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Chapter Twenty: Moments
"…What's with all the pancakes?" Caroline asked looking around the kitchen
"Long story" Jeremy said
"You see Elena, this is a perfect example of why the Boarding House should be put in your name, it keeps the annoying vampires out" Damon said with a smirk
Elena just glared at him for a second and then looked back at Stefan and Caroline. They weren't holding each other, they weren't holding hand, they were apart, and they didn't look like people who had just kissed.
"So, what are you guys doing today…other than eating pancakes?" Caroline asked and sat down next to Bonnie at the table
"Well, Bonnie was telling us about practicing her invisibility spells" Damon said with a smirk in her direction
Bonnie glared at him and Damon started to get that all too familiar sharp pain in his head.
"Okay, I'm done" Damon said and Bonnie stopped with a smile on her face
"Oh that's cool, you can be invisible now Bonnie?" Caroline asked
"Yeah, but…it's not really that cool" Bonnie said while trying not to looks at Caroline or Stefan to keep from remembering what she saw in the woods
"Oh for crying out loud," Isobel sighed "Bonnie was practicing her spell in the woods, you two ran by and she saw you kiss her" Isobel said while pointing to Stefan and Caroline
Stefan and Caroline looked at each other for a minute not exactly sure what to say.
"Katherine is going to kill the both of you" Damon said with a smirk
"Would you stop being a jackass now Damon?" Elena hissed at him
"Yes dear" Damon sighed and Elena rolled her eyes at him
"So, are you going to start explaining?" Isobel asked Stefan and Caroline
"We don't have to explain anything, come on Caroline" Stefan sighed
Caroline stood up from the table and walked out of the house with Stefan without looking at anyone.
"Let them go, it's not our problem" Damon sighed
"Damon, if Katherine finds out, you know all hell is going to break loose, right?" Anna asked Damon
"Duh" Damon said "So…we have to keep quiet. For once we have to save Saint Stefan and Blondie's asses otherwise we'll have to deal with the crazy physco bitch…again" Damon sighed
"Good idea" Anna said "So, how about we all forget it ever happened?"
"Easier said than done" Bonnie sighed
"If you want me to I can just erase your memory of it" Isobel spoke up
"No, I'll keep quiet about it, I swear" Bonnie said
"Alright" Isobel said and sat down at the table next to Jeremy and started eating pancakes
"Elena, are you going to eat?" Jeremy asked pointing out all the pancakes still in the kitchen
"No, I feel kind of sick" Elena said and put her hands on her stomach
"You know, I had a lot of morning sickness while I was pregnant with you" Isobel said
"Good to know" Elena sighed and walked upstairs towards the bathroom
"She's been doing that a lot lately" Damon sighed
"Well, changing the subject" Jeremy said "There's no way we can get rid of all these pancakes"
"That means something coming from the black hole himself" Damon said and Jeremy rolled his eyes at him
"I say we unload them on Alaric and Jenna" Isobel said
"You know, I think we just might get along Isobel" Damon smiled "Come on, let's pack these things up and drop them off before Elena comes back down here and stops us"
Elena still felt sick to her stomach, but she was better now. She was walking downstairs and heard the front door open up, a little bit of laughing, and the door slam shut.
"Hello?" Elena asked when she walked downstairs to not only find the kitchen empty of pancakes, but empty of people
"Elena" Bonnie said and walked up from behind her in the living room
"Oh Bonnie" Elena said and grabbed her chest "You scared me, where is everyone?"
"They went hunting" Bonnie said "They'll be back"
"Where are all the pancakes?" Elena asked
"Some are in the fridge now" Bonnie said "But the rest…Jeremy ate them" Bonnie lied
"…Serious?" Elena asked and looked around the kitchen "Well, he always has had a really big appetite" Elena sighed and walked into the kitchen and opened up the fridge and saw the remaining pancakes there, she ignored them and grabbed a jar of pickles and opened them up and started eating them
"I thought you hated pickles?" Bonnie asked
"I do" Elena said and kept eating "But obviously, the babies don't"
"Obviously" Bonnie laughed
"Bonnie…if you had a boy, what would you name him?" Elena asked "I've been kind of stumped on that one and no way am I naming him after Damon" Elena laughed
"Well…I don't know, what about…Grayson?" Bonnie asked Elena
"Grayson…yeah, I like that name" Elena said and smiled "Isobel and Grayson Salvatore"
"You're naming the girl Isobel?" Bonnie asked
"Yeah" Elena smiled "She saved me from Katherine and almost got killed herself"
"So I guess the whole Isobel trying to be your mom thing is working out pretty good now, huh?" Bonnie asked
"Yeah, it is" Elena smiled
Before Bonnie and Elena could continue their conversation, everyone walked in through the door.
"How was hunting?" Elena asked as they walked into the kitchen and Bonnie glared at them
"Oh, uh, great" Damon smiled and walked over to Elena, wrapped his arms around her and kissed her on the cheek "I thought you hated pickles?" He asked and saw her eating them
"I do, your children don't" Elena said "And Jeremy, I know you eat a lot, but that was a lot of pancakes!"
Jeremy looked confused for a minute but then looked at Bonnie; he knew he had to play along with it now.
"What can I say? I was really hungry and Damon makes awesome pancakes" Jeremy smiled
Suddenly the phone rang and Elena broke away from Damon's arms to answer the phone.
"Hello?" Elena answered
"Elena…where's Damon?" Jenna asked, sounding kind of pissed off
"…Right here, why?" Elena asked
"Tell him to run as fast as he can because I'm going to kill him" Jenna said calmly, but Elena could tell she was really pissed off
Elena turned around to give a death glare to Damon, but he, Jeremy, Anna, and Isobel were all gone already, all that was left was Bonnie.
"I know nothing" Bonnie said
"What did Damon do now Jenna?" Elena asked
"Let's just say Alaric and I will have pancakes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, for a very long time" Jenna said "Is Damon gone yet? Because Alaric's already on the way there"
"Yeah, he took off already, I'll talk to Alaric when he gets here" Elena sighed "Sorry Jenna, but you know Damon's like one giant five year old sometimes"
"Yeah, I know" Jenna sighed "Bye Elena"
"Bye" Elena said and hung up the phone "I'm going to put vervain in everything in the house" Elena huffed and walked over to the door as Alaric knocked on it
"Well, I think ruining his favorite scotch is a fair trade. The kitchen is going to smell like maple syrup for a month" Alaric sighed and walked away from the scotch he just put vervain in and joined Elena and Bonnie on the couch
"He'll get over it sooner or later" Elena sighed
"I feel like we're punishing a group of six year olds" Bonnie said
"In a way, we are" Elena said
"She has a point" Alaric said and Bonnie nodded in agreement
Elena heard the back door quietly open and a bunch of whispering. The door gently shut and Elena knew they were walking this way, probably expecting to face a very pissed off Elena, Alaric, and possibly even Jenna. But they got off easy today, no Jenna. Damon, Isobel, Anna, and Jeremy all walked into the living room and looked like puppies with tails between their legs as if they were about to get punished terribly.
"Alaric" Damon said
"Damon" Alaric said
"…Your not going to try to stake all of us now, are you?" Damon asked
"Nope. Elena talked me out of that one. You're lucky she loves all of you" Alaric sighed
"I love you Elena" Damon said innocently and smiled towards her
"Yeah, yeah, whatever" Elena sighed, she wasn't letting him or any of them off that easily
"All of you know that the kitchen is going to smell like maple syrup for months" Alaric said "I'll never be able to look at pancakes the same way ever again"
"Sorry" Damon, Isobel, Jeremy, and Anna all said in unison and refused to look at Bonnie, Elena, or Alaric while they said it, Elena kept herself from laughing, it really was like they were punishing a bunch of grown up 6 year olds
"Yeah, whatever" Alaric sighed "I'm going to go take care of mess in the kitchen now"
"Go help them" Elena said glaring at all of them
"Fine" They all sighed and walked out the front door with Alaric
"…You trust them to not kill Jenna and Alaric?" Bonnie asked
"I'm trusting Jenna and Alaric not to kill them" Elena said "Obviously you haven't seen Jenna with the blow torch yet"
"Obviously not" Bonnie sighed "So what are we going to do about Caroline and Stefan?"
"Pretend we know nothing, remember?" Elena said
"Yeah, I just feel like we should do something to help them though, I mean, Caroline is still our friend, and you don't want Katherine to kill her, right?" Bonnie asked
"You have a point there" Elena sighed "But as of right now, there's nothing we can do about that"
"I don't know what you see in her" Katherine sighed and looked at the picture in front of her "Other than a cheap copy of me" Katherine said and threw the picture of Elena into the fireplace and watched it burn before she turned around to see Stefan and Caroline sitting down on the couch behind her "So, what did you two do today?" Katherine asked, sounding somewhat uninterested but asked anyway
"Stefan was teaching me tracking and fighting" Caroline said while avoiding Stefan and Katherine's gaze
"And did you get any better at it?" Katherine asked, uninterested again
"I guess" Caroline sighed
"Good" Katherine said and sat down next to Stefan with a glass of blood in her hands
"So when do you have us leaving here Katherine?" Stefan asked
"Who said anything about leaving?" Katherine asked
"What?" Stefan and Caroline asked at the same time and looked at her shocked
"I like it here" Katherine said with a smirk "Everyone's afraid of me here"
"No exactly everyone" Caroline said "Didn't Damon and Isobel try to kill you?"
"Your point is?" Katherine asked and Caroline looked away from her "…Look at me Caroline" Katherine said noticing how Caroline who usually always looked her in the eyes looked away from her now, she was hiding something
Caroline sighed and looked at Katherine in her eyes; she hoped that Katherine wouldn't see her lying through her teeth to her.
"What are you hiding Caroline?" Katherine asked and stood up in front of Caroline now
"Katherine, leave her alone" Stefan sighed
Katherine looked at Stefan now and looked him in the eyes. Sure, he was alive longer than Caroline and knew how to lie, but he didn't know how to lie to Katherine. And even though he tried to hide it, Katherine saw that he was hiding something too.
"What are the both of you hiding?" Katherine hissed
"Nothing" Stefan said firmly, still trying to lie to Katherine
"You're a bad liar Stefan" Katherine said with a smirk
It was already nighttime by the time Damon walked through the doors of the Boarding House to come back after spending an entire day helping Jenna and Alaric. And it wasn't just with the pancakes; part of the punishment for the pancakes was to help them with everything that day. Damon walked into the living room and picked up his bottle of scotch and walked it into the kitchen and threw it out, at least after everything Alaric told him what he did to his scotch so he wouldn't poison himself later. His sense of smell was shot for right now after smelling nothing but maple syrup and soap today; he wouldn't smell anything normal until tomorrow morning at least. He walked back into the living room with a glass of blood and just sat there for a minute in the dark, just wanting to relax. But that was quickly interrupted when the light was flicked on; Damon knew already that it was Elena.
"I'm back" He sighed while staying in place, not turning around to face the wrath of his fiancé at the moment
"I'm glad your home" Elena said, her voice was lighter than Damon expected "Sorry they worked you like a horse today" She said, still not walking towards him "But Jenna was really pissed off about that"
"Yeah, I know" Damon sighed
"What else happened over there?" Elena asked
"Other than me being two seconds away from killing Jeremy and that attitude of his myself, nothing much. But I swear, it was like Jenna was bi-polar or something. One minute she was nice to all of us, the next she was snapping our necks" Damon sighed "But she was easy on Isobel the entire day…actually, Isobel did nothing but talk to Jenna all day, the rest of us, well, not so lucky"
"Jenna's just a little stressed out I guess" Elena said "She has a lot going on and doesn't need a house full of pancakes"
"I guess you have a point" Damon sighed "Aren't you going to come over here?" Damon asked, still too drained of energy to really turn around and look at Elena
"I guess so" Elena said and walked over and sat down on the couch next to Damon
Damon finally looked over at Elena and his eyes widened when he saw Elena sitting there.
"I haven't seen you wear that before…ever" Damon said and leaned over to her and started kissing her neck and Elena just laughed a little
"Well, I wanted to say sorry too" Elena said and pushed Damon off of her for a minute but Damon couldn't keep his eyes off of her in that silk nightgown
"Sorry for what?" He said finally looking back up at Elena
"For making you work all day, I know you were really stressed out too, about everything going on, I mean that's why you made all those pancakes in the first place anyway" Elena sighed "So, I'm sorry"
"Apology accepted" Damon said and started kissing Elena again and she just kept giggling every time Damon kissed her "You know, something tells me that Jeremy and Anna will be walking through that door any minute now, and I really don't want this interrupted. So," Damon said and in a flash he had Elena in his arms "What do you say?"
"Well, it's the whole reason why I put this on anyway" Elena smiled and kissed him
"I'll take that as a yes" Damon said with a smirk and carried Elena upstairs.
Jeremy and Anna walked through the front door of the Boarding House, too tired to care what was going on in the house if anything was going on. Their sense of smell and hearing were shot pretty much from the loud sounds of the vacuum and the overbearing smell of too much soap. Jeremy got him and Anna both a glass of blood and sat down at the kitchen table, trying to relax.
"You know, even though we worked our asses off today, I'm still happy for Jenna and Alaric" Jeremy said and smiled a little
"Yeah, did they tell Damon? I know Jenna told Elena over the phone while she was with Isobel that was before I had to use that damn vacuum" Anna sighed
"I don't think they told him" Jeremy said "But you know Elena will tell him"
"It'll be Damon's worst nightmare" Anna laughed "Two pregnant women at the same time. Not only that, but it's also Jenna and Alaric's kid" Anna smiled
"A baby vampire hunter" Jeremy smiled "Oh, Damon's going to be in a living hell"
"I hope Elena didn't tell him yet, I'd love to see his face when she does tell him though" Anna laughed
"Me too" Jeremy smiled
A/N: Okay, so now not only is Damon dealing with Elena pregnant, but Jenna now too :P And this chapter was one of my favorites to write, I loved making Damon and the rest of them get in trouble like a bunch of five year olds xP
I was gonna post this earlier, but I don't even remember what has happened in the past 24 hours :P I've been working, already, with my neighbors in turning their house into one giant haunted house for Halloween. Then again, I really don't think it's considered "haunted house" because their turning it into Wonderland, literally, their doing an Alice and Wonderland theme this year, tea party and all xP And, if you're wondering if they are insane for starting decorating already, yes, they are, they are as mad as a hatter xP
Moving on back to the story, I hope you guys like this chapter! I love you guys so much! xoxo, Avril