Well I've had this idea for a while now and I really hope you guys like it! This is my first vampire diaries fanfiction and I am so nervous to write it! This takes place a few weeks after season six and if you have not seen season six then you need to at least know what happened in the last episode, and if you plan on watching it then please don't read this. Major spoiler alert! I haven't seen season seven and until it comes out on Netflix I probably won't be watching it. With that being said almost nothing that happens in this story will be related to season seven, I may use a few things. I really hope you love this story and reviews are loved and appreciated!

I do not own Vampire Diaries just the plot.

Here is chapter one!


Damon sat at the bar inside the grill, drink in one hand, cell phone in the other. His piercing blue eyes were trained on the picture of Elena on the front screen of his phone. He traced her features with his eyes and frowned, all he wanted to do was see her smile, feel her in his arms, smell her hair. Was that too much to ask? He guessed it was simply because that bastard Kai and taken her away from him, he had stolen their time together, taken their plans and forced her into a box to sleep for the next sixty some years and that's assuming Bonnie becomes a feeble old woman who passes away early. He didn't really know how he was going to get through these next decades. If he was the Damon he was before loving Elena he would have probably run off on some violet tangent and murder his way to France in an attempt to dull the ache. Damon sighed and rested his head on the bar. Why was he so miserable? Even the thought of killing didn't perk up his spirts.

After killing Kai to save Bonnie, something every bone in his body as well as his heart had screamed for him not to do, he had made sure Bonnie was safe. He took her to Caroline's per her request and made a feeble attempt to console the two best friends, which had no effect on neither them nor him. Caroline, who had learned the situation from Stefan had hugged him sadly, thanked him for saving Bonnie and asked him if he was okay, a question he didn't have an answer to at the time. He had just shook his head and said his goodbyes to the two friends and trudged home. As soon as he closed the door behind him he ran into the living room where her casket was resting, Stefan had already placed her sleeping body inside it and he found out later that Caroline was the one who dressed her. He had fell to the floor and sobbed, agonizing cries had left his mouth and he found himself sitting there for hours reliving memories of him and Elena until Stefan had drug himself home as well and sat down in the floor beside his heart broken brother when he found him.

"I miss her too." Stefan had told him while throwing an arm around his shoulders in a small effort to let Damon know he wasn't alone in this. "We all miss her Damon. You're not alone in this."

Damon had looked at him and nodded, he appreciated his brother's consoling efforts but it wouldn't work, nothing would work until he had her, his Elena back in his arms. No one really understood his pain. Sure Caroline and Bonnie had lost their friend, Jeremey had lost his sister and Stefan had lost his best friend. Their pain was real of course but it didn't run as deep as Damon's did. The pain was almost too much and he had to restrain himself not to just flip the switch, but if he did there was no telling if he would be able to turn it back on when she woke up and he couldn't do that to her. Killing Kai hadn't even brought a bit of relief or satisfaction and because of this Damon knew he was in for a long time of heart. How could he even live or be happy without her? He would never even think about loving another woman so that was out of the question.

His whole world lay in a casket in the family mausoleum, where Bonnie had sealed her after their goodbyes, and Damon just wanted to run in and shake her awake and kiss her until his lips were numb but he knew that wouldn't work. True loves kiss couldn't break the spell because he had kissed her before she was sealed away. God he miss her to damn much.

A hand landed on Damon's shoulder and Alaric sat down beside him. "Hey drinking buddy." He said with a weak smile that didn't reach his eyes.

"Hey." Damon muttered, watching Ric order his usual and down almost half the glass in one gulp. Ric had been through a lot of pain at the hands of Kai as well. The maniac had killed Jo and their twins without a second glance. He had also hurt multiple people in their shrinking group of friends. The whole Gemini coven was dead as well as Liv, who Tyler was falling in love with. Tyler had skipped town after the whole thing went down, there was nothing keeping him here after all so Damon hadn't blamed him one bit. He didn't blame Jeremy either, who was off killing vampires somewhere. No one had heard from him since he left. Caroline and Bonnie had become inseparable, and were both continuing with college. Damon knew that they were the only two holding each other together after losing Elena. In all honesty Stefan was the only thing holding Damon together and barely.

"I see you're not doing anything better than drinking yourself to death." Alaric commented, on his second glass which was almost gone. Damon examined him and sighed. The history teacher had dark bags under his eyes and the stubble on his chin probably hadn't seen a razor since the wedding gone wrong. He was wearing jeans and a plain button up shirt. He looked tired and Damon briefly wondered if he looked as bad.

"I wish I could drink myself to death." Damon said, with a slight smile. "But sadly the whole vampire, immortal thing does not allow that."

Alaric nodded, Damon was the only one who he could relate his pain with. Sure, everyone had lost someone in the events a few weeks ago but Damon had lost the love of his life too and that sort of pain was different than everyone else's, it was deeper somehow, and Alaric wasn't strong enough to take it. So he had a plan to get Jo back. "At least you can turn it off when you want to. I don't have that luxury."

Damon shook his head and sat his glass down on the table. "It's not that easy Ric. I couldn't do that to her. It wouldn't be fair for her to wake up to some emotionless vampire who probably left Mystic Falls forty years ago."

Ric nodded, gaze fixated straight forward and Damon knew he was up to something. He hadn't come out of his apartment in the past two weeks and suddenly he's up for drinking like old times? Damon was just waiting for him to ask for his help like he always does.

"I'm glad you can take the pain of losing Elena but I don't plan on dealing with loosing Jo." Alaric said without so much of a crack in his voice.

Damon's interest peeks at these words and he turned to face Ric, one elegant eyebrow raised. "And how do you plan on avoiding the inevitable here Ric?"

Alaric smirked and laughed slightly, this laugh didn't sound happy one bit. It was more of a laugh that one did before they did something they shouldn't do. "I plan on bringing Jo back. "

Damon choked slightly on the bourbon in his mouth before staring at Alaric with a disbelieving look on his face. "Bring Jo back from the dead? How the hell do you plan on doing that Ric? You need some serious magic or something for that. Just what is your plan?"

Bring Jo back from the dead. Was he crazy? They would need a witch or some form of serious magic, a spell, and to know where the hell Jo even was because the other side had been destroyed a long time ago. Was there another supernatural purgatory that he didn't know about?

Alaric pulled a piece of paper out of his coat pocket and slid it over to Damon who unfolded it and scanned it over. "Turns out Jo knew Kai would most likely make an attempt on her life so she left these for me to find in our photo album if she ended up dead. She explained in the letter that she didn't want to chance canceling the wedding because she didn't know for sure that he would make an attempt."

Damon nodded. Jo always was one to plan ahead. It's like she always had a back-up plan or a way around some scenario she had made up in her head. "What are these Ric?" Damon questioned while reading some random things out loud. "Stone of emerald? Is this what will bring her back?"

"Those are the instructions she left me to bring her back. She said she wasn't ready to die and if I chose to bring her back this is how I could do it. Only her spirt is gone, her body is still physically here." He said taking the note from Damon and pointing to the letter and reading aloud. "If I know my brother he won't just simply allow me to die Alaric. He'll trap my spirt somewhere he believes I'll never be found, and I have a good idea as to where…" Alaric trailed off and looked at Damon. "I can bring her back Damon. Will you help me?"

Damon contemplated for a few moments before nodding. What could it hurt? Just because he couldn't be happy didn't mean Alaric didn't deserve to. "We don't have to kill anyone right? And no one will be hurt during this craziness right?"

Alaric shook his head. "No! Jo made it perfectly clear that we wouldn't need to hurt anyone or get hurt ourselves. She also left the location for anything we'll need."

"How do you know this isn't Kai pulling some trick on us Ric? It's almost too good to be true to think she left us specific and perfect directions on how to get her back." Damon commented, his life as a vampire had taught him that nothing is ever easy to do.

"I know this is her because she told me she missed me and the twins, Avery and Annabelle. We never told anyone the names we had for the twins. She also wrote down some random little things only she would know. Damon she knew I would be skeptical." Alaric said, reassuring his friend.

Damon nodded. He had nothing better to do so why not? "Sure buddy. I'll help you. Where to first?"

Alaric beamed, the first real smile touching his face in weeks. "To Bonnie."

The two men paid their tab and left the bar. On to the next adventure.


Well here is chapter one! Trust me it gets better and chapter two will be uploaded at the same time so please continue reading and review! Thank you so much!