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Chapter Two
Damon had spent all day running errands to resolve everything that he needed to in order for Jennifer and JD to go live with him in Mystic Falls. He had Jeremy distract Stefan and Elena because he was the one least likely to ask questions as to why he wanted the boarding house empty for the day. Now he was going to Jennifer's place so they could head to her parents' house together.
He let himself in with her spare key and found JD sitting quietly on the floor with Jennifer next to him, rubbing his back.
"The teacher talked about families and I said that I didn't have a daddy, and then Joey yelled that everyone has a daddy." Damon heard JD sniffle and it broke his heart. "Mommy, where's my daddy? You said that I had daddy's name and that he'd come one day. Where is he?" Tears streamed down the toddler's face and Damon's heart broke, but part of him was glad that the little boy was too young to connect the dots of his namesake.
Jennifer looked up at Damon with her own heartbroken look, silently asking him if they could tell JD now. Damon said nothing but simply walked over and picked JD up. "Your dad is right here, JD." He said softly, sitting on the couch with the crying boy in his lap. "I'm your daddy. That's why your name is Jacob Damon and why we both have black hair and blue eyes."
"You are?" JD's eyes widened as he sniffled and his tears slowed.
"Yes." Damon smiled and JD hugged him tightly. "I'm your daddy."
"Where were you?" He cried and guilt weighed down on Damon's shoulders.
"Well I live in a different town and your mom went there before you were born. After she left I lost my memory, recently I found a letter that your mom left so that I could find her, and now here I am." He told a very watered down version so that JD could understand. "Do you forgive me for not being here before?"
"Yes," JD nodded, "I forgive you, Daddy." JD smiled with no more tears.
Damon's heart swelled so much with pride at being called daddy for the first time that he almost cried. JD buried his face into his dad's neck and Damon held his son tightly against him. "I'm not going anywhere ever again." Damon promised.
"Ever?" JD questioned hopefully.
"Ever." Damon confirmed with a crooked smile. "You see how Mommy spent the day packing?" JD nodded in affirmation. "It's because you 2 are coming to live with me."
JD jumped up in excitement. "We are?!" He exclaimed with a grin.
"Yep." Damon chuckled.
"So we're gonna be a real family!" He stated making his parents look at each other somewhat uncomfortably.
"Well we need to get you changed because we're all going to dinner at Grandma and Grandpa's." Jennifer quickly changed the subject and swept JD up. "Damon, you can use the bathroom and I'll shower after you." She said carrying JD to his room.
Once Damon was finished getting ready, he walked out wearing a black button up shirt rolled up to his elbows, dark jeans and his usual black boots. "Jen, the bathroom's all yours." He announced seeing JD dressed in a red plaid shirt, jeans and black little Chucks. "You look good, kid." Damon smirked sitting on the couch.
"Thanks, Daddy you look good too." JD complimented with a cheeky grin.
Twenty minutes later, Jennifer walked out wearing a flowy blue top, jeans and black wedges. Her face had very little makeup and her curls were pulled half back.
"You look pretty, Mommy." JD walked up to her with a smile. "Doesn't she, Daddy?" JD looked backed at Damon, who smiled.
"Yeah, she does, JD." Damon stood up and smirked at Jennifer. "You really do look beautiful."
She blushed deeply. "Thank you, Damon." She then turned to look at JD. "And thank you, baby." She kneeled down and hugged him. "I need you to listen carefully to I'm going to say right now," She looked straight into JD's eyes, "When we get to Grandma and Grandpa's you can't tell them that Damon is your daddy and that we're gonna go live with him, ok? Daddy and I are going to tell them so don't say anything." She explained and JD nodded his understanding. "Good." Jennifer smiled and turned to Damon. "Let's go."
"We're taking my car." He smiled, picking up JD as she picked up JD's bag. The three of them went down and got into Damon's car, and made their way to Jennifer's parents' house.
"What are you thinking so hard about over there?"
"I'm nervous." Jennifer said with a sigh as JD was distracted playing with some trains.
"Why?" Damon looked at her curiously and then turned his attention back to the road.
"Because we're actually telling my parents that you're JD's dad and that we're moving to another state to live with you." She explained in a duh voice and smirked at him.
Damon chuckled. "Well your dad already hates my guts." He reminded earning an eye roll. "But your mom might like me. She did tell me your address."
"There's also my brother." She added, knowing that he probably didn't remember.
"You have a brother?" He asked, but before she could answer a memory ran into his head of her telling him about her brother. "You do." He answered his own question. "Luke, right?"
"Yeah." She smiled, happy that he was beginning to remember more. "He's 16 now."
"Well, he'll be easy." Damon shrugged with a cocky smile. "I'll just be the cool older brother that he never had."
Jennifer laughed. Damon's confidence never ceased to amaze her. "I think you're right." She couldn't help, but agree. "I just want this to go well."
"It will." Damon assured, hoping that it really would go well and that he wouldn't be tempted to snap someone's neck. He pulled into the driveway, and he and Jen exited the car. He helped JD out of his car seat and the three of them walked up the stairs of the wooden porch together.
Jennifer took a deep breath and knocked on the door. After a few seconds, a teenage boy with brown hair and green eyes opened the door. "Jen!" He threw his arms around her.
"Luke." She hugged him back and then pulled back. "Luke, this is Damon." She introduced, and in seeing Damon holding JD's hand, realization hit Luke. "Damon, this is my little brother Luke."
Damon held out the hand that wasn't holding JD's. "Nice to meet you."
"You're JD's dad." Luke stated shaking Damon's hand and Damon nodded.
"Before you say anything, just listen to what happened when we sit down to talk to Mom and Dad." Jennifer pleaded.
"Uncle Luke!" JD latched onto the teenager's legs, refusing to be ignored any longer.
"Hey, little man!" Luke picked him up and stepped aside. "Come in." He said to Jennifer and Damon. The 2 of them gave each other knowing looks and walked in. Jennifer took a deep breath as her brother announced their arrival and they stood in the living room. "Mom, Dad! Jen and JD are here!"
Jennifer's mother walked out of the kitchen as her father walked out of his office, both were immediately stunned by Damon's presence. "Mom, Dad, this is Damon." Jennifer introduced as the tension thickened in the room. "Damon this is my mother, Evelyn and my father, Jacob."
"It's nice to meet you." Evelyn smiled sincerely. "Please take a seat." She said and everyone did so.
"Nana!" JD ran into her arms. "I missed you this week, but I still had fun." He hugged her tightly.
"That's wonderful, sweetie." She held him in her lap. "I'm glad you had a good time."
"I did." He nodded and turned to Jacob. "Hi, Grandpa!" He hugged him tightly as well.
"Hey, kid." Jacob smiled and hugged his grandson.
"JD, come on." Luke called, drawing the toddler's attention. "I'll put a movie for you in my room." JD nodded and followed Luke out.
"So it's you." Jacob narrowed his eyes at Damon.
"If you mean I'm JD's father? Then yes, I am." Damon retorted with his usual confident smile.
"Three years late, aren't you?" Jacob snapped.
"Unfortunately," Damon shrugged. "But I intend to make up for it."
"Now you intend to take responsibility? Where the hell have you been all this time? Where were you when she found out that she was pregnant with your kid? Where were you when she was giving birth to him?" Jacob yelled indignantly as he stood up. "And you," he turned to his daughter, "you're just going to accept him back into your life, into JD's life, just like that? Who's to say he won't just disappear again?" The anger was rolling off of him in waves. "Your irresponsibility never ceases to amaze me." He shook his head at her as Luke walked back in and leaned against the wall shaking his head.
Luke wasn't really happy with the turn that his sister's life took, but he disagreed with how hard his father was on her. In his eyes, she was doing an amazing job raising a kid all on her own. He was proud of her and he was happy to have JD around to liven up the place.
Damon watched her father's disappointment weigh heavily on Jennifer's shoulders. "Don't speak to her like that!" He stood up facing Jacob head on and towering over him by quite a few inches. "It's not completely her fault. She is not irresponsible. She is an incredible mother and the epitome of responsibility." Damon fought the urge to growl. "She gave her child, our child, a home and food, and everything he could possibly need alone because her dad let his fucking pride get in the way when she wasn't perfect and messed up." He glared at the man who was now sitting wide eyed on the couch. Damon took a deep breath before speaking again. "No, I wasn't there, but I wish that I had been. I suffered an accident the day after Jennifer left. I lost all of my most recent memories, all of which included Jen. I met a girl who reminded my subconscious of her and this girl took advantage of my amnesia, pretended to be the girl that my mind was looking for. She led me down a terrible path of destruction and for the past year I've been straightening myself out. Lately I started having dreams about Jen, and these dreams were memories of our time together. I still didn't remember everything, but my brother's girlfriend found the letter that she left for me in my favorite book. After I read it and saw her picture, I knew that I had to find her." Damon gave a less supernatural explanation of his memory loss. "Now that I found her and JD I never intend to lose them again so I'm taking them to live with me."
Jennifer's heart swelled with the way that Damon defended her. She wondered if he had actually meant it. If he had, then it would take a huge weight off of her shoulders. Jacob and Evelyn sat in silence for about a minute before Jacob decided to speak again. "How are you going to support them?" He asked suspiciously, having noticed Damon's bad boy style.
"I come from old money so I have a vast inheritance." He answered with a confident smile. "I also have degrees in business, philosophy and history."
Although he tried not to show it, Jacob was impressed. Evelyn on the other hand, smiled widely. She was glad that Jennifer had found someone to take such good care of her and JD. "Where are you from?" She asked.
"Mystic Falls, Virginia." He answered. "My family was one of the town's founding families. Jen and JD will be living in my house with my brother and me." He thought it was best not to include Elena in the list.
"How old is your brother?" Luke asked, finally speaking up. He had admired the way Damon defended Jennifer.
"He's 18." Damon answered. "I got guardianship of his last year after our uncle died." He definitely couldn't say that he and Stefan were over 150 years old.
"Cool." Luke smiled.
"How'd you two meet?" Jacob asked skeptically. "That hasn't been cleared up."
"We were chosen to participate in a six-month all expenses paid event in which we would pretend to live in the 1860's. There was no modern technology at all, only things pertaining to that time so we could only contact our families through letters, obviously they lost Jen's." He explained, shrugging at the end. The lies sounded like the sincerest of truths. "We met and fell in love. I still don't remember much, but I do remember that no one has ever understood me like she has. Now we'll get to know each other again and see where it goes, but no matter what, we'll always get along for JD." The conviction in Damon's voice was clear and Jennifer nodded her agreement.
"Well, now that everything is all cleared," Evelyn said standing up, "let's have dinner." Everyone followed her he to the dining room.
"So how old are you anyways, Damon?" Luke asked half-way through dinner, making Jennifer and Damon both smirk.
"24." He answered with a smile.
"So you were around 21 when you were screwing my sister?" Luke arched an eyebrow.
"Luke!" His mother promptly scolded as his father glared and Jennifer blushed bright red.
"What?" He asked innocently. "I was just asking." He shrugged. "Was she already 18?"
"Yes." His sister bit out, attempting to glare holes into his head, the embarrassment still clear on her face.
"Just making sure." He grinned cheekily.
"You're an a- butt." She snapped and he laughed at her correction because of JD's presence.
"I missed you, Jen." Luke gave his sister a genuine smile, which she returned in like.
"You too, Luke."
Damon smiled at the interaction between the 2 siblings, remembering when things were like that between Stefan and himself. It had been a really long time since he actually got along with his brother. "Mom, this was great, but we have to go." Jennifer said once she, Damon and JD had finished eating. "We have to leave early in the morning tomorrow."
Evelyn stood up and hugged her daughter tightly. "I'll miss you, sweetie."
"I'll miss you too, Mom." She smiled.
Evelyn turned to JD, who was in his father's arms, and took him in her own. "I'll miss you, my little boy." She sniffled.
"Don't cry, Nana." JD smiled and patted her back. "Daddy said that you can come visit whenever."
Evelyn chuckled and nodded. Jacob took JD and hugged him as well. "You be good, kid. I'll miss you." He kissed JD's forehead and then Luke took him last.
"I'll miss you, kiddo." He kissed his nephew's forehead. "I'll come visit sometime this summer, ok?" Luke smiled.
"Do you promise?"
"I promise." He ruffled JD's hair before putting him down and turning to his sister. "I'll miss you too, sis." He hugged her. "Make sure you don't give JD a little brother or sister anytime soon." He winked earning a punch on the arm from her.
"I'll miss you too, dork." She smirked. "And behave. You don't go around making any cousins for JD yet." She warned.
"Nah," he laughed. "I like my freedom too much."
"Good." She smiled and he turned to Damon.
"It was nice to meet you, man." Luke said and they clapped their hands into a man-hug. "Take good care of my sister and nephew because if you-" he put his hands over JD's ears before continuing, "fuck up one more time I'll kick your ass, then kill you." He threatened casually and released JD's ears, but Damon could see the love and protection in Luke's eyes.
"I will." Damon promised as they walked to the door. "Don't worry."
"We should go." Jennifer repeated, picking up a yawning JD. "Bye, Mom. Bye, Luke. Bye, Dad." She waved.
"Bye." Her mother and brother waved back, and her dad simply gave a nod as they left.
"Did you mean what you said?" Jennifer asked once they were on their way back to her apartment.
"When?" Damon looked at her confused.
"When you said all that stuff about me to my dad," She answered, anxious to hear his answer.
"Yeah," He smiled. "I meant every word, Jen. You are an amazing mother, don't ever doubt it. I even meant the part about remembering that you're the only one that gets me."
"Really?" She questioned, surprised.
"Really," He smirked. "I'm remembering more, little by little."
"That's good." She smiled and the weight that her father had placed on her shoulders over the past 3 years dropped completely.
It was 6 o'clock in the afternoon and Damon had been driving for 11 hours. Normally it took him no more than 7 or 8 hours driving, but a little kid required lots of pit stops. He also didn't drive as fast as he normally would have. Even with his vampire reflexes, he didn't want to risk getting into an accident. He was 10 minutes away from the boarding house and Jennifer was fidgeting nervously in the passenger seat as JD was asleep in his car seat in the back.
"Will you calm down?" He was annoyed with all the fidgeting.
"Sorry." She shrugged. "I'm nervous. I haven't seen Stefan in a while and I doubt he remembers me. I'm also a little worried because he had the ripper phase you told me about, and Elena is a new vampire." She explained worriedly. "I'm also wondering if they'll mind having me there."
They had talked a lot on the drive from Atlanta to Mystic Falls. He told her the stories of everything that had happened since his arrival in the town and she told him about the milestones he'd missed in her pregnancy and in JD's life.
"Don't worry." He rolled his eyes. "I wouldn't let you or JD in that house if it wasn't safe, and if they mind? They'll get over it." He shrugged, not caring if Stefan and Elena would get mad at his decision to bring them there.
Jennifer chuckled at his 'don't give a shit' attitude. "If you say so," She smiled.
"I do." He smirked as he pulled up to the house. He could sense that Stefan and Elena were home. "Come on." He exited the car and grabbed the larger suitcases. All that had been brought in his car were the clothes and smaller items, the other things would arrive on a truck the following day. Damon carried in the suitcases and set them down in the foyer.
"Damon, you're home." Elena greeted with a smile. Before Damon could respond, Jennifer walked in holding JD with one arm and 2 duffle bags with the other. "Who's that?" She narrowed her eyes.
"Elena, this is Jennifer." Damon introduced, smirking and taking the sleeping boy into his own arms. "Jen, this is Elena."
"It's nice to meet you, Elena." Jennifer held out her now free hand.
"You too." Elena smiled tensely. She then turned to look at the little boy in Damon's arms and up at Damon as if asking: 'who's that?'
JD yawned and lifted his head, having been shifted. He rubbed his eyes sleepily and looked up at Damon. "Daddy, are we here?"
Elena froze as her eyes widened in shock. 'Daddy?'
Damon smirked at Elena's reaction and then looked down at his son. "Yeah, buddy. We're home." Elena blinked once and then twice. She examined the little boy in Damon's arms, trying to understand the situation. She couldn't deny that the little boy looked an awful lot like Damon, but how in the world could Damon have ever had a child?
"Damon, it's about time you got back." Stefan said walking into the foyer and he looked at his brother, the little boy in his arms and the girl next to him.
"Have we met before?" He looked at her curiously.
Jennifer smiled a little. "Yes, Stefan." She answered with a smirk. "We met in 1864."
A stunned look graced both Elena and Stefan's faces. "But how are you human? That's not possible." Confusion colored Stefan's features.
Damon rolled his eyes. "It's a long winded explanation. We'll tell you later. Now we have to unpack, shower and eat some real food." Damon explained as he began to walk up the stairs, but stopped and turned back around. "Oh by the way, Stef, this is Jennifer and this is our son, JD." He smirked and began making his way up the stairs again with Jennifer following. "Come on, kid. I'm gonna show you your new bedroom."
Stefan's jaw dropped. "Damon, how, when did- what did-" He wasn't exactly sure on how to question the situation. "We have to talk about this, Damon!"
"We will." Damon shouted back from upstairs. "When I'm ready to," He added. Stefan sighed heavily, trying to wrap his head around the bomb that his brother had just dropped in on them.
"Stefan, how does Damon have a kid?" Elena asked in hushed voice. "He's a vampire and vampires can't procreate."
"And that girl, Elena, I know her." He rubbed his temples. "I'm getting flashes of memories of her from 1864, but she's still human."
"And she smells pretty good." Elena mumbled and then slapped her hand over her mouth as she heard footsteps coming back down the stairs.
"Well it seems we'll need to have the 'you better not eat them or else' conversation after all." Damon said with a sigh and pointed to the study. "Go so that I can say what I have to stay and make dinner." He ordered and they did as he said and sat on the couch as he sat across from them. "Three years ago, Jen was sent into 1864 by Emily Bennett right around the time Katherine was there. I fell in love with her, and you fell in love with Kat. When Jen left six months later, all memories of her were gone because it would've disrupted the timeline if we remembered, but my subconscious remembered. Kat noticed that I didn't remember, but that I kept looking at her because of her likeness to Jen and used that to take advantage of me and make me fall in love with her." He explained with a hard expression. "When Jen got brought back to the future, she was pregnant with our son. Since vampires have a higher brain capacity with memories, I started remembering her, but only small parts. When Elena gave me the letter she found, it was from Jen so I went looking and since then I've been remembering more, but still not everything. Now she and JD are going to live here with me." He smiled.
"Damon, are you sure that's a good idea?" Stefan scratched the back of his head. "Elena is a new vampire and the supernatural situation we're in isn't very safe."
Damon glared at his brother. "She was being hunted anyways. There was another vampire outside her apartment and it had been watching her." He then turned his attention to Elena. "And this is the ultimate test of your control, and if you can't handle it? You're going to live with Jeremy or something because I swear to God, Elena, if you every even think about hurting Jen or JD?" He looked her dead in the eyes. "I'm going to make you regret if for the rest of eternity. There won't a place on this earth that you'll be able to hide that I won't find you."
The seriousness of Damon's words shook Elena to the core. "But Damon, I can't stay with Jeremy!" She protested. "That's my brother!"
Damon glared. "And that?" He pointed to the stairs, "Is my child and his mother." He growled. "I'm warning you now, Elena. This is the ultimate test of your control; I think you can do it. But the moment you think you can't, you have to tell me so that I can find you somewhere else to stay." He explained. "You know that I love you and if you care about me at all then you'll think about how much my son and his mother mean to me. I'm asking you now, to put them first." He turned and walked to the kitchen.
Elena was torn as she closed her eyes and rested her head against the back of the couch. Damon had placed her between a rock and a hard place. She wasn't as sure as he was about her level of control. It was clear that Damon already loved his son and cared about the mother, and she didn't want to take that away from him, but she wasn't sure if she was willing to risk Jeremy's life for them. Damon deserved to be happy, but she wasn't sure about how she felt about Damon having another woman in his life even if it was just the mother of his child. She hadn't admitted her feelings for him openly yet, but she didn't want to lose him. She refused to lose him.
Damon walked into the kitchen with a heavy sigh. For the first time in a long time, Elena wasn't holding first place in his heart and it surprised him how quickly JD had invaded that spot. Right now, JD's happiness and wellbeing came first, no matter what, which was how it should be in the parent/child relationship. 'Maybe I'm not gonna be such a bad dad after all.' He smiled to himself and began cooking dinner.
"Is everything ok?" He heard Jennifer ask from behind him a few minutes later.
"Everything's fine." He assured with a smile.
"Didn't sound like it," She arched an eyebrow as she took a seat at the island. Her wet hair and change of clothes indicated that she had showered. "Damon, I don't want to cause any trouble for you here."
Damon rolled his eyes. "You're not. Some people just need to learn to be a little less selfish around here and put other's wants and needs before their own." He said in a teasing tone, but Jennifer could see the seriousness of the phrase in his eyes. "Where's JD?"
"Upstairs playing in the incredible room that his daddy set up for him," She answered with a smile as she thought about all the effort that Damon put into the room for JD. It had one royal blue wall with 3 baby blue ones, a dark wood, queen sized bed that was lower to the ground to make it easier for him to get on and off with a matching dresser and nightstand, and red wooden shelves mounted on the walls with matching big red boxes for his toys and red shelf for his books. A large train track and race track carpet covered the floor.
"I'm glad he liked it." Damon smiled proudly.
"He loved it." She chuckled. "I could barely get him to stop playing with the new toys so that he could take a bath."
"After dinner, I'll show you your room." Damon began setting the table. "Then tomorrow I'll show you around town and you'll meet everyone that's in our little troop. It's important that you know who you can trust here and who you can't while I help Elena gain control."
"Do you know how long that'll take?" She asked as she helped him.
"I'm not really sure." He sighed. "We're sort of playing it by ear." He looked at her with resignation in his eyes. "Stefan may have been right about bringing into this situation, but I couldn't risk losing you and JD to some vampire when I could've done something to save you, even if it is bringing you here. I put the house in your name, and after dinner you can sign the papers and re-invite Stefan, Elena and I back in."
"Ok." She walked over and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Everything's going to work out the way it's supposed to, Damon. No matter what happens, I'll stand by your side." She said in a soft voice, allowing her feelings for him to bubble slightly through the surface a little.
"You're something else." He smiled crookedly, surprised at her words of comfort and encouragement, and she laughed.
"Well I try." She shrugged with a smirk of her own.
"I'm almost done with dinner so go ahead, and get JD and get back here." He nudged her shoulder playfully.
"Ok, I'll be back." She walked out to do as he said.
"She looks a lot like Katherine and me." Elena mentioned casually walking into the kitchen.
"She's a descendent of Katherine's so I guess she's a long lost cousin of yours." Damon replied as he placed the food on the table.
"Oh…" She shifted awkwardly. "So what does JD stand for?"
"Jacob Damon." Damon answered looking at Elena inquisitively. "What's with all the questions, Elena?"
"Just trying to get to know more about our new roommate," She frowned slightly. "How are you so sure that kid's yours, Damon?" She spoke the question that had been on her mind since she saw the kid.
Damon's lips formed a hard line as he narrowed his eyes. "Look at him, Elena!" He couldn't believe that she'd actually asked that. "He looks just like me and I remember Jen from 1864."
"Well, how do you know you slept with her? You said so yourself that you still didn't remember everything." Elena crossed her arms over her chest. "She could be lying that it's yours."
"Well I remember that." He smirked. "I remember sleeping with Jen. In fact, it was one of the first things I started remembering so you could say she was unforgettable." His comment caused a sting in her heart. "Now this conversation is over so don't bring it up again because next time I won't be as nice if you question JD's legitimacy."
"I'm just trying to look out for you, Damon." She glared. "I don't want you to get hurt."
"Well too late for that, right?" He laughed humorlessly. "This is the only thing that's been good for me since coming back to Mystic Falls, Elena, other than falling in love with you, and now even that's bitten me in the ass so please just let me be happy and enjoy this." He asked in a slightly bitter tone.
Before Elena could say anything back, little feet ran into the room. "Daddy, Mommy said that you made dinner!" JD latched onto Damon's legs.
Damon laughed and picked him up. "I did." He placed him on the island. "You're gonna have to sit on your mom's lap though, because your booster seat is gonna get here tomorrow."
"But Daddy," JD attempted to cross his arms. "I'm too big to sit in Mommy's lap to eat. I'm a big boy."
"I know you're a big boy, JD." Damon ruffled his hair. "But it's just one day so that you won't make a big mess." He lifted him off the island and onto the floor as Stefan walked into the kitchen.
"You cooked dinner." Stefan stated with surprise. He hadn't seen Damon cook in a really long time, but then again his brother had surprised him a lot today.
"Daddy cooks really good!" JD exclaimed with a proud grin.
Damon smiled widely. Elena had never seen such a genuine smile on Damon's face before. "JD, this is your Uncle Stefan. He's my little brother like your Uncle Luke is your mom's little brother." He explained as he pointed to his Stefan and then turned his attention to Elena. "And this is my friend Elena."
"Nice to meet you, Ms. Elena." JD held out his hand politely and Elena shook it with a smile.
"Nice to meet you to, JD."
JD then turned to his newly discovered uncle. "Hi, Uncle Stefan." He gave Stefan a shy smile and a wave.
Stefan smiled and crouched to be face to face with JD. "Hey, JD." He pulled JD in for a hug. Even though the situation was complicated, he was happy for Damon and he was really happy to be an uncle, which was something that he never thought was possible.
Elena smiled lightly as Stefan hugged JD. She could clearly see his happiness at the Salvatore family's growth. She turned her attention to the door as she heard footsteps. She saw Jennifer standing there in cutoff shorts and a simple white t-shirt. Elena noticed that their skin tone was nearly the same color; Jennifer's being just slightly lighter. She also had fuller hips, breasts and a slightly rounder face. The 21 year old was pretty; she certainly had to admit it. She didn't even look like she had ever had a baby and it slightly unnerved Elena.
Jennifer smiled upon seeing Stefan hug JD, but worry didn't fail to knot in her stomach as she remembered Damon telling her about the ripper phase. Damon looked up at her as if he had sensed her worry and gave her a nod as if saying 'it's ok'. She nodded in return and pushed away the worry. She knew that Damon would never let anything happen to their son.
Stefan released JD and the little boy ran over to his mother. "Mommy! I have 2 uncles now!" His infectious smile warmed her heart and she smiled back.
"Yes you do, baby." She picked him up and then turned to Damon. "It smells really good, Damon."
"Well I am a fantastic cook." He smiled charmingly. "Now let's have dinner." He led everyone into the dining room.
I'm not gonna lie... I got all teary-eyed when I was writing the scene where Damon told JD that he was his dad. It was adorable.
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