Selina looked at her in shock. "W-what?" She asked. "Say that again."

"I think I might be pregnant," Roxie repeated.

Selina stood up. "Well can you tell me anything else? When did this happen? When did you start having sex in the first place?"

Roxie sighed. "It was awhile ago, the night you and Dad and Uncle Elijah and Aunt Susan came to visit me. Afterward, I went back to the house to pick up some things, and then he was there...and he was jealous over this guy at work and he took off his shirt and...grrr! I tried to go away, but he's just so pretty!"

"What other times?"

Roxie thought. "The day we had to use the boys' locker room after tennis 'cause the pipes broke, and Halloween. It was a costume party. He and another guy were wearing the same costume and..."

Selina raised an eyebrow. "But you still only went to bed with Vince, right? It wasn't a...threesome?"

Roxie shook her head. "Oh, no. Vince is the only guy I've ever been with. Please say you understand. Please say you won't kill me."

Selina sighed. "In a way, I understand. You and Vince are werewolves and as such you have to deal with certain urges and sometimes giving into them is easier and better for you than trying to hold them off."

Roxie grinned. "You sound like you're speaking from experience."

Selina nodded. "It's like that with me and your dad. We love each other in our own way, but..."

"But you're mostly in it for the sex?" Roxie finished.

Selina nodded. "Don't tell Adrian this, ever, but we didn't exactly plan for him. After I became a hybrid, I wasn't sure what I could do and what I couldn't. Your dad always said that we were capable of having kids, but one day, I went into Enid's and she told me I was pregnant. I didn't believe her right away. I had to take like five tests before I was absolutely certain."

Roxie's eyes widened. "Really?"

Selina smiled. "Yeah. And Damon and I were together when we were alive. He proposed to me before he went off to fight in the war, and on the day he shipped off, he and I jumped in bed together. I thought I would never see him again, so that was my only chance. A few months later, Doctor Stensrund told me that I was pregnant too...and suffering from scarlet fever at the same time. His blood saved both me and the baby from dying."

Roxie sat down. "The same Doctor Stensrund who changed you delivered your baby?"

Selina nodded. "I didn't get to see Joshua for very long, though. Two months after he was born, the good doctor sent him to live with Damon's father, turned me into a vampire, and I thought I'd never see Joshua again. And I didn't. Not for eighteen years." She paused. "Sorry, I'm probably boring you, aren't I?"

Roxie shook her head. "No, please finish the story!"

Selina nodded. "Okay. It was Halloween, 1883. And it was a tradition in Mystic Falls for kids to come to Doctor Stensrund's empty house and look for the lady in red. A very well worded town legend had turned me into a tragic victim of Doctor Stensrund's who was haunting his house because I was looking for a necklace that Damon gave me and that Doctor Stensrund had taken away. That was all true. Except in the story, I was a ghost, not a vampire. Anyway, that year, Joshua was eighteen and he decided he would come and see for himself. I found him sleeping by the fire in one of the parlors. It was awhile before I was able to say anything."

"Was it a shock for him?" Roxie asked.

Selina shook her head. "Not as much as you would think. Joshua spent a lot of his time around a man named John Gilbert, who was kind of the town eccentric. He collected legends and stories. He was one of the most fervent believers that vampires walked among us during the scare. After that Halloween, I saw him on and off. Got to know his wife and his kids. It was pretty normal considering my circumstances. Then, I went off to Europe, met your dad, and the rest is history."

"So you think I'm going to be okay? If this is true, that is?"

Selina nodded and put her arms around Roxie. "You'll be fine. I believe that. Now, how your father is going to take the news is a whole other story."

Roxie gasped. "We don't have to tell him, do we?"

Selina shook her head. "Not yet. Not until we have definite proof that you're pregnant. Then, we'll have to. He'll just be angrier if he thinks we kept it from him on purpose."

Roxie nodded. "Thanks, Mom."

Selina looked up at the clock. "You have to be at work soon. You think you're up for it?"

Roxie nodded. "I'll be okay."

"And get that test as soon as possible," Selina called after her. We don't want this hanging over our heads forever."

As soon as Roxie was on her way, Selina let out a breath she hadn't realized she'd been holding and got in her car, driving to Damon's at breakneck speed. She parked her car in the driveway and went up to ring the doorbell. A few seconds later, the door was answered by a slim, dark eyed brunette in a towel. "Who are you?"

"Who are you?" Selina replied.

The woman frowned. "Okay. You wanna come in?"

Selina shook her head. "Actually, I don't plan on being here for very long. I just need to tell Damon something, so if you could just get him for me, that would be lovely."

"You still haven't told me who you are," the woman persisted. "I won't tell him anything until I know that you aren't some psycho wanting to horn in on him. He and I are together now."

"Okay," Selina said. "I don't want to steal him away from you, okay? I just have to tell him something, and then I'll leave." Fed up, she suddenly pushed the woman aside and forced her way into the house. "Hey!" the woman cried. "You can't do that, you know!"

Selina smirked. "I just did. Now put some clothes on. Didn't your mother ever teach you that you should always be dressed when you receive company?"

The woman stood up, clutching her towel tighter around herself, just as Damon entered the room. He was wearing a robe. "What's going on, Jeannie? Who was at the door? Are you okay?"

Jeannie nodded, pointing to Selina. "This was on the other side of the door. She claims you know her. Do you?"

Damon nodded. "We're friends."

Selina strode over to him. "Sorry if I came at a bad time," she said. "I just got some weird news and I really need to share it with someone."

Damon nodded. "Sure, just a minute." He looked up at Jeannie. "Would you mind leaving us alone for awhile?"

"But...?" Jeannie's jaw dropped.

"It's not going to be forever," he said. "I just think we need some privacy."

Jeannie growled. "Fine." She stomped upstairs to dress and then headed to the mall.

"She seems...nice," Selina said. "She your new girlfriend or something?"

"Yeah," Damon nodded. "She's not usually so nasty. She just came from a bad break up and it's made her a little paranoid, but she'll get over it. Now, what brought you here?"

"Well," Selina took a deep breath. "Roxie told me that she thinks she might be pregnant."

Damon sucked in his breath. "Wow. Does she have any idea who the father might be?"

"Yeah," Selina nodded. "She's only ever been interested in one guy, thank goodness. If there had been five, six, or more, it would be much more difficult."

"And I take it that Klaus doesn't know?"

Selina nodded. "And we aren't going to tell him unless she really is pregnant. I don't want to have trouble where there doesn't need to be any."

Damon ran his fingers through her hair. "So the only ones who know about this are you and Roxie? Nobody else? And you're just going to bear the weight of it so that Roxie doesn't get in trouble?"

Selina nodded. He hugged her. "You're a remarkable woman, you know that?"

She smiled. "Thank you. She thought I was going to be mad, but I told her about you and me and Joshua instead. I think it made her feel better. Thanks for listening. Good luck with your new relationship. I'm happy for you."

He smiled. "Thank you, but if you ever need anything at all, don't be afraid to come talk to me."

Selina nodded. "I'll remember that." He walked her to her car and waved goodbye as she drove away. She took a deep breath. Now all she had to do was find a way to distract Klaus so that he would never suspect what was going on with Roxie.

As soon as she was gone, Damon went back into his house. She'd gotten him thinking about the past. He went into his bedroom and reached under his mattress. There were two photos there. Neither of them were recent. The first was one that Selina had given him the day he'd shipped out. Her hair was curly and poofy and she was wearing an uncharacteristic dress. She was smiling a little but the look in her eyes showed that what she really wanted to do was break the photographer's camera. He'd told her that he'd get rid of it, but he'd kept it because it made him laugh. The second had been taken almost forty years ago. Selina was wearing a t-shirt and jeans, perched on the hood of his car and grinning saucily at the camera. That had been taken right after they'd gotten together again. He'd proposed a second time right after she'd gotten off the hood of the car.

His eyes went back to the first picture. He hadn't known she was pregnant at all. Of course he should have realized that something like that could happen, but it hadn't crossed his mind. All he could think about was that he hadn't really wanted to leave her that day. She'd already lost her father in one war, and he didn't want her losing him in another. But his father had been adament, and he'd shipped off, happy in the knowledge that he would quit four months later and come home to her. Then they would...he didn't want to say 'live happily ever after'. That would be silly. But life would have been good in any case. But by the time he'd gotten back, she was gone. His father had told him that she'd taken ill when she'd actually been holed up at Doctor Stensrund's waiting out her pregnancy. Then he'd met Katherine, and nothing had else mattered. He'd been an idiot, to say the least.

He'd met Joshua once, although he hadn't known it was him. They had both been on a riverboat going down the Mississippi and stationed at the gambling tables. They'd both been drinking heavily and had each lost a spectacular amount of money when one of their fellow players accused Damon of stacking the deck. He'd taken out his gun and started shooting in every direction, hoping to kill him dead, but Joshua had helped him get away and had shot the man first. They'd spent the rest of the voyage drinking and socalizing together, and Damon still couldn't figure out how he couldn't have noticed the resemblance between Joshua and himself, because it had been very significant. At the time, though, it had just seemed like a coincidence.

He blinked and put both the pictures back under the mattress. He couldn't chang the past, so what was the point of dwelling on it? He put both pictures back under his mattress and went to get a drink from a very special bar.

When Enid saw him standing at the bar, she was surprised. "You're Selina's friend, aren't you?"

Damon nodded. "Could I have a bourbon, please?"

Enid poured it and handed it over. "I'm sure that a vampire doesn't come to a werewolves-only club just to have a drink. Now what is it you really came for?"

He sighed. "I wanted to see you, actually. I have a question."

Enid was curious. "What about?" She pulled her dark hair out of her eyes to get a better look at him.

"You're a witch, right?"

She nodded. "On a good day, I suppose. What about it?"

He gulped down his bourbon. "Well, Selina and I aren't just friends. We used to be married. Obviously we've both moved on now. But before we both became vampires, Selina got pregnant and because of the war, I didn't get to spend a great deal of time with our son. Now, I wish I had. And Klaus' tryst with your sister that caused Selina to move in with me for a year so I got to play parent to Roxie also has something to do with it."

"What's 'it'?" Enid asked. "What is it you want from me?"

"Could you make it possible for me to have a kid?" Damon asked. "Not all the time. Just for a little while. Give me a window."

Enid took his empty glass away. "I don't think you should have any more of these," she said. "They make you talk crazy. I hear you asking me to use my magic to make it so you can conceive a child."

"Yes," Damon nodded. "That's exactly what I want."

"Why should I do this for you?" Enid asked.

"Because," Damon said, "thanks to vampirism, something your sister created, my life was ruined."

Enid shook her head. "I hope you don't think I owe you anything for Vanessa's mistake."

Just then, Roxie came in, stuggling to balance a heavy tray. "What are we talking about here?"

"I saw your mother," Damon said. "She told me about your little problem."

"What problem?" Enid asked.

"It's nothing. I just think I might be pregnant, that's all." Roxie said.

"What?" Enid asked. "Do you know for sure yet?"

Roxie shook her head. "I'm going to get the test after work. I have to wait until Vince isn't around."

"So you think he might be the father?" Enid asked. "Vince?"

"If it's me who's pregnant, then he is the father," Roxie said. "He's the only guy I've ever been with. But enough about my problems. What are we talking about?"

"Well, actually, I was thinking about having a kid myself," Damon said.

"But you can't," Roxie told him.

"I know," he said. "That's why I came to ask Enid for a little help."

"Did you do it for him?" Roxie asked.

Enid shook her head. "I don't know if I want to."

Roxie looked at Damon for a long moment and then looked at Enid. "Do it for him, please. I wouldn't have made it through Daddy's year with Vanessa if he hadn't helped Mom look out for me."

Enid nodded. "Fine, but I'm only going to give you one shot at this, understand? And you have to promise me that Selina will not be the mother of your baby."

"She won't be," Damon said. "I have a girlfriend now and Selina's okay with it."

Enid sighed. "Oh, all right. Come with me."

Just as they were leaving, Vince entered the bar and looked at Roxie, who was still struggling. "Do you need help with that?"

Roxie shook her head and shifted to get a better grip, giggling nervously. "No, thanks, I'm fine. I have to go now."

"Just a minute," Vince called after her. But she didn't respond.

I wonder what's wrong with her, he thought to himself.

After Roxie's shift ended, she went to the store and bought a few of the tests. Then, she took one and did it, and waited. The screen said Not Pregnant. She almost cried with relief when she saw those two little words. She threw the test away and then called her mother.

"Hi, Mom!"

"Hey, so what have you got for me?" Her mother sounded a little tipsy.

"The test said I'm not pregnant."

Selina burst out laughing. "That is such a relief! I'm so glad for you. Are you going to try and be more careful from now on?"

"Yes," Roxie nodded. "I am."

"So I take it that it was good news?" Damon asked. Selina poured herself another drink. "Yep, she's not pregnant. I'm so happy! It's way too early for me to be a grandmother." She gulped her drink down, put her arms around Damon's neck and gave him a kiss on the lips. "Oh," She said when she pulled away. "I probably shouldn't have done that."

"No, it's okay," Damon said, taking the bottle from her. He was just as drunk as she was. "Just remember not to do it again. I don't want Jeannie to have a cow. Wait, what am I saying? She dumped me!"

Selina burst out laughing. "You said cow!"

He started laughing too. "I was kidding you know. You can do it again if you want."

She nodded. "Okay." She threw her arms around his neck, kissing him deeply and pushing him backward onto the floor. They were both giggling like crazy as they stripped off each other's clothes. Then he flipped her over so he was on top and drove into her. She screamed and screamed.

Selina was the first one up the next morning. Her head was pouding. Damon was naked beside her on the floor. "Wake up!" She said. "Do you remember anything about last night?"

He looked over at her and his eyes widened. "No, no, no! I can't be like this with you! What did you do to me?"

Selina frowned. "As I recall, you were the one who brought the wine out and what is so bad about being with me anyway? Other than the fact that I'm married?"

Damon sighed. "Our talk about Joshua the other day made me feel sad about how I didn't know him very well, so I went to Enid's and asked her if she would make it possible for me to be able to have kids again. She said yes, but only gave me one shot. And that was after I promised you wouldn't be the mother."

"Now wait just a minute," Selina said. "Are you telling me that for a short span in time, you were able to conceive children and since I had sex with you last night, I'm going to be the one to have your baby?"

She began whimpering and threw a blanket over herself before sitting on the sofa. "This isn't good, Damon. What am I going to tell Klaus?"

"Simple," Damon said. "Have sex with him and when you get pregnant, tell him the kid is his. Would it even cross his mind that you cheated on him?"

Selina shook her head. "No, I don't think so. But I better get out of here." She dressed, and, thanking Damon for a lovely evening, rushed out the door.

Selina was very jumpy that day, even though she tried to keep calm. It's all right, she told herself. Nothing is going to happen to you. It was just a mistake. She groaned. Why did this have to happen? And right after she'd lectured Roxie about being careful, too.

Klaus found her in the library that night. "Are you coming to bed?" He asked. "Or are you avoiding me?"

She giggled nervously. "Of course I'm not avoiding you, silly. What would make you think that?"

"Well, I just haven't seen you all day. Is there something you want to tell me?"

"No," Selina said quickly. "Nothing at all. Now let's get to bed!"

She pulled him along with her to their bedroom and performed astounding feats that left them both exhausted. "That should be good enough for him," she whispered to herself before she closed her eyes.

Three months later, Klaus woke up to the sound of her throwing up. "Are you all right?" He called after tapping on the bathroom door. "Can I get you anything?"

Selina opened the door. There were dark circles under her eyes. "No, thank you. I couldn't hold it down if you did. Would you make sure Roxie gets to work?"

Klaus nodded. "Of course.

Selina nodded. "All right then." She shut the door, threw up one more time, and then flopped onto the bed and fell aslep.

Later, when she felt more awake, she went to see Enid. "Could I have something to drink?" She asked.

"Sure, I'll get you an orange juice."

"Thank you," Selina nodded. Enid brought it to her and put a hand on her stomach. Then her face changed. "I have good news and I have bad news. I'll start with the good news. You're going to have twins."

Selina blinked. "What's the bad news?"

Enid looked troubled. "Only one of those twins is Klaus'."