Some years after-

Time around Hope's 16th birthday-

After years spent studying with Hope, Bonnie was getting ready to return to Mystic Falls that continued to be a place ruled by the Heretic witches and their vampires. Stefan, Damon, Enzo, Caroline, Alaric and now Jeremy, Rebekah and Elijah continued to fight against vampires that were sired by the Heretic vampire- witches and Lily Salvatore

In New Orleans

Bonnie walked into the bar at noon. Going out in night time was not an option for her.

Camille served her a drink.

"So, did you get any further?"-Camille asked.

"Twenty steps forward and then a hundred back."-Bonnie said- "do you have Southern Comfort, I'd like a Scarlett O'Hara."

"Tomorrow- is- another- day-mood, ha?!" Camille said taking a bottle of the whiskey and cranberry juice.

"Yep."- Bonnie said, her thoughts wondering to  more pleasant moments trying to dostract herself from yet another failure.

Everything seemed to be an abyss and there was no sign of things going their way.

She took a sip of the cocktail.

Vincent then walked in and without a greeting walked straight to Bonnie.

"Did anything happen?"- Bonnie uttered.

"No"- he replied- "but I have found this among the Grimoires of my family"

He now produced a letter with a sign of Gemini and verses of a spell that was in an unknown language to them.

"You think this could be it? The spell to undo the link between me and Elena?"- Bonnie's eyes twinkled with hope that they have maybe finally got a breakthrough.

"It could be IT!"- Vincent said- "we just need to decipher the text. Hope could try it."

Camille looked at her husband proudly. Vincent gave up magic and swore not to have anything to do with it, and this gesture was a grand way of going back on his oath.

"Thank you."- Bonnie said- "I know how hard it is to break an oath, especially one given to yourself. "

"I have watched way too long how everything is going under... and I see the hurt in the eyes of my wife, you- and others"

Bonnie smiled a little and now looked at the blonde vampire that stood behind the bar moved by the words her husband had said looking at her. Bonnie got up from the bar and before she could say anything to excuse herself, her phone rang and she saw Damon's name on the display.

"I have to take this.- Bonnie said moving away from the bar answering the call.

"Hey!"

"Can we talk?"- he said.

"Yeah."- Bonnie replied.

" I am in Portland and there is a dead Heretic witch with a markings of two numbers 21 -21 and a strange tatoo saying cusp on her wrist."

"Damon... I got this spell and maybe soon we are going to be able to unlink us...ahm...me and Elena"- Bonnie said happily.

She could now see Vincent and Camille kissing and for a moment she switched herself off not hearing what Damon had said.

"Bon"-she heard Damon on the other side with a slightly worried tone-"Bonnie...are you all right? What is happening?Answer!"

"I am here"-Bonnie then said-all of the emotion she was bottling up just resurfaced as she saw two people, a husband and wife, witch and a vampire in love brought together over a small act of kidness.

"It's good news then?"-Damon continued-"we really need some and you can come home!"

"Home!"-Bonnie uttered as if it was an unknown word.

"I guess New Orleans made you forget about everything"-Damon continued and Bonnie thought of the ambiguity of the sentence and the truth behind it. Being there and hiding behind her role as Hope's special tutor made it easier not to think about him, their kiss and her feelings of love for him and guilt for having fallen in love with the guy that was her best friend's boyfriend.

"I like it here"-she lied and then cut the conversation short telling him to send her the photos of the tatoos of the Heretic witch and take a sample of her blood.

She left the bar walking back to the Mikaelson house not far from it.

She found Elijah in the library as she went to a dictionary trying to decipher the spell. He was sitting by the window writing. He greeted her and she conveyed to him the latest.

"It looks like the Gemini coven was involved with every witch coven that existed."-Bonnie said.

"Gathering information and weaving their agis spells with others."-Elijah added-"but sometimes we need to look at the simplest things"

"I need to think in the twisted mind of Kai Parker."

"I believe that you are both the key"-Elijah then said-"not just Elena."

"I think that Damon is the key"- Bonnie then said.

"Or maybe none of you-and so we come to mathematical possibilities. How does a witch think?"

'Logical, but since this was Kai's doing maybe illogical is it."

Bonnie replied and then glanced at the writing Elijah did -and she saw that the were letters addressed to Elena.

"I am sorry, I didn't mean to look"- Bonnie apologized immediately.

Elijah looked at the letters in the box and the one that he was writing and then at Bonnie.

"There have been so many mistakes I have made in all of my existance and there is one that I wish I could go back in time and rectify it."

"Elena advocated for you" Bonnie then said -"she didn't want you dead. Back then after the Ball."

Elijah now looked at Bonnie without a further comment. It was clear that the witch needed to get something right.

"I will see you." Bonnie took a book and walked away out of the library.

Elijah returned to his letter and read the first lines, stopping for a moment and then looked at the window. His thoughts travelled to the crypt and the night Bonnie opened it to him so he could lay the flowers on Elena's casket.

Flashback

"I don't know why you are doing this for me, but I thank you." Elijah said to Bonnie.

"You were important to her." Bonnie said poignantly. She then said a few spell words and opened the casket.

Elena laid in it as if she was laid there a day earlier, sleeping serenely as if time had stopped.

Bonnie walked over to the enterance of the crypt and let Elijah have a private moment. He put the flowers in the casket on Elena's hands.

"We know full well there's just time...Forgive me for not having had the courage to pursue what was in my heart, my love."

He now laid his hand on hers and said- "Always and Forever"

In New Orleans, Mystic Falls, as well as in Portland or wherever the heros and heroines of this story were, their hearts ached that particular night thinking of the unanswered love, or why at one particular moment one feels that one's heart suddenly has the notion that it had missed that one great love and hoped things could one day be entirely different. Who their true love really was and why they felt the flutter of the butterflies inside of them when they remember a particular daydream they had wishing the one they loved was with them.

Enzo looked at Caroline who was asleep on the sofa.

Flashback

"Hope can trick you in all sorts of hilarious unrealistic scenarios."- he said to Caroline.

....

"Do you remember rules?"- Carolines said as they walked through the woods after a night of another slaughter of vampires sired by the Heretics.

"Rules? What rules? Did we ever had any rules? Oh, are you making new ones? Why?"- Enzo said.

"Rule one- when I say throw me the stake- then you do it immediately or I am going to kill you!"- Caroline said.

"Got it! what is rule two?" he continued with the tease.

"Rule two- you don't have to play a knight!"

"I play the knight?! Since when?"

"Since...I don't know. Just don't"
"Or you are going to kill me?!"
-Enzo concluded.
Caroline confirmed that it was exactly she would do.
"What is number three- not mention Stefan?!"
Caroline now stopped looking at hom with iced blue eyes.
It made Enzo froze for a moment.
"Do you know how it is when you fall for someone and you think you love them, but then at one moment you realize it is not real. Huh..."
"What is real?"- Enzo muttered looking at her feeling his throat dry and his heart crushing down as she walked away.

****
On the way from Portland, Damon dialled Bonnie's number.
"What is it?"-she said straight out.
"I am bored driving -can we just talk about ...whatever you want talk about as long as it dorsn't involve the Gemini, Heretics...or let's play mind scrabble."-Damon said.
"You are on!" Bonnie said-"here is a word for you Dratticghan"

They went on playing the word game they invented.

***

Rebekah walked in the Grill where Stefan had helped himself with a drink of bourbon. She walked over to the jukebox and put a song on. She walked over to the bar and he poured her a drink as well.

Star shining right above you 

Night breeze seem to whisper I love you

Bids singing in the sycamore tree

Dream a little dream of me

Say Nighty Night and kiss me 

Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me

While I am alone and blue as can be

Dream a little dream of me

Stars are fading and I linger on dear

Still craving your kiss....

Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you

Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you

But in your dreams whatever they will be

Dream a little dream of me

Elijah put his letter to Elena in a box sealing it.