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The silence filled the space between them. Damon hadn't said a word or made a move since Elena had come through the doors and rocked his world with her news.
"Damon?" She asked trying to get him to say something.
No response.
"Damon if you don't say something…like right now, I'm going to invade your thoughts." Elena pushed.
Still nothing.
"Alright, but I warned you." Elena said reaching into his mind to try and figure out what he was thinking but couldn't bring himself to say.
She's joking. This can't be happening. What happened when she was with Elijah? Has he done something to her? He must've compelled her. That son of a Bitch is trying to use MY GIRL to scare me off so he can have her all to himself. Damn Originals. Can't trust anyone in that family. Crap. Did she say something?
Damon Calm down. Elijah didn't compel me. Nothing happened. Just take a second, clear your mind and listen.
She pushed a rush of calm over his body and he did as she'd said to. He could hear a human heartbeat coming from her stomach.
He looked down at her hand now placed on her stomach and then back up to her face.
"How is this possible? You're a Vampire Elena, this can't be possible." Damon said still in disbelief of this situation.
"Please come here and sit down. We have a lot to talk about." Elena said sitting on the couch and patting the open space right next to her with her hand.
Elena began to fill Damon in on everything she'd learned from Elijah. She told him everything short of him being her unborn child's father.
"Wow." Was all he could manage to "Wait so then how are you pregnant? Did some mystical force sneak into my room and inject with you with alien sperm while you were unconscious?" He said laughing.
"No actually. There's one other thing Elijah told me that you should know." Elena started hesitantly. "The first time anyone like me makes love to someone Human or Vampire after we're transitioned into our immortal state, we become pregnant. And before you ask, the Witch line I'm descended from allows Vampires to endure a purely human moment to ensure conception." Elena rambled nervously.
"W-what?" Damon asked confused.
"Damon….. you're the father of my child… of our child." She told him in her most soothing tone.
Elena had gained so much information of the course of just one day. It was so much for her to process, but one thing she knew above all else is that she loved her little "heartbeat" she would do anything and everything it took to keep her unborn child safe.
As she pulled her focus back to reality away from her thoughts, Damon stood to his feet and was gone in the blink of an eye, running out the front door.
Elena called after him worried of how he must be feeling about this. She immediately pulled out her phone and dialed Alaric's number.
"Hey Elena what's up?" He answered.
"Damon's gone." She said frantically running after him trying to sift through the thoughts of people near hers looking for Damon.
"What do you mean he's gone? Where'd he go?" Alaric asked not sure of why Elena would be calling him about this. He figured Damon had probably gone to the Grill to get drunk like he usually does.
"I mean I told him something and he just ran out. I'm freaking out Ric. I don't want him to do something he'll regret later." Elena told him panicked.
"Okay where are you? I'll meet you." Alaric told her now realizing the severity of this situation.
"I'm just about to be at the Grill." She told him walking inside.
"I'll be right there." He told her
Elena walked into the Grill to find Stefan sitting at the bar drink in hand. She walked up to him not sure if she should fill him in on what's going on or not. She knows he's probably still hurt from finding out about her and Damon. She slowly approached him.
"Hey." She said taking a seat next to him.
"Hey." He responded.
"Look I know you're probably hurt and mad, but if you can I need you to look past all that. We have a situation." She told him sternly.
"What situation?" He fired back.
"Damon has disappeared." She told him.
"What do you mean disappeared? What happened?" He asked
"Well I told him something that I guess freaked him out and he just ran. I've been searching the minds of people in the streets trying to find him but I'm getting nothing." She told him defeated.
"What did you tell him that would make him take off like that?" He asked skeptical
"It's not important right now. Look, will you please help me find your brother?" She snapped
With a huff Stefan put his drink down and pulled out his phone to dial Damon's number. It rang twice before going to voicemail. Stefan looked up at Elena and furrowed his brows.
Why wouldn't he answer? What could be so bad that he'd run away like that?
"I don't have time to explain Stefan. I just don't want him freaking out and doing something stupid." Elena told him exhausted from this situation.
"Alright let's go then." He told her understanding her feelings.
They headed out of the Grill straight to Wickery Bridge. Damon liked to go there when he was feeling anxious or hurt about something. He would lie down on the road a few feet away from the bridge and wait for some poor damsel to stop and help him. Elena shuddered at the thought of Damon draining the life out of a poor innocent human.
Elena shot Alaric a text … Heading to Damon's Spot by Wickery Bridge. Meet us there?
Alaric was already pulling up figuring as Stefan and Elena had that this is where he'd go.
I'm there now. He's not here. He texted Elena back
He got out of the car and walked around just to make sure that Damon wasn't hiding in the woods. He stepped to the edge of the trees and poked his head around when all of a sudden he was tackled to the ground, teeth at his neck.
"Ric?" Damon asked getting off of his best friend.
"Yes Dick. What were you planning to do?" Alaric asked him, thankful it was just Damon and not some other evil being.
"I'm getting out my aggressions. What the hell are you doing here?" Damon asked agitated that Ric was here.
"Elena called worried about you. She said you took off from the house and she couldn't find you." Alaric explained.
"Well, here I am." Damon said spinning around obviously drunk.
"You're drunk Damon. Let's get you home." Alaric told him.
"Did you know I'm a horrible person Ric? Do you know all of the horrible things I've done? There's no coming back from that. No saving that. I inflict pain on everything I touch. Everyone that gets close to me ends up hurt! Because of me. I'm not good to anyone Ric. Elena is better off without me. Better off with Stefan." Damon said with darkness In his eye.
Ric could see what we happening, he was right on the edge of his humanity. He was getting ready to turn it off.
"Yes Damon you're right. You're a dick." Alaric started as he slowly pulled his phone out of his pocket to send Elena a message letting her know Damon was there and she needed to get the quick. "You've done horrible things. You slept with my wife and then turned her into a Vampire. You've killed me numerous times. But I'm still here. I get why you do what you do. Why do you think we're friends?" Alaric finished hoping Damon would come back from the edge.
"Let's go back to the grill and drink until we black out." Alaric propositioned.
"No. I'm leaving Ric. I have to get out of here. They're going to be better off without me. I won't be my father. I won't hurt my child. I have to get out of here." Damon said rambling on.
"Damon, what are you talking about? Come on, let's go get a drink and talk about this." Alaric tried again.
"No." Damon shouted.
Just as he was getting ready to turn and take off into the woods he saw Elena walking towards him, tears in her eyes.
He walked up to her and fell at her feet. "I'm sorry." Was all he could manage to get out.
She took him in her arms and hugged him tightly. "It's alright. Shh. Shh." She said comforting him.
They stood there holding each other for what seemed like hours until Damon pulled his head up and looked directly into Elena's eyes.
"I will be here for you. I will be here for this baby. For our baby." He told her looking down at her stomach, placing his hand there.
Stefan's mouth felt like it dropped to the other side of the earth as well as Alaric's. They both looked at each other completely oblivious as to what was going on.
"What?" They both said in unison.
Sorry it took so long to get this chapter up. I had most of it written week before last and had planned on getting it up that Friday but I got so busy I didn't have time. Please leave a review and let me know how you're like the story!