Hey everyone :) so this morning, I decided I wanted to created my own little version of events after 5x22, and I came up with this crazy idea. I know it's a little confusing and probably doesn't make too much sense, but I'm excited about exploring the idea. If you don't fully understand it, feel free to let me know and I'll try my best to explain it. I did a lot of research to make sure I got everything right, making up a few bits here and there :P Anyway, I hope you all like it! Please let me know if you do by leaving me a review!

Back to you
It always comes around
Back to you
I tried to forget you
I tried to stay away
But it's too late

"Do you think it'll hurt?" Bonnie said, peering up at the bright light that was about to engulf them.

Damon had endured years of physical pain. Neck broken, gun shot, punched, thrown into a wall, you name it. But all of that didn't compare to the heavy ache in his heart, knowing that he would never see Elena again. So, the answer to her question was more painful than anything in the world. He looked over at Bonnie. He wasn't the only one leaving people behind, the only one sacrificing himself for the ones he loved. Bonnie has made the ultimate sacrifice by bringing everyone back- except for Damon. He squeezed her hand.

"I don't-" Before he could finish his sentence. The bright light swallowed them whole, sending tingles up and down Damon body. His eyes stung from the lights, so he shut them. He could feel himself being dragged upwards, lying on his back. He could still feel Bonnie's clasp around his own hand. After a moment or so, the light had dimmed, and he was able to open his eyes. When he did, he was surprised to find himself standing in the Salvatore Boarding House. Bonnie was no longer by his side. He looked around to see all of his loved ones sitting in the living room, mourning the loss of Bonnie and himself. Stefan was sitting in the armchair by the fireplace, staring into the flames. His face was wet with tears, apparently blocking out Caroline's words of comfort. She knelt by him on the floor, tears streaming down her face. Enzo and Alaric stood by the drinking cabinet, pouring themselves a glass of bourbon. Damon wished he could hear what they were saying- but he couldn't. He looked at Alaric, whose lips moved as if to say "To Damon" before they clinked glasses. His eyes moved towards the couch, where Tyler and Matt were consoling Jeremy. Much like Stefan, his face was blank, floods of tears streaming down his face. Damon looked around. His eyes searched for Elena, and he found her sitting on the steps outside the threshold of the door. She was curled into a ball, sobbing uncontrollably into her knees. He felt the urge to walk over to her, but he knew there was no point. Damon looked around, and smiled to himself. He loved every single person in that room, more than he could say. As much as he wished he could be there, he didn't regret his decision to sacrifice himself for them. "Don't miss me too much" he said before it was too late. He closed his eyes, thinking that he would be once again swept up into nothingness. But he wasn't. Confused, he looked around. What was happening? Was he just a ghost?

"Hello Damon." Damon turned around to see someone he thought he had been rid of for good- Silas' lover, Qetsyia.

"Qetsyia" he said.

"It's Tessa, remember?" she smirked.

"What are you doing here? Or what am I doing here?" he questioned hastily.

"Hello to you too Damon. I bet you thought you'd never see me again."

Damon narrowed his eyes. What was going on?" Qetsiyah detected the shocked and confused expression on his face and smiled.

"Let me tell you a little story, Damon. You see, after I created the spell for immortality all those years ago, the witches saw me as a traitor for upsetting the balance of nature by creating immortals. But another group of witches, who are known as the Traveler's today, thought they could use their pure magic to create great things like the way I had created immortality- so I created a spell that prevented them from settling and harvesting their power."

"You…" Damon said slowly. "You put the spell on the travellers?"

"After the travellers found out, they killed me, where I was forced to spend an eternity on the other side, watching as Silas refused to take the cure to spend with Amara. Anyway, after Bonnie dropped the veil to the other side, I came back to find that the travellers were planning to wipe all magic that they deemed impure from the earth, which meant the extinction of the Other Side. So that's when I decided to create another spell that reversed the creation of vampires, making it so they never existed. So, when each vampire was swept out of the Other Side, they would wake up as their human self, forgetting everything that happened to them prior to turning into a vampire. That way, Silas and I would wake up as humans, and I can kill Amara before he gives her the immortality spell."

Damon stood in shock at the information he had just heard, trying to comprehend it all. Wake up as a human, forgetting everything that happened after turning into a vampire?

"So that means…. I'll wake up as a human, when I was shot in 1864?"

"That's exactly that it means."

Damon looked around at the people sitting in his living room. "What does it mean for all of them?"

"Because they passed through the anchor before getting swept up, they will not wake up in the time that they were turned. Instead, they became humans when they passed through the anchor."

Damon stood in disbelief. He couldn't believe what Qetsiyah had just told him. So when he passed through her, he would wake up in the middle of a muddy track, shot down in the attempt to save Katherine, while Stefan and Elena were humans in the present day, believing Damon to be dead?

"You are they last person on the now non-existent other side, Damon so once I pass through you, I'll wake up with Silas in 500BC, and you'll wake up in 1864." Qetsiyah said, a smirk upon her face as she began to extend her arms towards him.

"Wait!" Damon said, stepping away from her frantically. "Is there any way for me to make it back here?"

Qetsiyah sighed. "Didn't I tell you once before that the universe was working against you Damon?"

"Qetsiyah, listen to me. Please. You created this spell so that you could be with your true love Silas again, right?"

Qetsiyah rolled her eyes, but nodded.

"I know you said that the universe is working against me and hell, maybe it is. But I'm not going to let it tell me who I can and can't love because I love Elena Gilbert dammit and I'm not about to let the universe decide it's time to walk away. So, you're gonna figure out a way to get me back to them. You are the most powerful witch there ever was, after all."

Qetsiyah narrowed her eyes, glancing at Damon, then Stefan, and then at Elena. Finally, she let out a heavy sigh.

"Alright Damon, I'll make you a deal. I can't stop you from becoming a human again; the spell has already been done. But, I can stop you from losing your memories when you wake up. How's that?"

"How is that gonna help me get back to them?" Damon said frantically.

"I'll see you soon Damon" Qetsiyah scorned, before placing her hands on his shoulders as Damon passed through her and was once again forced into nothingness.

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