Sidelines…

"I love you" at first it was a whisper, "you're the first thing I think about when I wake up, the last when I sleep , I love you, Elena, hold on to that".

Elena Gilbert sat perched on the side of her bed retracing last night, remembering Damon's face. Damon Salvatore. The soulless vampire told her that he loved her.

She held her head in her hands, sighing, it was Elena and Stefan's 6 month anniversary and last night she had been confiding in his manipulative brother. The brother he had loathed for over a century.

"Morning brother" smirked Damon with that irresistible eye roll that made Elena melt inside. "What do you want Damon"

Stefan said with a roughness in his usually clear voice.

"Ooh why so judgey I think someone got out on the wrong side of the bed oh wait you haven't even got out of it yet have you, brother"

Elena trudged down the stairs avoiding eye contact with the other Salvatore.

Stefan smiled at her and Damon looked away, obviously jealous and not wanting Elena to know. She didn't like to see Damon hurt but if she acted suspicious Stefan would catch on.

"So what's the deal?" asked Elena's confidante Bonnie Bennett the young witch who she had known since kindergarten. "What do you mean?" asked Elena confused "Oh so you just called me here for nothing?"

"No I um…well it's Damon"

"What did he hurt you?"

"No actually kinda the opposite he told me he loved me"

Bonnie didn't look surprised. She looked guilty.

"I knew, Elena, I could sense it from the way he looks at you and your safety is always his first concern, think about it."

Elena swallowed - hard but then she took Bonnie's advice and she thought, she thought long and hard and then it kicked in – maybe she was destined to be with Damon maybe Katherine chose Stefan and she was supposed to be with Damon.

No, she then thought of Stefan she was confused she thought of his sweet smile. Then Damon with that eye roll and him stroking her hair encouraging her that everything was going to be okay.

She didn't realise that Bonnie had gone to the loo, so she left the mystic grill complaining of a bad headache.

Elena was driving only a little over the speed limit as she stopped at a garage and started writing in her diary. She wrote about all her feelings for Damon it took a while but as she finished her fourth page, she caught a glance of her watch it read 16.09 "Oh crap I better get home" she thought aloud.

She was home by 17:00 all smiles as she enjoyed a candle lit dinner that Stefan had prepared for her. Elena was unaware she had left her diary lying on the couch. Her head was still aching now more than ever so Stefan told her to get tucked up in bed so she did just that.

Stefan was alone downstairs and he sat down on the couch and felt something hard- he picked it up- it was Elena's diary. Stefan didn't think Elena would mind if he sneaked a peek inside so he went through pages of it smiling at all the sweet things she wrote about him. After a while Stefan was flipping through the pages of Elena's diary he got to the passage about Damon and he read all four pages his heart sank.

Elena came down whilst he was reading it "YOU READ MY DIARY?" she asked alarmed. Elena started storming back upstairs obviously upset Stefan went after her. He was pissed at her and he grabbed her arm, she tried to turn but slipped and down she went hitting the bottom a pool of blood surrounding her head.

Stefan saw the blood he could feel his canines sharpening he looked in the mirror his eyes had gone blood shot.

Stefan rushed out of the house leaving Elena on the floor.

A few hours later Damon came home, he had just visited the hospital to top up on blood banks and he found Elena lying at the bottom of the stairs.