Chapter 21
Bonnie wrapped her hand round Miranda's eyes. Stefan scrambled for his trousers, and Elena hurried to pull in some clothes.
"Mummy what were they doing?" Elena mouthed the words 'I'm sorry' bonnie just gave Elena devil eyes and Stefan was still trying to find his trousers, all that was covering his package was his hand. Bonnie was impressed, she gave Elena a quick wink, Elena shot back a sly smile and kept looking for her clothes.
"Uncle Stefan just showing Aunt Elena how much he loved her." bonnie told her daughter and then Miranda nodded. Elena had managed to find her pants and one of Stefan's worn t-shirts that covered her to just the right length, Stefan had found his trousers but was failing to find his top.
"Miranda how about I take you upstairs to get some ice cream and then Uncle Stefan can follow us." Elena gave a small nod towards his privates which to his surprise were still aroused. "Once he has calmed down." Elena held out for Miranda's hand and she quickly turned and kissed Stefan and then mouthed 'I love you so much' Stefan whispered,
"I love you too" and Miranda grabbed Elena's hand and pulled her up stairs. Bonnie followed them with a quick look over her shoulder and a giggle.
Bonnie burst into fits of laughter as she came up the stairs,
"Stop it! It wasn't funny, frankly it was very embarrassing." bonnie just grabbed Miranda and took her to the kitchen to get some ice cream.
"What was embarrassing?" Jeremy came down the stairs with archer in his arms and saw Elena in Stefan's t-shirt "holy shit! Did my daughter just walk in on you..." it didn't need any more explanation so Elena just gave a small nod and held out her arms for archer. He made a disgusted face and handed archer over to her, he headed into the kitchen and he started to talk to bonnie. She heard them making jokes about it as she could hear them both laughing.
Elena had taken archer into the lounge and sat down on the sofa. Alaric looked up from his newspaper, "what happened?" Elena shot him a look "oh..." she grabbed archers toy off the table and stood up again. She placed archer down in his little basket, kissed his head and headed off to get Archers bottle. Even though Elena felt a very strong connection to Archer he wouldn't breast feed, he wouldn't even try, but feed him with a bottle and he is like a milkaholic.
She returned to find Alaric crouched on the floor in front of him making baby noises, Archer started to laugh and kept on trying to put his fist in his mouth. She tapped Alaric on the shoulder, he turned round to see her holding to bottle to him,
"Do you mind feeding him?" Elena gave him puppy dog eyes and he took the bottle out of her hand and picked up archer and headed over to the sofa with a towel over his shoulder. "Thank you" Elena headed into the kitchen to find a drink.
"Aunt Elena why were you and Uncle Stefan hugging naked?" Miranda took another scoop of her Ice Cream and Elena flipped on the kettle.
"Where is your brother?" Elena acted as if Miranda had never asked the question and hopped she would forget about her and Stefan's incident.
"He is in Uncle Stefan's study playing on the computer. Do you have any more Ice Cream?" she took another scoop of hers and then started to drink the melted ice cream out of the bowl. Jeremy gave a taunting look to Bonnie who laughed.
"Sorry sweetie, I don't. How about this, I take, you, Archer and Uncle Stefan out for Ice Cream. He is feeling better so he can come out with us." Miranda nodded and ran out the room to tell Alaric where they were going.
"Elena, are you sure he will be ok?" Bonnie had followed Elena up stairs, and was talking through the bedroom door while Elena got dressed.
"He will be fine, he hasn't gone for anyone and even Lexi felt he was doing well enough that she could go back to New York." The door opened and Elena stepped out, she was wearing black skinny jeans with a tight fitting Bon Jovi t-shirt. She and Stefan had gone to a concert the year before, the tickets were a birthday present for him and he loved it. They walked into Archer's room and were silent while Elena packed some things in his bag.
"If you say so but just watch him for me." Bonnie left the room leaving Elena alone. She kept on packing the bag with some spare nappies and other items, they were going to go to Stefan's and Miranda's favorite ice cream shop, Crazy Taste.
Stefan met them by the door, he was dressed and had Archer in his arms and was waving the wolf in his face, Archer was doing his high pitched laugh and Stefan looked at Elena with a massive smile and it occurred to her that he hadn't heard his son laugh.
"You ready to go munchkin?" she turned and tapped Miranda on the shoulder, she nodded and lent into Elena. Elena turned to Jeremy "We will be back within 3 hours tops, we might go to the park so I will let you know." At the sound of the park Miranda got all excited, "We better get going then. See you later guys." They all headed out the door and strapped the kids into the car, Stefan sat in the back with them while Elena drove. For the whole journey she was watching Stefan out of the corner of her eye.
As they pulled up at the Ice cream shop they all got out, Miranda waited for Elena before getting out the car and Stefan took Archer. She could see he was trying to catch up on lost time and he was doing a very good job.
"Oh, Stef, do you mind going to grab his bag, it's in the boot. Well go and queue and if you could find a table that would be great." He kissed her and then headed back over to the car to grab Archer's bag.
When he came back into the shop he saw Elena queuing with Miranda, so he went to find a table as she said. He found a quiet four seater, in the corner and placed Archer's carry case the table and sat down. Once he got in his seat and found Archer's wolf he lifted him out of his carry case and then placed it on the seat next to him. He started to lift Archer up and down and spun him in circles, he started to laugh and Stefan kissed his nose, he reached out his tiny fist and then grabbed Stefan's nose. Stefan leaned his head down and blew a raspberry on his belly, he started to laugh again.
"You have a cute baby" Stefan looked up to see a girl standing over him, she looked about 23 and was wearing a mini skirt along with a crop top. "What is his name?" Stefan was looking over her shoulder to see if Elena was looking,
"His name is Archer." Stefan pulled down Archers top so it covered his belly. "And you are?" Stefan sat Archer down in the basket. She sat down opposite him started to fiddle with her hair, Stefan let out a little chuckle under his breathe.
"Chloe, I work across the street. I get a lot of employee discounts." She pointed out the window to the lingerie shot across the street.
"Uncle Stefan! We got ice cream!" he heard Miranda running towards him and turned to look in her direction. She slowed down as she neared the table and went to sit the other side of Stefan. "Who are you?" she looked at Chloe and moved over to sit on Stefan's lap,
"I'm Chloe, and this I am guessing is your Uncle Stefan?" Miranda nodded and then started to eat her ice cream.
"Hey, were is mine?" Stefan grabbed her chubby cheeks and squeezed them, she started to laugh and then Chloe placed her hand on Stefan's arm.
"You're strong, I like that in a man." Stefan let out another laugh under his breathe, "Do you want to go on a date with me?" Chloe moved in closer and pushed her boobs out to make them bigger.
"Do you think you could leave my husband alone?" Stefan looked up to see Elena standing next to him and holding a tray. Chloe turned to look at her and had a look of shock on her face. Stefan started to laugh but stopped as soon as Miranda looked up and him and moved off his lap as quickly as she could.
"Uncle Stefan, what is up with your eyes?" Stefan lifted his hand to his face and then got up from the table and just headed towards the car. Chloe took that as her excuse to leave and then went back to her friends who all started to laugh, as soon as she sat down.
"Miranda do you want my ice cream?" she nodded and then dug into her second ice cream. "I'm just going to ring Uncle Stefan."
She sat down at the table and kept a close eye on the car which Stefan had got into and hadn't got out. She pulled he phone out of her pocket and then dialed Stefan's number.
"Elena I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." Stefan had answered the phone strait away and he had a tone of agony in his voice.
"No Stefan its ok, are you ok?" Miranda gave her an odd look and then Archer started to cry.
"Elena I'm fine, ill head back in." she watched him get out the car so she hung up and then picked up archer.
"Miranda can you pass me Archer's bottle, it's in the bag." Miranda lifted the bag off the floor while Elena was rocking Archer side to side. Stefan came back in and shot Chloe an evil look, and she just dropped her head onto her hands.
The rest of the time went well, Stefan didn't feel like ice cream after what happened so Miranda got three. Stefan pitched the idea that they go to the park and burn off some energy.
"You feeling ok?" Elena turned to Stefan as they were walking to the park.
"I'm fine, It was just my eyes, nothing else." he was holding archer and was lifting him up and down like he was in the ice cream shop, Elena grabbed his arm and he turned to look at her, she lent in a kissed him on the lips and he placed his free hand in the small of her back.
"I love you Stefan." she kissed him and then they kept on walking. When they got to the park the let Miranda go off and play and they found a bench to sit on.
"He is such a calm baby Elena, he is so peaceful." Stefan kissed archer on the nose and then looked to find Miranda, she was playing on the swings, and was talking to a little girl and her mother.
"Uncle Stefan! Bring archer over!" she shouted from the swings and then Stefan looked at Elena.
"Go ahead I'm going to get a drink from the cafe, do you want anything?" he kissed her and all the felt was the epic connection between the two of them.
"I'll have a coffee. I'll be careful, I promise. Love you." he got up with archer and headed over to Miranda, by the swings.
"What would you like munchkin?" he walked over to the swings and ruffled her hair.
"Uncle Stefan! Don't do that to my hair, daddy did it for me!" she gave him a look and he laughed and so did the other girls mum. Stefan turned to her, she was tall about his height, she had sandy blonde hair and a nice figure.
"I'm Stefan, and you are?" he was quite consist when it came to people he didn't know that well, it was a bit after being alive for so long. He and Damon used it to see if they could really trust the person.
"Cindy, and this is my daughter Alice. Your niece has very good manners."
Stefan moved archers blanket down to reveal his face a bit more.
"Who is this little guy?" she stopped pushing Alice on the swing and came over to look at Archer,
"This is my son, archer." Stefan tilted him up a bit so she could get a better look at him.
"Well he is very cute, so how are you related to Miranda?" she was very forward and didn't stand for any unnecessary conversation.
"I am married to her mum's brother but, she is like a daughter to me, she stays with us all the time. Are you married?" she shook her head and looked at the floor, he knew that reaction too well.
"I did but he passed away a year ago, he was hit by a car."
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you Sad." Stefan always had a way with people maybe it was just his looks, the muscular arms, the firm chest that always showed through any t-shirt he was wearing or it was just his personality, he was kind, caring and always thoughtful.
"hey, how are my favorite guys?" he didn't hear Elena come up behind him, she was holding two cups of coffee, and had a big smile on her face.
"Hey Stefan." he hadn't noticed the man standing behind her either.
"Klaus, it's been a long time. Who are you?" Klaus laughed and kept on smiling
"Forget about me, hand over the little guy." Klaus had this way with him that made you want to do what he said even if he wasn't compelling you, maybe it was because he is an original or maybe because he is a hybrid, or just because he is British.
"Hi I'm Klaus, nice to meet you, and you are?" he held out his hand towards Cindy and she accepted,
"Are all of your friends this forward?" she looked at Stefan and they smiled,
"I'm Cindy and this is Alice." she gestured to Alice who had gone off to the slide with Miranda.
"Nice to meet you, now if you don't mind I am going to kidnap this little guy because Alex wants to see him." he leaned in a kissed Elena on the cheek and then walked off into the cafe.
"Be careful with him!" Elena managed to shout and then Klaus just walked off.
"This is my wife, Elena." he wrapped his arm round her waist and they started to walk to one of the tables by the play areas.
"Hi, you have a very cute niece. If you don't mind me asking, why did you let that man take your son? I dint mean to be rude, but when Alice was that young I wouldn't let anyone near her."
The found a table and sat down, Elena leaned into Stefan and he answered her question,
"I have known him for many years and he is a person I trust, he means a lot to me, he was there for me when my parents died. And he has been there for us." Cindy relaxed a bit and then stiffened again as Stefan opened his mouth, "about 8 years ago he found out that this women who he had a one night stand with was pregnant, and he stuck by her and when she became really ill he stuck by her still, and when she died her took full reasonability of Alex, his son." Cindy relaxed and then started to rummage through her purse. "I would trust that man with my life with my child." Cindy held up a finger and then found what she was looking for,
"Two years ago, I met a man in a bar, we both got drunk all I knew about him was that he went by the name of Klaus, and there can't be many of them." Elena didn't like where this was going especially as three years ago he and Caroline got married, "skipping all the messy detail, we ended up going back to my place and sleeping together. I woke up the next morning to find him gone and a watch on the night stand" she held up the item she had been searching for,
Stefan grabbed it out of her hand, and then looked at it, on the back of the watch there was an engraving,
I love you Niklaus Mikaelson
-Caroline
Stefan turned to Elena who looked very angry,
"I am going to kill that son of a Bitch!" she got up and stormed off towards the Café.
"Did I do anything wrong?" Cindy asked him, Stefan dropped his head into his hands and then groaned.
"No. No you didn't. The man you slept with, was my friend but the Caroline is his wife, and one of Elena's best friends."