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'Throughout the Years'
The first time they met, they were five.
It was the first day of kindergarten and a tiny brunette girl who was already quite pretty was sitting outside by herself at lunch, having not made any friends yet- she was too afraid.
That was about to change, though, because a blonde haired boy had been watching her throughout the day and finally decided to talk to her. He got up from where he was sitting at another table with his lunch and made his way over to where the girl was and sat across from her.
She looked up in surprise, her brown eyes meeting his blue ones.
"My name's James. But everyone calls me Jim." He offered.
"Elena." The girl replied, a tiny smile breaking across her face.
And so Elena Gilbert and James Tiberius Kirk began a strong friendship that would prove unbreakable.
-ST/VD-
A few years later, when they were about 17, was when their relationship began to take a change from friends into more.
Elena still stuck by Jim, even when he started his wildly rebellious streak that caused her to lose any other friends she had gained because of her continued defense of him. She didn't mind that much- she knew he'd do the same thing for her, and had after her parents died in an accident.
As she lay in the hospital recovering from nearly drowning he had hardly left her side and would comfort her when the panic attacks started.
In return, after he got into a particularly bad fight, she would drag him inside her house- which now seemed very empty despite her brother Jeremy and aunt Jenna still living there- and fix him as best she could.
After one particular fight that left Jim with a pretty nasty cut on his torso she had him remove his shirt so she could take care of it and found herself staring for a few seconds at just how… good looking he was with his shirt off.
She'd heard all about how good looking he was- along with other things- from other girls in school but never imagined she would become one of those girls.
"Elena?" He asked, and she pulled herself out of her thoughts and got on with tending to the cut.
It would take a few more years for feelings to fully develop and be realized by both of them however.
-ST/VD -
It wasn't until they were both enrolled in Starfleet Academy that Elena realized she had fallen in love with her best friend.
The realization came when, while watching Jim flirt with practically every girl at the Academy, the brunette began to feel jealous. Sure, her friend's tendencies to flirt with everyone in high school had kind of irked her, but it'd never made her feel jealous.
She'd tried to deny this but by the time they had survived the battle with Nero and were both assigned to the Enterprise- Jim as the Captain and her as one of the medical staff- she knew it was pointless to keep denying it.
-ST/VD-
It only took about a year later for her to learn he had come to feel the same.
She had refused to leave his bedside as he lay recovering from radiation poisoning even after he had woken up. It was because of a mixture of things, but mainly because of her fear that if she left, it would all been a dream and he would be dead still.
Remembering what she felt watching him die and being powerless to do anything to stop it, she took a deep breath and whispered the three words to her sleeping friend she had almost never gotten a chance to say.
"I love you."
A smile suddenly broke across what she had assumed was Jim's sleeping face and his eyes opened to meet hers as she sat motionless- fear and horror warring for the title of the dominant emotion.
"If I'd known dying would get you to admit that, I would've done that sooner." He joked, and relief washed over her like gravity suddenly retaking hold. "I love you too 'Lena." He continued, using the old childhood nickname only him and Jeremy could get away with.
If any of the rest of the Enterprise crew were surprised by the sudden new level of closeness and intimacy the two started showing each other, they made no mention of it.
-ST/VD-
I'm sorry if Kirk is OOC- despite only seeing Star Trek: Into Darkness, I'm reading Kirk-centric fanfics and have researched a lot of things Star Trek online- this is my first time attempting to write for Star Trek.
I hope you enjoyed it, and another one will hopefully come soon.
And for those of you who read my other stories- fear not, they are not abandoned, my inspiration has been nonexistent and because I have inspiration for Star Trek/Vampire Diaries I figured a mini drabble series involving that might help speed the updating process.