My own version of what happened after the season 2 finale. Damon and Elena grow closer as they struggle to rescue Stefan from Klaus as well as unravel why freak accidents keep endangering Elena. Will Elena find the courage to follow her heart, or will she be too afraid to risk everything for a once in a lifetime love? As always, much sexiness and profanity. DELENA

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

Elena Gilbert has a secret identity-she's the writer behind the town paper's popular "Dear Miss Lonely Love" advice column. Some of the letters she receives stand out more than others. One makes her suspicious a girl she knows might be being abused and Elena's determined to get to the bottom of it. Another, from a guy with a broken heart, begins a unique correspondence. AU/AH

REPOSTED. Kindle Worlds rights reverted back. While cleaning up after a mess Matt and Jeremy made, Elena discovers secret compartment under the couch. Thanks to a Gilbert device, she's now back in the 1860's-Wait, what? D/E and S/K. Post S4/E9. Time travel fic, but I felt the need to add my own twist. Co-Written with Taaroko.

"You were in the wrong place at the wrong time. If you don't stick with me, you're dead." She stared into his blue orbs, her heart beating 10 times faster than it should. "How am I supposed to trust you? How do i know you're not one of the bad guys?" She asked in a shaky voice. "You're just going to have to take my word for it." He said before turning and heading into the alleyway

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.

Princess Elena Gilbert is head over heels for Prince and Knight Stefan Salvatore. Just when they decide to tie the knot, his older brother and heir to the throne of Mystic Falls, Damon Salvatore ,shows up, bringing nothing but trouble. Elena's whole life will change when she is forced to marry Damon instead of Stefan. Will their marriage survive once she learns his dark secrets? AU

**THIS STORY HAS BEEN REMOVED TO PURSUE AS AN ORIGINAL FICTION***

Five years ago, I left everything behind. My family. My hometown. Him. I stayed away and vowed to start over, but I'm catapulted back in a heartbeat by the only thing on earth that could bring me home - the possibility of really losing him forever. **THIS STORY HAS BEEN REMOVED AND CONVERTED TO AN ORIGINAL STORY**

*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.

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.

You fall in love, get married, fall in love again, get your heart broken. What if it got broken by a heart surgeon that never came back to fix it? Damon/ Elena - AU/AH

AU, plotty ensemble fic with slow burn Damon/Elena. On the night that Elena meets Damon, her cell phone dies before she can call home for a ride. Their conversation is never interrupted by her parents' arrival, Elena and her parents are never in a car that goes off Wickery Bridge, and Stefan never has to save Elena from drowning. Enjoy and review! (And then go read Part II.)

Elena Gilbert's life changes in a single second. Damon Salvatore's life hasn't changed in five years. Two very different people from two very different backgrounds slowly start to realize that they have a lot more in common than they should. DE.

My own version of season 4 focused on Damon and Elena. No sire bond, no cure, just death magic, zombies, and a villain based on my favorite villain from season 6 (bet you can't guess who ;) ). This story is a reflection of my forever Delena/Klaroline heart. Warning: my Damon isn't soft and fluffy. :) Lots of profanity and sexiness.

Post-6x22. It's been five years of living in dreams, but when even dreams are in danger of disappearing forever, it's time to start fighting for reality to come back. Damon/Elena and the Ensemble.

Story written for the Damon and Elena holiday exchange hosted on LiveJournal by the ever amazing badboysarebest. Prompt: Damon and Elena are on their way to a ski cabin or other type of holiday destination when Damon's car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. How ever will they stay warm? ;) by Lilianegrouse

Elena and Damon have reached an impasse in their relationship. Travel back and forth through their relationship during the holiday season to see how their relationship developed and what happened. One shot holiday fic, told in third person, primarily from Damon's point of view.

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

I thought I had it all: great job, great best friend, great family; but everyone says that, don't they? No one ever wants to talk about how lonely take-away for one and an empty apartment is because who wants to be THAT girl. Certainly not me. Of course, I never wanted to be the lovesick idiot either. I guess we don't always get what we want. Elena POV. AU/AH.

*SEQUEL TO: INTO THE MYSTIC* It's been 5 months since Damon flipped the switch on his humanity and disappeared from Mystic Falls without a trace, leaving a newly turned Elena to try and pick up the pieces without him. Will he find his way back to her and more importantly...will he find his way back to himself?

Sequel to Cannonball - Finally free from the clutches of Mystic Falls and their rivaling families, Damon and Elena are home free. Their love and loyalty to each other is stronger than ever, however they will soon learn that being on the run isn't all that easy. DE.

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

Ten years ago, a group of young men, all traitors of their totalitarian government, banded together to create an unregulated communal living system. But as time passes, the desire for female companionship coaxes the abduction of girls from the strict city. Soon enough, sheltered Elena struggles against the blue-eyed man, who displays to her the importance of freedom and defiance.

It's 1898. Elena lives a dispirited life as the Princess of Bulgaria. One day, she meets Count Damon de la Salvador, who changes her entire world. AU. Adult Content.

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?

AU / Elena Gilbert has never been afraid of fighting, but this time she finds herself in the position of having to fight for the salvation of an entire species. When she accepts a job to get close to Klaus, king of the supernatural community, she doesn't immagine that a man with an unimaginable secret will manage to shock her to her soul. A man with sky blue eyes.

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.

In the distant future/AU. "Sometimes they send one another postcards. Glossy tourist attractions on one side not withstanding, this is how they know where the other is. Of course, you can only say so much on a postcard. There is protection against saying too much." They were together & happy. Now they are apart. Is it possible to find one another again?

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?

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!

Elena Gilbert has just landed a major contract as the event planner for a successful consulting firm. Enjoying the fruits of her labor, she is introduced to the VP of marketing who just returned from working internationally...and who just happens to be the man she hoped to never see again. What happens when Elena runs into Damon after 10 years? AU

1864 :: Elena is the new girl in Mystic Falls. She is the Gilbert heir. Uncle John is planning her arranged marriage to Stefan. How awful! Damon loves her, but she hates him. Will Elena give him a chance? - COMPLETE -

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.

My favorite one shot I wrote last year, Re Published into a mini short story. Damon, a notorious War Lord captured the lovely, innocent Elena as part of his war games but things are not as simple as he'd thought. Set in medieval times.

AU. AH. Elena Gilbert and Damon Salvatore are juniors at Mystic Falls High School and they have been best friends and partners in crime for as long as they can remember. When Elena needs Damon to pose as her boyfriend things start heating up between them, but complications arise when you're dealing with such emotionally damaged people. Is it worth risking a friendship for love?

AU/AH-Damon Salvatore has always been fiercely protective over his sister, Elena, but things turn complicated when romantic feelings begin to develop. The odds are stacked against them, particularly when Elena becomes betrothed to Elijah, a duke. The Salvatore family is wracked with secrets, the biggest one threatening to tear them all apart: Elena's true lineage. Taboo/Angst/Humor

AU/AH /Life is wonderfully uncomplicated for Damon Salvatore. Take accident claims as a call center rep by day, charm his way into a new bed each night. Go to work, drink with friends, sex. Simple and straightforward and fun. Until a coworker, Elena Gilbert, makes him question whether some things are worth changing for. But is he the only one who needs to let go of a previous life?

She's a haunted literary agent in NYC and he's a successful therapist who has closed himself off from life, but she sneaks past all his defenses. A story about facing your fears, and having the courage to overcome your past and make the future you want. AU/AH, Delena, Steroline, Jalaric

AU/AH They meet, say goodbye and hope that fate will bring them back together. M-rated for a reason.

They called him crazy, insane even. People feared him and avoided him at any cost, even in the asylum. So what is Dr. Elena Gilbert supposed to do when she not only takes this insane monster as a patient, but falls in love with him, and him with her?

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.

The Gilbert's and the Salvatore's are two families in a small town who hate each other, one family good working on the right side of the law, the other bad and playing on the wrong. The hatred slips down the generations, including the youngest ones, Damon, Stefan, Elena and Jeremy. But it has been said that there is a fine line between love and hate. DE. AU AH

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.

Damon and Elena's life together was perfect, was supposed to always be perfect. Until it wasn't. Elena discovers picking up the pieces is a lot harder than she ever thought it could be. AU/AH.

Elena has a long and complicated history with both of the Salvatore brothers. Along the way she learns that sometimes you don't always end up with the person you're supposed to be with. Can everything be corrected before tragedy hits? A/H

She has been running for 5 years when his summons arrive. Forced back to the estate she fled from she finds herself trapped with him. A possessive, controlling man who haunts her thoughts, traps her there with a secret purpose. Her freedom gone again she in turn begins to unravel what it meant when he saved her life all those years ago. Short chapters updated a few times a wk.

AU/AH. Elena is happily engaged, but has trouble sleeping alone when her fiancé is working his night shifts at the hospital. Damon offers her his help and they agree on a deal that changes both of their lives forever.

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.

The weak and vulnerable should avoid the dog-eat-dog entertainment industry at all costs. So then why didn't Damon and Elena? A story of attachment, flirtation, passion, and love that proves: "All things truly wicked start from innocence."

Elena Gilbert has been in love with her best friend Damon Salvatore for years, but when he asks her to help him win back the woman of his dreams, Elena decides she's had enough. Now Elena wants to move on, but Damon's not making it easy on her. AU/AH

After all is said and done Damon is about to leave, but decides to say goodbye to Elena before he does. It doesn't really go as he thought it would.

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?

Elena Gilbert loves Stefan Salvatore. No, really, she does! Sure, she's been having more and more late night encounters with his devilish handsome brother Damon and there have been a few kisses and touches, but it's not like they mean anything. Right?

Elena stumbles upon vampire Damon in the 19th century. She becomes enthralled by him and his explanation on the sexy nature of vampire bites.

Elena Gilbert, 23, is a 'how to' journalist at a top fashion magazine. But what will happen when she has to write an article on how to change a womaniser into a one-woman man? Even more importantly, what will she do when the man she has to change is Damon Salvatore, 27, the renowned and successful businessman? One thing's for sure, sparks will fly. AU/AH

Elena Gilbert, desperate for money and a writing job, finds herself faced with the greatest opportunity of her young life. The only downside: she'd be working for Damon Salvatore.

Elena has worked for Damon for five years, they complete each other in ways no one else can. But will either of them be brave enough to fight for the love they deserve? AH/AU

What if Elena got into a car accident and woke up with no memory of the last four years? As she learns to cope with her amnesia she has to also cope with her new life... it was certainly not what she expected. Canon until 1x15. Delena fic.

The past four years have built up to the moment that will define everything for Damon and Elena. When reality comes crashing down around them, they find themselves looking back on the past and trying to decide where to go from here. AU. AH.

The Vampire Diaries meets the Tudors : ... Elena comes into her birthright as Queen but is faced with the many responsibilities and consequences as she is forced to choose a husband...

Elena Gilbert is a medical intern, fresh out of college. Along with her two best friends she must now work her way through her intern year under the watchful eye of her superior, Dr Damon Salvatore; who is less than impressed with his new intern. AU/AH

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

Elena is the constant woman in Damon Salvatore's life, but she's never the only woman.

Some loose ends should be burned. Sequel to Self-Inflicted Wounds

NOW COMPLETED - A heartbreaking tale of love, loss and everything in between. Damon & Elena shared an intense connection from the moment they met, and she ended up pregnant after just one passionate night together. Damon, now engaged to be married to Kat has to make a choice; to please his father or to follow his heart. HUMOR/ANGST/ROMANCE/DRAMA/MYSTERY. FULL SUMMARY INSIDE

Enter Elena Gilbert, 24, hardworking, lovely, and insatiably in love with her long time best friend, Damon Salvatore. Can she make him see that they belong together? Delena. AH/AU.

After a breakdown following her parents death, Elena meets a doctor that saves her from the darkness of her despair. A year after her breakdown they are thrown back together in a most unusual way and Elena finally meets the man behind the mask and falls into a world of passion, lust, and a love that consumes them both. Will update 9/20 due to personal emergency, thanks!

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.

Damon and Elena are heartbroken after the loves of their lives are married, will they be able to mend each other? AH/AU 1864 Rated M for later chapters

When Elena shows up on Damon's doorstep dressed like Katherine, he sees right through her curls and smirks but decides to play along. What's her game? How far will she go to keep the illusion alive?

Set 4 years after Elena & Damon get together. Vampire/human relationships can have some big drawbacks. At age 22, Elena has just graduated from college and is unsure about what she wants for her future. Damon just wants her choices to include him. Life altering decisions & sudden new developments arise. Can they navigate these complications together? Or will they fall apart?

"Is it so hard for you to believe someone would choose you?" "Hasn't happened yet." "Challenge accepted, Damon." Can Elena convince him he's the one she wants, body, mind, and soul?

As Elena walks out the door she looks back on her life and what she is leaving behind. Can her memories help her find the strength to finally stop running and turn to the only person whose ever always stood by her? DELENA/AU/AH/Major Lemons! Will update 9/20-21 due to personal emergency, thanks!

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.

Grieving the sudden death of their parents, Damon and Elena are forced to face their past choices and mistakes. Take a wild a journey through 20 years of their lives...together, apart and everything in between.

Damon Salvatore, Hollywood's highest paid actor, is reluctantly cast alongside an unknown daytime actress, the fetching Elena Gilbert, in a major motion picture. He is not pleased.

Best friends Damon and Elena haven't seen each other in three years after a falling out. What happens when they reconnect? AU

1800s, AU Elena Gilbert is ready to start an incredible life with her fiance Stefan. But as the wedding approaches, the secrets begin to pile up. Most intriguing is the mysterious elder brother, Damon, who seems to forever be complicating every situation.

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...

Stefan has returned, but things have not been the same between him and Elena. Elena turns to Damon for help and ends up falling deep into a world of obsession and control that overtakes her. Season 3ish, Major naughtiness ahead:

Preparing for her wedding to Stefan Salvatore, Elena Gilbert still feels the loss of someone who died 5 years ago. But is he really gone?

Mystic Falls organises another event: a dance competition! Elena is desperately in need of a dance partner... When Stefan refuses, will Damon oblige? Be warned for slowburn and a T-rating that occasionally comes dangerously close to the edge...

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.

o/s for the DEEX. Prompt from Lauren - Damon has been away from town after Elena and Stefan got back together but now he's coming home for Christmas.

Elena is ready to get her own life started now that she has finished raising her younger brother. But, will she be able to impress her sexy, but scary, new boss? More to the point, does she want to? AU/AH.

"I believe in fate more than the average person. We will run into each other again because we are meant to be. I just know it." AU/AH

Elena doesn't know about vampires yet and has never heard of the Salvatore brothers. Damon encounters Elena thinking she is Katherine and soon becomes obsessed. Dark Themes - violence, abuse and graphic sexual scenarios

What if Elena and Katherine were both alive in 1864? What if they were twins? Which Salvatore brother would take interest in which twin? AU. All human. Changed rating to M just to be safe.

When the unthinkable happens, it's never the thing you expected. It's the thing you never even thought you should be afraid of. - Damon/Elena deals with Stefan/Elena Post 2x22 Fic. Rated M for language, violence, and adult stuff in later chapters.

When Stefan is sent away on official business, he is forced to leave Elena in the hands of his king...

"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!

Damon takes Elena on his little road trip to Georgia. Elena, distraught over her resemblence to Katherine, decides to let loose with surprising consequences. Canon through "Bloodlines." Follows most of the show plot with Damon-ic twists...

This fic takes place after my fic 'Aftershocks' if you haven't read that-you need to before reading this It's set during the epis of 'Unpleasant-ville' 'Children of the Damned' and 'Fool me Once'. As always with my fics there is a major *SMUT WARNING*

Feeling vulnerable, Elena complains to the Salvatore brothers that she wants to be more than just bait. Their subsequent actions leave her gasping for breath. There is some adult content and strong language. Complete.

AU. Fairytale-style. Outside Mystic Falls lies a castle. It is rumored to house a heartless beast. Elena Gilbert, in an attempt to save her brother, comes face to face with this beast. Can she teach him to love again?

One night, Elena finds herself alone in the boarding house...a night Elena will never remember and one that Damon will never forget.

This is set During and After episode 1x21 ISOBEL/1x22 Founder's Day - D/E :Lemons: -COMPLETE- ***SEQUEL COMING SOON!***

It all begins when Elena runs into Damon Salvatore on her way to the annual Founders Gala. And she isn't wearing her vervain necklace. **WARNING** Lemons. Lots and lots of lemons. Be Warned.