The Vampire Diaries: A New Era

Chapter 22: Elena's Choice Part 1

Elena's P.O.V
What I'm about to do will be hard but I need them here, I want to see them happy: for me and without me.
Anja turns the pages of the grimoire, she looks at me with empathy: she had to kill he own daughter, we've both had to lose someone.

"Is that a reminder of your daughters?" I ask pointing to the grimoire.

"No, but this is." she grasps the necklace in her hand.

"Why did you want it?"

"Because it's mine."

I don't believe what I'm hearing.

"You heard. It was given to me by my husband, it was the first time I realised that magic wasn't all that I had and made me know for sure that there was so much I could get without it, and I always wanted that."

"Thank you, for everything, and I'm so sorry about your daughter."

"She will know peace, I know she will."

"So, what will you do now?"

"I'll finish up here and then I shall join my family."

At least she has a life that's perfect, but mine is nowhere near perfect... Not yet.

"Don't think like that."

Did she just read my mind?

"I did. Elena, you have more than everything, you have your brother, your friends and Elijah but most of all you have your baby."

If she can bring Stefan and Damon back to life, then I hope they can accept that the baby is Elijah's, even if what Cassia implied is true.

"I'm afraid I'm no help to you there, Elena."

"What? You can't bring them back?"

"I can bring Stefan and Damon back but I can't tell you who's baby it is, that's up to you I'm afraid. As hard as it is I know that you'll figure it out."

"So, how will you bring them back?"

"With a spell that involves sacrificing the lives of others to bring back the dead."

"Who will you sacrifice?"
"The other doppelgängers."

I turn to look at Katherine and Tatia, they have both died, but they never knew peace. Maybe they will now.
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Katherine and Tatia's P.O.V
Anja approaches us both, carrying the grimoire and looking at us both blankly.

"You can both say your goodbyes before you return to the afterlife." she tells us.

This is it, we will both forget that we ever returned, like we never did.
I make my way to Elijah, if I have time then I have to tell him what I should have a thousand years ago.

"Elijah?" I say.

"Tatia?" Elijah turns around to face me.
I'm place my hand onto his face, I can touch him again.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know what I was being used for, I ...."

Elijah holds my hand and looks at me like he did lol those years ago.

"I love you Elijah. I loved you a millennia ago and then I was taken from you, I never told you or Klaus but I saw what u had done to you both, it was because of me that you always fought, I beg your forgiveness for what I did."

Klaus approaches us both, he is devastated by my appearance.

"I grant you my forgiveness." He says.

"As do I." Elijah says after.

A smile widens on my face, they weren't my first love but they are my last.