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Chapter 14
Guest

"Hello Elena." a voice came from the darkness that made her jump. A figure emerged.

"Damon?" she asked surprised.

"Yes, and may I say, your children are lovely little creatures. Very rambunctious for being so young though. Especially the boy."

"You went near my babies." Elena said, getting angry. Stefan got up and took her shoulders.

"I found him in their room this morning before you were up. Thankfully he didn't hurt them." Stefan said. Elena hands balled into tight fists and she locker her jaw.

"Hmm, touchy." Damon said.

"You could have hurt then." Elena said, the only thing keeping her from going mad was Stefan's hands on her.

"But I didn't. " he said, making it seem as though it was the most normal thing in the world for him to break into a house and do God knows what with babies.

"How did you get in here anyway?" she asked.

"Well, since I was invited in here so many times I figured I might as well come say hi to my niece and nephew." Damon said, walking around, but still looking at them.

"I would have appreciated it mire if you had knocked."

"But what's the fun in that?" he asked. Elena didn't even want to dignify that with a reply.

"I think it would be best if you left now, Damon." Stefan said, holding Elena closer.

"OK, but I'll be back." Damon smirked and left. Elena ducked out of Stefan's arms and ran to her children's room. She saw them sleeping in their cribs peacefully but then saw everything around them and almost screamed. It looked like a scene from a murder movie. There was blood on the walls and two dead bodies in the corner. She started hyperventilating and Stefan came running and gasped.

"This wasn't here before." he said quietly. Elena ran in, ignoring the squish of the blood under foot and grabbed her children and went out quickly. She put blanked down on the floor and pillows around it and set them down carefully before going back to Stefan.

"What do we do?" Elena asked, not looking into the room.

"Clean and then dispose of the bodies before anything happens." Stefan said, walking to the corner where the dead were laying. He picked them up carefully and walked out of the room, past Elena nd out the back door. He was back a few minutes later.

" 'Kay, now we need to clean." he said.

"Do we have the stuff?"

"No."

"First family outing!" Elena said excitedly. Stefan laughed and walked to the bedroom to change his now bloody clothes. Elena walked over and scooped up the twins and then followed him. She set them on the bed and watched them as she dressed and put her hair into a high pony tail before taking them again and walking them to the car. She buckled them into the car seats and then walked to the front seat. Stefan was out seconds later and got into the car. He turned it on and pulled out of the driveway.

"Wait!" Elena said Stefan hit the breaks and the car lurched to a stop. One of the babies began to wail in the back.

"What?" he asked.

"I for got the strollers." she said.

"No, they're in the back." he said.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I put them there before you were up." he said.

"Well, hold on for a second." Elena said. getting out. She checked the trunk, they were there, then went to get the wailing Ricky. She took him up to the front with her and Stefan started pulling out again. Elena rocked him gently for probably ten minutes but he didn't quiet like he normally did, which either meant he was hungry or dirty.

"Oh Ricky, what's wrong." She said desperately trying to adjust him to check him. He was clean. She put him to her chest so he could feed. She looked down at him, thankful she was right and then look out the window. It was a cool Virgina morning, but it was still a blue sunny sky. There wasn't too much wind, so it was nice and calm.

"Everything alright?" Stefan asked.

"Yep!" she smiled, at him. He pulled into the parking lot of Wal-Mart and Elena got situated and got out carefully. Stefan had the double wide stroller set up and Elena set Ricky in one seat before getting Erica and placing her in the other. She pushed the stroller through the parking lot and into the store. A group of old ladies came up and bent arounf the stroller.

"They're precious!" one said to Elena and Stefan quietly. The other murmured their agreement.

"Thank you." Elena beamed.

"How old are they?"

"Three days old." Elena said.

"And you look so refreshed! I would have guessed at least two weeks."

"Thank you." Elena smiled, again.

"Well, we'll let you get on your way, hve a good day." the lady smiled and walked off with her friends.

"That was odd." Elena whispered.

"Not really, I mean, you have to admit, our kids are adorable." Stefan said. Elena nodded and moved to the aisle where they had the cleaning things. She handed everything they needed to Stefan, who put it in a basket. Once they had enough they went to check out and Stefan took the bags out to the car. Elena took the kids out and put them in the car seats and folded up the stroller. She slid it on the floor in the back seat because the truck was filled. They drove home in peace and Elena got a couple bags and the kids before going in. She set the bags down and put the kids on the blanket before looking at the room. The blood was still wet and squished on the carpet underfoot. Stefan walked in and set the bags down.

"OK, ewll, either I cean and you put the baby toys together or vice versa." Elena said.

"I'll assemble the toys." Stefan said, walking off. Elena laughed briefly and then went to work on the room. After an hour or so of scrubbing she got up. She could faintly make out curse words coming from the living room where Stefan was working.

"What's wrong?" Elena asked him, hands on her hips.

"These damn things aren't some assembly required!" he growled, "The whole thing is in pieces!"

"Well, I have blood and chemicals all over me." Elena said.

"You win." Stefan muttered, going back to work. ELena smiled and went back, she'd gotten more than half the carpet done, all she had to do was the quarter left and the walls. They had brought the cribs up before Elena had getten very far in her work and everything on them was clean. She got back on her knees and scrubbed furiously at the floor, then began to feel extremely light headed and collapsed.

Stupid cleaning! LOL, anyway, sorry this took so long, I was sick last weekend and really bust this week so I couldn't get it out. I dom;t know how much I'll get over spring break so don't expect too much of me! Um, REVIEW! Thank you for reading!

-Erin