"Alright guys we are here." Stefan said as they pulled the car up to the boarding house. He turned round to look at Elena and saw the biggest smile on her face. As they all got out of the car Archer stopped in his tracks,

"Daddy, do we get to live here?" Stefan chuckled and then picked up Archer and threw him over his shoulder,

"Yeah we do buddy, but right now we are just looking round. The people who live here at the moment are going to show us round so you have to be extra polite." Stefan grabbed Elena's hand and then walked up to the front door and knocked.

"Ah, you must be Stefan and Elena, it's nice to finally meet the two of you. My name is Claire and my husband Tom should be back any time. Please come in." Claire stepped back to let the two of them in and then Stefan plopped Archer down, "Well who is this little one?" Claire lent down to Archer level,

"Hi, I'm Archer Salvatore." Elena could see the look on Claire face as it turned to shock,

"Is there something wrong?" she asked, Claire stood up and shook her head smiling,

"No, it's just I didn't know you were Salvatore's. Why did you ever move out? This house has been in your family for generations." Stefan chuckled and then took it as a question for him to answer,

"Archer, you see that staircase over there." Stefan pointed to the staircase to the left of the door. Archer nodded and then gave Stefan a questioning look, "well if you go up that staircase, the room right in front of you is going to be your room. That was my room when I was your age." Of course the last bit was a lie but Archer nor Claire knew that. As soon as Stefan had finished talking Archer sprinted off up the staircase, to his new room. Clair motioned for them to follow her and they ended up in the re-modelled kitchen.

"God I remember when the cabinets were green. Well about a year before we got married my brother moved out and so did Elena's step dad. So it was really just the two of us in this big house, so we moved to a small one. But now we have Archer and then we've got triplets on the way so we are going to need the space."

"Well congratulations! As you can see we have done the house up a lot, but most of the rooms are the same especially the master. That room was always so nice." Elena chuckled and Stefan shot her a look, "did I say something wrong?"

"No no. it's just we split up for a while and in that time I dated Stefan's brother, I didn't know he was his brother, they look nothing alike. And that was his room, and long story short Stefan walked in on us. So he is persistent that we will be sleeping in a different room and not the master." Claire chuckled and Elena placed her hand on Stefan's bicep,

"It is a decent argument and we can use that room as a playroom for the kids." Stefan stated,

"We can discuss it later. I do love what you and your husband have done with the place. It did need doing up."

"Thank you. So how far along are you? Tea or coffee?"

"Tea please and Stefan will have the same. I'm thirteen weeks now so I am due late March early April." Elena smiled and look at Stefan who was staring at a box that was peeking out of one of the cupboards, it was labelled 'bedroom' it Stefan's perfect handwriting. He got up and grabbed it and placed it onto the table, "Stefan!"

"Elena, that's my handwriting and this I am pretty sure is the box that we lost."

"I found it out in one of the sheds and it has pictures in it so I brought it over to the house and just kept it. You are welcome to look, and see if there is anything you recognise."

Stefan lifted the lid of the box and was silent, Elena came over to his side and looked in the box.

"Stefan, these are all of our photos, every single one of them." Stefan chuckled and then picked out one picture and looked at it. It was the one when Stefan was standing behind Elena wearing his football jersey.

"Elena, this is the one Bonnie took at my first football game." Elena took it out of his hands and looked at it. Stefan put his hand in the box and pulled out a small painting, Stefan took it over to where he was sitting before and just traced his finger over it and was silent.

"Mummy! My room is massive!" Archer came running in and jumped up into Elena's arms,

"I know, why don't we let Claire show us round the rest of the house and we can let daddy have so time alone ok." Archer nodded and Claire came over to Elena with her tea and set one down beside Stefan.

"Is daddy ok?" Archer asked and Elena could see in his eyes that he was worried.

"I'm fine arch, just do what your mother says ok?" Elena knew he wasn't fine and that he was crying but he was trying so hard to hide it from them.

"Come on buddy." Elena took Archers hand and led him out of the kitchen leaving Stefan alone.

"Is he ok, I didn't do anything wrong did I?" Claire asked as they walked into the big dining room.

"No you didn't. The picture he was looking at was of his mother. She died when he was 10 and they were really close and that is the only picture he has of her. You should have seen him when he thought he lost it." Elena replied, she stopped outside the basement door, when they moved out bonnie put a spell on it so that the door would be locked and stay locked until bonnie took the spell off.

"I've always wondered what is down there, but I've never been able to get the door open. Do you know?" of course Elena did in fact know what was down there but she couldn't say anything.

"No I don't, I always asked Stefan the same thing and he never knew. Apparently it never opened." Elena kept on walking and then she felt two muscular hands round her waist, "hey, you feeling better?" she turned round and kissed him,

"Yeah, I'm fine I just had a moment. Now let's look at the rest of our new house."

"Archer, don't speak with your mouth full." Stefan told archer. It was the day after they went to look at the house and archer had been hyped up ever since.

"Sorry daddy." Archer said doing exactly what Stefan told him not to. Elena looked at Stefan with pleading eyes and he gave in and nodded knowing that she wanted to tell him about the triplets.

"Archer, me and your dad have something we need to tell you." Archer looked up from his chicken pie that Stefan had made, and he obviously liked it as he hadn't stopped shoving it in his face. "Were going to have another baby. Well three." They watched a massive smile appear across archers face.

"What do you mean by three?" archer said and then he shoved another fork full of chicken pie into his face.

"Well buddy. At the moment mummy has three tiny babies inside her tummy and in a few months you will get 3 brothers or sisters. How does that sound?"

"How did they get in mummy's tummy and how do they get out?"

"Don't worry about that bud."

"Ok, so I get to be a big brother?" archer smiled and so did Elena,

"Yeah you do." Stefan said as he placed his hand on Elena's stomach and Elena placed hers on top of his.