Chapter 13

Elena POV

"I came to bring you the clothes you left aft-..." his voice trailed off softly, as his gaze flickered from me to Alex. Damn, I thought to myself as I slowly looked away from his stare.

I could feel my heart in my throat as I whispered nervously, "Damon? What are you doing here?" I clumsily tried to hide Alex, but I was sure that my terrified face gave everything that I had been keeping from him all these months, away.

From his facial expression I could see that his mind was summing everything together. His stare was only on my baby, and on nothing else. He looked at Alex surprised, his mouth wide-open. Then his gaze met mine. His eyes showed nothing, but sadness. I couldn't look away from those beautiful broken ocean eyes. What was I supposed to do now? I thought to myself as I could see his glassy eyes sparkling with what looked like, tears.

"What the fuck's going on?" he almost yelled as he hurriedly entered the house, without any manners.

"Don't swear!" I warned him as I held Alex closely to me. Damon's hands balled up into fists and then he turned his back to me. He stood like that for a long minute. His knuckles were starting to whiten and his chest was heaving up and down. I could clearly see that he was struggling to keep calm, but I knew he didn't have a temper. He needs to find out the truth, I thought as I decided. It was time. Then he slowly turned around.

"He's mine, isn't he?" he asked me softly, his piercing blue eyes on my chocolate ones.

There was no mistake to be made. Anyone could clearly see that my baby was his. He was practically his spitting image, for God's sake. Why? I thought to myself, as tears started oozing from eyes.

"Yes," I whispered in my hoarse voice as the tears blurred my vision. I quickly wiped them away with my free hand and kept holding on to Alex as if my life depended on it with the other. Alex's huge blue sparkling eyes were now looking around, clearly confused. Oh, how innocent he looked in this adult conflict right now. He had no shame, just pure innocence.

Damon came forward slowly and bent down on his knees. I realized what he was doing so I lowered Alex a little bit so that he was now at his level.

"Hey little buddy..." he whispered to him as he gently caressed Alex's small face. Damon's eyes looked gently into those identical to his.

"You're so hands-..." he tried to continued, but a sob erupted from his throat and his eyes welled up with tears. I breathed through my teeth as I found myself struggling once again. He looked so broken. So... alone. I couldn't keep Alex away any longer from him. He had to know him. Damon softly squeezed Alex's tiny hands and shut his eyes hard, trying to fight back the tears.

"It's okay..." I whispered to him before stepped forwards, so me and Alex were hugging him. I couldn't resist not doing anything, after keeping this from him. He hugged us back as he rested his chin on my shoulder. I felt him tremble against me with sobs and also heard him take a few deep breaths. After a very long moment, he slowly stepped back, lowered his head and pinched the bridge between his eyes.

"Why didn't you tell me, Elena?" he begged softly, now looking at me with tears still slowly making tracks down his cheeks. I was speechless. I just shrugged as I felt more tears making their way down to my chin and found myself almost not able to stand.

Once again he balled one hand into a fist and held it to his mouth looking down, trying to once again control himself.

"What was I supposed to tell you?" I cried suddenly as I quickly looked away from his deep pools of blue.

"That we had a son maybe?" he asked me as I could see he was struggling with this, just as much as I was.

"I can't believe you've never told me," he whispered as he crawled down to the living-room couch and put his head between his hands. He stood there for a long moment, as I felt frozen on the spot. A part of me wanted to ask him for forgiveness and that everything would soon be okay, but another part of me wanted to run for it, grab a cab and leave town, just with Alex.

"When were you planning to tell me?" he asked me, slowly looking up to me, his eyes still as penetrating as ever.

"I, I don't know, I never thought about-" I stuttered in a barely audible voice as I frantically searched around the room for a good excuse.

"You never thought about me meeting my son?" he exclaimed as he slowly rose from the couch.

"No, no, it's just- I'm alone with this, I didn't know how to cope. I'm still a teenager," I cried. Then I suddenly took a deep breath and continued with the true reason, "I never thought you'd actually become capable of meeting such a loving person after your fucking menopause," I shrieked the last phrase, referring to when he used to hit me. Damon just stared blankly at me, knowing that I had a valid reason. Then Alex started to cry his heart out and I heard Jenna coming down the stairs.

"What's all this noise Elena?" she asked me, lazily rubbing her eyes while she nodded her head towards Damon.

"Nothing Jenna, could you please just hold Alex for me? I know you're exhausted, but I have to settle this before it gets out of control," I begged her as I looked at her with pleading eyes. Jenna didn't know that Alex was Damon's son, and I never told her what happened between us. I don't think she even met Damon. Maybe she saw him around, but not officially met him. I saw her gaze flickering to Damon's face and then to Alex's. Now, I could see that she summed everything up and probably just learnt the thruth.

"Okay, fine," she replied after a long second of taking it all in. She then picked up Alex and took him up-stairs with her, quietly cradling him and whispering comforting words. I kept staring at her until she went out of sight. As I calculated that Jenna was now probably out of earshot I turned back to Damon and took another deep breath.

"What now? What do you want from me?" I asked him as I crossed my arms against my chest and looked at him, intently.

He stared back at me for a long moment. He looked like he wasn't even sure what he wanted. Then he sat back on the couch and put his head between his hands, again. I kept staring at him, waiting for his response. Then he suddenly looked up.

"I want him to get to know me," he finally replied as he came closer.

"W-what?" I stuttered as I put my hand on my forehead. Was he joking? I thought. I paced around the room as his gaze never left my body, studying my movements. I angrily marched up to him until I was just an inch away from his face.

"I'm not even sure if you should be around people, let alone MY SON!" I screamed at him as I looked him sternly in the eye, tears rushing down.

"He's OUR son, Elena. You held him away from me for a very long time already, I'm not going to stay away from him anymore.," he replied back softly, "he's not just your son," he continued before coming closer to me. He was right. He was my son just as much as he was his, but still.

"You've kept away for all of these months Damon," I shot at him as I gritted my teeth and clenched my fist.

"It wasn't my choice Elena! You kept him from me!" he shot back, the tone of his voice now rising a little.

"Do you blame me?" I hissed back at him.

"Elena, just give me a chance," he begged me softly. I slightly shook my head as I slowly looked away from his penetrating stare.

"Please," he whispered again as he gently placed his hand on my shoulder. What was I supposed to do? Alex had every right to know his father and I shouldn't be the one to take that away from him. I didn't want him to be the boy who never got to meet his father. That was selfish of me to do, but on the other hand I wasn't sure if Damon was stable enough to get to know him.

"You have to promise me Damon. Promise," I cried softly as tears kept pouring down my cheeks.

"Anything..." he whispered back as he stepped forward, closing the small space that was left between our bodies.

"You need to promise me you won't do anything stupid," I continued, referring to our dark period.

"I already made that same promise to you Elena," he replied softly, "please give me a chance for him to get to know me," he continued as he stared with a guilty look into my chocolate eyes. I exhaled loudly and felt more tears rushing down. I couldn't stand it any longer.

"Oh Damon," I cried to him before I threw my arms around his neck and held him close to me.

"I love you Elena," he whispered in a barely audible voice that made me rethink what I just heard. Then I felt a sob erupt from his throat.

A/N: Yay! A super-early update! I couldn't resist not updating. Firstly, this chapter must be my favourite. Secondly, I got more reviews than I expected :) Thank you guys! I'd love it if you keep reviewing like this every chapter. Now, I already got most of the rest of the story planned out and it will probably be around 30 Chapters. There will be some twists that most of you won't like, but they won't be regarding Delena, they'll be about other characters that are already in the story. So, be ready ;) Until next time sweethearts.

Shannon x