How To Expect The Unexpected

Crave

Later that night Damon woke up to find Elena missing from the bed. I sat up and wiped the sleep from his eyes before getting up. He knew she wouldn't have just got up and left in the middle of the night. If something went wrong with any aspect of her life she would have woken him up to tell him. When he got out of bed he heard rustling in the kitchen downstairs so he followed the noise. When he got into the kitchen he saw Elena and Stefan sitting at the island with a pail of ice cream between them and various other ingredients. It appeared that Stefan was just eating plain old vanilla ice cream but Elena was busy pouring various ingredients onto different spoonfuls of the delicacy.

"What's going on in here?" Damon asked when he saw them sitting together.

"I woke up when I heard Elena downstairs. I came down to investigate and she invited me to stay for ice cream. I've gotta say what she's eating is turning me off ice cream for the rest of my life. I assume it's a pregnancy thing?" He asked.

"It's amazing. Stefan, you've really got to try mustard." She said her eyes wide.

"No thank you." He said politely and Damon laughed.

"I've never experienced your cravings yet. This is far better than I thought it would be. I thought you were going to be one of those boring ones that only craved shit like broccoli." Damon said.

"I don't know what I'm craving. I woke up craving ice cream so I came downstairs to get myself some. But then as I was eating it, it wasn't as satisfying as I thought it would be and I knew it was missing something. So I started adding things to it. Mustard has been the closet I've found." She told him.

"Have you tried pickles?" He asked.

"Pickles weren't right. It was the first thing I tried and it wasn't satisfying at all. It was actually quite disgusting." Elena answered.

"And mustard and vanilla ice cream isn't?" Damon asked and Stefan laughed.

"Don't judge it until you try it. Madalyn loves it." Elena said rubbing her distended belly tenderly.

"I'm sure Madalyn loves it but I just don't understand why. It looks freakishly disgusting." Damon said shaking his head.

"I definitely agree with you. But since I'm finished and it's not my job to watch her eat something so disgusting, I'm going back to bed. Have a good night." Stefan said walking away.

"Night Stefan. Thanks for having an ice cream party with me." Elena called.

"No problem. I had fun." He told her and she smiled.

Once Elena was finally done her ice cream, her and Damon cleaned up the kitchen before heading back upstairs.

"You know you could have woken me up to come have ice cream with you." He told her as they walked back upstairs.

"I know, but you looked so cute and I didn't want to wake you up. You were snoring ever so softly and I wanted ice cream. I felt bad for waking Stefan up;. Your dad isn't going to be mad that I raided your fridge is he?" She asked.

"Not at all. He knows you're pregnant and he bought the ice cream for you. That's the only reason we have it." Damon promised and Elena felt so much better. He shut the bedroom door behind them and they both crawled back into bed.

"Get some sleep. We do have school in the morning." Damon urged her and she complied. She nestled herself back into his embrace and closed her eyes. It was much easier to fall asleep when your stomach was satisfied.

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The next morning when Elena and Damon came down for breakfast, Giuseppe was there with a smile on his face.