When it's all said and done, they all get the chance to move on. Elena and Stefan decide to stay in Mystic Falls for a few years more—it's her home, after all. Tyler kisses Caroline one last time and tells her that, while he may love her, they both know it'll never really work, and he's right.
Matt forgives her for all the secrets and lies but not for what she is, and he moves to parts unknown to escape the supernatural element that is Mystic Falls and Bonnie and Jeremy end up going to Canada together once Jeremy's finished with school. And Damon…well, Damon had bolted the minuet Klaus was dead. So, with out a real plan for the first time in her life, Caroline decides to travel to Europe for a while.
Time passes and Caroline never does return home. She can't bear to watch everyone she loves die around her while she continues to remain seventeen.
Tyler visits her in Paris when he's thirty six. He's unmarried and unattached and he tells her he loves her, and the get a little carried away in her apartment. He's gone the next day and she doesn't hear a word about him until his suicide two years later.
She hears of her mother's death through Bonnie and she hears of Bonnie's through Jeremy. After Jenna's death, Jeremy visits her in Milan for a few weeks. He's fifty six and it's weird for her, but somehow, she still thinks of him as her best friend's kid brother.
Caroline sets him on a quest to find Elena and Stefan and he instantly brightens at the thought of seeing his sister who, it would seem, had fallen off all of their grids after she was turned at eighteen.
Ten years later, it's Elena who comes to tell her that Jeremy's passed away. Caroline cries. "Who's left?" she asks herself late one night.
"Well, there's me," a voice whispers back from outside her large open window.
Caroline's eyes open wide. "Damon!" she cries, rushing over to the window where he's seated himself. "Where have you been? What are you doing here?"
There are other questions she wants to ask, but even after more than seventy years, she remembers how much he hates when she asks too many questions.
He lets her embrace him and she feels him sigh in something so close to contentment that it shocks her. "Here and there. I thought I'd check up on my favorite Vampire Barbie. Imagine my surprise when I find her crying herself to sleep."
He reaches between them and gently wipes away the tears on her face.
She doesn't really know what to say to that so she just hugs him closer and closes her eyes. He picks her up after a moment, whispers something about the wood being hazardous, and tucks them both into her king size bed. She falls asleep the moment his arms wrap protectively around her.
Early the next morning, when he's asleep and she's awake again, she smiles softly. "I'm glad you found me," she whispers and kisses his forehead before moving to his lips.