And here we go once again :) I really really hope you enjoy this chapter, it not the most happy chapter I've ever written but I actually liked a lot. I hope you're happy with the way the story is going, please let me know what you think in a review I could really use some love to come out of the depression state Pretty Little Liars let me in yesterday ) so pretty pretty please?

Thanks a lot to everyone who's still reading this and to Amy, she's an awsome beta even when I charge her with lots of documents :D

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo.

The ones that really mattered.

Full of darkness and danger they were.

And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

But in the end, it's only a passing thing… this shadow.

Even darkness must pass.

A new day will come.

And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.

The lord of the rings –J.R.R Tolkien-

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It was as if time was stood still: she couldn't hear anything; she couldn't see anything. She was stuck in the moment and had no idea how to come out of it. It wasn't everyday that life gives you surprises like this one. Her child was alive, their child. The excitement that was running through her veins was incredible but it was also mixed with fear, anger and grief.

And then her mother's words resounded in her brain - your son is Bobby. Bobby? The kid she disliked so much? How was that possible, how was it that she didn't felt a connection to him? People always say that blood calls to you and stuff like that, so why she didn't feel it? The child that grew up as her cousin was her son?

In fact at the moment she felt like the worst human being in the world, she was disappointed, she didn't like the idea of Bobby being her child, how wrong was that? She was supposed to love him no matter what. This was all in her head, she had to love that child, he was her son after all.

"Do they know?" she said once she was able to find her voice. Caroline had her in a tight embrace.

"Of course they don't, your father made the arrangements." Elena sighed the moment she heard her mother's words, of course they didn't know, Grayson and Miranda wouldn't have let them do something so horrible to her, they were good people. "We wanted him to be with a good family."

"Don't!" Elena shouted angrily. "Don't act like you care about him!" Her glossy eyes were fixed on Isobel's face. "Because if you did you would have let him be with me!"

"Elena you have to understand-" Her mother started once again trying to make her understand her point of view.

"Understand what? There's nothing that can justify what you did." she started shaking from the force of her anger. "Did you know that I can't have any more babies?" Her broken eyes stared at her mother.

"What?"

"Doctors have said I won't ever have a baby again!" she shouted at the top of her lungs under the pained expression of her mother. "And you took the one I had away!"

"What's going on in here?" Jeremy said, walking down the stairs. "I can hear you guys screaming, is something wrong?" His eyes turned worried once he looked at the state his sister was in. "Lena what happened?" he murmured, walking closer to her.

"What happened is that Elena's baby didn't die, your parents gave him up for adoption without saying a word." Caroline's voice was laced with venom, she couldn't understand how someone could be that cruel to do something like that.

"What?" Jeremy asked, turning his attention to his mother. "Is it true?" His words demanded and Isobel could see how her world was crumbling down at her feet.

"Yes."

"How could you!" His accusing eyes pierced into the deepest part of her soul. "What gave you that right?"

"I was doing what was best for her!" Elena tightened her arms around Caroline, she couldn't listen to her mother once again, saying that she only wanted what was best for her because at the moment she couldn't care less, everything was wrong, it was like she couldn't breathe anymore.

"I need him, now. I need him." she said between sobs and both Jeremy and Caroline knew pretty well who she was referring to. She needed him to be here, it was the only way she could stay in one piece.

"I'll go call him." The blonde girl said while releasing her and placing her into her brother's arms.

"It's Bobby Jeremy." Elena sobbed against her brother's shirt. "Bobby is my son." And to say he was surprised was being short, Jeremy couldn't believe what his sister was saying, this entire situation seemed so unreal.

"Are you sure?" He murmured into his sister's hair

"Yes, they gave him to them" Elena sobbed against her brother's chest "My son is Bobby"

"No he isn't." John Gilbert's voice resounded through the whole kitchen.

"What are you saying?" Isobel looked at him confused. "You lied." Her eyes widened in understanding at the word her husband just said

"The night of the accident Miranda and Grayson had chosen Bobby already, I couldn't say anything to them, they already had the child in their home. The timing was just incredible" He said sardonically. John took a deep breath under the horrified stares of his family. "I didn't want that child with us, the reminder of my daughter's indiscretion, we just couldn't have him with us." he heard the gasp that left his daughter's mouth but was unable to look at her, not after what he had done.

"What did you do?" Elena shouted between tears. "What did you do with him?" she freed herself from Jeremy's grasp and walked until she was standing right in front of her father. "Tell me what you did with him!" she clenched both of her hands around his shirt and shook him, demanding an answer.

"I sent him to a nursery home, there in Chicago." Her brown eyes looked at him with hatred. "I don't know where he is now." The next thing he was aware of was Elena's hand smacking his cheek hard. The sound was going to echo in his ears for the rest of his life.

"Hey, hey." Jeremy pulled Elena away from her father and took her in his arms once again. "He's not worth it Lena, none of them are."

"I hate you!" Elena shouted at the top of her lungs. "I hate you both so much!" she fell onto the floor while Jeremy still had her in his arms. Shooting her, trying to gave her some comfort

"Elena." His warm and soothing voice had her looking up to meet his beautiful gaze, she could also see Caroline right behind him. Damon, he was finally here. "What happened here?" His worried eyes looked deeply into hers while he kneeled on the floor next to her.

"Take me out of here, please just take me out!" Elena cried brokenly and he could feel his heart breaking at the sight of her, he had no idea what had happened here but Caroline sounded worried on the phone so he arrived as fast as he could and now seeing both her and her mother crying he knew that something big had happened.

"I'm here don't worry, I'll get you out." he whispered softly while he took her in his arms and got up from the floor.

"Damon!" she sobbed against his neck while he murmured soothing words against her ear. She clutched to his body as hard as she could fearing that if she let go of him she would break into a thousand pieces.

"It's okay angel, It's all going to be fine." he kept repeating to her while he carried her out of her house with both Jeremy and Caroline behind them.

The shouts and roars coming out of his mouth would have left anyone deaf, he threw everything that was in his path not really caring about destroying his own apartment. There were no words that could describe the way he was feeling right now. It was like every fiber of his being was burning with rage and the only way to fix it was to destroy everything in front of him.

He just couldn't believe it, in his head there was no space for such an awful action, taking a son away from his mother? Who could do something like that? Elena's parents of course. They destroyed their lives and for no valuable reason, who gave them the right to mess with them?

He kicked his leg against his wooden table a few times until he heard it crack and saw it crumbling down to the floor.

"Hey, Damon you need to calm down!" Alaric's hand pressed against his back in a futile attempt to stop him.

"How in the world do you want me to calm down?" he shouted angrily as he removed the hand his friend had on him. "After what they did- I just want to-" he took both of his hands and placed them on each side of his head as if it would make everything go away. "I can't believe this."

"I know, none of us can but you need to say calm, for her." The mention of Elena was enough to bring him back to Earth, he slumped on the nearest couch while Alaric took a seat next to him.

"The crying stopped." he murmured under his breath.

"She's probably sleeping." Ric said softly. "Even though I don't know how she could do that while you were trashing this place." Damon gave him a guilty look before covering his eyes with his hands.

"I gave her a valium." Caroline said, walking out of the bedroom Elena was sleeping in, with Jeremy and Bonnie right behind her.

"Thanks." Damon said softly, looking into the blue eyes of the blonde girl.

"I still can't believe all of this is happening." The youngest Gilbert said while taking a seat on the couch opposite to where Damon's was.

"It's just, I never thought your parents could do such a thing." Bonnie murmured taking a seat next to Jeremy.

"I need to find him." The voice of Damon's resounded in everyone's ears. "I have to." His words were a broken whisper.

"Look, Bonnie and I have been talking and well, Lena's in a really bad place right now. I don't want to expose her to anymore stress, you know the trouble with her blood pleasure and-" Jeremy took a deep breath before continuing and his eyes pierced into Damon's. "Bonnie and I want to go to Chicago and see what we can find-"

"Jeremy I think it's great that you want to help-" Damon cut him off immediately, he didn't want the boy to get in any trouble because of him.

"Just wait, hear me out." The boy pleaded with him. "We know that Elena is in no condition to go to Chicago in the state she's in."

"Yeah, that's why I'm going."

"Damn will you just let him finish for the love of God!" Caroline said exasperated at Damon's attitude. A sly smile appeared on Ric's face as Damon looked at the blonde girl with a shocked expression.

"You can't leave her." Jeremy stated earning everyone's attention again. "Trust me we can all be here but she needs you, we both know that she won't be able to hold on alone, you have to stay here with her."

Damon closed his eyes trying to see the perspective of Jeremy. He wanted to go, he wanted to do anything in his power to find their child, he just couldn't sit here and do nothing but at the same time he just couldn't leave Elena all by herself, the idea of being apart from her once again was enough to cause a dull ache in his heart, especially in the state she was in.

"Fine, but you have to promise me that you will do anything to find him." His burning gaze was something that none of them had seen before.

"We will look in every corner of Chicago Damon; I promise I will find my nephew."

Damon nodded and got up from the couch, everyone was in dead silence still trying to process what had developed in the last few hours, his world had turned on its axis, they were supposed to be on the road by now but instead they were experiencing the most bittersweet joy he had ever know.

"I'll go check on her." he murmured before disappearing to his room.

Alaric was the next one to get up and head to the door. "I'm going to see Jenna, tell her everything, Jeremy wanna come?" The blonde man asked looking at the boy who was still on the couch.

"I don't know, I want to be here when she wakes up." he said softly.

"That could take a while Jer." Bonnie murmured. "You should go and clear your head."

"Yeah, we won't take long, we're just going for Jenna and we will be back, she cares a lot for Elena, I'm sure she would want to be here." Alaric said while placing a hand on the boy's shoulder.

"Yeah, Caroline and I will have dinner once you come back." The brunette girl said with a smile while she and the blonde headed to the kitchen.

Jeremy smiled and got up from the couch as well. "Do you guys think Damon will want to adopt us for the night?"

"Oh I think we can convince him." Ric answered with a smile on his face.

"Nothing better than us for a rainy day." Caroline said with a wide smile on her face.

Both men laughed at the blonde's comment and left the apartment with the promise of returning soon.

"So did you talk to her before the whole… incident?" Bonnie said while getting closer to Caroline who was currently going through Damon's fridge in order to find something to cook.

"Yes, I did." Caroline answered absently.

"And?" The brunette girl asked eagerly.

"She was very understanding Bonnie, she forgave me and we left everything in the past." Caroline smiled widely while placing some meat on the counter. "I think we'll have lasagna." she said to herself. "I mean it's the only thing I can cook." she joked.

"So everything is cool and there's no awkwardness between you two?" Bonnie asked ignoring her friend's comment about the lasagna.

"Nope, she was wonderful." A sad smile appeared on Caroline's lips. "I don't know why they did this to her. She didn't deserve it."

"I know. They're just awful people." Bonnie said with venom in her voice, she still couldn't believe how Isobel and John - people she grew up knowing - had done something so horrible.

The girls kept working a few more minutes in comfortable silence but the brunette girl couldn't hold on anymore the question that was running through her head

"And what about Stefan?" Bonnie inquired, changing the subject drastically.

"What about him?" Caroline answered trying to sound nonchalant.

"Are you gonna see him again?"

"No, I deserve someone who wants me and just me." Next thing Caroline knew was that Bonnie had threw herself in her arms.

"I'm so proud of you Care." The brunette girl said against her friend's hair. "Of course you deserve better."

The sound of the phone brought the girls out of their friendly moment. Caroline ran as fast as she could to pick up the phone fearing that Elena may wake up, but then if she was able to fall asleep hearing Damon trash the apartment, she doubts the ringing will wake her.

"Hello." she answered while Bonnie reunited all the ingredients for the lasagna.

"Who is it?" The brunette girl asked after a minute.

"It's for Damon." Caroline said softly while the man himself appeared in the room.

"Who?" he said in a whisper.

"Some woman from the adoption center, she said her name was Beth." The blonde girl answered and handed him the phone.

"Hello." Damon answered immediately.

"Mr. Salvatore, I hope you're having a good night." Damon rolled his eyes at her voice, he couldn't call it exactly good. "I was calling to let you know that your appointment for the adoption of Julian is on Monday, we have to move it forward due to some internal issues." The woman explained calmly from the other side. "I hope that's not an inconvenience, of course that is if you still want to adopt the kid." he could hear the hint of disapproval in her voice, after all the movements he and Elena had being doing lately she didn't trust them anymore, he was hoping that wasn't a problem that would stop them from getting the kid.

Did he really want to have Julian? He found out today that his son was alive and he wanted nothing more than to find him but that didn't mean that he didn't want to be the father of this kid, Julian had touched his heart in its deepest place and nothing was going to make him change his mind, he was going to get his son back and then he would have two children instead of one, he would love Julian just as his own or maybe even more.

"Yes, of course we still want him." he said with no trace of doubt in his voice. The woman gave him all the information about the date and after that hanged up after wishing him a good night once again.

"What was that about?" Bonnie asked from the kitchen.

"They wanted to know if we're still planning on adopting Julian." Damon said getting closer to the girls.

"Of course we do." he heard her whisper and turned to see her standing at the kitchen entrance, her robe was wrapped tightly against her body and her eyes still had a trace of sleep.

"Lena." Both girls whispered in unison.

"You're awake" Caroline said softly

"Yeah I guess not even valium can calm me down right now"

"We're making dinner." Bonnie said with a small smile. "Want to wait?"

"Yes please." she muttered under her breath as Damon walked closer to her and wrapped his strong arms around her.

"How are you feeling?" he asked into her hair.

"Numb." Damon didn't answer her instead he placed a soft kiss onto her forehead and tightened his arms around her. "We are getting our son back, right Damon?" she asked brokenly.

"Of course." she planted a small kiss on his chest and snuggled more into him while the girls tried to pretend they weren't seeing the scene. "I promise." His words were enough to calm her down once again, it didn't matter if he said the moon was made of cheese, she was going to believe everything coming out of this man's mouth.

"And we're also getting Julian right?" A bit of fear could be heard in her voice, she was so scared that they had denied them the possibility of being his parents. "I don't want to lose him."

"We won't." he stated. "You don't have to worry about anything Elena; I'm going to fix everything." he lifted up her chin and looked at her straight in the eye. "We're going to survive this Elena, we always survive."