Author's Note:

No Silas and No Nadia.

No pregnant Hayley

Dearly Beloved

Prologue: Ashes to Ashes

The Cure.

It was in her hands and all that Elena Gilbert could do was stare at it. It was so small. This had been what they had been fighting for? In all honesty it looked like a used tampon.

She barked out a small laugh when she touched it. It felt squishy underneath her fingertips as if it could break at any moment. She thought about when Damon Salvatore her former sire, lover, ex-boyfriend, frenemy whatever he was had offered it to her. His voice had been full of pleading, urging her to take it, but for some reason she had not responded.

If he had asked her a few months ago, she would have said yes in a heartbeat, but once again she didn't know what she wanted and she was stuck in a rut. Elena took a deep breath as she closed the box. There was no point in dwelling in this. She had the cure in her hands. She had ample time to think about it now.

She put the cure down next to one of the vases and took a deep breath. Elena rubbed her temples. She really needed to get some sleep. Maybe it would all make sense in the morning. Besides the good thing was that she and Damon and Stefan had made peace and that neither of them were at each other's throats at the moment.

Bonnie watched as Elena left towards the upstairs bed room and Bonnie was surprised that Elena hadn't noticed that Bonnie was standing at the foot of the staircase.

"Bonnie," Ghost Jeremy was telling her. "Don't do this. Please, you don't-"

"I know what I am doing, Jeremy." Bonnie interrupted him with a kiss on his lips. "There's only one cure and three people that want to take it. Elena, Stefan, and Damon I can make that possible."

Jeremy snorted. "Damon, most certainly doesn't want to take it."

"But Elena does. She wants to be human and Damon will do anything to make Elena happy. He's going to need that cure and Stefan. . .Stefan deserves a second chance of life after everything that has happened with Elena and his brother." Bonnie went towards the table where Elena had left the cure. She grabbed it and headed towards the forest, where she would not be interrupted.

Bonnie felt a chill go down her spine, Jeremy may know more that he was letting on. Maybe Jeremy knew things that she didn't. Bonnie knew that what she was doing was dangerous, but that wasn't going to stop her. If she managed to divide the cure into three portions, then Bonnie would get everything that she would ever wanted. Her best friend would be human again and she would get her boyfriend. Bonnie knew that it was a lot to hope for especially since the veil would be going up at any minute and she had little time to do it.

"Bonnie," Jeremy warned. "Don't-"

Bonnie ignored him as she continued on her path towards the forest until she reached a path near the Lockwood cellar. It was empty. Not even the squirrels were awake. She grabbed a spell book that had once belonged to her grams. There must be a spell about the cure in there.

Bonnie was flipping through the pages until she finally stopped in front of a page that said the Beating Hearts spell. She read the ingredients a rare object, a hint of mint, salt-not very specific were they?

With trembling fingers she began to do everything that the spell book required her to do. She used a small pocket knife to cut open the little bag in where the cure came from and she divided it into three little cups. She mixed in the herbs and the salt and she began to chant.

The winds grew stronger and Bonnie could swear that she could hear thunder. Perhaps even the ground was shaking. "Bonnie," Jeremy's voice grew stronger. "Bonnie, you're not strong enough, Bonnie stop before you hurt yourself-" Bonnie ignored him as her chanting grew longer. "BONNIE-"

The winds stopped and her heart finally settled, she looked down at the three glasses. They seemed to have darkened in color.

"Well, fancy seeing you here."

That voice, that sugary sweet voice. The voice belonged to-Before Bonnie could even react she felt something sharp against her head.

When Bonnie woke up hours later, her head throbbed and she felt like she could hardly move. "Jeremy?" she croaked, hoping to see Jeremy. Well, Jeremy's ghost to be exact, but Jeremy was gone and it was almost dawn. Her heart dropped, the veil was up. Great.

Bonnie noticed that the imprint of heels was on the ground. Katherine.

It had to be. One of the cups that had the cure was gone. Had Katherine took it? Why hadn't she taken the other three? Bonnie snorted. She was in for a nasty surprise.

Katherine Pierce looked at the tiny cup in her palm. What had the Bennet witch been up too? Bonnie had always been sneaky. Katherine had attaked the witch in a fit of anger, Bonnie had promised to make her immortal and the witch had refused to do it.

So being hit on the head was the least that Katherine could do. Katherine sniffed the liquid. It smelled strong and sweet. Was Bonnie hogging the good alcohol? Or was this the immortality liquid?

With her luck, Katherine was sure that Bonnie was hogging it for precious Elena or Caroline. Over her dead body would she allow either of them to have it. She closed her eyes and took a sip. Then she took another sip until she finished the drink.

Immediately she felt a rumbling in her belly and her head started pounding. Katherine was wobbling in her high heels and then everything was blank.

-End of Prologue-

Thank you so much for reading! As you already know from the summary, this story will be my last "official" TVD story. To be completely honest, I have lost interest and motivation to write TVD stories since TVD and the Originals ended and I want to move on to write in other fandoms. So, I've decided to do one last story as a thank you to all of you that have been loyal readers and I've decided to make it a pregnancy story since those are the ones that have been the most popular.

I do have two planned crossovers stories in case any of you are interested. A Thor/Rebekah one shot and a Harry Potter/TVD crossover that should be out in the next few weeks.

I will be finishing Marriage of Convenience (Delena).Kisses!