Alec's POV
"May I have everybody's attention?" Jason's voice rang through the small crowd. I let go of Damon and put him back to the ground. He gripped my hand and together we made our way down the hall. Sam soon joined us and tucked her hand beneath mine. She smiled warmly at me and put her head on my shoulder.
"I wanted to make an announcement." Jason said and suddenly kneeled in front of Emily who covered her mouth with her hands.
"Emily, the last two years of my life were amazing. And it was all because of you... And little Damon. I love you Emily and I love Damon like he was my own kin, so with this in mind; Will you marry me Emily Nicole Johnson?" he asked her and produced a little black box out of his left breast pocket and opened it, to reveal a golden band with little diamonds framing a beautiful sapphire stone. Emily kneeled in front of him and kissed him deeply, muffling a yes against his lips. Sam and I along with the rest of the people around us applauded. All with one exception.
Damon.
After champagne was served and we pretended to gulp down the bubbly liquid, the crowd started to move onto the couple to congratulate them. Emily pushed her way through the crowd to meet Sam. Once the two girls held hands, they started screaming and squealing like mad woman. Sam was really happy, she was almost acting hyper! I wondered if I would be able to bring this joy to her, not only making her my mate to every vampire but also claiming her as mine in the human community. I knew there was no need for such a bond as she was my wife in every way but human. But still, seeing her wear the ring on the proper finger, seeing her in a beautiful bride's dress, the honeymoon - my top favourite, if you know what I mean-, warding off any competition. I knew I was being unreasonably jealous and that I had nothing to worry about Sam's faithfulness to me, but making it official in EVERY way possible that she was MINE was so very appealing. Not that I held any grudges against Daren but, oh come on, which man can trust another man who's ever dreamed about taking away his soul mate?
"Alec...Alec?" I heard Sam call my name.
"Sorry, your screaming zoned me out a little." I said to her, which she completely ignored.
"Listen, Emily and Jason were thinking about going away for a pre-wedding vacation and they were going to leave Damon with Jason's mother but I offered them to leave the kid with us. Is that alright with you?" Sam asked giving me the irresistible patting of the eyelashes ceremony. I looked down and Damon had the same pleading face. Hmm... Two days with a human boy... This ought to be really interesting.
"Of course! So when will they leave?" I asked. "Tonight." Sam chirped. Oh well that was sudden, but I was eager to see how the days with Damon would play out.
"Oh, look Alec! He's fallen asleep!" Sam whispered in a hushed voice. She was swaying softly with Damon in her arms, her grin stretching from ear to ear while the boy snored softly. She was facing the open window, a light breeze playing with her hair. She was the perfect picture of a loving mother. I put my arms around her waist and rested my chin on her shoulder. We swayed together until I heard a little sob coming from my beautiful mate in my hands. I lifted my head up to look at her.
"Sam... love what's wrong?" I asked, feeling a worried feeling churning in my gut.
"Alec, do you remember the day I phoned Volterra to see if you were there?" she asked me.
"Of course I remember. It was the time you gave me hope for the first time after ten years." I said, not really following her train of thought.
"After I phoned you I was wrecked. I wanted to go to you so much. And that day I did exactly this for ten hours straight, I rocked Damon back and forth for ten house straight, imagining you holding me like this." she said, her voice thick with emotion.
"Oh, Sam." was all I said and held her tighter to me and she snuggled deeper into my chest.
"I love you Alec." I kissed the top of her head since it was the only thing I could reach. "I love you too Sam, so much that it sometimes hurts. Good thing I have my personal nurse around." I joked. She laughed lightly with me, and we stayed there, with my arms wrapped around her and Damon in her arms.
"PANCAKES!" Damon shouted as he rampaged through the kitchen. He climbed up a stool and attempted to grab one.
"Wait, Damon it's-" she started and I finished with "Hot" as I stopped the boy from touching the food. "Just like Auntie Sam." I said with a grin.
"Does she have the fever?" Damon asked as he looked with his worried green eyes at Sam. Sam laughed out loud.
"Yes, but it's not me. Uncle Alec caught something. It's called Idiotitous."
"Idiotitous? Seriously Sam?" Sometimes she lapsed into these random moments with made me laugh so hard.
"Alec, I never kid about illnesses. I mean I'm the nurse, after all." she said. I grinned at her and tried to put the image of Sam in a sexy nurse's outfit in a remote part of my brain. No such luck! I'd have to buy her the costume, see what it would look like in 3D.
"I don't understand. Who's sick?" Damon asked as he jabbed the syrupy pancakes with a fork.
"No one sweetie. We were just joking." Sam said softly as she put two strips of bacon on Damon's plate.
"Hey, you never call me sweetie." I protested. She sighed and shook her head lightly. "That's right. Alec we're through. I've moved on to this small little man right here." she said and kissed Damon on the cheek. She was a damn good actress as her face was straight. It didn't even crack a smile to show that she's joking.
"I'm kidding,love." She said, suddenly from behind me and kissed my cheek. "But you're right. We don't have cute pet names for each other." she said. I could almost hear the thoughts running through her mind.
"I don't think we're the pet name kid of people, sweetheart." I said and reached out behind me to stroke her hair.
"Wow. You are more blehh than mum and Jason." Damon said making gagging noises. We laughed at him and he continued eating his pancakes and bacon.
"So, what's on the agenda today?" I asked causally as Sam took a seat beside me.
"I don't know. What do you want to do, Damon?" Sam asked him.
"Can we go fly my kite in the park?" Damon squealed with excitement colouring his voice.
Sam and I looked at each other. I shrugged and Sam was nodding and grinning like a crazy person. "Beware Damon. I think she'll try to steal your kite." I said, putting a hand next to my mouth and looking away from Sam. "Oh shut up. When you're ready we'll go Damon." she said and started washing the pan. Damon hurried up to finish the breakfast and since I had nothing to do I just stared at Sam idly. I was so lucky. She's truly the best thing that's ever happened to me. I couldn't believe that less than a week ago I was still in Volterra. That seemed so long ago. I went behind her and snaked my arms around her, just to assure myself she wasn't a mirage. And oh no she wasn't! She was here in my arms for me to hold and kiss till the end of time. She continued washing the pan and Damon's plate as he was done.
Suddenly I felt something tugging at my pants. I looked down and found Damon.
"I'm ready!" he said, holding a colourful device with the same red cartoon car that was on his undies. Somebody was obsessed alright. Sam rinsed off the last of the dishes and left them to dry off.
"Alright, let's g- Damon, were you planning to go to the park without pants?" she asked the little boy. I tried to hold in my laughter as Sam was giving me daggers.
"Come on Damon; let's get you some pants before Sam explodes." I said, grabbed the little boy and went to his room. He was wearing a green shirt that made his eyes look bigger, like emerald orbs. I chose a plain dark pair of jeans and put them on the little boy.
"Carry me!" Damon insisted and tugged at my black shirt. I smiled at him and put him on my shoulders. He squealed in glee.
And so we went to join Sam. We went outside and Sam got in the driver's seat of Emily's red mini Cooper. I put Damon in his car seat and got in the passenger seat.
"On to the park." Sam announced as she stepped on the gas paddle. She turned on the radio and some rock song blasted through it. She started singing to the song. Again I lapsed in a moment of doubt if this was real. I was in America, in Pennsylvania, Sam was with me and we had a toddler in tow too. And I was getting along with the toddler just fine. It just didn't seem like me. This is the new you, Alec. You have to get used to it. You couldn't expect that being with Sam wouldn't come at a price, my subconscious told me. Sure, this was the new me and I fully acknowledged that I had to change to be with Sam but I didn't mind it at all. I preferred this a hundred times to the loneliness I endured in the last three hundred years.
"Alec... Alec? We're here." Sam was waving a hand in front of my face.
"Must have zoned out." I got out of the car and went to join Sam and Damon. Damon held both his hands out at me and Sam. We both took them and he started swinging between us. We arrived in an area away from trees or lampposts and Sam got the kite up in the air and gave it to Damon who was now buzzing with excitement. I put my arm around Sam's waist and she put her head on my shoulder.
"Do you mind spending your time here, in the park?" Sam asked me.
"No, as long as it stays cloudy I don't mind at all. I actually like it. I like spending time with Damon. And I can tell it makes you happy too."
"Yeah, Damon is a special kid." she said and looked adoringly at him.
"Yes, and about that, yesterday at the party he told me he was weird. I never discovered what he was referring to." I said.
"I didn't know about that." she said, surprise colouring her voice.
"Yeah, and don't tell him that I told you but he also thinks you're an angel, with blue wings with silver tips and all. Not that I blame him." I said and reached to kiss her cheek. I wanted to do so much more but we weren't alone... But once we were...
"Aww look! It's nice to see such a young family happy and united. Perhaps not all hope's lost for this world." an elderly couple passed by us said. The woman looked at us with hopeful eyes.
"Oh, the kid-" I started but Sam cut me off. "Thank you." Sam muttered softly and put her arm around me. They smiled politely and continued walking.
"Let them be happy." Sam said as she huddled deeper into my shoulder. Ah, this was the life.
The smell of burnt cooking oil and grease hit our nostrils and both Sam and I were scrunching our noses. We went to McDonalds after we left the park, much to Sam's reluctance. And boy was she right. The food was greasy and the cooking oil gleamed off the fries. But Damon wanted to go so bad and after many puppy dog eyes Sam and I had to give in to his demands. And so... Damon munched away on his overly salted fries and chicken nuggets.
"God, I can't believe how many happy meals I used to chuck down when I was thirteen. We used to come here almost everyday!" Sam said as she stared at the greasy fries with a deep frown set on her face.
"Well, I've seen disgusting human food but this..."
"It's not disgusting, Uncle Alec, come on, try it." Damon said and put a fry to my mouth. No way was I going to put that in my mouth, let alone ingest it! "I believe you. It must be delicious." I said through clenched teeth. "Come on Alec, why not?" Sam interjected with a teasing grin spread on her face. I looked at her with wide eyes.
"Traitor! You'll pay for-" Damon stuffed the fry in my mouth without me noticing. Sam was laughing like a hyena as my face scrunched in disgust. My sensitive taste buds felt as if they were begging me to throw up. "Mmmmm." I faked and rubbed a hand over my tummy. I grabbed a napkin and spit in it quickly before Damon could notice. Sam was now clutching her sides with laughter.
"It's not funny!" I muttered as I wiped my mouth. "Sure it is." she said through laughs.
"Auntie Sam, I've finished. Can I go in the playing area?" Damon asked Sam.
"Sure, let's go." Sam said and grabbed her purse and the trash and threw it in the dustbin. We walked over to the playing area were screaming sweaty children were running after each other. Though I knew Damon only for a day I was certain this wasn't really his kind of place. Still, he went and started playing with some blocks. I put my arm around Sam once again and we watched as Damon build a tower with his colourful blocks.
After a day of fun and disgusting junk food, Damon was exhausted. He fell asleep on Sam on the way back to Emily's. We washed Damon and put him to bed when we arrived.
"This was a really long day." I said as I slumped on the bed. "Yeah, Damon is surely something." Sam said as she joined me.
"Come on, let's take a shower. We both need one." I said as I dapped at the ketchup stain on her dress. Some kid had run into her and squirted ketchup all over her.
"Seconded. You go first." she said. My mouth fell hanging open. "Aw, c'mon Sam! Seriously? Again?" the disappointment I felt settled in deep in the pit of my stomach. What the hell was going on with her? We hadn't even kissed properly all day!
"Trust me, Alec." she simply said in that dreamy voice of hers. And so I did what she told me like a lost puppy.
"I'm a three hundred year old vampire! I shouldn't be taking this." I muttered under my breath. "And I'm a fifteen year old vampire and also your mate. It's the twenty-first century, baby, the females are the dominating species." she said. I sighed at the disappointment and showered in two minutes. I exited wearing only my boxers and Sam quickly went after I waited I browsed the web, not really caring for what I was looking at.
For God's sakes, she had been in the bathroom for twenty minutes. What the hell was she doing in there? "Sam are you alright?" I asked looking at the bathroom door.
"Yeah, I'm coming out in a sec." she answered. I shrugged and continued looking at the web browser. There was a particular headline that caught my eye. Mass murder in Madrid, Spain. Apparently twenty-two bodies were found bloodless and some disassembled. It had vampire mass murder written all over it. The door opened and I felt the bed shift next to me, but now I was reading the paragraphs deeply. Apparently this has been going on for at least three months. What was taking the Volturi so long to stop this chaos? Sam next to me cleared her throat. I looked up to her in surprise but a different emotion took over me.
Sam was wearing a white almost transparent negligee that came a few inches down her hips, barely covering the essentials. The underwear underneath it was white with delicate cream lace on them.
"Okay, are you planning to torture me?" I asked trying to keep my gaze above her chest area.
"Maybe... Will you be my hostage?" she asked, her voice low and seductive.
"Sam, you're wearing white, it's supposed to represent innocence. But sure, we'll go with your way." I said and put the laptop on the bedside table and moved closer to her.
"You're right. Maybe we can switch roles..." she said and crawled onto my lap. She put her finger on my chin and pushed my face down so that our lips could touch. At first it was slow paced and soft. I kept in mind to go slow with her. Though she seemed to have recovered from Gaius, I could never be sure. Three hundred years had passed since that man raped Jane and she still never recovered from it. And I guess no woman can ever recover from a trauma like that. Thinking about this I couldn't help the hatred for Gaius bubble up my throat. I had killed Jane's rapist and though I knew that Gaius had suffered it annoyed me that he hadn't suffered under my hands. She seemed to get frustrated that I wasn't receiving her with the same passion she was giving me and so she trailed her tongue across my bottom lip. I growled with need. My control slipped and I grabbed her in my arms and kissed her ferociously. I lifted the thin see-through fabric and let my hand slide onto her left breast. I felt her surprise but she kissed me back increasing the heat between us. By now she was lying straight on the bed with my demanding lips on hers. I broke the kiss and let my lips trail down her neck until they met fabric. I grabbed the strap between my teeth and pulled down. "Alec... Alec, we'd better... stop now." she said in a breathless voice. I grimaced but I knew we couldn't continue or otherwise we wouldn't be able to stop which was probably not a very good idea with a child in the house.
"As usual you're right. But still... You deserve to be punished for making me put that fry in my mouth." I said and put my hands to my sides and started tickling her.
"Alec please... Stop!" she said through laughs.
"Admit that you were checking me out yesterday." I dared her. She nodded. "Okay, I was checking y-you out. Happy?" she said breathlessly.
"Extremely." I said, satisfied way beyond measure. I put her on my lap while she rubbed her sides. "Man, don't ever do that to me again!" she said as she rested her head against my chest.
"There. Now we're even."
"What if we had woken up Damon, huh?" she gave me her best know-it-all grin. As I looked at her, I realised how much she cared about Damon as there was real emotion behind her words. Oh, Sam. I'm sorry it stole it from you.
"Huh?" she asked me.
"What huh?"
"You said you were sorry it stole it from me." she explained. Oh, so I must have been thinking out loud.
"I'm just sorry that immortality stole your fertility. Seeing you with Damon made me realise how much you would have made a great mother. I'm sorry that the only thing I can't give you is the one thing you want the most." I said. Had she not been turned into a vampire she would have probably married some nice human and they would have had many beautiful babies. Sure, it hurt to imagine my Sam pregnant with another man's child but I knew how much she wanted to have a child.
"You're wrong, Alec. I don't want to have a baby as much as I want to be your mate. I'd rather be infertile and yours forever and be than some stupid guy's wife who would replace me by some whore by the time I turned forty. I don't care about that anymore. As long as I'm with you I'll never want anything else." she said and kissed me softly on my lips. I couldn't believe my ears. I knew that Sam loved me but I never thought that if she ever had a chance to choose between going back to human or stay as a vampire with me forever she'd pick me. All guilt feelings I felt evaporated and were replaced by much warmer and pleasant feelings. God, I love her so much. She claimed my lips once more and this time the roles were reversed as she was leading I was lying straight on my back as she kissed me into oblivion; not that I minded. I could feel her pressed to me and right then I wanted nothing more than to make love to her.
Suddenly somebody knocked and the door opened. "Uncle Alec, Auntie Sam... My eyes! It burns!" Damon said. I was to busy with Sam's lips on mine to notice that the kid had entered the room. But apparently Sam wasn't. She broke the kiss and let me pouting. Yep, it was official. The universe would not allow us a little break.
"Damon! What are you doing here? We thought you were asleep!" Sam said sounding flustered. She was trying to cover herself with the covers underneath us tugging at them, using far more strength then needed.
"I had a strange dream." the boy muttered under his breath, holding a teddy bear in his hands.
"Really? Do you want to tell us about it?" Sam asked as she motioned for him to sit on her lap. The boy shook his head. "I need to talk to Uncle Alec first." he said much to everybody's surprise. I knew that the boy liked to talk to me but I would have never imagined he'd come to me about a bad dream. That was definitely more in Sam's field.
"Alright." I said and he came running to my side of the bed. I pulled him up so that he was sitting on my lap.
"Uncle Alec, remember when I told you that Aunt Sammie was an angel?" He whispered in my ear though of course Sam could hear every single thing he was saying.
"Of course, Damon." I whispered back.
"I don't think that Aunt Sammie is an angel anymore. In my dream you where vampires." The boy said. To hell with three hundred years of mastering emotions. I jumped in surprise. I looked at Sam who mirrored the same look of horror. How the hell could the kid have found? Wait… he said he had a dream… There was only one reasonable explanation.
"The child's gifted!" I said. Sam looked frenetically at me and the boy.
"Damon, dear it was just a dream. You don't need to be afraid; it was not true!" Sam said to the boy as he pulled him to her and cupped his face.
"You don't have to keep it a secret anymore. I'm not afraid. You're still the same Aunt Sammie and Uncle Alec. You are good vampires, right?" the boy questioned. Sam looked up to me for help. Should we tell him the truth? Should we lie to him? Should we tell him to never try to elaborate his dreams? The question, though it had many pros and cons, answered itself. Yes, if he has a gift he has to embrace it, no matter what. Even a gift like Jane's cane be embraced, she just never tried and let it run wild.
"Damon, you are young so it may be difficult for you to understand. But you can never tell anybody, okay? It will be our little secret. You can tell anybody. Not even Emily or Jason." I said much to Sam's surprise. She knew how uptight I was about revealing what we were but there was just no other way. If the boy is ever turned into a vampire he'll be gifted for sure. And seeing what that psycho maniac did to Sam and the other four he had to be warned about us, the creatures of the shadows and the rest of the supernatural world which was yet to be discovered. But that was not a talk to have now. The boy's three for God's sakes. I wondered if I did the right thing. Should I have waited till he grew up to a mature age and told him? Well there's no use crying over spilt milk, what's done is done. I just hoped I wouldn't regret it.
"Don' worry," he said and zipped his mouth. "I won't tell mum and I won't certainly tell Jason." The boy said with a frown on his face when he said the name of his mother's fiancée.
"It's really important. But let's put that behind us. We can talk about it in the morning. Damon, do I sense that you're not happy with your mother's decision to marrying Jason?" Sam asked, amazingly turning the subject in a bat of an eyelash.
"It's not that I don't like Damon. But he and mum want me to call him dad. But I know he's not my real dad. Auntie Sam is there something wrong with me. Did my dad leave me with mum because I am weird?" Damon asked, tears threatening to spill down his cheeks.
"Of course not, sweetie! You're NOT weird. You're SPECIAL. Damon I know your daddy and he really loves you. He asked me to arrange a meeting between the two of you. If you want I can show you a picture." Sam said as she started getting up, and stopped dead on her tracks; probably realising she'd give the boy a view that would arouse any living or dead man on the planet. Of course, by now the boy was young so he'd just act disgusted. It made me stifle a laugh as I realised how many men would kill to take his place in a bed with a woman like Sam.
"Or maybe Alec can go get my phone." She suggested. Yeah, Nessie had gotten her a new phone just before we went to the club. "I think I might have a copy of it on my Mac." I said and leaned over to get my laptop off the nightstand. She had charged her phone through my laptop once and we had copied her pictures onto my laptop too. I went to the folder labelled 'My Pictures' and double clicked on it. I found the picture, with was a group photo picture of me, Sam, Logan, Bonnie, Danielle, Alex, Nessie and Jake at the club. Though it was taken in poor light our natural good looks made it look as if it was professionally taken.
"Here he is. His name is Logan." Sam said as he pointed at the man in question. "Is she his girlfriend?" Damon asked as he pointed at Bonnie.
"Yes… No… I don't really know, it's complicated." Sam answered. "She looks like she likes him." Damon commented casually.
"Would you mind if your dad dates her?" Damon looked thoughtful for a moment. "No, she looks nice. But I want to meet daddy. I want to see him." Damon insisted.
"We'll se what we can do. You know I think Damon's right, Bonnie and Logan do look good together." Sam said to me. I looked at her blankly.
"Sam, not to be a thorn in your side; I think I can already hear plans to get them together, but I don't think it's fit for us to open something like… I don't know, I did get an email once, some class about this stuff, where lonely women meet perverted men." I started.
"That's a great idea! We'll call it Sam and Alec's Matchmaking 101!" Sam said. I wasn't joking when I thought she really wanted to put the humorous and bizarre plan into action.
"Sure, our motto: get love advice from the masters of troubled relationships and social awkwardness!" I said sarcastically.
"Oh, come on, we make one kick ass tea in many fields, why not match making too?" Sam started but her rant was interrupted by the sounds of soft snoring.
"Ah, look Sam we bored him to sleep." I said and brushed his hair out of his eyes.
"Sure, make fun of my idea, tough guy. We'll see who gets the last laugh when Alex gets together with Danielle and Logan's putty in Bonnie's hands." She said as she shifted the kid into a more comfortable position.
"Sure, make sure the other guys hook up while we discuss it. What about us, huh?" I asked her as I crossed my arms on my chest.
"Oh, don't be such a sour puss! We'll get our break too." She said, finishing me off with a suggesting smile. A few moments of silence passed. I just looked at her and the sleeping kid.
"I envy the kid." I muttered under my breath. "Why would yo-" she suddenly realised that I was referring to where his head was, lying on her chest.
"You can turn a man into a vampire, but there's not enough venom in the world to eliminate the essence of boy brain in you horny creatures, no matter how dead or how old you are." Sam finished with a sigh.