2010

Damon opened his eyes and looked around. He was on his bed and He found Stefan and Elena coming to his side. He straightened up as Stefan handed him 2-3 blood bags. He nodded silently at him. He drank ot quietly

He bent over a little to see The girl from the other night. She was reading something. Jonathan Gilbert's Journal.

'What happened to me?' He asked now as he focused on her. She still didn't look answered.

'Katherine snapped your neck. She brought you back.' Stefan said pointing towards her.

Damon jumped from his bed and moved towards her. He snatched the journal from her hands.

'Hey! I was reading that.' She huffed.

'Who are you exactly and how did know about Katherine and all this stuff?' He asked coldly.

She shivered under his gaze. She never heard her father talk in this tone. To anyone. Maybe some impolite bar customers. But never to her or Ella .He was warm. Maybe snarky or sarcastic but never this cold. She looked in his eyes. All she could see was anger and coldness. She moved away from his gaze. She battled in her mind now. Should she tell him that she is his daughter or about the future?

She came out of her thoughts when Damon coughed loudly. She looked

up and shook her head which made Damon confused. Before he could say anything , she replied.

' I am from future. 30 years to be precise. I got here because a friend of mine got the spell wrong. She is another timeline and I can get out of here only if I fix things here.' She lied.

Damon didn't looked convinced . He asked.

' How do you know us?'

' I don't know you. I am getting visions of this timeline.'

'So what actually happened with Katherine in this timeline or in past or whatever?' Elena asked.

That was a tough one. She couldn't tell them that her dad kissed Katherine thinking it to be her mom. Only it would ruin . let's skip it.

'She pretended to be you and got invited in. She stabbed John.'

Elena grabbed her head now.

'John is okay BTW. He was going to kill Anna.'

'Why does Anna matter?' Damon asked.

'In this timeline when she died, your brother tried to kill himself. He had vampire blood in his system.' She stated.

Elena looked stunned . She was going to ask something but Stefanie read her mind.

'No, he didn't turn. Don't worry. I will have Katherine all sorted out.'

She snatched back the journal from Damon who scowled. She glared back at him.

'What is your name?' Damon asked now.

'MJ' She answered. She went out of the room with journal in her hand.

Once she was out of earshot, Damon gestured Stefan to close the door. Then he asked.

'How did I get here and for how long I have been out? '

'MJ brought you back. You have out the whole night.'

Stefan started to tell him what happened. The device. How she saved them. How Katherine would have staked her considering her bloodied clothes. She stayed the whole night by his side while he was unconscious.

'Can we trust her?' Damon questioned.

'Bonnie said we can. She said she saw something . Like white light. Happiness. Trust .Hope. She got the feeling that we can trust her.' Elena replied.

Damon seemed to think about that.

'What is she ?'

'A vampire. I saw her drinking blood.' Stefan answered.

'But she wasn't affected by Gilbert device. When she saved me , fire mived away. As if flames didn't want to hurt her.' He whispered.

Stefan and Elena looked at each other.

'I will ask Bonnie.'

'What the girl now?' Damon stood up went towards his bathroom. He looked at his face and smirked. Handsome as ever.

'She is staying here.'

Damon just nodded before Stefan left the room. He needed to know this girl. MJ , her name was. He can't just trust her. He needed to know more about her. If she was here to harm Stefan or Elena, he needed to protect them. Now , they had a crazy ex on loose too. More problems.

He came out of this thoughts as he saw Elena approaching him. She looked at him for a moment before embracing him. He tensed for a moment but returned it back lightly. She confused him. Sometimes she showed that she cared. Sometimes she hated him. He knew he could trust her but didn't know if she trusted her . She broke off the hug.

' I was scared. I thought you were going to die.'

He nodded and moved away. He thought about last night. How he thought he was going to confess his feelings for her. But it seemed like a bad idea . Now that his head was clear. When he woke up, he saw Elena and Stefan holding each other's hand. They standing so close to each other. Besides she was his brother's girl. Elena was like sun to him now and he was a moth. But it didn't mean he didn't have any chances with her. He would charm her someday.

He went downstairs to find MJ reading the journal. She didn't look up and kept reading as if no one was around but he needed some answers. He snatched it again to divert her attention to him.

She huffed. ' Stop , doing that. It is rude.' She crossed her arms.

'How do we know that we can trust you. Because we trusted that Sabrina and look where she got us. ' He threw his hands in the air.

'I saved you. Didn't I? Also , if I fix things in this time. I can go back. So I am helping you and myself . You can trust me. ' She answered earnestly.

Something made him believe whatever she was telling him but he didn't want to. As If there was no other option than to believe her. He nodded.

He gave her back which she took gladly. Before she went back to her reading , he uttered.

' Listen, if you are going to feed , we have blood bags here. In the basement. Buy don't feed on people. We have our own Vampire Police .' He grimaced at the thought of Bonnie.

'Dont worry about my feeding. I can't drink from the vein. So blood bags it is.' She replied and went back to her reading. She looked up again to say something to a stunned Damon

'And now if snatch it from my hands, I will thrash you from this only.' She pointed a finger at him warning and started reading.

She never got to read these. Usually, they were in school. But They were issued to witches to learn about Emily's inventions or to teachers. She loved reading besides Jonathan Gilbert was her maternal ancestor. So, it was one of her birth rights to read it.

As she read deeply, Damon turned around and took a glass of Bourbon. He sat down and sipped it. There was another question jumping around. Why was Katherine here? What were the Lockwood's ? They needed to know or else, they could be in real danger.

It was night. Caroline was injured after the accident. For now, she was awake. Her head hurt because if which she felt dizzy and bit of nausea.

Almost there was no one around. Maybe because of the night shift probably. She heard footsteps in the empty hallway.

Someone entered her room. Elena. This time of the night.

'Elena!?' She questioned.

She smiled at her. Not like her usual kind but it was something else. A smile only a maniac can bit her wrist .

She came to her face and said something which made her drink her blood.

' I am Katherine and now you will be my little spy.' Then she snapped Caroline's neck.

2012

' I can't do this anymore, Caroline. In future, you married Stefan and I died. We won't be together. I am leaving the Mystic Falls. There is nothing left for me anymore.' Tyler's words were really ringing in her mind. He had left the town the day before. He was confused about this whole thing like her. She has been visiting to hospitals with her mother. For now , her mother's health was normal.

She got the news of the Twins and Ric to go meet their biological mother and relatives from her side. She didn't know everything for now but they needed to discuss something called the Merge.

She was in her house now and heard someone knocking She knew in a moment who it was . Stefan . She was avoiding him for a week since their last conversation. She didn't go to boarding house because else she would see her future self preparing for wedding which was currently now on hold because of Stefanie being another time.

She got up and opened the door. Stefan looked at her for a moment and entered.

'How are you?' She asked him.

'I am just...' He trailed off.

' feeling weird.' She completed for him.

He nodded and smiled gratefully.

'Why ?' She knew the why. But if the words didn't kept flowing, things would awkward.

'Because of Damon . I mean , human mainly.'

'Why ? what happened?' She crossed her arms.

' Apparently, he needs glasses to read now. I can't tell the look on our Damon's face when he saw himself reading a newspaper with glasses.'. He chuckled at which Caroline smiled. He remembered something and spit it out.

'Also , When Human Damon saw his Vampire self drink human blood, he literally ran to the bathroom. He puked his guts. ' Caroline snorted at this.

'Damon as a Human. Never thought this could happen.' She still laughed.

'What else is happening?' She asked now. She didn't want to discuss anything related to her for now.

'Enzo had a girl named Maggie. But Damon killed her. But Future Enzo lied to his past self saying that she died 3 years back. He prevented a huge fight trust me.' He sighed.

'Why did he lie?' She questioned.

' He said something like forgiving Damon and preventing old mistakes. Besides Future Bonnie and him are a thing but as far as I know our Bonnie doesn't like him and Enzo is just sad.'

'How is Stefanie? I saw a new memory. This time Katherine fed me her blood and snapped my neck. Saying that she needs spy.' She rubbed her neck unconsciously.

'Stefanie.. Hope and Both Bonnie are trying. Damon has his concerns considering He is Damon.' At this Caroline nodded.

'Also because of Klaus.' She alerted at that.

'Everyone is trying. That is why our Bonnie is so much in the boarding house. They sent her message.'

'There is one thing I can't put my finger on. If Klaus is dead in future, How come I am not? I am from his sire line.' She looked at him.

' I asked Hope. She told me that someone broke Klaus's sire line and used that power to ressurect Kol. Before you ask me anything else, how are you?'

'Tyler and I broke up. ' She looked down at her hands.

He came to her side and wrapped his arm around her.

' Don't worry. Everything is ..'

'Going to be fine? I don't feel fine. Okay? You are my future husband. That what makes the whole situation tense. I hate it so much.' She yelled.

She eyed Stefan who looked hurt but he spoke.

' I was hurt. Knowing the future. Damon and Elena are together. I have 2 nieces. One is stuck in another time and the other one jumps around calling me Uncle Steffy. and I love that. I see them together and I see how she changed him. How much my relationship with him is much he is happy. He forgave me, Caroline. I wanted that for a century. I am happy because of that. I guess I am not sad anymore because maybe I needed my brother more.' He took her hands and she looked at him.

' I don't know Caroline how or when we got together but we , I mean our future selves are happy. Even if I moved on in future, I am happy that it is you.'

' I didn't pop out the sky to come back as your therapist.' Camille said while she comfortably on the couch as Klaus turned to look at her.

It was pleasant in New Orleans. They took care of most things. Like Vincent. They helped him get the children that his wife was trying to sacrifice for more power. He was grateful for it. Harvest girls were back to life but Davina suffered in this time too. The Anchestors were cold to her just like the Harvest girls. Marcel tried to cheer her up but no use. Kol was one the make her life probably because of successful married life in future. It was funny for them to see Davina fry Kol's head whenever he came near her before. But she became his friend and felt the attraction towards him. But didn't admit it.

Past Freya had arrived in the compound to meet everyone and tell her identity but Future Klaus didn't let her complete as he embraced her. Freya couldn't believe but she saw herself pregnant. Klaus explained to her the whole situation. This relieved her little about Dahlia situation because she couldn't feel her presence anymore. As if vanished in thin air. Past Klaus didn't trust Freya but wasn't cold to herike last time.

Hayley had thanked Freya for taking care of Hope despite having a kid of her own. Keelin and Freya had their firstborn who was a boy with a werewolf gene and witch abilities. Freya was pregnant with another baby. She was hoping it to be a girl .Hayley was happy for her because Freya always put family first before everything. She broke up with Keelin because of the love for family. She deserved happiness. She was a maternal figure for Hope for such a long time. After Hayley died, she was just phone call away from Hope. She was there whenever Hope needed her.

Future Davina and Future Marcel besides there romance's , looked for Josh but they couldn't find him. Maybe some months later because at this time, Josh didn't come to visit New Orleans and became a vampire.

Klaus chuckled at that. He looked meaningfully at Camille.

'You know when Marcel tortured me for five years or When the Hollow was inside me, your voice and your visions comforted me. They didn't let me go mad in rage.'

Cami looked speechless at this. She then smiled at him.

' There is someone I want you to meet. She was quite excited herself to meet you before.'

'Who?'

'Caroline.' She laughed at this.

'You know , I was proud of you when you sacrificed yourself to save everyone. I had faith in you and you didn't fail me. You are the man that believed you to be.' She got up and came towards him. She put her arms around his neck and kissed him.

'When this is all sorted out, we are going to Mystic Falls. You will meet Hope.'

' Let me concentrate, Damon or I will fry your brain.' Bonnie warned human Damon as both her and Hope were looking for a spell. But as Hope had written the spell, it was nearly impossible to return it back but she tried. They were trying to send her a message.

Damon backed off but he wasn't relaxed. They had been here for a week now. He wanted to help them but how could he? His head was all messed up because he was getting new memories of 2010 and this time too. He had a new memory of their first time , also he had another one about blood sharing between him and Elena. He didn't tell them for this time but these memories were good.

Another one was Stefanie smoking a joint. He thought she had quit but she didn't. He would deal with that later but first he had to make sure that she was safe. His daughter was smart as she didn't reveal her true identity to them. Maybe because she didn't want to mess up their timeline. Atleast she saved him from kissing Katherine and killing Jeremy. Also she saved Anna. She was back now.

They had asked Anna how she got back. She answered by saying that she felt as if someone pushed her from the Other Side. She got her new memories of the time she was dead. Mostly memories of her included travelling for some time and coming in Mystic Falls by this time. Jeremy was confused about his Bonnie's relationship but she broke up with him. She was sure that he still loved Anna. So, she freed him from her side.

For human Damon and Elena, this time was kind of a vacation. They were mostly busy with their work or kids. Elena had her own practice but she remained busy. Damon had his own bar but it was a little bit tough for him. When he was a vampire, he could compel people. But as soon as he became human, he couldn't do make people work for him or mostly be less stupid. It was tough but manageable. He was still getting used to being human . He had injuries but it didn't heal faster. He had cold and according to him, it was like werewolf bite to him. He was getting older. He wore glasses which both Stefans to laugh at him. He got exhausted. But he was happy to be one. He had the life he wanted and that too with Elena. He was quite grateful for that Sometime, he wish he could forget that he was nearly 200 years old not 40 something guy. But Stefanie didn't let him forget that. She made fun of his age which made Elena join her too. Ella was too young to know his age but sometimes Stefanie made her call him Grandpa.

Caroline was, on the other hand upset. Twins went to see Jo and her family. Maybe she was just insecure about losing them. In the end of the day, she is just their surrogate mother. Stefan had comforted her and she relaxed a bit. She was at least happy that Carol Lockwood wasn't murdered this time.

Hope jumped back after she found something on her grandmother's grimoire.

' I think I found a spell.' She handed it to Bonnie who nodded in appreciation .

'Get a paper. We can send her a message.'

Damon raced towards him and got a pen and paper. Bonnie gestured him to write .

Be careful and don't blow her cover. He thought. He penned it down and handed it to Bonnie who nodded as if okaying it.

'Hey, write down the spell we using. What If she wants to reply back?' Hope immediately took it from her hand and wrote the spell as Bonnie explained him the spell . Wherever Stefanie will be, she will get the message written by them.

'How would she reply back as he studied the spell and added something else to the letter.

' My past self will help her.'

' The time in which she is stuck, in that time you hated vampires.How will you help her.'

' As I recall from my memories, I trust her. I will help her.' She took the message from his hand and folded it.

Bonnie sat down and made the circle from the salt and held hands with Hope as they started chanting the spell. The message disappeared as soon as they completed the spell.

'It's done.' Bonnie said as she stood up.

2010

Stefanie was at Gilbert house now as she remembered that Katherine would try to harm Jenna. She explained the situation to Elena who took her offer. It was hard ti convince Damon though but he gave in after a long time.

She smiled when she thought about Jenna. She had talked to her and she was charmed by her. She was fun and bubbly. It would be so great to have a cool grandma. She was glad for the first time that her name had Jenna. She was named after dead people which didn't make her quite happy.

Something came out in the thin air . A paper. She took it and recognized her dad's handwriting.

Hey ,We are trying to get you out of this time zone. But we have found nothing till now. I just wanted to say that whatever you do , keep yourself safe because Klaus will be coming and he was more of a dick in the time you are in.Be careful.

PS: Spell is written down so you can reply back. Ask her Bonnie for help.

She saw a spell written through which she could reply back. Then something else caught her eye.

PPS: Chainsmoker Alert!! We are gonna have a talk about this, young lady.

She rolled her eyes at this .She remembered something else. Caroline.

Caroline woke up to find Stefan and A girl. By their bedside. The girl gave Stefan a look and he started to remove the tubes out of her arms.

He picked her swiftly. Caroline wanted to say something but Stefan shushed her. She remained quiet as she saw Stefanie doing the same trick on the nurse as Katherine doing on her. Katherine. She couldn't speak much as both of them sped away ro the boarding house. It was middle of the night and she found Damon, Elena and Bonnie waiting for her.

Stefan put her on the couch. She clutched her head and looked at Elena.

'You killed me!!' She yelled at her.

'I am Elena.' This made Caroline relaxed but she couldn't understand the situation. Suddenly, it fit.

'I am a vampire.' She put a hand on her mouth. The girl immediately offered her blood bag and without any question, Caroline jumped at it.

Elena and Bonnie looked at MJ horrified and to Caroline who completed her transition.

'Katherine. She told me that she loves a little spy.' Caroline looked at them. Elena and Bonnie looked at MJ who started to speak.

'Dont worry I will handle her. I will teach you how to handle your bloodlust. You can come too, Bambi.' She dismissed them and came towards Damon and whispered so low that no one could hear.

'She is going to kick your ass.' She patted his shoulder and came towards Bonnie . She showed her the spell.

'I need help. Can you?' Bonnie nodded. She asked her to get stuff from her house and instructed her on how and where she would get it.

MJ left the room. Damon and Stefan were having a talk about killing Caroline. Stefan was against as Caroline glared at Damon.

MJ came back in five minutes woth stuff . She heard them arguing and joined it too.

'No, you cannot kill her.' She crossed her arms.

' That is our decision. Vamp girl.' Damon replied.

'It is MJ and It is her life and you can't decide.'

'She will not survive this. Her mother hunts vampire. Remember what happened to Vicky.We don't need a Vampire Barbie blowing our cover. ' He looked at Stefan whose face was unreadable.

'No, you cannot kill her. Trust me. I will help her. I will teach her whatever I have been taught.' She said looking at her.

'What do you mean taught?' Stefan asked.

'I study in a school of witches, werewolves and vampires. They teach us to control bloodlust. Mainly to not become a Ripper. Also ...' She wanted to continue but she was cut off by Damon.

'Werewolves don't exist.' Damon said.

'They do. Lockwood' are werewolves.'

'I told you Richard Lockwood was something supernatural. We should do something about it.'

' I will tell you all about it but I need to something she gestured Bonnie ti do the spell. She made a salt boundary. She held MJ's hand and spelled. The letter disappeared. Bonnie looked at her in shock . MJ couldn't understand the look.

'Come with me.' Bonnie took MJ out by hand and took her outside.

' I know who you are.' Bonnie crossed her arms.

'What do you mean?' A hint of sweat came on her forehead.

'Stefanie Miranda Jenna Salvatore.' It shocked MJ as she hushed Bonnie to be silent.

'Dont tell my real identity. Mom and dad are not in love. I don't wanna mess up this timeline.'

' I won't. I trust you because you are Elena's daughter.' She smiled at her.

'How did you know?'

'When I did the spell, I got sime visions. Enough to tell your identity.'

'Oh. Hey, make a daylight ring for her. For Caroline.'

Bonnie looked reluctant but nodded anyways.

'I wanted to ask about myself. What is happening with me?' She wanted to say more but Bonnie stopped her.

'Ask Sam.' She replied and went her way.

2012

Dahlia opened her eyes. She was in the woods . Near Bayou for sure because she hear the wolfs howling. She was found someone in front of her. But she couldn't make out the stranger. Last thing , she remembers was that someone hitting her with a injection full of herbs to render would witch's magic which made faint. Now, it was almost midnight. She couldn't see his face. She got up and started to move towards him. She came in front of him . She still couldn't see anything. She whispered something under her breath and a fire lit in a moment.

She could see a tall man with handsome face. There was a light about him which Dahlia couldn't make out. He had green eyes which were burning in fury at the sight of her.

'Who are you?' She asked him sternly. After she had to collect a debt, her sister had promised millennia ago.

' I don't think you need to know my name because you are going to die. Don't wanna be the bad guy.' He said coolly. She laughed at this. He was just a kid in front of her and she was at least millennia older than him. She stopped laughing and glared at him.

'You are fool to even think about that.' She muttered some spells but nothing happened.

'Witchy problem?' He asked amused.

'What did you do to me? I just lit a fire.' She asked. She caught off the guard . She couldn't use magic against her defense.

'For starters , magic doesn't harm. To make it clear, No magic can hurt me. ' He came towards her and grabbed her neck. He lifted her up which made her choke.

' My... niece...is linked ...to me.' Ehe stammered.

' What do you think I have been doing all this time? This time death won't bring you peace be ready to rot in hell.'

'Why are doing this to me? You don't even know me.' She whimpered in fear.

'I know enough to know that you just a power hungry maggot. And you would just ruin my plan. Let's just give you that now.'

He put her down and grabbed her hands and started the transfer of power.

She felt a rush she couldn't describe. She had the power enough to live her life for two or three millennia without sleeping curse. She tried to break away from him but she couldn't. The man in front of her looked absolutely same to her.There was no restlessness or pain because of the transfer.

He continued doing the transfer. She started to feel the pain. It was like her body weighed down because of a burden. She couldn't think straight but felt tears coming out her eyes but it was painful. Blood was coming out of her eyes. She felt as if her body wood tear up in any second and then she felt darkness. He left her hands and let her fall on the ground. She died painfully.

'Lets give you what I promised.' He saw the fire in front of him. He muttered something and snapped his fingers.

He shook his head at the figure which came from fire.

' Arcadius.' He said.

'They call me Cade.' He replied coldly.

'So much venom in your tone. I thought we were friends.'

'You haven't remembered me in like thousand years. What do you need now.' Cade looked in no mood to budge.

' I have soul for you. Dahlia to be precise. I am not allowing her to live with Ancestors. Take her to hell with you. She will be near The Anchor. Find her and burn her.' He ordered and turned away. He started to walk away.

Cade called him out.

'I am not your bitch. I would have been happy before but if you are offering something, I am not going to take it.' He spat in anger and he came out of the fire.

The man stopped and turned back. He came towards him.

' I maybe two thousand years younger than you, but my power is billion times more than yours. I can kill you easily.' He said while checked his nails.

' No one can kill me.' Cade said confidently.

' You don't need to give that sad little demo on you body. Let me try.' He muttered some spells and fire started around Cade at he laughed.

'Fire cannot hurt me.' The man shook his head and fire came near Cade . As soon as flame touched him, he started groaning in pain. He yelled in pain as flames covered his body. Fire went out now. He touched himself and was surprised to find burns on his body. He was immortal. How could this happen?

He broke his train of thoughts as he saw the man coming towards him. Cade couldn't do anything as the man lunged a hand towards his chest. He felt a grip on his heart. He felt as if life squeezing out of his body.

The man backed away soon as he shaked his hand to get rid of the blood.

'Do as I say and it will be much worse.' He said sternly.

Cade looked helpless. He just nodded silently and the man walked away.

He gave his goodbye.

'Samael.' His head down.

The man turned back and replied in the same coldness Cade had used.

'They call me Sam.'