Consequence - Last Chapter

7/28/2019 Consequence - Last Chapter

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Caroline had never noticed how terrifying Bonnie could be when she was working a spell, this

one in particular seemed incredibly gruelling, and Bonnie didn't look like herself, all the flames

in the little candles had swollen to an abnormal size and as they did the temperature in the roombecame sweltering. Caroline held onto Damon's hand who squeezed every now and then as the

pain surged through him but they weren't even at the worst part yet. Bonnie was muttering her

spell that forced Tyler to turn and he was screaming over the sounds of her chanting, this wasreally creepy, since the only light in the room was coming from the dozens of candles spread

across Damon's bedroom floor. The minute Tyler had changed Damon was the one who started

screaming, there was yelping coming from the grey wolf that was Tyler but Damon's screamswere by far the worst thing that Caroline had ever heard in her life. He was in agonizing pain, he

had to be if he was clutching at Caroline the way he was.

Caroline was so focused on Damon's contorting form that she hadn't even noticed that Bonnie

had done something to Tyler as she moved over and laid her hands on Damon. He folded in waysthat were completely unnatural until Caroline was forced to let go of him and move backwards.

There was just no room for her on his huge bed while he was twisting that way. She felt like

crying but she forced herself not to, instead she retreated to the space in the room that wasoccupied by Jeremy who was frowning. Jeremy never really frowned, he was always the happy-

go-lucky kid, the kid who made jokes just so he didn't have to think about the seriousness of a

situation, Caroline knew because she did the same thing. But now the two of them were attached

to what was going on in this room and there was no escaping it.

Damon's back arched in a completely unnatural way and then he was lifted off the bed entirely,

Bonnie's hands never left him and he was screaming as if her touch was burning him. At first the

screams hadn't made sense but now he was beginning to form words and it scared Caroline more

than anything. He was begging Bonnie to stop, begging for her to kill him and Caroline felt thetears come to her. She wasn't crying or sobbing but the tears were running freely down her

cheeks as she put a hand to her mouth to stop herself from screaming herself. She didn't knowwhat to do, she was torn between sparing Damon anymore pain or letting Bonnie finish. If thisworked then it would be worth it, she forced herself to reconcile with that but she closed her eyes

but then opened them immediately, closing her eyes left only the sound of Damon's screaming

and that was somehow worse. She looked through the room instead and focused on Tyler whowas still in his wolf form, he was cowering in a corner though and shaking and making that

awful whining sound that dogs do.

She wanted to go towards him but then there was the fear of being bitten herself. She hated this

suddenly, unsure of why she'd been so determined to stay here, and now she was fastened to thisplace, forced to stick it out. She felt a sudden relief as Jeremy reached out and took her hand in

his, he was still frowning and there was nothing the two of them could do but stand there in their

corner and wait it out. So that's what they did for what seemed like hours before Damon's awfulpleas just turned to silence and his eyes rolled into the back of his head. It was another long

while though before he came back down onto the bed, Caroline knew it was over though because

Tyler had changed back, she rushed over to him, just wanting to be close to him. He wasn't as

shaken up as she thought he would be, he wasn't shaking or disoriented like the last time, he alsodidn't seem exhausted as she pulled his clothes over to where he was and pulled him into her

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aggressively and Caroline welcomed it, feeling relieved to have some kind of contact again. But

they were torn from their little haven at the sound of Jeremy's voice.

"Christ." That didn't sound good at all and Caroline's heart sank at the words that she knew werecoming. She had expected them ever since she'd seen Damon. There was just no way someone

came back from that.

"It didn't work." Bonnie was crying, leaning her head onto the side of the bed and holding onto

Damon's hand. Caroline was surprised to see Bonnie so upset but she knew that her friend wasprobably exhausted and drained and way too determined to help Elena to think straight right

now. Jeremy saw the same thing as he peeled her away and took her up in a fireman hold and

carried her out of the room. Caroline moved over to Damon and felt the tears fall down her cheekagain.

She'd seen Damon asleep before, he'd slept in her bed and she was surprised how peaceful he

looked now, the wound was still there on his arm, it didn't look like it had healed but his skin

wasn't so weird anymore, it looked like marble stone with the delicate lines that were embeddedin him. She couldn't comprehend that Damon could die, all the times they'd gotten threats and

gotten into fights and battles even Damon had been the one to save everybody. Reluctant as he

was to admit that he liked being the good guy, Damon had always been the rock everyone

counted on. Caroline looked up from where she'd been staring at Damon's face and then reachedfor the towel that had been there. She wiped the remaining sweat off his brow and chest and then

stood aside quietly as she waited for Elena to come up the steps.

Elena didn't know what she had expected when she walked into that room, she had thought she

would go hysterical or crazy, she thought at least she would scream but instead there were justtears. She had been masking her sobs so Damon wouldn't hear her and for some reason she still

felt as if he shouldn't hear her cry. His eyes were closed and his skin looked like intricatelycarved marble as he laid on the bed and Elena just felt tears streaming down her cheeks. She

shuddered at how peaceful Damon looked, the softness of his sleeping face as he dreamt

peacefully, it lingered there, as if he was just asleep. But the tinge of his skin and the harshness

of the daylight streaming through the windows told her otherwise. And the grief struck her, thetrue extent of her loss as she thought of the sweet taste of his skin and the warmth of his arms

around her.

And the sound of his voice, the sound of her name on his lips would never be heard again and

now she did cry, she didn't sob or scream but she let herself cry as she crawled into the bed withDamon and held onto him. There was nothing in this world that could mend the loss she felt right

now, she had lost the person who was so much a part of her it hurt. She lost him, his impossibly

blue eyes and that awful smirk, and the softness of his hands. Damn him and his heroic antics,trying to save her, everything he'd ever done was to save her. And now he was dead. She cried

again and laid there unable to do anything else but hold onto him, hold onto the man that she

loved. The only man who would ever truly be one half of her. She had lost the other half ofherself, and now she felt completely and utterly lost.


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Elena was in the bed with Damon for hours, first she cried and then the crying turned to soft little

whimpers until finally she was just laying there. Eyes open, she didn't even blink and Caroline

was starting to get worried. This wasn't right, Caroline had never seen Elena this broken and itbroke her heart. Elena was frozen, and Caroline could only vaguely comprehend it, she couldn't

imagine being so hurt you couldn't move. But this wasn't right, she was laying on Damon's chestas if she expected him to move, as if until he did she couldn't function and Caroline thought thatmight be entirely true. Caroline didn't know what to do, she'd never lost someone the way Elena

had, she'd never felt this kind of loss and grief and she didn't know what to do or say to make

things right. She didn't believe there was anything that would make this right. Make it make

sense. She moved around the bed and knelt down on the other side of Damon so she could lookElena in the eye. She shouldn't have done that, Elena's dark eyes were lost in her grief and they

looked empty. Elena always had these big beautiful soulful eyes that Caroline had always been

slightly jealous of but now she just looked so damaged.

"Elena I'm-"

"Don't. Don't say you're sorry. Don't say it."

"Elena, don't do this to yourself." Caroline placed her hand over Elena's on Damon's chest.

"I can't- I can't move."

"Elena, Damon loved you. He wouldn't want you to do this, you're clinging to his body but that's

not him."

"Caroline, I can't move." Tears came back to her. "I can't do anything, I can't bring him back.

And I can't be without him. I don't know what to do, I don't know how this happened, and I don'tknow how to fix it. I can't fix myself, I don't know- I just-"

"Oh Elena." Caroline reached out and took Elena's hand in both of hers. She didn't know what tosay to her, she knew there was nothing to comfort Elena.

"I got one day. I was really, really happy for one whole day. He was making love to me in this

bed two nights ago. And now he's dead. And I- I can't move. So I'm not going to."

"Okay." Caroline didn't know what else to say so instead she rocked back on her heels and sat

there holding Elena's hand for as long as she needed to.

Elena couldn't move from the place that she'd settled in, she couldn't cry or be hysterical or beangry at Damon or Bonnie or even Tyler right now. She just couldn't, she knew that everyone

was waiting for her to do something. Her not moving was unsettling to everyone and even

though she didn't want that she just couldn't bring herself to move. She'd lost any sense ofpurpose or drive and mostly it was just because she didn't know what to do. She just didn't know.

Where was she supposed to go from here? Her love for Damon hadn't ended with his death and


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that was what hurt so much, all she could ever imagine wanting was him. Just him. She didn't

need anything else, and since the only thing she needed was gone, now she was stuck here in this

place that was making everyone else uncomfortable and worried. She didn't know how to explainto Caroline the complete and utter malfunction that was occurring right now. How could she

possibly understand? Elena didn't want her to understand. She understood how people died of

broken hearts, it was like losing a limb, except it felt like she had lost her heart. Her core haddisappeared with Damon and she had nothing left of herself to keep her running.

And so she would just stay here, like she had said to Caroline, all she could do was lay here and

hope for something to change. But right now all she wished for was that she could disappear, like

Damon, maybe she could just fade away and be nothing. She felt like nothing, empty and hollow.Maybe she could just go away, if she stayed here long enough.

Bonnie woke up next to Jeremy, she recognized the spicy smell of his cologne before she even

opened her eyes and she stretched herself in his arms, feeling the soreness of her bones and the

ache in her muscles and then she remembered the futility of her efforts. She remembered Elenaand Damon and she remembered how Damon hadn't woken up and she sat up in the bed. Jeremy

sat up with her and checked his watch before he settled his arms around her again.

"How long have I been sleeping?" This part of her powers were completely frustrating, after a

spell like this she would simply be knocked out and sleep for hours on end without evenrealizing and having any sense of time. Her body needed to recuperate but it was disheartening

when she knew, she could feel that her friends needed her.

"Just a couple of hours." She got up out of the bed not caring about the fact that she was still

wearing the same outfit and that she probably desperately needed a shower and headed out the

unfamiliar room into the hallways of the boarding house.

When she came into the room all she saw was Elena lying over Damon's chest and Caroline on

the other side of him kneeling at the edge of the bed and holding Elena's hand. Elena wasn'tcrying or sobbing, she seemed unnaturally still and Bonnie glanced over at Caroline who gave

her a meaningful and tear-filled look. Bonnie crawled into the bed behind Elena and wrapped her

arms around her best friend. She knew loss, she'd experienced it before and she knew the grief

that Elena was feeling, though she knew that this was worse. She and Damon had this thingthatwas hard to explain unless you witnessed it. And now Damon was gone, that was difficult to

digest even for Bonnie, Damon had always been. Well, Damon. There were no other words for

his vibrancy, and the way that even when he was being completely impossible his presence made

you feel safer. Bonnie had never been able to explain that, why Damon exuded such a sense ofstrength and power and yet he felt almost safe.

Bonnie felt Elena shake and start to cry again and Bonnie held on a bit tighter, it was all she

could do. She knew the pain, the sense that everything had been taken away. Just ripped awayfrom under your feet and the person who was usually there to catch you was the one you had

lost. Bonnie felt tears come to her at the memory of losing her grandmother, the sense that she

was completely and utterly alone overcame her again and she moved her hand over Elena and


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Caroline's. The three of them interlinked over the loss of Damon and that was all they could do.

Is stay here until Elena was ready to try and pick up the pieces.

It was only when it started getting dark again that the three girls started to talk again, Caroline sat

there quietly and hoped that Elena would be alright to get up and move, maybe leave this roomand get changed. They couldn't stay like this, even Caroline saw the dreadfulness in that the three

girls were poured over Damon's body as if it was still him and Caroline didn't believe it was

anymore though she was keeping it to herself. She couldn't begin to comprehend the sense ofloss that Elena felt right now, and though Caroline had cared for Damon she had never loved him

in the way that Elena did.

"Why did he do this?" Elena finally said after they'd been chatting about random things for a few

moments. The room was hot and had an orange glow to it because of the setting sun that wasshining through the large windows. "What was he thinking?"

"I don't think he was thinking Elena. He was trying to save me and Tyler, and save you."Caroline spoke softly, resting her chin on her arm on the edge of the bed.

"He never thought things through. He was pretty stupid like that." Bonnie snickered andmanaged to get Elena to close her eyes and smile.

"How could he do this? How could he leave us like this?" By us she meant her. Caroline knew

that Elena felt left behind, felt alone and Caroline couldn't really blame her. Bonnie had Jeremy

and Caroline had Tyler and though they were best friends nothing could ever compare to beingloved by the person who moved you so deeply it changed the way you viewed the world. Elena

started to cry again, really cry, her eyes pinched shut and she clung to her friends' hands as she

sobbed. Caroline couldn't hide the tears that were falling down her cheeks and she heard Bonniesniffling from behind Elena as the three girls stayed locked in each other's grief and the room

went dark with the fall of the night.

"You guys aresuch girls." Caroline's eyes flashed up to where Damon's face was and she thought

for a good long moment that she'd imagined it but Damon was looking at all three of them withan amused smile playing across his face and his eyes more blue than ever and Caroline couldn't

comprehend what had just happened. "Really all that weeping for little old me?" He grinned and

Caroline noticed that his voice was raspy and he actually looked incredibly tired but he wassmiling. Damon was smiling, and talking.

Caroline flung herself at him, completely unaware of what she was doing and she felt Bonnie'sarms around them too, she didn't think Damon would ever be a fan of group-hugs but this time

he seemed to be making an exception as he laughed. He laughed. Caroline found herselfmarveling at every movement he made. He shouldn't be alive, he'd been dead. Like really, really

dead. This was by far the strangest thing that she'd ever seen, and she was a vampire so the

statement was meaningful.


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Caroline suddenly realized that her presence was completely unnecessary at the moment since

Elena looked completely paralyzed still, she looked empty and glazed over and Caroline

imagined it would take some alone-time with Damon for her to fully grasp the fact that shehadn't lost him. Caroline grabbed Bonnie by the hand and pulled her off the bed and out the

room, closing the door behind them and leaving the two of them in peace. She sighed in sudden

relief and turned to look at Bonnie in the darkened hallway, she was still crying.

"That really happened? You saw that right?" Bonnie giggled in between her sniffles and Carolinelaughed with her as they moved through the darkened hallway of the boarding house and she

couldn't help but smile. After all the tears and the crying and the worry over Elena everything

seemed to have dropped and become light again.

"Yeah I did." Caroline answered but then turned to Bonnie in all seriousness. "How the hell did

that happen though."

"The spell must take a few hours, or maybe he has to die before he can come back. I'm not sure.

I'll look into it but right now I don't really care." She laughed again and wiped away the tears asJeremy came out one of the rooms and she went towards him. Caroline smiled to herself as she

bounded down the stairs to find Tyler.

Caroline hadn't expected to be so relieved to see Tyler but she literally took a breath as if she'd

never done that before and sank into his arms on the couch and nestled herself into his chest.

"Did I hear that right? Is Damon okay?" He asked her, quietly speaking the words into her hairand Caroline lifted her eyes to look into his. Those big puppy eyes, she smiled and nodded and

then held on to the fact that everything was going to be alright and she was safe right here. As

long as she stayed here. She cried, finally, whimpers escaping from her throat for the first timeall night and she covered her eyes for a second as Tyler moved them to sit up.

"Hey, hey what happened?"

"Damon's going to be fine."

"Well that's good right?" Tyler chuckled and Caroline nodded leaning into his warm frame. She

wrapped her arms around his neck and let him pull her into his lap but he leaned back a bit tolook at her. She placed a hand on his cheek.

"Don't ever get yourself killed." Caroline knew it sounded kind of stupid, and considering thefact that he was a werewolf and she was a vampire, it was a slightly ridiculous request to make

but she needed to make it. She didn't ever want to think about what would happen if she lost him.She wasn't nearly as strong and put together as Elena was, and Elena had been completely and

utterly broken. Caroline knew if it ever happened to her she would shatter, she wouldn't

recuperate from it. She'd be worse off than Elena was. She didn't ever want to go through it.Tyler just chuckled and tilted her chin up to look at him more clearly.


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"I'll do my best." He smiled and then kissed her. It was more than Caroline could have ever

wished for.

Elena was staring back at Damon as he said her name, she felt breathless, and frozen. Damon

was looking at her, with his blue eyes dazzling her even in the darkness of the night. She didn'tknow how this was possible but she was afraid to move or say anything in case she was

imagining it. She needed it to be real, wanted it with every fibre of her being. When he reached

out to touch her it was almost too much to bare. His touch scorched her, burned through her as ifit had broken through her and she could feel again.

"Damon" His name came out in a broken whisper and she closed her eyes finally allowing

herself to bask in the feeling of his hand on her skin, she leapt forward and held onto him

allowing herself to sob but in between her sobs she kissed every inch of his skin that wasavailable to her. She repeated his name over and over again and told him she loved him so many

times it almost lost it's meaning Damon pulled away just long enough so he could kiss her.

Sweetly and more softer than he'd ever kissed her before. It was the most chaste and sweetestthing he could have done and it invoked more tears from Elena. All she'd been doing all day was

crying and she didn't care anymore. She was home.

"I love you Elena." His voice was raspy and he looked just a little tired but he smiled at her.

"You ever do that to me again, and I'll kill you myself." he chuckled and Elena cried over thattoo. Everything about him was so beautiful and breathtaking and so, so precious. Elena didn't

want to waste a moment's breath on anything or anyone else. She let Damon push her back so he

was lying on top of her, she couldn't believe how lovely it felt to have him on top of her. To feel

the weight of him on her and the feeling of his breath on her skin, the way he smelled, the

softness of his hair and skin. The feeling she got when he placed butterfly kisses as he traileddown her body. She forgot everything else and let herself linger here, let herself stay here with

him. Those three words were said too often and couldn't possibly describe what she felt forDamon the devotion and the undying passion she had for him.

If all she could do right, was be here with Damon, just be here, she would do it forever.

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