yay a new update. it took forever to get out because it wouldnt let me post. i had to download a new program because its not fully supporting microsoft works anymore. Hope you enjoy the late update. Let me know what you think. The smut returns in this chapter a little bit. not as much as other chapters. I really like hearing what you guys think, so leave me a review.

PS i own nothing.

After the customary first dance, Elena hugged Matt before going off to join Damon who was standing off to the side talking with Stefan. She started making her way over to him, while trying to ignore all the glances from all the other people in the gym.

"I cant believe she won Prom Queen." one girl said.

"Well Caroline had to force everyone to vote for her." another girl said.

"She's such a slut. Who gets pregnant in high school?" another girl said. All the comments were starting to get to her and she was finding it hard to keep from crying.

"I heard that her husband isn't really into her, and is only there for the kid." another girl said.

"I heard she's only with him for his money, and that the kid isn't his." a girl said.

"Oh my God guess what. Her husband? That's Damon Salvatore. We've been hooking up every night since he moved here. He's really good, if you know what I mean." one more girl said. By that point she had heard enough and changed directions heading for the bathrooms. Once inside she couldn't contain the tears anymore and she leaned against the sink crying. She knew she should blame her emotions on her hormones, because she knew had she not been hormonal then she wouldn't have reacted liked this. Not having the energy to stand, she slid down against the wall and sobbed.

Damon was talking with Stefan over against the wall, keeping an eye out for Elena.

"Have you seen Elena since she finished dancing with Matt?" Damon asked curiously.

"No." Stefan answered.

"Odd, she said she was going to come find me after she was done. I'm gonna go find her." she said.

"Alright. Good luck." he said as Damon walked into the party. He seen Caroline and Tyler standing off to the side. Caroline was trying to force the crown back onto Tyler's head and he was clearly resisting.
"Come on Care, I really don't want to wear that thing. It's embarrassing." he said.

"Come on Tyler. Please wear it. You're the Prom Prince. Show it off." she insisted.

"No." he said firmly.

"Please. For me?" she begged fluttering her long black eyelashes.

"Fine. For you I will wear this stupid crown." he said allowing her to put it back on his head. She squealed in delight as she placed the crown back on his head. Caroline turned her head and saw Damon approaching through the crowd.

"Damon, where's Elena?" she asked.

" I was just about to ask you the same question. You don't know where she is?" he asked.

"I haven't seen her. I thought she was coming to find you." Caroline said.

"Shit." he said. Deciding to use his advantages, he scanned the room with his super hearing. The more he heard the more pissed off he got.

"Where would Elena go if she was upset?" Damon asked, after hearing what all the girls in the room were saying about her.

"Probably the bathroom. It's the only semi-private place in the building. If I was you I'd check the one just outside the door. That's where she found out she was pregnant." Caroline suggested.

"You're telling me to go to the girls bathroom, to talk to my wife. I was going to let you go in and get her for me." he said shocked.

"Yes because I've heard what the girls in here are saying. They're saying you're cheating on her with Abby Thompson. I'd be willing to bet that she heard that one and that's why she's hiding out in a bathroom. She wouldn't go anywhere else." Caroline said.

"I don't even know an Abby Thompson." Damon ranted.

"Doesn't matter. She wants to hurt Elena, for reasons I cant decipher. She'll say anything. Now go find your wife." Caroline said clearly dismissing him. Damon thanked her as he walked away, heading to the bathroom Caroline pointed him to. Just in case, he focused his hearing searching for the sound of sobs coming from around him. And as Caroline predicted he heard her in the bathroom.

Elena sat in the bathroom, not wanting to see anyone, just wanting to be alone. She rested her head against the wall and placed her hand on her belly. She heard the door open and she tensed automatically recognizing the man that walked in. He kneeled in front of her and brushed the tears from her eyes.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

"No. I don't want to talk to you." she said.

"Whatever you heard tonight, its not true." he assured her.

"Oh, so you haven't slept with Abby Thompson recently?" she demanded.

"No. Tell me when I would've had the time? I'm constantly with you in various positions thanks to them." he said pointing at her belly.

"So you didn't sleep with her." she said realizing that it would've been impossible for him to sleep with anyone else. It didn't make her feel much better though, meaning that she knew he didn't cheat when she came in here.

"that only makes me feel marginally better." she said.

"Ok, tell me whats wrong. And I will fix it." he said.

"Okay. I'm a slut according to everyone out there." she said.

"You're not a slut. You're married, and pregnant. That's natural. I think they're just jealous of what you have." he told her.

"I'm fat and ugly." she said. Damon sighed and held out his hands, urging her to take them. She obliged and he pulled her to her feet. He turned her around so her back was pressing against his chest, so she could look in the mirror on the sink.

"You are beautiful, sexy, gorgeous, hot, exquisite, lovely, ravishing, and many other words that would take too long to list. You are not fat, or ugly. Yet again everyone out there is jealous of your beauty." he assured her.

"What about Caroline rigging the vote?" she asked.

"She did, but she did it out of love for you. She wanted you to believe that you are amazing. And beautiful, since you've had such low self esteem lately. But she didn't force them to vote for you, they voted for you because they wanted to. Caroline couldn't have forced them to vote for you even if she wanted to. She simply urged them in the right direction." he informed her.

"You're so beautiful and I love only you. So much." he said softly.

"I love you too." she said throwing her arms around his neck and pulling him toward her so she could kiss him. He knew this was going to escalate by the way her hands automatically went for the buttons on his shirt. So be broke away, leaving her confused in his stead.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"Locking the door. I don't want company. This isn't going to be some free show." he said speeding over to the door and locking the dead bolt on it. He flashed back to her side and went right back to kissing her passionately.

"Leave the shirt. We don't have much time." he said removing her hands from his shirt and down the his pants. She nodded in agreement and swiftly opened the button and undid the zipper before slipping her hand to grasp his already fully grown length. He groaned as he pulled away from her lips to kiss down her neck to suck on her pulse point. He lifted her onto the counter as he pulled her dress up to rest around her hips. Taking the hint she pushed his pants down slightly to release his pulsing length from its confines. He pulled her black panties off of her, not wanting to tear this pair before sliding into her warmth. Her nails dug into his shoulder blades as he slowly moved in and out of her.

"Oh God. Move faster." she begged.

"The name is Damon darling. I thought you already knew that." he teased. She growled unimpressed at his teasing, but let out a fierce moan as he changed his angle just slightly causing him to hit her g spot on every stroke. The moans, and little curses were falling from her lips at a steady interval as he continued to thrust in and out of her. Needing to feel his mouth on hers, she reconnected their lips as she kissed him hungrily. She could feel her release fast approaching, as she let go and let him take her as high as he could. After a couple more deep thrusts she let go, her walls clamping around his member as she rode out her orgasm. Towards the end of her orgasm he came spilling himself deep inside of her, igniting another smaller orgasm out of Elena. Breathing heavily, he leaned against her for a couple moments, his hand resting on her belly.

"I love you." she breathed breathlessly.

"Good. I love you too." he said as he pulled out of her and readjusted his clothes. When he was finished he helped Elena down off of the counter and she pulled her panties back on and fixed her dress. Before they left the bathroom she reached up and gave him a soft kiss on the lips. A kiss so intimate that she didn't even need to use her tongue to make him hot again. Together they walked out of the bathroom hand in hand as they rejoined the party. They saw Caroline and Tyler standing by the punch bowl.

"So its all good now?" Caroline asked.

"It's all good." Damon agreed, as Elena cuddled deeper into his side.

"It took a little longer than it should've…" Caroline said trailing off, raising her eyebrows to Tyler standing beside her.

"It did didn't it?" he acknowledged.

"I will say nothing." Damon said as he took Elena and walked away. As they were walking by a group of students, they started giggling, and Damon had to restrain himself.

"I really don't see why you're giggling." he said trying to restrain himself, as Elena partially hid herself in his embrace. She was obviously still too embarrassed and hurt to confront these girls.

"Oh come on. You seriously don't get it. You "married" the biggest slut in this school. I mean look at her, she pregnant. Only sluts get pregnant in high school." she said.

"I'm going to say this very slowly so you can understand. My wife is not a slut. She is the most beautiful, kind and desirable girl on the planet. I happen to know that you spread the rumor about me sleeping with you, and I want to tell you right now, that that would never happen. I love my wife, and if you want to pass something around, pass that. Because it's the only truth you've spewed out tonight." he said harshly, while keeping a feeble hold on his vampire side which was practically begging to be released.

"Thank you." Elena said softly, reaching up to kiss his cheek softly.

"You're welcome. God when did I become so protective?" he wondered aloud.

"Probably when I became pregnant." she offered.

"No, it was before that. Probably the moment I met you." he decided. She grinned up at him which caused him to smile.

"Can we go sit down? My feet are beginning to hurt." she said.

"Of course." he said steering her towards their table.

Once she was seated he went to get them a drink from the unspiked punch bowl. He had made sure earlier that evening that no one spiked one of the punch bowls so Elena had something to drink while she was there. While he was gone, Elena sat at the table waiting for him to return.

"Well well, what do we have here?" a familiar voice said.

"Would you just go away Jason, I'm not having the best night." she asked.

"I just wanted to talk to you. So where's hubby?" he asked.

"Getting me a drink. He'll be back in a second so unless you want to be forcefully removed from my company I would suggest you leave." she said.

"This is a public place, he wouldn't hurt me." he said cockily taking a seat beside her.

"Just screw off please." she begged.

Damon heard Jason sit down at the table and he rushed back to the table using as fast of a human speed as he could.

"Just screw off please." he heard Elena ask, and he heard the tension in her voice. He picked up his pace and a couple seconds later he was standing beside the table. He handed Elena her drink and turned to Jason.

"I would suggest you take the offered advice from Elena, and screw off." Damon said menacingly.

"You cant hurt me." he said with a smug look on his face after glancing at the witnesses.

"That's true. But I can make you leave. don't think that I cant." Damon threatened.

"With all these witnesses here?" he asked cockily.

"Just watch me." he said as he grabbed him by his tie and pulled him closer, his eyes dilating as he looked him in the eye.

"You will leave Elena alone. Never speak to her again. You know that she is way too good for you. You will walk away from her right now." he said compelling him. Once he released him, as ordered he smiled and walked away from the table.

"Damon, all the witnesses." Elena said worried.

"I don't care. How about we get out of here." he said stress evident in his voice.

"How are we going to get home?" she wondered.

"I'll borrow Ric's car, he can go home with your mom and dad, when the come pick up Jeremy and Bonnie." he said.

"Okay, I'll wait here." she said. He nodded and went off to find Alaric. To his surprise he willingly handed him his car keys. Damon suspected that had something to do with the amount of punch he had ingested, and Damon was sure it wasn't the alcohol free one either.

After bidding goodbye to Bonnie and Jeremy, and Caroline and Tyler, Damon led her out to Alaric's car. He helped her in and shut the door.

"You probably shouldn't have compelled Jason." Elena said softly.

"I know. I just didn't want to hurt him, and I knew that I would unless he started leaving you alone. It was the only way." he said.

" I know. What's going to happen now?" she asked.

"I don't know. I suspect that sometime tomorrow Liz will appear and tell me that everyone seen what happened. And we only have two plausible options." he mused.

"Which options are those?" she wondered.

"Either I go around and compel every single person in that gym tonight, or we tell the public about vampires." he said.

"Which would be better?" Elena asked

"I can stop hiding if they know, and it's a lot of compulsion I would have to do, in order to make everyone in that gym forget what they seen. So I don't know." he said.

"Is there a chance that they don't know what happened? That they may have only seen it as you threatening him?" she asked hopefully.

"No, the people that were close enough probably heard what I said. And they would've seen my eyes dilate. And most likely those people would have told everyone else in the gym. So basically I'm screwed. And not only me, I've screwed it up for Stefan and Lexi too." he said.

"Stefan and Lexi weren't involved in this. They should be safe." she assured him.

"Yeah, but they wont be. Stefan is incapable of letting me solve my problems on my own. He always has to help me. And Lexi will always protect Stefan." he said.

"Oh. So what are we going to do?" Elena asked.

"Wait and see. You never know I guess, maybe a miracle happened and no one saw anything." he said trying to put her as ease.

"But Sheriff Forbes already knows you're a vampire. She probably wont do anything." she said.

"I know. She'll tell me I shouldn't have done what I did, and I'll explain that it was for you, and it was better than killing him. She'll agree, then we'll start the conversation about how we're going to deal with this. As someone got their mind messed with at prom." Damon said bitterly.

"It's okay." Elena said.

"I know. But lets get you inside and into bed. It's been a long night." he said as he pulled into the driveway. She yawned, feeling the night weigh her down.

"It has been a long night. Let's deal with everything else tomorrow." she said. He smiled at her and took her hand leading her into the house. She was right, they would deal with everything else tomorrow