Always and forever Logs

Never Tear us Apart - 7

Flashback

Several months before in Toronto

He walked into his apartment. His phone rang and he looked at the display. It said Selena. Joel tossed the phone away on the sofa. 

"You always want something brighter and better. Great is not good enough for you."- Alex's words bounced in his head. 

He opened the fridge and there were only two bottles of water, He took one.

"What I want is what everyone wants- someone to love me back and get me for me!"- he mumbled. And as he said that a sharp pain ran through his chest as if he had experienced his heart clumping up leaving him breathless for a moment. He sat down on the chair and as the pain came, so it went. He sat quiet for a moment and then took a sip of water.

"Need to get some sleep!"- he muttered to himself.

In New Orleans, Sophie whispered something as she leaned over Elijah's body.

"mare yo nanm ansam" 

Those words were rigning in Joel's head now and again.

In Mystic Falls

Elena now moved slightly out of Joel's embrace facing him. He looked at her with love and brushed her tears off with his thumb.

"My head screams - GET OUT OF HERE AS FAST AS YOU CAN,  but my heart on the other hand shouts - THIS IS HOME- SHE IS YOUR HOME-  this why had to come and find you...and even if your friend didn't call me I would have looked for you. It was empty without you. And I worked all hours just to get this feeling out of me, telling myself you are just one of many women I have been with. But when I was home in the night, I would think of you. Like you said on the post-it- Always and Forever."

Elena now kissed him. 

All these streets look different, like I'm born again

There in the dark, down in the valley
Under the motel neon sign
Room 105, the back of the alley
You're wearing my coat while sleeping

It feels like I've come home

It's hard for the dreams when the city's never sleeping
But we're gonna make it, though we don't know how
I pay a high price for the joy of the free ride
'Cause I got you, and now that's all that counts

******

A month later, in Toronto

"Do you want your steak rare or medium"- Joel shouted from the kitchen preparing to cook.

"Medium."- Elena answered and then continued typing in her diary-

'From time to time Joel is like Elijah in some ways. Maybe it is me. Stefan says that it is the doppelganger effect. Joel told me the other day that he feels like Elijah's spirit is with him, as he dreams of things that he doesn't know where they come from, especially stuff from being a boy in Mystic Falls. 

Everyone in the hospital, especially his friends, wondered what I had done to him. He told them that I am an enchantress from a very strange town where people believe in witches and vampires and very strange things occur there. It is his way of joking about it all. They don't know that they have a vampire now working alongside them."