A/N: And here's another one. As I said I have been quite excited for this one and the next one. Admittedly it isn't the fluffiest chapter which I feel we have had few of lately but I'll let you draw your own conclusions when you read it. Also while I didn't get 20 reviews, oh well-I guess you probably figured that out yesterday when I didn't update, but I have reached that stage where I have more reviews than followers. We've been on the edge for a while but we made it over this chapter. (well last chapter) I also remembered the thought I had lost last time but I will get to that at the bottom. Anyway I'll let you read, this is longer chapter almost 3,000 words so I hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you think and I'll see you at the bottom.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Vampire Diaries or any characters etc.

So on with the next chapter...

Chapter 10

"Do it." She told Bonnie. Bonnie just nodded. Bonnie took a deep breath. She wouldn't tell them but she was starting to feel the spell taking its toll on her. She closed her eyes for a moment. She knew she would have to reword the spell every slightly. She wasn't picking a random year she was trying to pick a specific event.

"Just give me 5 minutes to sort out a spell." She requested. They all nodded and dispersed again. Heading in slightly different directions than before, well apart from Stefan who again headed upstairs presumably to write in his journal again. Caroline headed to the kitchen, Elena to the basement and Damon disappearing and mumbling something about another bottle of bourbon, Bonnie was too preoccupied to pay them all much attention. As no one was leaving the house all she really had to do was tell them she was ready, at normal volume really considering with their vampire hearing they would hear her perfectly anyway. She began to study the spell, working on where and how to change it. It had been an idea that had occurred to her after they had watched the last scene in Stefan's future. She wasn't sure how it would work out in the one with Damon.

Elena sat on the freeze, blood bag in hand, she couldn't put into words how grateful she was that Bonnie had another couple of scenes to show them. She knew maybe it was a little selfish, but she needed more time. The two lives had been so different. With Stefan it had been safe and almost everything she used to want. Back before she found out about vampires and definitely before she turned into one. The question was still the same though. Was that what she still wanted? She couldn't deny the life she had seen with Damon appealed to her. Obviously she had become human at some point in both futures. But in Stefan's she had stayed human, whereas with Damon she had become a vampire again. But was that by choice? And could she deal with living forever and watching every human she ever loved die? Okay she did know the answer to that one. Before the idea of becoming human again was a possibility she had accepted that fate. The other side of the coin was could she die and leave behind all the vampires she loved? That one she couldn't answer. She had seen a sadness, an odd weight on her future self in her future with Stefan. One that hadn't been there with Damon. She had been free, happy and alive with him. By the sounds of it they had travelled too. She recalled in the last scene they had only come back to Mystic Falls for the week. She sighed. Hopefully these next few scenes would clear things up. As that thought crossed her mind she heard Bonnie saying she had ready. She threw the empty blood bag away and headed up to the parlour.

Bonnie watched them all return. Caroline approached her and handed her a glass of water.

"I thought you might want a little refreshment. You haven't had breaks like the rest of us and you have been the one doing all the work." She sympathised. Bonnie took a sip.

"Thank you." She smiled before turning to pick up the altered spell. Caroline returned to her seat. As Bonnie began to chant again everyone was silent. They were all nervous about this new spell, and to see Elena die. It was pretty much their worst nightmare and now they were all going to watch it. They were all drawn from their thoughts as the scene appeared. It flicked for a moment before it settled and became clear. Everyone let out a collective deep breath.

Elena was sat in a chair. She looked like she had in all the other scenes, apart from her eyes. They were different. They looked younger; like they hadn't seen as much. They also looked tired. In fact her skin looked pale.

"I think she's human." Stefan observed.

"Like I said; I wasn't sure how it would work." She left out the part about how it was only supposed to be for humans. Apparently that meant it was going to show her human death, then again, it was the first death she would experience in her future with Damon. Maybe the only one, if she was really lucky, or unlucky depending on your view point.

"I think that will do, we don't want you dying now, do we?" Klaus' voice could be heard.

"One more." Elena spoke hoarsely.

"Elena, my dear, you know while I would happily take it all, then you wouldn't be much use to me in the future and I would have two angry Salvatores after me. Not to mention Caroline."

"We have a deal. I do this, you leave them alone. One more." She remained firm with her decision despite how obviously weak she was. Klaus moved to replace the now full blood bag with an empty one.

"What are you doing?!" Caroline was shocked.

"Don't ask me. I'm not there yet." Elena snapped back just as confused.

By the time the next blood bag was filled Elena wasn't looking very healthy. Klaus quickly released her from the tubes drawing her blood. She sat still for a moment, her breathing was shallow. Klaus packed the blood bags into a larger bag and zipped it.

"They can't know. They can never find out." She finally spoke, her voice a little shaking from the exertion.

"A deals a deal." Klaus agreed. Elena nodded before pushing herself up from the chair. Klaus watched her, for a moment something akin to worry passed over his face before he turned and picked up his bag leaving her to find her own way home. She stood shakily supporting herself on the chair. After a forced deep breath she started to make her way to her car. She was staggering slightly as she made her way out of the building.

"He took too much." Damon stated, his tone sounding as though he was restraining himself.

"I- she, made him." Elena pointed out. "They had a deal."

"You shouldn't have had to." He was obviously angry at his future self for not preventing it.

"So this is how you die? An accident again?" Caroline didn't seem to want to accept what appeared to be happening.

She finally made it to her car. She fumbled for her keys and finally managed to unlock the car. She rested against the car for a moment desperately trying to regain some strength. She then opened the door and hoisted herself into the car. She reached across and opened the glove box taking out a vial. She looked around as though she was searching for someone, presumably Klaus. Seeing no one she opened the vial and drank the red substance inside it. She then put the keys in the ignition and pulled out of the drive. She did look fit to drive. As she got out onto the road and up to speed her eyelids started to droop.

"Just a little further." She told herself. She was starting to droop. She seemed to start looking around for others. Other traffic, pedestrians, anyone else. Satisfied she was alone she started to drive faster. Her right hand slipped off the steering wheel. "Almost, almo-" she started reassuring herself before she passed out. The car veered off the road, her foot dropping onto the accelerator in her unconscious state. One of the wheels ran into a ditch and the car flipped and ended upside down in the ditch.

Elena, Bonnie and Caroline took a collective gasp as they watched the car roll until it stopped.

"I think this is it." Elena murmured. She couldn't believe after all this it had been an accident again.

Elena was lying on the roof of the car. Her head had clearly bashed the windscreen. She didn't appear to be breathing. The scenes flashed a moment. When it cleared the light appeared to have changed. Elena opened her eyes. She began to check her body for injuries. Her seatbelt had clearly been taken off. She managed to force the door of the car open and crawled out. She stood up on the road and inspected the car. She then looked at her watch.

"He's gonna kill me for this one." She mused. "And he'll never forgive me if I do it myself." She seemed to be talking herself through her plan. She looked at the road in the direction she had been heading in. She started to walk.

"Actually, I think... I think she planned this." Elena managed to get out.

"What do you mean?" Bonnie was confused.

"She made Klaus take her blood. More than was safe. Even though she knew she was driving home. She drank the blood. Her hand didn't slip off the wheel. She released her seatbelt. She speeded up intentionally. She was talking about Damon. She means when he finds out she's turned herself." Elena finished letting out a deep breath. Nobody spoke. The future Elena hadn't seemed at all phased by what had just happened. Almost as though she had planned the whole think. She had ensured that Klaus' anger couldn't affect her loved ones. She had protected them with her deal. She had wanted to do it. It was the only answer.

The scene had flashed again. Elena had reached the boarding house. She reached the door and stopped. She took a deep breath then opened the door. Damon rushed over her obviously coming from the basement where they must be keeping Stefan. He had clearly been worried by her absence.

"You know you treat him like a pet. You'll be feeding him in a bowl next." She joked as she saw him, she sounded a little nervous and he didn't respond.

He stopped just short obviously sensing something wasn't right.

"Elena?" he questioned.

"Damon?" She sounded wary of his reaction.

"Elena, what did you do?"

"I had to. I was ready. But I knew... You just... I..." She kept breaking off.

"Elena, say it. Tell me what you did."

"I need your help." She changed tactic.

"Elena-"

"I need to feed." She cut him off. "To complete the transition. I want you there."

"Elena, how did you...? You haven't even had anyone's blood." He sounded more confused than anything at the current moment but anger was visible beneath the surface.

"I took a vial of blood. I drank it. Then I crashed my car." She said it calmly as though it was a perfectly normal turn of events.

"Elena. I don't understand, why-"

"Because I needed to. I wanted to. I was ready. I didn't want to keep getting older. I wanted eternity. With you. And I knew after everything you could never do it yourself. You'd try to stop me." She explained. "But I want you with me when I complete the transition."

"So you can't have me there when you die but you need me now?" He was angry.

"I can't believe you did all that." Caroline breathed.

"She was right. I had to do it that way."

"Alone?!" Damon didn't seem much happier than his future self.

"She was right. You would have tried to stop me."

"Of course I would!"

"And you would never let me become a vampire because you wouldn't let me die, not because you didn't want me to, just that you couldn't let me die." She pointed out.

"But you woke up alone. Anything could have happened while you were dead!"

"But it didn't. And no one else was hurt." She stood by her future self's decision.

"Yes, please Damon. I wish you could have been there but you would never have let it happen. You want me for eternity. I know that, you've told me. But we both know that you would never be able to just let me die, even if you knew I would come back. As much as I wish you could have been there we both know I had to do it alone."

"You could have called and explained then done it. Then I would have been there when you woke up."

"No, you would have blamed yourself for not getting there fast enough to stop me then worried that I wouldn't wake up, even though you know I would. And I didn't want you to have the image of my dead body in your head a second time. The first one was enough. You've seen enough people die, including me, a second time would be too much." She argued. "But please, I want your help. It wouldn't be the first time I've fed but I haven't in years. And while I might be able to stop myself I want this to symbolise a new beginning. To put all the bad stuff and the back and forth behind us. And I want that to start right away with you." She seemed to be studying him for a response now. His shoulders slumped slightly signifying his acceptance.

"Okay." He conceded. She smiled softly.

"Thank you." She whispered as she wrapped her arms around him and kissed him softly. Soft turned to passionate before she had to pull away. "Damon," she whispered, "I'm hungry." He nodded and led her out of the door. The scene flashed again.

They were outside the grill now.

"I'm nervous." Elena admitted. "I haven't done this in so long. What if I-" Her doubts started.

"You won't. I won't let you." Damon reassured her.

"Promise me."

"You always had control. You never killed anyone because you lost control last time. And I promise I will be there to stop you if you need me." He assured her. She seemed to accept it because she nodded. "Want me to go find someone?" He offered, at her nod he disappeared inside.

"Well, I guess it's hard to stay mad at that logic." Stefan commented referencing Elena's argument on why she couldn't have Damon there.

"Why does it keep flashing?"

"The spell is to show us scenes surrounding your death. The flashes are time passing I think. Like I said I wasn't sure how it would work exactly." Bonnie explained.

Damon appeared with a girl. She must have been her late teens or early 20's.

"Did you compel her?" Elena checked. Damon nodded. "There's one more thing." Elena continued. "I want to do this together. I could just do this with a blood bag but I want it to be special."

"Are you sure?" Damon seemed oddly hesitant.

"Yes." She nodded confidently. They both stood either side of the girl. Elena allowed her newly re-grown fangs to break through. Simultaneously they sank there fangs into the girls neck on either side and began to drink. Elena moved her hand over to reach Damon as he did the same.

"Wow, that's one hell of a way to complete your transition." Caroline said shocked. Elena nodded, feeling she should look away from the very personal, and increasingly something else, moment but she couldn't quite pull her eyes away.

"I guess now I understand why you didn't just use a blood bag." Bonnie added; equally shocked as Caroline. Both of them had looked away.

They both pulled away before they took too much. Damon promptly compelled the girl and sent her away. Suddenly Elena pushed him against the wall with her newly rediscovered vampire strength. She attacked his mouth with her own.

"Home," she breathed between kissed, "Or here?" she managed to get out. He pulled away for a second to look at her before a smirk made its way onto his face. He crushed her lips to his again.

"Again, wow." Caroline breathed as the scene faded out.

"That was... unexpected." Elena agreed. She wasn't sure what she had been thinking when she realised it was going to show her transition but that hadn't been it. She had been so controlled in the future, she had known exactly what she wanted to do and how and she had done it. No one had died, apart from her obviously, and she had done it all by choice. 'That was how it should have happened' was a thought she couldn't quite keep from her mind.

Everyone stayed silent for a while unsure quite how to process what they had witnessed. Eventually Bonnie spoke up.

"I need a minute before I do the next one. I need to clean this up; then I need Stefan and Elena's blood." She spoke quietly. Everyone just nodded but no one moved as Bonnie began to clear and reset her spell. As she turned her back she wiped her nose. She quickly wiped the blood on a tissue thankful the vampires were all way too occupied to notice. The spell was taking more out of her than she thought.

Okay, I know not everyone may be happy with how this chapter, or future scene, started but it was all Elena. At least it was voluntary and she was doing her 'must protect the people I love no matter what' with a hint of 'and get what I want' which is a side that has probably grown since she has been with Damon. Yes, another cliff-hangerish ending. I'm sadistic like that. Sorry. On to guest reviews. To Guest, thank you for the review and here it is. To Asana, Don't worry about it, I'm terrible about reviewing to. I respond to all the ones I get but actually writing reviews I'm terrible, but thank you all the same, I love reviews. As I said last chapter I think I'm getting obsessed. Unfortunately the reviews didn't reach 20 but it's here now. I'm really happy you feel that way about my story. Reviews like yours make me happy (I do sometimes end up jumping up and down). To Bugzee, Thank you. Yes it was a cliff-hanger. And this one might be a bit of one too. Oops. Here's the next chapter.

Okay. Now, for my random thought. It occurred to me, on one of the several times I watched the season finale-It could even have been the first one, when Damon was on about physics and displacement= velocity x time. Something occurred to me. Since Damon hasn't ever really done the school thing as a vampire. Yes he had been on a college campus but he's never indicated that he ever got an education there, not from the courses they teach at least, so it made me think. That means it's quite likely that when he went to school it was in the 1850's. Before they had real science. It just seemed funny to me. Anyway I will leave you with my comparatively short A/N.

So I hope you enjoyed it. I can't promise when I will update next because while I am really excited for the next chapter I have been neglecting my other stories and I need to get a second chapter out for my new one and another for my first one. That doesn't necessarily mean the next chapter I update won't be for this story but I will make no promises to avoid disappointment (or at least breaking promises.) Let me know what you think and see you in the next chapter. (*smiles*)