A/N: First I want to apologize for the shittiest chapter I have ever written in my life. I'm sorry, but I couldn't think of anyway else to end this story. I felt like it kept on dragging on and on and on...I hate hate HATE how this chapter turned out...T_T Absolutely terrible epilogue...

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Final Goodbye: Epilogue

"Damon?"

"Yes, my dear Elena?" he replied.

"You'll be with me until the end, right?"

I hesitated.

"I promise you, Elena."

No one knew about this conversation.

...

"She's gone, Damon."

No, no, no, no.

"Don't lie to me!" Damon snarled, whipping his head towards his brother. Stefan was staring at him, green eyes red-rimmed.

"She's gone," Stefan choked.

"No! She isn't! I would have felt it! In here!" He thunked a fist where his heart should have been.

"Think about it!" Stefan cried out, "It's been 70 years! Seventy years since you last saw her! Seventy years I spent with her, watching her look out the window hopefully, searching. Searching for you, Damon. Every night! She waited for you every night!"

"I left because of her!" Damon snarled, fighting back angry tears, "She was supposed to be happy! Live a normal life without me!"

"What about Katherine," Stefan asked, deathly quiet, "Elena said you left because you wanted to be with Katherine."

"That's bullshit! Yeah I told her that! She didn't want me gone, so I had to tell her that! It was for the best! I left Katherine a year after we split town! I couldn't stand looking at Elena's face in her body!" Damon roared in frustration.

"Didn't seem like it was the best for Elena! She wanted you, Damon! She told me that a month after you left! She broke up with me for you! She wanted you to come back! But, you didn't even care! She could have died and you wouldn't have even known if it wasn't for me!" Damon could tell how much it hurt Stefan to confess that to him.

"Why do you think I didn't visit." Damon asked, dead quiet, "So I wouldn't be tempted to go back to her! She meant the world to me!"

"Well maybe you should have told her that before she died! She killed herself, Damon! She told me that the pain without you was to much to bear and she couldn't handle it anymore! It's your fault she's gone, Damon! It's always your fault when shit like this happens! You only think of yourself!"

Damon choked on a sob, "She wasn't supposed to do that!"

"Exactly," Stefan said coldly, "She wasn't."

Stefan left Damon after that and that was the last time Damon saw any connection with Mystic Falls. Damon turned around, and walked away.

….

Damon spent the rest of his life wandering the planet, looking for something, anything that made him feel half as alive as she made him feel. Nothing ever did, though, even with all of the new and amazing things that came up.

He witnessed life at its worst, with terrorists and wars. And he witnessed life at its best, with newborn children and the memories of Elena's laugh.

Nothing mattered, though. Nothing mattered without Elena.

That's why, when his time finally came, when he walked carelessly into an open fire with profound thought in his mind, he ended his life with a smile on his face.

"I'm coming Elena."

A/N: I know it's terrible...but please no flames T_T It'll kill me...Sorry for the crappy epilogue for this story *is ashamed and dodges tomatoes*