First of all thank you for all the wonderful reviews. They encourage me so much. Most have been positive but there have been a few that want me to speed things up. Well since this is my story and I am writing it I will tell the story I want to and at the pace I like. Thank you for your support.
It was Bonnie's first ob/gyn appointment and Damon was not going to be late, but Atticus Shane showing up at his house the day of put a dent in his plans. Damon came downstairs to find the bastard sitting on his couch sipping on his favorite bourbourn. Stefan was leaning against the mantel of the fireplace, barely containing his fury, but with a look of amusement at the bastard, he knew how this would end.
"Well hello Sinatra," he smirked when he saw Damon, " I was just telling your brother here how I hope that we can come to some agreement."
"About what?" Damon asked barely holding it together. He tried to come across as smooth, but the beast inside of him wanted to be unleashed.
"Why the baby, my baby with Bonnie, of course." he said smirking smugly.
Damon froze in place, he reacted the way Shane expected.
" You will not come near Bonnie or that baby."
"You can't keep me from my child. And in the eyes of the law, I'm the biological father, not you." taking a sip, " no matter how much you have been running around town pretending otherwise."
"Son of a bitch! You have been watching us?" Damon asked with fake outrage.
"Of course, I have to look out for my legacy."
"What do you want," Stefan interrupted.
" I want what is mine, I want the child?" he announced, his black eyes twinkling.
"Why? so you can try to fulfill some crazy prophecy you saw in a book that you think is about you."
Now Shane was the one who looked shocked. " You are a lot smarter than you appear Salvatore. But you have really bad taste in women though. First with your brother's leftovers and then with mine."
Shane didn't get the reaction he expected.
"Can you believe this motherfucker?" Damon pointed casually at Shane speaking to Stefan.
"I can't," smiling at his brother."I can't believe he would even show up here."
"I think he may believe he is a step ahead of us, that would explain the shit eating grin on his face." Damon said pointing to Shane.
"Probably, " Stefan shrugged.
Shane was still trying to look cool sipping his drink but the way the Salvatores were acting, made him have second thoughts about coming there to confront them. He simply wanted to gloat, to show him he had the upper hand, he had the law on his side, he also had a witch that was helping him.
" He thinks he is under protection, otherwise he wouldn't have shown up to confront two vampires. I mean he ran like a BITCH the last time I saw him." Damon menaced glaring at Shane.
This was a mistake he thought.
"Yeah Abby said that her friend Mattie, another witch he knows, gave him some sort of mojo that protects him from danger. It's black magic." Stefan explained, not really to Damon, because Damon already knew. He was letting Shane know that the gig was up.
The brothers heard Shane swallow hard. He walked over to the bar and placed the empty glass on top, obviously trying to think and put some space between himself and the two killers on the other side of the room.
Damon smirked, "And his heart beat just kicked into overdrive, not so fun being the one taken advantage of huh?"
"Abby was useless, she betrayed her own daughter, you can't believe a word she says." He spoke to Stefan, he seemed to be the reasonable one. "You can't touch me,"
"Oh you're right I can't, but he can," tipping his head toward Damon," since he was the one that got Mattie to cast the spell for you in the first place, seems like Abby could be trusted for something. She told us how to get around the spell, sort of like a spell within a spell."
Before Shane could make another move, Damon was on him, he jabbed his hand through his ribcage and ripped out his heart shoving it down his throat, watching his face the whole time, "Didn't see that coming did you motherfucker?" Shane's lifeless body fell to the floor.
" You have got to get going, I'll clean up this shit." Stefan said.
Damon took one last look at Shane and sped up the steps to change his shirt and wash the blood off of his hands.
He hummed a upbeat tune as he left, saluting Stefan who grimaced wrapping the body up in plastic. He hummed the tune all the way to Bonnie's. She was staying with her father still, but making plans to move into her Grams before the baby was born.
"Hello Mr. Bennett."
"Hey Damon, how's it going?
"Great sir, great, you know that problem we had?"
"Yes." Her father said expectantly.
"Not a problem anymore."
"That's good to know," he said shaking Damon's hand." You taking Bonnie to the doctor?"
"Yep." He said popping the p.
" Bon honey, Damon's here."
" Be right down dad."
A few moments later Bonnie came down the stairs, she was wearing a simple blue maxie dress and some silver flats. Her hair was pulled in a high ponytail. She had not really began to show but a lot of her clothes had stopped fitting. She went shopping with Elena and Caroline and picked out a few dresses and things to hold her over until she began to really show.
She smiled when she saw Damon standing at the bottom of the stairs in his signature black on black. He was leaning with one elbow on the banister staring up at her, his blue eyes sparkling.
"Hello judgy," he grinned.
She responded, "Bloodsucker" in greeting inclining her head.
When she was close enough he bent down, placed his hand on her belly and spoke, "Hello baby."
Her father watched the exchange and although he was not to keen on the idea of his 19 year old having a baby out of wedlock or the way the kid was conceived or who she had chosen to help her, Bonnie was a lot better. She was working as his assistant at city hall and doing an awesome job, she went to therapy twice a week and appeared to be getting back to her normal self.
They were a lot closer than before and he was thankful. He asked her if she was positive about keeping the baby, and she confessed that she was not. But she knew she didn't want to abort the baby and that maybe over time with help she would be happy about the baby.
Bonnie slipped on her sweater and kissed him on the cheek, "see you later dad."
"Bye baby, good luck at the appointment."
She nodded her head and mumbled thanks walking out the front door.
Damon waved a goodbye to Mr. Bennett, he knew Bonnie was not ecstatic on the idea of the baby. He had done the best he could, he was supportive, but he grudgingly admitted to himself her attitude was starting to make him angry, Not with her but with the situation. He wanted her to be happy like he was. It was tough. He pondered telling her Shane was dead but decided that now was not the right time, if there ever was a good time.
Arriving at Dr. Janowitz office, Damon held the door and took a seat while Bonnie checked in. She took a seat next to him and picked up a magazine, thumbing through it. He looked around the waiting room and noticed several of the women watching them a few were checking him out. He would normally wink or flash his panty dropping smile, but most of the women were pregnant and he was with Bonnie. Even though they were just friends he didn't want anyone to know that the kid wasn't his, Mystic Falls was a small town and people had already been talking about the mayor's daughter. Her name was called after a few moments and going through to the examination room he saw some other nurses and the receptionist checking him out. He guided Bonnie down the hallway keeping his hand on the small of her back for support. He could tell she was nervous, her heart rate was faster than usual.
"Girl , she is lucky as hell, that boy is FINE!" one said.
" She is only 19, what the hell does she got that I don't."
He waited outside of the room while Bonnie got ready for her exam, she had seen the doctor weeks earlier after her rape and had been lucky she had no STD's and her HIV test came back negative. The pregnancy test was a different issue. Dr. Meredith Janowitz knew Bonnie's situation, she had been her doctor since she hit puberty and knew her Grandmother well. Dr. Janowitz opened the exam room and motioned for Damon to enter, she wasn't exactly sure what was going on between the two of them but Bonnie wanted him there when she had her first sonogram.
" We won't be able to tell a lot at 10 weeks but you will hear the heartbeat and see that the baby is real Bonnie."
Bonnie nodded her head nervously.
Bonnie was dressed in a hospital gown and her belly was exposed. The doctor squeezed some kind of goo on her stomach and then used a wand to try to find the baby. Damon went and stood by Bonnie's head and watched the monitor. Soon a fuzzy picture appeared.
"Alright just a moment here," the doctor said.
Bonnie grabbed Damon's hand, she was terrified. He didn't know what she expected to see, two heads, a snake some sort of demon, he was glad he was there with her.
" There it is, " the doctor said finally with a sigh. Damon and Bonnie both leaned closer to the monitor to see the tiny image of the baby.
" See that right there?" the doctor said pointing to the imagine.
"Yeah," Bonnie said choking up a little.
"Wow." He said squeezing her hand.
The doctor switched a button and the room filled with the same rhythmic beat Damon had been hearing for weeks.
"That's the heartbeat, it sounds good and strong," Dr. Janowitz said squeezing Bonnie's arm reassuring her.
"That's your baby Bonnie." She said her eyes sparkling with tears. She had known Bonnie since she was a little girl. She was amazed at the woman she had become. She didn't know if she would be strong enough to carry the child of a rapist. She looked at Mr. Salvatore and he was watching Bonnie closely.
"I'll leave you two alone." She said turning on the light and closing the door quietly behind her.
"Is that what you have been hearing all this time?" she asked Damon.
"Yes."
" That's why it was so real to you, " she said.
"Yeah."
"I better get dressed," She said looking away from his intense gaze.
"Alright," Damon said obviously confused. He was disappointed, nothing had changed. She didn't seem any more excited than she had been before the appointment. He left her to get dressed and Dr. Janowitz was waiting for him in the hallway.
"Is everything okay?" she asked.
" Fine."
"She needs time Damon, I am glad you are here for her."
"She just seems to be going through the motions."
She smiled sympathetically. "She is seeing a therapist and coming to grips with her situation. These things take time, having a child is a huge change and more so with Bonnie's predicament."
He agreed and thanked her. The doctor went back in the room to finish up with Bonnie. He knew she was right, Bonnie was doing the best she could with what she was given.
"You ready to go," he asked smiling when she emerged from the exam room.
"Yeah," she said smiling back.
Damon pulled into the parking lot at the Grille.
" You hungry?"
" Sure."
It was the first thing she said since leaving the doctor's office. Her quietness made him worry, what was she thinking?
They walked into the Grille and immediately Bonnie spotted her Elena, Caroline, Stefan, Tyler and Jeremy seated at a table.
The girls waved Bonnie and Damon over to where they were Damon was not in the mood for the get along gang.
"Let's find a booth so we can talk, Bon." He pleaded.
"What? They see us, that would be rude Damon."
He exhaled audibly and followed her to the table. Jeremy stood to allow Bonnie to sit down.
"Everything went okay," he said taking up his perch next to Stefan.
" Taken care of," Stefan responded saluting with his glass.
"How did the appointment go?" Vampire Barbie asked.
Damon glared at Caroline, willing her for once to keep her mouth shut.
" It was so great guys!" Bonnie said enthusiastically, shocking Damon.
She was digging around in her purse for something, " Look the doctor gave me a picture of the baby. I'm going to frame it!" finally finding the grainy image.
The girls gathered around her chair and Damon observed the two friends cover their hearts and "Awwwwwwwwwww," and Bonnie beaming proudly at the image.
He was pretty sure that Caroline and Elena had no idea what they were looking for.
"That's great Bonnie," Jeremy and Tyler said confused looking at the picture when she handed it to them.
Jeremy passed it to Stefan.
Stefan stared at the photo and said quietly to Damon , "What the hell am I supposed to be looking at?"
"It's your neice or nephew brother." Damon grinned happily, slapping Stefan on the back.