So, this is the last chapter. I hope it wraps everything up. I was going to add maybe another couple of chapters, but the next couple of weeks are going to be busy with me packing and moving into a new house...so I thought I'd better wrap this up now. I do have some more story ideas though, another Damon/Elena story of course, and maybe a Caroline/Tyler story if anyone interested. Maybe have to wait until after we move though!

Chapter 14

In the end, Damon was the one who called Elena. It was time to work out a plan about what would happen next. If any of the next future events came true...at least the ones to do with Stefan, then they were back on the path to a dark future and the whole point was to change things.

He told Elena it was strictly business in her coming round to the Salvatore home. It was very awkward, with her standing automatically near Damon and Stefan and Lexi standing together opposite them.

He told them that over the next few days, Stefan would be kidnapped and held hostage by the vampires that escaped from the tomb. When he had gone to save him the first time round with Elena following him...against his will of course, things had gone wrong after Stefan had escaped. A vampire leaped on him taking him by surprise and wounded him. He would have died had Elena not given him her blood. But that would be a mistake in the fact that Stefan got addicted to human blood again, hiding it from Elena and Damon and then at the Miss Mystic falls event he failed to turn up with Elena because he was busy hurting a human and drinking her blood.

He gets over this addiction eventually, Damon told them all at their horrified looks, but he was sure that it didn't help things in the tomb with Katherine playing her mind games on him and bringing up the past and tempting him with images of fresh human blood. It had been his weakness.

So this time round, they would all go, the vampires would be dusted and Elena would stay behind, removing temptation. But Stefan wouldn't get harmed in anyway because Lexi would be there watching out for him.

This plan worked out pretty well, except that of course they didn't get all of the vampires from the tomb and Elena hated the fact that she had to stay behind yet again. She had to put up with Lexi in a hyper mood after the fight telling her stories in an exaggerated way. Jeremy would find out about Elena not really being his sister and that she was lying to him about the supernatural by reading her diary. But at least they definitely didn't have to worry about Stefan going all dark side on them again.

That was when he told them all about the invention. He wouldn't tell them everything yet, it was getting to be an overload of information. And he still wasn't sure when to tell them all that the council of the town knew about vampires and the supernatural. Or if he even should, yet.

The next few weeks were hard for Elena. She had so much to figure out. At least most of it was normal stuff though. Her and Jeremy had to get used to the fact that they were no longer true blood brother and sister. She had to get used to her uncle John Gilbert turning up unexpectedly keeping true to his word that he would turn up.

She had so many questions she was burning to ask Damon. She wasn't sure at all why she had the ability suddenly to see into the future when she kissed him. It was scaring her and she felt she had no one to turn to for help. The highlight for her though, was when Damon finally broke their time apart by reminding her that she didn't have a date for the Miss Mystic falls Gala, and that she wouldn't want to be embarrassed by dancing alone or have to drop out because it had been what her mother wanted her to do. It was her highlight because he behaved like a perfect gentleman and surprised her with his wonderful dancing skills...and afterwards, hidden from view of the townspeople, she had been very un-lady like and they shared a kiss that definitely would have sent the gossips of the town talking none stop for days. They had agreed to take it slow but she had missed his company so much she couldn't help herself and things had spiralled out of control.

This time she didn't see anything...maybe she had seen everything she needed to see. If she ever had a chance to catch her breath, whenever that might be, she would have to ask Damon. Maybe it was a side effect of the spell that Bonnie cast in the future?

But then when her mother turned up in town she needed Damon by her side more than ever. Her mother didn't answer any of her questions and Elena was slightly mad at Damon that he hadn't warned her in advance about Isobel's surprise visit.

Bonnie eventually managed to listen to reason and let Elena in finally. They had a good heart to heart talk about everything that had been going on. Elena told Bonnie all of it, who her birth mother was and what was going on with Damon. Bonnie was having a hard time believing it all but she told Elena about the invention that Isobel had been talking about wanting to find. It was an invention meant to be deadly to all vampires. They didn't know how yet.

Bonnie still didn't know why Anna and Pearl were still alive and in truth, Elena didn't know either. She had promised Bonnie's grandmother and Bonnie that they would be dealt with. But Pearl had given Damon the invention as an apology and Anna was growing increasingly close to Jeremy. She had even enrolled in the high school to be closer to him. Damon was being very cryptic, she explained to Bonnie, but maybe Anna and Pearl, or at least Anna, were still alive in the future and helping them. Maybe they could trust them after all.

Bonnie hadn't looked impressed. But she must forgive Elena eventually after all of this, and care about her a lot, otherwise she wouldn't help Damon in the future. Although, Elena could understand why Bonnie would hold a grudge. It was a lot for anyone to take. Bonnie would never forgive Damon or Stefan or any vampire involved in the opening of the tomb for the death of her grandmother.

The whole mess with her mother left her weakened, frightened and vulnerable and it was about to get a whole lot worse.

...

It was Founder's Day. Already. It had gone by so quickly. Damon was actually enjoying being a part of the team now and he and Elena were...together. She was surprising him in so many ways all the little things that she did to make him laugh. When she reached out to hold his hand or when she gave him a spontaneous hug. It almost made him feel human again.

He knew that she wasn't Katherine. She never would be anything like her and for that he was grateful. He loved her for who she was and he would die to protect her.

As for his final plan, he was working on it. He had had a long talk with Bonne.

"I know that what we are asking you to do is a lot. De activating this device is going against everything that you believe in. But if you do this a lot of people get hurt. The device goes off, vampires get trapped. And in the eyes of humans that's a good thing I guess. But Anna gets killed and that hurts Jeremy and trust me...you don't want anything to hurt Jeremy in the future."

She stared at him in confusion, letting his words sink in.

"I know that Elena told you the truth and that's ok, Bonnie. I'm glad you know. So you know that in the future you're the one who sends me back and helps me. You trust me then. Trust me now. You want to deactivate this device. If you don't...Tyler Lockwood gets involved in a car crash with Matt and Caroline inside. Caroline gets hospitalized because she needs surgery, she has internal bleeding. But this makes her a perfect victim for Caroline and in the future she is a vampire. I almost get burned alive by John Gilbert, an experience I don't want to relive again thank you very much! So please, Bonnie. If you value your friendship at all with Elena...you will do this for me."

He had watched as Bonnie performed the spell on the device before they had given it to Isobel, still not knowing if his words had got through to her or not, but he hoped that they had.

Since he wasn't a part of the council in this reality and was enrolled in the high school this time round, he was a part of the Founder's day event. Stefan was choosing not to take part...he didn't have any reason too. But he seemed to be having a lot of fun with Lexi, who was enjoying making fun out of them all in their fancy dress, telling them it was very lame and the time had already been and gone, why bother revisiting it again?

But they watched in the crowd as the floats went by, waving at Elena and Damon, who were showing the whole town that they were together, even if no one had guessed it. Elena hadn't wanted to hurt Stefan, and Damon hadn't wanted to risk anything, but Stefan was easily distracted.

Damon hated to admit it but he was looking forward to the fight tonight. He, Lexi and Stefan, and Alaric and Bonnie, would take out the vampires from the tomb that were left one by one. It had been a long time since he had had a good fight. He may be wearing a white hat now, be one of the good guys, but that didn't mean he didn't have issues that he needed to work through. Issues that a good fight to the death made him feel better about. Some of the time he still wanted to feel like he was dangerous and that he could scare another vampire, or anyone off with just a look.

The fight was over pretty quickly. Although they were tough, Damon was tougher. With Bonnie managing to turn a couple of vamps into dust using a fire spell, and Alaric's quick reflexes...he was good for a human, and very lucky! The vampire's numbers were decreasing fast. Damon, Lexi and Stefan were an impressive whirlwind of movement making it look easy. Damon wished he had done this the first time round...it was so much fun! He finally felt like he was free. Free to do whatever he wanted, to not be worried about the future anymore. As he staked each vamp, a glimpse of future events flashed into his mind and he felt everything fading away. Elena's death, what happened to all of her friends afterwards, everything. It was all different now. Because in his mind...after this fight with the vampires, there was one thing he was going to do that he should have done a long time ago. Something that would make sure the future stayed unwritten.

He came out of Elena's house. He hadn't been upstairs talking to a Jeremy who was on the verge of suicide because Anna wasn't dead now. He had been talking...or threatening John telling him what a dick he was. He stepped outside and smiled at Elena as she came up the steps towards him.

"I feel like I'm finally waking up from a long nightmare and everything is different now. Everything is going to be better from now on."

She looked at him with a puzzled expression. "I'm glad for you," she whispered.

"Although, I would like to thank you. Without you, I wouldn't be who I am today." He leaned forward and kissed her, remembering the first time this happened and that he had been stupid not to realise the truth. Her eyes widened in horror when she felt the wooden stake pierce through her skin. He felt her stiffening in his arms.

"Hello Katherine. Goodbye Katherine," he whispered, glad that everything was finally over, and that he had saved his brother.

She fell to the floor, her skin going even paler, returning to what she should have been all those years ago. Nothing but a dead body. He took a deep breath and smiled.

Whatever happened next for him and Elena, he was sure that it would be perfect without Katherine's shadow hanging over them.

This was his happy ending.

The End

Well, that's it! Hope you enjoyed it and let me know what you think. I know some people might be annoyed that I killed off Katherine, but she is one reason Stefan turns evil in the future so she had to go. I do love her in season two, but i am still waiting for her to die and Elena be turned into a vampire like in the books. Doubt it will happen but anyway lol. And I left it up to you to guess who Jeremy ends up with, Anna or Bonnie because I like both couples! Anyway after I move will be a while before I get the internet until they set it all up again so...wish me luck! Thank you for reading.