Elena stood there feeling different, but in a good way. She let the cure drip down her throat, this was what she wanted sense she became a vampire. She wanted to be human again, she knew that being a vampire had its perks, but it just wasn't what she ever wanted. Damon stood there watching her take it and for some reason she didn't like him watching her like she usually would have.
"Taste like cherry," he asks in a joking way and she glared at him for a moment before removing to vial from her lips.
"Old blood," she whispers handing him the empty vial, she knew that she promised to share with him so they could grow old together, but it tasted so human.
"Are you ready," he asks and it felt like a double question, because she was about to step out of this small room and walk down the aisle with Jo to meet Alaric at the end, but she was also becoming human and she could feel it through her veins.
"Yes," is all she said and he bent down to give her a quick kiss on the lips.
"Good," he smirks before locking their lips together, and Elena shut her eyes tightly trying to let herself get lost in the kiss but was having a hard time.
"We better get out there," she says pulling away from the kiss not missing the hurt that crossed Damon's face.
"You're right," he nods leading them out of the room.
Damon went on up the aisle to Alaric while Elena went into the Brides room. There Jo stood in the long, white, beautiful dress that brought out her dark brown hair and brown eyes. Caroline was in the process of trying to help Jo with the dress when Jo met Elena's eyes in the mirror. Jo turned around quickly to give her beaming smile at Elena, causing Caroline to stop her actions on the dress.
"You look amazing, Jo," Elena smiled at the bride.
"Elena," Jo squeaked, this was the true girl that came out that was rarely ever around, "That purple dress looks amazing on you. I bet Damon loved it."
"Yeah," she laughed feeling a little uncomfortable about the mention of Damon liking the dress, "Are you nervous?"
"No," she shakes her head but Elena can tell by her eyes that she was freaking out, "Is Alaric really down the aisle? He hasn't left me yet?"
"Jo," Elena says kindly, "Alaric would never leave you. He loves you and the babies."
"I know," Jo hesitates, "but-"
"No buts," Elena smiles cutting her off, "You have a wedding to get to and a handsome groom that's waiting for you."
"You're right," Jo says and she lets Caroline get back to working on the zipper in the back.
Elena went over and helped Caroline get Jo ready. Once they were finished they began walking out behind Jo. As they walked down the aisle Damon and Elena locked eyes on one another, but it made Elena get chill bumps. She shakes her head a little to get the thoughts out of her head, she loved Damon. Then her eyes landed on Stefan in his suite, the sight of him made her heart skip a beat.
"You look beautiful," she heard Alaric whisper to Jo and it made Elena smile.
The ceremony began and she listened to their promises of love carefully. She always dreamt one day that she would be in the same place as Jo, but with her groom. She gave up the dream when her and Damon got together, he never seemed to think about the future like Stefan did. She keeps sneaking peaks at Stefan, feeling differently when she looked at him. She remembered having to beg him to go to the dance, but she loved begging him because he always gave into her. Stefan always made her feel powerful. She was pulled out of her thoughts by the doors banging and she saw Kai standing there with his evil smile.
"I was going to wait until the 'death do us part' bit, but it seemed a little on the nose," Kai shrugged and his eyes landed on Jo, everything seemed to happen at once as she fell to the floor screaming in pain.
"Jo," Alaric yells falling to his knees next to her with tears in his eyes as he sees the blood soak through the dress on her stomach, "No, no, no! Jo! Jo answer me! Please."
"Caroline," Elena said turning towards her friend who has a shocked look on her face, "Get everyone out of here. I have to help Jo."
"But what about you," Caroline asks and Elena glares at her.
"Go," she demanded and Caroline nodded before doing as she was told.
"Not so fast Elena," Kai said and she looked at him feeling angry.
The noise Kai has magically created is so powerful that all the glasses and windows shatter, causing Damon and Elena to fall to the ground. When Elena makes impact to the floor and she slams her head against the ground. Damon looks over to see her eyes closed and he hears her heart beat slowing slowly.
"Damn it," Damon yells and when he looked up the crowd of people were gone luckily.
He pulls her head onto his lap looking down at her. He didn't really know what to do or even how to do it. He felt his whole world shatter underneath him like he was just floating in space. He looks over at Alaric to see that his friend was crying over his wife, or what should have been his wife.
"Elena," Damon asks feeling himself freak out when she doesn't answer, "Come on. Hey, wake up. Elena?"
Damon doesn't know anything else to do. So, he bites his wrist and puts it against her mouth. "Please wake up," he keeps thing to himself. She just lays limp in his arms as the blood drips down her chin. He looks to see Stefan and Caroline looking at Elena with wide eyes.
"She won't wake up," Damon says feeling himself loosing hope.
"Oh, my God," Caroline whispers looking at her friend feeling scared and hopeless.
"She won't wake up," Damon repeats as if he can't believe it, "I don't understand."
"Get her to the hospital, now," Stefan commands and he feels his heart breaking looking at Elena so helpless.
"Yeah," Damon says as if was the obvious thing to do.
Damon gets up with Elena in his arms as he vamp speeds to the nearest hospital. They rush her in and he stands there for a moment before taking a seat. Hours past and the longer Damon was away from Elena the angrier he got. Finally, the doctor told him he could come back to see her.
"What's wrong with her," Damon asks as he follows the doctor to the room.
"There's nothing physically wrong with Miss Gilbert," the doctor says and Damon closes his eyes, feeling the urge to rip this doctors head off.
Damon nodded and finally opened his eyes. He saw her through the window hooked up to different machines. He couldn't bring himself to walk in there yet, but he knew that this wasn't going to be pretty. He was going to kill Kai and probably rip him limb by limb. Damon even thought about pulling Kai's skin off when his phone rung.
"Damon," Bonnie said with worry in her voice.
"Ah. Bonnie Bennett," Damon says giving a sad smile, "You have no idea how good it is to hear your voice right now."
"Damon," she says anxiously, "Kai's out!"
"I know. I'm glad you're safe," Damon said truthfully, "I was worried Kai already got to you."
"He did. And I don't know how, but I'm still alive," she hesitates, "He drained my blood and that's all."
"That's not all," Damon says unhappily, "He was at the wedding. Jo's dead, he killed her."
"Oh, my God," she gasps through the phone and he knew that the next part, when he said it out loud, it was really going to be true.
"And Elena got knocked out, and she's not waking up," he says frustrated, "The doctors keep telling me that there's nothing physically wrong with her. I don't know what to do, Bon."
"Stay there. Okay," she asks and he hears movement on the other end, "I'm coming."
Meanwhile, Elena was thinking about Matt. Her first boyfriend, and her forever friend. They were both in her mind, but it was at the Wickery Bridge. Elena hands some of the dandelions to Matt with a smile.
"Here," she smiles at Matt, "Say it."
"I'm not saying it," he says feeling upset.
"Fine," she shrugs before she turns so she can face the river, "I'll say it. Here lies Elena Gilbert, a fun girlfriend and an amazing friend."
"I'm glad you can find humor in this," Matt says as she drops the dandelions into the river before looking at him.
"I have to find humor in this, Matt. Because the alternative," she hesitates as she feels her chest tighten, "The alternative would be to say good-bye, and I'm just... I'm not ready for that yet."
Damon didn't know what to do with himself anymore. What he just found out from Matt through a text liked to have killed him. Kai stands there in front of Damon watching him carefully with a smile. Damon looks up at him and is ready to kill him where he stands.
"Damon, think about it- every day that you wake up without Elena in your arms, you'll have the burning desire to kill Bonnie," Kai says with a smirk that has Damon wanting to kill him more than ever, "Of course, you could just get it over with and kill her now, but Elena will probably never speak to you again."
Damon looks so angry that he lunges to attack Kai once again, but Kai vamp-speeds away before he can touch him. Furious and not knowing what to do, Damon takes out his frustration by throwing a nearby gurney. Leaving Elena at the hospital with her thoughts. Now, her and Stefan are going on a hike.
"Hang on, hang on. I just," she hesitates breathless as she sits on a rock, "I just need two seconds."
"Well, you're the one who chose a five-mile hike to say goodbye to me," he smiles and it melts her heart.
"This isn't goodbye Stefan," she shrugs and she looks at him in his green eyes, "Besides, this hike is where I told you I didn't want to be a vampire. I thought it would be fitting considering—"
"Because you're a weak human again," he says amused as he takes her hands and helps her to her feet.
"You knew that I never wanted to be a vampire, even before we took our first steps up that mountain," she says looking off the cliff for a moment before looking back at him with squinted eyes, "You just wanted to hear me say it out loud."
"Well, a lot of good that did," he says sarcastically and she feels her tears prick her eyes.
"I guess what I'm trying to say is that you knew me better than anyone. You always have, which is why you already know how impossible it is for me to," she hesitates as her tears begin to fall, "to find the words to say goodbye."
"Don't. I can't do this, not," he says feeling his emotions overcome him, sadness and love are winning the battle, "not now, not never"
"Thank you for bumping into me that day in the hallway," she says grabbing his hands, "I thought I would never be happy again, and then- and then I met you. You changed everything for me. You—you quite literally saved my life. I love you so much, which is why I can't wait to find out what new life you- you've chosen for yourself in sixty or seventy years when I see you again."
"I can guarantee it won't be high school," he says with a sad smile and they laugh a little, but sadness is too much for them to enjoy the joke.
"Just be happy," she whispers and she knows how bad telling him goodbye really is, "I'll see you soon."
"I'll see you, Elena," he says with a sad smile as she drops his hands and walks away.
Damon and Stefan stood above the casket Elena was in. She wasn't dead, she was like a modern sleeping beauty to the brothers. They were in the Salvatore crypt both with heavy hearts. Stefan would never tell Damon, but Stefan still loved Elena dearly. Though Elena had chosen Damon, Stefan would always choose Elena over anyone. Now here he was getting ready to go on the next sixty to seventy years without Elena, or at least until Bonnie dies.
"You think she'll be safe here," Damon asks his brother as he looks at the casket.
"Yeah," Stefan says, "Bonnie said she'd put a spell on the crypt. If word gets out that she has the cure in her, every vampire will come after her."
"I guess it's time for me to say goodbye," Damon whispers and Stefan nods not wanting to leave Elena.
Damon grabs the lid to the coffin getting ready to open it, but he drops the hand. Stefan looks at him curiously before watching his older brother walk out of the crypt. Stefan knew Damon was hurting, he was too, but Stefan said his goodbye. It might have not been what he wanted, truthfully, he didn't want to ever tell Elena goodbye, but he promised himself when he went to the hospital and held Elena's hand that he would find a way to get her out of this. When Stefan had grabbed Elena's hand at the hospital he got into her mind and they were walking up that mountain. Yes, he loved Elena then, and he will always be in love with her.