Chapter 6

Elena and Stefan decided to travel to New Orleans and tell Caroline in person and neither of them could wait. Stefan and Caroline had become very good friends after Lexi died, and they still stay in touch. She sends him pictures of Alexander, which now scatter his office and he always gives him updates of Klaus.

Oddly enough ever since Klaus married Caroline he had become a family man, not so worried about power and not so worried about fame. All that mattered to him now was Alexander and Caroline.

The plane ride was easy in the first class seat, Elena stared at Stefan and then realising he had been called into the hospital so much recently that they hadn't really spent much time together and he hadn't spent much time sleeping.

"Stefan, honey wake up, we landed about 5 minutes ago and we are nearly ready to get off." only a small groan came from Stefan.

"Stef...please wake up, we need to get off the plane" this made him move but he grabbed Elena and pulled her over onto his lap, which made Elena scream and the flight hostess run in. Stefan was kissing Elena now, stroking her hair caressing her neck. She was pulling her hand through his hair as well as having her hand up his t-shirt to stroke his chest.

"Excuse me" Stefan and Elena just carried on making out as if they had been deprived for so long. The flight hostess did a polite cough which made the two of them stop and stare at the lady. "I'm sorry be we do not allow frolicking In front of other passengers" at this point Elena looked round to see the whole of the first class cabin looking at them. "But just to say it is nice to see a happy relationship, are you two married?" the flight hostess, smiled at Elena who had her head buried in Stefan's shoulder. Stefan laughed.

"Yes, coming on 4 years now. She gets shy very easily." Stefan laughed and so did the flight hostess. "I'm sorry, this one just makes me go crazy!" Elena was now pointing at Stefan with a mischievous smile. "You may now leave the plane now. It was nice to see a happy young couple" of course she didn't know that Stefan was 171 years old now, but who did?

They walked through the terminal, hand in hand, snuggled close to each other. They got many stares but that didn't matter as long as they were happy. Stefan had brought an apartment about two years ago here, to save Caroline the trouble of putting up Elena for a month or sometimes even more. They had hired a rental car and headed to the apartment.

"Stefan. The apartment here has two bedrooms."

"Yes. And?"

"We never have anyone in the apartment other than you and me, so I was thinking when you brought it did you know where were going to have a kid one day?"

"I always knew we were going to a child. You always talked about it and I knew I felt the same way, so I brought the apartment with that in mind" Stefan was now looking at Elena. He took one hand off of the

Steering wheel and placed in on Elena stomach. He rubbed his hand in circles, carefully. "Your mummy and daddy love you so very much and we have waited for a long time for you to come along. And now we can't wait" Elena smiled and kissed Stefan on the cheek. How much she loved this man was un- measureable.

"Caroline!" Elena ran out of the car and went to hug Caroline. Stefan came up with the gifts and just dropped them and threw Caroline on the air and hugged her. "Hey don't go stealing my wife!" Klaus was standing behind Stefan, Stefan turned round to give Klaus a hug. They had become really close especially Klaus and Elena, they were always talking on the phone and sending emails.

"I'm 5 months pregnant, and it's a boy! Sorry bad timing!" Elena seams to get even more excited the more people she tells. "No perfect timing! Aunt Caroline, fantastic ring to it. Stefan it is yours?" Caroline looked at Stefan puzzled.

"Yes it is. We were both really shocked, but were happy." Stefan was beaming and so was Elena, they both kissed. "well Alexander is inside so come on in and see him, he can't wait to meet you Stefan" Klaus was very protective about him son, But it only just dawned over Stefan that he had not met him yet, Alexander had met Elena, Jeremy and bonnie but not him and he felt shocked as he is 7 years old and his best friends step son.

They spent 2 weeks with Caroline, Klaus and Alexander, and they wanted to stay even longer. The days went past in a blur, and when it was time to leave they found it hard to do so. At the airport Caroline promised to come back to mystic falls for the birth, and to come and help with anything they ever needed. And then they had to go, but Elena knew she would see Caroline in 4 months' time as she would never miss the birth of her best friends' son.

On the plane home, Stefan knelt on the floor in front of Elena and talked to their child. He like the idea of talking to his son while he was inside the person he loved the most in the world. They got odd looks from the fellow passengers but they didn't care, they were together as a family.

"Congratulations you two." it was the same air hostess as on the way there, they both looked up and smiled. "So I'm guessing you enjoyed your visit to New Orleans?" the lady gave a subtle nod towards Elena's hands on her stomach. "We were visiting some friends to tell them the good news. Do you have any children?" Elena was as subtle as ever with her question making sure it didn't offend the lady.

"No, my husband can't have kids, but we both really want some." Stefan looked and smiled at Elena, and then turned to the lady. "I couldn't have children because of a bad football incident in high school, and we both knew that, we gave up on having a child and that's when it happened. So just don't give up because it will eventually happen and if it doesn't there are always other ways to have a child." this made the lady smile and you could see she was touched by what Stefan had said. She took a long look at Stefan's face which made the hairs on Elena's back stand on end. "I knew you reminded me of someone" Elena took in a deep breath, it was always worrying when someone said that as they might recognize him form 20 or 30 years ago and notice he hasn't changed a day.

"You treated my dad at mystic falls general, thank you so much he's doing so well now and it's all thanks to you, and the team of other doctors." Stefan looked puzzled. "My father was ran over by a car and had one of his legs amputated, his last name is reed, Samuel reed." now Stefan remembered who he was. A lonely old man who lost his wife and then got hit by a car, and trapped under one of the wheels. One of his legs was so badly damaged that it had to be amputated.

"Oh yes, I remember, sorry it's hard to keep track of all of my patients. It's good to hear he is doing better. I try and get updates on my patients but I have so many that it is hard to do so, it's nice when I hear they are doing well and achieving their goals."

Stefan was always so well-mannered around people it was hard to tell that it was in his nature to feed of them.

"You really got lucky with this one didn't you? How did you meet? If you don't mind me asking."

Elena was never worried when someone asked about how they met as it was a usual story about high school sweethearts but with a twist.

Elena let of a big smile and turned to the lady whose name tag read Robyn. "We met in high school, when he moved to mystic falls, we were 17 and we shared every class together. We met outside the boys toilets. I know kind of cheesy, but it did happen. We dated for about a year and then I dated his brother..." at that sentence Stefan took a deep intake of breath. "Shhh...I didn't know he was your brother! They look nothing alike. After that we found each other and got married and we have been for 4 years, and there is a little one on the way now." Elena looked shocked as she just realized she had told this complete stranger her and Stefan's whole history when she only asked for how they met. Robyn looked like she was taking it all in. "I'm sorry you only asked for how we met."

"Its fine, it was nice to hear about the man who saved my dad's life. Thank you she said as she patted Stefan's shoulder and left."

Stefan leaned into Elena's belly and whispered "remember your mummy always loved me and not your uncle Damon" this made Elena laugh as well as Stefan.