Chapter 7

About two days after they returned, Stefan had to go back to work, he didn't like the idea of Elena being home by herself all day. She had quit her job so she could spend more time with their son when he was born. Because he felt so bad, he left Elena in bed, made her some pancakes, and left a note saying that they were in the microwave. Before he left he went into their bedroom and kissed Elena and then kissed their son, he then told both of them that he would be back later, and then left for work. Everything was perfect.

All of Stefan's patients that morning had been easy going and nothing too serious, he just couldn't wait till he could go home and curl up in front of the fire with Elena. He grabbed his lunch and went to go and sit down when he noticed Logan running up to him. "Hey Logan slow down, don't run. Ok now tell me what is the problem?" he watched Logan take a few breaths and then spit out what he had to say.

"The maternity ward are looking for you, it's something to do with Elena and a fall. They have been paging you for the past half an hour but you wouldn't answer" Stefan just dropped his food and ran to go and find Elena.

Stefan ran down the stairs to the maternity ward as quickly as possible. He then looked at one of the nurses on the bench. "Gloria, where is my wife?" Stefan looked at her, but she didn't reply.

"Who?" the nurse now had a puzzled look on the face.

"My wife, Elena Salvatore, she is 5 months pregnant, apparently she had a fall." The nurse typed at the computer and looked back at him? "Dr Salvatore, you might want to go over and talk to Dr Fell. She is over there" the nurse pointed to a small women huddling over a file, he could tell strait away that it was Meredith.

"Meredith where is she? What happened?" Stefan was staring as Meredith who did not have a good look on her face. "She said she was coming downstairs to look for you and she slipped and fell down the stairs."

"Brother, good your here, she's been asking for you." Damon ran round the corner and pulled Stefan who planted his feet on the floor and refused to move. "Damon why are you here?" Stefan had a puzzled look on his face. "I found her. Stefan there was so much blood. I'm sorry." Stefan just looked at Damon, and threw a punch and managed to land it right on his nose. "Why were you at my house?!" I went to go and see Elena, I hadn't seen her in ages and I wanted to see if my nephew was ok. I walked up to the porch and I smelt the blood." this made Stefan face crumble, "I didn't do anything little brother. I would never hurt Elena. She is in that room." he pointed to the first room on the right, Stefan hurried to check on Elena and see if her and the baby were ok.

"Elena honey I'm here." he ran to Elena's bed side and the sound of Stefan's voice made her cry. She had refused to find out anything about the baby till he got here.

"I'm sorry Stefan it's all my fault, I'm really sorry." Elena started to stroke her stomach and stared to get really worried "what about the baby?" Elena looked at Stefan who was now holding her hand. "This is our child, we have survived so much, and this baby and you will be able to survive a simple fall. Everything will be fine" she moved over and he lied down next to her, and stroked her head and then he noticed about 4 groups of stitches of at least 10 stitches per cut. What had happened? Meredith came in and informed them with what happened. It seemed that Elena had fallen down the stairs and hit her head several times on the banisters and then cracked her skull on the floor. He hoped the baby was okay and if it wasn't, well he didn't want to think of that.

Meredith and Damon had left them alone for quite a bit but they needed to check on the baby. Stefan came out of the room and found Meredith sitting at the nurses' station filling in some papers. "Can you get Dr Oliver to cover my patients? I want to stay with Elena. And come you come in and do the ultrasound?" it put emphasis on the word you, even though he did trust everyone is the hospital, he only trusted Meredith with Elena and their child.

"Sure Stefan, I will be trough in a second." Meredith got up and left the desk and went into the office to rind Dr Oliver. Stefan headed back into the room but stopped just outside the door, he heard Elena talking. And then peeked through the crack in the door to see her hunched over her belly whispering. Stefan hated to interrupt the moment but he had to, he walked into the room to see Elena's head snap up.

"You feeling any better? You lost a lot of blood. I'm surprised Damon controlled himself. Meredith will be in soon to do the scan." Stefan sat down next to Elena, and took her hand in his. "It will be fine" Stefan kissed Elena noticing that she was still crying. "Hey, shhh, it's not your fault, if it is anyone's it is mine as I shouldn't have come to work." she stroked her hair as it always soothes her.

"I am so sorry Stefan, I didn't mean for this to happen." she left into his arms and, curled up.

Meredith decided to let them have this moment alone but as soon as there was no talking she entered the room, they had to see if this baby was ok.

"Elena I'm sorry but we have to see if the baby is ok. Can you lift up you gown and we can do the scan?" Meredith tried to sound the nicest she could but they could all tell she was worried as they hadn't checked on the baby sooner. Elena did as Meredith said, she then clutched Stefan's hand in hers and waited to see the results.

They were all in suspense as Meredith squeezed the jelly onto Elena's belly and they moved the wand over it to try and find a heartbeat. And they did. Stefan relaxed as soon as the sound of his Childs heart filled the room. Meredith turned to the two of them and opened her mouth to speak "everything seems to be fine, I think it's because this baby is half vampire. From the fall you had Elena I would have expected something to have happened to the baby, but if something has, it seems the baby has Stefan's accelerated healing process, and that anything that was damaged has been healed."

Stefan hadn't thought of this, and he was amazed by the thought that this baby had half vampire qualities and half human qualities. Meredith left the room, so Stefan and Elena were alone one again. And all they did was kiss