We have a little Damon! Ahh, I have big plans for this family, but for now? On we go!
It was late in the day when Elena got out of bed in search of food.
Weeks had passed since the attack in the same annoying cycle, sleep, eat, shop, spend time at home and Prepare for Theo.
To say it was getting to Elena was an understatement.
"Come on baby. Lets go find us some food." Elena murmured to her bump as she walked to the kitchen.
After looking around for a while she found nothing that she wanted to eat, lately everything was off putting and nauseating.
"Where's your daddy Theodore? I haven't seen or heard him in a while." Elena sighed, rubbing her belly.
Baby Theodore kicked back in response. Elena sat down and put her shoes on and wrapped a cardigan around herself. Before writing a note on a post it and sticking it to the bottle of bourbon Damon favoured.
"Lets go and see Aunt Caroline. And she's probably with Klaus so lets take a walk baby." Elena said as she walked out of the door.
It was bright and warm today, not a cloud in the sky and lots of people were just out and about, enjoying the sun.
"Elena!" Someone called from behind her.
She turned and saw Carl, the hybrid jogging toward her.
"Hi Carl." Elena smiled.
"Going for a walk?" He asked.
"Going to see Caroline actually. Damon's out for the day and the four walls of my room are finally beginning to bore me." Elena told him as she began walking again.
"Huh, I was just going back there. Went to the gym with Sean in hopes I wouldn't kill him but, he got on my nerves so I'm heading back. I think Caroline is making Klaus sort the pool out." Carl told her as they rounded the corner.
"Probably. She hates it when its hot out and there's no pool available. Says it completely disregards the point of having sun." Elena grinned.
"Sounds like Caroline."
"Yeah. Its her way of doing things." Elena nodded as they came to the drive way of Klaus' new house.
"ELENA!" Caroline squealed from the front door.
"Hey Care!" Elena beamed.
"Come on! We're sorting out the pool." Caroline grinned, blurring to Elena's side and walking her into the house.
It was hectic in the house. The hybrids were all laughing and joking while they set up the barbeque and pool with Klaus, they were genuinely happy.
"Come on. I figured you would stop by. I have swimsuits upstairs." Caroline told her.
"You think of everything, don't you?" Elena asked as they made their way to the grand staircase.
"Please, would you expect anything less?" Caroline scoffed.
"No, not for you." Elena admitted.
They were just coming to the top of the staircase when Sean and another hybrid came barrelling down them. They got past Caroline without so much as making her hair move, but Elena was a little more unstable. As Sean shouldered past her she lost her footing.
"ELENA!" Caroline exclaimed, reaching for her arm and missing it by millimetres.
Everything seemed to go slow, Elena fell into the banister and down, side and stomach first, into the stairs.
She had just hit the steps and slid down when she screamed and someone was at her side.
"Elena? Oh my god! KLAUS, Quick!" Caroline screamed.
"What is it love?" Klaus asked, appearing at the bottom of the stairs.
"Help me get Elena to the couch. Quickly!" Caroline told him as she got Elena to her feet.
But as quick as Elena was on her feet, pain erupted in her stomach and her legs gave way. She felt something warm down her legs.
"I think her waters broke." Caroline gasped.
"She's not far enough for that to happen!" Klaus told her.
"Don't you think I know that?! Carl, call Damon and Stefan and Bonnie and Meredith. Now! Klaus help me get her to the bathroom." Caroline was beginning to hyperventilate as Klaus lifted Elena with ease and walked her quickly to the bathroom.
"Ahhhh!" Elena half screamed, clutching her stomach, as Klaus set her on the white marble floor.
"I know! Elena sweetie, I know! Damon's coming and Meredith. Your going to be fi-" Caroline stopped abruptly.
"What is it?" Elena panted.
"Your bleeding." Caroline spluttered.
"Give her blood!" Came a shout from the hall.
"I don't know if that'll help. I've never tried fixing a pregnant woman before!" Caroline snapped, wiping her face.
"Well try! It's going to take Stefan a good ten minutes to grab the Doctor and get here, Damon's on his way with the witch." Carl yelled.
Caroline shook her head and bit her wrist, holding it out to Elena.
"Drink this, come on. It'll help." Caroline told her as she took hold of the red stained skin.
Elena drank and then had to pull away as she screamed in agony, crying uncontrollably.
"Its not helping! Why isn't it helping?!" Caroline cried hysterically.
"You've only just fed it to her, maybe it takes time?!" Someone else offered.
"Please! I've helped enough people to know how long internal injuries take!" Caroline snapped as she heard the front door burst open.
Elena screamed again, falling back on the floor.
Damon was at her side in an instant, pulling her into his lap and stroking her face.
"Hey, baby listen to me. Listen to me, you need to breath. Theo will panic if you don't." He soothed her then added, "Doc your on tell me what to do."
He waited a moment before nodding.
"Blondie get this crowd out of here. We're going to deliver a baby." Damon told her quickly as he grabbed a towel to cover Elena's mid section and legs and began taking her pants off.
"Right yeah, got that Doc but how am I going to know if they baby's coming?" Damon asked as he shimmied Elena out of her panties.
Elena cried out again as Bonnie came in and took Damon's place at Elena's head so he could get to the other end.
Elena clutched Bonnie's hand and cried, she was sat up but laid back against Bonnie who was on her knees behind Elena, supporting her. Caroline was waiting for orders from Damon and Klaus was ordering the hybrids about.
"I have to what?!" He asked over Elena's cries.
"Well not like I haven't down that before." He shrugged as he reached under the towel.
"Yeah doc, I can do it. From your directions this is progressing quickly, four fingers never managed that before." Damon winked at Elena who blushed profusely.
"Damon!" Caroline exclaimed, swatting his head.
"Watch it! Im delivering a baby!" He snarled as he listened to Meredith's next order.
"But the baby is too early! Nothing s going to.. Would blood help him? Vampire blood. Will that heal whatever could be wrong?" Damon asked as Bonnie began chanting.
"What are you doing?" Elena asked her tearfully.
"Im going to help with the pain. Yours and Theodore's." Bonnie told her.
"Is he going to be okay?" She cried.
"Of corse he is." Caroline told her, tear tracks staining her cheeks as well.
"Right Elena baby, you've got to push and you've got to push now! Hold you leg up like this, Blondie get the other leg." Damon said, showing Elena how to hold her leg.
"Right, when I say go you start pushing. Bonnie hold onto her, Klaus get me sterile scissors and lots more towels." Damon called.
"Elena?! Elena!?"
"Jeremy?" She croaked.
"Bonnie got me here. We've had preparation kits for a while." Jeremy called as he came through the door, handing Damon the bag.
"Shut the door!" Damon barked, taking the bag.
"Elena go!" He added.
She tightened the grip on her thigh and pushed with all her might for as long as she could hold it.
"Good, good I can see him. God he's tiny, okay one more push just like that baby." Damon said, rubbing her leg encouragingly.
"Urg!" Elena grunted as she pushed again, this time she felt something warm slid from her body.
Then Damon began moving at vamp speed. Cutting the cord, jabbing her with something that Caroline explained was for the placenta, cleaning the baby getting him breathing then feeding him vampire blood and then rubbing his back.
"Damon is he okay?" Elena asked.
He didn't answer. He was in his own little bubble as he set about fixing things for the baby.
"Doc, he's breathing and I can hear his heartbeat stabling. But he fits in my hand. He's so small, but he's growing. I think the blood is working because he's just getting bigger." Damon explained to the headset he was wearing.
Elena smiled and cried when she heard Damon say that Theo was okay. Then her eyes began to roll back.
"Elena?" Jeremy asked, patting her cheek.
"Oh god, there's a lot of blood." Caroline breathed.
"Go, we've got this. Calm yourself and come back." Bonnie told her.
Caroline nodded and flew from the room.
"Damon she's still bleeding." Bonnie said louder.
"Doc she's bleeding!" Damon hissed as he wrapped the baby and placed him on Elena's hest for her to see.
Elena saw him through heavy eyelids. He was exactly like Damon. Jet black hair and eye colour, but his eyes were the shape of hers and he had her nose. Other then that he was pure Damon.
"What do you mean haemorrhaging?!" Damon exclaimed.
"Okay I'm here, come on, there's an ambulance downstairs, lets go!" Stefan said as he too joined their 'bathroom party'.
"Damon take Theo." Elena said as he went to lift her.
"No Elena Stefan can I have to help you, you need-"
"I need you to take Theo and keep him safe. Stefan can carry me, you bring Theo." Elena told him, handing him the baby.
He had stopped growing now, but was normal baby sized and was breathing well.
Stefan picked her up and carried her downstairs with Damon, carrying Theo, Bonnie and Jeremy right behind him.
In the ambulance Elena was hooked to a drip and they managed to stop her bleeding and Theo was being looked over.
Damon was sat between them, still covered in Elena's blood. He was holding her hand but keeping a watchful eye on his baby.
"Well Mr Salvatore you're a miracle worker, your baby is absolutely fine and your wife is going to be okay. You've kept them both alive." One of the ambulance workers announced, handing Theo back to him.
"You did it baby, look." Damon smiled, showing Elena their, clean wrapped sleeping baby.
"No, we did it." Elena smiled back sleepily.
"Caroline's help should be working now." Damon told her quietly.
"It is. I can feel it." Elena breathed.
"Good, because Theodore is going to need his mommy." Damon sighed, staring adoringly at the sleeping boy.
Once they were at the hospital Meredith was waiting and ready to fix Elena up. She had her put in her own room so Damon and Theo could stay with her and also made sure that she was the only doctor that could go in there so Damon could eat.
They also had visitors.
Bonnie, Caroline, Jeremy, Alaric and Matt all came in to see her first and Caroline told them what had happened.
Damon cursed the hybrids but once he found out Klaus was punishing the two that caused it, he calmed and continued to feed Theo his bottle.
Everyone had cuddles with Theodore and gave cards, Caroline had also brought some clothes for him to wear.
A baby grow that she had had custom made said, 'Don't tell me I'm cute or my ego will get as big as my daddy's' and another read, 'Cute- check, mischievous- check, have the ability to make everyone around me melt so I get what I want- Double check.'
He was currently wearing the ego one. With a little hat that read 'The one and only Baby Salvatore.'
Around midnight, while Theodore slept Elena had began bleeding again so Damon fed her blood, then they both fell asleep.
But Damon was woke, hours later to a crude beep. Then Meredith burst through the door and turned the machine off. And began feeling Elena.
"What are you doing?" Damon asked testily.
"There's no pulse Damon! She must have bled too much." Meredith hissed.
"No. Your wrong!" Damon growled, stealing a look at his son.
"Damon, focus! She had vampire blood in her system! I thought this might happen. We need to get her home now. I've signed her discharge papers and filled out Theodore's birth certificate. Grab Elena I'll get the bag and the baby and let's go." Meredith told him quickly as she unhooked Elena from the heart rate monitor and rushed to grab the bag she had dropped on her arrival.
In minutes, they had everything packed up and ready to leave. They took the back entrance from the hospital and Meredith drove them to the boarding house where everyone was staying.
When they got in, they saw them sitting in the study.
"Off the couch!" Meredith told the guys as Damon walked through with Elena.
"What happened?!" Jeremy asked.
"She died." Damon told him, jaw clenched.
DUN DUN DUN! Betcha weren't expecting that! R+R M'Lovelies!