Midnight Moon

By: Stephanie O.

Chapter 7

"No! Jeremy what did you do?" Damon screamed out, as Elena fell backwards.

"She got in the way, I didn't mean to do anything!" Jeremy said dropping the bloody stake. Jeremy baked up a few steps. Damon's face changed, as she started stepping towards Jeremy.

"You're dead." Damon said as he started to lunge, Elena grabbed his pant leg. He turned suddenly, face normal, and collapsed at Elena's side.

"Elena, are you alright?" He asked his eyes searching her face, and eyes.

"I'll be okay, he just got my shoulder, I need to get this patched up, take me to the doctor, please." Elena said pulling herself up, Damon picked her up and held her bridal style.

"Elena I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to hurt you, I was going after Damon! Why did you jump in the way!" Jeremy pleaded, as he came near Elena.

"Jeremy, stay away from her." Damon said as he started to carry Elena down the hallway.

"Elena I'm sorry!" Jeremy called out.

"I know Jer, it wasn't you're fault." Elena called back. Jeremy ran his hand through his hair, and screamed as his fist hit the wall. Jeremy looked out of his bedroom window, and saw Damon gently placing Elena in the car. They can't be falling in love with each other...could they be?

"Damon, we'll be fine, it's just a flesh wound, really no big deal." Elena smiled with a weak sigh.

"NO BIG DEAL? Elena, you're bleeding all over the car, this isn't just a flesh wound, it's a god damned deep hole in your fucking shoulder!" Damon said screeching the tires as they peeled away from the house. Jenna came pulling up, after Damon and Elena pulled the corner. Jenna walked into the house, and headed up to Jeremy's room to see if he was still home.

"Knock, knock." She said with a smile. She saw Jeremy standing by his window.

"Jeremy? Is everything okay?" Jenna asked placing a hand on his shoulder. He pushed it off, and glared right at her.

"No Jenna, everything is NOT okay! Just leave me alone!" Jeremy shouted as he pushed her out of his room and slammed the door shut.

"Jeremy!" Jenna yelled, pounding on the door slightly. "Jeremy what is wrong?" Jenna shouted. She knocked, "Jeremy!"

Jeremy walked over to his desk and picked up the stake with Elena's blood on it. He threw it in the closet, and jumped on his bed, grabbed his headphones and placed them on. A few minutes after closing his eyes, a hand grabbed his shoulder tightly.

He jumped as fast as he could; "no no no!" Jeremy shouted.

"Shh! Jeremy, I smelled blood, I figured something happened, is everything alright, where's Elena?" Stefan asked all at once.

"Wha- woah, slow down, it was Elena's blood you smelled, she'll be alright, she just got accidentally staked...in the shoulder..." Jeremy looked at Stefan.

"Did...did Damon do this to her?" Stefan ask almost sure.

"No...Stefan..I..I did..." As Jeremy spoke these words, Stefan's face changed. Stefan, not being in his own mind, grabbed Jeremy by the jacket, slamming him against the wall.

"Why did you do that Jeremy? What logical reason could you have?" Stefan shouted in a whisper so Jenna wouldn't hear.

"I...was going for Damon...Elena stepped in too late." Jeremy said.

"How could you have been so reckless?" Stefan hissed out in anger.

"I wasn't thinking." Jeremy squirmed, trying to free himself, but to no use.

At the hospital, Damon ran Elena in the Emergency Room, and the nurse looked up from her book.

"Oh my...Goodness! What happened here?" She gasped.

"I had an accident, hah...and I fell. Lately, being pregnant has made me clumsy." Elena said with a grin.

"Alright, um, mister?" The nurse began.

"Salvatore." He finished her sentence.

"Well then, please, set her down, we'll call a nurse." As she looked back at Damon, he started his compulsion.

"I don't think that will be necessary, I'll carry her in myself." Damon said.

"Of course, go ahead." The woman said pressing the button, and the doors opened. Damon took Elena to one of the back rooms and laid her on the bed.

"Damon I will be alright.." Elena lied...she had been hiding the pain for a while. She wanted to scream, but she knew Damon would go on a rampage. So she kept calm, and thought about her baby, and that kind of took some edge off.

"Elena Salvatore?" The nurse called.

"Over here." Elena said, she didn't even realize that they automatically gave her Damon's last name.

"Well, we will need to take you to surgery right away." The nurse smiled as she checked Elena's shoulder and smiled wider when she noticed her slightly round tummy.

"Well, you are lucky, it isn't that deep at all, so this shouldn't take long. Mr. Salvatore, would you like to wait out here?" The Nurse smiled at him.

"No, I would like to be in the operating room if you don't mind." Damon said with an innocent grin back at her.

"I'm sorry but that is against policy, and the health code." As the nurse said this, Damon stood up and compelled her as well.

"I'm sure somewhere in the policy there can be this one teeny tiny exception, don't you think?" Damon smirked.

"Well, of course, it's just policy, but we can make this one exception. Mrs. Salvatore,"

"Please...call me Elena."

"Elena. We need you to get you're gown on, and let us know when you are ready and we will take you into surgery, okay?" Elena read the name tag. Alice.

Beautiful name, sweet, sensitive, caring. She thought about what she would name her baby. Boy or girl...she would have to figure it out. Elena stood up, with Damon's help, and got her gown on, and the nurse, came over and helped her into the wheel chair, when suddenly Damon took over the chair and pushed towards the O.R.

"Um, alright then Mr. Salvatore." Alice said, as she followed him into the Operation Room, and Damon maneuvered Elena onto the bed.

"She isn't going to feel this...is she?" Damon asked, raising an eyebrow. Life or Death answer here.

"No, she is going to be put under anesthesia and she won't feel a thing." Alice beamed with happiness. She loved young couples, that were so obvious about their love. The doors opened.

"Hello everyone, my name is Dr. Bishmell and I am here to stitch you up Mrs. Salvatore." He said with a smile. Damon stood in front of him, and looked at him.

"You have done this before, right?" He asked.

"Of course, only a thousand times." Dr. Bishmell said with a grin. The anesthesiologist arrived with the medicine, and pretty soon Elena started feeling woozy.

"D-Damon." Elena called out, Damon was at her side in a flash.

"Yes, Elena, I'm here." Damon said, his face was over hers, so she could see his face.

"I love you." Elena's voice fell into a whisper, as her eyes fluttered closed slowly. "..." Damon was silent for a moment.

"I-I love you too." He said as his body felt tingly.

"I'm...scared...Damon." Elena's voice slowed slightly.

"Shh Shh, no need to be scared, I'm right here, and I will be here throughout the whole thing. I promise you. I'll protect you. Go to sleep, and when you wake up, you'll feel better, and I'll be right there." Damon said as he kissed her forehead. Elena's eyes closed as she smiled.

"Thank you." She last whispered before the drugs took her under. Damon's shaky hands, held her lifeless ones.

Three hours after the surgery, Elena woke up in her bed, as she glanced around, she noticed Damon sitting in a chair, right next to her bed. His head lay on her lap, as he slept lightly, and when her leg moved slightly, his head sat up.

"Elena!" Damon said as he wrapped his arms around her gently.

"Elena, I'm so happy you are finally awake, it's been hours." Damon said.

"Wow, that long, huh?" Elena said as she ran her hand through his hair. She smiled at him, gazing at him, as he leaned his face towards hers, he kissed her sweetly. And her tummy did a flip, as her heart pounded faster.

Stefan and Jeremy were in the middle of arguing when Jenna came into the room.

"So, Jeremy...where did Elena and Damon say they were off to?" Jenna asked.

"To the Grill to see one of Elena's friends or whatever." Jeremy said.

"Alright, because I could have sworn I saw her walking down the street, not even a minute ago." Jenna said as she closed the door.

"But I must be loosing it." Stefan and Jeremy looked at each other.

"Katherine." Stefan said as he stood up.

"I'll be right back." Stefan jumped out of the window, and found Katherine, near the park.

"Okay, Katherine, what are you doing here in Mystic Falls?" Stefan said.

"I hear Elena's here, and I just want to see if she's okay." Katherine said with a playful smirk.

"What do you mean?" Stefan asked.

"Well she is pregnant, I don't think she can do it by herself. So...I am here to help."

"You never help anyone but yourself Katherine, so why don't you just tell me what you really want from Elena and then you can leave Mystic Falls and go back to wherever you came from." Stefan said deeply.

"Stefan, Stefan, you should know how this plays out better than that." Katherine said walking towards Stefan.

"Enough games, tell me what you really want." Stefan grabbed Katherine's arm that made it's way around his neck.

"Simple enough. I want her baby."

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