He's the former bad boy with a tattoo that makes her curious. She's the good girl that dreams of escaping the small town she lives in. Meeting him shows her a way to escape and a love that burns red.

She broke the cardinal rule of living in Mystic Falls and to survive, she must rely on the one thing the rule was in place to protect her from. Until she discovers that the rule she broke, is one that will keep her from the man she could love most.

He was the breakout star returning to the show that made him famous and she was the writer who had created the character that propelled him there. Now he's back and they have to navigate being somewhere in between what they want now and what they'd had.

"It takes you leaving without a word to anyone but three of us, eight months and two hundred and four A4 pages to tell me that you love me. This proves my theory that you, Elena Gilbert, are an emotional idiot."

Caroline sighs. "You two can be so similar it's irritating. Both wanting to be the saviour and neither wanting to be the one that's saved."

Stefan was her boyfriend, the centre of her teenage world but Damon was the normal she'd craved since the world crashed down.

She decides she won't tell him that she'll probably always think of them as a slow burn that won't ever go out.

Wednesday's stop being interesting, life-threatening or fun when Damon stops coming around.

He begins to think of these moments of domesticity as a moment happening in an alternate universe that has nothing to do with the one they're living in now.

Jenny Humphrey's always had a penchant for fairytales and she uses them to choose a Prince Charming, a Witch and a Fairy Godmother.

She was always, always, curious as to why, whenever she called needing help, he abandoned whatever it was that they were doing in order to rush to her rescue.

He wonders when she’s done, with a pang that surprises him, if he’s one of the things she thought she wanted.