Literature

Something yanked Elena out of the tree and, yowling a protest, she fell and landed on her feet like a cat. Her knees hit the ground a second later and…

Elena and Damon were waiting in the darkroom. Stefan could sense their presence in the small annex as he pushed the door to the photography room open and led Matt…

Stefan’s voice was quietly savage. “That’s what you wanted, wasn’t it, Damon? And now you’ve got it. You had to make her like us, like you. It wasn’t enough just…

Elena stepped into the clearing.Beneath her feet tatters of autumn leaves were freezing into the slush. Dusk had fallen, and although the storm was dying away the woods were getting…

Long ago, in the dark side streets of Florence, starving, frightened, and exhausted, Stefan had made himself a vow. Several vows, in fact, about using the Powers he sensed within…

“Elena, you’re being rude!” Aunt Judith seldom got angry but she was angry now. “You’re too old for this kind of behavior.””It’s not rudeness! You don’t understand – ” “I…

Bonnie shivered as she waited outside the tall Victorian house. The air was frosty this morning, and although it was almost eight o’clock the sun had never really come up….

Elena stirred, then opened heavy eyelids. Light was showing around the edges of the curtains. She found it hard to move, so she lay there on her bed and tried…

A voice spoke as Elena reached for a can on the store shelf.”Cranberry sauce already?” Elena looked up. “Hi, Matt. Yes, Aunt Judith likes to do a preview the Sunday…

“The nameis Salvatore. As in savior,” he said. There was a brief flash of white teeth in the darkness.Elena looked down. The overhang of the roof obscured the balcony, but…

The bell rang. There was no time to go back to the cafeteria and tell Bonnie and Meredith. Elena set off for her next class, past the averted faces and…

“I know I’m going to be sorry I asked this,” Matt said, turning red-rimmed eyes from their contemplation of I-95 to Stefan in the passenger seat beside him. “But can…

“What?” said Elena dully.”Well, the way she ended up, in her slip. She looked just like she did when we found her on the road, only then she was all…

“Next time,” Stefan said quietly, “I won’t leave.”Elena knew he meant it, and it terrified her. But just now her emotions were quietly coasting in neutral, and she didn’t want…

Stefan sat in the Gilbert living room, agreeing politely with whatever it was Aunt Judith was saying. The older woman was uncomfortable having him here; you didn’t need to be…

November 2, SaturdayDear Diary, This morning I woke up and felt so strange. I don’t know how to describe it. On the one hand, I was so weak that when…

“But he’s got to have a doctor. He looks like he’s dying!” said Bonnie.”He can’t. I can’t explain right now. Let’s just get him home, all right? He’s wet and…

Bonnie stared. “I don’t remember anything about the bridge. It didn’t feel like a bridge.””But you said it yourself, at the end. I thought you remembered…” Elena’s voice died away….

The police had found Stefan’s abandoned car by Old Creek Road. That meant he’d left it somewhere between Drowning Creek and the woods. Elena stumbled on the overgrown path through…

“Damon!”Icy wind whipped Elena’s hair around her face, tearing at her light sweater. Oak leaves swirled among the rows of granite headstones, and the trees lashed their branches together in…