RANDOM WORD: REMNANT
"Memories are all we have." Stefan had said once when they sat alone in the dusty old boarding house. Memories. He didn't even have that. Time had distorted facts and images and her laughter. Had her laugh been deep and throaty or high pitched. Had she preferred to cross her legs right over left or vice versa. Seemingly innocuous facts, but every one that he couldn't remember reminded him everyday that she was gone. She had slipped away quietly. Death had taken her from him.
She hadn't been young and it hadn't been a surprise. Gray had long since dominated her once flowing chocolate locks and her eyes had lost just a bit of their sparkle, but he loved her all the same. Loved her even more than he had when they were young.
She and Damon fought long and hard for most of their lives together, but she had refused to be turned. She assured him it wasn't because she thought he was a monster, but because she, being so in tune with nature, recognized death as the natural order of things and accepted that she must one day die. Even if she loved Damon enough not to want to and even if he was capable of preventing it.
"You are unimaginably selfish you know that?" He had thrown at her in what had to be their millionth fight on the topic.
"You are equally selfish for wanting me to live forever. It's not for me. It's for you. So you won't be lonely."
"So I won't be heart broken." He admitted quietly. "What will I be without you Bonnie?"
"Don't be silly, you'll be Damon Salvatore. Kicking ass and breaking hearts wherever you go."
For once, Bonnie was wrong. He wasn't Damon Salvatore anymore. He was no one. Every where he went he saw her just around the corner and everywhere he went she wasn't there. Stefan had given up convincing him years ago. He'd almost lived without her for thirty years when a new vampire showed up at his residence in Italy wanting to make a name for himself by challenging the great Damon Salvatore and he hoped, as he always hoped when a challenger arrived, that this time, he would lose.
REVIEW: THERE IS ALWAYS THE POSSIBILITY THAT SHE WOULD WANT TO STAY HUMAN. SILLY GIRL, VAMPIRES ARE FOREVAH!