"Elena!" I yelled as I ran to the barn in a fit of panic mixed with fear. Ghost Damon was there before me.

I entered the barn screaming and caused the animals to be in an uproar, but I didn't care. I heard shuffling in the loft, and I didn't much care if the two were naked and tangled up in each other's limbs. We needed to get out of here.

I didn't even bother climbing the ladder. Instead, I jumped to the loft.

"Elena, we have to go," I said quickly as I noticeably scared them. Luckily for me, they were both cuddled up under a blanket. I definitely did not want to see my twin brother naked.

"Oh my God, Lucia!" Elena screamed. Human Damon looked like a deer caught in the headlights of a hunter's truck. "What are you doing here? Get out!"

"Elena, get your clothes on," I said. "We have to go."

"Why?" she asked as she fumbled in finding her dress.

"The woman is gorgeous," Damon said from beside me. His ghost self was sitting on the edge of the loft and letting his feet dangle and sway over the edge. "I miss this old barn. Mezzanotte was the most beautiful horse here."

"Did you say something?" Elena asked as she turned to Damon - the one under the blanket beside her.

"N-no," he stuttered. "Lucia, I beg you - please don't tell anybody about this."

"Don't worry," I shrugged. "It's not the first time I've caught two unwedded people having sex. I've done it plenty of times myself with my husband, before he was my husband."

"Forgive me, Missus Lucia," he said with a blush, "but we weren't just "having sex", we were making love."

"Yeah, yeah, whatever," I said. "Like I said, I won't tell. Hurry up, Elena."

I jumped down from the loft and lingered by Mezzanotte's stall. Damon followed.

"Why is it that my wish finally comes true when I'm dead?" he asked me. "The me up there is not the same me, but at least my wish came true in one form or another."

"Damon," Elena said from above, "I know you just said something."

"No, Elena, darling," he said. "I didn't."

Ghost Damon and I looked at each other.

"I think she can hear you," I whispered to him. "Say something again."

"Elena, I love you," he said up to her.

"I love you, too, Damon," she said to Human Damon.

"Elena," he said. "I do love you, but I didn't just say it."

My eyes bulged and locked with the ghost standing before me.

"Oh crap," I mumbled. "We just altered time to the maximum. Elena can hear you as a ghost, she's now pregnant with your children, and I'm pretty sure Stefan is hitting on me when he gets the chance."

My ghost brother laughed at me on that last part.

"Why are you laughing?" I heard Elena ask the Damon up in the loft. She must have her back turned to him or she would see that his mouth wasn't moving when she heard his voice.

"Elena, are you ill, sweetheart?" he asked. "I'm not laughing."

"I just heard-" she began before I cut her off.

"That was one of the workers, Elena," I called up to her. "They laughed as they passed, but they didn't see any of us."

Elena finished dressing and climbed down the ladder. I began running with her, but was stopped at the door.

"Lucia Elise?" a woman with long brown hair in ringlet curls said as she entered the barn.

"Oh, Hell!" I said in frustration.

Human Damon looked down from the loft - he was dressed now.

"There is two of Elena?" he asked in confusion.

"Hello, Katherina," I said her Spanish name with my accent. Déjà vu waved over me a bit, but I brushed it off.

"What are you doing here?" she asked. "I just got back from Spain and you were there. I saw you!"

She was irritated, and I could see hint of vein pump under her eyes, which were growing darker and redder by the second.

"Time traveling gets you into trouble," Ghost Damon said from beside me. His hand went through Katherine and she felt a wave of coolness hit her. She turned around, but only just in time to see another figure at the door.

"Aw, Double Hell," I said as I felt my face morph. While Katherine was distracted I took the opening and did a complete roundhouse kick to her midsection and sent her flying back.

"Impressive, Wife," the figure said as he entered the dim light. The summer evening had morphed into night, and it began pouring rain outside.

The animals started screaming - they didn't like vampires.

I did my best to ease their fright by making them go to, and stay, asleep until I'd motioned for them to wake again. It worked, but using that power distracted me and I was knocked into the far wall.

"You must be Elena," Klaus said as he grabbed the doppelganger's hand and kissed it.

"Elena!" I yelled, "Run and get on the loft level."

Human Damon was probably beyond scared straight at the moment.

Elena listened, though, and she ran. While she did, I tried my best to defend her and go up against Klaus. That was easier said than done. I'd caught him off guard before, but he was ready for me this time.

"So you're name is Lucia," he said as he grabbed me and threw me to the floor. "It a beautiful name."

"Nicklaus is a nice name, too," I said as I jumped up, grabbed one of the beams in the barn, and kicked the side of his face with my heel after I got my swinging momentum. "It's fit for a nice man, but you wouldn't know about that yet."

"Please, Lucia," he laughed as he kneed me in my midsection, "I have more courtesy in one bone than most people would have in their body."

"Too bad you don't use it," I mumbled as I punched his jaw. I refused to put any Evelenge Power behind my kicks and punches, because I really didn't want to hurt Klaus at all, let alone the damage I was doing without the power.

"You are quite feisty, Love," he said as he tried to punch me. I dodged his attack.

My cheap shot of a kick had enough momentum to knock Katherine the Vampire out for a bit of time, but she was coming to now.

I decided it best to throw a shield up with my power and guard the loft, so at least Klaus nor Katherine could reach the two humans.

"Lucia, she's awake!" Damon yelled as he tried everything he could to delay her.

I hesitated a bit in that moment because I knew I needed a plan, whether it be improvised or planned in advance.

I shouldn't have hesitated, though, because Klaus grabbed my wrist, broke it, and twisted me to where my back was against his chest and his hand was on my throat.

I couldn't help but let out a cry, for my life flashed before my eyes:

I'd spent years as a mentally disabled child, killed my parents, and even drank from their lifeless bodies. I'd spent many other years looking everywhere for the family that the bitch, Katherine, said I had, only to find that they literally stabbed me in the back. While on my journey, I met the man who was about to kill me, and ended up marrying him and having a beautiful baby body who is the doppelganger of Damon's son, and said son is now growing with his now-twin brother in Elena's body - the body that is meant for the twenty-first century, not the nineteenth. Klaus and I had a connection from the start and he even recognized me for the most part.

That's it!

"Any last words, Lucia?" he asked as hit grip tightened around my throat. Well, I will admit that he was noble enough to let me say any goodbyes.

I was shorter than Klaus, meaning that the top of my head came to the bottom of his jaw, leaving my mouth mere millimeters from his neck.

At the moment I was desperate, and didn't much care that my wrist was still healing from him breaking it.

I grabbed my hand, bit it, and held it up to his mouth while I turned my head slightly and bit his neck.

It was my last chance, and any plan was better than no plan.

I was amazed to see that he let go of my throat.

Then, he grabbed my wrist in his hands and lapped up the blood that was flowing freely from it.

When he released, he fell to his knees.

"Luci!" he cried, and I knew it'd work.

He'd recognized me, even in the time before he'd done it in the first place.

I had no flipping idea how that worked, but I was very grateful for it.

I should know by now that some of the stuff in romance novels is true: true love can conquer all if you let it.

"Luce!" Ghost Damon yelled as I turned around just in time to see Katherine charge at me.

The woman knocked me into the high beams of the loft where I sat like a lioness, beckoning her to come up and challenge me. I knew what it was like up here, and I could stay here all day if needed. I'd realized that when spying on the Montana witch coven.

"Come on, Lucia Elise!" Katherine yelled. "You can't come down here and fight like a true vampire?"

"You can't come up here and test your fighting agility?" I asked as I tormented her. I was getting inside her mind, and that was good, because if I used my power when fighting her, then I had a chance of killing her and really altering time. Then again, if I fought on the ground, she had the better chance of killing me, and Elena would be stuck here, and Damon would still be dead. Thus, getting in her mind and fighting her from up here would be much better for me.

My plan worked, and she jumped up on the high beam opposite me.

Her snarl echoed through the barn, and she lunged at me, I dodged it by jumping down and catching myself so I hung on the beam like it was a monkey bar. I then swung myself and jumped up on the beam that Katherine was just on, while she stood on the one I was previously occupying. I'm giving myself extra props, because I was doing this in heels, too. Klaus always said that I was like a cat - sly and smooth with a purr of pure aggression.

Katherine screamed in frustration as she broke a splinter off of the beam and threw it at me like I was the target and the wood was the javelin, but I dodged it.

I laughed, because she was getting angrier by the second.

"What's wrong, Katherine?" I asked. "Have you lost your touch?"

"Shut up you filthy little sorry excuse for a vampire," she seethed as I laughed. "Your aim is most likely worse."

"How's this for aim?" I asked. In one quick, inhuman moment, I took off my heel and threw it at her with the velocity of a speeding train.

I nearly fell off the beam with laughter as I watched it rip through her dress and stab her in her gut.

She screamed in agony, and I felt for her - my heels were made of wood, despite the "pleather" overlay. The rest of the shoe was normal, but I made sure to have the heel replaced with wood.

I grabbed the beam and swung over to the other one like I did before and grabbed my shoe out of her midsection. She leaned up against the adjoining vertical pole and laid there breathless.

"What are you going to do now, Lucia?" she asked. "Kill me?"

"Nah," I said as I patted her on the lap. "I'm going to make sure you forget you ever saw me."

I grabbed either side of her face and compelled her to play out the past like it was supposed to. She was to get off of the beam when she could and go to Giuseppe.

I jumped down and compelled Klaus next. He was to forget that I was ever here and to also play out the past as it should be.

I did the same to Human Damon, Giuseppe, Stefan, and even Marisol.

Elena and I were like whispers in the night when it was done for - gone faster than it came and no more noticed than the next one.

Ghost Damon said something real stupid when Elena and I got back to the guest house and packed our things. It was only stupid because it made so much sense.

"You say that Klaus's blood in in that cooler," he noted. "Why didn't you just take it, go back in time to before I died, and give it to me?"

I heard him laughing the whole way back to the future when I'd told him that I didn't know why and it would've saved us a lot of trouble if I'd done that.

"Mystic Falls, Virginia," I said. "Take us to the Salvatore boardinghouse on July 10, 2012 to Damon Salvatore, 2:10 pm. He'd died at 4:26pm, and I needed to be there.

Elena's hand grasped around mine and we closed our eyes. Within the typical cool breeze I felt while traveling in time, I also heard Damon's laughter die off with it.

When I opened my eyes again, I saw Damon lying on the bed with that deep sweat that I'd come to memorize after he'd died.

I would've expected to see Elena on the bed and there be two of them, but since that rule applied here, I was stuck in this time, so in actuality, it didn't change anything, because Damon hadn't died, and we hadn't moved forward.

I hurried and got the crucial vial of Klaus's blood from the cooler and shoved it down Damon's throat, waking him up.

He drank it quickly, and in minutes I could see it take effect.

"Damon, you're better," Stefan said from the doorway when he saw me. Elena was then on the bed stroking his hair, and he didn't look the least bit mad, but Elena looked like a deer caught in the headlights. "Hi, Elena. Hi, Luce."

Once he exited, Elena looked at me, "Why wasn't he mad, Lucia?"

"Well, I may have compelled him to never like you like that because you were with Damon," I said in a high voice. "You know, that whole "alter-time-by-doing-something-drastic" may have something to do with it since he's now been compelled to love you as a sister since 1863."

She smiled at me and mouthed the words, "thank you". I smiled back and kissed Damon's forehead as he awoke.

"Hey, Little Brother," I said. "How are you feeling?"

"I feel like Tyler never bit me," he said, "but I had the weirdest dream that I was a human again in 1863 and you two were there visiting. It was crazy, but good."

He looked at Elena in a way that cued me to leave.

"It wasn't a dream, Damon," I said. "It's a side effect of time traveling: the persons involved will remember it as a dream."

I left just in time to hear Elena assure him that what I said was true.

"Would you help me remove my corset, Mr. Salvatore?" she asked as I exited the building and ran home.

When I entered my bedroom, I saw Klaus and Dallas sitting on my bed.

"You're back already?" I asked.

"You've been time traveling," he said. "I know because I just recently woke up from a dream about nearly killing you. Time travel is dangerous, Luci. Please don't do it again anytime soon."

"I doubt I'll ever do it again," I admitted. "I saved my brother and brought his kids back. Mission accomplished. You'll meet them in about nine months."

"I don't even want to know," he said.

I laughed and agreed, then sat on the bed beside him and picked Dallas up to shower him in kisses as he laughed.

"I love you boys," I said. Klaus kissed me, and we spent the day as a family.

That night, Dallas was asleep, and I made love with my husband, and it felt like a century and a half since we last did. It even felt like our fist time again, as well.

…

The next day, I caught Elena at her home. She was up in her bathroom preparing to leave as she put a menstruation cloth and tampon in her bag. I approached her, took them and took them out of her bag.

"You won't need those," I said. "Instead, you'll need this."

I handed her a pregnancy test.

She gasped, "Lucia, that's impossible."

"Not really," I said. "I'm guessing you're about one hundred and sixty years or so along."

"What?" she yipped.

"I went to take Damon's kids to bring them back and they disappeared from my hands when you two finished your…session," I explained. "They're growing inside of you since you altered time. Congratulations! I'll let you tell him."

"Wow," she breathed.

…

I was right!

When the time came, Elena was at the hospital in the delivery room with Damon holding her hand as the doctors cut out their twins, Ethan and Nathan. Ethan looked just like Damon like before, and Nathan was Dallas's doppelganger now, since Dallas was technically born first this time around.

I don't think I've ever seen a prouder or better father than Damon, other than Klaus.

I couldn't have a better life. I had my wonderful husband, an adorable son, two amazing nephews, two great brothers, and a "going on a year" sister-in-law.

Life is good…

A/N: I know that it's only ten chapters compared to the eighteen that the first story had, but these chapters are much longer than the others, and I really liked how I ended it.

I hope you liked it! Much Love!

-S. A. Arkenburgh