This is my first attempt at writing fanfiction. I was inspired by the ending of the Titanic movie and I thought that could be a good idea for a fanfiction. That's why I decided to write it. For those who haven't seen it (I'm sure there aren't that many) in the movie we see Rose making a promise to live her life to Jack before he dies. In the last shot we see pictures of her and all the things she did in her life before she herself finally dies. And in death finally is reunited with Jack. This story is based on that. Although I'm all for Kol coming back, I thought this would make a good fic. In the first chapter we are going right to the point where Davina is about to die after living a long life and we learn about the last things going through her mind. One point I did struggled with was if I would have let Davina move on with her life with someone else or let her evolve into the leader of her witch cover, without having someone new permanent in her life. There were two reasons why I chose the first option. It's because this fic is based on the Titanic ending and in it Rose also moved on. But I also thought Davina deserved some happiness in her live, even if she couldn't be with Kol. Her husband however will only play a small part in the first chapter. After that it's irrelevant for the story.

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You know that saying about how life flashes before your eyes when you die. Davina Claire was definitely no stranger to that saying. Seeing she already experienced it once. That however was a long time ago when her life was claimed in a sacrifice ritual in order for her coven to gain more power. She knew it wasn't just a saying, but that it was quite real. But the memories she hold most dear to her this time where very different from the ones she had the first time she lost her life. The first time her memories where revolved mostly around painful memories. Being betrayed by her mother, losing Tim, her time being locked up in the attic with no contact with the outside world. The only bright side in her life at that point was Marcel and the way he fought for her. Marcel always fought for her and still was after all those years. She was like family to him. She was like the daughter he could never have. And it still felt that way after all those years. Even after she had surpassed him in physical age.

Years had passed and Davina had led a good life. She was blessed with a lot of happy memories. But those always where overshadowed by an event early in her life. The people who knew her from that early period new exactly what that memory was. It was losing her soulmate. The person that when you meet you know you are destined to spend the rest of your life with. A lot of people aren't fortunate enough to meet that person. Maybe they are frightened to end up alone so they settle for lese unwilling to have faith to wait for something more. Davina knew this and she knew how blessed she was that she did find that person. She cherished every moment she spent with that person. Every glance, every smile, every kiss. She hold on to those memories because they were the most dearest to her in life. But she never told anyone what they exactly meant to her still after all these years. Not even her adoptive father Marcel. As far as he knew she grieved him, she moved heaven and earth to bring him back and when it was clear that it wasn't enough she mourned him all over again. Her friends where very considered towards her in that period. But there is a time when that slowly fades away and people expect you to move on. She did move on, not only for her friends, but as an obligation to her love. She knew he wanted her too.

Time passed by and other lovers came and went in the long live she lived. She even settled down at one point. Went for the whole marriage and the white picket fence thing. But her feelings for those lovers, as well as for her husband never came close to what she had felt and still was feeling for someone else. It's like love can touch you all of a sudden and when it does it last for a lifetime. It's still there after where gone. She never told anyone that. Not even her husband. A woman's heart is like an ocean of secrets. It's not like he hadn't asked about it after they were dating for a while. He noticed that for some reason she always seemed so said, but she couldn't tell the truth. Not even him. It was her own grieve. A grieve that she had to carry all on her own. And what good would it do for him knowing it. Maybe it would ease his mind a bit. But it just wasn't a memory nor a feeling she was willing to share. She wanted to keep it all to her own. That's why she lied. She told him it was because of some bad childhood experiences. Her mother's betrayal, her life being sacrificed, her experience in life after death. Never did she once told him about losing that one special person. She never knew if he did believe her answer or that he settled for her not wanting to share the truth. But he was willing to move past it.

He knew that he had found in Davina an incredible person. It didn't scared him of when she told him she was a witch. He kind of admired it about her and Davina knew it. But him knowing her secret was one thing. As far as she knew witch business and her marriage where two things that needed to be kept separate. She wanted it that way. She was glad even that he wasn't a witch. She didn't wanted to experience the same things with him, practicing the craft as she once did with that other person. It wasn't because she didn't wanted to share her magic with her husband. It was because when she shared it with him he opened her mind to a whole new world. And in that experience she fell in love. Not because of the things he said, all the plotting they did, the secrets they shared, nor the things he did for her. It definitely contributed to it. In fact those things alone would have been enough to make her love him for a lifetime worth. But what really cemented her feelings was because of the connection and the bond they felt while practicing magic.

He introduced her to Kemiya. Kemiya was a different kind of magic than the ones she experienced before she met him. Kemiya was about connection, about chemistry. He once told her that. She felt it the first time they practiced magic together. She felt it all those other times. It's hard to explain what you feel in that moment. Maybe it's best explained in a way that all those feelings you have for that person or could have are coming together. And the stronger the feelings, the stronger the magic would be. This was definitely true. She experienced it first hand when they drained the withe oak stake, when they changed the silver dagger into a gold one and when he made her that bracelet.

She looked at it. It was still on her wrist after all those years. The silver was still shining. The only thing that was changed was the wrist and the hand the bracelet was wrapped around. It wasn't a hand of a young 17 year old girl anymore. But the hand of an old woman who had lead a long life and experienced all the joy and hardship life had to offer. It was in that moment when she looked at it, that she realized this was it.

When you lived a life like the one Davina has lived you just know. And when she looked at her bracelet one last time she was at that moment again when life flashes by before it leaves you. At that moment she didn't saw her husband nor his passing away a few years ago. She didn't saw her daughter even though she was so dear to her. She saw him. She saw the way he smiled at her the first time they met. She saw all the smiles he gave her after that. She heard the things he told her clear in her mind like he was saying them at this exact moment to her. She experienced their first kiss and the ones after that. The joy she felt when she saw him after he escaped being trapped with those vampires. She saw all the good moments in life she shared with him. But that wasn't the only thing she saw. She also saw the bad.

The way he told her that he was running out of time. She heard his goodbye, like he was saying it to her in this exact moment. "Under the same stars there's some guy and he's with this girl and he's got all the time in the world and he's right…and I hate him." Words that had lingered into her head for what it seemed like to be an eternity. She saw his last smile. It was a smile that was meant for her and no one else. It was the last thing she saw of him right before it was over. Before he was gone.

But she didn't feel the pain anymore when she thought about how it felt like losing him. Nor did she feel the pain she felt when she realized that she failed. That she couldn't bring him back and had lost him forever. She felt joy because her heartfelt was finally gone. She knew that she had kept her promise to him. The one she made to him when she saw him one final time as a ghost. When it became all too clear to them that they couldn't have their happy ending. She promised him to move on and to live her life to the fullest. That's exactly what she did. But now that she had fulfilled that promise it was time to let go of life. It was her time. Her body was tired and she knew that she was ready. The reason why she was so full of joy was because she knew she was about to see him again. She was finally about to join him in the afterlife. She was finally aloud to be with him for eternity. She was finally about to be with her soulmate. She was going to be with Kol again.

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That's it. My first attempt at fanfiction. I hope you all liked it and are willing to read the rest of the story. I actually don't know how far I will take the story but it will have at least three more chapters. Expect the next chapter to be about Davina thinking back to how she failed bringing Kol back. We will learn the exact reasons why and I will right about seeing Kol one last time as a ghost. I will also do a chapter about Davina moving on with her life by taking on a journey and visiting the places Kol has visited in the past. And finally the last chapter will be about her reunion with Kol after her death. Maybe there will be a few more chapters in between if I get more ideas to right about. But seeing as Kol isn't coming back in this story there isn't much room for anything else. I'm not really interested in doing a chapter about her meeting her husband, seeing as I only wrote that in because despite everything I thought Davina deserved some happiness at one point in her live. Even if it couldn't be with Kol.