A/N: Okay, here it goes. This my first Vampire Diaries story, but NOT my first fanfic I have written. I've written fanfics for other fandom before and I'm excited to be finally writing one about one of my favorite show on TV. Feedback would be nice. Also, I really suck at summarizing what this whole story is about to get you to read, but read anyways. =P

Disclaimer: I don't own anything Vampire Diaries related. Period.

Prologue

"The damage is done
The police are coming too slow now
I would have died
I would have loved you all my life"

-Ryan Star

The rain fell heavily from outside and she could hear the pitter platter sound it made against the window. Tears streamed down her face as she stared at the people in front of her; the people who were stopping her from getting to the man who she would love until the end of her time. This couldn't be happening. It just couldn't be happening to her. She had finally found someone who she wanted to love for the rest of life and they were going to take him away from her. It wasn't right. It wasn't fair.

"Where's Damon?" she demanded to know. She knew they had tricked him to come here and now he was nowhere in sight. "Where is he, Bonnie?"

Bonnie shook her head and defiantly held her chin up, "you no longer have to worry about him anymore, Elena. He's being taken care of."

"...what?" Elena shook her head and refused to believe what her Bonnie just said. She was one of her best friend and Elena couldn't understand how she could betray her like this. How could she help them take him away from her? "No...please, Bonnie! Just let me see him. I need to see that he's okay."

"I'm sorry, but I can't allow that. This is the only way we know of to protect you."

"I don't need your protection!" she shouted in frustration. "I don't need John's, Matt's or the Originals'. I just need him, Bonnie. Just give me him, please!"

Bonnie shook her head again. She knew with every fiber of her being that Elena Gilbert and Damon Salvatore didn't belong with one another. Their love was an abomination. Elena was human and she deserved to spend the rest of her life living as a human being with another human being; not someone like Damon. Never. Damon Salvatore was a monster and definitely didn't deserved to roam around in this world. As far as she was concern, he should've died years ago and she couldn't understand what Elena saw in him. He had killed multiple of people since his arrival to town and Bonnie was down with him. She would make sure he stay away from her forever.

"Eventually you'll come to realize that your love for Damon was an illusion," Bonnie calmly stated. "Someday you'll realize that you have been compelled to love him all along. It isn't real, Elena. It never was."

"That's where you're wrong," she defended her relationship. "It was real. He never had to compel me to love him. He didn't need to. I fell in love with him because I saw the real him. He allowed me to see what is underneath the surface of his facade. He's not a monster, Bonnie."

"Stop it, Elena," John stepped in as he heard enough. He didn't want to stand there and listen to Elena go on about her love with the monster who was dying in the next room. She was his daughter and he refused to let her love someone who is not meant to be loved. He had allowed the farce go on long enough and he was going to finally put a stop to it all. "You are seriously deluded if you really think that he loves you, Elena. Damon doesn't love anyone. He can't. He's a monstrosity to this world and love is something that he can't feel. It's all an illusion he had created for you to love him. It's time to let it go. You are my daughter and no daughter of mines is going to be with him. I won't allow it."

"You're not my father!" she shouted as she unsuccessfully tried to stop her tears. She needed to appear to be strong. She had to be strong for him. "My father is dead. My father would've never done this to me. He would've wanted me happy and Damon makes me happy. You would not understand happiness or love if cupid was to shoot you with it because you're nothing but a cold and miserable soul!"

She could feel her whole body shaking in anger, frustration, betrayal and fear. She knew she couldn't win against them, but she wasn't going to go down without a fight. No, Damon had taught her better than that. He always fought for her. Now it was her turn to fight for him and she had been strong so far, but she could feel herself slowly crumbling. She was never as strong as him. A sob escaped her throat as she fell down onto her knees and clutched her broken heart, "Damon..."

"I'm sorry, Elena..." Bonnie unemotionally and unremorsefully apologized as she kneeled down to her level.

"No! Don't be sorry. Just stop it! You can't take him away from me. I need him. Please, Bonnie. I love him. Why can't you see that? He's all I want. Just let me keep him..." Elena choked as she grabbed onto Bonnie's shoulders. "He loves me, Bonnie, just like I love him. I know you can see that. I am begging you, don't do this."

"This has to be done, Elena. It's the only way to save you from him."

"I don't need to be saved from him!"

"He killed Jenna, Elena!" Matt raised his voice as he had heard enough. He had loved her and she had chosen the monster over him. If this was what it takes to take Damon away from Mystic Falls and away from Elena once and for all, he would be part of it. Damon didn't deserve someone like Elena to love him. Never. "He was the reason you were attacked and kidnapped. You almost died, Elena! Not only did he killed Jenna. He turned and killed Vicki. He is a fucking murderer. Jenna, Bonnie's grandma, Abby, Anna and Vicki; they're all dead because of him!"

"This is only for your own good, Elena," Uncle John stepped forward toward her. "You'll thank us later. I promise you."

"No..." Elena sobbed.

"It's time..." Bonnie announced as she turned to Elijah. He nodded his head and stepped forward toward her. Elena shook her head and stepped back in fear. This couldn't be happening. It just couldn't be. She stared at Elijah with her big brown heartbroken eyes and he couldn't help but feel her pain with her. He didn't want to do this, but he didn't have a choice.

"No..." she shook her head. "Please, Elijah..."

God, he wished he had turned off his humanity so he wouldn't feel like this. She would hate him forever and he knew it. This was never how he pictured things would end up like. He was god damn Original and there was absolutely nothing he could do to stop what was about to happen. He didn't understand how everything came down to this. No, that was a lie. He did. Love...that was what happened. His love for Katherine was what brought him here to destroy Elena's love for Damon. Love...such a selfish feeling.

"I am sorry, Elena..." Elijah apologetically said as he took a hold of her chin.

"Damon..." she whispered her lover's name.

He slowly closed his eyes to gather his courage to do what he was about to. As soon as he reopened them, his eyes dilated as he stared into Elena's. "You're going to forget all about Damon Salvatore and the existence of vampires. You've been in an accident and had lost your memories of what had happened in the last 8 months. You will wake up tomorrow and forget everything that has happened since you met Damon Salvatore..."

Elena's eyes blinked once before she fell into a world of darkness.