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AN: I recently came across Vampire Diary Fanfiction after I finally watched the three seasons of the show. This is an experiment that I am working with to see if I can capture the essence of this great show. After watching the first episode and reading some of the very talented works of other authors I find myself hooked looking for any Season 4 speculation stories. Anyway, I am posting the first couple of chapters to see if there is any interest. If there is I will most likely finish the story. I have it mapped out, and I believe it will be about 16 chapters. I am not a big fan of flames if you don't like the story just bypass the review option.
With Regards,
Sk8ernv
Chapter 1: Tragedy
Love is truly the strangest of human emotions. It is through the power of love that deeds both great and terrible are accomplished. Men and women will often go to great lengths not only find love, but to also hang on to that feeling that overwhelms them.
It was no surprise that because of this emotion that Damon Salvatore found himself racing back to the sleepy hallow of Mystic Falls. He knew when he saw his best friend take his last breathe that it could mean only one thing.
It meant that despite all of his effort, and worry over the past two years. The one woman who was able to bring him back from the brink of oblivion was gone. After their last phone call he knew that her heart had chose his brother. However, despite that heartbreaking fact he still clung to the hope that at least she was out there somewhere.
As Damon pushed his vintage Camaro to limits of it's super-charged engine. He was left with a hollow feeling deep in his chest. He has sworn after she was able to uncover his humanity that he would never dishonor her by turning it off no matter how much it hurt to think about what transpired.
Damon had never been a pious individual even when he was still mortal. However, in his hour of need the sound of the road roared in his sensitive years. He wished, no he prayed, that perhaps something else had caused Alaric to die.
Damon knew that the alternative was far to grim to process on his own. While his mind told him that there was no other alternative that she had to have died as Elena and Ric's life were tied together.
However, despite this knowledge Damon hoped that a miracle could happen. He knew that if in fact Elena had passed on he would follow her. He spent so many years chasing Katherine, and plotting to release her from her supposed tomb only to discover it was all a lie.
It was more than just the idea that this woman who he pursued for over 145 years would rather hide and let people believe that she was dead than be with him. When she was found she made sure to let him know a phrase that would haunt him several years later.
"It will always be Stefan"
Those five very basic and simple words would haunt him for the rest of eternity. It was those words that Elena would later say in what could have been the last few moments of his life. He knew that she would never say those words to intitiallly do him harm. It was just another of series of sad coencidences that would haunt him.
As Damon screeched his tires entering the parking structure at Mystic Falls General Hospital he was over come with emotion. Like all vampires Damon's emotions were always heightened threating to peak out of the clouds at any moment. In the moments that he saw Meridith Fell the only thoughts he could utter and process were. . .
"Where is She?" Damon screamed as the walls that he used to control his volatile emotions threatened to come crashing down.
Damon would later not be able to remember much of what she had tried to convey to him. However, of all the things she did say in those few brief moments that gripped onto his arm in a futile attempt to restrain the enraged vampire,
"She needed my help!" Dr. Fell said trying to bring some semblance of sanity to the horror struck vampire.
"What do you mean?" Damon said in a moment of clarity while staring daggers into the eyes of well meaning physician.
She would later go on to explain that the injuries that Elena had sustained at the hands of the vengeful original Klaus were so severe that she suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. The only way possible for her to survive would have been to infuse Elena with a dosage of vampire blood.
To be more specific it was Damon's blood. In the old days turning a human into a vampire was a serious matter not to be taken lightly. It was the duty of the older vampire to guide and share with his protegy knowledge that was important for not aclumating the new vampire, but it was even more important in hiding the vampires for the eyes of humans that would want to do harm to all vampires not just those of his kind that wished to do humans harm.
It is with a new sense of purpose that Damon took off through the hospital. It wasn't until he reached the bottom of the stairwell, and entered what he knew to a house of death. It was the morgue where they brough Elena's body after the accident. He wasn't sure that he wanted to face what lay beyond the door. Despite these feelings of trepidation Damon still gathered the reaming courage and entered the cold lifeless room.