Time. There's a reason you should never play with it. Yet this is story of how the stream of time was altered and how four souls found peace with one another. Defying all that is known of the laws of time.
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Me and Emily talked for hours, in the short time we spoke I learned more of magic than I have in almost 800 years of living her understanding of it gave me insight into why she was so powerful a witch and I knew with her help that I could help Elena get home. Especially if I save her, she didn't know it yet but they would burn her and 100 other witches in this town but I can save them, I can save her, if I do that I know she would take me to the willow. For the 1st time in 300 years I was hopefully again about the tree, it almost scared me how happy I was if only for a moment to be so close to the tree. I sat in my house looking at the billow in front of me wondering why I had been so happy. Did part of me still wish to go home? Had I buried that desire so deep in me when I lost my magic that now when I see embers of it in Emily that desire has resurfaced? The answer there was so obvious but I refused to say it. To let it be true.
"Bon, what is it" I heard from behind me turning to look back at Kol who stood in the doorway watching me carefully "That girl from the party... she is a Bennett witch, she knows of the tree, believes that she can help me find it, apparently many Bennetts have taken interest in finding it going back 1000 years ago when Ayanna first mentioned it to me. Bennetts are drawn to it, and Emily thinks on her travels with Katherine that she may have gotten close. Of course she's not sure whether or not to help me because I'm a vampire now, but I believe I know a way to completely convince her" he smiled "That's great then. I shall send a letter to Elena and tell her the good news. She can go home" I smiled faintly and looked back at the fire "You do not want her to go" I didn't answer and he came over kneeling beside me moving a stray hair from my face "It's more than that isn't it? You wish to go with her don't you" I turned my gaze to him now and shook my head "I do not know what I want" he nodded and looked down he turned my hand over in his kissing the back softly before standing up.
"200 years of searching for this tree again I knew this would come. I knew that the stronger the leads got the closer to really having the tree in grasp that your resolution to stay would falter" I sighed "I still wish to stay I just cannot deny the small yearning in my heart to go home" he nodded and looked back at me "I know that's why I'm doing this, I know all those years ago I made you choose but to be fair it's because I didn't fully understand but now that I do, I cannot with the same conviction demand you to stay. You don't belong here, none of this was supposed to happen, it was not to be that we would know each other in this time like this. I will help you go home my love, and I know that when you do I will not remember these beautiful 800 years but you will remember them for me. I have stolen many years from you I can make this sacrifice for you now" I listened to him talk tears streaming down my face, I had never had anyone make a huge sacrifice for me, I'd always been the one sacrificing, giving up everything, to have him say this to me I never loved him more.
I grabbed his face and pulled him into a sweet kiss, I never doubted how much I loved him, this man was my heart in human form. It would break me to leave him but he was right, I didn't belong here. And now with his blessing I feel comfortable admitting it. This trip to Mystic Falls like, I knew it would, opened up a dark desire I had so desperately tried to ignore, but I don't have to anymore. Kol sent the letter to Elena and now all we had to do was wait. Let Katherine's little scheme play out no matter how much I wanted to interfere. I had to let it happen or I would never be able to "save" Emily and have her help us. When the day came I could almost feel the dark energy, if I was witch still I know I would have, I woke with a jolt to screams to men putting people in cages, women, men, all manner of folk. I watched in horror from my window with Kol wrapped in my arms. He whispered in my ear how he would make sure that they didn't come anywhere near us.
