This is it you guys, the big one, but not the end by any means. Read, and enjoy, and don't forget to tell me what you think.


This would be the moment when everything changed and Damon could feel it. He thought back to the times when he knew things were turning down a different path. 1861, he enlisted as a soldier in the confederate army, fighting a war over something he as a boy couldn't understand. 1864, Katherine Pierce enters his life, and he falls in love for the first time, not merely bedding her once and moving on to the next brothel, in the next town as he had done before. A few months later he woke up in the transition to a vampire, and he was swindled into drinking a young girls blood, forcing the transformation. Skip to 2009, the moment Elena Gilbert apologized to for the loss of Katherine, something struk at Damon's heart, and he fell under the spell she didn't know she had cast. Next was the opening of the tomb, discovering that the woman he had loved for over 150 years had lied to him, and abandoned him. Katherine returns. Originals show up on the Boarding House doorstep. Elena was sacrificed and Klaus was released from the curse that boud kim. Elena kissed him, as he lay dying, and Stefan went darkside... again. The plan to kill Klaus failed, and then next day Elena was kidnapped by him.

This was one day later. The moments that had been game changers had been growing closer and closer in time since he had met Elena. This couldn't happen everyday, so today had to be the biggest one he had faced as of yet. He was ready, whatever happened he had a plan. A secret plan as always. A one man plan, and this time no one would stop him, that was certain.

Katherine had found the bed and breakfast that Klaus had spent the night with Elena's body in. The thought of any of Katherine's past lovers with anyone besides her still made her green with envy, even if it was the one lover she had spent five hundred year running from.

Damon led his group. He, the psychotic lover boy, completley comitted to women who always loved someone else. One 500 year old Slut with a brother fetish. One blood junkie with a thing for the writing on the wall. A vampire cheerleader with a hybrid boyfriend. A witch forsaken by her ancestors. And a vampire hunter history teacher who joined the very thing he used to kill. It was a fucked up group to sayin the least, and that was just the tip of the iceburg.

The halway looked like it came to a dead end, but there was a very hidden doorway to the right that tunneled their vision directly toward the last door. Klaus was in there with the woman they both loved. Damon knew it would not be Elena he ran into once he reached the doorway. From what they all knew of Originals, she would be selfish, and deadly cunning. Damon knew he had to save her, but he didn't know how. All he knew was that he had to make Elena come back to the surface, to somehow over power Cristine.

He swung open the door, and Klaus was instantly at his throat, " You never know when to quit do you? Lucky for you I acounted for all of this. You see, you are predictable, always doing stupid things to save your precious Elena. I galdly welcome you, and especially your witch. I need you both for this."Kluas threw Damon against the wall. Damon lunged at him, but Klaus moved quickly to the door, grabbing hold of Bonnies wrist. She tried to use her abilities to send the unbearable sound waves to his head.

"Oh, isn't that adorable, you think you can wrap your grimy witchy hands aroung my brain. No dice. You see, I'm afraid only two things can harm me now that I have all the cards. The Original witch, and God himself. Seeing how you are neither, I would cooperate for your own sake." Klaus pushed her towards the door.

Cristine had heard the noise and walked out of the bedroom door on the otherside of the room. Her hair was loose and hung around her face and over her shoulders. She had wrapped a sheet around her to protect her modesty.

"Elena," Damon said. She had been with him. She had slept with him. Before he ever got a chance to touch her. This sparked and anger in him. How could someone so selfish and greedy and awful and Klaus be alowed to have someone like her?

"I am sorry I am not Elena. She is in here somewhere, but I am not her." Cristine looked truly sincere, but he had seen that look on the face of every original he had ever met. It was a ploy, and a selfish one at that.

"You my dear witch, are going to help me restore her to her original body. In this casket right here." Klaus walked over to the casket." Tyler! You may come out now, stand guard here, and my good Alarick, you will not try to destroy the body, becuase if you do I will allow that ring to remain on your finger while I rip every bone from within your skin and make a neat pile to send to the bottom of the ocean."He turned and placed his hands on Cristine/ Elena's face, depending on who was watching. He leaned his head forward and kissed her gently. "After a thousand years, you will be mine, just as you were once."

"What ever it takes I will do my love. No sacrifice is to great for this love."

"I think I'm going to throw up the last blood bag." Damon said. His cold and unbeeting heart secretly in his throat.

"I do not exect you to understand, boy. You have only ever loved women who do not love you. It must be difficult to live that way. If I hadn't promissed your brother, I would have mercifuly put an end to your misery back when he told me about you in Chicago." Kluas let go of Cristine.

"Why do you have to do this to him? He loved just like you. It was my fualt that he was broken, not his. Just like it was her fault that you turned into a murderous lunatic, who would sacrifice his own family so that, somehow in your twisted head, you would "never be alone". It doesn't make much sense does it? You are not half the man he is!" Katherine was not the kind to show this emotion.

"She does not need to be here, Nicklaus. All we needd is the blue eyed one, and the witch. Send them away for their own saftey, No one need be here, in case something may go wrong. No one needs to be hurt." Cristine spoke, still wrapped in the sheet.

"You are right, My dear." Klaus smiled and said, "Damon, and my dearest Bonnie, you are all I need, and your lives are guranteed, the rest of you would do well t leave. We all know how much trouble I have controling my temper. I hate to hand out trust because of how often both the living and the dead, and what ever we are, tend to betray it." Klaus saw that each of them looked to Bonnie, who then looked to Damon. "Well, I supose you put the right man in charge this time. Or weren't you the brain of the last plan too? No matter that," Klaus smirked, "Go on, tell them it will be alright. No one in this room is going to shed their blood, so long as the rest of you leave."

"Go. We can save her." Damon nodded, his blue eyes catching the light just right, giving the others, all of them some sort of hope.

"I'm staying. He's my brother, and I know you. Damon, we may have hated eachother for years, but I know that we are better together than apart. What I did to you will never be right, and I will always have to be there trying to make it right."

"LIsten little brother, this isn't the time for your humanity to come back. You need to turn it off and walk away. Just run away, far away with Katherine. I forgave you, but I can't forget with you breathing down my neck. Go, God Damn it! Let us do this, you used to love her, and if you still do you will leave so we can save her."

Stefan knew the look in his brothers eyes. "They better all make it out alive." He pushed back his humanity and truned to walk out the door, grabbing Katherine's wrist, and the others followed slowly.

"Let it begin. I wish to return to my body. I wish to be rid of this girl. I can feel, she loves that man." She looked at Damon. " And he loves her too. Nicklaus, his fever for her is almost as great as yours for me. I cannot keep one love from another. But you will always come first." She said the words to Klaus, the next words she said to Damon. "You love her and it is undeniable. You have your doubts, I sense them in your blue wandering eyes. Please, help me return to my love, and I will give you back yours. I know you do not trust me, but i understand love. Trust that. Trust that I believe in love, and that everyone deserves it. Please do not ruin this for me or your... Elena. This must go perfectly, or we are both lost forever."

Damon said nothing. In the time of the conlict Tyler had set up the bed for the body of Elena to lay for the transferrence to Cristine's in the casket.

"Why not do this here? My love it is time. Lay there, we will return you soon. Bonnie, my lovely servant of nature, please take this book. It has the spell you need. Trust me I have hunted far and wide for it. Turns out it was back in Chicago. You know how old witches work I am sure. Secrets and spells. I was told it would take a very powerful witch, and I have met none as powerful as you. And so young. If you would only join me, you could become the greatest ever."

"I don't do your dark magic."

"My magic? I didn't create it, or write the rules. You might want to speak to orginal witch about that one. Just take the damn book. Your spell is not dark. It is the transference spell, written specificaly for this purpose by my mother. No vampires or werewolved needed."

She did not open the book, but took it from him.

"You my friend, you are here to keep Elena awake, it will be difficult, you need to make sure she does not sleep, for if she does before Her soul is seperated from Cristine, she is forever lost. I need you to take this dagger, and plunge it into her heart, at the exact moment that I plunge this into Cristine's. They have to seperate, have their hearts penetrated ensuring they are both dead, so that we may ressurect them.

"I didn't sign up for this! I can't kill her."

"If you don't you will lose everychance of being with her forever. This is of no consequence to me. But Cristine has the heart that you never find in the world but once evry few lifetimes. That is why she had to die to bind me. The pure of heart are the most valuable. Elena is pure, and I hate to see a beautiful soul like hers wasted. I hate waste."

Elena's body lay atop the table.

"I can't do this spell. I don't have the power to bring back someone else after the last time. The balance will be off set."

"You are the only witch that CAN do this, trust me I've done my homework. I've had to wait a thousand years and this will work. Damon, my friend."

"Friend, what do you mean? There aren't two meaner sons of bitches anywhere in this world."

"All the more reason to be friends. We are the same. We just don't want to be alone, we want to be first for just one person. It only fits that they should be the same woman. Don't tell me you can't see it? You are just like me. That is how she knows you love Elena so much. She sees in you what she saw in me. You are like we were before the world changed. Before I was this way, and before I had been let down. Cristine knows what she knows, and she knows you and I can fix this. So fro love, and redemption and brotherhood, we will do this."

"No, just for love." Damon answered, ripping the dagger from Klaus's hand.

Klaus smiled inspite of himself. "Bonnie, please read."

"I love you, Nicklaus." Cristine said.

Bonnie began reading the incantation, Elena's body lay on the table, the breathing slowed tremendously as the words flowed out. Soon Elena began to awaken from the slumber she had been in for the past day. She realized she was sharing her body, and all the memories of the past day flooded her mind. Having both spirits awake inside one body gave them the brief access into one anothers minds. The worlds and memories rushed all around them and they struggled to hear the voices of them men that loved them more than anyone else.

Damon noticed the seperation begining and Bonnie was nearing the end of the first incantation. He saw the small twitches, and shifts in the eyes of Elena's eyes, he could see the two women fighting not to go under, and then they both fell away, eyes closed.

"It's time, Damon. Take the dagger, they are seperated now." Klaus said, taking in a deep breath as Bonnie finished the first incantation. They took the daggers in hand, looked at eachother, Klaus nodded, more unasuredly than Damon had ever seen any vampire look. They plunged the daggers into the hearts of both bodies, leaving them in their chests long enough to make sure that Elena's heart had stopped beating. Bonnie looked horrorstruck, still not sure if she could bring them back. Damon's chest heaved, as it hadn't done in years, he actually felt like he needed to breath, even though he did not. Perhaps it was the absense of the woman he loved, and the doubt that she may not come back.

"Start the incantation. Its time to finish this." Klaus pulled the dagger from Cristine's chest, and Damon from Elena's. Bonnie began to read. Her voice wavered an her hands shook. The silence was then only thing left beyond that. Life struck up in Elena's body and her wound healed, sudenly the breath returned to her body. Little did she know, the breath had just left the body of a pure hearted woman somewhere distant. Her family wouldthink it a heart attack, they would never know that she had been taken from them to save another. Elena's eyes opened and with a gasp she sat up, cluthing the bloody sheets to her chest. She looked down, there was no wound left, only a light red scar.

"Damon?" She asked in an exasperated tone. To him it sounded like she might actualy need him, and it thrilled him so much he thought he mighthave actually felt his own heart start to beating again. Elenas arms reached up out and wrapped around Damon's neck. "Are you real?"

"Yes." He replied. "I'm real, I'm here."

Klaus shot a terrified look at Damon and Elena. She was awake, so why was Cristine still cold? What was wrong. "Cristine. Cristine!" Bonnie finished the incantation and looked at Klaus, knowing that is Cristine did not stir soon, there would be a firece Hell to pay. Another minute passed after Elena slid off of the bed she had been lain on. "CHRISTINE!" The shout shook the walls, and a pang shout throught all of those in the room, even Tyler, who had been sitting by. Klaus turned and snapped his neck. The imortal were wonderful insurance to have when flying into fits of uncontrolable rage. Elena jumped, then looked at Klaus, who was now leaning over the side of the coffin.

His face was buried in her chest, his lips kissed her cold, red, dead lips. His hads lingered in her dark brown hair, and his tears slowly slid down her neck. Sudenly Elena understood what she hadn' before.

"Read it once more!" Cried Klaus, no one had noticed the strength Bonnie had lost, and she was not willing to point it out. It wasn' every day you put an end to a thousand year long love story. Bonnie was a sucker for romance and hated to be that girl. So she spoke one more time. Nothing happened. Klausdropped to his knees.

'I don't understand. This should have worked. She should be alive now. I did everything I was supposed to do! The rules keep letting me down! That damn woman, my mother keeps letting me down, even after a thousand years. I promised you your lives, leave me. And take the boy with you. I want to be alone. I will have my vengence another day."Elena stepped towards him he turned to her roaring, "LEAVE!" Elena was startled, but more brave now than ever before. She kneeledd beside him, Bonnie walked to wards Damon and watched. Damon stood with a look on his face conveying that he didn't understand why Elena hadn't run away as fast as she could. She grabbed Klaus's shirt and lifted him so that he stood.

"I am sorry. I know it doesn't mean much, but I saw everything. If I had known you had done it all for love I would never have made some of the choices I did. Out of all the insane reasons we do things, the only honorable one is love. You hae always been honorable. I do not hold anything against you. I envy you. I wish I could know what it is like to have someone love me the way you loved her." Damon felt another pang as Elena said this to Klaus. Then she surprised even herself and kissed Klaus. Not in a lovers embrace, or a goodbye kiss. It was the same kiss she had given to Damon when he was dying. It was cryptic. As soon as her lips left his she let go of him, and they heard a sighing sound come from the coffin.

Klaus leaned over. Cristine's chestwas heaving and tears flooded his face. She was alive. It had merely been delayed, but she was alive, and human, and just as he had remembered her.

Thr others did not wait, Elena slipped her had from his and rushed toward the door, leaving her close in the bedroom. She could leave and she would leave.

Cristine's resserection was delayed because the death of the pure heart she was tethered to was delayed. It was Bonnie, and as soon as Cristine worke up, Bonnie knew. She also knew she had to keep the others from knowing. When Bonnie rived home she made it to her bed, the fell unconscious, hittimg her head on the night stand, falling beside her bed, head bleeding, body weakened. She had days left. Only days.

Elena was changed into actualy clothes, she and Damon alone were at the boarding house, they had taken Tyler home, and sent word to Caroline. Elena refused to see anyone. She had saved a beautiful love. She had learned the heart of a man she had long thought to be a monster. She had beated back death again. She had survived again, against all odds, and she realized that the reason why this happened again, was right infront of her. Damon, he had been willing to risk it all to brong her back from a place no one was meant to return. He loved her. And she remembered Cristine saying that she loved him too.

In everything that had happened in the past three days, Elena knew the biggest change had been a purely mental one.

"I love him."


Next Chapter is purely Delena. Please let me know what you think. Storyline, character development, believe-ability. I love feedback, and I hope you love my story! R&R