9 Months of Hell Chapter 11 Vampires and bath time

9 Months of Hell Chapter 11

It has been a few weeks since Damon and Katherine had their daughter. In those past weeks, everyone had noticed a big change in Damon's personallity. He has been more protective of Lilly, he's been more hostile towards Stefan then usual, and more sarcastic towards Elena and Stefan. Katherine didn't like that the two brothers couldn't get along. She wanted them to get along for Lilly's sake. She didn't want her daughter to always see her dad and uncle fight. She stomped up to Damon who was playing with Lilly. She was going to settle this. "Damon, we need to talk." 

Damon looked at Katherine and reconigzed the look on her face. He was in trouble or she was very upset about something. "What about?"

"About the way you've been acting towards your brother!"

Damon smirked. "What about my behavior?"

"You've been acting like a jerk towards him lately and I want it to stop. He hasn't done anything!"

"Yeah, he hasn't done anything. Except for when he tried to kill our daughter but that's not important." Damon sneered, picking up his three week old daughter off of the blanket and strom up the stairs. 

Katherine sighed as she slid down onto the soft brown couch and put her head into her hands. 

Damon walked to his daughter's room and smirked as he tossed her lightly into the air and caught her instantly. He swiped the bottle filled with breast milk from the dresser and fed Lilly. Damon held her close to him as he breathed in her scent, feeling the all too familar ache in his mouth. He pushed the hunger to the back of his mind without a second thought and sat down. 

An earth shattering crash from downstairs and Katherine's screams caused Damon to jump up. He immeditiately laid Lilly in her bed and dashed downstairs to find Katherine fighting two vampires. Before Damon could say anything, he was thrown violetly against the wall. He glared up at the vampire who had him in a choke hold. "Who are you?" he rasped.

The vampire just smirked. "You have no idea do you? Kathy never mentioned me?"

Damon could feel his rage reach it's peak. "What?"

The vampire grinned. He had him now. "Yeah, before you Salvatore brothers came along, she promised to turn me and make me her husband for all eterinity. But now, you enter the picture and she chooses you over me!"

Damon grinned. "Of course she would. Have you looked in a mirror lately?"

The vampires eyes became little titdal waves of hatred and rage. "You have no idea." He swifted kicked Damon in the stomach, causing him to double over onto the ground.

Damon could feel violet kicks raining down on him and he was feeling the darkness wash over him like water, trying desperately to pull him under. His daughter's cries is what caused a jolt of energy to to go through him. He could feel his attackers attention shifting away from him and with a brust of power he slammed the vampire on the hard floor, eyes angier then ever before. "Where are you going, coward?"

The vampire instantly reconizgeed the protective face and sudden burst of power. His face changed into uncontrollable rage. "You and Katherine had a kid?"

"Yeah, so what?"

"That kid is supposed to be MINE!"

With a speed that Damon couldn't even follow, the vampire had Damon pinned underneath him and held a stake in one hand, prepared to strike. Damon smirked. "You seriously think I'm that stupid?"

After delivering a bone crushing kick to te shin, Damon grabbed the stake and without a second thought, staked the vampire in the heart. "Good riddence." He turned to look at Katherine and smiled when she staked the female vampire she was fighting. Damon walked over to her. "Are you ok?"

Katherine nodded but Damon could see that something else was wrong. "Kathy."

"I feel so guilty about all of this." 

Damon looked at her seriously. "You did nothing wrong. In fact you did the right thing."

Katherine looked at him. "Really?" 

Damon nodded. "Yes you did."

Lilly's cries got louder as Damon smirked. "Be back in ten seconds." Katherine watched as Damon vanished up the stairs and soon Lilly's cries stopped. Damon reappeared in front of her, face serious again. "Are you sure there isn't anything else you need to tell me?"

Katherine shook her head. "Damon, that guy was nothing to me, and besides he's dead now. He can't hurt us nor can he hurt Lilly." She put her hands on his face, "it's over now."

Damon sighed as he kissed her. "Ok Katherine."

The front door of the boarding house opened and Stefan walked in with Elena, both smiling about something. Katherine gave Damon a strem look and Damon gave the same one back, but eventually Katherine won and Damon sighed as he looked at his brother. "Stefan, we need to talk."

Stefan looked shocked. Never had his brother wanted to talk to him before, or atleast not recently. "Ok." Was all Stefan said as the two brothers stepped outside.

The crisp air felt good on Stefan and Damon's skin as they stood by the house, wind lightly tickling their faces. "What is it you wanted to talk about?" Stefan inquired.

Damon ran his hand through his face and let out a big sigh. "Ok, look I'm sorry. I'm sorry for acting like such a jerk to you and staying locked up in the past."

Stefan smiled. "No, it was my fault. I shouldn't have done that. It was way out of line and for that I'm sorry."

Damon smirked. "Just watch yourself brother. Because if anything happens to my daughter at your hands I won't be so forgiving the next time."

"I'll keep that in mind." The brothers walked back into the house where Elena and Katherine were waiting. 

"It's done." Damon replied to Katherine's silent question as he went upstairs.

Katherine looked towards Stefan and he nodded. "I think me and Damon are on good terms."

"As good of a term you could ever be with Damon." laughed Elena.

Stefan smiled as he kissed her. "Yep."

"Well, now that that's settled, I'm going to talk with Damon. See you two later." Katherine bid both Elena and Stefan goodbye as she climbed the stairs and went into their bedroom to see Damon lying on the bed, a rose between his teeth. Katherine blushed. God, he was so hot. "Hello sexy."

Damon walked over to Katherine and gave her the rose. "Now, about our little deal." He began kissing her and slowly lifting her shirt above her head. 

Katherine giggled as she pulled Damon's shirt off. "We can't be loud."

"Oh, come on! I compelled Lilly to stay asleep the whole night. We won't have to worry about that."

Katherine immeditiately pulled away from Damon, a shocked look on her face. "You did WHAT?"

Damon sighed. "I told you I used-"

A hard slap in the face silenced Damon from finishing his sentence. "You compelled our baby??"

"You're acting like I hurt her. All I did was compell her not to cry while mommy and daddy do grown up things for an hour."

Katherine glared at him. "One, we would not be doing it for an hour. And two, don't EVER compell Lilly again! What if something happens and we don't know because of what you did!"

Damon rolled his eyes. "I'll be able to tell if anything is wrong-"

"Screw you Damon."

Damon smirked. "Ok, what time?"

Figuring that slapping him was useless, Katherine settled for giving him the evil eye as she slammed the door behind her, making the bedroom tremble. Damon sighed as he laid back on the king-sized bed he and Katherine shared. "Happens."

The door suddenly swung open and Katherine walked in carrying their daughter. She threw baby soap and shampoo at Damon. "Bath her." She thrust Lilly into Damon's arms and walked out without a single word. Damon just sat there for a minute, processing what just happened. He looked down to see Lilly contently sucking on her thumb and rolled his eyes as he stood up. He carefully held his daughter with one hand and in the other he carried the soap and shampoo.

He walked into the kitchen, completely ignoring Stefan and Elena talking in the living room as he got the baby tub and threw it into the sink. He set Lilly in an upright postition on the counter and began taking her clothes off. Elena cocked her head into the kitchen to see Damon undressing Lilly. "Need some help?"

Damon stopped undressing Lilly and looked at Elena, sarcasm written across his face. "Does it look like I need help?"

"Um, the sink is overflowing."

Damon cursed under his breath and went to go unplug the drain. He unententuorly let go of Lilly and she started to fall off of the counter. "DAMON!"

Damon caught Lilly before she hit the ground and glared at Elena. "Are you trying to give me a heart attack?"

"Are you trying to kill your daughter?" Elena retroted.

Damon glared daggers. "I knew she was falling and I was going to catch her. I don't need help. I am perfectly capable of giving my daughter a bath by myself!"

Elena sighed as she turned back to Stefan who was shaking his head at his brother. "I'll come to your funeral."

"Ha ha." Damon replied dryly as he laid Lilly in the tub. Elena shook her head as Damon turned on the water. 

"You might want to check the tempterature before you put her in the sink and turn the water on."

"Why don't you just butt out?" Damon twisted the knob and ice cold water came spewing out, causing Lilly to cry. Muttering curses at Katherine under his breath, Damon frantically tried to shut the water off but only ended up getting water on him instead. Elena, tired of watching this, walked over to the sink and shut the water off. Damon glared at her as his hair started to drip. "I could've done that."

"Sure you could've." Elena walked back to her place on the couch besides Stefan. "Oh, shampoo comes first and then you lather her up with body wash."

"I know that!" Damon yelled as he checked the water tempterature this time. He calmed down Lilly and set her now in suitable bath water. He ran water through her hair and then grabbed the shampoo. Damon squirted a little and rubbed his hands together a little too fast and watched as a piece of white foam went directly into his eye. "Sweet mother of god!" exclaimed Damon as he tried to get the soap out of his eye. After a few minutes of cursing Katherine out left and right, Damon looked up and saw Elena handing him a towel. He snatched the towel from her and furiously rubbed at his stinging eye, not even bothering to say thank you. "You can leave now." 

Elena just smiled. "Apperantly you need me Damon. I know more about this then you think. You forget I have a little brother."

Damon grumbled under his breath as Elena walked over to the sink and soaped up Lilly's hair. "I could have easily done that!"

"No Damon, you couldn't."

Just as Damon was about to rip her to pieces, Stefan intervened. "Elena, your brother Jeremy called. Jenna wants you home."

Elena nodded as she dried her hands off. "Well, I'm leaving just like you asked. Hope you make it out alive. First time baths can be burtal for the parents. Bye!"

Damon watched her leave and glared at Stefan, daring him to stay. Stefan took the hint and went after Elena. Damon now could bathe his daughter in peace. He rubbed the body wash all over her body except for her face. Carefully, he slowly put little dabs of the foamy white stuff on her cheeks and then washed her body off. "Heh, this is easy." Damon bragged to himself as he got a towel and wrapped Lilly in it. Damon felt something warm traveling down his pant leg and looked down to see part of the white towel stained yellow. "Are you kidding me?" Damon exclaimed to the empty house.

Damon walked up the stairway with Lilly wrapped tightly in a fresh towel and being the idiot that he is, trips on a toy and falls back down the stairs on his back. Lilly, however, remains perfectly safe while Damon has carpet burns on his back and possibly a twisted foot. "Curse this thing to hell!" Damon slowly got up after making sure his foot was turned the right way and dashed up the stairs. Once he was at the top, Damon finally was able to breathe. He entered the nursey and quickly put a clean diaper on Lilly and pajama's. Once she was fast asleep, Damon went back to his bedroom to find Katherine waiting for him in slutty pajama's and laid out on the bed.  "There, I bathed your daughter!"

"Correction, our daughter."

"Whatever! That little terror was the nightmare from hell!" 

Katherine smirked as she pulled Damon to the bed and in a flash she was on top of him. "You know you loved it."

Damon decided to ignore that comment and do what he came to do. He kissed Katherine's mouth hungrily, enjoying the ache in his mouth as his fangs came to the surface. He savioured the rush of adrilanine. Katherine kissed back with just as much passion, the fire of her lips and the ice of Damon's clashed with each other repeatetly, neither one giving up the erisitable thirst for each other. Fangs soon came out and blood stained the white sheets, each bite was more deeper then the last and drained more life but also replenished as they took each other's life force.

Damon rolled off of Katherine and laid on his side of the bed, breathing heavily. "That was amazing."

Katherine smirked as she looked at her tired husband. "You're acting like you haven't had sex in months."

Damon grinned. "Feels more like years." Damon laid there for a minute, letting his body calm down and heart rate return to normal. "Now all I want to do is-" Damon felt like the universe was out to get him as Lilly's cries rang in his ears. "Sleep." he finished, turning over in bed and tuning the sound out. 

Katherine sighed as she shook Damon. "Go handle it." Damon muttered.

"She wants you, Damon."

Damon groaned. "Too bad. Tell her I'm asleep."

Katherine hit Damon with a pillow. "Vampires don't need sleep! Now be a good boy and take care of your daughter!"

"What do you think I've been doing all day?" 

Katherine turned her lamp off and closed her eyes. "That's not good enough. Now go."

Damon looked at Katherine in disbelief as he walked out of his room and took his daughter's. That woman will pay.

A/N: I'm probably gonna post the final chapter tomorrow if no new ideas come to me. So if you want me to continue then feel free to offer some ideas :)