Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Season: 1 and my extended version.
Summary: What if Elena Gilbert had a twin sister? This is the story of Nicole Gilbert. Discover her life from her perspective! The plot is similar to the show for a few chapters and then it takes a different road! There will be a few diary entries every now and then written by her. She will encounter vampires; such as Damon and Stefan Salvatore. Just like Elena did.
The story begins when Elena first meets Stefan, how will Nicole react to this? Will she dive into the vampire world with ease or will she hide away forever? Seeing as there's two doppelgangers in Mystic Falls...Who happens to turn up? Klaus Mikaelson. Follow, Favorite, Review, Read! I love you guys! :)
Dear Diary,
It seemed like it was only yesterday that my life took a turn for the worst. But actually it was just before the summer started. I used to desperately search for an escape. To somehow get away from the madness which I was made to call my life.
My life had crumbled to a million tiny pieces and there wasn't a single thing that I could do about it. And I hated it. I hated that I couldn't change the past. That some things were just meant to be. But not this. Why them? Why them and not me? I was on the bridge of losing myself completely and the reason why I'm still here is Elena. My sister, my twin to be exact. My younger brother; Jeremy was just as lost as I was.
We were all stuck in the middle of this; in this mess. I just wanted something to happen. Something life changing which would help me to see some other reason to live, because one day my siblings just wouldn't be enough.
My life had never been interesting. Everything was normal before the accident. Before everything changed. I'm left here on this planet with Elena and Jeremy, feeling like there is no other point in living, in talking...Or even in breathing...
On that night when I woke up in hospital confused and on the brink of death, the Doctors told me that my parents hadn't made it. That the car had drove off Wickery Bridge, leaving Elena and myself alive, but not them.
In that instant I wanted to die. I just wanted to leave right there and then and be with them. I screamed at the Doctors to let me die, to let me reunite with them, to not let me stay here anymore. I refused to eat, refused to do anything that would help in my survival.
I had to see psychiatrist after psychiatrist to help me and eventually...I gave up fighting to die. It was as if someone had just snapped their fingers and boom. I wanted to live. I wanted to live to see the next day and the next. I wanted to experience the world. See the oceans and the cities...
Once I had gotten out of hospital, our Aunt Jenna moved in and we all thought it was best if she became our new legal guardian. We had seen her at most Christmas' and thanksgiving's, she was reasonable and at first I was completely against her and just wanted things to be how they were...
But now? A few months later, I've realised that she's amazing and she's slowly becoming like a mother to me. School is starting again tomorrow, the new school year.
I hadn't seen any of my friends all summer, they had kept in contact with Elena and she would update them on what was going on. Elena had always been better than me at handling things, especially when it came to this. But I believed that I could get better and I was, it was taking time but I was.
We were all strong enough for this. I didn't know how we would get this but somehow we would. The Gilbert's had always been strong, I know that much from the history books, you see the Gilbert's were one of the Founding families of the town which I live in; Mystic Falls, Virginia back in the 1860's.
There were many other founding families but we were amongst them, somewhere. We had fought and we had stayed strong when we thought that all hope was lost. I would take a page out of their book for this new school year.
It was going to be challenging but I knew that I could do this.
I could. I would.
Nicole Gilbert. - Sunday 5th September 2012.
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