Oh no no no, he thought. She did not need this now. He curled his fingers back into his palm, trying to hide it again from her but Elena pulled his hand open again and ran her fingers over the bumps in his skin.
Her head slowly turned up to look at him. "Honey? Why...why is your skin so rough and jagged like that? Are you okay?" she asked with an edge of concern in her voice. She had no idea what could be wrong. All she knew was that anything on a vampire healed right away, so he should not have any kind of residual marks on him from any of his battles with the other vampires. But he would tell her if something was wrong, wouldn't he?
She drew in a deep breath as he closed his hand again looking like he was pulling it away from her. "Damon." She tilted his chin down so she could see his eyes in the dim light of the cave. Even the small sliver of light from the doorway wasn't enough to see much of his hand. She was going basically by feel right now.
Damon saw her looking very innocently curious not terrified at all. Maybe she didn't know what it was. "Mmm hmm?" he replied casually pulling her body in closer to him as they still lay in each others arms against the wall. Her head turned up more to see his face.
But then he saw her suck in a breath and his vampire vision saw her eyes widen in fear. No, she could not know. It was too much. It was too much for him to even grasp, but he could not tell her now when she had already been through so much. She opened her mouth, her eyes wild and he knew she must have figured it out.
He shook his head, stroking her face tenderly. "No. Elena no. It's nothing. It's not what you think," he lied to her, hating himself as he did it. He felt her force his hand open again. Thank God she could not see in the dark as well as he could. Even in the darkness he saw the gray lines, the raised veins that Stefan had already almost at his heart. Damon's veins were just barely past his palm and curling up the outside of his hand. But in the dark she could not tell.
Damon was wondering if lying would even work to spare her more pain. She seemed to know him so well already after only such a short time that they had been together. "It's fine baby," he tried again. "I just got some slivers in my hand before and they were really deep so it takes longer to heal."
Elena could feel the roughness and bumps in his skin but she knew how horrible any wood could be for him, so it made sense. She let out the breath she had not even realized she was holding as the fleeting thought that he had a werewolf bite had ran through her head. She was still so scared for Stefan and had no idea how they were going to save him but just the thought that Damon could be poisoned too made her heart leap in her chest. "Just slivers?" she studied him quizzically.
It couldn't be anything else. She could not take more. Knowing she was pregnant with supernatural possibly vampire miracle babies was already a lot to take in. And Stefan dying and Jeremy turning and everything with Klaus she just could not handle more.
There he had lied to her twice now, loathing himself for doing it and studied her face as she continued to run her hand over his wound. "Yes just slivers. There were pieces of wood everywhere with me fighting the vampires and breaking branches off when I threw them against trees. It was crazy and I am lucky to be alive. Tyler saved my life when the a vampire almost killed me while a witch held me down."
He dared to meet her eyes in the near darkness as he continued. "It doesn't even really hurt much but I'll be fine." Lies three and four just jumped out of his damn mouth to keep her from knowing he was dying and he shut his eyes as she lifted his hand to kiss the inside of his palm right where the poison had dug in and made itself a nice home in him.
It actually hurt like hell already. Every time his hand moved he felt a sharp stab of pain. When they were making love he had hardly noticed it but now he could feel the pain radiate up his arm more too.
He pulled his hand out of hers and kissed the crown of her head again. "I'm fine baby," he whispered in her ear again. "You don't have to be worried about me. Its you that we need to get safe and as much as I hate to say it we need to get dressed too."
Damon gave her one more tender kiss on her forehead and then lifted her naked body off of his lap. All he wanted to do was pull her close and hold her longer but they were still in so much danger here. He put her on her feet and looked around for their clothes. He found his boxers and brushed the dirt off him enough and tugged them on. He turned back to her seeing her just slip back down the wall, her body curled up and hidden by his jacket.
He came back toward her and knelt down. "Hey, Lanie? Are you okay?" His hand tilted her head up to him. He felt her hand on his knee as she swallowed.
"You are lucky to be alive? They almost killed you? I sent Tyler to you thinking you were in more danger than I was." She leaned her head back, closing her eyes. "Thank God I did or you would be dead!"
Her eyes opened again and locked on his and there were tears at her lashes. "I can't do this without you." She moved his jacket more to the side and rubbed her bare belly. "We all need you and I can't, I just can't lose you." She just wanted to run away with him. Why did everything have to be so complicated? All she needed in this whole world was him and their children. And he had nearly been killed!?
"I'm okay," he said quickly knowing her mind would be racing with all the possibilities of what happened. "You won't lose me baby. Okay? I promise." He wrapped his arms around her, holding her head in his hand and he felt her breaths heaving against his chest. He just held her like that in his arms as she lay there without saying a word. She just clung to him, her arms tight around his neck, her head buried against his throat. He lied again and hated himself even more for it. But what else could he do? She was so emotional and had been through so much. He just knew he had to get to Klaus and somehow get that cure. There was no other way.
Elena lifted her head finally and looked in his eyes. "I had no idea where I was running in the forest. I could hear snarls and trees shaking as I ran. Stefan and Jeremy got me to the car but then a group of vampires attacked us and they could hardy fight them off and told me to run. So I did." She sniffled again. "But I have no idea how I found you. I took off into the woods. But if I hadn't sent Tyler to find you you would have died?!"
"He did save me Elena. And I killed the witch holding me and threatening you. But somehow when I woke up when you were there, his body was gone. And its not safe for you here, you or our babies. We need to get you out of here before Klaus or that crazy witch finds us. Its going to be okay I promise. I'm not going to leave you."
Elena studied his face as he spoke. His eyes looked pained and tired and she knew he must feel so much pressure now with her and the babies. So much responsibility on his shoulders. She leaned her head against his. She had lost count how often she had done that since yesterday. She was drawing so much strength in her just soaking in his presence. And she knew it was helping sooth him too.
But she knew he wanted her to get dressed so she slid off his lap and moved to look for her clothes. She kept his jacket on her loving the feel of it and his scent on it. Knowing it was his most precious possession and he had wanted her to have it made her feel so loved and protected.
She watched him slip on his jeans in the dim light. She moved her hand around on the ground and found her underwear and slipped them on. She took off the jacket intent on putting it back on as soon as she found all her clothes. Laying it on the ground she searched around for her bra. Damon passed her more of her clothes and she saw him buttoning up his jeans and then he turned around looking for his shirt.
She saw the clothes he dropped in front of her but she could not get it out of her head that he was running into so much danger and yet still promising her that he would not leave her. She stood back up and stepped back to him grabbing his arm and spinning him around. "Damon, how can you promise that? You aren't going to leave me again are you? You can help me get to Elijah's witches now right? You can't walk away again. You can't leave us. I can't, I just won't..." Her voice was pleading, as she felt his hands encircle her arms.
"Hey, Elena." He tried to get her attention and she was just standing in front of him nearly naked and shaking her head back and forth. "God, baby come here." He just pulled her into his arms cradling her trembling body against his. He felt tears wanting to fall. He was dying. She was losing him and he was losing the one person that he loved more than anything and he could not do a damn thing to stop it!
"We are going to make it through this angel," he whispered through gritted teeth knowing how fucking hopeless it actually was. Maybe he should just stay with her and his babies as long as he could. To hell if Klaus found them at least they would be together as long as possible.
"I'm not going to leave you. We will stay right here, okay Elena till you are ready to go? I'll do whatever you need. Do you trust me to protect you?" He pulled back and held her head in his hands, wincing at the pain from the bite."
She sniffled and nodded to him. Of course she trusted him. More than anything she did. He was everything to her. "I do. I do trust you that you will stay with me and keep me safe. That's all you have been doing since this all started. You are everything to me, Damon."
Her arms were still tight around his neck and she buried her head against his shoulder again. She was barely even aware that she was not wearing anything but her lacy underwear. She just lay against his bare shoulder, her eyes closed and just wanted to disappear into him.
"Awe, that's so sweet." a voice said and Damon froze watching a man step through the hanging plants and holding up his flashlight from his phone and the light glared up in their faces.
Damon spun her around behind him as he squinted his eyes at the brightness shining at them and held up his hand to shield his eyes. Elena was pressed against his back, her arms around his waist.
He knew that voice...he did.
"Well I see you found her," the man said smoothly. "You two are so cute."
Damon backed away more keeping Elena behind him as he felt a chill up his spine at who had found them. Fuck, this could not be happening. "I killed you witch," he hissed out.
The man stepped closer still, a smirk on his face. "Yes Damon you nearly did. You left me to die after chopping me up. You think I am going to let you forget that?!"
Damon's eyes widened as he glared at him. "How in the hell are you alive? You were unrecognizable? I watched you dying." He felt Elena trembling pressed up against him and he had a flash of his nightmare when Klaus found them and interrupted them while they were making love. It was just a horrible dream but this felt exactly like the insanity of his nightmare.
"Well that is my little secret now isn't it." The witch took another step toward them and then looked down and then pointed his flashlight to the ground. Damon sucked in a breath seeing him pick up Elena's jeans. "What do we have here?" He then shone the light back up at them.
"None of your fucking business," Damon spat out at him, his arms back behind him keeping her safe. This psycho was dead? He had slammed that ax down on him over and over. How was he standing there in front of them?
"And here I thought after what I had said I would love to do to your girl, that seeing you found her you would race away as fast as you could to keep her safe." He tilted his head to the side the flashlight going around Damon's body no doubt trying to see her.
Damon watched the creep pick up her top and her bra too and swung them back and forth on his fingers. He swallowed hard again, still not moving from where he was in front of her. He could see his shirt laying just in front of him on the ground but he didn't dare bend down to get it for her. This witch bitch was way too close and they were totally trapped in there.
The dark haired warlock laughed and his dark eyes gleamed in the dim light. He held the clothes up to his face rubbing the fabric on his cheek. "Is that brown haired doppel goddess naked behind you? In all this danger...you two stopped for a quickie?"
Damon snarled at him, his eyes blood red with rage. "Get the hell away from us!" he growled at him, his fists clenched so hard his knuckles were white. How the hell could this be happening?! He should have just fought Elena's pleading to be with him again and raced her away.
It felt like the damn tomb all over again except this time he had a hell of a lot more to lose. He was going to be father, a husband and his feelings for her had gotten so strong in such a short time. And somehow they had found another monster that wanted to hurt her or worse.
"Us?" the man laughed. "No there isn't an us here that I can see." He lifted his hand up. "There is only you," and he moved his hand just the slightest bit and Damon's body flew across the cave and slammed into the wall and was held up off his feet.
"And her." He stepped closer to Elena as she covered her breasts with her hands and backed into the wall, her mouth opening and closing in fear and shock.
"Damon," she whimpered as the man came closer. Her eyes were locked on his just the few feet away as she saw him grunting and fighting with all his strength to get out the magical grip the bastard put on him against the wall. She had nowhere to go and felt the cold stone wall against her back as she watch him step closer and closer to her.
"You know, I should probably call the boss and let him know right where you are..." He whispered as he stood in front of her. He turned his head back to Damon, and then back to her as he heard the vampire still struggling against the wall fighting the hold on him. "He wants you and won't stop till he has you, sweetheart."
"Don't please," Damon begged him. He couldn't get free and he had no way to protect her. He felt the pain from the bite spreading too and he knew it was getting worse. He needed to be strong. She needed him.
There was a buzzing of a phone echoing in the dark cave. The witch pulled his phone from his pocket and looked at the caller id. His lips curled into a smirk. "Speak of the devil."
Damon gasped out loud that he would tell Klaus right where to find them. He struggled harder, fighting the invisible grip on him shaking his head wildly that he not tell him.
"Maddox here," the man said casually as he walked back up to Damon just grinning from ear to ear.
"Mmm hmm," he was staring right in Damon's rage filled red eyes as he spoke. "No, I haven't found him yet."
"No, a just a bunch of dead vampires. But that Damon vamp you asked me to find must have put up a hell of a fight. There was blood and dismembered vampires all over."
There was growling and cursing on the other end of the phone "I have been all around this damn lake and he is nowhere! He has the doppelganger I am sure of it! I took out my brother, he will not be a problem for us," Klaus snapped through the phone much louder. "Was there any sign of the girl with him at all?"
Maddox slowly strode back across the cave and picked up the bra he had tossed back on the ground. "No boss, no sign of her." His grin gleamed in the darkness, showing off his white teeth as he twirled it in between his fingers.
Klaus was speaking quieter now. The dark haired man dropped it again and advanced on Elena still pressed up against the wall and trembling. "Yes I definitely think they are together." He leaned in and ran his lips over the bare skin of her shoulder and nearly groaned at how good her skin tasted. "Yes boss. Yes, I know how important she is to you."
He lifted his head, his dark eyes on hers. "I have no idea where she could be," he smirked as he licked his lips before descending his lips to her body again, this time kissing her chest just above her hands.
Elena wanted so badly to call out, but having Klaus know where she was was not any better. Was it? It was trading one evil for another and right now she did not know which was worse. She bit her lip to stop from whimpering again as she felt the man's rough chin brush against her soft skin. He made no move to pull her hands away from her body at least.
He nuzzled his face in her hair. "Mmm hmm, I will call you the minute I find them. They can't have gotten away. They are probably just hiding somewhere. I'd check the far side of the lake again. I think I saw an old shack there." He ended the call and turned his head back to Damon.
"I will kill you, and rip your fucking heart out," Damon spit out at him still fighting the hold he had on him. He too had waited till he was off the phone so Klaus would not know where they were. But he was seething at what the creep was doing to Elena.
"I thought you wanted me not to tell him where you were? That doesn't sound like gratitude Damon," Maddox grinned at him. "However just cause you asked so nicely before, I will wait to call him back to tell him where you are a little longer. And because I'm not completely heartless either I'll give you two a minute."
Damon's head went back and forth wondering what that meant before he felt himself fall to the ground. He saw Maddox back off and motion to Elena to go to him. She raced across the cave without a second thought and threw herself in his arms. She was sobbing into his chest as he wrapped his arms around her. They didn't say anything to each other and just lay there comforting each other.
He looked past her to the warlock leaning against the wall by the doorway. "You aren't stupid enough to try and get past me are you?" Maddox asked Damon. "I couldn't very well hold you up against that wall for much longer...but I could just snap your neck too."
Damon shook his head, his hands running up and down her back as she was shivering in his arms. Again like the damn tomb he had nothing to warm her. "No, please don't," Damon said quickly.
"Thank you," he choked out. "Thank you for letting me hold her. She is so scared and so cold. She needs me," he said at barely a whisper kissing her all over her head that was still buried in his chest. And I need her too, so much, he mumbled to himself.
Maddox looked almost remorseful as he watched them wrapped around each other. He could see in their eyes how much they did love each other. But he wanted his turn. She looked so much like her and he missed her and hated how things ended between them. No, he didn't care what this vampire thought even if he did appear genuinely grateful at this moment.
"10 more seconds," he called out to them.
Elena whimpered in his embrace and held onto him tighter. "No Damon, don't let me go, please," she begged, her fingers digging into his bare arms.
Damon had tears in his eyes as he pulled her face back from his chest and gazed in her eyes. "I will get you out of this, all of you." His one hand moved to her belly stroking it lovingly. "I love you," he rasped out before pressing his lips to hers before hugging her tightly to him.
She wrapped her arms vice like around his neck as her tears soaked his skin. "I love you too," she mumbled into his neck between sobs.
Damon was watching Maddox like a hawk as he was still standing by the door and saw him stand back up from leaning on the wall. "Time's up Romeo."
Elena was holding onto him so tightly, her bare body pressed so close to his. "Please, can I just put my shirt on her? She is shivering so much. Please," Damon begged again his eyes wide and pleading.
Maddox studied him and then nodded to Damon. He stood him with Elena in his arms still holding tight to his neck and he slowly walked them forward and he bent to pick up his shirt and shake off the dirt. He slipped it over her shoulders and pulled her arms gently from his neck to slip them in the sleeves. He kept her back to the warlock as he buttoned up all the buttons right up to the top hiding her delicate skin from the creeps eyes.
If he had a second to react he would kill him, again in an instant but until then he knew just like in the damn tomb he needed to play along and give the monster what he wanted. As much as it pained him knowing what he did want...his girl.
Damon was mumbling reassurances in her ear the whole time he was putting his shirt on her and praying she would be okay. He was so scared too but grateful for the few minutes the witch was giving them together.
"Okay, time's far done love birds. And I'll consider giving you another reprieve if you both behave okay?" Damon just stared at him but he just could not bring himself to back away from her. He loathed how powerless he was right now but he could not just leave her ever. He could try and jump the witch but likely not before he was mind melted or got his neck snapped and then God knows what he could do to Elena.
Elena was sobbing, her arms clinging to him trying to shut out anything else. What the hell did Maddox want her to do? She felt the witch's hand on her arm and then felt a supernatural pull rip her out of Damon's arms. She heard him call out to her and start to leap forward when the witch slammed him hard back into the wall. She just kept looking desperately in her lovers eyes. "Damon," she whimpered for the bazillionth time that day, scared without him.
He looked back at her, shaking his head to still the spinning of hitting his head on the wall. He was so sorry for everything. Wishing he could do anything to help her right now. "I love you so much angel," he whispered tears flowing down his cheeks.
Maddox turned back to Elena blocking her view of her vampire lover. "My, my. True love eh? I'm jealous. You see mine didn't last either and I miss her." he said mostly to himself as he stared at her. "You Elena are so beautiful," he said as he reached out and ran his fingertips over the swell of her hip over top of Damon's shirt. "Master Mikelson never mentioned your beauty. Just the use of your blood."
Elena shivered and shut her eyes, keeping her hands over her chest on top of the shirt she at least had to protect her. But that allowed him the freedom to touch her wherever else he wanted to. She thought they were done with nightmares. The wolf as dead and she had even had a nights sleep without any terror filled nightmares. But this witch standing over her felt much worse.
Damon was furious hearing her calling for him, his voice shaking. This witch was worse than the wolf they had killed. His heart was aching seeing her so scared again. He lifted his head and cried out madly in his head to Stefan. Please brother. My God, Elena is in so much danger here. Please hear me Stefan.
Damon? He heard in his head and the voice sounded much different than he had ever heard. Could it be? He looked across the cave and saw her nod just slightly at him.
Elena? You can hear me? Like Stefan could? She nodded again, her eyes brimming with tears as the warlock was kissing her neck, his one hand massaging her breast as she sobbed silently.
God baby I'm so sorry, he cried out. I'll stop him okay? Just stay strong. He saw her nod her head, her eyes on his as she shuddered when the man slid his hands down under Damon's shirt and up onto her bare hips, ran them up her sides and back down before palming her butt and pulling her closer to him grinding his very obvious erection against her.
She felt tears sliding down her cheeks as her chest heaved with shaky breaths. Damon please hurry, she begged him in her head.
"Hey asshole!" Damon snapped at the warlock, his eyes like fire at him seeing the bastards hands splayed over Elena's hips, molding the skin between his fingers. The warlock turned to him slowly, an annoyed expression on his face.
"What the hell do you want? It's my turn. I always get what I want."
Damon was scrambling for what to say to get him to back off. He was still just leaning against the wall but he did not feel the witch's hold on him right then. "I can't let you hurt her like this. She wants me. She loves me." He raced forward and the witch lifted his hand instantly stopping him and slamming him hard back into the wall and his head hit the rock jarring his skull again.
He gritted his teeth, while trying to sit up. "You can't get a girl willingly yourself that you have to steal mine? Get your fucking hands off her!" he yelled at him.
Maddox turned and walked up to Damon frowning fakely. "Easy there tiger. Its not like you can't have her back after. The boss is very strict and has had us working spells and barely even sleeping...so no Damon, I haven't enjoyed a ladies company in far too long."
He walked back up to her. "And your lady...is very beautiful." He stroked the back of his hand down her cheek slowly watching her eyes shut and her head turn away from him. "I had a girl with long luscious brown hair." He ran his fingers through it as he spoke, "and deep brown eyes, long sexy legs and such soft skin. I loved her, and she left me and then she died. You remind me so much of her sweetheart." He stared in Elena's eyes, his own looking forlornly at her.
"We met in New Orleans before Klaus found me and she was killed for practicing magic there. Witches are on a leash in that city and that was why I got out. I couldn't even get near the bastard who killed her. But Klaus promised me he would kill him for me; that he had connections. And when I had helped him capture the doppelganger and do the spell so he could kill his father he would send me the murderers head. He said I was special and he would help me if I helped him and he would show me how powerful I could be.
His eyes darted back to Damon's "So yes Damon. I can get a girl willingly. But that doesn't mean I want to. Her just standing there all hot, sexy and nearly naked under your shirt is so tempting."
Damon swallowed hard not knowing what to say. He had tried to get his focus of of Elena but it looked like it was not working. His girlfriend had looked just like her? Shit.
Elena met his eyes, his own full of anguish not knowing how to get the creep away from her as she felt the man's fingers undoing the buttons on Damon's shirt slowly one by one exposing more of her soft flesh for his eyes to feast on. She pushed back on him trying to get away. "Damon," she begged in her head but had no idea what to say to him. He looked back at her, his expression just as aching and devastated at what was happening to her.
Maddox bent his head and kissed her shoulder pulling the shirt off it and trailed tiny kisses to her neck, sucking on her throat. "Damn sweetheart, you even taste like her. Your skin is so sweet."
Damon snarled and tried to leap forward again and the witch twisted his hand and had him screaming and holding his head again in so much pain. Damn it he could not get to her! He saw the bastard kissing his girl all down her neck pulling his shirt more open as she tried to fight him off. He looked to the entrance of the cave. Where the hell was Tyler? He had sent him ages ago to find Elena. Was no one even looking for them beside fucking Klaus?
"You know what I should do?" Maddox undid a few more buttons till her shirt was half open, her breasts heaving against the thin fabric. She had tried to push him back with her hands a few times but he was much too strong to be moved unless he wanted to. She watched him as he went back to the entrance of the cave and looked around. "No, we are still all alone here. Just checking." He walked back in the cave and was swinging something between his fingers.
Damon nearly choked on his own breath, his head against the floor of the cave as he saw drops of blood dripping and hitting the ground splashing back up. Oh shit no!
He looked higher seeing the ax he had used to kill the witch just swinging back and forth in his hand! The blood was still dripping from it and splattered up on the wall in places as he moved closer. No! Dear God no! he thought and he fought harder, growling under his breath that he would kill him again.
"You know what I told you boyfriend sweetheart?" Maddox walked right up to her holding the ax in his hands in front of him. Elena's eyes widened more. "Well we asked really, really nicely for him to tell us where you were and he just kept being an ass."
He turned back to Damon who now had tears in his eyes, his heart pounding like a drum as he shook his head at him, knowing with glaring clarity all they did to him. What this monster had said he would do to Elena made his stomach do flips as he tried to force any blood he had drank back down his throat.
But Maddox ignored him and stood closer to Elena raising the ax to her eye level so she could see the blood. "This is my blood here. Your boyfriend ripped this ax in me over and over after what we did to him." He smiled at her as he dragged the sharp edge closer to her face hearing her whimper in fear. "You see, my friend who Damon killed punished him every time he refused to tell us where you were."
Elena's eyes grew wider and she shut her eyes she was so scared. "Please don't," she cried out at him terrified of what he would do to her. "Ill cooperate I won't fight you and I'll let you have me. Just please don't..." she pleaded with him.
He leaned in closer to her face, his nose brushed her as he kissed her cheek. "Well that is really sweet of you. But you see I enjoy a little blood play. It turns me on sweetheart. Then we can get to the main event before I call the boss and give him the good news that I found you for him."
She was shaking her head, her eyes past his seeking out Damon again as he still lay on the floor holding his head. "First we stabbed your lover here," he dragged the ax over the skin of her shoulder and the a line of blood leapt up from her olive skin. She cried out in pain as he pulled the blade down more making a long line across her shoulder.
Damon snarled louder and was about to leap up again when the witch turned and blasted him with another wave of aneurisms before he turned back to her.
He licked up the blood along her wound and then kissed it as if to heal what he had damaged. "And then when he still didn't give you up we drained him of more blood and it spurted out of his artery right about here..." He raised the ax to her throat.
"Stop, please no," Damon whimpered, his blue eyes so wide and despairing trying to pull his head up off the ground. "Hurt me, rip me apart with that damn ax, just like I did to you. Make me a mess of flesh, blood and bone, Maddox." The tears were falling as he looked at the warlock. "But please I am begging you, please just don't...hurt...her anymore. She is pregnant...with my babies, miracle babies and I never thought I would have a family or be in love like I am. Please, please don't take that all away."
Damon's plea was interrupted by the phone buzzing again and Maddox stared at the caller id and turned it on. "Yes boss. I was just going to call you. I found them. Yes both of them. I have them trapped in a cave on the north side of the lake. Mmm hmm." He listened hearing his boss so happy with him. "Yes, there is a big clearing right close by and its on the edge of it. Okay, see you soon."
He clicked the call off and looked back at his prisoners."Well we can't delay the inevitable forever can we? But I promise you sweetheart that I will find more time to play with you once the boss has you. He will no doubt have me guard you some nights until the time comes that he can take from your babies what he needs." He smirked at her running his hand down Damon's shirt cupping her breast through the fabric before looking back at Damon. "Yes we will have lots of time later darling just you and me. That's a promise."
Elena gasped for breath, feeling the blood dripping down her shoulder and onto her chest. She grabbed for the wound, trying to hold it closed as the blood kept seeping out. He had not cut deep but deep enough.
Maddox looked curiously back at Damon hearing another growl from him but his mind was on the supernatural babies Damon had reminded him she had within her. "That's right, pregnant. The boss told me the spell he used worked to give him his doppel babies. He turned back to her, undoing the last two buttons and he parted the shirt to put his one hand on her belly.
Damon fought him again and Maddox slammed him back against the wall holding him off his feet again. "Stay the fuck back!" Maddox cursed at him. Elena grabbed the man's wrists again trying to pull him away from her body as he closed his eyes his hand splayed over her stomach. "Lets see these miracle babies," he mumbled out as he looked up in Elena's eyes.
She again focused her eyes away from him and to Damon behind him, her expression so sad. Damon I can't make him stop. He could hurt our babies! She cried out to him in her head.
Damon growled still fighting the hold he had on him. I'm so sorry baby. I'm trying. I can't get to him to kill him. I'm fighting so hard. I'm so sorry.
Elena watched the witch just close his eyes, his hands both now over her belly. "There you are," he smiled his eyes still closed. "Both of you. My, my." Then his expression changed to what looked like confusion and then shock as Elena fought harder to get his hands off her. What had he seen? He looked back up at her face his eyes wide in surprise. "Oh my...they will be so much more powerful. The boss needs to know they are..." Elena stared open mouthed at him hanging on his every word. Her babies were what?
And then she jumped as he jerked and blood started running out of his mouth.
He started slipping down to the ground and she saw Damon leap forward and snap the witches neck in an instant killing him...again. Her mouth stayed open in total shock as he fell and she saw that there was a stake in his back! Her eyes snapped up to where it would have come from and she saw her brother standing in the entrance of the cave. "Jeremy?" she breathed out feeling so faint the blood still dripping from her wound.
Her legs felt so weak as she felt Damon scooping her up and cradling her close as she watched the witch just laying there in front of her dead finally. She pulling Damon to her and buried her head against his neck again and just sobbed with relief.
"Its okay baby. I got you. I got you. I'm right here," Damon was mumbling against her neck. She just held onto him for dear life and just could not stop crying. She was in his arms again. The witch was dead, finally.
Damon held her tight, his head just buried in her hair. He mouthed his thanks to her brother who saved their lives again. He could not be more grateful. But there was no time, they could not stay here. They needed to get the hell as far away from here as possible.
Klaus was coming right for them!
A/N: Are people still interested? I could take this story a lot further or end it very quick. Are the readers still wanting more? We are nearing the climax here that could be mid book or I can make it the end. I have lots more ideas if people still want the story to keep going. Everything with Stefan would be resolved in the next few chapters and I could wrap it all up or we could head through some major delena angst and go months in advance and enjoy some months of happiness and see the birth and save a major battle time much later. Up to you guys. Have these precious people had enough or do you want more ?
Have a safe and happy weekend and Happy Father's day!