Chapter 2
Two Days Later
Damon sits beside his bed watching Elena's corpse, still wondering how this happened. While deep in thought, Stefan enters "Damon it has been two days, we need to bury her" he says timidly. Damon just shakes his head "No, no this doesn't make any sense", he says turning toward Stefan. "There was no stake to the heart, she didn't have a werewolf bite, and Klaus isn't dead, because we are still here" he says. "I don't know" Stefan says genuinely. He couldn't believe that it either that Elena was gone and he felt horrible seeing his brother so broken. "But as much as we don't want to believe it, we need to face the fact that she is dead, and I think she deserves to be put at rest." "Yeah with the rest of her dead family" Damon said sarcastically. "Well do you have a better idea" Stefan asked, but before Damon could say anything, there was a clatter downstairs, so they went to go check it out.
Downstairs everyone was there, Tyler, Caroline, Matt, Alaric, Jeremy, and Bonnie were all sitting quietly mourning Elena. Then Tyler finally stood up angrily and says "This is all Damon's fault" "Tyler" Caroline says in a firm and low voice. "Think about it Caroline, he was the only one with her before her death, he could have easily taken a stake out of her heart and hid it." "I didn't kill her" Damon says in a low and threatening voice. "Then why else is she a corpse on your bed? I mean it's the only explanation. You … Killed … Her… Damon" Tyler says in a slow and menacing voice. And that was the breaking point Damon, when he lunges to attack Tyler, but before he could reach him, Stefan and Alaric hold him back, while Matt and Jeremy held Tyler back.
While tensions were rising downstairs, life was emerging upstairs. Elena's dead body begins changing, the veins start disappearing and the breath of life returns to her with a gasp. With eyes opened widely and her breathing rapid, she slowly looks around at her surroundings noticing that she's in Damon's room on his bed as she slowly sits up and gets to her feet. Still flustered and confused, she starts making her way downstairs, when she makes it to the stairs, she hears yelling coming from downstairs and when she listens closer she notices it's Damon and Tyler. She then hurries down the stairs and slowly makes her way to the entrance of the living room. And the next words that come out of her mouth were "what is going on" and the whole room goes silent and all eyes go toward the voice. And then Stefan and Alaric let Damon go and he slowly turns to see the angel he saw fall to death, fully alive, but he wasn't quite convinced, so he gently closes the distance between them. With Elena still really confused she stands very still, while Damon slowly reaches his hand out to touch her face to make sure she is real. As soon as he feels the contact he pulls her into a passionate hug. With this action, Elena is over the edge in confusion and then returns the hug. But then suddenly he hears a little flutter of a heartbeat slowly emerging from underneath him that catches him of guard, but then he listens more closely and feels the warmth radiating beneath his touch. He carefully breaks the hug looking at Elena with an unreadable expression. "What's wrong Damon" Elena asked worried. "You're human, Elena".
A little while later, Elena's sitting on the couch with Damon by her side and everyone else surrounding her. "Elena what's the last thing you remember" asked Stefan. "I remember leaving Whitmore to come here." She said. "Is there anything else" Alaric asked, "Um wait, there was a crash… I flipped the car, because… there was a woman in the middle of the road. And then I remember she walked toward me and then she stabbed me with something, vervain I think" Elena says. "Where did you crash, do you remember" Damon asked. " Um I think it was near the border" she says. With that Damon stood up and said "alright Stefan and Caroline stay with Elena, and Little Gilbert and Bon Bon come with me", and before he could say a word, he was out the door.
In his Camaro drove to the border, until he saw Elena's car flipped over. With Bonnie up front and Jeremy in the back, they all slowly get out of the car. Walking to the car, Damon gets on his knees to look in the car and notices dry blood on the pavement, leading a trail into the woods. "She took her this way" Damon said. "How do you know" Jeremy asked. "Oh I don't know maybe because there is a trail of dry blood" Damon says sarcastically. After that they begin their trek into the forest.
After about two miles, Damon notices smoke in the distance, which strikes him as strange considering that nobody lived this far into the woods. As they got closer, they found the cause of the smoke, a cottage. When they grew closer, Damon knocked on the door waiting for an answer that never came. After about a minute, he opened the door and carefully tested the border that was no longer there, which he immediately took as a bad thing. As soon as they all walked in, Damon says "Ok snoop the whole place out, look for any clues that might explain what happened to Elena." And with that they all went their separate ways searching through the house. When Bonnie went into the kitchen she was instantly welcomed to a gruesome scene. "Um Damon" she called out and Damon arrives not to long after seeing the witch hung and bloody all over. "I don't think she'll be much help" she says as she makes eye contact with him. "Well let's hope she left something behind" Damon says, and then he leaves to continue searching.
When Damon leaves the kitchen, he goes into the parlor to check on Jeremy. " Have you found anything yet" he asks, "Nope" Jeremy says. After hearing that, something catches his eyes, a light creeping between a crack in the door at the end of the hall. He feels entranced walking towards it. Once he opens the door he finds hundreds of potions and Grimoires everywhere. This was her layer. As Damon looked around he saw things scattered everywhere, but nothing that caught his eye, so he kept looking around. Then he walks over to the desk and then his eyes fall upon a piece of paper that had a clue on it that immediately lit Damon's eyes up. He quickly grabs it and gathers both Bonnie and Jeremy up and leaves the cottage.
Arriving back at the Boarding House, Damon still had not said a word since they left the cottage and Bonnie was starting to get worried. Getting out of the car, Damon instantly makes a straightway to the door. When he walks through the door, Elena gets up from the sofa and goes over to give him a hug, which he returns. "I found something" Damon said.
Once everyone was sitting down, Damon finally told them what he found "well I didn't find much, but I did find a name and place. Annie Sales in New Orleans." "So what does this mean" Caroline asked. It means pack your bags Blondie because we're going to New Orleans."