Chapter 31
Elena was given the all clear from the hospital and was allowed to go home, Stefan had insisted that it was just the three of them and no one else so that Elena could be more relaxed. Stefan had sent archer to go and play in his room and then went to go and make dinner, he was half way through cutting the carrots when Elena came in and sat on one of the breakfast stools,
"How you feeling?" Stefan looked at her, she looked so pale and tired,
"Ok, really hungry though" she walked over to the counter and put the kettle on, she hung her face and looked bluntly down at the counter feeling the tear well in her eyes
"Dinner will be ready soon, Archer has Cody coming over tomorrow to play." Stefan put the knife down and walked over to Elena and wrapped his arms round her waist, from behind
"Shhh, you can cry all you want, it's good to get it out but I promise you we will try again, and we will have lots of children." She turned around in his arms and then grabbed his jaw,
"I love you. Stefan." She pulled his face in and kissed him, he wrapped his arms under her bum and then lifted her up and sat her down on the counter, and she wrapped her legs round his waist, and kissed him.
"Elena, we can't" Stefan pulled away and then kissed her on the nose, she UN wrapped her legs and he went back to making dinner,
"Why? You said we would try." She went over and stood next to him and placed her hand on his bicep.
"I know I did, but first of all we need to wait a month like the doctors said and then second of all, Archer is right upstairs." She looking him in the eyes and then stretched up to kiss him, and then she went and sat back down on the breakfast stool.
Stefan turned over in the bed and wrapped his arm around Elena, he felt something on the other side of him, he looked over his shoulder to find archer looking at a picture,
"Hey little man, what are you doing up?" he kissed archers head and then pulled him in for a hug,
"I heard your alarm go off so I came in a turned it off. I didn't want to wake mummy." Archer continued to look at the picture and Stefan looked at it with a big smile on his face, "Daddy, what is this?" Stefan let out a little laugh and then took the picture out of his hands,
"That is you" archer gave him a quizzical look,
"No its not." Stefan smiled
"It is, that is when you were in mummy's tummy, 3 days before you were born." Archer smiled and then looked over to Elena,
"Is mummy going to be ok?" Stefan looked at Elena and then kissed her head, she was still asleep and Stefan hoped she would be for a while, she needed her rest.
"She is going to be fine, can you go and get dressed because Cody is coming over soon." Archer nodded and then kissed Stefan on the cheek, he jumped off the bed and ran into his room.
"Daddy! Cody is here!" archer had been sitting in the front room for the past half an hour watching the window to see when Cody came. He jumped off the sofa and ran into the study to find Stefan,
"Ok I'm coming" Stefan got up out of the chair and then picked up archer, he went to get the door.
"Hello Aria, how are you?" Stefan opened the door and then put archer down, him and Cody ran straight to archers' room.
"I'm good thank you, how are you and Elena dealing with things?" Stefan opened the door wider so she could come in, he walked into the kitchen and indicated for her to take a seat on one of the stools,
"As good as you can do, Tea or coffee?"
"Tea please. Just let me know if I can take Archer for the day, so you two can have some time alone." Stefan poured some milk into the teas and then handed one to her.
"Thank you it means a lot to us." Stefan went over and sat down on one of the other breakfast stools,
"I know to start with you always thought you could not have children because of your football incident, and that you thought of Archer as your blessing. But if you and Elena managed to conceive twice, you will be able to do it again. My husband and I tried so many times, and we nearly gave up but then we were blessed with Cody. Just don't give up ok, you hear me?" Stefan gave her a nod,
"we won't, I just feel as if I need some time, the miscarriage seemed to effect Elena for a day or so and now all that worries her is if we can't have another child or not. I don't think she understands that I lost a child as well, that child was my miracle as much as hers. That's just what I think." Stefan ran his hand through his hair and Aria placed her spare hand on his,
"I think you need to talk to her, let her know how you feel."
Caroline had taken Archer for the day, as Stefan and Elena needed to go to the hospital for her check-up. They were sitting in the waiting room and then Malorie, the burse came up behind them,
"Dr Salvatore, how are you?" Stefan turned round and so did Elena,
"in good, not to be rude but do you mind leaving us alone?" she made a pouty face and then looked at Elena who had a look of utter disgust on her face, Malorie lent down and whispered into Stefan's ear,
"If you ever get bored of married life, call me." She bit her lip and then turned around and left, Stefan couldn't help but laugh and hang his head, Elena was about to ask what she said but then the nurse came in and called them into the room.
"Ok Elena, it looks like everything has gone smoothly and you and Stefan can try for another child." Elena could not stop smiling and she turned to Stefan who was smiling from ear to ear, Stefan grabbed her and spun her round in a circle,
"Thank you Doctor." Stefan grabbed Elena by the waist and they left the room, he headed to the on call room and pulled Elena in with him.
Stefan sat down on the edge of the bed and pulled Elena in between his legs, he bent down and kissed him with every ounce of power and passion that was in her tiny body. Stefan laid down on the bed and pulled Elena on top of him, she broke the kiss and removed her t-shirt throwing it to the floor, and Stefan unbuckled his jeans and slid them off with his boxers, adding to the ever growing pile of clothes on the floor.
Stefan and Elena were having non-stop sex but continued to have no luck on getting pregnant,
"Mummy, Daddy! It's my birthday!" archer ran into the living room to see a big pile of gifts on the table along with Caroline, Klaus, Bonnie and the twins along with Mitchel, but no Jeremy.
"Come here little man" Stefan UN crossed his legs and archer ran over and jumped onto Stefan's lap,
"You are 2 now, you are so old!" everyone let out a laugh and then archer grabbed for one of the gifts. He ripped the card off and opened it,
"This is from Uncle Klaus, Aunt Caroline and Alex." He shook the box and then started to rip open the wrapping paper. "Cool! A remote control car! Thanks guys, Alex do you want to play?" Archer completely forgot about the rest of the presents and ran off onto the patio with Alex and the twins to play with the toy car, leaving the adults alone,
"So have you two had any luck?" Elena's head snapped up and looked at Caroline and Stefan started to rub her shoulder, Elena shook her head,
"No, not yet and there is no reason other than the obvious" she pointed at Stefan and he let out a little laugh "as you why went can't have another child." Caroline cuddled further into Klaus and Bonnie sat up in the seat,
"I am sorry for what Jeremy said, and what he did. I know he feels bad and he wants to see archer especially on his birthday." Elena nodded and bonnie stood up, "in going to go to the toilet can you watch the little guy?" Elena nodded and bonnie placed Mitchel In her arms,
"So Guys how is the adoption going?" Stefan was the one to break the silence and Klaus let put a deep sigh,
"Not good, we really like this little girl and then the adoption agency found out about Haley and Alex and they were not too happy and they found out about other things which we are not comfortable telling people and they said we can never adopt." Caroline sunk into Klaus some more and then started to cry,
"It's not like I don't love Alex but I want a child of my own." Klaus kissed her on the head and then Mitchel started to cry, Elena stood up and started to sway and walk around the room to try and soothe him.
Stefan and Elena had been trying to get pregnant for nearly 3 moths, when Elena started to notice she was putting on weight,
"Stefan, do I look fatter?" Elena was trying to do up her favourite pair of jeans but they didn't fit,
"Elena you look beautiful and you always do," Stefan wrapped his arms round her waist and rested his head on her shoulder,
"But you would say that wouldn't you, I haven't been eating anymore that I normally do and in fact I've been exercising more so I should be losing weight." Stefan just kissed her neck and then headed to get a shower.
The following day Archer woke them up to go to school, Stefan was fast asleep and archer was not giving in, Elena sent him to go and get a dressed and get breakfast, Elena stood up but she felt dizzy, she sat down on the edge of the bed to compose herself. Something was not right this was the 4th day she had the same feeling of dizziness as she woke up in the morning. She put the pieces together, the slight weight gain, the dizziness the odd headaches, she was pregnant. She shook Stefan and he started to stir,
"Elena is everything ok?" she sat up in bed and then rubbed his eyes, Elena jumped on to the bed and kissed him, "why are you so happy?" he wrapped his arms round her waist and looked into her eyes,
"I think I'm pregnant." Stefan looked at her and realised the big smile that was pasted over her face.
"Think about it Stefan, the weight gain, the headaches, the dizziness I have been having. They are all things I got when I was pregnant with Archer." A massive smile spread across Stefan's face and he couldn't help but pull Elena on top of him, "good work dad." Stefan laughed and couldn't help but deepen the moment.