I'm going to start by thanking anyone who is tuning in to my story, it means a lot. This is my first Vampire Diaries fanfic and I'm so excited about it. Please excuse the summary, I suck at writing them. I want to warn you, that while the base personality of these characters are the same as the show, do not expect them to be perfect. I have switched some characteristics around in order to fit my story idea. This is a Delena fanfic, so to my fellow Damon lovers, a special welcome. I know you will have questions but bare with me, many things will be explained. So without further ado, chapter 1:D

Disclaimer: sadly I do not own Vampire Diaries. I am simply stealing the characters to act out my own fantasies :)

Atheris xo

Elena Gilbert sat on her bed and looked around her room at the pictures covering her walls ceiling to floor. The Salvatore brothers were everywhere. Damon more specifically. Every newspaper or magazine article ever written decorated the borders of every poster that had been made with the handsome duo on it. T-shirts, and books. Video clip galore saved on her computer. She had never been so completely obsessed with anything in her life. In her teen years she was never a crazy fan girl, she didn't fall much into the celebrity craze. Brad Pitt, and Cam Gigandet did nothing for her, neither did any of the other so-called male sex symbols. That was before the Salvatore brothers took the media by storm. Three years ago they came out of hiding. Their mother, before her tragic car accident had been a beautiful hollywood starlet. Nicoletta Salvatore had been the lead in some of the biggest movies of the late 90s. She was beautiful and gracious, and a perfect role model for young women. The world was devastated after her death. Their father

Guiseppe Salvatore was the owner of the biggest technology firm in the world, Salvatore Industries. The company created the basis for all of the technological developments across the globe. Any patent went through them, new inventors flocked by the thousands to the beautiful triangle building in the middle of Manhattan to seek an audience with him and show their ideas. Everyone in the world knew his name. His sons however were a mystery. They had last been seen as young boys, and no one knew where they had disappeared to. Then again Guiseppe himself was a bit of a mystery, often leaving the country and running the company from overseas somewhere. Then magically three years ago, BAM! Guiseppe shows up at his Charity function with a stunning young man on each arm, introducing them to the world finally as you guessed it, his sons. The media went nuts. Both boys had now official come into possession of their trust funds, and miraculously Guiseppe also appointed the elder of the two, Damon, as CEO of Salvatore Industries. That's when the true fun began. By day, Damon was a perfectly poised businessman, running the company under the watchful eye of his father. By night however, him and Stefan travelled down a dangerous road of partying, sex, and money spending with nothing to stop them. Different parties each night, different girls leaving each morning, countless cars, and even more publicity. They became modern day princes. Some say celebrity but more so, they became royalty. America's own princes, their darlings. They lived life to the fullest, and had every door open to them. They had many faults, but the amount of good they did was immeasurable. Every month it seemed, they through extravagant parties that everybody whose anybody attended, with all proceeds going directly to charity. Needless to say, Elena became a crazed fan girl.

It was more than that for her though. She watched interview upon interview with Damon, and she felt as though she knew him. They were two sides of the same coin in her eyes, with so much in common. He spoke to her heart on some strange level. Every time the beautiful baby blues stared out at her through the screen they screamed sadness. She had the strangest feeling that Damon Salvatore wasn't really living the high life. She knew every statistic about him, and felt that if they could truly meet, just once, that she could learn her feelings once and for all. Was she just a crazy fan girl desperately seeking what she could not have? Or would she like the man behind the fame? Of course her feelings did not matter. She was a nobody. A silly girl from a small town in new york state. He wouldn't look twice at her. But at least if she met him, maybe she could put an end to her obsession.

Elena flopped down onto her back on the bed and stared up into Damon's crystal blue eyes gazing at her from the poster on her ceiling. She closed her eyes smiling to herself at her plans for tonight. Tonight, was the night that once and for all her questions got answered. Tonight was the day of answers, the tell all, the be all and end all. Tonight was the night she had been dreaming about for three years. Tonight, she would meet Damon Salvatore.

Later that evening Elena laid out her dress on her bed, and stood above it frowning. She had not even left yet and her stomach was in a knot. Her hands were clammy and any time she thought about actually talking to Damon she started to hyperventilate and just about feinted before she calmed herself down. She knew exactly what she was going to say to him. She had the conversation planned in her head and had been rehearsing it for days. So why did she feel so nervous?

She still couldn't believe her luck for one. Tonight the Salvatores were throwing another of their amazing charity gallas, only this was rumoured to be the best party in centuries. They had declared that it was to be a masquerade. All proceeds were going to a no kill shelter that Damon supported. His love and compassion for animals is just one more thing that makes me love him Elena thought to herself. Her dress was beautiful, and she couldn't wait to put it on and step into the party to search for the man she believed to be her soul mate. Now all I need is my hair and make-up done, and I'm ready to go, she thought.

As if on cue, the door bell rang announcing the presence of her own personal entourage. Elena giggled to herself as she ran downstairs to unlock the door. She opened it and smiled at her two best friends. Bonnie and Caroline had been there for her through everything, and they weren't about to stop now. All three girls stared at each other for a second before screaming and jumping up and down excitedly hugging.

"you guyyyyys! What the heck did you do to your hair?" Elena shrieked when they were done.

"Chill Elena, its only temporary" Caroline replied in an exasperated tone.

"yeah, and besides from behind it will make us both look like you, which is helpful for tonight" Bonnie added.

Sighing, Elena agreed and hugged them once more before she took them upstairs to see her dress.

After the girls admired her dress they set to work curling her waist length chestnut hair. Both girls held a straightener and were working at the same time to speed up the process before Caroline got to work on Elena's make-up. She gave her dramatic black and silver smokey eyes so that they would stand out against the mask. When they were done Elena had to admit she looked good.

"Len you look amazing. Seriously beautiful," Bonnie said in awe as Caroline nodded beside her.

"Yeah well its all you guys I take no credit" Elena joked.

"Well guys, its time to get going if we want to be on time, " Caroline said as she zipped Elena's dress into a dry cleaning bag to carry it, "Elena don't forget to grab your mask and your waitressing shoes from downstairs. If you forget either of those we're screwed" she yelled at she ran out to her car to put Elena's dress safely into the trunk.

Elena took one last glance around her room at the shrine she had built to honour Damon, and hoped that he was worth what she was risking tonight. She grabbed Bonnie's hand and raced down the stairs after Caroline. They all piled into the car , buckled up, and started their drive down the interstate. They blasted Taylor Swift and sang excitedly at the top of their lungs as they drove. Elena's heart began to beat rapidly as they passed sign after sign announcing that they were that much closer to Manhattan. When they finally took their exit off the highway and merged into the city traffic, Elena was a nervous wreck. She had been preparing for this moment for three years, dreaming it would happen. And now she couldn't even remember her own name, or anything about Damon, and certainly not why on earth she was going through with this crazy hair brained plan. Caroline and Bonnie had been her best friends since they were all little girls, why were they letting her continue on with this stupidity? Oh yeah, all for one and one for all right? They would do anything for her.

Elena looked up from where she was frantically fidgeting in her lap to see that they had a block to go.

"You ready Elena, its now our never. You got this, and we got you. You will look amazing in that dress and there is no way he cant be compelled by you," Bonnie said encouragingly noticing how badly Elena was fidgeting.

"Yeah Len, you have guys swooning over you every chance they get, why should he be any different? I mean sure yeah he's a billionaire, and he is incredibly good looking, and could pretty much date anyone in the world he wants including all the hot celebs, and he has new girls.."

"CAROLINE! You're so NOT helping here!" Elena snapped angrily.

"Geeze sorry, Bonnie's right. No matter who he is, he's still a guy. And you're still Elena Gilbert. Beauty queen extraordinaire. You got this under control. "Caroline said smiling as they pulled up to the valet.

Elena looked up at the tall pillars of the Massey Banquet hall and gulped. The red carpet was rolled out, and she could distantly see the flash of hundreds of bulbs as the media went crazy snapping pictures of all celebrities entering. Somehow she managed to get out of her seatbelt and the car without falling flat on her face, and stepped onto the sidewalk in between Caroline and Bonnie who held her dress. She smoothed her white blouse and pinned her staff ID to the collar as she watched her best friends do the same. Caroline grabbed her hand,

"Think positive Elena," she whispered as they neared the side entrance to check in.

"Yeah, ok" Elena whispered back, "because infiltrating the biggest party of the decade illegally is a piece of cake right?"

There you have it folks, chapter one. Lots of puzzles to be figured out, and many exciting events await you. Please R&R for it is the fuel that feeds my writing fire:)3

Atheris xo