The Sacrifice

The Last Dance - 4

Elena and I sit next to the fireplace with tears in our eyes. Stefan had draped a blanket around us, and we snuggled, leaning onto one another. 

"Hey. Here, drink this." Stefan tells us as he hands us some mugs filled with coffee. 

I take the glass and start to drink the hot liquid, needing it's warmth. This is like Vicki all over again, this is how I coped with my mother's death and Vicki's. Drinking anything warm and reading, painting, it always calmed me down when I thought about them. I thought I didn't have to lose anyone else after them. 

Guess I was wrong. 

So lost in thought I didn't register what Stefan and Elena were saying, only when Damon walked in is when I regained myself.

 "What did you do with her?!" She yells at him as soon as she lays eyes on him. 

"Will you please calm her down?" Damon asks of Stefan, Elena extends an arm behind her to Stefan, saying don't you dare. 

"Don't talk like I'm not standing right in front of you." Elena yells.

Damon puts his hands out as I stand right next to Stefan. "Please calm down."

"You knew! Didn't you? You knew that if she harnessed all that power, that she would die, didn't you?" Elena says through tears.

Damon nods. "Yes. Yes, I knew." 

She slaps him square in the face after he said that, but he wasn't even mad. 

Damon glances at her and me. 

"You need to listen to me, and prepare for what I'm about to say. Bonnie had to die. Klaus in Alaric's body was a total surprise. She wasn't prepared for that. And he wasn't going to stop, and we weren't going to be able to stop him until he knew she was dead. He had to believe it."

Wait, what?

"She cast a spell. Bonnie's okay."

Elena and I glance at each other and rush to each other, I let the blanket fall off my shoulder when we embrace. We sob, cry tears of joy. 

She's alive, she's alive.

Elena and I break into a smile when we see Bonnie's face via webcam.

"Bonnie!" We exclaim with joy when we see her.

Bonnie smiles. "You guys, I'm so sorry." Bonnie apologizes, her voice breaking.

I smile and wipe at the tears. "It's okay, it's okay. We just needed to see you for ourselves." I say shakily. Bonnie starts to crying. "There wasn't enough time for me to tell you." Bonnie exclaims.

Elena nods and smiles, her tears starting to dry on her face, "It's okay, seriously. Damon explained it all."

...............

When we finished talking with Bonnie, Elena went to go apologize with Damon for what she did, for slapping him, for accusing him. 

I went to my bedroom on the west side of the manor. I open the door and almost cry when I see my bed, my old bed. This isn't the room where I met Lexi for the first time. 

This is my old room. There is a picture of my mom on the nightstand, pictures of me with my best friends and family on my dresser. And at the corner was my painting/book section. 

I change out of my outfit and go for a pink shirt with flannel pajama bottoms

I got under the pillows and drifted to sleep.