Chapter 1

A/N: After the whole Mystic Falls fireworks being ruined by using John Gilbert's device and burning all the tomb vamps, well, most of them. Instead of Katherine kissing Damon, she kisses Stephan on Elena's porch. This is my first TVD fanfic and I have been reading so many, so please R and R to let me know what you think. If you don't review, I won't know what you like!

Disclaimer: I do not own TVD or any of the characters, I just like to play with them!

Stefan couldn't believe the nights events, in fact, he felt very much like he did on that night in 1864 when he and Damon both lost the woman they loved, along with their own human lives. He had decided that after Elena left the grill, he was going to go back and check on her to make sure she was alright. She just had so much on her mind with meeting Isobel and finding out about John being her father.

He was so lost in thought that he almost missed the voice calling out behind him. "Stefan! Wait up!" Elena called to him.

"Elena?" He asked, "Why aren't you at home by now?"

She laughed lightly at him, flinging her garment bag over her shoulder. "A lady could always use a handsome man to escort her home on such a dark night," she drawled. Stefan raised his eyebrows at her and she shrugged, "I stayed behind to talk to Bonnie and got a little sidetracked."

Stefan traced her jaw softly with his thumb and smiled at her when they stopped on Elena's porch. "I'm sorry about how I've been acting regarding Damon lately. I know you love me and I know you'd never do anything to hurt me, I just have to find a way to get over this."

"Shh," she replied bringing his lips down to hers and enveloping them in a passionate kiss.

The door opened and Stefan jumped back to see Elena standing inside the house staring at him, eyes bulging. "Stefan? What are you doing?"

Elena? How did you-"

"It's been a long time, Stefan, but your kiss hasn't changed a bit." The doppleganger purred into his ear before turning her attention to the now shocked Elena standing just over the threshold in the house. "Curiouser and curiouser. You must be Elena? Listen, I don't have time now but we just must do lunch!" She giggled before curtsying and taking off into the woods.

Stefan saw a wave of pain flair through Elena's body before solidifying into stony resolve. "Stefan? Was that?" she asked, already knowing the answer.

"Katherine?" Stefan asked, already feeling incredibly guilty. "Yes, yes it was."

Elena mustered up what strength she had left and used it to smack Stefan squarely across the face. The only words that could manage to escape her were, "Stefan. Go."

"But Elena," he started, "let's talk about this. I need to explain!"

Elena ran her fingers through her hair and sighed, "Explain what, Stefan? Why you were kissing Katherine on my porch? You know what, no, that doesn't even bother me. What bothers me is that you didn't even know it was Katherine. You thought it was me, Stefan! You need to go. Now," she said before slamming the door in Stefans face.

Elena ran up to her room and slammed the door before falling to her knees just on the other side. Her entire body wracked with sobs. How could Stefan not know he was kissing Katherine? How could he miss the fact that she told him her garment bag had been stolen? What about the part where the woman he had been kissing had no heart beat? Elena knew Stefan could hear things like that.

She tried to figure out who she could talk to right now. Bonnie was out because she was sure Bonnie needed some space, especially after everything that happened tonight. She couldn't talk to Stefan, because, well, that would kind of defeat the purpose of not speaking to him, so she texted the only other friend who came to mind, Damon.

[Can U C me plz? Home] she texted him.

[Y wuts up?] He texted her back.

[15 words or less? Bitch is back. Caught K + S kissing. He thought it was me! Windows unlocked.]

Damon looked down at his phone in disbelief. Katherine returned and was kissing Stefan? Why would he do that to Elena? Better yet, why was Katherine even in Mystic Falls?

A/N: Okay, a little shaky for the first chapter, I admit, but I'm just setting up the story to get a whole lot more beautiful, with plenty of Delena, of course! What do you think is going to happen next? Will elena forgive Stefan? Will Katherine impersonate Elena to Damon too? R + R! Also, I am making my chapters shorter than most are used to. I don't like the big long chapters where all of these details that people just skim over when reading are added to make the story look larger!