Outside Looking In
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Sarah: here's Chapter 3 of Outside Looking In. This chapter starts where people are walking in on Damon and Elena in increasingly 'questionable' positions. This is Jeremy's first chapter. Yes, I know it's short

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Leann Nickerson: and I like writing the inner thoughts of characters I don't usually write about. Also, I say in the opening author note just whose thoughts we're invading in each chapter in all my stories. Yes, last chapter was Caroline. This chapter is Jeremy. Yeah, Caroline is not going to give Elena and Damon a hard time because she sees how happy Elena is with Damon and that's what she wants for her best friend. Here's the update.

: Alaric's thoughts will come eventually, but for now we have Jeremy. Here's the next chapter.

amazing Aisha: I haven't really watched past about the middle of Season 5 so I'm not sure what locket you're talking about. I'm just glad to know that eventually even Caroline accepts what is meant to be. Here's more.

Guest Meghan: yeah, I've noticed that in the end, Caroline always wants what's best for her friends, even if she doesn't understand why her friends make the choices they do. Here's more.

shnicky87: I'll try to dig up muse to make future chapters a bit longer, but I can't make any promises. This chapter is actually Jeremy's first chapter. This whole story is based around everyone on the outside looking in on the Delena relationship and their thoughts about it, though in the end, Damon and Elena will have their own chapters.

Chapter 3
Dude, That's My Sister

Even after knowing for over a year that Elena and I are technically cousins, I still think of her as my older sister. And sure, I may get mad at her over some of the choices she makes, such as having Damon erase my memories of what really happened to Vicki, but I'll always end up forgiving her because she is my sister.

I'll always want what's best for her, even when we're at odds. This is why I never understood why she was with Stefan and not Damon from the beginning. Damon knows how to bring the real Elena back out from wherever my sister tucked her away after our parents died.

Stefan never understood that those flashes of the real Elena are who she was before that night that our parents died and she survived. It's not Damon corrupting her, as Stefan mistakenly assumed time and again. It's who Elena really is. But Stefan never saw it that way, no matter what everyone who's known her our whole lives tells him.

So when I walk into the house one afternoon to find Damon and Elena making out on the kitchen counter, I feel joy mixed with disgust at seeing my sister finally giving into what everyone can see her heart wants. But, still … "Dude! That's my sister! Don't do that in the kitchen!" I yelp as Damon's hand starts to slide under Elena's shirt.

Elena and Damon jerk apart. Damon turns a glare on me. "Kid," he growls. "Run."

I turn and run, though I know I can never outrun Damon. Even as I hear him start counting down from ten as I run, I feel joy that my sister is finally following her heart again. It's about damn time.

Despite giving me a ten second head start, Damon tackles me before I'm halfway across the front lawn. Even as Damon deals retribution for interrupting what he had going on with Elena, I know he would never seriously hurt me intentionally. That would hurt Elena and hurting Elena is the last thing Damon ever wants to do.

Sure, he once snapped my neck, but I quickly understood that Katherine had messed with his head and then Elena had further stomped on his heart. Thankfully, I had been wearing one of the Gilbert rings or Elena might never have forgiven him.

Despite knowing Elena and I are technically cousins, I still think of her as my older sister. And all I want is for my sister to be eternally happy at the side of the man who makes her happiest. And that's Damon.