Hey guys, my little holiday has ended up with a power cut so I'm writing but in a hotel to get power. Might not be able to upload for the next week if the weather continues to pound my caravan;-( However I will be writing. Enjoy!

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Chapter 12 TH

Stefan awoke to the happy gurgling sounds of Vida. She was chattering almost, making sounds that sounded like letters. He opened his eyes in surprise and saw Damon's peaceful face asleep beside him. He smiled and stretched. God they must look terrible. They were both dirty from having been on the floor and covered in dried in blood where they had fought and had bitten each other. Still…it was hot and had been totally worth it.

He checked his entrance, pleased to find it didn't hurt and he sat up, checking the rest of his body. Other than badly being in need of a shower, he was ok. Vida continued to make sounds, as though she was having a conversation with someone and he slowly rose from the bed and went to her. He looked down into her bassinet and she gazed up at him and made a delighted squeal, raising her hands towards him.

"Sssssh angel. Daddy's asleep." He cooed and she giggled and sucked her foot, staring at him as she drooled around it.

He looked back to Damon. He was still sound. He lifted Vida up, shushing her and cradling her. His body was filthy though and he didn't want her soiled by the evidence of lovemaking. He chewed his lip. Reality had to hit home some time. He shook his head sadly. He had to waken him so they could get back to their lodge and wash.

Vida gurgled and sucked her fingers and he moved to the bed and lay her beside Damon. She rolled onto her side to face Damon and he gaped in surprise. She'd never done that before. She touched Damon's face with a saliva soaked hand and Damon opened his eyes and exhaled. She giggled and he blinked, reaching for her.

He looked up and saw Stefan beaming at him, watching and he gave an unsure smile.

What's wrong?

Nothing, just enjoying watching you be daddy.

Stefan gave a chuckle and Damon smirked at Vida and raised an eyebrow. Good, he was definitely back to himself then. Smirking like an ass meant that without a doubt.

Vida squealed and he tickled her belly as Stefan sat down beside them.

"Do you have any more milk left to feed her? I think it's made her stronger. She rolled onto her side intentionally." Stefan asked and Damon paused, mid tickle as he seemed to recollect his new ability.

Anxiety.

"Hey." Stefan leaned over and squeezed his shoulder. "You're body is amazing."

Damon gave a weak smile and chewed his lip as Vida began to babble baby talk at him as though she was telling him a story. Damon frowned amazed as he realised she was actually trying to mimic speech. Stefan chuckled.

"She seems…more alert. It must have been the milk. Her little brain was working while she slept." Stefan commented and Damon stroked Vida's head as he considered that. "Do you have any more?"

"Stefan." Damon sighed wearily and shook his head embarrassed.

"Damon, you gave her what she needed. What we needed."

"I'm not a woman." Damon clenched his jaw mortified and Stefan sighed.

"Neither am I and I grew her." Stefan consoled and squeezed Damon's arm again. "You've just spent days trying to breed me because you can and I'm still me."

"It's not the same." Damon grunted, scratching his chest in memory and Vida gazed at his chest as he did so. "This is creepy Stefan."

"You feed me from your neck. You feed her too. Already we live off of your blood. So what if you have milk too?"

Damon sat up huffily and turned away from them both, rubbing his eyes. Stefan looked down at Vida, giving him some time to process. Vida rolled onto her stomach and struggled. She might be stronger but she couldn't quite support herself yet.

Damon touched his chest, feeling the texture around his pecs – expecting to feel a change. Now that he was thinking clearly he began to feel fear at the prospect that he might grow breasts. He didn't think he could cope with a mutation like that. For the most part, Stefan's transformation was invisible on the outside. What was going to happen to him?

Stefan felt fear vibrate from him and lifted Vida, who was now fussing because she couldn't raise herself on her hands yet. He positioned himself behind Damon and kissed the nape of his neck as he patted Vida on his shoulder.

Everything that changes us, changes us together – just like always. Your body can only do it because I needed it to. Because she needed it.

Vida fussed unhappily and Damon turned to take her from him, nervously. He held her out to look at her face and she gazed at him expectantly.

What the fuck am I going to do?

Damon fretted and Stefan cooed behind him and slid his arm around his stomach.

"It's an amazing gift for her." Stefan whispered and Damon swallowed bile and held her against his chest.

It didn't feel as natural as it had been over the last few days so now his movements with her were clumsy and unsure. She panted excited and it helped him feel a little better. At least Stefan was behind him and not watching. He drew in a deep breath and tilted her into his nipple. She latched on and watched him as she suckled.

There, you see how much she wants it? Only you can give her this, my black haired one.

Damon tensed a little as she squirmed and released his nipple again, fussing. He frowned.

"What's wrong angel?" Stefan asked from over his shoulder and she turned her head away and squirmed again.

Damon looked down at his nipples. They'd leaked before. They didn't seem to be now. He touched one after the other and felt nothing emerge. Huh?

Vida wriggled and cried, wanting to move around freely and Stefan slid out from behind him and took her, swooshing her around like an aeroplane, as Damon inspected himself. Stefan looked back at him after she had begun to giggle again.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing. There's nothing." Damon looked at him perplexed. "There's no milk…anymore."

"It's all gone? She drank it all?" Stefan asked and Damon chewed his lip and shrugged. "Maybe it was just for the heat, until it was over. When your brain was all animal thoughts, you said it was so she'd sleep as we mated."

Damon rubbed his eyes again and looked around for clothing.

"More animal crap." He mumbled.

"Good animal crap this time." Stefan reminded and Damon huffed at him in disagreement and shook his head, standing up.

"If you wanna call almost raping you because I had a wolf hard on, getting drugged…"

"This isn't going to ever happen again Damon. I promise."

"You can't know that Stefan. Clearly as a wolf I'm an ever bigger Jackass than when I'm a vampire." Damon found his jeans and threw them on.

"You had a mania – just like Klaus said. That's what this was." Stefan huffed at him annoyed by his mood already.

"More shit to look forward to."

"Hey. Look at me." Stefan commanded and Damon hung his head and sighed in defeat. "This happened because we didn't have full sex, because I wouldn't let you release properly. It's my fault your brain resorted to a rut."

Damon turned to look at him, his eyes wide in surprise. Stefan swallowed and blushed.

"So if you're going to blame someone, blame me ok? If I hadn't been so busy worrying about myself this wouldn't have happened."

Damon's head spun. He didn't know what to say. Stefan lay Vida onto the bed safely and began to dress now too as Damon watched him in silence.

"You did it for her Stefan." Damon finally said and Stefan looked to him, full of emotion.

"Mostly, but… a lot of it was for me." Stefan admitted. "I didn't want to feel like you had power over me, that my body had power over me – just like always. I always have this thing inside me that controls me." He shook his head, too exhausted to explain his reasoning.

Damon sighed in understanding. Stefan had always been beholden to something – whether it be the crippling empathy he endured as a human that made him suffer so much when others were in pain, the bloodlust that came with being a vampire ripper or the new urges of needing to be bred, to be filled by a mate.

"We're both eternally cursed Stefan." Damon mused on his new transformation with unease.

Stefan gave him a small smile and sent thoughts of love along their connection.

"We're cursed together though." Stefan said and Damon exhaled, scratching his head and nodded a little.

Vida rolled over on the bed as they dressed and giggled happily as she tested her new muscles and Damon's mood finally lightened as he watched her. He scooped her up and scented her face and she wriggled.

"You need a bath stinky lady." He scrunched up his nose. "Dried milk smells nasty!"

Stefan chuckled and put his shoes on. He should channel to Nathan to let him know they were ok and that they would be returning to the camp. He centred his mind and pulled on their connection as Damon whispered to Vida and swung her around.

Nathan, it's over. We are good. Coming back now.

He waited for a few moments, unsure how Damon would feel about Nathan's involvement. Damon didn't seem to have remembered all of what had happened while he was manic. Almost killing the others wolves was going to be a hard pill to swallow.

We know.

Nathan channelled and Stefan could sense an element of humour in his response that he didn't understand. He frowned for a second and then shook his head nonchalantly as Damon turned to him.

"Ready?" He asked and Damon nodded.

Damon went out first, holding Vida and talking to her as Stefan stepped out and looked around. He'd almost expected some kind of ambush to check Vida was still alive, but no one was around. They walked together side by side back towards the camp. There weren't many people around which was unusual. Damon kept glancing around nervously. Did he remember how he had hurt the wolves?

Finally they reached their lodge and Stefan looked around again for people. No one. Had everyone left? He gulped nervously. He didn't want that. He didn't want them to be afraid of them. He liked all of them, they were part of this community…if it would continue to have them here after everything. Stefan had said that when he got Damon under control, he'd take him away. Strange that the more he thought on that, the most his chest tightened. He didn't want to leave yet. Now that he'd started to feel a little more like a wolf, he was ready to learn – fully and truly unlike before. He'd listen to them now.

Damon kissed the top Vida's head and inhaled her scent, almost as though he was preparing himself for something traumatic. Stefan opened the door to their lodge and halted in shock. The whole place had been kitted out with candles. He looked around in surprise and Damon pushed him inside to get past and stopped too. Someone had been here and they'd cleaned the whole place up, made it romantic. Why? After everything that they'd put this pack through…why would they do this?

They looked at each other and then Damon spotted a card lying face up on the fireplace mantle. He went over to it, slinging Vida onto one hip and opening the card between his fingers. Stefan closed the door and sniffed to detect who had done this. There were several different scents. He looked to Damon, now reading the card.

What does it say?

Damon looked to him.

"Welcome to the pack." He said sounding perplexed.

Stefan went over and took the card from him, reading it again and shrugging.

"Why now? After all of this?" Stefan asked and Damon shrugged too.

They sat the card back down and went into the bedroom. There were rose petals on their bed. Stefan huffed in amusement and went through to run them a bath. Damon sat Vida on the changing mat on the bed and undressed her as she fidgeted.

"You're all stinky. Stinky lady Salvatore." He joked with her and she drooled and shouted out a few mimicked letters at him as though she was protesting.

We should bath her first.

Damon channelled as he smelled Stefan pour in essential oils.

She'll be ok. Just Neroli and Mandarin.

"Hmmmn." Damon grunted unsure.

Stefan came back through, chuckling at Damon's over protectiveness and took her, indicating to Damon to undress and get into the tub.

"What about her?" Damon argued.

"We'll all get in together."

"Huh?" Damon frowned.

"Just go, daddy danger." Stefan laughed.

And so all three ended up in the tub, much to Damon's amusement. Thankfully the tub was large and Vida loved being the centre of attention. They washed her together and played until she fussed, hungrily. Damon's milk was gone – well and truly, despite him trying once more, so Stefan fed her from his neck. They cleaned themselves one at a time, passing her around until they felt more human and then got out together.

Damon dried lady impossible and lay her on her mat to dress her in a baby grow, while Stefan kissed his neck and dried him from behind. Damon was half way through buttoning her clothes when he paused in thought.

What?

Stefan kissed his ear lobe and into his neck and Damon channelled a hint of excitement and anxiety. He turned to face him, lifting Vida again and patting her back as she began to gurgle sounds again.

"What?" Stefan repeated.

"Stefan, I bred you."

The blood left Stefan's face as he realised. He could be pregnant again. How could he have forgotten that? Damon chewed his lip unsure.

"It wasn't a real heat." Stefan mumbled in vain hope and Damon looked at him unsure.

"You were fertile. I knew you were and I gave you everything I had."

Stefan gave a nod and placed a hand to his stomach.

"We need to check." Damon licked his lips and Stefan nodded. "Let's put her down for a bit.

Stefan sat down on the end of the bed and watched as Damon lay Vida down in her bassinet. Vida kicked her arms and legs about as he did so, unwilling to sleep.

"Sleep angel." Damon cooed. "Just for a little while." He promised and she stared up at him. "Sleeeep."

"Are you compelling our baby?" Stefan asked after a minute and Damon glared at him in disbelief.

Damon leaned down and kissed Vida between her eyes and her eyelids drooped a little.

Sleeep baby.

He channelled at her and she frowned but closed her eyes after a few seconds. Damon stood back up marvelling at her. He moved away after a minute and stood before Stefan. Stefan looked anxious and afraid. His eyes huge.

"You don't want any more." Damon said softly and Stefan stared up at him, searching his eyes.

"No."

Damon seemed a little pained for a second and then straightened his face.

"You do?" Stefan asked.

"No, I…no." Damon stumbled and shook his head. "It's just hormones I guess. Animal crap."

Stefan nodded but didn't believe him.

Lay back little blood machine.

Damon's eyes were gentle and Stefan lay back on the bed, trying not to clench his fists in anticipation. Damon kissed his chest and moved down slowly to his abdomen. Stefan held his breath. Damon sniffed there for a few seconds, moving around as Stefan counted every beat of his pounding heart.

"Anything?" Stefan asked breathlessly.

"Hmmn." Damon said non-committal.

Need to check inside you.

Stefan opened his legs and brought his knees up to expose his entrance and Damon climbed between his thighs, tipping his head to sniff and lick there. Stefan couldn't help but hum and release fluid at the soft, gentle licking there. He shook his head and smiled at how insatiable they'd both become. They'd just had two bouts of heat driven sex for days on end and yet as Damon licked, he wanted him again. Damon wasn't ignorant to his desire either, as he teasingly inserted his tongue inside the widening entrance and gripped Stefan's legs wider apart.

Stefan began to pant and squirm, releasing more fluid and making Damon search deeper with his tongue.

"Uhhh! Damon you're going to have to…" he mewled and Damon stopped and pulled back to look at his face.

"Can't get enough of me huh?" He quirked and Stefan smiled.

"Well?" Stefan asked after a second to calm his body down and Damon sighed and looked to Stefan's abdomen. "Are we…is there..?"

"Empty." Damon said, still looking at his abdomen.

"We're not pregnant again?"

Damon gave a sad shake of his head and Stefan actually felt a little guilty and bad for him. Guess the urge to breed still took a while to dissipate after a heat. Damon looked as though he hadn't done his job properly.

"Hey. This last heat wasn't a real one. It was to end your rut." Stefan reminded. "I released eggs to entice you but I guess they weren't ready."

Damon nodded and gave an unconvincing smile.

"Hey." Stefan beckoned him on top of him and ran his fingers through his hair, holding his face close to his own. "You were incredible. You got in so deep, I thought you'd never get back out again."

Damon gave a small smile.

"You fucked me left, right and sideways. You filled me up so much I thought it wasn't possible for me to keep anymore inside. I could feel it." Stefan reassured.

Damon searched his eyes.

"You rocked my world." Stefan smirked and Damon did too, leaning down to kiss him deeply.

Nothing wrong with you in that area my black haired one.

Damon grew a little more confident as they kissed and took over, sliding his hands under Stefan's back and tilting him so that he could slide inside of him. Stefan chuckled into his mouth and trembled at being penetrated. Damon was unusually slow.

Want to make love, not for breeding.

Damon channelled and stroked over Stefan's skin, letting his fingers caress over every muscle in his chest. Stefan slipped his arms around Damon's back and lightly scratched there, enjoying how much Damon shivered when he did so. Damon slid in and out slowly, taking his time and thrusting carefully to make Stefan whimper in pleasure. It was almost virginal – the care he was taking. Stefan's fluid released in floods as he breathed and flushed, tilting up into Damon's sucking to his nipples and relaxing his whole body.

Damon changed his angle slightly, raising himself a little so that he could get inside deeper and Stefan gasped and kissed his mouth sloppily in encouragement. Damon picked up the pace a little, groaning in desire when he smelled the roses at Stefan's neck fill the room. He pulled back and pulled Stefan's pelvis onto his lap, keeping them attached while he did so. He continued to thrust upwards, deep inside and Stefan held onto the headboard as Damon took a hold of Stefan's erection and began to pump it too. Stefan flushed and panted, watching every movement. Damon stared into his eyes as he worked him and worked his own body into Stefan's.

After a few minutes, the bedclothes were slick with Stefan's fluid and Damon began to thrust and slam harder into him. Stefan opened his mouth to breathe and spread his legs even wider. Damon squeezed his manhood and held it tight as he thrust in quicker and climaxed inside with a shout. Stefan closed his eyes as he felt Damon's seed spill into him. He grinned and looked down at Damon again. Damon panted, red faced and then grinned sexily at him as he began his assault on Stefan's manhood again. Now that his attention was fully on Stefan, he worked his magic, using both hands. He pulled and squeezed, massaged and licked the tip, all the while staying inside of him and Stefan began to lose his mind, grasping at the bedclothes and writhing.

Let go, little blood machine.

Stefan arched and yelled out in ecstasy as he climaxed floods of seed, all of over Damon's hands and Damon milked him until he cried out again and ripped the sheet under him. Damon thrusted a few more times, slowly and softly as Stefan tried to breathe and Stefan felt his milking begin inside. He looked down at Damon in amazement.

Damon began to move again, holding Stefan's thighs tight as he gave the last of his energy into the movement. Stefan's milking began, making Stefan climax from his manhood again in a scream and Damon was caught inside for a few minutes as every bit of seed left in him was taken. Damon lay his face into Stefan's abdomen as he recovered and Stefan ran his fingers through his hair.

Sex with you never gets old. Why did you cum first before the milking?

I wanted to see if I could make you cum a few more times.

Stefan laughed.

It worked.

I got that from your screaming.

Damon chuckled against his skin.

Need to wash again now.

I left the bath in.

Good.

Stefan nodded.

What about her?

She'll be fine.

Angel baby.

The only one.

Stefan smiled in relief. No more babies. They'd just have to be carefully never to set a rut off again.

They slept for ten minutes and then had the remainder of their bath together, kissing and scenting each other. It was time to face the real world now. They should get dressed and go and see Nisha. Let her see that Vida was ok and thank them for everything they'd done.

They dressed in fresh, clean clothes and felt better for it. Vida awoke, grumpy but happy that they were both playful. They grabbed a few of her toys and play mat under their arms and went across to chap Nisha's door. She opened the door, beaming at Vida and welcomed them in. Stefan handed Vida to her as she cooed and Damon froze suddenly. He looked to him in concern and Damon blurred across the room to where Nathan was standing, pinning him against the wall and growling.

"You nearly shot me, you little bastard!"