Last Chapter! And I think everything came out just how I wanted :) I love it when thing just work! Well, read, enjoy, review, and thanks for stickin with the story!
~One and a half months later~
"I can't." Elena insisted, folding her legs on the bed. Damon sighed for the millionth time that hour.
"Just go check, you've been dying to know for weeks now."
"I know, but I can't! What if it didn't work, what if I got my hopes up for nothing, I just can't know, not if it's something I don't want to know." She was almost in tears, and Damon sat beside her, pulling her close.
"Do you want me to go look?" He asked finally.
She glanced toward the bathroom, then exhaled, "I guess, I'm just scared, Damon."
"Look, if it didn't work, we'll try again, okay?"
"But the last full moon fell into timing with the past. What if Bonnie can't do it a second time?"
He laughed a little. "Elena, there's hardly been a spell we've crossed that the witch couldn't perform. It'll be fine, it'll just take more time."
"Ugh, fine, you go look, my nerves are wrecked."
He nodded, kissing her forehead, before heading toward the bathroom.
He found the little white stick where she'd left it, almost an hour ago, and smiled when he read the verdict.
"Well?" Elena called out nervously.
Damon walked back into the room, holding the test up to her, "Your going to have to translate this for me," he joked, "I'm not sure what the plus sign means." She squealed, jumping into his arms.
"It worked!" she sounded amazed.
"It worked, Elena. You're going to have your son."
She smile at the man in front of her. "Our son."
And his grin said everything else.
A few months passed, the time flying, and Damon was happy that Elena had been right, almost everyone was being supportive. He felt a slight guilt about Stefan, but he knew in his heart, this is what was right, and this is where he needed to be right now. He'd save his brother again one day, but he had another family to worry about now, and worry he did. Any time Elena had even the slightest fever, he was all over her, insisting she go to the doctor. She'd assure him everything was fine, and he'd calm down for a while.
When she reached about five months along, he was surprised that he could hear the baby's heartbeat. Vampire hearing and all, but it excited him too. Sometimes after Elena would fall asleep, he'd stay awake, rubbing her stomache, listening to his baby inside her.
Leave it to Elena to give him everything he'd never thought to ask for. He'd always wanted children as a human, but that choice had been taken from him the day he was shot and killed with vampire blood in his system. But Elena had given it back to him, and he knew he'd always love her for that, and for this child that her belly was round with.
The days blurred together, rumors came and flew, but Elena stood strong, and mostly, happy. He helped in every way possible, though she mainly just like him rubbing her stomache. It seemed to calm the baby down in the later months of her pregnancy, and that was what he was doing when Elena sat up quickly from the bed.
"Elena?" He asked, worriedly.
"Damon, I think-" he heard the noise as her water broke, "-it's time," she finished.
"But it's too soon isn't it?" He asked, standing to find his phone.
"Jeremy came a few weeks early, I'd forgotten." She said, her voice trailing off into a cry as the first contraction hit her.
"Damon, we need to get to the hospital, now."
He nodded, already getting Dr. Fell on the phone, as she was serving as Elena's doctor through the whole thing. He quickly told her what had happened, and she promised to meet them at the hospital.
He helped Elena change, then get down to his car, and gripped her hand the whole way their.
It took them no time at all to get her a room once they arrived, and Damon sat with her as she called Bonnie, Caroline, and Alaric.
"Are you okay?" he asked after another contraction forced her to grimace.
"Yeah," she breathed, "It just hurts some. But a lot less here than the first time I had him. I feel bad for the people in the days of no medicine."
He laughed a little, kissing her hand. "Well, I'll be here, I'm not leaving."
She smiled at him, before noticing Caroline, waving in the window of the door, before poking her head in. "Hey!"
"Hey Car," Elena greeted.
"Okay, the doctor's wont let too many of us in here, but I was just going to let you know that we're here, and we'll be out in the waiting room."
"Okay thanks."
Caroline gave her a quick hug before rushing back out of the door unnoticed.
The doctor's came in just as another contraction hit, this one stronger than the past ones. Dr. Fell tested her dialation, and gave her permission to start pushing whenever she was ready. The whole thing was painful for Damon to watch, Elena almost screaming in pain, but he held her hand through it all, and nearly an hour later, a crying filled the room. Dr. Fell wrapped the baby in a blanket before handing him to Elena.
The smile on her face was the biggest he'd ever seen, and the tears in her eyes matched the ones in his own. She kissed her son's forehead before looking up at Damon.
"You want to hold him?" She asked, and he could only nod. Smiling, she offered him up.
Damon looked down into the tiniest face he'd ever seen, and he could feel his heart melting. This was his son. True to Elena's word, the child stared up with big blue eyes and his head was covered in a tuff of black hair. He felt like he was holding glass, so small and fragile. So undeniably human. He knew he would protect his son with his life, and that the child would never want for a thing in the world. He placed his own kiss upon the babies head before the nurse insisted they needed to take him for all the cleaning and legalities. Damon placed the baby in her capable hands before turning back to the woman he loved.
"You're right, he's perfect." He smiled at her, kissing her lips.
Elena couldn't contain her happiness. "He looks exactly like I remember. It really is him, Damon. I owe you and Bonnie so much." Tears of joy filled her eyes as she layed back to rest.
"It's me that owes you, Elena," he said, taking her hand, "I wouldn't have him either, without you."
"He's our miracle," she decided, bringing his hand to her lips.
"Yes, he is, and your mine."
She blushed slightly at his words, "I'm serious, Elena," he smiled, "You saved me."
"Because I know you Damon, and I love you."
"I love you too, Sweetheart. So I guess this starts our forever." He concluded.
Elena nodded, "I guess so."
"Then be mine forever?" He asked, completely ungaurded.
Her smile was an answer before her words. "Of course, Damon. I love you...forever."
"I was hoping you'd say that," he grinned, pulling out a ring, one she recognized, his mother's ring. "Because I want to love you forever, and I want to tie myself to you in every way possible. Marry me, Elena, and I promise to be the man you deserve. Let me love you forever.
The tears were down her cheeks now as she smiled at him. "You already are that man, Damon, and I've already promised you forever. Of course, I'll marry you."
The world stopped as he pulled her into his arms, and placed a tender kiss on her lips.
"I love you, Elena."
"I love you too, Forever."
"A lot longer than that," he promised, kissing her again.
~The End~
But I added a little extra "epilogue" thing. So keep scrolling :) And I'm just going to ignore everything that's happened in the show that screws with my pretty happy ending, so if something isn't right, it's probably on purpose. Um, let's say Tyler ran off with some other werewolfy chick, and Caroline and Klaus fell in actual real love when he visited Mystic Falls. He made a transformation and let Stefan have his free will back, he was hurt by Damon and Elena's marriage/family, but he had been away long enough that he was able to move on quickly, especially when Katherine returned, so he took off with her, dropping in occasionally. Matt actually moved off to college and had a human life, Bonnie married Jeremy, the brother, and they have a son. And Alaric married Dr. Fell, and they had two girls. Also Elena's already been turned. So yeah, here's the epic conclusion!
~Seven years later~
The sound of laughter and splashing water filled the air, as Elena finished up the last bit in the kitchen.
"Are you coming?" Caroline asked, holding two more pitchers of lemonade.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah..." Elena giggled, picking up the tray stacked with sandwiches.
They made their way out of the boarding house's back door to the enormous underground pool most of their family and friends resided in or around.
"Ooh food," Jeremy Sr. spotted Elena and grabbed the tray from her.
"Go easy on those Jer, everyone else has to eat too," she reminded him.
"I know," he insisted, taking a sandwich to Bonnie, who was tanning in one of the fold out chairs next to Meredith.
"Sandwiches are done!" She called over to the water where Damon and Alaric were taking turns throwing the kids in the deep end.
They splashed around for a little while longer before the two men rounded up the kids for lunch.
Elena smiled as Damon walked up, their youngest, three year old Grayson, on his shoulders. She was so happy when the spell worked for a second time, letting her meet the child she'd never gotten to have, and he came out just as dark headed as his brother, but with her brown eyes, and life couldn't have been better.
"You guys aren't being to rough out there, are you?" She asked, taking Grayson off of Damon and sitting him down at the picnic table where the other children sat, and Caroline began passing out the sandwiches and drinks.
"Nah, they're all fine," he promised, grabbing her waist, and pulling her close for a kiss.
She shivered and flinched away. "God, Damon, you're all wet!"
He laughed, splashing water on her from his hair.
"Oh that isn't funny!" She warned, swatting his arm playfully.
"No, but this is," he picked her up and ran toward the pool.
"Damon! Don't even think abo-" but he'd already jumped, and they both were submerged into the chilled water.
She came up and tried to tackle him. "Your such an ass!" she laughed.
"Aw, but you love my ass!" He insisted, helping her out of the pull.
She rolled her eyes before laying a kiss on his cheek. "For some reason," she joked.
"Mommy, your'e all wet now!" Jeremy(jr) pointed out.
"Yeah, I am, that's exactly why Daddy's on cleanup duty."
"What?" Damon protested, and she sent him an evil smirk.
"Tough break man," Ric laughed, patting his friend's shoulder.
"Will you swim with us now?" Jeremy asked, munching on his sandwich.
She smiled at her son, the spitting image of his father, "Maybe for a little while, but we have to wait until after your food settles." He nodded vigoriously.
"Okay."
Elena smiled at the scene before her, surprised that it seemed she'd gotten everything she'd wanted from life. Even Klaus's presence, talking with her brother over a plate of food and limonade didn't seem out of place anymore. Everything was just how it was suppose to be. Everything except for the drink that Anna, one of Ric's girls, had just spilled, but Caroline, ever the organizer, had napkins on hand.
"Crap, we're gonna need more," She she stated, pouring Anna some more lemonade.
"I'll get some," Elena voluteered, heading back up to the house, drying herself off the best she could before going inside.
Entering the kitchen, she reached under the cabinet where she kept the paper towels, only to jump when she felt a pair of hands on her.
"Geez, you scared me!" She scolded her husband.
"Sorry," Damon chuckled. "Came to see if you needed help.
She eyed him skeptically. "It's one roll of papertowels, Damon, I don't need help, So why did you really follow me?"
He smirked, "Maybe I wanted to give you this," he answered, leaning in and capturing her lips.
He kissed her hard, but slow, and she moaned into his mouth a little, before pulling away.
"Mhmmm Damon. We have a lot of people outside." she reminded him.
"I know," he said, kissing her again.
"And children." She added.
"Mmhhm," he moved his lips to her neck.
"Our children," she clarified.
"And people to watch them," he added, kissing along her collarbone.
"So..."She was losing her train of thought as he trailed the kiss onto her shoulder, sliding down the strap of her tank top.
"So?" He asked, pulling her up so her skin met his mouth.
"So, we make this a quick one," she caved, pulling his mouth back to hers.
Damon smiled against her lips, knowing just how to get his beautiful wife going. He ran them upstairs, stripping their clothes along the way, He entered her almost instantly, and they both rode out their needs in this crazy string of passion. This is what living is, Damon thought. And now, thanks to Elena, who was saying his name over and over as she came down from her high, he had something worth living for. A family, and a life that he could enjoy.
She layed her head against his bare chest. "We should get back out there."
He nodded, standing them up, and scrounging the room for his swim trunks.
"They wont even noticed we've gone." he told her, and she scoffed.
"Oh, Caroline will!"
He laughed at that. "Yeah, she would."
Elena smiled, leaning up to kiss his beautiful lips one more time.
"I love you, Damon. You, the boys, I thought I'd lost it all, but now I have everything I wanted, plus more."
"I love you too, Elena," He pulled her close, "And I know exactly what you mean."
She wrapped her arms around his center in a tight hug before taking his hand to head back downstairs. Back to her sons and the rest of her extended family.
And with Damon by her side, it was all she would ever need.
Okay the official: The End! I had such an amazing time writing this story, and just might do a sequal or something! Thank you all so much for the reviews, and I really hope you like this as much as I did. 3Delena :)
