On the day her father remarried, Elena Gilbert set eyes on Damon Salvatore for the first time, and from that moment he became her protector, her executioner, her best friend and her enemy. She should have been afraid of him but she wasn't, because something in his eyes told her he understood and would never let any harm come to her, she had been foolish enough to believe that.

Damon Salvatore, the outcast who only wants to make his mom proud and find a way to prove the town they were wrong about him; Elena Gilbert, the school's queen who truly just wants to stop feeling so alone. A couple no one saw coming but that will experience a rollercoaster of emotions that will take them to live the best and worst year of their lives.

"Oh, that's just two years in. Wait untiil you hit seven...-This will be your life, Damon. This will be your hell..." A now human Damon reflects on a memory of his brother, and visions he'd rather forget... (Spoilers for TVD season finale.)

They met on a cold December night.Fell in love the very next day. She was to be with him forever and theirs was to be the most epic love story. But as fast as it arrived, it disappeared; leaving a trail of pain and broken hearts behind. Now, on another cold night they meet again and they can't help but wonder if their love can be enough to keep them afloat this time.

After spending 9 years in the Army, willingly isolated from home Damon Salvatore returns to Mystic Falls to see Elena Gilbert, his brother's girlfriend and his first love. What he finds is a battered and broken Elena and he'll do everything in his power to make it right. Can he help her and overcome his own demons or are they both too damaged to take a chance on each other? AH/AU

DELENA GREEK GOD AU ("Can you even imagine yourself in paradise? Even the daughters of gods must know loneliness, must sometimes want nothing more than to be trapped in a hell of forevers. Thank me, you queen. I've given you forever." - Clementine von Radics) A daughter of Aphrodite makes a deal with the son of Hades, and must deal with the consequences of its fallout.

Damon and Elena navigate the joys and sorrows of a new relationship while fending off unpredictable attacks from terrifying supernatural enemies. But when they're confronted with the shadows of Damon's past and messy moral dilemmas, will they be able to build a life together that they can be proud of? A whole new version of Season 5 without the heartbreaking events of the finale.

Elena is the only child of a Mob Boss and Damon is the unlucky lackey tasked with watching over her and she certainly doesn't make it easy for him. When secrets about the past bring them closer together, things start to get bloody.

"This life will be good and beautiful but not without heartbreak. In death comes peace, but pain is the cost of living. Like love, it's how we know we're alive." – Elena Gilbert ***HAPPY BIRTHDAY Short on words***

You're not dreaming. I'm back. At least for one story. It's Christmas in Mystic Falls. Not everything is going smoothly, though. Elena arrives back in town to celebrate Ric and Jenna's 10th wedding anniversary, and she meets someone she was not planning to see.

'Get your ass out the door before I throw you over my shoulder & carry you out myself.' Damon, 29, needs to pick up a drunk Elena, 18, as a favor to his father's business partner & nothing will ever be the same again. 'She'd never even crossed his mind - until that day.' AN: M-RATED FOR A REASON. AU/AH. AGE DIFFERENCE.

In less than twenty-four hours Damon Salvatore will be saying 'I do' to the love of his life. It's something worth celebrating but it's a difficult thing to do when he's still haunted by the loss of his brother. Finding himself not in the mood to partake in a bachelor party he ventures off to the Salvatore crypt to have a conversation with his brother.

A dangerous street racing circuit. A bloody fighting ring. A secret drug cartel. And Valhalla, the underground of the underground. This is what awaits a pair of former lovers who are thrown back into life in the fast lane when an old enemy makes a threat against a family member. Feelings emerge, secrets are revealed, and drama ensues. Ready. Set. Go. Delena AU/AH

When Damon and Elena finally meet again after a troublesome break-up years earlier, they soon discover that a lot has changed in life for both of them. A quest for love, happiness and a home… AH

Set after 1x14; Grams didn't die but wasn't able to hold onto the spell for much time so now both Damon and Elena are stuck inside the tomb were Katherine was supposed to be. Will the time alone with Damon change something for Elena? Will she be able to see beyond the monster than he is and take a chance on him or go back to the safeness that is Stefan?

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

ONB Post Finale Part 8. Damon takes Elena away for a romantic Christmas holiday to Dunham Lake. The fires glowing, the lights are twinkling, the snow is falling. He wants it to be just perfect for her; a time to reconnect after the busyness of life with jobs and responsibilities. They want nothing but peace and relaxation, but life might have other plans...

She's tired of watching him leave. He should stay out of her life, but he needs her too much. When he shows up at her doorstep on Christmas Eve, they realize they're stuck in a pattern of give and take that neither one is strong enough to break. A DE holiday AU one-shot.

You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.

Elena Gilbert, mafia princess madly in love with her brother's friend meets Damon Salvatore, ruthless mobster with a thirst for power. The result is nothing less than chaotic…for he will not give up and she will not surrender.

Post-S8 (most of it anyway ;) It's Damon & Elena's 9th Christmas together as humans, and when two Santas come to town, it may just be high time to start believing in miracles. Damon/Elena, their kids (!), Bonnie, and two other characters you might know. One-Shot. Merry Christmas!

Damon Salvatore lives and breathes darkness. However with his reckless ways he finds himself landing in the hospital being treated by Doctor Elena Gilbert. What happens when a person surrounded by darkness encounters someone with light? Damon is about to find out.

When a catastrophic accident leaves him unable to distinguish real from make believe, Damon is thrust into a world that he doesn't understand, his only solace being a mysterious brown-haired girl. Summoning a strength she didn't know she had, Elena vows to find Damon because he not only left her, he also left a part of himself behind.

It's the first Thanksgiving without his brother and Damon isn't having an easy time getting into the holiday spirit.

Dancing with heartbreak is the strangest thing. It's like playing with fire, you know you'll get burnt but you are still captivated by the flickering flame and the magnetic heart.

It's Halloween, and the bash at Damon's bar is in full swing. The only thing missing is Elena, and when she arrives, something's . . . different. She treats Damon to a surprise that leads to one of the most memorable nights of his life. A canon-esque DE one-shot, set post-series finale.

"Because when people see good, they expect good... and I don't want to have to live up to anyone's expectations." Tonight Elena makes a choice. 3x19 remake. No Jeremy interruptions.

There's a reason I've got a list as long as it is, full of people wanting and waiting for me to put my hands on them. It's because of this talent o' mine that I've got the love of my life. She's the reason I exist, my reason for breathing. Salvatore, Ink: my tattoo shop. Rated M. AH. AU. DE.

Elena's awake but everything has changed. Damon is being controlled by something evil and no one has any idea on how to save him, including her. Plus, Kai may have had one more trick up his sleeve when he cast the Sleeping Beauty spell and no one expected it. (Post Season 7; Continued AU)

For NTSB Investigator, Damon Salvatore, the case of Flight 1042 was open and shut. Or so he thought until he finds himself staring at the business end of a loaded weapon and the big brown eyes of the woman wielding it.

Elena has her life all mapped out, but after disappointing news, she's forced to take in the mysterious Damon Salvatore as a roommate. Can the arrangement work? Sure. As long as she can accept his past, embrace his demons and maintain a firm grip on her heart. AU. AH.

Damon Salvatore is a nightclub owner in San Francisco's famed Barbary Coast. When Elena Gilbert returns home after spending the last ten years attending boarding school in New York, Damon finds himself falling hard and fast much to the chagrin of his best friend, Fr. Brady Gilbert.

Drawn together and not pulling away. A little piece set after 8x16 because I am not ready to say goodbye yet and I needed my Delena fix.

*This story has been removed. Thank you for all of your amazing reviews! I'm keeping it alive here, as it may make a return one day! For now, find it as a bit of a re-worked original fiction on Wattpad! Follow me on Twitter @KCColson1983 for chapter updates.

Takes place after the finale and is basically a collection of short stories showing important moments in Damon and Elena's life. Namely Elena waking up, a proposal, a wedding, kids and a couple of little in between moments.

Elena meets Damon Salvatore and falls in love. But she doesn't discover his secret until the day he bites her, turning her into what he is. A werewolf. As the only female to ever survive the transition, Elena must deal with the betrayal of the only person she's ever loved, and find her place among her new Pack. Without losing herself in the process. (Bitten Insp. series)

She was a good girl, raised for a quiet conventional life. He came from a different world, he was a tough guy with a big heart. The only thing they did wrong was to fall in love.

It's time again for Mystic Falls annual Founders Day celebration. As both a member of the town council and the founding families, Damon has no choice but to attend. But with Elena having to pull a shift in ED and their children having their own plans for the day, Damon is left to go to the Ball by himself... that is until Elena comes up with the perfect solution. Post 8x16.

SPOILERS! Collection of one-shots following DE's human life together. The finale left a lot of blanks. I'm going to attempt to fill them in. Enjoy!

He's torn between feeling joy and despair. Joy, because of the life has returned back into his life. Despair, because he's mourning the loss of his brother. It's overwhelming and what's even worse is this time there is no switch. He can't turn it off, he has to feel and he feels everything.

You can't convince me that anyone other than Damon Salvatore carried Elena from the boiler room and laid her on their bed to wait until she woke up.

Reworking of 6x18; or how I would've done it…

Horse breeder Damon Salvatore's main concern is making money and selling horses. Local Veterinarian, Elena Gilbert tends to his horses but doesn't like him very much. When his childhood best friend, his horse Duchess becomes ill, Elena sees a side of Damon that she had no idea even existed.

1956-57 :: Elena is a popular senior. Damon is a greaser obsessed with her. He aggressively tries to corrupt her. What will she do?

The hurt and betrayal made Damon close his heart, forcing him to live his life in black and white. Until Elena came out of nowhere filling his days with Technicolor, she wasn't looking for love and he didn't want to find it but a wise man once said that It's not a crime to love what you can't explain.

DE STORY FOR HOLIDAY 2016: Damon meets his old lover in the grocery store. The snow was falling close to Christmas Eve. He stood behind her in the frozen foods and touched her on the sleeve. What happens when high school sweethearts meet again, years after ending their romance?

Two strangers both miss their respective trains and are stranded at the station on Christmas. The only option is to wait until morning and Damon and Elena decide to make the best of it. Written for the A2A Holiday Exchange. Prompt by sauriemilia.

DE Christmas Oneshot. Damon spends Christmas Eve with Elena, but not exactly in a conventional way. Slight AU. Written for the Delena Fandom Award on Twitter.

Even after all these years, she still finds herself here when Christmas comes around.

Elena just wants to forget. She moved away for college, and is trying to make a life for herself, when her roommate invites her to her family's ranch for a summer that could change Elena's life. Damon Salvatore is a flirt. But the only girl he's ever really loved is the daughter he's fighting for custody of. Then his sister brings home a friend for summer and everything changes.

For Elena Gilbert life couldn't be more perfect. She has the perfect life, perfect boyfriend, and headed towards the perfect dream job. Everything is going, well, perfectly. There's just one catch… her twin sister Katherine. When Katherine disrupts Elena's perfect life, she runs away to New York. It was the perfect plan… until she has to return home. Based on a Carosel Production.

Damon Salvatore thought he'd never have to see Elena Gilbert again. He was wrong. AU. AH.

"Five years from now where do you see yourself? "Easy with you" fate is being kind to Damon Salvatore for once as it grants him the five year prophesy of the love of his life waking. With this being the final season of Vampire Diaries I wanted to write something deserving of the ending that Damon and Elena should be given.

Sometimes Damon manages to break through, and when he does, his thoughts inevitably turn to her. Tonight's no different. A season 8-centric one-shot. D/E

My gift for the DE Christmas Exchange Prompt: Prompt: Damon and Elena are married, on the verge of divorce. They leave to go home a few days before Christmas. They have car trouble in a tiny remote town surrounded by mountains. Christmas magic commences.

A one-shot continuation of CHAS. Damon's claimed Elena's heart, her last name, her future. This is the only part of her he hasn't claimed. And she wants him to. READ WARNING.

Darkness has taken over and corrupted Damon Salvatore from the inside and out but perhaps a Sleeping Beauty who has woke up earlier than expected can shed light to scare the darkness away. Damon and Elena have always survived every bump in the road but will they survive this?

Sequel of Hymn for the Broken! Following the events of the Mutt Uprising, the Pack faces a new challenge, their previous Alpha, Giuseppe Salvatore. He wants Elena, as the only female werewolf, to bring the species to a new era, and wont stop until he has her. Will the Pack be able to find him before he finds her? And what if they discover more secrets to their world along the way?

"They say falling is the first thing an angel truly feels." Lovers on opposite sides in a celestial war have to find balance, if they hope to survive each other.

Though darkness had clouded him light would find him. Go through Damon's journey during desiccation and see who he reunites with along the way. This is for all those faithful Damon and Elena fans out there and remember we're going to survive this because it'll clear up.

Ssn 7 / Elena isn't waking up anytime soon, and Damon's world is crumbling in the interim. With Stefan on the run, Damon can't find a reason to hang around, waiting for Elena to wake up. Step 1: Clean up Mystic Falls. Step 2: Enroll in Advanced Time Passage via Coffin Sleeping. But when Bonnie interrupts his killing spree by delivering a present, Damon's plans get all but shredded.

Sequel to "Wait for Me to Come Home." DE, post-TVD 5x22/TO 1x22. Elena's dangerous plan to save Damon and Bonnie finally succeeded, but she discovers the cost of their rescue is higher than she'd imagined. When her actions incur Klaus's wrath, he summons her to New Orleans to clean up the mess she made. Can she make it right before her loved ones' lives are once more at risk?

It's funny how those memories they last...Is the first love really the deepest? A decade after her departure Elena Gilbert returns to Mystic Falls to relieve the best years of her life. They say there's nothing like first love and Damon Salvatore is certainly not an easy man to forget.

Elena and Damon have been friends with benefits on and off for several years. What happens when one of them wants more and it's too late?

Chased out of Texas by scandal, Coach Damon Salvatore finds himself the head coach of a small high school on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, reunited with his brother and facing an uphill battle with the school's embattled football team. There is also the fiery English teacher, Elena Gilbert. There is no playbook for this. Adult themes. AH/AU.

AU Elena is a novelty. The only female werewolf to ever exist. She tries to stray away from the past, that turned her into a monster, but a string of grisly murders threaten, and she is called back home. Once reconnected with the Pack, and an old flame, Elena finds herself torn between two worlds. The normal life she'd made for herself, and the call of the wolf inside.

"Damon?" She asked. He looked at her, waiting. She took a shaky breath, "Do you believe in angels?" "No," he said, "Not anymore." . . AH/AU: Two children with tragic pasts meet at a refuge. Hurt and alone, they clinge to each other to survive. This is their story, and everyone involved along the way.

Screw decking the halls, singing off key carols and trimming the tree. While everyone else is embracing the holiday spirit Damon Salvatore is creating as much distance from it as possible. Forced to spend his first Christmas without Elena proves to be more difficult than he had prepared himself for. Christmas miracles don't exist or do they?

Elena's request was simple. Participate in Whitmore's 'Sexy Santa' contest by stripping your clothes in front of horny housewives. Damon's in. But if he's tumbling down this pit of embarrassment, he's dragging her along with him. Written for the A2A Holiday Exchange.

His love for her was never the problem. AU. Rated M for some frisky fun with our favorite couple.

She calls it the summer of her life. It's the one that changed his.

"That escalated quickly." "Whose fault is that?" I ask, feeling one of my eyebrows raise in challenge. "You're the one who decided to fuck in a boat." We all know about the famous DE-rain kiss, but what about the moments before, and the moments after? Rated M for DE sexy time and language.

Takes place sixty years give or take later. After Elena slowly starts to get back to real life Damon presents her with his journal telling her to read his entries because they aren't just words. They're a look into his heart. Mainly based from the 7x04 episode 'I Cary Your Heart with Me'

Elena's absence is felt each second of every day Damon Salvatore carries her with him. Around others he wears a mask. Nodding off what he's really feeling through snark and dry humor but in reality he's lost just wishing to be found again. Journey with Damon as he tries to live his life without his life.

We've heard the story from Elena's and Stefan's point of view but now it's time to hear the story told by Damon. This will be a multi chapter focusing on the Vampire Diaries series told by Damon so that it gives viewers the chance to see things from his side and understand why he is the way he is. For now we'll keep this rated T but don't worry it will hit that M level

The night Damon Salvatore met Elena Gilbert changed the course of their destinies forever. But just as the future made itself known, the past caught up with them to destroy it all. Together on the run, Damon finds himself falling for this girl. Hard. But, Damon Salvatore doesn't love and he won't let her change that. No matter how much his soul...his body begs him to give in.

Missing scenes from Season 2, 3 4, 5 and 6. Surely they ran out of time, or they would have made these official. Season 3 begins with Chapter 23, Season 4 begins with Chapter 45, Season 5 begins with Chapter 69, Season 6 begins with Chapter 81. The last chapter begins during or after the most recent episode...

This is set mid-Season 3 with an original plot that departs from canon. Damon has a new plan to kill Klaus. Elena's trying to win Elijah over to their side, get Stefan back on animal blood and figure out her growing feelings for Damon. Romance, action, angst, steam, something for everyone!

"Settle down with me, cover me up, cuddle me in" this is a one shot based on the closing scene between Damon and Elena in 4x07. This is what the scene probably would have looked like if on HBO and the best part? You don't have to hear Stefan and Caroline'd dreadful voice over. I suggest you have ice cubes at the ready...

Damon is a NASCAR driver with a troubled past and present. Elena is the former love of his life. Both find themselves back in Mystic Falls and employed by Salvatore Racing. With a mountain of baggage between them, including a carefully guarded secret, it's only a matter of time before they have the "Big One." AU/AH; Damon; Elena

This is based on a newly discovered Damon and Elena deleted scene in 6x22. It's basically Damon in Elena's hospital room and trying to process the fact that he's losing the love of his life. This is a very short one shot based solely on this scene but tears still might shed.

Sixty years to a vampire should be nothing but when it comes to the love of your life being ripped from you it might as well be forever. 22,278 days that's how long he had been kept away from his twin flame and now its finally time for her to come home. Morvamp and Eldestsalvatore joined forces to deliver this pain, enjoy...

AU In the 1500's, they met and fell in love, despite her engagement to another. But he had power greater than she'd ever seen, and he wanted her. They were burned at the stake for that love. In present day, he watches her. She doesn't remember him or the love they shared. But time is runing out, and their past is catching up. Will love be enough to save them this time?

After Elena's death, she's forced to make a choice she never wanted. That's when she learned she needed to die before her life could really begin. (AU from the season 3 finale.)

What will the future hold for Elena once she wakes up? And how has the past treated our characters while she was sleeping? But more importantly, how has Damon been coping with her absence? My take on what a series finale should look like.

This takes place during I'll Wed You in The Golden Summertime only instead of getting a flash-forward of Damon and Elena finishing in the hayloft you'll be able to get to see the scenes that led up to it. Depending on reviews I might be willing to do another chapter because we all know they didn't just do it once...

Damon is a man who's been burned. Katherine is a woman who gets what she wants. When her twin Elena shows up on her doorstep, she hatches a plan to have Elena help her get the brother she really wants back in her bed. Only Damon falls for Elena instead!

This is told in Damon's POV for 1x11 "Bloodlines" in this you'll get the real reason for why Damon had decided to "kidnap" Elena and take her with him on his road trip to Georgia, you'll see everything through Damon's eyes.

Damon and Elena have forever, but does that come at a cost Damon's not willing to pay?

"She wants humanity. She wants it with me."

After Elena's death, she's forced to make a choice she never wanted. That's when she learned she needed to die before her life could really begin. AU - TVDS3 - present Sneak peek! For full version, please follow this link. /s/11189184/1/Half-life

Based loosely on 5x18 a re-vamped version of it. Elena's picture perfect life isn't as perfect as she makes it out to be. There had been a time where she thought her life had been mapped out for her, and she accepted it, but the night Damon Salvatore entered her life, her entire world shifted along with the matters of her heart.

Sixteen years ago, Damon left Elena to chase his music. Now he's back in Mystic Falls, and she's terrified. Damon is thrilled to see his former love...until he finds out about the guy in her life. A fifteen year old, with blue eyes and black hair. He decides he wants to be there for his son, for Elena...but she wants him to choose: Family or Fame. Will he be able to let go?

A journey between Elena and Damon set in the spaces among and between seasons 4 and 5 and continues on from there. No sire bond, no hunt for the cure. Touches on many issues that I feel have been skimmed over in the show and I personally needed to work through. COMPLETE

Damon and Elena meet at a wedding, which ends hotter than anyone would have thought.

Elena is a human slave in a town full of vampires.. But her owner, Caroline treats her well. Until she is forced to sell Elena to the new Governor, Damon Salvatore. Elena's life turns upside down, into a world of fear and force. But she soon realizes that there is more to this frightening man. And she's driven to melt his heart of ice. To remove the shackles that chain them

Things have been calm in Mystic Falls for years. Damon and Elena have been peacefully raising their family in the town where they both grew up. But this is Mystic Falls. Things can change quickly…and never for the better. Sequel to "Bittersweet." (Not canon compliant)

Elena's found a way to restore her memories, has gotten everything she's lost back, and decides she'll reveal this to Damon on Christmas Eve. Written for the A2A Holiday Exchange. Prompt by ThisIs MyEscape.

Oneshot. (possibly more.) Post 5x22 Elenas been having a difficult time dealing with the loss of Damon. What happens when 1 single dream changes everything.

Damon is killed in the future, and Elena is sent back in time to save him. When she finds herself in a past where Damon does not love her, and she has to fight for him and against an unexpected opponent to try and beat fate, she realizes she may have gotten more than she bargained for.

AU/AH / If Damon Salvatore believes in one thing, it's second chances. And fun. And the word "yes." Okay, so three things. But when asked if he wants to go rock climbing, skydiving, mountain biking, the answer is unequivocally in the affirmative. But dealing with his control-freak tyrant of a boss, Elena Gilbert? That proves to be far more difficult than anyone planned. / Delena

Damon Salvatore is a fast-talking, womanizing sports agent, living big in New York City and leaving his childhood in Mystic Falls far behind him. When he returns home for his father's funeral, he meets Elena Gilbert, a fiery brunette who gets under his skin. Between her and facing his past, returning to Mystic Falls may change his life. AU/AH

In the middle of nowhere, standing on timeworn wooden planks, under soaring meteors and falling rain, they surrender their future. Knowing full well that neither really had a choice in the matter. This was how they were always designed to be.

AU/AH/ Damon Salvatore's life is going nowhere fast, unless he's racing to his next stop as a pizza delivery driver. But when the cute brunette he delivers to every Friday night applies for a job as a CSR, reality is quick to take hold. Can Damon justify following his heart towards a girl that is off limits? And if he does, where exactly is it going to take him in the end? / Delena

Elena left after Damon's death, unable to cope. But something calls her home...Rated M for now, cuz my mind is known to get steamy

Damon and Elena come home from a night out to enjoy what they really want: each other. They've been together for a year and are more in love than ever, but tonight turns out to be very different than any other they've shared. A fluffy, smutty two-shot that picks up where the epilogue of the AU/AH story, River Deep, Ocean Wide left off, with a surprise twist. AU/AH, Delena.

Loving someone too much is the best problem to have. Expanded Damon POV: my take on the night of 5x16 and the way the morning after should have gone. The Delena Redemption arc, in one act. Delena, Deremy. Rated M for language and mature content. Please Read and Review!

Sometimes words only lead us astray. Damon and Elena seek their own truth in this steamy continuation of the final scene from 5x16 "While You Were Sleeping." One-shot. Lemon.

Sequel To Blinded / After the blindfold comes off, what comes next for Damon and Elena? Should they stay in Mystic Falls and face the judgment of her friends and family, or is there someplace they can go to finally learn what it means to really be together? And more importantly, where they are free to love one another, with hearts and eyes wide open. / DELENA / AU Ssn 3

AU/AH/ 'You're different, not the guy I used to know' -Maybe you never really knew me- 'Yes I did'. She knew the depths of his soul, loved and accepted every part of him. Now he's lost and he doesn't think she can find him and she's not sure she wants to.

Damon, a carefree soldier & Elena, a no-nonsense physical therapist at an Army base met under ordinary circumstances. Stuck between attraction and resistance, they struggled to define their relationship until fate made the decision for them. 4 years later a heartbroken Elena battles to make good on a promise when she discovers nothing but the shell of the only man she's ever loved.

She's a piano-playing graduate student who's writing a historical novel. He's the new professor in the History department who has gone out of his way to avoid music since he was a boy. A story about choice, transformation, and the people who inspire others to do both.

Sequel to Mirrors and Broken Things. Much has happened since the memorial, and time changes everything. So now that the end has come for Stefan and Elena, will the door finally be open for Damon to be with the one he's waited for? A walk thru of episode 4x07 My Brother's Keeper. Canon for the scenes in the episode, non canon for what happened when the camera stopped. Delena.

Set Season 4, sometime before the prom episode. Elena is living at the Boarding House and can't sleep. She finds Damon downstairs and attempts to seduce him, Damon takes the opportunity to show her how she's loved. First Fic, M for a reason. One shot, complete. Plz review. No Beta.

Post 3.22 - Elena grapples with who she is as a vampire, struggling for control as she tries to find herself and accept who she loves - spoiler: it's Damon! while friends and enemies grapple with their own choices in this new world. Damon/Elena, Stefan/Caroline, Matt/Rebekah, Stefan/Rebekah, Jeremy/Bonnie, Klaus/Caroline

Post SSN2! Damon and Elena continue to search for Stefan, but they quickly realize he's a lost cause. While they struggle to fight their feelings for each other obstacles like doppelgangers, Originals, hybrids and the return of Stefan always seem to threaten their new and undefined relationship. Can Delena overcome anything or is their new found connection doomed from the start?

My version of early S4. Of course there's angst, but that's part of what makes it fun.

When Stefan leaves Elena alone on Christmas Eve, Damon decides to takes her somewhere he hopes will lift her spirits. AU.

Elena chooses herself. Clean breaks are a myth, though, especially when you're both going to live forever.

Sequel to Hot Mess, which should really be read first but essentially, Elena and Damon hooked up in the woods in his car. And now here's Damon's POV, and there's skinny-dipping, water frolicking, and the boy has some questions. Because he's Damon. Adult.

Elena's established rules and guidelines for her relationships. She knows how to stay emotionally detached and when to cut the cord. But then she meets Damon, who could potentially change everything. AU. AH.

Elena's plans don't always work out the way she expects.

What if those two scenes we saw aren't the only ones Damon compelled Elena to forget?

Damon takes Elena on a road trip to keep her safe from Klaus, but when they're finally alone, can she continue to justify her fidelity to Stefan? Picks up after 3x18.

Damon tells Elena that he knows exactly what she looks like naked because he dated her doppelganger. Little does he know that Elena has a unique birthmark located in an intimate location...

Spoilers thru 2:22-As I Lay Dying. "If I had chosen differently, I never would have met you." Elena chose to kiss Damon. Stefan chose human blood. Katherine chose redemption. Damon chose to confess. These choices change everything. D/E, S/K.

Post Klaus. What happens now?

AU after 2x22: "I'll always look for a reason to stay and fight, whether it be with you or for you."

They start criss-crossing the country in search of Stefan, but somewhere along the way, they end up looking for something else: the love that will set them both free. D/E, on a road trip to salvation. 10-parter.

An expert on the dynamics between men and women, Damon Salvatore knows his uptight new publicist could use his help getting a date. The only problem is, the more time he spends with her, the more he realizes he doesn't want her dating anyone but him!

AU after 2x22: I continued stroking her hair whilst staring at the moon from my bed. I fell asleep to the steady rhythm of Elena's heartbeat and I realized it had become my favourite melody.

"She was supposed to live a normal, happy, human life complete with the white picket fence. She wasn't supposed to destroy herself." Set in the future, Elena is now in her twenties living a hollow existence. Damon finds her. Smut warning!

When Elena asks Damon Salvatore for a loan, he agrees on the condition that she marries him. What happens when she finds herself falling in love with a man who has told her he will never love her? AU. All human.

Stefan never moved to town. Damon returns to Mystic Falls after Zack's death to take care of the boarding house and is stunned when he sees Elena for the first time. A Delena story, of course

Sequel to Falling In Love the Hard Way. Damon and Elena are finally together. They never realized how difficult it would be to stay together when everyone around them wants them apart.

A series of late night encounters between Damon and Elena finds them growing closer and Elena has to fight her growing attraction to the other Salvatore brother. First chapter is set during the ride home from Atlanta.

This takes place during the epi "Bloodlines" It is my take on what could have happened on Damon and Elena's road trip. **Smut Warning**