My story picks up after the Founder's Day events with my own version of what could happen. I'm also changing how the Salvatore brothers first transformed into vampires, but this will be revealed later on. It will begin as Stefan & Elena but will lead to Damon & Elena. Reviews are always welcome :)

Chapter One

Opening her eyes, Elena welcomed the warm sunlight shining through her window as it covered her body like a blanket. Stretching in her bed, she pulled back the covers before rising to her feet. The moment she glanced at her mirror, she remembered what had happened two nights ago. She was kissing her boyfriend Stefan and when things began growing more passionate, his face had twisted in a way she had never seen before. He had leapt away in fear of hurting her and had run out of her bedroom without another word.

Walking to her window, she gazed out at the peaceful morning before sighing. Her parents had died last year and she and her younger brother Jeremy had moved in with their aunt Jenna. If anyone would have told her six months ago that vampires existed and she would be dating one, Elena would have booked that person a session with a psychiatrist. But the truth was that vampires did exist and she was dating one of them.

Thinking back, she realized how much simpler life had been before the Salvatore brothers had entered her life. But as she made this realization, a small smile covered her lips as she couldn't imagine how her life would have been without them.

Stefan, her mind sang his name.

He was the younger of the two brothers and the one who owned her heart. When she had first laid eyes on him, she could sense his sadness from miles away. Aside from having good looks, the sadness she saw in him was something that mirrored her own and she instantly felt drawn towards him. It didn't take long before they fell in love and he eventually revealed to her that secret that most of the world remained oblivious to: the existence of vampires.

She had been afraid at first, but her fears drifted away every time Stefan kissed her. Like his brother, he was one hundred and forty-five years old but unlike his brother, he only drank the blood of animals. Stefan felt the only way he would receive salvation was to make amends for any wrong deeds he had done at the beginning of his birth as a vampire. He refused human blood and tried his hardest to live a moral life, again unlike his brother.

Damon, she said with a shake of her head.

Damon was the eldest of the two Salvatore brothers and had been transformed at the same time as Stefan. The significant difference between them was that Damon gave into his wants and desires as a vampire while Stefan tried his hardest to shy away from them. He was everything a vampire was supposed to be and much more. He had incredibly good looks and could charm anything remotely female, but in Elena's own words weeks ago, he was a 'self-serving psychopath with no redeemable qualities'. He was dangerous and cunning and looked out for no one but himself.

But as time went by, Elena found herself developing an unusual friendship with him. His every word oozed with sarcasm and he drank human blood whenever he wanted, but something in his eyes made Elena feel differently. Stefan had given her a vervain necklace months ago to protect her from being compelled by Damon or any other vampire, but as the weeks passed, she started trusting Damon despite everyone's warnings. When Damon wasn't bored by or uninterested in her miniscule human problems, he allowed parts of his humanity to slip through the cracks for Elena to see.

As her relationship with Stefan continued and her unusual friendship with Damon grew, Elena discovered another secret that rocked her to her very core: she was adopted and her birth mother was killed by Damon. Any and all feelings of closeness that she had felt for him disappeared by that revelation. He had eventually explained that her birth mother, Isobel, had asked Damon to transform her into a vampire and he had granted her wish. He had even stayed with her for a few weeks before growing bored and leaving her to fend for herself.

Standing at the window, the clutter of thoughts she had were jumbled in her mind. Whenever she wrote in her diary, her thoughts came out in a proper order but her mind was a different story. Thinking back, she remembered the day Stefan explained to her how he and Damon had been transformed. As humans, both brothers had fallen in love with a beautiful woman named Katherine who was completely identical to Elena in her physical appearance. Both loved her and both refused to share her. She had given them her blood to drink and they did so without protest. When the town became aware of the existence of vampires, the townspeople went on a rampage and collected each and every one. Thinking that their beloved Katherine had been killed, the brothers dueled and eventually killed one another. Due to Katherine's blood flowing through their veins, they awoke hours later as vampires.

Damon loved Katherine more, that much Elena was certain of. When he finally managed to open the tomb in the heart of Mystic Falls, he was torn to see that Katherine was missing. Standing there in the middle of the forest, seeing Damon completely heartbroken, Elena had begun to feel for him again. With Stefan watching in the background, she had pulled him into a tight embrace and was saddened when his arms remained limp at his sides. He had eventually pulled away and drowned himself in alcohol for the next week. Things changed when Elena revealed that he had killed her mother. Despite his explanation of the truth, she kept her distance from him, unsure if she could ever trust him again. When Stefan was kidnapped by the vampires who had escaped from the tomb, she went to Damon for help and he wordlessly agreed. They managed to save Stefan in time, but not before he drank blood from Elena's wrist to regain his strength. That's when everything went wrong.

Two nights ago, unable to control his newfound thirst for blood, Stefan had frightened Elena before disappearing into the night. She was incredibly worried for him even though he swore that everything was fine. At the Founder's Day Event last night, Stefan began acting differently and she was forced to ask Damon for help once more.

What surprised Elena was that the moment which stood out to her most from last night didn't involve Stefan. The memorable moment didn't involve Stefan acting differently, Stefan almost breaking a man's hand or even their declaration of love for one another in her bedroom at the end of the night. No, the memory she kept replaying in her mind was when she had sat next to Damon at the bar and he had revealed that Jeremy was asking the Sheriff about Vicky's death. She pled with him to let her handle Jeremy on her own and as he was about to leave, he removed a single red rose from a bouquet on his left and offered it to her.

Groaning loudly at the thought, Elena ran a hand through her smooth hair. In the midst of everything happening with Stefan and the continuous danger around them, why did she only remember the rose Damon had given her? Why did she lay awake all night remembering the softness in Damon's eyes rather than the sudden change in Stefan's behavior? One hundred and forty-five years ago, the Salvatore brothers were caught in a love triangle with Katherine. Flash-forward to the present and Elena realized that her situation was starting to feel the same.