A/N: Okay, sorry for the delay. I wanted to get it up before but I only just have internet again.We are on our way back home again but we're starting to get ready to leave again so I'll be quick. Let me know if you want me to continue this story after the next chapter or end it next chapter. Depending on your choice depends on what will happen in the next chapter so let me know. I'll be home Monday. So I hope you enjoyed it. Thank you for all the reviews. I will respond to guest reviews at a later date I just don't have the time this particular update so I will add those when I get home. I have added a line in chapter 10 and 11 when she walks into the boarding house and when she is talking to Damon for anyone who didn't already know. Just to let you know. they aren't particularly relevant just gives you an idea of a time frame and a line I missed the first time.

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So on with the next chapter...

Chapter 12

As Bonnie began to fall all four vampires rushed to her side. Stefan and Damon reached her first, one on either side, being faster with having over 145 years on Caroline Elena. She came to almost as soon as she started to fall. Her mind was still set on one thing. She needed to show them one more scene.

Bonnie opened her eyes as Stefan and Damon steadied her. As soon as the lightheadedness left her she thanked them and pushed them away to see if she could stand on her own. Both remained close by in case she collapsed again.

"I'm okay." She assured them. She then turned back to the table and started preparing for a new scene. She had to show them one more. A happy one.

"Bonnie, what are you doing, you should be resting? You pushed yourself too hard. You should have stopped. BONNIE!" Elena resorted to shouting to get Bonnie's attention when Bonnie appeared to be ignoring her. Bonnie turned around to face her. Hands still planted on the table to hold her upright as her legs still felt a little weak.

"Yes?" She asked having been too focused to hear Elena the first time.

"What are you doing? You just fainted." Elena started again slower this time.

"I just have to show you one more scene." She insisted.

"It's okay. I'm sure Elena has seen enough, right?" Caroline added. Elena nodded in agreement with Caroline. She didn't want to see anymore scenes if it meant hurting Bonnie.

Bonnie had already started to set up for the next scene, ignoring their pleas. She had to do this and nothing they could say would change her mind. She came to the point that she needed their blood again. Her thoughts were stopped by someone tugging her arm. She turned to see Elena again.

"Bonnie please. You have to stop this." She begged.

"Just one more, I need your blood." She insisted. "And Damon's." She added looking back at him, eyes pleading him to let her.

Damon looked at Bonnie then at Elena. He received a glare from her as though she could see him considering what Bonnie had asked and telling him not to do it. He took a moment to way his options before offering Bonnie his arm to take his blood. Elena made an incredulous noise and glared at him as though she couldn't quite believe he had done it.

"Better an unhappy newby vampire than an unhappy Bennet witch." He singsonged. Elena he could take, she was younger so she wasn't as strong or fast. Bonnie was a different story and he really didn't want one of her headaches. And if he was honest he didn't think Bonnie could take it if she had to get the blood the hard way, and he had no doubts that she would push herself that far. Elena however didn't seem to share his thoughts, or at the very least was too concerned with her friend's well being to think of that.

Bonnie drew the blood, silently thankful that for once Damon was actually being cooperative. Elena, she didn't see being helpful but at least Elena was easier to bring down, it would take less energy if needs must.

"Elena?" Bonnie asked after she had finished with Damon's blood.

"No way! You're not strong enough Bonnie, it's too much." She started to protest.

"You have to do it Elena. She'll get it anyway." Stefan interrupted, seeming to have come to the same conclusion as Damon.

"She won't live through both Elena. For once just do as you're asked." Damon added. Elena watched both brothers warily. It wasn't often they both agreed on something that she should do but from experience when they did agree it was usually a good idea to listen, not that she always did. She looked at back at Bonnie. The proof was in Bonnie's eyes. She would go that far. She wasn't thinking straight as often seemed to happen when magic was involved and she wasn't strong enough to fight Elena then do the spell, but she would try.

"Promise me you'll stop after this one. No matter what."

"I promise." Bonnie agreed. Elena then allowed Bonnie to take the blood she needed for the spell.

Caroline watched the proceedings. She wasn't sure if she agreed with Stefan and Damon but she could see their point and she wasn't entirely sure there really was another option. She liked to think they could have stopped Bonnie but she had been on the receiving end of Bonnie's magic before and she was pretty sure if she put her mind to it she could have stopped them all, before the magic took too much from her. She held her tongue and didn't speak up again. Instead she stayed close by as Bonnie sent the others to sit back down while she said the spell, just in case she needed help or to be stopped.

Once Elena was sat back down and Stefan and Damon where stop back at the bar with their drinks Bonnie began to chant her modified spell again, her eyes closed with the effort as she recalled it from memory. After a delay a scene started to appear.

The setting was a familiar one; the kitchen in the boarding house. Damon and Elena were both stood as the counter an array of ingredients set out in front of them. Elena was stood at the chopping board, a knife in hand, chopping a vegetable. Damon approached her from behind and slipped the knife out of her hand nudging her out of the way with his hips as he took over in a familiar and obviously practiced way.

"I can cook!" She protested.

"No, I can cook. You can... assist. Sort of." He corrected.

"Well I could learn if you let me."

"But I like this place as it is, I'd rather not have to have it rebuilt because you've burnt it down." He pretended to whine.

"I am not that bad!"

"Well, at least as a vampire you're cooking can't kill me." He continued to tease. "Unless you put vervain in it, that hurt."

"It only happened once and it was an accident! You shouldn't have left it in the kitchen anyway." She defended herself. He just raised an eyebrow at her. "You said you'd teach me to cook!"

"I will, when we get round to it."

"You've been saying that for 30 years now."

"And I mean it. Although it's difficult when every time we start you insist I cook instead."

"They still seem happy," Elena noticed. "When is this?" She asked still wary about letting Bonnie do this.

"The same day you died in the other future." Bonnie answered. She was doing her best to cover up how the spell had drained her.

"I don't know if I'll ever be able to get used to the sight of you too cooking together." A third, but still familiar, voice commented. Elena looked up in the direction the voice had come from.

"STEFAN!" She shouted excitedly as she ran over at human speed stopping just short of him. "Can I hug you?" She asked nervously. He hesitated for a moment, casting a glance at Damon who gave an almost imperceptible nod, then he nodded and braced himself as Elena flung herself at him.

"This is an 'I haven't seen you in decades and you're one of my friends and your brother missed you but won't admit it' hug. Nothing more. I haven't suddenly changed my mind and decided I don't want you anymore. And I never will." She spoke as she hugged Stefan, who raised an eyebrow at Damon, tightly. Damon raise both hands in surrender but didn't say a word. "You didn't have to say it. After nearly 70 years together I know what was going through your head." She argued her point as though she could see the gestures he was making. She released Stefan and stepped back to look at him. "We missed you. I'm glad you came back." She turned to give Damon a pointed look. "We both are." She went on before turning and going back over to Damon by the counter.

Stefan watched them for a moment an amused smile on his face as they fought over who was chopping what. It seemed Damon was winning.

"So, what's with the cooking?" He enquired.

"Elena has decided that we should eat dinner every night like 'normal people', which means cooking or going out for dinner every night." Damon explained with an eye roll. Elena lightly slapped him.

"We haven't missed a dinner in about 60 years." She told him proudly.

"Not that it would hurt if we did. Technically we don't need to eat this kind of food." Damon reminded her.

"I know we don't need it but I enjoy eating it. It tastes good." She pouted playfully.

"Definitely going to take some getting used to." Stefan chuckled.

"So does that mean you're sticking about in order to need to get used to it?" Elena sounded hopeful.

"Well it does look like I missed a lot, but I don't want to intrude."

"Hey, it's your home too." Damon pointed out.

"And that's as much of an invitation as you're gonna get from him." Stefan nodded in agreement.

"So what's for dinner?" He asked.

"Who said you're invited?" Damon smirked.

"Wow, he seems so okay with you two." Caroline observed.

"Yeah, totally over it. We all do." Elena agreed.

"I never thought I'd see the day that we could all just joke around like that. And you not have to limit your... affections." Stefan struggled with how to word it. They all nodded; quite amazed at how easy it seemed to be for them in the future.

"You just said it was my home too."

"How long have you been here?" Elena changed the topic.

"I go into town just over an hour ago."

"Well, if you want to join us for dinner, you can go unpack or whatever and I'll call you when dinner's ready." She offered.

"He doesn't need a mother Elena."

"What?" She asked innocently as though she had no idea what he was talking about.

"You two have been spending way too much time together." Stefan stated before he left the room to presumably follow Elena's orders.

"I don't know what he was talking about." She said as she turned back to Damon.

"Hmm, me neither." He agreed picking up a piece of what he was chopping it and eating it.

"I want some." She whined.

"I take that comment earlier back. You're not a mother, you're a child."

"I guess you just bring that out in me." She conceded as she pinched some food herself. "You know with Stefan back home, does that mean the less childish things are off the menu?" She put on an innocent voice.

"He was the one who didn't want to intrude, I think that implied we should go on exactly as we did before."

"You have a point." She reached up to pull him in for a kiss. It started sweet but as it grew more heated Damon stepped away.

"After dinner remember." Elena groaned in protest. "Your rules as I recall."

"I hate rules." She sulked before perking up again and continuing to try to help.

"I think future Stefan was right. You two had been spending way too much time together." Caroline decided although there was a hint of humour in her tone. The scene faded and they all watched the empty air that had once occupied it. Elena was the first to move. She turned straight back to Bonnie.

"Are you okay?" She checked the worry in her voice prominent.

"I'm fine. Just a little tired." Bonnie nodded, her voice coming out strained. Caroline helped her over to a seat.

"Thank you Bonnie. That was a nice scene." Elena told her, half to encourage her not to try again, although her words were true.

Elena took a deep breath. She knew it was time now. There were no more scenes to watch. It was time to decide. To make her choice. She looked at both the brothers stood together pointedly not looking at her and instead watching their drinks avidly. She let out her breath. It was time.

Okay, I hope you enjoyed it. Thank you to all my guest reviewers. I will respond I just don't have the time right now but you're all awesome. Let me know what you think and whether you want it to continue. Just one random thought. No one for the scene in season 2 when Elena tells Damon he has lost her. No one ever writes that scene from her point of view just Damon's I would love to see it from Elena's. Okay got to go. Thank you all. Hope you enjoyed it and let me know what you think (again). And see you in the next chapter.(*smiles*)