So sorry about how late this is, I'm just having major trouble finding inspiration for anything Delena because of the havoc that the writers are wreaking upon that world on the show. Grr... well enjoy. And as always let me know what you think.
The next morning Elena rolled over and peered down at her sleeping boyfriend. He had one arm draped over his eyes trying to sunlight at bay. She smiled at him, loving how innocent and peaceful he looked when he was asleep. There was no tension in his expression and it made her happy. He wasn't stressing out about being a young parent or the horrible relationship with his mother. He was just a teenager. She leaned down and kissed his cheek and he stirred slightly.
"Good morning." She greeted happily when he opened one eye then the other.
"Good morning. You're in a good mood this morning." He noted as he stretched out in the large bed.
"I am. I was thinking we should make a little love before we get up and go meet Klaus and Caroline for breakfast." Elena suggested, a naughty glint in her eyes.
"Oh hell no." Damon muttered as he got out of bed faster than Elena thought was possible.
"Why not?" Elena pouted.
"I will not be responsible for poking our baby's eye out." He told her seriously.
"Oh my God, you cannot be serious right now!" Elena retorted with her eyes wide.
"I am dead serious." He told her, his voice firm and unwavering.
"So you're really not going to have sex with me again until I have the baby?" She asked, clearly terrified by the thought.
"I didn't say that, but I am not going to have sex with you again until we find out from the doctor if there is any danger." He told her resolutely before walking into his bathroom and starting the shower. Elena sighed and followed him into the
bathroom.
"Will you at least let me shower with you. You know, save time and water and all that?" She asked hopefully
"That would tempt me too much, which of course is your plan isn't it?" He asked shutting her idea down.
"I don't know what you're talking about." She said as she slowly stripped out of the shirt she put on before falling asleep last night.
"Uh huh..." He retorted disbelieving. He started walking out of the bathroom and she watched him leave with an annoyed expression on her face. "You shower, I'll just go use the bathroom down the hall."
"Jackass." Elena called after him before stepping under the hot spray of the shower. She spent longer than necessary in the shower. The water felt wonderful, possibly even better than sex could have. She really hoped that Damon would get past his fear of poking the baby's eye out sooner rather than later. According to her book, her body could possibly start wanting sex more and more from now on. The book explicitly said that you could have sex while pregnant. But Damon wouldn't listen to her. She growled lightly under the spray of the shower, much more annoyed now that he had turned her down for sex. He completely ruined her good mood and he was going to have to deal with it for the rest of the day.
When she was done showering, she got out and wrapped a towel around her chest before walking back into the bedroom. She went into his closet and opened the drawer she had in there for when she spent the night. She found a pair of jeans and a t shirt along with a bra and a pair of panties. She quickly slipped them on and left the closet finding Damon buttoning up a black shirt.
"Don't you wear any other colours?" She asked irritated.
"Are you going to be grumpy all day?" He returned.
"Probably. You could have avoided this, but of course no you had to turn me down." She muttered.
"Let's go. We're going to be late." Damon said laughing at the expression of mutiny on her face.
"There is nothing funny about this. I could spontaneously combust." She told him seriously. Damon could hear his mother and Antonio talking in the parlour. His mother was giggling at something Antonio was saying to her. When they walked through to the kitchen Damon saw Giuseppe sitting contentedly at the table with his newspaper acting as though nothing bothered him.
"Why doesn't that bother you?" Damon asked completely baffled. Damon was pretty sure if his wife was cheating on him
with Italian artist after Italian artist he would be pissed.
"I don't love your mother. I stopped loving her a long time ago." He shrugged.
"Then why are you still married to her? Don't say because of me and Stefan."Damon asked incredulously. He seriously didn't understand it.
"It's just easier to stay in the loveless marriage. We're an entity here in town and we're worth more as a union. We don't have to love each other to go to events together." Giuseppe shrugged.
"I couldn't do it. Why do you want to?" He asked.
"I don't. But I know from experience that judges most often side with the mother in custody cases. I don't want you and Stefan living her lifestyle. At least with me here you have a sense of normalcy. When you and Stefan are both eighteen then I'll consider it." Giuseppe explained not really tearing his attention away from the newspaper.
"You're a lawyer, you should be able to figure out a way to keep me and Stefan and get your divorce." Damon told him shaking his head.
"It's not worth it yet. You already are eighteen and Stefan will be in about a year. I just have to endure another year in marital hell." He said. Damon nodded and laced his fingers through Elena's.
"Alright, well we better go. Klaus and Caroline are waiting for us." Damon told him as they turned and walked out the front door.
The drive to the Mystic Grill was silent and uneventful. Damon could see the wheels turning in Elena's mind, and he knew he was trying to figure out a way to make him give in to her demands. He knew he would have to be stronger than she was, and he knew he could do it. He knew he had to, he wouldn't risk hurting his baby because of Elena's sexual desires. When he parked the car they walked inside, Elena drawing shapes on the back of his hand with her thumb.
"Well there you guys are! I was beginning to think we'd have to come over and get you out of bed." Klaus called when they walked in.
"We were not having sex." Damon alerted him as he sat down.
"We weren't especially since Damon refuses to touch me again until we go to the doctor." Elena muttered annoyed. Klaus and Caroline looked between them curiously.
"So, you're not having sex at all?" Klaus asked disbelieving.
"Not until her appointment. I refuse to poke my kids eye out with my dick." He stated. Klaus and Caroline didn't respond, they just sat there thinking about what he said while Elena glared at him. When the waiter came by they gave him their order and talked about anything other than Elena and Damon's sex life until their food arrived. The group ate their food quickly trying to get away from the awkward feeling of the table. Elena dropped her hand causally onto his thigh and he glowered at her
"Stop that." He told her as her fingers inched closer to his groin. She looked at him innocently, and he glared at her taking her hand from his thigh and placing it back on her own side.
"Well this has been fun as always." Klaus said when they finished eating and they all paid their bills.
"It was something for sure." Damon laughed Klaus escorted Caroline out to his car.
"Whoa, did you guys come here together?" Elena asked her eyes widening comically.
"Yeah." Caroline answered blushing.
"Holy crap, that was practically a date." Elena cheered as she got into the passenger seat of Damon's car. Caroline shrugged in response and got into Klaus's.
Damon drove Elena home and dropped her off while she glowered at him.
"I love you." He told her.
"I love you too." She said before he drove away. When she walked into the house her parents had suitcases sitting by the
door.
"Going somewhere?" She asked them when she found them sitting at the table.
"Yes, your father as a medical conference in Atlanta and I'm going with him." Miranda told her daughter smiling at her.
"So it'll just be me and Jeremy here until you get back?" She asked.
"We'll be back on Tuesday, and we've decided to let you ask Damon to come spend it with you. Jeremy doesn't drive so we want someone here with you who drives in case something goes wrong while we're gone." Miranda told her.
"Really? Thank you mom." Elena cheered.
"I thought you'd like that. Just try to keep the funny business to a minimum. Your dad is not liking this idea and I assured him you're already pregnant so there's nothing else that can really happen." Elena told her.
"I like that a lot." Elena said the ideas formulating in her mind.
"But we were just waiting for you to come home. We have to go, we want to get there before too late. The conference starts tomorrow." Miranda told her standing up. Elena nodded and hugged her mom quickly and then her dad. When her parents were gone she quickly called Damon and asked him to come over. He readily agreed and she grinned at how easy that was. Now all she had to do was seduce him and then her whole plan would come together.
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After Damon got off the phone with Elena he rushed around his room trying to pick up things to distract her with until Tuesday. He found a backpack and loaded it with movies and board games. When he figured he had enough distractions he left the room and ran into Stefan.
"Where are you going?" He asked.
"Elena's until Tuesday." He told him.
"Right." Stefan muttered before Damon walked past him and down the stairs. He said goodbye to his dad and got into the car making the familiar drive to Elena's. When he got there she threw open the door and leaped into his arms.
"I'm so happy you're here." She cheered hugging him tight.
"Nothing has changed Elena. I'm still not having sex with you." He warned her as he walked into her house.
"Oh but you will. I'm dying for it already." She told him kissing him.
"No I won't." He assured her. She sighed and he opened up the backpack procuring several board games and movies.
"Are you serious?" She asked looking at the pile of things he brought.
"Distractions." He shrugged.
"Damon..." She pleaded.
"Nope." He shook his head.
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"Look I know you're mad at me. But it's for the baby's own good." Damon tried when they walked into the house after school Monday afternoon.
"I'm not mad. I'm frustrated. Nothing is going to happen if we have sex. Nothing at all. The baby is very well protected in there." Elena argued.
"I'm sorry, but it's for your own good." Damon insisted.
"When I have been lying awake at night because I'm so frustrated sexually, I've been researching this whole thing. It's not dangerous to have sex, we just have to take it a little bit easier than we would normally have to. There is no way you can push through to the baby, it has a really tough shell around it." Elena explained.
"Yeah, I've done my research too." Damon admitted.
"So what is the problem?" She screeched running her hands through her hair in an agitated manner.
"I read that you can go into false or real labour by having sex." He told her crossing his arms.
"Which is not going to happen. Sex helps bring on labour in the advanced stages of pregnancy. It's not going to do anything to me at three months pregnant." Elena tried to convince him.
"I don't even want to go there. We can do other things, but I refuse to have sex with you." He told her.
"Oh my God." Elena hissed and stomped away from him up the stairs to her bedroom where she slammed the door. Damon shook his head and walked into the living room where he sat down on the couch and turned on the TV. There was no point in even trying to talk to her right now, she was far too unreasonable for that.
Jeremy walked in the front door a few minutes later whistling with his arm around Bonnie.
"Is Elena not home?" Jeremy asked confused when he saw Damon sitting on the couch by himself.
"Oh she's here. She's pissed off, but she's here." Damon said settling for a movie on TV that he didn't know.
"Why is she mad?" Bonnie asked concerned for her friend.
"I refuse to have sex with her, is the basis of our fight." Damon told them.
"Well... good for you. Why?" Jeremy asked unsure of how to broach that subject.
"I've heard it can bring on early labour. I don't want to risk anything." He told them.
"I don't think it works quite like that Damon. Most couples continue to have sex while pregnant. That's quite a long dry spell if you don't. I've heard that it helps bring on labour when that time comes, but I highly doubt it's going to start labour when she's as far along as she is." Bonnie tried explaining.
"Doesn't matter. I'm doing this right. I don't want anything to go wrong."Damon said denying once again.
"Well I'm going to go and see what she's doing. I'll be back in a few minutes." Bonnie decided walking towards the stairs.
"This must be the most awkward fight you two have ever had." Jeremy noted as he sat down on the couch with Damon.
"Yeah, but I'm not giving in. I'm not wrong in this situation. Our next appointment, I'll ask the doctor, but until then I will be completely celibate." He stated firmly.
"Are you watching that?" Jeremy asked.
"Not really." Damon shrugged.
"Do you want to play a video game?" He asked.
"Sure." Damon shrugged again as Jeremy got up and put a game into the system and brought the controllers over.
"So you're really not having sex?" Bonnie asked when she was seated beside Elena on the bed.
"Evidently not. I just don't understand why he can't be like any other guy. Why did I have to find the one that is so decent that he's worried everything will hurt the baby. You know, he didn't even let me carry my own backpack into the house this afternoon? He said I carried it around all day it's time to give my back a rest." She ranted.
"He really is a decent guy." Bonnie told her smiling.
"I know. I just wish that once in a while he would not be that decent. I want to be able to have sex, and he won't let us." Elena whined.
"But if he wasn't decent then he wouldn't be the guy you're in love with." Bonnie told her.
"I know. I just wish he would let this go. I don't want to have to wait six weeks so we can ask my doctor." Elena sighed, her face dropping.
"Well I'm sure there are other things the two of you can do while you're waiting." Bonnie said smiling.
"Not really. Nothing as pleasurable as sex." Elena complained.
"Go out and do more things. Make him take you mini golfing. I know you enjoy that. Take him shopping, go to Richmond for the day and do some shopping. Go to movies and out for dinner. Spend the next six weeks doing typical teenager things and then you can go back to having sex then." Bonnie suggested.
"Teenagers have sex. But I won't be." Elena sniffled.
"It's only six weeks Lena. You'll be fine, just distract yourself." Bonnie told her reassuringly.
"I was such a bitch to him." Elena noted the more she thought of it.
"You're hormonal." Bonnie told her.
"I should be happy he's so worried about us." Elena said rubbing her belly.
"You should be. You could go down there and apologize. Bonnie hinted. Elena nodded her head and opened her arms to hug her other best friend.
"I don't know what I'd do without you. You're better at this than Caroline is." Elena whispered.
"Someone's got to be the calm one." Bonnie laughed.
"That's true. And of course it's you." Elena joined in.
"Let's go downstairs. I'm pretty sure our boyfriends are playing video games. If we want their attention we had better go." Bonnie suggested, hearing the game sounds from downstairs. Elena smiled and got off of her bed following her friend out of the room.
When they got downstairs, they found the guys sitting on the couch playing "Halo." Damon was laughing as he drove around on a vehicle and shooting people.
"Damn it, you killed me again." Jeremy shouted as he waited for his man to come back to life. Elena and Bonnie sat down on the couch beside the guys as Damon whooped in victory.
"I kicked your ass." Damon cheered as they immediately started up another game. Neither guy had taken notice of their girlfriends reappearance and the girls laughed. It was such a guy thing to do, to focus more on the games than their girlfriends sitting beside them. Elena got up and walked into the kitchen grabbing a bottle of root beer from the fridge, filling up four glasses. Once she was done she took them out to the living room and handed them out.
"Thank you." Damon said. Elena nodded and smiled at him before taking a drink out of her glass. When Damon killed Jeremy again, they put their controllers down and Damon turned to Elena.
"Still pissed?" He asked.
"Not really. I guess I should be happy you're so protective." Elena said shrugging slightly.
"I don't enjoy turning you down for sex. If you want it, so do I. Believe me." He told her.
"I understand that." She said laughing, her cheeks had turned red and she was embarrassed by the nature of the conversation they were having in front of her brother.
"Look, I promise when we go back to the doctor, I'll ask if it's safe. If the doctor says yes, then I promise I'll drop all of this. Just try to contain yourself for six weeks." He asked her, knowing that it was going to be harder than it looked. Damon knew it would be just as hard for him as it would be for her. He loved being with her like that and it wasn't going to happen for a few weeks now.
"Alright. You know I could call her and book us an earlier appointment, maybe." Elena told him.
"Let's see if we can do it first. There are so many other ways we can pass the time." Damon told her pondering the things they could do.
"I know. You'll have to keep me busy enough that I won't even think about sex." She ordered him with a smile on her face.
"I've definitely got my work cut out for me then." He decided as he leaned back into the couch and casually put his arm around her shoulders pulling her close into his side.