"Guys come on, were late" Elena shot up from her bed to hear a familiar voice that called softly. Elena turned in her bed and looked up towards the ceiling before sighing, 'another day' she muttered before she realised where she was. She looked towards Jeremy's room as both bathroom doors were open and she stumbled out of her bed. She ran fast as possible through the doors and fell onto Jeremy's bed after she tripped over books on the ground. Jeremy huffed and pulled his pillow over his head muttering the words ' five more minutes'. Elena ran up to her brothers side and shook his shoulders several times annoying him with the words 'wake up!'
"What" he groaned and she pulled the pillow out of his face. Elena froze like a statue and looked at the face of a seventeen years old boy instead of a man in his late twenties and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Jer Were back home! You're… you're young!" Elena couldn't control the excitement in her voice, she was finally home. It took Jeremy five minutes to realise he was a teenager not a deadly hunter and back in his own home that was burned to the ground only a few days ago. He slowly got out of his bed and walked up to his window and opened it, he couldn't help but stick his head out to see the familiar safe town of mystic falls that use to be before the vampires came to town. Elena followed her brother and smiled looking at the peacefully street that was only rubble yesterday, she hugged onto Jeremy's side as they looked out of it together. Elena's phone beeped and she beamed, she ran into her room but found her pace quite slow and grabbed her white blackberry and stared at it for a couple of minutes, this was the phone she had before the night of the crash in which her parents drowned. She opened the message to see it from an unknown number saying two simple words, Your Welcome.
Elena was still in her haze when Jeremy tapped her shoulder and showed her his own phone that read a date, '03 – Sept – 2011'. Elena nodded her head at the sight, she was back to life when she was only eighteen and Jeremy seventeen.
"Grandma Gilbert isn't going to be waiting forever, hurry on" The voice called again and they both jumped, Grandma Gilbert died in March of 2011 and here was the soft voice ushering them to hurry on so they could visit her. Jeremy looked towards the door and so did Elena and the voice called to them again informing them breakfast was ready.
"Mom?" Elena whispered and Jeremy leaped off the bed and ran towards the stairs, Elena was soon after him but couldn't quite keep up, she eventually grabbed the back of his t-shirt and yanked him back and pulled herself forwards but Jeremy was too fast for her and was already running towards the kitchen. They both froze at the door frame as they saw their mother making scramble eggs and she smiled up at them before placing the eggs on two plates and the pan into the sink. Elena could feel the tears springing in her eyes and Jeremy was pretty much the same as their mother smiled at the in confusion. At once both children grabbed onto their mother, Elena hugged her side and Jeremy wrapped his huge arms around both of them.
"Lena, Jer? What's going on?" Miranda laughed as her kids wrapped themselves around her as if they never wanted to leave her for a second, which was true. Elena pulled away and smiled up at her and Jeremy kissed her cheek which made her laugh even more.
"We just missed you" Jeremy said honestly and she laughed before placing her hand on his head and shaking up his hair and detached herself from her children and grabbed the plates and brought them to the table where she placed two forks, knifes and glasses for her children.
"We'll I guess I've been spending a lot of time with Grandma Gilbert, which is why you two need to eat and get dressed" She said letting her children sit at the table and smiled before exiting her way towards the hall way. Jeremy and Elena sat in silence eating their scrambled egg before one of them cracked.
"Silas done this" Elena admitted remembering the deal they made which seemed like years ago when in reality it was just yesterday. Jeremy almost chocked on his egg when she said that and drank down his orange juice fast, Elena laughed and got up to get a drink for him as he continued to cough and frowned, she was faster than this. She ran towards the couch and then to the fridge again but she was slow and pretty sure poor old grandma Gilbert who wasn't well judging from what her mother said could have out ran her. Elena ran back and forwards for ten minutes trying to see if she was just a little tired and get her super vampire speed back but it was Jeremy's grasp that Elena realised she wasn't a vampire anymore and wailed into her brother's arms before he helped her to her room. As soon as Jeremy closed her bedroom door to let her rest Miranda skipped out of her room in a fresh new pair of jeans and a pink blouse and smiled at Jeremy who put his finger to his mouth as a silence gesture
"What's up?" She whispered and Jeremy smiled before telling his mother she got into a fight with Caroline. Once Miranda told Jeremy to stay at home he accepted the decision to look after his sister but truly he was trying to ring someone to help in this trouble, someone he was sure he would never ask for help when it came to his sister. He dialled the number and waited for a few minutes for someone to pick up and once he heard the groggy voice he smirked.
"I need your help, it's about Lena"
The smell of whiskey and burnt wood scented the Salvatore living room. Damon woke up to a pounding head and wondered how much he drank to receive a hangover like this. He got up and looked at the three brunette girls lying in the corner of the room, all dead. He got up and yelled for Stefan who walked down the stairs in a non-caring way and watched his brother with hateful eyes
"Listen Mc Swag, What the hell happened here" Damon asked ready to kill his brother. For months he was helping Stefan getting back on the wagon and away from his ripper ways and then the battle of Silas came upon them and ruined it again.
"It's not my fault brother, you killed them not me" Stefan said in an emotionless tone as he walked up to Damon and watch him with his green eyes. Damon looked at him with confusion, he hadn't killed a human in a long time, just before he and Elena had finally accepted faith and got together and became one. Damon was ready to question Stefan once again and heard his phone vibrate and answered it,
"What?" He said in a groggy tone, he knew he needed sleep now. Once he heard the word help and Elena in the same sentence he quickly got dressed before going to the sink and washing the blood of his hands, he used the green block of soap when he noticed a golden ring missing from his hand and flexed his head backwards in annoyance remember the deal Elena had made with the stupid Silas. He remembered it now, hanging in the cage with Klaus as Elena gave them a future but an unknown past. He ran to his car and drove until he got to the Gilbert house. He pounded his hand on the door and Jeremy answered before inviting him again.
"Where is she?" Damon asked as he made he was towards her room, following her heart beat. He burst into the room to see a sleeping Elena and smiled before he closed the door again and walked down the stairs to see Jeremy cleaning up in the kitchen and telling Damon his request for him being here.
"Do you know what happened?" Jeremy asked and Damon nodded his head and rolled his eyes, he wish this never happened at all.
"Silas knocked you out, Elena made a deal to reverse time and save the day once again. But I don't think anyone else knows, Stefan doesn't and by the pictures around it seems papa and mama Gilbert are alive and well" He said holding a picture frame of Miranda and Grayson at a party with a banquet in the background celebrating their twentieth anniversary of this year. Jeremy took the frame out of his hand and placed it down, afraid it would break and sighed,
"Of course she did, I can't remember anything. I'm finding pictures of me with a football team around the house but I don't play" Jeremy said shaking his head, He loved football but once his dad had died he lost that love for the sport, but now his father was alive and it seemed from the unknown past so was the love for it.
"That's the problem, I can't remember either" He confessed feeling week at the words, Damon picked up a picture of Elena and Jeremy and smiled at his beautiful girl before placing it down and turning around to see her in the doorway.
"Damon" She said running into his arms and hugging him, he spun her around and he smiled before kissing her forehead and placing her back on the ground and kissing her again on the forehead. She grabbed and leaned into him and he hugged her tight before Jeremy coughed. Elena sent him a scowling look and he frowned before leaving the room.
"Listing I need to do something for you, but I think I can't just yet" He said with a frown and Elena looked at him in confusion. She questioned what he was talking about and he let her go before looking into her eyes in pain.
"Elena, I love you and you know that. I loved you the second we met and I think I love you more than anything in the world" he said and Elena smiled confessing her love for him the same way and he sighed.
"And because I love you more than anything in the world I have to let you go" He said brushing her hair with the back of his index finger and she shook her head several times not wanting him to say what she knew what was coming, she opened her mouth to go against his statement but she felt mute.
"I want you to remember me as the family friend. You will move on with your life and you will love it and when you see me on the street you will see me as a family friend, nothing more" He said looking into her eyes compellingly. She nodded her head several times and repeated his words and he kissed her head before speeding away. Damon didn't realize how much pain that caused him, as soon as he drove into his parking space at the grill he got a text from the youngest Gilbert, 'Thank you, This means a lot' and it that moment Damon Salvatore turned it off.
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