"A Moment In Time"

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Fandom(s): Vampire Diaries
Character(s): Elena Gilbert (with appearances by the Salvatore brothers)
Pairing: Stefan/Elena with Damon/Elena thoughts

Rating: T
Words: 555 words

Requested By: none
Challenge/Summary: What if Elena had her shower at the boarding house instead of at home…what would her new hearing pick up?
Inspiration: Damon's confession during his talk with Stefan had me wondering and I got this out of it.

Spoiler(s): everything up to ep. 4x05 ("The Killer")
Time Frame: During Elena's shower at the end of the episode (before she hallucinates).

A/N: Additional comments at the end to avoid spoilers.

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"Tearful Shower"

Elena stood frozen under the running water as she washed the blood from her body. She had made her first kill that day yet that wasn't what was running through her mind at the moment. She couldn't stop thinking about what she overheard a few minutes ago.

Elena was about to get into the guest bedroom's shower (she didn't want to risk Jeremy seeing her covered in blood) when she went back to retrieve her forgotten pile of clean clothes. Only then was she able to hear the Salvatores clearly with help from her new hearing and what she heard shocked her.

It wasn't the mere thought that Stefan had been keeping the cure a secret from her or that she had singled-handily destroyed her chances of gaining that cure by killing Connor, it was the reasons why the brothers wanted the cure that shocked her.

"Why do you want a cure?" She heard Damon ask Stefan from the guest bedroom. They were both currently in Stefan's attic bedroom.

"What kind of question is that?" She heard Stefan ask with an incredulous tone.

"A legitimate one. Do you want a cure because she's a vampire and she's not cut out to be one or is it that you can't love her because she is one?" Damon's words caused Elena to flinch but she didn't make a sound. She wanted to hear the answer because deep down she knew that Stefan would tell Damon the truth, especially when it came to a serious topic such as this.

Stefan sighed. "I'll always love her. She's not supposed to be this person…I don't want her to be." Her boyfriend confessed and it took every restraint Elena had to keep her gasp inside her. All she could think in that moment was that Stefan, despite his support since her transition, didn't like who she had become. It was alright for Elena to not like who she has become since her transition but Stefan was supposed to love her no matter what.

Before Elena could succumb even further into her spiraling thoughts, Damon's voice brought her back to the brothers' conversation. "Well if I'm riding this fairy tale to its conclusion, then let me be clear about one thing."

"What's that?" Stefan asked as Elena held her breath in.

"I'm fine with her either way brother, so if I do this, I'm doing it for you." Damon declared to Stefan before he walked out of the room.

When Elena had heard Damon's footsteps she had sped to the shower and jumped right in. The brothers would never know that she was eavesdropping on them as the water had been running the whole time; it would be easy for them to assume that she was under the spray during their conversation. Yet she wasn't and Elena had heard everything.

She heard how her boyfriend couldn't accept who she had become since her transition while the brother that she rejected confessed that he would love her no matter what because to him it didn't matter that she was human or vampire. It seemed like while both brothers loved her when she was human, only one of them would love her as a vampire.

And on some level, that thought disturbed her which only led Elena to shed more tears in the shower.

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A/N #1: And there you have it...I hope you liked it. I actually got an epiphany while writing this when it came to Stefan/Elena. Do you remember when Stefan stated that being Elena made him feel human...well I think that now that she's a vampire, that's not the case anymore and it's getting harder for Stefan to stay away from his former ripper lifestyle. Also for Damon, Elena (human or vampire) is still the same girl he had fell in love with. What do you think?

A/N #2: Thank you to everyone who took the time to read my latest snippet/challenge on Vampire Diaries, it means the world to me! I do hope to hear more of your thoughts on my snippets or on the situations I bring up in them. Reviews always bring a smile to my face! A special thanks to Enx2103, booboobegone, Tinyflyer02, Hieiko and Ghostwriter for leaving me a review for my previous snippet...once again, thank you for always leaving your thoughts for me to read and respond to. THANK YOU!

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Originally Published: November 10, 2012