9 Months of Hell Chapter 9

9 Months of Hell Chapter 9 The Arrival

Katherine was laying in bed, completely drained of energy. It is now the last stages of her pregnancy and her doctor had put her on bed rest. Not that she was complaining, she was having a hard time getting up. Damon walked in with a blood bag in his hand and offered it to her, hoping that the blood would make her regain her energy back. Katherine sighed as she took the tube and drank from it, not feeling very hungry at the moment. All she wanted to do was sleep. Damon rubbed the side of her face affectionally. "Do you want anything?"

Katherine shook her head. "No thank you. I'm just going to get some sleep and hopefully feel better in the morning or later on in the day."

Damon nodded in understanding. "Goodnight." He kissed her forehead before walking out.

Katherine sighed to herself. The past nine months felt like a blur to her. It was surreal to her that any minute she could go into labor. She thought about her little girl growing inside of her and smiled at how she was going to change Damon. Damon will be at her every beck and call, constantly spoiling her with toys or whatever else she would want. "You're gonna be a big daddy's girl." Katherine whispered as she rubbed her blugling stomach softly.

Damon came back into the room to see Katherine with her hand on her stomach and smiling to herself. Damon smirked as he crept up to the side of the bed, careful not to be seen. He casually stood at the side of the bed where Katherine was facing away from him. "Having fun?"

Katherine let out a small scream and turned around to see Damon's smirking face. "You jerk, you almost gave me a heart attack!"

Damon laughed. "So? It was fun."

Katherine groaned as she buried her face into a pilliow. "You are such an-"

"Careful! No cursing around the baby. She can hear you, y'know." Damon's smirk widened. 

Katherine threw the pilliow she was holding at him. "Yeah, and she already knows you're a jerk!"

"She also knows that you complain too much."

Katherine raised an eyebrow. "Oh really? Who was the one complaining about having to go to the store to get some things for her, huh! And lets not forget your bellyaching when I forced you to set her room up!"

Damon glared and say nothing, knowing that she was right. Katherine smirked. "I win." she sang softly as she took her pilliow back from Damon. 

Damon rolled his eyes. "Whatever." He leaned down and kissed Katherine on the lips. He looked at her stomach and without thinking kissed it too.

Katherine laughed. "You're so cute."

Damon glared at her. "No I am not! Hanging around with you all day has made me like this!"

"Sure, sure. Then why do you have your hand on my stomach?"

Damon looked down and sure enough his hand was on Katherine's stomach. Before he could take it off and yell at Katherine, he felt a kick hit his hand. That only caused Kathetine to laugh harder. "See? She doesn't like jerks like you touching her!"

Damon sent an ice cold glare in Katherine's direction and looked back down to her stomach. "You'll pay for that later." he said as threatenly as he could before disappearing out the door.

Katherine smiled happily as she reached for the blood bag and drank more, feeling some of her lost energy return to her. She slowly got off of the bed and went downstairs to see Elena sitting on the couch. "Oh Elena. What are you doing here?"

Elena turned towards Kathetine and smiled. "Just waiting for Stefan." Her eyes traveled to her stomach. "Um aren't you supposed to be in bed?"

Katherine nodded. "Yeah but I think I can manage to stay out of bed for awhile." She took a seat next to Elena and noticed the troubled look in her eye. "Are you ok?"

Elena smiled the best she could at Katherine. "Yep everything's great."

Katherine saw right through that lie. "Elena tell me."

Elena sighed as she looked at Katherine, not sure how to tell her. "It's Stefan. I-I can't say what though."

Now Katherine was concerned. "Elena tell me, please."

"Well, he wants to-"

"If you're trying to tell us that he wants to kill our child then we already know." Damon walked into the living room and sat in the arm chair. 

Elena looked at them shocked. "He told you?"

"He tried to change our minds about the whole thing. He tried to make us think that this kid was going to be the end of everything." Damon shook his head at his brother's unreasonable judgement.

"Too bad it didn't work." smirked Katherine. 

Elena stared at them before getting up suddenly. "I have to go. I guess I'll see you guys later."

Katherine nodded. "Take care Elena!"

Elena waved bye to them as she hurriedly rushed out the door.

Damon looked over at Katherine. "That was weird."

Katherine shrugged. "I guess she had to go home."

Damon wrapped his arms around Katherine and squeezed tightly as he lead her up the stairs. "Let's go back to bed now." 

"Just a second. I have to go to the bathroom." Damon watched Katherine slam the bathroom door shut. He continued walking to the bedroom when an ear splitting scream made him whirl around. "Katherine!" He flung the bathroom door open and saw Katherine  on the floor and cluthing her stomach in pain. "Kathy, what's-"

"My water broke!" she nearly screamed at him as another contraction rippled through her body. 

Damon stared at her with a blank expression on his face. "Does that mean you're going into labor?"

"No, it means that I'm going to strangle you if you don't take me to the hospital!"

Damon's face filled with realization. "Oh, you're having the baby! I'll get a bag and-" 

"Forget the bag there isn't time! Just take me to the hospital NOW!" Katherine's face was red from screaming and crying. Damon carefully took her in his arms and flew out the house and to the hospital. Once he got there, he ran inside the building and up to the counter. 

"Get my wife into an emergency room now!" yelled Damon at the blond girl who was startled by his apperance.

"You're going to have to wait a little while-"

"I need a doctor now!" Katherine wanted to rip that girl's throat out if she didn't do as she wished.

"Get my wife a doctor now." Damon said, compelling her.

"Right away sir." The blond girl appeared to be in a daze as she she made a call on her phone, spoke a few words, and then hung up. "You're room number is 305."

Damon nodded as he quickly left the lobby where alot of angry people were sitting, pissed that they were made to wait longer. They finally made it to the room and Damon layed Katherine down on the bed and held her hand. "How are you feeling?"

Katherine just glared at him. "Oh right. Sorry I asked."

Another contration almost ripped her body into as she gripped Damon's hand for dear life. Once the contraction had passed, Katherine released the pressure she had on Damon. "Bones....breaking." Damon gasped as he took back his squished hand and examined it.

A doctor soon walked in, carrying some sort of measuring instrument with him and a clipboard. "Well, you must be Katherine and Damon. I'm Dr. Peter. I will be here with you today to help deliver your baby. Now we just have to check how many centimeters you've dialited." He took the instrument and lifted Katherine's hospital gown that Damon put on her as they got to the room and held the device between her legs and began making notes on his clipboard. "So far you have dilated one centimeter."

"What?" exclaimed both Damon and Katherine. 

"Yes, I know it's hard to believe with the amount of pain you're going through. Sometimes the clevis dialates slow or fast, and sometime it can change from slow to fast or vise versa." He put his pen on top of the clipboard. "I'll check on you in thirty minutes." 

Katherine felt another rush through her and screamed as she clutched the metal bars of the bed so hard they almost snapped. Damon looked at her with sympathitec eyes. He wanted to help her so bad, take away the pain she was feeling.. "It's ok sweetie." Damon said softly.

Katherine glared at him, her anger building to dangerous levels. "This is your fault! If we hadn't had sex then I wouldn't be in this mess!"

Damon felt his anger spike up, but pushed it back down and smiled at her. "I'm sorry Kathy. Is there anything I can do?"

"Just leave me alone you JERK!"

Damon sighed heavily as he thought to himself, she's just in labor. All women act like this.

A couple minutes later, the doctor came back in the room and checked Katherine. "Now you have dialated five centimeters."

Damon groaned. "And how many centimeters does she have to dialate in order to give birth? Isn't it ten?"

The doctor nodded. "Yes, it is ten. So far you are halfway there."

"I just want to give birth already!" cried Katherine miserably.

The doctor smiled. "The good news is that went you do give birth I can give you some medicine to cope with the pain."

"And will that make her less cranky?" Damon asked which earned him a death glare from Katherine.

"Well, you'll just have to wait and find out. For some women it works but for others it doesn't."

"Terrific." mumbled Damon under his breath.

"I'll be back in a bit for another check-up on Katherine." He walked out of the room.

Damon sighed as he went to go sit in the chair, waiting for Katherine to give birth. Slowly, his eye lids dropped and he fell asleep. 

Damon woke up a few hours later and saw Katherine laying on the bed, still pregnant and trying to sleep. "How many centimeters?"

"Eight." replied Katherine as she threw her head back, "does she want to make me miserable?"

Damon stood up and walked over to his wife. "Maybe she doesn't want to leave just yet. Or she just enjoys your misery."

Katherine looked at Damon with tired eyes and turned away from him. "Great." Sarcasm laced her voice. She sequeezed her eyes shut as another contraction surged through her body. "I can't take much more of this." Tears fell from her eyes like rainwater. Damon turned her face so she was facing him and wiped the tears away with the pad of his thumb. Katherine wrapped her arms around Damon's neck and he sat down in the bed, holding his crying wife and rubbing her back softly.

"It's going to be ok." Damon whispered in Katherine's ear.

The door opened and Dr. Pete walked in, a huge smile on his face. "I think it's time for someone to get wheeled into the delivery room." He quickly checked Katherine's dialations and motioned for other doctors to come in. "You are ready to have your child." He turned to look at Damon. "You can go in with her if you wish or you can wait in the waiting room."

Damon looked at him and thought about his offer. If he went into the room with her he'd probably have to deal with her screaming but if he went into the waiting room Katherine would surely kill him when she recovered from giving birth. "I'll go to the room with her." Damon said with a defeated sigh, knowing that he was going to regret it.

They soon entered the delivery room. It was very large and had a varitey of equipment on tables and a sink was located in the corner. The doctors wheeled Katherine to a wall and went to go put surgical masks on. Dr. Pete got a needle and stuck it in Katherine's skin. "This will make the labor less painful."

Katherine hissed in pain as the needle penitrated her skin but soon the needle was removed and Katherine relaxed. Damon stood by her bedside and spoke soothing words to her as the doctors came back. "Ok Kathetine we're ready. Now when we say push we need you to push ok?"

Katherine nodded. The doctor yelled something to the other doctor and he quickly got up. "Ok Katherine. Now you need to push."

Damon was sure that he would need hearing aids after this. Katherine screamed in pain as she pushed with all of her strength. "This is all your fault Damon! I never want to see you again you-" Damon only listened as she threw cuss word after cuss word at him. He was sure at the rate she was going she could curse out the entire encloycopedia. 

"Katherine, we need you to push!" the doctor urged.

Damon could feel the bones in his hands cracking as Katherine grabbed them and sequeezed the life out of them. Damon tried the get his hand free but it was like it was stuck to hers. "Kathy, honey you need to let go-"

"SCREW YOU! YOU SON OF A-"

Damon could hear his ears ringing as she continued to lash out at him. He didn't know how long he could take this. If this was the miracle of child birth, then this was one pretty sad miracle. "I can see the head!" The doctor interupted Damon's thoughts, "Katherine you need to push!" 

Katherine looked like she was going to leap off of the bed and strangle the doctor. "What do you think I'm doing?"

Damon bravely put his head on Katherine's forehead and tried to calm her down. "Katherine you need to-"

"SHUT UP DAMON!" she yelled, tears running down her face. She threw Damon's hand off of her and pushed him away from her. "Don't touch me!"

Damon sighed as he stood by the doctor and was doing anything but looking at the place where the child was coming out from. "Is this normal?"

The doctor nodded. "Perfectly normal. Don't worry, she be apologizing nonstop after she has the baby."

Damon nodded as he tried to ignore Katherine's verbal abuse towards him. Soon, Katherine's rant of why Damon should be burned alive and thrown in a river of fire was interupted by a high pitched cry. Damon almost lost his breath as he stared at the doctor holding a blood covered baby. He watched as the other doctor got sissors and looked at Damon. "Do you want to cut the unbilicord?"

Damon could feel his vampire insticts kick in as the smell of blood was getting more stronger by the second. He slowly nodded and took the sissors. He was careful not to touch any part of his child as he cut the cord and watched as the doctor took her to the sink and washed her off.

Damon looked at Katherine who was laying back in the bed, completely exhausted. "Hey." Damon said softly, but made no move to walk over to her. 

Katherine smiled at him and extended her arms. "Come here." 

Damon walked over and wrapped his arms around her as he kissed her softly. He looked over to see the doctor carrying a pink bundle in his arms and couldn't but smile a little as he placed Damon's child in his arms. He looked down at her and used all of his willpower to not let the biggest smile spread across his face. Little turquiose eyes stared back at him. Her cubby body was hidden behind the blanket but Damon could see her face and was amazed that he Katherine actually created this. Tiny whisps of hair covered the top of her head and her cheeks were perfectly round and rosy. Katherine raised her head up and saw Damon holding their daughter. She smiled as she held her hands out to Damon. "If you're done hogging my daughter then I would like to hold her."

Damon looked at Katherine and handed her the baby. "What are we going to name her?" asked Damon as he watched Katherine interact with their child. 

Katherine stopped looking at their child and looked towards Damon. "I was thinking we could name her Lilly."

"Lilly." The word rolled right off of Damon's tongue. "I like it. Lilly Salvatore."

Katherine smiled at Damon and looked at their daughter. "Lilly." she whispered, kissing her forehead softly. "Do you want to her Damon?"

Damon looked at her and shook his head. "No I'm good." he said quickly.

Katherine just smiled. He's just to arrogant for his own good. "Ok, you don't have to hold her. Just thought you wanted to before they took her to the nursery."

The nurse then walked over to Katherine and took the child from her. "Now we have to take her to the nursery and then we will have your first breast feeding lesson."

Katherine nodded. "Ok, bye sweetie." she cooed to her daughter as the nurse walked out of the room.

Damon had to hold back all of his temptations to take his child from the woman. He watched with protective eyes as his daughter was taken away from him. He felt a hand on his shoulder and he turned around the see Katherine's smiling face. "I know you love her Damon. It was plain as day on your face when you were holding her."

Damon just scoffed at her. "Your-your just imagining things."

Katherine just laughed to herself. Her eyes could see right through the hard mask he put up infront of everyone else. He had humanity in him, he just never wished to show it.

An hour had passed since Damon had seen his daughter but it felt like a century to him. "Where is she?" Damon asked impatiently.

Katherine laughed. "She'll be here in a minute. Don't worry."

Soon enough, the nurse walked in with Lilly in her arms, ready to be fed. "She just woke up and she's hungry."

Katherine smiled as she took her daughter in her arms. "Come here sweetie." The nurse helped Katherine unbotton her shirt and get the baby in place. Katherine felt the child sucking on her, drinking her milk greedly. Damon just watched with disgust. 

Once she was done, the nurse burped her and gave her back to Katherine. "You can put her back in the nursery or you could keep her here with you."

Katherine glanced over to Damon and nodded. "We'll keep her here."

The nurse nodded. "Ok. Well, there's an inculbator over there if you get tired of holding her."

Katherine nodded her thanks and watched as the nurse leave the room. "Damon?"

"Yes?"

"Could you bring me the incublor please?"

Damon did as he was told and brought it to her. Katherine layed Lilly in it and closed her eyes. "I'm going to sleep. Wake me if you need anything."

Damon waited until Kathetine was fully asleep before he picked up his daughter and went over to the arm chair to sit down. Lilly looked up at him in curiousousity and make baby noises up at him. Damon smiled as he kissed her. "Hey, I have something for you." Damon reached behind the chair and pulked out a brown small teddy bear. It had black eyes and a red ribbon tied around its ear. He put the bear in the inclubior and held his daughter close to his chest while looking at her in astonisment. Lilly managed to her one of her hands free from the binding blanket that was wrapped around her. Damon watched as her little hand moved with amazing speed and closed around his pinky finger. He could feel her soft baby skin rubbing up against his rough skin and he couldn't help but laugh at the obvious bond that they had. "You definantey are going to get spoiled for sure. I'm going to make sure of that."

A sharp knock almost caused Damon to jump. Quickly, he suped sped to the inclubior and layed Lilly down and went back to the couch like he had been there the whole time. "Come in."

The door opened and revealed Elena, smiling at him. "How are you Damon?"

Damon just looked at her. "Well, lets see. I'm pretty sure I just had the cussing out for a lifetime and I had to watch the most distrubing that ever, the beautiful miracle of childbirth."

Elena laughed as she sequeezed in next to Damon. "It can't be that bad."

Damon just looked at her darkly. "You haven't seen it so therefore you have no say."

Elena laughed, trying to hide the fear in her voice. "True."

Damon sighed and shook his head. "Where's my brother?"

"At home."

Damon then reached into Elena's pocket before she had a chance to peotest and pulled out two vervain tranquilzers. "Then, what the hell are these?"

Elena's entire body froze and she said nothing as Damon took them to the window and threw them as far away from the hospital as he could. "You do know that I could kill you right now and I would have no regrets for doing it."

Elena's body shook in fear as Damon advanced on her, lokking menacing. "Damon, I'm sorry. Stefan-"

"I don't care about Stefan!" roared Damon as he grabbed Elena by the neck and lifted her up in the air. "This is a warning for you and Stefan. Stay away from my child or you will regret it."

He dropped Elena to the ground, watching her catch her breath. She looked up at him with tears in her eyes. "I'm so sorry Damon. I never wanted to hurt you."

"Get out." Damon coldly replied.

Elena sighed as she opened the door and a blur ran past her. Damon turned shraply around and spotted his brother. "What do you want?"

"I'm sorry Damon. I can't let her live." In a flash, Lilly was in Stefan's arms. 

Damon grabbed Elena and put her in a choke hold. "Give me my child."

Stefan's eyes widened and his glare deepened. "No, you release Elena first."

"Stefan, just give Damon the child!" Elena cried, her heartbeat speeding up.

"No! I will not have your life put in danger by this!"

Elena stared at him in shock. "That baby is harmless! It's not going to do anything. Please Stefan."

Stefan shook his head. "I'm sorry Elena."

"Get your hands off of my child now!" Damon yelled, his fangs growing.

"Not unless you release Elena first."

Stefan tightened his hold on Lilly's neck, almost cutting off her air supply. Damon did the same with Elena. Katherine opened her eyes and screamed when she saw Stefan holding Lilly. Damon turned to Katherine. "It's ok. He's not going to hurt her or else I'll kill Elena."

The brothers continued to tighen their hold, each glaring at each other with absolute hate in their eyes. The tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife. Katherine's fangs sprang out and she charged at Stefan, unable to watch this any longer. However, her attack was immeditately cut short by the sound of a neck snapping.

A/N: *evil laugh* yes I had to end it there. I'm so evil. :) If i get 40 reviews then you guys will get an update.