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She stared into the candle and felt like she was losing herself and slowly dissolving into another world. Bonnie had been practicing controlling her trances for a while now. In actuality, she didn't even need candles anymore; she'd learned how to put herself under on her own. Although, on occasion, she still used them if there was something she wanted to search for in particular.
Deeper and deeper she fell into darkness, searching for an answer to her question. But, instead of getting an answer, she saw three silhouettes in the deep abyss. They were completely in shadow except for a light far in the distance. The only light played off the top of the strangers' heads, only revealing some color of the strands of hair. The person in the middle was a woman with blonde hair. There were men on either side of her; one with black wavy hair, and one with straight black hair.
'What does this mean,' she asked herself.
Then they started to walk away from Bonnie. She heard them laugh sadistically as they walked away. These entities were definitely not friendly and they weren't there to be played with. Although Bonnie couldn't put her finger on it, they weren't human either because they radiated power. Dark power.
With that, Bonnie was awoken from her trance to find herself back in the safety of her own room. She took out her diary and wrote down an account of her ethereal experience.
"Three people…a blonde woman and two dark haired men…," she said aloud as she wrote on the paper. "They weren't human and they had very strong powers. Hmm…"
Then it hit her. What was so powerful, and not human, and had consisted of individuals such as that; the vampire trio of Stefan, Damon, and Elena.
"Is that what that meant? That they're going to reform the trio?"
'That can't be it,' Bonnie thought, 'Elena would NEVER go back to that again…or would she?'
Elena was walking down the aisle of a cozy chapel towards Stefan. Light poured in the stained glass windows and lit up the whole church. Her formal white gown and veil were trailing behind as Bonnie held it to keep it off the floor. Her heart leapt with every step as she went closer and closer to the altar. The grip on her arm tightened a bit and she turned to look at her escort. Damon looked, well, like a dad who deep down really didn't want to give his girl away. She had wanted Matt to give her away to Stefan, but he was no where to be found. Plus, it wasn't like she could call home and ask her Uncle Robert if he could do it. So she had asked Damon, who was already Stefan's 'best' man, if he would walk her. It was hard enough to get him to attend, let alone participate! But, with a lot of coaxing on Elena's part, he reluctantly accepted both positions. It was symbolic for all three of them, a kind of burying, or at least hiding of the hatchet. The gesture was also a way for Elena to let Damon know that she still cared so much about him that she wanted him to hold one of the most important roles for her in the ceremony.
As they reached the altar, she squeezed his hand to signal it was time to let go, literally and figuratively. She reached up and kissed his cheek during which he snuck in a brief hug before shaking hands with Stefan.
"Thank you," Stefan whispered to his brother.
"Yeah, well, you know…," he said with a shrug.
Then Damon took his place next to Stefan the way Meredith and Bonnie were next to Elena.
The ceremony continued and the ceremony of the rings was to begin.
"Repeat after me," the preacher said. "I, Stefan Salvatore."
"I, Stefan Salvatore, take you Elena Gilbert, to be my lawfully wedded wife. To have and to hold, in sickness and in health, to honor and to cherish, till death do us part."
He placed a ring with the word 'Amore' engraved in the white gold band with lapis lazuli accents.
"Now Elena, repeat after me," the preacher said again. "I, Elena Gilbert."
"I, Elena Gilbert, take you Stefan Salvatore, to be my lawfully wedded wife. To have and to hold, in sickness and in health, to honor and to cherish, till death do us part."
She took a hold of his hand and placed a white gold band with the word 'Love' engraved on his ring finger.
They smiled at each other as the preacher said, "By the power invested in me, I now pronounce you man and…" He stopped.
The couple looked at the preacher and followed his gaze to the chapel. In the front row were two people who hadn't been there before; Katherine and a dark haired stranger. Katherine smiled and got up. She walked over to Stefan and pushed Elena out of the way. The weird part was that Stefan didn't even seem to care that she was missing!
"Hey, Stefan," she yelled, "What are you doing?"
Katherine and Stefan started to slow dance together in front of the church. The weird thing was that no on in the wedding party seemed to care.
"What's wrong with you people," Elena yelled. "That's it!"
She walked over to the two, tapped Katherine on the shoulder, and punched her in the face. Katherine turned to her with blood coming out of her nose. A tear slipped out of the vampire's eye...and then she began to laugh. Then she looked down at Elena's hand. Her wedding ring was slipping off her finger.
Then Elena started to scream. The sunlight that had lit up the whole church for a beautiful ceremony was now killing her; it was burning her alive.
"NOOOO," she cried out in pain.
She felt herself falling in down on the floor. Her skin was scorched and her hair was on fire. The worst part wasn't the pain as much as Stefan just stood there and watched as she writhed in pain on the floor before her eyes closed and all there was left was darkness.
"Elena, wake up," Stefan cried. "Honey, wake up!"
Elena was thankful that she could open her eyes. She looked over at Stefan who looked terrified.
"What happened?" he asked as he wiped tears off his wife's face. "You were screaming and crying terribly. What was going on?"
She didn't answer him but he could see the images of the nightmare in her mind.
"Oh, Elena, that was probably because you were looking at our wedding pictures earlier." He put his arms around and felt her snuggle up to him. "It's ok. It was only a nightmare. That would never happen again; you're human again, remember? Just get some more sleep…I'll hold you and keep you safe. No more bad dreams."
Elena felt Stefan guiding her deeper and deeper into sleep.
'Only good dreams…,' she heard Stefan say in her mind.
And yet she was still afraid of what could be awaiting her in the darkness.