Elena and it'll be perfect," Meg fusses in Caroline's shrill voice. Turns out I'm not the only doppleganger in town. Caroline's just never stayed alive long enough to meet her the way Katherine met me.
Emily clasps my necklace behind my neck and I'm looking at the bride staring back at me. This is it. The world I've come back to is so wildly different from home. But at the same time it's not, because the person who made it home is with me right here and now. Compared the the life I've been living, as a vampire in the twenty-first century, this life is so simple. It's nice. I've been working toward having a normal human life, and no, travelling in time two hundred years isn't normal. But going to work every day is, having kids is. Growing old is and I'm happy Damon finally gets this chance, and he gets it with me as the man I fell for.
Stefan walks me down the aisle. As much as it hurts that my family isn't here to see this, they wouldn't have anyways in the future because they were already gone.