"Ugh! I cannot stand your brother!" Elena nearly yelled.
"I know, I know he can be a real ass." Stefan complied trying to calm down his wife.
"Can be? Oh no Stefan he is an ass." Elena said exasperated. Elena was now pacing her room back and forth not knowing why his brother had to act like that, especially after she had been nothing but kind to him and had even let him stay in their home. Elena was beyond angry, but why she thought it was nothing he hadn't done before. Damon always liked to push her buttons but when it was in front of her kids that's where she drew the line. She did not want some ex-con deliberately trying to get a rise out of her especially in front of her own kids.
Stefan was now just watching every move Elena made and before she could turn around to pace again he grabbed her in his embrace trying to calm her nerves.
"Let go of me." Elena said through clenched teeth. She was still reeling from the conversation with his brother and didn't want to take it out on him.
"No. Elena Please relax, this is what he wants to get you all up and bothered. If it makes you feel better I'll talk to him."
"No Stefan, I'm tired of talking it never gets us anywhere with him. I want him out of our house." Elena hissed.
"Just give him one last chance and let me deal with him," Stefan pleaded as he cupped her face in his hands and gazed into her eyes. Elena couldn't help it when he looked at her like that, her heart would just melt.
"Fine he can stay for now," Elena breathed "but he's your responsibility and I don't want him influencing the girls." Elena said with a warning look.
Stefan relaxed a bit and smiled. "I'll take care of it." He promised. "God do you know how much I love you?" he asked in the sexiest voice he could muster.
"No but instead of telling me, why don't you show me?" Elena purred.
Stefan's eyes darkened as he scooped up his wife the way he did when they were first married and carried her over the threshold. Elena giggled profusely as he laid her down gently on their bed as he brought his lips down to hers and kissed her sweetly.
Knock knock they heard loudly against their door. So much for the moment Elena thought to herself as she sat up. "Come in." She said loudly. And just like that her two little princesses came walking in slowly with trays of food.
"We brought you breakfast in bed." Miranda squealed unable to control her excitement. Lexi and Miranda walked over to their parent's bed and put down the trays before climbing up into bed with them.
"Uncle Damon thought you'd like to try some chocolate chip pancakes mommy." Lexi said softly. Miranda nodded her head fiercely in agreement.
"Oh wasn't that nice?" Stefan said looking over to Elena.
"Yes, it was nice." Elena said in a high pitched tone to hide the fact she was displeased about it in front of her girls.
Then she heard someone clear their throat and she looked up and saw Damon in the doorway once again.
"I thought you should give the chocolate chip pancakes a try. They were so delicious, right girls?" Damon asked for confirmation.
Both girls smiled and nodded in agreement.
"Try them mommy," Miranda persuaded.
"Yeah they are really sweet" Lexi chimed in
"Just like you." Stefan said showing encouragement.
"Okay, fine I'll try them."
"Yay!" everyone said as Elena took a bite of the pancakes. She couldn't believe it they were so good. And they didn't taste like regular chocolate chip pancakes they were sweeter.
"What's in them, they taste really…" she started.
"Delicious?" Damon cut off her sentence. "No I was going to say sweet, and they don't taste like regular chocolate chip pancakes."
"It's because they aren't, they're my chocolate chip pancakes." Damon said matter of factly.
Elena turned to Stefan with a questioning look. "Damon knows how to cook; he was always in the kitchen with our mom growing up." Stefan explained.
"Yep, I bet you're thinking you chose the wrong brother? Huh?" Damon said teasingly.
Elena who was taking a drink of her milk at the time took a spit take and turned to glare at him, shocked he'd just said that, and in front of the kids no less. And Stefan looked at his wife unsure what was going to happen.
"Not at all," Elena said trying to cover up her uneasiness at his accusation.
"Damon," Stefan started trying to calm things down. "Can I have a word?"
"Well of course brother, we'll be right back Elena." Damon smirked at her again before exiting the room with Stefan in pursuit.
Elena still wide eyed at what he had said, realized it was not the time to be affected or angry by what he said. Elena instead just simply looked at her daughters who were smiling up at her and she smiled back before looking over to the door where both brothers had just exited.