Part 3
Memory elena wakes up and sees her daylight ring on her finger, she sits up confuse. Until she sees Damon sitting next to the window. A little smile creeps on to her face, luckily she manages to hide it.
"Fished it out of the river for you." He says. His voice has slight traces of sarcasm in it. "Little tip..vampires hate to swim."
She smiles at him and he smiles back. There's so much she wants to say... Needs to say. But how does she?
"How you feeling?" He breaks her line of thoughts.
"My heads clear." She reassures him. "I can remember everything. But not like I lived it... Like it was a really bad dream."
He just nods patiently and can't help but smile after she says "You saved me."
"Thank you." She whispers.
"Well you know what they say about teenage suicide." He jokes.
"Don't do it!" He points at her and she lets out a little laugh. He loves seeing her smile like this. It's the most beautiful thing in the world to him.
"I just can't believe I almost..." She trails off.
"You weren't yourself." He says softly.
"Yeah but if it weren't for you..." She reaches out for his hand and interlaces their fingers. He smiles at her but then gives her a guilty look.
She gives him a questioning look so he elaborates. "I'm about to take a very... High and annoying road and tell you something. Because I know that you think Stefan's been lying to you. Which, yeah. He has. But this... rough patch that you two have been going through, it's not what you think. Everything that he's been doing, he's been doing for you. To help you. And after he kills me for telling you this, I want you to throw my ashes off of Wickery Bridge, ok? There may be a way out of this for you, Elena. There may be a cure."
And it fades out.
"God, if I knew you were so 'team stelena' I wouldn't have agreed to this." Real Elena jokes.
"Team Stelena?" Damon raises his brows.
"It's just a stupid thing caroline used to say." She says but he keeps looking at her. "Can we please just carry on?"
"Are you sure you want to?" Damon asked softly.
"What do you mean?"
"I've already showed you almost everything...maybe it's just not working." He shrugs.
"Don't give up just yet." She smiles.
Xxxx
When their eyes open, memory Damon is descending a staircase. At first, elena isn't sure when this is but after awhile she realizes. It's the lockwood mansion.
As Damon reaches the bottom of the staircase, Elena appears at the top. "Damon?" She calls.
"Still here." He says in his bad boy way. God, she loved that so much... She love HIM so much.
"We need to talk." She whispers.
"Stefan told me about the breakup." Damon says. "I'd say I'm sorry... But I'm not."
Elena starts walking down getting closer to him each second.
"What did he say?" She asks when she reaches his. If she'd taken another step there lips would be on top of each other. Then again, isn't that what they both wanted?
"Oh you know Stef." He says sarcastically. "The guy just went on and on about it. Wouldn't shut up."
"So he didn't tell you why?" She whispered, giving her broken heart a chance to hope.
"Nope" he says harshly but then his voice softens. "But I'm sure it has something to do with why you're acting all weird so why don't you tell me."
Her mind runs over all the million possible ways to tell him. How exactly do you tell someone you broke up with their brother to be with them?
"You." She whispers. And that one simple word changes everything.
The memory disappears just as professor Shane walks in interrupting their moment.
"Did it work?" Damon asks and when she shakes her head he just says. "Then let's just go back, Elena!"
"No, damon I want to remember!" She yells. "Considering you won't even consider the option where I cross the border... This is our only shot."
"No." He yells. "You need to get this into that stubborn little head of yours!"
"I'm not letting you hurt yourself just for a bunch of stupid memories!" He says.
"Clearly they're not stupid or we wouldn't be here." She fights back.
"Whatever." He says. "Let's just move on."
"Fine by me."
Xxxx
"Here." Damon said as he passed her a glass.
"Thanks." She smiled taking a sip.
"I was being polite." He gave her a confused look.
"I thought you hated bourbon?"
"Yeah well my brother wants to kill me." She smiled raising her glass.
"Join the club." He said sarcastically as their glasses bumped each other.
She smiled for a few seconds but then became serious. "Jeremy can't live with me, Stefan wasn't a to fix me, and Caroline flat out admitted that she doesn't like me this way. I think it's safe to say I'm not doing so well with this vampire stuff." She sighed.
"You want to know what I think?" He asked, sincerely. She smiled and gave a little nod. "I don't think I've ever seen you more alive."
Their eyes meet and all Elena can think about is kissing him. Right here, right now. It's all she wants. But the he takes a sip of his bourbon and the moment is gone.
"That dance they did today..." She smiled at him. "It kinda reminded me of-"
"When we danced together." He finished for her.
She smiled at him and he smiled back. "I wanted to dance with you today."
He stood up and reaches out for her hand. She takes it and they move towards the fireplace. He places his hand on her back and pulls her in close. She wraps one arm around his neck and uses the other to intertwine her fingers into his.
They start moving together...In sync. As if they were made to be this way...together. She gently rests her head in the crook of his neck.
After a few moments of silence, she lifts her head and their eyes meet. Elena watches as they connect. Memory Damon then lifts her hand up and spins her around.
She spins and when she returns back to her position he kisses her. It starts of as something precious. It's a moment in which the whole universe disappears. It's just the two of them. Then it transformed . The kiss becomes more than that. It's the result of holding back for more than a year. It's passion...desire...lust.
Before she knows it, memory Elena has him pinned against a wall and he's placing kisses all over her face. She rips open his shirt and wraps her leg around his waist. They continue like this for a few minutes before memory Damon uses his vamp-speed and carries memory Elena away.
Elena stands in the living room in complete shock." This wasn't because of the sire bond." She told him. It wasn't a question. She was simply stating a fact.
But he nodded anyway. She grabbed his hand and for what seemed like the millionth time that night, felt herself being ripped away from the scene in front of her.
Xxxx
When they open their eyes. They're in Damon's room. He's putting on his shirt.
"God this better not be an episode of sex and the city!" Elena mutters to which Damon smirks.
"Trust me... That's definitely not what this was." He replies.
"Then what is it?" She whispers.
"Our moment." He smiles.
She's about to ask him to elaborate when an all new memory elena walks in.
"I wanted to apologize." Damon says when she walks in.
"Good." She says harshly.
"Let me finish." He snaps. "I said I wanted to, and then I realized, I'm not sorry."
"You would rather die, than be human and you expect me to be okay with that?" She yells.
"I didn't say you have to be okay with it." He says coldly. "I just said I'm not sorry.."
She stares at him in disbelief. "But you know what I really am?" He continues. " I make bad choices that hurt you. Yes I would rather die then be human. I would rather die right now, then spent a handful of years with you only to lose you when I'm to told and sick and miserable and you're still you. I would rather die right now, then spent my last final years remembering how good I had it and how happy I was because that's who I am Elena, and I'm not gonna change, and there's no apology in the world that encompasses all the reasons that I'm wrong for you."
She stares at him. Is he insane? Selfish? God, he is everything but that. Sure, He's made all the wrong choices but it's lead to this moment... Here... The two of them... Together.
"Fine." She says. "Then I'm not sorry either. I'm not sorry that I met you. I'm not sorry that knowing you has made me question everything, that in death you're the one who made me feel most alive."
He looks at her. Daring her to do it... To say it.
"You've been...a terrible person. You made all the wrong choices and off all the choices that I've made, this will prove to be the worst but I'm not sorry that I'm in love with you."
He stares at her. She didn't. She didn't just say it. She doesn't love him... She can't. But he's wrong. If only he knew how completely wrong he was?
"I love you Damon." She whispers before running into his arms, her lips crashing on his as soon as their bodies collide. It doesn't take long before they've become one. Moving together...in sync... Made for one another.
Then the memory disappears.
"That's it?" She whispers. Sad that it's over and she can't remember. But happy that they got the ending they deserved.
"Thank god, no." Damon whispers.
Xxxx
"I've been playing this moment in my head for the past 4 months." Damon says.
"Why?" She asks.
"You'll see." He whispers as the memory starts.
They're staring up at the sky and the rain starts falling with the stars. Elena let out a little laugh accompanied by one of her smiles that Damon would kill to see everyday and looked over to Damon. He smiled at her and grabbed her arm, gesturing for them to go back to the car.
"Come on, time to abandon ship," he said. Elena shook her head.
"No, no, no, wait," Elena said, looking back up at the sky. "Just give it a second; it'll clear up."
Damon smiled at her and leaned in for a kiss, holding her hands in his own. The moment his lips touched hers, warmth erupted from her skin and spread down her arms, across her chest, up to her cheeks. She grabbed him and pulled him closer, wanting-needing-only him. They broke the kiss.
Elena stared into his beautiful ocean blue eyes and she knew that she would never find a love like this again; she basked in the feeling of pure freedom and entirety that he gave her. She knew she could never let him go.
"Promise me this is forever," Elena said over the sound of the rain. She needed this. They both did.
"I promise," Damon smirked.. They rejoined lips.
She finally felt complete. The moment they describe in movies. The moment when you know everything's going to be okay because you've found that person... That one person. The one who completes you. And she did. She finally found him—her soul mate.
"I love you." He whispers, unconsciously. As soon as he realizes it, he flashes her an apologetic look.
"It's okay." She whispers. "I'm sorry I can't be her."
"I don't need you to be her." He says as it all starts to fade. "I need you to be here..."
Xxxx
"The next memory was a short one. And I can only create it from what you told me about it." Damon tells her as they get pulled away.
When Elena opens her eyes they're standing in the middle of the woods. They stay there for a few minutes and nothing happens.
Even Damon's about to give up on this memory. But they see memory Elena running through the woods. She looks like she's in a lot of pain. She keeps screaming and grabbing her head.
Elena recognizes it instantly. "This is when Katherine was passenger in my body."
Damon nods but looks confused. "You remember this?" She nods.
They follow memory Elena as she makes her way through the woods. She keeps trying to call someone but she can't unlock her phone.
When she finally reaches the road Damon's there.
"Damon!" She yells.
"Elena. Hey! What's wrong?" He asks worriedly. She doesn't answer. Instead she pulls him closer and buries her head in his neck. When she lifts her head up her eyes go dark and then it's not her...it's Katherine.
Everything fades away as Damon watches Elena in awe.
"I don't remember that part." She whispers.
"Of course you don't." He snaps. "You didn't want to."
She grabs his chin and forces him to turn his face around. "I may not remember anything but I know for a fact that I didn't forget because I wanted to."
He smiles and then it happens again, they're pulled away.
Xxxx
"You should have noticed." Memory Elena states.
"What?" Damon asks, caught of guard by the sound of her voice. Although he wasn't sure he understood what she was saying.
"That I was Katherine. That Katherine was me. You should have been the one that noticed." She says and feels her eyes beginning to burn.
"You don't think I know that?" He snaps.
Did she not get how guilty he was feeling about it already? He'd brought this on. It was all his fault.
"If only you'd seen through her, Damon..." She says his name in a way he hates...she says it with pity. The last time she'd used it like that was when he told her it'll always be Stefan.
"There would be no vampire virus. Aaron would still be alive…"She says.
"Katherine didn't do this."He says coldly."I did. I thought you broke my heart so I ripped open Aaron's neck. That is how much control you have over me!"
"And I'm still here. That's how much control you have over me" She yells back.
The room goes silent. If they had any, there heartbeats would be the only sound. Instead they stand in deafening silence for what feels like centuries.
"Listen to us. This is toxic. We are in a toxic relationship, Elena. I just killed your friend and you find someone else to blame." He states.
"You want me to blame you?" She screams."Easy. Done. You screwed up, Damon. Again"
"Thank you." He mocks.
You put me in a position where I have to defend you. Again. Where I have to bend my morals. Again. Where I have to go against every single thing that I believe in. Again!" She says, her voice getting louder each second.
"Because I love you" She cries.
"Then stop loving me."
"I can't!" She whispers.
Everything fades away. Elena looks at Damon, confused when she sees him looking worried.
"What's wrong?" She asks.
"The memory wasn't over." He snaps.
"What does that mean?"
"Your mind is putting up barriers, blocking me from entering any further." Damon says, not sure whether to be crushed or hopeful. Crushed that he can't show her what they were. Or hopeful that it means her mind is patching up the wholes giving her back the memories.
"So now what?" She asks.
"We move faster." He says and a new memory begins.
Xxxx
"This ones a real quickie." Damon says as it starts.
They see Stefan and Elena get out of a car. Memory Elena walks up to Jeremy and they say something but neither Elena nor Damon are sure what it is, vampire hearing in tact.
They watch Elena take a deep rears before walking straight to Damon and capturing his lips in a kiss.
"What was that for?" Damon asks once it's over.
"I had a really crappy day and I needed it." Elena smirks. He smiles at her...a real smile. The one he keeps just for her.
"I thought I was never going to see you again and I couldn't think of a worse way to die." She says as a single tear falls from her eye.
Then it's gone.
"You know what?" Real Elena asks Damon.
"What?" He whispers.
"All this time we've been doing this... Going through my memories and so much has happened." She trailed off.
"Is there a point here?" He asks coldly.
"I'm glad you're back." She looks at him. It's a look that makes him question- just for a second- if she was actually the old her... The normal her... His Elena.
Xxxx
"What the hell are you doing?" Damon says as memory Elena gets into his car and buckles her seatbelt.
"You said to respect your choice and I did. Now, you can respect mine." She says.
"Wow. No. No. That's not how this works, Elena. The second we cross that border, you're going to feel everything... you're going to drown all over again.. It's going to take you back to the night you died as a human." He says. She any do this. She'll die... Which will kill him:
"I know what I signed up for,
Damon and I'm all in." She snaps as if she's annoyed by his tone. But she isn't. She knew he'd do this.
"What are you staring at?" She mock snaps. "Drive!"
And so he does. He smiles at her and she smiles back. And that says everything.
"Hurry! We have to die while we're still vampires, or.."
As the car comes closer to the Mystic grill she starts to panic and begins choking on the water inside her... It becomes evident...She's dying.
"No!No! Come on!" He yells picking up speed."
"Damon..." She cries.
"I know." He whispers as he grabs her hand. She doesn't need to say it. He loves her, just as she does him.
Then the car hits the grill and everything blows up in their faces... Literally.
"What now?" Elena whispers in tears.
"It's almost over." He says coldly.
Xxxx
"You lied to me." Memory Elena sobbed.
Memory Damon moved towards her. "Even if I wanted to apologize.. You couldn't hear me, so I won't."
He ran a finger through her hair.
She felt it and wished like hell she could feel it. "Please don't leave me." She begged.
"I don't have a choice, baby." He whispered, sadly. "You are by far the far the greatest thing that has ever happened to me in my 173 years on this earth."
Elena watched how broken she must've been to lose him. She wished she could feel that way about him. All she saw him as was a monster.
She continued to watch a Damon bared his heart to her. "The fact that I get to die knowing that I was loved. Not just by anyone, but by you, Elena Gilbert... It's the epitome of a fulfilled life."
Memory Elena began break. She slid herself down onto the floor sobbing. Damon follows her. He sat down on front of her. It was so magical. She couldn't even see him yet Somehow they were always in sync.
"It's never going to get any better this.." Damon whispers. "I peaked."
He runs her cheek and grabs her hand. She might not be able to see him, but she sure as hell could feel him. And there was no way in hell he wasn't using that to his advantage.
"I love you, Elena." He whispers as she breaks into tears ,more than before.
"Please..." She sobs. "Please come back to me."
"Bye." He whispers before getting up to leave.
Everything fades away leaving Elena and Damon watching into the distance.
She turns to him in tears. "Is that it?"
"That's it. That's how our love story ends." He said coldly. "You can wake up now and go back to this incredulous excuse of a life you've started." He snaps before vanishing
Xxxx
Elena opened her eyes as the last memory faded. She sat up and scanned the room for damon but he wasn't there.
She got up and got in her car and drove. She had no ideas where she was going... She just had to find him.
Xxxx
Damon was sitting in a bar, drowning his sorrows in a bottle of whiskey, when it happened.
There was a flash of light. It burned his eyes to look at it so he closed them. When he opened them he thought he was dreaming.
"Bonnie!" He smiled. "What are you doing here?"
"You didn't think I was going to let you get all the attention did you?" She said sarcastically. Damon pulls her in for a hug.
"What happened?" Damon asked, ignoring her statement.
"I found a spell to put the ascendant back together... And then... Here I am." She smile and punched her playfully in the shoulder.
"I never thought I'd say this... But I'm glad you're here." Damon said sarcastically.
"Bonnie!?" They both turned to the door to see Elena, gobsmacked.
"Yeah... It's me... I'm here." Bonnie said, smiling. "I'm back!"
Elena just ran to her and the two of them shared a hug that lasted way longer than any hug they've ever shared before.
"Where were you?" Elena asked.
Bonnie looked at Damon and he just shook his head slowly. "I'm not sure." Was all she decided to say.
"The bigger question is where were you? I thought the two of you wouldn't be able to keep your hands off each other."
Elena looked at Damon but he refused to make eye contact. Instead he just sighed. "So did I."
"So why aren't you?" Bonnie asked jokingly.
"Because Elena over here decided that instead of feeling she'd just get rid of the pain." Damon snapped.
"Is her humanity..." Bonnie started.
"Nope." Damon said, popping the 'p'. "She had Alaric compel away her memories of me."
"Oh my god!" Bonnie looked at Elena, judging her silently. "Why don't you just have him bring them back?"
"That's the fun part." Damon said sarcastically.
"First Elena didnt want them" he shot her a cold look.
"And then when she finally came to her senses it was too late. "
"What do you mean too late?"
"Ric's a human again." Damon explained.
"What?!" Bonnie yells. She was back for 5 minute and already had a headache from all of this.
"Can you both please stop talking about me like I'm not here?!" Elena yelled from behind them.
"Sorry." Bonnie smiled.
"I'm not." Damon smirked.
"I know I screwed up Damon but you can't be mad at me forever." She said, holding back tears.
"I beg to differ." He smirked which made her cringe.
"Can you both stop acting like kids!" Bonnie snapped. "I know how to fix this.
"How?" Damon asked.
"Sit down, Elena." Bonnie instructed. She placed her hands on the side of Elena's forehead and began chanting something that Damon couldn't make out.
Elena's eyes shut and she gets voices all over. One of them was hers and one belonged to someone else... "Damon." She whispered as Bonnie removed her hands and Elena's eyes opened again.
"I'll wait outside.." Bonnie began walking out.
"What did she do? Are you okay?" Damon asked.
"Damon, I'm better than okay.. Damon, I remember." She smiled.
"Ele-" He didnt get to finish, or even start, before she had his lips pressed against hers. Her hands made their way up his face and her fingers roped through his hair.
"Elena?" He asked, pulling out.
" . ."She said giving him a kiss between each word.
"I love you too." He whispered. He wasn't going to question what had just happened. He didnt have to. Elena, his Elena, was back.
They were both finally here.. Together. Nothing could ruin that.
Xxxx
And there you have it
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im thinking of starting a new fic also about 3-4 chapters long so just let me know what you guys thing