Present.
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Damon groaned as he opened his eyes, the T.V was switched on and he was lying on the couch, maybe he had just fallen asleep during the news he was watching earlier, he sat up pushing back his hair from his forehead and sat aside from the phone buzzing under his back, he picked up the phone, "Um Hello?"
"Doctor Damon Salvatore?" the voice robotic yet he knew it was a man, "Speaking."
People would somehow get hold of his number and beg him to take their case. He would normally but right now-.
"Doctor Salvatore this is Doctor George Rupert from Lenox Hospital Manhattan, we saw your Lost 'ad' in the newspaper couple months ago."
The sentence shook him from exhaustion and he was immediately very interested. "Yes the ad for my wife."
"Yes the one, we have a patient here that was admitted just today, got into a terrible bus accident, it's nothing to worry but a hand fracture-"
"Wait-what? Is she okay?" he got up, "You keep her there I am getting there."
"Sir we are not sure if it's your wife."
"You don't know my wife, she's on TV all the time." He spat in frustration.
"It's just a very close resemblance." He heard a little worried voice, "Please we don't want to stop your search with any wrong information."
"Just let me get there okay." Damon found his hands shivering as he hurriedly look through the drawers for his car keys, he was so relieved and so upset at the same time, so stressed yet so happy- it must be Elena, it must be.
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Be her, be her, he told himself over and over as he drove in the parking lot of the hospital, right after he parked, a silver G-wagon stopped near by from which Stefan, Caroline and Miranda stepped out, He completely ignored the two woman and gestured Stefan to follow him. Giving their information at the reception they were told to wait for the officer in case.
"I am not waiting for anyone, I want to meet my wife and if I have to go and check every room for that I will." Damon threatened the man who had spoke to him on the phone, the man frowned, "Doctor I just don't want any trouble , it's a celebrity case."
"George let me see my wife, I am not discharging her till the police gets here, you have my word just let me see her." his voice close to begging. This time Miranda took a step forward, "Doctor we are her family, we just want to make sure the girl is Elena."
"Okay, but I won't allow anything further." He said and then lead them to the Elevator, "Now before you meet who I think is Elena Salvatore, we haven't talked to her."
"What do you mean?"
"I think the accident has caused some shock." He said with a tight line expression and when the elevator opened on a ward, he lead them out, "She's not talking much so."
He opened the door to the room, Damon felt like his heart stopped for a moment because this was the moment to decision. He felt Steps aside him Stefan and Miranda entered before him and Caroline right behind him. "Elena." Miranda shrieked, all of a sudden tears rolling down her eyes.
The girl on the bed, matted hair, a few gushes on her arms, a few bad spots- her face very pale, as if she was drained, she looked thin and wearing a hospital gown, a cast on her right arm, but her eyes, they looked empty.
"My baby, that's my baby." Miranda said as she stepped closer and cupped her face, "You're gonna be okay."
Damon didn't know what to do, Elena was looking around the room as if she didn't recognize anyone and suddenly a feeling of Deja-wu hit him, he was scared to confirm it, no, no, no. This time she didn't know anyone?
"Elena." He swallowed thick saying her name, he had missed saying that, not that he didn't mention her name a thousand times a day but just saying it when she was right there, alive, breathing.
"Elena."he said it again with a little more voice, he could feel Stefan and Caroline's eyes on him, they were just waiting for him to scream in frustration at this point-or some other crazy reaction.
But this time she looked up on his calling, he took a deep breath through his nose to calm his nerves as he took the heavy steps to the bed and Miranda got up giving him space as he sat on her bed side, "Hey." He let the outside of his hand brush against her cheek, just feeling her soft skin was enough, he didn't care if this was all over, she was okay. Her brown eyes staring back into his, she wasn't moving back but neither moving forward.
"You remember us?" he said after swallowing the lump in his throat, "This is Stefan your best friend, my brother." He pointed at Stefan without looking back, "Your Mom."
She blinked as he held her hand in both his, "Don't panic." Her hand slightly squeezed back his and his eyes widened a little, he felt as she slightly shifted, he moved forward thinking she wanted to whisper something in his ear, but she wrapped her arms around his torso, her face pressing into his chest, he frowned but immediately his hands went to run through her hair. Soon he could feel her body slightly shaking in his arms, the voice of her sobs almost inaudible, he cupped her face parting it from his chest to look at her, "It's okay baby, I am here."
She nodded and whispered his name, "Damon …please."
His heart broke seeing her so hurt, he kissed her forehead, "Shh it's going to be okay, I love you so much."
She remained soundless except the low voice of her sobs as she rested her head against his chest as if hiding her face from everyone there. Damon looked at his brother and Caroline who were standing in a corner just worried, whispering back and forth to eachother.
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PAST
She unlocked the apartment door as usual and sneaked inside, Damon had been here for two weeks, since he was taking a break from work, he had started to prove her wrong by practicing house work, she peeked from across the wall to the living room where he was watching some video on the T.V. Mixing something in a bowl.
"Two minutes more? It's done." He looked down at his bowl and up at the television on which a woman was making some batter.
She slowly walked in and suddenly jumped with a "BOO"
He shrieked moving back and turned around, "Elena, not everyday I just swept all this floors."
She chuckled at his tone, he narrowed his eyes, "What? Cleaning a house is not a feminine thing stop with this judgmental bullshit of yours." He said walking back to the kitchen, Elena followed him, "Yeah it's not but then you bought all that floral pink china."
"It's peach and that's going with a theme, you have no aesthetic sense anyway so just shoo." He sat as he sat down the bowl and picked up a tray. Elena hopped up to sit on the counter and he turned to her immediately , "No pregnant woman jumping around."
She rolled her eyes, "Calm down Mom."
"Look I just wanna be careful, so tell me how the shoot go?" he asked as he poured the batter into the Cake tray, "When is it coming out?"
"Umm might be Christmas." She said as she picked up a carrot and took a bite, "So when are you going to see Doctor Richard for that job at the hospital?"
"Umm I will soon." He said as he put the cake in the oven, "He called me but the date is coinciding with your check up, I am not missing that."
She huffed, "Baby listen."before she could climb down the counter he moved forward to stop her and she smiled, resting her forehead against his, she leaned forward and kissed the tip of his nose, rubbing her nose against it, "I think you should start working again."
"Hmm."
"This is your dream, don't just make it all about the baby." She said as she parted a little and cupped his face, "I love how passionate you are about what you do."
"Mm I do you." He winked, she slapped his chest playfully, "I am serious, just start working."
"E-Elena, it's not about the money right, If you need some I have in my account." He offered. She shook her head, "No, it's about you I promise, I just don't want our lives to pause because of the baby."
"But it will you know that right." He sighed, "A baby needs love and attention."
"We will give it everything, but accommodating our schedules with it, I can't have you sit here do this when you can be doing what you love." she smiled, "So I'll go to that check up alone and you can go for that interview."
"But i-"
"No buts." She snapped and gestured him to pick her up, "So how many minutes till that cake gets ready."
"Hmmm I can fit a quickie in." he said picking her up, she chuckled circling her arms around his neck, "To the couch captain."
"Aye! Aye!"
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A few days later
It was a pleasant Sunday, after many days they had pulled out some time for themselves, which they spend in bed, talking, eating food- telling stories to each other.
She looked up the novel she was reading, "You're obsessed with that."
He was sitting against the headboard shirtless, holding a sonogram in his hand, "It's fascinating." He chuckled, "I mean our baby. Think summer camp- we would be the last people on earth to have a baby together."
"And now we do." She said with a smile as she crawled closer, he opened his arms for her and she rested her back against his chest, sitting in his lap, "Umm I don't know it looks like an alien."
"Elena."
"I am sorry it does." She laughed, "One ugly baby."
"It's never going to be ugly, it's mom is an upcoming Hollywood sensation." He planted a kiss against her shoulder. She huffed, "That's not going to be possible, lets face it, one of us gets it all, because I'll be over weight after the baby, and I wont be able to work without it."
He shook his head, "Ugh you're being way to pessimistic about it, I have planned it all, right now you're 108 pounds right?"
She nodded.
"You need to gain at least 35 pounds for a good delivery and after the baby arrives, you can lose the weight with proper exercise and diet, which includes diary and lean meat- however you shouldn't exercise for at least two months after the delivery, but in the mean time if you breast feed-"
She interrupted , "Damon stop." She laughed, "You plan this stuff all the time?"
He raised a brow, "well not to brag or anything but I've looked into a few schools too."
"for god sakes." She giggled, turning in his lap, "You need to stop seeing those Mom blogs it's getting to your head, we're way ahead of ourselves."
"What? You told me you want the wedding after the delivery , I agreed now don't stop me for being excited about this." He smiled, "It's what I've always wanted, you- all to myself, trust me- this is the future I wanted." He brushed away the hair from her face, "You, me and our little family."
"I am the one bringing a whole Hollywood in to this."
"It doesn't change anything." he pursed his lips, "It might make things tough not impossible."
"I just wish this was a few years later." She huffed. He shook his head, "But this is now, don't be scared of it, I promise I'll be here every second." He leaned forward and took her lower lip in his, kissing her softly before pulling back, "Trust me okay?"
She nodded.
He moved her aside, trying to get her to stand up, she stood a step back as he turned the stereo on, the sound of Moon river by Andy Williams filled the room, he turned around to her, holding out his hand for her, she grinned as she took a step back and picked a pillow from the bed, he narrowed his eyes as she put it under her shirt, he chuckled as she stepped forward and bowed dramatically, he copied the gesture by bowing his head, he pulled her closer as they slowly moved to the music, he laughed feeling the pillow press against his stomach, she gave him a toothy smile as he pulled her to stand on his toes, her eyes met his and they forgot to blink just reading love for each other eye in eye, as the song played. She didn't miss when he mouthed an 'I love you'
She looked down as a blush crept up her cheeks , he gave her space, then twirled her, dipping her slowly, she cupped the side of his face. The song ending slowly, she leaned forward and crashed her lips against his, moaning when his tongue enter her mouth, slowly dancing with her tongue, he lifted her slightly, lying her back on the bed, she reached out to trace her hands on his chest, she sighed at the contours of his chest, moving forward and peppering kisses against his warm skin.
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PRESENT
"Have you talked at all?" Stefan asked as Damon ;eft the room with an almost filled glass of water, "No, not much, she's just lost right now." He whispered, "I am giving her relaxants, that's all I can get her to do." He turned back for a second before turning to Stefan again, "The press is going crazy, Adrian is up my ass for her statement before I 'deceive' it." He bit the inside of his cheek, "Miranda wont leave."
Stefan nodded, "She is hell bent on taking Elena with her now."
"Elena doesn't want to go, do you see the way she looks at me? she does recognize me, and if I was responsible for this Elena wouldn't want to be in the same room as me, that's not the case, so that's enough for Miranda."
"She doesn't want to hear that." He waved it off, "I'll handle her."
"You know whatever, right now, she is back to me, and the only thing I worry about is her, the story where she went? Where she was? Comes afterwards." He turned the knob of the door to his room and saw her sitting against the headboard.
He sighed, "I shouldn't leave her alone."
"Hmm you shouldn't." Stefan said and patted him on the back, Damon handed Stefan the glass and went inside and closed the door after him, "Your Mom isn't home yet." He pursed his lips sitting in front of her, she was looking straight at the wall of pictures in front of her, he bit his lip as he leaned forward and cupped the side of her face, "What are you thinking about? Tell me, say something, I just want to hear your voice." His voice holding yearning, her brown orbs turned to him and he thanked God for that, he added, "Do you know how much torture I went through every second you weren't here?"
He heard her take a deep breath.
He swallowed thick, "I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep, at times I thought of ending myself but then I'd have some sort of hope, that you'll be back- and though it killed me I wanted to stay alive for another day thinking of you." He said above a whisper as he bent down and kissed her forehead, she moved her left hand to rest it against his chest as he pulled away a little. Her light chocolate cat like eyes staring back at him, but he knew that emotion, the fear he was so used to seeing in them every night when she needed comfort.
"What?" he mouthed.
"I don't want-t to be here." she whispered. His eyes widened hearing her raspy voice, "What? What did you say?"
She bit her lip leaning forward and trying to sit on his lap, he let his arms around her as she leaned in his shoulder, "I just want to go away from here and start over Damon."
"Okay baby if that's what you want we'll do it." He murmured against her ear and kissed it, He felt her shake a little as she clung tighter to him, "Just don't leave me ever again."
"N-no I would never."
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PAST
"So Doctor Grayson is on board with the whole baby situation?" Caroline asked as she pulled a blanket on herself sitting on the couch and eating a spoonful of ice cream.
"Oh God no, he would be horrified, right now Damon says if we can get through the first trimester with a little privacy everything is going to be fine."
Caroline snorted , "Oh right so Damon is calling all the shots now."
Elena gave her poker face, thrusting the spoon in the ice-cream tub, "Well it happened when he had all the money we needed."
The blonde girl smirked, "Emm you gotta a sugar daddy, sugar baby daddy."
Elena rolled her eyes, "Eww don't give him ideas , he makes me say them in bed." She sat back and ate a spoonful, "I just wish we had more time."
"What do you mean? Isn't this the dream, the guy you had a crush on in seventh grade who hated your guts, is having a baby with you, he's rich, he's sexy."
"You're really weird for pointing those things out." She groaned and shook her head, "You know it's just he has it all, he has the job he wanted, the family he wanted, maybe the girl he wanted.' She pointed the spoon at herself with a proud grin, "But I am just the pregnant housewife who cannot drink wine right now."
Caroline frowned, "So? Come on tell me, it's just-"
"No, I am stuck for the rest of my life."
"Elena." Caroline gasped, Elena sat up shaking her head, "I love him I do, it's just it's unfair that I get to give up my dream."
"You'll come back to it."
"Yeah I will in 18 years when I am 39." She gave a sarcastic toothy smile, "But who cares I'll be Mrs. Salvatore, Damon and I in our love nest, where I bring babies and he gets to tell them about the time Mommy wanted to be in Hollywood. Yes I wanna be married to him and have his kids but I want to be more than that, I just feel so guilty, when he looks at me and talks about future, our house and kids, I cringe sometimes, I am a horrible girlfriend."
"Come on Elena don't say that." Caroline got up and Elena too, "I mean why not, what's the guarantee we work, maybe he finds another heinous bitch that first he throws her into the pool, puts cockroaches in her cakes and replaces her shampoo with hair removing cream but then he finds sexual tension there and goes for her."
Caroline narrowed her eyes, "Elena he isn't 16 anymore, if he does that stuff he'll probably have to take your bed at the center this time."
"Thanks for bringing up the center Care. God I just wished it would be a different time sometimes, not now." She hissed turning around. Her eyes widened as she saw Damon standing at the living room door, "Uh Stefan and I were headed out, I just wanted to-"
"Damon." She said biting her lip, "hey listen."
He turned around and walked out of the room, Elena looked at Caroline and spat, "You could have told me he was there."
She shrugged, "Come on I was listening to you, I didn't know he was there."
Elena palmed her head as she followed Damon to her room, he had the drawer open, looking for something, "What-what are you doing?"
"getting my keys, Stefan wants to buy stuff."
"I-" she closed the door and walked to him, resting her hand on his back, "I am sorry baby."
"About saying that or about me listening?" he stood up and turned back, "Because those are two separate things."
"Come on baby I just-" she tried to cup his face but he stepped away, "Don't baby me okay, tell me the truth, do you really feel that way, that I am restricting you from this 'dream life'."
"Ugh Damon you know you mean more."
He shook his head, "No I don't , this time I don't Elena, the baby and I are just-"
"Damon stop it! You are not the one whose life is up side down." She felt tears coming to her eyes , in her mind she cursed the pregnancy emotions. He rolled his eyes, "Right? Me dumping the fuck out of my career for you is just not enough." His voice low, which was a new for their fights, usually the lashing out was loud for both of them.
"But you'll find something, it's me who is never going to, now that you and the baby are in the picture it's even more difficult."
"So what is all this? What was all that on the phone when you told me to come."
"I wanted- wanted that I did. I need you for the baby, I do."
"So what? You know you need me for the baby- not me, face it, this was never going to happen anyway, so you called up plan 2."
"Don't say that." She pursed her lips he huffed, "But it's true, this happened and you settled because this life was a fucking consolation prize."
Tears rolled down her cheeks, "No that's not true, that was all talk- nothing means more than this." She took a step forward but he put his hands up, "I am going out with Stefan okay, why don't you just go and rest, maybe talk about how awful I am at planning a future."
"Damon I know you have this abandonment issues-"
He seethed, "No you stop right there, stop being a bitch to me because I love you."
"Okay I am sorry, I am." She moved forward, "It was just a conversation, it doesn't have to mean anything, people say stuff about their dreams all the time I mean-"
"I am going out with Stefan." He said firmly, "Don't worry I wont abandon you like Max did with my Mom." He said in a snarky tone, "If that's what you're worried about."
"Come on Damon."
He just picked up the keys and his jacket from the foot of the bed as he slammed the door on his way out.
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A/N
Hey guys I know short chapter, it's dedicated to MOUHEY DOLL. I couldn't write all week because my laptop isn't working the best. Really am trying with this one, please give a review! Also other stories will be uploaded in next week, who's excited. And I am also getting weird Dms from girls wanting to date me and stuff so please don't