A/n- Hello, this is my first time writing a VD fanfic and hopefully it is a unique fanfic. I haven't really sort of found a fic like this yet. If there is, please tell me and I will check it out to see if it similiar or not.
I am an Elijah/Elena fan but there doesn't seem to be a lot of fics about them sadly.
About this fic- It will be S/E/D in this chapter only perhaps. We'll save the best for last, won't we? ;)
It is loosely based off the S3 first episode so spoiler alert if you have not seen it yet! Kind of.
Disclamier: Don't own anything except maybe the fanfic plot itself.
Remember Me as I Once Was
Summary-S3 AU Elena made it very clear she never wanted to pursue forever, so Damon made sure she never did. 15 yrs later however, the past catches up to her in the form of Klaus. Not the only problem-somehow she accidently revived an Original. How can she manage to escape Klaus and his Ripper with the help of Elijah? E/E
Prologue – Damon's show of goodwill
"Stefan won't come back- not in your lifetime at least."
It had been three months since they last saw Stefan. Elena hardly slept in her own house as she stayed at the boarding house with Damon in order to try to locate him. Whenever Bonnie and Caroline came up with a sort of lead, Elena's heart would beat faster, hoping against reality that this could be the big break she was looking for.
Sometimes, she wondered why she still bothered to tell Damon about these leads.
Whenever she went to inform him, he would shut them down as well as tear the hope she has. And she never notices the long disappearances of Alaric and Damon right after she tells him. Never noticed that the closet door in his bedroom was closed now when it used to be opened and displayed to the world that Damon Salvatore only wore expensive labels.
In fact, Elena took a page right from Bella from Twilight*. The only difference was that she tried to socialize, tried to move on in her life while waiting for Stefan to come back. She tried. But somehow it wasn't working because Klaus had destroyed her emotionally with the death of Jenna.
And everyone seemed to notice this.
Every once in a while, she would notice Damon watching her closely with a thoughtful look on his face and wondered if he was thinking about that good-bye kiss they had.
She hoped not, the last thing she wanted was more drama in her life even though a secret dark part of her wondered what it would be like to be with Damon as Andy seemed to really enjoy being with him.
0o0o0
Damon was scheming something behind Elena's back. While the fact that he was scheming wasn't anything new, he had to go to some great pains to hide it from Elena because he was pretty damn sure she wasn't going to like his idea.
However, it was for her protection and Stefan would have agreed to it had he been here. Of course, being the more noble person, Stefan would have asked Elena what her opinion on it was. He was cutting that corner short obviously.
It was because of Stefan that Damon was scheming a plan for Elena's safety.
Alaric and Damon had gone to Tennessee to investigate the half-lead that Elena had presented to him and had his suspicions confirmed.
Stefan had gone Ripper again.
Every time he looked into Elena's trusting eyes filled with hope, he couldn't bring himself to tarnish the image she had of his brother. He would destroy the very fragile connection she had to reality.
Though secretly Damon began to resent her.
He knew from Stefan that Elena never wanted to become immortal-a vampire like them. She wanted to eventually move on with her life so why shouldn't she do that now? She had the chance to turn her back and no one would be the wiser. Not even himself.
If Klaus ever found out that Elena was still alive, he'll most likely come back to Mystic falls and have Stefan deal with her to seal the deal.
So he began to set up his plan. He antigonized Elena to the point that she stopped forgetting to drink vervain in her desperation to find news that Stefan was okay, that he'll make it back to her. In the meantime, he tracked his brother as stealthily as he could without attracting attention to himself.
After a few days, he stepped away and noted that Stefan (and that fucking bastard) was heading to Russia.
He also noted that Elena's birthday was coming up too and set off to find Caroline.
0o0o0
Whenever Elena saw Caroline, she made a point of reminding her that she wanted the party small. She knew she couldn't talk Caroline out of the party so she went along with it. After all, it wasn't every day Elena turned 18.
Elena should have known that Caroline would have gotten her way in the end.
Dressed in a white dress, Elena stared in amazement at the number of people in the boarding house for her birthday party. Immediately, she went for a drink, not knowing that Damn's eyes were following her from his seat on the couch, with a leggy blonde. It was okay because Andy had to work late and he wanted to try out some new flirty lines he thought up in boredom. They seemed to work as the leggy blonde shorten the distance between them as every minute went by.
Elena's breaking point came when she went to the bathroom. She had been checking to see if her makeup was holding up when her phone rang. With almost inhuman speed, she immediately picked up with a "Hello?"
There was a click at the other end and she leaned on the counter for support.
When she had recomposed herself, she went to the library with the good brandy. Elena didn't bring a glass as they were some in the library but knowing Damon, they were everywhere if you knew where to look. However, when she got there, she lost the desire to drink herself to oblivation.
Damon found her sitting on a couch, staring at the bottle of brandy hungrily and he smirked. It was all going according to plan, there was just one more phase to get the ball going.
"Y'know, just 'cause I told those other kids to go with the cheap stuff doesn't mean you're included." Damon said, as he confidently walked into the room, watching her being startled into reality.
He leaned closer to her and whispered into her ear deliciously, "What the birthday girl wants, she gets. That is if she can."
Setting the brandy down at the table with such force, Damon winced on the inside as Elena snapped, "What is that supposed to mean?"
"You know perfectly well what I mean."
And unfortunately she did.
Seeing the hidden challenge in his eyes and wanting to wipe the cocky smirk off his face, Elena tilted her chin up in defiance. Picking up a glass from its place without looking, she set it down in the space between them on the table with a satisfying clunk.
"Start pouring." She said, raising an eyebrow, Will you follow? it read.
With a sexy smirk on his face, he did just that.
0o0o0
Elena fell on the bed, with Damon on top of her, kissing him with such passion, Damon regretted that she was drunk. In a flash, their tops were off and Elena fumbled with the buckle on his belt. It didn't make things easier as Damon kept on evading her (on purpose)and so it took her whole drunk concentration to unbuckle. Meanwhile, Damon placed butterfly kisses here and there on her bare skin as his hand brushed past her bra straps and closer to her necklace.
With a skilled maneuver, Damon had Elena's necklace off without her knowing. He had planned this for days, knowing Elena had skivvied off drinking vervain in her time of distress. Elena hadn't noticed but cried out in truimph as the belt went to the floor along with the other articles of clothing. As Damon quickly placed the vervain filled necklace under the matress, Elena sat up and mimicked the kisses Damon had given to her. In a flash, Damon groaned and started to kiss her once more. She placed both hands on his face and waged war with his tongue as Damon ran his hands expertly up her body before gently encircling her wrists.
In a flash, he had her pinned down on the bed, and watched as her chest heaved up and down in anticipation. However, he looked down at her in sadness as she locked eyes with him. Immediately, Elena's heart clenched with guilt and tried to compose herself as the Katherine part of her brain whispered,"While the other brother's away..."
"Damon, what's wrong?" she asked, gazing up at him in concern.
His irises glowed as he maintained the gaze as he spoke softly.
"You will forget everything concerning the supernatural…"
"I will forget…."
A/n - What do you think? Don't hesitate to review. This fic was mostly inspired by Someone Like You by Adele as I imagine Damon and Stefan coming to check up on Elena when she's older. I might change the title later on as well as the rating for this story but I am not so sure yet.
*- I know its New Moon, not Twilight. But all the books are basically known as twilight now.
The first chapter will be posted later on this week. Here's a rough preview: Elena didn't know why Stefan had suddenly left town but one thing she knew for sure was that there was something her friends weren't telling her about and she wanted to find out. Just because she was still emotionally reeling from Jenna's death did not mean they could keep things from her.
