Elena

I wake up to the smell of cookies, Christmas Day is finally here and I'm getting to spend it with all of my loved ones. Of course I wish my parents were here to celebrate with us, but I know that Katherine and Mason Pierce are sending us their love. Last night was amazing, when Damon and everyone showed up we got them settled in then struck out to Rockefeller Center to see the Christmas tree. We ended up ice skating for a little bit and it was obvious that the Southerners didn't know what they were doing. Stefan has been out of practice for a while and busted his ass along side everyone else causing me and Caroline to laugh at them, but my man found his groove eventually. Stefan and I took everyone out to eat at Local Cafe'and Cocktails, then we made our way back home so Matt could make us his delicious homemade spiked eggnog. After we were all good and tipsy Stefan suggested that he and I make our way into the bedroom so we could have Christmas Eve sex, we made love for hours. Looking over at the clock now I see that I've only had three hours of sleep and its 7:30 AM. I stretch realizing that I am still naked, a goofy grin is on my face as I decide to head for the shower.

Once I'm out I find my over sized off the shoulder sweater and my favorite yoga pants, I brush my teeth and throw my messy towel dried hair into a bun and join everyone in the kitchen. "There's sleeping beauty, I thought we were going to have to come and check your pulse." Caroline jokes with a silly voice, I stick my tongue out at her and meet Stefan by the coffee pot. "Morning babe." I whisper, he brings his arm around tucking me into his side as he lays a kiss to my temple. "Merry Christmas beautiful." I take the steaming mug from his hands and pop a sweet sugar cookie in my mouth. "Ok, where is my baby?" I ask looking at Bonnie and Damon who are fighting over Bon's last piece of bacon on her plate. "Right here!" Kelly walks into the kitchen and I squeal looking at my baby niece in her 'Baby's First Christmas' outfit that I bought her. "Charlotte, you're so freaking adorable." Kelly hands her to me and I am just in awe of this little beauty. "Well she is her father's daughter." Damon smirks at me, rolling my eyes I look back to the quiet baby in my arms. "As handsome as you are Damon, I do believe that she's her mama made over, minus the eyes." I say back to him, my brother waves me before taking her from me. "Well she does have your's and Katherine's nose." Bonnie comments making my heart skip a beat. I wonder what my baby would've looked like, I used to imagine that she or he would've been Stefan made over, but now I wonder just how much the baby would've shared both of our looks.

"Who's ready for presents?" Tyler asks from the living room, he's wearing a green long sleeve shirt with matching Rudolph pajama pants. He's such a kid. We all agree that we're ready so we all find ourselves around the massive tree in the living room. I try not spend crazy amounts of money on materialistic things, but I love Christmas and a huge tree with lots of decorations is always a must. Damon plays Santa this year and begins handing everyone their gifts, I wait with butterflies in my stomach for Stefan to open his last present from me. "What's this?" He asks me when he picks up a big box that's light as a feather. I wanted to give it to him last night when we got back home, but his hands and mouth distracted me. "Just open it Stefan." Matt laughs. Stefan shakes his head and opens the bright red box, he frowns when there is nothing but green, red and gold tissue paper in side. I giggle at his confused face, "Dig in." Stefan looks up at me with a smirk on his face. I record him on my phone, when all the paper is out he let's out a gasp that is barely audible. "Elena." Our eyes connect and I smile lovingly at him. Reaching into the box and pulling his hand out Stefan holds his family ring that he had the female officer give to me the night he was arrested. "I forgot about this damn ring." We all laugh and he slips it onto his middle finger, right hand. He smiles before leaning over to kiss my lips. "I love you." Nodding my head I run my finger over the large lapis lazuli stone, "I love you too." When the wrapping paper is cleaned up I take mine and Stefan's presents into our room, I feel hands on my hips and lips on my neck as I lay the new clothes on our bed. "Are you having a good Christmas?" I ask him not turning around just loving the feel of him pressed against me. "Mmhmm, I can honestly say that this is one of the best Christmases ever." He says into my neck before licking my skin. I lean my head back onto his shoulder while he attacks my throat with his mouth. "I love you so fucking much Lena, this right here is what I've longed for." Turning my head I place my lips to his and kiss him gently. I run my tongue over his bottom lip making him smile, opening his mouth I slide my tongue in and start kissing him with everything I have. He tastes like cinnamon and sugar, I moan deepening our kiss when he turns me around to face him. Stefan picks me up and grabs my ass, my legs wrap around his waist while he begins walking us to the wall. We're kissing passionately, his hand finds me soaking wet and he moans. I begin to thrust toward his hand, Stefan chuckles and we come up for air. "I see someone hasn't gotten enough." I smirk at him then lick his neck all the way to his ear and whisper, "With you its never enough baby." Stefan groans, "Baby I want to throw your sexy little ass back in bed and stay there all day, but unfortunately we have guests." I fake pout then nip at his lip ring, "Fine, but later this is mine." I say taking his hard on in my hand. Stefan sucks his lip ring in his mouth and nods his head and I almost lose my shit, its so fucking sexy when he does that. "Of course." He tells me before I am back on my feet, we walk back to everyone hand in hand smiling.

Stefan

Today has been awesome, having the only people I care about surrounded by me has been nothing but pure joy. I had completely forgotten about my ring, I remember giving it to Elena that night, but it was the last thing on my mind over the years. We've opened our gifts and ate dinner, now we're all sitting around the living room telling stories. "So Stefan, tell me about you and Elena getting together the first time." Caroline says while she's sitting in Matt's lap sipping on hot chocolate. Clearing my throat I sit on the edge of the couch next to Elena, "Well, I had a weird crush on her basically from the moment I met her. It made me feel weird and bad because of our age difference, she was 13 I was 17. I was always catching myself staring at her but not in a creeper kind of way though, just the little things that caught my eye. Her laugh, smile, kindness, also her bad ass streak that's she's always had going." Elena playfully elbows me in the ribs. "Anyway, we finally got together, I eventually moved into her parent's place and it was so fucking awkward at first." Damon snorts, "Blondie imagine already having to get used to your best friend and only sister, your baby sister at that dating. Then having to get used to them living together in the same place that you live." Caroline nods her head in understanding, before opening her mouth. "I'm guessing you caught them having sex."

Elena chokes on her wine making me chuckle, "We had just woke up and Elena wasn't letting me out of bed until she had some." Damon groans covering his face and I take a second to laugh at him. "Anyway we're going at it and Damon had just walks in the room." Caroline is hanging on to every word I say, clearly she's enjoying this. "Hey I was out of soap and knew that you used the same kind as me, I never figured you would be knocking boots with my sister at 5:30 in the morning." Elena busts out laughing now, "Oh it was awful, Damon was like ass! There's too much ass!" We all laugh now, Caroline doubles over holding her stomach. "Oh. My. God!" She exclaims loudly making us laugh harder. "Whose ass did you see?" She looks at Damon wiping tears from her eyes, he shakes his head and downs the drink in his hand. "Stefan's." Matt snorts, "Dude do you not know what a blanket is?" I roll my eyes, "Dude, have you ever fucked a girl from behind while standing up?" Everyone groans including Elena, her cheeks are red and she buries her face into her hands. "They didn't need to know that!" She giggles. Damon's eyes grow wide, "At least they didn't have to witness it! Thanks for asking about bed covers Donovan, I now have a visual in my head that's been blocked for years now." All laughter subsides, Caroline catches her breath and sighs. "Damn Stefan you sure know how to leave an impression on people." I shrug and bite my lip ring, "What can I say? I'm good like that."

Tyler clears his throat and stands up, "Hey Matt do you remember that time when we went over to see them and Elena was throwing his shit out the door?" Matt throws his head back laughing and looks at Caroline. "Care it was the funniest thing I had ever seen. Elena and Stefan were planning a surprise birthday party for Bonnie, they had everything planned out perfectly." Tyler snorts, "Or so Stefan thought. He picked up the wrong cake at the bakery. It was a cake for some stripper and name on the cake was Bonnie." Caroline groans, "Oh no, what did it look like?" Bonnie looks at her shaking her head, "Caroline it was something else." "See Elena left me in charge of ordering the cake while she and Damon were ordering her gifts from Amazon and shit like that. I did everything right." Tyler and Matt share a look and chuckle, "When we get there Elena has his shit all over the place, Stefan is yelling at her to stop and I just look at Mat like what the fuck do we do?" "The cake had a stripper pole and a naked Barbie on the pole with dollar bills made out of icing. The writing said, 'Keep shaking your Bon Bon birthday girl'." I pull Elena into my lap and kiss her neck, "This one thought that I had purposely had that fucking bakery make the cake like this, she was like is that what you think of Bonnie? Do you see my friend as some stripper?" Elena giggles and turns to face me, "Well you had previously dated Tessa then you screwed her coworker Jewel at the back of my trailer, right next to my window, so..." I playfully slap her thigh. "Anyway the bakery called while we're fighting and tells us that we picked up the wrong cake, by this time Bonnie and Damon show up and see all of this unfold." Bonnie giggles and looks at Caroline, "And my nick name has been Bon Bon ever since." Caroline shakes her head. "Wow, Stefan remind me to not let you pick up my wedding cake."

We all talk and reminisce for hours, I learned that when Caroline and Elena first met they went to a frat party where Elena got drunk and went streaking. That the first night they had in New York she almost got hit by a car trying to hail a cab. It's been a damn good Christmas and I can't wait to have many more with these people, my family. The past 5 years have been hell on Christmas, birthdays and any other holiday that I would normally spend with them. I began to hate anything that people would celebrate, sure I would have visitors and it would be fun and great seeing them. The moment they were gone I was back to being alone, back to my cold cell to think about how much I had fucked up things in my life. Doing everything to not think of Elena, pushing her out of my mind and hardening my heart. And yet I was surprisingly released on a holiday, getting to just be in the presence of Elena back on Fourth of July started to chip away at my icy heart. I still told myself that I didn't deserve her and that I needed to keep her away from me at all costs, but damn it there is just something about Elena that you can't shake. "I'm ready for bed." She whispers once I get into bed and find her wearing a sexy Santa nightie that has my dick approving. "Merry Christmas, Mr. Salvatore." She purrs while taking my cock out of my sweats, she's my mother fucking everything and I will never let her go.