Chapter Seven: Salvatore Baby
"You have to be kidding me, Katherine Fucking Pierce?" Damon's blue eyes widened in shock, the shackles that were keeping him from feeding on his ex-girlfriend that was standing only a few feet away kept rattling. "Katherine is pregnant? How? Tell me everything."
Elena squirmed uncomfortably trying to remember every detail, how Katherine had tried to hide the many pregnancy tests, how she had angrily shooed Elena away, and each move more suspicious than the last.
"I went to her room, since I guess she's going to live here now, though I rather have her live here than at Matt's," she trailed off. "But when I went into the guest room there were a few of the pregnancy tests lying around." The pink pluses on the pregnancy sticks were fresh on Elena's mind.
Elena had kind of forgotten that since Katherine was human now she could actually bear children. Elena couldn't help, but feel an ounce of jealousy towards her doppelganger, Elena had always dreamed of being a mother and now her doppelganger, who didn't even deserve to be a mother was going to have a baby.
"But you're positive that she's knocked up?" Damon said a little too gleefully.
Elena nodded and then felt a small amount of pity. "Do you think she was . . . forced?"
Damon shook his head. "No."
"How can you be so sure?" Elena asked perplexed.
"Because Katherine has been in our care you could say for months. And like it or not, one of us has been keeping tabs on her." Damon shrugged. "Knowing Katherine she probably traded one of her famous sexual favors for something and now it has come to bite her back in the ass."
Stefan was staring at Bonnie, just because Bonnie could see ghosts and translate for them, didn't make the situation any less awkward.
"What do you want?" a voice suddenly said in her ear. "Bored already?"
Bonnie turned around and faced the irritable witch in front of her. "Tessa." The bitterness was still clear in her voice, it was evident that she was still bitter about the fact that Tessa forgot to mention about the side effect of the anchor.
Tessa looked up and smiled when she saw Stefan. "As much as I despised him, he really is cute, plus he did kill Silas for me, so I do owe him one."
"What is she saying?" Stefan asked.
"Stupid stuff." Bonnie said. "Now what do you want to ask her?"
Stefan took a deep breath. "This has to stay between us, Bonnie all right? At least for now."
Bonnie nodded.
"Tessa." Stefan said awkwardly not knowing where to face. "When you gave me my memories back did you make me fertile?"
Bonnie gaped. "Wait, what?"
Tessa's lips pulled into a smirk. "So it finally happened, took you a while to get laid. Now who's the lucky girl that came in between destiny?"
"She's asking who did you get pregnant." Bonnie asked.
Stefan simply said. "Katherine."
"Katherine?!"
Tessa simply let out a disgusting sigh. "Damn universe, what a waste." She faced Stefan even though he couldn't hear her. "The deal was for you to impregnate another human and screw the doppelganger prophecy, it was definably not to impregnate the human doppelganger of Amara!"
"So it's true?" Katherine demanded as soon as Stefan was back at the boardinghouse. "Tessa did some creepy spell so that you could get me pregnant?"
"She was actually hoping I would get somebody else pregnant. But it confirmed that the baby is mine."
Katherine scoffed as she turned around. "Don't sound so happy."
"Sorry," he said sheepishly. "I didn't mean it like that . . . but I think it's time that we told everyone."
Much to his surprise, Katherine didn't argue. The image of Elena walking in on her and seeing the half dozen pregnancy tests on the floor was still clear in her mind. She had probably blabbered to everyone already. "Yeah, it's probably the best idea."
Katherine was squirming uncomfortably in the Salvatore's living room, though with only one Salvatore at her side, Stefan (Damon was still locked up) however she was surrounded by a lot of usual, not to mention unwanted guests.
The first which was Bonnie who Katherine guessed already knew about her unwanted pregnancy because she had kept staring at her stomach ever since she had sat down. Jeremy who kept playing on his phone. Matt who looked like he had just arrived from the Grill. Perky, clueless Caroline, and Elena who had been staring at Katherine until Katherine's glare finally shooed her away.
Katherine felt her stomach churn. She really didn't want to let anyone know that she was expecting Stefan Salvatore's baby, especially to a group of people who she was sure utterly despised her, but Stefan had insisted and knowing Stefan was going to do it anyway, she thought that she might as well be present.
Stefan cleared his throat as he put a reassuring hand on Katherine's shoulder, five pair of eyes stared at him. "Guys, I-Katherine and I have an announcement to make."
He eyed Katherine hoping that she would continue, but Katherine just stared stubbornly at the floor. There was no way that she would be the one to give the joyous news to everyone.
There was an awkward silence.
Caroline finally blurted out. "Hello, what are you guys going to tell us?"
Katherine bit her lip nervously, she couldn't believe that she was actually nervous and scared about what their reaction was going to be. The old Katherine Pierce would have never sunk so low.
Katherine's brown eyes meet Stefan's green ones and she slowly nodded. Stefan faced the group. "Katherine is pregnant." He said simply. "With my baby."
-End of Chapter Seven-
