A/N: Hii, thanks for the reviews, but this will sadly be the second last chap!

Here's chap 21 - Enjoy!

xoxo Ascha

Chapter 21:

Mia's POV:

Everything had changed ever since my dad died and kept waiting for him to visit me like he always did, but he never showed up. Elena, who had been through the same when her dad died, came to support me those next couple of months and even though I knew that I had to get over it eventually, then I still couldn't forget the memory of when Eric beat him up like that.

Every Sunday for the next three months I went to the cemetery and put flowers at his grave and every time I did so, the memories just came flowing back. Damon tried to be a good husband even though he still found it very strange to be married and did a great job support me too, but not even he could make me forget that painful memory.

However, on the 12th Sunday when I went to visit my father's grave, I saw a stranger stand at the grave too and she looked slightly familiar. She couldn't be my aunt, because my parents didn't have any siblings according to the linage tree. I walked up to her with Stefan and Elena by my sides and she turned to me with a surprised look on her face when she saw me.

"Matilda?" she said and saw my stomach. "You're pregnant?"

I nodded and instinctively rubbed my stomach. I could feel the child kick and smiled weakly. The woman smiled too and stepped closer to me.

"Who are you?" I asked curiously.

"Valeria," she answered with a Romanian accent. "I'm your mother's cousin. I… I was the one who introduced your mother to Gabriel and I helped deliver you."

I gasped, but I was happy to meet more family and hugged her. It was a tad difficult since I was six months pregnant (and looked eight months pregnant), but I managed to give her a hug and she seemed happy to see me too.

"I can't believe that you have grown so much," she said, laughing a little. "I mean, I remembered when I held you in my arms and you were crying so much, until I gave you to your father."

"Are you a trained doctor?" Elena asked curiously. "Because Mia could really need a doctor to deliver her child when she's due to give birth."

Valeria actually nodded and giggled. "After I helped deliver you I fell in love with delivering babies, so I became a doctor. I have to thank you for that. How long are you with your pregnancy?" she said.

"Six months, but it feel and look more like eight. But that's just the downside of carrying a hybrid child…" I said.

"Oh, yeah. I did hear that you triggered both your curses and became a hybrid. But I'll do whatever I can to help. You are my cousin's daughter after all."

I smiled and hugged her again and just like that I started focusing on other things than my father's death. Valeria went with us to the Salvatore Boarding House and she examined me to check that everything was alright. I hadn't been to the doctor at all since I got pregnant, because I was worried of what they might find on the scan.

But Valeria said that everything sounded fine and even though she did give me the chance to tell if I was having twins or not, then I still wanted it to be a surprise. And when Damon finally returned from his five day long trip with the Originals to find and kill Eric and Daniel, I could feel the child start kicking, but this time the kick felt different. It felt like… two children were kicking. I held that information to myself and just went to say hello to Damon.

"Welcome back, my lovely husband," I said teasingly and felt Damon's arms slipping around me. "Did you find them?"

"Well… kindda. We did find and kill Eric, but Daniel managed to get away. He is severely wounded, though, so if we're lucky he'll die anyway," Damon said. It was relieving to hear that he had killed Eric, because that meant that I finally got to revenge my father's death. "Who's the lady in the living room and why is she flirting with Alaric?"

I frowned and turned around and noticed that Valeria was in fact flirting with Alaric, who had come over a few minutes before Damon returned to help protect me.

"Oh, that's just my mom's cousin Valeria. We met her at the cemetery today," I said. "She actually introduced my parents to each other and helped delivering me."

Damon raised an eyebrow, but nodded understandingly and kissed me more passionately than he intended too. It had been a while since we had last made love, but neither one of us could make ourselves do it when I was pregnant, so Damon had been on a dry spell for about five months now and was getting very crazy.

"God, why do you have to look so sexy? You're driving me crazy!" he said, smirking mischievously.

I giggled and let him kiss me on my neck. "Because it's fun to drive you crazy," I answered. "But there are only three more months left and then you will become one very lucky guy. But you better wear protection the next time."

Damon groaned. He had never had to do that and now he had to, just because he could knock me up again. I personally didn't want to become pregnant again and especially not now that I knew that I was going to have twins…

"Um, Mia, not to freak you out or anything, but… I think your water just broke."

"What?" I looked confusedly down and felt my face turn pale. I wanted to scream, but I was too shocked to do anything, but start breathing frantically.

Damon quickly called for the others to help him and carried me upstairs to his bedroom. He placed me on the bed and went to go downstairs to get the others, but I grabbed his shirt and yanked him back as I was trying not to panic.

"This can't be happening now!" I said. "I'm only six months pregnant for God's– argh!"

I felt the first contraction and it hurt more than I expected it to. But Damon stayed and tried staying calm since I wasn't doing a great job being calm. I wasn't ready to give birth now and definitely not twins!

It was a luck that I ran into Valeria today, because without her help I might have been more frantic. Valeria hurried upstairs to me with a couple of things she had grabbed and right behind her was Elijah's brother Marco, whom I knew used to be a doctor a long time ago. He assisted Valeria as she got ready to deliver my children, while Elijah fetched Luce so she could make my children's vampire side dormant.

"Damon, I'm so going to kill you when they're out!" I snarled, tightening the grip I had on his arm.

"Mia, you're hurting me!" Damon said through clenched teeth.

"Yeah, but you did do this to me!"

Damon groaned, but he managed to break free of my grip and kissed me on my sweaty forehead instead to calm me down. It worked a bit, but it still hurt whenever I felt a contraction and it was so horrifying that I was going to give birth to my children already.

I did wonder if the reason why I had been looking two more months pregnant than I should be, but I didn't think that it would be because they were growing faster than normal children.

But just because they were ready to be born now, then it didn't mean that the birth would go fast. The painful contractions went on for hours and we ended up staying up all night, but Damon stayed with me through the whole thing – mostly, because I wouldn't let him go. Occasionally, Stefan, Elena or my brothers would come up to us with whatever we needed and help calm me down.

It was first around 4:00 in the morning that the actual birth began. The pain turned almost unbearable, but I tried ignoring the pain and thought about my dad instead. It helped a lot to think about him and that last moment I had with him where he told me that he loved me right from the beginning. The more I thought about him, the more the pain started to fade away and my screams were replaced by someone else's scream.

"Mia, look," Damon said, sounding happy even though he was tired. I opened my eyes and took a look at the crying baby in Valeria's arms. It was a beautiful, dark-haired, blue eyed girl. I smiled and wanted to cry, but I had no tears left. Valeria handed Damon the girl, because she knew that we were not done yet and I knew it too. "She's so beautiful. Like her mom."

I nodded and to Damon's surprise I started giving birth to one more child, while he cleaned our first born child. I tried focusing on my dad again, but I was so tired that I could barely keep myself awake.

Therefore, Stefan gave me some animal blood and it somewhat helped me, but I was still so sore and exhausted. But the second child was eventually born and I smiled brightly when I saw that it was another girl, because that was what Damon least wanted. He seemed to love them anyway, though, and we both held the two twin girls, who both had Damon's dark hair, but when I took another look at them I could see that they had my eyes.

"Maybe we should make sure that we can tell them apart," I said as we sat alone in Damon's bedroom with them. "We also need to find another girl name."

"Well, we could name the first born Adelina and the second born… Gabriella?" Damon suggested.

I smiled. I liked the name Gabriella and it was a good way of honoring the memory of my dad. But we still needed to be able to tell them apart, so I told Damon to take off his black Varvatos shirt and wrapped Gabriella in it, while Adelina was wrapped in a normal towel.

"There! That should do it."

Damon chuckled. "Yeah, but now you're going to pay because you ruined my shirt!"

I rolled my eyes, but Luce finally came to do her job and we watched as she chanted out ancient words, drew blood from Damon and I, and let our children drink the mixed blood.

"Does this mean that their vampire side is dormant now?" I asked worriedly when Luce handed me Adelina and handed Gabriella to Damon.

"Yes, but don't be surprised when they get older and start craving for meat!" Luce said, smiling.

I chuckled and looked down at our children. They were fast asleep and looked so… perfect.

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