Here you go! Oh! And I forgot to mention, although you probably know this by now, I'm not following this story to cannon! Sorry, it just flowed better with Alaric around…Okay, here you go, please review!
They walk in, greeted by other soon to be mothers with waddling walks and protruding stomachs. Elena gets a few disapproving looks, mixed with some 'what a shame' head shakes since she's so young, but she seems not to notice, at least if she does, she's choosing to ignore them.
Elena walks over to the receptionist and checks in, before sitting down in the seat next to him, smiling. "Thank you for coming with me today Damon." She takes his hand, giving it a small squeeze, "I know you have other things that you'd probably rather be doing right now, but…" he waves his hand and rolls his eyes.
"It's no problem Elena." She gives him another smile, one that he gets to see so often lately, and turns back around in her seat, flipping through her magazine.
They're called back shortly, not having to wait very long at all, meeting Dr. Fell in a small room in the back of the clinic. "Sorry for the wait Elena. I had a kid with a broken arm in here this morning."
She shook her head, shrugging, there goes that smile again. "It's okay. We barely had to wait all." Meredith clears her throat, looking down at her clip board to look at Elena's charts.
"So, how is the morning sickness? Any better?" Elena nods enthusiastically. "Much better, I feel like I could eat elephant like all the time now." Meredith nods, smiling as she writes something on Elena's chart.
"That is completely normal. And no abnormal cravings right?" Way to be subtle Fell, she knows about the potential of this being a vampire, but I do suppose it would be nice to know if Elena's getting sudden cravings for blood. Elena gives her a fleeting incredulous look, before shrugging her shoulders. "No, just watermelon and ice cream and… Oh! I did kind of want pickles the other day though, and I hate pickles."
Meredith chuckles a bit, along with Damon, he likes seeing Elena so seemingly carefree in this situation. "So, any back pain or leg cramps yet?"
"Just a little back pain, sometimes when I stand up for too long it starts to feel a little uncomfortable. No leg cramps yet though." Meredith continues to write down on her chart without looking up at Elena. "That's normal, and you may experience the leg cramps and you may not, it all just depends on your body, just know that if you do its normal."
Damon had to try hard to not scoff at every normal scenario that Dr. Fell thru in Elena's face. There was absolutely nothing normal about this situation. Elena was giving birth to a vampires child, something that so far, has been unheard of. God knows what will happen when Klaus finds out; he's twisted enough as is. His thoughts are brought back when he see's Dr. Fell pulling a small monitor close to the bed Elena is lying on.
"Did you bring your tape for the ultrasound?" Elena nods. "Damon it's in my purse, would you get it please?" he rummages through her purse, pulling out the DVD for Meredith to record the ultrasound on.
"So, you are far enough along this month to find out the sex of your baby. Do you want to know?" Elena gives a quiet yes, suddenly seeming awestruck by the small television in the room. She glances over at Damon who is sitting on the far side of the room, and motions for him to come stand next to her as Dr. Fell pours some jelly on her stomach. He walks over and leans in towards the monitor as she does, eagerly awaiting the picture that they are about to be graced with.
Dr. Fell starts by pointing out things on the screen, "So, here is the head and the arms and it looks like…." She leans in closer to the screen examining it, before looking at Elena and smiling, "Your baby is a girl." She grins widely as tears brim her eyes, and Damon has to admit that he's struck to. It's so weird, there's actually a baby in there. She looks up at him where he is standing over her, looking intensely at the screen. "It's really something isn't it?" he asks her with wonder that she's never heard in his voice.
"Yea, it is." He smiles down at her and looks at her stomach. Shaking his head as if he's just now realized that there's something there and it's growing slowly and steadily within her. She has to admit, it just became real for her too.
Soon Elena's ready to go with a few pamphlets on what she can expect this month and a diet to try and control her cravings around. She smiles that smile the rest of the afternoon.
….
They show everyone the tape, and although no one wants to openly admit it, they were all expecting fangs and demonic features that would at least give them all some inclination as to what they're dealing with. But for Elena, everyone tries to be excited. Because she is. He tries to think over the years he's known her, but he honestly doesn't recall a time that he's seen her this giddy about something. She is well into her second trimester now, her stomach protruding from her small frame. He wonders sometimes how she's even able to carry herself around; it looks like her stomach would make her top heavy.
The thing that throws them all is that Elena is completely normal with all of this. She doesn't bring up Stefan or his quick departure from Mystic Falls. Nor the fact that things have been quiet around here except for the buzz of her baby.
Most nights the regular gang of misfits usually just sit around, giving Elena company, not wanting to give her a chance to feel lonely. Damon looks around the room on one such night. At Caroline and Tyler who sit cuddled on the love seat, and Bonnie and Jeremy who sit on the floor, as he and Alaric sit in the kitchen drinking bourbon. Damon can't help but to laugh at the strange turn their life has taken.
His eye's fall on Elena who lies out on the couch (one of her dizzy spells caught up with her), with her hands resting on her stomach smiling with her eyes closed. Suddenly she jerks up to seated position where she's lying on the couch with the family watching TV.
Alaric shoots over to her, asking what's wrong, thinking this is when the demon growing inside of her would finally take her from us. Instead of screaming in horror, however, Elena is giggling, staring in wonderment at her belly.
She looks around to all the people surrounding her on the couch, with a light in her eyes. "She kicked." She exclaims biting her lip. She grabs Alaric's hand and puts it on her stomach, with her own hand on top. "Here, feel it?" He sits for a moment feeling uncomfortable when his eyes suddenly light up with the wonderment mirroring Elena's. "Wow, that's something." He says looking up at Elena.
Suddenly everyone wants a chance to feel the small bump that signals the babies kick. But it stops after the third time; Elena gets disappointed that no else can feel it. So even when everyone else goes back to what they were doing before, Elena just lies on the couch, rubbing her belly, trying to awaken the magic that happened a moment before.
….
That night Alaric decides to go out with Meredith, Jeremy goes out with Bonnie , and Caroline and Tyler go home, while Damon sticks around, sitting with Elena while she continues to absentmindedly rub her stomach, reading her pregnancy bible.
"Anything interesting?" he inquires before gracefully falling into the soft cushions of the couch, picking up her feet and resting them in his lap. She gives him a small, tired smile and sighs contently, shaking her head and in a serene voice answers him, "Not really, just that now the baby's as big as a pineapple and that her finger nails are getting long. I, on the other hand, can expect dry, irritated eyes."
"So, we'll just get you some eye drops," he shrugs, "no big deal." She cocks her head to the side. "What would I do without you Damon?"
He smirks and decides to joke with her, she deserves as good joke. "Beats me." She giggles and he starts to rub her feet, knowing they're more than likely killing her. Elena closes her eyes, "That feels nice."
He looks over to her, looking calm and rested, with her hands resting on her abdomen. "How are you doing with all of this?" she opens one eye to peek at him, then slowly closes it. "That's something I choose to not think about."
"What?"
"My feelings, the way I feel about bringing a child into this world." He squints his eyes at her even though she can't see him. He continues to rub her feet, applying a gentle pressure to her instep.
"What do you mean, 'Bringing a child into this world.'?" She finally opens her eyes and looks at him calmly. "I just…why would I want to have a child. There is no telling what this kid is going to have to go through. She is a Petrova, which means that eventually there will be a doppelganger, another person that will have to endure what I have. I can't help but feel like she doesn't stand a chance you know? I'm bringing her into a world of vampires, hybrids, witches, and doppelgangers and she is completely helpless. And how am I going to help her? I'm a defenseless human that shares a face with a century's old vampire." She swallows the tears that he can see threatening to spill out, "I never wanted to have kids Damon. I was going to be the one to end this."
He breathes out and moves in closer to her. Not hearing anything he didn't already assume. He takes her face into his hands, running his thumbs across her cheeks to wipe away the tears that streamed from her chocolate orbs.
"Hey," she looked up at him, "I know that you're worried Elena and that you're scared and that you wanted this to end. But the hard fact is that it's not. And by some weird twist of fate, you're pregnant. And you have every reason to worry about her well being." He said placing a gentle hand on her stomach, "but she's your child. Something that came from you, belongs to you. Nothing that happens can ever take that away. You will share something with her that no one else will get to experience because you are her mother. And I don't think that she will ever understand how amazing her mother is and how much you will admire her, and love her, and cherish her."
Elena smiles looking down at her stomach where Damon still caresses it and leans into his touch that still lingers on her check. "And I promise, with every fiber of my being, that I will protect you and this baby, if it even needs protecting." He joked quietly, smiling thinking about a new born baby punching an original. Elena suddenly looked up. "What do you mean if it even needs protecting? Of course it will, it's a defenseless baby."
"Yeah, a defenseless baby that's half vampire."
"Half vampire, what-"she pauses realization suddenly crossing her features. "Oh, Damon…I'm not sure…this is kind of embarrassing…um...Stefan's…he's not…Stefan's not the father." He's taken aback for a minute, not expecting that answer. They'd never taken into consideration that Elena had gotten pregnant from a human.
"Then...who?" she blushed for a moment and then composed herself enough to answer, not really meeting his gaze. "Do you remember that night that Caroline and I went out and she called you freaking out because she couldn't find me and then right as you showed up I did and you were pissed and…"
"Yes, Elena, quit trying to stall." She huffed and looked up at him.
"I just met a guy, one thing led to another and boom, three months later I found out I was pregnant." Damon pulls himself back on the couch and sits staring off into the distance, not sure what to make of this new development. Elena didn't seem the type for bar bathroom hookups, but then again Caroline always said that we never got to see fun Elena. She picks herself off the couch and snuggles in next to him the best she can with her protruding belly, laying her head on his shoulder. "So half vampire baby huh? What is this twilight?"
And they can't help but laugh.
Okay! Here is your update! Yay! I did good, and update in a day! I can't promise I will always be this faithful, but I'll try!