I don't own the vampire diaries and I don't own the characters..
This takes place after the events in my fanfic Soulmates always find a way.
The POV's will be from Damon and Elena.
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Sorry the update came so late. My laptop crashed and I lost the whole chapter and had to rewrite it. I think it turned out better this time. I hope you enjoy it. Be sure to let me know what you think. Next chapter in the works now.
~Meg
Chapter 9- Separation
Elena's POV
I curl my knees to my chest and lift my head to face Christopher again. "He'll come. He won't believe it. He loves me." I had said those words over and over for the past few weeks.
"This is it. I can't let this happen. I'll be right back." He got up and walked out of the church.
I watched him leave and sighed when the door shut. I was confused to say the least. I'd been alone before but this was different. I knew that it wasn't my choices that caused me to be alone, it was choices made for me and choices made for Damon. We didn't choose this, but somewhere inside me I knew that if we had known everything right from the beginning we probably would have chosen this ourselves. I get up and go lay on the makeshift bed Christopher had made me. As the tears start to fall I let myself embrace the memories of the past few weeks.
Damon had surprised me when he came to Alexandria. I missed him so much and now he was here. He had told me everything. He told me that he knew deep down we would have a boy and name him Asher and that he would be alive in the future and that we'd meet him. We both smiled at that thought, we were going to have a chance to be a family. Not a traditional family but a family. He told me about the vampire he had to kill and that he was a servant in my house. He told me not to come home until he made sure that there were no more threats in my house and if there were he'd deal with them. He told me that he contacted Bonnie and ordered her to find Asher and keep him at the boardinghouse until we got there. We talked all night and eventually fell asleep holding each other.
We woke up and it felt like I was home again, and in a way I was I was with Damon. After breakfast he had to leave and get back to Mystic Falls. We said our goodbyes and he handed me a note.
I love you Elena. Always. Only you.
It didn't say much but it said enough. I kept it with me all the time after he left. A few days had passed and nothing really interesting or earth shattering had happened, until two days after Damon left. I was about to go out to eat lunch but I was pushed back in my room by Christopher. I heard yelling and I heard things shattering in the rest of the house. Christopher started chanting words in Latin, I felt the power he was gathering and using, the realization hit me quick he was a witch. I didn't see this earlier but I did recognize the spell, it was a protection spell. He held me firmly behind him as the door was kicked off it's hinges and I stared at the person on the other side. I felt the wind being knocked out of me. I tried to speak but I couldn't, I was afraid. It was Klaus. Not the Klaus I knew but a more dangerous one, if that was possible. He tried to get in but was denied access.
"You are not strong enough to protect the girl alone. I will get to her! I will hunt you to the end of the earth boy!" With that Klaus took off running. We didn't move for a while then all of a sudden Christopher was packing my stuff.
"What are you doing?" I have to know what's happening. I can't possibly leave, I'm pregnant and Damon will come here looking for me.
"We're leaving. I have to get you back to Mystic Falls. You have to trust me Elena."
I don't have time to answer because he grabs me by the wrist and pulls me towards his horse. He sets me on top and hands me the one bag with clothes for both of us in it then he hops on. We don't stop until we reach the church then he carefully guides the horse around to the back. He pulls me off and leads me inside. I watch him carefully as he locks every door and window and comes to sit next to me.
"I know you have questions. I can't answer them all but I will try."
I look up at him and without knowing what will come out of my mouth I start talking. "Why did we leave? Why was Klaus at your house? Where is Damon? Why didn't you tell me you're a witch? I want to go home Christopher." I stop when I feel the tears fall down my cheeks.
"Elena, I'm sorry. I should have told you a long time ago but I didn't know how, I still don't. Yes, I'm a witch a semi-powerful one. I know you're a doppelganger and that Damon is one too, and I know you were sent back here from the year 2012." He closes his eyes and leans his head back. "We had to leave my home because it wasn't safe. Niklaus found you, he won't stop looking for you. As to why he is looking for you, he wants to kill you but you know that already. Damon is probably sitting in his room completely unaware any of this happened. You can't go home though, I'm sorry."
I look at him in complete shock. I didn't think anyone but Elliot, Damon, and myself knew that we were sent back in time. Klaus wants to kill me, that is nothing new he's always wanting to kill me. Damon doesn't know where we are and I can't go home. I don't know what to say and I don't know how long I go without responding to a word he said. I get up and cross the room and look out the window.
"Elena? I really am sorry. I never thought any of this would happen but it did. I would love to let you go home but it would only result in either you or Damon or both of you dying. I know you don't want that and neither does he. You will see each other again, I will make that promise to you Elena. I just have to wait for your protector to get here and then we can go the safe house."
I raise one eyebrow at him. "Protector?"
He nods. "In your time he's a very good friend to you. Elijah. I just don't know when he'll get here. He's doing his own part in protecting you by trying to keep the vampire bitch from coming to Mystic Falls. He's been tracking her but there's no promise he will keep her away, she's good running from people."
"Katherine."
"Who? Do you mean Katerina?"
I nod my head. "Yes and I can tell you that she does come to town. Trust me, you know I am from the future."
We don't talk again for at least a week, maybe longer. Neither of us really knows what to say. He tries to tell me little things here and there to see if he can get any reaction from me, that's how I found out he is the one who spelled the rings. He also told me that he's sorry, about a million damn times. I thought Stefan was broody but Christopher is worse. It's late at night and I sit up to ask Christopher if I can go see Damon. I don't get to ask my question because we both turn when we hear something outside and he pushes me down to the floor. I try to get back up to face whatever or whoever it is with him but it's like I meet a barrier when I try to get up. I see Christopher sigh when my father walks in the doors and locks them behind him.
"Johnathan. He was supposed to come by now, is Damon alright?"
"Yes." My father sighs, "There's been a change. They can't see each other again, I'll need her ring."
I see as Christopher clinches his fists and I try to say something but something tells me they can't hear me. "No. Leave her ring with her. But I ask you this, are you sure this is what you and Giuseppe want? To separate them now after being together everyday they've basically been alive and in love it could break them to the point where I don't think they'd ever recover."
"I'm sure. Giuseppe has already told Damon that Elena left him, that she met someone else. He's not taking it well but he'll move on."
"He told him what?! He had no right! She's been waiting for him every night and he's never come! It's tearing her up and..." He paused as he cocked his head to the side. "It wasn't Giuseppe's idea was it? My, mine and Damon and Stefan's father may be a lot of things but he would never do that. You told him something didn't you. What did you tell him?" My heart plummeted. I couldn't see my fathers face to know if this was true but I also knew that Christopher wouldn't lie, not now.
"It doesn't matter. Damon can't be with Elena it's too dangerous and I won't put my daughter in danger. Keep her here and away from Damon. Tell her whatever you need to; he slept with someone else, he's moved on, he doesn't love her, anything; just make her forget him."
"No. I won't do it. She's heard everything you've said and I think she'd agree with what I'm about to do." He grabs my fathers arm and guides him to the door. "Don't come back and don't you dare call her your daughter. You're an ass and if you ever try to set foot inside this church again you will see just how fucking powerful a witch I can be." He steps back and the doors slam without him touching them.
He turns around I fling myself in his arms. "Damon. Thinks. I. Don't. Love. Him." I get the words out in between my broken sobs. He soothes me the best he can and I can hear him cursing my father under his breath. I fall asleep eventually but I wake up when I feel Damon's mothers ring being pulled off my finger. "What are you doing Christopher?"
"Spelling your ring."
That's how he knows I'm from another century. "You're the one who spelled our rings to bring us back here to remember?" He just nods and keeps going with the spell. He hands me back the ring after about an hour or so.
"It will only work if you and Damon are ever separated or forced to forget each other permanently. Now, get some sleep little sister. Uh, you don't mind if I call you little sister right?"
"Mm no Christopher. You're Damon's brother, we're family I guess, or close to it."
A couple of more weeks pass and things are less tense with Christopher and I. We still don't talk much except for when I tell him that I'm positive Damon wouldn't believe what his father and Johnathan Gilbert would tell him.
I'm snapped out of the memories when I feel someone lay down beside me. "Always only you." I turn over and I'm met by the most beautiful blue eyes ever.
"Damon?"
He smiles at me. "I love you Elena. I could never believer that you'd leave me." His lips meet mine and I can feel the tears on his cheeks.
"You know, I've seen you cry more in this century than the next Mr. Salvatore."
"Hmm don't get used to it baby."
I curl into him and he holds me as tight as he can. "Why didn't you come earlier?"
He takes a deep breath. "I tried. I didn't know where you were. I looked but I'm sorry baby. But I must say I have to be one hell of an actor because our fathers both believe I'm incredibly pissed at you and won't ever love you again." I look up at him and he smirks at me. "I will pretend as long as I have to in order to keep my babies safe." He puts his hand on my stomach and kisses my forehead.
"Holy shit!" We both yell at the same time and we sit up.
"What the fuck is going on?!" Christopher runs in the front doors followed by Elliot, who I'm not even going to ask how he found us.
I look up at Damon's eyes and be both look at our brothers. Damon doesn't speak but he keeps his hand on my stomach, I'm pretty sure he's at a loss for words. "The baby kicked." I look back at Damon and he's smiling the biggest smile I've ever seen him smile. "Damon, he...he moved." I didn't notice that Elliot and Christopher came to sit next to us until Elliot spoke.
"I know this is your moment but I am the uncle and I would like to feel my nephew move...please?" Damon laughs and nods his head. Elliot lays his hand next to Damon's and he kicks again. I see Elliot yank his hand back and his eyebrows shoot straight up. "Wow. I always knew there was someone in there but damn the kids strong."
"That's my boy." Damon smiles proudly and suddenly all 4 of us are laughing.
We spend the next few hours laughing and talking like none of this bad stuff even exists. I know that this moment won't last forever but I find myself wishing it could. Elliot informs me that Christopher came and got Damon to bring him here, that must have been where he went earlier. Elliot had always known but was basically being blackmailed if he even so much as hinted to Damon where I was. Damon said that Stefan was seriously pissed off at me. Stefan believed every word that his father had told Damon and wanted nothing more to do with me. I can't say I was upset about this because part of me honestly didn't care. Christopher and I told them both about how Klaus had shown up and I felt Damon stiffen when I said Klaus's name. He quickly recovered when Christopher told him Elijah would come to protect me. Damon knew that Elijah had always been a good friend to me, it wasn't always an easy friendship but I trusted him ergo Damon trusted him.
"Well baby it looks like we once again have to trust my favorite original to protect you."
Before I can answer Damon, I hear a familiar voice from the front of the church.
"I believe the term you're looking for is, O.M.G."
I snap my head up and bolt myself into his arms. "Elijah!"
I hear Damon laugh as he makes his way over and I feel Elijah pat my back. "Nice to see you too Elena. Now tell me how are you adjusting to finding out that you and Damon were the epic love story you've always dreamed about?"
I pull back from him and I ask the question I've been needing to ask ever since Christopher told me he'd come here. "How come in the future when Rose has me you try to kill us all? You knew me then didn't you."
He raises an eyebrow at me and invites me to sit down with him. "We have a lot to talk about Elena. Sit, I'll explain everything, well almost everything."
I sit and he begins his story.
