AN: So this popped into my head today and I wrote it down. I, like Elena in this story, felt like a change so here we are. This story is in no way related to my Unsettlingverse but will probably be a crackfic because I cannot help myself. It starts sometime around episode 4.07 but I've decided not to include the sire bond between Damon and Elena. I have a very sketchy idea about where it will go and if people like it I'll continue. Thanks for reading.
Elena's had enough; it's time to walk away. She's sick of being torn between them. Too much has happened between herself and the Salvatore brother's and she's never going to be able to decide. It's finally occurred to her that there may be a reason for that; maybe she's just not that into either of them. Because really if she was so epically in love with one of them that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him, bearing in mind the fact that she is a vampire and that could be a very long time, then the other one shouldn't even register on her radar. Right? Anyway, lately she's been getting the feeling that she's not the number one priority in either of their lives and that's something she won't tolerate. She'd like to remain friends with them but, let's face it, when does that ever really work? And if it does it's never easy and that means she needs to find somewhere else to live. But it's a dilemma because she can't go back home where Jere is still figuring out all his hunter stuff. Where to go if she doesn't what a stake in heart? And then it hits her. She knows someone who would do anything to keep her safe, who will refuse her nothing. Plus, he owns a mansion, the more she thinks about it the better this idea is. Yep, it's time to break up with Stefan and Damon and free herself from this indecisiveness.
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"You're breaking up with both of us?" Stefan and Damon say in unison.
"Yes," Elena sighs, she's been trying for half an hour to get this point across. In the brothers' defence none of them ever thought that she wouldn't eventually choose at least one of them.
"Huh," is all Stefan says, looking at his brother in a she-finally-made-a-decision kind of way. Damon shrugs, in fact, he almost looks relieved. Elena would be upset by that if she didn't feel exactly the same way. They've played this game for way too long and it's liberating not to have to worry about it anymore. From the looks on Stefan and Damon's faces they feel the same. Great, maybe this friend thing will be easier than she thought.
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"How's your heart little brother?" Damon asks Stefan as he hands him a drink. "Not too broken I hope. That 'I don't' care she's leaving' act was for Elena's benefit I assume."
"Actually," Stefan says, "it wasn't an act. I'm glad it's finally over, it's a relief." Stefan takes a sip of his drink. "What about you? I don't think you loved her more than I did but I know you needed her love more than me."
"It's a funny thing Stefan because I thought so too," Damon says in bemusement, "but I feel free. Like I was being held back and now I can do whatever I like."
"Me too," Stefan agrees. So now the question is, what is it they want to do?
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Elena takes a deep breath before knocking on the door. Her being here could start the ball rolling any direction but that's what she wants, something new. It may be a strange choice, coming here, but that's the point. It's like walking into a newsagent and picking up the magazine you think will interest you the least. You do it because it isn't what you'd normally do and you have no idea where it will take you. The door opens to reveal Klaus.