Nothing Changed
Chapter Eleven
The Beginning of an Ending
"Stefan?" asked Bonnie, opening the cellar door. "Please don't go crazy, but... she's... she's dead," Bonnie sobbed out. Stefan had stood up and now he was confused.
Was the baby a girl? Is that who Bonnie meant? "Katherine has the little boy..." Bonnie tried to explain, but her crying enveloping her voice. That's when it hit Stefan, and
he realized that Elena was gone and that she had given Damon a little baby boy. "Are you sure?" asked Stefan, frowning. Bonnie nodded and her cry came out as a squeal.
Stefan fell to his knees and burried his head in his hands and just started crying. Bonnie went to his aid along with Jeremy who was now bawling like babies. Stefan then
looked up and almost wanted to drop dead. He was looking at his brother's face, it was something he had never dreamed of Damon looking like. "I..., Damon I'm so sorry,"
Stefan whispered, showing that he too was defeated. Damon walked in and dropped beside his brother. "She died because of him... now it's up to us brother... to raise him,"
Damon whispered, wrapping his arm around Stefan's shoulders. Stefan nodded and both helped each other up and out of the cellar. Bonnie and Jeremy walked after not
knowing who to follow or what to do. The brothers entered the living room where Katherine sat holding a little baby boy. She looked up to see Damon and Stefan.
"She always had both of you wrapped around her finger, I used too but that all changed didn't it Damon?" Katherine asked, looking at Damon and seeing a different man.
Damon stepped closer but Katherine hugged the little boy closer to her. "I know how you can act Damon... but this is fragile, he is part of you so don't freak when you
see what he looks like," Katherine said, holding the baby out toward Damon. He reached and held the baby boy, bringing him closer while Stefan and Katherine tensed,
ready to reach out and grab the baby from Damon. But Damon's face was one of shock and then the baby's hand reached up and touched Damon's nose. The little boy
giggled and smiled at Damon. Right then his heart melted because it was Elena's smile, but the most awkard thing about the little boy was that his right eye was brown
and his left eye was blue. He had inherited one color from his mother and the other from his father. Stefan looked down at the baby and smiled. "He has her eye, but he
also has your eye. But his smile beats everything because it's Elena's smile," Stefan said, smiling. Damon nodded and everything felt normal except that Elena wasn't here
to see her little creature. "His hair will be black like his father, but his skin color will come from Elena," Katherine said. Damon nodded but he still felt a hole in his heart,
that would never be filled even by Elena and his baby. "What's his name?" asked Jeremy. Damon started to think of names but Katherine pitched in. "Elena liked the name
Apollo Raven Salvatore?" Damon looked up and frowned. "Why would she name him Apollo? Raven?" Katherine smiled and she said, "Raven came in because your magic
gave you a raven, and Apollo came when she told me that you reminded her of the sun and no matter what you did even after you left you would always be the sun in
her world. So she said, if she had a boy not to name him Damon Salvatore Jr. but to name him Apollo Raven Salvatore." Damon just stood there and then Stefan
asked, "What was she going to name her if she was a girl?" Katherine sighed and answered that too. "She wanted to name a girl after her family... Isobel was a bitch,
I used to be and can still be... but Elena herself knew that she had a side that she kept hidden. She was going to name her daughter... Artemis Helene Salvatore.
Artemis of course meaning moon goddess and Helene an ancient legend whose father was Zues and mother Leda. She was the start of the Trojan war and her name
was the origin of Elena's meaning... Light," Katherine explained. Stefan watched as Damon took it all in and he smiled. "Apollo Raven Salvatore. A.R.S, main almost
Art..." Damon chuckled and Katherine took the baby from Damon's hands. Damon quickly snatched the baby from her grasp and started rocking him slowly and softly.
It was like for that hour everything was normal and Elena wasn't dead but everyone knew that it would be calm before the storm.
Elena's funeral and graveside service had gone off without a hitch. The town was stunned into silence by Elena's sudden departure from the small town and they all really
wondered who the real father of her baby was. If it was the older blue-eyed stud brother, Damon, or the younger hazel-eyed smarter brother, Stefan, was the father?
The only way people could tell for sure was looking at the baby's face and seeing the brown eye and the blue eye. Apollo was definitly Damon's child, showing that he
would have a blue eye and dark black hair, not to mention his name Apollo Raven Salvatore. They didn't question themselves or anyone else after they saw for themselves
that the baby was Damon and Elena's own blood. Damon held Apollo so close you would have thought that he would have carried the baby boy for nine months and that
Elena had left not him. He owed Elena this to not let anything bad happen to their son and he vowed to live everyday to the fullest to never look back. But still there
was that hole in his heart that could or would never be filled because of Elena and those feelings that he stored there would slowly creep back into his body and soul and
he would rage, cry, and yell at everything and everybody when those feelings crept out again. But for now he was done with not caring for Apollo, because he owed it to,
Elena Gilbert, the girl he loved.
