Disclaimer: I do not own the vampire diaries or any of the characters but the plot is mine.

Chapter 1

Elena's POV

I strolled into to my room in defeat, cursing that Damon Salvatore was born. I grabbed my duffel bag that was under my king sized bed and trudged into my walk in closet to gather my stuff for the month of hell, I didn't want to bring that much clothes due to the fact that Katherine was offering to share her clothes with me.

Once I was done, I went to take a quick shower and then get changed, before all of this happened I was having a nice jog in the park; I decided to wear something comfy but casual so I wore my black leggings with a plain black shirt and then put a blue checkered shirt on top to finish it off I wore my blue vans. I brushed out my hair while double checking my luggage, everything was done in time.

I had to call my boss to let her know I have to take some time off work but it could also be my way out if she says no so I grabbed my phone and called her,

"Hello."

"Hi Claire its Elena, could I please have a Month off it's because my sister is getting married and she asked me to be the maid of honour?" I crossed my fingers hoping she would say no but her reply was,

"Sure, you've been working really hard here at The Sun. All the articles you have written made a good reputation for this newspaper and I thank you very much. You have become a good journalist."

"Thank you Claire, I'll make sure to contact you if there are any more problems." I said in a strained voice.

"Okay, Elena I have to go now, I'm super busy see you soon!" and then she ended the call.

Next I called a taxi so that I could leave my car here during my stay in Mystic Falls, after that I called my landlord explaining my situation and telling her I left then rent for this month on the table, and then asking if she could check the house from time to time so that she could water my plants. She agreed which I'm very thankful for and told the old lady to have a nice day which I'm not having.

I looked at the messages and saw that Katherine sent me a message saying to check my email and print my ticket out so I took out my laptop and got the details and connected it to my printer and started printing it out.

Then the person who was driving the taxi called saying he was downstairs. Once I got everything and everything was tidy I took my stuff and went out the door and put all of the stuff into the boot of the taxi and we made our way to the airport.

Once I checked in and made my way to the gate, I noticed 4 familiar faces standing in line. They were Mikaelson family, who consists of Kol, Rebeckah, Klaus and Elijah. I shivered thinking about them when we were all in high school; they were Damon's "groupie" well only three of them were Kol, Rebekah and Klaus. I hated them.

Elijah on the other hand was the nice one he didn't want any confrontation and me and him actually became best friends in the end. I made my way in the line behind them hoping none of them see me; I wasn't ready to face the past yet. I was fine for the few 10 minutes until Katherine rang. I should've turned off my phone. I had to answer it curse you Katherine.

"Hi Katherine," suddenly I was very interested looking at the floor

"Elena where are you?" she said in a motherly tone

"Don't worry, I'm lining up at the gate. I'll be in mystic falls roughly around 8 hours." Oh shit, I hope the Mikaelson's didn't hear me, I am so going to kill Katherine. From the corner of my eyes I saw one body turn to face me.

"Okay, that's good, by the way you might see the Mikaelson's there, Damon chose Klaus and Kol to be his best Man while I chose Rebekah to be one of my bridesmaids and I think Elijah's there because he doesn't want to be separated from his family."

No shit,Sherlock. My days get better and better isn't it? "That's nice, who's going to pick me up from the airport?" I said hoping she didn't notice the lie in the first part.

"Me and Damon's going to pick you up, we're getting ready."

What did I do to deserve this? "That's great, can't wait to see you guys." I said trying to sound positive.

"Can't wait to see you too, love you sis." And then she ended the call.

What's up with people ending the call before I say goodbye? I put my phone on Airplane mode. And placed it in my pockets when I looked ahead I came face to face with Elijah. Is he angry at me?Elijah was the first one to talk,

"Hello 'Lena, I haven't seen you in a long time, 7 years wasn't it?" he said in his cute British accent

"Hi Eli, yeah time flies by..." I smiled at the nicknames we gave each other back in the day. The next thing I knew I was squashed in Elijah's hug, I hugged him back; I miss being around my best friend, It's been so long.

"I missed you; Damon shouldn't have done what he did all those years ago" he said sincerely

"I missed you too, what's done is done and we can't change what happened." I replied

"I guess so, but you didn't deserve that." He whispered

"It's called karma, I deserved all of that" I said most to myself

"No you didn't 'Lena," before he could finish his sentence his brother Klaus interrupted.

"Well would you look at that, it's Elena! Look Rebekah, Kol."

All of the siblings were turned towards me. Elijah let out a groan and let go of me so he could stand next to me protectively. They all stared at me up and down, I knew they were already judging me by their looks, I mean it was 7 years ago since we saw each other, I've grown up.

"Hello Elena, I haven't seen you around Mystic Falls in a long time." She said in her annoying voice

"Yeah, I left to finish my studies here in London" I said uncomfortably

"I read some of your articles from The Sun, really interesting but I could've done better" says Klaus

They were really getting on my nerves. "I bet you could" I said dryly and forced a smile

"What Elena, you're not fighting back? Are pigs flying?" says the youngest of the Mikaelson's

"Nope but I see a pig right in front of me, in fact he's talk to me right now." I shot back.

I saw the Mikaelson's let out a satisfying grin. I rolled my eyes and saw the line getting shorter; it was time to get on the plane. I walked off in front of all of them, Elijah trailing behind me, but not before hearing Klaus say,

"And that there is the Elena Gilbert we all used to hate."

A/N: Thank you for the people who favourited/followed this story so far.

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I know in the ln the prologue I said I would write in why Elena hates Damon but it didn't seem right, to me I thought that it would seem rushed but In the next chapter I'm definitely writing in the history. I'm probably going to update today so keep an eye out for it.

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