A/N: Courtney, thank you so much for Beta-ing it for me, she's truly amazing she worked so hard to get my chapter done! Thanks so much, hun. Check out her stories-Cdaye8184, you won't be disappointed.

I worked hard on this chapter cause I had so many ideas but I wanted to keep it real as possible. There will be more Daddy Damon in the next chapters though.

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No, no, no, no

God no.

This could not happen, not right now. She couldn't give birth there, in the middle of a fight, with her friends and her fiancé fighting for their lives. She couldn't give birth on the floor, unprotected; alone. She was planning to give birth normally at a hospital, despite that her baby was not completely human. Damon had promised her that he would compel the nurses to let Stephanie in too, in case of an emergency. This wasn't supposed to happen.

But apparently, it was happening, and something told her that her birth process would be fast. She whimpered in pain when she felt the first contraction, and a scream escaped her lips, causing Damon, Stephanie and Bonnie's unwanted attentions on her.

She didn't miss the shock on Damon's face as he blurred behind her, and it was then that she realized she was falling, but Damon's strong arms kept her from making contact with the ground. It still amazed her how he knew her better than she knew herself; how he knew her body's actions before she even had time to process them.

"Oh God, no," Damon exclaimed when he saw the watery area and his girl going limp in his arms unfortunately knowing full well what had happened.

Stephanie and Bonnie ran towards her, but Damon stopped them. "No, don't stop," He begged, he wanted Klaus dead. If Klaus got to Elena before she gave birth, he could kill them both.

"Take her away from here," Stephanie screamed in panic, fearing that her powers would just give up now.

But before any of them could breathe out a word, Klaus blurred next to Stephanie and snapped her neck.


"Right there," Alaric told Jeremy pointing, "She's there. Bonnie informed me where they were going. But are you sure? Jeremy, you know that John Gilbert can't be trusted…" The older man said cautiously.

"I have to try," Jeremy insisted, "He told me that this weapon can end an original's life. It's a dagger made of the white oak tree, the first oak tree that created vampires. The tree oak itself or its ash is apparently fatal to the Michelson's."

"Jeremy, you know this is a huge risk-" Alaric began but was cut off by Jeremy.

"I have my ring. It protects me."

Alaric sighed. The Gilbert kid was determined. "Fine, I'll drive you there myself. I told the council to take care of the vampire problem.1,800 are down."

"Just 1,800?" He asked.

"Patience, Jeremy. Patience."


"One witch down," Klaus announced smirking, wiping away his own blood.

Damon rushed to Stephanie, trying to feed her his blood, but it was too late. She was dead, murdered in cold blood. An innocent woman who did nothing but try to balance nature, to fix what problems vampires caused and attempt to reason with them, even though it was in her blood not to. A friend. Someone Damon and Elena trusted; confided in. Dead.

He was still next to Elena before Klaus could make a move as she closed her eyes in pain, taking deep breaths as the contractions came every five minutes. She bit her lip to stop a scream when more pain followed, and tried to hold back tears when she saw her friend dead in front of her.

Moving in front of Elena and Damon, Klaus didn't show a hintof mercy even when Elena looked so weak and in pain while she was huffing and puffing her contractions' pain. Damon attempted to stand in front of Elena but Klaus shoved him away, sending him flying across the room. Bonnie knew that she could not kill Klaus using only her powers, but she could not let her best friend die in front of her.

Damon grabbed Klaus's neck in an instant, pointing a stake towards his heart, hoping that it would put him out for a few seconds at least, enough to get Elena out of there.

Then, before any of them could process anything, a young teenager appeared in the room. Damon held Klaus as he recognized the person and the teenager who was holding a weapon in his hands. Jeremy Gilbert.

Without any remorse or second thoughts, Jeremy plunged the dagger in Klaus's heart.


"Elena, we're almost there, it's going to be okay, I promise," Damon begged the girl that was fading fast in his arms. "It's okay, just stay with me, okay? Stay with me! You're strong, sweetheart. You can fight this" He urged on but it fell on deaf ears.

She tried to nod, but the pain was paralyzing her body, disallowing her to control it.

"It h-hurts…" She whimpered, the tears flowing down her cheeks frantically.

He rushed to the next house he could find, in which apparently, people used to live. He set her down on a bed and held her hand, urging her to push. He knew that this was not normal. It had to do something with the baby not completely human.

"Elena, can you hear m-me?"

"Get me some candles!" Bonnie screamed, "Now!"

"Candles?"

"She's going to die!" Bonnie screamed, "I can't feel anything in her! No strength, nothing! If she continues to use up the little strength she has left she's going to die. I have to help her!"


"Elena, can you hear me? Talk to me…"

"D-Damon," She cried, "I can't…"

"Yes, you can, take my hand," He urged her, and as Bonnie chanted the spell to help restore Elena's health.

"That's it, Elena you're doing good," Damon encouraged. "I can see her head! It won't be long now, Elena. Our baby will soon be here. "

"Awwww!" She whimpered, and then suddenly a small smile tugged at Damon's lips.

Gently holding the tiny, bloody bundle in his arms, Damon kissed his baby and put it in Elena's arms, ignoring all the blood that was in the room despite being unable to feed for a few days. The combination of fear and joy allowed him to forget the hunger. This was no time to think about his vampirism. Tears streamed down Elena's cheeks as she heard her daughter's cries, and she hugged her child with love. Bonnie wiped her own tears and was about to leave the room when Damon called her and allowed her to share their happiness. Elena stared at the infant in her arms as she opened her eyes. Tears flowed down her cheeks as she saw the bright colour of her daughter's eyes, bright blue like her daddy's.

"Oh my God, Damon, she's so beautiful," She said, holding out their little girl to him, "She has your eyes!"

"And your nose," He said, holding the baby protectively against his chest, unskillfully but gently, supporting her tiny head. "She's so tiny…"

"Her daddy will protect her," Elena said, "He will protect you just like he did with mommy…" She cooed, and the infant looked at her dad in response.

Damon's heart squealed at the sight, and he rocked the little girl lightly. He knew that he would cherish his angel forever. She was his little miracle, he never knew that a creature damned like him would be able to hold such an innocent human being. He had everything now. He had the love of his life, and he had a perfect baby girl. Damon Salvatore had everything.

He began to think of all the worry and pain both he and Elena had endured the path months with Klaus... and all the complications with Cheryl. Everybody thought their child was a lost cause but Elena believed, his fiancée had faith and his gut feeling forced him to believe her, he was lucky that he did.

"Welcome to this world, Cheryl Salvatore."


"She needs plenty of rest, but she's fine," Damon assured Jeremy when the latter came in the house worried out of his mind.

"And my niece?" He asked him with eagerness in his voice.

"Perfectly healthy," He smiled, guiding Jeremy to where Bonnie was. Jeremy saw the tiny bundle in Bennie's arms as she fed her from a bottle and he smiled a genuine smile as the baby looked up at him with her big sea blue eyes

.

"Can I hold her?" He asked Damon, and the new father happily granted him permission. Jeremy held the little girl and stroked her cheek softly with his index finger, and the baby grabbed his finger with her little hand.

"What's her name?" He whispered.

"Cheryl," Damon replied, "Cheryl-Elizabeth."

"You took my mother's second name," Jeremy smiled, "Nice choice."

"Her second name was my mother's first name," Damon smiled," Elena thought it would be suitable when we discussed middle names."

"It is," Jeremy agreed.

"I wish Stephanie was here," Damon said sadly, "She helped us so much. We needed her to be here, she deserved to be here. To meet our miracle that is only here thanks to her…"

A long moment of silence was held for their dearest friend.

"Don't worry, Klaus paid for everything that he did," Jeremy assured him, "I was there when the light left his eyes."


A few minutes later, Damon heard a small knock on the door, and he couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the familiar red head in front of him. Stephanie was standing in front of him, looking perfectly healthy, a smile tugging at her lips.

"Your blood worked," She smiled, "It healed me. Took longer than usual…but I'm here," Stephanie said, stepping forward to hug Damon. "Thanks for saving my life."

"No, thank you," Damon whispered in her hair. "For everything."

"Is Elena alright?"

"She's resting. Cheryl, on the other hand…she's still drinking in the surroundings."

"You're a lucky man, Damon," Stephanie smiled, "And a good man, too."

"I guess I have Elena to thank for that." He whispered happily before adding. "And I have you to thank for that as well. It wouldn't be possible without you, Stephanie. I hope you know that. I thank you from the bottom of my heart, for me and Elena, and Cheryl.

"You are more than welcome, Damon." The witch smiled. "It's what I do. On the contrary, it was more so Elena's work than mine. She's the one who got Cheryl on this earth in the first place, I just helped keep her here."

"Which was equally as important." Damon reminded her earning a chuckle and another smile from the witch.


"You did the right thing, John," The original witch said in John Gilbert's dream. "Giving your life for a weapon so that you can save your granddaughter and daughter from a risky life."

"I wanted this war over for so long. I couldn't let Elena lose her child." He said. It was probably the only time he cared for somebody a great deal other than himself.

"You gave up your life for love, John. You deserve heaven." And he did, all of the bad he ever did in his life was erased the moment he decided to save theirs and to sacrifice his own. He was a true hero.

John Gilbert was found dead the next morning, and no one knew the cause of his death. Only John did, and the only regret he had was that he didn't have the time to tell his daughter how much he loved her. He knew about her pregnancy all along, he knew about her fate the second they didn't find her in the Dark Dimension like she was supposed to be. He had died protecting the baby he didn't know and his daughter, and for that, John felt pleased. He'd be able to watch over them from now on.


~~~1 Year Later~~~

No one could explain the happiness Elena felt when a year later, after the war between the human and vampires ended thanks to those endless devices, met her family and friends again.

It was a tough year in Mystic Falls. The devices ended lots of vampire lives', but humans were killed too in that fight. Human slaves were brought back and heartbroken families were reunited. The council agreed to live in peace with the remaining vampires who begged for their mercy, and after consideration, Mystic Falls created a vampire territory where vampires could reside and drink only from a synthetic blood that was invented by no one other Jeremy Gilbert himself. They realized that they had to live in peace together when the devices stopped being created due to the witches using lots of magic, which apparently was harming the true nature of a witch.

Damon joined the Mystic Falls founder's council aiming to keep the town protected from everyone and he and Elena resided in the house where Elena was first taken.

When Elena entered the house, she could not believe how much her life had changed since then. She remembered being kidnapped from that party she went with Caroline and Bonnie and ending up as a slave. She remembered him meeting her in the house for the first time.

"What's your name, girl?" He had demanded, not asked, as he stared at her face. She remembered how she was getting more and more scared by the way he was looking at her, and how she had bit her lip, but quickly thought twice as she knew perfectly well that it's better if she co-operated. "E-Elena," She had whimpered.

"Elena who?" He had demanded again, however his voice was lower, she remembered that he his voice was lower…

"E-Elena-Gilbert." She instantly added.

"Remove her handcuffs," Damon had ordered to the other one, she did not remember what his name was. She thought about when he had tried to talk to her.

"You have never seen a vampire before, have you?" He had smirked, but she was too scared to answer him back. "I understand that you are scared and that you don't know what is going on around you. It's my first time keeping a human here, too, and I hope we shall come to an agreement. But first, let's take care of basic things."

She sighed as she remembered her legs almost giving out as she had thrown herself on the new bed, burying her face on the mattress, using her arms as shields as she let the tears fall down her cheeks. At that time she was sure that she wasn't going to like it there. Then she remembered Damon, chiding her…

"Don't do that,"

"What?" She whispered.

"Cry"

She smiled ironically. Who knew that she would grow to love this man? That she would carry his child inside her? Not her, not him. Not anybody really but everybody knows opposites attract and even though Damon and Elena were completely different; they were perfect for one another. Soul mates.

As she entered the hallway, her baby clutched protectively to her chest, she took in the surroundings. The hallway she ran in to get away from Damon, the door she used to try to escape, the rooms she hid in because she was so afraid of him…

The kitchen where Larissa, Damon's housemaid, encouraged her to give Damon a second chance because somehow she knew that he loved her… It was thanks to Larissa, then. It was thanks to her that she gave Damon a second chance.

She winced when she remembered the months she spent in the Dark Dimensions, As Stefan's pet…

And now, over two, hell, maybe almost three years later, she was home. She was safe and sound, and she was entering this house-crying, again-but this time, the tears weren't tears of sadness. They were tears of happiness, because her angel had recently celebrated her first birthday, and Elena got her life back. A life with Damon and Cheryl Elizabeth Salvatore.

She had cried when she saw her blonde, bubbly friend again. Caroline had apparently been taken as a slave too, and she wasn't so lucky. Alaric informed her that she was dying when they brought her back to Mystic Falls. Apparently her master beat and almost killed her when he realized that they were killing all vampires. But when she saw Elena, the four girls-Jenna and Bonnie included-hugged each other so tightly that it hurt.

And then, right at that very moment, Elena was broken out of her reverie when Damon took their daughter away from her, kissed her head, and put her in the crib.

He had become the perfect father over the last year but he practically perfected it over the first night. He did everything from bathing their daughter to changing her to feeding her to walking her. He did everything and more than he needed to do. Elena caught herself at times not helping him-but watching him, amazing by him. Amazing by how great of a father he was. Her heart warmed when she had seen him cry the first time he held her daughter and kissed her, and he was so sad when he realized that he wasn't a normal, human father. Elena had told him that nurses advised fathers to wear a vest and hold their babies close to their hearts so that the baby could be familiar with the father's heart too, besides the mother's which they had gotten used to during the nine months. She saw his face darken as she realized that she had hurt him unintentionally, because Damon didn't have a heartbeat, of course. But it didn't matter to her. He was her daughter's father, her soul mate, the love of her life. And he loved them both so much, and he was so cute with their daughter.

"Cheryl!" He smiled, "Come here, Cheryl…There, you're doing great Elena," He encouraged his daughter and his fiancé. Elena was holding Cheryl's arms lightly, trying to get her to walk. Cheryl, giggling like always, was looking at Damon's awaiting arms and she stumbled twice but kept walking to his direction.

"That's my girl!" Damon said and caught her in his embrace, before holding her like a plane in the air, tickling her in the process.

"Damon, be careful!" Elena chided, but Damon only smiled at her. "Hey, do you think I'd let my little princess fall?"

Elena smiled in return and watched him play with her, tickling her and kissing her cheeks, before turning to Elena and telling her, "Thank you for giving me a little miracle."

"You know, you had a part in it too," Elena smiled with tears in her eyes, "But you're welcome. It's the best gift I have given and received."

And here she was yet again; mesmerized by Damon's actions and falling in love with him even more... although she didn't know how that was even possible. She felt Damon take her hands and guide her to the staircase, stroking her palm in the process.

She smiled as Damon put her on the bed and undressed her, kissing every inch of her skin. She tangled her hands in his hair as he stroked her face and told her how much he loved her. Oh how those words coming from his lips was the sweetest melody she could ever hear. It was truly music to her ears and it warmed her heart every time. She would never get used to such intense feeling-such passion.


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