Fresh from a talk with her grandmother, Elena faces a troubling assignment: she must go to a tiny Georgia town to dig into an old murder case. Dogged by ghosts of the past and with the help of a small town sheriff, she must unravel the psychological puzzle if she wants to get the story - and identify the real killer.

It's the summer of 1944. With both America and their parents at war, Damon and Elena try to steal a few moments to be together. When the circus arrives for a performance in Hartford, what promises to be an exciting day soon becomes one of terror and mayhem and what will it hold for Damon and Elena?

"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I hope to give you forever" *Delena Christmas 2018*

Old adversaries reunite when a long missing person's body turns up on her property. Raw passion ignites, haunting memories return and suspicion burns white hot... And which one will claim victory the deadly game of cat and mouse that ensues?

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

"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***

He liked her; it was as simple as that.

July 1916 is a time of record heat, a polio epidemic, and a World War raging in Europe. But beach-goers in New Jersey are threatened by an even greater terror: a shark that has suddenly developed a taste for human flesh. Join Damon and Elena on this journey to the past...

Damon Salvatore's plan is simple: hop on his Harley & experience life. The grit. The heat. The passion of the Sturgis motorcycle rally. For two life-changing weeks every August he returns to a certain doe-eyed bartender. Faced with the prospect of losing her forever, can Damon get past his fear of abandonment and let Elena take her place in his heart?

One moment the air is calm; the next the sky explodes in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunge as an unprecedented cold front rips through the plains. When the storm poses a very real threat to their lives, it's up to Miss Gilbert to get the children to safety, the reclusive and enigmatic Mr. Salvatore being their only option.

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

This is written for FAITH2727. It's based on her prompt for the LJ DELENA A2A Exchange: It's up to Elena to choose the perfect tree for this year's Gilbert family Christmas, so she heads to the best place in Mystic Falls-the Salvatores' tree farm. FULL PROMPT INSIDE.

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

On a train bound for Mystic Falls, Elena meets Damon, a soldier on leave for the holidays. The pair are attracted to each other and in the warm atmosphere of the Christmas season friendship blossoms into romance. But with each having secrets... will their pasts deny them a future, one that may or may not come?

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.

While busy preparing for Christmas Eve, Damon and Elena's constant bickering lands them in big trouble with Santa... Suddenly they find themselves thrust into the biggest adventure of their lives.

When Elena's skating partner suffers a career ending injury, her coach encourages her to take a chance with a brilliant but undisciplined skater. Following a rather ugly fall from grace, figure skater Damon Salvatore is given one last chance to prove to the world that he's more than a flash in the pan.

Will you be there beside me if the world falls apart? And will all of our moments remain in your heart? Will you be there to guide me all the way through? I wonder will you walk by my side and follow my dreams? With the Nazi reign of terror at its zenith, Damon and Elena form an unlikely friendship in WW2 era Czechoslovakia.

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.

An all-swallowing wave, not unlike a surf comber on a beach, was rushing up the boat deck, enveloping passengers, boats, and everything that lay in its path. A mass wail rose from those it engulfed. "All the despair, terror and anguish of hundreds of souls passing into eternity composed that awful cry."

Damon thought the worst thing he'd ever have to endure was Elena's sudden disappearance. Little did he realize that her kidnapping was only the opening salvo in the nightmare that was to follow.

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.