Hey everyone. This is my first fan fiction so don't expect magic, because I honestly don't think of myself as a writer. And don't be too hard on me.
When I was writing this I was thinking about it as if I was writing the actually tv show.. . So this is what I think will happen. Each instalment is like an episode to season four, picking up from the amazing season 3 finale.
Rated T, because I'm paranoid. I hope you enjoy and please review even if you think it was bad. Thanks so much.
Disclaimer- I don't own vampire diaries (unfortunately)
..she betrayed us…daughter of nature serving darkness…reverse the spell...kill the Originals…she's too weak…a disappointment… Bonnie closed her eyes in concentration; she focused on the power around her and slowly pushed the voices of the spirits out of her head.
The spirits spoke louder but eventually her mind was clear, from the voices at least. She felt their fury, their betrayal but she had had enough, like she had told Klaus, she was sick of being pushed around. No one could use her or her friends again.
She left Lockwood caves; she glanced back and sensed the wild animal she had left behind, Klaus. Bonnie stopped when see stepped into the fresh air.
She couldn't help but question her actions, in a span of a day she managed to switch her best friend's boyfriend's and her worst enemies' bodies. Doubts grew in her mind; did she do the right thing? She thought but she did it for her friends and she owes it to Tyler to follow through with her promise. She flashed back to Tyler's agreement.
She ran into Tyler at his house. He was frantically going through his house and picking up odd things and stacking them in a large carry bag. Bonnie thought he was running away, how could he? She thought, but she glanced over at the bag and a curling iron was poking out.
"BONNIE! I was about to ring you?" He exclaimed when he saw her. He looked…happy, excited even. She glanced over at the bag again and her eyes fell upon a picture frame of six freshman. Elena was hanging off Matt and Bonnie, Caroline and Tyler stood smiling awkwardly next to them. Bonnie words got stuck in her throat; they were all so different now a year later. She was a witch and her three friends were supernatural as well, and she only wished they could all go back to that time, before the vampires and magic.
Tyler eyes followed her, his face saddened. "Bonnie, um… Caroline and I… we're running away…" Tyler filled Bonnie in about their mothers and their life changing decision. Bonnie still hadn't said a word; he looked at her, waiting for her response. But as time passed, his smile faded from his face as he realised Bonnie had come to see him for a reason. "What's wrong Bonnie?" his voice dropped.
"Tyler, it's Alaric he's cornering in on Klaus and I know that Damon can keep him safe and..," She tried to speak calming not wanted her hybrid friend aware of how desperate she was for his help. He interrupted her "What can I do?" Bonnie looked at Tyler. She remembered what a douche he once was and she remembered how she despised him, but as she looked at her friend now, she was reminded how he changed, for Caroline.
Bonnie sat Tyler down and explained her transition spell. She expected him to be hesitant but he surprised her, he accepted straight away. She looked at him with a new found respect.
He stood up and walked to his bag and picked up a piece of papers. He took a moment looking at the paper before placing down on his bed "For Caroline, I'll do it." He said and walked out of his room without a second glance.
She should follow but couldn't help but go over to the papers he had dropped, she glanced down at pictures of Caroline and a note from her asking about his help for a dance set up at the school hall. Bonnie heart welled up, he had kept all of this, these mundane things, things that not even Caroline would think as special but he kept them. He was willing to sacrifice himself for the master he hates for his true love. She grabbed the pictures in a second and ran out of Tyler's room chasing after Tyler.
Bonnie shook her head from the memory and kept walking towards her car, she needed to see a friend, the only friend she could talk to, Elena.
"Stephen" Elena barely whispered out as her hands clenched her throat. Why did she fell like this, her thirst, it was killing her. She tried to focus on everything around, where was she? She tried to focus but she couldn't keep a strand of thought with this un-bearing thirst. Suddenly she felt a cold plastic hit her lips and before knowing she it, withdrew her new fangs she didn't knew she had and drunk from the blood bag.
Damon pressed three bags of blood to Elena's mouth. He looked at his love; he couldn't help but feel relieved that she was alive that she was still here. He had a hard time but eventually he took his eyes of Elena and at his little brother. Stephen looked at her with loving eyes, and Damon knew his brother was relieved too. Matt had told Damon outside that he was drawn from the lake first; Damon knew that Stephen was going through hell, he wasn't Elena's hero, he hadn't gotten back to Elena in time, but like Damon his heart started beating again (metaphorically) when she reopened her eyes.
Elena would remember everything now and he couldn't help but feel relieved that she had remembered all the times he had told her he loved her and the times he cared for but most importantly she would remember which brother she had met first. Elena withdrew the empty bag from her mouth and looked at the brothers. She looked at her morgue surroundings and at her dress gown. She was a vampire. She finally let herself think it. She remembered the car crash but now she remembered so many more things.
Elena looked at Stephen, he had told her before that as a vampire everything is heightened and she looked at Stephen she smiled. Feeling a new heightened love for him but she looked at Damon and she saw flashes. The time he told her he loved her in her room at night and the first time she met him…before Stephen. She looked at the two of them and she knew that a new life meant making the decision again, but this time it wasn't going to be easy.
"Let me in, I deserve to see the girl who saved my life." Matt voice broke Elena's concentration and before she could move, both brothers stood beside as the morgue's door flung open and Matt stood dumb folded at Elena ALIVE!
Caroline sat in her car for ages staring at the Lockwood mansion. She hadn't even seen her mother or any of her friends when she left her dying boyfriend. Tyler… her heart ached. She broke into tears again. "No, Caroline stop it! Stop crying for Tyler. Your stronger than this remember, he said your stronger than this." She spoke to herself in a stern voice.
Before backing down she flashed to The Lockwood's front door and rang the doorbell. "hell…." Caroline whispered as she heard footsteps approached the door on the other side. Mayor Lockwood answered the door, shocked to see Caroline. "Caroline, you are meant to be gone, Tyler has already left." Mayor Lockwood looked at Caroline concerned. She glanced behind Caroline hoping no town members were spying on her. Caroline's words got stuck in her throat as she tried to lie. "Mayor Lockwood, Tyler has left but I'm not leaving. I'm staying…" before Mayor Lockwood could interrupt, Caroline spat out her words "…I don't care about the townspeople. Tyler said to say goodbye and thank you for being such a wonderful mother. He did really love you." Caroline felt her eyes swell up and before Mayor Lockwood could respond, Caroline flashed away.
Stephen opened the front door to Elena and stepped in. Elena looked down at the threshold and her eyes grew sad as she realised she was no longer welcomed into her own house. "ELENA" she looked up to see Jeremy. He looked at her surprised, but as he waited for her to step in and greet him, he realised what was holding her on theirs...his porch. "Oh…" Jeremy didn't know how to word her invite. Elena looked down, ashamed "Elena, come in." He spoke the words awkwardly but she instantly walked into her brother and hugged him tight. He smelt like home, but than her eyes grew dark and she could only hear his heartbeat. She tightened her grip around him and with all the control she could find, she pushed away the desire. She pulled away from her little brother, his eyes already dripping with tears. "I was meant to protect. Matt and I were meant to keep you far away from this, so you wouldn't end up like this…" He choked out his words.
She hugged her brother again and remembered how young he was. "You had spent all this time protecting me Jeremy, but now it's my turn. I will do everything I can to protect you. It's time that you let someone look after you." She looked at her brother again and he fell into her arms again weeping for all his losses. She glanced at the door, Stephen had flashed away. She looked at her weeping brother in her arms and she tightened her grip around him, he was safe here, she would keep him safe forever.
Elena walked down her stairs after tucking in her brother. She went into the kitchen and went to open the fridge only to realise she wasn't hungry for human food. She finally let her emotions seep out, she was a vampire. A VAMPIRE. She had dated one, her best friend was one and her old guardian was one, and now she joined the club. Her back found the kitchen wall as her body sank to the ground. Within seconds she let out the sobs she had been holding in. She cried it all out, the memories she had, her thirst for blood, the look on Matt face, and the way her stomach carved for the beating human blood bag laying upstairs.
She was too busy sobbing that she didn't her the ascending footsteps. "Elena?" Caroline looked at her friend concerned. Elena looked up at her friend, the one who actually might know what she was going through, "Caroline, I…" Elena tried to tell her friend, but she couldn't find the words or any in fact. Caroline bent to meet her friend; she pulled her friend into her hug, when the truth dawned on her. She couldn't feel a heartbeat or the warmth that Elena always carried. Caroline pulled out from the hug and saw that the light aurora that Elena usually carried was absent. Caroline realised her friend's trauma. Caroline hugged her friend tighter and Elena let out a breath that she hadn't known she was holding. Elena sobbed into her friends shoulder and thanked whoever would listen that she had great friends.
Caroline and Elena sat wrapped up in blankets each holding tubs of ice cream. Neither was cold and neither was hungry but it was a tradition for broken hearted friend to cry over ice cream. Elena laughed inside her head at this moment, Caroline who had been a vampire for longer than Elena was, still acting so human, so normal that it gave Elena hope. The girls talked about everything, the transition, Tyler, Damon, and Stephen, more Tyler and finally Elena asked what had been in her mind. "What's the hardest bit, Care?"
Caroline looked at her friend, and her eyes sadden as she remembered it all as if it was yesterday. "The blood thirst," Caroline looked directly into her friend eyes, tears building up and continued "you will thirst for every human you pass, people you've known since you were a baby. You will smell your best friends, your boyfriend…" Caroline sobbed as she remembered how close she was to feeding on Matt, the boy she fought so hard for, "…over time you will get used to it, and you may not want to drink all the time but you can always smell their bloods and their heartbeat will be the loudest sound you hear when you're hungry. It was so much, enough for me to nearly switch off my shame and my guilt." Caroline was now crying hard, speaking between sobs. Elena let her friend cry as she tried to brace herself for the eternity to come. She knew everything Caroline had said was true; she had been tempted to drink her own brother. If it wasn't for the several blood bags she drank she wouldn't have had the strength to resist the blood.
"They didn't even let me decide." Elena choked out as her own tears started to show. Caroline shot her head up, "Oh Elena" she hugged her friend again. But Elena cried uncontrollably as she spoke her thoughts that had been building up since Damon forced the blood down her throat. "Damon… he just forced the bag to my mouth…I didn't even have a choice to decide if I wanted this…I could have died, died normally but I didn't even get to decide." Elena's cries lessoned to sobs.
She stopped and she straightened herself up "They were both selfish, they didn't want to lose me again and so they decided for me...like I was incapable to decide myself." Elena's fear and sadness was replaced with anger. Caroline comforted her friend. Behind the wall of the living room, Bonnie leaned against the wall, silently sobbing. They had changed Elena; her best friends were both vampires. She couldn't handle this, she wanted to sob into her friends arms, sobbing about what she had done but Elena was a vampire and different. Knowing that she couldn't take it any longer Bonnie escaped Elena's house.
Jeremy woke up soon after Elena tucked him in like he was eight years old. He sat up in his bed, Elena was a vampire, he thought. She was a vampire. He thought about his attempts only yesterday to keep her from this fate to let her live a normal mundane life. He wouldn't have to worry about vampire boyfriends or her sacrificing herself because they wouldn't know about it. Both Matt and his plan failed and only made matters worse. Matt…he didn't even think about his friend. He got up and silently popped his head out of his door to hear Caroline and Elena's voice down in the living room. He looked at his window. 'What are the chances that his sister will hear him going out the window?" Jeremy thought and quickly opened his window and escaped.
Jeremy got into his car, thankfully he parked it on the street and not in his garage, otherwise Elena would have heard for sure especially with her new vampire hearing. His wondered where Matt would be. He wouldn't go home, he either knew Elena was a vampire or thought she was dead, either one he wouldn't go home and weep about it. He started the engine not knowing where he was going, but he didn't want to be near when Elena found out he was gone. Where would Matt go, Tyler thought. Not the Grill, he no longer had anyone's house to flee too. But Tyler soon realised where his mate would be. He swirled his car and sped in the direction of Wickery Bridge.
Jeremy raced to the bridge edge, to where Matt was standing. Matt looked terrible and held a nearly empty bottle of beer. Not his first Jeremy assumed by the empty bottles around his friend. "It's my fault Jer, if I hadn't had done it…if I didn't turn around then she would be…" Matt looked straight ahead into the night. He choked out his words unable to find the right words to express himself. He then shouted into the air "She would have been our Elena, the Elena full of light and love and warmth. Not this…not… not a" Matt trailed off but Jeremy knew how to reach out to his friend, "Not a vampire. Well sorry if I'm not ready to jump off, but I'm happy. I thought I lost my sister, my only living family member. But I didn't. She died Elena; she tried putting everyone before herself. She didn't die a horrible death but as the friend we all knew her as. And she woke up the same. She still is the same but the kindness, the warmth, the love it's just heightened. It won't be easy and it isn't ideal. But she's here and I'm not alone and neither are you Matt." He held out for his friend. Matt looked down and his friend. He was only fifteen. He looked at his outstretched hand and Matt looked back down at the river. The river he was in nearly three hours ago. Matt took Jeremy's hand and balanced himself on Jeremy shoulder as he stepped off the edge to safe ground.
Stephen stared at the flames. It was his fault. Elena was vampire because he didn't save her. He was glad, of course he was glad that Elena was alive, or at least here. She had always resisted this fate and Stephen could have easily helped her avoid it. But he took too long to get Matt out and when he got back he thought he lost his love forever. When she woke up in the hospital he was relieved, so relieved he hadn't lost her. But when she looked at him while clenching her throat, it wasn't Elena. He tried to remember Elena for what she was, a girl with courage, bravery and most importantly love. Everything she did was driven by love. It was what attracted Stephen to her so much, but the creature that he saw that afternoon wasn't driven by love but thirst. He only hoped that she would grow back to her old self, or else. Or else this, entire all this pain he had gone through would have been for nothing. He remembered the way she looked at him before Matt came into the morgue, she smiled at his with so much love that he knew he wasn't going to give up on her. Not when she finally chose him.
He had the border house door swing open. Damon. He was expecting his brother. "Stephen, save some for me." Damon spoke as he poured the nearly empty bottle of glass into a nearby glass. "You didn't let her choose." Stephen stood to meet his brother's height. He wanted to know now. "Didn't let her decide to die. WE both know she wouldn't leave her friends behind and if I didn't feed her the bags then she would have fed on the nearest nurse. And you know she would never let herself forgive yourself. So was I being a caring friend for forcing the blood bag in her mouth. Yes I was. She'll thank me later." Damon spat out at his brother. Furious that Stephen wouldn't have thought it out himself.
"She chose tonight" Stephen spoke what he truly wanted to speak about with his brother. "Yes, she did. And I would leave like we agreed but…" Damon spoke as he drew his glass to his lips while smirking. "We had a deal. She chose me." Stephen stepped towards his brother, challenging him. "As always Stephen, looks like you are a step behind. Elena isn't our sweet Elena anymore, she is a vampire." Damon raised his eyebrows to his little brother and smirk his signature smile. "Elena being a vampire won't change much. She'll still want what she did before she died." Stephen looked at his brother, pitying him. He thought Elena would change her decision because she was a vampire.
"Your wrong again brother. For a second I thought that Klaus actually taught you something. Firstly,' Damon pointed one finger 'she won't crave what she did before, she'll crave blood more than anything now, and secondly," Damon pointed his second finger and a devilish smile spread across his handsome face "she'll remember." Stephen looked at his brother again. Of course Damon compelled her to forget something that would sway her judgement on him. But he wasn't going to let his brother see him sweat; he won't let his brother win this battle. "Fine. Deals back on then. We'll both fight until she tells on of us to leave. But warning Damon, I won't stop trying. Even after she chooses I will stay here and be here for when you eventually stuff up." Stephen stepped closer to Damon. "I love her Damon. And I promise that I will fight for her because she is the only thing urging me to keep moving." But Damon wouldn't step down
"Well Stephen don't expect this to come easy because she knows me now, she remembers everything. And don't expect me to let you have her like I have before. I finally felt what it was like to lose her tonight, and I promised myself there and then that I wouldn't let her leave me again." He looked his brother up and down and turned his back and walked off. Stephen didn't like the way he said everything. Whatever she remembered, she will remember all the times Stephen was there. He wouldn't let her go, not now and not for eternity,
Bonnie had been driving for hours. Not knowing where she was heading. She had approached Mystic Fall's edges, only an hour's drive to the next town. But she couldn't leave, she had too many things tying her to the town, she owed it to Tyler to protect their friends. So she drove home, her dad wasn't in town still on business. She was happy he wasn't in the middle of this. She stepped out of her car, and she nearly missed her friend standing on the sidewalk. "Elena." She looked at her friend and noticed the light aurora she once beheld gone.
"Bonnie…" Elena sobbed. Looking at her friend, Elena knew what Bonnie would think but only hoped that she would come around like she did for Caroline. "..Bonnie I'm a…" Elena tried to find the words but she couldn't. Bonnie looked at her friend in despair. "I know Elena" in three strides she caught her friend in her arms. They hugged for so long. Bonnie knew Elena wasn't the same but Elena was the nicest person she knew and Bonnie had met enough kind vampires to know that they weren't all bad. She only hoped her friend would be like them.
Bonnie farewelled her friend, leaving their friendship on good terms. Walking into her house for some much needed rest. But as soon as she stepped into her house, she sensed someone. "Hello" Bonnie questioned the silence in her house. It couldn't have been a vampire, but there was definitely someone here. "Hello" Bonnie called out again as she turned the corner she faced the intruder. She looked at the stranger. Standing in the middle of Bonnie's living room was a tall black woman, with long black curls trailing to her waist line in a ponytail. She had piercing green eyes that were staring at Bonnie and rosy pink lips that settled into a smirk. "I'm sorry for the intrusion... But you know more than anyone that it's not safe for witches outside in Mystic Falls alone. My name is Sarah and I heard you've pissed off some spirits"
Apologies to Klaus fans and fans of the Originals and Delena and Stelena shippers. Klaus is my favourite character other than Caroline and Stephen and Damon and I promise they will be appearing in future chapters; I just didn't want too much going on in my first episode/chapter. So yeah please review and thanks for enduring my writing for this long to be reading this.