A/n- Um...yeah. So it's been what? Five months? Sorry yo. Real life has me by the throat though I've been escaping to try to update/post up new stories. Not to mention I keep getting ideas for other fandoms *sigh* This chapter was the toughest for me to write. Not to mention that it probably seems rushed even after months.

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Remember Me as I Once Was

Ch. 5 - On the Other Side

She cautiously walked through the woods. It was night, the air was chilly, the full moon was bright, and there was something about this scenery that sent her "witchy senses" alert. Then again, she knows these woods very well, grew up around them, partied in them.

These woods of Mystic Falls.

She stepped out into a clearing and immediately tensed.

A circle of fire stood in the middle, flames roaring up high but she could still see a figure standing inside. The figure turn to the side and the glow of the flames casted it's light upon the face. A face she knows very well.

Elena.

Elena fully turns around to face her directly, her face bears the signs of having cried. Blood adorned her neck, bringing out the vivid whiteness her skin was unnaturally. She began to speak. Through the roaring and crackling of the flames, Bonnie manages to hear one word only. Yet it still made her cold.

"Why?"

Bonnie's eyes snapped opened to meet Damon's.

"What were you dreaming about?" he asked, his eyes intensely staring into hers.

Bonnie took a deep breath to calm down her furiously beating heart before she muttered, "I don't know."

It's true, she doesn't... know the meaning of the dream and that is what scares her the most.

Damon tusked and waved a finger at her before straightening up. She knows he knows that she's keeping something from being around them so often. The years of being around each other had matured Damon or perhaps she had matured enough to understand Damon to the point that they were now...friends.

She places a hand on her husband's shoulder...only for it to touch the comforter on the bed. Well, if that didn't wake her up completely. Bonnie was usually the first of the couple to wake up and for Jeremy to have gotten up, that meant she was running late today.

"Where's Jeremy?" Bonnie asked as she got up from bed and stretched.

Damon flung open her closet and began to rummage through it like he owned it.

"He and Barbie went to get some "authentic" food for lunch. Apparently, he doesn't get that I'll take care of it at the end of the trip." he said as he rolled his eyes in annoyance. One of the constant things that Damon and Jeremy were fighting on was who was going to foot the bill, with Jeremy insistent on paying his family's part and Damon insisting that he had enough money to fully pay several generations through prestigious higher education and still have some left over.

"And the children?" she asked as she began walking to the bathroom.

"In the room, playing Candy Land with their Aunt." Damon responded as he threw Bonnie's outfit on the bed. "Hurry up, your husband will arrive soon with the food and Elena will call soon."

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When Caroline had glanced at the second child accompanying Bonnie and her family, she knew immediately who it was. Eliza Evans, daughter of Elena Gilbert. If not for the fact that she knew what doppelgänger looked like, Caroline would have mistaken Eliza for being Elena's doppelgänger.

In a way, Caroline Forbes envied Elena so much. She had gotten the normal life Caroline so coveted now. The boring destiny of living in Mystic Falls appealed to her greatly.

"Auntie, it's your turn." John prodded Caroline.

"Oh, is it?" she said, blinking down at the game board. Those sneaky children had "skipped" Caroline's turn to the point that instead of winning, she was now losing.

The children giggled at seeing their Aunt's reaction. It was what drew Damon's attention from the newspaper to the game he had refused to play, despite Eliza's pout of disapproval.

"Even children can outsmart you, Carol." he snarfed before returning to read the news.

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Despite that three days had passed with no nightmares like the one she had of Elena, Bonnie couldn't help but feel a sense of dread begin to grow in her stomach. Elena had not called at all in the past days to talk to Eliza. Eliza had not yet noticed this slight, Damon and Caroline doing their best to distract her from becoming aware of the fact.

"Don't worry too much about it, Bon." Jeremy said, turning to the side to face her clearly as he gently held her hand that was fidgeting in the bed sheets.

"But Elena never misses a call, Jer, and shouldn't Joshua have called instead if Elena was busy? He should be back now."

Jeremy's face had started to reflect her worry until Joshua was brought up and he smiled instead.

"That's probably why. You remember our honeymoon, don't you? Our second one? Despite Elena repeatedly dialing us and Damon too, we ignored them. Elena and Joshua are probably caught up in each other that they lost track of time."

Bonnie bit her lip, it did make sense what Jeremy made sense, and she started to relax slightly. Seeing this, Jeremy continued to reassure his wife.

"See? We know Elena and Joshua very well. If you can't trust that, then trust the protection and alert wards you casted on Elena's home. Had something happened to them, you would've known right away."

Bonnie finally relaxed.

"You're right, I'm probably overreacting."

0o0o0

She finds herself once more in the woods except this time, there is no Elena. No crackling fire.

But something much worse.

Looking all around her, she sees women surrounding her in a circle, all of them staring accusingly at her.

She knew them all and yet she didn't. The Petrova beauty passed down in generations. To her right, near standing besides her was Elena, hatred in her eyes.

"He's here." a voice whispers, and Bonnie locks eyes with the woman in front of her.

A woman with cat eyes.

"Who's here?" she demanded to know, heart beating rapidly. Bonnie needed to know, to prevent the return of the supernatural in Elena's life, in Eliza's future.

But suddenly there was fire blinding her, and Bonnie blinked.

And every one of them was gone.

But when Bonnie wakes up to gaze into the eternal frozen handsome face of Damon Salvatore two inches away from her face, she didn't say one word.

Not even when he rested a hand on her shoulder and asked, "What did you dream?"

Bonnie Bennett-Gilbert said, "I don't remember."

Because she doesn't want it to come true.

A/N- This chapter is choppy but I'm trying to get back into the zone for this story and hopefully finally complete this. We shall see how it goes. Please review!