Authors Note; I own nothing TVD or Covenant related, just Verity. There's a new character entering the story in this chapter.
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Chapter 29.
Verity and Stefan took two days to recover from their night of partying, even Stefan had admitted to feeling slightly worse for wear! Stefan was in the shower and Verity was in the kitchen in her dressing gown, making two large mugs of coffee and about to start making a round of bacon sandwiches when she heard the front door slam shut, expecting it to be Kol, she turned around and was about to offer to make him a sandwich too when she gave a shocked look. Standing in front of her was her brother-in-law Damon and behind him was a girl she had never seen before.
"Hello little sister." Damon smirked.
"Hello older brother." Verity smiled, "Whose your friend?" The girl behind him smile awkwardly.
"No hug for me first?" Damon pretended to look wounded as he walked to Verity and scooped her up in his arms and squeezed her tightly.
"Okay Damon, as much as we love and miss you, I need to breath." Verity struggled in his tight grip, once he let her go, she placed a brief kiss on his cheek before walking over to the tanned, dark haired and brown eyed girl in the door way.
"Hi, I'm Verity." She extended her hand to shake the girls.
"I'm Jazi." She smiled, shaking Verity's hand.
"It's really nice to meet you. Damon, make the girl a drink." Verity rolled her eyes. "Men!"
"Hopeless right?" Jazi joked, the two young women laughed.
"So are you two…..dating?" Verity asked.
"Yes, for a while now. Actually for a long while." Damon explained, while he poured out three mugs of coffee, handing one to each to the girls.
"Great. Jazi why don't you take a seat? In the living room? We'll be right in. Make yourself at home." Verity smiled, Jazi said a quite okay and made her way in the vast room and walked over to the fireplace, looking at the various photos of Stefan and Verity's wedding and honey moon and smiled.
Damon was about to follow his girlfriend before Verity grabbed his wrist.
"When did this happen?" She hissed. Damon shrugged.
"Ages ago. It's nothing Ver, really." Damon said softly, she sighed.
"What about Ca-"
"Stop. I'm a lot happier, moving back in to town, she makes me happy." He explained. Verity nodded and gave him a small smile.
"Okay, you best go in there while I go get dressed. I'll be down soon." Verity pushed him playfully towards the living room while she walked up the stairs, meeting Stefan halfway.
"I thought I heard voices, whose Damon with?" He asked. Verity handed him her mug and walking slowly up the rest of the stairs.
"His new girlfriend Jazi, don't ask." She said, cutting him off as he was about to ask a question.
Stefan introduced himself to Jazi and began to make bacon sandwiches while Verity quickly showered and dressed in an effort to get back downstairs quickly. She entered the kitchen and Jazi handed her a cheese sandwich with a smile.
"Thanks. Do you want to eat these in the other room?" Verity asked with a smile.
"Sure, I guess girl time bonding would be great. Lead the way." Jazi grinned and they began to make themselves comfortable on the sofa.
"So, how did you guys meet?" Verity asked, taking a bite.
"I guess we met in a bar, it's a bit of a blur really I guess! He makes me very happy, and I think I make him happy too." She smiled.
"That's good." Verity smiled.
"I know exactly what I'm getting in to Verity, I know what he is and I know his history, and I accept that. Which is why we're moving in to a nice house really close to here. He wants to be close to his family."
"Huh, I never actually thought I'd see the softy side of Damon. Clearly you bring out the best in him."
The pair laughed.
"Well I try my best." Jazi shrugged with a grin.
"You'll have your hands full with him!" Verity joked.
"I think it's more like the other way around, I can be a real handful myself!"
"You don't seem that bad! Well if Damon is happy then I'm happy. And because you'll be living so close by, we should really go do some girl bonding in a spa."
"Yes! That's a great idea! I love a god pamper day!"
"Me too! It's been very stressful here the last week so I think a massage and some quiet is much needed!"
As the girls planned their spa day and gossiped and generally got to know each other, the two brothers caught up in the kitchen.
"She seems nice." Stefan stated.
"She is. I'm a very lucky guy. And we're moving closer, the old house that used to have an apple orchard when we were younger." Damon sipped his coffee.
"The one where they made the cider?"
"Yup."
"The one that's at the end of our garden?"
"Just a stone's throw away my brother. If you don't mind me being so close?"
"Not at all! They seem to be getting on great, and Verity could use an extra girl-friend, especially with waiting so long to hear from the adoption agency, it's wearing her down."
"Is that all? She looks tired but I thought maybe you were keeping her up all night again?" Damon wriggled his eyebrows and smirked, Stefan sighed.
"Not at all, she's having some family drama. Her parents had us over the other night and told Verity she has a younger half-sister and they kept it from her this whole time. She's pretty upset about it."
"Jeez! Great parents, you know at the wedding I wasn't too keen on the mother, too tightly strung. It's obvious she's the one wearing the trousers in that house."
"Damon."
"What? It's true."
"I guess so, she was the one who wanted to keep it from Verity. I guess it's never really a good thing to blurt out to your daughter though. I could never do that."
"And you won't. You'll be much better parents. Speaking of which, have you still not heard anything? It's been too long."
"I know, I'm tempted to go down there and get some answers, but I know Verity wouldn't like that.
"Who says she has to know?"
"I do. We have a marriage based on trust and honesty; I would never compel her or do anything she didn't want me to."
"Are you sure you're the same Stefan Salvatore?"
"Of course I am." Stefan chuckled. "Why wouldn't I be?"
"You're just far from the brother I had when we first began living this life, being vampires."
"We both are. Those days are far from over. We have good women and have seriously good lives now."
"Couldn't have said it better myself." Damon smirked.
Later that night, Stefan sat in bed reading his book, Verity was putting the freshly laundered clothes away, smiling.
"What's that day dreamy look for Princess?" Stefan asked, smiling himself. Verity shrugged.
"It's going to be so nice, having Damon living so close. I think it's just great that we're living in the house you two grew up in and he's going to be living in the house that you two spent a lot of time playing in the gardens. Are they going to keep the orchard as it is?" Verity slid in to bed next to him and picked up her book from the night stand.
"Yes, which will be nice. You know we can get to their house by the back gate at the bottom of the garden? At the end of the rose garden." Stefan turned his page, watching Verity smile.
"We can? She asked, excitedly.
"Yes, that gate leads straight on to the path through the orchard. It's a lovely walk in the summer."
"Isn't this going to be great? Our little ones can grow up playing where you and Damon did, and just be a short walk away from their uncle."
"Kids?" Stefan closed his book and turned to face his wife with a large smile on his face.
"Yes, kids. You didn't think you were going to get away with us just having the one did you?" She smiled, placing a kiss on his lips.
"I didn't really think about how many we would have."
"How many would you want?" She asked.
"Well I had a brother, so two would be nice. Maybe four."
"Four?" Verity said with a shocked look.
"Well if we have three, that means that one of them will always feel left out when they play games, and least with four it's an even team."
"A team of four"
"Yes, a team of four. And it's not like you have to give birth to them, so you don't have to worry about the pain of it." Stefan smiled, Verity gave a little laugh.
"Yes I guess that's true. So two of each then?"
"Two of each. But as long as we have each other I don't care." He smiled and stroked Verity's cheek and she sighed.
"What's the matter princess?"
"Nothing, I just wish there was a way that one day, well in to the future, we could find a way to make one of our own."
"I know you do Princess, and I do too. As long it makes you happy, I'll keep looking for some way to make that happen."
"You will?"
"I will."
