Title: High School Girls
Chapter: 1/1
Author: ladyknight1512
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries (TV-verse)
Characters: Damon, mentions of Elena and Stefan
Pairing: None, but references to Stefan/Elena
Genre: Angst
Rating: G
Summary: Stefan has failed to consider one minor detail about his girlfriend: her age.
Spoilers: None, but everything up to 2x11 is assumed
Warning(s): None
Word Count: 423
Disclaimer: These characters are the property of L. J. Smith, Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec.
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As much as it pains Damon to admit it sometimes, Stefan is not a complete idiot. Sure, he can be oblivious, but who hasn't been accused of that at least once in their life?
Elena, however, is to be his eternal blind spot.
For example, it would seem that Stefan has failed to consider one minor detail about his girlfriend.
Her age.
Amidst all the supernatural goings on, and constant fighting for their lives, it's easy to overlook. Doesn't help that she's always acting about ten years older than she is either. But none of that changes the fact that Elena is a seventeen year old girl.
And seventeen year old girls? They turn into eighteen year old young women. Eighteen year old young women who leave home, and go off to college, and make something of themselves.
It seems kind of screwed up to Damon, who prefers living in the now, that his little brother, always one to question every action and its consequences, hasn't thought over Elena's future in terms of himself and their relationship.
Clearly, leaving Mystic Falls and going to college is not a possibility for Elena's future: it's a certainty. And obviously there's nothing to stop Stefan following her to wherever she chooses to go.
But, see, Damon has spent a lot of time over the past century and a half with high school girls and college girls, and he knows that when people go to college, they change. They develop wider interests, and meet new people, and all the things they used to have in common with their high school sweethearts dwindles into virtually nothing.
He knows, deep down in the marrow of his bones, that Elena will be one of those girls. How could she not be, when she's obviously so much bigger than this stupid, back-of-nowhere town?
She'll come back for the summers, Damon knows, and she'll check in with him and Stefan, because they're a part of her life and she loves them. But then her summers in Mystic will shorten, in favour of girly road trips through the south, or maybe down the west coast. And when she graduates, she'll move to a big city and get a job and then she'll never come back.
She'll meet a man, get married, have kids. And maybe, one day in the very distant future, she'll remember the Salvatore Brothers, who came into her life, turned it upside down, loved her more than they loved even their own lives.
He hopes she smiles when she does.