Okaaay, I'm so sorry, really really sorry for the delay, I have no excuse, seriously. But now I'm back :) And I promise you that I will try my best to have the next chapter within the next week. Thank you a lot to everyone who are still reading this and of course to Amy for editing it for me.

Hope you enjoy it

P.S Aren't you guys excited about this Thursday episode?

Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry, you don't know how lovely you are

I had to find you, tell you I need you; tell you I set you apart

Tell me your secrets, and ask me your questions

Oh let's go back to the start

The scientist –Coldplay-

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He was going to kill her, he was sure that the moment the girl walked through his door he would kill her. He was dying with worry yet she still didn't even bother to call, he loved her so much, more than he could express but she kept constantly bringing out his worst side, she was going to be the death of him.

Alaric, Caroline and Jeremy were entertaining themselves with the damn rock band game, they had played it over and over for the last forty minutes; he was actually starting to dislike the game.

His mind kept going over and over possible scenarios and all of them were bad. Maybe something bad had happened to her or she had found out their child was with another family and now she was depressed and was going to keep him out of things like she always did. Loving Elena Gilbert was definitely hard, but still it was the best thing that had ever happened to him.

"Come on Damon, we can team up against them!" Caroline shouted from the living room while 'Creep' by Radiohead sounded in the background.

"I think I'll pass blondie!" Damon shouted back while pouring a glass of bourbon and drinking without hesitation.

"But they've teamed up against me… and they're kicking my ass!" the blonde girl shouted once again. "Come on Damon, pretty pretty please?" he could hear the plea in her voice and rolled his eyes at how dramatic this girl could be, but even so he liked her, not that he would admit it any time soon.

"Fine, fine. I'll rescue you." He said in an overdramatic tone, imitating his blonde team-mate.

Damon walked to the living room and saw Caroline on top of his couch while Jeremy and Alaric were next to her, of course they were on the floor, because they have some respect for private property, but he decided to keep his mouth shut and not say anything, because after all Caroline had been really helpful and he wanted to save all his strength to yell at Elena the minute her pretty little face walked through his door.

"It's your turn to pick the song." Jeremy said with a smile. "Not that it matters, we're still kicking your ass." A small smirk appeared on Damon's face at the comment.

"Not a chance baby Gilbert." He took the guitar and placed the strap over his shoulder. "I'm awesome at this game, not like Nick Carter over there who sucks at this." He said giving a head gesture to Alaric who rolled his eyes at the comment.

"Can we please stop with the Backstreet Boys jokes?"

"Haha I think it's going to be a while until we get tired of it." Caroline said while laughing.

"Traitor." Alaric muttered under his breath while giving her a nasty look, after all she had been the one who told everyone about his performances at the Grill.

Caroline ended up picking the song, of course Damon had no option, there was no way to make the blonde girl follow an order, she chose The Kill by Thirty Seconds to Mars, a great choice Damon thought to himself, he was awesome at that damn song.

After three more songs, it turned out he was right, he was tremendous at this game. He had managed to turn the score around and now they were beating the Backstreet Boys team and for a minute Damon was able to just relax and forget about his anger towards a certain brunette haired girl. Of course the minute Jeremy choose Hysteria by Muse his thoughts rushed back to her, because well how could that song not remind him of her?

Despite the loud music and the screams and cheers from the people in the room he was able to hear her the minute her heels touched the floor. He removed the guitar from his shoulder and walked towards the door while the three remaining people stared at him with shock.

"I guess that means we win." Alaric murmured.

The three of them immediately rushed to the door as well, they didn't want to miss one second of the exchange between the lovers.

"I could kill you, I swear to God I could kill you." He said the minute he saw her with Bonnie walking right behind her. "Who do you think you are? You didn't even answer my damn calls Elena!" his furious voice echoed through the whole apartment. "Seriously what were-" His sentence was stopped when she threw herself into his arms while small tears fell from her eyes.

"What happened?" he asked with a soft voice. Who the hell was he kidding? This girl had him wrapped around her tiny finger, he could not stay mad at her right now or ever.

"Damon!" she wailed against his chest while her arms clutched his body tightly.

"Lena what happened?" his voice was worried now; he lifted his eyes to stare at Bonnie who smiled at him. Okay, Bonnie was smiling? At him? Something definitely happened there. "You found him? Am I right?"

She lifted her head and her brown eyes stared deeply into his blue ones. "I found him." She murmured and he could hear the emotion in her voice, it was the same that was there when she first told him she loved him, it was the sound of happiness.

"Where is he? How is he? What's his name?" He couldn't control the words coming out of his mouth, he wanted to know everything about their child right now, after the excruciating morning he'd had, he deserved answers.

"Damon." She closed her eyes and buried her head in his chest once again.

"Elena good lord talk to me." He muttered unable to hide his despair. Four pairs of eyes stared at them intently; all of them were holding their breath.

"Julian." The word left her mouth as a gentle whisper. "Our son is Julian." Damon took her face between his hands and looked deeply at her.

"You're joking?" the surprise in his voice was evident; a surge of adrenaline was going through his entire body.

"No, he's our son Damon. He's been with us this entire time." A smile made its way onto her face and Damon stared at her blankly, still having trouble absorbing the news while he could hear the gasps that left their friends mouths.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, well I mean we still need to do DNA tests and all but I'm sure Damon, he is, he's our son." Damon took her in his arms and started spinning her around the room while she laughed her head off.

"We found him!" he shouted at the top of his lungs while Elena clutched his arms tightly. After a few seconds he stopped and placed her on the ground, he kissed her lips softly and she responded eagerly, she'd finally found that part of her that was missing, the part that had been with her this whole time.

"A blonde kid out of brunette parents." Alaric's voice brought them out of their trance; Damon broke the kiss and looked at his best friend. "What were the odds?" Ric said with a sly smile.

"My mom, she was blonde." Damon said with a smile of his own. The fact that Julian had something of his mother and not his father made his day better.

"I cannot believe this." Jeremy murmured.

"I know." Elena said with a smile as she placed another kiss on Damon's lips.

"Come on you guys, group hug!" Caroline said excitedly as she ran towards the couple.

"She does know how to ruin the moment." Damon said in Elena's ear. She just giggled at his words but opened her arms to embrace Caroline and then Damon was hugging them too. This was the one and only time he would do something as cheesy as this, but come on he was happy, he had the right to be as cheesy as he wanted. Jeremy and Bonnie soon joined the three of them and they stayed locked together.

"Come on Ric, you know you want to hug us." Damon said, raising his head and looking at his best friend who was still standing next to the wall.

"Nah, these things are not my style." He said nonchalantly.

"Come on Ric, it's a happy moment." Elena said with a smile.

"Yes, Ric, hug us and I promise we will never say another Backstreet Boys joke again!" Caroline said excitedly, the man thought about it for a moment but in the end he just couldn't resist them so he walked towards them and joined their group hug.

"You do know I'm not keeping that promise." Damon said with a smirk.

"Yes, I do." Ric answered back.

This moment felt perfect, it was like life was giving him back all the things that were denied to him during the years, the love of Elena, the love of his child and the love of great people like these, his friends. Everything was slowly falling into place and he couldn't be happier for it.

Elena couldn't remember ever feeling this nervous, well that wasn't entirely true of course. There was the first time she and Damon met or the first time they made love or at the wedding but even so she couldn't control the emotions going off inside her. Today was the day that the adoption of Julian would be complete, the day they would take him home with them and it was also the day they would inform him that he is their son, their birth son.

Now they were absolutely sure, they gave the results of Julian's DNA to them yesterday and there was no doubt that they were his parents. This whole situation seemed way too surreal for her, what were the odds? Her son had been with her during the last three years, the child she'd loved since the first moment she met him and the one that had turned into a big part of her life was in fact her child; it seemed like something out of a movie.

She couldn't be more grateful, after everything that had happened to them this was something to be happy for, they have found their child and now they could finally be happy together, the three of them.

Damon's hand squeezing hers brought her out of her thoughts, she turned her head and looked into his blue eyes that were full of fear, she still couldn't help but be amazed. They have come so far. A few months ago she was with Stefan and in that moment the idea of being with Damon again had been so far away but now she was with him, and they would never be apart again.

"Are you afraid?" she asked in a soft voice while stroking his cheek with her hand.

"Of course I am." He answered looking deeply into her eyes. They were sitting in the small office of the orphanage waiting for Beth that would come with Julian in a matter of minutes. They had told the child that Damon and Elena had some important news for him. "You know I just keep waiting for everything to blow up in my face." His melancholic eyes looked down and Elena felt a stab of pain in her heart.

He always thought the worst of situations, and how could he not? During his whole life Damon had been hurt an uncountable number of times and a lot of them were her fault. He had learned to not expect good things and that made Elena incredibly sad, she was going to make sure that Damon was happy, in that moment her mission in life was to make him believe in good things, to know that he had the right to be happy, that he was loved, and that good things could happen to him as well.

"Everything's going to be fine Damon." She leaned in by a few inches and placed a chaste kiss on his lips. "And if it's not, we still have each other to work through it with." He smiled against her lips and held her close.

"I love you Elena." He whispered softly into her ear. It still surprised her how he could make her heart stop beating with just that one sentence.

"I love you too Damon." She said with a smile on her lips. "Always have, always will." Her brown eyes looked into his deep ones and she felt drawn to him immediately, Damon was the only person in the whole world who could turn her into jelly with just one look.

"What are we gonna tell him?" Damon said, breaking the contact between them.

"I really don't know, I think I might lose my capacity to speak once I see him again." Elena said while twisting her hands nervously in her lap.

"It must be something clever." Damon said and scratched his head. "I mean we can't just say 'Hey Julian what do you know, we're your birth parents. Yay!"

"You're crazy." Elena said rolling her eyes with a big smile on her face, she loved how he could make her feel so relaxed in a matter of minutes. "Clever like what?" She said looking at him with a raised brow.

"I don't know, something like 'Julian, when Elena and I were young we could barely keep our hands of each other-"

"Really? You want to tell him that?" Elena cut him off and gave him a disturbed look. "You don't want to scar the kid for life."

"Alright then, don't get your panties in a twist." He mocked her. "Well then I guess we could say 'Julian, Elena and I were so in love, and well you know what happens when people are in love, she couldn't get enough of me so she was always trying to get into-"

"Okay, stop, stop." She said trying to sound offended but doing her best to keep the smile off of her face. "We could aways tell the true story."

"Oh, and what story will that be?" Damon asked with curiosity.

"Well we could say 'Julian, when we were young Damon was an ass (well he still is) so he went to a party in the forest, knocked my friend to the ground, dragged me out there like the caveman he is and then had his wicked way with me on top of his car." Elena finished the story with a proud smile while Damon observed her with an open mouth.

"And you thought I was going to scar him for life." He mocked her once again. "Hold on, that's when we conceived him?"

"Yeap, not very romantic right?"

"No, I guess not." Damon answered with a serious expression. "But that was so damn hot." A smirk appeared on his face and Elena rolled her eyes at him. "I mean now that you're saying it, I'm not even surprised, I was so damn horny that day." Elena smacked his arm hard before giving him a languid kiss that left him wanting more.

"Well if it was that hot, maybe we can re-act it one of these days." She said wickedly near his mouth while her brown eyes looked at him with lust.

"It's like you're reading my mind." He whispered before taking her lips into another hot kiss. She couldn't believe she was kissing him like this here, she was always surprised by how this man made her lose all reason. She was so absorbed in their kiss that she didn't hear the footsteps coming towards them.

"We're here." The voice of Beth made her turn around and look at the little blonde boy on the doorstep while the blush appeared on her face. She had to stop doing this with Damon in public.

Her son, her son was in front of her, he had been there the entire time. Her eyes turned glassy and she felt the pressure of Damon's hand on hers.

"What's with the faces?" Julian asked with a frown and Elena wanted to cry right there, how could she not see that before? The kid was so alike to Damon in so many ways.

"Julian, Damon and Elena want to say something to you." Beth explained softly to the 8 year old boy who only nodded. Elena wanted to say something but was at a loss for words, nothing seemed to able to come out of her mouth.

"Well Julian, as you know we were making the arrangements for your adoption." Damon started talking once he saw that Elena was in no condition of doing so. "And it's official, you are coming with us today." The boy's face lit up with happiness and he immediately ran towards the couple who embraced him tightly, their family was finally complete now.

"I love you guys so much." He murmured against Elena's neck while Damon rubbed his hand across his back, they were both kneeled on the floor with him. "This is a dream come true."

"But we found something out recently." Damon continued once they released the kid. He gave one look to Elena and she nodded. "Julian, we are your parents. Your birth parents."

Elena swore her heart stopped beating and her breath caught in her throat, she could feel Damon's hands shaking next to her and all she wanted to do was cry, this was definitely the most emotional moment of her entire life.

"My real parents?" The kid asked with a frown. His blue eyes turned to look at Beth, the elder woman nodded to him, confirming what the couple was saying. "So…you abandoned me?" His blue eyes started tearing up and Elena wanted to kick herself. Why didn't she think of this? She was so concerned about what they were going to tell him that she didn't anticipate his reaction.

"Julian, we didn't abandon you. It wasn't like that." Her voice finally returned to her, she held the tiny hand of the boy and looked into his eyes. "I loved you a lot but-"

"No!" Julian released himself from Elena's grasp. "You left me, you left me because you didn't love me." Big tears were falling from his blue eyes and both Damon and Elena found themselves lost for words. It was like everything froze for them. "You didn't want me." Julian wailed as he moved back to be away from them.

"Julian you have to let them explain it to you." Beth tried to reason with the boy. "Things aren't the way-"

"No! I hate you! I hate you so much!" he yelled to the top of his lungs and ran away from the office as fast as he could. Elena couldn't control it anymore and collapsed into tears in Damon's arms.

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Nobody said it was easy It's such a shame for us to part

Nobody said it was easy

No one ever said it would be this hard

So what do you think? Things couldn't be that easy right? Please just bear with me, the end is so close :)