Two Months Later \ Present Time

"Come on, Stefan! Go!" Lexi shouted excitedly, earning a sigh from the brooding vampire.

"I can't, Lex."

"Yes, you can! They would want this for you. They would want you to be happy," Lexi spoke, her voice soft as she grabbed the boy's shoulders. "She would want this."

"I don't have time for dating, Lexi. Things are far too complicated for that."

"Yes, but you made it work before, so why not now? If anything, it's perfect."

"Charlie isn't going to want someone with as much baggage as I have. It'd be an unhealthy relationship," Stefan explained as they walked down a sidewalk in New York.

The best friends had moved there not long after everything went down. Stefan couldn't live in Mystic Falls anymore and Lexi promised to help him, so they both left.

It was for the best.

Stefan was working as a mechanic while Lexi worked as a nurse. They shared an apartment. Everything had been fine... Until Stefan ran into his ex-boyfriend Charlie.

They had broken up right before Silas locked Stefan in a coffin before pushing him into the lake. It was too complicated; both their lives. They didn't have time for a relationship so they ended it.

Now, when they saw each other again, Charlie immediately asked if Stefan wanted to get a coffee and Stefan couldn't say no.

"I'm sure he can handle it. He's a witch, he goes through shit all the time. Now, get your ass dressed or I will drag you to the coffee shop myself."

Somewhere Unknown

"Pancakes again?" A woman asked as she walked into a kitchen, a man following behind her, their hands intertwined.

The man standing at the stove shook his head with a smirk, "Uh-uh. Vampcakes, sweetheart. Your favourite, remember? Oh and Bon Bon's making coffee."

Margot and Nik glanced back, sending a grateful smile to the witch as she handed them two steaming cups of coffee.

The group made their way to the dining table where Damon laid out four plates, each with a stack of 'vampcakes' on them.

Bonnie rolled her eyes, "Every day, I tell you that I hate that."

"And every day, I do it anyway. Bon appetit."

Margot smiled as she handed Damon the crossword puzzle before leaning into Nik's side as they ate the breakfast.

Two Months Before

The white light had slowly dissipated.

"Oh?" Margot heard Damon say from beside her. The group of four glanced at each other oddly as they looked around what appeared to be a normal forest.

Damon and Bonnie quickly unlinked their hands along with Bonnie and Margot.

"Well, that got awkward fast."

"What happened?" Bonnie asked.

They were in the graveyard, the same one from before they were taken away. The wind was gone, the sun was out and birds were chirping happily.

"Where is everybody?"

Margot glanced up at Nik before pulling him into a hug. Their arms wrapped tightly around one another. They thought they would never see each other again.

"Where are you going?" Damon asked as Bonnie suddenly walked away.

They quickly followed after the witch.

They walked aimlessly through the town. "Well, I feel a fang. I'm still a vampire," Damon said as he shoved a finger in his mouth.

"Either we're a bunch of dead vampires, or Mystic Falls is no longer magic-free," Margot spoke from beside him as they walked through the town square which was oddly empty.

"Look," Nik muttered, pointing to a building.

It was... the Grill?

"We definitely blew that up about an hour ago..."

"Why don't we see any people? If we're still on the other side, we should at least still be able to see the living."

"Where the hell are we? And I don't mean geographically."

"I have no idea."

— — —

"Uh, how many more streets are we going to wander?" Damon asked with a groan as they walked through Mystic Falls.

"How many times are you going to ask me questions I don't have the answers to? Huh?" Bonnie spoke, glancing back at Nik and Margot who walked a few paces back.

"There's something weird about the cars," The heretic spoke up after some time.

Nik nodded, "Yeah, they're almost twenty years old or more, and yet they all look brand new."

Bonnie and Damon stopped in their steps as though they were in a trance. They were staring at Elena's house.

"And that is Elena's not-so-burnt-to-a-crisp house."

"What happened to Elena's house?"

"She burned it down. Long story."

Margot sighed before grabbing onto a paper that was sitting on the lawn. She pulled off the elastic before unravelling it. Her eyes widened slightly as she read it. "Look," She said, holding out the paper for Bonnie to see.

"Hm? Rare solar eclipse expected to be seen across 12 states," She read confused.

"The date."

"May 10th... 1994. Is that- are we- That's impossible."

The sky went dark as though clouds had covered the sun, except in this case, it was an eclipse.

"I don't think we should be asking where we are," Damon said, "I think we should be asking when we are."

— — —

Nik and Margot were sitting peacefully on a porch swing while Bonnie and Damon spoke. Nik hadn't taken his hands off of her since they arrived wherever they were.

"Wonder if there's any booze in this empty retroville," The blue-eyed vampire said as he leaned against the door.

"It feels so weird to be back here. Practically grew up on this porch," Bonnie commented as she glanced at the toys that littered the porch, all of which they assumed were Elena's old ones.

"All right. Talk us through it," Margot said, glancing over at the witch as she played with the rings on Nik's left hand.

"Before the other side collapsed, my grams said that she made a sacrifice so I could find peace-"

"I believe she wanted the part where you actually have a theory," The hybrid said as he glanced at the Bennett witch.

"Well, this clearly isn't peace. Otherwise, I wouldn't be stuck here with you two and it would just be Margot."

Margot smirked whilst the two men rolled their eyes, "Rude."

"She must have... I don't know... Sent me somewhere, and when I held your hands, I took you with me."

"Did she happen to whisper a safe word in her last breaths, a clue maybe, witchy path out of here?" Margot asked.

"No, but if we got here by magic, magic should be able to get us out," Bonnie said, however, there was an obvious frown on her face.

Damon noticed her expression, "And that frown that's not upside down is telling me what?"

Bonnie stared at a candle before holding out her hand, "Phesmatos, incendia," The candle did nothing, "Still can't do magic."

Damon sighed, "Perfect. What about you, Maggs?"

Margot easily lit the candle without speaking. "Bonnie was put in here by her Grams. Chances are, it needs to be Bennett magic to get us out. My magic will do jack shit other than offer entertainment."

— — —

It was the next day and Margot was in the Salvatore kitchen making beignets with Nik while Damon made more pancakes or as he liked to call them, vampcakes.

The sounds of Salt-N-Pepa's 'Whatta Man' filled the room as Damon drank from a bottle of bourbon whilst he filled the food.

The door opened and in came Bonnie carrying a small stuffed teddy bear. "I didn't know you cooked," She said, slightly amused at the sight of 'housewife' Damon.

"I don't," He answered, glancing back and seeing Klaus with his head buried in Margot's neck as he hugged her waist. He seemed so... soft. It was weird.

"How'd you sleep?" Bonnie asked.

"Me... not good. My 1994 mattress was very lumpy and these two are very loud. What you go there?"

Bonnie grinned as she held up the bear, "Oh. Miss Cuddles. I lost her when I was 9, but I went into my house last night, and there she was," She paused as she pulled out an old book from her backpack, "I also found this at my grams' house, her old grimoire."

"Yeah? Well, I found this," Damon exclaimed as he held up a bottle of bourbon, "Drank it last year when Ric died."

"So we're in this snapshot of another time or something. Everything that existed in 1994 still exists."

The Salvatore held up a disk, "For better or for worse."

"Listen. There was a time when I couldn't practice magic. This grimoire taught me a lot. Maybe I can reteach myself, especially with Margot here."

"If you're still a witch, which with our luck and your skill probably ain't the case."

Margot scoffed from the other side of the room, "Would a little support kill you?"

"I am acutely aware that we are in some otherworldly time dimension. However, did you ever think for one second that maybe it's Bon Bon being negative reacting to my natural self negatively, hmm?"

Bonnie rolled her eyes, "You're ridiculous."

"Nope. I'm consistent. Eat your pancakes. Oh, and... You can do a crossword puzzle."

Margot grinned. Damon had been trying to figure out the same word for the last three hours. It was quite amusing actually.

Nik's hand had slipped up her shirt, resting just under her breast as he kissed along her shoulder.

He was very distracting.

Bonnie sighed before sitting down, "Oh, gee, thanks. Breakfast with my least favourite person and a crossword puzzle from 1994... All right," She paused as she grabbed a pen before staring down at the paper, "What's a 7-letter word for..."

The natural lighting had disappeared. The room was completely dark for a moment. It was... an eclipse? Again?

After a few minutes, the sun appeared once again.

"You've got to be kidding me," Nik said as he stared out the window, "Bonnie, look at the date on that paper."

The witch quickly looked at the date before saying, "... It says May 10, 1994. It's the same day as yesterday. We're living the same day all over again."

Margot sighed as she stared up at Nik, "Well, that proves it. We're in hell, my own personal, custom-built hell."

Nik tightened his hold on her.

"What do you mean by that, kid?"

Margot stared at the ground, "My best friend died on May 10th, 1994."

Damon held onto his bottle of bourbon with an unreadable expression, "Great. Bottoms up."

Somewhere Unknown | Two Months Later

Two months had gone by since they realized they were living the same day over and over again. The four had gotten into a routine, Damon would make breakfast, Bonnie would make coffee and Nik and Margot would do whatever they wanted.

Damon had eventually forced them to move out after he caught them doing it on the table... the couch and the counter. It was really a sanitary hazard in his mind.

They had found themselves a lovely little home not far from the boarding house. It was a cute little abode with gardens surrounding it.

Inside, the interior needed some work but since they had all the time in the world, Nik and Margot threw themselves into interior design.

After a few weeks, the house was spick and span and in perfect shape for the two of them. The walls were painted a mix of green and white and there were windows in every room which overlooked a large field.

It was perfect.

Damon continued to flip his pancakes as Bonnie, Margot and Nik sat at the table, the witch working on yet another crossword puzzle.

"What's a 7-letter word for "kill me now"?" The witch pondered as she played with her pen.

"That joke got old 6 weeks ago," Damon commented as he plated the pancakes before setting them on the table.

"So did this crossword puzzle. Every day for two months, I've done this stupid thing, and I still can't figure out 27 across. "An old tongue twister Eddie turned top 40"?"

Just then, Bonnie stabbed her pen into the stack of pancakes.

"And I hate pancakes!" She exclaimed.

"Whoa. Don't take it out on the pancakes, love," Nik said, his voice full of amusement as he played with Margot's hair.

Damon nodded, "Those pancakes, like myself, are waiting for you to be witchy to get us the hell out of here."

"She's trying her best, Damon. When you lose your magic, it takes a lot to get it back," Margot explained as she tried to find one pancake that didn't have ink on it.

"Further evidence we're in hell. Not only am I stuck with Bonnie, I'm stuck with the useless version of her."

Bonnie opened her mouth to say something but nothing came out, instead, she glanced wearily around the room, "Did you hear that?"

"What would I have heard, Bonnie? We're the only four people here. We were the only four people here two months ago, and we're the only four people here now!"

"Well, I swear I heard something!"

Margot sighed. They were getting antsy which meant they yelled at each other constantly. It was not fun.

"Maybe it's the sound of existential despair. I hear that's what hell sounds like."

Damon had recently admitted he believed it was his personal hell, not Margot's after he had gotten drunk one night.

"You know what? You think we're trapped in your hell? I have to spend every day on repeat with the person I like least on this earth, the person who tormented me for months and the person who I had a crush on in grade eleven. Maybe we're trapped in mine."

Margot sent the witch a wink, "Had a crush on you too, Bon Bon."

— — —

Margot moaned softly as Nik pressed her against the bed, his lips never leaving hers.

His lips parted from hers as he rested his forehead against hers, "I love you, Margot."

His voice was quiet, barely above a whisper as he stared into her eyes awaiting a response.

She grinned, pulling his neck so she could kiss him, "I love you too, Nik."

He smiled brightly before pulling her into a hug, maneuvering them so she was on top. He didn't want to crush her, not that she would mind.

"I've waited centuries for you, love. I hope you don't mind that I never plan to let you leave now."

She smiled, her hand coming up to rest on his cheek, "Well it's a good thing I don't plan on leaving any time soon, Niklaus Mikaelson."

He let out a breathy chuckle, "Full name, huh? You must really love me, perhaps I should start calling you Margot Sal- No... Margot Mikaelson, yes, that sounds quite nice, doesn't it?"

She pressed her lips against his, taking his breath away. "Sounds perfect."

Downstairs, Bonnie was making tomato soup at the stove while Damon sat at the table. He smiled slightly, earning a confused look from the witch as she handed him a bowl.

"What's that look for?"

"I think Klaus practically just proposed to Maggie."

Bonnie smiled, "They really are perfect, aren't they?"

Damon nodded before scrunching up his face.

"And what's that look for?" Bonnie asked amused.

"Klaus is... showing how much he really loves her," He explained as he tried to tune out the loud moans coming from upstairs.

Bonnie laughed loudly, "God those two are like rabbits."

He glanced down at the crossword, "Look who got 27 across."

Bonnie scoffed, "I wish. 27 across is a rock I am pushing up an endless mountain."

"An old tongue twister Eddie turned top 40," Damon read, "Eddie Vedder. Pearl Jam. 'Yellow Ledbetter.' Good work."

The witch grabbed the paper from his hands to read it herself, "Are you messing with me?"

"No. Are you messing with me?"

"I didn't finish this."

Damon swallowed a spoonful of his soup, "Well, neither did I and Margot and Klaus had been preoccupied for the last few hours so..."

"There's someone else here..." 

A/N

He's here!!!

Do we like the cute scene between Nik and Margot???