A/N I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING I ONLY OWN THIS PLOT! PARTS OF THIS EPISODE ARE TAKEN FROM SEASON 3 EPISODE 22! This is the last chapter!

Elena just hoped that wasn't last kiss she and Stefan ever shared. She jumped startled by a voice behind her.

"Hey."

She spun around and saw Matt. "Hey."

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."

"It's all right. I'm just kind of jumpy I guess."

"Stefan and Damon will be fine. They've done this a million times before."

"Yeah. That's what everyone keeps telling me."

"Maybe you need to start listening better."

She rolled her eyes and they both laughed.

"I'm going to make some tea, do you want any?" Elena asked.

"I'll make it, you stay here and rest. Stefan told me about your brain injury."

Elena sighed and rolled her eyes again. "I'm fine!"

"Sure you are now rest. I'll be right back."

Matt left the room and Elena sighed. She went up to her room and sat by her window staring out at the stars.

A few minutes later Matt returned. He handed her the tea and sat back down on the bed. "So you and Stefan are back together again?"

Elena nodded sipping her tea. "Yeah, he's off compulsion and he's broken free from the ripper, he still loves me and I still love him. So we got back together."

"Good for you, I guess."

"Matt, are you still jealous?"

"No I just…honestly Elena, I would have no problem with you dating Stefan if he was human. I just don't like you dating vampires, all they've done is bring you hurt and pain and suffering. As if you weren't all ready suffering from your parent's death."

Elena sighed. "Matt, I'm the doppelganger. Klaus would have come for me at some point and killed us all. Stefan and Damon helped us all stay alive."

"Not Jenna or John, how did they help them?"

Elena sipped her tea again not answering his question. "That was my fault, Matt. Not theirs. I trusted Elijah and he betrayed me so it's my fault not theirs"

"Why Stefan, I just don't understand why him, why are you dating a…a vampire?"

Elena sighed softly. She took another sip of her tea and answered "He saved my life, I never told you this but the night my parents car went off the bridge Stefan saved me."

"What? So you feel like you owe it to him or something?"

"No, it's not that. It's…After the accident I felt like I didn't know how to live anymore, like I didn't want to, but then being with Stefan I just…somehow I figured it out. That's what love should be, you should love the person who makes you glad you're alive." Elena got choked up and let tears fill her eyes.

"So you love Stefan because he makes you happy you didn't die?"

"Sort of, he was able to bring me back after they died. I found myself being happy again and laughing and…and living the life I know my parents would have wanted me to live. He made me want to live again, made me want to be alive and live life not just go through the motions like I was."

"Elena, you love this guy who saved your live once, and then a year later tried to kill you the same way your parents died!"

"It was a ploy to get Klaus to do what he wanted. He never would have killed me!"

"Yeah, sure, he wouldn't, he drank you dry and put you in the hospital."

Elena sighed. "Matt, you'll never understand or see Stefan the way I do. I'm happy again, as my best friend that should be all you care about."

"I care about you living to see your next birthday too, Elena. Which at this rate isn't going to happen!"

"Matt, I'm telling you, it's not the vampire's fault all this happen ok! I'm a doppelganger. I was ever since I was born, if anything having Stefan and Damon helped make this process easier and keep me alive! If they never came here and we never met Klaus would have still come to get me at some point only he would have killed all of you and me. Now we're all alive! Please, stop blaming all this on them. It's not their fault."

Matt sighed. "Whatever helps you sleep at night."

Elena sighed suddenly feeling really tried. "Speaking of sleep…" she trailed off and yawned.

Matt chuckled. "Go to sleep."

"I want to be awake when they get back."

"I'll wake you, or better yet I'll have Stefan come in and wake you himself."

"Promise?"

Matt nodded.

Elena sighed and crawled into bed. The second her head touched the pillow she was out like a light. Matt sighed and looked to sleeping form. "I'm so sorry, Elena. Please forgive me."

He lifted her up and carried her out of the house.

A few hours later Elena started to stir. She opened her eyes and looked around. "What's going on?" she muttered.

"It's the only way I was going to get you in this truck."

Elena's eyes went wide. "The tea…you drugged me?"

"I'm sorry, Elena but you're right. You don't have any parents to tell you what's right and wrong. All you have is me and Jeremy, plus a bunch of vampires in the middle of a war. You shouldn't be in the middle of it!"

"What's going on, Matt?"

"I'm getting you out of town Elena; it's the only way to keep you safe."

"What? Matt, this is crazy you have to turn around and go back. Take me home right now."

"I'm sorry, Elena. I can't. This is for your own protection."

"Matt, take me home right now!"

"No. I'm getting you away from the vampires, willingly or not!"

Elena crossed her arms over her chest and didn't speak another word to him. She wasn't sure she'd ever forgive him for this.

After driving for a few minute Matt's phone rang. "Hello, hey, Jeremy…all right, thanks for telling me, what about the others…all right got it."

Matt hung up and looked to Elena, "Klaus is dead."

"Good, then we can go back. "The others are leaving town so I'll be safe."

"You don't understand, Elena! I'm just trying to get you away from the originals; I'm getting you away from any and all vampires."

"Including Stefan and Damon?"

"Especially them!"

"What about Caroline? What about Bonnie and Jeremy? Matt you can't just take me away from my life. My whole life is here you can't take me away from that!"

"Jeremy is going to meet us; Bonnie has to make a choice human or vampires. As for Caroline…she's one of them now. As far as I'm concerned Caroline died a long time ago."

"Matt, we have to go back! If Klaus is linked to their blood line they are all going to die! I need to say goodbye!"

Yeah, Bonnie had broken that spell but Matt didn't know that yet.

"Yeah, and when they do all die, we will go back. As of right now they are all still alive."

Elena groaned. "Matt take me home right now!"

Matt turned to look at her. "YOU'RE NOT GOING HOME! NOT NOW NOT EVER!"

Just as the car was driving over Whickey Bridge Elena saw Rebecca standing there.

"MATT LOOK OUT!" Elena screamed.

Matt looked back at the road and gasped spinning wheel causing them to both go off the bridge into the water and flashbacks of her parents death started to flash through her head and then she blacked out.

Matt managed to stay awake and looked to Elena. He tried to wake her by hitting her cheeks and shaking her limp body. But she wouldn't wake up. He tried to unbuckle her seatbelt but she was trapped. He tried to break the window and open the car door but nothing worked. He and Elena were trapped. Suddenly Matt's world went black too.

A/N Yep that's the end :P But I promise I'm working on the sequel and will have it posted asap. Until then guys, thanks for all the reviews and alerts and favorites!

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