Chapter 13

"Can I hold him?" Elena was reaching out her arms for her son.

"Sure you can Mrs Salvatore," the doctor handed over Archer, "congratulations Dr Salvatore, you have a beautiful son." He quietly left the room, leaving Elena, Stefan and Archer alone.

"He is perfect Elena, thank you so much, I love you both with all my heart and I can't wait to take him to ball games and teach him how to play football and soccer." Elena was crying now, and was kissing Archer on the head. "Can I hold him Elena?" she nodded and kissed him one last time before handing him over to Stefan. With the disturbance, he started to cry but Stefan was on the job.

"Shhh, shhh its ok, daddy's here, I am going to protect you incase anything ever goes wrong, and knowing mine and your mummy's family you are going to need a lot of protecting." He kissed his son on the head and started to walk around the room rocking him, Elena was watching them both, Stefan was going to be an amazing father and he already was.

"you want him back do you." Stefan smiled and Elena nodded.

"I'm sorry to ruin the moment, but I just want to cuddle him it's not every day you get to give birth to a half vampire baby." Stefan placed Archer in her arms and then kissed Elena with every ounce of passion in his body.

"I'm going to go and tell Jeremy." He stated to walk out the room, "oh Elena, thank you so much, I love you both." He noticed while leaving the room he was still wearing his scrubs and lab coat. He started to smile, and he couldn't stop.

"Stefan! Is everything ok?" Jeremy and Caroline jumped out of their seats, "I'm sorry bonnie wanted to be here but no one could look after the twins. So…are you a dad?" Stefan nodded his head and then got bombarded by Caroline who was jumping up and down and hugging Stefan. Jeremy gave Stefan a great big hug. "So are they both ok? Is he healthy?" he said the last bit with a massive smile on his face, but also with concern. Stefan started to walk and they both followed alongside him,

"Elena is fine, she is just a bit tired and all, although it was a short labor it is early in the morning. Archer is perfect, he has ten fingers and ten toes, he has no hair and he weighs 8lb and 10oz. I can't believe I am a dad!" they stopped outside the door and Jeremy obviously noticed that Stefan was still wearing his work clothes.

"Look, I'm happy for you all and you seem to be really happy but why don't you leave me and Caroline to meet our new nephew while you go and get changed and remember what I said, no more designer clothes, they will get ruined." Jeremy patted Stefan on the back and they then entered the room, leaving Stefan to go and get changed.

"Elena, he is beautiful. Well he has to be he is Stefan's kid! And yours as well." Caroline had taken Archer as soon as she came into the room. And had been cuddling him ever since.

"Speaking of Stefan, where is he?" Elena had noticed his absence but didn't dare ruin the moment so didn't say anything. Caroline acted as if Elena hadn't heard anything, Jeremy answered her question, and she could tell he was a bit annoyed as Caroline was hogging his nephew.

"I told him to go and get changed as he was still wearing his scrubs. And Caroline give me my nephew I want to at least hold him before I have to go home." Caroline reluctantly handed over Archer. Jeremy started to coo over him and mutter loads of things, he was going to be an amazing uncle. As if on cue Stefan walked in, followed by Logan. He walked over and kissed Elena, "Stefan…what did I tell you about the designer clothes!" he was wearing Louie Viton shoes, Hollister jeans and a Jack Wills top. Elena was now smiling as Jeremy had told her the exact same thing.

"Logan, sit." He pointed to a chair in the corner, Logan did as he was told without hesitation. "Jer, I'm sorry but this is what I came into work wearing so, I will change as soon as I get to take my little man home." He walked over and took Archer out of Jeremy's hands, and started walking round the room rocking him. "Jeremy, Caroline do you mind giving me, Elena and archer a little time to ourselves?" without hesitation they got up,

"Elena he truly is beautiful and congratz you guys." Logan started to get up to follow them out but then Stefan stopped him.

"No, you stay." Logan did as he was told and gulped.

Stefan handed archer over to Elena, who now looked as puzzled as she could possibly be,

"Stefan are we really going to do this now?" he lent down and kissed Archer,

"Is there a better time? He can't scream, he can't run and he definitely has to do what I say. Don't worry I will make it as painless as possible." He turned to Logan whose face had gone as white as a ghost.

"I will explain to you what you saw and you get 5 questions now and 5 at the end, that is it, no more, you understand?" Logan nodded and Stefan pulled up a chair next to Elena and sat down, "great. Let's get started."

"My first question is what are you? I have heard the legends of mystic falls but I want to know what you really are." Logan was now hunched over on the edge of his chair and waiting for Stefan's answer.

"I am a vampire, the legends are true, I do burn in the sun, but I have a ring that protects me." He held up his right hand that held his ring. "Anything else?" Logan thought for a second.

"How do you resist the blood?" Stefan looked over to Elena who was staring down at Archer,

"I have a strict diet, I don't want to kill to feed so I feed of animals, and don't ask me now why because I am going to answer it for you. When I was first turned I was a blood thirsty demon, I went for anything that had blood running through its veins." Elena looked up, she knew Stefan was not fond of talking about his ripper days, so why now? "I would lose it at the sight of blood, and when I fed, I would feed so hard and become so immersed in the feed I would end up ripping my victims apart." This made Logan sit back on his chair, and you could see him realize the person who was he mentor for 5 years, was not who he seemed to be. "I would then feel remorse, and position my victims and place them back together. I found world war 2 a cover to kill and feed even more than I was already doing, I then met a girl named Lexi, who taught me a way to live without killing humans, to feed on animals. I have gone without human blood since 1953, so it doesn't affect me." Logan was now looking even more intrigued.

"But why?" he started to say something but Stefan shut him up. Archer started to cry, and Elena was not doing a very good job. "Her give him to me." Stefan held out his hands,

"Are you sure, you seem to be on a roll." Stefan nodded and took Archer, he stopped crying as soon as he was in Stefan's arms.

"What you saw was me at my worst, I was under a lot of pressure and stress, and there was a lot of blood, I lost it, and I felt so bad about it. The thing that stopped me from ripping that man apart was you walking in and the thought of Elena and my son." He started to stroke Archers head with his thumb. Logan looked at Elena and Archer.

"Are they…like you?" Stefan looked at Elena who was now asleep, and she deserved to be, it had been a long day.

"No, Elena is human and Archer is half human half vampire. My brother is a vampire and so is Caroline. That is all you get out of me now. You can leave."