Chapter Twelve

Damon's POV

"...The only problem is, in 2000, you were in northern europe, and i was a little girl. How are we gonna get them both to the Mystic Falls town center at the same time?", stated Bonnie.

At first I thought it was hopeless. I thought about it again for a few seconds and then it came to me.

"I have an idea. Its crazy, but it could work…so as you said, I was in northern europe at that time. I know exactly where I was. I celebrated new year's in Malmö, Sweden. Don't ask me how I got there because that is kind of a long story but if you could transport Lexi to Cardiff, you can do the same with me, to Sweden. I need to talk to my younger self. I have to bring him home. I just need something that would persuade him to go with me...I need to kill Katherine. That's the only thing that would make me return. Katherine."

Bonnie's POV

"So, town center?", I asked him.

"Sure. I guess it's time to go back to where we belong. Or", he looked around, "to when we belong."

The walk back to the town square seemed incredibly long to me. Mostly because I tried not to look at all the people who were walking on the streets and having a nice day. I was sure if I looked up while walking, I'd have recognized most of them.

People I went to school with, neighbours, friends and the one kind I really didn't wanna see now that I was so close to getting home.

The people that died.

The ones that were still alive in the year 2000, but are not alive anymore in "our" Mystic Falls.

Not like Damon and I died but those had died a more or less normal death.

People whose faces I would see and only then remember that I used to know them back in the day.

I didn't want to focus on death, now that I was so close to coming back to life. I wanted to leave this past behind me.

Literally.

"We're almost there", Damon's voice brought me back to reality.

"Ready to go home, Bon Bon? Oh how I miss being seen by people and… well living. Being more than an existance in the past."

"Don't they always say when people die, they live on in their friend's memory of them? Isn't it funny that technically we now really are in their past? And yes, I'm happy I get to leave here.", I answered.

"I've been thinking about that", Damon said slowly. "I can't really get behind that."

"Behind what?", I asked.

"If everything we just did and we currently do, happens in 2000, then why couldn't Lexi just have told us everything back then when she was alive in our reality? She could have saved us a lot of trouble."

"I don't think she did know.", I answered.

Damon seemed confused.

"You think she forgot that? Dying? And even if it would be possible she forgot that, Stefan would still at least remember her dying."

"No. I belive back in 2010, she didn't know any of this. Did you see the movie Back To The Future?"

"Of course I did. I've already been alive when the movie came out. Sure I watched it."

"The same rules as in the movie apply here. Changing the past affects the future but it did not affect the future until the person that went back in time changed it. So we changed the past. If Lexi would still be alive in our reality, she would now remeber what happened. You understand?"

Damon thought about it for a second, then opened his eyes wide.

"My brother and Lexi never had a relationship like… well like the one we saw earlier. Her dying and coming back made that happen. So maybe…."

"Maybe what? Can you start speaking in a whole?"

"Maybe she's still alive back in our time."