It's Time To Wake Up, Elena

Chapter 27

Elena's POV (Five Years Later)

"Maia, Max!" I yell up to the kid's room upstairs. "Come on we're leaving for Aunt Caroline and Uncle Stefan's house!"

Damon joins me in the room, "Ugh do we have to go?" Damon whines. And tackles me down into the couch. "Can't we just stay here instead?" He said with a smirk and leaned down to kiss me.

"Ewww." Maia and Max said nearly at the same time as they saw their parents about to kiss.

"Oh come here." Damon laughed and chased after the kids as they ran around the house screaming.

"Damon likes to think of Max and Maia as a younger version of him and me. Max is the mini version of Damon and Maia is the mini version of me.

"Mom! Mom!" Sebastian yelled and ran into my arms.

"I got you! I got you! I'll protect you!" I hugged Maia, squeezing her tightly.

"Mom! No!" Max yelled as Damon finally caught up to him and started tickling him on the ground. "Ahh! Stop!" Max laughed.

I released Maia from my grip and hopped onto Damon's back, stopping him from tickling Max any longer.

Max calmed his laughter and his and Maia ran outside in the front yard waiting by the car.

Damon started laughing once he managed to get me off his back, literally. "I love you." He smiled.

"I love you too." I replied and gave him a quick kiss and grabbed the keys and ran outside and joined Max and Maia. Damon followed after me.

Once we arrived at Stefan and Caroline's, they greeted us outside.

We try to stay as close to each other as possible and that was pretty east technically Caroline is my sister in law and Stefan's my brother in law. It's not that hard either, because Caroline is always calling even if all she wanted to tell me was what she did that day, and somehow she can turn that into a 3 hour phone call. But it's okay, I love her for it. These past years have been the happiest years of my life somehow even more happier than the first years Damon and I started dating, because I have a family. Something I thought I would never have, I finally got and with the one person in the world I wanted it with...Damon Salvatore.

Our life story is not a simple love story, or a very happy one at times but through everything, we still manage to make something beautiful of it. Our babies, our life, our home, our family. I remember the first time I woke up in the hospital after giving birth, and saw Damon holding one baby in each arm and this huge smile across his face. Something that was never really common for Damon. But there it was.

I could never wish for any better in my life, even though there has been some rocky moments, I still overcame them and found where I wanted to be in life. And I'm happy with every little bit of it.