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On a personal note, I'd like to say that I hated last episode. I don't know if it's because we KNOW she's leaving so I'm just viewing everything as crap now or if it was just... not good. What are your thoughts? I just hate how in the episode before she says "We have forever!" and then last episode she basically throws that out the window. I don't like Ian Somerhalder as a person, but I love Damon Salvatore and I feel like these 6 seasons have been the "Let's Screw Over Damon Salvatore" show. It's frustrating.

Anyway, on with the story. I PLAN on updating every Wed or Thusday, so that it comes out before TVD. Then after it ends (ENDS for me, because I won't be watching season 7) every Thursday.

I'm not sure yet how long it will be yet, definitely over 20 chapters thought, because that's how long my outline is and I've already thought of a lot of things to add in. Also, I don't have a beta, so all these mistakes are my own and I'm sorry!

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The End Of Forever - Chapter 2

"Dammit Elena." Damon sighed, scooping her up. Her body hung limp in his arms, her head lolling about. Sighing, he made his way back over to the camaro and, after a little adjusting, was able to open up the door and get her buckled into the passenger seat.

He pulled his cell phone out of the back pocket of his jeans and dialed, leaning his head against the cold top of the car. "Try to do something nice for a change and it blows up in your face…" He muttered, anxiously waiting for the ringing to stop and for someone to answer.

"Damon! Are you going to be making a habit of calling me all the time now? Because this is just weird!" Bonnie laughed into his ear.

"Ha ha witchy. No… I've got some problems." He groaned. "Elena's unconscious."

Bonnie's laughter cut short. "What happened?"

"I brought her out to the spot I was telling you about, and I told her about the cure. She started mumbling something about her birthday and I couldn't understand any of it, and then she just collapsed." Damon answered, forcing himself away from the car and speeding over to the drivers side.

She started laughing again. "Oh Damon, she probably just passed out from shock. You freaked her out by being so nice."

"Bonnie, this isn't funny. Vampire's don't just pass out for no reason. Now please put yourself to some use and try to find out if this is some weird spell or doppelganger curse." He twisted his keys into the ignition and his car started. Barely waiting a moment to make sure it didn't stall, after all, it WAS Stefan that put the thing back together and who KNOWS what kind of work he did on it, he shifted into first and stomped on the gas.

"Alright, I'll look into it. I don't know much about the doppelgangers or any kind of other curses that we haven't already come across but I'll check it out. Is Stefan back to being normal Stefan?" He could hear her moving around her house, shuffling things around.

"As of a few hours ago, yes. I sent him after Caroline to see if he could switch her back on."

He could practically hear her nodding on the other end. "Good, good. I'll call him and see if he's feeling anything strange. If it's something having to do with the doppelgangers, then it would be affecting the both of them. I'm going to get some things together and I'll meet you back at the boarding house in a few."

"Thank you." He whispered, even though she'd already hung up the phone. He glanced over and started at Elena, her head bouncing every time they went over a slight bump. If they had to deal with any more of this traveler crap, he was going to flip. The Caroline drama was enough to deal with at the moment.

Was it too much to ask for to just have a moment of peace? His thoughts flashed back to the summer before and how great it was before he shook his head, trying to dispel the thoughts. No point in dwelling on the past now.

Switching his attention back to the road, he hit his speed dial and called Ric. Hopefully he was with Jo, and she may have some answers to if anything out of the normal had happened with Elena during the day, beside the whole "I'm having a baby!" announcement.

Ric picked up on the third ring. "Did your girlfriend notice anything out of the ordinary with Elena today?" Damon jumped right to the point.

'Hello to you too, buddy!" Ric greeted mockingly. "I have no idea, why didn't you just call her and ask?"

"Because I don't have her number jackass. Just ask her, I can hear her in the background!" Damon exclaimed. He made a sharp right, glad to be almost home.

He heard him relay the question on to Jo, and she came onto the phone in his place. "Damon? Nothing really crazy happened today. I'm sure you know about Matt though. She went into his room after he was out of surgery and she seemed upset after she came out, but nothing too serious. Is everything okay?"

"To make a long story short, I have the cure for vampire-ism and I offered it to her and then she passed out. Vampires DON'T pass out, so I'm taking her back to the boarding house and I'm going to try to figure out what the hell happened."

He heard Jo tell Ric what was going on and he rolled his eyes. Couldn't they have just put him on speaker phone?

"Damon, what exactly did you say to her when you offered her that cure?" Ric asked.

"I don't remember! A bunch of heartfelt stuff blah blah blah. Why?" Damon inquired, pulling up as close to the front door as possible. Since he had no answers, there was no actual rush so he sat there waiting for Ric's reply.

"I have a theory, but I don't want you to get your hopes up. I'll meet you at the house in a bit." Without even waiting for a reply, he hung up the phone.

He got out and made his way over to Elena's side, gingerly scooping her up and speeding her up to their bedroom. No one was there yet, not even Stefan, so he decided to take his time and change her into some comfortable pajamas before tucking her comfortably under the blankets. He sat next to her on the bed and stroked her cheek softly with the back of his hand.

Downstairs, the front door slammed and he quickly jumped up, running down the stairs to see Stefan and Bonnie standing in the foyer. Stefan was holding Bonnie's book bag that looked to weigh a ton. "So I see you're feeling alright?" Damon questioned, ushering them into the sitting room. He grabbed the bag from Stefan and poured the contents onto the coffee table.

"I feel fine." Stefan said. "I couldn't find Caroline, so when Bonnie called I met her at her house and we came as soon as we could." Stefan's eyes flicked to the ceiling. "Is she still unconscious?"

"Yeah." Damon replied, sitting on the couch and grabbing a book. Bonnie sat to his right and grabbed a book also. "Ric is on his way. He said he might have a theory as to what happened, but I don't know what he could tell us that we don't already know."

"Maybe he did some research on travelers and doppelgangers while we were stuck in 1994?" Bonnie suggested.

Damon shrugged. It could be possible.

After about 20 minutes of the three of them digging, the front door opened again and Ric walked in, Jo following behind him. Damon stood to greet them. "Should you be out in your delicate condition?" Damon asked, bending to give Jo a quick kiss on the cheek. "Congratulations." He whispered softly in her ear.

Jo laughed. "This isn't the 1900's. I'm perfectly capable of doing normal, everyday things for my entire pregnancy."

Damon slapped Ric on the back. Though he was a little jealous, and worried about Elena, that didn't stop him from being happy for his friend.

Bonnie's head snapped up. "You're pregnant? Congratulations!" She stood from the couch and walked over to Jo, giving her an awkward hug. They'd only met once or twice before but each had heard a lot about the other. Over Jo's shoulder, Bonnie gave Damon a sympathetic smile. Now she knew why he told Elena about the cure.

Turning to Damon, Alaric shrugged sheepishly and then got down to business. "Damon, I want to tell you something that might be a little private, so we should probably go somewhere else." His eyes drifted over to Stefan slightly and Damon got the point. They silently made their way across the boarding house and settled into the library. Damon poured them each a generous amount of bourbon and he handed it to Ric before leaning against the bookshelves to wait for Ric to start talking.

Ric started at the liquid for a moment before beginning. "When you were gone, Elena did not handle it well. We thought she did, but we should have noticed that something was off. It turns out that she was getting some witchy herbs from Luke that would make her hallucinate you. None of us had any idea. I should have checked in on her more but I was dealing with things of my own. I was just learning how to function as a vampire and I wasn't handling that well myself. I couldn't think of anything other than that. To all of us, she seemed okay. I thought maybe she was so used to dealing with losing people, that she'd gotten over it. I'm very sorry for that."

Damon poured the entire glass of bourbon down his throat, trying to calm down. He had to try and keep himself in check. Ric didn't wear the Gilbert ring anymore, so he couldn't just snap his neck whenever the guy pissed him off. "Okay, she wasn't dealing, I get it. What does that have to do with right now?"

"Well, after Caroline found out about the drugs, she convinced her to stop. It was making Elena go crazy and it would make her so thirsty that she would attack random people on the streets. I'm not sure if she killed any, Caroline never said. So to stop that, she came to me and she asked me to help her forget that she was ever in love with you."

Ric stood to refill his glass. "I started with some hypnotherapy. We went through every memory that she ever had of you and I changed it. She met you one the street, but you were a stranger, and it meant nothing. You didn't step forward to dance with her at the Mystic Falls pageant, she was stood up and embarrassed. Everything. And yet, we she still couldn't forget that she loved you." Ric laughed. "I had to call Caroline to see if she had any ideas and she brought up the biggest thing that Elena couldn't admit to. That she fell in love with you when she was still with Stefan."

"Elena finally admitted it to me."

Damon held his breath. His best friend knew when the exact moment was that Elena fell in love with him. Was he ready to know this information? Though it would be nice to know, he still didn't see what it had to do with the present situation.

"She fell in love with you on her eighteenth birthday Damon." Ric stopped wanting to give Damon a few moments to let that sink in.

Damon moved to sit in the closest armchair available, at a loss for words. He shook his head. "All that time wasted…" He muttered.

Alaric shrugged. "She wasn't ready yet Damon. That's beside the point. What she told me is that when you gave her that necklace, she realized that it was the most selfless thing that you had ever done. And you had done it because you loved her and wanted her to be happy." Ric moved forward and took a seat on the coffee table, so that he was directly in front of Damon. "Tonight, you offered her that cure, even though it killed you to do it. Because you wanted her to be happy. You were completely selfless. I think that may have triggered something. You said she mumbled something about her birthday right?" Damon nodded, unable to form any words. "I think that she passed out because she's processing her memories."

Leaning back in the chair, Damon was shocked. After Ric had turned back into a human and the border to Mystic Falls had turned back into a Magic zone, he'd never really considered the possibility that Elena would get her memories back. He loved her anyway, memories or not. He was just lucky that she'd given him a chance while thinking that she hated him.

Ric patted him on the knee, getting up. "Maybe you want to get upstairs and wait for her to wake up? If I'm right, it would be nice if you were there with her when she woke up. I'll tell the others to keep looking through Bonnie's books in the mean time."

Nodding, Damon stood too. "Thank you, for telling me that." He said softly.

Ric smiled. "No problem, it's the least I could do after wiping her memories. I should have told you sooner, but things have been crazy and it's not like we've had a lot of time to talk."

"Hey, before I run up there...Did you happen to do any digging into the travelers or doppelgangers while I was gone? Just in case this is something having to do with that? It might be a good idea to know, for Elena and Stefan's case, if anything were to happen in the future. Marcos said that the travelers in Mystic Falls weren't the only ones." Damon asked, setting his glass on the coffee table.

"There wasn't much that I was able to find, but you're right. We should do more digging. I'll see what I can do." Ric assured. Damon nodded and without another word, left the room, slowly making his way up toward his bedroom.

The house was silent, all but for the turning of pages and the ticking of the grandfather clock in the hallway. Damon stood outside his bedroom door, nervous to enter. What would it mean, if Elena did regain all of her memories? Would she decline the cure, like she did last time? Would she be content living an eternal life with him?

He slowly pushed his door open and entered the room, watching as Elena stirred, turning her head slightly on the pillows. As he reached her, her eyes blinked open. Confusion clouded her vision at first, before her eyes landed on him and she smiled softly up at him. She lifted her hand, reaching out for him and he took it, sitting next to her again.

Elena yawned sleepily and pulled his arm so that she was cuddling it against her chest. "I'm tired." She said.

"So go back to sleep." Damon suggested, smiling down at her.

"Okay!" She rolled over, taking his arm with her and he was forced to lay down next to her. "I missed you." She mumbled into his shoulder.

He laughed. "You were the one who was sleeping."

"Ugh," she said, looking up into his eyes. "No, I mean…." Confusion clouded her eyes. "When you were gone…"

She jumped into a sitting position, getting tangled in the sheets. "Oh my God, Damon." She looked at him shocked. "I remember." She jumped on top of him, squeezing him. "I'm so so so sorry!" He could feel her tears instantly, dripping from her eyes onto the side of his neck.

"Baby, it's okay." He soothed, running his hands through her hair. She didn't respond, only sobbed. He rocked her as if she was a baby. "I'm here now, it's okay."

"I should have known that you would come back to me, and I just gave up. I'm so sorry." She whispered, kissing the side of his neck.

She sat up on his chest and tried to wipe at her still tearing eyes. "I can't believe you're here."

Damon grinned and put his hands behind his head, relaxing against the pillows. "It takes more than death to get rid of me!" He exclaimed cockilly.

Elena gently slapped his chest, grinning from ear to ear. "You're stupid, but I still missed you."

Her brows wrinkled. "You offered me the cure. Again."

Damon stiffened. "Of course I did. When we were stuck in 1994 I'd planned on getting it for you, that's why Nova Scotia was already circled on that map. When Bonnie found it, she knew what I'd planned and she got it. She gave it to me the other day, to do what I wanted with it. I want you to be happy Elena. That's the only thing that matters to me."

Elena huffed. "One, I can't believe Bonnie and you are buddy buddy now. That's just weird. And two… we've talked about this before. I want forever with you. The only reason I would want to be human is to be human with YOU. There's only one cure, so it's just not going to happen." She smiled at him brightly. "I would love nothing more than to grow old with you and have your children. I don't want that life with anyone else."

He smiled at her confession, grabbing her hands and flipping them over so that he was on top. Her laugh rang out as her head hit the pillows.

"Well, I had an idea about that." He said.

Elena shook her head. "Damon, after last time, I'm not really too sure if I want to trust any of your IDEAS."

Damon rolled his eyes. "Just listen. Mother dearest was stuck in 1903. There is a cure there too. If we go back there, and grab it, then we'll have a cure for the both of us. It will take some time since there's no cars to steal and no horses to ride since she killed them all, but I'm fairly certain that we could make it."

She stared up at him in wonder. "You would be human with me?"

Damon grinned. "I'd be whatever you want me to be."

Elena surged forward and kissed him. "Damon, I want to grow old with you as a human and I want to have a family with you." Her smile blinded him. "Let's do it."


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