Hello guys! Sorry it took me forever to upload this chapter, but I've been really busy with school projects and finals. Thank you for your reviews for the previous chapter, which were only two and that made me a little sad, but c'est la vie. Depending on your reviews/follows, I might post the last chapter of this story within 2 days. Until then, I really hope you'll enjoy this chapter. I worked very hard on it.
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Chapter two: Stand by me
Rebekah Mikaelson; exactly the person Elena Gilbert was most willing to see. With her perfect platinum blonde curls and amused smirk on her ivory skin, she stood up and held a hand for the brunette on the ground.
"You look like Hell, you know", Rebekah told her while Elena ignored the blonde's attempt to help her raise up from the dusty ground.
"And it's none of your business", Elena responded and turned her back at her, prepared to go somewhere else.
"Maybe. But the list of persons that still can stand you isn't very long. And now you can cut two more persons from that list", she told her a little meaner than she firstly intended.
"Yeah. The Salvatore brothers. Who cares?", she told her while turning her face to see her. She didn't need anyone. So what if Damon and Stefan decided to leave Mystic Falls? They were just two of her ex-boyfriends, right?
"Now they are just The Salvatore Brothers to you? Don't you think you are being a little too bitchy to them?"
"Since when Rebekah Mikaelson is giving lessons about manners and co.?", Elena told asked her, raising an eyebrow suspiciously. If she wasn't going to change the subject soon, she'd be left alone in the dark, because the only thing that the last doppelganger wanted right now was to be told how to behave. Stefan and Damon tried that. The result: one more victim to add to Elena's killings list.
"I'm an original vampire. I can do everything I want", she told her with a patronizing smile on her face.
"Except for convincing your big brother Elijah, who, by the way is such a good kisser, to give you the famous cure", Elena told her, smiling mischievously at her. As a result to her words, Rebekah took a piece of glass from the ground and fleshed it in Elena's shoulder.
"Sorry for the jacket", Rebekah told her while looking at the blood that started to flow from Elena's wound.
"Someone's getting really emotional in here", Elena told her while she started to calmly extract the glass from her shoulder. "It's too bad. I would've given you the jacket. But now you've destroyed it", Elena added and took off Katherine's sexy leather jacket.
"Elijah will sooner or later give me the cure. You should worry about your emotions, not mine". She knew her brother. She also knew that, between she and Klaus, Elijah would always pick her. After all, she was still his baby sister. She would only have to prove to Elijah that she deserved the cure. Elijah was a wise man, if he drew the conclusion that her wish to be human again was just a caprice, he would never give it to her. This is the main reason why she was here. She had planned to ask Elena to talk to her eldest brother, so she could be 100% sure she would get the cure. But when she saw the young vampire laid on the ground, in front of the place where her house used to be, she stopped dead in her tracks. This girl needed more help than herself. And for the first time in many years, she showed compassion.
"What emotions?", Elena snapped at her in a neutral tone.
"They are still there, waiting impatiently to come to the surface", she told her in a surprisingly kind way. It was really strange; she actually started to miss the old Elena, but she knew that version of her wasn't too far away.
"I have no reason to let them… anymore", she told her and started to gulp.
"I know where Damon is. I could tell you if you want to know", she told her even friendlier than earlier.
"Why would you?", Elena asked her suspiciously. She knew Rebekah. She wasn't the one to help someone for free. But why was she even considering all of this?
"Let's just say that I owe you. I am the one that killed you. And I've never really apologized to you, so here it goes: I'm sorry", she told her full of resentment. She wanted to save her family, but killing Elena was not the solution. Well, technically it was, but she could've found another way. There is always another way. But in that moment of desperation, she wasn't herself. Still, she had no excuse for what she had done.
"Thanks, but it doesn't matter anymore. Remember that time I killed you?", she asked her, smiling devilishly.
"How could I ever forget that? You were pretty badass as a human. I was quite jealous of you. To be honest, if I hadn't met you, I'd never have wanted to become human again. And now I've finally got the chance. Can you believe that?", Rebekah admitted, full of enthusiasm.
"Good for you. But you'll get old, sick and finally die", Elena told her with no hint of grudge, in a friendly sort of sincerity.
" You forgot the part with falling in love, marring a handsome man, having kids and moving in bungalow. Death is a thing I can handle", she told her with crystal teardrops in the corners of her eyes.
"Good luck, then! Don't forget to send me a wedding invitation!", Elena told her ironically and started to laugh along with Rebekah. She missed having a girly conversation. Of course, she never imagined she'd ever have this type of conversation with Rebekah, but it felt surprisingly good.
"You're a master at skipping the subject, but I'm even better at not letting myself get distracted. Damon is in Georgia."
"You're also very good at destroying the fun. So what if he's in Georgia?", Elena responded, in a cheap attempt to sound annoyed and bored.
"Georgia reminds him of you. As Stefan said: He lost her. Instead of going as far from here as possible, he's going to Georgia. He took Elena there once when she was still human. They had a really good time there. Elena, go after him", Rebekah told her and squeezed her shoulder reassuringly. She didn't try to convince her to go and find Damon so that she and Stefan could be together, but because she felt sorry for her. After all, she was a hopeless romantic. If she couldn't live her epic romance story yet, at least she wanted Elena to live herself.
Elena was left speechless. After all that she had done and said to him, he still cared about her. And he went to Georgia. God, how she missed that city! The city in which she actually started to feel something developing between the two of them.
"Am I going to be safe with you?"
"Yes".
"Do you promise not to do that mind control thing with me?"
"Yes"
"Can I trust you?"
"Get in the car. Come on!"
The memory of the two of them in Georgia brought a tear in her eye. Even if Damon could have compelled her, he didn't. Even if now he could have left her forever, he didn't. He went to Georgia. He knew that if there was still a chance they'd be together, she'd come to him.
And even if she was so afraid to admit that, she wanted so much to see him, touch him, kiss him, make him happy. Sired or not, emotionless or not, she still loved him, so much that it hurt.
As she was picturing his teary blue eyes again, she started to cry harder. How could she be that lucky to be loved by such a wonderful person? How could she have been that cruel to that man?
But why was she being so overwhelmed by emotions? She felt hope, sorrow, love, desperation, all at the same time. If she was numb, why was she feeling like that?
And then it hit her.
"You did that. You made me turn on my humanity!", she yelled with anger and desperation to Rebekah.
"No, you did that. My abilities as an original vampire have nothing to do with that", Rebekah told her surprised. The old Elena was starting to come back.
"What am I going to do now?", Elena asked her in a shaking, but still loud voice, while tears continued to stream down her face, destroying the mascara on her lashes.
"Firstly, you and I are going to have a drink. Then, I'll take you to Georgia", Rebekah told her and hugged her tightly, while Elena started sobbing on her shoulder.
…
As the sun was starting to rise, the two girls started walking down the empty and quiet streets of Mystic Falls. They were two lost and wounded souls, but they were as close to healing as ever. As they were walking together to a bar to have a good grizzle, nobody could say they used to be enemies once, because as red-eyed and wretched as they were, they looked like two broken best friends. As Dodinsky used to say, we are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don't hesitate to be a lighthouse.
It's true, sometimes the only antidote to misery is a friend.
Okay, so now a few spoilers for the last chapter:
-The title will be "Burning Desire"
-Elena and Rebekah are going to Georgia, but will Damon still be there? You'll definitely find out.
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Kisses,
-C.
