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This takes place after the events in my fanfic Soulmates always find a way.
The POV's will be from Damon and Elena.
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Keep the positive feedback coming. I really love that ya'll love the story. I'm new to the whole writing thing and your comments keep me motivated. The next chapter will be the wedding and wedding night. It will contain a detailed love scene and many many delena moments. =]


Chapter 19- Surprise?...!

Elena's POV

After some convincing on Damon's part and negotiating on Caroline's part they agreed to combine both parties. The party would be at the Grille and just as I'd expected Care had invited the whole town. Jeremy, Ric, Care, and Damon were all at the Grille now setting things up for tonight while I had to go to a dr's appointment. Damon had wanted to come but I'd convinced him it was just a routine check up to see the results of the tests Meredith had done and it was no big deal. Reluctantly he let me go but I had to take someone with me, there was only one person who I could really bring with me...Jenna. She knew everything already, even more than Damon. I cringed at the realization that I was hiding something from him but I didn't know how big this was and I didn't want to worry him. I always had confided in Jenna, she was the only one who knew what these tests were really about. Meredith had found something concerning in the last ultrasound and had ordered a more in depth ultrasound along with some routine blood work. Damon only knew about the blood work...he'd freak out if he knew something could be wrong with our babies.

"I'm sure everything is fine Lena. Don't worry so much."

I nodded. I wanted to believe Jenna but her face didn't back up her words, she was worrying too. Hell she had every right to, so did I. We had been sitting in the waiting room for a while now and it was just making me more nervous. I hated hospitals, I had a good reason to...they scared me. So many thing have happened to me and I've always ended up here. What if this time is no different? What if the results of this test come out to be one more horrible thing to happen in the life of Elena Gilbert. I wanted to be able to think the best of this but there was still that saying that my mom used to tell me, "Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.", so that's what I was doing. I was preparing myself for the worst, little did I know it would be a whole lot worse than I ever expected.

"Elena."

I looked up and met Meredith's eyes. Something was wrong and it made me die a little inside. I motioned for Jenna to wait in the waiting room and she didn't fight me on it. Good thing she's human so she can't eavesdrop on the conversation to come. Once I sat down in her office she shut the door and closed all the blinds and sat behind her desk.

"The results came back. I wish Damon had come with you, this is something you both need to hear Elena." That was never a good sign.

"I'll tell him. I just...need to know how bad things are before I tell him."

She nods and reaches for a folder. She pulls out a piece of paper and hands it to me. I read it and repeat the diagnosis out loud. "Placenta praevia. What's that mean?" I know I don't want to know the answer, I understood enough from the paper but I needed to hear her say it. I closed my eyes as she spoke the words that I never thought I'd hear.

"It means that the placenta isn't where it should be. If...when you have the babies there is a very good possibility that you could bleed out and I don't know if I'd be able to stop it. We could do a cesarean but...there's still no promise that you'd..."

"Live." I shook my head. This was too good to be true. Damon and I were finally getting what we wanted and now THIS. Life really was a bitch. I hadn't realized she got up to sit in front of me until she grabbed my shoulders.

"There is another possibility I need you to think about." I look at her and immediately I know what she's thinking. She's not a doctor opposed to using vampire blood, and it would be able to make sure I came back if I died, as a vampire. "I would have to deliver the babies at your house but I'd need Ric, Jeremy, Caroline or Klaus...and the blood...I don't know if they'd be able to help and resist the urge to feed on you. There is also a possibility that you could die before I'd get the blood to you and then..."

"Then I wouldn't come back. I don't want to be a vampire Meredith but..."

"But you don't want to live without Damon, I get it."

Damn I sound selfish. I knew that now there were only two options to go with when I had the babies, die or transition. I needed time to think about it, I needed Damon to tell me what to do. We had spent so long finding a cure, it hadn't worked but then he got the do over and he was able to change me turning and he even got his humanity back by some miracle and now...now it felt like it was all for nothing. I stood up and threw open her door, I had to get out of there. I ignored her voice calling me back and I ignored Jenna's pleas as she begged me to stop and talk to her. I walked through the double doors of the hospital and started walking. I had no destination in mind but right now anywhere was better than staying at the hospital listening to Meredith tell me I had to make a choice. She knew that I wouldn't give up the babies, she had hinted that would be an idea but she knew I wouldn't do that. I couldn't do that. I let the few tears fall as I remember how happy Damon had been when I first started showing what little baby bump I had. I was well into the second trimester but I wasn't showing that much...yet.

"Damon I'm fat." I had told him one morning when I was trying and failing to slip into one of my tank tops.

He laughed. "No my love, you're pregnant and you're beautiful."

He walked behind me and threw the tank top to the floor. I gave him this look that was supposed to be a glare but it didn't come across as one. He rolled his eyes and put his hands on my stomach and then turned me around to face him. "Elena Gilbert. You are not, have never been, and will never be fat. You're perfect. You're mine. Plus...I happen to like your baby bump, care to know why?"

I sighed. "Why Damon Salvatore?"

He cupped my face in his hands and looked me straight in the eyes. "Because in that beautiful stomach of yours is something very special. You and Me. A perfect mix of each of us...though hopefully our child won't have your stubbornness."

I sighed, that felt like a lifetime ago. There was no doubt that Damon could make me feel better but in this case I knew he'd be at a loss as to how to make me smile or even feel okay about this. This would break him and I couldn't do that to him. I walked into the cemetery and find my way to the one person who I could tell this to right now. I know this is wrong of me but Stefan was always good at telling me what to do and he always sugar coated the truth, he made things seem not as bad even if they were life threatening. I stop in front of his headstone and sit down slowly. "Stefan...I don't know how to tell Damon. I don't want to break him, he's already been through enough." I know better than to expect an answer but I know exactly what he'd say if he were here.

"Damon is strong and so are you, but together...you're indestructible."

I shake my head. Stefan, after a lot of convincing, had become very understanding about Damon and I. I think he had always seen the connection that held me to Damon and Damon to me but I think it scared him as much as it scared me. "It's either die or transition Stefan. I...I don't know what I should do." The last time I had been faced with this I had convinced myself it was because I wanted to be with Stefan that I turned, but it never was. It was Damon. I had fed on the police deputy that Stefan and Rebekah killed so I didn't have to live without Damon. Now, things were different and I was scared. Back then Damon was a vampire and he helped me through it...now he was human and I was scared that when I turned I wouldn't be able to control myself around him, or our babies. "I'm scared Stefan."

"Then go to Damon. Confide in him. Trust him. Love him."

I close my eyes and stand up. The words Stefan would say if he were here guided me. I knew he'd be right. I had to tell Damon and I had to do it now. I said goodbye to Stefan and walked to the Grille. Lucky for me I only saw two cars outside, the very familiar blue Camaro and a blue Prius. Damon and Caroline, I wasn't sure if I wanted the latter to know about this situation yet. Before I could decide if I wanted to open the door, it opened and Damon was staring at me.

"Where. The. Hell. Did. You. GO!"

His words made me jump, he was angry and it wasn't going to make anything easier. "Damon please. We need to talk."

"Jenna was scared to death. You just left the hospital and Meredith said she couldn't say anything that you had to tell me first and..."

"I'm going to become a vampire again Damon." The words are out before I could think about them. Apparently my brain to mouth filter wasn't working or else I would have tried for an easier approach. It had been a few minutes and he hasn't said anything so I decided to explain myself. "I'm sorry I should have told you earlier but this appointment today was more than just blood test results. Meredith thought there was something wrong with the ultrasound and there was. It's called..." I pull the paper out of my pocket and read the name again. "Placenta praevia. It's where..."

He sighs. "The placenta isn't where it should be. It also means you could bleed out after having our babies. Oh. Elena." He pulls me into his arms and strokes my hair. "Shh. It's okay." I didn't know why he was sushing me until I heard the sob escape my chest.

"It's not. How did you know?"

"I told you and Bonnie I went to college before...many times. I've been to Med School baby. Do you remember what you told me after Stefan stopped me from driving that stake through Klaus's heart when Mikael was here?"

I had said a lot after that. That we'd let Stefan go. That it would be okay. "That we'd get through it."

He nods his head. "Yes. Because..." He pulls me back and looks me in the eyes. "We will survive this. We always survive. You said it and we've lived it. We'll get through this together...right now we have a a party to attend and a wedding to go to tomorrow. So, how about for one night and one day we temporarily forget about this?"

He quoted my words back to me. They were true. We had survived everything that should have separated us. We'd fought so hard for each other and I knew that we wouldn't stop now. We'd do what we had to do in order to keep each other safe. "Yeah we can do that. Let's go celebrate and promise to love each other for better or worse." For the first time that day I felt safe, I felt like maybe this wasn't the worst news we could have gotten.

Damon's POV

Elena was in full on party mode and I couldn't help but worry. I knew I told her I'd try to forget about it for at least tonight and tomorrow but it was impossible. It wasn't the fact that she'd been diagnosed with this but the fact that we both knew she would choose to turn. Honestly it scared me. Last time it hadn't scared me as much because I could help her and I knew we'd be together, if not as a couple then as friends...now she could leave me. I knew she wouldn't but the thought that one day she could terrified me. I wouldn't stay like this but she would. I would get older and one day she could leave me and I would be powerless to stop her.

"Damon? Earth to Damon!"

I snap out of my thoughts and focus on the annoying blonde in front of me. "I'm here. Party guy remember?" I point at myself and she rolls her eyes.

"I need you on stage next to Elena now. Chop chop!"

She pushes me on stage and I take my seat. I have no clue what on earth blondie has planned but I have a feeling it's going to be quite embarrassing for both Elena and myself. We patiently wait as she tries to get the whole Grille to listen to her. I lean over to my beautiful lady and whisper in her ear. "Do you have any idea what's going on?" She shakes her head and blondie points a finger at me telling me shut up. I hold up my hands in surrender.

"Ahem. Now that I have your attention it's time to start the main event of the evening. These two love birds are going to be taken down memory lane by their family and friends as we re-tell their love story." Elena gasps and puts her head in her hands while I bust out laughing. Blondie has done some pretty out there things in her time but this has go to be one of the most...Caroline defining things. "I'll start!" Oh my God not her. That's my first thought. "As you all know I used to date Damon. He was an egotistical, cocky, smart ass, dick." I stand up and bow as people applaud. My reputation stands. "But he was also ass over face in love with Elena Gilbert. He'd deny it til he was blue in the face but everyone saw through it. I saw through it when he was in bed with me and moaned Elena's name instead of mine, dick move, but I understand it now. Now for Elena. I've been friends with her since we started walking or it seems that way. Elena is stubborn, a smart ass, and incredibly selfless. She was also ass over face in love with Damon and would also deny it just as much as he would. Until one day when dun dun dun! They danced and the whole world changed. He escorted her to Miss Mystic when Stefan couldn't and it was epic. Ever since then they couldn't deny this deep love they shared for each other. They knew they couldn't be together at least not until it was right so they waited. And waited. And waited. Finally it was right and come tomorrow I will stand next to my best friend and watch her proudly as she marries the man that I always knew she'd be with. I love you guys!" I had to admit as speeches went blondie's was okay. It was the truth and nothing less.

I groaned when Jeremy took the mic next. "My turn! Now what can I say about my sister and Damon. Two words. It's. Complicated." Elena and I both bust out laughing. That is also the truth. "I will admit at first I wanted to keep Damon as far away from my sister as possible I mean he was a dick. But he changed and so did she. Someone once told me that Damon was either the best thing or the worst thing for my sister and now I think I know which he is. He's the best thing for my sister. He's the best because of that goofy grin she gets on her face when he wiggles his eyebrows at her and because of the simple fact that he will always choose her. I always knew they'd get together at some point and I also knew once they did I'd do everything in my power to make sure they never separated. I love you two and here's to a long and happy eternity together." He raises his glass and I see Elena wipe a tear away. My emotional woman.

Person after person got up and told us congratulations and it finally got to my drinking buddy. Ric took the mic and started laughing immediately. "O...kay. I have to find something nice to say about Damon Salvatore. This might take a while. So I'll start with Elena. She's a fighter and she's stubborn as hell. She doesn't give up and she's never given up on Damon. Hell she's cursed him, slapped him, punched him, told him she hated him, and yet she always loved him passionately. I once asked her if she knew what she was doing and she said no but I don't think anyone who is in love really knows what they're doing. Damon, well he's Damon. He's yelled at her, pushed her, hurt people that she loves, but he too always loved her passionately. He once told Stefan who told me that Damon would make the tough decisions whether they were good or bad, he was prepared to be the bad guy if it meant keeping her safe. He was always her friend and was always there when she needed him. I like Caroline will proudly stand with you guys tomorrow as you promise to always love each other, even though I don't think that'll be a problem since you pretty much already made the promise in your heads anyway." Wow, he was like a poet and I bet he didn't know it.

I held Elena's hand tightly as the rest of our family and friends basically called me a dick but said we were perfect for each other. Throughout the night I found it easier and easier to keep my promise from earlier and temporarily forget about the complication. It wasn't until we were back at the boardinghouse and in bed that it hit me again. She was already asleep in my arms and I wanted desperately to join her but I couldn't. I couldn't stop thinking about the simple fact that I could lose her at any moment. I had been to Med School and I knew a lot about this condition. Elena either left a fact out or left before Meredith could tell her, she wasn't just at risk giving birth. She was always at risk. She could bleed out at any moment and if she were to be alone I could lose everything. I heard the knock on our door but I didn't answer it.

"I know about Elena, Damon." I turn my head and look at Jeremy. "I saw the paper in her purse tonight when I went to grab her cell and I know what it means. I meant what I said tonight that I'd do everything in my power to keep you together and I will. I'll change her if the time comes. I'll stay with her and make sure she's not alone. But...I'll change you too if that's what you want."

His words catch me off guard. No vampire would just offer to change someone. Jeremy wasn't just any vampire though, he had lived our lives with us. He was Elena's brother and he was the closest thing I had to a brother. I nodded my head. "I know. Just help me keep an eye on her alright? If the time comes and I want to become that again...I want her to do it."

I knew he would understand. Love. That was a vampire and a humans greatest weakness. It was the reason that Elena would change for me. It was the reason Jeremy would keep a very close eye on his sister. Most of all, it was the reason that just this one time I would do what she wanted. Anything she asked me to do, I'd do it. I love her and tomorrow I'd make sure she knew just how much. I have to tell her I'm okay with her changing. I know she's scared that it might change things between us but she has to know it won't. No matter if it takes an hour, a day, a week, a month, or an eternity I'd prove it to her.

"I love you. And as I told Stefan, I'm fine with you either way love."