Title: The Return
Summary: The spell is reversed upon Kai's death. Elena wakes up. She's human, which draws the Originals back to Mystic Falls. Katherine returns from the world she was sent to a vampire. Alaric's twins survived, and Jo was able to give birth, before she died.
Category: AU, Season 7, Season 8.
Author: Sarah August
"Damon?"
Damon stops by the fireplace and turns around. He looks towards the main set of windows of the living room of the boarding house. Where they had moved Elena's coffin for her safety.
Damon grins. Happy could not describe his feelings. She was awake, she was back. It was all that mattered to Damon in this moment. 60 years. He was told. 60 years of waiting for her, waiting to be with her. It was all gone, because she was back, now. She wasn't supposed to be.
He snatched her up into a passionate embrace. He would not think of the reason why she was back. It didn't matter to him. Not right then. Damon would enjoy it, steal this bit of happiness. He wouldn't think of her. Bonnie. She was supposed to be dead if Elena was awake. It was what Kai had vowed.
"Am I dreaming?" Damon whispers into her thick long hair.
"How long, Damon?" Elena presses. "It seems that I was just here, just put asleep."
"You were..." Damon replies softly. The consequences of all of this, still heavily on his mind. "Elena, I think something happened when I killed Kai. It reversed his spell...Bonnie, she was still alive. I just saw her more than an hour ago."
"Oh, god," Elena states, panic in her voice for her friend. "What about Jo...I remember her screaming and Alaric..."
"She died, Elena," Damon reveals. "But Ric went to the hospital with her. They might have been able to save the babies."
Elena nodded, shaken by the news. She had wanted a happily ever after for her old history teacher. She felt heartbroken for him, and for Jo. Hopefully the twins could be saved.
"I should call Bonnie," Elena says softly.
Damon then pulls Elena into another kiss. She grins. "We'll have later," Elena promises him.
"We'll have later." Damon smiles. "And forever."
Elena smiles at that. She was human now. The length of forever was now altered. There would not be anything else. She was alright knowing that. She wondered if Damon still was. But they'd have the night to talk things out. Elena went to leave the living room and head for the kitchen to use the land line. She stopped short and beamed happily. There was Stefan standing before her.
"I thought I was hearing things," Stefan grins back. They embrace like two old friends that they were. He laughs excitedly. "How?" Stefan presses, talking into her hair. Elena pulls back first. "Damon thinks that Kai's spell reversed itself when he died." Elena told him. She grins again at Stefan, then explaining she wanted to call Bonnie. Caroline too. She leaves the brothers alone in the living room.
"We won't need this anymore," Damon says with a smile, closing shut the place where Elena had just escaped from. The coffin made a noise with shutting it's door closed.
"Congratulations, Damon," Stefan beams at his brother. You could see Damon's eyes shine with new life. Elena was back, and that was everything now for Damon.
"Thanks brother," Damon grinned. He let out a laugh, he couldn't be happier.