Disclaimer: Not mine and never will be, if it was Elijah would be a series regular. Or, at the very least, the Originals would have their own show.
Notes: Consider this as an A/U following Season 2. Pairings, for the most part, are undecided but expect for Klaus, Rebekah and Elijah to appear at some point, and probably soon.
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Elena's not even sure how it happens… or if it's a combination of giving up and Caroline's persistence, but somehow the brunette teen had found herself saying yes. It's a decision that she didn't entirely regret because maybe there was a tiny part of her that missed being normal, but there was another part of her that didn't exactly appreciate being woken up at 6:00 a.m. in the name of early morning cheerleading practice. Yes, cheerleading practice because Caroline had managed to cajole and plead with both Bonnie and Elena; a mixture of sweet talking, bargaining and something else that was just purely Caroline Forbes. Whatever the method, it had worked. And that was why, instead of sleeping in on weekday mornings in the summer and being a carefree teenager; Elena was taking a quick shower and mentally reminding herself that she needed to schedule her senior class portrait soon (in a voice that suspiciously sounded like Caroline) and think about homecoming weekend.
Maybe cheerleading wasn't such a bad idea because, as Caroline had insisted, it was their senior year of high school and after what they'd gone through last year; maybe they were entitled to a little bit of normalcy… or as normal as they could get, Bonnie had added rather dryly. And with Jenna dead, Stefan still gone and her relationship with Damon strained, maybe a little bit of normalcy was just what Elena needed.
Or maybe not, Elena thought to herself, the brunette rolling her eyes a little as her phone began to ring; with one hand she grabbed the beckoning object and with the other shimmied into a pair of sweatpants emblazoned with Mystic Falls High. Somehow she managed to hold a quasi-conversation with Caroline while continuing to get dressed; Elena grabbing her already packed gym-bag from the floor as she exited her bedroom.
With exactly three weeks before school started again, Elena Gilbert was prepared to start over, or at least as much as a place like Mystic Falls would allow. But not even the chaotic events of last year could have ever prepared her for what was to come this year.
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A/N: I realize that I have left my other story in this fandom untouched and I do hope to remedy that shortly. Anyway, I'm not sure as to when updates will happen for this story or that one but we'll see what we see.