Bonnie walked into the bedroom knowing no one was there but Elena, Damon had been gone for two days now and usually Elena would be very infuriated but she was letting it slide because she also had some things to do, to torture basically and that was Tyler Lockwood, she had watched the video that Kol had sent about twenty times now, there was no way Kol was able to know so much from outside , it was like he was living in the same house with her, it was unbelievable how quick he knew about the things that were literally just going through her mind. When Elena walked out of the bathroom, she was Bonnie looking at her with concern, "you look ghastly pale and I usually avoid telling you that but it's starting to get me worried." Elena rolled her eyes and sat down on the couch near by, "Trust me I've just been inside a lot lately. So what's been going on with Stefan?"
"Not too good- he's tracking down Kol from everywhere and it's not gonna work mainly because the tips Stefan got for two of the attacks were false, eight of his men were killed on spot, one of them was with the Russian Mafia so things won't be as good with them now, all Stefan is doing is ruining Damon's reputation." Bonnie said sitting on the couch by her, "You asked me to get these for what?" she said throwing an envelope between them, "that's not all of Klaus's men though just the ones we could catch on camera over the years. But I don't understand what does he have to do with Kol , they are enemies if you don't remember."
"I do but I have this theory." She said getting up and taking the pictures with her. Bonnie followed her out the room. Elena climbed the stairs up to the fourth floor and went towards the second last room in the corridor, "This is our operation room by the way." She unlocked the door and went inside. Bonnie was surprised to see how many maps and pictures with post notes she had put up. "Wow" Bonnie gasped , "Have you Kol-proofed this?" she nodded, 'I've done my best."
"What about Damon-proofing?" Bonnie asked with an arched brow. Elena bit her lip, " That's the reason I chose it on this floor- Damon hates coming all the way up here." She felt a bit guilty lying to Damon all the time but this was what he did, he left her no choice. She took out all the pictures and began looking through them , while also pasting them on the wall under Klaus's tree she had created. "Is this man still in Klaus's gang?" she said pointing to a man wearing a denim jeans and a black shirt with a shaved head in the photo, apparently partying. "That's Ricardo, he's been in Klaus's gang forever, if he had cut ties, I would know because that would be breaking news, Klaus would have killed him."
Elena narrowed her eyes, as she chewed on the market in her hand, "I remember seeing him."
"Where?" Bonnie asked shocked.
"when I was with Kol, he was moving me out of this basement dockyard and I was crying for help to some men, I remember him because he laughed at me." She turned around and walked to the Lol tree, "We went to our 'honeymoon' to find Klaus which was Damon's motive initially, so could it be that Klaus was there actually and his men were too?"
"Of course that makes sense." Bonnie said as she looked at the pictures Elena was tracing the marker on. "One of Klaus's men was with Kol, so if we just stand by the theory that Klaus allowed some of his men to back up Kol that would make sense too, which explains Ricardo at site."
Bonnie grinned , "We can say Klaus backed him up on this."
"Exactly or if we become a bit flexible with the idea, we can say Klaus has always backed him up." She smiled wide , happy that finally an arrow had hit the target, Bonnie pursed her lips unsure of Elena's theory, "why would-?
She interrupted, "Kol knew his every move was being watched by my Dad and Damon, he knew he couldn't group up a bunch of men on my honeymoon there, so he used Klaus for this, traveling alone was convenient in this case, somewhere along the way him and Klaus worked on their differences."
"And why haven't they announced their union, it would shake everyone, they could have had people horrified." Bonnie frowned, picking up an old picture of Kol with his family.
"Because they have set a perfect trap for someone and I've been thinking about this for weeks Bon, I even tried to talk to Damon about it but he told me not to mention this stuff."
"What are you trying to say?" Bonnie asked clearly excited with curiosity, "Stefan." Elena breathed , "Damon thinks that Kol wanted to turn his brother against him and that's when the idea struck me, maybe not only Kol but Klaus too, because no matter how hard Lol tries, Stefan will never make an alliance with him, he would never join forces because of what Kol did to Caroline, but what is second best is Klaus, Stefan thinks Klaus and Kol are enemies , Stefan at the moment has also boycotted against Damon's leadership, both Kol and Damon have one enemy in common which Stefan will turn to help for and that's Klaus." For the first time Elena said her plans out loud and Bonnie was surprised at how further Elena had thought this out, "Well shouldn't we let Stefan know?"
She shook her head, "I don't think Stefan even wants to see my face, If I suggested he stay away from Klaus, the first thing he will do is have coffee with him, my word is ineffective."
Bonnie was unsure of what they were suppose to do with this new found discovery, Elena was taking this very seriously and by the way she looked Bonnie knew was not going to rely on giving suggestions and sitting back and watching. "Right now our only option is to beat the crap out of Lockwood so he gives us whatever to access Kol."
Bonnie nodded, but what if Elena hadn't properly cleared this room and Kol had heard everything?
Later that day they were suppose to go see Tyler but Damon suddenly came home and they delayed this plan, Damon just went to his room and took a shower following by sleeping, Elena figured out he hadn't slept the days he was not home because he didn't even make any conversation before going to bed but Elena and Bonnie still couldn't leave to check on Tyler. So she told Bonnie to go rest and went upstairs herself, quickly changing into comfy clothes. Nowadays she couldn't sleep from how nauseated she felt all the time and her best friend's memories kept flashing in front of her eyes causing her to be up and anxious, she was tried of this clockwork and wanted to be able to enjoy sleep like a normal person, not dread it, being with Damon made the process a bit easier because he always made her feel safe and whole. Her life had completely changed over the last few months but she felt that even if she lost everything and every ounce of happiness was squeezed out of her life, just being with Damon would still make up for everything, he made her feel complete In a different way, belonging to him could fill all the voids in her heart. Her eyes felt heavy as she crawled closer to him and rested her head on his chest her heart warmed when she felt his arm tightened around her.
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"Don't you have to go?" Elena insisted leaning against the bathroom wall, Damon had been incredibly slow this morning getting ready and she was getting anxious to see if Tyler had cracked or not. Well she would if her husband hadn't been taking his sweet time getting ready, "I bet you spent an hour less of getting ready when we were getting married." She made another comment, she said once again when he didn't answer, he looked over his shoulder this time, the shaving cream lathered on his face, "Did I look that bad?"
"I don't know but I wasn't a fan of you back then." She said with a sigh, he grinned which she saw in the mirror, she hadn't see him smile in days now, "What's so funny?" he had a stupid smirk now, Elena just got very irritated when he smirked like that, like he knew something no one else did, "Just that you are a 'fan' now." He shrugged and she just knew that couldn't be the sole reason, he continued, "You use to be so uptight and oh I remember how you said you didn't like me and how you thought I am hopeless."
"What's the point in bringing this up?" she said with pursed lips, he turned around , his face clean now, "the point is that now you're head over heels in love with me, the servants in the house call me and tell me how you can't sleep at night without your oh so loving husband, I am an art inspiration in your life-" by this point Elena was profusely blushing, "Damon that's so childish-"
He ignored continuing, "You plan birthday parties for me no matter how terrible they go, you even went as far as changing your signature to Elena Salvatore, God you must be obsessed."
She knew he was joking but the joke was at her expense, she rolled her eyes, "Right, clearly I have a problem."
He leaned down slightly, "Clearly you do, so much for not liking me initially."
"So you want me to tell you that you won? Is this what's that's about my mentally twelve year old husband?" she said with a grin, his mouth fell open, she looked at him with a brow raised, "Oh I don't compete with my 'fans' " he touched the tip of her nose pushing her back slightly, she gasped and threw a play punch at his arm, "Enough, go to work." She said turning around to go.
"Why are you insisting I go to work? Is there something going on in my absence that shouldn't be going on?" he asked with a slight change in his voice now. Elena felt chills run down her spine when she felt his breath on her neck, she turned around to face him, "What would be going on Damon? I just want us to go back to our normal life."
"Well In normal life, you hate my 'work'." He said with a slight frown that scared her, as if he had figured out everything already. She shouldn't have said it so many times, "I thought we wouldn't bring it up again." She replied with a counter statement. He shrugged, "I just did, Elena I swear to god you'd-"
Suddenly she felt her eyes heavy, but not with sleep , with darkness-something seemed to be taking over , making his voice echo in a weird way, "Ah!" she touched her temple as she lost her balance, "Elena?" he questioned not sure what has happened but when her weight completely fell dead on him he knew she had passed out, he picked her up and walked her back to bed, rubbing her hands and her feet which felt a bit cold. He tapped her face calling her name, "Elena? Hey-Elena."
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Doctor Olivia did a complete check up of her despite her insisting that she didn't wanna do it after she got up from passing out monetarily but then Damon said he wasn't going anywhere until she did it so Elena had to go through with her check up, "How much is she eating?" The woman was a tall, thin woman who seemed to be in her late forties, dark hair and pale skin. "I haven't been home much." Damon actually felt guilty about not checking in on Elena's nutrition over the past few days, of course after her abduction her appetite had decreased but Caroline's death must have also caused an influence which he completely missed. How could he be so careless. "I've had breakfast." Elena raised her voice slightly from the bed so she could be heard , "I guess I am just tired."
"She has some issues with her sleeping schedule." Damon interrupted , irony how he made a joke about it earlier , " I am completely okay." Elena said, sitting up in bed, both the doctor and her husband looked at her and the doctor sighed, "Well your blood sugar was extremely low and you haven't been getting proper sleep. Miss Bennett said ever since you've come back from Italy you've felt nauseated."
"I really get a weird infection if my water or food changes a bit so that might be the reason, just need a couple of days to settle." She explained, Olivia nodded, "Well I think it's better if we run some tests because I think it might be a pregnancy." She looked unsure if the couple would be happy or angered at the news, they just looked at each other a bit surprised, "So do we do this test?"
"Absolutely." Damon agreed in a weird tone and Elena too nodded her head.
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She was happy and yet she felt like a criminal, standing near the window of her room, she could feel the soft wind caress her face and dance with her hair, she's going to have a baby, in the past she hadn't been eager for it but ever since she lost her pregnant best friend who had been so excited about her child, with whom Elena had shared her journey of falling in love with an unborn child, trying to design a world for it, plan for it , her perspective had slightly changed and it wasn't built around buying small sized clothed and designing a child's room or selecting the colour theme, she was genuinely looking forward to meet this beautiful life, who was a symbol of love, who was an embodiment of hope in her life, she was in such a dark place and this news just pulled her out immediately, her mind was no longer just a place where she was plotting Kol's murder. It was no longer a home of awful memories, for now it was filled with the idea of making memories with this life, the love they will share, the adventures they will go on. Tears rolled down her cheeks as she thought about Caroline, she never got to have this and now Elena felt her loss at a much deeper level. Though she was happy it made her all the more guilty for being the reason of such devastation.
"Oh the waterworks." She heard Damon's slight sarcastic voice and felt his strong arms wrap around her, she quickly wiped her cheeks with her palms and sighed "I thought you were coming home late."
"Nope...you've been sulking so hard you even missed my car" he pointed to the gate and dropped a kiss against her temple, "What's the matter."
She shrugged, "I don't know, maybe hormones-" he chuckled, "Baby you're six weeks pregnant today. You just heard the doctor say they are gonna start and the first thing you do is step right into it."
She turned her face slightly to him , slightly pouting , "You're a jerk for invalidating my feelings." He huffed, turning her to himself , "I am not invalidating your feelings, I am trying to know what you're thinking because I know it's not just mood swings."
She pursed her lips as she couldn't maintain eye contact with him , "I was thinking about Care again."
His face tensed up for a moment before he breathed out and cupped her face, "I know what you're thinking, I've been thinking the same thing, I haven't even told Stefan yet, its seems cruel to share this with him but at the same time , he's going to find out some way and hate me more than he does now."
She didn't wanna agree with Damon but she knew Stefan had went completely blind in revenge, he was unable to recognise who were his friends and who weren't, she slowly looped her arms around his neck and whispered, "It's not your fault, Damon. I know you want to protect the both of us."
"He doesn't think so." He let out a humourless chuckle , "I don't know what's going to happen if he keeps on going against me."
She bit her lip and cupped a side of his face, "Well at least everything is okay right now, right in this moment. I have everything I could ever ask for." She whispered and rose on her heels to capture his lips, his lips brushed against her soft lips slowly , the slow movements turning demanding and passionate by the second, his lips kissed down her jaw to her neck as she peppered kisses on his temple and his cheek, he pulled back slightly and picked her up , walking up to the bed, she gasped when he gently dropped her on the bed and covered her body with his, planting kisses down her neck to her heaving chest, she could never explain to him how these moments of being apart did to her, with a soft whimper she raised up slightly, helping him remove the soft lavender dress from her body, leaving her in white lacy underwear, he looked at her in appreciation, his lips lingered over hers before he kissed her, she felt his firm muscles under her fingers as she ran her hands up and down his strong arms while their lips moved together, her legs had wrapped around him and her hips were moving against him in a way which tortured and pleasured her at teh same time but she needed more, her hand moved down to his jeans , pulling back slightly with hazy eyes, she pulled up his dark blue shirt over his head, sighing at the sight of him, a sudden feeling of insecurity wrapped her when she thought about her slightly swollen belly, her hand still resting on his belt, now contemplating everything. Seeing her holding back slightly, he tipped up her chin, making her meet his eyes, "You okay?" she seemed to snap out of it and pursed her lips, "I- uh, do you think I've gained a bit too much weight?"
"You're pregnant sweetheart." He said cupping her face, "You're perfect." He said running his hands down her body slowly in a soothing manner, "If this is in your head because of me, I just want to let you know how insane that is because you drive me crazy." He winked at her slightly holding the hand that was resting on his belt and placed it over his hardness, "I want you every second of the day. You understand that?" he whispered and crashed his lips against her, demanding her mouth for entrance, she opened her lips for him, her fears and insecurities subsiding by the feeling of how amazing his body felt pressed against her, and having his hands all over herself. Feeling bold, she reached for his belt and unbuckled him as he panted wet kisses against her jaw, down her ear, which was her soft spot, she moaned, hardly managing to unzip his jeans, he kissed down her neck to her now slightly fuller breasts, he loved how they were slightly heavier than before, he absolutely loved that his baby was changing her body in so many beautiful ways, he couldn't have enough of her and here she was being unsure of herself for no reason. She arched her back when he took her pointed nipple into his mouth, she cried out his name, her hands grabbing on to his hair as he sucked on her swollen bud and then pushed her soft breasts together, taking the other nipple in to his warm mouth. Her hips raised up, her lace underwear felt like a soft barrier between her wet heat and his hardness, "I need you right now." She moaned moving her hips against his, she gasped when he parted from her heaving breasts and he slowly moved lower and pressed a kiss to her belly looking up and her momentarily, "I love you." He murmured, a small smile spread on her lips seeing his content face, she could tell he had yearned for this as much as her. His fingers now playing with the white lace of her underwear and her breath was again caught in her throat as she was feeling more sensitive to touch than ever, his lips brushing against the inside of her thigh, his thumb slightly going over her button in a teasing manner, she raised her hips in anticipation and moved her hands to take off her panties but he stopped her which irritated her a lot, why couldn't he understand that she needed him right now, "Please." She couldn't believe he was making her beg at this point, letting go of her wrist, she gasped when he tore the white lace off her, but still no relief, she cried with need and attempted to arch further, he smirked against her heat thinking it was enough torture, he licked at her sensitive bundle of nerves and also inserted a finger inside her, her muscles already contracted around it, and she began to move her hips in desperation, he added another finger , moving it in and out of her while sucking on her rosy button , she felt like she was going to fall into oblivion by the end of this, it felt like heaven, she felt the knots inside her tighten as his fingers moved in and out of her and he began licking up the juices leaking out of her, screaming his name, she came all over his fingers and her eyes met his as he was licking his fingers looking at her, she bit her lip feeling a bit turned on already, this pregnancy has definitely impacted her sex drive in a way, but having a generous lover as her husband,. She wasn't going to complain, she chuckled when he climbed up her body so quickly, their foreheads bumped slightly, she giggled when she saw him frown like he hurt his head, "You enjoy my pain, don't you." He accused in a dramatic manner, "No I just like watching you mess up for a change." She giggled rubbing his forehead lightly , "Should have been a bit patient." She said wrapping her legs around his trunk, "Like I told you, baby, I am crazy about you- you see that now? " he loved the way she was giggling and massaging his forehead, "I see that and I love you so much for it." She whispered and kissed the spot on his forehead, parting slightly to look into his eyes, her mouth fell open when she felt the head of his hard member at her entrance, she moved her hips slightly and he thrusted right in, her head fell back as he started moving against her with hard and deep strokes and the feeling of being filled by him completely took over her senses, she cried out his name in pleasure each time he would fill her to the hilt, it never seemed enough, "More." She moaned against his neck and bit him softly as his movements became a bit fast and frantic, she wanted to make him feel good as well so she began to move her hips back and squeeze him with her muscles , their friction felt amazing, soon she was on the edge, his thrusts too became too hard and deep , touching every spot inside her that was setting her off towards her release, she loved the way they came together and claimed down the highs in Union, she felt completely sated content. After a while , he removed herself from her and lied by her side , stroking her hair as she rested her head on his chest thinking of the risks she was going to take to save her happiness, Damon and her baby.
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This was a big step for him, Stefan had always abided by the rules Damon created and one of those rules were to never ever trust an enemy, but he thought of it in a different way, 'the enemy of an enemy is a friend' to be honest Klaus Michaelson wasn't his enemy, he was Damon's enemy, his sole enemy was Kol , he was the one that Stefan was after and in this case Klaus could help more than Damon. Thus going by Damon's code was stupid. Yet he was a bit unsure of this situation. Klaus had immediately agreed to meet him, he didn't put any 'no-weapon' rule for their meeting which was a bit reassuring.
"I knew the brother-brother thing won't work out, mine didn't." Klaus snickered taking a sip from his whiskey, Stefan was sitting on the chair, Placed In front of Klaus's desk, his office had a weird red theme and everything very royal like which irked him because Stefan liked things better at their place, which was minimal and classy, "I am not here to talk about Damon, I am here to talk about Kol. The last information I got, I lost my eight men to it, Sergei isn't happy because one of the guys was his most trusted."
"That old man is going die in a few days so his warnings don't matter to me. Klaus laughed dismissing the idea, " In fact , he's going to have a direct problem with Damon because of it."
"I and Damon are no longer working together so this is on me." Stefan seethed, he hated when people didn't take him seriously, " That is weird because half of the guys you have-"
"They wanted to join me." Stefan said rather proud. Klaus gave a humourless chuckle "And Capo let them? That's insane, Damon would have skinned them alive, he allowed them to you, in fact I think they are outing you to Damon."
"What are you-"
Klaus interrupted , "Its the truth Stefan no matter how much of a big boy you think you are. Italy would eat you for breakfast if it weren't for your brother, he even sabotaged your raid last month."
Klaus threw a bunch of photos on the table and Stefan picked them up looking at them, one of his reliable guy , Patrick, taking with Damon, "Isn't it weird Stefan, that the people who continue to be with in contact with Damon are surviving."
Stefan gritted his teeth at the thought, why couldn't his brother leave him alone for once, why couldn't he trust Stefan with his own decisions.
"And have you heard about the new talk of town, Damon and his wife are expecting a kid now. So his priorities have shifted for a while, he has completely aligned with Grayson, Butorin trusts Grayson so Damon has an advantage over that right now, he plans to completely move his set up to Russia, rumours are that he's even going to move away with Elena, to someplace unknown until he can get his hands on Kol and me."
This couldn't be real, Damon would tell him if he was changing his life like that, moving away, having a kid, that was so unfair, but he didn't believe Damon sabotaged his attack and it seemed as if he did, Stefan fisted the corner of the picture he was holding in his hand, this seemed like betrayal , his life was completely ruined and Damon got to live his dream?
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Stefan was towering the dead body at his feet, he did it finally- he looked up at his men who were looking at him somewhat surprised as how he all of sudden shot Patrick in the face, Stefan pointed the gun to them, "Anyone of you here associated with Damon Salvatore is going to suffer this exact fate. I don't need a fucking babysitter. Do you get it? So if anyone of you is here because of that speak now or suffer the consequences later. I do not need traitors!"
There was dead silence in the room and Stefan looked around since more before walking out of there, his phone rung loudly in his pocket and he ignored it a couple times but it wouldn't stop ringing so he picked it up, "Stefan, it's me, don't hang up." The voice seemingly soft, it made him flinch with anger because he knew who it was, "What do you want, Elena?"
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A/N: hey guys I know exactly where I am taking this story and trust me I am sooo excited about it. I know I've been MIA but it's because my laptop isn't working and I can't get it fixed due to the pandemic. I typed this on my phone because I felt like I needed to write this down, the next chapter is going to be amazing and I need you guys to review and tell me if you like the story and you are enjoying it, all my stories are going to be completed so don't worry. Please REVIEW this story so I keep writing more of them!