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Chapter 13

Damon felt nervous as he pulled up in front of Mystic High, he tapped his fingers on the steering wheel of the Camaro, today was the first time they would see their baby. He glanced at the clock on the dashboard, 3:25. 'five minutes, Jesus I wish she would hurry up.' He thought to himself as he took out a piece of gum from his pocket. Lately he had cravings to have something in his mouth, he didn't know if it was stress or that part of him missed his fangs. In any case he chewed the gum in a rhythmic pattern, trying hard to take his mind off the events of the day.

Finally, Elena came out of the school and headed to his car.

"Hey Babe, how was your day?" She said as she got into the passenger side of the baby blue car.

Damon bit his lip, "It was eventful." He said putting his sunglasses on and starting up the engine.

"Damon, what's wrong?" Elena asked seriously.

"Well, we kind of hit a snag getting Stef all comfortable today." He said smacking the gum in his mouth.

"What sort of snag?" Elena questioned her tone getting harsh.

"How about we talk about it after the appointment?" he replied, not taking his eyes off the road.

"Damon, you know I wont be able to not think about it. Please just tell me what happened?" Elena said panicked.

"Right well, um you can't get upset, its not good for the baby." He sighed.

"Damon! Just tell me already." Elena almost yelled.

"Alright, Alright. Well when we were getting Stef all contained, he sort of threw me into a wall, I was bleeding pretty bad and blondie got a little out of hand, she um, well we went upstairs for some blood. I guess we didn't have any left, because when Zach got home, him and I got into a fight, and the blood… it was too much for Caroline." Damon took a deep breath in.

"What happened Damon, is Caroline okay?" Elena said her blood running cold.

"Caroline is fine, Zach on the other hand…. Zach is dead." Damon bit into his lip hard, he could taste blood.

"Oh.. oh my god… Care? She…" Elena could hardly finish her sentence, "Damon pull over," she said holding her mouth in her hands.

"Woah! No your not puking in my car." He panicked, pulling the car to the side of the road, quickly rushing to her aid.

Elena rushed out of the car, she felt the entire contents of her stomach erupting, her best friend was a killer.

"Baby, calm down your going to be okay, its going to be okay." Damon said gently rubbing her back.

"Its not okay, none of this is okay! Caroline must be feeling, I can't even imagine what she would be feeling." Elena said tears streaming down her face.

"She will be feeling guilt, fear, sadness. But she will get over it, its who she is now. We just have to be there for her, Elena she wont always be like this I promise." He said pulling her close into his arms.

Elena cried, "How can you be so sure?"

"Because Lexi is with her, and if anyone can help her Lex can." He said helping her back into the car. "Now come on we have an appointment to get to, right?" he smiled sadly.

"Yeah, your right we do." She said trying hard to pull herself together.

The hospital was quiet as they walked into the waiting room. Elena went to the desk.

"Gilbert, I am here to see Dr. Josette?" Elena said looking at the card Jenna had handed her that morning.

"Oh yes, please take a seat Miss Gilbert," the receptionist said directing her to the waiting area.

Damon followed behind her awkwardly, even though he was human now he still hated hospitals.

The wait was very short, "Miss Gilbert?" a nurse called to her. Elena got up quickly, Damon followed behind. The nurse looked questionably at him, Elena piped up, "He's with me." The nursed nodded and directed them into an exam room.

"The doctor will be with you shortly, please change into this gown." The nurse said handing Elena a very distasteful hospital gown.

Elena nodded as the nurse walked out. She sighed as she proceeded to undress. Damon couldn't help but watch his girlfriend removing her clothes, his mind wandering.

"Damon!" Elena squealed as she noticed his eyes staring at her bare form.

"Sorry, its just you look so sexy." He whispered, trying to concentrate on the medical diagrams on the wall.

Elena blushed, "Okay, but still were in a hospital room…" she groaned as she pulled the gown over her head.

The door opened moments later, "Miss Gilbert, good afternoon, I am Doctor Josette Laughlin." The doctor said staring at her clip board.

"Oh good afternoon, Dr. Laughlin!" Elena smiled, this was the same doctor Damon had days prior.

"Oh! Miss Gilbert hello, I am sorry I didn't recongize you at first. Mr. Salvatore you look much better! What on earth happened to your cast?" the Doctor was confused.

"Well, um Dr. you know Alaric Saltzman, therefore you know that this visit is far from normal." Damon stated bluntly.

"Oh! In that case." The doctor chanted in a forgien lauguage quietly and a wall of magic enrobed the room.

"I just thought the room should be sound proof for this appointment." Josette stated.

"Thank you." Elena sighed.

"Alright, if you know Ric, then this is something supernatural, and by looking at how your arm is magically healed, I would say it has something to do with vampires?" Josette responded.

"You would be correct. A month ago we found out that Elena was part of a 1000 year old curse, so to protect her, a witch did a spell to bind my life to Elena's. At that time, I was a vampire." Damon said, scratching at his head.

"You were a vampire a month ago? But when you came in last week, you are completely human?!" Josette was surprised.

"The spell that was preformed, some how it mixed Elena and my DNA or whatever, it made me half human and her half vampire. But then well we had sex, I am not going to beat around the bush. Vampires can't procreate, so well I didn't think that we needed to you know…" Damon blushed slightly, he felt like a foolish school boy.

"No that makes sense, you wouldn't think that it would be important to have safe sex…" Josette commented.

"Anyway, before this ritual thing began, to break this 1000 year old curse, I heard a heart beat, and not Elena's, but a baby's." Damon sighed.

"So that's why we are here today." Elena finally spoke.

"You're telling me that you are carrying a baby that is half human, half vampire?" Josette was confused.

"No, we don't know what he is, that's why we are here." Elena stated.

"He?" Josette was perplexed.

"He came to me in a dream," Elena blushed.

"I see, well lets get the exam started," Josette said as she moved over to Elena's stomach placing her hands over it like Grams had done.

"Oh my god." Josette pulled back.

"What!?" Damon and Elena said their eyes wide with fear.