A/N: Probably not a big deal to many people, but crap! 3 followers and 2 favs! People actually read it? haha! Thanks for reading and I hope people enjoy this chapter! I hope it all makes sense. Like I said I didn't want it to *just* be Damon and Elena going through the stages of pregnacy, I wanted there to be an actual story that's different from the TV show.
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I don't own TVD but insert comment about Ian here :P
DPOV
While Elena was in her bathroom heaving her guts into the toilet, Damon walked down stairs, still staring at the stick that seemed to be screaming "positive" at him, when he reached the door he flung it open, suddenly angry at what was happening, not that Elena was pregnant, but more about the fact that a witches coven three towns over had known about it, and that it was some stupid "greater good" drama crap that he was so over.
He glared at Bonnie on the other side of the door.
"Sabrina" he sneered at her, holding up the pregnancy test in her face. "The witch that came to my door said someone close to me can explain the rest of this…. Magically anomaly that is going on, so I hope she meant you! Because the last witch I was "close" to? Well I ripped her heart out, so she can't bloody help!"
"Damon, nice to see you too! Yes, it is me that can help. I never saw the day though. It's written about in a few of my grimoires, but I can sense distress coming from Elena's room, shouldn't you go and help her?"
Damon had almost forgotten about Elena – once again thinking only of himself, and how he was the one with the problem. He rushed up stairs to the bathroom to calm Elena, who was sobbing quietly on the bathroom floor.
He started rubbing her back, it seemed like she had stopped throwing up, but he remembered his mum had always rubbed his back until he stopped sobbing whenever he was sick. He whispered sweet nothings in her ear, trying to calm her. Eventually, she leaned into Damon's chest when he decided it was time for both of them to head downstairs and listen to what Bonnie had to say.
"Baby girl, I know this is huge, but we can get through this, OK? I mean, look at all the supernatural stuff we've been through in the past! Surely this little… human miracle will be a piece of cake for us! Let's go down stairs and talk to Bonnie, she knows more about this then I do."
He gently lifted her up and walked slowly down the stairs. God he felt so sorry for her. He'd introduced many bad things into her life, put her through hell, but now he'd gotten her pregnant. He knew she'd never cheat, even if a witch hadn't come to the door to somewhat explain the situation, Damon knew deep down she would never do that to him. He hopped she didn't think that he felt that way.
He placed Elena gently down on the couch in a somewhat slouched sitting position so he could sit next to her.
"Bonnie, can you just begin for the start? I really don't know what questions I should be asking…. I'm really confused about what's going on here, is Elena in danger? Will the baby be safe?"
"Well, it's kind of.. Not complicated as such, but interesting… very interesting. Basically, even before The Originals there where vampires, they had a Hirachy of social standing. They had kings and queens and people ruled over certain countries. It's hard to explain, they kept separate from Humans… they had their own little towns that you crossed over to via Magic, totally invisible to the human eye… Almost like Harry Potter!"
Bonnie giggled at that, and Elena had a small smile on her face, even though this was crazy, Elena loved Harry Potter.
"Anyway, All kinds of supernatural beings existed in these towns. To cut to the chase, vampires could procreate back then, but only Royal blood and the social standing beneath them. And it *had* to be with a human. One which the vampire fell in love with. The human carried the vampire hunter gene. If the vampire could fall in love with the human, and vice versa, the vampire and human could procreate, after the first child is born, which is to become the next King or Queen, the human would become immortal. Not a vampire – they don't survive on blood, but they live as long as the vampire does. Only dying of a broken heart if and when the sole mate vampire dies – you know, sunlight, steek to the heart or decapitation.
Damon… this is going to sound ridiculous, but your line… your family…. You originally come from the first kings of Liftopia, the founding families of the first settlement of Vampires that ruled over Australasia."
After this weird explanation, Damon had even more questions to ask! His head was spinning. He always knew he was royalty. Well, he always joked about it, but seriously? And Australasia? His family ruled over Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea? But he was Italian!
"Wait, what about Stefan? Elena and Stefan had sex.. Maybe not often, but he's my brother! He must be royalty too! Why didn't this happen with them?"
"Damon, come on, sole mates! You love each other differently from what Elena loved Stefan. Even if you only… er…had sex once… once is enough. The universe knows your connection is strong" Bonnie felt really weird about this, she still didn't forgive Damon for making her Grams open the tomb… but sole mates were sole mates. If he made Elena happy, and this baby could change the Vampire world, well, she had to behave around him.
"OK Miss broomstick! Why did another coven three towns over have to cast a spell if I'm already royalty and Elena has the hunter gene, which, by the way, I didn't think was passed down, but randomly selected!"
"Why can't you just accept this Damon? I have an exam to study for! Damn. OK well first, I guess it doesn't have to be a "hunter gene" as such, rather a family of humans that dislike vampires to the point where they hunt them. The Gilberts were on the Founders Council and even before coming to the Americas the Gilberts have a history of being vampire hunters. Now, as for the coven three towns over…. I think the spell was more to do with Elena's "time of the month" to force her body into being ready to conceive a baby. As to why right this moment? I'm not sure, I need to do more research and talk to them"
Elena had been silent the entire time, taking this entire story in. It sounded like a stupid fairy tale. The Harry Potter reference made her laugh, but shit, she was supposed to be having a carefree teenage life next year at university! Not caring for a child!
"Bonnie, thanks so much for explaining this all, but you can go and study for your exam if you want, Damon and I have some talking to do, and I think I need to tell Jenna, Alaric and Jeremy"
Bonnie slowly stood up and nodded. "Elena, come to me for anything, OK? If the morning sickness doesn't go away, maybe I can get some herbs to help, or at least meditate with you and help calm yourself, I love you! Please don't stress! You have all of us around you to help you through whatever else comes our way."
Elena walked Bonnie to the door and hugged her goodbye, she felt like she might need a lot of hugs in the coming months.
EPOV
She felt like shit, she even thought maybe she does have the flu as well as being pregnant. Feeling this way on the first 4 weeks of becoming pregnant wasn't normal, she had looked it up the night before when she first realized she was two weeks late for her period.
"Damon, did the witch that visited you say anything about the symptoms of pregnancy? I'm not supposed to feel this shitty yet!"
Damon was wondering if she had looked up the typical times she would start with all the symptoms. "Yeah, before she left, she said the spell also speed the pregnancy up by four weeks, so technically you're six weeks pregnant now, god I'm so sorry, if I had of known any of this I would of used protection!"
Elena sat down on the couch and hugged into Damon "Damon, it's OK, like you said, I wanted adventure! Let's look on the all the plus sides of this! I know was freaked out before, but there is no way I'm aborting this baby, or adopting it out! And you could have more family over in the old world, Damon. You should meet them, when Bonnie's last exam is done, we'll talk to her about it more".
Elena was still feeling really confused, but Damon seemed really down, and she wanted to cheer him up and take all the concern off of her.
"Do you need to lie down, sweet dove? Should we book an appointment for a midwife? God, you can't live here with a baby, we need to make a nursery for it at the boarding house! What about protection? I'll have to find the strongest witch I can to protect the house, argh, and Stefan! I couldn't find him! What if he comes back in 8 months and trys to eat the baby! Shit! I think I'll put the house back into your name…. I wonder if Bonnie can cast a spell instead of dealing with the bank.. We can't exactly explain that you died…"
As Damon kept rattling off things they had to do in the next 8 months before the baby was due, all Elena could think about was becoming Immortal, and the whole "kings and queens" thing going on in the "old world". Was she a queen now? Did she have to move away from her family? Was there some kind of magic portal that would take them to Australasia instead of having to travel all that way? Did portals like that even exist? Could she just appear in Mystic Falls when she wanted to visit her family? Could her family visit her? Bah! Now she was rattling!
"Damon, lets book an appointment with a midwife, and go from there, OK? I want this pregnancy to be as human as possible".
Damon shook his head in agreement, kissed the top of her head and got up and headed to the kitchen to grab the portable phone, he handed it to Elena, knowing she still knew the doctor's office number off by heart, then headed back to the kitchen to start cooking dinner for the household, preparing for telling them the news as soon as possible to get it over and done with.