Chapter 14

"Elena, honey the midwife is coming in soon, you mind want to get dressed." Stefan had let Elena sleep for nearly 24 hours and if Archer woke up, he fed him and made sure he went back to sleep without disrupting Elena. Elena's eyes slowly opened and she smiled at the sight of Stefan laying down next to her on the bed.

"Can I hold him first?"

"Sure you can" Stefan walked over to the little plastic bed they had been given by the hospital, and picked up Archer. "he only got up once or twice last night, I had to go home and grab me some clothes so I put bonnie on baby duty for an hour or so, she said he slept the whole time but that she was going to come back later for a proper cuddle." Elena sat upright so she could hold Archer, Stefan placed him in her arms. His little hands curled round Elena's finger, or at least tried to.

"Have you fed him this morning?" Stefan sat down on the chair and looked up at them together.

"No, but the midwife is coming to teach you how to breast feed. I asked for Diane especially as she helps me with all my pregnant trauma victims, she is really nice, you will love her. I was thinking if you wouldn't mind, you can say no if you think it's too soon. but last night I had an operation scheduled with one of my patients who I have had for 3 years, and I got Dr Oliver to do it for me last minute, I was hoping you wouldn't mind if I went in and checked on how she was doing."

Elena looked down for a second and then, passed Archer over to Stefan.

"Of course you can, I will see you in a little bit then. Have fun, but don't have fun…I don't know what I should say. But I do know I love you Stefan Salvatore." She walked round to his side of the bed and kissed Stefan, pulling her hand through his hair. "You can go now if you want" she then disappeared into the bathroom, and Stefan set Archer down and left.

"Dr Salvatore!" at the sound of his name being bellowed down the hallway, Stefan turned to see Dr Oliver running towards him, "great I found you, I have a few things to discuss, first of all Miss Jenkins, did lose a lot of blood last night but she is stable now and she is doing well, she is also a wake and quite angry at you for not doing the surgery yourself." Dr Oliver gave him a questionable look. "Second thing, why didn't you do the surgery, it's not every day that you get a call to say you get to do a stomach dissection. So I was wondering why you turned it down?" he was now really short of breath and struggling to stand upright, Stefan gave him a few seconds to catch his breath.

"I had no other option really, I would have loved to have done the surgery, but my wife went into labor, and I had to turn it down. Think about it this way, you now have another surgery to add to your list, and I now have a beautiful son. And thank you for doing the surgery it means a lot." Dr Oliver gave Stefan an odd look as if he was trying to picture him married with a child.

"Congratulation then, do you have any pictures?" Stefan put up his finger as if to indicate for Dr Oliver to wait a second. He rummaged into his back pocket and fond his phone and then held out a picture, it was the one he had taken of Elena and Archer that very morning. "He is adorable, and your wife is very pretty. You are a lucky man. Thank you for the opportunity and for giving to the chance to do the surgery. I will see you another time." And with that he patted Stefan on the back, and walked off. Stefan was a bit set back by his reaction, but took it anyway, and he went to go and check on Miss Jenkins.

"hey what are you doing with my chart!?" miss Jenkins shouted at Stefan as he came into the room with his head down reading the cart, Dr Oliver was right, she lost a lot of blood it was a life or death situation. "Oh, Dr Salvatore, sorry Stefan." She quickly corrected herself, he only lets his long time patients call him Stefan. "I didn't recognize you without scrubs. Where were you, you said you would be doing my operation." She sat upright in the bed so she was able to see Stefan without craning her neck.

"My wife went into labor so I couldn't be there, but if you want I can bring the little guy round who made me miss my favorite patients operation." They both chuckled, "okay, well it seems you lost a lot of blood. However they have been filling you with blood for the past few hours so you should be completely fine. I want to keep you here for a week, to make sure nothing goes wrong and you are getting along with your medication. But from the looks of the notes you should be fine." Stefan walked over to the end of the bed and placed the chart in the holder.

"Stefan, if you don't mind me asking, what is your wife and child's name? I will send my prayers that they both have good health." Stefan knew that archer would have good health for most of the time as he was half vampire, but Elena he was never sure about, she was never one to be ill and when she was it was serious.

"My wife's name is Elena and my sons name is Archer, thank you very much. I will come back later to check on you, but it looks like you will be as good as you can without a stomach." Stefan patted the end of the bed and then headed out. He always liked seeing Miss Jenkins, she had a good sense of humor and whenever she found out something was not working in her body she would bluntly say, 'well then, we need to fix it.' She was always his first patient in the morning as it gave him a good feeling about the day.

While he was walking down the hall, one of the nurses wheeled a blood bank cart past him and then he smelt it, he tasted it in his mouth and with that he could feel his eyes turned red, his veins stand out and his teeth showing, he ran with his head down to the on call room, where luckily there was no one in. he looked at himself in the mirror, and waited till his face went back to normal.

"What the hell is happening to me?"