Chapter 8
Damon held the necklace in his hand and the compass in the other.
Logan fell had crept up on him and Stefan as they were hunting in the woods, although with their vampire powers Damon managed to pick up the human's feet snapping the twigs and leaves on the ground as he walked even though most other people wouldn't have heard a thing. "Someone's coming," he told Stefan. Stefan was with him to keep an eye on him, make sure he didn't get into any trouble. He felt like he was a little kid and being babysat.
He had managed to get a shot at Stefan and luckily the wooden bullet had missed his heart, the wound would heal in a few minutes. But in the time that Damon had knelt down to his brother's side the man had turned around and run as fast as the wind. Damon knew that he could easily catch up to the man and kill him where he stood, but since he was being an Angel and not the Devil, he let the man go. "I'll be fine Damon," Stefan murmured. "Who was that?"
"Logan Fell," Damon muttered, wondering if the man had still dropped the watch/compass on the ground. Last time Damon had killed him when he shot at them and the watch had fallen from his body. He searched with his vampire vision and there it was, sparkling in the moonlight.
So there it was. The necklace and the pocket watch that acted as a very powerful compass. The necklace didn't belong to him though and since Stefan had eventually given his ring back so he could make appearances at school...he would have to somehow give it back to Bonnie so that she could discover all about it, but it had to be in a way that she just found it. He would have to think about that one and the necklace was the key at the moment.
At least he hadn't had to put up with Stefan's doom and gloom attitude all the time since Lexi had come to town and decided to stay alot longer then last time. Much longer!. That was one of the many things he actually did regret was Lexi,and he was glad she was still around.
He knew by this time that Bonnie was asking her grandmother about her powers and telling Elena
So he had managed to slip it into Bonnie's bag at school after her history class and the craziness had begun with her haunted dreams and Caroline finding out about the supernatural at one of their girly sleepovers. The girls had a séance...according to Elena it had been Caroline's idea. She hadn't ever believed in the supernatural or ghosts but the séance changed her mind.
Although the necklace was what had caused all the trouble at Elena's house without it Bonnie would never know about Emily, never discover the true extent of her powers...and never be able to become strong enough to send him back through time. But then he had to destroy the necklace.
But it was time for him to tell Stefan what was going on. It was time to start really changing things, rather then a little bit here and there. He knew the perfect time to do things as well.
"Stefan I know that the only reason you're doing this whole bonding thing with me is because you're after information about Katherine."
Stefan froze in the act of throwing the ball towards him. "What are you talking about?"
"Ok here goes. I'm going to sound like a crazy person, But in order to change things the only way that I can see is to tell you. To warn you about what's to come and let you make your own choices. Your own decision...and if you choose the wrong choices...I can kill you now you know. I wasn't strong enough before but I am now, I promise you."
"Damon, are you threatening me? I don't understand..."
"There's no sane way to say this. I'm from the future. I know...the golden rule is to never tell anyone in the past about the future. Most usual is the fact that you can't change the past either...but I say screw the rules. You need to know...you need to know what you did...what you will do."
Stefan realised that Damon was very, very close to snapping. To loosing his self control. "Damon, whatever this is we can talk about it..."
"No. We could never talk about things. You always see what you need to see and make snap judgements. I'm from the future. Two years from now... you turn evil. Katherine brainwashes you, you start to listen to her nonsense words when you're trapped in the tomb and then when you get out you...act like your fine and you're not and then you just leave and disappear. And then people start dying...you end up killing people and Matt, Jenna, everyone is dead and then you..."
"Wait, Katherine? Slow down Damon you're not making any sense." Stefan looked shocked and confused and a little hurt at his brother's words. "How can you even think that I would do anything like that?"
Damon shook his head, anger and pain showing so deep in his eyes that Stefan thought Damon would never look any different.
"I don't think, I know. There is only us. Bonnie and me. Bonnie is the one who sent me back. The reason there isn't two of me running around is because I have two sets of memories. Future me and past me's memories. It's so much easier this way..."
He felt a little desperate now, speaking a little too fast. "I can prove it to you Stefan. In the next couple of hours Bonnie will be possessed by the ghost of Emily and she will go into the woods near the tomb under the ruins of Fell's Church and she will threaten to destroy the necklace. We have to let her do this because only then when she wakes up from possession will she realise how strong she can be. She will still be in denial for a while but eventually she will come to accept you, at least. But then you betray her by hurting everyone she loves."
There was an icy silence between the two brothers. It felt like things had always been this way and it all depended on the next few seconds if they could ever know of such a thing as peace between them.
"If you're telling the truth..." Stefan's voice shook. "Is Elena...in the future is she..."
"She's dead."
He expected Stefan to rush at him and threaten him to stop all these lies about everything, but Stefan just stood there, his eyes full of sadness.
"We'll see what happens with Bonnie then," his voice was soft, Damon almost couldn't hear anything. "And then you have to tell me everything."
Damon nodded and for the first time he felt a strange kind of relief flowing through him. His brother was actually listening...after all, he had let him out of the locked cell after being poisoned by vervain. It made him feel a bit sick then, that all the future pain could have been avoided if they had just put aside all of their differences much earlier. If they had always worked together they would be strong enough to beat anything or anyone. But they had both been so stubborn, even in death.
After they watched Bonnie destroy the necklace in a brilliant display of burning bright fire Stefan stared at his brother with open horror in his expression.
All Damon had to say was a bitter I told you so. "In the other timeline I wanted the necklace to get Katherine out of the tomb. It was the only way apparently. But then it turns out that Katherine isn't trapped in the tomb in the first place..." Damon hesitated,,, wondering how much to actually tell Stefan.
"Ok, so I believe you," Stefan murmured watching Elena comfort a shaken up Bonnie.
"How are they here...Elena what's going on?"
"I promise I'll tell you everything Bonnie...I promise," Elena was telling her in her calming voice. Elena looked up at the two brothers in confusion, wondering what they were talking about. Her eyes met Damon's and he felt a sense of a new direction. He had already made thing better. Bonnie wasn't lying bleeding on the ground...and that's what he told Stefan.
"Damon...why do I turn...into the monster you say I turned into. It can't just be Katherine can it? It's something else. Something you're not telling me."
"Well, and remember you can't be mad at me for something that hasn't happened yet, that I haven't even done yet ok?"
"It's to do with Elena isn't it?"
Damon sighed and nodded.
"Well," Stefan seemed at a loss for words. "I'm really trying here Damon. I'm trying to understand. I'm trying to change because I've seen how much you've had to change, but it's still not easy to trust you. But...we're changing the way things are supposed to go right? That has to be a good thing."
Damon only had eyes for Elena though, even as Stefan was talking. He felt everything changing now. He had done the hard part. It hadn't actually been that hard at all...he was talking to Stefan again like a brother should talk to a brother. It might be beyond boring but...had he actually saved the world? Him, Damon Salvatore?
He nodded. "Yep. Now we just have to worry about Logan Fell, Anna getting her mother out of the tomb and releasing vampires, Isobel and Katherine and then Rose and Klaus..."
His eyes were distracted again by the beauty of Elena Gilbert. He didn't feel any of the dread and terror that had been present last time. Even though Bonnie was terrified beyond belief and Stefan and Elena were still in the middle of a break up.
"You lost me again Damon. Information overload."
"Right. But good news is that we don't have to leave town now. And you still have the wonderful Lexi to take your mind off of things!"
Stefan hadn't been able to think of much at all lately but as soon Damon mentioned his best friend forever he suddenly wanted to talk to her about everything and get her opinion.
"What do you mean leave town?" Stefan wondered if it was possible for vampires to get headaches, because whatever it was he felt something like one and it was pounding like he imagined a migraine to feel like.
"So many things I have to tell you. No pressure or anything but I've done my part. Now it's up to you."
TBC
Thank you for all the reviews please do keep them coming I like to know what people are thinking, I do appreciate each review. Next up is lot's more Damon/Elena and Bonnie/Matt. Alaric and Jenna. And more Stefan and Lexi. Yay I saved her lol. At the moment I have planned maybe up to 15 chapters for season 1 and then a few more to cover key events in season 2 so far but maybe up to 17 chapters. We'll see. I want to finish this story but I keep thinking of other Vampire Diaries stories. Like I thought of one today and I had to stop myself writing it lol. Hope you enjoyed I will update soon.