Fate takes Elena by surprise when her parents die in a car accident over a bridge. She was the one who witnessed the attack because she was in the car with them that day when it happened... Nobody knows how she, Elena Gilbert, got out of the sunken car and survived the tragedy... All she remembers is the car going straight into the water and that's it... Now... She lives in Beacon Hills to start a new life and has a resolve to put all the grief behind her... But when she meets Derek Hale, all of that changes... Elena was a girl who thought that she'd never be happy when her parents died but... With Derek... He starts to take the pain away... What Elena doesn't realize is she's getting herself involved in things that she shouldn't have gotten herself into in the first place...