Stefan POV
I woke with the sun beating through the curtains onto Elena and me.
She was so beautiful when slept, not that she wasn't when she was awake, but she looked so peaceful and blissfully unaware. I wrapped my arms around her waist, feeling our son or daughter moving around inside of her.
She sighed as she did every morning before she woke. "Morning beautiful" I said kissing her hair.
"Good morning" She replied turning around to face me, "How do you always know when I'm awake?" she asked.
"Because, you always do this little sigh right before you wake up and your heart beats faster." I replied.
"I do not" she whinged. "Yeah, you do but it's nice because then I know I get to spend another wonderful day with my fiancée and mother of my child" I said kissing her forehead.
"Speaking of wonderful, last night was..." she trailed off. "Amazing" I finished.
"Mmm, exactly" she said as her stomach growled and our baby kicked.
"Breakfast time, I assume" I laughed stroking her cheek.
"Yes please" She smiled.
"What would you like?" I asked picking her up out of bed.
"Too pick up where we left off last night" She whispered in my ear.
"I wish, maybe later, if I'm feeling up to it" I teased.
We finished breakfast and washed the dishes.
"Well, you were hungry." I joked.
"Don't blame me, blame the baby" She laughed leaning over to kiss me.
"So, future Mrs. Salvatore, what's on the agenda for today?" I asked.
She blushed, "Well, I was thinking, we don't have many photos of us together apart from that one photo of us together at the bonfire that night. We need to take some photos, so why not today. I brought my camera." She suggested.
"Sounds like a plan" I replied. "Really?" She asked. "Sure" I said putting my arms around her waist and pulling her towards me.
"So, our first family photos?" I questioned "Well part family"
"I'm going upstairs to have a shower and get dressed. I'll down soon." She said.
The photo taking went really great, we got photos of each of us at all different angles, photos of us together, and Elena's belly and every shot we could in between.
It had taken up the whole day, by the end of the day; Elena was in pain, her back screaming at her. "I seriously don't know if I can put up with my back being like this for another two and a half months." She complained as I rubbed her back after dinner. "Just relax, Lena. I don't want you under any stress, okay?" I demanded.
"There's something I want to do, that we haven't done, since the decade dance." She said getting off the couch and walking towards the kitchen with her hands supporting her back.
"That bad huh?" I asked. "Yeah, terrible" She wined. I got up and got her some aspirin from the cupboard.
"So, what was it that you wanted to do, that we haven't done since the decade dance?" I questioned as she got back on the couch.
"Exactly that, dance" She smiled. "I always loved dancing with you"
I walked over to the couch and helped her up, she laced her arms around my neck and rested her head on my chest, whilst I had my arms around her waist and we began to dance in a square formation.
"I'm so tired, I never knew being pregnant could be this tiring." she started to cry, "My hormones are going crazy, I feel tired all the time, I'm always hungry and I look like a beached whale. I was surprised you wanted to sleep with me last night." She cried.
"Elena, you are the most beautiful women in the universe, and being pregnant doesn't change that for me, I have never felt more attracted to you than I have in these past months. But I'm also sorry for putting you through this. It's my fault." I complimented and apologised.
I rubbed her back; I never knew she felt this way. "It's okay Stef; I forgive you even though it's not your fault." She said as she gathered herself together.
We danced for what seemed like hours, all to my old favourites like "I'll be seeing you" by Billie Holliday. Elena asked me about life in that era and I told her all about the hair, the fashion, the lifestyles and people.
As we laughed and talked our child kept kicking. "Does it feel like there's something between us?" I joked.
We both laughed, we had stopped dancing and ended up standing in each other's arms in front of the fire.
I felt Elena flinch, "Lena, you okay" I asked. "Yeah, just cramps" she winced. "You sure?" I worried.
Elena doubled over in pain and began to scream, "Lena, what's going on?" I asked trying to stand her up. "It's not labour or Braxton Hicks, I'm sure of it." She screamed. "Just relax, we'll get in the car and go to the hospital, breathe Elena, breathe." I said picking her up and taking her to the car. I drove as fast as I could towards Mystic Falls Hospital, the only one within range.
I began to smell blood; it was beginning to get stronger.
"Elena, you're bleeding" I yelled.
I looked at her jeans; they had gone from a light blue to a red and were spreading.
"Elena, stay with me. I'm not losing either one of you tonight. You're going to be fine, okay?" I said as I tried to get Elena to stay with me and not pass out.
We arrived at the hospital and I ran through the doors of the ER with Elena, limp and lifeless in my arms. "Someone please help me, my fiancée is 26 weeks pregnant, she's bleeding everywhere and it's not stopping." I screamed.
Meredith came running towards me with a wheelchair. "Oh my god, Stefan what happened?" She asked as she wheeled Elena through the corridor, "One minute we were talking and the next she was doubled over in pain, screaming and she was bleeding everywhere. She's going to be okay right?" I started to cry.
"Stefan, this is as far as you can go. I'll get back to you as soon as I can okay?" she yelled as her and a group of doctors took Elena from me.
I stood there, looking at my hands covered in Elena's blood, our child's blood.
I had to call everyone, Damon, Bonnie and Jeremy, Caroline and Tyler and Ric.
Everyone was in shock and felt as lifeless as I did; we waited for what seemed like forever. All I could think about is that I had already almost lost them once, this couldn't be happening again. I sat there and cried, so did Bonnie and Caroline and to my surprise Damon. Ric, Jeremy and Tyler just sat there emotionless.
Two hours had passed when I heard Meredith call my name, her face as emotionless as Ric and Jeremy's.
Everyone got up with me to meet her, "I'm sorry guys but I'm going to have to talk to Stefan alone." She said gravely.
"What is it, what's wrong?" I asked, holding back my tears. "Elena has had a placental abruption, between the 1st and 2nd degree, it's where the placenta comes away from the uterine wall, which is what caused the bleeding" she replied "Is it my fault?" I asked, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. "No no, it's not your fault Stefan, it's because of her maternal age, and it can become common for women under the age of twenty. We've managed to control the bleeding." she reassured me not that it did any good. "Can I see her? They're going to be okay, right?" I asked as a lump rose in my throat, "Stefan, there's something you need to know, Elena has lost a lot of blood, we're giving her a transfusion now, but because of the amount she lost, she's gone into a coma, we don't know when or if she'll wake up. I'm so sorry" She replied tears filling her eyes.
'If' that one word that sent my world crashing down.