NOTE: This is the first chapter in what I hope to be quite an interesting story, I got the idea off a prompt but changed it a little to suit my liking. I really do hope you enjoy it as I put a lot of effort into it, sorry for the poor writing. This is completely AU, the only similarities I guess are the characters and their backgrounds, also reviews would be appreciated for advice. Also, and italics from now on are diary entries. I know it's not very long at all but it's an introductory chapter, tell me what you think and if I should continue or not.
Mystic Falls was a small town where nothing exciting ever happened. The only thing here that held any weight was the sudden disappearance of a couple of campers in the woods. They were missing for three days before some hikers found their bodies on a mountain side, mauled to death by an animal. Or so they thought.
It was Elena Gilbert's first day of junior year. Her parents had been dead for four months now and it still hurt. It still hurt a lot. She had kept a diary ever since that day. She always wanted to do but she never had time before because she was always busy. She was cheerleading, or with her friends, her boyfriend or her parents. Her parents that she would never see again. She was keeping her journal to express her feelings somehow. She had to be strong for Jeremy and for Jenna. Jenna was coping with taking care of them, but Elena knew full well that she had no idea how to raise two teenagers, especially two teenagers coping with the death of their parents. So she kept the diary, just for herself. Today it hurts more than usual, I think it's because I'm going back to school today and normally I'd have my mom waving me off at the door wishing me luck and my Dad in the kitchen rushing to get ready for work whilst still trying to be the supportive parent. I tell people i'm fine but really I want to fall apart, nobody understands. I need somebody who understands. Elena checked the time on her phone and realised she was going to be late for her first day back if she didn't leave now, the teachers weren't going to give her a free pass, they didn't know that the grief will probably last forever. When she got downstairs Jenna was nowhere to be seen, Elena assumed she was still in bed, and that Jeremy had already left for school, or she hoped he had. Elena left the house to see her best friend Bonnie waiting outside by her car. Elena smiled; Bonnie was the one person she felt she could confide in with stuff like this, with anything really. Caroline was great, but she was just too... Caroline. The car journey to school was pretty uneventful, so was most of the day if Elena was honest with herself. When people asked her how she was doing she politely replied that she was fine. She wasn't. "Want a lift home?" Elena came out of her day dream when she realised that Bonnie was talking to her. "Thanks but no thanks; I think i'm just going to walk."
Elena came to the cemetery where she could visit her parents, where she wouldn't be interrupted. Today however, was different. When she got to her parents graves there was a figure standing a few metres away. She wasn't used to seeing anyone here so she was immediately quizzical but didn't want to ask because she knew that she didn't want to be intruded on when here so she just left him alone, and went to sit in her usual spot. Soon after, the figure came towards her, she saw a shadow go over her, and she looked up. "Hi, I'm sorry but you dropped your scarf." Elena saw the red material in his hand, she could've sworn she wasn't wearing that this morning, but it was most definitely hers. "Sorry, I didn't notice." She smiled at him, and he smiled back. He was a very handsome man; he had the most beautiful blue eyes. She felt as if she was almost in a trance, but that couldn't be right. He offered out his hand to help her up, she took it. "I'm Damon." "Elena." He smirked at her, showing a charming grin. "Well, Elena. It was a pleasure to meet you and I am awfully sorry to do this to you, but can you just stay still a moment please, and do not scream." Elena suddenly realised she was rooted to her feet, she started to panic. Suddenly, she felt something sharp in the side of her neck, and then she realised what was happening, and that there was absolutely nothing she could do about it.
Damon didn't know what he was doing. Well he did, it was what he usually did with most of the people he had met in his very long life time. But this was different, this girl should be different. She was a spitting image of Katherine, he couldn't hurt her. He just couldn't. But he already was, he had his teeth in her neck and was drinking her blood. He was hurting her. When he realised this immediately stopped. Elena just looked at him, this girl that looked so much like the women he once loved who had betrayed him, she couldn't scream or run; but she was very pale, like she was ready to pass out. Damon decided the only thing to do was to heal her with his own blood. He couldn't let her go home like this, but he could not kill her, he knew he couldn't. Damon looked down at this girl in his arms, looked into her eyes and saw something that he never saw in Katherine; kindness. He didn't expect it, not only because he assumed she would be like Katherine in every way, but because he had just almost killed her and she was looking at him with kindness in her eyes, like he hadn't done anything wrong in the slightest. He bit into his own wrist and pressed it to her lips, "Here, drink, you'll feel better." Damon tried to comfort her, but he wasn't sure it was working. But she was drinking it, so she would be ok. When she looked healthy he stood her up straight and looked her in the eye and told her she had to forget everything that just happened. But he couldn't make himself make her forget him. He told her to forget everything that just happened, she just met a nice guy in the cemetery who had just moved into town and wanted showing around.
Elena opened her eyes and realised that she was standing in the cemetery. Then she asked herself why this was such a surprise, she had been here practically every day since her parents had died. Then she remembered, she remembered him. Him with the pretty eyes and the quirky smile; Damon. She smiled to herself as she left through the cast iron gate, thinking of the possibilities the day had brought. An average turned into what could possibly a new start. A new Elena. She didn't know that everything was about to change for a very long time. She was walking home; she even waved at Caroline as she walked past the grill. She was in a surprisingly good mood. As she crossed the road a car came flying out of nowhere, she didn't see who was driving it before she could no longer feel anything. Caroline came running out of the grill, followed closely by Elena's old friends Tyler and Matt, and someone neither of them had ever seen before. But the new guy was the first to get to Elena's body lying in the middle of the road. He checked her pulse and realised that she wasn't alive. He had been home and someone had already died, maybe this wasn't such a good idea, Stefan thought to himself. He then noticed the appearance of the girl in front of him, she was Katherine. She was Katherine with kinder eyes and most likely a bigger heart, why did she have to die. Suddenly, this girl who two minutes before had been dying most definitely dead in front of him; woke up. Stefan was startled and didn't know how this could've happened unless.. "Damon." Stefan must've heard wrong, she didn't just say what he thought she had said. "Damon, where's Damon?" this girl stuttered again. What had his big brother gotten himself into.