A/N: I still don't own the Vampire Diaries.
Pleased as I am that people are reading this story I am starting to run out of motivation to continue posting it which is sad because this is the first time I've ever published something but if even a few of you who are reading could leave a *review*, even just one little word, that would really mean a lot to me. Special thanks to my frequent reviewer Lissa Salvatore. You make me smile every time!

Never Say Never

"We're falling apart, and coming together again and again"

Katherine stared at Elena in shock. "You believe me?" she asked excitedly.

Elena held her hands up "I believe that you're with Damon and Bonnie, yes" she explained. "I want to believe you Katherine. I do, I want to believe everything but I'm still...I still don't know" she trailed off helplessly.

Katherine blew out a puff of air. "Okay" she said reasonably, "I get it, Elena I do. I haven't exactly given you a lot of reasons to trust me in the past. I've been a terrible person, done terrible things. But let's not forget I've done a couple of good things as well, right?" she looked at Elena hopefully and then continued when Elena didn't respond.

"I brought Damon the cure when he was bitten, I helped Stefan find his humanity at Homecoming to save Damon's life again," she said rolling her eyes and realising that her list of 'good things' was really rather short, still at least they both happened to involve saving Damon's undead life. Third time's a charm she thought with a giggle before resuming her serious expression and continuing "but I get it, like I said, which is why I think we need to get the rest of the gang on board as well" she looked expectantly at Elena.

"You want to get the others?" Elena asked incredulously. "If I can't believe you what makes you think they will?"

"I don't" Katherine responded, "but we're going to need them at some point anyway so we may as well get them all over here and have it out now, it will give you time to consider everything and honestly Elena it's probably about time you started talking to your friends and family again anyway" she said with a smirk.

"O-kay" Elena replied still uncertain, "I guess you're right" she said slightly dejectedly. Honestly this new Katherine was a lot to take in, first she wants forgiveness and to help bring Damon and Bonnie back and now she's trying to get me to talk to my friends again? Maybe she really is changing Elena thought to herself. She pushed herself off the bed and rooted around for her phone in the bedside table, pulling it out she turned it on for the first time in weeks.

"Well I'll just send a group text" she told Katherine, "hopefully everyone will show up" she laughed with uncertainty, honestly Elena wouldn't be surprised if no-one but her brother turned up, she hadn't exactly been great friend material recently.

"They'll come Elena" Katherine replied "they all love you, you just haven't let them do it recently" she rested her hand on Elena's shoulder for a minute before moving away and sitting on the chair beside the bed again.

Damon's POV

It had been difficult to watch Elena relive the memory he'd sent to her. It had even made Bonnie cry.

"You've loved her for a really long time, haven't you?" she'd asked him.

"I think I fell in love with her the second I laid eyes on her" Damon had responded, and that thought took his mind back to the day he'd ended up here, stuck in nothingness, waiting.

"Do you see a future with me? Because that's all I see" Damon could still feel her hands upon his face as if she was with him now. Those words, all he'd ever wanted to hear, from Elena Gilbert, God he wanted that future she saw, he wanted it desperately.
"Elena, I've seen it since the second I laid eyes on you" and it was true, all Damon had ever seen was his future with Elena. All he wanted was a future with her by his side. He'd find a way back to her, she'd bring him back to her.
"I will make it back to you, I promise. I promise you." He'd made a promise to her, and he'd never broken one yet. Didn't intend to start.

Elena's POV

"They're here" she said out loud a brief second before the door opened and voices spilled into the hallway.

"Elena", Caroline.
"Yo, 'Lena, you here?", Jeremy.
"Hell-ooo, anybody home?", Ric.
"What's going on?", Tyler.
"Let's just wait in the living room", Stefan.

Elena smiled as the voices made their way through to the living room and then breathed in deeply, preparing herself to face her friends for the first time in months.

"Okay" she said turning to Katherine. "Let's go see them" moving quickly so she didn't lose her nerve Elena yanked open her bedroom door and walked down the hallway towards the living room. As she entered all the chatter stopped and her friends turned to stare at her their faces ranging from confusion to compassion.

She held her hands up and gave a small smile but as she opened her mouth to speak Katherine strode into the room. Immediately the faces changed to complete and utter shock; Katherine stepped up beside Elena with a sly smile on her face.

"Let's play a little game of guess the doppelganger" she teased.

A/N 2.0: P.S – Sorry this chapter is so short but originally it was teamed with the next chapter and it ended up being waaaay too long so I split them in two. If some people review I might even be convinced to post the next chapter today as well...so you know what to do. REVIEW!