling out the stash of pictures we had printed. I gave one to each of them.
"TWINS!" Caroline screamed excitedly and Stefan let go of her hand and came to kiss my cheek and hug his brother. Caroline squealed and went on about having Josie and Lizzie babysit all the time and then started planning my kids futures. This is why I love Caroline.
Eventually it went silent and Caroline and Stefan noticed something different.
"Why can I hear four heart beats?" Caroline asked. Me and Damon looked at eachother and then realised we forgot to tell Caroline and Stefan about Damon taking the cure.
"I totally forgot to tell you guys, I took the cure." Damon said, holding my hand tightly. Caroline beamed happily but Stefan looked betrayed, disappointed. "What, brother? I get the chance to be happy, normal and you aren't happy for me. Is that how it is now?" Damon said, definitely sounding betrayed. He tried to stand up but I pulled him down and crawled into his lap. He looked down at me for a second and saw what I was trying to do, but human Damon could not manage to get a pregnant-with-twins me off of his lap, so he just gave up and looked at Stefan, giving him the death stare.
"Hey, Damon. Don't look at him like that. I'm not going to take sides but put yourself in his shoes. If your brother of a hundred and seventy something years just decided that he was going to leave you at one point or another, just to be happy for seventy years, would you be upset? That's all it is. You're his brother, his best friend. And he probably just feels like-" I started, my voice trailing off.
"No offense, Elena, but you don't know a thing about what I'm feeling." Stefan snapped, his voice shaking with anger. I think I must have looked hurt, because he started to look softer, kinder. "I'm sorry, Elena. I didn't mean that. It's just that he decided to do it without even telling me. I'm happy for you, believe me I am, but it's just that I always go to him to tell him everything, and he just did it. It just hurts, I guess." Stefan said, walking over and holding my hand. I pulled it away, part of the pregnancy down sides, I hate people that aren't Damon holding me. I mean I love that he tried to comfort me, but I hate it when other people decide to just hold my hand or rub my back. I full on hate it. Great, I thought. Now I have to explain that to Stefan.
"Sorry Stefan. I just hate people touching me or holding me. I only just about didn't try to strangle the doctor- OH! Guess who's back?" I finished excitedly, watching everyone else try not to laugh at me because they didn't know how my hormones would react to that. When they didn't guess, I just blurted it out excitedly "Meredith Fell!" and then I just burst into laughter. I know, it wasn't funny, but everything makes me laugh. Everything. I must have looked like an idiot, because not even a minute later we were all rolling on the bed in fits of laughter.
When we eventually calmed down, I had to pee. Damon helped me up and then I went into the bathroom. I could still hear them laughing every now and again. I loved days like this.
Then I felt the bile at the back of my throat. I stood up and bent over the toilet, puking my heart out. It smelt so friggin bad. I had to close my eyes. I heard footsteps running behind me and felt Damon's hand on my back. Thank God I remembered to tie my hair up today.
Damon looked at me in conern when it was finally over and I tuned around. Then he looked scared. "What?" I asked. He pointed to his chin and I stood up to look in the mirror. There was blood all over my face and I looked at my hands, which were also covered in blood. I started to shake, and then cry and then I curled up in a ball while Damon called a doctor. He looked concerned as he spoke, then came and joined me, hugging me close to him.
"He said it's normal if you've just changed your diet or something, but you haven't so I'm going to call Meredith." he said. Just then his phone started to ring and he looked down at it. The caller ID was Meredith's.
"Meredith. Thank God I was just about to call you. Look, Elena's throwing up blood. What the hell is going on?" he said angrily. He waited ages for a respoonse, occassionally telling her to get to the point. "Oh thank God." he finally said. "Thanks for the help." he said quietly, hanging up. "She said it's just the babies getting rid of whatever blood they had drunk before they turned human. I just hope she isn't wrong." he said, kissing my forehead over and over again. "I love you Elena Gilbert." he said softly. He pulled me even closer, and I knew that I never wanted him to let me go.