Thanks so much for the reviews! Decided to put another chapter up since I'm on break and I have nothing else to do!
CORRECTION: Méreg alma is not Russian for poison apple, it is Hungarian for poison apple, so sorry for the mistake and thank you to sabinasabina.8855 for the correction!
It's you, it's you, it's all for you,
Everything I do I tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth with you
Video Games by Lana Del Rey
1 Year Later
Damon Salvatore drove into the town that he had been avoiding for a whole year. Everything in this town reminded him of…her. No matter what he did, no matter who he did, nothing could fill the emptiness he felt inside of him. So what possibly could bring Damon back to Mystic Falls? Shit, he didn't even know. He suddenly got a feeling that something was waiting for him here…but he didn't quite know what that thing was yet.
As he walked up to front door of his boarding house, memories started flooding in. the first time they met, when they danced…..when they made love. All these emotions suddenly started to flood back in and it was too much for Damon to take, but it was too late to back down now.
The first thing he saw when he walked in the door of his old house was a very shocked Stefan sitting on the couch, writing as usual. When will my brother ever stop brooding? Damon thought to himself. Ever since they were kids Stefan was the one who would contemplate on every single thing and Damon would be the one out and about and having fun.
"Surprised to see me, brother?" Damon spat, he could see Stefan was never expecting him to ever return, and Damon couldn't blame him, he really was planning on never coming back to this town.
"I must say, I am. Didn't expect you to come back here till about….well…forever actually." Stefan slowly put down his journal and stood up. "Well, what can I say, don't think I can ever escape this place. Plus, I'm just passing through, don't expect me to stay." Damon walked closer to his brother, who seemed to look like he wanted to strangle him. "Stefan, I've been a gone for a while now, what could I possibly have done to annoy you now?" he rolled his eyes at his little brother.
"Nothing…I'm just surprised." Damon knew his brother was lying but he chose to brush it off. Then there was a silence of the two brothers just staring at each other, then Damon finally broke it, "Did you burry her?" he whispered, it was the first time he talked about Elena's death since that night.
Stefan grimaced then sighed, "I think you better go talk to Caroline."
"Why can't you just tell me? I deserve to know what you did with her." Damon snapped as he filled the space between him and Stefan. Damon had no clue why Stefan wouldn't just tell him what happened with her body, he loved her too….more than Stefan did possibly.
"Damon, talk to Caroline, she'll explain everything…..I can't tell you because…..you'll see. Trust me on this, alright?" Stefan looked at his brother with sorrow but Damon could tell he was being sincere. "Fine. I'll go." Damon rolled his eyes then left for the Forbes residence.
When he got to Caroline's house he rang the doorbell and waited, but it was Sheriff Forbes who answered the door, "Damon! Wow, I haven't seen you in a year!" she looked surprised, not necessarily happy to see him, though. "Yeah, well, needed to get outta town for a while, if you know what I mean?"
The Sheriff just nodded, "What can I do for you?" she asked him, "I'm actually looking for your daughter, is she home?"
Sheriff Forbes suddenly gave Damon a sort of annoyed, or disapproving look, "She's not home."
"And where would she be?" he motioned her to continue, "Check the Mikaelson residence." With that, Sheriff Forbes closed the door on Damon. "What the fuck is Caroline doing in Klaus' house?!" Damon cursed out loud.
He knocked on the door of the Mikaelson house and waited, then suddenly Klaus opened the door, in just a towel. "Well if it isn't the other Salvatore brother, what took you so long?" Klaus chuckled, "Been going around, where's Caroline?" before he Klaus could answer he heard the blonde vampire's voice behind the Original,
"Klaus, who is it? I thought you were gonna make me one of those fancy omelettes you know how to make, I'm starving!" Caroline appeared behind Klaus, wearing just a robe, "Damon?!"
"I knew this would happen." Damon laughed, which he hadn't done in a long time, then walked inside the house, "Knew what would happen?" Caroline asked, "You two I mean, I totally called it, just so you guys know."
Klaus smirked then walked towards Caroline, "I'll make you the omelette, love" he kissed Caroline on the forehead then continued towards the kitchen. "We need to talk." Damon's voice was cold.
"We do….." she smiled slightly then they walked to the living room and they both took a seat across each other. "Stefan said I should talk to you about…Elena." He had hard time saying her name, even till now.
"She's not dead, Damon." Caroline's voice lightened up, Damon suddenly froze and couldn't speak for a while.
"Bonnie put a spell on her to prevent supernatural beings from killing her!" Caroline grabbed Damon's hands in excitement.
"Wait…wait….she's not dead?!" Damon's voice suddenly got high, "Yes! She's not!" Caroline continued to smile wider.
"But…..where is she? And why couldn't my stupid little brother just tell me this?!" Damon stood up and started pacing around the room. "It's because…I mean he could have told you but it would just bring back the pain…." Caroline sighed.
"Why would he be in pain? Elena is fucking alive!" he threw his hands in the air to prove how angry he was at his brother.
"Here's the catch…" Caroline started then Damon motioned her to continue.
"The spell Bonnie performed was the méreg alma spell. It's kind of like the—"
"Yes I know the spell, so why isn't she awake yet?" Damon rolled his eyes, "Why don't you think it hasn't worked yet?!" Caroline yelled back in anger.
"Stefan's here, are you seriously telling me he hasn't tried to kiss her yet?!" Damon snapped back, they wasted all this time when they could have woken her up the second she died!
"He did! And it didn't work! Now do you get what I'm trying to say?!" Caroline shoved Damon and Damon stumbled back, "He didn't want to tell you because he would just get hurt again…..it's not him, Damon…..even though I hate to admit it but….it's you. It's fucking you and you fucking disappeared for a year!" She screamed again.
"We all tried kissing her, fuck, even I tried kissing her, it's been you all along!" she yelled even louder.
Damon couldn't believe what she was saying, he took a seat on the sofa and buried his face in his hands, "Bonnie has been looking for you this whole year, we all have…even Stefan….we tracked down all your friends, well you don't have friends, but people who might have known where you were and none of them knew." Caroline said softly as she knelt in front of Damon.
"Where is she?" Damon whispered, then Caroline smiled, "Follow me."
She grabbed Damon's hand then led him to a room at the end of the hallway, he opened it and the room was beautifully decorated with vines and flowers. It looked exactly like the Snow White movie, then in the center of the room, there was a beautifully made glass casket. "Really?" he raised an eyebrow at Caroline.
"What? I couldn't miss the opportunity to make a real life fairytale happen, plus I am, well was the head of the prom committee." Caroline shrugged.
Damon slowly walked towards the casket and just stared at her. She looked beautiful, so peaceful, a part of him didn't want to wake her up, he didn't want her to be flooded with emotions that she compressed with her humanity turned off but he had to be with again.
He then took off the glass covering then placed it lightly on the floor beside her. Damon slowly kneeled beside Elena's peaceful body and caressed her smooth face before bending down slowly near her face.
Damon then kissed her passionately on her soft lips and then slowly stopped to stare at her face, "Please wake up." He heard Caroline whisper.
Suddenly, Elena's eyes shot wide open, and everyone in the room stopped breathing.
Then the first thing Elena said was, "Damon."
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