Disclaimer: I own nothing of the Vampire Diaries which includes both the book and T.V. series. Only L.J. smith owns the character's and anything affiliated with the Vampire Diaries series. I merely am writing a fanfiction plot I came up with and any made up character's that aren't affiliated with Vampire Diaries.
Summary: Elena left Mystic Fall's out of fear of becoming like Katherine and tearing the Salvatores apart as soon as she notices she is developing more then friendly feelings for the older Salvatore. Time passes and she comes back with new people will both or one Salvatore return. What happens when they do return? How will Elena deal with them now that she's a vampire?
Author's Note: There will be new links for some of the clothing she's worn placed on my profile...So if you want you can go look at them.
Elena felt a strange sensation under the depths of her sleepy state.
The sensation grew stronger every moment and she had to say it was also irritating her. Couldn't she just get a moment of peace and sleep that's all she asked at the moment.
It stopped after a moment and then she drifted back down into the sleepy depths until she began to float back into consciousness when she felt a windy breeze of air descend onto what she assumed was her face.
After a moment it stopped.
Just as she was about to completely fall back asleep she heard a yelp which jolted her awake.
Elena opened one eye and then another slowly, darkness filling the room as she shifted in her bed.
Her heightened eyesight began adjusting to the darkness, everything becoming sharper and clearer with every passing minute. From the darkness she could make out a strange almost human like form and then she spotted another blurring and wrestling with this other shadow form. While the two shadow forms wrestled with each other it looked as if they were merging slightly.
She let herself listen in to the sounds around her room and made out grunts and gasps of pain and snarling. She heard sounds like thumps and impacts of something against stone.
What the hell?
A howl filled the room and a hiss that sounded like shushing accompanied it.
She tensed in the silence as she heard the sounds cease and only the ticking of the clock sounded.
After what felt like five minutes she heard the grunts and growling again.
Determined to find out what was going on in her room she quickly reached over to the lamp placed on her right night table and switched it on.
Her eyes quickly adjusted to the slight luminescence caused by one of her lamps. She turned to look and saw Zephyr and Asher wrestling on the floor.
Elena rolled her eyes and grabbed the book she had left on her right night table when she was unpacking yesterday.
She quickly threw the book at them and it hit the both of them with a satisfying thump.
Elena felt the edges of her lips turn up in an almost smile as she heard another yelp and saw that it came from Asher who was currently put into a headlock by Zephyr who also was currently crouching his knees, bent slightly.
She crossed her arms and gave them both a long look accompanied by a sigh.
"Do you two have any idea what time it is?" She raised an eyebrow at their blank expressionless faces.
"Um…." Asher trailed off.
She raised her brow again telling them she was awaiting an explanation at their frozen positions.
"Well?"
"…Well I woke up early so I decided to stay awake and then I heard Zeph wake up so I ran into his room…" Asher paused to scratch his head.
He continued. "I was feeling really energetic so I suggested that we should jog around the block…so we did and it didn't really help burn off my energy since I just ended up feeling pumped with adrenaline." Asher grinned a toothy grin and Zephyr rolled his eyes.
"He and I agreed on play fighting but quietly since we didn't want to wake you up. However somehow we ended up here…" Asher began pushing himself away from Zephyr but he only tightened his hold in the headlock.
"Wait…did you guys jog around the block in what you're wearing now? Zephyr was wearing a black stretch cotton vest by Boss Orange with matching black slouchy jersey lounge pants by Calvin Klein. His hair was messed from sleep, play fighting and jogging.
Asher wore a Boss Black soft v-neck t-shirt which was a gray colour the sleeves were practically non existent and the shirt was paired off with black cotton stretch shorts by Tommy Hilfiger. His hair was also messed up like Zephyr's.
"Yea? So…why what's wrong with what we're wearing? We wore shoes if that's what your talking about…" Elena shook her head at their obliviousness.
"Uh no, what you're wearing…if any girls had seen you running around they would have gotten massive nosebleeds or fainted." Realization donned on Asher's face and Zephyr rolled his eyes again as Asher shrugged.
Zephyr met Elena's gaze. "By the way we didn't mean to wake you I was telling the dimwit here to be quiet but he didn't listen obviously." Zephyr smacked his head but with gentleness and playfulness put behind the action. Asher pouted looking like a boy whose candy had been taken away from and eaten by some other kid.
"Hey I was trying to! Really was hitting my head necessary?"
"I have to say…yes…yes it was…I'm the one who has you in a headlock here, so zip it." Asher's brows furrowed and he actually put force into his push as a playful look appeared on his face. Zephyr flew and stopped himself from hitting the wall but ended up stumbling for a second.
Asher blurred and threw a punch aiming for Zephyr face however Zephyr ducked and ran around him. He flipped him around and before he hit the floor Asher's hands flew out and he roundhouse kicked Zephyr who dodged the hit.
Asher tackled Zephyr and they began wrestling again.
Elena sighed and ran into the bathroom and spotted the washing basin and the water jug. She filled icy cold water into the water jug and ran out to her room.
She stood over the two unsuspecting boys who were wrestling and she heard snarling, growling and grunting. She smiled to herself as she tipped the water jug and cold water splashed over their heads.
Asher yelped and sputtered and Zephyr looked shocked as if someone had slapped him awake.
When she stopped they both shivered and Asher glanced up at her with puppy eyes as he pouted. "What the…That was so mean!"
Elena raised an eyebrow. "You're the ones who decided to fight…go play fight somewhere else because your going to end up breaking something then I'll have to give you the punishment of eating animal blood for two weeks or maybe double that."
Asher shivered. "Now clean this mess up and then you can go play fight somewhere like maybe outside like wild animals…just anywhere but in here. Or near my room" Asher grinned as merriness danced in his eyes and he nodded.
Zephyr and Asher disappeared and then reappeared with a mass of paper towels. She walked into the bathroom and put the water jug down on the table.
Elena walked outside and saw them furiously sopping up the puddle of water on the floor their moments fast as only a vampire's could be.
Asher bounced up and Zephyr scrunched up the paper towels. Just as Asher left the room with Zephyr behind them then she could hear proof of their play fighting sound through out the house and then the sounds melted into the outside.
Good they took my advice.
She drew the curtains and cracked the window open a little.
Elena made her bed and then walked into the bathroom. She walked into the glass shower and switched the water on turning it up to a heat slightly warmer than typical lukewarm.
She was finished washing her hair and body in about three minutes. Elena let the warmth cascade onto her body for another three minutes and then turned off the water and pushed back the shower curtain as she opened the shower door.
Swiftly she grabbed the lilac colored towel, dried herself and then wrapped it around her body.
She brushed her wet hair swiftly and then refilled the water jug with the very warm clear liquid. Elena poured some hot water into the basin, grabbed both the lavender and mint oils and poured a few drops of each into the water. She grabbed a matching lilac soft cotton face cloth and dipped the face cloth into the basin.
She applied her special herbal face wash that consisted of Rose and Thyme and Green Tea. Images of flowers were carved into the red glass bottle's surface. As the liquid landed onto the face cloth it was a red rose color.
She scrubbed her face gently with it and the feeling of being soothed, relaxed and refreshed entered her.
When she was done she disposed of the water and let the water wash out the face wash product from the face cloth. Elena brushed her teeth and walked to her dresser and grabbed random matching undergarments from one of the drawers.
She walked over to her closet and pulled out a bright red rose beaded corsage top and stone washed beach shorts that reached to her knees. She grabbed her electric blue purse and then she pulled out black flats with shimmery sparkles sprinkled over it and a red bow placed just a few inches before her toes.
Elena closed her closet and then walked to her dresser where she replaced her Ray Bans with a pair of over sized, Vivienne Westwood sunglasses in Trans red that had smoke to clear lenses that were also square framed. She plucked a tube of NARS lip gloss in babe chrome color.
She even donned a red sparkly bead necklace that held many strands of red sparkly beds in the one necklace and she finally finished off her outfit with red glass daisy earrings and a red headband.
Elena searched for her purple Nike sackpack she wanted to use for gym class.
After a few minutes of searching she found it and grabbed clothes she deemed suitable for gym class and stuffed it into the bag. Elena walked over to her dresser one last time and sprayed perfume on her then grabbed a grapefruit and apricot body mist and stuffed it next to the metal water bottle which had a forest inspired theme imprinted onto the metal's surface.
She shut off her lamp and grabbed her book on the way out.
As soon as she closed the room she stuffed the book in her hand in her purse along with everything else in her bag.
Elena just taking the step downstairs at human speed felt a cool breeze pick up and play with her hair as it whipped past.
She recognized the scent of cologne that whooshed through the air and smiled.
Elena walked into the kitchen and peered into the fridge seeing blood packets upon blood packets, she plucked one and fed from it then disposed of it. She closed the fridge and walked over to the sink and rifled through her gym bag for her water bottle. As soon as it was free she filled it up and screwed the lid back on and threw it back into the bag. She sensed Zephyr enter the kitchen and she heard the sounds of the fridge and ripping.
"Where's Asher?" She asked as she turned around to see him throw out the bloody packet. She saw he was dressed in a navy blue thin knit sweater, he wore black acid wash jeans with his usual foot wear. She saw a silver wolf pendant hanging on by cord of black leather.
"In his room…My guess is he's still cleaning out the brambles, thorns, leaves, pieces of grass, branches and who knows what out of his hair and the earth caked to him."
"So the play fighting sounds like it was intense." She crossed her arms with an amused smile on her face.
"Oh you can bet it was…fun too!" Asher entered with a childish grin as he ripped open the fridge and fished out a blood packet. His turquoise shirt had at front, black vines etched onto it starting at the bottom and ending at his shoulder. He also wore ripped acid wash jeans in a gray white color. She saw an aquamarine and white beach glass stone necklace around his neck. His usual shoes on as well.
"You know I've been thinking…maybe...we should get a pet or two?" Elena asked still smiling but hopefully this time. Zephyr looked thoughtful and Asher's lips upturned into a smile against the contents of the packet pouring into his mouth.
"We'll see…" Zephyr smiled and Asher grinned, turned around and licked his lips to clean away any traces of blood.
"Well, I'm gonna go for a drive…have some fun before school...so Zephyr hand over the keys!" Zephyr raised an eyebrow and patted his right pocket.
"No way Ash…answer me this first, are you hopped up on sugar?" Zephyr walked over to Asher and looked him in the eyes his own narrowed.
Asher grinned like a little kid. "Nope…now gimme!" Zephyr handed him the keys warily and held onto them for a second. Asher's hand began to tug really hard to get the keys away from his grasp.
As soon as he had them, Asher bounded out the front door and Elena turned to Zephyr. "I think we should go with him just in case." Zephyr nodded and as they got to the front door she spotted Zephyr carrying Asher's and his own bag.
They ran to the car and Elena sat in the back with Zephyr. Asher turned on the car and revved the engine twice as he laughed. Elena shook her head with a smile; Asher could be so silly and childish sometimes.
Music filtered through the speakers again blaring as they ripped down the road. "You know Zeph…I swear if we were humans and Ash drove like this we'd have been caught by now."
Asher seemed to hear this because he turned his head a little to acknowledge her. "Yea, but you don't have to worry if you have super hearing and can use compulsion therefore you could just use compulsion as a last resort." A side of Asher's lips upturned into a smile.
Wind whistled as they drove around town for awhile until they decided to head to school. As soon as they parked they all got out and headed inside. They walked to Elena's locker and Elena stuffed her gym bag into her empty locker and headed to class early.
She grinned at the thought of seeing her younger cousin again. As she entered the class her mood fell when she saw it empty but as she was about to sit down Al came through the door. She smiled again and walked up to him and he turned to face her with confusion on his face.
"Hey there cuz…how's Jenna and Alaric?" Al sighed and plopped down in the swivel chair. "Fine…you know Elena…it sounds weird you calling me 'cuz' during school actually just you calling me cousin in general…I don't know." Elena laughed.
"Just because I'm older than you doesn't mean I can't call you cuz or cousin…you'll get used to it in no time plus I won't call you that in front of your students just with people who know we're sort of related." Elena flashed him a smile. He just shook his head with a smile that made Elena smile.
She turned on her heel and walked over to her seat and plopped down and smiled at the two boys beside her. The bell rang and Elena watched students pile in She glanced at her Lapis Lazuli ring and the conversation with Alaric echoed in her head again. She glanced up and then focused on Alaric.
Elena felt good as she went to gym class in her Nike dri-FIT black and white training shorts and a Nike airborn black sports bra. On top she wore a blue Nike 730 Fly weight graphic tank top. She also wore a pair of blue and white Nike LunarSwift running shoes.
She brought her bag with her and dropped it onto the bench. She saw girls just arrive after her laughing and she decided to make friendly with Corisa and Dawn.
She walked over to them with a big smile.
"Hey there." Dawn smiled up at her sweetly like Caroline did.
"Hey Elena! How's Mystic Fall's been lately?" Corisa looked confused at for a minute but smiled as Elena smiled up at her.
"It's been fine…thanks for asking. Everyone's all friendly." She smiled
She turned to Corsia who seemed unfocused and poked her. "Hey Cora, this is Elena she's in your history…and in my English." Corisa's head snapped.
"You're in my first period history class? I haven't seen you around…that's weird." Elena laughed.
"You sit in front of me. That's okay I would have made conversation but I didn't want initiate a conversation and take the chance of bugging you or whatever." Corisa looked apologetic. "Oh my god, I'm sorry…I've been rude I should have said Hi. I'm Corisa Bennett, I'm Brent Lockwood's fraternal twin sister."
Elena smiled and Corisa smiled back however Ms. Barrett blew her whistle and told all of the girls to sit on the bench.
"I've decided gym class will consist of stretches, hitting the track and another game of soccer." Once again girls groaned at the running part.
Elena began stretching silently beside the two girls who did the same. She copied the stretching methods they used. After they were done stretching they all hit the track as soon as the whistle sounded. Elena tried to match the speed of Corisa and Dawn.
This is so slow…
She wanted to race along the track with the wind in her hair and feel the exhilaration as she surpassed human speed. She wanted to feel the adrenaline pulse through her veins but she was reduced to this slowness at the moment.
Elena was glad when the gym teacher blew the whistle and had them head to the field where ropes were placed as boundary lines of an imaginary soccer net. A soccer ball was placed in the middle of the field.
Ms. Barrett split them up in equal numbers and Elena was placed on the same team as Corisa and Dawn which made her feel at ease.
As the whistle blew and the kick off started Elena used some vampire speed to get the ball but not too much as to make herself suspicious.
She kicked the ball to a girl on her team and raced as she headed over to the line they had to kick the ball over. The ball was passed to her and once again she released a bit of her vampire speed and put strength into her final kick enough force was behind it to fly across the line.
A girl who had been trying to get the ball from her narrowed her eyes and lifted her nose as if she smelled sour grapes. Once again she passed the ball to Dawn who passed it Corisa and then to someone else who passed it to her and the same girl who had upturned her nose stopped in front of her and attempted to steal the soccer ball from her with a cocky smirk playing on her lips.
Elena was too fast for her and glanced out of the corner of her eye as she placed her foot down onto the soccer ball, holding it in place well enough that the kicks she was giving the soccer ball hardly moved it.
Her thoughts swirled around her mind as quickly as only a vampire's could.
She passed it to Corisa who scored.
The game continued on like that and the team Elena was on won much to a few of the players on the rival team's disgust.
The gym teacher whistled which signaled they had time to change.
As Elena went to go change Corisa and Dawn stopped her. "Hey, I wondered if you wanted to have lunch with us? Do you have lunch C?" Corisa asked.
Elena was taken back and nodded. "Yes I do…thank you very much for the invitation I'd love to…is it alright if Asher and Zephyr join me too?" Dawn nodded.
"Alright thank you." Elena smiled. "No problem, you can join us for lunch anytime you know." Corisa seemed very happy.
Elena nodded and grabbed her bag off of the bench and sipped at the water bottle inside of the bag. In no time she was back in her day wear and smelling like apricots and grapefruit and she put her gym bag back into her locker.
She headed to Math and it went like yesterday's class except Brent left her alone and Kyle and her chatted a couple times before class. She went to English class and Zephyr was already there, as soon as he saw her he nodded.
Class passed in a blur and she was happy when she had to go to the last class of the day. As she got to Psychology she gazed out at the window, bored and copied down notes when needed but other than that she wasn't focusing that much on what was going on.
As soon as the bell rang she was out of the room and met Zephyr and Asher. "Ash, Zeph we are going to eat lunch with Bonnie and Caroline's daughters. Is that okay?" She glanced at both of them who simply nodded.
Elena had to say it was strange eating lunch with them because they were so much like their parents and Elena felt as if she was back in the past eating with Caroline, Matt, Bonnie and Tyler.
Elena felt as if she was the best of friends with all of them, they joked, and they laughed and talked. As soon as the bell went though Elena and they two boys left.
When they got home Elena headed to her room and began flipping through a random fashion magazine she had bought while listening to music.
Asher burst through her room and jumped onto her bed with a grin. "What are you up to?" Elena paused the music and tugged out the headphones from her ears.
"I was flipping through a magazine…why?" Asher shrugged.
"'Cause we're going to go jog again, wanna come…? I plan to get ice cream after." Elena shook her head as his eyes lit up at the words ice cream and he wiggled his eyebrows suggestively.
"Fine, just let me change and then we can go." Asher rolled off the bed and landed with a thump. Elena peered over the edge of the bed sprawled out his back.
"…Maybe that wasn't the best idea…" She raised a single brow.
"You think?" Asher just sprung up and raced out of the room.
Within minutes she was back in her gym clothes which were pretty clean still.
She ran downstairs and out the door as she saw Zephyr walk up and lock the door then return to his spot near the car.
They jogged in silence and stopped as they ended up in front of a wooded forest area. "I say we go in!" Asher was practically jumping up in down from excitement.
"Only if you don't end up breaking any trees like last time because you could cause a domino effect and trees upon trees to collapse."Zephyr said sternly.
"Oh lighten up! I can't really make any promises though…" He blurred into the forest and Elena and Zephyr followed him.
Suddenly Zephyr was knocked off his feet and Asher stood grinning over him. "Hey I thought we were just jogging and not play fighting!"
Zephyr stood up and pushed Asher with enough force that he stumbled back.
"Well I changed my mind! This is way too much fun…so we are now!" Asher pounced on Zephyr who sidestepped and Asher almost face planted into the dirt, that is if he hadn't shot out his hands but he had and was currently sprawled out like a cat on all fours.
Asher turned with devious glint in his eye as he tried to pounce on Elena. With an amused expression she avoided his attack and jumped up into the tree and pounced on him. She knocked him to floor and sprung up.
Zephyr appeared behind her and placed his arms around her. Elena retracted her fangs and bit into his right arm, he winced and let go.
She dashed off and jumped up into a tree and didn't stop there, she began to jump from tree to tree.
She noticed the two boys were catching up to her and almost hot on her heels.
She paused feeling suspicious when she realized after awhile that she couldn't hear the boys anymore.
Elena strained her ears to catch any sound.
Suddenly Asher's face appeared upside down but she saw his eyes twinkling. "Got you now Elena."
Her head tilted to the side as he began flailing his arms and shock appeared on his face as he fell and landed with a loud crack.
"I'm okay!" Zephyr appeared and shook his head but then focused on Elena with a smirk.
She raised an eyebrow and went for him.
They propelled through the air and Zephyr hit his back against a tree and began sliding down taking her with him. Zephyr landed on his back with a thump and Elena began to wrestle with him.
Asher joined and they all began wrestling with each other.
Unknowingly they ended up in animal populated area.
She heard a heart beat and she pushed her self out of the wrestling fight they were having. Asher began to throw punches at Zephyr and Zephyr began to try landing punches himself.
Elena noticed the two boys stopped and Asher was staring at something, curious she looked and saw a fox staring up at them with beady black eyes, it's muzzle covered with blood from what she assumed was hunting.
Asher raced to it and with a snapping sound he twisted its neck and retracted his fangs.
As he sunk his fangs into the foxes orange fur he got a disgusted look on his face and dropped the dead fox to the ground a cough escaping his lips. Asher began to spit he stopped to cough in between the spitting.
This made Elena laugh.
"God that is damn awful! Ew…gross…I can't get the taste out of my mouth!"
"Why the hell did you do that anyway…I told you it was gross but again you didn't listen to me." Zephyr crossed his arms and his eyes narrowed.
Elena was distracted as she smelled another scent, on instinct alone she lifted her head and felt her nostrils flare.
What the heck is that scent…
After a moment it clicked she smelled another vampire.
Could it be…no…God no, not now…
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