The Other Mikealson

Your Back

~Damon~
Since Ava fell asleep, I went down to see Stefan alone. Thought it'd be best for all of us.

"Damon?" He asks. "Yep, unfortunately it's just me" When I get up to him and look at him, he nods. "So, you remember anything?" He's silent, and I put my head down. She's gonna be so upset about this.

"It came rushing back all at once! My head is pounding and my heart feels like it's gonna burst!" He shouts, pulling at his hair. "Sh, baby bro, she's sleeping up there" "She's here?!" "Well yeah, she hasn't left yet... been drinking up all my bourbon" "Ava doesn't like bourbon"

"You really do remember" I whisper with a smile, he nods and smiles back. Then I realized there's some things that happened since then that he should probably know about.

"Ok, so, since 1968, Rebekah and Elijah were both undaggered... she's had some ups and downs with human blood, she told me in the library earlier that when she needed a distraction from reality and was in Chicago, she took it out on them-" "Klaus compelled me there"

"Well I guess she had a little bit more trouble throughout the century, until now... Rebekah is the only one who can get her back on track, that's what she told me. Klaus tried, Elijah's tried, but nobody could do it... only Rebekah" "So what happens if Rebekah's... daggered?" "The last time that happened, Rebekah and Elijah had both been daggered and it was I think she said 1968 after you were compelled  and she only had Klaus, he rubbed off on her, you can only imagine how that worked out" He puts his head down.

"Hey she's gonna be extatic that the compulsion worked, she was worried it wouldn't" "When can I leave this awful cell?" "Whenever she wants you to" He laughs. "Your leaving it to the fate of a Mikealson?" "Yep, and you were right baby bro, she is stunning" I say, rushing out of his cell and closing it, locking it before he could get out and laughing about what I said.

"Relax, brother I'm teasing" I say, walking out. "Uh, Ava?" I ask when I don't see her on the couch anymore. It sends a panic through me and I vamp upstairs to see if maybe she went up there.

"Stefan didn't forget about me until 1978" I hear, as I see her looking through Stefan's journal's. "Your torturing yourself, Ava" "My brother and him went on a killing spree or whatever, and he had to compel him again when he figured out he never forgot about me"

"Ava-" "I didn't even know about that, I'd been with Rebekah and Elijah during that time, that's why" "Ava!" I shout, getting her attention. "He remembers... it worked" "What?" "Go... talk to him, these will still be here when you come back out" "I-It really worked?" "Yeah, go find out yourself"

~Ava~
I put down his journal and vamp down to Stefan's cell, whose pacing back and forth.

"Damon, just... tell me, already?!" He shouts. "I can go and get him, if you'd rather have him" I say, with a fake sad tone. "No! No! Don't leave! Please?" I nod, tears in my eyes; he has tears start to fall down his face.

"I'm coming in there" He nods and doesn't even try to get out when I open the door. But for safe measures I closed and locked the door behind me.

As soon as I did that, we hugged each other as tightly as we could. Both of us were crying, I'd missed my Stefan and he'd missed his Ava.