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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This will be the last chapter of this story. It will all be from Elena's POV.

The names for their children I can not take credit for. I couldn't think of any names myself so I used some that were left in comments. They belong to meskin10.

Thank you all for reading and enjoying the story. There is still one more dramatic thing that happens but I'm a sucker for happy endings so...yeah.

At the end of the story there will be a preview for a new story I've already started. It will be very different from this one, it will still be Damon and Elena but everyone will be human and there will be no supernatural things. It will be dark and crazy, he will have to save her and she will have to fight for him.

Tell me what you think about the ending of this one and if I should attempt to start the new story.

Enjoy.

-Megan


Chapter 24- The perfect ending

-8 years later-

"Daddy! That's not fair you can find me by my heart beat but I can't find you because I'm not like you. That's cheating!" I heard Aria laugh the words as Damon once again found her way too easily in the field behind our house.

"It's not cheating, it's using my strengths to the best of my ability. Isn't that what your mother would say?"

I roll my eyes as I walk up behind him. No doubt he's raising an eyebrow and wearing that ridiculous smirk. I put my arm around his shoulders and whisper in his ear. "Let me show you my abilities babe." I tighten my grip and send him flying across the field.

Aria laughs and jumps on my back quickly. Damon lands on his feet ever so gracefully and growls at me. I wave my fingers and vamp speed Aria and I to Sebastian's hiding spot. We carefully watch as Damon makes his way to the small lake where we are hiding behind the bushes. "Shh." I place my finger over my lips and move from behind the bushes. I hear them laugh as they see me walk right behind Damon. Surprisingly I don't think he knows I'm right behind him, he's too focused on ruining their game of hide and seek. Right as he's about to find them AGAIN, I pounce on his back and flatten him on the ground.

"Found you Damon!" He growls and quickly turns the tables and has ME on the ground beneath him.

"Hmm protecting someone Lena? Who ever could that be?" He smiles and cocks his head towards the bushes and the kids laugh again. Who would have thought they like it when mommy and daddy act like this. Mommy protecting their hiding spot while daddy makes snarky comments.

The next moment I hear Sebastian and Aria scream. Suddenly Damon is off of me and literally ripping the bush apart, they're gone. We look at each other and instantly both listen for the very familiar heart beats. I hear them in the house, within seconds Damon is standing in the front doorway and I'm in the back. They're in there but with who? No one else was here.

"I'm giving you one warning to let the kids go before I rip your head off."

Damon's words came across menacing and cold, I smile and nod my head. We enter the house at the same time and look upstairs. Their heartbeats are on the second floor in the game room. We walk up and freeze in the doorway.

"You know...it's not wise to leave your kids alone behind bushes. You never know who will pop up."

I run over and ram Jeremy into the wall. My brother is back! "Jer!" I haven't seen him since that last day at the school.

"Hey sis. By the way..." He looks at Damon. "I don't like death threats Salvatore."

"Neither do I vampire." I turn around and Bonnie has Damon pinned to the wall in the hallway. She immediately releases her spell on him and starts laughing while pulling him in for a hug.

We sit and catch up with each other for hours. Finally it's time for the kids to go to sleep. Jeremy tucks them in and I set up the guest room for him and Bonnie. They seem really happy and it's almost like they aren't vampire and witch anymore, just Jeremy and Bonnie, which is really great. We all decide to actually go to sleep because apparently Jer and Bon have some big surprise planned for Damon and I's anniversary tomorrow.

The next morning we wake up to find that not only are Bonnie and Jeremy eating with our kids but apparently our house has become a breakfast cafe to my parents along with Damon's mother. The doorbell rings and Damon growls.

"I swear to God if you invited the paper boy to breakfast Bonnie Bennett..." He stops talking when he opens the door.

"Lucky for me I'm not the paper boy."

"Get in here Asher. What are you doing home?"

They walk in the kitchen and he sits down right between his little brother and sister. "That's a stupid question dad. It's your anniversary where else would I be? Plus...the witch threatened me if I missed the surprise par..."

"OKAY! Now that Asher's here we can go! Chop chop everyone!"

I give Bonnie and questioning look as the cuts Asher off. She's up to something. As Damon and I make our way to our car Jeremy grabs us and puts blindfolds on us. He begs us to just cooperate so we oblige. After a long ass drive the car stops and everyone gets out. Jeremy takes my hand and leads me somewhere while I hear Damon muttering curse words at my little brother. After being called every name under the sun Jeremy takes the blindfolds off and everyone yells...

"SURPRISE!"

We look around to see the park decorated just like it was for our wedding 8 years ago. The dance floor, the tables everything. There aren't as many tables nor guests but it's pretty much the same. Our family gives us hugs and everyone says happy anniversary. It's not until I hear the familiar spice girls song starts playing that I hear my other best friends voice.

"Wow. Glad we made it for the party. Customs at the airport is a bitch to get through. We come bearing gifts though and we have a surprise of our own!"

I look up at Caroline and see her holding a little girl. Klaus comes up behind her and the little girl grabs his arm. "Daddy can I go play with the other kids?" He nods his head and they come to sit next to Damon and I at vampire speed.

"Care. When did you and Klaus adopt I'm guessing?"

She nods her head. "The adoption just came through. I'm sorry I haven't been in touch with you Lena but between Klaus's head almost being ripped off by multiple vampires that want him dead and the interviews for the adoption...I'm sorry. Forgive me?"

I shake my head. "You're crazy but yeah I forgive you."

After eating the picnic lunch that Bonnie had delivered she makes Damon and I sit in the middle of the dance floor. It's time for our present and it's soon made clear that everyone here knows what this big present is, except for me and Damon. We are automatically suspicious when Bonnie begins her speech.

"I've spent the last 8 years trying and failing to come up with something I could do that would make you both happy. I've talked to you both on the phone and I've come to one decision. There is nothing that can make you guys happier." Everyone laughs and nods their heads.

"Then why are we sitting here witchy. You've got something up your little witchy sleeve. Now, what is it?"

I laugh at Damon as he eyes Bonnie from head to toe. He's always been very good at knowing when she's up to something. It's quite...odd.

"Damon how come you're so good at reading MY best friend? Your married to ME remember?"

He smirks at me and raises his eyebrows. "I know sexy. I'm just watching out for whats mine by making sure the witch isn't going to hurt you. After this present I intend to take you deep into the forest and make you scream my name over and over."

"DAMON! Mouth! Our kids are right there!" I point at our kids who are laughing next to Asher who is acting like he's throwing up.

Everyone laughs as Damon shrugs his shoulders in an 'I don't care' gesture. Bonnie shakes her head and continues her speech.

"As I was saying, there is nothing I can give you but there is something that all of us as a whole can give you. So after a lot of begging, pleading, and promising Emily Bennett and every other Bennett witch on the other side that I'd ask for no more favors in Jeremy's lifetime or my lifetime she let me do the spell. So...we all got together a few days ago and..."

"And you're stuck with us again. So sorry for you."

Damon and I both freeze. That voice, so much like mine but with more...bitchiness. We look at Katherine in disbelief. "You're...dead?" She laughs and shakes her head.

"Nope." She pops the p. "Bennett witch brought us back. Only us though no more ghosts from the past."

"Wait a second wicked witch of the east. Who is we?" I nod my head in Damon's direction. That thought never crossed my mind.

"Hello Brother."

I use my vamp speed to turn and tackle Stefan to the floor. "You're real?!" I feel him laugh as he sets me down in front of him at arms length.

"Yes Elena. I am. So is Katherine. Happy Anniversary sis." He kisses my forehead.

I turn to Bonnie and she's smiling. "I told Emily and the rest of the family that you and Damon needed your family back. So they allowed me to give Stefan and Katherine one more chance at life, as vampires but like I said I can't ask for any more favors."

After the initial shock went away Damon was able to move again and we all reconnected. For one day we were all together and we were all a family. The Gilberts, The Salvatores, Bonnie, Klaus and Caroline, Ric and Jenna...we were all together. The danger was out of our lives and we were able to finally settle down and be the family that we always wanted.

The End.


Well that's the end. It sucked I know but I ran out of ideas. Sorry. Don't be too upset.


Like I said above I'm not done writing so here is chapter 1 of a new story that I am giving a try. It was requested by one of my friends who gave me the idea. She wanted an all human story where Damon did something crazy and drastic for Elena, while Elena also is fighting for Damon. After a lot of thinking something came to me in a dream. Here's the summary.

Damon and Elena were best friends and everyone thought they were meant to be. Something happened and Damon left the town and Elena behind to never look back. 5 years later Jeremy seeks out Damon as a last ditch effort to bring his sister back from the brink. Elena has lost everything and everyone she loved and she doesn't remember her family or friends anymore. She's hallucinating and putting herself at risk physically. Can Damon come and bring her back? Will Elena remember him and be able to forgive him for leaving her? Will they get their happy ever after?

Chapter 1- Coming home to you

Damon's POV

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

"Ugh. Ignore them Kat they'll go away." I pull my girlfriend back to my chest and try to get back to sleep. It's 3am and no one in their right mind would wake me up now.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

"FINE! Don't get your panties in a twist!" I yell as I throw off the covers and get up from bed. Whoever is at that door better have something pretty damn important to say. I hear Katherine following me to the door of our apartment we've shared for a year now. I yank it open, "What the...hell? Jeremy?" I look around in disbelief. Jeremy Gilbert...is at my door. I haven't seen him in 5 years nor his sister Elena. He's older now...at least 16.

"Damon! Listen I know it's early but I need..."

"Babe who is it?" I feel Katherine wrap her arms around me and Jeremy stops talking. "Hi. I'm Katherine." She holds out one hand and he looks from me to her at least 50 times before he responds.

"Uhh...Hi. I'm Jeremy...Gilbert." He shakes her hand and looks back to me. "I'll go. Sorry Damon. I shouldn't have come, you've obviously moved...never mind. I'll just find another way to help...bye." He turns and walks down the hallway. He needs help? Those three words stay in the front of my mind. I wind my way out of Kat's arms and run after him.

"Jer! Wait!" Within seconds I'm down the hall and stopping the elevator from closing. I step in with him and once the doors close I press the emergency stop button. "Jeremy talk. Why did you come all the way to LA? Where are your parents, Jenna, Ric and Elena?" Immediately my heart sinks when I see his expression change when I say his parents name and Elena's name.

He shakes his head. "I came alone. I shouldn't have come though. It was stupid to think that you'd come home to help. You've got a girl in there who looks quite a lot like my sister; brown hair, brown eyes, even the same height but I can tell that girl is a few years older so go back to her. I can take care of Elena by myself. I should have listened to Stefan, he said this was a bad idea."

His words catch my off guard. He has to take care of Elena by himself? She's the older sister and surely his parents...something hits me about the way his face changed when I mentioned them. "Jer...why did you get that look when I mentioned Grayson and Miranda?"

He looks back up at me with those sad eyes, again. "You don't know, do you? I've sent emails, I thought you'd been reading them and just not responding but...you haven't read them have you? You really did leave a not look back twice. After everything that you and Lena went through...just go back home Damon and I'll go back to Lena. I'll take care of her and we can forget I came here. Goodbye Damon." He presses the stop button again and the doors open to my floor and he pushes me out.

I watch as the doors close and the elevator descends through the floors. Emails...he must have sent them to my old email address. I quickly walk back to the apartment and throw the door open. I see Kat jump from the couch but I walk right to the laptop and type in the old email address. I scan through them quickly and familiar names pop out at me. Caroline Forbes, Bonnie Bennett, Matt Donovan, Tyler Lockwood, Jeremy Gilbert, Ric Saltzman, and my little brother Stefan Salvatore. They've all emailed me at least 20 times each over the last year maybe more if I look over the last 5 years. What the hell happened in that town? I open the most recent from my brother which was marked 2 weeks ago.

"Damon, I went to see Elena today. She's not good at all. She doesn't remember anyone well except you. She asked me where you were and I told her I didn't know all I knew was that you were in Los Angeles somewhere living with your girlfriend of 3 years. She proceeded to hit me and call me a liar yelling that you'd never leave her and it was only her. I'm worried about her brother. She doesn't know who I am, or even who Jeremy and Ric are. Selective amnesia or some shit like that is what Meredith Fell says it is but look I don't know if you read my emails but read this one all the way through please. I know you have a girlfriend but Elena needs you. I'm your brother Damon and I know for a fact that you still love Elena and that you'd do anything for her. She needs YOU Damon. She's lost her parents and Jenna already don't let her lose you too. Come back for her. Please. -Stefan"

My poor Elena. I read Stefan's email 3 times. The sad eyes that Jeremy had suddenly make sense, they're parents are gone. But how? I scroll through the years and find one of the first to come from Jeremy. Nearly 4 years ago...

"Damon, I don't know how to start telling you this. There was an accident. Elena's in the hospital. I could really use your help in telling her what the doctors just told me. Jenna and our parents didn't survive the accident. Elena is in critical condition but they say she'll be okay. Their car went off Wickery Bridge, they are still looking for the drunk driver. They were able to bring Elena back once they got all the water out of her lungs. They had to shock her with those paddle things around 10 times Caroline said. She rode out with her mom to the bridge when she heard the deputy tell her mom that it was the Gilbert's car. I'll keep you updated on everything. How's college working out for you by the way? Stefan said you're almost done, wish I could say the same for us with high school. I'm just now a freshman and Elena is barely a junior. Caroline is coming down the hall with an update now, write you later. Jeremy"

No, no, no no. My little Elena. I wasn't there for her. She needed me and I wasn't there. I let her down, I should have been there. I...I love her. After all this time I still love Elena Gilbert. I wipe a few tears away from my eyes as I pull out my cell. I hope to God Jeremy Gilbert still has the same cell phone number. It rings, and rings, and rings.

"Damon?"

"Get your ass back up here. I'm sorry I wasn't there Jer. I let you both down and I can't anymore. I need to come home."

"Be there in a minute Salvatore." I hear him slam a car door and then he hangs up.

"Babe. Why are we going to Mystic Falls?" Damn, I had forgotten Kat was here. I shake my head as I turn to face her.

"WE aren't. I am. Kat, we need to talk."

"Damon, those words are never good. Who is Elena?"

I smile and turn back to the computer. I search for the folder titled 'My Dreams' and open it. I show her the screen and it shows her a slide show of every picture I have of Elena whether she's with Jeremy or one of our old friends or me. "This is Elena. Kat, I need to go home."

"You mean you need to go to her? Damon, we've been dating for 3 years now and you've never mentioned her. She can't be that important. I love you Damon but I swear if you walk out that door it's over. I'll follow you, I won't give up on us. I won't let you just walk away from me."

I roll my eyes. "Don't be so dramatic Kitty Kat. I don't want to hurt you but you had to know that THIS is as far as I would let our relationship go. I care about you I do but that's why I have to let you go. I hope you understand. One day you will meet someone who can give you more. I'm sorry I can't. Bye Katherine."

I grab the laptop and set it at the bottom of the duffel bag that I start shoving my clothes into. By the time I'm done I hear Jeremy's knock and I walk out into the hallway with him. "Let's go home Jer." He nods and we set off. I never looked back. Maybe if I had, I'd seen the look of determination, and anger on Katherine's face, maybe I would have seen that she was right; she'd never give up. Yet I didn't. I kept my eyes forward and only saw one thing. Elena. She needs me and I need her. I need her to forgive me. I need her to help me feel again. Maybe this is the way to stop the pain that's been with me for 5 years.

Elena's POV

Gone.

Everyone is gone.

Dad...mom...Jenna...Damon. I pull my knees closer to my chest as I think of the last person. I need him, but something tells me he won't come. Everyone who says they love me has left me. You still have Ric and Jeremy. I groan as I shake my head. No, they've given up too. They still try to get me to smile but I can tell they've given up on me.

I can tell they have because they have Meredith come see me everyday. I know I scared them and Stefan, Caroline, Bonnie, Matt and Tyler. I didn't mean to, I just wanted it to stop. I didn't mean to cut as deep as I did. I just found the razor in the shower and I wanted the voices to stop. I didn't want to see my parents and Jenna every time I closed my eyes. I wanted the dreams to stop and I wanted to stop seeing people who everyone told me weren't there. I know it sounds like I'm crazy and maybe I am but I don't want to re-live the accident over and over everyday. Not anymore.

Some days I'm okay. Like today, I'm not sad enough to pull a stunt like that again but I still don't leave my room. I can hear Ric typing on his computer from Jenna's old room. I feel bad that he quit working at the High School and is now working at the Community College which only has him come in 3 times a week. I haven't been to school in 2 months. I used to go just because I knew I had to. I didn't talk to anyone but the whispers became too much. I can still hear what they said about me.

Poor girl lost both parents and her aunt. Most of them were comments like that. Some were different. About Damon.

She's stupid. To think that Damon Salvatore would actually take a 13 year old with him when he graduated. He was 18, that's sick. I wasn't stupid, I knew I wasn't. I knew I couldn't go with Damon to UCLA but we could have tried to do the long distance relationship. It wasn't wrong for Damon and I to be together, was it? Yeah, he is 5 years older than me but age is just a number or that's what he used to tell me. My parents loved Damon, so did Jeremy. My friends were fine with our...relationship. They understood. It was people on the outside who didn't. I laugh, who am I kidding. Damon probably just saw me as some young, naive, girl he could take advantage of. Maybe the whispers are right.

Stefan comes by everyday but I don't want to see him. I want him to bring Damon but he keeps telling me that Damon has moved on. I believe him, that's why I get mad. I don't want to , was i Stefan but I do. Everyone leaves. I look out my window and I see Jeremy's car pull up. Usually it would mean he was home from school and would have more work to add to the ever growing pile on my desk that I haven't done in over a year. This time is different though, this time he left in the middle of the night and only left me a note. I read it again as I shake my head.

For you Lena. I'll try anything. He still loves you.

I don't look back at the window when I hear the car doors close. I close my eyes and picture Damon. Those blue eyes that could tell exactly what I was thinking before I even knew. His black hair that was so soft and smelled like the ocean. The way his arms were so strong and protective around me. I miss waking up next to him. He used to sneak in my window and just hold me. God, it's almost like I can actually feel his arms around me right now. I keep my eyes closed but strangely enough I can feel myself being carried to my bed. I open my eyes and see those blue eyes looking down at me.

"Elena. I...I'm here. I'm sorry I wasn't before. It'll be okay gorgeous."

I push away from him. "Damon?" His eyes are wary now. I shake my head and I stand up. "You...you left. Stefan said you left. He said you moved on. He said..."

"Elena. I can explain. Please baby, sit with me."

"NO!" I hold my hands out in front of me and he stops walking towards me. I shake my head some more. "It's wrong Damon. You and Me, we're wrong. You left, everyone leaves."

"Elena, I'm sorry. I came back...for you. I came back because you need me and babe I need you too. I'm sorry it took this long but..."

I walk up and shove him backwards. "Shut up Damon!" I hear footsteps run to the door but he holds up his hand and they stop. "You're not here. This isn't real. Oh God, I've lost it. I...You're not here." I close my eyes and start to pace. No, he can't be real. This has to be just like how I thought I saw my mom earlier, she told me Damon loved me but it wasn't real. Now I'm imagining him here, telling me everything I've always wanted him to. "It's not real. You're not really here."

"Elena. Look at me. Baby girl open your eyes." I open my eyes and he slowly walks up to me. "I. Am. Here." He says each word slowly and I shake my head.

"No." I whisper the word and run into the bathroom. I quickly lock the door and lock Jeremy's door too.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

"Elena! Open the God damned door!" It's Ric's voice. I shake my head as the tears start to fall. Damon was never here. He was never here. He left me. I fall to the floor and pull my knees up to my chest. I can hear voices on the other side of my door but I can't make them out.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

"Elena. I swear to God if you don't open this door I'm busting it in!" I don't move. I hear the voices again and I hear footsteps go down the stairs.

After a few minutes I see a piece of paper slide under the door. I pick it up and read the words.

I'm still here Lena.

I shake my head. It can't be Damon. I see a pen roll under the door and I pick it up slowly. I decide to give in to my hallucinations.

Prove it Damon.

I slide the paper and pen back under the door.

I'm sorry for what you saw between Andie and I. I didn't mean to have sex with her. I was drunk and it was a mistake.

The paper and pen slide back under the door. This was a mistake. I throw them at my door and open Jeremy's. I start running down the stairs and out the door. I ignore my name being called behind me. The memories are too much. It hurts, everything hurts. The pain from 5 years ago it's back in full force. I see it all as if it's in slow motion.

I had told Damon I was late and that Caroline bought me a test. It came out negative, thank God since we were both way too young and we had only been with each other once. It had been my first time but I knew it hadn't been Damon's. He was the infamous older Salvatore. The next morning I ran over to his house to tell him but he didn't answer the door. I knew Stefan was at Matt's house so I used the spare key under the mat. I walked up to Damon's room and heard their voices inside.

"You need to go. Now Andie."

"Oh come on Damon. You know you had fun. I'm so much better than that runt Elena Gilbert. I've heard the rumors Damon."

I throw open the door and lock eyes with him. He looked sorry but I didn't buy it. I should have known, this was what Damon Salvatore was known for. Fucking girls and leaving them. I threw the test at him and walked back down the stairs. I heard him call after me but only stopped when he grabbed my arm. I yanked away from him. "Go back upstairs and have your fun Damon. I guess I was just another knotch in your bedpost huh. Boy was I dumb when you told me you loved me. Good bye Damon."

I walked out and never looked back.

I kept on walking now just like I had then. Maybe if I'd looked back I would have seen Damon. Both times, past and present, looking at me and begging me with his eyes to stay. Maybe I would have seen the love he had and still has for me. But I don't look back. I just keep walking. I reach into my pocket and pull out the razor I grabbed from the bathroom. Maybe this is the only way to make it stop.