Outcast

Chapter 43: Baking the Love

Alec’s POV  

"Sam, we've been running for hours! I thought you were kidding when you said we were going to Pennsylvania." I said as she ran ahead of me trying to get me to speed up. 

"You know what? This whole running thing is really ironic. Back when I was human I couldn't run to save my live. Now I can beat you even if they tie my feet and hands together." she said out of the blues. She amazed me with the randomness she could put in a situation without ever making it awkward. 

"Ah life, thou art a heartless, random bitch." I said which made her laugh. "Oh, c'mon Sam. Where the heck are we going?" I asked her as I finally caught up with her. 

"Visiting some friends." she said. 

"Care to elaborate?" 

"Well, you seem like you can't let go the whole nursing thing so I'm taking you to meet the human I helped. She's one of the best friends I've ever had.

And her son is simply the cutest bundle of joy! I swear he had the most vivid forest green eyes you've ever seen. They remind me of Logan before he was turned into a vampire." she informed me. 

"Wait, you knew Logan before the whole thing with Gaius?" She nodded and explained to me how she met him once by coincidence. 

"So, Logan was Emily's lover and they had a child. Did his turning into a vampire divide them?" I asked merely interested. 

"No, actually Emily left so that Logan who was still human could live without the responsibility of a child as she thought it was her fault for not taking the pill." she explained. I frowned, what could pills have anything to do with pregnancy?

"Pills?" I asked feeling idiotic. It was the bugs thing all over again. 

"Yeah, she didn't take the- Oh... at this times I realise how innocent you are." she said with a giggled. Me? Innocent? If I could be called anything, innocent wouldn’t be one of them. Me and innocence just don't mix; we're like sworn enemies. I grabbed her in my arms and kissed her deeply. "Was that innocent to you?" I asked her after I broke the kiss. 

"Okay, innocent is most definitely not the right word. Perhaps uninformed is more likely. The pill is a contraceptive used by women to prevent pregnancy. Now you're asking the wrong girl since you know... I was not interested that way in guys so all I can tell you is the few sketchy things I remember from our P.S.D class. And since I never actually cared for that particular class my knowledge is very limited. But there are many and I mean many of those things. Like um... condoms and um..." I realised she was getting uncomfortable with the subject. But I was still curious since I did not know what the thing she mentioned was. 

"What are they?" 

She scratched the back of her head. "Um they are like protective rubber covers guys put on their um... man parts to prevent the um..." I stopped her as there was absolutely no need to go further into the subject. I understood. Martin Luther started countless wars because of the selling of indulgences... I was sure if somehow he'd transported here he would have had a heart attack before he could even start the reformation. 

"I thank my lucky stars I'm a vampire. This society is too messed up. I'm glad I don't need to involve myself in such repulsive doings." I told her. She laughed at me. 

Why did she laugh at me? "That's so Alec of you to say so." I looked at her quizzically.

"Perhaps it's because, I am Alec." She just laughed harder. I tried to stay serious but eventually I joined her too. 

"Come on. We're nearly there. I was wondering, how do you feel about kids, since we'll probably hang around Damon a lot?" I thought hard about it. It was sincerely a question I still didn't have an answer to. I haven't interacted with a toddler in centuries. This ought to be interesting…

"Um, I guess we'll see about that." Oh, yes we will.

We ran and five minutes later Sam stopped all of a sudden.

"Holy crap!" 

"What happened?" I asked her as I pulled away her hair from her face. I knew it was a vision but still, I couldn't help but feel worried and protect over her. 

"Damon!" she just muttered her eyes wide as saucers. This couldn't be good. If something happened to that child and his family Sam would be heartbroken.

"What did you see?" 

"It's his birthday today! And I didn't remember! What kind of godmother am I?" she panicked as she racked havoc in her purse to see how much money she had. 

"Sam, calm down! You were stuck in that clearing for months. I'm sure you must have had many thoughts on your mind. I'm sure we can find something to buy him." 

"Yeah, but we need to hurry. If you don't run faster I'm carrying you against your will." 

"You know that would hurt my big bad man pride, right?" he asked. 

"You will do what I say or I promise you it'll take you a very long time to catch that break we've been talking about lately!" Her voice sounded like an evil villain’s.

"You blackmail me! You're willing to use my need for you to blackmail me! It's like I don't even know you anymore." I looked away from her in fake disgust while she laughed - as she would put it - her ass off. 

"Don't worry. I'll only do it if you don't pick up speed. So hurry, ‘cause we'll going to Toys 'R' Us." she said with an excited note. 

"You seem excited to go to a toy store. Are you sure Damon is the real reason and not the inner kid inside you? Because you're so innocent and all..." I teased.

"Oh, please!" she snorted. 

"Whatever you say." 

"Come on Alec, of course it's not because I want to go to the damn toy shop. Stop looking at me like that." Aw, it never gets boring. She's so cute when she's annoyed.

"Yes, honey." I said with a thick southern accent. 

"That's it." Using her full speed, which is honestly even too fast for me she grabbed me from the sides and slug me over her petite shoulder. She started running and as much as I wriggled she wouldn't let go. And so by this point I could do nothing, so I just enjoyed the ride on my girlfriend, no innuendos intended. It was comical in so many ways, starting with the fact that even bended in half over her shoulder, my face touched her upper tight with every stride forward she took. Finally after about a minute of running she stopped and awkwardly put me down. 

"Sam?" 

"What?" her voice was intended to sound innocent but I could hear the laugh that edged her voice. She was biting the side of her lower lip. She looked so tempting. I had to ball my hands into fists to stop myself from grabbing her in my arms and kissing her into oblivion. 

"Samantha Hathaway, you are in big trouble, you bad girl." her eyebrows disappeared in her hairline as she heard the sound of her full name. I took the chance to grab her from the sides and start tickling her. She broke in a fit of giggles. 

"Alec... p-pp- please... sss- stop! It feels l-like I'm about t-to wet my pants." 

"Hmm... I don't feel like it." I said and continued tickling 

"Fine... I-I give! I'm sorry about your hurt pride! What can I do to repay you?" I stopped and rubbed my chin. "I have an idea." I put my lips to her mouth and time stopped. 

No, not really, time didn't stop in a way other than metaphorically because half an hour later I thought I would never hear the end of it from Sam for distracting her. We entered the toy store and I had to say, the size of it and the colours were astounding. 

"What would a two year old want in here?" Sam asked herself as she walked towards the toy filled isles. 

"What wouldn't a child want in here?"

"I don't know. I usual spend weeks planning on gifts. How will I ever decide what to pick?" 

"Sam, stop over thinking it. You're panicking for no good reason. It's impossible not to find the perfect thing for Damon in here. So let's calm down and pick something." I reasoned with her. She nodded.

"So you're a boy," she started. "Oh, you know that from first hand experience." I wagged my eyebrows and she rolled her eyes at me. "Back to the point. So what would you like in here?" she asked me as she checked out some sort of jack-in-the-box. 

"I know one thing I'd like in here and she's standing right next to me." I said smugly, only to be rewarded with a hell of a poke in my ribs from her.

"Focus!" 

"Gee, Sam you're blowing this out of proportion. So let's see... first of all how old is he?"

"Three." she answered. I tried to think of something but seriously, what would a man like me know about modern toys?

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An hour later, not only was I informed about toys but I was sick of them. Both of us had full hands, so full that the bags covered both our faces completely. Now I was sincerely sorry we didn't bring the car because we'd have to run carrying all these toys. Sam sure knows how to spoil children. 

We mare our way towards the forest and ten minutes later we stood in front of a beautiful semi-Victorian house. Sam eagerly made her way towards the steps and I followed her. She knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" A female asked from behind the door. 

"It's a surprise!" Sam answered. 

"It can't be." the woman muttered silently from behind the door. The door opened suddenly. "Sam?" a woman who was probably in her early twenties said.

"Hey, Em!" Sam said in a muffled voice because of the bags. 

"Oh my god! It's been such a long time since we talked! You haven't answered to any of my five hundred emails! I was so worried!" Sam put her bags down and hugged the woman. 

"Sorry Em, I've been in trouble lately, and then very busy." Sam answered and then glanced at me. I smiled at her. 

"Emily I want you to finally meet Alec. Alec, this is Emily, the girl I told you about." Emily gasped. I put down the bags and shook her hand. "Sam has told me so much about you! So you got back together! Aw I'm so happy for you guys! I love a good happy ending." the girl looked truly happy. I wondered how much Sam had told her about us. But Sam was smart, she wouldn't involve a human in the vampire world. They would only get hurt. 

"Pleased to meet you." I answered with a smile. 

"Yeah." Sam answered looking dreamily at me. God, she looked gorgeous.

"Mama." a little voice said before a little boy came running towards us. Sam was right; the boy's eyes were striking. 

"Damon! Come here! Auntie Sam came for your birthday!" Auntie Sam... It did have a certain nice tone to it. 

"Auntie Sam!" the little boy squealed and ran to her. She picked him up and lifted him above her while he giggled. "I missed you so much!" her face lit with excitement. 

"I missed you too auntie!" he said to her and she kissed his cheek. 

"Let's not stand out here any longer! Come on in." Emily told us. I picked up all the bags and though they weren't heavy at all they took quite a lot of space. 

"Oh my, let me help you with those." Emily offered. 

"It's alright, I got them." I answered. They would break the poor woman's back!

"Alright. You can set them anywhere on the floor in the living room." she said as she pointed to a spot near the sofa. I set them there and followed the women to the kitchen. At least that's what I assumed. I've never been in a modern kitchen but I could tell that this one was more then slightly messy.

"Emily, were you trying to feed the whole army of soldiers? What's with the chaos dominating the kitchen?" Sam asked as she put the kid down.

"I was trying to bake a cake and a few muffins for Damon's birthday. I invited a few families and their children over to celebrate but I just can't seem to get it right. I shame Betty Crocker!" Emily said as she grew away the grown contents of a bowl in the trash. 

"Leave it to us! Alec and I'll take care of the cooking." W-What? Me? Cooking? In what world was that even plausible? Just the smell repulsed me!

"I feel guilty! You've just arrived and I'm giving you work to do! You guys are life savers, I sincerely appreciate it!" the girl said. Suddenly her pants started to vibrate. She took a phone out of her left front pocket and answered.

"Hello? ... You'll never guess who's here! Sam and her boyfriend Alec!... Yeah, I told you so..." she pulled the phone away from her face and told us that Jason said hi. "So why did you call..." there was a long pause. ”Seriously?!... 'Kay I'm coming... See you.... Love you too." she ended the phone call and looked at us apologetically. "Jason is stuck at work! He forgot his wallet this morning so he can't call a taxi. I need to go get him." she finished with a sigh and grabbed the car keys from a key-holder on the wall. She picked up her son and rested him on her hip. 

"Oh, don't worry. We'll stay here to cater for the food. Tell Jason we said hi too." Sam said as she washed the dishes. I know I was probably supposed to help but just the appearance of the stuff made me feel nauseous. 

"Thanks!" she said, "See you soon."

"Goodbye!" Damon said and waved at us with his little tiny hand. They exited and I walked over to Sam who was now using vampire speed to wash the dishes. 

"Come on, A. Roll up your sleeves and just get to work. I was wearing a black fitted T-shirt so I had no sleeves to roll up. She must have seen me glance as she rolled her eyes at me.

"You are seriously going to touch human food." How could she bring herself to do it?

"Yeah and I'm going to turn it into a wonderful cake and three dozen cupcakes. Come on A! I need you!" How could I say no to that? 

And so she told me what to do and I followed her directions. She would know if I was going to mess up, so her visions spared us a lot of time. Like this one time with the eggs which I was going to smash to pulp. She told me I just had to lightly bang it, so lightly even humans don't use their full force. 

The way she cooked and her dedication to the food, the way she handled the ingredients, it made me think that the kitchen was her marked territory. 

"How come you're so fluent with this?" I asked her out of interest as I put the batter in different sized containers and put them in the oven. 

"I used to bake for our annual bake sale at school and I was always in on cooking duty at home. This is second nature to me." she said as she distributed the batter evenly in each cupcake holders and put them to bake underneath the cakes pieces. 

"So I guess we're done! We did a pretty good job, didn't we?" I asked as I peered through the glass in the oven. "Oh it's no over yet! Now comes the fun part!" she said as she wrecked havoc in the cupboards. She opened all the packages and began working on some black strips she informed me later that it was liquorish and that it was eatable. The humans just ate the strangest foods. She bended it and filled it with some sort of colourful jelly beans. She did this four times. Next she made a car body out of frosting. She got it perfect to the last detail. She used the liquorish as wheels about forty-five minutes later the cupcakes where ready so I was in charge to frost them and put colourful sprinkles on them. I was a little clumsy at first but Sam took my hand and showed me how. By the end they were pretty decent! A quarter of an hour later the two cake bases were done. We gave them fifteen minutes to cool off. We took them out of the bases and cut them in half. We spread a thick layer of Nutella and put the top back on. Sam then slowly put the cakes on top of each other. And put whipping cream around the edges of the cakes. She sprinkled sprinkles on the whipped cream. Then at the top of the fist cake she put a paper with an image of a cartoon car. She told me it was eatable rice paper. Quite inventive of the humans. She then covered the sides of the base cake with brown frosting and set up the car the side and used more rice paper to make white strips in the middle of the sides as if to make a road. Then she handed me a bottle which said. "White Milk Chocolate Sauce." 

"Calligraphy is your department, love. Write Happy Birthday Damon here please." she said pointing to a side of the 'road'. I concentrated hard and started ‘writing’. When I was finished I looked up to see Sam beaming at me. 

"It's amazing Alec! I love it! We're one kick ass team!" she said, hugging me from the side. "It's almost as amazing as the chef!" I said. Only then I noticed her apron, which read Kiss the Chef! 

She gave me a grin. "It's fairly adequate! Don't you think?" I said and pulled her in an embrace and crashed my lips to hers. I cupped her face, claiming more domain on her lips. "You can't stay longer than five minutes without touching me, can you?" she asked me. "Nope!" I said letting the p drop. "Say it again." she said. I repeated the word for her. "It's so cute! Almost as cute as this." she said and whipped a dab of whipped cream on my nose. I tried to blow it away, which made her only laugh harder.

"You know, two can easily play at this game." I said, sniffing a challenge in the air. I saw the open box of sprinkles and a bell rang. 

"Sam, that top is quite colourless! Let's add a sprinkle of colour to it." I said and without hesitating, I pulled her shirt and showered her cleavage in sprinkles.

"You did not just do that." she said, trying to shake the sprinkles out of her bra. "Oh, but I did." I smirked at her.

She opened the fridge and searched for something. The next thing I know, I was pelted in ketchup. I sent her a playful glare and she just smirked. We circled the kitchen isle until I was in front of the fridge. I looked inside and found a jug filled with water. Sam was wearing a white tank top. I gave her a grin and threw the water at her chest. She shuddered at the sudden coolness. 

"That was uncalled for!" she said; trying to dab at her wet shirt which was turning colourful because of the sprinkles.

"Perhaps, but it sure was worth it!" I said suggestively at her as her shirt clung attractively to her, leaving pretty much nothing to the imagination. Not that I needed it, I've already seen it all but every time I got to see her in her perfection I could never believe that the girl I loved was mine.

I was cruelly snapped out of my train of thought as I felt something trickle down my pants. I gasped in surprise and looked down. My pants were dripping wet, and not only was it irritating as hell but it was also sticking to my skin, making me squirm uncomfortably in the light blue jeans. 

"What did you just pour down the front of my pants?" 

"Oh, look Alec just peed on himself." She said with a snicker.

"Very mature, Sam." she just stuck her tongue out at me. "Okay, so you just poured disgusting human stuff all over me, you think you'll get away with it just by batting your eyelashes?"

"Pretty much." she said, obviously batting her eyelashes to prove her answer. From the corner of my eye I could see the whipped cream can. I quickly grabbed it before she could and pelted her in whipped dream, ending with a mountain of whipped cream on her head. I searched the fridge for the only thing that could top my masterpiece. I placed the cherry on top of Mt. Sam and looked at my results.

"Perfection." I said with a French accent and put my fingers in an ok form and kissed them. 

"You... You're..." 

"What? Handsome? Adorable? Charming? Devilishly cute?" I asked her, quoting some of the words she used to describe me as. I closed in on her until she was standing against the fridge. I closed in on the space between us until it was nonexistent. Her eyes were locked with mine, her lips slightly parted. I claimed those rosy lips with mine. 

At first she wouldn't respond, but I knew she wouldn't resist for long. She pressed herself closer to me; she was so close I could actually feel the water soaking off her shirt and onto mine. She ran her hand through my hair pulling me closer to her, if that was even possible. I ran a hand through hers, my hand meeting the sticky cream. I was afraid that I was rubbing it further into her hair but she didn't seem to care. I realised that all she cared about right now was me. She was my little angel, loving me into oblivion for anything I once held dear. Only she mattered, she was my world, my life, my sole reason for looking forward to immortality. I caressed her jean covered thigh and pulled her leg up from the knee and thus pressing her further into me. I growled with anticipation. My need for her was now stronger than my bloodlust had ever been. If she didn't step away from me I was afraid I'd take her right there and than on the kitchen counter. We moved just a step to the right where the kitchen counter begun. I pulled her up onto the counter from under her arms while never stopping our kiss. I didn't notice the door open till I heard a gasp.

"Sam!" Emily's voice rang. Busted! In the state I was in I had no appeal to turn to face her but Sam clearly was shocked as her lips stopped moving against mine. I reluctantly let her break our kiss and turned around. The two adults in front of me looked stunned. Emily was covering Damon's eyes with her hand while the boy tried to get it off. 

"Oh, hi Em, Jason!" Sam got off the counter and once she realised that she might as well have walked out in her underwear because of the now transparent top, she hid her body behind mine. I know I must have looked stupid but I couldn't manage anything else other that a lopsided grin. Sam was like a drug to me and man was I on overdose! 

"Hi." I said and waved a little at them. "Um, I know it's rude but could you just step out for three minutes, just so we can clean this up?" Sam asked, her voice high with embarrassment.

"Huh! I thought I'd never see the day where Sam acted as a teenager! Sure, don't worry, but if you do the dirty I suggest you take Sam's old room. The kitchen counter isn't quite as comfortable." Emily said once she gotten over the shock. She ushered the man outside, but just as she was about to close the door she said something that made Sam burry her face in embarrassment.

"Oh, and don't forget to use protection! The rubbers are in the fourth drawer in my bathroom, just for further reference." she winked at us and left. Rubbers? What the hell was she talking about? Then I remembered the earlier conversation with Sam. 

Oh!  

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Important Note:  

While writing this I couldn’t help but feel like was writing a load of crap. I don’t know if it was just me but I was afraid the chapters were getting boring. I try to include humour… but I don’t know… this whole lovely dove stuff… do you guys think it’s becoming sappy? If so please warn me…  

Oh and I was thinking about the future of this story. I have already planned this out, but what I intend to do is a major twist that fares off from Meyer’s. It’s still going to be Twilight based but I just wanted to add my touch to it? But what I’m asking you is do you want this twist, cause it will involve heartache for our favourite couple. Of course not right know but in a few chaps…   Anyways, please comment and tell me what you think because I’m kind of in a dead end…  

Thanks for your support :D  

Until the next time, my lovelies :3