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Weightless. That was the only way to describe the feeling. Otto felt as if everything had been lifted off her shoulders. She floated for a while; she was enjoying the feeling. She remembered things that she hadn't thought about in a while. Mostly they were nice things. Like the people that she had met in her life and things that that made her happy. She saw her family. She saw going down to the river with her brothers. She saw her and Silas and Quetsiyah when they had been happy. She saw herself traveling the world mostly alone as she tried food and stayed low. As the population of the earth she was able to do more. She loved museums and saw as she spent countless hours in them. She saw her love that had died. She saw them few people she had been able to call friends. She saw her favorite spaghetti restaurant. She saw the crest of a mountain that she had hiked and the sunrise as she reached the crest. She saw a fridge full of strawberry milk and the face of a man.

Silas. No not Silas. His eyes were different than Silas'; softer and sweeter. She smiled at the sweet half smile that was on his face. She remembered how nice he had been to her; and not because he was afraid of her.

She felt like she was floating along some sort of stream. Though she didn't feel any water. She felt almost sleepy; in a way that she hadn't been in a long time. She felt tired in a way that felt like there would be an end. She hadn't felt that kind of peace in a long time, So she closed her eyes and she slept. She slept deeply and waited to wake up and feel the last peace; to find the other side. But perhaps she didn't deserve that. She had caused a lot of people pain and even death. Maybe what she deserved was to be tortured by Silas. If that is what the fates decided then she would accept it, but now she wanted to sleep.

Then she woke up. She felt a sharp pain in her head. She rubbed it and the spot felt tender. Rubbing it made it feel worse. She opened her eyes. She blinked her eyes a few times to take in her surroundings. She was lying on a couch. She was lying on the Salvator's couch. She sat up and then had to lay back down. There was a part of her lower back that screamed out in pain. She sat still and waited for it to heal but the pain didn't go away. She swung her legs to the floor and took a deep breath as she got dizzy. She got up to go to the mirror but she couldn't move. Everything she did was slow. It was almost like walking for the first time. Or after you get a cast off; she was unsure if her legs would carry her.

Finally she got to the mirror. She saw herself. She also saw a purplish bruise that stuck out on her temple. She poked it again as she exclaimed out loud with the pain.

"Yeah that's probably not a good idea." A voice said. She turned around. Not as fast as she would have liked but when she did she saw Stefan leaning against the doorframe.

Otto turned to the mirror again and her eyes welled up with tears. She was human. She felt her face. However it didn't feel different but something inside her did. Her emotions weren't swirling around like some crazy storm. They were more steady now. Almost a dull compared to before. She smiled at herself as she covered her mouth with her hand as her tears spilled over.

Stefan was behind her now. She turned to him and wrapped her hands around him. She sobbed but with complete happiness.

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Stefan had to explain everything to her. The whole time she was staring at him with a huge grin on her face. She kept pressing her finger to the bruise on her temple.

He told her how she had woken up and screamed after she killed Silas. Who had not recovered from the stake to the heart. He had brought her back here along with Damon who had really wished that Silas had survived so that he could have killed him. She then woke up on the couch.

"Human." She said in wonder for about the seventh time.

"How does it feel?" He asked.

"Wonderful."

She had then got up and paced for awhile before she started talking very fast. She was going to leave. She was going to leave and go to a city and have a family. She would start to cry intermittently. But he was still stuck on the leaving thing.

"You thought you were going to die." He said to her as she searched around in her purse for her keys. She stopped but didn't look at him.

"You had a choice." He said. "If what Silas said was true then you knew that you could have used me." He said. But her head was still looking directly into her purse. "You chose to die over me dying."

"I have lived ten times longer than you have." She said now taking her keys out. "You deserve to live longer and be happy." She walked over to him. "What do you want?" She stared at him. "You could have anything you want. " She kissed his cheek as he watched her. She sighed.

"There is so many things that you need to do. Too much to do in one lifetime; I want you to be able to do it all. I am going to get old. I will get a full time job, though I don't have to I have enough money to be more than comfortable for several life times. I will use the subway with all the crazy people and be normal. I have waited my whole life for this. But you still have so much life to live" She shook her head like she wanted to say something else but her mouth wouldn't move. She looked at him her face was plastered with a smile but there was a pleading look in her eyes.

"Okay." Was all he said as she looked disappointed; almost sad. She nodded and hugged him again before jingling her keys and giving him a military salute before walking out the door.

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4 Months Later

Otto bobbed her head to the music that was coming from her headphones. She was wearing a coat and a red plaid scarf and a pair of gloves with the fingers cut off. It was cold in Chicago at this time of the year. She blew on her hands as she sat down on one of many vacant seats on the train. Two months ago she had found a job being a teacher. She had several degrees in several different things but she had always liked little kids and teaching kindergarten at a school just outside of town was suiting her just fine. There were only two other people on that car with her which was highly unusual. One heavy set man sitting right across from her and someone wearing a hoodie on the other side. She skipped a song on her ipod and closed her eyes as the train sped forward.

The train came to one of its stops and the man sitting across from her got off. She adjusted herself and popped one headphone out so she could hear when her stop came up. The person on the other side of the train got up and crossed the train and sat across from her. He pulled his hoodie off. Otto studies the patters that the railway made. All the different colors were crisscrossing back and forth in a complicated map.

"You are not all that hard to find you know." The man said. Otto's head shot up and her heart rate spiked. She was frightened that sometime soon someone would come and haunt her from her past. But as she looked up and reached for the pepper spray in her purse she stopped.

"What are you doing here?"

"I took the cure."

"That doesn't explain why you're here."

"You told me to get what I wanted. I want to be with you; As long as you want to be with me. Unless you want me to leave."

"No"

No you want me to leave? Or no you want me to stay?"

"Stay. Please."

The beautiful man got up and cupped her face he pressed a light kiss to each cheek and one to her mouth.

"I search all over the world to find the most beautiful princesses and I think I just found mine."

THE END DUNDADUDA