A/N: As usual, anything you recognise is not mine!
I also seem to have gotten my writing mojo back! You'll notice you've not waited weeks for an update, only days! And the next chapter is already in progress!
Thank you to everyone who has reviewed, followed and/our favourited both me and this story. You keep me wanting to carry on writing!
We find out if baby is a boy or a girl in this chapter. There is another author's note at the end about the name!
July 6th, 2010
The last couple of weeks have been relatively quiet. When Caroline didn't reply about the girl's day the other week, Damon and I went looking for her the following day. Apparently Carol Lockwood had suspicions about her and Tyler being vampires, and had put vervain on her purse. When she went to pick it up as she was sneaking out on Tyler the night of Elena's birthday party it burned her, so Carol injected her with vervain and locked her up. She called Bill Forbes who came and proceeded to torture the vampire out of her. Who would even do that to their own child?!
Bonnie, Elena and I spent time with her in the days that followed to help her deal with the torture, and in true Caroline fashion she soon bounced back to her usual self. As a parent myself I would quite happily kill Bill Forbes if I ever see him again. Damon feels the same, which is quite the contradiction to the image he portrayed of himself before we met. Of course only those close to him get to see that side of him. To the rest of the world he's still big bad Damon Salvatore.
"Come on Imz!" Damon calls up the stairs. "Your breakfast is getting cold."
"I'm coming." I reply, starting down the stairs.
Today we have another appointment with Dr Fell to check on the baby and also find out the gender. I'm 17 weeks along now, nearly halfway. I had to go shopping a couple of weeks ago for new clothes as barely anything fit anymore. Damon came with me and both Scarlett and bump ended up with a bunch of stuff. Scarlett got some new clothes and a couple toys and bump got a few neutral outfits. We're waiting to find out whether we're having a boy or another girl before we buy anything else, although Damon has already started work on the room next to ours (the opposite side to the nursery Damon did for Scarlett) to turn it into a princess themed room for Scarlett. We have the furniture ordered and it should arrive in a couple of weeks. We will then freshen up the nursery for bump, ready for when her or she arrives.
I walk into the kitchen and see Damon sat with Scarlett whilst she chews on some toast.
"Who's my beautiful baby girl?" He coos at her. I always find it so cute when he talks to her like that. He's so good with her and she adores him. She's a Daddy's girl and most definitely has him wrapped around her finger.
"Mama" Scarlett replies.
Damon chuckles lightly. "Yes, she's beautiful too."
I sit down and eat my breakfast whilst Damon coaxes Scarlett to eat and warms up blood bags for both of us. Who said men can't multi task?
Once we are all fed I clean up Scarlett whilst Damon cleans the kitchen and loads the dishwasher at vampire speed, which makes Scarlett giggle. We head to the library once we're finished so Scarlett can play until we need to leave. I set Scarlett on the floor with her toys and Damon and I cuddle on one of the leather couches.
"I still don't understand how I got so lucky." Damon says.
"Don't question it, just be happy." I reply.
We sit watching our Daughter play for a little while then she crawls over to the chair and pulls herself up to stand. She's been doing this for a few weeks now, but so far she hasn't taken any steps without holding on to something.
"Dada, mama." She says. We both look at her and see she is standing without holding on to the chair. As we look at her she tentatively moves one foot forwards and takes her first shaky step. Damon and I look at each with massive grins on our faces then turn back as she takes her second step, then a third. Soon she has made her way from the chair to the sofa we are sitting on. Damon scoops her up in his arms and she giggles.
"Dada!" She squeals as he pretends to nibble on her with his fangs, something she has loved since Damon came into our lives. I laugh at the two, thinking that I'm extremely happy with my life right now.
"I can't believe she's walking." I say with a sob.
"Are you okay?" Damon asks, a small frown on his face.
"I'm fine. She's growing too fast. And stupid pregnancy hormones." I say. Damon gives me a small smile and kisses my head.
"I know." He sighs. "But I love watching her learn new things."
"Me too." I reply.
We drop Scarlett off with Aunt Jenna and Mason and head to the hospital for our appointment. We arrive and head to the waiting area after letting the receptionist know we're here. We're don't wait long before Dr Fell comes out and calls us in. We follow her into the room and I settle on the bed whilst Damon sits in the chair next to me.
"How have you been?" Dr Fell asks.
"I've been okay." I reply.
Dr Fell then asks me to roll up my shirt and squirts the gel on my bump for the scan. She takes the probe and moves it over my stomach, and we soon hear the heartbeat and see our baby on the screen. Damon stares at the screen in awe as he has done at every appointment we've had.
Dr Fell continues, taking various measurements and making sure everything is as it should be.
"Everything looks perfect" she says with a smile. "Baby is growing well and is healthy. Do you want to know what you're having?"
I look at Damon and he smiles. We have already talked about this; I found out with Scarlett and he wants to know too. We don't mind whether it's a boy or a girl, but we've agreed we want to find out.
"Yes please." I say to Dr Fell. She smiles in response and moves the probe around. She soon has what she wanted and points to the screen, where we can see a potty shot of our baby.
"Can you see?" She asks me.
I nod and smile widely. Damon looks confused.
"I can tell it's a potty shot but I have no idea." He says. Dr Fell and I both chuckle at him. He frowns in response at us.
"It's a boy." Dr Fell tells him, confirming what I had thought. Damon grins at us. Dr Fell points out the legs and boys parts on the screen and prints out various pictures for us. We say our goodbyes and head out to the car.
"A boy." Damon says, still grinning. I know he would have been equally as happy with a girl, but I also know he is pleased to have a boy to continue the Salvatore name for future generations.
"Yep, a boy. We'll have one of each." I say, also grinning.
"We will. It's perfect." He replies.
We arrive at the Gilbert house and head inside. Scarlett sees us and grins at us.
"Dada! Mama!" She says before pulling herself up and toddling towards us. I scoop her up and we go into the living room to sit down.
"Well?!" Jenna asks, practically bouncing with anticipation.
I grin and give her the pictures to look at.
"This doesn't tell me what it is." She huffs. I laugh a little at her impatience.
"You're looking at baby boy Salvatore." I say. She squeals and jumps up to hug us both.
"I'm so excited! You'll have one of each." She exclaims.
"Congratulations guys." Mason says, smiling.
"Thanks." Damon replies.
We stay for a while longer catching up, before heading home.
Once we have had dinner we bath Scarlett together and get her in bed. We leave her room and Damon pulls me close, wrapping me in his arms.
"Thank you." He says. I look at him, a little confused.
"What for?" I ask.
"For loving me. For giving me our babies. For being you. For making me so happy." He says.
"You don't have to thank me." I reply. "You make me happy. You love me too. And I wouldn't be able to give you babies without your help."
He hums in response. "Maybe we should go practice how we make babies in case we want more in the future." He says, waggling his eyebrows.
"You're insatiable." I say with a giggle.
"You already knew that. And you're the horny pregnant one."
"Hmmm that is very true." I say with a wink, turning round and dashing to our bedroom. He chases after me and scoops me up. I land on our bed with a soft thud, Damon hovering over me.
"I can smell how aroused you are." He says, his eyes darkened with lust.
"I can't help it. You know what you do to me." I say breathlessly.
Damon crashes his lips against mine, licking his tongue along my bottom lip to gain access, which I grant. Our tongues battle for dominance, exploring each others mouths. He pulls away after a few minutes and moves down my jaw to my neck, licking and kissing before pulling away and ripping my shirt off. I raise an eyebrow and rip his off in response.
He leans down and kisses my growing bump.
"I know I've said this before, but it's so incredibly sexy seeing you pregnant. I swear I'm almost permanently hard. Not that I wasn't before."
I run my hands down to the front of his jeans, feeling the large bulge beneath my hands. He moans into my stomach and rips my leggings to shreds, leaving me in my lacy bra and panties. I make quick work of undoing his jeans and pushing them down his legs. He grinds his boxer clad erection into my hot core and I groan.
"I need you." I gasp as he palms my breasts with one hand, the other moving down between my legs where he finds my soaked panties.
"You're so wet." He growls out, before ripping my panties away and making quick work of my bra. I rip his boxers away in response and gaze into his eyes.
He positions himself at my entrance and I tilt my hips, desperate to feel him inside me. His tip slips in but he doesn't move, giving me a wicked grin as he knows he is teasing me terribly. I growl at him and he pushes all the way in.
"So... good." I pant, loving how full I feel. I adore sex with this man, I always feel whole when we connect this way, which luckily for me is often.
"So tight and wet. I love feeling you all around me." He groans as he starts moving.
"Harder... faster." I gasp. He speeds up in response. After a few thrusts he pulls me up, so we are both upright and I'm straddling his lap, with my legs around his waist, allowing him to go deeper. He grabs my hips and starts moving me up and down as he thrusts upwards.
It doesn't take long before I feel the familiar tightening in my core, indicating that my release is close.
"So close." I pant out.
"Me too." He gasps, before thrusting harder and faster a few more times. I feel him twitch inside me and his release gushes into me whilst he yells my name. His climax tips me over the edge hard. My walls clench around him and I scream his name as my climax hits.
We stay that way, holding onto each other and panting as we come down from our highs.
"That was incredible." I say. Damon hums in reply.
Once our breathing is back to normal I climb off his lap and we both get under the blankets. Damon wraps me in his arms and rests his hands on our son's bump.
"Goodnight baby." He murmurs in my ear.
"Goodnight." I reply softly as sleep takes over.
A/N part 2: I'm thinking of having baby's middle name as Damon (Scarlett has both of their Mum's middle names, Miranda and Lily) but Damon and Guiseppe didn't have a good relationship and I can't bring myself to use Grayson because of Augustine. Any suggestions for his first name?