Elijah leapt on his brother and Klaus pushed him back and he slammed into the wall, scattering more wood shards all over the room. Klaus started pulling on the shelf and logs to get to Damon.
He laughed again. "You think when I locked Katerina up in here that I did not check for every exit! And block them! Stupid vampire," he chided Damon and he threw a piece of wood at him and it hit him hard in the shoulder.
Damon yelled out and slammed his other shoulder back on the door again. It moved just a bit more but was still not enough room for them both to get out. He ripped the stake out of his shoulder and threw it back at him.
Klaus ducked easily and pulled the shelves up and tossed them with a crash back down beside him. Elijah leapt back at him growling and snarling and grabbed for a piece of wood and stabbed him in the upper back as he turned with it. Klaus yelled out and turned and fought him, ripping the stake back out.
Damon heard another scream from inside the cabin and he made up his mind. He let Jeremy go and squeezed through the space in the door. There was not enough room for them both, but he could fit through.
He was halfway to the cabin when he saw Bonnie standing there staring at the door he had just left. He grabbed her shoulders. "Jer is still in there. I could not get him out. He is in bad shape." He didn't know how to tell her what had happened to him. Bonnie nodded at him numbly, she was reaching into her pocket but before she could open her mouth they both heard crying sobs from the cabin and Damon was gone from her sight in an instant.
He raced through the back door, seeing her instantly and jumped in front of her. He had no idea why she would have screamed but all he knew was that he needed to get in there. He saw Stefan laying on the floor by the stairs but he wasn't moving.
Elena was panting hard and crying and he whirled around to make sure she was okay. His hands were on her face and down her arms. "Elena, what happened? Are you okay? Why did you scream?"
She was staring at him seeing all the blood on his shirt and his pants. "I...I vervained him. He was going to kill himself," she sobbed and pointed down to an unconscious Stefan. "Damon, what...what happened to you? You're bleeding?!"
He looked down at himself remembering then about Jeremy and everything. He saw his shirt was soaked in blood and he just ripped it off him, tossing it on the floor. "Look, Lanie. It's not my blood. See? I'm fine, babe." He grabbed her hand and put it on his chest.
But the next second he just pulled her whole body into his arms. "Are you okay? You scared the hell out of me hearing you scream like that from outside." He just held her to him and they stood there as he listened to her breathing slow down.
She kept her head on his now bare chest and wrapped her arms around him. She felt his hands in her hair and rubbing down her back. She finally felt calm enough to talk again. "I'm okay, honey. I am. Stefan came down here trying so hard to say something about you. He literally fell down the stairs to get to us. I was so scared for you and I needed to know what he was going to say."
Elena looked up in his eyes "I fed him my blood, Damon. I knew it was dangerous. But I had to know what he said about you! He told us Klaus was in there with you. I knew I couldn't lose you. All I could think about was his hand in your chest, squeezing your heart and I was so scared Damon, so scared!"
Damon cradled her small body against him again, holding her head against his chest. "Shh, I got you. I got you. I'm right here, baby. I got away. Klaus did not get me. We are okay."
Elena nodded, her fingers digging deeper in his skin. "I'm sorry I scared you but after Elijah and Bonnie raced outside, Stefan wanted more blood and I couldn't make him let go. I just blurted out to him that I was pregnant and he let go of me right away. He kept mumbling that it was your baby Damon and that he wasn't safe. That the baby and I were not safe with him. He tried to stake himself!"
She buried her head deeper against his shoulder and just hung on tight to his waist. "I screamed when I saw what he was going to do and pushed the chair at him and it must have knocked him out somehow. I told him that the cure was coming but I don't know if he was even hearing me."
Damon picked her up under her legs and sat down on the couch with her in his lap. "It's okay Lanie. I'm okay. You are okay." He put his hand down between them and felt for the precious heartbeat. "The baby is okay too, sweetness. Just relax. Just hold me."
She smiled at his touch on her belly under her shirt and laid her head back down on his other shoulder, soothed by his arms around her and his steady but faint heartbeat. But then she felt a stickiness under her cheek and sat back up. She ran a finger across her cheek and saw that there was blood there and a wound that looked to have healed. "What happened to you Damon. Why do you have so much blood on you? Did you find my brother?"
She looked up at him and felt him rub her cheek removing the blood on it. He bit his bottom lip. "Oh no Damon. What happened to Jeremy?" There were fresh tears in her eyes again. "Where is he?" she begged again.
He took her face in his hands and looked sadly into her eyes. "Elena...Katherine got away. Jeremy must have let her out. She was calling to him and its like a magnet when you can control a human's brain like that and they have such an incredible pull to find you."
He lowered his head, embarrassed at how he had treated her friends when he had just come to town. But he knew he should tell her. "Back when you first discovered I was a vampire, I had that kind of hold on Caroline. I called to her when Stefan had me locked up to desiccate me. It was the night I killed Vicky Donovan's friends before I turned her. I called to Caroline over and over all night and she came finally and I got her to open the door for me to let me out. I killed Zach then too for trying to slam the door closed again on me."
Damon could see that she was surprised at his story and he felt bad telling her how cruel he had been and how he had raged on people for being locked up and starved.
Now it was her turn to put her hands on his face. She caressed his cheeks tenderly and saw his eyes flutter closed and he leaned in to her touch. "Its okay Damon. You were such a different person then. I know that is not you anymore. I trust you. We trust you with our lives," she whispered pulling his hand back to her belly. "We love you so much."
He smiled at her, his face glowing with happiness. "I love you both too...so much." He kissed her cheek and rubbed her belly.
Elena still had not understood what happened to Jeremy. Damon had explained how Katherine could have called him and that she could make him let her go. But where was he? Was he okay? She cleared her throat, sitting up more. "Please tell me...what happened to Jeremy?" she choked out as more tears slipped down her cheeks. She watched him clear his throat, his eyes opening slowly. He pulled her closer to him and she wrapped her legs around his waist.
"I don't know. He was already on the floor when I got there and Katherine was gone. She must have gotten him to free her and then fed on him. There was blood all over." Elena had opened her mouth in shock at what he said. "But baby, remember Klaus tortured Katherine there all night so maybe it was mostly her blood."
"But Jeremy is okay right. Is Elijah fighting Klaus to get him back?"
Damon cringed at the thought of telling her about her brother. He opened his mouth to hurt her more by having to tell her that she lost another person she loved so much. "Elena, I don't know how to tell you this." He saw her breath catch in her throat as he spoke. "But Jeremy…"
Just then Elijah burst through the door panting hard. The couple on the couch turned toward him. Damon's heart sank. He was alone. He didn't have Jeremy either. Maybe Bonnie could free him. She seemed determined to rescue Jeremy when he had run into the house to save Elena.
Bonnie had raced out of the cabin right after Elijah. She still felt weak from her head injury yesterday but she needed to know that Jeremy was okay. She followed Elijah as he went quickly to the garage and swung the door open.
She could hear yelling, snarling and crashing from inside but she had no idea how she would help him if the two Originals were between her and Jeremy. She was panting hard as she leaned against the door, trying to think of a plan. She could not hear him in there? Why wasn't he calling out?
But then she heard a sound from a different direction. She followed the sound and behind some bushes near the front of the property Caroline was laying on the ground moaning and holding her head.
Bonnie bent down to her and helped her sit up. "Caroline! What are you doing here? What happened?"
Caroline shook her head, and rubbed her neck. "I don't know. The last thing I remember was leaning down to fill the vial with my blood to so I could use it to trick Katherine. I had tucked it in my pocket..."
She let out a shriek of panic. "Oh no," she felt all around in her jacket pockets. Where was it? "No, Bon. It's gone!"
Bonnie helped her to her feet and grabbed for her as she looked like she would fall back down. "What's gone?"
Caroline was still frantically searching her pockets. Then she dug her fingers in her jean pocket and sucked in a huge breath. "Oh thank God!" She pulled out the vial of Nic's blood that she had tucked deep in her jean pocket. She fell down to the ground in complete relief. The vial of Nic's blood was fine. Whoever jumped her had only taken that decoy vial. She clutched it tight in her fingers and closed her eyes.
Bonnie was standing there, more confused than ever at what her friend was doing. She was freaking out about a bottle of blood? "Care, I have no idea what is going on but I need to get back. Jeremy could be in trouble. Caroline nodded to her and Bonnie raced off back toward the cabin.
She heard more crashes and screams coming from both the garage and the cabin it seemed. And then when she was almost there she saw Damon vamp speed out the back door and back to the cabin.
But he was alone. Where was Jeremy? He had stopped in front of her and told her he tried to get Jeremy out and that he was just inside the back door. She was so scared for him. She had just discovered last night that she loved him. He was going to be an uncle too. He had so much to look forward to. He had to be okay.
She heard more arguing and it sounded like Elijah and Klaus were facing off as she stepped closer, careful not to twist her ankle on the logs scattered on the ground in front of the door. It looked like a huge metal rack had been dragged in front of the door. There wasn't much room but she could slip inside. She could hear the Originals arguing about power and that Klaus didn't want Elena to sacrifice, that he had found another way.
Nearly gasping out loud when she saw Jeremy laying in a heap on the floor, she ran to his side, lifting his head. The shelves that were once full of logs ready to be chopped up for fire were almost empty and laying mangled in front of them, hopefully blocking them from the view of the angry vampires.
"Jeremy!" she whispered frantically as he didn't move. "Jer, its me. You have to get up. I can't carry you out of here. Please wake up!" She turned his head to the side and saw how torn up the skin of his throat was.
Was he? Oh God no... She felt tears in her eyes immediately and she reached down to feel for his pulse. There was nothing there. She started shaking as she clutched him to her chest.
Then she heard another crash and it looked like Elijah was flying back and out the door. It was quiet and she thought that Klaus must have been gone too when the next second he threw the shelves against the wall and she saw him glaring at them both.
"My, my what have we here…" he hissed as Bonnie curled closer into Jeremy's lifeless body. She shut her eyes. If Klaus was going to kill her, this was where she wanted to be. There was was no way to get away from him fast enough, so she just cowered against the man she loved.
"Nic! Leave my friends alone!"
Bonnie swung her head up and saw Caroline standing in the doorway of what was left of the garage. He spun around at the sound of her voice and but then turned back and motioned for Bonnie not to move as he dragged the metal shelf up against the back door to make sure they stayed there.
Bonnie was scared but she and Jeremy were trapped. She was just running her hands through his hair as she held him.
Klaus wasted no time and blurred Caroline against the wall. "What do you want? Why should I do anything you say after you steal from me?! Make me think you love me and then run away! Did you take my blood too?!"
Caroline was in shock and she struggled under his grip on her arm before he let go and merely trapped her between his body and the wall, his flat palms on the wall on either side of her head. "What? No? I would never steal from you. I do love you Nic!"
He scoffed at her dug in his pocket and pulled out the vial of blood he had found and held it up in front of her face and then smashed it down on the cement floor. "Really, what the hell is this and why was it in my car? Did you steal my blood too after I told you I wouldn't heal your friend? Is that is how much you love me?"
He was livid now and could see the Bonnie holding the limp body of her boyfriend in her arms. At least the damn witch was smart enough not to try to run now. He was so furious he thought he would rip someone's head off.
Caroline shook her head frantically side to side as he ripped her jacket off her and torn it apart with his bare hands. The tattered leather was in so many pieces there was no way she could have still had a vial hidden there. "Nic, I wouldn't betray you. Please, you are scaring me!" she whimpered under his rough, angry touch.
He took off her chunky boots and ripped open her jeans, pulling them down her legs and felt all along her legs and in the pockets. "Then what was the vial for?" he snarled. He was mad at himself that their precious new relationship had sunk this low and that he was forcefully strip searching her but he wanted the truth and he wanted it now. He felt all over making sure there was no pocket he had not checked in her jeans before he tossed them back down beside her.
Caroline was so scared. He was so angry and she had no idea what to do. She knew she was taking a massive risk stealing his blood. And now if he found it, it would all be over and Stefan would die for sure. She closed her eyes trying to block out his hands all over her in rage and not love as she stood there helplessly.
Shit, why did she not just go to the cabin right away? Why did she think she had to stop him, to save him from himself. She knew why. She was still madly in love with him and she knew why he was doing this. She knew how hurt and abused he had been. She knew how long he had run from their father. She knew how he felt holding his first loves burnt body in his arms. He had shared so much of his pain with her and she ached inside wanting to stop him from hurting those she loved and himself.
"Nic, please," she begged again. "You are hurting me. I love you. I do." He snarled at that, ripping her shirt which was still his, right down the middle, leaving her in just her bra and lacy underwear. She felt the cool air on her skin as he felt all over her chest and between her breasts looking for the hidden vial. She knew she had the strength to stop him from literally ripping her clothes off but she just stared in his fiery blue eyes as he hunted her body. She cringed as she felt his hands go down in her lacy underwear as he felt all around her leaving no inch of her skin to chance.
When he was satisfied it was not on her, he pushed her back against the wall. "I know you took my blood Caroline. I'm not stupid. Was it all an act? Did you just fuck me, over and over to help your friend? Was US and the future you say you want with me just a big fucking lie?!"
He was furious now but also so, so sad at what he had just done to her. The woman he loved, his queen was shivering, half naked against the wall because he had his hands all over her in anger and not love. He was so upset that he started questioning everything they had done. All the memories, the touches and caresses, her hands in his hair, her breathy moans when he filled her, her cuddling up to him, holding him all night as they slept.
He saw her sink down against the wall crying and his heart ached for how far from how they had been together this morning they had fallen.
Bonnie was still holding Jeremy's body tight against her. Klaus had blocked off her only exit and she still felt so weak from her head injury. She had used what little strength she had helping Elena and Damon that morning with the visions about the baby. So she had nothing left to fry Klaus' brain even a little bit so they could all get out of there.
She felt in her pocket and ran her fingers down the smooth sides of the vial of blood that Caroline had given her…
"Bonnie wait," her friend had whispered before she headed back to help Jeremy. She turned and walked back to her and Caroline placed the vial of blood in her hand and closed her hand on top of it. Bonnie looked up at her with confusion on her face. "Take this, hide it on you. It's Nic's blood and I need to you to get it to Stefan.
Her best friend looked at her in shock. "This will heal Stefan?" she mumbled.
Caroline nodded. "I can go help Jeremy. Can you just get this to Stefan. He is dying and he needs it before it's too late."
Bonnie nodded at her, tucking the vial in her pocket. The friends hugged and then Caroline raced away toward the garage. She could hear Elijah yelling at his brother and them fighting as she saw Caroline sneak closer to the front door.
Bonnie made a motion to Caroline that she was going to get back in the cabin through the back and her friend nodded at her as Bonnie rounded the corner to head to the back. But standing there between the cabin and the garage Bonnie was so torn as to what to do.
Then a scream came from the cabin. It was Elena. She turned to run that way when she was nearly knocked over by Damon. He had raced out of the back door of the garage. He told her Jeremy was just beyond the door and that he hadn't been able to get him out. Then before she could even open her mouth to tell him to take the vial, he had blurred himself through the back door. She could not just leave him there so she slipped in the back door to look for Jeremy. If he was hurt or in pain she needed to go to him first.
Caroline lay against the wall crying, her knees tucked up tight to her body. She looked up at him with tear stained eyes, as he was pacing the floor. "No, Nic, none of it was a lie. I love you. I want a future with you. I did not just fuck you to get the cure for Stefan! How could you think that? I found the empty vials in the back of your SUV and yes I was going to use one with MY blood and vervain in it to trick Katherine and make her give up the moonstone. I thought I could help you get the moonstone. I thought you would be happy with me. That is the vial you found. I just pretended to have your blood to trick the bitch into giving me the stone." She was lying through her teeth right now that she hadn't stolen his blood and she prayed he would not know it.
She felt him walk closer and then stop right in front of her. He bent down and she felt him wrap his jacket over her shoulders and she gripped the collar of it pulling the warm fabric around her. He looked deeply into her eyes. "I don't know what to believe anymore." He stayed kneeling by her, his hand on her leg as she put her head back down on her knees, hiding her face from him.
He stood up and walked closer to Bonnie. "Well, well," he muttered under his breath. "What are we going to do with you witch?"
Caroline lifted her head from her lap and pulled his jacket closer covering her half naked body. "Nic, leave her alone. She didn't do anything to you."
"Oh I beg to differ, my lovely. You see darling Bonnie here stopped me from getting Elena's blood and finding out if the spell was a success. I had already taken hers back at the mansion when she and the other brother vampire were sleeping so soundly. I had my witch cloak me so that even any sounds I made would not make it to the vampires ears."
He bent down right in front of Bonnie. "You, showing up and thinking you were strong enough to take me before in the storm ruined my chance to see if my spell worked. So yes Caroline, your friend has most definitely done something to me."
Bonnie tried to back her and Jeremy away till she felt her back hit the wall behind her as Klaus stepped even closer.
"So what should we do with you? I can't afford you ruining more of my plans now can I darling," he sneered at Bonnie.
"No Nic, I will never forgive you if you hurt her!" Caroline snarled at him.
He turned his head back toward her, his eyes daring. "What makes you think that has any power over me after what you did?"
She opened her mouth to argue with him but she could not stand to keep lying to him. She saw Nic turn back to her friend and she was ready to scream at him and jump on his back if he dared hurt her.
But the next second Jeremy's head flew up and he started gasping for air!
Elena climbed off Damon's lap and walked closer to the Original brother. "Elijah what happened? Where is my brother?"
Elijah looked back and forth from Damon to Elena and saw too that Stefan was unconscious on the floor. "I tried," he gasped out. "I couldn't get to your brother Elena. Klaus stayed between us. I kept my distance and I tried to talk him out of what he was planning. He kept coming at me but we both knew that nothing in that room would kill either of us. So we just stared each other down and I tried to convince him to let go of this crazy idea of sacrificing you to get power, for him to be a hybrid. He said he had a way he had already put in motion and that the spell had worked. He said there was nothing that could stop him now."
Damon stood up to stand beside Elena. "Oh shit. He said he didn't just want Elena right?" He looked back at Elijah.
The Original nodded at him. "Yes he said he had a way that no one would have to die. I have no idea what he is talking about."
Elena's eyes widened and her hand flew to her belly. "Not just me? He wants my baby doesn't he Damon?! He wants to hurt my baby!" She turned and buried herself back in his arms. They stayed like that for a few minutes at least and Damon did not release his hold on her. She wasn't crying but she had just clung to him, her nails digging in his bare skin as he held her.
Elijah stared at both of them. "Wait what?" he said in very apparent shock. "Elena is...with child? The doppelganger is pregnant? And my brother wants your baby?"
Elena was shivering in fear as she turned her head to him. "That is pretty much what we think too. She realized that she had just spilled her secret to him too and before Stefan knew too. But if Klaus sounded like wanted her baby to get the same kind of power he would get from sacrificing her. That was crazy! Oh God, what could they do?!
But then she felt her stomach contract again and as if Damon could read her mind, she had not even said a word, he blurred her to the bathroom in time for her to throw up more. He rubbed her back and held her hair back gathering it in his hands behind her.
"You okay sweetness?" he whispered by her ear as his lips ran over the shell of her ear and made her shiver. She nodded at him and just lay against his chest.
"Yeah, I'm trying. This angel is already pretty demanding of my attention," she replied and stroking her fingers over her belly. Damon's hand went there too in an instant and rubbed her bare stomach. She stood up shakily and wiped her face with a cool cloth and then rinsed and gargled the bad taste out of her mouth. "I think that is the third time just today."
Damon saw her legs wobble a little and he stood up and scooped her into his arms and carried her to her parents bed just down the hall. They sunk down on the mattress, her legs around him while sitting on his lap. "Is there anything else I can do for you," he whispered as he kissed the top of her head.
"Just hold me Damon, please. Just hold me." He smiled up and her, kissing both her eyelids before she laid her head back on his chest and he ran his fingers through her silky hair. They relaxed in each other's arms and just stayed like that in comfortable silence.
"Is your stomach any better? Do you need anything else?" He had been rubbing circles on the skin of her belly while he held her. Elena nodded and sat up more.
"Mmm nnnn. It's better now. You just being here, helping me through this is all I need. You feel so good, so soothing." She mumbled against his chest, her fingers stroking up and down his arm.
"Mmm, damn straight. There is nowhere I would rather be, than right here with you." He heard her sigh in contentment and lay her head back down as he snuggled her against him as he leaned against the headboard.
She lifted her head after a few minutes and looked deeply in his eyes. Then she just moved toward his lips, her arms winding around his neck, her fingers in his dark hair. She felt him open his mouth to her and felt the warmth of his mouth engulf her senses. She leaned forward more on his lap, deepening the kiss and his hands went around her waist, sliding up her back slowly under her shirt and tank top, just holding her body tight against him.
Damon moaned into her mouth as he felt her tongue teasing his and he opened his mouth more, cupping her face with his hands and tilting her head to a better angle for his tongue to explore her mouth. He could sense so much of her worry and fear and how scared she was about Jeremy and not knowing how to protect her baby from Klaus. She just melted into him and he wanted to take all the worry and fear and pain on himself. He wanted to carry it for her and have her trust that he would make everything alright. She was carrying his baby, he hoped so much, so he wanted to carry everything else.
He heard a slight whimper from her lips and he felt her hands digging deeper in his hair, desperately holding his head against hers. Her shirt had ridden up in the front and he could feel the tiny baby's heartbeat when Elena's body was pressed so close to him. He smiled against her mouth and tilted his head again to devour her more. He knew she had just puked more and she had rinsed her mouth out but he could still taste the ickiness in her mouth from that. But he didn't care. She wanted comfort and was hungry for his kisses and he wanted to wipe everything away and have her relax and calm down. This was one way he absolutely knew he could help her.
Elena's hands slid down his sides and felt his every shiver and muscle twitch under her touch. Her body too just trembled from his touch and his mouth on hers. She needed this so much right now when it felt like everything was spinning out of control. She needed to rest in his strength, in his love and his tenderness toward her. She knew he was taking her mind off of everything, Stefan, dying, Jeremy in danger, Klaus coming for her baby. She felt like she could have a panic attack if she didn't calm down. Damon's kisses calmed parts of her that she did not even know existed.
Back in the tomb when she had been shivering and so scared and so nervous to kiss him, his mouth, the heat from his skin; strangely with him being a vampire, the reactions his body and he had to her touch helped her back then already so much to calm down in the face of nearly certain death. And even last night when Katherine had almost killed her and Damon carried her back from the window and wrapped her in his arms in the blanket, despite what was going on she felt so safe and so warm with him. He had kissed her so deeply and so full of emotion just like now to sooth her fears. And it was exactly what she needed then and now.
Damon sat up straighter and pulled Elena's body closer to his. Gently he slipped her long sleeved shirt and tank top off and up over her head breaking the kiss for a half a second. Her lips found his instantly again and he groaned deep in his throat as he felt her sucking on his bottom lip. He cradled her hips against his and he could feel his arousal through the thin fleece pants as he felt her hands slide down his bare back. He wished he had more time to show her how much he loved her, and how he was going to make everything okay. That she and the baby had nothing to worry about.
Elena pulled back from his mouth again, her hands between them on the edge of his pajama pants. He looked down at her, his eyes half lidded with pleasure and his lips so swollen with her kisses and nodded to her. He was about to sit up and let her take his pants off when they heard a voice calling out her name.
"Oh Elena?" a voice sing-songed from outside.
Damon felt her body instantly freeze at the sound and he cradled her closer. He could feel her body shaking as they sat there nearly skin to skin and she buried her head against his shoulder at the sound of the voice and just wanted things to be over. How would they ever get away from him? It was Klaus. There was no doubt about that.
"I think it's time for a trade darling." he called out. "Come here and let me show you what I have to offer."
She looked up in Damon's eyes and crawled off his lap very reluctantly. Her eyes were wide with fear and she was looking around for her clothes, her hands shaking. He got down from the bed and knelt beside her, "Elena, you don't have to face him. I'll go. Just stay here." He stroked her face and ran his fingers through her hair gently. "Just try to stay calm angel, for the baby." He ran his hand over her belly again, the feel of the tiny heartbeat soothing him so much.
She nodded silently at him watching him quickly take off the bloody pants and then throw on a fresh pair of her dad's dark washed jeans and a dark blue button up shirt. He left it open and enveloped her in another hug after she had crawled back on the bed. Then he gave her a quick but firm kiss and pulled the blankets around her. "Stay here. I will be right back." She nodded again at him and he saw tears in her eyes already. "I promise you Elena. I will be right back." And then he turned and walked out of the room.
"Elena!" Klaus called again. "You don't want me to get impatient."
Damon turned his head to look down the hall. Klaus must be right at the door again.
Damon blurred himself to the front door. "Keep your fucking shirt on Klaus. She is not coming. You're dealing with me. She has had enough of your shit to last her a lifetime!"
Klaus eyed the vampire standing tall in the doorway. He certainly would be a force to be reckoned with if he came after him and Elena once he had her. "Fine, fine have it your way. But I think your girl will want to see what I have..."
Klaus was leaning against the doorway casually and he whistled behind him. Damon could hear shuffling and then another person step onto the front porch. Elijah was watching from the living room and he appeared that he must have helped Stefan up from the floor, for his brother was laying on the couch still unmoving. Damon could see Bonnie also being held tight by a man on the yard and she was struggling and fighting him to get away.
"Elena?" a voice gasped out.
Damon knew that voice. Jeremy?! And he watched as Klaus pulled him up the stairs, his hands tied, the Original gripping him by the throat.
No, he was dead! He had no pulse when he was holding him in his arms. What the hell?
And then he knew. Oh shit, how did he not remember sooner how Jeremy had said he was swimming in vampire blood last night. Katherine had been feeding on him over and over and he had seen a few times that she had healed his wounds only to rip into him again. But Damon himself had also fed him his blood a couple times too. He was in transition. He had to be!
"Jeremy?" Damon heard her voice from behind him. He spun around, his hands on her arms.
"Elena, please stay out of this. I can handle him." Damon was begging her and turned her around back to the back of the cabin.
"No, Damon. I have to get my brother back. I have to. I can't lose him," she cried out. She stepped closer to the door and Damon pulled her behind him again.
Klaus squeezed Jeremy's neck a bit harder and the boy cried out in pain bringing the attention back to him. "I propose a trade. No one else has to die. I don't need Elena anymore for the sacrifice. We can all get what we want and leave here alive."
Damon scoffed at him, keeping Elena behind him. "No way in fucking hell! You want her baby for some freakshow power grab and that is NEVER happening Klaus!" he yelled at him, feeling Elena's arms around his waist tighten at his words.
Klaus lowered his head and glared at Damon, neither of them said anything and just stared each other down like they were gunslingers in the west.
"Nic, please stop this!"
He turned to see Caroline running up to the porch. She saw Bonnie being held by one of Klaus' goons. She was still wearing Nic's long trench coat type jacket and her jeans, since he had torn apart the shirt she was wearing and her jacket too, looking for the vial.
Nic turned to her glaring at her. "Caroline, stay out of this! This is the only way. The only way I can protect you! You have to understand."
"Well I don't. You cant use innocent children in the name of protecting me! I won't let you!" She raced onto the porch and was ready to fight him to let go of Jeremy. "Let my friends go. Let go of this crazy idea that you need your that kind of power to protect me from your father."
Klaus' eyes went wide and he dropped Jeremy and the boy ran back toward Bonnie. Klaus nodded to the man holding her to let his hands free and he watched the new vampire cradling the witch in his arms. But he had other things to think about right now.
He could hardly believe it. She knew! He had compelled Caroline to forget about the spell. About everything to do with Elena's babies. Had she faked that too? Was nothing of their relationship, the love he thought he felt from her true?
"You knew," he mumbled silently, almost a whisper and he leaned back on the railing in shock, His eyes snapped up to his loves. "You knew what I compelled you to forget?" His anger was growing. He did not know what was real anymore.
She nodded silently standing beside him. "I had vervain on me Nic. I remember everything." She watched him shut his eyes slowly and she saw one single tear slip down his cheek. She felt a sob building in her throat at the pain she was causing him. She loved him. But she could not let him do this.
Caroline turned to Damon and Elena. "I should have told you this last night. I was just so confused and so scared but you need to know." She was still scared. She didn't want to lose Nic. She knew he had done terrible things and was prepared to do more terrible things, to her friends even, to get the power to defeat his sociopathic father. She knew she loved him but it looked like he was questioning every single part of their relationship at that moment.
Damon eyes were locked on hers and Elena was just as curious. He held her back behind his arms but she could see Caroline too from where she was standing.
"This was what Bonnie was trying to tell us all day. Klaus made her do a spell last night so that Elena would get pregnant."
She drew in a deep breath. "Damon you are the babies dad. They are yours. I knew it last night and I should have told you and I am so sorry."
Damon felt his knees go weak. He heard what she said and let the words just wash over him. They were his. They were his! Wait a minute.
His eyes snapped back up to hers. "They?" his voice was so quiet, and it sounded like it went up an octave when he spoke the word.
Elena felt faint too. Her mind was trying to wrap around what she had just heard. She was having Damon's babies! They were his.
But then she felt the same jolt of shock that he must of felt. She was clinging to his waist, her head against his chest as her mouth fell more and more open. "They?"
She looked up at Damon's face, seeing a combination of shock, wonder and confusion in his eyes.
Caroline smiled and nodded. "That's right...they. The spell made you pregnant with twins..."
A/N: Yeah! He knows! I'm so happy for him. I hope you loved the super long chapter. I will be working on the next chapter of my new story next and doing a super awesome tribute to Stefan at his funeral in Our New Beginning with Elena awake finally. So excited to write that chapter. But I hope to update this one once a week I hope. Depends on busyness of life too. But I will do my best.
Let me know what you thought of this one. Till next time :)