The next day, Shelby was very tensed the whole time until she joined Damon at the bar.
"You ok Shelby? You're looking a little pale…" Damon asked as he downed his first bourbon of the night.
"We need to talk. Not here, come with me!" She said as she led him to the park a couple of blocks away, not saying a thing the whole time.
"What's going on? Is there a hunter in town or something?" Damon asked when she pushed him to sit on a bench and stood nervously in front of him.
"There's no easy way to say it really so here it goes… I'm pregnant and it can only be yours. The spirits told me it was… I just wanted to tell you so you could pay for the intervention." She said.
"What…Your…I'm…How…Wait, what intervention?" Damon replied, processing everything.
"Well, the abortion of course! I'm going to be a star in new York, I can't possibly have a child! Plus, the spirits told me that thing would be human only until its 18th birthday, after that it would be half witch and half vampire… I can't have that around, it's unnatural!" Shelby replied.
"You can't go to New York yet, you don't have the money for it!" Damon replied harshly.
He didn't know why but he felt insulted by her reaction… This was his child… Somehow it had been possible… He needed to save it…to raise it… This baby would save him from shutting everything down…
"Well, the money certainly isn't going to come to me while I'm pregnant!" Shelby snapped.
"What if I made you a deal?" Damon asked, thinking fast of a way to save his little saviour.
"What kind of deal do you want to make me?" She asked suspiciously.
"I'm loaded, I have a lot of money… If you carry this child and stay healthy and stuff during the entire duration of the pregnancy and let me have it after the birth, I will give you enough money to survive a year in New York without working, plus an apartment near Broadway." Damon suggested.
"You want to keep this thing?" She asked surprised.
"Of course I do… Now do we have a deal or not?" he would compel her if he has to!
"Fine, but this apartment better be great!" She said.
Then it was decided that Damon would move in with her until the end of the pregnancy so he could make sure everything was done to ensure his little baby's health.
The next few months were long for the both of them but they survived and when Shelby was ready to give birth, Damon stood in the delivery room with her. All the papers were ready to rid her of all her rights as a parent and give him full custody of the little girl that was coming into the world under his eyes.
The only person he had warned was his nephew Zach when he told him he would be back in town to raise the baby girl during her first few years and that he didn't want Stefan to know anything about it. Zack didn't know what to say but he didn't have a choice but to agree and wait to see what would come out of this.
I know things are a little fast right now but it will slow down later... It's just the beginning... I didn't see the point of describing the 9 months.
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Lorelei Candice Black