So, she's Elena Gilbert now, shes accepted it.
But now she's a baby and being a baby sucks.
She can't do anything for her self.
She can't even slap peoples hands away when they try to touch her.
These past few days have been miserable. She can barely see, everything is way to loud, and she has zero control over her own body.
The only time she was remotely happy was when John handed her over to The Gilberts, but then she remembered that Grayson liked to pick around Enzo's insides and just like that, she wasn't happy anymore.
Then that got her thinking about all the things she needs to do like liberate Enzo, get some vervain, talk to sheila, and many, many other things.
God, she cant wait to be able to write this down... and stay awake more than an hour.
6 months
She's six months old now and she can officially crawl.
Not a huge change but at least she can support her own head.
She's been trying to talk recently, but holding out for the perfect time to say "fuck" as her first word.
Trying to walk is a pain in the ass. She never realized how many muscles went into standing on her own.
She's decided she likes her new mother she thinks Miranda Gilbert is a nice and caring woman. Her father appears to be a nice man and good father but she knows what he gets up to in his spare time so she's rightfully wary.
Elena thinks she can do this, save people and have fun while doing it. Trying to keep her distance like she normally does, but then while her new parents are playing with her they causally ask in baby talk
"Do you want be a big sister?"
"Fuck."
-- Ch5
Twenty two months after her parents unknowingly dropped the sibling bomb on Elena they welcomed Jeremy Gilbert in to the world.
She definitely didn't like him.
He was not the most adorable baby she'd ever seen.
He did not have the cutest little nose or most perfect chin she ever saw.
She 100 percent did not already love him, nope, no siree, definitely not.
Who was she kidding?
She was already planning ways to make him love her.
She was already thinking of ways to support though everything in his life.
When she got the new parents she thought she could do like she did with her other ones, raise her self, ask the occasion "how was your day?" and be done with it.
But this was different.
He was different. He needed her like she needed him.
They were no longer the people she would grow up around for the second time.
He made them a family.
And that terrified her.
How was she supposed to act?
She never had siblings. The closest she ever came was her best friend's little sister, and she always thought that she treated her terribly.
No that wouldn't do.
She loves him. She wants to protect him from the terrible things coming his way.
Oh God! How did she not think of this?
Of all the things that would break him.
His parents death, depression, drugs, vicki, anna, damon killing him, jenna, losing alaric, always dying, and all the other things that hurt him.
No, no, no. She not letting that happen.
First step of "Project: Save Everyone But Mostly Fuck With People" protect the hell out of her baby brother.
--- Ch6
It's been two years since Jeremy was born and Elena has been the best big sister a four year old can be.
Yes, she's four now which means she can finally write out the things she remembers and read all the old Gilbert journals she can get her little hands on.
It also means she started preschool with the little mystic falls gang.
She caught herself staring at baby Bon Bon hoping she would witchy whammy somthing, she didn't... lame.
Little Caroline was adorable as teen Care.
And Matty was as sweet as he was in the future, she's starting to see why Elena let herself love him.
But the only one she specifically sought out to be her friend was tyler.
She loved his character development but hated his story lines.
Elena wanted to help him accept himself and stand up against his dick of a father.
Just like with Jeremy, when she saw the young scooby gang she knew she would get attached.
She knew why the original Elena loved them.
And she knew she would grow to love them just as much, if not more.
They were just so Innocent and untouched by the future horrors they would face.
Knowing that they would all lose people they loved and would each die at least once at some point if she didn't change things broke her heart and motivated her even more to fix things.
So step two of " Project: Save Everyone But Mostly Fuck With People" became, protect, love, and support the crap out of the kids.