Both Stefan and Amelia stare at one another, unreadable expressions on their faces, neither of them able to process it all. Both of them thought the other was dead, Amelia was positive she was dead, she found his and Damon's body not long after they were shot.

Not only was the question of how she was alive, was running through Stefan's head, but so was the question if Damon knew? Stefan knows all too well of they way Damon used to feel about Amelia Evans, and her being alive, may just stir these feelings back up to the surface.

"How?" The pair ask each other in stereo, and Amelia lets out a choked laugh, with a weak and teary eyed smile.

"I thought I'd never see you again." She says, her voice breaking slightly.

"But how are you alive?" Stefan asks her in disbelief, still not over the shock of seeing her there, looking just like she did back in 1864 but in more modern clothing.

"The last of the Mystic Falls Vampire population after the round up.It's a long story, but cutting it short, one of them took pity and turned me. So here I am." She gives a brief explanation, her transition something she never likes to speak about, as it is a night full of great regret.

"As much as I hate to break up this touching reunion, your girlfriend doesn't look too dandy, Stefan." Rebekah points out, eyeing the weak and feeble looking doppelganger, a wicked smirk growing when she realizes what is wrong with her.

"Elena? Are you okay?" Stefan questions the doppelganger, looking pained by the fact he is unable to see her, worry clear on his face.

"I need to feed." Elena sighs out sounding horse.

"Ah. I see what's going on here. You died with vampire blood in your system and you didn't feed, and now your locked up in here without a drop of human blood in sight. That is a problem." Rebekah smirks with a devilish grin, leaning against the back of her cell, while Elena glares at her.

"Just ignore her." Stefan tells Elena, looking ready to kill Rebekah himself, and Amelia tries to hide her amusement at the situation.

"Has anyone done the math, or shall I? I'd say you've got less then three hours to feed before I get to watch you die all over again." Rebekah tells them, grinning widely as Elena fails to break her cell bars "My day just got a whole lot better."

"And mine is getting stranger. I didn't even think that was possible at this point." Amelia comments, sitting back against the cell wall and making herself comfortable, knowing they could be stuck here for a while.

****

Everyone trapped inside of the barn is quiet. Elena is leaning against the wall, looking pale and ill, her breathing labored. Stefan and Amelia keep glancing at one another, thinking that maybe if they look away, one would be gone and they are hallucinating. As for Rebekah, she is staying leaned back against the wall, getting amusement out of watching the doppelganger suffer a slow upcoming death.

"Stefan? Stefan, something's happening." Elena coughs out, and when Amelia looks over at the doppelgangers cell, her eyes widen slightly.

Elena is stood, taking very slow steps, her held out like someone is leading her.

"Well this is new." Amelia smirks, tilting her head to the side watching.

Stefan rolls his eyes at her, and grows more worried and concerned, no clue what is happening to Elena, which makes it worse. After a moment, Elena falls back against the wall and to the ground, no longer able to stand and looking even more weak.

"Stefan..." The doppelgangers weak voice trails off.

"I'm out of time. I need blood. I'm dying." Elena informs him, looking like she is struggling to breath.

"Well never, Sherlock" Amelia comments, her tone dripping with sarcasm, coughing having inhaled too much vervain.

Stefan shoots his oldest friend a pleading look, wanting her help, as he is going to do what he can to get Elena blood. Amelia will admit, being able to watch a Katherine look alike suffer to the brink of death, does satisfy her slightly. But after looking at Stefan, she sighs, and uses the bars to pull herself to her feet, ready to cause a commotion.

"HEY! ANYONE! HEY!" Stefan yells, on his feet also, trying desperately to get a guards attention.

"COME ON! WE KNOW YOU CAN HEAR US. " Amelia joins in the yelling, shaking the cell bars to cause a rattling noise.

"Will you shut up." Rebekah groans out annoyed, but the pair ignore her.

"DO YOU THINK WE'RE SCARED OF YOU!" Stefan shouts, both him and Amelia banging on the cell bars, making as much noise as possible.

Finally, a guard walks annoyed ans stops in front of Stefan cell, glaring at him and over at Amelia.

"You both want more vervain? Keep it down." He warns them annoyed.

"Isn't somebody a grumpy pants?" Amelia smirks, tutting at the Guard but when he gives her a deadly look, she holds her hands in the air in innocence.

"Listen to me. Elena's gonna die if you don't let her out of here." Stefan tells the guard, and he looks over at the doppelganger, before shaking his head.

"Sorry. Not my problem." The guard shrugs, clearly not giving a damn, turning to leave.

"She's innocent. Let her out." Stefan demands still determined, but the guard ignores him and continues to leave.

Angrily, Stefan uses his speed and rushes at the bars, trying desperately to break free. The guard spins back around, and shoots Stefan in the leg, making him fall to the ground injured. Amelia growls at the sight, and rushes at the bars also, using everything ounce of Strength she can muster.

"He said, let her out." She spits at the guard, banging on the cell so much, and the guard begins to look fearful she may actually break free.

"Stop!" Elena shouts in a croaking voice.

The Deputy shoots Amelia twice in each leg, making her fall back, and hit the ground with a thud, groaning in pain. He shoots Stefan once more, when he sees him trying to get back on his feet, then leaves before either of them can try anything else.

************

"Brand new jeans as well." Amelia grumbles out bitterly, digging the final wooden bullet from her leg, and letting out a sigh of relief.

Stefan drags himself up to lean against the wall, digging the final bullet out of his leg, and leaning his head back in relief when he's done.

"Elena? Are you still with me?" He questions weakly.

"Yeah. Yeah. I'm here, I'm okay." Elena mumbles in reply slowly, not have much longer left now.

"No, you're not. I can hear your breathing. Damon was right. You should of fed this morning. I'm so sorry." Stefan tells her, blaming himself, looking down sadly.

At the mention of the Eldest Salvatore's name, a glimmer of emotion appears in Amelia's eyes, that being the confirmation she needed he was alive also. Images begin to run through her mind, of the last time she saw him smile, saw him laugh, just saw him altogether.

"Don't be. You had hope. That's all I ever wanted you to have. And you had it." Elena tells him, weakly shaking her head, looking more and more pale.

"I love you so much." Stefan tells her in complete honesty, silent tears slipping down his cheeks.

"Do you know why I was even on that bridge? I was coming back for you, Stefan. I had to choose, and... I picked you. Because I love you. No matter what happens... it's the best choice I ever made." Elena tells him, and you can see tears slipping down both pairs cheeks, heartfelt honesty clear in Elena's words.

"God... it sucks I can't see you right now." Elena breaths out, and Stefan wipes his eyes but it doesn't seem to stop the tears falling.

"I'm smiling." He lies to her, clearly not wanting her to be upset like him.

"Me too."

Rebekah and Amelia watch them both,touched as they watch the pair, feeling sorry for them. Both of them know they need to help somehow, when two Deputies walk inside, one carrying a fresh vervain plant in his hand.

"I got this. Bring the other one in." The first deputy tells the other, and the second nods them leaves.

Stefan and Rebekah exchange sly nods, Amelia and Stefan doing the same, a plan clear the three's mind.

"Excuse me? Sir?" Rebekah coughs out, attracting the Deputy's attention, and arming his gun her walks over to her cell.

"I thought I told you to shut up." He hisses at her angrily, glaring at her as if she is scum, putting a frown on Amelia's face.

"Here's the thing... My family, we have.... We have money, castles, apartments, jewelry. Just name your price and let me out." Rebekah tells him, weakly attempting to bribe him, this only being distraction.

The Deputy leans toward the bars closer, a evil look on his face,a s he looks the Blonde Original in the eye "I'd much rather watch you die." He spits at her, and Amelia begins to tut at him.

"Wrong answer, buddy." She says, as Rebekah jumps to her feet and rushes at him, her fangs and veins exposed.

He jumps back towards Stefan's cell in shock, pointing his loaded gun at Rebekah, but doesn't get chance to fire when Stefan grab shim by the neck, and repeatedly hits his head off the bars. The gun slips from his hands, and falls to the floor by Amelia's cell, close enough for her to grab it.

Without hesitation, she takes the gun and points it at him, shooting the Deputy twice in each leg, as Stefan hits his head hard enough it kills him.

"How do you like it?" Amelia smirks, throwing the gun to the ground, watching as the dead Deputy bleeds out on the floor by Elena's cell.

"Elena! Elena!" Stefan calls to her, and she weakly blinks open her eyes, and notices the blood.

Using everything she's got, Elena reaches her hand out of the cell, trying to dip her hand int he pool of blood oozing on the floor. It just being out of reach, she leans out as far she can, her head leaned right against the bars. Looking strained and ready to give up, her fingers just dip into the pool of blood, so she slowly brings her hand to her lips.

As she weakly licks the blood from her fingers, a single tear sheds from her eye, and you see the Veins form underneath them. Like it or not, Elena is a vampire, even when the odds looked like they were against her.

****

Amelia takes in the sweet scent of vervain free air, having finally got out of the cell that trapped her in that barn. She then looks around, trying to figure where the hell they actually are, as she waits for Stefan to leave the barn. He stopped to heal some blonde haired boy, but gave her strict instructions not to anywhere without him.

A few seconds later, Stefan walks outside looking angry, but quickly pushing it away when he meets eyes with Amelia. They both stare at one another, looking and feeling slightly awkward, not really sure what to say to each other.

"I've missed you." Stefan says, breaking their silence, and looking at her with a genuine happy look.

Amelia smiles back, feeling tears forming, and gives him a playful glare. "Damn it, Stefan. You pick the one day I'm not wearing waterproof makeup to make me cry." She mock scolds, before pulling the youngest Brother into her arms, and hugging him tight.

When they finally pull away, she glares at him once again. "Did you have a growth spurt or something? When did you get taller then me?"

"I was always taller then you. You just wore the highest heeled shoes you had to deny it." Stefan shrugs, looking amused by her annoyance.

"Whatever." She grumbles."Now you have a baby vamp girlfriend to go find, and I have an old acquaintance to go see." She tells him, going to walk away, but Stefan quickly grabs her by the arm to stop her.

"Amelia, Damon isn't the same as he was back when we were human. He's different now." Stefan warns her, not wanting for her to be disappointed at how Damon may react when he sees her.

"Stefan, I don't care. Just knowing he is alive, and I'll be able to hear his voice again, is all that I care about." She tells him, quickly pulling from his grasp, and rushing away to look for the Eldest Salvatore.

Not that far away from the barn, Amelia stops just outside the Pastors house, when she hears two voices talking.

"If it had been you at the bridge last night and not Stefan, and I begged you to save Matt..." Elena trails off, clearly mid argument with someone.

"I would of saved you. In a heartbeat, no question." Says the voice, that was always able and still does, make Amelia's heart skip a beat.

"That's what I thought. Then Matt would be dead because you couldn't let go. Matt would be dead!" Elena snaps unhappily in reply.

"But you wouldn't be. And you would of gotten to grow up. And had the life you wanted, the life that you deserve. And I know that I didn't use to get that, but I do now. And I wanted that for you, Elena. And I would of gladly given it to you and let Matt die because I am that selfish. But you knew that already. The first night we met is not all you remember." Damon tells her in a cool tone, a silence falling between the pair.

Knowing Elena won't talk about what else she remembered, Damon turns and walks back toward his car, wanting to leave and get out of Elena's way for a while.

"Who's Amelia?" Elena then questions suddenly, making Damon freeze at the mention of the name.

"What?" Damon questions back, turning to look at the doppelganger, raising his eyebrows at her.

"I know you heard me, Damon. Who's Amelia?" Elena sighs, repeating her question.

"Someone from my past, that you should know nothing about. Care to explain how you do?" Damon demands, folding his arms across his chest.

"Maybe because I just helped kill the Deputy she drank from." Amelia announces, coming into view of the pair, with one hand on her hip and her hand giving the Salvatore a small wave.

"Hello Damon. Miss me?"

Hope you all enjoyed. I rewrote Damon and Amelia seeing each other again, like ten times, before I finally came up with a bit I liked. Comment you opinions below :)

{Edited - 18/04/17}