When I started this in May, it was just a hope that I could keep it going to the end of the summer and I did. I want to thank all of my readers for staying with me with such a dark, heartbreaking and at times exhausting fic. I appreciate it.
I am going to miss this fic soo much…but here goes…
Disclaimer: I own nada.
Epilogue-8 years later…
"The parents of Bobby Simpson and Billy Ackles are still searching for the young boys who disappeared two weeks while playing near their homes in Charlottesville, Virginia…", the newscaster stated, "their mothers state that they left at around noon on April 12th to play 'explorer' and never returned…the search continues hoping that the boys will be found…"
Bonnie turned off the kitchen television as she shook her head.
"So scary", Elena shuddered, "I could not imagine…"
Bonnie nodded, "I tried a locator spell, but I didn't find anything…I mean, I don't know those people…but the fact that their children are missing scares me".
"Did you find anything?" Elena asked.
Bonnie shook her head, "I felt nothing, which makes me feel even worse".
"Why?"
"Because over the years I've gotten better with locating people or things with my locator spell and when I usually can't locate someone…it means they're dead", Bonnie frowned.
"But that's not absolute right?"
"No…nothing is absolute".
"Well there is still hope then".
"I hope so", Bonnie replied as she looked out of the window into the backyard.
"So Stefan called me this morning from New York, he says that if he doesn't murder Damon by the end of the day…they should be back in a couple of hours and that Jeremy's bachelor party was a success".
"That's good…Damon called me this morning and told me that Stefan was being even more broody than usual", Bonnie smirked as she poured Elena a glass of lemonade and they walked out of the kitchen and headed into the living room.
"Well that's because he hates being away from us", Elena smiled with a shrug.
"Stefan is a worrier".
"And Damon's not far behind him, they just let it manifest differently".
"That's true…", Bonnie nodded, "but I guess they just want to hold on to this life as tightly as they can".
"Especially when they never thought they could have it", Elena smiled.
Bonnie nodded as she sipped her lemonade.
SSSSS
"Callie, we are not supposed to leave the backyard", six year old, Angela 'Angel' Salvatore whispered as she followed Callisto 'Callie' Salvatore, also six years old, out of the backyard of the Salvatore boarding house, "Aunt Bonnie said we have to stay in".
"Mommy said that we have to stay where she can see us…my mom can see what I do in my bedroom all the time when she's downstairs, she can see far away…"
"Callie…" Angel whined.
"Angel, you can go back if you wanna", Callie replied.
"No…I go with you", Angel said following Callie out of the backyard and into the surrounding woods.
They ran through the trees for a moment until they noticed two little boys playing hide and go seek in the woods, "Gotcha Bobby!" one of the boys called tackling the other.
Angel and Callie stopped in their tracks as the boys noticed them.
"We should go Callie", Angel pulled on Callie's Cookie Monster t-shirt.
"Not yet", Callie whispered.
"Hi", one of the boys waved walking over, "I'm Billy and this is my friend Bobby".
Callie looked over at the boys, "I'm Callie and this is Angel".
Angel waved shyly.
"What are you doing here…this is my Daddy's house and his woods…"
"Oh…we were playing a game with our Dad…here he comes now", Bobby said turning around.
Callie watched as a rather tall man walked towards them. Angel was hiding behind her back peering over her shoulder.
"Here's our dad now", Billy replied, "Dad, these are our friends…Callie and Angel".
The blue eyed man kneeled down and looked at Callie and then at Angel standing behind her, "Hello, are my sons bothering you?"
"No…but they are not supposed to play here", Callie answered with every bit of authority that her six year old voice could muster.
"I am deeply sorry, William…Robert…go back to the car".
Bobby and Billy nodded as they headed off towards the car in a speed that made both Angel and Callie's eyes widened.
"Wow…how did they do that?" Angel gasped walking from behind Callie.
Callie raised an eyebrow.
"They are…special", the man answered, "by the way, I am Klaus", he held out his hand.
"Are you a superhero", Angel said holding out her hand and shaking Klaus hand.
"Something like that", Klaus smiled as he looked at Callie with fascination, "you are not going to shake my hand?"
"My Daddy told me not to talk to strangers or touch them", Callie snitted.
Klaus chuckled, "I see…"
"Callie, he's Klaus…like Santie Claus", Angel grinned, "right?"
"Sort of".
Callie looked at Klaus, "My Daddy says Santie Claus is some big fat man that lies and says he brings gifts…you are not fat and I don't see my doll I asked for last Christmas".
Klaus chuckled deeply, "No I am not…but I do know your Daddy…and your Mommy…you have her eyes".
Callie backed up a little as Angel spoke, "Do you know my Mommy and Daddy".
"Yes, we're all old friends".
"Ooooooh", Angel nodded.
"Well we have to go…bye…", Callie said turning around.
"Callisto!" Klaus called from behind her.
Callie turned around, "Can you tell your Mommy that you saw me today and I will be seeing her soon".
Callie nodded slowly.
"Oh and Callisto…", Klaus walked over to her and removed a lilac rose from behind his back, "give her this, she likes roses".
Callie took the rose and nodded.
Klaus smiled and then disappeared.
SSSSS
"Callisto, it is time for bed", Bonnie replied for the 10th time as she watched Callie sit by the window staring out of it.
"But I'm waiting for Daddy".
"And he will be here when you wake up in the morning, Angel already went to sleep".
"Angel's a baby", Callie answered.
Bonnie rolled her eyes with a slight smirk, "Angel is the same age as you are".
"I'm older", Callie answered.
Bonnie shook her head and tried to hide her smile, Callisto was every bit of Damon and at times it was charming and at other times, it was annoying. She used the spell that she found with Klaus six and a half years ago to turn Stefan human for 24 hours. Elena and Stefan were already married and committed to each other, they thought about adoption and were about to start the proceedings, when Bonnie suggested the spell. She cast the spell and told them to go on their merry way and be happy. Little did she know that when she cast the spell with Damon in the periphery, that he was turned human for the 24 hours as well…and a month later, Bonnie was extremely surprised to find out that she was going to help carry on the Salvatore line. Suffice to say, Caroline wasn't too happy that her two best friends went and got pregnant at the same time without telling her the plan. Bonnie promised when Caroline was ready to settle down with either Tyler or Matt (after all these years), that she would do the spell for her as well.
But as for Callie, she was a firecracker; ever since she was born and she was every bit of her father but she had Bonnie's green eyes and sometimes, Bonnie's bravado.
"Callisto, you have three seconds to go upstairs…one…two…"
"Daddy!" Callie jumped off of the window seat and ran to the door just as it opened with Damon walking through the threshold with his bags followed by Stefan.
Stefan smiled at the group, "Elena and Angel upstairs?" he asked.
Bonnie nodded as Stefan passed her and headed up the stairs.
Callie jumped up on Damon as he dropped his bags and wrapped his arms around her. Bonnie shook her head.
"Daddy…I waited for you all day…I missed you!" Callie squeezed him.
"I missed you too and your Mommy too", he said throwing Bonnie a look.
"Well thank you and now that you've come home, it is time for Miss Callisto to go to bed", Bonnie replied.
"Guess it's bedtime kiddo", Damon said setting Callie down on the floor.
"I want Daddy to put me to bed", Callie grinned looking up at Damon and batting her long lashes.
"Fine…fine…Daddy, put her to bed", Bonnie threw up her hands walking up the stairs.
"Don't worry Mommy, after I put Callisto to bed…I will put you to bed", Damon wiggled his eyebrow as Bonnie turned to face him.
"Will you read Mommy a book?" Callie asked as Damon picked her up and she wrapped her legs around him.
"Sure will", Damon winked at Bonnie in front of them on the stairs as he headed up behind her.
When they reached Callie's bedroom, Damon sat Callie down on her bed and she crawled up and settled under the covers, "Now, what did I tell you about giving your mother a hard time?"
"I sorry…I missed you", Callie pouted.
"I know, but listen to your Mom…always…got that, she typically knows what's best".
"Yes", Callie replied and then frowned, "but I did something bad today…"
"What did you do?"
"I left the backyard".
"Callisto…."
"And I met a man…"
"A man…what man…who is he…where was he?" Damon replied going on high alert.
"There were some boys playing in the woods…he was their Daddy…he said he was your friend and Mommy's friend".
Damon raised an eyebrow, "A friend…what friend?"
"He said…he said his name was Klaus…", she replied.
Damon felt his fangs itch as he grabbed Callie, "Klaus…did he do anything to you…what did he say…where is he now?"
"I don't know Daddy…he said to give Mommy this…", she bent over and removed the lilac rose from her night table, "and said he would see her soon…"
Damon looked down at the rose and he fought every impulse not to vamp out, he took the rose from Callie's hands.
"I didn't give mommy the rose…because I didn't want her to be mad at me for leaving the backyard".
"That was good Callie, that was good…but you cannot go outside until I give you permission and you are not to speak to strangers ever again, do you hear me?" Damon ordered her.
"Yes Daddy", she nodded sadly.
"And if you ever see this Klaus again, you will come get me…do you understand?"
Callie nodded.
"I love you Callie, do you understand?" Damon asked.
"I know Daddy and I'm sorry for leaving the backyard", Callie answered.
"I know", Damon kissed her on the forehead before leaving the room.
Every one of his senses were humming. Callie was a perceptive little girl and there was no way she was making up Klaus. Damon looked down at the lilac rose. Bonnie told him that Klaus would give her lilac roses when he held her captive all of those years ago and between the rose and the 'seeing her soon'…Damon was on full alert. He had to get Bonnie and Callie away from Mystic Falls.
He closed his hand around the rose and crumbled it before throwing it in the trash in the hallway bathroom. He looked in the mirror and ran his hands over his face and then gripped onto the sink. If he had a trace of anger in his face, Bonnie would pick up on it. She would know that something was wrong.
"Bonnie…", he said looking around and then laid eyes on her as she stood in their personal bathroom door.
For a moment, he forgot all about what Callisto told him. Bonnie was dressed in a very short lace thingy that he bought her for one of his birthdays that she refused to wear for him and some black stilettos, "And what occasion is this?" he asked.
"Well Callisto wasn't the only one who missed you over the past couple of days?" she walked over to him and stood in front of him.
Her hair was just the way he liked it soft waves and flowing down her back. When they first started making love, she was hesitant and nervous to branch out and truly be the sexual person that he knew she was dying to be, but over the past couple of years she had truly become a vixen…one that could bring him to his knees in many different pleasurable ways.
"I thought you told me that you would never wear that", he breathed out.
She reached up and started to unbutton his shirt kissing each section of skin that was revealed, "I lied", she whispered moving him over to the bed, "aren't you happy I did".
"Definitely", he answered as she pushed him over on the bed and climbed on top of him loosening his belt buckle.
She smiled as she kissed a trail of kisses down his chest and took a breath that he didn't even need. As much as he wanted to tell her about Klaus and what happened earlier with Callisto, he couldn't rock her like that at this moment…no…not at this moment as he felt her slip his pants and boxers over his hips, he pulled her up to face him, "I love you", he whispered.
"I love you too", she whispered as he felt her join with him.
SSSSS
"Bonnie…open those beautiful eyes".
Bonnie opened her eyes to her dark bedroom. Damon's side of the bed was vacant and she peered into the darkness, "Who's there?" she whispered.
He chuckled as he stepped from the shadows, "You haven't forgotten me already, have you?"
Bonnie blinked as she felt fear take over her body, "You're not here…this is just a nightmare", she closed her eyes.
She felt a weight come over her and when she opened her eyes again, she was staring into Klaus' blue eyes, "I told you I would see you again", he said lowering her down to the bed as she shut her eyes and felt his cold lips kiss her neck.
"No!" Bonnie screamed as she clawed at Klaus and then felt someone shaking her.
"Bonnie wake up..." Damon's voice broke through her thoughts.
She opened her eyes and looked around the room, "He's here…he's awake", Bonnie jumped out of the bed.
"Bonnie…what…who…?" Damon asked praying that she had not had a vision.
She looked around the room feverishly as Damon grabbed her arms forcing her eyes to meet his, "Who's here?"
She swallowed as the tears sprang to her eyes and she felt a coldness that she had not felt in years come over her body, "Klaus", she whispered.
I don't have a sequel planned as of right now, too early for that…but maybe in a year…maybe…but if you liked or loved this fic, please show your love in reviews...I would appreciate them soo much.