"-At least I'm not the one who's sired to my BOYFRIEND! Seriously, Elena!" The blonde allowed her anger to bubble over, her voice raising higher in pure-Caroline fashion.

Elena slammed her friend to the wall, having heard enough of this siring nonsense. Her anger was triggered so easily as a vampire that it seemed first nature to press a hand against her blonde friends throat and bare her teeth threateningly. "This is the last time I'm going to tell you to shut the fuck up with your 'Stelena' shipping controversy schemes. Damon turned you and you aren't kissing at his feet."

The blue eyed vixen frowned in exaggeration, shoving her best friend from childhood off her violently. "Jesus Christ Elena, everyone see's it other than you! I'd bet that Damon knew this whole time; he was probably testing the theory with the April dress debacle!"

"Fucking- jeez. Actually Car, you're the one who's blind. I'm not sired, you're just projecting!"

Caroline scoffed dramatically, making a show of the fact that she was taking a seat. "Go away, blow me away with your crack pipe theories."

"'He's manipulative and creepy, Elena, you absolutely can't date Damon' or should I say Klaus?" The vampire glared to her friend, arms crossing to make her point.

Standing back up immediately, the blonde found her finger pointed to her friend speechlessly. "I'm with Tyler and you're a crazy person!"

Elena shrugged indifferently, "Maybe I am crazy." She replied, nodding in return as she leaned against the kitchen counter top. "Or maybe you are too afraid to face the fact that you like someone who is seriously flawed." Pausing for a second, the brunette frowned deeply. "I mean seriously, Damon and Klaus aren't even on the same level of fucked up creatures-"

"Okay, I get your point, thanks. You're wrong and I'm right, so can we just get over it?"

"Got it." Elena nodded, letting the silence surround them for a few moments. She spoke when Caroline probably thought that the subject would be dropped, "But just so you know, I'd kind of understand if you did like him."

The blonde vampire didn't think that statement warranted a reply, instead picking up her phone and scrolling through her inbox as a distraction. The brunette continued, however, as if she didn't notice the disinterest. "I mean, I imagine it'd be hard to come to terms with the fact that you might like someone who killed your best friends aunt...imagine what the best friend would think."

Caroline finally glanced up, no humor on her pretty face. "Okay, I get it. Can we drop it?"

As always, Elena smiled and put a reassuring hand on her friends shoulder. "Of course we can drop it. I just wanted to let you know that... I would understand."

With a shrug, the girl decided to swim comfortably in the depths of her denial once more. "Luckily there's nothing to understand, other than the fact that you're SIRED to your BOYFRIEND! I mean, God!"


This was a cute little plot bunny that hopped into my head after 4x07. The whole episode I sat at my TV screen, shaking my head and thinking that she was just projecting her cast aside feelings for Klaus. While I know that she's just an awesome smarty pants for catching it before anyone else, I wish that this little drabble revealed the truth.

We can always pretend.