Chapter 28

Stefan stared blankly at the letter and them he shook the envelope and a set of car keys tipped out onto his hands, Paola started to smile and doing tiny jumps on the spot

"Elena!" Stefan shouted behind him and it was only a matter of seconds until she was standing behind him with Archer in her arms. "Damon contacted us." He held up the car keys and then looked at Paola who was still smiling from ear to ear,

"Great, this is the fun part." She rubbed her hands together as if she was planning something, "if both of you would kindly step out of the house and follow me round the corner, the gift from the sender is waiting for you." She stepped out of their way and they looked at each other and then Stefan stepped out the house and followed Paola round the corner. This was when Stefan got worried about being shirtless, he was fine in the house but as soon and he was in full view of their neighbours then it was getting weird.

"Ah, Stefan looking good!" one of the ladies shouted from her porch, and Elena couldn't help but smile another one shouted "Stefan, you look so sexy!" and he got some angry looks from her husband. As they neared the corner, there was a crowd of kids from the local high school gathering round something. Paola kindly pushed through them all to reveal a silver lambogine,

"Shit!" Stefan screamed and ran around the car, looking at every aspect, Elena was sure a few of the girls grabbed his bum or were gossiping about his muscles or his looks but Stefan was way more interested in the car. "Paola you can go now, can you tell Damon that I am very thankful and I will keep his promise." Elena gave him an odd look but then forgot about it.

"Elena, this is the car that I always told Damon I wanted they only made around 500 of them and he got us one!"

Elena was not that bothered and she just wanted to sit down and watch films like Archer had suggested, she left Stefan alone with his little toy and then headed back to watch some TV with her son.

It had been 5 days since they had received the car from Damon, and the novelty had worn off

A bit, however Stefan did love the looks he got at he pulled up for work or to pick up Archer from nursery. They hadn't told Archer about Elena being pregnant and thought it would be better to tell him a bit later on.

Caroline had come down for the weekend to see the car and had begged Elena to go out for lunch just the two of them. Stefan was going to take Archer out house hunting with Ric, although all Elena knew was that they were taking him out for the day.

"Elena, look all I am saying is that I am worried." Caroline had been going on and on about how they were only a week away from adopting this really cute little girl called Olivia, whose birth mother was only 15. Apparently her and Klaus agreed on a girl because then Alex could feel like and older brother and protect his little sister. "What is he cheats on me again? What if she doesn't get on with Alex? There is loads of things we haven't thought about." Elena just sat there eating her burger nodding along to what Caroline was saying and giving bland answers every now and then.

"Daddy where are we going?" Archer was sitting in the back of the car, they had taken Elena's car, so that Archer could fit in.

"We are going to look for a house, because we are going to need a bigger one." Stefan eyed Ric, who was smiling. Stefan climbed out of the car and so did Ric, they had parked outside an estate agency and had a booking, to meet with the manager, who was friends with Ric. Stefan headed to the back of the car and unclipped Archer from his car seat, he climbed down and then ran over to Ric, "what happened to me Arch?" Archer let out a little giggle,

"Uncle Ric, gives me presents." Stefan locked the car and gave Ric a witty smile and Stefan muttered under his breath,

"I gave your life, but does that not count?" Alaric head and laughed at the comment and then they went into the building.

"Ric! How are you buddy?" they were greeted by a man whose name tag read, Tim.

"I'm good, thanks for meeting us. This is Elena's husband Stefan and their son Archer." Stefan shook him hand and Archer sunk his head into Ric's neck.

"Don't worry, it is nice to meet you, so what are you looking for?" he lead them into a small office and they took a seat. "Archer if you want there is a little play room out there." He pointed to a little court yard which had some toys in it, Archer jumped of Ric's lap and ran out the door, "ok, Stefan what are you looking for? Bedrooms? Bathrooms?"

"I am looking for 5 bedrooms one with an on-suite, a study, nice garden for the kids to play in. good size kitchen."

"Does Elena do all the cooking?" both, Stefan and Ric let out a laugh,

"No, definitely not. My family came over here in the 19th century were are officially from Italy, it's were Salvatore come from, so the roots demand for me to be a good cook."

"Ok, well I am sure I can find something you will like, you said Kids as in plural, is Archer not your only child?" he was taking notes every now and then,

"At the moment yes, but we are expecting another one." Stefan had a smile spread across his face and looked out to see Archer playing with another little boy.

Elena had eaten her burger and Caroline's as well as a sharing desert, she was sure the waiter thought she had some eating problem.

Elena dropped her spoon into the cup of tea that sat in front of her, she felt a sharp pain in her stomach,

"Elena are you ok?" Caroline was leaning forward to see if she was ok, Elena felt another sharp pain and then her hand rushed to her stomach, and she felt blood. She held up her hand and then Caroline was by her side in an instant, "someone call 911!" she shouted across the room and then it all went black.

"Stefan I think you will like this one, there is 5 bedrooms each of them with an on-suite, a very nice kitchen, a family room along with a play room. There is also a study-"

Stefan's phone started to ring, he pulled it out of his pocket. It was Caroline.

"I'm sorry, I have to take this." He left the room quickly to answer his phone,

"Caroline what is it? I am looking at houses" He held his hand up to his other ear as he couldn't hear her clearly as there were sirens in the back ground.

"It's Elena, we are going to the hospital. She had a miscarriage. Stefan I am so sorry." He hung up the phone and then ran back into the room.

"Ric, grab Archer, its Elena she is in the hospital. I'm going to go ahead but can you look after him, take him home and just watch TV with him I will fill you in later." He didn't wait for his reply but he left and started to run for the hospital that was only 5 minutes away.