"I'll always be with you." He whispered as he leaned in and kissed my neck sending chills down my spine and curling my toes. "I don't want you to go..." I whispered biting my lip a bit. "I don't have a choice cara. I have to find Stefan with Elena and Bonnie." "Then I'll go too." He chuckled a bit. "No cara. Only one dimension is able to handle a woman of such grace." He kissed my forehead and brushed his lips against mine. "I'll be back before you know it." And just like that he walked away towards the gate to the Dark Dimension looking back only to mouth the words 'I love you.' Before disappearing.
I woke with a start my body drenched in sweat. It had been three months since Damon was pronounced dead...and yet my heart, thoughts and dreams returned to him. It was painful to wake up every morning when at night I got to bask in his presence as if he'd never left...I didn't think I could keep this up...I thought that one morning I'd just going to wake up and die from heartbreak induced cardiac arrest. I wiped the tears from my face and swung my feet down to meet the floor. I knew I should get up and go to school for Elena, Bonnie, Meredith, and Stefan's sake but all I wanted to do was crawl back under the covers and into Damon's arms. I shook my head with a sigh and went about my daily routine getting in the shower and crying for an hour, picking out an outfit and make up style that said "I'm fine." and skipping breakfast because why the fuck not. I was just about to walk out the door when my phone rang. I checked the screen with a sigh, it was Elena. Putting a happy cheer to my voice I answered the call. "Hi Elena I was just heading out the door." "Okay good have you eaten?" "Yeah I think a little too much." I lied. "Okay so we're going out for breakfast before school." Damn. Elena could always see through me even over the phone. "Alright." I said with a groan. "Oh and Anna?" "Hm?" "You don't have to pretend that you're okay...grief has no time limit...I would know." She said comfortingly. "I'll be okay really Elena it's been three months I need to get my life back together." I said holding back tears. "Okay I'll meet you outside the gym." "Okay Elena I'll be there." Hanging up the phone and sliding my keys out of my pocket to lock the door I noticed something on my door mat. A note scrawled in nearly perfect calligraphy. I picked it up gingerly and read it outloud before cupping a hand over my mouth and sliding slowly down to the ground with a sob. This had to be a joke no way no way no way. "He's Alive and I Know How To Get Him Back." I checked the note for a sign as to who it was from but there was nothing. A horn honked and Elena stepped out of the car with Stefan and Bonnie in tow. "Did you get the same note?" Elena and Bonnie asked in frantic unison. I nodded slowly holding it up. "Who is it from? Who would do this? Is it a joke are they serious? What the fuck is going on?!" I yelled nearly at the top of my lungs, tears stinging my eyes with every word I spoke. "We don't know but Bonnie has an idea." Elena said turning her lapis lazuli gaze to her Irish redheaded best friend. "I know of someone who can help who has been training me in magic." She said her heart shaped face calm and serious. "Who?" I asked her anxiously. "His name is Lucion Shadow." Stefan stiffened at the name but gave no other indication that he knew who she meant.