Hello again, I hope you enjoy this chapter as always. There will be some Klaroline in the next one that I'm quite excited to write about.
I've already gotten a couple of responses, but I'll ask again. Is there anyone interested in reading a short story about what happened before this story started? How D&E went from dislike to being in love and having a baby?
"So when are your parents going to be home?" He asked when they were cuddled up on the couch watching TV. She knew she could have taken him up to bed and made love to him, but she really wanted to talk to him about what happened with Mason. She knew there were things he wasn't telling her about what he said.
"I'm not sure. I think he said they were going to get some groceries." She shrugged.
"Will he be pissed that I'm here?" Damon asked knowing all about Elena's dad's frosty feelings for him.
"Probably not too bad. As much as you think he does, he doesn't actually hate you." Elena told him.
"I know he's just pissed because I got you pregnant." Damon said.
"Yeah, but he's impressed that you're sticking around. I can tell." Elena told him caressing his face gently.
"I'll always be here. Eventually everyone will know that." Damon told her.
"So are you going to tell me what happened to make you punch Mason?" Elena asked.
"Which time, the first time or the second time?" Damon asked.
"Well let's start with the first one. What did he say?" Elena asked.
"I'm not going to repeat it. It was bad and I'm not repeating it to you. Nothing about that night I want to share with you." He told her shaking his head.
"You don't have to protect me Damon? Is there anything I should know about what happened?" She asked defensively.
"No, nothing happened. The only notable parts of that night, were when I punched the jackass." Damon promised her.
"Alright. But baby you can tell me anything. If something is bothering you, you should tell me what it is." Elena prompted him.
"I can't. I don't want you to hear the things he said about you." Damon said firmly.
"Alright, I won't push you. If it's as bad as you think it is then I don't want to know. You don't have to use the exact words though, you can change it up to make it less crude." Elena suggested.
"He essentially said that I was ruining my own life by being with you and I was never supposed to even be in a relationship with you. I was only supposed to sleep with you then leave, and admittedly that was the plan when we got together. That changed after the first date Elena. Then he said that the baby probably isn't mine and you were sleeping around. When you got pregnant they decided that you were too embarrassed to admit so you decided to brush it off on me." Damon listed, getting angry when he thought about it.
"I assume those aren't the words he used?" Elena asked.
"Nope, there were a lot of "bitches" and "fucks." Damon recalled.
"You know it's not true right? You're the only guy I've ever been with." She told him.
"I know that. I know that baby is mine." Damon nodded his head making Elena relax.
"Okay good. God I want to just hit him." Elena seethed.
"You want to hit him?" Damon laughed.
"More than you know." Elena muttered shaking her head, her eyes blazing.
"I won't judge you if you decide to." Damon laughed, kissing her temple.
"You would still love me if I hit him?" She asked meekly, looking up from him from under her eyelashes.
"I think I would love you even more if you hit him. It would be so hot." Damon promised her and she beamed at him.
"Good to know." Elena laughed, kissing him quickly on the lips.
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When Monday came around, Elena slipped into a pair of jeans and a t-shirt that hugged her growing belly perfectly. She brushed her hair over her shoulders and applied some makeup to her face. She didn't put any foundation on and hadn't since she got the lovely pregnancy glow. Pregnancy was looking good on Elena, she had the glow. She was running late and by the time she got downstairs, Damon was honking his horn outside.
"I have to go." Elena said grabbing an apple on her way out.
"Make sure you eat." Grayson called after her. She flashed her apple at him and rushed out the door with her backpack and
purse.
"Good morning." Damon greeted her when she got in and leaned over for a kiss.
"Good morning." She greeted him back before taking a large bite of her apple.
"You seem to be in a much better mood today." Damon noted when he started up the car.
"Oh you have no idea. What happened between you and Mason, really pissed me off. But then I decided that the stress isn't
good for the baby, so I'm not going to give him even a seconds thought today. That's the best revenge there is." Elena told him nodding her head.
"Good for you. That's my girl." Damon said grinning. Elena continued to amaze him and he was sure she always would.
"Yeah, I'm cutting all toxic people from my life, whether they're actively in my life at all." Elena spoke firmly.
"Who does that include?" Damon asked.
"Mason. Sophia, and a few other people of course." Elena shrugged.
"My mother?" Damon asked smiling.
"Yeah she deserves a spot on that list. Although she is also the only one that has a chance to redeem herself at some point. You never know, maybe a grandchild will soften her up." Elena suggested.
"It's my mother, I don't think anything will soften her up. She's awful." Damon shuddered.
"True, but a girl can dream." Elena shrugged too when they pulled into the school parking lot. When they walked onto the
quad hand in hand, Damon kissed Elena's temple and stopped.
"Look, I need to go get some help in calc. I need to get kick-ass grades so everything works out accordingly. If you need me, I can blow off Mr. Thomas." Damon told her.
"No it's fine. I'm just going to go sit with Caroline and Klaus. Look at them they're so cute." Elena said pointing at their best friends who were sitting side by side with smiles on their faces. Klaus's arm was thrown casually over Caroline's shoulder and she seemed totally relaxed.
"Alright, I'll see you at lunch." He said kissing her briefly before walking towards the school. While Elena was walking over to the table Mason and Harper bumped into her as she was walking.
"Whore." Mason whispered when he walked by and Elena stopped in her tracks.
"What did you say to me?" She demanded with her hands on her hips.
"I called you a whore, what are you going to do about it?" He asked with a smirk on his face. Mason had a bruise on his jaw and there was still a cut on his lip from when Damon punched him that weekend. Sophia was hanging off his arm with a sneer on her face.
"You want a black eye to go with that bruise?" Elena asked dropping all intentions of just forgetting they existed.
"From who? You? Your boyfriend isn't here to help you with that. He only knocked me out because I wasn't ready to fight him." Mason shrugged trying to save face.
"Sure. He knocked you out because he's ten times the man you will ever be." Elena hissed. By now people were starting to gather around, when two popular groups started fighting it was cause to drop everything. But when it was Elena Gilbert, the school's resident pregnant teen and Mason Lockwood, the schools asshole, then everyone checked it out. Klaus and Caroline were trying to work their way through the crowd to get to Elena's side, but all the students in attendance made it very difficult.
"You think he's such a good guy. You didn't see the way he was making out with all those girls at the bar Saturday night.
He was acting single, it was great." Mason told her and Elena went red.
"You're lying. Damon wouldn't do that to me." Elena spoke certainly.
"You sure about that? Did he tell you what we did that night?" Mason asked knowingly with that same smirk on his face.
"You're lying." Elena screamed at him.
"I don't think so. He's slept with me too." Sophia interjected.
"So baby, why don't we go and punish him for sleeping around this weekend. Just you and me." He suggested and Elena glared. She took a few steps towards him and swung her left hand back as hard as she could and slapped him.
"Don't hit me you bitch." Mason warned her so she hit him again. In her anger she started hitting him again and again while Sophia called for the teacher. Klaus and Caroline made their way through the crowd and pulled Elena off. Klaus took a hold of Mason and pushed him away from the group while Caroline stood with Elena who was fuming.
"What's going on here?" The Principal demanded when he emerged from the school.
"Elena was beating the hell out of Mason Lockwood." A junior boy stated laughing.
"Miss Gilbert, you'll have to come with me. So will you Mr. Lockwood." The principal said. He knew Elena and there was no way she would just snap without being motivated to do so. But that didn't give her the right to whale on whoever she wanted.
"So what happened out there?" Principal Walker asked when the three of them were sitting around his desk.
"She started hitting me for no reason at all." Mason said and Elena rolled her eyes.
"Judging by the look on your face Elena, that's not how it went down?" He asked.
"No. I was walking to my table to sit down with my friends when he called me a whore. I stopped and confronted him with words not with my hands. Then he retaliated with saying Damon cheated on me this weekend, which I know is a lie. Klaus told me that they spent Friday night in a Taco Bell. Damon told me the same thing Saturday. Then he started hitting on me and I may have snapped." Elena explained the story.
"You shouldn't have hit him Elena." Principal Walker told her.
"I know that. I do. Just please don't expel me. I need to graduate or else I can't go to college and I can't be a supportive mom to my baby." Elena pleaded.
"Can you apologize to Mason?" He asked her.
"No. I can't do that. I'm sorry. I may know it was wrong to beat the hell out of him, but I'm not sorry I did it. He deserved it. He's deserved it more times than I can count. I would do it again in a heartbeat." Elena admitted.
"Are you aware that extreme stress like that is bad for the baby?" He asked.
"I wasn't stressed though. Oddly enough, that's the least stressed I've felt in a long time." Elena told him.
"Okay, I won't force you to apologize, but you have to accept detention today at lunch. I won't keep you after school, that way your parents don't have to find out about this." The principal told her.
"What? You're letting her get away with that?" Mason demanded.
"Elena would never have done that if it hadn't been for you. She's getting detention be happy I'm not giving you one too."
The Principal told him and Mason sighed.
"Whatever. Can I go now?" He demanded.
"Yes. You can both leave." The principal said as both got up and walked out.
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When lunch finally came around, Damon walked out to the table and got worried when he saw Elena wasn't there.
"Where's Elena?" Damon asked not sitting down until he knew she was okay. Klaus and Caroline snicked in response and
Damon stared at them expectantly.
"She's in detention" Klaus told him unable to keep the smile off of his face.
"And that's a good thing because?" Damon asked baffled.
"She beat the hell out of Mason." Klaus told him before bursting out laughing again.
"She did what?" Damon asked his eyes wide. Out of all the things she could have gotten into trouble for, that was the last one.
"She beat the hell out of Mason. I have no clue what he said to her, but it pissed her right off." Klaus laughed.
"Wow." Damon said shaking his head.
"You should be proud. The girls got a right hook that you wouldn't believe." Klaus pointed out.
"I'll keep that in mind." Damon said as he saw Mason, Harper and Sophia walk past their table all glowering.
"Not even going to stop and say hi, man?" Klaus asked with a snicker and his arm around Caroline's shoulder.
"So how did it feel to get your ass kicked by a pregnant girl?" Damon asked with a smirk on his incredibly handsome face.
"You don't know what you're talking about Salvatore. The only reason she was able to hit me is because a real man doesn't hit a woman, especially one who is pregnant." Mason scoffed.
"She kicked your ass from what I'm hearing. Now it's going to go down in history that you got your ass kicked by 120 pounds of pregnant girl." Damon laughed. Klaus burst out laughing and Mason stalked away muttering.
"Guys, can you all try to get along please. We've all been friends for far too long?" Harper asked and Damon and Klaus both shook their heads.
"I think the best you're going to get is us ignoring him. The things he said about Elena crossed the line. There's no going back after what happened in Richmond." Damon said.
"You know Mason, he probably didn't mean any of it. He was drunk." Harper defended.
"I don't care if he was completely pissed. It doesn't erase what he said, and I don't want it to. Mason is a prick, one I am happy to have out of my life." Damon said firmly.
"One of you should take the high road and I already know it won't be Mase." Harper sighed.
"It's not going to be either of us." Damon shrugged not overly concerned about Mason.
"Well I better get back." Harper said walking back to other side of the quad.
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At the end of the day, Damon met Elena by her locker with a smirk on his face.
"You heard didn't you?" She asked narrowing her eyes.
"Yep I sure did. I didn't know my girl was such a bad-ass." Damon said tossing his arm over her shoulder and pulling her to
his side.
"I still maintain that he completely deserved it." Elena said.
"He probably did. So you got away with it and the only punishment was a lunch hour detention?" He asked.
"Yep. He didn't' even call my mom and dad. Principal Walker thinks that Mason probably deserved it." Elena told him grinning.
"He definitely did. Damn, my girl is a bad-ass. That's so hot."He grinned.
"I'm glad you approve." Elena laughed.
"I more than approve. Are you ready to get out of here?" He asked.
"More than you know. So you like that I punched Mason?" She asked.
"I find it very, very sexy." He said smirking at her. Elena grinned and they walked out of the school together. When they got to the car, he opened her door first before walking around to his side.
"So do you want to do anything today?" He asked.
"Can we go hang out at your house for a while?" She asked.
"Sure. Although my house isn't nearly as interesting as it once was with my mother home." Damon shrugged.
"My dad is home so at least at your house we can make out a little bit before I have to be home." Elena told him and he smiled.
"Are we going to go father than making out?" He asked.
"We don't have time. Jenna and Ric are coming over for dinner. You're more than welcome to join us." Elena told him.
"I like Ric. He's a great teacher and he actually likes me. I'll come." Damon said as they started driving in the direction of his house. When they parked in front of Damon's house, they walked in and sat down on the couch.
"Do you want to watch some TV?" He asked. Normally he would have taken her upstairs, but it had been quite a while since they had last had sex due to the unreasonable fear he had, he didn't want to risk it. Things would get too hot and heavy in the bed upstairs and he knew he wouldn't be able to stop. At least here on the couch he wouldn't have a choice. Besides Elena, wouldn't let him get any further than she wanted him to go. Elena nodded her head and they sat down on the couch with his arm around her shoulder, playing with her hair.
"God I can't stop thinking about you punching Mason. I would have killed to have seen that. I'm so angry that I had to get calculus help." He sighed.
"It's always possible that it will happen again. He's a dick." Elena laughed.
"Yes he is. You're amazing Elena. You know that?" He said brushing some hair out of her face.
"You're the only one who thinks so." Elena shook her head.
"I'm not. Come on, you're the three month pregnant cheerleader. Granted you're doing modified cheer leading now but still you look super hot in that uniform." Damon told her.
"You have no idea how long it took me to plead with Caroline to let me stay on the squad. I know I can do it and it makes me happy. I just love cheering our team to victory and it really doesn't matter that I'm pregnant. I've got a full shirt now and I think it looks pretty cute on me." Elena sighed.
"It looks hot on you." He told her before turning her face towards him so he could kiss her. She kissed him back instantly, and opened her mouth to welcome his tongue. She placed her hands on his chest and moved closer to him. One of his hands rested on her face, the other on her lower back and she moaned when he pulled her closer to him. She was practically sprawled on top of him when the door opened and slammed shut.
"Don't you have a bedroom?" Stefan demanded as he walked into the living room and sat down on the opposite couch. He picked up the remote control and turned on the TV, turning it to the football game.
"We're not in my bedroom so we don't go any further. We don't have time. If you must know." Damon replied snarkily.
"I don't want to see anything like that, and I shouldn't have to." Stefan grumbled.
"You don't have to stay here either. This is as much my house as it is yours, and if I want to kiss my girlfriend in the living room then I will." Damon told his brother.
"That would be fine, if you weren't dating the girl that I wanted to be with."Stefan shouted.
"I never led you on Stefan. If that's what you're insinuating." Elena said as she sat up her back against Damon's chest and their legs tangled together.
"No, you just made it clear that I didn't stand a chance with you right from the start. You didn't even seem to care that my brother only wanted you for sex." Stefan snarled.
"It's okay, I only wanted to be with him at that point because I wanted to be the first girl to dump him." Elena said knowing that the start of their relationship was anything but normal.
"So you're saying it's okay that my brother only wanted you for sex?" Stefan asked sickened.
"I already knew that. I knew that I was just the next conquest for him, which is why I wanted to be the one to break him. But instead of breaking him, I fell in love with him. It's as simple as that." Elena said.
"Instead of conquering her, I fell in love with her. The first date, I knew that she could do anything. And I knew I would rather die than make the smile leave her face. I would do the impossible for her, that's the kind of love I have for her. You don't have to like it Stefan, but Elena and I are forever." Damon said to his brother, not caring how lovestruck he sounded.
"Whatever. The two of you can do whatever you want. I don't care." Stefan said getting up and stomping out of the room.
"We should probably get going anyway." Elena told Damon glancing at her watch.
"Okay. Out of curiosity, does Jenna know you''re pregnant yet?" Damon asked.
"No, I haven't seen her in a while and I begged Ric not to tell her. I wanted to tell her in person." Elena said.
"But she's your cool aunt Jenna. She'll be cool with it right?" Damon asked not needing another person against their decision.
"She'll be fine with it. She wont' care too much as long as I'm happy. She'll be excited to be the cool great aunt." Elena said smiling as she got up off the couch.