p class="MsoNormal"Elena and Stephan climb up to the top of the spot she once told him that she never wanted to be a vampire. Damon gave her the vile with the cure only a few hours ago and she needed to make up her mind, running it by everyone that matters to her before she makes the final choice of what to do./p
p class="MsoNormal"Stephan looks at Elena and he asks her how she feels about it now, it has been years of this vampire life and did that change her mind about it. She looks at the sunset, sighs and tells him that she really does not know what to do. One part of her will miss a lot of the perks if she becomes a human but the other part will be happy about being able to make the choice of starting a family. Elena does not want to do life without Damon, and it scares her what it would mean if she became human again. Stephan looks at her and takes her hand, sighs, and tells her what he thinks about all of it. He believes that one part of her will always want to become human again, but that her life as a vampire gave her much more than she ever would think it could. That he knows she always dreamt about giving birth to babies and have that family life, being a vampire change that. But there are ways to work around those things, children might not always fit into a life of a vampire but there are so many children in their realm that needs parents. She can still have a family; it just will never look like the one she thought she would have./p
p class="MsoNormal"They sit there for a while in silence, Elena gets up, looks at Stephan and tells him that he has always been her soulmate. It matters what he thinks about this and thanking him for always being there even though she is with his brother instead of him. They hug and make their way back to the house./p
p class="MsoNormal"Elena had already talked to all her friends, her brother and to Stephan. The last person on that list is Damon, to tell him what she thinks, hear what he really thinks about it. She finds him in his room, sitting on his bed just lost in his thoughts. Elena walks towards him, stops right in front of him and kisses him on his forehead. Damon snaps out of it and hugs her tight before giving her a long and loving kiss./p
p class="MsoNormal"They lay down in the bed, her wrapped in his arms. Elena asks him, if it was your choice what I would do, what would it be and why./p
p class="MsoNormal"He looks at her and says, if I was to think about how you feel regarding your dreams, I would have told you to take it. But, if I was to make a choice based upon all your experiences, growth, and the life you are building for yourself now, I would have told you to not do it. You will always have a part of you wishing to be human, most of us do, and you will not have the same ways to get a family and a career as a vampire. But you can have all those things, it will just look different. It does not matter what I think Elena, at the end of it all it matters what you think and what you feel. You asked me if I would take the cure, and the truth is I would if that means a life with you, but I also know that I love being what I am now. I love how you showed me that growth and creating a life, being good, it is not only a human thing. I can do it all, I just have some great perks that humans do not have./p
p class="MsoNormal"She turns to lay on her back next to him, sighs and tells him that ever since he gave her the vile with the cure her head has been a mess. Everyone has answered her questions, but he is right, no matter what anyone else say, what she feels will be the biggest and most important part of this. Her dreams, the five years from now game that they have played, it made her realize that being human is something she wanted for so long and it just clouded all the good things she was already building and having in her life. Coming to terms with who she is now, what she is, it was never something that she wanted to do or was ready for. She looks at Damon, kisses him and lets him know that she is not taking the cure. Damon looks back at her, clearly in disbelief. Are you sure Elena, this is a big deal, and something you have wanted ever since you became a vampire. Yes, I am sure Damon, because I was so stuck in what used to be that I did not really look at what is here now. I have you, and like Stephan said, we can have a family, many children that needs parents in our supernatural world. I do not need to be a human to get those things, it will just look a bit different. I like how I feel things stronger now, I can do things faster and create things in a different but better way. I want to be with you and have forever with you, and I do not feel like I need to be human anymore. They kiss and lay there for a while./p
p class="MsoNormal"Stephan had of course eavesdropped and called Caroline to tell her the news. They had become great friends ever since he lost Elena to Damon. Damon and Bonnie also had become close through the years, and Stephan is thankful how coming back to Mystic falls gave both him and Damon such great friendships. He had stopped resenting Elena and Damon, moved on with his life and Caroline was a big help when it came to moving on without having to leave. Elena will always be the love of his life, but now he believes that he can fall in love again./p
p class="MsoNormal"Damon and Elena make their way downstairs and finds Stephan in the Livingroom together with the whole group. Even Jeremy was there, he came for Alaric and Jo's wedding. Everyone knew about her not taking the cure as Caroline called them. The gossip always started with Caroline at the front, she could never keep something like that to herself for long. Jeremy took her hands and told her that he understands, she does not need to be human to have a great life and he loves her no matter what. They hug and Alaric brings out the drinks to celebrate./p
p class="MsoNormal"The next day they are all gathered for the wedding, Elena is Jo's maid of honor and Damon is Alaric's best man. As the priest speaks to Alaric and Jo, Damon and Elena look at each other and mouth "I love you". Their friends say yes, walks down the isle and the reception will soon begin./p
p class="MsoNormal"While Damon talks to Bonnie, Stephan takes the chance to have a word with Elena. He tells her how surprised he is about her not taking the cure and asks her what she wants to do with it. She tells him that she gave the cure to Bonnie's mom, because she wanted her to always have the choice of getting back to her magic and reunite with Bonnie. Stephan smiles and tells her that he admires this about her, always has. Elena asks him if its true what Caroline tells her, that he is planning on leaving town. He looks at her and nods yes. She asks him why, and he says that he needs to start over somewhere else, but he will always come back here to visit and to spend time with everyone he loves in Mystic falls. Elena was under the impression that he and Caroline had something going on and asks him about it. Stephan tells Elena that its just a deep friendship, that he loves her but not like that. They hug and she says let's talk more about this leaving business later, the newly weds will enter the venue soon. Let's celebrate./p
p class="MsoNormal"They all dance and party all night, at the end of the night they send Alaric and Jo to the airport in a fancy stretched limo. Elena is happy that Alaric finally can live a life with someone that he loves, he lost to many. Damon takes Elena's hand, and they go to the spot they met for the first time, in the middle of the road they start dancing. Damon looks at her, tells her to turn around and not look. Elena does what he says but she is not big on surprises, so she is not patient. He tells her to turn around, she turns around and there he is on his knee with a ring. Elena freeze, and tears start coming down her face. Damon smiles at her and say "Elena, will you marry me". She says yes and he puts the ring on her finger, they continue dancing and kissing./p
p class="MsoNormal"Fast forward to a year later, everyone is gathered for another wedding, this time the one for Damon and Elena. Alaric and Jo had twins not long time ago as she was pregnant when they got married a year ago, Caroline just went on her first date with Klaus and believe it or not will be her plus one at the wedding. Matt became the new sheriff in town and just got engaged to Rebecka, which was a big surprise for most of them since Matt always wanted to keep a bit of distance to the whole dating a vampire business. Not only is she a vampire but also an original vampire. Bonnie and Jeremy started dating again right after Alaric and Jo's wedding, they never stopped loving each other and it was like Elena said, they are meant to be. Tyler moved out of Mystic falls and joined a pack of werewolves where he met Janet, they also came to attend the wedding despite his conflicted feelings of being back where he lost everything. Finally, Stephan joined them as well, he had just got back from one of his travels to Europe. When he left Mystic falls he wanted to just travel around, have no commitments for a while. On his trip to Germany, he met Gina, she became his travel companion and then his new girlfriend. It was a year of happiness, something that was a long time coming. After all the heartache that everyone had been put through the last years, they all needed this./p
p class="MsoNormal"Elena is in one of the guest rooms getting ready, Stephan knocks on the door and comes in. He looks at her and tells her how beautiful she looks, then he takes out a box that he gives to her. Elena opens it and it's a necklace with a blue sapphire in it. She looks at Stephan and smiles, thank you. It is your something blue, do you want me to help you put it on. Elena gives Stephan the necklace and he put it on. Caroline enters the room and gives her another box, its matching blue earrings, this is your something borrowed. They all hug before Bonnie enters and tells her its time. Elena walks out of the room with Bonnie, before Bonnie gives her over to Jeremy to start the walk down the aisle, she hands her a bracelet. This is your something old, it was my grandmothers, for good luck. They hug, the music starts, and she takes her brother's style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThey had made the choice of getting married on the property, why not make use of such a beautiful space./p
p class="MsoNormal"She stood there at the beginning of the aisle with her brother, looking at Damon by the alter, smiling at her. She knew that her choice was the right one, because all her dreams are coming true, they look a bit different now, but she will be spending her life with the man she loves. This is the beginning of forever./p
p class="MsoNormal"Stephan looks at Elena and he asks her how she feels about it now, it has been years of this vampire life and did that change her mind about it. She looks at the sunset, sighs and tells him that she really does not know what to do. One part of her will miss a lot of the perks if she becomes a human but the other part will be happy about being able to make the choice of starting a family. Elena does not want to do life without Damon, and it scares her what it would mean if she became human again. Stephan looks at her and takes her hand, sighs, and tells her what he thinks about all of it. He believes that one part of her will always want to become human again, but that her life as a vampire gave her much more than she ever would think it could. That he knows she always dreamt about giving birth to babies and have that family life, being a vampire change that. But there are ways to work around those things, children might not always fit into a life of a vampire but there are so many children in their realm that needs parents. She can still have a family; it just will never look like the one she thought she would have./p
p class="MsoNormal"They sit there for a while in silence, Elena gets up, looks at Stephan and tells him that he has always been her soulmate. It matters what he thinks about this and thanking him for always being there even though she is with his brother instead of him. They hug and make their way back to the house./p
p class="MsoNormal"Elena had already talked to all her friends, her brother and to Stephan. The last person on that list is Damon, to tell him what she thinks, hear what he really thinks about it. She finds him in his room, sitting on his bed just lost in his thoughts. Elena walks towards him, stops right in front of him and kisses him on his forehead. Damon snaps out of it and hugs her tight before giving her a long and loving kiss./p
p class="MsoNormal"They lay down in the bed, her wrapped in his arms. Elena asks him, if it was your choice what I would do, what would it be and why./p
p class="MsoNormal"He looks at her and says, if I was to think about how you feel regarding your dreams, I would have told you to take it. But, if I was to make a choice based upon all your experiences, growth, and the life you are building for yourself now, I would have told you to not do it. You will always have a part of you wishing to be human, most of us do, and you will not have the same ways to get a family and a career as a vampire. But you can have all those things, it will just look different. It does not matter what I think Elena, at the end of it all it matters what you think and what you feel. You asked me if I would take the cure, and the truth is I would if that means a life with you, but I also know that I love being what I am now. I love how you showed me that growth and creating a life, being good, it is not only a human thing. I can do it all, I just have some great perks that humans do not have./p
p class="MsoNormal"She turns to lay on her back next to him, sighs and tells him that ever since he gave her the vile with the cure her head has been a mess. Everyone has answered her questions, but he is right, no matter what anyone else say, what she feels will be the biggest and most important part of this. Her dreams, the five years from now game that they have played, it made her realize that being human is something she wanted for so long and it just clouded all the good things she was already building and having in her life. Coming to terms with who she is now, what she is, it was never something that she wanted to do or was ready for. She looks at Damon, kisses him and lets him know that she is not taking the cure. Damon looks back at her, clearly in disbelief. Are you sure Elena, this is a big deal, and something you have wanted ever since you became a vampire. Yes, I am sure Damon, because I was so stuck in what used to be that I did not really look at what is here now. I have you, and like Stephan said, we can have a family, many children that needs parents in our supernatural world. I do not need to be a human to get those things, it will just look a bit different. I like how I feel things stronger now, I can do things faster and create things in a different but better way. I want to be with you and have forever with you, and I do not feel like I need to be human anymore. They kiss and lay there for a while./p
p class="MsoNormal"Stephan had of course eavesdropped and called Caroline to tell her the news. They had become great friends ever since he lost Elena to Damon. Damon and Bonnie also had become close through the years, and Stephan is thankful how coming back to Mystic falls gave both him and Damon such great friendships. He had stopped resenting Elena and Damon, moved on with his life and Caroline was a big help when it came to moving on without having to leave. Elena will always be the love of his life, but now he believes that he can fall in love again./p
p class="MsoNormal"Damon and Elena make their way downstairs and finds Stephan in the Livingroom together with the whole group. Even Jeremy was there, he came for Alaric and Jo's wedding. Everyone knew about her not taking the cure as Caroline called them. The gossip always started with Caroline at the front, she could never keep something like that to herself for long. Jeremy took her hands and told her that he understands, she does not need to be human to have a great life and he loves her no matter what. They hug and Alaric brings out the drinks to celebrate./p
p class="MsoNormal"The next day they are all gathered for the wedding, Elena is Jo's maid of honor and Damon is Alaric's best man. As the priest speaks to Alaric and Jo, Damon and Elena look at each other and mouth "I love you". Their friends say yes, walks down the isle and the reception will soon begin./p
p class="MsoNormal"While Damon talks to Bonnie, Stephan takes the chance to have a word with Elena. He tells her how surprised he is about her not taking the cure and asks her what she wants to do with it. She tells him that she gave the cure to Bonnie's mom, because she wanted her to always have the choice of getting back to her magic and reunite with Bonnie. Stephan smiles and tells her that he admires this about her, always has. Elena asks him if its true what Caroline tells her, that he is planning on leaving town. He looks at her and nods yes. She asks him why, and he says that he needs to start over somewhere else, but he will always come back here to visit and to spend time with everyone he loves in Mystic falls. Elena was under the impression that he and Caroline had something going on and asks him about it. Stephan tells Elena that its just a deep friendship, that he loves her but not like that. They hug and she says let's talk more about this leaving business later, the newly weds will enter the venue soon. Let's celebrate./p
p class="MsoNormal"They all dance and party all night, at the end of the night they send Alaric and Jo to the airport in a fancy stretched limo. Elena is happy that Alaric finally can live a life with someone that he loves, he lost to many. Damon takes Elena's hand, and they go to the spot they met for the first time, in the middle of the road they start dancing. Damon looks at her, tells her to turn around and not look. Elena does what he says but she is not big on surprises, so she is not patient. He tells her to turn around, she turns around and there he is on his knee with a ring. Elena freeze, and tears start coming down her face. Damon smiles at her and say "Elena, will you marry me". She says yes and he puts the ring on her finger, they continue dancing and kissing./p
p class="MsoNormal"Fast forward to a year later, everyone is gathered for another wedding, this time the one for Damon and Elena. Alaric and Jo had twins not long time ago as she was pregnant when they got married a year ago, Caroline just went on her first date with Klaus and believe it or not will be her plus one at the wedding. Matt became the new sheriff in town and just got engaged to Rebecka, which was a big surprise for most of them since Matt always wanted to keep a bit of distance to the whole dating a vampire business. Not only is she a vampire but also an original vampire. Bonnie and Jeremy started dating again right after Alaric and Jo's wedding, they never stopped loving each other and it was like Elena said, they are meant to be. Tyler moved out of Mystic falls and joined a pack of werewolves where he met Janet, they also came to attend the wedding despite his conflicted feelings of being back where he lost everything. Finally, Stephan joined them as well, he had just got back from one of his travels to Europe. When he left Mystic falls he wanted to just travel around, have no commitments for a while. On his trip to Germany, he met Gina, she became his travel companion and then his new girlfriend. It was a year of happiness, something that was a long time coming. After all the heartache that everyone had been put through the last years, they all needed this./p
p class="MsoNormal"Elena is in one of the guest rooms getting ready, Stephan knocks on the door and comes in. He looks at her and tells her how beautiful she looks, then he takes out a box that he gives to her. Elena opens it and it's a necklace with a blue sapphire in it. She looks at Stephan and smiles, thank you. It is your something blue, do you want me to help you put it on. Elena gives Stephan the necklace and he put it on. Caroline enters the room and gives her another box, its matching blue earrings, this is your something borrowed. They all hug before Bonnie enters and tells her its time. Elena walks out of the room with Bonnie, before Bonnie gives her over to Jeremy to start the walk down the aisle, she hands her a bracelet. This is your something old, it was my grandmothers, for good luck. They hug, the music starts, and she takes her brother's style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThey had made the choice of getting married on the property, why not make use of such a beautiful space./p
p class="MsoNormal"She stood there at the beginning of the aisle with her brother, looking at Damon by the alter, smiling at her. She knew that her choice was the right one, because all her dreams are coming true, they look a bit different now, but she will be spending her life with the man she loves. This is the beginning of forever./p