A/N: Sorry. I know I said it would be up earlier but it just wasn't happening. I did try but we were moving all the time the first weekend so I couldn't write then they needed the laptop on Sea Queen because they needed engine parts diagrams because she had a problem so I couldn't write that Sunday then we got home and on Monday mum decided to empty the loftish space beside my room (it's a shally bungalow so the upstairs is in the room so I have storage at each end of my room too) so that took all day because we are moving the games room downstairs into my already full bedroom upstairs and merging them for when I go to uni. Then all morning Tuesday was applying for accommodation, it literally took all morning for me to queue and wait for the page to login to queue to stop saying 'page cannot be dispayed' then it was back to the boat and we moved pretty much every day so I couldn't write while we were at sea because it was bouncy and the laptop was stowed. then since a week last Wednesday (we got home the Tuesday night) I have been tidying my room and putting two into one. Finally I got the time to write so here it is. I also go away again on a cruise (No I haven't been in one place for much more than a week since school finished it's crazy and tiring but who can complain about holidays, I know I'm lucky really) on Sunday until a week on Tuesday so I doubt I'll be updating then so I will try to get another one in before I go.

Also I have added yet another bit into chapter 11 when she's talking to Damon. It wasn't relevant, or rather important, when I wasn't continuing it but now it sort of is. Sorry. And sorry for my babbling excuse but I felt the need to explain why you had to wait again. I know I confused a lot of people. That was sort of the point. It was obvious to me because I wrote it but I tried to make sure it wasn't too obvious. This chapter should clear up confusion, hopefully.

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

So on with the next chapter...

Chapter 14

Damon and Elena looked at each other neither really sure what to say or how to even start to respond to that question. It was a valid one really. If they were where they thought they were then they shouldn't be able to get in. They were both vampires that had not been invited in.

"Well?" Stefan asked again when they didn't respond.

"Umm... How old am I here?" Elena asked trying to piece together exactly what happened.

"Elena?" Stefan's eyes moved over to her as though he had not registered her presence before. It wouldn't be the first time his attention had completely been taken over by this brother's mere presence, she recalled the first time she met Damon. Or rather the second time, she reminded herself. "You're... And you look... But, how?" He stumbled over his words his eyes roaming over the entire body as though he was checking she was real. "But does that mean...?" He started to ask as he turned back to Damon. A grin started to form across his face before he schooled it back to a small smile.

"Yes, emotions intact." Damon confirmed with a roll of his eyes.

"Wait, if you're both here and you have your emotions switched on," he said to Damon, "and you're a vampire," He turned to Elena, "then how are you here?" He voiced their own thoughts.

"We're not sure. There was this spell, but, it wasn't supposed to work out like this, and it was finished anyway, but now. Well, we don't really know what happened." Elena explained.

"Okay, you're obviously from the past so what spell, maybe I remember it?" Stefan reminded them.

"You're right, I mean we were all there. It was the one to show us the future. Or what the future could be depending on who I chose." They were rewarded with a blank look from Stefan.

"I don't remember that spell, was I there when you did it?" He seemed confused.

"Of course. We were all in the parlour when..." Elena stopped mid sentence as a realisation hit her. "Damon, if we're in this future and we were all in the parlour, then what happened to everyone else?" Her eyes widened in fear as she turned to address Damon. He too looked unhappy about the prospect although not quite to the same degree.

Bonnie, Caroline and Stefan looked around themselves. They were still all in the same places as before in the Salvatore boarding house parlour but there were a few differences. Bonnie's spell ingredients were nowhere to be seen, there were also some photos scattered about that looked unfamiliar and there was a certain feminine touch to the place that hadn't been there only seconds ago, although quite what it was they couldn't put their finger on.

"What just happened?" Caroline was the first to vocalise what they had all been thinking.

"I'm not... not... n..." Bonnie started but faded fast. Whatever had happened, it had drawn its magic from an already exhausted and strained Bonnie. Bonnie slumped back against the couch. Caroline looked panicked and quickly felt for Bonnie's pulse.

"I think she's okay." Caroline stated turning to look at Stefan. He raised an eyebrow showing his obvious disbelief. "Well, I mean she's unconscious, but her pulse is steady, weak but steady." She explained.

"Yeah, I can hear it." Stefan confirmed. Caroline looked down at her hand.

"Automatic reaction, kind of redundant now." She felt the need to explain herself. Stefan just nodded. "I think if we let her just rest and recuperate she'll be okay."

" So, what do you think happened?" Stefan changed the subject to their current predicament.

"I don't-" Caroline started.

"You're in the future." A familiar voice said from behind them.

"What?!" Caroline whipped round.

"Maybe we should explain. You have time. It'll be a while until she wakes up, then she can get you back." Elena gestured to Bonnie with her head as she joined Damon and slipped an arm around his waist and leaned into him.

"Look if you tell me what you were doing then maybe we can work out where they went and how you got here." Stefan suggested to Damon and Elena.

"Um, how old am I here? No. How old do I look here?" She rephrased her question.

"About 40 give or take."

"So we're about 30 years into the future. Where am I?" She continued to ask questions.

"At work, you should be home any minute," he said checking his watch.

"Right well, Elena's human in this time so maybe we should sort out how she's going to find out. We don't want her dying of a heart attack or anything from the shock of seeing us here." Damon pointed out.

"Yeah, I know you've, well she's, been out of the supernatural loop and all that for a while now." Elena added.

"Good idea." Stefan agreed. "But I don't know what to tell her. I don't know enough to tell her. You... her. This is confusing."

"Tell me about it." Both Damon and Elena replied at the same time.

"Maybe Damon could help you. I mean, seeing me will be bad because either she will be in shock because it's me from the past or she'll think I'm Katherine which would be equally bad... But with Damon, she wants to see him. She'll just be happy and you can both explain the truth." Elena suggested.

"I don't want her getting her hopes up only to be disappointed when she finds out he's not the Damon she thinks he is and that he's not staying." Stefan immediately vetoed.

"Well what do you suggest?" Elena challenged.

"I sit her down when she gets in and tell her that her past self and Damon's past self have come from the past."

"I thought you said you didn't know enough to tell her." Elena raised an eyebrow.

"Okay, I think you've been spending too much time with Damon."

"You should see her in the other future." Damon smirked.

"Basically Bonnie messed up." Elena started bluntly.

"Again." Damon added with an eye roll, earning a half-hearted glare from Elena.

"So how long have you been a vampire?" Caroline asked trying to get an idea of how far into the future they were. Damon and Elena gave each other a knowing look before she answered.

"Just over 20 years. The second time."

"Right, and how long were you human between times?" Caroline asked her next question. Elena gave a smirk reminiscent of the man stood beside her.

"You're probably about 30 years into the future." He jumped ahead to answer what she was really asking. Elena batted him lightly for ruining the fun she was having watching them try to subtly find out answers without directly asking the question. Damon turned his attention to Elena and the two appeared to have a silent conversation for a few moments as Caroline and Stefan stood awkwardly watching.

Stefan wasn't really sure what to make of it all. There was something different about watching it through a magic screen and actually watching it live. The way their relationship seemed to be at a totally different level. One no one but the two of them could really understand.

"So, when she wakes up, what happens them?" Stefan interrupted them.

"She sends you back." Elena spoke as though it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"But won't she need a spell, and she's weak from all the magic she already used." Stefan was a little disturbed by Elena's detachment and lack of worry for them all. She was definitely different from the girl he knew in the present. He wasn't sure whether it was in a good or bad way though.

"We wrote a spell that should work a few years back, well, our witch friend did, we'll call her to come help so Bonnie won't have to do it herself." Elena explained.

"Will that work? I mean, if they aren't related then won't they be drawing off different lines so..." Caroline was confused.

"She's a Bennett witch so it's fine." Damon stopped her thoughts.

"She was born before... Well, anyway, she's a Bennett so it'll work fine." Elena started to explain before thinking better of it.

"How do you have a spell to send someone back to their own time?" Stefan wondered aloud. Damon and Elena shared another look.

"Let's just say we are somewhat familiar with the concept, not that it's a regular occurrence, and leave it at that." Elena suggested a secretive smile on her face.

"So what do we do while we wait for Bonnie to wake up and this other witch to come?" Caroline asked a little frustrated by the two vampires in front of her.

"Other future?" Stefan echoed confused.

"Okay, I've got it!" Elena interrupted rather loudly. "We hide," She gestured to herself and Damon, "While you sit future me down and tell her that me and Damon from the past are here as a result of Bonnie's spell going wrong, then we both come out and explain everything to both of you."

" Don't you think this is a little extreme? I doubt she'll actually die of shock." Damon refuted his earlier statement. He hadn't actually thought Elena would die of shock but he thought it best they have an idea of how to break this to her. This planning however was just ridiculously over the top.

"That's her car." Stefan ignored Damon's comment as he heard a noise outside. He had become a little over protective of Elena since she had become human again and he didn't want to risk losing her. It wasn't just shock he was worried about. He was afraid of what Elena's reaction to seeing Damon would be. She would no doubt think it was their present Damon and how she reacted to him could potentially do permanent irreversible damage to their relationship. It wasn't their Damon so Elena couldn't go running to him, she would have to stay with him, Stefan, but if she did or said something thinking it was their Damon them the delicate balance that held their relationship working and happy would be lost. Stefan wasn't sure if past Elena was aware of his reasons but he was thankful that she was now ushering Damon out off the room and out of sight of his Elena who was about to walk through the door any second.

Elena pushed Damon out of sight of the living room and into the kitchen where they couldn't be seen by Elena when she walked in. She thanked god for her vampire hearing at that moment. She would be able to hear exactly what Stefan and Elena, or future her? Said and gauge how she took it. She couldn't help but be somewhat excited to meet one of her future selves. She wanted to talk to her, to determine if she really had made the right choice.

It wasn't that she doubted it, just that while she had the chance she couldn't resist doing more 'research'. She silently cursed her luck. Another 5 minutes and she would have been able to talk to Damon about this. Now she was stuck in a room, that she had to be almost silent in, with him and she couldn't tell him the one thing he desperately wanted to hear and she desperately wanted to tell him, and all because she had to talk to Stefan first. It was practically the definition of unfair as she watched him avoid looking at her. He could always read her well, even when they first met. He nailed her exactly after spending less than a minute or two with her. That in itself scared her a little, if he looked at her then he would probably be able to read her choice from her. But it wouldn't matter. He would never believe it until he heard it from her own mouth. Even then she couldn't help but think about what her future self had said to Caroline in this timeline. That perhaps Damon would never truly be able to believe she loved him, that she had picked him.

Okay, yes I know the back and forth between time lines is confusing. It's sort of meant to be. Just wait until next chapter when I add a third setting. So yes they are in the future. 30 years because I liked that period. Ironically Stefan and Elena's future world is the most fun to write (I'm not a fluffy person and that world has that strange 'not quite how it was supposed to go but we tried with what we had' vibe to it). Yes there are a few differences in the worlds and how it all ties in but that will come later. I'll admit I did not out right say what Elena's choice was but I think it was strongly hinted. Now we are in the future we can get into the future character's heads too. We were basically seeing the future scenes through the eyes of the present characters so we didn't see what the future ones were thinking but now we do. Okay from this point I just had a break and as it's a Wednesday night so dad went out and my sister is here for the night to pick up her car and mum decided to try some of our collection of spirits so if anything sounds weird it will be because of that. (I am in no way drunk but I blame anything on that, they were only little tiny glasses.)

So for my random thoughts. I finally remembered one of them. I thought of it months ago but I finally remembered it while I was doing my A/N. So I'm not a big fan of Klaus. I know a lot of people are but I'm not. So as you can imagine I had no intention of watching The Originals. However upon watching the spin off pilot I have decided to watch it purely because whether I like him or not Klaus is Klaus and nobody tells him what to do. I want him to show that other one (whose name I can't remember) who's boss. Te-he. No one beats Klaus. Like him or loath him only our Mystic falls team can take him on and even stand a chance. (Just my opinion.) Okay no random story ideas this time. Moving on to Guest reviews.

To Guest 1, Good. I know a lot of people do like them. I try to remain as impartial to him as possible but it seems to come up in every fanfiction I read and people seem to completely change his character so that doesn't help but it's their choice so... Thank you. To Guest 2, Sorry for the delay but here's more now. To Guest 3, I'm glad you're curious I like to keep you interested. Sorry for the wait. To Guest 4, Thank you, I'm glad. So sorry about the wait, at least it wasn't quite so long. Thank you to you all from reviewing. They mean a lot.

So I hope you enjoyed it, let me know what you think and see you in the next chapter. (*smiles*)