It was quiet in the kitchen as Aella awkwardly continued sipping her juice. When it passed the five minute mark of silence Aella decided to suggest an idea that had been floating around for a few days, "Sooooo... I had a thought..."

The vampires groaned in sync which caused the two of them to finally meet each others eyes and betray their anger with each other when small grins appeared at Aella words.

"Is this thought more successful than when you blown up 50 balloons and then put them in a bag tapped to the doorway to scare me when I opened it, only to realise that the door swung the opposite way... and the bag never opened?" Lexi smirked and had to chuckle when Aella stuck out her tongue at her.

"Or about the time you tried to do the snowsled scene from Home Alone..." Stefan grinned at her, "And if Lexi hadn't have been around to catch you, we would have been spending the evening at the hospital."

"They don't count," Aella held a finger up to both of them with a firm nod. "Those were boredom ideas.. Not thoughts! Plus-" she grinned evilly at the blonde"-that was the most fun Lexi's had since Stefan's birthday, right Lex?"

Lexi was quiet as she tried to hide her amusement, but Aella's grin could not hold it back and she had to laugh and nod at the moment Aella realised her Sled was not cooperating on the large stairs within the Salvatore Mansion as she screamed out for Stefan in terror. "That was a moment to remember forever."

Aella pointed at the blonde proudly as Stefan rolled his eyes,"What's your thought?"

Aella decided this was a subject where it was always best to rip of the bandaid quick and that's how she delivered her thought, "Can vampires become immune to vervain?"

Lexi and Stefan winced without a second thought at the notion, but before they could argue Aella continued, "Try not to think about the pain it would take to go through, but really think what the possibilities could be if you both became immune to one of the main things that can affect you."

Stefan looked to Lexi and shrug his shoulder, "She's not wrong." Aella smirked and Stefan was quick to remove it as he added, "this time."

This time Aella's tongue poked out at him.

"But how would we do it?" Lexi asked Aella, she'd heard of vampires trying in the past but no succeeding due to the pain.

"It's different to blood..." Aella began to explain more of what she had been pondering the past few weeks. "It's a weapon that you can't hide within anything. I think, like we did with Stefan's human blood, we'd be better to just start small, multiple times a day and work our way up."

Lexi and Stefan shared a secret conversation with their eyes that had Aella amazed the first time they had done it, with a quick nod Stefan left the room only to return seconds later with a very familiar glass bottle with liquid inside.

"Now?" Aella squealed, eyes wide.

Stefan poured only a few drops into two shot glasses, "Better to start now before we back out later."

Aella winced as the two vampires picked up the glasses and shared to hesitant nods, there was no easy way to do it though, even if diluted with any other liquid it was still poison to their bodies. And the more potent vervain they drank it now, the quicker - she hoped - they would become accustomed to it within their bodies. She closed her eyes when the two drank the few drops, feeling slightly sick as they moaned in pain at the feeling. When they finished Aella ran out to the bar and poured two full glasses of Whiskey and ran back handing them to the still coughing vampires. They both gladly took the alcohol from her and gulped the drink down with a different painless wince.

"So?"

Lexi finished her drink and groaned, "That was horrible! But I think I can feel my insides healing."

Aella grimaced, "Okay one: TMI Lexi, and two: You can actually do that?!"

Stefan coughed out a laugh at Aella's intrigue with the weirdest things as Lexi left the room, but nevertheless smiled as she wrapped her arm around and hugging him tight in comfort. It was the small things like that which gave him the most satisfaction out of their relationship... most would take for granted but he couldn't after finally finding her following decades of searching for the one.

When Lexi returned with a bag of blood and poured a large amount into the two empty glasses Stefan's arm tightened round Aella, he may have now been drinking it on it's own but that was more than he'd had when combining the shots he took daily.

Feeling his hesitancy Lexi smiled softly at him, "You'll need extra, the vervain would have weaked us both."

Aella squeezed his waist tight, "You can do it."

And there was another one of those moments that Stefan simply soured in, Aella's trust in him was one of the most beautiful things he'd ever felt, and with that trust and his best friends support he drank the whole glass.

AELLA'S DIARY

DAY 30

Phase two began that day and as it was only one day before December it seemed like everything was finally going well. Lexi and Stefan were now only daily shots of vervain after they began to build up their intolerance. It meant growing more vervain, and that's when Phase three began... I had always wondered why the town kept all the veravin stock in one place (the salvatore basement) and I decided to myself that it was a dumb idea and so I hatched my own plan to deal with it.

As one of my legal guardians, Jenna, had a credit card that was for me and only me, anything that needed paying because of me it would be used for - she and Grams both had one. Jenna only used it when it was time to buy school supplies or if I wanted clothes, but other than that she got money from my Uncle.... Anyway, long story short, I stole it.

Well can it be stolen if it's for me?

That was the problem with asking a diary... it never responds!

Continuing, I borrowed the card and bought a small storage shed...

How can you buy that Aella? I can hear you asking Diary... Weeeeelllllll having dead parents, and dead grandparents that were worth a lot of money helps in times like this.

I tell -Write?- a lie that I was the only one that knew about this, but as with all my plans there was one person on this earth that knew everything... Caroline Forbes. Caroline had found a kind little old man and his wife who were happy for us to buy their warehouse and look after our vervain growing there for a small price... and so our secret vervain stash was ago.

As I write this I'm shocked what we could do in 30 days; 30 days to build up a tolerance of human blood, less than 30 days to make shots of vervain not feel like a torture session, 30 days for Stefan to finally feel free, happy, and baggage free, and 30 days for Stefan and I to fall more in love with each other than ever.

We did it!

I just hope that's all the drama we have for now.

Write ya soon Diary!

SALVATORE BOARDING HOUSE

Lexi held Aella tight as they stood in the foyer alongside Stefan, Lexi was certain Stefan didn't need her help anymore, and she missed Lee. Bonnie, Jeremy, and Caroline had already said their goodbyes earlier and now all that was left was a tearful Aella, and a sad Stefan.

"I don't want to let go," Aella whispered into Lexi's shoulder, standing on her tiptoes so her face was pressed elsewhere.

"Me neither," Lexi squeezed her tight. "But you have your man, I need to see mine now."

"Tell him to come here," Aella smirked as they finally pulled away. "Then it'll be 3 vampires and a witch against Damon."

Lexi raised a brow at her friend, "Damon and Lee together is not hats best for either of them for a LONG time!"

Aella shrugged, and stepped back so Lexi and Stefan could say their goodbyes. They held each other close and kept their goodbyes to only between the two of them, but as they both stepped back Aella could see the shimmer of tears in both their eyes. They knew that this goodbye couldn't have happened if it wasn't for Aella.

"Well," Lexi sniffed up to push away the tears and held her bag over her shoulder. "It's been crazy, fun, slightly painful, and life changing... but I wouldn't change a thing."

Stefan pulled Aella close to him, allow her presence to give him some comfort, he looked over to Lexi and smiled softly at her "And neither would I. Thank you Lexi... for everything."

Lexi turned to leave when Aella let out a squeak, "Wait! I forgot-" she searched her pockets as Lexi raised a brow at Stefan who could only shrug, he too confused. Aella pulled something out of her pocket with a triumphant 'aha!' Then held out her fist to Lexi. She turned her fist open to reveal two decorative rings, "-you can't leave without these."

Lexi slowly stepped over to Aella and stared down at the rings but didn't pick them up, "Are these...?"

Aella smiled brightly, hand not budging as she nodded at the blonde, "I can't imagine not being able to enjoy the daylight with Stefan, and to have your taken so cruelly... well I thought it was time you got your own again."

Tears flooded Lexi's eyes, but she refused to let them go until Aella answered her next question, "And the second ring?"

Aella just being Aella smiled at Lexi like she had been hit over the head, "It's for Lee, of course."

Lexi's tears fell then and she pulled Aella unto yet another hug, although this time Aella wasn't expecting the hug and didn't have time to rise onto her toes, so her face became smushed in Lexi's lovely bosom, "Thank you. Thank you!" Lexi whispered in her hair, and Aella could only nod or things would really become awkward. Lexi pulled away and looked between Aella and Stefan before her eyes returned to Stefan and she held a finger up to him, "If you EVER let this girl go, or hurt her, you are a dead man Stefan Salvatore."

Aella giggled as Stefan let out a slight chuckle. Aella decided that the two needed another minute to say goodbye, alone, and started to step back towards the house. "I'll leave you two to say your goodbyes, bye Lex."

"Bye, A." Lexi waved and looked back down the rings and back to Aella before she entered the house, "And thank you... for everything."

Aella's blush took over her face at the praise and nodded towards her new friend before heading back in the house.

Lexi listened and when she heard Aella's steps start going upstairs she looked to Stefan with eyes wide, "How the hell did she do that? I thought only vampires could have one day ring?"

Stefan could only shrug, but smiled proudly at his girlfriends kind gift, "I have no idea Lexi, this was all her. But Aella has this amazing intuition to magic, it's like she can feel the magic as if it was a living thing, and knows if something can work and can change spells around to fit her purpose, she's like no other witch I've seen before."

"She's amazing!" Lexi nodded as she placed the ring on her fingers smiling when it fit perfectly. "But that will give me something to go on with my search."

Stefan raised his brow, "Anything?"

"Only that stupid hospital that keeps popping up," Lexi snarled, she hated when something wasn't so easy. "But as soon as I find anything I'll update you."

Stefan nodded and pulled alexi in for one final hug, "Keep in touch Lexi."

"I will Stef," Lexi nodded against his shoulder, as they pulled away she pointed a threatening finger at him again, "And I'm serious... you hurt that girl and you will pay."

Stefan glanced back at the house, his smile proud, then glanced back at Aella, "I hurt her and I'll call you to hurt me."

Lexi nodded, happy he had found Aella, then with a blink of an eye she was gone. Happy to be returning to Lee, but sad to be leaving her best friend and the person she owed her life to... her new friend.

Stefan watched the direction Lexi had ran, as if he could see her leaving, after a few moments he sighed sadly that his best friend, his person had gone, but as he heard Aella singing along to the radio his smile returned and he made his way back in the house and up to his room where his girlfriend was.

He leant against the door frame as he watched Aella pack up her things that had gathered there during her stay, now he was able to drink blood and vervain with no issues, and with Lexi leaving, it was time for Aella to return home. They had been lucky that Jenna and Sheila hadn't caught on to their living arrangements, and they didn't want to risk it anymore.

While Aella was folding her clothes into her bag Stefan stepped up to her and wrapped his arms around her waist. Without thinking Aella dropped the top back onto the bed, and held Stefan's arms around her tighter as he snuggled into her neck, "Thank you," he whispered.

Aella smiled at the words, and allowed them a moment just to themselves, before she picked up her top and started folding it again, Stefan's arms still around her.

Stefan squeezed again, "I mean it." He turned her around in his arms, neither bothered as the top fell to the ground. He kisses her lips, her nose, her forehead, "Thank you. What you did for Lexi then, for me since I met you, thank you."

Aella stood up on her tip toes and pecked Stefan's lips with hers, as she flattened her feet she just shrugged, "You're worth it. As long as you're happy you're always worth it."

Stefan stared into her gorgeous green eyes and without hesitation pulled Aella into a deep kiss, Aella let out a small moan and wrapped her arms around his neck pulling him closer and kissing him with as much passion. Stefan lifted her with ease slightly off the ground so he didn't have to bend and continued kissing her without pause. Aella then moved one of her arms from his neck and started swatting something behind her, Stefan became confused for a second until he heard a thud and then Aella arms returned to her place round his neck, and she softly bit his lip.

Stefan smirked to himself at very clear message Aella was giving him as she knocked her bag of his bed and so he carried her swiftly round his bed and laid her delicately on the bed, head against the pillows and hair billowing around her head like a golden halo.

Stefan smiled down at her, admiring her beauty, "One good thing about Lexi leaving." Aella looked to him confused and his kissed her softly again, almost laughing when he pulled away slightly and she followed his lips, "We get the place to ourselves again."

Aella giggled

As her fingers went to his hair automatically, smoothing his bronzed hair through her slim fingers, and with a raised brow she smirked, "Ooh la la."

Stefan softly chuckled as his hands trace over the soft cotton on her torso, and just before he started kissing her again, as he started raising the comfy fabric he whispered to her, "Ooh La La indeed."

LATER THAT NIGHT

Aella decided to stay one final night in Stefan's bed, especially after that performance. They hadn't had sex just yet, not while he was still learning how the human blood affected him, but Aella could happily say both she and Stefan were very satisfied as they fell asleep.

But unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, especially when living in a Mystic Falls. Aella twisted in Stefan's arms as her dream of finally becoming an official mermaid (don't ask how, it's a dream) her dream switched to her sat in her English class:

She looked around as her teacher droned on about some famous writer until she saw Bonnie sat next to her, the only problem was that Bonnie wasn't in her English class.

"Bonnie?" She whispered to her cousin.

Bonnie gasped and turned to Aella with eyes wide, "Aella? What are you doing in my dream?"

"Your dream?" Aella repeated back confused, "No, cuz. You're in my dream."

Bonnie was about the counter her argument with her own when they both realised that their teacher had gone quiet, in sync the two looked to where he was stood previously only for a woman in a cream gown and cream bonnet staring at them both, "It's coming."

Aella was about to question who the hell this woman was when Bonnie started mumbling to herself as she freaked out more and more, "Not again. No, no no! Not again!"

"Bonnie?" Aella questioned leaning towards her cousins as she rocked back and forth at her desk, concern growing for her cousin, "What do you mean 'not agai-?"

But before Aella could finish her question she was thrown into the dark woods, landing on the ground running, from what she had no clue but her body continued running and she could feel the fear omitting from her pores, she entered a valley and her legs stopped so she allowed herself to look around, seeing the ruins but not recognising where she was as it was too dark. She opened her mouth to shout for help when she heard a scream, a scream she knew all too well, "Bonnie."

She ran in the direction she heard her cousins screams, shouting out her name! "Bonnie?.... Bonnie, where are you?"

She entered another open space with it's own ruins, and opened her mouth to shout for Bonnie again when she saw her cousin on the floor screaming, running over to her Aella crouched down and pulled Bonnie's arm from around her body to see if she was injured when her cousins face turned, and Aella jumped back in surprise because the face was not Bonnie's, but the mystery woman from the classroom.

"Who are you?" Aella questioned, breathing heavily. "Where's Bonnie?"

"I'm Emily," the woman smiled and Aella's eyes became wide again when she realised this was her ancestor. "You know that. We're family."

"Why are you here? Where's Bonnie?" Aella question her again. She knew there was a reason she had seen Bonnie, she knew this was now a vision.

Emily raised a hand to Aella's face and softly stroked her cheek, "You can save them all Aella, you are the one. But Bonnie needs to finish her task."

Aella's mind ignored the words about herself and focused on what she had said about her cousin, "Bonnie? What task?"

Emily stroke her cheek once more, a proud smile on her face before she gestured around her, "This is where it started. And this is where it has to end. You know where I mean."

Aella was confused as hell and pushed for more answers from her dead ancestor, "I don't understand? Where is Bonnie?"

"You will," Emily smiled and before Aella could question again a bright light emitted from Emily causing Aella to close her eyes tight, when she opened them she was in the same clearing,y this time she knew where she was; Fell's Church.

She heard a gasp and saw her cousin laid out on the floor in her pyjamas, "Bonnie!" Bonnie's head shot up at her voice, relief on her face but just as Aella was about to run over to her cousin her vision faded as Bonnie called out her name.

"Bonnie!" Aella shot up in bed, awakening Stefan at the same time. Aella didn't give him time to question her and instead told him, "Bonnie's in trouble, we have to go to Fell's Church."