Chapter 8

[A/N: Sorry for the cliff hanger but to be honest, it's not even that big once you actually read it.

The Stefan and Alaric part but the WHOLE mystery is worthwhile! Trust me!

Oh well, thanks for all the BRILLIANT suggestions! Keep them coming, prom isn't here until a few chapters!

Better get to the story now Sooooo….]


Elena woke up. Her head ached like HELL! She rubbed it in confusion and tried to open her eyes but soon gave up and squinted. She found herself wearing the same thing she wore yesterday. What happens last night?

"Wow you're awake!" Damon said from the doorway

"What happened last night?" She asked hung overly?

"Well Bonnie and Jeremy left to the Martin's house to get some grimores and left the house on your 'capable' hands; still the biggest mistake in the world but yeah. You broke into the alcohol cabinets and well how do I say this? YA DRUNK!' He explained extremely sarcastically.

"I want to curl up in a black hole and die!" Elena moaned.

"Worst part of fun, what happens the next day?" He stated. "I'll be downstairs when you're ready to return from your black hole." With that, he left.


"Well?" Alaric asked when Stefan stopped taking "the worst that would happen is death."

"Maybe but this is just torture." How the hell is it possible that he could keep a straight VOICE!?

"What is it?"

"Well, it is a curse on a vampire. I don't know what this has to do with the cure but whoever the curse is on; their body forces them to be human."

"That's a good thing right, being human?" Alaric pointed out

"Yes but that's IMPOSSIBLE!" He said in his normal 'Stefan tone' "that only leaves them dying unless they become human."

"Just one tiny problem" Alaric started "only one cure."

"And it's already taken by Damon."

A/n: okay so this'd is my plan, Alaric and Stefan found half of the puzzle and don't think that's all you're going to get, all the rest (how someone gets it, how the cure chooses and why) will be up to Bonnie and Jeremy to find out...


Elena walked towards the table. She looked fine, just like usual but seemed um...less enthusiastic and less sarcastic.

"Aspirin didn't work?" Damon rhetorically asked

"You bet." She replied like a robot

She picked up her food with her fork and just when she was about out to eat her food, she let it fall back down on her plate.

"Wait so if you were there with me then how comes you're sober?" She asked, confused

"Not much of a drinker." He said, stopping his glass of water.

Elena's eyes widened at the surprise statement "looks like we've changed lives." She joked.

"Good, you're tuning back to your old self!" They both laughed.

She groaned, just remembering her hangover "No!" She moaned.

They both laughed and started actually eating.

"So what do you have planned today?" Damon asked

"Well….i made a list when we found about this memory thingy…." She got it out of one of her pockets "So first is…"

He interrupted "Anything that includes getting drunk is off!" He said.

Elena groaned, she got a nearby pen and scratched out 3 things of the list. She skimmed through it again and crossed one more out.

"Good, NOW go on." He said

"Okay so first, bucket list."

"Please don't tell me it is another list!" Damon groaned.

"Well hence bucket 'list!' But when I was 14, I and Caroline made a bucket list of what we ABSOLOUTLY have to do before we die!"

"So what are you suggesting?" Damon asked a little bit scared of the answer

"We do everything on the list by today!" She said enthusiastically. Right now, she was a mixture of vampire Damon and Caroline which was impressive even for Elena considering what is going on.

"You've gotta be kidding me!" Damon exclaimed

"Come on! It'll be an adventure!" Elena exclaimed. "And with all this supernatural stuff going on, I might not live to do all those things!" Elena fought back.

"Who says you HAVE to do it?" He tried to reason with her

"Um…excuse me but it's a girl rule! We break it; our bodies will be cursed forever." She sounded like a six year old.

"You believe that?"

"Of course not! But it's a good motivation. Oh come on please please please please PLEASE!" She pleaded.

"What's first on the list?" he asked, giving up

"Yes! From what I can remember…. Trash a hotel room."

"Fine…" He rolled his eyes as Elena got excited.


Elena was looking through her 'pile of papers' to find that dang list.

Without surprise, she finds her applications! Stupid laws of physics!

She was searching. A simple piece of paper caught her eyes, for the second time now but she couldn't ignore it this time.

It was that letter from john. She couldn't bear to read it last time she found it.

Elena opened the beige piece of paper and read it through.

When she was finished, 2 tears shed from her eyes and simultaneously landed on the word human in the letter from the part where he wrote "long and happy human life,"

There was something she needed to do, something she owed herself, owed all the people who died because of her.

Elena dropped the letter on the floor and ran downstairs.

"Damon can we do this bucket list thing a little bit later, I need to do something important." Elena asked in a hurry.

"Why, you seemed so excited a while ago?" He asked confused

"I know but it's really important!" She said pleadingly.

"Sure." He said as she sped out.

Something was up and he knew it. Her eyes were wet and her nose was a little bit red and she had this sad look upon her face.

He rushed to her room and found a piece of paper on the floor.

He read it through and put 2 and 2 together.

He saw the smudged writing where it says 'human.'

He didn't know where she was going but she couldn't really use inhuman speed in public can she?


Klaus was shouting across the halls as the girls followed his instructions obediently.

Caroline tip-toed into the hall. Trying to sneak a peek of what Klaus has done to the prom.

"Caroline, you have 2 choices. You either go away now or ill compel you to go away." Then he turned around

Her shoulders slumped forward is disappointment. "Come on! I had to miss my free period to come here!" She said as Klaus turned her around and started pushed her shoulders towards the door.

"At least tell me the theme!"

"You'll know when everyone else knows." He said still pushing her.

"I didn't sign up for this!" she sulked

"I know you didn't love, I did so let me do my job." He said in his accent.

Now Caroline was in front of the door with Klaus blocking the view of the prom.

"Give me a clue then!" She shouted

"Not going to happen! You'll find out later!" He said quite calmly

Caroline sulked and walked away.

Klaus just smiled to himself

Hook line and sinker

He thought to himself. Her trust her easy to get…


It didn't take Damon long to catch to Elena.

Right now, she was getting into a flower shop.

"Hi Mrs Greenhill." Elena greeted the flower shop owner.

"Hello Elena dear, what would you like?" She kindly replied

"Oh, just a rose bouquet." Elena slightly touched each kind of the flowers.

Mrs Greenhill handed Elena a beautiful rose bouquet with roses red and yellow.

"Thanks." Elena said politely.

"Bless you dear." She replied and went inside the shop.

Damon knew where she was going.


Elena arrived at the graveyard; Damon was watching behind a nearby tree.

She went up to couple of graves. Elena dropped a few flowers on each grave.

Elena lastly headed up to two graves side-by-side. Damon guessed it was her parents. If he knew her at all, she'd save the best to last because there is only a few flowers left.

"It's been so long since I came here…" Elena talked to their graves.

"I was never meant to become a vampire." She continued whilst a single tear rolled down her cheek.

"I know I'm a disappointment." She started sobbing now.

"John died to keep me human! He died for no reason because look at me right now!" She sobbed harder as Elena fell on her knee.

She placed 3 flowers on each grave.

"I'm the reason so many people died!" Damon made out from all the background sobbing "I don't deserve to live!" Damon's eyes widened when Elena reached for a stake in her pocket.

"Elena?" Damon asked carefully walking up behind her.

"What are you doing here?" She asked, dropping the stake and wiping her tears

"Look you don't deserve to die!" He exclaimed, walking up to her.

"Yes, I do! I am the reason my parents die, my biological dad and mom died, Bonnie's GRAMS!"

"It's not your fault you are the doppelgängers!" He tried to explain and almost pleaded. "Now you're going to leave the stake here and do all these things by tomorrow morning." He held up the list.

"Where did you find it?" She asked in a giggly voice as tears streamed down her face.

"I'm a multi tasker." Something old Damon would've said.

She laughed and took the list. "So the closest hotel is 5 blocks away." She said while Damon silent-cheered making her laugh as they skipped away.


"Don't you have a prom to plan?" Bonnie, flipping through some grimores, asked Caroline

"Yeah Klaus is planning it." She rolled her eyes

Bonnie opened her mouth to say something but got interrupted

"Don't ask" Caroline said "So any lead on what can cause all this?" Caroline asked, settling down next to the pair.

"Not yet." Jeremy replied damply.

Caroline picked up a random book and went on a random page.

A miracle took place (note the sarcasm.)

"Wait look at this page…" Caroline showed them the page

"Oh my god…" Bonnie uttered


"That was the most fun I have ever had in the past 18 years!" Elena said as she and Damon walked up to the boarding house.

He took the list out and crossed out the last thing on it. "Now you can die without being cursed."

He stated as they arrived at the doorstep.

"Good to know!" Elena opened the door.

They stepped inside

"They Damon, thanks."

"for what?" Damon asked

"for not letting me killing myself. I know we know each other for a month but it means a lot that you care enough to save me." She smiled as she leaned back and tilted her head.

"My pleasure" He fake bowed as they both cracked up laughed.

"See ya Damon." She said as the laughter died out.

He kept on smiling as she went upstairs. His smile died out and started thinking…


[A/N: I tried my best to update fast and well…let's call this medium.

The next chapter's BIG! Trust me!

I actually planned to do that graveyard part a few chapters ago but forgot.

Keep the awesome prom ideas coming! Lots of great ideas guys!

Well, running out of things to write so BYE!]