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"Bonnie, it's so good to see you", Dr. Talbot smiled standing up from her chair as Bonnie entered her office, "and look at you, you are positively glowing".
"Thank you…I'm actually feeling better, the morning sickness is going away and I don't feel as tired all the time…", Bonnie sat down on the couch.
"Good, good…and the nightmares?"
"They come and go, I…umm…I moved in with Damon", Bonnie mumbled.
Dr. Talbot raised an eyebrow, "You moved in with Damon, I thought that cohabitating was something that you wanted to wait for".
"I know…I did…but it wasn't doing me any good to stay at my house alone when I am having nightmares and I wake up gasping for breath. It feels good to know that someone else is there with me".
Dr. Talbot nodded, "So Damon is being supportive and he is helping you to relax?"
"Yes…he often does".
"So how is it living together?"
Bonnie took a deep breath, "It has its moments and it is indeed a weird situation living there with Stefan and Elena, but it's like we're some weird type of family. When my Grams died, I didn't really have anyone to go home to and now…I do", Bonnie shrugged.
Dr. Talbot nodded, "I am happy for you".
"Thank you", Bonnie smiled.
"So is there anything else that you want to talk about?"
Bonnie looked down and then back at Dr. Talbot, "Well, while I'm happy and all...I am starting to feel a little weird about gaining weight and acting like a crazy person".
"Bonnie, mood swings are normal and you are having a baby…its ok".
"Well one of Damon and Stefan's old friends is in town and she's hanging out with them and she kind of looks like a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader or something, not exactly the best person to boost my self esteem".
"Bonnie…"
"Yes Dr. Talbot, I know…I'm pregnant, not fat…but that doesn't change anything", Bonnie shrugged.
"Bonnie, you are about to have your own family and you have someone who supports and loves you above all else, please focus on that and how far you have come".
"I have come far, haven't I?" Bonnie smiled looking at Dr. Talbot.
"Extremely far…I remember the young woman who came to me…she was scarred, deeply scarred and it wasn't just about the scar on her face…the smile that you have now, it's amazing…and the life that you have in front of you makes me excited for you", Dr. Talbot grinned, "now, do you have a new picture for me?"
Bonnie smiled as she felt the tears well up in her eyes, "Thank you and you know I do have more pictures", she replied reaching into her bag and handing Dr. Talbot her newest sonogram picture.
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"So Ric, tell me…have you worked some of those kinks out with our resident substitute witch?" Damon smirked as he walked into Alaric's house plopping down on the couch putting his feet up on the table.
"Damon, she is a houseguest and that is it", Alaric knocked Damon's feet off of the table, "and I think that you are playing with fire by having her here in town".
"What are you talking about?"
"Let me put this in terms that you can understand, you live with not one…but two…hormonal, pregnant women and you bring in someone who looks like that to replace one of the women in the group, I don't think it's going over as well as you think it is".
Damon rolled his eyes, "I love Bonnie, I tell her that all the time and Stefan is basically attached to Elena's hip…Miranda is just here to do spells and help us when we need it, that's it…I don't want her and I sent her to live here with you as a gift and you are basically ignoring it".
"She doesn't want me Damon".
"That's because you are playing all coy…you need to try another method, let me give you a few pointers".
Alaric looked at Damon blankly, "No thank you and I don't believe Miranda wants me because I think she wants someone else…someone who lives in a boarding house across town".
"Well if she is thinking about rekindling anything with Stefan, she's in for a world of heartache…he's not interested".
"And what about you?"
"What about me, sure she's gorgeous…sure she has power…and sure she has a body that is amazing, but I have Bonnie…I love her and she has everything that I could possibly want and she's having my kid…I'm happy".
"Are you really?" Alaric asked, "I mean…I've known you for a couple of years and for most of those years, you could be a complete dick, but I never imagined that you would be all set to settle down and be a father…"
"Whoa…who said anything about settling down…I have Bonnie, we're going to have our kid, but I will be the same Damon no matter what…I will still rip out hearts, break necks and stake anyone who crosses me".
Alaric chuckled, "Right and how do you expect to do that carrying a carseat?"
"Really funny", Damon snarked, "want to try me?"
Alaric shook his head as the front door opened and Miranda walked in dressed in a sports bra and tiny biker shorts, "It may be cold, but as soon as I start running…I don't even notice it", she grinned heading in, "oh hi Damon…"
"Miranda…isn't it a little too cold for you to be running around in that?" Alaric asked.
She looked down at her outfit, "Probably, but you have no idea how much I can overhear in the park when people think I'm just a silly jogger…"
"Oh really and what did you hear?" Damon asked.
"Well, let me take a shower honey and I will share with you in a few", Miranda grinned as she winked heading upstairs.
"Something is seriously wrong with you", Damon shook his head, "you have that living down the hallway from you and you don't want to make things a little more personal, you are a fool".
"Damon, I am not looking for a relationship right now…"
"Who's talking about a relationship?" Damon snorted.
Miranda listened at the top of the stairs as she flicked her finger and started the water in the shower in the bathroom down the hallway. She smiled as she listened to Damon attempt to get Alaric to hit on her. Maybe Damon wasn't as blind as he would lead everyone to believe, she thought as she skipped towards the bathroom.
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"So what's going on?" Stefan asked walking into the Salvatore living room joining Damon and Miranda, who was looking through one of the LaRue spell books.
"Well apparently there's a vampire convention coming to Mystic Falls and it's not pretty", Damon answered.
"What…what are you talking about?"
"Apparently some of your little kinfolk have been slowly gathering in town, have you ever heard of the Gathering of the Dark?" Miranda asked.
Stefan looked at Damon, "No sorry…don't think I have".
"It apparently happens once every 200 years and it takes place in different places of the world, depending on who has the Mrak stone at the time it is supposed to occur".
"And what does this stone do?" Stefan asked.
"It brings complete darkness for three days to whatever part of the world that the stone is located in and it according to my books, it can also raise darkness whatever that means".
"So is the stone here?"
"Well from what I gathered today on my little run through the park, it is on its way and so are other vampires".
"But why here?" Stefan asked.
"Because apparently, Sunnydale's not taking any more of the undead since 2003", Damon quipped.
"So when will this stone actually be activated?" Stefan asked.
"In a couple of weeks, I haven't been able to decipher the exact date…but apparently there some vampires coming early…trying to get a good seat early".
"But where are they?" Stefan asked, "I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary…"
"Apparently when you can have three days to roam free and do whatever you want, I guess you can be patient".
"So what are we going to do…how can we stop it?" Stefan asked.
"Well we would have to find the stone and destroy it, but we would have to find out who has it first", Miranda replied, "and I'm not quite sure how to destroy it yet", she frowned.
"Well you need to find out".
"Ok, I will work on it", Miranda said picking up one of the spell books and heading over to the couch, "and I will need some food to get me going…buffalo wings".
Damon looked over at Stefan.
"I am not a delivery guy", Stefan snapped.
"Call Alaric, he will be the delivery guy", Damon stated, "must I think of everything?"
"Look, I think we have something more important to worry about", Stefan whispered.
"I know, getting Bonnie and Elena out of Mystic Falls…you know they won't go easily", Damon whispered back, "but I have an idea and it involves a baby vampire with blond hair and a voice that could wake the dead".
Stefan nodded, "So how do we convince them to go?"
"That will be the hard part", Damon sighed.
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Bonnie felt Damon's eyes staring at her intently from his side of the bed as she turned the page in her 'What to Expect, When You're Expecting' and it was starting to weird her out, "What is wrong with you?" she asked.
"Has that book helped you any?" he asked taking it out of her hands and holding it up with two fingers.
"Yes, but then again…there is no book on 'What to Expect, When You're Expecting Damon Salvatore's Child'", she rolled her eyes as she stole the book back.
"There really should be book about that, I mean…it's not every day that perfection is created in a woman's womb", Damon sighed.
"I really hope this kid does not have a big head like you do…god…I help it doesn't", Bonnie shuddered.
"Oh you love my big head", Damon said taking her hand and kissing it.
She shook her head and couldn't help but grin as she touched his cheek, "I do…it's amazing how some of your most annoying qualities have turned into things that I love most about you".
"Seeeeee…I grew on you".
"Like a fungus", Bonnie smirked.
"Now, Judgey…you know that while your body may be pure perfection…you were not perfect when we first met".
"Oh really?"
"You were rather mean to me, even when I apologized to you a number of times", Damon pouted.
"That's because I was still angry at you for what you did to Caroline and you were kind of an ass".
"Yes…Caroline, how is she?"
"She's good…why?"
"When was the last time that you went to California to visit her?"
Bonnie rose her eyebrow, "Last year…why?"
"No reason, I'm just surprised that she hasn't requested that you and Elena come out to visit".
"Well she has, but I just don't want to leave Mystic Falls…Dr. Talbot is here and…"
"And…", Damon searched her eyes.
"And I'm not sure that I want to leave you with the little supermodel running around, she's a witch…she could put a spell on you".
"And if she does, what would you do?" Damon asked.
"I would destroy her", Bonnie said kissing him softly on the cheek and opening up her book.
She said it so simply with a smile on her face and he totally believed her words and he couldn't have loved his little witch more than that very moment. He also was well aware that nothing short of an act of God would coax Bonnie to leave Mystic Falls.
"You know when you say things like that, you scare me", Damon said taking the book out of her hands and placing it on the floor, "but it also turns me on…is that bad?" he asked pulling her on top of him.
Bonnie smiled, "I don't think so…but let's explore that a little".
"I was hoping you would say that", Damon said pulling her slowly down so that he could wrap his arms around her.
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"Ok…we've waited...so what's the verdict?" Damon crossed his arms as Dr. Hancock waved the wand across Bonnie's stomach a week later.
"Well…it looks like…", Dr. Hancock began as he peered at the image on the black and white screen.
"Looks like...", Damon tilted his head and then began to grin from ear to ear, "it's a boy and what an amazing boy it is, he takes after his Daddy!"
"Really Damon?" Bonnie scoffed.
"Actually, that's the umbilical cord…your boy…is actually a girl", Dr. Hancock smirked looking at Damon.
"Yes!" Bonnie clapped, " a girl…I was hoping for a girl, I could not take a mini you".
Damon frowned, "Well I guess I can corrupt a girl as much as I could corrupt my boy and Miss Bennett are you forgetting something very important here?"
Bonnie thought for a moment and then frowned, "We were just joking about the bet Damon…"
"Nope…you see Dr. Hancock, Bonnie was trying to be very, very mean and block me from naming my son Damon Jr., so she bet me if it was a girl…that I could name the baby and if it was a boy, she would name him…guess her plan backfired on her, didn't it?"
Dr. Hancock chuckled as he stood up, "Well, I will leave you two for a few moments and I will meet you in my office".
"Thanks", Bonnie frowned as she wiped her stomach free of the gel and pulled her shirt down.
Dr. Hancock nodded as he headed out of the room.
"Oh now…you were ecstatic to find out you were having a girl, it was only when you realized that our child would be name Willow that you got upset".
"Damon…don't you dare…", Bonnie warned him.
"What about Sabrina…that's more modern".
"I will give you an aneurysm", Bonnie threatened.
"Tabitha…Tabitha's a great name!" Damon grinned as he felt the intense pain in his head, "ok…ok…no Tabitha", he grimaced as he grabbed the side of his head.
Bonnie lessened the pain for a moment.
"How about Glinda, Bonnie…how do you feel about that?" Damon asked as they headed out of the exam room.
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"How did the appointment go?" Stefan asked as he and Elena reclined on the couch wrapped up in each other as Damon and Bonnie walked into the living room.
"Bonnie made my brain explode because she's mad she lost".
"Lost?" Elena asked.
"We're having a girl", Bonnie smiled.
"What!" Elena squealed as she hopped up off the couch and grabbed Bonnie, "no way…this is great…oh my god, I can't believe it".
"They are going to be best friends just like us", Bonnie squealed along with Elena as they headed out of the living room discussing nursery ideas.
"Well…if I didn't know better, I would say that someone planned this perfectly", Stefan smirked, "but congratulations".
"Yes…congratulations…a girl will either have me avoiding jail or killing young teenage boys", Damon snorted as he plopped down next to Stefan.
"You know Brother, you don't have to hide it anymore…you are happy…you are content right now…you have everything that you always wanted, you wanted a woman who loves you and only loves you and you have that with Bonnie. Now, you two are having a daughter, you are going to have that family that you never thought you would have…you are happy and you don't have to hide it", Stefan smiled.
Damon looked over at Stefan. Yes, he was happy…yes he had everything that he wanted…yes, he was probably going to spend the rest of his life protecting his daughter with every fiber of his being…but he had a reputation to protect.
"Stefan, I will save the tears and the big ole grin for you…we need to figure out how we are going to keep Elena and Bonnie from going completely crazy with the 'we're both having girls!' thing".
"I don't think that's ever going away…so, I spoke with Miranda…she can't seem to find much about the Mrak stone, she suggested Bonnie looking in Emily's grimoire…"
"No way…nope, not going to happen for many reasons".
"Damon, we need to find out when this is happening and once we know that, we can get Bonnie and Elena out of town".
"If Bonnie knows anything about this, she won't leave…you know that and for that matter, Elena won't leave you either. Caroline is supposed to come up with something to get them to come to California in a couple days".
Stefan shook his head, "Bonnie can help".
"Well she's not", Damon stated.
"Ok", Stefan sighed.
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The next morning, Bonnie was left in the house while Elena and Stefan went to class and Damon went wherever he goes during the day. She made her way down to the kitchen to make oatmeal. As she waited for the water to heat up, she heard the front door open and close with some annoying humming filtering into the house. She picked up her bowl of oatmeal and walked towards the living room where Miranda was in the process of laying out spell books. As she sat back and opened one with a flick of her finger, she glanced up at Bonnie in the doorway, "Bonnie…hi…I didn't know you were here…how are you?" Miranda asked.
"I'm fine, I had no idea that you dropped by when no one's home".
Miranda shrugged, "Well sometimes I come here to look through the books".
"Uh, huh…so what exactly do you do when you guys go out?" Bonnie asked sitting down in a chair facing Miranda.
"Oh you know…give those brain aneurysms, I can't be compelled…so I can learn a few things, be a mole…you know".
"No, I don't know", Bonnie replied staring at Miranda.
Miranda sighed, "Bonnie, I know that you don't like me".
"I don't know you".
"Well I am sure that you've heard about me…I came to Mystic Falls during the time you were gone and I started up a relationship with Stefan and I know that you and Elena are friends, I know that you automatically think that I am here to get in between them, but I'm not…I have no romantic feelings for Stefan".
"Good", Bonnie replied.
"And I know that you don't like the fact that I was brought here to kind of replace you…"
"I can't be replaced", Bonnie interrupted her.
Miranda nodded slowly, "Yes, I know…Bonnie…look, I know that you are a powerful witch…for as long as I could remember, I heard that the Bennetts were a powerful family of witches and believe it or not, I want to get to know you".
"I've heard a lot about the LaRues as well…I heard they had a habit of taking things that don't belong to them", Bonnie raised an eyebrow.
Miranda sighed, "Ok…fine…we don't have to be friends, but I am only trying to help…look…I…I need help with something".
"What?"
"I am looking for something and I can't seem to find them in any of my spell books, I was thinking that maybe the Bennett grimoire may have something inside of it".
"What are you looking for?"
"Something about a Mrak stone".
"Mrak stone?"
"Yes…Damon didn't tell you?"
"Tell me what?" Bonnie asked.
Miranda bit her lip, "Oh man…this is not good".
"Miranda, what is going on?" Bonnie asked standing up and crossing her arms, "what didn't Damon tell me?"
"He's going to kill me".
"Miranda…tell me what is going on".
Miranda sighed, "You cannot tell Damon or Stefan that I told you…"
"Just tell me", Bonnie stated.
Miranda took a deep breath as she began to fill Bonnie in on the Mrak stone along with The Gathering of the Darkness. When she was finished Bonnie looked at her, "I want to help", Bonnie replied.
"Oh no…but you can't, you're pregnant and Damon…"
"Damon doesn't tell me what to do, we will find out where the stone is and when the Gathering of the Darkness will occur and we will find a way to stop it", Bonnie replied.
"Thank you Bonnie, I knew that if we worked together…"
"Don't tell Damon that I am helping, if he finds out then he will get all protective boyfriend/baby daddy and I will be forced to set him on fire".
"This will stay a secret between us girls", Miranda grinned.
"For now", Bonnie remarked, "let me go get the grimoire and we can start working before Damon comes back".
"Good…thanks Bonnie!" Miranda called as Bonnie headed out of the living room as Miranda smiled widely.
That Miranda…so innocent and helpeful!
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