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Elena sat on one of the many couches in the living room of the Salvatore boarding house and thought about how much her life was about to change. Damon had insisted that she would be safer away from Mystic Falls and wouldn't take no for an answer when she refused to let him take her away. As she sat waiting for Damon to make the final arrangements to her relocation, Elena contemplated the conversation that she and both Salvatore brothers had a few hours earlier.
-Flashback-
"It's not safe for you here anymore, Elena!" Damon said to her exasperatedly. He wanted to take her away from Mystic Falls but she couldn't do it.
"This is my home, Damon! I can't just leave it behind. Besides, what about Jeremy and Alaric? Or Stefan and Bonnie? They've been through too much on my behalf for me to just up and leave them here!" she replied.
Just then Stefan walked in. Though free from Klaus, Stefan realized that he could no longer be who Elena wanted and needed, so he broke up with her. It didn't help that he had noticed the connection that existed between his brother and his girlfriend. Elena didn't necessarily agree with his thought process as she vehemently denied the growing attraction that she felt for Damon, but she also realized that Stefan had a lot of issues that he needed to work on. So they parted amicably but remained good friends and he was still as concerned about her safety as ever.
Stefan, who had overheard the entire conversation from his room upstairs, looked at Elena with a sad expression on his face and said resignedly, "Elena, I actually agree with Damon on this one. All of us—myself, Damon, Bonnie, Jeremy, even Alaric—went through all of these horrors with you because we care about you and don't want to see you get hurt. You staying in Mystic Falls and sacrificing your safety for their sakes is kind of like taking all of our sacrifices, rejecting them and then spitting in our faces for trying to help."
Elena made a sound of protest but before she could answer Stefan, Damon interrupted her. "Thanks for the support brother. Not that I needed it since you don't really have a say in Elena's life anymore, Bonnie agrees with me, and I've already taken care of the Ric and Jeremy situation."
Stefan scoffed at Damon's comment about his relevance in Elena's life and left the room. Elena, on the other hand, gasped and looked at Damon accusingly. "What did you do to them? You better not have hurt them, Damon! They're the only family I have left!"
Damon smirked at her and replied smoothly, "Relax princess, they're safe. I explained the situation to the drunk teacher and he was more than willing to do whatever it took to keep you safe. All it took was a little compelling, ahem, convincing, of your brother that this is actually what you wanted and we were good to go. You couldn't leave them even if you wanted to because they are already gone."
Damon was unprepared for the slap that hit his face and stung for a few seconds after her hand left his face. Elena looked up at him and said in a low voice, "You had no right."
She lunged forward to slap him again, but Damon caught her wrist gently and pulled her to him.
As Elena struggled against his grip, he looked down at her and said in an equally low and calm voice, "Elena, I love you. I've said this before, but I will ALWAYS choose you and I will do WHATEVER it takes to keep you safe, even if that means having you hate me."
Elena heard the sincerity in his voice and stopped struggling, instead relaxing into his arms. She looked up at him and said quietly, "I could never hate you, Damon."
Seeing his uncertain look, she stood on her tiptoes and reached up, pulling his head toward hers and kissing him gently. "Honestly, Damon. I don't always agree with your methods, and I don't know what it is exactly that I feel for you, but I know that I could not have survived these last couple of months without you. I trust you with my life and maybe one day soon I'll trust you with my heart too."
Damon looked down at her and watched her lips as she admitted to her possible feelings for him. His heart lifted with hope, but he knew that he needed to focus on the situation at hand and replied, "If you really trust me, Elena, I need you to do what I say and let me take you away from here. I know that life has been quieter here since Klaus left after the sacrifice, but he will eventually come back and when he realizes that you are still alive, it won't be safe for you anymore."
She was beginning to waver; he could see it in her face. But she was stubborn—Damon knew it and loved that about her. He looked at her imploringly, "Trust me. Please. I can't watch you die; not again."
That was all it took. She nodded once in defeat and he let her go. Damon wanted so badly to kiss her and tell her everything was going to be okay, but now was not the right time.
-End of Flashback-
Damon had called Stefan downstairs to take Elena home to pack while he made some last minute arrangements. That was a couple of hours ago and she hadn't seen him since.
She had tried to get Stefan to tell her where she was going so that she could pack accordingly, but after a few minutes of trying to wheedle the answer out of him, she realized that he didn't know. It annoyed Elena that Damon had taken Stefan out of the equation so quickly—just because they were no longer dating didn't mean she and Stefan stopped caring about each other; but the rational side of her realized that the smaller number of people who knew where she was going, the better, so she accepted Damon's need for secrecy and took his protectiveness with a grain of salt.
Suddenly she was whisked off the couch and pulled into a tight hug by Stefan. Damon had finished his preparations while she was daydreaming and now it was time to go. She hugged Stefan with as much strength as she could and tried not to cry as she thought about how much she would miss Mystic Falls and her old life.
Damon looked on as Elena said goodbye to his brother and planted a quick kiss on his cheek after Stefan promised to say goodbye to the witch for her. It pained Damon a little to see the woman he loved lean on his brother, her ex-boyfriend, for support, but he reconciled this with the knowledge that, if all went well, Elena's new life would keep her safe from her past and she would never see Stefan again. After one last hug, Elena looked at Damon and nodded—she was ready.
He grabbed her bags from where they sat next to the door, said something to Stefan about keeping a lookout for Klaus, and led Elena out of the boarding house and into his car.
She didn't say anything as he put her bags in the back, opened her door, slid into the driver's seat and started the car. She remained silent as he pulled out of the driveway of the old house that held so many memories of all her times with Stefan and Damon—both good and bad. She sat quietly and tried not to release the tears that burned her eyes as she passed the Grill, the high school and her old house. Elena did not utter one word until Damon had driven outside of the city limits and her life in Mystic Falls was gone forever.
As the car passed the "Thank you for visiting Mystic Falls" sign, Elena once again felt the tears in her eyes and turned her face away from Damon so that he wouldn't see her cry. Damon saw Elena's movement out of the corner of his eye and sighed when he realized that she was crying.
"I'm sorry, Elena." He said her name gently, and when she turned away from the window and looked at him, he saw that her eyes were red-rimmed and bloodshot.
He said it again, "I'm so sorry."
She nodded and smiled a little in acceptance of his apologetic words. Elena sniffled a little as she composed herself and then asked him shakily, "So where are we going?
Damon looked down at the woman that he had grown to love in the past year that he and Stefan had been back in Mystic Falls and said simply, "Phoenix."
I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of May He My Constant Be. This isn't my first fanfic, but it is my first foray into Twilight, the Vampire Diaries or any type of crossover, so hopefully it wasn't too awful. I realize that a few aspects of my story might be a little confusing so here are a bit of clarification facts:
- This takes place after the sacrifice, so Jenna is dead and Alaric is Elena and Jeremy's legal guardian. Stefan has escaped from Klaus' clutches after sacrificing himself to save Damon from the werewolf bite.
- Klaus wants to make more hybrids but knows he can't do so without the blood of a Petrova doppelganger. However, he still believes that he killed Elena in the sacrifice.
- Though Caroline exists, I chose not to mention her in this story.
- Jeremy is Elena's older, not younger brother.
Hopefully that covers everything; if not, let me know and I'll see what I can do about answering any other questions you might have. Thanks and please review!