A Unexpected Miracle

The Witch

Going to school was the last thing on my list of things I wanted to do. Jenna kept knocking on my door yelling at me to get up. I didn't answer her.

"Elena you're going to be late for school," I heard her say from the other side of the door.

I groaned, knowing that I had to go to school. I told Jenna I was up and that I would be ready quickly so I could drive Jeremy and myself to school. I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth and looked in the mirror. I looked like complete s**t. My eyes had dark circles underneath them from my lack of sleep and my eyes were swollen from all of the crying I had been doing. As I brushed my teeth, my eyes drifted to the tiny trashcan where the positive pregnancy test was hidden.

I still couldn't believe I was pregnant and I probably would never believe it. Before I took the test I tried so hard to convince myself that I wasn't, but all of the signs were there. I hadn't gotten my period, which told me right away that something was off. I was throwing up a lot, but I tried to pass it off as food poisoning. I was tired, I was getting headaches repeatedly, and don't even get me started with craving different kinds of foods at random times.

Everything led to me being pregnant, but getting pregnant was supposed to be impossible for me. I slept with Damon who is a vampire. Vampires can't procreate. This sort of thing wasn't supposed to happen. Abortion was an option, but I was against that. There was nothing I could do. I would have to keep the baby.

I walked back into my room and got dressed before I grabbed my schoolbag. I walked down the stairs and felt a wave of nausea hit me as I smelt waffles.

"Elena do you want something quickly before leaving?" Jenna asked me.

I shook my head and kept my mouth closed. I didn't answer her in fear of vomiting all over the stairs. Instead, I rushed out of the door and got straight into my car. A few minutes later, Jeremy got in too.

"Elena are you alright?" he asked.

I looked over to him and tried to give him a reassuring smile. He was worried and I figured Jenna was too. "It's all good. I just have a test that I was supposed to study for but I totally forgot," I lied. I hated lying to Jeremy but for now, I had to lie.

Jeremy laughed, "I've been there before. Don't worry about it. You're one of the smartest kids in school. One test won't kill you."

I faked a laugh before starting the car. I pulled away from the curb and started driving.

The car ride was silent and for once in my life, I was so happy that we lived so close to the school. I parked the car and said goodbye to Jeremy as he went his own way. As I was swinging my bag over my shoulder, my phone rang. I took it out of my pocket and saw that it was Damon. I hesitated, not knowing if I should answer it. I did anyway and said hello.

"Are you at school?" Damon asked me.

"I have to be here, Damon. Where else would I be?"

"You don't have to be there. You don't have to be anywhere. You just think you have to. I'm coming to pick you up. We have things to figure out."

"No," I said. I leaned against my car as I spoke, "You're not coming to get me. You can pick me up after school." It wasn't the best idea to spend time with Damon and tell him to pick me up, but he was right. We did have things to figure out, like how I was pregnant with his child. We both needed to figure out what was going on.

"Fine. I'll pick you up after school," Damon agreed.

We ended the conversation and I headed into the school. I went over to my locker to get my books for the first few periods. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Bonnie come over to me.

"Hey," Bonnie greeted me. "Where were you all weekend? No calls, no messages. I was worried."

I sighed and gave Bonnie a small smile. I apologized, "I'm sorry. I was busy all weekend."

"Is everything okay?"

I looked into my locker and felt like crying. Is everything okay? No. Nothing was okay. I wasn't sure if things would be okay ever again. I couldn't tell Bonnie yet. I couldn't tell anyone yet, especially not at school.

"What's up you two?"

I slammed my locker shut as Caroline joined Bonnie and I. The girls jumped and I apologized again. I went to walk away but Bonnie grabbed my arm. I turned and looked at her. Her face was blank and she was staring at me with wide eyes. I knew she had seen something. I yanked my arm out of her grip and left quickly, saying I had to get to class.

The first few periods flew by, but maybe it was because I wasn't paying attention. I knew Bonnie had seen something when she touched my arm and that worried me. I could only imagine what she had seen and hope that I was just being crazy.

Lunch had come fast. I stepped into the cafeteria slowly. The smell of food was unbearable and I wanted to run to the bathroom, but I knew I couldn't. Bonnie and Caroline already had seen me, and as if those two weren't enough, Stefan was with them. I hadn't seen him all day.

I walked over to their table with a smile, trying to act as if everything was perfectly fine. "Hey guys," I said to them as I sat down.

"Hey," Stefan leaned over and kissed me on the cheek.

"Are you okay?" Caroline asked me.

I nodded, "Yeah. I'm fine. I'm sorry about this morning. I had to get something done."

Just like Jeremy did this morning, Caroline bought my lie. She jumped up from the table and left to get some food. I looked over to Bonnie and wanted to bang my head onto the table. I could tell she wasn't convinced. That made me worry ten times more than I was in class before. I could tell Stefan was confused as he looked between us.

"Are you sure everything is okay?" Stefan asked. He placed his hand on my lower back and I patted his leg. I nodded at him with a smile, saying that I was fine.

Caroline came back and set her food onto the table. I looked over to her tray and regretted it almost instantly. I had no idea what she was eating, but the smell was horrible. I closed my eyes and tried to push back the contents of my stomach, but this time I couldn't. I excused myself from the table and ran quickly to the bathroom. I slammed the stall door open and dropped down to my knees. For what seemed like the millionth time in the past week, I started to throw up. I felt a hand pull my hair back and another hand start rubbing my back. When it was all over, I sat down and wiped at my mouth. I opened my eyes and saw Caroline and Bonnie staring at me in concern.

"Come here," Caroline picked me up carefully and brought me over to the sink. She took a paper towel and wet it a little bit. She started dabbing at my mouth.

"Elena what's going on?" Bonnie asked. She had her arms crossed across her chest. The way Bonnie was looking at me told me that she already had it figured it out.

"You already know, Bonnie," I whispered.

Caroline looked over to Bonnie with a questioning look.

"You can't be pregnant, Elena," The witch shook her head.

"You're what!" Caroline shouted.

I hushed Caroline and told her to be quiet. Even though no one was in the bathroom with us, I didn't want anyone outside hearing.

"I really don't want to have this conversation in school. I don't want people to hear," I told them. I pushed myself off of the counter. I looked at them with sad eyes, "I don't know what's going on. I'm going to get it all figured out after school."

A moment of silence passed between us before Bonnie broke it. "Come to my house after school."

That's all she said. Bonnie walked out of the bathroom and Caroline followed after giving me a small hug.

After the moment in the bathroom, the rest of the day went by fast. I got my things from my locker quickly, eager to get to Bonnie's house and figure everything out.

Stefan came over to me and I smiled at him.

"Do you need a ride home?" he asked me.

I shook my head, "No. I'm actually going to Bonnie and Caroline's house. I'll call you later."

He smiled down at me and leaned in for a kiss. I turned my head at the last moment and felt his lips press against my cheek. He frowned. I shrugged my shoulders and lied again, "I have a cold. I don't want you to catch it."

Before he could explain to me that vampires couldn't get sick because of a cold I walked away quickly and exited the school. I could see Damon standing next to my car and he waggled his fingers at me when he spotted me.

"Get in the car," I said. To my surprise, he listened without making any comment. I drove away quickly, worried that Stefan would spot us leaving.

"What's the rush, Cinderella? Afraid of getting caught?" Damon joked.

"I don't want to be asked anymore questions. This entire day was spent answering questions and I'm sick of them," I snapped. I looked over to him and saw that he was taken back. "I'm sorry. Today was just bad. Bonnie and Caroline know."

"How the hell does Judgey and vampire Barbie know?" he shouted.

"Bonnie figured it out. She grabbed my arm and I don't know what she saw but whatever it was wasn't good and then I threw up in the bathroom during lunch and her and Caroline ran after me," I spoke fast.

"So what now? Are they coming to get me?"

"They don't know the baby is yours." I turned around the corner and drove down Bonnie's block. "We're going to Bonnie's house."

"So they can stake me in person? Wonderful," Damon rolled his eyes.

I stopped in front of Bonnie's house and looked over at him. "Hey," I said. He looked over at me with a blank expression. I placed my hand on his arm with a small smile, "I won't let them stake you."

The corners of his lips lifted up for a brief second before he got out of the car. I followed him and we both walked up the porch. I knocked on Bonnie's door and we waited for her to answer. She answered it quickly.

"Hi," I said.

"Why is Damon here?"

"I'm here to hang out with my three favorite girls!" he exclaimed with fake enthusiasm.

"I'm not inviting him in. He has to go," Bonnie said to me.

"You have to invite him in," I told her.

"Why?"

"Because he's the Father of the baby, Bonnie. Now let us in," I demanded. At this point, I was beyond frustrated. All I wanted was answers.

Bonnie said nothing to what I told her. She invited him in before storming off into the kitchen. I followed her quickly, urging her to listen to all that I had to say. She stopped by the kitchen table where Caroline was sitting.

"Damon is the Father, Elena? Are you kidding me?" she yelled at me.

I put my hands up in front of me, "Bonnie I really don't need you to yell at me right now."

"Stefan is your boyfriend Elena and you're pregnant with his brother's baby! Does that sound wrong to you because it sure as hell sounds wrong to me!"

"Bonnie, let Elena explain," Caroline tried to calm Bonnie down. I smiled at her in appreciation.

Damon stepped in behind me and leaned against the doorframe with his arms across his chest, "Elena and I got drunk, very drunk. We ended up having sex."

"And now she's pregnant," Bonnie said.

"I don't know how that part happened, Bonnie, and neither does Damon. I was beyond drunk and it was wrong of me, I know." I walked over to her and looked at her with pleading eyes, "You can't be mad at me for something I had no control over. I didn't know what I was doing."

"Elena vampires aren't supposed to procreate," Caroline said.

"We know that, Barbie," Damon yawned.

"I'm glad you're yawning while we're discussing the baby you're not even supposed to have," Bonnie yelled at him.

Damon pushed himself off of the wall and moved closer to us. I turned and pushed him back before facing Bonnie again, "Stop yelling at him."

"I was slipped something before I got completely trashed," Damon said. I had never heard that piece of information before. I turned to look at him and asked what he meant.

"It was probably some witch," Damon looked at Bonnie when he said that. "Some woman had come up to me. She told me that I was a great person, like I didn't know that already, and told me that great changes were coming my way."

I looked back at Bonnie, "Do you know anything about something that could have been slipped in his drink?"

She told me she would check her Grimoire and left the kitchen quickly to go upstairs. I sat down at the table next to Caroline while Damon walked around the kitchen. "Are you mad at me?" I asked Caroline.

She shook her head and touched my hand gently, "I'm not mad at you. I'm worried about you, but not mad."

I leaned over in my chair to hug Caroline. I was happy that she wasn't mad at me. She hugged me back and told me that it would all be okay. I didn't believe her, but I nodded my head anyway.

"Can I get a hug too?" Damon snickered.

Caroline gave him the finger before rolling her eyes.

"Fertility potion."

We all turned to look at Bonnie. She was standing at the bottom of the stairs.

"You were slipped a fertility potion. It can only be made once every one hundred years and given to one vampire," Bonnie explained.

"And I was the one chosen?" Damon asked.

"Apparently so," Bonnie said.

I looked over at Damon and saw that he had another blank expression. I stood up and touched his arm lightly, "Are you okay?"

He said nothing and I started to worry about him. He looked down at me and I saw fear in his eyes. He excused himself and rushed out of the house.

I sat back down and put my head in my hands. My shoulders started to shake as I began to cry. I heard the sounds of a chair being pushed back. Caroline wrapped her arms around my shoulders and slowly rubbed my hair. I appreciated the comforting actions, but nothing helped. Hearing an explanation confirmed it all. I really was pregnant with a vampire's baby. I sobbed, knowing things were beyond messed up.

I felt Bonnie's arms go around me too. It was only when I felt tears falling on my head when I realized my friends were crying with me.

"It'll be okay, Elena," Bonnie cried. "It'll be okay."