Elena Gilbert {The Vampire Diaries AU}

23.1 -- "The time between meeting and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love."



Nowadays, it's so easy to refer to things in my life with the delineation of Before Salvatore and After Salvatore. That's how deeply Stefan and Damon Salvatore impacted our lives.

There are times that I wish one of them were around so that I could grab them and shake them. The shaking might be accompanied by yelling, too. Was it even a little bit hard for them to say goodbye to my sister and I? Or were she and I the only ones to be hurt by what happened?

I hadn't planned on falling in love that fast or that hard, and I certainly had never planned to fall for someone like Damon. Damon Salvatore was the complete opposite of everything that I am. guys like him usually fall for my twin -- but they weren't interested in each other. She was in love with his older brother, and Damon had his sights clearly set on me.

Even now, thinking about the day we met and everything that followed has the power to hurt. I loved Damon with everything I am, and I thought that he felt the same way about me.

I was wrong. If he loved me as much as he said he did, shouldn't that have made it difficult for him to leave me? He said that he was doing it for my own good. Shouldn't I have gotten a choice in what I thought was in my best interest? He had no right to take that kind of decision from me.

Even after I found out what he and Stefan were, I didn't turn away from them, and neither did Katherine. Even when all of the bad things started happening to us and the people we cared about, I never once blamed Damon for any of it.

Is that where it all went wrong? Was I just too human for Damon after awhile?

I don't care what he said. I still don't understand the decision and why he left.


Muse: Elena Gilbert
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries AU
Words: 333