"Damon, shh stop it." Elena giggled trying to dart away from his wandering fingers. "I thought we were trying to make sure Stefan stays sleeping. Your words before, not mine." She had wrapped the sheet from the bed around her and knew she had to sneak back into her room to get more clothes, because her adorable lover kept ripping hers.
"But I miss you already and you haven't even left yet," he pouted at her while pulling his or rather Dr. Gilberts t shirt over his head, after she had repeatedly whispered to him to stay here. She said that she was just going in her room for a few minutes. They had just stepped out of Jeremy's bedroom to let Elena get dressed and then head downstairs to talk to Bonnie.
He stood still against the wall, his hands at his sides like he had been put in the corner for being bad, the adorable pout still firmly in place.
"I'll be right back honey. I thought you wanted this," she said sweetly and stretched up to her tiptoes to peck him on the lips.
He opened his mouth to her and pulled her into his arms. "No, no baby. I want you...in there...naked. What I don't want is for you to put more layers between us. You have been dressed far to much of this day already. I keep ripping your clothes. You think that would be hint that I don't want you in them. You were the one you said we should get up. Don't you dare blame me for us getting out of bed. I didn't want to leave that bed all day if we could help it." He was accentuating every important word as he spoke, his eyebrows raising each time, hoping she was getting his hint.
He held her hands between them. "I'm serious Elena. Maybe Klaus torturing the evil Kitty Kat all night made him calmer, more reasonable; like Elijah said. Care Bear could get the cure for Stef and the moonstone from Kat. Elijah could maybe talk his brother down from his crazy ass attempt on your life and breaking the curse, or kill him. Either way works for me. Your brother can take care of Bon and we..." he said his voice rising an octave and his eyes full of pleading and desperation, "...can stay in bed."
He looked so cute looking at her like that and she wanted so much to just let everyone handle everything so they so revel in their new found love.
Damon could see he might be convincing her and kept going. "Why does anyone have to need us? Please baby. You know you want that too?" He looked longingly at her putting on his full puppy dog face with his bottom lip way out. No woman had ever been able to resist that. It was his fail safe when he wanted something bad enough.
Elena smiled at him, finding another look of his that she loved as much as his icky face and his beautiful genuine happy smile and pulled on his bottom lip with her thumb. She stuck her lip out too and pouted back at him. "I know Damon, and that sounds like a day in heaven with you." She saw him smiling at her agreement, believing he had won and he started turning them back around to head back to Jeremy's room.
She stopped them, her grin hard to hide. "But...I thought you wanted to find out more about this little one that you could not seem to stop touching when we were snuggled up in there together."
He turned back to her opening his mouth to argue back and pull out more of his world class arsenal to get his way. But then he went over what she said again. Shit, she was right. He shut his mouth again right away. Of course there was must have been a good reason that she had actually convinced him to get out of bed with her. How could he say no to his baby? Hopefully his baby.
Elena giggled again as she saw him realize their why for getting up. "We can go back and just stay in bed baby. I just thought you wanted to find out what Bonnie could tell us about the baby. Especially if she might know if it was yours." Her eyes were twinkling and she knew she had him there.
He realized she had most definitely won this one and his hand found her belly again and he marveled that now he could even feel the heartbeat with the thin sheet between his hand and her.
"Sorry, you are right Lanie. I must have gotten baby brain." He had heard that expression and hoped he was saying it in the right context. Thinking and speaking clearly and fluently seemed to be quite a challenge whenever his love was near.
She laughed at him and put her hand over his. "This is all new territory for me. But I think baby brain means you are getting forgetful because you had a baby to blame it on."
He grinned at her. "Well I am hoping I do have a baby to blame it on," he teased her back.
She laughed again. "I'm pretty sure that is not how that works and you need to be the mother."
He scrunched up his nose. "Ah well...does loving the mother count for anything?"
Elena opened her mouth in an 'o' shape. "Awe, yes I have it on good authority that it means the world to her to be loved by you. How on earth did you hide how cute you were from me for so long?"
Damon's mouth pulled up into a smirk, his blue eyes shining. "That's for me to know and you to . . ." And he stuck out his tongue while grinning at her.
He bent his head, leaning his forehead against hers, his voice taking a more serious tone. "Look, I promise I will try to have faith here. You know how much I would want this little angel to be mine. You are already my angel and I'm yours and now can you just imagine if we had a little angel made of the best of both of us?" He was glowing as he spoke and uttered a silent prayer that there was a God in heaven that had heard him.
Elena felt tears in her eyes. What he had just said was one of the most beautiful things he had ever said to her and she wanted to memorize it or do something to honor such a heartfelt sentiment. She leaned into his embrace as his arms came around her. "I know. You know I want that too. I still can't believe it at all." She lay against him just soothed by his presence and they were both quiet for a few minutes.
Finally, begrudgingly she started pulling out of his embrace. "But if you never let me get dressed, we will never get to see Bonnie about this."
Damon tugged on her arm and she spun back into his body and their eyes locked as her head turned to him. "Baby, if it was up to me you would never get dressed again." He did his sexy eye thing at her, rubbing himself against her.
"Damon," she looked shocked at him. "Let me go."
He nuzzled into her hair, his hand holding her head still against his. "M mm. Never," he breathed. "Don't you ever ask me to let you go." His eyes were locked on hers, his expression deadly serious. "I would die without you sweetness. Rip my ring off in the sun and burn to nothing die, if I lost you."
She cradled his face in her hands, realizing that the teasing and jokes had come to an abrupt halt and he was sharing so deeply with her again and she loved it. "I'm sorry baby. That will never happen. You will never lose me. And that ring," she stroked his hand on top of his huge daylight ring. "Is staying right where it is. Without it keeping you safe, I could lose you too."
He pulled her tighter into his arms. "You won't. Don't even think of that. We will get out of this. Caroline will get the cure for Stefan, she will trick Katherine to turn over the moonstone, and we will beat Klaus. He smiled stiffly at her as her head tucked under his chin. He prayed she was right. But when had anything they had been through gone according to plan..."
He sighed letting her go knowing she would be right back and she was right he would probably do something silly and wake his brother if he went in there with her.
"You want me to have faith that this little angel is mine. Well than you need to have faith that I can keep you both safe." He rubbed her belly again, still feeling so overwhelmed that she could actually be pregnant.
"Now change quick, or I will come in there and throw you back in my bed and never let you go."
She nodded smiling at him. "Um, I think it's still Jeremy's bed."
He scoffed at her. "Oh no. He relinquished all rights to that room when I told him it smelled like sweat, sex and his sister," he grinned back at her. "Trust me, till I get you to my real bed, "I'm claiming that as mine..ours. Now hurry up." He patted her firmly on the butt as she headed into the room, earning himself a cute fake glare from her as she slipped into the room.
Bonnie was sitting up when they knocked on the door a few minutes later. They had passed Elijah pacing in the living room and he looked like he wanted to be alone. With a short nod Damon pulled Elena gently past him and toward the back bedroom.
Bonnie called out to them at the first knock. She smiled and reached out her hands when Elena races forward and embraced her. "I'm so glad you are okay," Elena cried in her arms. She held her friend for a few seconds, her head on her shoulder. Pulling back she saw Damon standing there so politely watching them.
"I'm glad you are okay too Bon Bon." He moved toward the bed and put his hand on her shoulder. "You look like you might have slept well," he grinned. "Little Gilbert good company?"
He flinched. "Damn it. I told myself I was not going to call him that ever again." Both girls looked at him with puzzled expressions on their faces. "Because he saved my life before, when Klaus blew up my car, I promised myself I would not talk down to him ever again." He shut his eyes slowly remembering his precious car in nothing but a heap of metal now.
Elena thought it was sweet that Damon had determined to honor her brother for what he had done. "Where is my brother anyway?" She looked around. They hadn't past him in the cabin.
"Oh I think he is showering or something. He wasn't really clear and I was just waking up then. He mumbled something about needing to go. And yes Damon," Bonnie smiled at him. "Jeremy was very good company."
She thought back to him being so sweet to her all night. Making sure she was warm, holding her in his arms. Being the perfect gentleman and letting her sleep. He had even woken her up a couple times at night to make sure her head condition wasn't going to let her slip away from him.
Bonnie knew she might have a concession but she did feel much better. And besides the odd bout of dizziness, she was good. She shook her head smiling at Elena and then noticed a sort of nervousness about her and she saw it in Damon too. Like they needed to tell her something."What's going on guys? What am I missing?"
She sat up more and moved over for Elena to sit beside her. "Jer filled me in more about things yesterday and what all happened that he could remember. It's hard to believe that you are together... like in love, together after barely a day. But I can see how happy you make each other. Just looking at you both when you walked in together I could see it."
Elena smiled at her friend. Having her and Caroline's support for her relationship with Damon meant so much to her. "Thank you Bonnie. I am happy. We are happy. I could never have dreamed being with this guy..." she grabbed his hand and squeezed it, looking up at him in adoration. "would be so amazing. I seriously can't imagine how I didn't see it sooner. It feels like we have been together for years already."
Bonnie smiled again. "That is so great Lena. You deserve it. After all the hell with your doppelganger and now with Klaus here, you deserve some happiness." She tilted her head to the side debating the risk of asking this question but it seemed like there might never be a better time. "Um El, I know you have seen your brother and I getting closer. So I, um was wanting to ask for your big sister permission if I could date him? He is so sweet and brave and so hot and I think I love him."
Elena's eyes went wide. "Oh wow Bon. He has been though so much and had so much pain in his life, more than a lifetimes worth of pain." She saw her friends face fall thinking she was rejecting the idea of them together. "He deserves to end up with someone as amazing as you."
Bonnie had tears in her eyes and she reached out to hug her best friend again. "Really?" she could hardly believe it. Elena nodded to her. "Thank you so much."
"You are so welcome Bonnie. You both deserve so much happiness." She looked up behind her at Damon who was still just standing near her. Her face lit up as she saw him smiling back at her, their fingers tangled together like there was magnet between them. They just had to be touching one way or another and it calmed her so much to feel his hand in hers. "Just like Damon and I found that happiness and will never let it slip away."
Elena then pulled on Damon's hand and urged him to sit down beside her. "Um Bon, I um, actually WE, have something we are hoping you can help us with." She looked determinedly at Damon trying to remind him with her eyes to have faith and not think right away that this baby was Stefan's. Not even that seemed possible. But she hoped Bonnie would know something.
"I'll try. What is it? When you guys walked in here Elena, you looked like you were glowing. But now you guys look like you have seen a ghost."
Damon stifled a laugh, glad the conversation was moving toward the baby talk. The sooner they could find out if she knew anything to help them the sooner he could get his girl back in bed with him. "Well maybe a little bit of both Bon. Not a ghost but something just as unreal." He placed his hand on Elena's stomach and slipped it under her long sleeved pink top.
Bonnie looked back and forth between them and down at her friends stomach that Damon was very gently caressing. Her eyes got wider as she studied them both.
Damon's lips made a tight line watching her process things and then she sucked in a huge breath. "Yeah Bon, we think Elena is pregnant."
Elena put her hand over his and nodded slowly to the look of disbelief plastered all over Bonnie's face. "I think he is right. He heard the heartbeat before and he even did this amazing vampire trick and let my consciousness into his mind and let me hear it too! It was incredible."
Bonnie was shocked. She wasn't sure she heard them right. "Wow, just, okay. Wow. But I thought...I mean, I never actually had a sex talk conversation with you Damon, but isn't it not supposed to work for the undead to umm... create life? I mean that just sounds unnatural," Bonnie exclaimed.
"Oh trust me we had this talk upstairs. You think it sounds unreal..." Damon reached for her hand and she let him lead her to place it on Elena's belly. "It sounds as real at it gets." He closed his eyes and put his other hand on Bonnie's head.
Elena leaned back in the bed watching them on either side of her. She had not asked to be taken into the vision this time. She assumed that probably Damon could only take one person at a time. He sounded like it had been hard enough for him to hold it the first time for very long.
She watched him as his face was scrunched up in concentration and she saw the wonder in his features the second that he must have heard the strong powerful heartbeats as loud as she had heard them. She snapped her eyes to Bonnie and she saw a look of pure amazement as she must have been able to hear it too. They stayed like that for another few seconds and then Damon's eyes flew open and he nearly fell off the bed.
She grabbed for him before he lost his balance. His eyes were wide and full of shock. What happened. This didn't seem like how it had been with her. "Hey honey, what happened? Are you okay?"
He blinked a couple times and looked back and forth between them. Bonnie wore a similar expression. "Bon, what did you do?" he asked her.
The dark haired witch shook her head at both of them. "I don't know Damon. What did you see?" She was not sure she understood what she saw at all. "I heard it and I saw something too. That I know for sure. You are right Elena that was unbelievable. I heard a heartbeat too!"
Damon was still trying to figure out in his mind what he had seen. "It was strange Bon. When I showed Elena the heartbeat I saw light and the sound was so clear and echoing all around us. But this time when I heard it it think I saw a piece of your consciousness; something in your mind."
Bonnie sat more forward her eyes fixed on him. "Can you describe it? I really don't have any memories of yesterday at all. Jer thought it would probably be from the concussion but I'm not so sure. What if someone wanted me to forget or made me forget things that happened? The last thing I remember is being in the tomb with Elijah and Jeremy and talking to Stefan and wanting to help him get free."
Damon thought back as he felt Elena lean in to him against his chest. His hand was still on her stomach, feeling the beautiful heartbeat and she was clutching his other hand in hers and just resting in his embrace. "That was at least two nights ago. SO you have no memories from anything yesterday? Not coming here or Klaus attacking you?"
She shook her head. No everything was a blank. That was really strange.
He turned his head and kissed Elena's hair and she nuzzled in more to him but was still quiet listening to them. "Well, I saw you in my mind. You were at The Grill, Bon. And I saw Klaus, he had his hands around Jeremy's neck and you were screaming and begging him to let him go. I saw you laying on the ground and crying. Then in another flash I saw blood moving on its own and two separate trails twining together on a piece of paper. It looked so strange and the blood formed hearts all on its own and then one heart opened up and the other went inside it so they were linked. Then they just burst into flames. That was all I saw."
Bonnie leaned back taking it all in. "I was with Klaus? At The Grill? He was hurting Jeremy? Blood linking? Why would I not remember that? What I saw was strange too. I saw you Damon. I saw you laying on the ground in the pouring rain and saw Klaus leaning over you. He had a knife and had cut your wrist and collected your blood in a vial. I heard him whisper 'Let's see who will be Daddy? Two down, one to go.'"
Elena was listening and trying to make sense of everything that they were saying. "We were taking about it yesterday that Klaus had been taking our blood Bon. He tried to take mine just before you arrived and brain melted him and threw him against a tree." She looked up at Damon then. "But that vial of my blood was shattered on the ground. And then don't you remember Damon, that you had blood on your hand too when you were compelled to bring me to Klaus?"
He nodded slowly not sure what she was getting at.
"I don't know Damon, Klaus seemed intent on getting my blood and yours too, maybe Stefan's. Why would he be doing that? Who's blood did he have by then?" Elena said curiously.
Damon's mind was racing. "I remember too that when you were so out of it Bonnie, that you were mumbling about Klaus taking them. Maybe you meant the vials of blood?. Elijah heard you say in Latin I think that he needed a vampire to open the door to the impossible and you mentioned something about a linking spell. Who the hell got linked?"
Elena nearly jumped forward in his arms. "Damon, what if she was talking about me being able to get pregnant by a vampire? What if taking my blood and yours and maybe Stefan's made that possible?
In a flash both her hands were over her belly like she was protecting it from some unseen force. "Oh my God, what if Klaus wanted me pregnant!" She shielded her stomach instinctively as if somehow just knowing what Klaus wanted, she could protect her child from him.
"What would he want with my baby?!" She was freaking out now and buried her head in Damon's shoulder. She had hardly even grasped that she might be pregnant and by a vampire! And now she was faced with the possibility that someone wanted to take her baby away from her!
Damon held her tightly, his head against her hair. He was rubbing her back and had his other hand protecting the baby too. He had no idea what the hell Klaus fucking Michaelson wanted with Elena's baby, but he vowed to himself right then that he would never let that bastard get a hold of her child.
He looked at Bonnie, while still cradling Elena as he heard her crying quietly into his shirt. Bonnie looked as scared as he felt. He nodded to her while placing a kiss on the top of his loves head, vowing that as long as he was alive, his love and her precious baby no matter who the father was were not going to come to any harm.
They would have to go through him and he would fight till his last breath to keep them safe.
A/N: Hope you liked it. I'm almost done the next chapter. Did you guys want me to post it already or wait since I haven't started writing the next one after that yet? Up to you. Let me know.
Thanks so much for the reviews and the pms and all the baby name suggestions. They were all great and it helped me decide on the names.