I do not own Vampire Diaries... but I do own my dreams ;-)

Summary: Elena Gilbert is your typical 17 year old senior at Mystic Falls High. Beautiful, Athletic, Great friends, Perfect boyfriend, Head Cheerleader... and Vampire Slayer? AU D/E

I'll Drive a Stake Through Your Heart...Just You Watch Me

She's running. The puddles under her combat boots are making her pants wet but she does not notice. It's dark, like really dark. So dark that she can barely see three steps in front of herself. She's running. The biting cold wind is whipping in her face making her eyes sting. Its quiet and she can hear a car alarm go off in the distance.

The moon peeks from behind some overgrown trees and illuminates a much needed path. She's running. Her heart is pounding. The adrenalin kicked in a while back and is just at its peak now. Her pupils are dilated, just like a cat at night.

She's running. Her life depends on it. She recalls one of her school classes she actually paid attention to. Remembering something to do with in life and death situations people recall their life summarised. She scoffs at the irony of this being what she remembers. Why can't she just be like anyone else? She starts to remember people in her life. The important ones; like Aunt Jenna and her obsession with coloured popcorn. Seriously, its gross. Recalling once seeing her eat two whole bags of those. In one sitting.

Jeremy, sweet Jer. Actually he is a little shit, like any other younger brother. He taunts, teases, humiliates her and is just plain annoying. But what are you going to do? 95% of the time they are at each other's throats, but then there will be a moment like him making be a tea when she's sick or leaving the last slice of peperoni pizza because it's her favourite. Those are the moments that she'd miss.

Okay so she got distracted, it happens. And yeah, she's still running.

She begins to gain pace and doges a tree that she swears came out of nowhere. Her breath is coming out in short puffs and she can hear the blood pounding in her ears. She's wondering if she is going to make it. It's one of those nights were she doubts herself. It rarely happens but when it does it's a disaster. She tries to get her head in the game.

She knows that if she doesn't this could be it. Caroline would not be impressed if she died in this outfit. It's black, all black. Combat boots, tight black pants, and a tight black top. She even has her boring underwear on. Yep, Caroline will definitely not be impressed.

The whip of a wayward branch snaps her out of her thoughts. Head in the game. The dark figure is gaining on her. She is thinking it's probably around a head taller than her. Unlike her who is trying her hardest to make minimal damage to her surroundings, the figure is not. Taking a quick glance behind her, she sees the destroyed plants and branches in their wake. She turns back just in time to see a knocked over tree on the forest floor. Jumping over it in an easy manner she picks up the pace. It is coming to an end. This is it. The next few minutes will ultimately end her night. One way or another.

She's running. Though she slows down her pace. If he wants a game. He's got a game.

She screams. Screams like she is in agony. One of those screams you hear in those teen slasher films. You know the ones where they are running around a dark empty high school. Topless. Yeah, that's the scream that she's doing now. There is a maniacal laugh she can hear. It's him. She trips on a tree root sticking up. Convenient, right?

She turns as her follower shows himself. There is an eerily moment when they make eye contact. He is grinning like a cat that got to the canary. Yep, she's the canary. He is making his way slowly towards her. Shuffling his feet.

"So, finally gave up hey? Can't say I minded the chase. It was quite exhilarating on this fresh night."

She shuffles back on the ground. Eyes not leaving his till she hits the trunk of the tree.

"Please, Please... I don't know what I did. Please just let me go." She's pleading. She's begging.

"Oh don't be like that sweetie, it's not you it's me."

He is cackling, actually laughing at his own cliché of a comeback.

She is sobbing now. Full hysterics. He is making his way across the few steps separating them.

"Come on darling, just a taste... and may I just say that you look ravishing."

Her heart is pounding. She's buzzing. Her senses are on alert and she can make out the guy's face. His eyes are sparkling and glazed and his anticipation is clear on his face.

He grabs her shirt and pulls her up off the floor and thrusts her up against the tree. He is close. Too close and she can smell his decaying breath. It's hot and revolting. She has to control her gag reflex. This is not the time.

"So watta say there honey, can I get a bite out of ya?"

She looks at him. Dead in the eye and she can see the change happen. Straight in front of her eyes. The crackling under his eyes. The dramatic change of eye colour. The descending of his fangs. The visual change from a human form to a Vampire.

"No."

In a flash she has released the trigger hidden from view under her right hand sleeve and catches the wooden stake. In a blink of an eye she's driven it straight through the creature's cold, lifeless heart.

She's smirking as she looks at his lifeless body. All traces of crying, sobbing and fear are gone. She looks down at he's now decaying form with disgust. Absolute loathings of this creature clear in her eyes.

Out of all the people in Mystic Falls he just had to choose this one here.

He chose the wrong girl to deal with.

She turns her head to hear a sound in the near distance. To anyone else they would brush it off to the wind.

But she isn't just anyone and she knows better.

Too bad she was too distracted to notice the piercing blue eyes that were watching her at a distance.

Thank you for reading!

YAY or NAY?

So this is a Damon and Elena Fic... Totally AU, obviously. I'm not sure which path I'm going to choose but it will be set in Mystic Falls, Elena will be a teenager (my type of Buffy) and Damon will meet her eventually. Though I really need ideas!

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks guys, Hopefully I'll continue it... not sure yet.

-S xoxo