Author's Note: I give credit to RedTailedHawkens for inspiring this with her story Second Chances for the Hart of Dixie fandom. She granted me permission to use her basic idea, so thanks!
This story is set several years into the future. Elena has already graduated college, lives in Atlanta, and is engaged to Stefan. She wakes up after a terrible car crash and has no memory of the past few years. Although she recognizes the people in her life, she doesn't realize how they fit into it. Her memory jumps back a few years and she isn't aware that she and Damon aren't even talking to each other at this point in their lives. Endgame for this fiction is Damon and Elena, so please bear with me.
Also, everything in the TV show has happened in their history, the characters are themselves; vampires, humans, witches, etc.
Disclaimer: I don't own the following lyrics from Pearl Jam or the Vampire Diaries. If I did, Ian Somerhalder would be shirtless in every episode!
"There in the road, straight ahead
A car was stalled, the engine was dead
I couldn't stop, so I swerved to the right
I'll never forget the sound that night
The screamin' tires, the busted glass
The painful scream that I heard last"
Pearl Jam – Last Kiss
In a flash of light, the world ended. Colors sprinted through her mind, a brilliant splash of images of her memories firing off at random. A screeching pierced her ears, leaving nothing but dull silence in its wake. The darkness swirled around her, a starless sky squeezing all of the breath from her lungs. And then… nothing…