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: Wow am I sleepy! Finished this pretty early in the morning...I deem it time to rest! By the way the recent episode of the show was...Mon Dieu! So sad and tear worthy. I am on Team everyone if there is even a team on for that I cant chose...(I love each character differently because without them...certain events would not come into existence...they change things.) For Katherine as a character I think she is useful for her role...her actions and behavior make me mad though especially with Episode 6.

Anyways, Short and sweet chapter!

P.S. Watched The Lovely Bones movie...It brought me to tears...it's so sad...=c

P.P.S. I've been reading the Vampire Lestat and have been on that book for awhile, of course these are my mother's Vampire Chronicles and I am reading other books so that explains the delay...AHEM anyways Lestat is such an amazing vampire...=) I like the movies but...having read Interview With A Vampire and not Queen Of The Damned yet I cant say for the second movie...based on two of the books I have read and am reading, I have to say they are better than the movies that are out.

Hope you enjoy the chapter!

Almost forgot: Is it just me or does anyone else notice lines of dialogue are similar to the show's at the rare odd time. Like for example the forest creatures having an intervention against Stefan bit? Meh just wanted to add that. =P

Warmth covered her like a full body sheath, warmth pouring into her from both sides of her. The solid bodies of warmth emitted comforting smells of familiar scents.

She breathed them in as she snuggled and buried her face into the one that was closest to her front.

Twin arms snaked around her and held her loosely close which elicited a sleepy sigh from her.

The sensation of fingers running through her tresses happened upon her it caused her lashes to flutter gently against the skin underneath the lids of her eyes.

She wanted to stay this way forever in this peace, wrapped in this blanket of warmth. Not subjected to the worldly pains and terrors. She was simply content the way she was now and why wouldn't she be?

With every moment ticking by she felt herself surfacing slowing above the darkened sleepy plain of the sleeping land that weakly and seductively tried to beckon her back under the Sandman's hold. It seemed like life was too strong of a force at the moment because the pace in which she was brought through the surface of reality hastened.

Her eyes fluttered open gingerly and quite slowly, a warming satisfaction flushed her body as she shifted pleasantly underneath the sheets.

Her vision was blurred and fogged up like a piece of glass set outside in the cool air and breathed upon. It was hazy but only for the slightest of seconds.

Her vampiric eyes adjusted and sharpened everything as her pupils fixed their size to accommodate the lighting which was quite shaded due to the heavy Victorian style drapes covering whatever sort of light that wished to peek through. Elena found herself contented at the lack of light though.

Dropping her gaze she saw Asher's face all peaceful and full of serenity that made her smile. He was like a brother and a best friend to her, seeing him like this was absolutely endearing.

Soft breaths passed through his slightly parted lips as she outstretched her fingers to fix a few mocha red tinged strands that were presently falling onto the soft flesh of his closed lids.

Warm breath landed upon the cool flesh of which was her hand, sheathing the bones underneath, her special vampire blood pulsing under the seemingly thin layer.

As Asher shifted slightly her eyes snapped to his and listened to his breathing, deep breaths and closed eyes assured her that he was still under the sleeping spell.

His arm and his hand was curled around her waist and the other curled up to the higher regions of her back it was moulded gently against the clothed covered spot.

Another pair of arms wrapped around her; they tightened briefly before relaxing, warm breath cascading onto the segments of flesh at her neck that which were left bare and exposed.

Shifting gingerly on her other side she gazed at Zephyr's face, slightly bowed and lips closed gently in a sleepy way. Where Asher looked more vulnerable and haphazard, Zephyr as well looked endearing but he was more subtle and less loose.

The tiniest whiffs of strands fell into his closed eyes as the shadows played onto his face edging into the crevasses of his eyes, filling them and softening his features. His dark lashes made soft gray crescent like shadows on his soft crème skin.

Sighing she moved onto her back and stared up at the ceiling without a thought in her mind.

Sunlight streaked through the window, salmon pinks and fiery reds blazed together mingling with the lemon yellows and flame oranges with the curtains drawn neatly back.

She perched herself on the plush window seat as she snuggled further into the thick blanket wrapped around her.

Zephyr entered and spoke to her quietly as she gazed outside. "Are you coming to school? Do you feel up to it?" Elena shook her head and Asher entered with a mug full of hot bagged blood.

Asher gave her a boyish grin and planted a kiss on her head before patting her head affectionately, and hugging her. Zephyr followed suit after him copying his actions except with a kiss on the cheek.

Then like that she was alone, no questions asked.

She just sat there blank for just a moment with silence ringing in her ears to the point it was quite painful and irritating. Elena didn't move though she just sat there staring out the window at the sunny landscape.

Minutes and minutes passed.

Her fingers outstretched and latched onto the mug before her.

She slowly consumed its sweet contents, her developing thirst satiated.

As she set down the glass with a soft clink she snuggled her body further against the blanket.

Sitting there with the silence ringing all around her she realized just how empty the house really was without the boys…how alone she was at the moment.

How…bored she was becoming with every tick of the clock.

She couldn't be bothered to move for a few minutes more.

So Elena simply ran her fingers through her hair and sighed as she gazed at the sunny scenery that did nothing for her mood.

She just sat with that unfeeling and blank like shroud of gray, covering her inside and out.

Tired of mopping Elena decided to get her act together and be strong.

As the week droned on Elena found herself with that nifty vampire switch turned on…or at least it felt that way. There were moments when she stopped and let her thoughts flood her mind and she wasn't sure…she thought she only was pretending to have that switch flicked on…pretending everything was okay, she was just fooling herself.

The very fact proved it's self to be true as Friday rolled around.

As she headed to lunch being all happy to enjoy the company of Asher and Zephyr who appeared to be better themselves now that she was okay or at least seemingly okay. For two days starting from Tuesday the guys had been all worried and it showed, Thursday they were back to normal and it made Elena feel all better knowing that they had fallen back into their regular dispositions.

So when they all sat down for lunch Elena felt even better, they talked about their football practice on Wednesday and Monday and about the Halloween events occurring next week. Elena had to say she was excited these kinds of things could get that previous happening off of her mind, which is what she really needed.

Near the end of lunch Asher began to kick into a super goofy mood. He kept stealing a few of Zephyr's fries. It got only worse when Asher started to consume one large chocolate bar, a large oatmeal chocolate cookie he also preceded off into finishing an entire small packet of fuzzy peaches and downed the rest of Elena's Cranberry Gingerale bottle; there was only half of the drink left when Elena had given it to Asher.

She only found herself shaking her head. The only thing seemingly healthy Asher consumed was the chicken Cesar salad with bacon pieces drenched in Cesar dressing and even that was questionable.

Just as lunch ended they found themselves deep into a discussion Asher proposing an idea of going to watch a movie, with Asher and Zephyr bantering over whether they should see a horror, thriller, comedy or an action movie – they already cancelled out going to see a fully based romance movie – or as Asher denounced it jokingly a 'Chick Flick'. "Then we should go to a nightclub after!"

"I wish we were in Europe again…like twenty years ago." Elena sighed wistfully.

Asher beamed at her. "Remember all those awesome nightclubs and concerts we went to in Europe! We should do that again on our break! Or some random weekend and just go for a few days regardless of school."

Zephyr shook his head. "Maybe we'll see…we'll talk more about it. We can't miss a lot of school…we might look suspicious."

"Blah! School…." Asher waved out his hand with an indifferent expression plastered on his face. After a few minutes his lips twisted into a frown and he stopped. "I feel like I'm forgetting something but I have no idea what…" He scratched his head with a thoughtful expression clouding his features.

In perfect timing Kyle rushed over and stopped in front of them huffing from pushing his body no doubt to catch up with them. It took a few minutes for him to collect himself and straighten up in front of them as he sent a smile in their direction. "Yo! Asher, Zephyr did you forget today's football meet?"

Asher's face brightened and he snapped his fingers. "See! I knew it we were forgetting something…"

Zephyr scratched his head and frowned. "Crap…but I already called the guy about the cars…" his brows furrowed as he murmured.

Asher just shrugged. "We gotta go Zeph."

Elena crossed her arms and offered her solution. "Give me the number and I'll call." Her hands outstretched as she looked at Zephyr expectantly.

He stilled for a moment before fishing for his cellphone and finding the number for her.

He rattled them out to her slowly as she added them to her cellphone. When she finished she nodded her head. "Got it, okay well you better run along…I'll stick around school for you."

Zephyr stuck his hands in his pocket. "Are you sure…won't you get bored…or hungry? I can give you the keys?" He whispered the hungry bit low enough so that Kyle who was chatting loudly with Asher didn't hear.

She shook her head and shrugged. "No I'll be fine I have a book and stuff…I'll wait so go along!" Her hands took on the action of a 'shoo off' gesture as she flashed an ear to ear grin.

Zephyr nodded, he quickly produced the car keys and handed them to her before striding off. Looking down at the key's she pocketed them away for an emergency.

Before getting in the car Elena called the number a woman answered the phone. She supposed it was a secretary. Elena left a message with her and hung up.

She hopped into the car's driver seat and extracted a book of hers and popped in her ear buds as she selected one of the songs that really caught her attention and she couldn't stop listening to.

Her body relaxed as the music poured into her ears and she opened the book gently to chapter four.

After a few minutes she found herself sucked into the book and everything around her melted away except for her and the book and the music. It was just those abstract things.

Another few minutes later near the chapter's end she found her reverie broken by the gentle roar of another car that was in the vicinity.

Gingerly she switched the music back to first song she had listened to and she marked her page with a ribbon bookmark as she gazed up. Tousled brown hair and oaky green brown eyes caught her attention as she spotted Stefan in his football uniform walking around with a thoughtful expression to the field.

A smile lit up her face with nostalgic memories.

She turned to gaze at her purse absently and rifled through it contents to ensure she had everything. Cursing to herself she noted she was missing her history books.

Hopping out of the car with a sigh she ambled into the school, opened her locker and searched for text books. After a minute she extracted them and hugged them against her chest gently as she walked out the school doors.

A car zipped forward and abruptly stopped the screech caused her head to snap up and to gaze at the driver.

Instantly she sucked in a breath as small inconsistent shaky breaths passed her lips and her hands trembled gingerly as she tucked a stray strand of her brown tresses from her clipped back bun. Elena snuggled herself into her Jade KRMA jacket and fingered her Lapis Lazuli incrusted Siberian tear necklace as she walked further. The swish of her black slacks and chocolate truffle coloured v-neck knitted sweater swished and the click of her flat heeled boots bounced and streamed into her ears. She walked at a slightly fast pace. Music pulsed into her ears as she tried to make it to the car.

A hand curled around her forearm and she turned around to face cerulean crystalline eyes. Sucking in another breath she averted her eyes quickly and then fiercely locked her eyes with his. "What do you want Damon?" she asked deceptively calm as she decreased the volume to the point it was soft background music.

He sighed and looked as if he was struggling with something, as if he was strained. "Elena I want to talk about…what happened. I-"

Abruptly she held up her hand and shook her head. "No Damon I don't want to hear anymore of how it was my fault, of how much like that cold hearted bitch Katherine I am. So please spare me the details and the pointlessness and remove yourself from my sight."

His brows furrowed and his lips tightened. "Elena listen to me I'm trying to explain if you'd just lis-" Elena sighed and rolled her eyes as she hugged her books tighter to her as she attempted to cross her arms. "Listen Damon you said all that you had wanted that day, If this is your attempt at trying to hurt me take this fact in account…I don't care. So you can go stick that you know where."

Revved up by the façade of anger she was trying to project she walked away. Underneath this phony exterior of her's she was panicking and desiring to go return to him and take those words and her tone of voice back.

Walking away she freed a single arm and covered her mouth with it.

Damon was naturally persistent it showed as he roughly grabbed her arm and turned her around. Her back hit the wall of the school and she kept her gaze trained on the ground plastering on the thick indifferent mask. His hand slid down to her wrist and he gripped it. Venomously she spoke. "Remove your hand Damon."

A slightly tempered cool finger forced her chin up and her eyes snapped up and locked onto his again. He looked pissed by the line of his taut lips and his furrowed brows and his contorted features. "Damon remove your hand before I remove it for you."

I can't let him know…not about my feelings.

He'll probably laugh in my face and tease me…I'll be such a joke.

His tone was harsh as he spoke. "Make me…"

Elena glared at him as he smirked at her finding some strange amusement in all of this. "Don't you dare walk away from me Elena."

"I'll do what I like Damon. Screw you."

He chuckled humorlessly. "I know you'd love to but that's not the point…I don't like when people just walk away from me or cut me off when I'm trying to say something important. Especially if I am seriously pissed at them…"

She scoffed bringing up her finger and peering at her nails absently. "One I don't care if you are…so get over it. Two, As if anything you say is important Damon. Three you can't make me do anything."

"I beg to differ I've got years on you and you had better remember that fact." He gritted his teeth.

Rolling her eyes she roughly pulled her hand from his grasp, pushing herself off the wall she uttered harshly 'Move'.

When he didn't move back an inch and just smirked at her taking another step closer doing that eye thing. Her body flushed involuntarily and his lips twitched as his cockiness seeped into his tone. "You know I don't think you're as indifferent as you let on."

Rolling her eyes she let herself become wrapped fully into the vampire indifference setting. "You bore me Salvatore; I've got better things to do…so move."

Elena for the second time attempted to move but Damon's hand shot out to trap her against the wall. Rolling her eyes again she forcibly pushed him out of the way.

Finally walking away she tilted her head and looked over her shoulder smirking at him like he did when she was human. Pausing in mid step she spoke as cockily as he frequently did to her "Damon I advise you to go whine to someone else that cares, you waste my time with all of this. At this point I'm the one that is pissed and annoyed Damon. As far as I'm concerned you said and told me everything last time we spoke. Therefore we have nothing to say to each other..." She drifted off and as she begun walking she muttered words that she knew he would hear with his super sensitive 'vamp' hearing.

"I have nothing else to say to you."

She returned to the car, set the books on the passenger seat and sunk in the driver's seat.

Elena weakly covered her face with her hands, her body shook with every passing minute.

Forgive me Damon…for now this is the way things have to be.

I don't think I can even tell you…what I want to…

I've fallen for you.

Author's Note: Short and sweet Hope you enjoyed the chapter! Not too corny I hope! -grimaces-

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