AN: Chapter 16![re-uploaded as I made mistake with year! *smh] THE FINAL CHAPTER *burst into tears* Man I can't believe it's here! *deep breath* I will move on to the thanks now:
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I SEND OUT AIR HUGS TO YOU ALL! EVEN TO THOSE WHO FAVOURITED AND PUT THIS STORY ON ALERT!
Before it gets all mushy and me rambling about how thankful I am for supporting this I'll do that in the epilogue XD
Disclaimer: Just own Kayla Salvatore and my errors in this chapter
There will be some Italian speaking here and a little Latin… I apologize if it's wrong (but I used Google translation. The only words I know how to write/say in Italian is good morning, yes and no)
Italian translation (In the order of the story) [was going to put in the story but it looked weird to me XD]:
-Buongiorno: Good morning
-Zio: Uncle
-Impressionate: Impressive
-Stavo testando il suo italiano: I was testing her Italian
-Non più di lingua italiana: No more Italian language
-Grazie zio: Thanks Uncle
-No, grazie nipota: No, thanks niece
-Mi mancherai Kayla: I'll miss you Kayla
-Ci vediamo presto ricordi?: I'll see you remember?
-Ti amo bambina: I love you baby-girl
-Tutto andrà bene: Everything will be alright
Latin translation:
- Time adducere futurum: Time to bring the future
Previously on The Vampire Diaries...
Bonnie looked at Kayla's bandaged wound that wrapped her whole left shoulder. Although the blood stain clearly outlined the stab wound. Flashes of Katherine stabbing Kayla came to Bonnie's mind causing Bonnie to close her eyes holding back her tears and be strong not only for herself but maybe for Kayla.
"She's okay Bonnie. She just needs rest" Damon assured her still looking at Kayla
Bonnie looked to him and at that moment Damon looked to her "We now just have to wait for her to wake up and besides she has the Salvatore and Bennett genes, so she'd be healing quicker than any supernatural beings" he smiled playfully at Bonnie
Bonnie for the first time in hours laughed...a real laugh. Who knew it would be Damon Salvatore making her laugh?
Chapter 16: Saying goodbyes
Friday- 6:30am
*Salvatore Boarding house*
Kayla's eyes fluttered open letting it adjust to the scenery. Realizing she was back in her room she felt weight on both of her hands, looking down to see Bonnie on one side of her and then on the other side was Damon. She looked down to notice underneath her thin strapped tank top around her heart area was bandaged.
"How are you feeling?" to a human ear it was a low whisper but to Kayla's ears it was as clear as talking
"A little tortured but much better" she replied looking to Damon
"Do you need some blood?" he asked still worried
Kayla shook her head "No the amount I have had should last me a month" she chuckled causing him to chuckle
Bonnie began to stir and tiredly lifted her head up to see a smiling Kayla. Immediately she sat up asking
"How are you feeling? Do you need to drink some more blood? I'm sure Damon can get you a glass or something..."
Damon and Kayla burst out into laughter leaving Bonnie clueless "What? I'm serious! Doesn't blood heal for you vampires?"
That didn't stop the laughter which soon Bonnie joined realizing her questions asking her daughter if she wanted blood.
"Yeah this family will not be the definition of normal" her eyes widened at her sudden thought but pushed it aside as she looked at Damon and Kayla calming down from their laughter
"I'm okay mamma" Kayla smiled brightly at Bonnie then frowned
"What exactly happened? I just remember getting stabbed" she asked looking between Damon and Bonnie
Bonnie looked to Damon who looked at Bonnie both forcing each other to explain "Seriously, will one of you explain! Both of you always think it's a big job to explain stories" Kayla exclaimed getting impatience with the silence
From their little staring competition, Damon sighed "Fine, fine I'll explain...the short version"
Kayla smiled not caring "After you got stabbed. Stefan and everyone else brought you here and he saved you. The witch and I killed future Katherine. More so your mother cooked Katherine and almost burnt the house down but I stopped her"
"Wow umm thanks" Kayla said a little surprised
"Hey no one messes with a Salvatore especially when they are mine" he ruffled her hair playfully causing her to laugh and push his hands away
Once settled Damon asked the question that had been in his mind for awhile "So am I your father?"
Kayla nodded watching him take a deep and ask "Why did you lie?"
She shrugged her shoulders retorting back "Would you have believed me?"
"Probably not at first but I would've eventually believed it"
"Yeah and you and mum were not exactly on good terms in this time and I was afraid that..."
"Damon finding out you were our daughter would further the drift" Bonnie said finishing her daughter's sentence
Kayla nodded speaking softly "Yeah it sounds stupid now"
"Yeah it does" he responded
"Damon!" Bonnie yelled
"What? Just speaking the truth" he held his hands back in defense of his answer
Bonnie simply rolled her eyes at Damon's blunt answers "Uh huh" she replied
*Knock Knock*
"Come in" Bonnie said
"Buongiorno Kayla" Stefan said happily and more relaxed seeing Kayla sitting up. The scene in front of him would have surprised him but funnily seemed normal... if they could have that.
"Buongiorno zio Stefan" Kayla happily replied fluently surprising Bonnie and Damon
"Come ti senti?" Stefan asked loving the feel of the Italian dialect leave his lips
Kayla shrugged her shoulders "Un po 'dolorante ma molto meglio dal sangue" she finished chuckling motioning to the blood bags in the corner of the room
"Impressionate" Damon couldn't help but speak impressed by his daughter... his daughter speaking Italian
"II mio italiano è orrible" Bonnie replied lost in the translation
"You speak Italian?" Damon said surprised and slightly turned on from Bonnie speaking his dialect
Bonnie shook her head "I just said my Italian is horrible. I can speak a little but I'm horrible in translating what others say" she said looking to Kayla who let out another laugh
"Zio Stefan was just asking how I was and I just told him that I was a little sore but much better from the blood they gave me"
"Stavo testando il suo italiano" Stefan teased Kayla
"Argh no more Italian talks please. Too much translation" Bonnie complained causing the two vampires and dhampir to laugh
"Non più di lingua italiana" Damon said laughing furthermore when Bonnie glared at him then raised an eyebrow at him
"No mind killing witch" Damon said instantly
"What mind killing?" Bonnie questioned innocently
"Mmm right" he looked at her
"So lets' have a look at that wound of yours" Stefan said walking towards Kayla. Bonnie stood up allowing Stefan to pass her
Stefan lifted the bandaged to find the wound completely healed "Looks like it's all healed"
"Awesome" Kayla said happily as he removed the bandaged completely then looked to Bonnie stating softly
"Hate to rain on this parade but I kind of need to get home. The longer I stay here in this time the more the future will change" Kayla explained
Bonnie bit her bottom lip nodding a little sad "I understand. What do you need me to do?"
"A time traveling spell."
"I don't..."
"Don't worry I remember it. I was there when Nicholas was doing the spell….well technically I was hiding"
"Nicholas?" Damon questioned
"The sorcerer, that Katherine used to perform the spell. The Gregory families are a very powerful witch line, though they may not exist now since I killed Nicholas's father when I was in the cell"
Damon nodded wordlessly as the tense silence settled in the room. Kayla knew staying back would become emotionally difficult but not this difficult. She needed to get home she was missing her parents, the couple that were still sickeningly still in love with each other. No matter how many times she teased them when they sneaked in random kisses, or when her dad and her have one of their infamous argument of not seeing eye to eye on certain things in her life… like boys. This Damon and Bonnie were not the parents she loved being around. Although; there was one thing that was bugging Kayla for most of her life about her mum, the question that plagued her mind maybe this Bonnie would answer it for her.
"Could I talk to Bonnie alone?" Kayla asked Damon and Stefan
"Why?" Damon asked causing Kayla to roll her eyes at his curiosity
"I just need to ask her something privately"
"Well this is my house so no secrets here. Ask her" he motioned Kayla to Bonnie
Stefan rolled his eyes "Come on Damon. She asked politely for privacy so it's the least we could do"
Damon stood up looking to Stefan and turned to look down to Kayla crossing his arms over his chest "Yeah but you're my daughter, so whatever business you're telling the witch is my business"
"Don't play the father card now!" Kayla said angrily looking at Damon
"Oh I think I just did! And I'll do it again. I'm your dad and you are the kid. So you can't hide any secrets from me" he yelled back sarcastically
Kayla gritted her teeth angrily thinking it wouldn't be so bad if she lit his pants on fire "Kayla calm down" Kayla turned to look at Bonnie
"I know that look. I invented that look. Trust me burning him sounds great but even with me giving him excruciating headaches, unfortunately don't make you feel better"
"Fine" Kayla mumbled
"Great! She has your stubborn, out of control attitude!" Damon pointed out to Bonnie
"I think that's your attitude" Stefan looked at him causing Bonnie to giggle in agreement
"Oh you think that's funny witch" Bonnie nodded biting her lip to hold back her laugh
Stefan chuckled "How about I go downstairs and get the spell ready? What do you need?"
"A playing card, bobby pin and a pen and we'll probably do it near the staircase since that was where the last portal was"
Stefan nodded leaving them alone.
Kayla looked to Damon then Bonnie "Seriously dad can you please leave?"
"Nope" he smirked accentuating the 'p'
"Well don't hate the answers mum gives" Kayla retorted looking to the now confused Bonnie who was now seated
"Why did you take the deal? Why did you make the deal with Katherine?"
Bonnie sighed leaning back against the sofa chair she looked to Damon who was staring at her intensely "I was in a dark place and I blamed my Grams death on the Salvatore brothers. I hated them and I swore to protect the town but I didn't believe I could, not without my Grams…" she paused getting teary. Holding back her tears, Bonnie continued
"…I made that deal with Katherine because I was desperate. If killing Damon and Stefan meant I would get my Grams back then I would do that even if it means joining forces with Katherine" Bonnie stated truthfully to her daughter not bothering to look at Damon as she felt his heated stares never leaving her skin
Kayla nodded "I know. I meant the other side of the deal"
"What other side?" Damon asked angrily
This was why she didn't want her father here sensing the anger build inside him while her mother stiffened at the reminder "The vampire device. Why did you agree to change the device to target humans?"
"What?" Damon exclaimed
"Truthfully…" Bonnie started
"That would be nice" Kayla retorted softly
"I agreed just to make Katherine happy so she would let me go and kill Damon and Stefan but I think deep down I knew I couldn't go through killing Damon and Stefan and bringing someone back from the dead wasn't normal. If she did capture me and asked me to change the target to humans but to only target particular humans" Bonnie explained
"Huh?" Damon questioned
Ignoring him Bonnie further more explained "Only a Bennett can magically change the targeting on that device"
Kayla's eyes widened in realization gasping in shock "You were going to, target witches!"
Bonnie nodded before opening her mouth to speak; Damon had angrily sped out of the room. The two girls looked at the door now shut
Kayla looked to her mother in more admiration she had before "You wanted to sacrifice yourself so Katherine would have no chance of changing the device"
"Yeah" Bonnie nodded
"I understand now" Kayla said quietly to herself then grabbed Bonnie's hands holding it knowing how scared her mum would have been if it had come down to her killing herself and leaving Mystic Falls unprotected of a Bennett witch.
*Salvatore fireplace*
Damon held the glass of scotch against his forehead as he looked into the flicking fire
Stupid witch! What is wrong with her? Getting, herself killed and what for? So these pathetic humans could live! They're not even worthy of her death! What about me? Did she not think about me when she made that deal! Oh wait… her mind was set on killing me. Argh! Stupid feelings! Always fucking confuses everything!
"Wow Kayla must have said something serious. You've stolen my brooding forehead" Stefan teased sitting down to look across to Damon.
Damon didn't bother looking to his brother but continue to stare angrily into the fire "Real funny Stefan. Really you should reconsider of being a high school student and become a comedian" he said sarcastically
Stefan chuckled "What happened?" he asked
"What happened?" Damon repeated sculling the rest of the scotch. Allowing the smooth alcohol travel down his throat he stood up walking past Stefan placing the empty scotch glass with a thud
"I'll tell you what happened. Did you know that the vampire device can target humans?"
Stefan nodded "Yeah Kayla told me"
"Great I seem to be the last to know everything. Well I bet you didn't know that in the deal that the little spite fire of a witch agreed to with Katherine meant she would help change the device"
"What?" Stefan said in shock
"Oh sorry little brother let me put it in words you'll understand. Witch agreed with slut vampire to kill us but if that didn't work then she promised to change the device to target humans"
Stefan rolled his eyes at his older brother's sarcasm "That doesn't sound like Bonnie"
"Ding! Ding! Ding! Let's give Stefan a prize! Because you are correct. Bon Bon was going to change the target to only particular humans and who do we know that is human but is also supernatural beings?"
"Witches" Stefan whispered in realization
"Correct!"
"Wait! Only a Bennett can change that device. Bonnie is the only witch in Mystic Falls. Damon, if Bonnie made that device work to only target witches she would die but then no one could change the targeting of that device unless there's another Bennett we don't know about. Bonnie was going to kill herself"
Damon looked down crossly "Yeah. Kill two birds with one stone huh?"
"Guys, is everything ready?" a voice surprised the brothers
They both turned to see Bonnie and Kayla standing beside each other. Kayla fully dressed with her signature leather jacket. Damon couldn't help but smile at her and seeing them beside each other he could see that they truly could pass as mother and daughter if Bonnie was a little older.
"Yeah all here" Stefan said holding the items in his hands.
"Damon…" Bonnie started grabbing his arm while Kayla and Stefan walked to the location for the spell to be taken place
"Not now witch" he snapped at her causing to quickly retreat her hand away
Damon took a deep breathe and turned to face Bonnie "I can't talk right now. Just think about getting Kayla home safely"
Bonnie nodded obediently "Yeah okay" and walked past Damon
Damon tiredly ran his hands over his face "Stupid emotions" he muttered then walked to Stefan, Kayla and Bonnie.
Kayla placed the card in front of the cross legged Bonnie Bennett.
"Okay write 'p' on the left side of the card and then 'f' on the right side" Bonnie nodded and did as followed then placed the pen on the ground
Kayla handed the bobby pin to Bonnie "Okay when you place the bobby pin in the middle you say…" Kayla bent down whispering the Latin words into her ears
Bonnie nodded looking sadly to Kayla feeling her heart break of saying goodbye "Don't cry mamma" Kayla cried tearfully and hugged her
Bonnie wrapped her arms immediately around her daughter "I'll…see you soon" Bonnie said has her voice cracked and the tears fell
Kayla shut her eyes tightly nodding into her mother's shoulder pulled back she wiped her eyes "Yeah I'll see you in five minutes"
Bonnie chuckled sadly watching Kayla stand up straighter and pass Bonnie to stand in front of Stefan "Grazie zio"
"No, grazie nipota" Stefan whispered getting a little tearful and pulled her into a hug
"Mi mancherai Kayla" he whispered into her hair
Kayla broke down again "Ci vediamo presto ricordi?"
Stefan pulled back smiling "I know but it wouldn't be the same here"
Stefan wiped her tears releasing the young teen to stand in front of Damon Salvatore.
"So I guess I'll see you around" he said awkwardly
"Yeah" she mumbled
'Ah screw it' Damon thought as he pulled Kayla in for a hug
Kayla immediately wrapped her arms around Damon's waist while he kissed the top of her head "You promise you'll take care and be very much alive when go through that portal"
Kayla simply just nodded in his chest as her tears wet his t-shirt but that was the last thing on his mind
"Please stay out of trouble. I can't risk you getting hurt not again. You promise?" he asked again
"I promise papà" she mumbled
"Okay" he whispered scared to let her go but he knew he had to. Pulling back he held her face in the palm of his hands, Closing her eyes and memorising this moment, her father's fingertips brushed against her cheek
"Ti amo bambina" she heard him whisper to her then quickly place a chaste kiss on her forehead and spoke the words she had become so accustomed in her life. Those words her father always spoke that gave her the strength to move on when things got rough
"Tutto andrà bene" Kayla opened her eyes through her tearful eyes she saw her reflection in the exact blue eyes she had inherited
"Tutto andrà bene" she repeated
"Now get on out of here" he joked causing her to laugh. Kayla moved past Bonnie and stood by the entrance underneath the staircase. She looked to Bonnie still cross legged on the floor and Damon and Stefan behind her.
"You ready?" Bonnie asked
Kayla nodded "Oh say goodbye to Zia Elena, Zio Jeremy, Zia Anna, Zio Caleb, Zio Pogue, Zio Reid and Zio Tyler. Just thanks for everything"
Bonnie laughed "I will"
"Oh and dad..."
"Yeah" Damon looked at Kayla curious. Kayla bit her bottom lip not sure if she should tell him...well telling him now and then going to the future does give him sixteen years to wrap his head around what she was going to say
"I'm dating someone"
"What!" Damon yelled surprised by his sudden outraged
"Just be calm when I get to the future. Don't worry this boy is a very nice and respectful boy"
"Code for rude, arrogant jerk" Damon said not pleased that his sixteen year old daughter was dating the opposite sex
"He's not!" Kayla defended her boyfriend
"In the future you can tell us all about this nice and respectful boy say over dinner" Bonnie said winking to Kayla causing her to smile widely and then nodded to Bonnie to let her know she was ready to go home and face the unknown future.
Bonnie took a deep breath and placed the bobby pin in the middle of the playing card. Closing her eyes and connecting her emotion to her powers. Damon and Stefan looked around them as lights and the fire began to flicker with Bonnie's powers
"Time adducere futurum" Bonnie spoke in Latin picturing the numbers of 2031 in her mind. The ground began to shake roughly causing Damon and Stefan to fall on their butts.
Damon and Stefan watched Bonnie's hairs blow with the wind as she and the playing card levitated a little off the ground but she held the bobby pin in it's place. Kayla leaned against the corner of the staircase while objects around the house shook violently. Damon and Stefan closed their eyes quickly from the blinding light that appeared near Kayla.
They opened their eyes to squint a little but caught the last gesture of Kayla Salvatore waving goodbye and then jump into the portal.
Within seconds the portal closed, Bonnie floated slowly back to the ground and the house was once again stilled.
Bonnie took a sudden intake of air. Opening her eyes she whispered tearfully "She's gone"
AN: OMG I WAS LITERALLY CRYING BY THE END OF THIS…. I'm such a baby… this story has become my baby XD. Next up is the epilogue to sum up this wonderful story that I have enjoyed so much typing.