Chapter One- Here comes the bride

Damon Salvatore sat at the bar of the infamous Mystic Grill, cradling a glass of Bourbon. He downs it mumbling,"Shit," as he forgot he's supposed to annoy Stephan and help with the setup for the Founder's Day Parade. He rushes to his car and hurries to the town event.

"What are you doing here?" Stephan asks his brother upon his arrival.

"Why wouldn't I be here? Bonnie deactivated the Gilbert invention, Isobel's gone, and, it's Founder's Day," Damond smirks and pats Stephan's arm,"I'm here to eat cotton candy and steal your girl."

Stephan turns to leave,"Don't start with me Damon-"

"Oh you started it, Stephan, with that whole "I'm insecure, leave Elena alone" speech."

"I'm just enjoying that. As long as you heard it."

"Huh? What? You have no sense of humor, Stephan."

"Actually, I just have no sense of Damon humor"

Damon looked puzzled for a second and caught up with Stephan before he could walk away again,"Damon humor... Hey, look. I get it, I get it. I'm the better, hotter, superior choice, and you're scared now that Katherine's out of the picture that I'm gonna turn all my attemtion to Elena. But don't worry, Elena is not Katherine."

"You're right, she's not."

Suddenly both Salvatore brothers turn are struck with awe upon seeing the doppleganger at her finest in a dress from their era. Elena smiles and curtsies, unbeknowst to her, that this gives the brothers dejavu to the one and only Katherine.

The parade begins and Elena and Stephan stand on a float and wave to the people of Mystic Falls. Damon sees Bonnie and demands to speak with her.

"Just leave me alone-"

"Thank you. The device that Emily spelled could have killed me. I don't take what you did lightly so thank you."

Guilt suddenly coarses through the young witch's veins and trys to regain her composure,"I did it for Elena."

"I know. But I'm still very grateful and I owe you one."

In some old, abandoned house, John Gilbert is showing Mayor Lockwood how the device, which is harmful to vampires, works in the Gilbert Building, explaining where to put the key in the device and the length of time it works saying that he got a tip about a vampire attack tonight. After the device is activated, the Sheriff's deputies will inject them with vervain and bring them to the building to be finished off. A group of the rest of the tomb vampires were planning an attack on the founding families. They had been planning it for a while and the group leader says to wait for the fireworks to start, but before then for everyone to blend in with the crowd. Little do they know their favorite little secret finally broke away from the vervained chains in the basement and escaped. Anna shows up, acting like shes going along with the plan.

Damon storms into the vacant Gilbert building where John is putting together the Gilbert device.

"Do you have any idea what you've done?"

"Yes, as a matter of fact I do." John twists the key and releases the crippling sound only supernatural creatures can hear, cauing Damon to drop to the floor in pain. John takes this opportunity to inject Damon with vervain and drag him to the basement with the other vampires that were captured and vervained. He then proceeds to set the building on fire and leaves. Damon tries to move but he is weak and the building is rapidly beginning to fall apart.

Elena and Stephan see John infront of the building.

Elena asks,"Where's Damon?"

"With the rest of them... Where he should be. It's over for Damon."

Elena shakes her head in disbelief,"You're crazy-"

"Why? Because I'm doing what should have been done 145 years ago? It's the right thing, Elena," he then looks to Stephan,"Go ahead. You won't make it out. It will save me the trouble of killing you myself"

Damon is loosing hope swiftly as the beam collapses and flames are all around him. Suddenly, a swift breeze graces him as he feels someone lift him up and carry him out. The only person he can think of is Stephan but this person feels too small and dainty to be him. He can feel himself fading and unable to open his eyes. The night air hits his body as they reach the outdoors. He can hear Stephan and Elena call out his name and run towards him.

Blood. The smell runs up his nose and he can't help it as his fangs descend and the veins pop out. It seems someone is offering him their blood and without hestiation he grabs the skinny arm and feeds. About a minute goes by and the arm is yanked away. He is fully restored and springs up to see his saviour but is rendererd speechless, as well as Stephan.

Elena is confused on why this mystery woman has the Salvatore brothers in such a state of shock,"Um, who are you?"

Damon blinks and asks the woman,"How are you here..."

"Is that anyway to greet your wife, Damon, after she just totally saved your ass," she teased with a smirk as she batted her long lashes.

"Your WIFE?!"Elena exclaimed with eyes practically bulging out of her head. Wife? This women must be joking. There's no way that Damon could be married to this southern belle who came out of no where.

Stephan clears his throat,"Lady Rose... What Damon means is how are you even alive? We watched you die!"

She laughed that tinkling laugh of hers,"You of all people should know that people in Mystic Falls don't stay dead. As you can see, I'm a vampire. Have been since 1864. I've been locked in that wretched tomb, in absolute misery. When we were released, they knew I am Damon's wife and took me as prisoner. I broke free earlier today and came looking for Damon. Only to find him almost burnt to crisps! How could you let this happen?!"

The brothers opened and closed their mouths like fishes. Elena looked between the three, wondering who was going to talk first.

"Rose... I'm so sorry." Damon enevelops her into a hug, crushing her to his body. He tightened his arms around her and breathed in her scent as if she might dissapear any second. Elena's eyebrows furrowed at the foreign scene of affection between the man who pretended he didn't have feelings, except for her, and the woman dressed in the kind of clothing she wore earlier as a costume but more extravagant and suiting.

After what seemed like hours they pulled away and as Rose glanced around she suddenly zipped to Elena with her fangs bear,"WHAT IS SHE DOING HERE?!"

"ROSE, NO!" The Salvatore brothers shouted as they both leapt to restrain her. Rose growled and tugged until she shrugged them off,"Un-hand me! I can't believe this, still in love with this manipulate bitch after all this time."

Damon cupped her face to make her look at him,"Shh... Listen. Do you hear her heart? That girl is human. Her name is Elena Gilbert, that isn't Katherine. She is Stephan's girlfriend and is nothing like Katherine."

Rose's face softened and then immeadietly hardened as she looked between Damon and Elena. She slapped his arm away,"You love her... YOU LOVE HER?! How could you?! Katherines look-a-like no less! And you!," she yelled and the looked to Stephan,"I can't believe you fell for someone who looks exactly like her. Nothing like her personality wise, hm? So you're telling me history will not repeat itself despite yet again she has both brothers in her claws? I expected more from you. I can't even look at you's. Elena person or whoever you might be, let it be know I am still his wife and if you have any respect, you will mind yourself."

AN: Hey hey hey, loves! So, I know the whole beginning of the chap was just a recap of the season one finale but obviously with a twist! Hope you enjoy and look forward to writing the next chapter!