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Ch. 25 – Epilogue

A Few Weeks Later

Bella POV

The final bell of my senior year of high school seems to drag by as I shift anxiously in my seat. I breezed through finals last week and today is the last official day of school but it's basically a do-nothing day. My foot starts tapping anxiously and I look towards Elena and Caroline to see them acting just like me. Since today started we have all been anxious to just be done school and go on summer vacation.

A few weeks ago Klaus, an Original vampire and brother to Elijah, tried to break his curse that stopped him from becoming a hybrid, half werewolf and half vampire. In order for Klaus to break his curse though, he had to kill a werewolf, a vampire, a doppelganger and break the curse with a moonstone. Klaus used Katherine Petrova as the vampire, Jules for the werewolf and my twin sister Elena Gilbert for the doppelganger.

I didn't want my sister to die to break a curse so I asked Elena's friend Bonnie Bennett to connect me in a life binding spell to Elena. The idea of it was that when Elena died, she would come back due to my life energy and I would take her place. Instead, I took Jeremy Gilbert's ring which only works on humans and it brought me back to life. All the time I lived in Mystic Falls before the sacrifice, I was told that I couldn't help because I was just human and that slowly chipped away at my very being until I needed to prove that I could help. I still believe that I'm only human and worthless in helping out but I will always try to prove my worth. I may not like myself all that much or be that confident but I am working on that. Thankfully my sacrifice was worth it because Elijah killed Klaus during the sacrifice and we never need to deal with Klaus again.

Elena may have been angry at me for choosing to sacrifice myself but I didn't care, I saved her life and that was the plan all along. She didn't forgive me immediately, not at all. Elena tried to start fights the first few days after the sacrifice but when she realized that I wouldn't react, she used the silent treatment. I ignored her acting out and explained my reasons for sacrificing myself multiple times but I think she finally understood why I did it when I asked her what she would've done if Jeremy was in her position.

After that Elena was more open and we developed our bond a lot more than we could when we were dealing with the Klaus problem. Elena and I also decided that we would try to understand John, our biological father, better than what we knew before. One night we actually sat down and talked everything through with John from beginning to end. Elena and I understood why he and Isobel had to give us up and why they decided to split us up. They didn't want Klaus to find us so they decided to keep one within the family still and I was adopted by an old friend, Charlie. John told me that he didn't try to contact me because he didn't want anyone to find me, especially vampires that worked for Klaus. I understood his reasons but I'm still slightly hurt that I wasn't the one kept close. I even voiced my feelings to Damon and he helped me understand that even though I was away from my biological family, I was adopted into a family that loved me and would protect me no matter what.

Damon had always been my friend since I first visited Mystic Falls two years ago and now he is my boyfriend, I think. That morning after the sacrifice, Damon had me in his arms and it was one of the most amazing experiences in my life. After we spoke and said things that needed to be said, we understood each other better. I had always liked Damon as more than just a friend but I never thought that I would be possible for him to like me like that. But somehow he did and still does and makes it his duty to remind me how much he cares for me every day. I'm not sure if he's my boyfriend or not but I do know that we care for each other more than I thought possible.

We haven't said those three important words but I'm fine with that, we both went through tough break ups and need time to get to know each other better. Damon has been spending a lot of time at m house lately but then again, everyone seems to have a lot of free time lately. Now that all of our vampire problems are gone, we can finally be the normal teenagers that we want to be even if we have vampire friends.

I look up at the clock again only to see that not even five minutes have gone by and I barely suppress a groan. Today may be the last official day of school but tomorrow night will be when the official graduation ceremony takes place. I already have my cap and gown ready and I can't wait for the ceremony. Charlie is flying down early tomorrow morning so that he can see my graduation but unfortunately Renée is in California for Phil's game and won't be able to get to Virginia in time. I am slightly hurt that my own mom can't come and see me graduate but then I realized that Renée hasn't been taking care of me for a long time and she has her own wants.

The school bell rings and a triumphant yell is heard from my classroom as everyone leaps out of their chairs and races to their lockers. I follow behind the group at my own pace, so different than before in class when I wanted to race out the building. Now I just want to look at the place that I spent most of my time these last few months and try to remember it as it is.

I get to my locker just as my phone vibrates in my pocket. I quickly unlock my locker before pulling out my phone to see that Damon just texted me. I'm right outside beautiful, he wrote and I smile before quickly taking out the last few books I had in my locker and put them in my bag. My other books and things were already taken out of my locker yesterday and now I just have a few things left. I shut my locker with a final click before hurrying out the door to meet Damon.

I step out into the warm sunshine and bring my hand to my eyes against the harsh light. I sweep my eyes left to right before settling on Damon's Camaro with the hood down. He is leaning casually against the passenger side door and smirks at me when I look at him. I quickly jog across the school yard before stopping right in front of him.

"Hi," I whisper to Damon and I toss my bag into my seat behind him. Damon grabs my hand before it comes back to my body and tugs me hard to his body. I stumble slightly but gain my balance by grabbing onto his shoulders.

"Hello to you too," he says back and a real smile graces his face. I step up onto my tip toes and let my lips just brush against his soft ones for a second before pulling back.

Damon rolls his eyes at me, knowing how I feel about PDA because we have talked about it. "Get in the car, you're mine for the rest of the day."

I shiver at the tone of his voice as Damon steps away from the door and holds it open for me while I get into his car. He then walks to his side of the car and gets in before tearing out of the parking lot, sending my hair flying around me.

Damon motions for me to pass him his sunglasses on my side of the dash-board and I do so. As soon as Damon slips the sunglasses on starts to speak over the roaring wind, "Bella, I was wondering, since we both obviously care for each other would you want to spend eternity with me?"

I look over at Damon to see if he is serious. He doesn't smirk at me so I know he's serious and I take a moment to think. I know that I didn't want to become a vampire after Edward dumped me but the possibly to spend eternity with Damon sounds really good. In that moment, I know that my feelings are strong enough that I want to spend eternity with Damon but I'm not completely sure if what I feel is love. I haven't really felt what it is to be in love with another person but if the deep, almost all consuming, feelings I have for Damon are love then I'll be happy to spend eternity with him.

"Yes Damon, I would want to be changed but not now."

Damon looks at me in confusion and I explain, "I want to live for a while yet and grow a little older still. I want to go to college and see the world before being turned but maybe in a few years."

Damon smirks and nods, "I can live with that, as long as it's a yes."

I nod back, "It's a yes Damon."

The rest of the car ride is quick as Damon drives past the Grill were most of the school kids are hanging out already. He passes the old town office, Elena's house but stops across the road from the hotel that Charlie and I stayed at two years ago.

Damon gets out of the car and I slowly unbuckle myself as Damon walks over to my side of the car and opens my door. I step out and look up at him questioningly but he only smiles and grabs my left hand. He walks with me by his side towards the woods and soon we are at the spot where I first officially met Damon. As I look around I see the log that was there two years ago and the spot where the blonde girl stumbled into view.

"What are we doing here Damon?" I ask him as I turn to him.

He lets go of my hand, sits of the log and pats the spot next to him. I sit next to him quietly and wait for him to say something. He twists his daylight right around and around his finger while he thinks before saying, "When I first saw you sitting here I think I unconsciously knew that you were going to be very important to me." Damon looks down at me, his blue eyes burning with sincerity. "And when I told you my story, I thought for sure you were going to run away and call me a monster." Damon looks back to his hands and chuckles to himself and whispers, "but you didn't. In the years after and to this day, you haven't tried once to change who I was. Sure, we'd argue when you knew you were right but you never once tried to change my identity. I don't think you know how important that is to me Bella." Damon finishes and looks up at me.

My heart clenches at his words and I'm suddenly completely sure of my feelings for this man. I love him, faults and all and I know by the way he is looking at my right now that he loves me too. My hands reach up and I cup his face gently in my hands. "I know Damon because who you are is the person that I care about and no one else. If you were nicer or less protecting, you wouldn't be the man that I've fallen in love with."

I hold my breath after my words, hoping that I'm right and he does love me or the rejection may just kill me. Damon smiles widely at me and one of his hands grip the back of my neck while the other grips my left hip. He leans down and kisses me softly first and then more aggressively. His smooth lips move over mine again and again as I pull him impossibly closer to me. Damon's tongue licks at my bottom lip and I open my mouth to let him in. His tongue starts a battle of dominance with mine but of course he wins and he lightly nips at my bottom lip. I can taste cooper in my mouth and it seems like Damon has cut open my lip. Damon growls as he tastes the blood before pulling my bottom lip into his mouth and sucking gently.

Too soon, Damon pulls away and we are both panting hard, Damon with a tad bit of my blood still on his lips. Damon leans his forehead against mine as we sit in silence and he whispers, "I love you too Bella. I always will, I promise."

In this moment I believe that anything and everything that I've gone through in my life is worth it. My parent's splitting up, Edward breaking up with me, moving to Mystic Falls and sacrificing myself was all worth it, as long as I get to spend the rest of my life with Damon the one person who loves me with all my faults.

AN: I hope you guys enjoyed the final chapter! I will be marking this story as complete now but remember to review please. Anyone who reviews will get a sneak peak of the new story I'm working on! Once again thanks for reading this story, I hope you all enjoyed it.