Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to The Vampire Diaries, TV show or books. However I decided to have a little play around with the characters (I would definitely like to play with Damon).
This is a pretty Delena heavy chapter although unfortunately no smut.
A doorbell like ringing noise woke Matt from his sleep. He picked up his phone and saw the time was 03:12, groaning he turned back over thinking he must have been dreaming, when suddenly he heard the noise again. This time he was more awake as he recognized the sound of the doorbell.
"Who's that a this time of night." he muttered to himself as he got out of bed and pulled on a t-shirt and a pair of sweatpants.
He switched the lights on, headed downstairs and opened the door only to find a very drunk looking Tyler.
"What the hell?" Matt frowned.
"You need to invite me in." Tyler slurred.
"Oh yeah...Come in." Matt remembered as Tyler stumbled in through the door, clearly very drunk. "Okay, let's get you inside." he said helping his friend into the living room and sitting him down on the couch. "What's so bad it's gotten you into the state." he frowned.
"Caroline." Tyler complained.
"What's she done know." Matt sighed.
"She fucked Klaus." Tyler sneered as Matt looked at him in shock.
"Seriously?" Matt asked.
"Yup. She was even bragging about it to Elena and Bonnie." Tyler told him. "On the plus side, it appears he didn't measure up as high as her ultimate sex god, who she claims to hate." he curled his lips in disgust.
"Who?" Matt frowned.
"Damon fucking Salvatore." Tyler complained. "It seems the girls have a rating system of how good a guy is in bed. And lets just say I don't think you and me measure up." he told him. "She slept with Klaus." he complained, changing the subject.
"You know what I think?" Matt asked as Tyler raised an eyebrow and shook his head. "I think you should get some sleep, sober up and then we talk about it in the morning with a clear head." he said.
"But I'm supposed to be in class tomorrow." Tyler complained.
"I thought you deferred a semester." Matt narrowed his eyes.
"It was meant as a surprise for Caroline." Tyler sighed. "Except I was the one who got the surprise." he said sadly.
"College can wait one more day." Matt told him. "We'll talk about it tomorrow." he tried to get Tyler to stand up, but to no avail.
"Why would she cheat on me, with that bastard of all people?" Tyler snapped.
"No offense Ty, but you did kind of dump her." Matt shook his head. "I'm not defending her, but she's single." he said.
"Yeah, but Klaus killed my mom." Tyler moaned. "And you know what? Stefan Salvatore had the nerve to punch me. Is she sleeping with him too?" he asked as Matt shifted uncomfortably. He knew Damon, Elena and Bonnie were trying to get Caroline and Stefan together, but he couldn't tell Tyler that. At least not until he'd spoken to them.
"Not as far as I know." Matt shook his head, deciding to give up on getting a reluctant hybrid to stand up. Instead he covered Tyler in the throw from the couch. "Look, tomorrow is Friday. Why don't you sleep off the alcohol, and we can talk about it then. We'll get you moved into your dorm over the weekend and you can start college on Monday." he suggested.
"You think I should still go to college?" Tyler asked.
"There will be plenty of hot chicks around once you're over Caroline. What better place to be?" Matt smiled, hoping it would cheer Tyler up.
"You're a good friend Matt." Tyler smiled sleepily as he put his head down on the arm rest. "You'll make a good husband one day." he yawned before falling asleep.
"Goodnight Tyler." Matt sighed as he switched off the lights and headed back up to his room and back to bed.
The next morning Damon and Elena were up earlier than usual. Elena had an appointment to see their supernatural obstetrician Jo Laughlin, who was also a member of the Gemini Coven, although apparently she wasn't a practicing witch. Instead she had a different supernatural role, that of a doctor to those of the non-human, human variety. Before they set off Elena had had a text from Jeremy telling her Tyler had turned up at the Lockwood mansion the night before, extremely drunk. Apparently he was going to surprise Caroline by starting college, and even had a dorm ready. Matt had persuaded Tyler to move in over the weekend and start college on Monday after he'd sobered up. She and Damon just hoped him coming back wouldn't put a kink in their Stefan and Caroline plan, as they could now see how wrong Tyler was for Caroline. If he lost his temper he could accidentally kill her, and Elena wasn't going to let that happen. But that concern was for another time as they made their way to Jo's room and sat outside, waiting to be called in.
"Damon, Elena." Jo's head popped out of her door and she smiled. "Do you want to come in?" she asked as Damon and Elena got up and entered her office.
While Damon and Elena were at the hospital, Caroline and Bonnie had a little mission of their own. To seek out Aaron Whitmore. As Elena had seen someone who she believed to be him the day before at the memorial, they had wondered if he had left something behind, like a card. As the gift was to a dead person, it would be still viewed as his, meaning if Bonnie could get her hands on it, she'd be able to do a locator spell.
To make sure it didn't look like they were potentially thieving from a dead girls shrine, Caroline and Bonnie took sunflowers. Elena had told them, according to Aaron, they were apparently Megan's favorites. When they arrived at the shrine, they knelt down and made it look like they were tidying it up so they could put the fresh flowers down while actually looking for something which Aaron might have left.
"How will we know?" Caroline asked.
"Elena said he told her she like sunflowers." Bonnie sighed. "There are no sunflowers here, which means he must have left something more personal. Like a card or a bear." she said.
"Isn't there a law or something about stealing from a dead person's shrine?" Caroline asked uncomfortably.
"Don't know." Bonnie shrugged. "Probably."
"I don't like this." Caroline started to arrange the flowers while Bonnie looked through the cards. "What if she comes back to haunt us?" she whispered.
"She can't." Bonnie sighed. "She wasn't supernatural. She won't have gone to the other side." she assured Caroline.
"And you are absolutely sure humans can't haunt us from whatever their equivalent of the other side is?" Caroline asked nervously.
Bonnie sighed. "To become a ghost, you have to have supernatural powers in life. And even then only certain people, like Jeremy can see them." she said.
"And we know for certain she wasn't supernatural, and she won't haunt Jeremy." Caroline asked.
"We'll be fine." Bonnie rolled her eyes. Suddenly she noticed a little card, which she pulled out and read the message. "Bingo!" she grinned lifting it up. "It's from Aaron." she said quietly as she put the card in her purse.
"You really think this will work?" Caroline asked.
"It's only a locator spell." Bonnie shrugged. "We'll try it out when we get back to the dorm. If it works, we'll wait until Damon and Elena get back from the hospital so I can drain the baby's magic first. Then we do another locator spell and go find him." she said smugly.
"I'll text Stefan to see if he can meet us back at the dorm." Caroline said as she sent a text before putting her phone away. "Let's find Aaron." she said as they headed back off to their dorm.
Damon and Elena sat down in Jo's office while their doctor grabbed a few things she needed for their interview. Their file was a digital copy only and encrypted as magic still hadn't found a way into hacking, although it was just a matter of time. Jo was one of the first to combine a normal job with supernatural uses. She plugged their file into her computer and began to go through their previous notes in silence while Damon and Elena nervously sat holding hands. Eventually Jo looked at them and smiled.
"Did you bring the talisman?" Jo asked as Elena brought out porcelain crow and placed it on the desk.
"So are we doing another scan?" Elena asked.
"Not today." Jo shook her head. "This type of appointment isn't one a human would ever attend. I don't need to run normal tests on you like blood pressure. But because your baby is unique, we do have to find out where the magic is currently coming from." she explained.
"Is that why we couldn't drain the baby this morning?" Damon frowned.
Jo nodded as she looked at the sticker underneath the crow with the time and date of the baby being drained. "You haven't used any magic, other than the psychic link in the meantime?" she asked.
"No." Elena shook her head.
"Actually, we were going to ask about that." Damon frowned. "When we feed simultaneously, Bonnie can feel our bodily reactions to whatever Elena and I are doing." he said slowly, not wanting to embarrass Elena by telling Jo about the sex part.
"That's to be expected." Jo nodded.
"Is there anyway we can make the link stronger?" Elena asked.
"You mean reading minds?" Jo asked.
"Yep." Damon nodded. "It's just I want to make sure if I'm not there and Elena is in trouble, then Bonnie or Elena can send a more specific message." he said.
"Like a text?" Jo raised an eyebrow.
"Just in case our hands are tied." Elena replied.
Jo nodded knowingly. "I guess you might need it nearer the time, and it'll be a good idea to practice it." she said. "But warning, the link lasts twelve hours, and it is very powerful. You will feel and hear everything." she said as Damon and Elena looked at each other nervously. "That's right. Unless you want to inadvertently have a psychic threesome, you need to abstain from sex." she joked as Damon and Elena looked at each other furtively. "Oh my god." Jo laughed. "I guess that's how you found out how close the link already is." she said as Damon and Elena nodded. "Well, that was nothing. Bonnie will be able to not only feel the physical effects. If she closes her eyes, she'll get sound and visuals." she told them.
"Like a supernatural voyeurism?" Damon asked horrified.
"It's a consequence of the increased psychic link." Jo told them. "I'd only use it in emergencies if I were you." she said. "And I should warn you, as the pregnancy goes on, the more you'll be needing to have sex." she said.
"Why?" Elena asked.
"As you know, the baby is feeding from the power of the Travelers, Silas and the doppelgangers." Jo explained. "But because Damon is a vampire, the baby will try to feed from his magic too. If the baby did, it would kill him." she said.
"The baby won't kill Stefan will it?" Elena frowned.
"No." Jo shook her head. "The doppelgangers are the only ones who won't die." she said as Damon and Elena looked at each other with fear. "So, to ensure you don't die." Jo looked at Damon. "You two having sex fuels the baby's need for your magic. Even if it is only temporary." she said. "Instead of going through the bloodlines, it is going direct to the source, you could say."
"You say it's temporary?" Damon raised an eyebrow.
"Your libido's will tell you when the baby next needs to feed from Damon's magic, without hurting him" Jo told them. "And as the baby gets stronger, that need will only get more frequent." she said.
"How much more frequent?" Elena asked.
"It wasn't essential in the first two trimesters." Jo explained. "This only starts in the third trimester. In two weeks time. You'll initially find it might be every day. By the last month of the pregnancy it might be around every eight hours." she said. "I wouldn't worry too much, you'll be drawn to each other. Being apart will feel practically unbearable." she told them. "You won't be able to stop yourself from needing to find one another and you will kill anything in your path to be together." she said.
"Woah, that's pretty deep." Damon frowned. "But the Travelers placed a spell on us, we can't die." he shrugged.
"But the pull would be so great you'd move heaven and earth to be near each other." Jo stressed. "You will even kill your love ones if they try to separate you." she said.
"Is that why the Travelers tried to kidnap me?" Damon asked. "They knew Elena would kill anyone in her path, so she'd do anything they asked to get me back?"
"Yes." Jo nodded. "Although technically you can't die because of the protection spell, the baby would still drain you to a point of desiccation, and the only way to revive you would be by using the cure. So they psychic link with your witch it fine, but once you can't be apart for more than twelve hours, it won't be of much use to you. And there is no spell which can block it out I'm afraid." she sighed.
"How long have we got to do the spell?" Elena asked.
"It's not an exact science." Jo explained. "This is just an approximation. But I'd say it'll be in around three weeks from now, give or take. After that, I wouldn't recommend you use it." she said, as Damon and Elena realized the implications to Jo's words. They had less than three weeks to rescue Enzo.
"So how do we do it?" Damon asked.
"It requires a lot of blood sharing. Before and after the simultaneous feed." Jo explained. "You two will need to feed from each other first, then Bonnie will have to drink a vial of blood from both of you. Then you feed simultaneously, and again you blood share with each other, before feeding Bonnie your blood again." she said. "Is there a reason you want to do it?" she asked.
"It was because of what happened with the Traveler attack." Elena explained. "We've been wondering if there was any other way to communicate." she lied.
"It only works if it's premeditated." Jo told them. "Pointless in a random attack."
"How do you know all this stuff?" Damon frowned.
"We've been in touch with the spirits of the prophesy for two thousand years. They've given us a lot of knowledge which. The Bennett witches didn't find out about these little details as they didn't have the option of merging twins like we do." Jo smiled sadly. "That is our sacrificial offering and in return they give us knowledge. Once this is over, we'll never have to perform the sacrifice again. Thank god." she sighed.
"Why?" Elena asked.
"The merge takes place when the twins turn twenty two." Jo explained. "The next merge is due to happen next year. My younger brother and sister, who are twins, are due to turn twenty two next. As long as the baby survives, so do they. So as you can see, my interest in making sure this pregnancy goes to perfection is personal." she said.
"So note to self." Damon started. "No psychic links unless we are putting ourselves in mortal jeopardy within the next three weeks. After that psychic links are only allowed when Elena, Bonnie and I are feeling kinky." he joked.
"Something like that." Jo nodded.
"Why did you need the talisman? I thought you couldn't do magic." Elena asked, deciding to change the subject.
"I can't." Jo sighed. "But I'm still a witch and I can still command dark objects." she told them, as she got up and opened a large drawer which contained a bottle of what looked like blood, and an empty steel bowl. "I will put the talisman in the bowl and put the blood on my hand and take in the power of the baby. This should tell me who is fueling the magic." she explained. "The first drain is from the bloodlines of the doppelgangers. That would have been over after the first trimester. Then the baby sucks in the power of two thousand years of historic expression massacre's. Finally it would be the magic of Silas and the massacre's committed since you became pregnant. That takes place in the final week of pregnancy, which is why they need the baby aborted before then. The Travelers have a one week window when they are strong enough to perform the required magic to abort the baby." she said as she put the crow into the bowl. "Do you want to go lie on the bed?" she asked as Elena got up and lay down on the bed, while Damon followed.
"Is this some type of witchy baby scan?" he asked as Jo nodded.
"Take your necklace off and lift up your shirt?" Jo instructed Elena who did as she was told.
Jo opened the bottle of blood and rubbed some on the fingers before of both hands before walking over to Elena with the bowl and setting it down on a little table next to her.
"So, I'm just going to feel your stomach. This should tell me which Expression massacre the baby is feeding from right now." she smiled as she placed the fingers of one bloodied hand on Elena's stomach and touched the crow which was in the bowl with the other.
After a few moments the crow began to start to change color. It turned from black to orange, and lit up until it was glowing. Suddenly it appeared to melt into the bowl. Jo and Damon watched it until it had finished and looked at what remained of the crow. Inside the bowl was a date, written in what looked like black ink. It said June 1357.
"Is that the month the baby is sucking magic from?" Damon asked as Elena lifted her head and looked at the contents of the bowl.
"It is." Jo smiled as she picked up the bowl and headed over to the sink. She rinsed her hands, allowing the pink water to drop into the bowl before turning around and holding the porcelain crow up in front of them. "All evidence of the date is gone." she said, handing them the crow before sitting down and typing some notes into her computer.
"So is this the type of appointment we should expect every time we come to see you?" Elena asked, as she put her necklace on and pulled her shirt down, noticing the blood had completely disappeared from her stomach. She got up from the bed, and walked back over to Jo's desk with Damon and sat back down.
"Yes." Jo nodded. "We need a talisman to check how many more massacre's it has consumed. If you want to know the math it is sixteen thousand, three hundred, Expression massacre's, give or take a few months, plus the doppelganger bloodlines. It's pretty powerful." she smiled.
"Holy shit." Damon's jaw dropped. "Three nearly took out Bon Bon." he said.
"The baby will be able to handle that amount of power." Jo assured them. "Just introduce her gradually to each talisman as she gets older. She was designed to withstand and be able to control that amount of power without it hurting her." she smiled. "So, do you have any questions?" she asked as Damon and Elena shook their heads. "Great then. Ask my secretary Holly to make an appointment for you to seem me in two weeks time." she said, standing up and opening the door for them, as they got up and walked out, shaking her hand.
"Thanks doc." Damon nodded.
"Thank you Jo." Elena smiled.
"My pleasure." Jo replied. "See you in two weeks." she told them as the headed out to the car to digest what they'd just learned.
Bonnie and Caroline returned to their dorm, back from their trip to Megan's shrine, with Aaron's card where they found Stefan, sat waiting for them on Caroline's bed.
"I was already in the neighborhood." Stefan smiled, explaining how he'd made it to Bonnie and Caroline's dorm before they had.
"Good, that means we can get working on the spell straight away." Bonnie said. "Can you get the desk for me?" she asked as Stefan picked up the desk which was next to the fireplace while Caroline helped with the chair, and placed it in the middle of the room while Bonnie collected some candles.
Bonnie lit placed the candles on the desk.
"Incendia." Bonnie said quietly as the candles lit.
"I take it you are using spirit magic." Stefan asked as Bonnie nodded.
"The witches cleared my path to access it once again when they tried to cleanse me of Expression." she told them. "Instead I just ended up having access to both." she said sadly. "I'm not going to use Expression, I refuse to, and I haven't drained the baby for a few days. So spirit magic it is. Until Damon and Elena get back." she said. "Right I need to concentrate." she told them.
"Okay." Caroline said quietly as she and Stefan sat next to each other on the bed.
Bonnie closed her eyes and lay her hand on top of Aaron's card. "Phasmatos Tribum Nas Ex Veras..." she chanted. "Phasmatos Tribum Nas Ex Veras..." she said again as the flame of the candle burned higher. Bonnie screwed her eyes up as if trying to make out where she was before opening them again. "It worked. I know where he is." she told them.
"Where?" Caroline asked. "I'll text Elena, let them know. Maybe we can get our invite today." she smirked as she took her phone out.
Damon and Elena got into the car and just sat there for a moment trying to digest the information Jo had just given them. It had been one thing to be told this information at the start of the pregnancy, but every day they both felt a connection to the child and Elena was upset when she realized the magic feeding the child was fuelled by so much death. By the time they were sat down, tears were welling up in her eyes.
"Hey, it's not the baby's fault." Damon said softly. "The witches killed those people, the baby is the balance of nature taking the magic back, or whatever." he shook his head.
"I know that." Elena sniffed, but just think how many people in total. Multiply the amount of massacre's the baby is feeding from by twelve and then you have the amount of dead bodies contributed to feeding her." she said as Damon got his phone out and typed in the figures on the calculator.
"Do you want to know how many exactly?" he asked as Elena shook her head. "If it makes you feel any better, these people would already have been dead now anyway. I mean living six hundred and fifty something years is called having high expectations of a lifespan. Even for a vampire." he joked, trying to cheer Elena up.
"I know." Elena sighed as Damon took her in his arms and held her, resting his cheek on her head.
"Miranda." Damon suddenly said.
"What?" Elena asked.
"Or Jenna." Damon offered. "Baby names. What are we going to call her?" he asked.
"Oh. We haven't gotten to that yet." she frowned. "I was going to get a book..." she started.
"We don't need a book." Damon sighed.
"What was your mom called?" Elena asked.
"Lily." Damon said sadly. "But like everyone else she preferred Stefan, so no not Lily." he told her.
"Pity, it's a pretty name." Elena said looking up at Damon. "And I'm guessing she was a very beautiful woman to have you for a son." she smiled.
"I've got her eyes." Damon told her.
"I really hope our little girl gets your eyes." Elena smiled. "That means I get to see even more of them." she smirked as Damon bent his head and kissed her, suddenly causing the heat to rise in the pit of Elena's stomach.
"I think someone is feeling a little bit frisky." Damon grinned as he kissed Elena passionately on the lips.
"I might be feeling frisky, but not here in the hospital parking lot." Elena whispered.
"Doesn't mean anyone will notice while I make you feel good." Damon growled as he unbuttoned her jeans and slipped his hand down the front. However before he reached her panties Elena's phone beeped, telling them she had a text.
"I better get that." she sighed as Damon removed his hand from her jeans, huffed, and sat back against the leather of the car seat.
"Caroline and Bonnie are doing the locator spell." Elena told them as she saw the message was from Caroline; Elena opened it and read it. "They got something." she grinned.
"What?" Damon frowned.
"A card, and the spell worked. He's at Whitmore house right now." Elena told him. "We've got to do this while we can." she sighed. "If we do the psychic link, we don't have long to rescue Enzo. We need to make the most of what we do have." she said.
"I guess you're right." Damon agreed. "Bon Bon and Blondie's dorm it is." he said, kissing Elena once more before turning the engine on and setting off towards campus.
Damon and Elena arrived at Bonnie and Caroline's dorm not long after they received the text from Caroline. As the college had originally been founded around the need for a hospital, the campus was only a fifteen minute drive away. When they arrived, they found Bonnie, Caroline and Stefan all waiting for them.
"Sorry we're late to the party." Damon smirked.
"Have you got something for the baby drain?" Bonnie asked.
"Here." Elena took out a cuddly toy which looked like a crow.
"Seriously?" Caroline raised an eyebrow.
"We decided September was going to be paternal representation." Damon told her.
"I didn't know you were a fan of Game of Thrones." Caroline raised and eyebrow. "Please tell me we can banish you to the wall and forget about you forever." she said sarcastically.
"Books were good, but a crappy cult TV show, it'll never take off." Damon shook his head. "If you must know a crow is my alter ego." he smirked.
"What do you mean?" Caroline asked.
"Damon can do a couple of parlor tricks of his own." Stefan explained. "It's really rare for a vampire to be able to do it, but he can get into the minds of crow's and create fog." he told her.
"How?" Caroline frowned. "Can other vampires do that?"
"None that I know of." Damon shrugged.
"I didn't know about that." Bonnie narrowed her eyes at Damon. "Why did you never mention it before?" she asked.
Damon sighed. "Because it takes a helluva a lot of human blood, straight from the vein to perform these...parlor tricks." he said sarcastically. "I'm the good guy now, right. I don't take the amount of blood from humans needed to fuel that amount of power anymore."
Bonnie smirked. "Man, fog, crow." she said. "Explains a lot." she smirked.
"So are you intending to scare the baby?" Caroline asked.
"Crow's are highly intelligent creatures." Damon insisted. "There is nothing scary about a crow."
"Can we just cut the crap and get down to finding Aaron again?" Bonnie asked. "Elena, you know the drill." she said as Elena walked over to Bonnie and took her necklace off. She pulled her shirt up slightly while her bump grew to allow Bonnie to place her hand on her stomach. Bonnie picked up the toy crow and concentrated for a moment until she'd drained most of what was needed. "I've not done a full drain on the baby." she told them. "I want to use its magic for the locator spell." she said as she handed the crow back to Elena who put it back in her bag.
"What's next?" Damon asked.
"I juice up my power from the baby, and then we can do the locator spell. We find Aaron and then you compel him." she said.
"I'm all yours." Elena grinned as Bonnie placed both hands on Elena's stomach, which began to glow for a moment, before she took them off.
"You should be good for a few days before we drain the magic again." Bonnie said. "Did you mention the link to the doctor?" she asked as Damon and Elena looked at each other uncomfortably.
"We've got a three week time window, otherwise there are complications." Elena said.
"What happens after that?" Bonnie frowned.
"You will become a voyeur." Damon tried to hide his smile at Bonnie's reaction of horror.
"Can't you abstain for however long the link lasts?" Bonnie asked.
"We could but Damon will desiccate." Elena winced.
"Lack of sex will cause desiccation?" Caroline laughed. "Seriously?"
"Yeah. The baby needs to connect with Damon's magic, and there are only two ways to do that." Elena sighed. "The link lasts for twelve hours. In about three weeks time, we'll be needing to well, you know..." she tailed off.
Caroline's burst out laughing while Damon and Elena glared at her. "It's not like you two need an excuse." she said. "You're already like rabbits."
"Can we talk about something else. Like the weather?" Stefan shifted uncomfortably. "Or even the spell?" he suggested.
"Fine!" Bonnie rolled her eyes. "The sooner we get this done, the sooner we can make plans to rescue Enzo." she said as she took the card once more and placed her hand on top of it. "Phasmatos Tribum Nas Ex Veras..." she chanted. "Phasmatos Tribum Nas Ex Veras..." she repeated as the flames of the candle rose higher once more. Bonjie concentrated had for a moment before opening her eyes. "He's still at Whitmore house." she said.
"Great." Damon grinned. "Let's compel us all an invite." he said.
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