I sit on Elena's bed, twisting the mood ring on my finger as Elena gets ready. I'm wearing a black dress, it didn't show much, it was a simple dress, black, not too long, not too short with my mom's locket and golden beaded earrings.
Jeremy walks into the doorway and raps his knuckles against the wall. He enters the room as Elena finishes putting her earrings in.
"We're almost ready." Elena says.
Jeremy nods.
"Yeah, take your time." Elena exhales.
"John wanted me to give you this." Jeremy says to the two of us, I stand and look in confusion at the letter in his hand.
He gives me the letter and Elena the gilbert ring. Elena hesitantly takes it and looks up at Jeremy. Jeremy starts to leave the room.
"Jeremy..." Elena calls out to him.
Jeremy turns back and looks at us. "I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry that you've lost so many people."
Jeremy smiles lightly. "I still have you." He then looks over at me.
"And you" I force a smile on my face and stand, we all embrace, glad we have each other. We're family, they're my family.
(Cue song)
Jeremy leaves, and I look at Elena, wiping the tears on my eyes. "John wanted us to read this," I say, in realization, holding up the letter.
"Together" Elena manages a smile and we walk over to her window seat and sit down. We open the letter and start to read.
"Elena, Ariel...it's no easy task being an ordinary parent to extraordinary children. I failed in that task."
The Salvatore's, Gilberts, Caroline, Bonnie and Alaric all walk through the graveyard, walking towards the newly dug graves for Jenna and John.
"And because of my prejudices, I failed you both. I'm haunted by how things might have played out differently. If I'd been more willing to hear your sides of things."
Stefan has his hand on the small of Elena's back and leads everyone to the gravesite of Jenna and John. Elena has four roses clutched in her hands, and Ariel holds five.
She kneels down and places two roses on a grave plot, one for John and one for Jenna.
Ariel placed down her own red roses for them, letting the tears stain her face.
"For me, it's the end. For you two, a chance to grow old and someday do better with your own children than I did with mine. It's for those children that I give you my ring."
Teary-eyed, Elena approaches her parent's graves. She looks down at the tombstone, kneels, and places the remaining two roses on their graves.
Ariel stands up and clutches the last 3 red rose tight in hand, standing beside Jeremy.
Alaric places his own red rose on Jenna's grave and stands back.
Ariel holds the last three roses tightly before going off a few graves over, finding her mothers and sisters, running a hand across their names before putting them down.
She left the group, going to the Salvatore's mausoleum. She found Zach's grave plot and placed the red rose in the small vase next to his name. Ariel smiled lightly at his name before going back to join the rest.
"I don't ask for your forgiveness or for you to forget. I ask only that you believe this. Whether you are now reading this as a human or as a vampire, both of you. I love you all the same as I've always loved you, and always will.
John. "
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The Sacrifice
Fanfiction"He's one of the originals, he's a legend" "From the first generation of vampires" After the drama from Season 1, Ariel and Elena are introduced to Katherine, who brought a great deal of evil into their town. Klaus Mikaelson, the original vampire...
