Hey guys! So I am back with a new story but I decided to ditch my original idea and I had a new idea in mind. And here is a summary…
Elena Gilbert has officially lost herself into a world of darkness ever since her parents died. Although she relishes in the darkness that had swallowed her, she can't help but long for a light, a savior…and then she meets Stefan. Stefan Salvatore is human well used to be human. In other terms, he is a ghost. He was killed on impact after a drunk driver had hit his car, turns out his brother was the drunk driver and they both died. After years of being on the other side, something pulls him back to the world of the living where something or someone catches his eye on Halloween night. Elena Gilbert. The two meet and something immediately draws Elena to Stefan. However, she can't help but feel something off about this green eyed stranger. On top of that, things stir up when Damon follows Stefan back in town. Oh and a quick note, Stefan was born earlier than Elena so therefore he is older than her.
And here is the first chapter…
By the way, who else here is bummed that Stefan and Elena broke up?
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Mystic Falls, it's been a home to Elena Gilbert. She was born and raised in this Virginian suburb. Her childhood friends live here, her brother lives here, her house stands here and her parents used to live here. For the past seventeen years that she had lived, she created memories with her parents and learned everything she could from them, and then they died. It was a cold and dark winter night. Her parents were driving home after their anniversary date and the snow kept piling on the front window of the car. Eventually, the wipers stopped moving and Grayson Gilbert took a dangerous risk by continuing the drive. Arguing with Miranda and refusing to stop the car, it was too late when the car had turned and drove straight through the railing of the road as the car rolled repeatedly on the ground and crashed into a large willow tree.
And it was simple as that. The two lovers were dead. Their bodies inside the car weren't discovered until the next day. The unexpected snow storm had died down and Elena and her little brother, Jeremy, were out searching for their parents. Noticing the side railing of the road was split in half she ordered Jeremy to stay put as she got out of her car and started following the tire tracks. With each step she grew more afraid of what she was about to see and her fears came true when she saw her father's corpse laying halfway out the window. Screaming loudly, she caught her brother's attention as he ran after her and stood in shock of what he saw. Not showing any emotion, he dragged his sister away from the wreck as she pleaded for her parents to wake up. Putting his sister in her car, Jeremy called the cops and reported his parents' death. Stating that they would investigate, the two were baffled. What was there to investigate? Their parents were dead because of a freak accident and now they were orphans. What other explanation was there?
So there it is. Elena Gilbert's story. Her aunt decided to take custody of the teenagers and the younger Gilberts could not be more thankful, but that emptiness in their house would always be there. The sounds and movements that their parents would cause would no longer be there and it would taunt them forever.
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Stefan Salvatore, seventeen, male, and deceased, at least that's what the records say. In other words, he is a ghost, and up until now, he has been observing the world he used to live on from the other side. He doesn't know what or why he is back in his home but he just is. Ever since his brother Damon had killed him, he was left wondering what had gone wrong with Damon that night.
Fulfilling his mother's errands, Stefan was driving home with the groceries. It was the dead of winter in 1982 and a snowstorm was starting. Feeling calm, the youngest Salvatore couldn't help but feel uncomfortable as the snow grew heavier and heavier. Trying to hurry home but maintain at a safe speed, it became more difficult as it was nearly impossible to see the road since the snow was creating a frosty layer on the front mirror and the wipers weren't doing any justice. Feeling a sense of relief when he saw the familiar street lights of Mystic Falls, all of that went away when a gigantic wave of impact hit him from his side of the car. Feeling as if gravity no longer had a purpose in the world, his car rolled over and over when it finally stopped upright.
By the time the car stood still, Stefan was already dead. His heart had stopped beating and his head was dripping with blood along with the other cuts he had received. There were witnesses and the cops had arrived about ten minutes later. After running tests on the DNA of the two bodies, it was confirmed that the driver was Stefan and the driver who had hit him was his brother, Damon. Reporting the death of the brothers to their mother, the distressed woman was devastated. In fact, devastation doesn't compare to what Mary Salvatore was feeling. She was already anxious to find out where the hell her sons were and to top that, she receives news from the police that her two sons were dead. What made this all worse was that one son took the life of the other along with his own. Mary was trying her best to hold herself together after her husband died and once her sons died, she lost it. She went through depression for God knows how long until one day; she had an overdose of her anti-depressant pills.
This whole time, Stefan was watching his mother die slowly and he couldn't do anything about it. He just stood there, silently pleading for her to stop but what could he do? He was dead and there was nothing that could bring him back. So the Salvatore family was now lying in the cemetery as if they had never existed and had no story.
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Elena's POV
"You have to go!" Caroline shouted into her phone. "I don't know Caroline." I replied uncomfortably. "Elena, it's finally our turn to go to this Halloween party. It was our lifelong dream ever since we were freshmen in high school. And now that we're seniors, we finally get the chance to go to this exclusive Halloween party." Caroline said in a persuading and pleading tone. Before she could say anything else, her Aunt Jenna was tapping on her watch, signaling that it was time to go to school. Sighing, Elena said, "I got to go Caroline, I'll see you at school." Not wanting to hear what else her friend had to say, she hung up and rushed out of her room and ran down the stairs and out of her house.
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"So you're going right?" Caroline squealed in my ear. Jumping at her sudden appearance, I reply, "I don't know Caroline. I'm just not in the mood to hang out with a bunch of douche bags and watch them get drunk and take advantage of another girl."
"When did you get a new perspective on our fellow hot male classmates?" Caroline teased. "I didn't, reality just decided to slap me in the face." I replied. "Is she going?" A hopeful Bonnie asked while standing next to us. Stopping in my tracks, the two turn to look at me. "Can you guys at least think of something else to talk about? Like politics?" I snapped. "I take it she's not going." Bonnie whispered to Caroline. With a sigh, I walk past them and head to class. "Guess it's that time of the month again." Caroline joked. "Maybe we should leave her alone Caroline. She's been through a lot and she needs her space to grieve." Bonnie suggested. "No, I've given my best friend enough time to grieve. Now? Now is the time for her to learn how to live again whether she likes it or not." Caroline confirmed.
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"Elena." I heard someone call behind me. Turning around, I didn't see anyone other than the students in the hallways scrambling to get to class. Frowning, I turn around and gasp when I see Caroline in front of me. "Damn it Caroline, could you stop doing that?" I complained. "You know that I love you as my friend right?" she asked me, completely ignoring the fact that she has given me a heart attack. "Right." I sighed. "And I am sorry that you are going through this shitty time in your life but you have to let it go Elena." She started. "You can't let your parents' death hold you back in life because something good may come along but what happens when you let it pass? Are you going to continue your life living in this shadow? Look, I don't know what it's like to lose your parents but I sure as hell know that your parents wouldn't want you to live your life like this and no matter how much it hurts, you have to move on." She continued.
Without another word she walks away, and I know that she's giving me the time to consider trying to relive my life. By then I was on the verge of tears and I stood stalk still. I was finally aware of where I was when the hallways were empty and the bell had rung. Feeling a hot tear trail down my face, I wiped it away and ran out the front door of the school. A part of me didn't know where I planned to go but another part of me knew exactly where I would end up. It was where everything had ended and started.
Driving on the same road they were driving on, I could picture their car going through the railing then rolling over consecutively and I could picture my dad painfully trying to crawl through the broken window in front of the car but fails as he takes his last breath. Parking my car right in front of where the railing broke a few months ago, I climb out of my car and hop over the now fixed railing. Walking down the small hill on the side of the road I walk towards the same willow tree. Images flash in my head as I can see their car hitting the trunk of the tree the shattering glass, blood, and their dead bodies. I snap out of my thoughts when I stop right in front of the tree. Feeling a huge weight was dropped on my chest, my knees buckle as they go weak and I crumple to the floor. Clutching at my chest, I sit on the ground as a soft sob escapes my mouth.
For minutes this went on when my despair turned into something else. It wasn't sadness but confusion. Then that confusion turned into rage and that rage turned back to despair and my emotions were a mess. 'You have to move on.' I repeated those words in my head like a mantra. Getting up and dusting myself off, I walk back to my car and drive back home, feeling a part of me was left behind. And I didn't know if that was good or bad.
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"You're coming?" Caroline exclaimed at the sight of me at her door in a dark cape that was my last minute Halloween costume. "She's going?" an excited Bonnie shouted while walking behind Caroline. "I'm going." I stated in a somewhat excited tone. "Well off we go!" Caroline shouted as the three of us walked to her car.
The smell of booze was the first thing that hit me in the face when a tipsy Tyler Lockwood opened the door and greeted Caroline by placing a sloppy kiss on her cheek. Leading us into his house, I see the familiar faces of the students from our school, some are your typical jocks and the others are mostly what considered as the "exclusive" ones. Losing myself in the crowd, I sigh in frustration and start searching for Bonnie and Caroline. Not being able to find them, I frown when I see Jeremy in a corner with some other pot heads. Approaching him, he notices me and has a glazy look on his face and smiles lazily and I already know he's stoned. Grabbing his arm, I drag him out into the backyard of the Lockwood mansion. "What the hell Jeremy?" I start in a loud tone. As if he were in some little bubble, he starts giggling at me like an idiot. "You need to chill Elena." He replied in a relaxed voice. "Chill? I can't chill because I am on my breaking point here Jeremy." I said in a louder tone, somewhat catching his attention. "I let you get away the past months ever since they died but I can't do this Jeremy. If this is your way of dealing with your grief then you're an idiot. You want to know why? Because once you've sobered up from your "fun time" that pain will still be there and then you'll take more drugs and there's only so much drugs in the world that can keep you anesthetic through your entire life." I continue. Noticing that he seemed more aware of what was around him, I sigh before continuing. "I'm not going to tell you to stop doing this to yourself because we both know that you're not going to listen to me, but I will tell you to get your shit together Jeremy because I'm not going to be there to clean up your mess all the time." I stated before walking back into the house.
"Where were you? I tried to find you but you were gone." Caroline said after I finally found her in the crowd. "I needed some air." I lied, buying it, she nods with a somewhat concerned look on her face. "I, uh, think I'm going to head home now." I stated. "But you just got here." Tyler exclaimed, entering our conversation. "I mean if you're going to leave might as well come with us, we're going to play truth or dare." He continued. "Outside? Can't you just play it indoors?" I asked. "Well what's the fun in that?" he said with a smug grin on his face.
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After gathering a few other people, Bonnie, Caroline, Tyler and I, along with two players on the football team were headed for the old Salvatore boarding house. "Behold the only other house in Mystic Falls that's actually bigger than mine. It used to be resided by the Salvatore family but they're all dead and some say it's haunted by their spirits, I find that unreasonably true but…" Tyler trailed off while looking at the old house in awe. "Okay, so who wants to go first?" One of the jocks asked, starting the game. "Why not Elena?" The other suggested. "Yeah." Tyler agreed while nodding. "Gilbert you've been awfully quiet tonight. Truth or dare?" he asked.
Gulping, I say to myself 'I have to move on. Sure, I didn't plan on going to an alcoholic party as moving on but its progress. And it's not like Tyler would dare to send me in that creepy old boarding house right?'
"So what's it going to be Gilbert?" Tyler asks, bringing me out of my thoughts. Looking at him and the curious faces of my friends and the two jocks, I bravely say "Dare."
"Gilbert wants a dare. What should it be?" Tyler said tauntingly. After a few moments of him circling around me, I slightly jump when he laughs loudly. "I have the perfect dare." Tyler stated. "I dare you to stay in that boarding house for the rest of the night." He said while pointing his finger at the house. "Tyler…" Caroline protested silently. "What? Not like she has an excuse I mean it's a Friday night and you can just cover for her and tell her aunt she's sleeping over at your place." Tyler said while turning to look at his girlfriend. Sharing a worried glance, Tyler looks at me before saying, "Don't tell me you're scared Gilbert. You should've known what you were getting yourself into when you decided to come to my party." Tyler teased as the other two jocks chuckled obnoxiously. Changing my expression from worried to neutral, I saunter off towards the house without a word. "This will be a show." Tyler said with a smug grin on his face. Sticking my middle finger up at him, I huff as I continue walking.
Reaching the front porch, I slowly and hesitantly walk up the steps of the front porch and I breathe deeply before opening the heavy wooden door.
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Stefan's POV
This was a mistake. I shouldn't have come back here. Mystic Falls is different now; it's no longer my home because I'm dead. So what the hell am I doing here?
Hearing the large door open with a creak, I snap my head to my bedroom door. Quietly walking towards it, I slowly open the door trying hard not to make so much noise. Walking down the stairs, I stop in my tracks and stand stalk still when a see a silhouette walk by the bottom of the staircase. Not noticing my presence, I release a breath I was holding before continuing down the stairs. Stopping at the corner before the hallway, I squint and find out that this figure is a girl. Protesting whether I should follow her and find out what she's doing here or just stay where I am, something draws me closer to her as I start walking down the hallway. Looking around the familiar walls of my house, I see old antiques my mother used to collect and portraits of my family and then I see a picture of Damon and I.
Picking it up in my hands I shake my head at the sight of us smiling and I think how the hell our lives got so screwed up. What got my brother so upset that he had to intoxicate himself and take my life along with his own? I've tried to look for him on the other side, to find out what had gotten into him that night but he was nowhere to be found.
Shaking my head of any thoughts of my brother, I continue walking down the hallway before rounding the corner into the living room. And there she was, standing all alone in the dark inside my house, staring at the empty fireplace. Hiding myself behind I wall, I try to get a better look at her but fail miserably since the darkness wasn't in my favor tonight.
Moving away from my spot, I slowly walk behind her. Silently standing there, I see her grow tense before turning around slowly. Gasping at my presence, I smirk at her before greeting, "Hello."
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There it is! Hope you enjoyed, and if you didn't…well I don't know. Let me know what you think!