A/N hey there I just started Grad school so updates might be slow.


Bonnie always knew this day would come. She feared it most. She knew in the back of her mind that Damon would have to make a choice. A real choice between her and Elena. While Bonnie would like to believe that when it boiled down to a choice between her and Elena, the man she loved and trusted most would choose her ever time, she felt that wasn't the case. Afterlife!Elena didn't love Damon. She made that perfectly clear when she moved across the country to be with Stefan. This!Elena loved Damon with every fiber of her being. Bonnie wish she wasn't this vain, in the mist of danger, but all she could think about was her relationship with Damon and if she really had one.

She tried to focus on the book in front of her, but all she could focus on were Damon and Elena. She wondered if the met up yet. Were they talking about her? Did he tell Elena he loved her? Did Damon still love Elena? Does she know about Sarah? Did she kiss him? Did he kiss her back? Are they having sex? "Bonnie… Earth to Bonnie," Katherine said snapping out of her thoughts.

"I'm sorry what?"

"You've been on the same page for an hour," Caroline noted.

"And I was asking you about a cloaking spell to hide supernatural creates," Katherine added.

"That sounds like a good idea. I can work on that with Qetsiyah," Bonnie agreed as she flipped through a different grimoire.

"So… are we not going to talk about Damon and the pathetic version of me?" Katherine asked.

"I'm so glad you're winning personality carried over," Bonnie said with a glare.

"You love me," she smiled.

"I don't want to talk about this," Bonnie frowned. "We need to focus on getting things here back on the right track. We can cloak and hide, but that doesn't make the problem go away."

"Well we all know how to make the problem go away," Katherine said as she glanced at Caroline through the corner of her eye and tapped her nose.

"Kat, Caroline isn't going anywhere," Bonnie stressed. "We don't know why this happened, but Lexi, Damon, and Care are vampires and we have to deal with this now."

"Bonnie if you're not counting your mother, Elena, and Tyler as vampires," Katherine said.

"Tyler is a werewolf," Caroline said.

"No he's a hybrid," Bonnie informed her.

"No after we came back through the veil he wasn't a hybrid."

"How do you know that?"

"I-I don't really know, I just do," Caroline said.

"That's convient," Katherine muttered.

"Kat."

"If you're not going to be helpful you could've went with Qetsiyah to make Lexi's daylight ring," Caroline muttered.

"I'm just doing what you two fail at. We need to be realistic about this. Everything was fine up until two days ago. And what all changed?"

"I've been here longer than that," Caroline spat back.

"She's right," Bonnie said. "When Caroline came it was like when the veil collapsed. The world just accepted her, more so then us. Whatever spell you used to get here it made this world more excepting of you. Maybe I can rework it to do the same for everyone else," Bonnie said.

-"No," Katherine yelled as Caroline said "Are you insane?"

"I thought you'd like this idea," Bonnie said more so to Caroline than Katherine.

"I know, but if they don't go back someone else will come to find them. Then we're back at square one."

"And they don't want to stay here. They came looking to rescue you guys," Katherine added.

"What if they want to stay? What if we make it clear we're not going back, and give them a choice to leave or stay?"

"Are you sure you want to do that?" Caroline asked. Caroline knew Bonnie wanted to stay with Damon, but there was a part of her that wondered if This!Elena would let Damon go.

"I can't leave Sarah and I don't plan on it. We give them a chance to make a choice. Show them what life here for them is like, and leave it up to them," Bonnie smiled.

"And if this, taking Caroline's spell and changing it, doesn't work? What then Bon-Bon?"

"Then they'll have to leave, and we'll fix things here," Bonnie said, "But only if this doesn't work."


When Bonnie got to the manor, she was surprised to see that only Damon's car was parked in the drive way. She went into the kitchen to see Damon chasing their little girl around. Sarah ran around the table and to Bonnie. "Mum," she giggled as she jumped into Bonnie's arms.

"Hi baby girl," she said as she tickled the toddler. "Are you being a bad girl?" she asked.

Damon walked over and took Sarah. "She wouldn't stop looking for you," he said. "She didn't believe you were coming back soon."

"I missed you too stinky feet," she laughed. "Did something happen with their flights?"

"No Stefan should be here any minute. How are things on the council front?" he asked hoping they made some leeway in one situation.

"I think I found a solution. I need to get the spell Abby and Caroline used to get here and try and tweak them to see how I can make our world more excepting to them," she smiled.

"So that means they're staying? You sure about that?"

"If they want to," she said and his expression soured. "What?"

"I understand you love your friends, but I think it's time to say goodbye," Damon said.

"Abby," Bonnie said.

"Bon," Damon sighed.

"You have your mom and dad, and Stefan, and its great having my dad and Grams, but now we get to start over. I get to give Sarah everything I wanted when I was a child," she said as she caressed Sarah's face.

"Bon, Sarah has everything she needs. Abby had a wealth of chances to do right by you, and it took you dying for her to step up."

"I know we were reconnecting before…"

"I know," he said as he kissed her.

"Damon!" Elena yelled.

Damon and Bonnie turned to see Stefan, Elena, Matt, and Tyler standing in the door way. There was a whirlwind of emotions on everyone's faces, and neither knew quite what to say. "Elena we can explain," Bonnie said.

"Someone needs to," she yelled.


"Do you think we can find a way to fix this?" Katherine asked Qetsiyah.

"Bonnie's plan should work, with Shelia and me helping her, it should work better," Qetsiyah said.

"I just feel like we should leave this alone. If this world doesn't want the less attractive version of me then so be it." She shrugged.

"You're so vain," Qetsiyah smirked.

"I just like things as they are, and this council managed to turn Lexi into a vampire, and there's nothing we can do about it," she added.

"I know. But Lexi still has her pre-death memories. Unlike with Caroline, this will work out. She's already accepted this is who she is."

"I suppose," Katherine smiled.

"You shouldn't worry so much about everyone. Everything is working out fine."

"Not with Bonnie and Damon and we both know it," Katherine sighed.

"They always have this way of finding each other. I'm sure things will work out."


Damon ordered takeout before Bonnie arrived and to his relief the pizza man was at the door. It would be harder for everyone to yell and scream with pizza in their mouths. Stefan took Sarah and went to pay the pizza man. The gang took a seat at the dining room table because it had room for twelve.

"I don't know how much Stefan told you," Bonnie started.

"He gave us nothing," Matt informed her.

"Okay. Let's start with the basics. So this is where everyone is meant to go when they've moved on. My Grams calls it The Afterlife. This world controls what you're afterlife will be and it allows for a version of you to exist while you're alive."-

"Like an alternate version of yourself?" Tyler asked.

"Yes?"

"That doesn't explain why you two were kissing," Elena said. She was obviously irritated and hadn't stopped glaring at Damon since she saw them kissing.

"But it does," Damon said. "Bonnie and I are together in this world. Sarah is our daughter," he added.

Elena looked confused. "But-but how is that even possible?" she asked. You could hear the hurt in her voice as it cracked.

"When we were there, on the Otherside, and it was falling down around us I held her hand. The next thing I knew Sarah was screaming in my ear," Damon answered.

"None of this was intentional it just happened," Bonnie added.

Elena thought for a moment that Damon and Bonnie's relationship was just a mirror of this world. She reasoned that once they were home things would go back to how they were. "So when we go back this version of you guys will be together?" Elena asked. Just then Stefan walked back in with Sarah.

"We aren't going back," Bonnie objected.

"You can. We can get you back," Elena smiled.

"Elena we don't want to go back," Stefan said. "We're dead that's it. There's no do over this time."

"How many times have one of us died? We can get you back," Elena yelled. "Abby is going to get us all back."

"Abby was never going back," Bonnie stressed.

"No, she was going to send us back," Tyler said.

"I don't doubt that, but she never planned on going back with you," Bonnie clarified.

"I don't understand. Why would you want to stay here? Away from your lives, your friends?" Elena asked.

"We have all of that here. We belong here," Bonnie said with irritation in her voice.

"No you don't!" Elena yelled.

Sarah didn't like how angry everyone was so she started to cry. Stefan rocked the girl, but Bonnie took her. "I think she needs a break," Bonnie said taking Sarah into the other room.

"We can't leave. If we do Sarah doesn't exist," Damon said.

"She shouldn't," Elena blurted out.

Damon's eye narrowed at her and she knew she put her foot in her mouth when she saw that Stefan's expression mirrored his brother's. Tyler and Matt decided to stuff their faces, both hopping not to be dragged into the conversation.


"Abigail what are you doing?" Shelia watched as her daughter tried to lite a candle. "You're still a vampire nothing's going to happen."

"There's a group of vampires that are witches. They're called"-

"Heretics," Shelia concluded. "How did you hear about them?"

"Lucy."

"Joanna's girl?" Shelia asked.

"Yes. I've been able to channel some of my powers, but I'm hoping I can do more here. I need to see if Lucy is in Mystic Falls and if she can help send the kids back," Abby added.

"So you planned on sending them back this whole time?" Shelia smirked at her daughter.

"We both know I can't go back, because I'm a vampire. I never meant for Elena to come, and hopefully I can figure out a way to send her back," Abby added.

-"We bet you to it," Katherine said.

"Bonnie thinks she knows how to send them back, but she needs the spell you used to get here," Qetsiyah added.


Damon and Elena had been screaming at each other for about forty-five minutes. Stefan stayed to play referee, but Matt and Tyler decided to check on Bonnie. The boys found her in Sarah's bedroom. Sarah and Bonnie were floating feathers. Sarah knew how to make them swirl around, but Bonnie had to keep them in the air for her.

"You guys are having all the fun," Tyler said as he came in.

"She likes to make them dance," Bonnie smiled.

"She's really good at that," Matt laughed.

"Yep, she's really powerful," Bonnie gushed.

"She's adorable," Tyler added.

"That's because she looks like you," Matt winked.

"Thanks guys," Bonnie said with a laugh. "Sometimes it's hard to believe she's real. But I just look into her eyes and I know the world is right," she said as she kissed the top of Sarah's head.

"You guys look happy."

"Are you happy?" Honestly that was all Tyler and Matt cared about. If Bonnie was happy and she wanted to stay here, then they weren't going to fight her on it. Bonnie sacrificed herself far too many times for them to take this happiness away from her.

"I am. I know Damon and I were a far cry from this, but it works."

"I wouldn't say a far cry," Tyler mumbled.

"He defiantly had heart eye for you," Matt added.

"Where's witchy? Can you tell Sabrina to give me a call?"

"Glinda's the only useful one out of all of you. The Wicked Witch is late again," Matt laughed.

"Hey," Bonnie said forging offense.

"Sired!Elena did say that he kinda loved you," Matt winked.

"That's creepy," Tyler added and the trio laughed.

When they finally sobered Bonnie decided to finish their discussion. "We decided that you guys should get a choice to stay or leave. Caroline already made her choice, and she wants to stay with her mom and dad. So if you guys want to stay with your loved ones, I won't be the one to make you leave," Bonnie told them.

"Is… Is Vicky here?" Matt asked.

Bonnie smiled. "You want to see her?"

"And my mom and dad?" Tyler asked.

"And Mason. He and Damon are friends," she laughed. "Things are different here though."

"I don't care I want to see Vic," Matt said.

"Same," Tyler agreed.

"Okay," Bonnie smiled. "Let's get some shoes for you," she said as she go up and tossed Sarah lightly in the air.


"It hasn't been a few months Damon. These feelings they aren't real," She yelled. "This isn't you."

"Time is different here. Memories fade too. I just don't feel the same, and you deserve to live your life and be happy. We weren't close to happy," Damon yelled.

"I was."

"No you weren't Elena. All we did was fight and fuck. Sometimes we fought more than we fucked, but that was it. I lied to you. Hide things from you. Used your feelings for me. You should be running for the hills."

"I'm not because I love you."

"Or you're just stupid," Damon shrugged.

Elena narrowed her eyes. "I know you love me," she said, "Come home Damon," she said as she placed her hand on his cheek and kissed him softly.

"Elena stop," Damon said pulling away from her. "I don't want to be with you. I'm not what you need."

"Damon don't," she whined.

Damon's eyes turned to Bonnie. "Bonnie I," he started, but she gave him a smile, and he knew she understood.

"I'm going to take them for a ride. Do you want to come Elena?" Bonnie asked.

Elena faced away from her friends and tried to hide her sobs. "No I'm fine," she lied.

"If you're sure," Bonnie said leaving the invitation open.

"I'm sure."