i am not elena gilbert

chapter 2

Whenever someone knocked on Elena's door it was usually someone trying to kill her. So it would be an understatement to say I was nervous to see who it was. I slowly walked over to the door and turned the handle with my shaky hand.

I froze. "Damon, uh, hey" I awkwardly adjusted my hair. His eyes were so blue. That was the first thing I noticed. He had black jeans on, a black shirt and a black leather jacket.

"Hey, Stefan sent me to check on you since he noticed you didn't turn up at the Lockwood's."

I gulped. I thought about Elena's last interaction with him. It was Stefan and him fighting because Damon kissed Katherine thinking it was Elena. Right.

"Oh, well I'm okay so you can go now." I was scared. Why was I scared? I loved Damon when I watched the series. I guess it was just different standing in front of him.

"Really? Stefan said you've been acting weird today." He said squinting. I was thankful it seemed he was pretending the kiss never happened.

"I guess I've just been a bit stressed thinking about Katherine." I was getting better at coming up with excuses.

Damon frowned. "Alright" he said. He smiled and quickly turned around. I'm not sure why I was disappointed with his lack of reassurance. He walked off the porch and I closed the door.

I let out a sigh of relief. That didn't go too bad. And we didn't have to have the conversation about the kiss. I thought it was weird that he came to check on me rather than Stefan, so I called him.

"Hey, Stefan."

"Elena, hey where are you?" He sounded strange.

"I'm at home, are you okay?"

"I had a bit of a run in with Katherine. I'll be fine." Oh. I realised Katherine had impaled him. Then I realised I was supposed to be the one taking care of him.

"A run in? What does that mean" I said, trying to sound clueless.

"It doesn't matter. Why aren't you here?"

"That doesn't matter either. Do you want to come over?" I needed to do something to try and prevent the Caroline vampire situation. Or the Jeremy one. Or the many complications to come in the future.

"Sure, I'll be there in 20 minutes." I assumed he had to regain his strength, find some blood or something.

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I was making a smoothie when Stefan arrived. I opened the door and noticed the blood on his shirt.

"Shit, Stefan what happened?" I said worriedly.

"Katherine. She uh, stabbed me. It's healing though."

There was a lot of blood. I looked up at his face. "Why did she stab you?"

"I was talking to her, trying to figure her out. I was playing along, I let her get to me and I snapped. She did too."

I sighed. It was getting so tiring pretending to be Elena. I'd been in her body for what, six hours? I was done. I was so done.

"Elena? Are you okay?"

So much was happening. Sure, it made for a good series but in reality it was horrible. I broke down in tears. I didn't realise how bad I needed to cry, but it felt so good to let it out. And hey, it wasn't too off brand for Elena to cry.

"Elena, hey hey it's okay. Shh." Stefan had pulled me into a hug and was stroking my back. I realised what was happening and I quickly pulled away, embarrassed.

I wiped the tears from my cheeks and sniffed. "I'm sorry, I- I just-"

Stefan held my chin softly. " Hey, don't apologise."

We stood there for a moment, looking at each other. I didn't stop crying but I felt so safe with him. Then there was another knock at the door. God why were there so many people coming to Elena's house. Stefan answered the door and it was Damon.

"What do you want Damon." Stefan said frowning.

"I just wanted to join the party, that's all." Damon said with a smirk. He walked in and looked at me. "What's going on."

I tried to wipe the tears away but they were still coming. "Nothing, Damon. Just leave."

Damon's eyes lingered on me for a few seconds before looking at his brother. "I talked to Katherine." Oh no. The talk where she broke his heart. That wasn't supposed to happen until later that night. I had already starting screwing with the timeline. Damon turned to me again. Surely he wasn't going to say what he said in the show. Not with me crying right in front of him "Better watch out Elena, looks like Katherine's trying to steal your boyfriend."

He said it. What an ass. I looked at the floor and let out a weak cry. It wasn't fake, I didn't really want to admit it but I could feel myself falling for Stefan. But I knew that Katherine would soon hurt people if we stayed together. We'd have to break up eventually. It did feel fair though, I wasn't who he thought I was.

Stefan growled. I looked at him and before I could stop him he launched himself at his brother.

"Stefan no!" I yelled. I had seen these fights in the show but it was so scary in real life, they were so strong and I couldn't do anything about it. I couldn't even see them clearly they were moving so fast. Damon ran at Stefan.

"Please just stop!" I cried out. Stefan ran with super-speed over to the front door and grabbed the coat stand. He ripped the wood stick in half and turned around. Then I felt hands strong on my shoulders. Damon was standing behind me. Suddenly, everything was still. I stopped crying. There was no noise or movement apart from Damon's warm breath on my neck and my trembling body. Oh god. He was going to drink from me.

"Don't you fucking dare." Stefan said slowly. He dropped the makeshift stake.

"Why not." I could hear the smile on Damon's face when he said that.

"Damon I swear to god-" but Stefan couldn't finish his sentence. Damon had plunged his fangs into the side of my neck. I screamed so loud at the pain. Stefan ran over, grabbed Damon and ripped him from me. I started falling to the ground. Then, nothing.

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