Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to The Vampire Diaries, TV show or books. However I decided to have a little play around with the characters (I would definitely like to play with Damon).
Welcome to the final chapter of this part of the story. Don't worry, there will be plenty more Mystic Falls hi-jinks and Delena smut to come in the sequel.
Three weeks after Elena, Damon and Stefan had performed the elixir ritual, Mystic Falls had almost returned into a seemingly normal sleepy small town in Virginia. Silas had vanished after he'd fake staked Klaus,who had also disappeared along with Elijah to what appeared to be New Orleans. Rumors were rife as to why they'd left, some were suggesting it was because he was hunting Katherine, others mentioned something related to the werewolf Hayley, who had helped Tyler break the sire bond. Whatever it was, the only Original left in town was Rebekah, who was more of a danger to Caroline's prom planning than to the human population of Mystic Falls.
Bonnie had been spending her spare time either helping Caroline with organizing the prom, with Jeremy or studying the book which Emily had given her. She had found the book consisted of the ingredients and spell to produce the elixir, the spell for the talisman and the resurrection spell she would need to bring back the immortal to kill Silas. Most of the information was sketchy, although there was a lot of info surrounding two family trees, however they only showed the direct line of descendancy with an occasional anomaly. Confused at it's meaning, Bonnie decided to wait until after graduation to do some research into family trees as she was already overloaded with school work and helping Caroline with this evening's prom, to which Bonnie had agreed to go with Jeremy.
Stefan had finally been able to move back into the Salvatore boarding house after spending two weeks on Caroline's couch. Damon and Elena had become almost inseparable from the moment they all took the elixir and for those first two weeks, it had become impossible being under the same roof as them, especially with vampire hearing. To make matters worse, much to Stefan's disappointment, the elixir hadn't worked quite as quickly as Stefan had expected. It had only been in the last week had his feelings began to change, albeit only a small change, which turned out to be similar timing as Damon and Elena's sexual stamina had begun to wain a little. Fortunately it was enough for him to be able to move back into the boarding house accompanied by a substantial amount of earplugs.
To thank Caroline for her hospitality, Stefan had offered to take her to the prom as Tyler was still on the run from Klaus, even though Klaus was now in New Orleans, and Elena, although technically was going to the prom without a date, she still had Damon, who was attending as a chaperone. Rebekah was the only member of the Original family to stay in Mystic Falls and she was going with Matt.
On the day of the prom, Elena had decided she was having a girls pamper day at the Gilbert house, whilst she sent Jeremy away over to Matt's, and Damon stayed at the Salvatore boarding house with Stefan. Caroline and Bonnie were over for a day of facials, massages, manicures, pedicures, hair and make-up. They'd started at noon, which gave them plenty of time before Damon, Stefan and Jeremy, who were all due to arrive at seven, came to collect them. By six they were almost ready, with just their make-up and dresses to go. Elena was waiting for her toenails to dry, so in the meantime she was walking barefoot around the kitchen, fixing the evening's alcohol supplies for the three of them. Tonight's menu consisted of tequila and vodka, however they were determined to get the party started a little early as this was the first time they'd had a girls day since Elena had turned into a vampire. In preparation for the day, Elena had made vodka jello shots, which she put all twelve of them on a tray and returned to the living room.
"Jello shots anyone?" Elena grinned with a little curtsy as she placed the tray down on the coffee table.
"It's okay for you guys." Bonnie complained. "Humans get drunk a lot easier than vampires. I need to hold off until my make-up is done." she said. "Just leave me a couple."
"Your loss." Caroline giggled as she emptied the plastic cup and scrunched it up.
Bonnie turned to Elena. "So how did you manage to drag yourself away from Damon's bed?" she asked with a wink.
"With great difficulty." Elena grinned.
"Eww...I'm eating." Caroline complained as she swallowed her second jello shot.
"No seriously." Bonnie glared at Caroline before turning back yo Elena. "Since you guys took that elixir, you've been at it like rabbits. Was that the only side effect?" she asked.
Elena shook her head. "No." she said. "Damon seems to be the one who was least affected by the elixir. Sure, we've been...umm...busy.." she said coyly. "But I don't think Damon needed the elixir for that." she grinned.
"Is he really that good?" Bonnie asked wide-eyed as Elena nodded profusely.
"Amazing." Elena said dreamily. "It was just odd how quickly it the elixir took effect.." she said as her friends looked on in confusion. "As soon as I took it, I wanted to rip Damon's clothes off and...well you know." she giggled as she picked up a shot and looked to Bonnie. "We dropped you and Stefan off, but we didn't even make it to Wickery Bridge."
"I have a theory behind it." Bonnie grinned as she picked up a jello shot as the others two girls frowned.. "Fuck it!" she laughed. "Caroline, you can do my make-up." she said, swallowing the shot before turning back to Elena.
"Go on." Caroline narrowed her eyes.
Bonnie looked at Elena. "I've read a little about the curse and you and Stefan were forced to be together." she said. "But even when you got together with Damon, there was probably some residual part of you was holding back because the curse still had some hold on you. Once the tie was broken, the rush of pent up feelings you'd had for Damon before you turned must have taken over and become heightened. Now you've got it out of your system, you've returned to a more normal level of activities." Bonnie winked.
"That, combined with us completely wearing each other out through lack of sleep." Elena laughed.
"Can we get off the Damon and sex conversation please?" Caroline complained. "Seriously, it's grossing me out." she said as Bonnie and Elena looked at her and began laughing.
"I was asking purely for witch business." Bonnie laughed.
"Okay...fine!" Caroline huffed. "Damon is great in bed. End of discussion." she said folding his arms.
"Well he's certainly better than Matt." Elena giggled. "What about Tyler?" she said to Caroline. "Is Damon better than Tyler?" she teased as Caroline gave glared at her before her shoulders dropped and nodded weakly.
"Lack of experience!" Bonnie snorted with laughter. "That's what it is. Tyler has a lack of experience. You need someone with more experience."
"What about Klaus?" Elena joked earning her one of Caroline's death stares.
"Why not?" Bonnie asked. "He likes you."
"And you like him a little bit." Elena added. "Maybe you could make him nicer." she offered smiling.
"What about Stefan?" Bonnie asked.
"What about Stefan?" Caroline frowned, her face turning serious.
"He's been spending a lot of time at your place." Bonnie teased.
"He's been trying to get away from those two!" Caroline nodded her head in Elena's direction.
"He's single." Bonnie smirked.
"He's not bad in the sack either." Elena winked.
"And not over Elena yet." Caroline huffed. "I'm not being second choice again." she said as she began to assemble the assorted cosmetics and brushes the girls would need to finish off their looks before the guys arrived.
"It was a curse." Elena complained.
"She's right." Bonnie agreed. "If it hadn't have been for the curse, they probably wouldn't have even noticed each other. The elixir should be working by now. Has he said that he feels any different?" Bonnie asked looking between Caroline and Elena who both shrugged, Stefan hadn't fully confided in either of them.
"How exactly does the elixir work anyway?" Caroline asked Bonnie as she started to put her make-up on.
"Qetsiyah didn't really say." Bonnie shrugged as she turned to Elena. "Did Emily say anything to you about it?" she asked as Elena frowned and shook her head.
"So let me get this straight." Caroline narrowed her eyes. "You, Stefan and Damon, all took some mysterious potion to wipe out a bloodline, whatever that means, and none of you guys bothered to question what it actually did?" she asked surprised. "Seriously?"
"She said it wouldn't hurt us." Elena insisted.
"That's what I was told." Bonnie agreed.
"So nobody thinks it's a little strange that Emily Bennett would make a witchy brew so that two vampire soulmates can live happily ever after, and helps the other vampire to stop being a miserable lovesick puppy?" Caroline asked. "Doesn't this all sound a little bit too good to be true?" she asked waving her mascara wand around as Bonnie and Elena looked at each other nervously. "It could have had werewolf venom in it." she said glaring at Bonnie and Elena.
"Well it didn't!" Elena stated. "We're all here, alive and well." she added smugly as she put her hand to her mouth and yawned.
"Too much sex." Bonnie giggled.
"I wish..." Elena grumbled.
"What?" Bonnie and Caroline asked in unison.
"I meant tonight." Elena stared at her friends. "No time for sex tonight, it's the resurrection remember." she reminded them.
"Yeah, I know." Bonnie sighed.
"Have you worked out who you're resurrecting yet Bonnie?" Caroline asked.
"No." Bonnie frowned. "It's an indestructible immortal, who must be dead, that's all it says." she shrugged.
"A dead indestructible immortal?" Elena laughed.
"Maybe it means a dead Original?" Caroline suggested.
"You think it could be Kol?" Elena asked looking at Caroline and then Bonnie.
"Or Mikael, or Finn." Caroline offered as Bonnie and Elena pulled disgusted faces. "What about the girl Silas made immortal/" she asked.
"You mean Amara?" Bonnie said shaking her head. "She was crazy in love with Silas. I doubt it would be her." she explained. "Kol would make sense though. He wanted Silas destroyed." she said.
"So what, we're cutting our prom night short to go and possibly wake up Kol?" Caroline huffed. "Count me out." she said.
"It's fine." Bonnie shrugged. "It only needs me, Elena, Stefan and Damon to be there." she told them.
"Why again, do all three of us need to be there?" Elena asked.
"Because you drank the elixir." Bonnie explained.
"Which leaves me at the prom dateless." Caroline complained. "Okay, so I'll come." she sighed. "What about Jeremy? What's he doing after you leave?" she asked Bonnie.
"He's coming with us." Elena nodded.
"What time are we leaving the prom?" Caroline asked.
"It needs to be done a the witch house during the first full moon after the elixir was taken, which is why we're doing it tonight." Bonnie told them. "The full moon doesn't crest until almost eleven, and I need to set up a few things first, but it shouldn't take too long." she smiled.
"Then what do we do?" Caroline asked. "Just go back to the boarding house and wait for Kol to arrive?" she waved her hand as Elena and Bonnie shrugged. "Does it tell you to leave a note?" she asked sarcastically. "And if you don't know who you're resurrecting, how do you know who's body you need to take with you?"
"We don't need the body." Bonnie told her getting up.
Elena checked the time on her phone. "We need to get changed." she suddenly said as she looked up at Bonnie. "It'll all be fine." she smiled getting up as Caroline followed before they headed upstairs to change for the prom.
Damon, Stefan and Jeremy arrived with a couple of minutes to spare dressed for the evening in their tuxedo's and their corsage's. Jeremy walked as up to the door as Damon and Stefan followed, and opened it.
"You decent in there?" he shouted upstairs. "Come on in." he said to Damon and Stefan.
"Just a minute." Elena called down. "You guys wait in the kitchen." she added as Damon and Stefan followed Jeremy to the kitchen.
Bonnie made her way downstairs first wearing a long black strapless mermaid dress with gold thread interwoven into the material to give a shimmer. Jeremy smiled shyly as he walked over and gave her yellow rose corsage to compliment her dress and kissed her on the cheek.
Caroline followed wearing a floor length lavender dress, with silver sequins on the straps and below the breast in an old roman style emphasizing her figure. Stefan kissed Caroline's hand as he gave her a white rose corsage.
Elena was the last to emerge wearing a red strapless floor length gown which was corseted with shimmering beads to make it look like it was it had a diamond waistband. Damon grinned as he took Elena's hand and placed the corsage around her wrist before pulling her close to him.
"I don't like the accessories." he whispered in her ear as she frowned at him. "I've got something better." he smirked as he pulled out a black velvet jewelry box and opened it revealing a diamond necklace and matching earrings.
"Who did you compel those from?" Stefan asked sarcastically.
"Are they real?" Bonnie asked wide-eyed.
"Of course they're real." Damon replied sounding insulted before turning to Stefan. "While you were tied up with Lexi de-ripperfying yourself, I was busy playing with stocks and shares." he smiled smugly as everyone looked at him in shock. "I was expecting to get Katherine out of the tomb and I suspected she would be high maintenance." he explained. "In the process I made a lot of money, and my girl deserves the best." he added as he fastened the diamond necklace around Elena's neck.
"Damon...this is too much." Elena said shocked.
"Nothing is too much for you." he whispered back as he kissed her on the lips.
"Okay...I'm going to be sick." Jeremy interrupted. "Either hurry up or get a room." he said looking at Elena who was now wrapped tightly in Damon's arms.
"Um...Little Gilbert." Damon raised his eyebrows. "I'm driving, so unless you have a deep seated desire to walk to the prom, I suggest you be quiet now." he joked, before turning to Stefan and Caroline. "You guys ready?" he asked as they nodded and headed out to Stefan's car. "Witchy?" he asked.
"I'm ready." Bonnie replied. "You got everything?" she asked.
"It's in the trunk of the car." Damon assured her as they all headed off to the prom.
Three and a half hours later, they assembled in the parking lot to go and change to head to the old witch house for Bonnie to perform the resurrection spell. Caroline and Jeremy were only attending because otherwise they would have been abandoned by their dates. They'd left just after Matt and Rebekah had been crowned prom King and Queen, even though Elena suspected Rebekah may have used compulsion for it, but she was happy for Matt.
On the way to the witch house, they stopped off at the boarding house to change into more sensible clothes for lurking around the witch house at night than prom dresses, tux's, corsage's and diamond jewelry. By the time they arrived, the moon was at it's apex and Bonnie was setting up her stuff which consisted of candles, salt, the quartz talisman, the tombstone, water and the book Emily had dug up from the basement of the house. Caroline and Jeremy had opted to wait in the car for them after Bonnie telling them it would take no longer than fifteen minutes to perform the spell.
The first thing Bonnie did when they reached the basement was light a the fire in the fireplace to give them some light to work with. She also lit some additional surrounding candles. On the ground Bonnie drew a circle with the salt which was surrounded by five unlit candles, four of the candles were to represent Bonnie, Elena, Damon and Stefan, the fifth one was to represent the resurrection of the indestructible immortal who they believed to be Kol. Five glasses of water were laid next to the candles whilst the tombstone lay inside the circle next to the quartz and the book. Bonnie had already memorized the spell but she had been instructed to place the book inside the circle. They all entered the circle as Elena held hands with both Damon and Bonnie as Stefan did the same.
Bonnie began chanting the spell under her breath as Elena and Damon looked around the basement to see if anything was happening whilst Stefan focused all of his attention on Bonnie. Initially nothing chaned and Elena began to wonder if the spell was working, until the quartz caught her eye as she saw it melting into the ground. As soon as the quartz melted four of the candles lit up, the one representing the immortal was the only one which didn't have a flame burning from it's wick. Suddenly the water from Damon's glass began to disappear as Elena's began to fill up, once Damon's glass was empty and the water had magically transferred into Elena's glass, it started to boil. The same then happened with Stefan and Bonnie's water, except theirs filled the glass belonging to the immortal, which also began to boil as the candle also lit up. The ground began to shake as everyone looked around, expecting the immortal on to turn up, but nobody arrived. Bonnie dropped Damon and Stefan's hands and knelt down, one hand on the tombstone and the other clutching her necklace as she began to channel the extra power from Qetsiyah. The glasses began to boil frantically and the water soon began to disappear, when suddenly the ground stopped shaking and the glasses imploded.
"It's done." Bonnie finally said as Elena, Damon and Stefan let go of each others hands.
"So do we just wait here until someone turns up?" Stefan asked frowning.
"I..." Bonnie started but stopped in her tracks as Elena dropped to the floor unconscious. "Elena!" she cried out as Damon caught her in his arms and knelt down to the ground.
"Elena." he whispered, his voice full of fear at the thought of losing her. "What did you do?" he growled as he looked up at Bonnie.
"It says nothing here about it affecting anyone." Bonnie argued back.
"Well something happened." Damon yelled. "Vampires don't pass out unless there's werewolf venom or some witchy interference." he frowned as he brushed Elena's hair away from her face.
"Wake up." he pleaded to her, his face crumpled up with fear. However that fear was short lived as Elena opened her eyes.
"Damon?" she looked up at him confused. "What happened?" she asked weakly.
"You fainted." Damon said, visibly relieved as he kissed her forehead.
"That doesn't sound good." Elena muttered.
"There was a lot of energy being transferred over and focused on you." Bonnie told her. "Whatever that energy was, I'm guessing it overwhelmed you." she offered.
"Can that happen." Stefan asked as Damon helped Elena to her feet who was initially a little weak and unsteady.
"In humans and witches, yes." Bonnie told them. "Channeling too much energy can cause someone to pass out or..." Bonnie stopped as Elena ran over to the corner of the room and began to throw up the jello shots from earlier. "...Or even be sick." she winced as Damon rushed over to help Elena by keeping her hair out of her face and rubbing her back. "But I've never seen it happen to a vampire before." she frowned.
"I say we get out of here." Stefan suggested. "If this immortal wants us, he or she will have to come and find us." he added as Damon and Bonnie nodded whilst Elena was trying to compose herself.
"Feel any better?" Damon asked Elena after she'd finished being sick.
"A little." she replied groggily as Damon swept her up in his arms bridal style. "Is this really necessary?" she asked. "I'm not a feeble human anymore." she insisted.
"No you're not." Damon agreed. "But, vampires don't pass out and get sick unless it's werewolf venom." he insisted. "Let's get you home and in bed." he added as he slowly carried Elena upstairs.
"Elena." Jeremy cried out, rushing towards her as Damon put her to the ground, but kept his arms wrapped tightly around her to support her should she pass out again. "Are you okay?" her brother asked as Damon let go of Elena so she and Jeremy could hug.
"I'm fine." Elena smiled weakly, not fooling anyone. "I'm just a little tired. Bonnie says the spell may have overwhelmed me a little." she told him as Damon helped her get in the car.
"Everyone's free to stay at the boarding house tonight." Damon announced. "There's plenty of rooms going spare." he smiled as Bonnie, Jeremy and Caroline nodded, realizing that Damon was going to drive straight back to the boarding house and nobody was getting a lift home, however nobody minded as they were all too worried about Elena.
The following day Elena was still under the weather, she'd been sick a further two times in the night, and although she wasn't vomiting blood, she couldn't keep much human food down except coffee, which they needed to keep their bodies warm. Her appetite for blood had increased as she couldn't go near alcohol claiming she felt sick at the smell, which also meant anyone going near her was banned from having alcohol, which was leading to a very pissed off Damon.
The good news was that Elena showed no signs of werewolf venom being in her system. However by the second day, Elena was still no better, she wanted to sleep a lot and was frequently feeling queasy, even if the sickness had subsided a little. Bonnie had scoured through her grimoires and had researched everything she could to see if there was anything that she could find that might give a clue to what was wrong with Elena. The other issue that Bonnie was having to deal with was missing immortals. Silas was still nowhere to be found and the immortal they had supposedly raised had yet to appear.
Bonnie was sat in the parlor of the boarding house with Jeremy, Damon, Stefan and Caroline, going through some of the grimoires she'd taken from Luka and his dad to see if they could find any indication that vampires could get ill through magic. She had even tried using her own magic to see if she was getting any bad vibes from Elena, but nothing had changed. Her future still showed a man, fog and a crow, although the fog was far more dense now, but Bonnie knew that was Damon and considering their relationship, it wasn't entirely a surprise.
Whilst Elena was upstairs in bed sleeping, Damon was constantly on edge, and was now pacing in front of the fireplace, having not slept since the night Elena passed out. He was practically out of his mind with worry, and even if it turned out to not be a serious illness for Elena, Damon getting too cranky and going on an angry rampage was not good for Mystic Falls, meaning they needed to find out what was wrong as quickly as they could.
"Maybe the elixir lowered her immune system and she picked up a bug?" Jeremy offered.
"Vampires don't have an immune system." Damon snapped back. The combination of lack of sleep, lack of alcohol, but most importantly, the frantic worry about Elena was making him extremely grumpy, and everyone felt like they were having to tread on eggshells around him.
"Actually Damon..." Stefan said thoughtfully. "You know, he might be onto something." he added turning to Bonnie. "Elena's water started to boil first didn't it?" he asked as Bonnie nodded. "What if, to raise the immortal, it had to draw on the magic inside us which makes us vampires."
"Why would that affect Elena and not us?" Damon frowned.
"Maybe it did a little, just not enough for you to notice, but because she's a new vampire it affected her more." Caroline piped up. "You two are much older and the magic inside of you has been fed by far more human blood over the years than Elena has had. Maybe she has a human illness." she suggested.
"It's the only option we haven't considered yet." Bonnie agreed.
"Maybe it's time to get a human doctor." Stefan suggested.
"Meredith?" Damon asked.
"Can you think of anyone else?" Bonnie narrowed her eyes.
"Fine." Damon rolled his eyes. "I'll call Meredith." he huffed as he got his phone and and went to the library to talk to her in relative peace and quiet.
Four hours later Meredith arrived at the boarding house and was upstairs with Elena trying to find out what was wrong. Out of concern for Meredith's well being, Stefan had taken Damon out to have coffee at the Grill as they were worried that if Meredith diagnosed some deadly disease, Damon could hurt her. Caroline was dealing with planning a graduation party, and Jeremy was working at the Grill, meaning it was just Bonnie who was there when Meredith arrived to see Elena.
Bonnie took her upstairs to Damon's room where Elena way laying in the middle of his huge bed.
"Wow." Meredith's eyes nearly popped out at the size of his suite. "This place is bigger than my apartment." she smiled sitting next to Elena on the bed as Bonnie sat on the bed on the opposite side to Meredith, holding Elena's hand in supportive.
"I know." Elena smiled. "I love this bed, although I wish I wasn't spending so much time in it." she sighed. "But Damon is being overprotective and won't let me get up until I'm feeling better." she said.
"So what exactly happened to make you think that a doctor who deals with humans would be any help." she frowned.
"Bonnie." Elena prompted her friend, who proceeded to tell Meredith all about the night in the witch house.
"Had you been feeling off before that?" Meredith asked.
"I'd been feeling a little tired for a couple of days before that." Elena told her.
"So it couldn't have been the spell." Meredith replied.
"That wasn't the only thing that we did." Bonnie said. "Just over three weeks ago we performed a ritual to make sure Stefan and Elena don't fall back in love again." she told her.
"Why?" Meredith asked, so Bonnie explained the Silas story and the curse.
"Elena, Damon and Stefan all took the elixir and that was it until the next full moon." Bonnie explained as she finished telling the story.
"So this is all to stop Stefan and Elena continuing the bloodline." Meredith clarified, as Bonnie and Elena nodded. "So whatever it is, it sounds like it might have been caused by the elixir itself, but has taken time to show it's teeth, so to speak." she smiled as Elena rolled her eyes.
"So what do you suggest?" Bonnie asked.
"Well I'm a human doctor and I can only look at it and see what I would suspect if you were human." Meredith told them. "Would you want me to try that approach?" she asked as Bonnie looked at Elena who nodded her head at Meredith.
"We've run out of supernatural options." Elena sighed. "Maybe we should resort to scientific ones." she shrugged.
"Well I need to run a few checks." Meredith explained before looking to Bonnie. "Could you go and make me a coffee?" she asked. "I came straight from surgery and I've not had my fix yet." she smiled as Bonnie nodded taking the hint.
"Twenty minutes later Meredith appeared in the kitchen with a smile on her face.
"You found out what's wrong?" Bonnie asked as Meredith nodded. "What is it?" she asked as suddenly the front door flew open and Damon appeared.
"That was quick." Meredith said, sounding a little surprised.
"How is she?" Damon asked panicking. "You know what's wrong with her?" Meredith nodded.
"It's nothing life threatening." Meredith assured him. "Go up and see her. I'll let her tell you." she added as she checked her phone. "Well I need to get going. Elena has pretty much everything she needs right now." she said, drinking her coffee down in one before getting up to leave.
"Thanks doc." Damon said quickly before he vamp-sped out of the kitchen and up to his bedroom to see Elena sat up in bed, her eyes wide with shock and slightly red-rimmed from what Damon could only assume was tears from crying. Confused, Damon sat on the bed beside Elena and took her hand, circling the back of it with his thumb to soothe her.
They sat like that for a few minutes whilst Damon waited for Elena to tell him what Meredith had told her. However when Elena didn't sat anything, Damon knew he would have to be the one to break the silence. "Meredith says it's nothing life threatening." he offered gently, hoping that wouldn't cause her to cry. Elena looked up at Damon and smiled, but he could see tears were there, ready to fall. "What is it?" he asked, beginning to worry. "What's wrong?"
"I'm pregnant!" Elena said.
I have now re-attached Breaking the Curse - Bloodlines to this story as I've decided it is easier for me to write as one single story.
Breaking the curse has now been deleted.
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