Chapter 16
"Elena Elena wait" I shouted as she ran off towards the exit. " I have to go after her" I said to the others.
"Go, your the only one who will be able to get through to her when she's like this" Caroline said. And off I went pushing past the other guests, causing people to curse at me a stare curiously after me.
I made it outside the Grill, where Jenna and Alaric had decided to have the wedding reception. I heard sobbing coming from the side of the building, and ran towards the sounds. And there I saw her, arms wrapped around her self, leaning against the wall.
"W-w-why didn't you tell me"
"I'd only just found out, as you were dancing with Jeremy"
"No, why didn't you tell me about them drugging me, you knew who did it the whole time and you let me live in false hope that they had finally left me alone"
"I had to Elena, its your Aunts wedding you wouldn't have been in any shape to do all this today if I had told you the truth"
"So you lied to me, how could you do that, I thought you were different and that I could trust you"
"I did it too protect you, I am different Elena, I was going to tell you after tonight everything. You can trust me with anything" I said as I walked closer to her and placed my hand on her arm, she flinched away.
"Its my life Damon, and my issues, you can't protect me from them nobody can, not even you"
"I know it is, and I'm sorry for keeping this from you"
"What I want to know is how you found he was out"
"I hired a Private Investigator to look into them and to keep an eye and all there activities"
"I told you specifically not to do anything, but yet again you didn't. You don't know what they'll do when they find out there being watched, they'll touture him, find out who's watching them then kill him. Why didn't you listen to me, you might have just made the situation worse" She cried as she pushed me away.
"I LOVE YOU, that's why I did it. I don't care that we only have only known each other for short period of time. I love you, and that's why i'll do whatever it takes to protect and if that includes keeping things from you to keep you safe or to stop you from worrying then I will"
"W-what y-you love me?" bringing a new set of tears to her eyes.
"With all my heart, I though I was in love before but after reliazing my feelings for you. I see that what i've had with Katherine before was never love. This right here is love" I said cupping her face in my hands.
"How can you love me knowing what could happen to you, just for loving me"
"I don't care, nothing can hurt me when i'm with you, your the one Elena, I don't care about your past just you and the future"
"I feel the same. I feel like whenever i'm in your arms nothing can ever hurt me, i'm just scared, not for myself but for you. I admit trust doesn't come naturally to me, that's why I flipped out when I found out you weren't telling me important stuff that you know. Truth be told, I love you, Damon, and always will no matter will"
And with that a pulled her into a deep kiss not of passion but of love. The love that two people have. And I loved her and she loved me, bad things besides. I mean after all Nobody's Perfect.
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We made are way back in side a little while later smiling. In Elena's case she had a permanent smile on her face and way practically glowing. All worries of Klaus forgotten. We made are way over to Caroline, Tyler, Jeremy, Bonnie, Amy, Matt and Jenna and Alaric who must after joined them whilst we were outside talking.
"So how's your day been" Elena asked, happily.
"You seem very happy, and its been amazing it feels great to be married woman and especially being Mrs Saltzman, but my back and feet are killing me"
"I bet they are you are carrying two babies in there, and no reason, am I not allowed to be happy the day my Aunt gets married"
"Well, from what i've heard you were running out of here 30 minutes ago in tears, everyone has been questioning what's up"
"Just argument between me and Damon over something stupid" I had told her that Jenna didn't know anything yet, Alaric 's request as he didn't want her stressed out as it wasn't good for the babies.
"Oh right...guessing its been sorted out then" she said eyeing my arm that was over her shoulder.
"It was something stupid but were fine now"
"Well I'm ready to go home, what about you my dearest husband"
"Well, we kinda have a room booked in the bed&breakfast for tonight, considering its are wedding night"
"Well we better go then hadn't we, we'll talk tomorrow before I we go away"
"Ok ok, i'll be at the house"
"Congrats man, go have some fun" I said giving Alaric a hug and giving him a wink.
"Yeah, Yeah" he laughed.
I saw Elena giving Jenna hug and waving goodbye as her and Alaric went off together.
"So...i'm to happy to be angry with any of you right now, but in future you tell me ok" Elena said, as she turned around to look at the people left behind.
"Ok, Ok. Don't really fancy getting on the bad side of you anyway" Tyler and Jeremy said.
"SO just should be scared, because there is ever a next time and that includes you and you two as well, you will have to one hell of a lot of grovelling" she said pointing at me, Caroline and Bonnie.
"Ok...is it safe to hug you know" Caroline asked.
"Hmmm...i suppose" she said as Caroline and Bonnie came up to her an gave her a hug and said sorry. It went better then expected. I thought to myself as we all made are way to are cars and go home to go to bed as today had been a very stressful and emotional day.
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The next day I woke in the arms of Damon in my bed and incessant buzzing noise coming from his phone.
"Baby, your phone ringing" I whined as I tried to wake him.
He didn't even move, or show any signs of waking up.
So I picked up his phone and saw that it was Stefan and there were two other missed calls most likely from Stefan as well, I looked at the clock and saw it was 7.30am, God he couldn't have waited a few more hours.
"Hi, sorry he missed your calls, he's still sleeping and we had a busy day yesterday"
"Its fine sorry for waking, I just thought i'd ring to say that Lexi had the baby early this morning. Damon has a new nephew, you can come see him today if you like before you leave"
"Congratulations, he'll be ecstatic when I can finally wake him, i'll get him to call when were on are way, you got a name for the little fella yet"
"Were at the hospital till tomorrow considering Lexi was a bit early with him, they want to keep an eye on them, so anytime is fine. And not yet, were still undecided between Corey and Finn, I think were swinging toward Cory thought"
"Awww cute name, anyway I better get going and try and wake sleeping beauty here, say congratulations to Lexi for me"
"Will do, see you later Elena. Be warned he was never a morning person even when we were kids"
"Oh I know , lucky he's got me"
I heard him laughing as he put the phone down. I looked back to Damon to see him still sleeping peacefully. I decided another hour or so would do us some good in bed, I was exhausted from yesterdays events, so I lay back down and placed my head on his chest.
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I was awoken by the feel of some one kissing my face and neck.
"Hmmm, I like this wake up call"
"I know you do" he whispered in my ear and continued kissing me.
I looked at the clock and saw it was 10.30, I didn't expect to have slept this late.
"As much as i'd like to continue, my love we have to get up and get to the hospital"
"Any why is that, i'd much rather stay in bed with you"
"Well do you want to meet your new nephew or not"
"Wait, what? Lexi had the baby when?" he asked shocked.
"Stefan called earlier this morning, she had him early hours of the morning, I tried waking you but it was like waking the dead so I decided to let you sleep longer, and I ended up going back to sleep for longer then expected. Sorry"
"Wasn't expecting her to have him that fast" he whispered getting up off the bed.
"Apparently he wanted to meet his amazing Uncle" I said getting up as well and heading to the shower.
"Well, that's true I am pretty great" he teased.
"Yeah and don't you know it, come on shower I think we can save some time if we have one together" I said seductively, as I slipped out of my nightgown, and watched as his eyes lingered on my partially naked body.
"Have I told you I love you, because I really do" he said, with lust filled eyes.
"Yes you have, doesn't mean I don't like hearing it" I said as he ran up to me, and pulled me towards the bathroom. "I love you too, handsome".
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Not long after are shower, we were dressed and heading to the hospital. I knew there was a lot we still had to deal, with but I decided that would have to wait until later on, after we'd been to the hospital.
We arrived there shortly after 11.30, and quickly found Stefan.
"Sorry we weren't here sooner, How are they both"
"There both doing fine, why don't you come see for yourself"
"I'd love to" Damon said with a genuine smile on his face. We made are way to the room that Lexi was in, and the baby, Stefan picked up his son from where he was sleep in the cot next to Lexi's bed as she was sleeping soundly.
"Damon i'd like you to meet, Corey Damiano Salvatore"
"Nice touch to the middle" he whispered.
Damon P.O.V
Wow, I couldn't believe how small this little guy was, he had a lock of dark hair and I couldn't tell what colour his eyes were, but he was definitely one of the cutest things i'd ever seen. Damiano, was the name of are grandfather on are mother side, I was actually named after him as my mother said that as soon as I was born she new that I was going to be just like her father, who was originally from Italy, like my father.
"Thought you'd like it, I have a feeling he's gonna look up to his Uncle when he's older plus, i'm glad i've got my brother back, that's why me and Lexi decided we want both you and Elena to be Godparents to him, I have a feeling she isn't leaving anytime soon, or at all for that matter"
"Thank you brother, you have no idea what this means to me" I whispered. I finally had my family back, and this time around nothing was going to ruin that, I had a secound chance to watch my Niece and Nephews to grow up and I wasn't going to miss out on that.
"You want to hold him"
"You sure, I don't want to hurt him or anything"
"You'll be fine" he said handing in to me as I made a makeshift cradle with my arms.
I was staring down at this little like in my arms, it was a spectacular feeling. I couldn't wait for having kids of my own in the future.
"Thank you Stefan" I heard Elena whisper as she gave him a hug.
"What for?"
"Accepting me into your family, even though i'm pratically a stranger"
"We have plenty of time to get to know each other" he said, "I mean he'd be a fool to let you go"
"And doesn't he know it" she laughed.
I smiled, they got on really well, and I had no worries of jealousy whatsoever, because I trusted her and I trusted him. It was a great feeling.
"He likes you" Stefan stated, as he stared down at his newest son as he was clutching on to my black t-shirt.
"I'm sure he wants his dad, more than me" I said handing him back to Stefan. And watched as he placed him back next to his sleeping mother and smoothed the covers over him.
"You really are a great father you know" I commented as we walked out the room, Elena had gone to go to the bathroom before we left.
"Thanks, I do what I can" he said smiling at me.
"Speaking of where's are father"
"He was here earlier, but had to go because he got an important call about something"
"Right, work no doubt"
"He's trying Damon, at least give him that"
"I know, I know. I just go from hating the guy one day to loving him the next its gonna take a lot of time to fix"
"I get that I do, i'm just glad your trying. Anyway when you gonna come back?"
"Soon, I can't miss my niece and nephew groiwing up now can I? Anyway we'll be back soon enough anyway, Elena's aunts due to have her kids in just under 4 months, so she'll want to be back constantly to make sure she's ok"
"Good, how are things going with you too"
"Great, I told her I loved her last night"
"Wow, that quick, I suppose when you love someone there is no time limit, she say it back"
"Yep, so everythings going great. Besides I think we'll be back living her before you know, I can run the business from anywhere, and Elena I think is getting sick of her job already and she misses her family and friends too much, so you never know, but either way i'll be here whenever you need me, brother"
"Its really great having you back in my life Damon, i'm glad we could fix it"
"It was gonna happen, anyway here comes Elena, we have to go see Alaric and Jenna off. I'll call you soon" I said giving him a hug.
"See you soon, remember we always have a spare room at the Boarding house"
"I will"
I walked up to Elena and put my arm around her as she waved goodbye to Stefan.
"Guess we better get back" I said.
"Yeah, Jenna wanted to talk before she went"
"Well lets go then" I said giving her a quick kiss and walked out the hospital.
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Elena P.O.V
"Where have you two been?" Jenna asked as we walked through the front door of her house.
"We were at the hospital"
"What? Why? Is something up?" she said panicked
"No, No. Were fine. Damon's brother, just had a baby, you know Stefan right?"
"Of course, everybody knows everybody on this town, I thought Lexi wasn't due to have the baby for another 3 weeks"
"She wasn't apparently Corey wanted to make an early apperance"
"They had a boy then, I'll have to go see them when we get back, If I can still walk that is" she said, causing me to laugh.
I turned to Damon, " Why don't you go find Ric or start packing, while I talk with Jenna" I said to him.
"Yeah sure" he replied, simply and kissed me lightly on the lips.
"I love you" I mouthed to him, and he did the same.
"So what did you want to talk about" I asked.
"Well how about we start with last night, one minute your crying your eyes out running from the reception the next your smiling and on cloud nine, What's all that about"
"I was just upset about something, Damon said, we sorted it out though"
"Ugh I knew he'd hurt you"
"It wasn't like that, but I doesn't matter now were fine" I said simply, remembering Damon saying that Alaric didn't want anything to be said to Jenna yet, and that he'd tell her when the time was right.
"Ok, that was very vague. Still doesn't explain why you looked so happy when you came in or do I even want to know the answer to that"
"He said he loved me, and I said it back, and no we didn't have sex it an alley, come on I have more class then that"
"Hmmm really so the storage closet rumors aren't true...Wow I thought you said you never love a man again?"
"How did you find out about that?" I questioned blushing.
"I think everyone knew you weren't exactly subtle about it, and you didn't answer the question"
"He isn't like any other guy, I really mean that, I know its soon, but Caroline made me reliaze the other night, when your truly ment to be with someone there is no right time to fall in love, but you just do. Besides with Damon I feel safe, I love him Jenna and I wouldn't change him for the world"
"Are you happy, that's all I care about, I'll deal with his ass-ish behaviour if your truly are happy with him that's all I want for you"
"I'm beyound happy, i'm literally on cloud nine at the moment"
"That's all I need to hear, you wanna help me get up" she said as she struggled to get up, and I got up laughing pulling her up.
"When's the taxi here for you"
"Any minute now, Ric's just getting the suitcases outside ready"
"You'll call me when you get there right"
"Of course, and you'll call me if anything happens while i'm away"
"I don't want to ruin your honeymoon" I saw the serious look on her face, and just nodded to please her.
"Good" she smiled and gave me a hug as we heard a beep outside.
"Looks like that's are ride" she said smiling.
"Have fun and remember I want plenty of pictures" she smiled as she made her way outside and everyone stepped onto the porch to wave goodbye to them. I found Damon as he stood next to Tyler and Caroline and wrapped my arms around his waist, and smiled up at him.
As the car drove of we all went inside, and started gathering all are things together getting ready to make the jorney home.
"So, what are you going to do about the whole Klaus situation Caroline asked as we packed are suitcases into the back of my car, well her suitcases I decided to let Caroline and Tyler drive my car back as I wanted to spend more time with Damon.
"What can I do other than wait"
"She sound awfullly calm about it"
"There's no point worrying about it anymore, if they come they come we just have to be ready for them"
"Wow, you've come so far 'Lena"
"Thank Damon for that" I said smiling at him as he brought my suitcase down the porch.
"So I hear you told him you love him" she said to me, smiling.
"Well, he said it first but you made me realise the other night that I did, thanks for that. Anyway how'd you know i've only told Jenna"
"I kinda heard you talking to her before"
"Kinda guessed, its not a secret so i'm not bothered who knows"
She smiled at me and gave me a hug. We'd said are goodbyes to Jeremy, Bonnie, Matt and Amy earlier on, now was just making sure we had everything and we could go back to New York. It had certainly been an eventful couple days, but definitely worth it.
I looked back at my former home and promised myself that I would visit more often and someday in the near future move back, here I knew it was only a matter of time.
We packed up the cars, locked up the house and got in the cars to start the long journey back to New York, in the arms of the man I loved. I knew my life was only just beginning with him, but I knew right then If I died in that moment I would die a happy woman. And off we went.
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