A Miracle Unexpected

Chapter 12 -Peanut

Damon's P.O.V.

My head snapped over to the doorway when I heard Elena's voice. I let go of Stefan's neck and dropped my hand. Stefan didn't do the same.

"Stefan let him go," Elena demanded.

I looked back at my brother just as he let go of me. I fixed my shirt and walked past with him a blank face to sit on my bed.

"Elena," Stefan said, surprised to see her. "How was the doctor's?"

"Don't change the subject," she snapped.

"We were just talking. That's all," Stefan's cold eyes moved over to me. "Right, Damon?"

I rolled my eyes. It was as if Stefan thought lying would get him on Elena's good side. Clearly neither of us were on her good side, so why lie?

"Oh that's what you call talking? Trying to choke each other?"

"It's not like we could choke each other, Elena," I said. "We're vampires. It takes a lot more than choking to kill us."

"It doesn't matter if you're vampires or not," she shouted. She crossed her arms across her chest. "I want to know why you two were fighting and I want to know now."

"Just the usual brother stuff," Stefan mumbled under his breath. He moved over to her and touched her lightly on the arm. "Come on. Let's go to my room and we can talk about your doctor's appointment."

Elena looked over at him and said, "I'll be there in a minute."

I could tell Stefan didn't want to leave her alone with me, which made me want to smirk, so I did smirk. He glared at me before leaving and I stood up. "What do you want, Elena?"

She opened up a folder and took a small piece of paper out. She walked over to me and handed it me. I looked down at it confused. "What is this?" I turned the picture around in circles. It was a black screen with numbers and letters. Besides that, I couldn't see anything else.

She laughed a little bit and moved next to me, our arms touching lightly. I tried not to let this affect me. She pointed her finger at a small little dot that I focused my eyes on. "That," she whispered, "is the baby."

"That's the baby?" I asked with a shocked voice. I squinted my eyes at the picture. "I've seen a lot of babies. That doesn't look like one."

"That's because it hasn't grown yet. It'll grow and soon we won't be looking at a picture of something that resembles a peanut."

I looked at it for a few moments before handing it back to her. She pushed my hand back towards me and wouldn't take the picture.

"Keep it. That's your copy. I have my own," she said.

I looked down at the picture again and back up to her. "Thanks," I said.

Elena smiled at me and I almost smiled back. She turned and left the room to go see Stefan.

I sat back down on the bed and looked down at the picture in my hand. I couldn't tear my eyes away from the tiny dot. It wasn't just a tiny dot though. "It's our baby," I whispered.

Looking at the picture made me wonder how the doctor's appointment went. I needed to know if the doctor noticed anything unusual, because let's face it: this wasn't an average baby. I'm a vampire. Elena is a human. I grimaced as I thought of that Twilight movie where the baby was half vampire at birth and everything was messed up. I don't think I'd be able to handle something like that and neither would Elena. No one would be able to handle that.

I wanted a normal baby. I wanted Elena to have a normal baby and I know that's what she wanted too. We never did talk about it, but I could tell. We wanted this baby to be the healthiest baby ever and I know that if any little thing seemed out of sorts, it would probably be because of me. Just thinking of something happening to my baby because of what I was made me furious.