Title credit: The Way We Were by The Summer Set
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the original characters from The Vampire Diaries. All I own are the other characters and the story line. :)
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Mystic Falls, Present Day.
As he looked around the semi-crowded coffee shop, he couldn't help but take a double take as he caught sight of a brunette girl all the way across the room. Normally he wouldn't even be in a place like this but found himself there since he needed to get away for a little while. It was only a few days after the latest drama that just occurred and it was stirring up more old memories and emotions than usual. He had thought that going to a coffee shop he had never seen before would help but as he walked inside it looked as if luck wasn't on his side at all as he took another glance at her. She looked exactly like a girl he had once known but there was no way that it was possibly her. They had met in the 1925 and that was nearly 90 years ago. By now she was an old woman, full of memories created over her years of life. She would be settled down and spending the last precious years of her life with her family before she passed on to rest, happy with her life accomplishments. But for some reason this young woman sitting at the other side of the room was her doppelgänger and was stirring up even more memories for him than before.
But he forced himself to tear his eyes away from her and walked through the room, stopping at the counter to decide on something to eat and drink. Once he placed his order and found a seat, he pulled out his phone to pretend he was doing something, when in reality he was just sneaking glances at the girl in the corner of his eye. She had her brown hair hanging straight down her back with bangs pushed to the side and wearing a skirt and short sleeved shirt tucked in with a pair of sandals. She was also reading The Great Gatsby which was ironic since that was her doppelgänger's favorite book. Only he knew that her book would be all beat up and worn by now since he had bought it for her when it was first published in 1925. But the girls book here looked fairly new and there was no way she had been born over 90 years ago. The girl didn't look a day over 20 and had her whole life ahead of her. No matter how much his mind was trying to convince him that it was truly her, he had to keep reminding himself that it wasn't. There was absolutely no way that it could be her. But that didn't stop the memories from flooding his mind as he took the first sip of his drink...