Hello Readers! I know I should be updating my other stories, but Vampire diaries has been on my mind a lot lately and it kind of is inspiring me more than all my other stories. Not that I am abandoning my other stories, I'll get back to them, just taking a little break from them.

A lot has been going on lately in my life, my mum got really sick and life is pretty hectic right now, so I don't get much time to write and when I do, inspiration doesn't always strike. But Damon Salvatore and Stefan Salvatore have been spicing up my mind and there are two stories which have been clouding my mind over, so I wrote them down. So here's to posting them and I hope you will like them and my new OCs. Please review and let me know your thoughts. Happy Reading!

Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Diaries...

Dying Once, Living Twice

Prologue

How did it all start? Well, that is a good question, but no matter who you ask, you will always get a different answer. So what was the point in asking that question anyway? The fact of the matter is that in the end someone always got hurt because they loved someone far too much. That is the moral of the story.

This is my story, only I lived twice. So you could say that there are two stories, but then there are many more lives attached to mine as much as I'd like them not to be. Therefore, it isn't two stories exactly, but a whole collection of stories.

Who am I? Well, once upon a time I was a naïve, terribly trusting, pathetically loyal, sadly silly and blindly generous girl named Elizabeth Blackwell. Like I said before asking anyone how it started would be stupid, but what the moral of Elizabeth's story or my initial story was that, I loved a man and thought of him as my hero. Loved him far too much and in the end it didn't end well for me.

In fact, it ended with my brutal demise. I died, end of story. Years later, in fact more than a century later, I got a second chance at life. I was born to a couple who were very much in love and they conceived me. I was a different person than Elizabeth; everything about my personality was different. But when I was a young child, slowly but surely I remembered every single detail from my past life.

Elizabeth was I and I was Elizabeth, but at the same time, I was nothing like Elizabeth. I was different and my very own person. There was nothing in me that was even remotely similar to Elizabeth but the fact that I had all her memories. I learned very well from her mistakes. Curious thing, I never felt anything for her but pity. I didn't love whom she loved, I did not hate whom she hated, and I did not want vengeance from the people who wronged her. I felt nothing but pity for her, because from what I gathered from her memories, her demise was all her fault.

Honestly, who loves with that much depth and who trusts so blindly? Also, why was she so stupid and so easily manipulated? Why couldn't she be more practical? She was kind of a damsel in distress and I was anything but that. I couldn't fathom the fact that she could love someone that much.

But what I have told you of is Elizabeth and her woeful little life. Now the man she loved over a century and half ago, the man who promised her the world, taught her to dream and hope, became her hero to only well, crush her, he was a man called Damon Salvatore. He was older than her, but she was his best friend. She was a sad thing, really. Anyone with eyes and a semi-functioning brain could have told her that a man like Damon Salvatore would eventually tire of her, but she believed his words as if they were Newton's laws of gravity. Sheesh.

Now, Damon actually got what he deserved. After Elizabeth's demise, the woman he fell in love with turned out to be two-timing him with his own brother, Stefan Salvatore and as it turned out she burned in a fire.

Now, this may sound odd but vampires exist and creatures so unbelievably supernatural exist that if I even begin to describe and list them, well, I'd blow the circuits of your minds. So, I choose to refrain. Damon's true love was a vampire and before she supposedly died, she turned both his brother and him. Leaving Damon turned into a monster and suffering with guilt, longing and well, the insanity that came with being a vampire; consequently starting a feud between the two brothers that spread over a century and half.

Recently the brothers were mysteriously reunited in their hometown because one brother was curious about a young girl who looked like the awful vampire whom he loved and had turned him and was masochistic enough to fall in love with this human girl all over again. But Damon came to town for a reason of another kind. He wanted to make his brother miserable and to resurrect his old love or to save her from a tomb or something stupid like that.

Now you may ask me why I know all of this. Well the reasons are very simple, I have been tracking and researching these two brothers for as long as I can remember, not because I feel some sort of connection with them since Elizabeth loved one of them like a brother and the other as her one true love. Nope. I was just being cautious and it is true that knowledge is power. The more I knew about them, the safer I could be. Besides, from the moment I got Elizabeth's memories in my head, I knew that there was a reason for it and the time would come one day when I'd have to face those two infinitely stupid and downright dysfunctional brothers.

Accordingly, the day came and they came to town and into my life. They wanted their Elizabeth, I wasn't Elizabeth, boohoo, they could cry a river or burn the town to the ground but it wasn't going to change anything.

Along with them came some other people in my life and their stories added to my own story. There was the perpetual heroine and always loved and needed to be saved Elena Gilbert. Honestly, there was no end to the misery, needs, wants and ridiculous importance of Elena. Stefan the brooding, stupid masochistic martyr of a vampire actually fell in love with her and bend over backwards to please her. He even went as far as to deny everything that he was to be her perfect lover. I didn't get it, may be that was what to be in true love meant, going stupid and being played like a fool. Elizabeth did it, Damon did it and Stefan was clearly doing it for Elena.

Then there was Caroline Forbes who was played like a rag doll, poor girl, I actually think she is one of the most honest people in the town. She is shallow but she is honest about it. She means what she says and everything she believes in is very much clear. She is interesting, but the other elements in all our stories kind of destroyed so many good things in her life. But her optimism and jest never withered and I admired that about her.

There was Matt Donovan who was one of the most honest and hardworking of people I knew, but he was clueless to the fact that he had lost so much. The moral of his story could be, ignorance is bliss. He was ignorant to the facts that his sister was eaten by a monster, turned into one and then killed, his ex-girlfriend was in love with the monster that killed his sister, his best friend was a future monster in the making, his future girlfriend would turn into a monster and every one he knew would turn into various kinds of monsters and he would remain the only human.

There was Tyler Lockwood who would flit in and out of my story and he would suffer a lot. His story wouldn't be a good one. It would be a very bad and painful one. There was Bonnie Bennett, the quick to judge and even quicker to condemn witch who would be forever saying that she was better than the monsters around her and was only trying to keep the balance of nature but in the end she would be always playing in favor of her best friend. She was a self-made martyr. Although her loyalty did amaze me time and time again. The things she did for her best friend and what she gained in return was sad, really.

Then there were the minor characters of my story, Jenna Sommers, Alaric Saltzman, Carol Lockwood, Sheila Bennett, Liz Forbes, Logan Fell, John Gilbert, Vicki Donavon, Jeremy Gilbert and so many more, their story intertwined with my story and their lives were made complicated and quite frankly, their lives were turned tragic and sad too.

There were the truly bad guys with their own tragic and evil stories who lived to give unhappy endings to everyone else's stories. Katherine Pierce being one of them. She was the one who had a large hand in giving Elizabeth's story and my initial story a bad ending. She was in my story as well as Elena Gilbert's. Elizabeth was no match for her and Elena definitely isn't a match for her despite being her doppelganger, but sadly for Katherine, she isn't a match for me this time around. I was different and I could eat her for breakfast. Oh, I didn't mean for it to sound as salacious as it did. But you get the point…

There were other monumentally bad guys in my story and Katherine didn't hold a candle to them. There were five of them to be precise and their mommy and daddy. The Mikaelsons, They are on fucked family and man, are their individual stories complicated or what. But they came in way later.

The most prominent part of my story would be my parents, but since they are dead for a few years now, I can't exactly begin to tell you about them and make it a good start. So let's start with a huge and important fact.

The most common thing in both Elizabeth's story and mine was that we both had Damon Salvatore playing huge roles in them. Damon was her hero, best friend and one true love. She was his best friend and the one person who truly loved him for who he was. Damon for me was a bad guy, my stalker and the guy whom I liked tormenting from time to time. I was the farthest thing from his best friend, I was sometimes his conscience that berated him and at other times the mirror that showed him the ugly truth and made him hate himself; the very last thing I wanted to do was love him. I wasn't Elizabeth and I wasn't going to make the same mistake she did. Loving Damon Salvatore, especially with that intensity was a fool's mistake. I am anything but a fool, I am Beatrice Blackwell and this is my story and with mine comes the stories of the oddest of creatures in Mystic Falls.