Firstly thanks for all of the support and suggestions. I really appreciate it. I should be wrapping this story up in a 2 or 3 more chapters. I have an idea for another story that I think you all might like. (:
"Why are we going out on a double date with my brother and Elena again?" Damon asked.
Lying in bed fully dressed in his signature black silk shirt, black slacks and black socks.
Bonnie called out from the restroom putting the final touches on her make up." Because Elena invited us, it'll be fun."
Damon huffed, it wouldn't be fun. Since Bonnie and Damon had become a serious couple, Elena had been acting strangely. Whenever he was alone in the bouse somehow she managed to end up alone with him. Recently he had come out of the shower and found her in his room. When he asked what she was doing, she made up some flimsy excuse about looking for a pair of earrings she might have misplaced when they were together.
"That was 4 years ago, you really think they are still here?" He asked suspiciously.
"You never know, some things don't just disappear." She said suggestively.
He knew what she was doing. He had done the same thing with her and Stefan. It wasn't something he was proud of, especially now. He would be sitting with Bonnie or talking with her at one of their weekly meetings and glance up and see Elena looking at them in envy. She was still in love with Stefan but Elena enjoyed being the center of attention. Even when Damon was helping Bonnie with Abner, he would drop whatever for Elena and he wasn't in love with Bonnie then. Now he was, they were a couple and where as his eyes used to follow Elena's every move, now they followed Bonnie's. The danger factor went away once she was turned, she was nothing special anymore. When the witches showed up and announced Bonnie was the special one in the group and they were all there for her, something flipped in Elena. Damon watched it happened. Not that she was not happy for her friend being in love and being able to have a child. She just didn't like being #2 and soon maybe #3. Bonnie had no idea she was clueless to her friends jealousy.
They arrived at the restaraunt, Elena and Stefan were already waiting. The night was going pretty good until Stefan asked Bonnie to dance and Damon was left alone with Elena.
"Bonnie looks great."
"She does." He said uncomfortably.
"It has been about 7 months now, how goes the hunt for the father of her baby and what are you going to do when she finds him?"
"What do you mean?" they had not told anyone that Damon was going to be the kids father, it was none of their business.
"I mean, what will be your place Damon?"
He just looked at her.
"I am not trying to hurt you,"she smiled taking his hand, "But Stefan and I were talking and once Bonnie and the witches decide, where does that leave you? I know how you feel about her, but there will not be a place for you. They won't pick someone like Shane. They will pick Bonnie's soulmate."
He burst out laughing in her face. She looked at him confused.
"So what do you think I should do Elena?"
"Come home with us. This thing with Bonnie will only hurt you and we are kind of out of the damsel saving business. The witches will be strong enough to protect them if they need protecting." She said selfishly. Was she always selfish? No, she just didn't like not being the center of attention. Bonnie, being the chosen one had already taken up more light than she was willing to give up, Knowing that a child would be born, something she would never have, was to much to be borne. The vampire in her wanted that distraction gone.
"What about Bonnie?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean she is in love with me?"
"Witches and Vampires can't love each other."
"I love her."
"Damon,"she scoffed, "You don't really know what love is."
"I do, now I do."
She was looking at him strangely. He didn't want to hurt her, he had once loved her above them all. But he wanted her to understand. He loved Bonnie.
Stefan and Bonnie rejoined them at the table putting an end to the conversation. Stefan from the looks of things had heard everything. And he glared at Elena over his drink. She however was to wrapped in what Damon said. What did he mean by now? She watched as Damon kissed Bonnie lightly on the cheek and then place his hand on her belly. She poured another glass of wine.
"So when are you getting knocked up?"
Bonnie froze. "Excuse me?"
"I mean how long are you and Damon going to play house before you meet your future baby daddy? Or is it going to be a frozen pop?"
"Elena." Stefan warned.
"What?" she yelled.
Damon looked at Stefan and signaled for him to be quiet and let this happen. Bonnie needed to know and Elena needed to get whatever this was out of her system.
"That's none of your business."
"Really" she smiled devilishly "Damon is my friend and I don't want to see him hurt."
"How or why would I hurt him?"
" When you get pregnant of course! I am not trying to be mean here it's just someone needs to point out the obvious."
"It may be obvious to you but you have no idea what is going on, Damon and I are…"she stopped she wasn't going to tell them that Damon was going to be the father of her child. It wasn't there business. Especially Elena's, she looked at her friend and saw she was a little tipsy and then she saw something else in her brown eyes, Envy. It was not a good look on her. "I'm sorry you are hurting Elena."
A single tear slipped down her alabaster face." I don't know why I feel this way, I love you both."
"I know you do."
Driving home Bonnie asked Damon what he thought of Elena.
"I think she is jealous of what we have."
"But she has Stefan, she loves him."
"Yeah, but Elena is used to being the one everyone dropped everything for, including me. Now she is just a girl and her bff is suddenly the one. It is a hard pill to swallow."
"What were you two talking about?"
He should tell her, but he didn't want to do anymore damage.
"Her, what else." He shrugged.
They pulled up to the house and noticed a car in the drive way.
"Hey little cousin,"Lucy said hugging her, "Vampire."
"Witch."
She handed Bonnie a piece of paper. "I can't stay, this is the spell. Use it when you are ready, but before the year is out."
She looked at Damon, "then you do your thing" she grinned.
They sat on the bed indian style with the piece of paper between them.
"Are we really doing this?"
"This is a big step." He said.
"Maybe we should wait, I mean we have to the end of the year. That's 2 month away."
" You having second thoughts?"he sounded worried.
"Not about you or us, but a baby is a big deal."
"Yeah I know, we have been talking non-stop about this for 8 months."he was growing agitated.
"I just… I don't think I can go through it again what happened with Abner.."her eyes filled with tears.
"You won't, I am going to protect you both."
"What if it's not possible and I can't get pregnant. I don't want to disappoint you."
"You won't, baby or no baby. I love you Bon." He said kissing her.
They layed down on the bed and she rested her head on his chest.
" I love you." She looked up and kissed him softly on cupping his face and looking into his blue pools.
"Marry me?"
"Yes."
/
They had a small ceremony a week later, the only ones in attendance were Stefan as best man as Caroline as maid of honor, they had no idea what was going on they were to just meet Damon and Bonnie at the cabin. Her father performed the ceremony. Caroline asked Bonnie about a larger ceremony and she said, "I just want to marry him." Stefan asked Damon if he was sure, "I am going to marry her before she realizes she is to good for me." His brother smiled, "I'm happy for you."
"And Elena?"
Stefan said nothing. Things were tense between the golden couple, but he knew they could work through it.
"She's jealous."
"I know it's not a good look on her."
They went back to their home, Damon carrying Bonnie over the threshold and spent the next weeks making love.
/
Thankgiving
"You ready?"
"Yeah," she said. They were married two weeks. Two weeks of wedded bliss, now it was time to let their other friends know. Caroline was having a hard time keeping it a secret, so Bonnie figured they would all be together, today was a good of time as either.
She sat next to Damon and his arm was drapped casually over the back of her chair. She noticed Elena , stealing glances at them and she was way over the top today with her Martha Stewart antics. She was trying way to hard to appear normal. Stefan was watching her also. Today was not going to be a good day for the princess Caroline thought, and giggled a bit on the inside.
Bonnie reached for another roll when Elena reached out and grabbed her wrist. Bonnie's wedding rings glimmering in the light.
"What the hell is this?" she asked gripping her wrist.
Jeremy, Tyler, Matt, Rebekah, Stefan, and Caroline all grew silent.
She looked at all of her friends.
"Damon and I are married."
"Oh my God!" Rebekah said. "Congratulations" she hugged Bonnie.
"When?" Tyler asked.
"Two weeks ago." Damon said smirking.
Everyone offered congratulations except Elena. She was sitting quietly staring at Damon.
After the congrats everyone grew silent. They all noticed Elena never said anything.
"This is awkward." Jeremy finally said.
"Did you know?" she asked Stefan.
"Yeah."
"And you?" to Caroline.
"Yes, I was the maid of honor." She beamed.
She excused herself and left the table. Bonnie went to follow but Damon stopped her.
He was going to end this, whatever the hell it was.
She was sitting on the porch swing.
"You could have told me."
"We just wanted our friends there."
"Am I not your friend?"
"My friend would want what was best for me. That's Bonnie."
"She is going to break your heart Damon,"
"Like you did?"
"Is this what this is all about ? Hurting me?"
"Don't flatter yourself honey, this is about Bonnie. I love her, all of her. And she loves me. This has got nothing to do with you. And that is what your problem is."
Elena lowered her head in shame.
"I was always number one."
"You always said you wanted a normal life, well you got it sort of." He smiled.
"I want to be happy for you, how do I do that?"
"Be happy for us."
"What about what the witches said, the baby, Vampires can't..."
"Don't worry about it. I got it covered."
They re-entered the house, Elena immediately went to Bonnie who was talking with Caroline.
"Congratulations Bonnie." Hugging her friend "I'm sorry."
"I know."
/
New Year's Eve
"5,4,3,2,1, Happy New Year!" they all shouted, with the exception of Damon. He was to cool for that shit! He was also a bummed, Bonnie wasn't pregnant. He had been listening for weeks for a heartbeat and nothing. She didn't seem to care, since Thanksgiving she had been hanging with her bestie Elena, shopping and catching up. It was good to see her happy and fulfilled. They were happy regardless but he wanted that baby and he wanted to give it to Bonnie. Damn those witches for getting their hopes up.
He kissed Bonnie. "Happy New Year Bonnie Salvatore."
"Happy New Year, I love you."
"Hey Bonnie,"Caroline shouted," Where's your glass of champagne? We are going to get hammered tonight."
For the first time Damon noticed she had no champagne. He handed her his flute.
"No thank you, that wouldn't be a good idea."
"Why not?"
She smiled looking into his blue eyes, "I hope he or she has your eyes."
He looked at her confused.
"I used a spell to disguise my symptons and the heartbeat. I wanted to be the one to tell you, Happy New Year." Her eyes were brimming with tears of happiness.
He grabbed her under her arms and picked her up. "I love you." He whispered kissing her lips softly.
He started to laugh and spun her around.
Everyone was looking at them strangely.
"Hey everybody! We're having a baby!" Damon yelled.
Caroline and Rebekah both screamed and ran over to Bonnie embracing her!
The guys congratulated Damon and Stefan offered up cigars to be smoked on the patio away from Bonnie and their baby.
Elena stood off to the side watching the happy scene with a contented expression on her face. Damon walked over to her. "You're quiet, not going to offer congrats? I'm going to be a father."
"Congratulations Damon." She smiled.
"What about to Bonnie? Did you congratulate her?"
"I did, a few weeks ago, when she told me she was pregnant. We've been shopping for the nursery." She smiled through tears." I am happy for you both,"
He smiled, "Thank you."
They both turned to look as Bonnie came out on the patio.
"It seems as if it was always meant to be, doesn't it?"