DISCLAIMER: I do not own TVD, all rights belong to L.J although a girl can wish to have the deeds to Damon Salvatore cant she?;)
This fic is going to seem a bit odd because of the way I have it mapped out but all will come together with time… I hope. Strong T to weak M For now as I haven't really dabbled in smut yet but am considering it for this story. Obviously its Delena. Quick mention as it's AU/AH, The Gilbert family children consist of Jeremy, Katherine and Elena and everything else should be pretty straight forward.
This is the longest note I've written ever but I need to add that all my other fics haven't worked out because I couldn't find a suitable end but this one already has one and updates can be really often or not but bare with me because imp actually writing my own book to get sent off when finished so.. I'm busy but I'm going to stick with it and could even have a number of chapters up tonight as imp on a roll!
Much Love- M.B.W!
"Elena Marie Gilbert get your ass down here already!"
"Katherine Miranda Gilbert mind your language!" Miranda Gilbert barked at her eldest daughter.
"Sorry mom. Elena please move your ungodly rear or I am not driving you to school!" Katherine corrected with a polite smile at her mother.
"Alright I'm ready gosh keep your panties on Kat." Elena sighed as she walked down the stairs.
"Sorry but it's your first day of freshman year you should have been ready an hour ago!" Katherine exclaimed.
"Says she who was an hour and thirty eight minutes late to her first day as a freshman." Elena countered saucily.
"Ooh sassy. You're going to need that to survive." Katherine winked at her younger sister as she grabbed her school bag.
"I learned from the best." Elena smirked.
"Girls please behave. Katherine I don't want another phone call to collect you for fighting and Elena I don't want a phone call unless its to say you have won the noble prize. Got it?" Miranda snapped at her girls.
"Got it mom." They both said, shoulders sagging.
"Where's dad?" Elena asked, looking into the kitchen for him.
"He was called into surgery but he asked me to wish you luck." Miranda smiled.
"God forbid we let dearest daddy down." Katherine drawled.
"Mind your tone young lady!" Miranda said fiercely.
"Oh bite me." Katherine muttered, walking out the door with Elena in tow.
"I'm staring to think you're going to leave like Jer did." Elena commented as Katherine drove.
"Oh believe me I've considered it, but then who would take the brunt from mom and dad for you huh?" Katherine smiled softly at her sister.
"Mom is nicer than dad. I can handle mom and dad's barely home anymore, you don't have to stay for me." Elena mumbled, looking at her hands which were clasped on her lap.
"I'm not going anywhere okay? At least until I finish school and I've only just started my Junior year so enough of that. You aren't getting rid of me that easy." Katherine said lightly as they pulled into the school parking lot.
"Thanks Kat." Elena said, smiling warmly.
"Have you spoken to Jer lately?" Katherine asked as she parked up.
"I called him a couple days ago. He's really enjoying Denver but he says he missed us. Me more obviously." Elena smirked.
"Oh pfft! I'm his twin how can he miss you more?" Katherine scoffed.
"Because I'm still young, innocent and not corrupted like you." Elena grinned.
"Whatever. Let's go Miss Innocent. You are coming to cheer practise right?" Katherine asked as they got out of the silver ford focus.
"Yeah, anything to prolong going home to army base central." Elena nodded.
"Your learning fast." Katherine said proudly as they walked up to the front of the school.
"I wish I could dress how I wanted like you can Kat." Elena whined as they got nearer.
"You look fine but, come here I think I can help." Katherine said, pulling her over to a bench, putting both their bags on it.
She unbuttoned the shirt that was over Elena's vest top, tied it in a loose knot at the bottom. She then took her own black, studded belt of and looped it in the dark stone wash skinny jeans Elena was wearing.
"Take your hair down and shake it out a bit." Katherine instructed.
Elena did as she said and Katherine produced a brown eyeliner pencil, applying it carefully she then stepped back to marvel at her handiwork.
"You look great. Work it, come on I'll walk you in, introduce you to a couple people and you can sit with us at lunch because I doubt you've made lunch plans with Caroline and Bonnie am I right?" Katherine asked rhetorically.
Elena winced and shrugged.
"Not talking?" Katherine asked.
"Ever since Care started dating Tyler she's been talking to this guy Klaus. She met him cause Bonnie is his younger brother Kol's girlfriend. I told her it was wrong but she just wasn't listening and we had a fight and Bonnie and Kol are doing the whole 'first day couple lunch date' thing." Elena explained quickly.
"Okay well it's good I've reserved you a seat then isn't it?" Katherine said smugly.
Elena's only retort was to poke her tongue out at her sister, who laughed.
"Come on, like I said work what you've got. Confidence is half the battle, you have to ooze confidence but not pigheadedness." Katherine advised.
"Like you?" Elena said arching a brow sarcastically.
"Exactly, except when you get to my stage a dash of pigheadedness is needed. Oh here they are!" Katherine grinned as they approached a large group of people.
"Katherine you sneaky bitch why didn't you ride with me today?" A tall blonde asked as she flung her arms around Katherine's neck.
"I had to give Elena a ride. Duh!" Katherine explained.
"Hi Lexi!" Elena smiled as she finally let go of Katherine.
"Hey Lena looking good. I see Katherine has wasted no time in corrupting you." Lexi teased.
"Does she ever?" Elena chuckled.
"So Elena this is everybody, everybody this is Katherine's little sister Elena!" Lexi beamed.
"So you know Mason and Lexi, there's Vicki Donovan, Elijah Mikaelson, Stefan Salvatore who is Damon's cousin, Luka Martin and Brad Fell." Katherine pointed out quickly.
"Ok I got it. Hi everyone and bye cause I don't wanna be late on my first day I think dad'll have a heart attack." Elena said checking her schedule quick.
"Who you got?" Katherine asked.
"Mr Saltzman and I am late. Brilliant." Elena groaned.
"I'll walk you over, Ric loves me." A familiar voice offered.
"Damon, you're actually in school!" Katherine teased.
"Couldn't miss little Gilbert's first day now could I? What kind of best friend would I be if I missed your little sister's first day?" Damon drawled to Katherine.
"A horrible one. Well go on, take her to class!" Katherine ordered.
"Yes ma'am!" Damon smirked, slinging his arm around Elena's shoulders and dragging her away.
"Thanks for this Damon." Elena said as they neared the class.
"Don't worry bout it Lena. Just don't act scared they feed off of it. Just breeze through, but not too much, don't want you in trouble with daddy dearest." Damon winked.
"You don't know the half of it." Elena sighed as Damon opened Alaric's class door.
"Ah miss Gilbert, I wondered if you were going to show up." He said as they walked in.
Elena half shrugged.
"Sorry Ric, she was with me. Didn't even hear the bell." Damon said confidently.
"First day back and you've already taken one of the brightest to the dark side." Alaric sighed dramatically as Elena took her seat beside Bonnie.
"What can I say, between me and Katherine Lena stands no chance cause corrupting minors is my thing. Later Ric, see you at lunch Lena!" Damon grinned broadly as he swaggered out of the class.
"Anyway, before we were disrupted I was saying, I'm Alaric Saltzman and I'm your history teacher. Call me Mr Saltzman, only a privileged few can call me Ric, none of you have made that list yet." Alaric told them.
"Then of corse you'll call me Miss Gilbert right, not Elena I mean it's only fair, respect goes both ways." Elena replied without thinking.
Alaric smirked, "Right you are miss Gilbert, I do believe you're the first freshman to make my list. You can call me Ric."
"Then you can call me Elena." Elena grinned.
Shaking his head, Alaric launched into his lesson whilst the others stared at Elena in awe.
'It must be the eyeliner. Turning me into Katherine.' Elena thought to herself.
Lessons dragged on until lunch when Elena had to weave through the crowd to find her sister and her friends.
"So Lena, heard you made Mr Saltzman's list of people who can call him Ric." Lexi said as soon as she sat down.
"No way. How?" Katherine demanded, turning away from Mason quickly.
"She handed Ric's ass to him on a silver platter. He was impressed." Lexi grinned.
"See girl I told you that it'd be fine. Been oozing confidence?" Katherine asked.
Elena nodded, holding her head.
"What's up?" Katherine asked.
"My head hurts." Elena sighed.
"First day migraine, yeah they suck. Here take some of this." Lexi said, handing her a flask.
Elena took a mouthful and frowned.
"What was that?" She asked trying to determine the taste.
"My knock 'em dead first day cocktail. I'm surprised you took it well. Mason nearly threw up first time he drank it." Lexi chuckled as she took the flask back.
"Lexi! Really? I cant believe you gave Elena alcohol. If she hurls later I'm blaming you! My parents will flip." Katherine scowled.
"She took it like a pro, she'll be fine. If you start feeling queasy though drink plenty of water." Lexi winked at Elena.
"You okay Elena?" Katherine asked, grabbing her chin to examine her face.
"I'm fine Kat, didn't taste too bad and I barely took any." Elena reassured her.
"Ooh Katherine has her judgy face on, who did a no-no?" Damon asked in a singsong voice as he sat down.
"Lexi gave me her cocktail." Elena shrugged.
"And you're standing? Bravo. She doesn't make 'em weak." Damon nodded his approval.
"I barely had any." Elena said defiantly.
"Not the point, ever drank anything stronger then WKD?" Damon asked.
"No." Elena said.
"Right then, you've gone from cat's piss to burning ring of fire. You are lucky your standing." Damon summed up.
Elena fell quiet for the rest of lunch, not eating and barely sipping her water. She just watched Damon.
Before the bell Damon had disappeared and Elena had left to use the bathroom but on her way she noticed two people whispering down a separate hall, sneaking a glance at them she noticed it was Damon and the senior girl Rose that hated everything Gilbert since Jeremy turned her down. She was about to go anyway when she noticed Rose latch onto Damon's face fiercely.
For a moment Elena was shocked, then she backed away going back to the cafeteria grabbed her bag and hurried to lesson with tears in her eyes.