Sorry it's been so long on this. I truly am going to try and finish it. I will do better at updating. Anyways. This is kind of a filler chapter which is stupid after such a delay, but thats how my mind works so damnit. And this stuff plays a part ya know.

I don't own any of this shit, well the stuff other people own, the rest is mine.

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Everyone was on edge. It had been hours since the day turned to night and the snow started coming down. There was now snow up to their ankles outside and it had turned into real nighttime, which not surprisingly, is still dark.

Bonnie had been sitting quietly, trying to figure out how any of this new information helped. She kept thinking back to the prophecy and what it said about the light of true love itself. She remembered her dream and the light that flashed before she finally woke. Someone had grabbed her hand, and much like when she touched Hope the other night, that same light flashed through the boarding house.

There was power in these children, but Hope was only a baby and her son hadn't even been born yet. As she felt her son start kicking inside her stomach, she heard hope start crying on the couch across from her where Haley held her in her arms. There is some connection between them already. Bonnie thought to herself.

She looked back at the prophecy Damon had received from Ric and noticed something peculiar. There was a circle in each corner of the page. At first she thought it was just a border or something like some old books had, but the closer she looked the more they appeared to be rings. Her son had imprinted rings on her and Damon and Stefan and Caroline. Maybe there was more reason behind them than they originally had thought.

Bonnie gave Damon a look and motioned for him to grab her hand. He reached out with his right hand but she shook her head, pointing toward his left. When he grabbed her hand she could feel a slight shock go through her body. When she jumped in surprise he gave her a look wondering what was wrong. She shook her head and continued with her project.

"Stefan and Caroline, grab my hand with the one that was imprinted by our son." She said looking next to them where Caroline sat and Stefan stood behind the couch. They gave her a curious look, but the feeling she got inside her stomach was that of satisfaction.

Caroline grabbed her hand where Damon already held his, and she again felt a slight shock, but when Stefan put his hand on top, Bonnie felt a great surge of power fill up her body. They must not have felt it because the expressions on their faces didn't change. To the rest of the room they must have seemed incredibly strange because everyone was looking at Bonnie like she had grown two heads.

"I think I figured something out. I don't know what it means, but when our hands came together. I felt a huge surge of power flow through me. It wasn't like my normal magic, but something different." Bonnie explained unable to explain the feeling she got from it.

"There's definitely magic in this connection we all share." Caroline mused quietly to herself, but loud enough that everyone heard.

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"You lovelies figure something out?" Klaus queried from the corner of the room where he must have been paying attention to their so-called handshake.

"I guess. More questions too if that helps." Damon replied in a girly voice and a sarcastic grin. Everyone else slack jawed as to why he would use that tone of voice, well, ever.

"Depends on the questions I suppose." Klaus responded moving his eyebrows up and down and a half grin that almost looked like a smile on his face. Causing his family in turn to look at what was happening with confusion.

"I could make them sound dirty." Damon replied still in his girl voice adding on a sultry tone. Earning a couple of chuckles from around the room.

"Keep talking, I'm interested." Klaus responded moving toward him and it was to the point where they were now flirting with each other out of nowhere and everyone was confused.

"Okay. What the fuck is happening?" Stefan asks with the most serious voice in the world.

It was at this point that Damon burst out laughing and Klaus followed right behind him. Which in turn caused everyone else to burst out laughing at the absurdity of it all.

All of the sudden the favorite four were clutching their hands to their chests like they had been shocked.

"Something is wrong." Caroline explained as soon as she gathered herself.

"You are right. Something is wrong." Bonnie replied seriously.

"Was I just flirting with Klaus?" Damon asked shaking his head like he had been smacked in the face.

"I couldn't even feel it happening until whatever broke all your concentration." Klaus said with a hint of terror in his voice. "I've had extensive training in protecting my mind from the supernatural." He continued explaining himself. "Whatever this is, its unheard of, and totally just toyed with our brains.

"Did nobody else feel that? Why just me and Klaus?" Damon asked curiously.

"The alpha males?" Elijah spoke from the hallway. "They see the two of you as the leaders of our packs. Maybe they were testing you."

"Could also just be coincidence." Haley added lightly.

"If they have that much power why are they not just breaking down the door and ripping us apart?' Davina asked, fear evident in her shaky voice.

"Who knows, but we need to find out." Bonnie said looking off thru the window.

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Elena and Camille had been on a plane for 4 hours talking about all the things that led up to her most recent position with her friends. Elena seemed to be working out in her mind how royally she messed up. Talking about it helped, but inside she felt empty and hated herself for what she had done.

"I think I'm losing my mind." Elena said smugly. She kept trying to replay what happened in her mind, but it kept coming out foggy. "What they must have thought of me. What I made them think of me. How could I do that to them?"

"Does it bother you now? The way you handled things?" Camille responding, chastising herself in her head for how much that sounded like a something a real therapist would say.

"Of course it bothers me. What could have ever given me the motivation to treat my friends that way, my family? I was just so upset about losing Damon after my memories returned so suddenly. It made me feel like the world had changed in a matter of hours. Like one minute I was in bed with Damon, happy. The next I was horrified because I lost him. And then I was confused about how he felt nothing for me anymore. Even my feelings for Stefan were brought back up. Some of the memories that came back made me see what I had lost in him. Everyone was moving on with someone else, and I was stuck with nobody." She responded with tears flowing steadily from her eyes.

"Maybe you picked a poor time to get your memories back?" Camille asked, hinting at how obvious her statement was.

"That would be the understatement of the century." Elena said flatly. "I should have never had them compelled away, I should have grieved like a normal person."

"But you aren't a normal person Elena, you are a vampire." Camille finished.

"And that makes what I did any less horrifying?" She asked rhetorically. "I should have never taken those stupid drugs. Ever since then my life has gone on, but I'm doing things I would never do before. Hurting the people I love because I felt weak and lost. Why'd I have to go and make everything so damn complicated?"

"Maybe you really just need some time away. To figure everything out for yourself before you try to mend your broken friendships." Camille advised, hoping she agreed because that's exactly what they were doing.

"I think you are probably right. The only problem is, my family is fighting for their lives, for their future, and I just made it harder for them. They needed me, and I wasn't there for them. Even though anytime I ever needed them, they were always there. No matter what issues they were dealing with. Bonnie died for me, twice, and I just tried to steal the father of her child away right in front of her face. And the others, what the hell was I doing?" Elena continued, failing to understand what could have made her do the things she had, say the things she had. "Who am I now?"

"Now that is the question. Without Damon, and without Stefan; who is Elena Gilbert?" Camille asked.

"I don't honestly know. I thought I did. I tried to start over with Liam, but then things just got so complicated." Elena responded. She was uncomfortable in her own skin, and didn't know how to fix it. "That doesn't matter right now though. I need to find some way to help them. I need to start fixing myself by not disappointing them again. Where are we headed right now?" She asked.

"We will be landing in Rome in a few hours. We are going to be looking for information that can help everyone back home fight what is coming. Klaus gave me a few good ideas about where to look." Camille responded, even though she had told Elena three times already what they were doing.

"Then we need to find something. We need to help them. I won't be able to live with myself if we don't do something to help." She stated, resolute in the idea that they would find something important. I have to find something that can help. I have to.