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A/N: Sienna Salvatore – Danielle Campbell.
River Fell – Meaghan Martin.
Luna Lockwood – Isabeli Fontana.
Stone Fell – Alexander Ludwig.
Chapter 3:
"Are you up, S?" a familiar female voice asked and Sienna opened her bleary eyes looking around for the source. To her right she saw Luna Lockwood dressed in pajamas and looking like she had just woken up as well.
"Lu? What are you doing here? In my room … in my bed? Wait, are those my pajamas?" Luna rolled her eyes, "Good morning to you too sunshine. You don't remember what happened last night do you?"
Sienna looked like a deer caught in the headlights as she stared at Luna in fear and confusion, "What happened?" Stefan and Damon didn't compel her right? Maybe it was a different vampire? Oh, my god, was there another vampire in town…?
"Uh, you randomly dropped in the grill. Something about cramps and your baby. …You wouldn't even go to the hospital, so me and Care slept over," Luna yawned.
"Where is Caroline?" Sienna began looking left and right for her bubbly bestie. Luna shrugged, "Probably in the kitchen. By the way, Zach changed your doctor's appointment from next week to this afternoon."
"I'm fiiiine," Sienna whined as the two girls went out of Sienna's room.
"Pregnant woman don't just begin screaming out of the blue and collapse, S. maybe it was nothing, but all the same, you seriously you need to check it out," said Luna in a no-nonsense voice.
When Luna and Sienna walked into the kitchen, they saw Damon putting on his full-charm on Caroline who couldn't help but stare at him with googly eyes. Oh, hell no!
"Damon. Oh, Cousin Damon. Do you mind if I have a word with you. Right now. Out here. Aloonnee." Sienna didn't let her fake smile leave her face as she stared at Damon. Damon nodded and left the kitchen. "You two make breakfast. Pregnant woman here needs to eat!" she yelled at her friends. Just as she left the kitchen, she couldn't help but smile at the sounds of her two sisters rummaging around for food and cutleries.
"You know. I would ask how you're feeling, but yesterday you put a major kink in my plans, Sienna," Damon snapped with a slight growl as he stared at Sienna who adamantly kept her arms crossed.
"Oh, I'm sorry that I'm pregnant and I got some unknown cramping pain. Please forgive me," sarcasm oozed out of every single word that left Sienna's mouth and Damon had to fight back a smirk; that niece of his sure got spunk.
"I was planning on compelling Barbie out there to help me with my master plan," Damon glared. Sienna placed her palm over her right ear and began rubbing it continuously, making Damon look at her confused, "What are you doing?"
Sienna stopped rubbing her ear and stepped closer to Damon with her best bitchy Salvatore glare, "I'm sorry. I could have sworn that I heard you say you were planning on compelling Caroline, my best friend slash sister!" when Damon nodded, Sienna growled, "Rule Number Two, no eating, killing, compelling or torturing my friends who are like my sisters! I mean did ya forget that rule already!"
Damon flashed over to her and snarled, "I play by my own rules, Sienna. Don't think that just because we're related very distantly, I might add, or because you're pregnant-"but Sienna wasn't listening, she poked his chest with her index finger and carried on where she had left off before Damon interruptus.
"I mean, seriously. You could have picked anyone, anyone. Any freaking girl and you pick Caroline! What the hell is wrong with you? No. No!" tears began falling from her eyes and she was half-hysterical and half-bawling.
"Are you crying?" Damon frowned at her, backing off slightly. Yeah, crazy pregnant woman … not exactly his forte.
"NO! Yes. Stupid hormones! Ugh," Sienna plopped down on the comfy couch and looked up at Damon. "So you have a grand master plan. And I'm sure you're not going to tell me what it is right?"
"Of course not," scoffed Damon looking down at her like she was crazy … or well, crazier than she already was.
"Fair enough. Then why do you need Caroline? Maybe I can help without you compelling my friend."
Damon studied Sienna's intents for a while, wondering if she was actually being genuine or trying to deceive him. Finally he said, "She's friends with Elena, and I need her to get me invited into her home so I can mess with Stefan for a while. Also, I need a fake girlfriend so I can get into the Lockwood manor for the Founder's party that will come up soon."
"Of course, precious Elena," Sienna snarled. She thought about it for a minute then said, "Okay look, I like Stefan a lot, and I want him to be happy. But Elena Gilbert is bad news and whoever wants to give her hell is okay in my books, so I'll help you." Sienna stood up brushing away a few specks of invisible lint from her robe.
Damon's eyes widened in surprise, "You will?"
"Mmhmm. You're family I guess, and I don't have much family that are actually blood-related in my life … well, sort of, I mean you are a Salvatore, so whatever," Sienna laughed nervously, ignoring the incredulous look Damon was giving her. "There are many ways to get what you want without being a dick and using your freaky compulsion. Now. About getting invited to Elena's, you can easily stop by when she's at school and put on the fake older concerned brother act, wanting to talk to Jenna, her aunt. Say that you want to make sure Elena doesn't break your brother's heart because the last girl hurt him or whatever … Founder's party; I'm going dateless since I'm single now and no one wants to ask out a pregnant teenager, you can go with me. Problem solved and my friend's mind is completely intact. Anything else you need help with?"
Damon sat gaping at Sienna in shock. She just helped him out so easily, and without any deception, nothing at all. He didn't want to parade Barbie around town as his girlfriend and his niece just gave him an easy way to keep him happy and not put a kink in his plans.
"I'll let you know if I need any more help from your brilliant mind," Damon smirked.
"Pleasure doing business with you," Sienna grinned before making a beeline to her friends and that wonderful smell coming from the kitchen. She was absolutely starving.
The three girls sat down for breakfast and began munching on the yummy pancakes that she knew Caroline made since Luna; bless the girl, burns water. Sienna didn't even know how the grumpy brunette managed to even do that, but it's true, and since then, Luna was always eliminated from the kitchen unless it was microwavable food or pouring drinks.
"So… we're skipping school?" Sienna asked through a mouthful of pancakes.
"River is at school, her parents didn't allow her to skive off but Lu's mom said it was okay after she told her what happened with you. I'm gonna go back for cheer practice after school only," Caroline informed her.
"Yup, so Caroline is going to drop us off at the hospital for your checkup before she goes to cheer practice," Luna mumbled.
"Wait," Sienna swished her head towards Luna, "You're parents know that I'm pregnant?" She didn't want people calling her the town-whore.
Luna gave Sienna a deadpanned look, "My parents love you, they don't judge. They were sympathetic and sad. They also wanted me to tell you that if you need anything, not to hesitate and ask."
"Anyways S, you can't hide your pregnancy from the town forever. I mean you're already on the beginning of your fourth month, you're going to show pretty soon and everyone will know. You need to prepare yourself," said Caroline gently.
"And you can't hide your baby … that is of course if you're planning on keeping it," added Luna solemnly.
Sienna was silent after Caroline's words. During her isolation the whole summer, she completely spaced out over the fact that she would begin to show and wouldn't be able to hide her pregnancy from the whole town. Last week she noticed that her stomach was getting more round and she knew by the fifth month she would show a lot, unable to place the blame on too much junk food anymore.
Caroline was right, she had to get prepared for everyone to find out; she wasn't worried though, she had her sisters on her side and she now had Stefan … and Damon, even though he placed an uncaring front to everyone, she knew that he would protect her if it comes to it or if anything happens to her.
She wasn't ashamed either; she lost her virginity to her first love and even though Stone didn't love her anymore, she was thankful that her baby's father was someone she loves instead of some random douche one night stand.
Sienna beamed at her two besties, "Whatever. Let the town find out, I don't care. I'm not ashamed."
"Thatta girl," Luna smirked.
"Where is Damon?" Caroline suddenly blurted out. Sienna inwardly cringed, "Yeah Care, about him. I know he was the mystery guy from the grill and you're interested in him. But you deserve better than him. I know he's my cousin and I love him, but you would just be a rebound to him, and I don't want you to get hurt."
"But-"Caroline looked hurt and Sienna knew that she was going to start arguing.
"But nothing!" said Luna firmly, taking charge and Sienna mentally thanked her for that. "Damon is Sienna's cousin and if she says that you'd be a rebound, then trust her. You don't need another broken heart Care. You deserve someone that will love you for who you are; not random new guy's that appear in town."
"Exactly," Sienna bobbed her head as she pushed her empty plate aside.
"Fine," Caroline whined. "I trust you girls."
The three girls got dressed and after hanging around for a bit and gossiping, Caroline drove Luna and Sienna over to Mystic Falls Hospital, blowing them a kiss and promising that after cheer practice, her and River would meet up with them in the Grill, since she was going to see River in cheer practice.
Out of the four girls, only Caroline and River were interested in cheerleading, with Care as the captain and River as the next-in-line if Care was ever to quit. Sienna and Luna were more interested in sports and roughing it up, but now that Sienna was pregnant, she had to drop all activities.
"You want me to call Ty to pick us up after you're done?" Luna asked, taking her phone out. Sienna shook her head, "Nah, I'll call Damon once we're done. No offense but Tyler is probably doing something with Vicki or getting drunk."
Luna snorted but nodded and tucked her phone back into her pocket; Luna wasn't offended the least bit. She loved her twin, but she knew that he was very unstable. Tyler always picked fights over every tiny thing and slept around constantly, getting drunk every odd day. One would think that since Tyler had a sister he would learn to appreciate girls and treat them well, but he didn't.
"Ms. Salvatore, come in. Zachary called me and informed me of what happened with you last night. I think it was wise of him to move the appointment around," Dr. Ryles smiled, noticing Luna; he nodded at her, "Ms. Lockwood. Do you want to wait in the waiting room?"
"No, if you don't mind Dr. Ryles, I'd prefer to support Sienna," said Luna. Dr. Ryles nodded and ushered the two girls into an empty room and gave Sienna a hospital gown, informing her to get dressed while he stepped out.
After Sienna was sitting in the bed, he entered the room and took out some kind of gel. "Now I must warn you, this will be cold and a little uncomfortable." Sienna nodded and couldn't help but jump slightly when Dr. Ryles applied the gel.
He began checking her ultrasound scan for a while. A few minutes later, he clapped his hands together once and beamed at her, "Well, nothing seems to be wrong with you. You are perfectly healthy. It is normal for some women to get cramps during their second trimester in your condition."
"My condition?" Sienna couldn't help but ask, feeling a trickle of fear down her spine.
Back in the Boarding house, Stefan had just come back from football tryouts to see Damon lounging on his bed reading his diary.
"How were tryouts? Did you make the team? Very Emerson, the way you reveal your soul with so many … adjectives," Damon smirked. Stefan walked over to him and snatched the diary out from his hands, "What are you doing here?" he snapped.
Damon placed on a very convincing serious face, "I've come to apologize. I've been doing some thinking, some soul searching, and … I want us to start over. We need to put the past behind us. You're my little brother, and if you want to live a normal, happy human life, then I want that for you. Maybe I can do it, too. That I can learn to be a non-living living person. Maybe there's hope for both of us."
Damon tried to keep a straight face, but when he saw the hope ignite on Stefan's features, he couldn't hold it in anymore. He laughed at Stefan's face and his regular smirk was back in place.
Stefan looked downtrodden, but he covered it up well and snarled, "You know, it doesn't have to be this way, Damon."
Damon stood up and walked over to Stefan, "Of course it doesn't. I saw Elena today, BTW. That means 'by the way'. I went over to make sure Sienna's Blondie friend made it safely to practice and I saw her at cheerleading practice. She looked so perky in her little short shorts," Stefan growled, and Damon placed his hands up in a surrender motion, "Just … simmer down, I didn't even go near her."
"So, what then? Caroline is your puppet now," snapped Stefan. Damon gave him a lazy smirk, "She was going to be. But our dear niece has a way with her words. She convinced me not to touch her friends this morning."
Damon's phone beeped at that moment and he looked down to see a text from Sienna, "Speaking of which. I got to go. Have fun with your little dinner tonight at Elena's." he smirked and left.
"Are you okay?" Luna finally asked as they sat outside the hospital waiting for Damon. Sienna shook her head, lost in her thoughts. She couldn't believe the news Dr. Ryles gave her of her latest ultrasound.
Damon honked the horn upon noticing the two girls outside and Luna went over to sit in the backseat while Sienna sat up front. "So … what's up with you two? The tension is killing me." Damon snorted at his own joke that only he and Sienna would comprehend, but Sienna didn't look the least bit amused.
Damon stared at Sienna before looking at Luna from his rearview mirror, "Okay, what happened?"
"Twins," Sienna whispered. Damon nearly let go of the steering wheel due to shock, "I'm sorry what's that?" Sienna knew that he heard her – what with his awesome vampire hearing, but she knew that he was shocked and needed her to repeat what she just said.
"I'm having twins! Dr. Ryles said that it is normal for women carrying twins to get cramps during their second trimester and that it is my body warning me to take it slow since giving birth to twins is more fatal."
"I did not see that one coming," Damon commented casually, though he was very surprised.
"Yeah, well join the club," scoffed Luna. Damon dropped them off at the grill and told Sienna to take it easy before he left and the two girls entered to see Caroline and River sitting in a table waiting for them.
River looked relieved when she saw that Sienna was in fact, up and kicking. She jumped from her seat and engulfed Sienna in a hug, "I was so worried! How did the doctor's appointment go?" she asked, sitting her down on the seat beside her.
"Yeah, you two look very pale … is everything okay?" Caroline looked worried as her glance switched from Luna to Sienna.
"I'm having twins," Sienna decided not to beat around the bush and just throw the news out there. River and Caroline stared dumbly at Sienna with wide eyes, before looking at Luna to confirm that she was actually having twins.
Luna nodded, "It's true you guys. I was with her when the doctor announced the news."
"Twins! Wow, oh my god!" River gasped; she didn't know how Stone would take the news, he was already in denial about the baby being his and now there wasn't one, but two!
"It makes sense if you think about it," Sienna shrugged as she sipped on her chocolate milkshake with extra sauce bringing color back to her previously pale cheeks. "My dad and Uncle Zach are twins. And my mom is one of triplets. So it's in my genes through both sides of the family … thank god I'm not having triplets, even though I would have preferred one child instead of two … it is better than three-"
"Okay! S, you're rambling. Calm down, the doctor said too much stress isn't good for you or the babies, now that you're having twins," said Luna firmly.
"Good luck with that," River scoffed. "It's going to be very difficult keeping S calm for six more months."
"She might get into labor early. Most twins are born during the eighth month," Caroline said weakly trying to look at the positive side as usual.
"Oh wow, one less month … that's still going to be hard Care," River blurted. She felt so nervous now with this news and she didn't know whether to tell Stone or not. Her parents doesn't know anything about Sienna being pregnant since Stone was adamant it wasn't his and he didn't want his parents involved with the 'whore's kids.'
"Whatever. We'll get through this together," Caroline smiled. Luna and River nodded in agreement and Sienna began crying again.
"Stupid hormones … I love you guys!" she blubbered.
"We love you too!" River beamed.
"Come on, let's go over to your place and watch movies like old times sakes. Forget all the drama happening and just camp out with movies and junk food. What do you say?" Caroline offered with a chirpy smile looking excited.
The girls all agreed and Caroline drove them over to the Boarding House for a night of fun and no drama.
The next day was the football game; Sienna and Luna went over to the bleachers to cheer for Caroline and River, and also for Sienna to cheer Stefan on for his first game.
Sienna rolled her eyes when she noticed Stefan give Elena a necklace, and she was a hundred percent positive that it was laced with vervain; which reminded her that she needed to do the same for her friends. Even though the Forbes, Fells and Lockwoods were in the Founder's Council and knew of vampires, they didn't know that two vampires were parading under their nose wearing daylight rings, and so they probably didn't think there was a need to fill them up with vervain.
So it now fell on Sienna's hands and even though Stefan drank from woodland creatures only, Damon was a wildcard – proof of yesterday when he wanted to use Caroline as his puppet. She wanted her friends to always be safe, and she knew her Uncle Zach was growing vervain in the basement.
She entertained the idea of informing River, Luna and Caroline about the things that go bump in the night, but she didn't want them to worry or get involved with this life … she knew that they would never rat Damon and Stefan out to their parents, because then that would get her into trouble for harboring two vampires under her roof, and they always protected each other.
Sienna hated keeping secrets from her sisters. She decided that if things got too dangerous for them not knowing then she will inform them in a heartbeat. Her sisters always came first to her.
"Oh lookie, Elena quit the cheerleading team," Luna said in a faux-sad voice.
"Bummer," snorted Sienna. Stefan sent her a subtle look to be nice, but she just rolled her eyes and ignored him; yeah right, like she would ever be nice to Elena Gilbert. She never liked her and she wasn't about to start just because Stefan was into her. Stupid doppelganger.
After Tanner's speech, welcoming Stefan into the team, Luna began cussing loudly when she noticed her brother beating up Jeremy Gilbert.
"I swear to god my brother is insane! All this for Vicki Donovan, seriously?!" Luna growled in rage.
"Aren't you going to go stop the fight?" asked Sienna, looking worried for Jeremy. "No," scoffed Luna, "Let him get his ass kicked, maybe then he would learn."
Sienna noticed Stefan run over to them after Elena to stop the fight, when Jeremy picked up an empty glass bottle to smash into Tyler's head. Stefan caught it in the nick of time, and she winced. She knew Elena was about to see him bleed, not knowing that he was a vampire and would heal instantly. Glass didn't affect him, only wood.
"Huh, your cousin to the rescue," Luna smirked as they both walked over to the field to stand by Caroline and River.
Sienna separated from her friends for a while to listen into Elena and Bonnie's conversation; she noticed the suspicious look on Elena's face when she left Stefan, and Sienna instantly knew that she didn't believe his lie about his injury.
"Can I ask you a question and you give me a really serious no-joke response?" Elena was saying to Bonnie who looked perplexed but nodded. "The bad mojo. When you touched Stefan and you had that reaction …"
What reaction? What the hell is Gilbert talking about?
"You know what, forget I said that. Your little dinner party plot totally won me over," Bonnie laughed. Huh, must be the dinner thing Stefan went to and Caroline told her about.
"No, Bonnie, seriously. What was it? Did you see something, or…"
"It wasn't a clear picture. Like today. I keep seeing the same numbers I told you about … 8, 14, 22. When I touched Stefan, it was a feeling. And it vibrated through me, and it was cold and it…" Bonnie sounded a bit freaked out, and honestly, so was Sienna.
"And what?" Elena leaned forward curiously.
Bonnie's face formed into worry and fear, "It was death. It's what I imagine death to be like."
Sienna hurried back over to her friends. She would confront Stefan or Damon about it back home; could Bonnie sense Stefan was a vampire? … And how?
That night, Sienna sat in the living room, dread coursing through her veins after the events of that night.
Mr. Tanner was attacked by an animal, only she knew that the animal was actually Damon. She wasn't about to fool herself into thinking he wouldn't attack anyone. She was lucky enough that Damon respected her enough or whatever to leave her friends be, but it didn't mean she had to be happy with the fact that he took someone's life … someone she knew … someone that had been teaching her history for two years. A familiar face and a constant in her life, now gone because of Damon.
"Hey, you okay?" Sienna looked up to see Stefan looking down at her with worry.
"No! Damon killed Mr. Tanner, didn't he?" Sienna demanded, wiping tears from her eyes. Stefan sighed wearily and nodded, going over to take a seat next to her.
"Why? I mean, I know why. You said so yourself, he's volatile, I just thought-"
"You just thought that since he was being nice to you and hasn't touched your friends, that maybe he changed and wouldn't go around killing people," Stefan didn't sound cynical at all, instead he sounded understanding.
"Yeah," Sienna sniffled.
"I never put out hope that deep inside the brother I grew up with was still there. It was my fault … what happened to Tanner," Sienna gave him a questioning look, and he clarified, "I provoked him, made it out to be that he actually cares and has feelings. I told him he was just pretending to be a monster, and then I brought up Katherine. He killed Tanner to prove me wrong. He must be stopped."
Sienna was quiet for a bit as she digested what Stefan had relayed to her. She shook her head; she didn't want to psychoanalyze Damon's actions anymore. Instead she decided to ask Stefan about Bonnie.
"I overheard something between Elena and Bonnie. Something about when Bonnie accidentally touched you she felt cold and death … what the hell does that mean?"
"Bonnie is … she's a witch," Stefan told her, and he looked so serious that Sienna couldn't laugh in his face.
"Witch? Are you serious? You're telling me that witches exist?" asked Sienna skeptically.
Stefan raised his eyebrows at her and smiled, "Vampires exist. Is it so hard to believe that witches might as well?"
Sienna snorted, he had a point, "So, Bennett is a witch … huh. I guess you do learn something new every day."
"Yeah, the Bennett's are a very old, very powerful line of witches. I knew her ancestor Emily Bennett in my time. She came to town with Katherine, she was actually her handmaiden," Sienna was actually interested in what Stefan was telling her, listening curiously and absorbing all this new information. "Witches can sense vampires with one touch. But Bonnie is still new so she wouldn't understand what she felt exactly when she accidentally touched me."
"So that is why Elena made the dinner last night, so Bonnie could like you since she was feeling something off about you that she didn't quite comprehend," Stefan nodded. "So her Grams…?" she left the question out there.
"Yes. Sheila Bennett is a powerful witch and very old to the craft. From what I heard, she is trying to convince Bonnie of her heritance but she's in denial."
"Huh, and we all thought that Sheila was just kooky, turns out she is actually a witch," Sienna snorted. At that moment, Damon walked in with a smug smile on his face. "Am I late for family bonding time?"
Sienna glared at Damon and stood up, "I'm going to sleep. Night Stefan thanks for the talk." Stefan smiled, "Anytime. Goodnight Sienna."
Sienna walked up the stairway, hearing Damon nonchalantly ask Stefan, "Huh, was it something I said?"
A/N: What did you think about this chapter? So Sienna is having twins, and Caroline didn't end up being controlled by Damon … what else would change? If you have any requests let me know and I'll see if it works with the story.
R&R.