when does elena become a vampire
Klaus orders them to find Stefan so that he can get his family back. He needles her and says everything is back to normal as he is mean and she hates him. Bonnie gives Damon a reprimanding for letting Elena let loose like that, but Damon is anything but apologetic. He told her it's because lately, he seems to be the one who can reach her, the one she trusts even when she doesn't trust him. She wasn't happy to see Damon either when he told her they were going to make sure she didn't eat the prom queen. However, after she is unable to keep down animal blood, human blood from a blood bag or vampire blood, she begins to feed from Matt. Elena and Caroline talk, with Caroline trying to make sure Elena doesn't hurt herself or anything. Stefan sees her but doesn't say anything. She tells him that they already had the conversation about being human again and says he didn't want it. Elena wanted to go after them and leave Damon to find Stefan, and before parting ways, Damon tells Elena not to risk her life in saving Katherine as she is not even worth a hair on Elena's head and then they kiss. She tells him that this is cheating and says they have to start over from the beginning. And then Matt arrived and started to tear up. They ask for Alaric's help. They then reminisce about the that time. They shared a heartfelt goodbye before the Salvatore brothers placed her body in a coffin to rest until Bonnie died and Elena woke up. Damon then compels her to forget their meeting. He had taken the place of killing Katherine instead of Damon, since Damon is human after Stefan gave him the cure. Elena is watching Damon while he is sleeping. The doorbell rang. Elena and Stefan talked about the fact that he'd never told her he's always wanted to be human again, even before he met her. She asked Stefan why he still cared about her, and he said because he brought this all into her life. Caroline went to stretch while Elena followed a cheerleader from another school who'd forgotten her makeup bag to her bus. Katherine then kidnaps her for Isobel. He also asks Elena to go to the fundraiser as his date. He admits he was afraid to lose her and he says a little bit of both. He knows what he should have done. In Graduation, Elena Gilbert, her brother Jeremy, and Alaric Saltzman are trying to savor what little time they have together and enjoying a picnic in the cemetery. She starts playing it but Damon stops her from seeing it. Elena tries to stop her but can't because of the anti-magic spell. Damon plays on Kai's new found emotions about it being Bonnie's birthday and convinces him to send a message to her about where to find magic, that is Nova Scotia, Qetsiyah's magic-soaked blood on Silas's tombstone. However, she tells Stefan that she got caught up in the blood and in the feeding and almost lost control. Later, Elena asked Stefan if killing Silas worked and if he is now OK. Stefan doesn't respond but rather asks her why is this all so important to her. Bonnie has to die for Elena to wake up and if Bonnie even attempts to find a loophole, they'll both die. Damon does, however. Niklaus Mikaelson (1st time/as a human)Rebekah Mikaelson (2nd time/as a human)Damon Salvatore (with her consent) (3rd time/as a vampire) When April was dying, Stefan and Elena got there in time for Stefan to feed her his blood. Later Elena is checking her mouth for fangs and Jeremy walks in and Elena runs over and they start talking and Elena is constantly looking at a lamp that is making a weird noise; once Jeremy left, she goes over and clutches the bulb and smashes it. Elena's character in the novels is quite different from her character in the TV series, both in appearance and in personality. Elena is waiting in the quaint town square, waiting for the mysterious "Em" to arrive. A car comes and was about to hit Jeremy when Alaric pushed him away, saving his live. They got interrupted by Professor Shane, who's judging the pageant and they thinks it might be creepy that Bonnie is as obsessed with Shane-approved magic as she is. While everyone stood around and tried to figure out what to do with Silas' body, Elena and Bonnie made peace, Bonnie told her they figure things out. She wants them to write it all down so that she can read it one day and feel like she was there. Elena and Damon are sitting beside the grave site, sad that their plan failed. So she said it again. Later on, Elena takes more of the herbs to have a final talk with 'Damon' and tells him that she has to let go but he he makes her angry and she throws everything temple about and eventually breaks down but is comforted by 'Damon'. Elena agreed with Damon and he replied "And my work here is done", then walked out of the room. She admits Damon has done bad things but it's all in the past and she truly, deeply, madly loves him in an all-consuming, twin flames way. Stefan asked who she was texting. She admits that she kissed Damon but tells him she's not telling him because she's guilty it happened, instead because she feels guilty that he doesn't know. She tells him to "just be happy" before saying she'll see him soon. It just eventually happened. Does Elena end up becoming a vampire, since Damon's blood saved from all that trouble with Klaus in season 2. At the ball, she dances with Damon and Stefan. Elena realizes a vampire killed her. Damon confesses he's been there before and tells her about Whitmore's torture, including cutting up pieces of them every day. As she, Lily and Damon eat breakfast, she is asked if she ever misses being human and Elena replies she sometimes does. Caroline then realizes that Elena is the "boarder lurker". In She's Come Undone, Damon and Stefan's plan to torture the humanity back into Elena is not working. Elena hears the news and the price of saving her, leading her to seek Bonnie who is watching over Abby who is in transition. A broken Elena then hugs Alaric for comfort and he also begins to mourns Damon's death. Caroline has Liam on speaker phone and Stefan manages to get him to tell his location. "What's happening?" The two vamps exchange words. He gives Elena the option to let him in but he was then killed by Jeremy who cut his head off. She tells him that she has planned to be at the Hospital for the whole day to avoid Damon. When Caroline became a vampire, her insecurities went away, and their relationship improved a lot as a result. Then Damon helps Elena up. During Alaric's class, Elena drinks blood, but Alaric tells her to put it away because he can't control his bloodlust around other students. At a pep rally, Stefan gives Elena a necklace. Tessa was able to perform the spell in time and bring Bonnie back to life. Tyler enters the scene, shocked at the state of Elena's condition. Technically, she would die before she turned, so Elena would wake up. Steve West of the Cinema Blend compared the story of The Vampire Diaries and the character of Elena to the popular vampire franchise, Twilight, and its protagonist Bella Swan. But he ends up injuring several people at the Maize. Few minutes later, she returns to take back her jacket and sees a guy hitting Stefan Elena rushes in and ends it by compelling the man to go home and forget everything. Stefan Salvatore is Elena's close friend and ex-boyfriend, as well as Damon's younger brother. She is also the second female lead character to be written off due to her actress' decision to depart from the series. Stefan and Elena both struggle during the months after losing Damon. However the show's producers, Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson, felt that it wasn't the direction they wanted to go with their heroine in The Vampire Diaries television series. Suddenly Katherine appears with the cure from Klaus and tells them that Stefan traded himself for it. Because it's only a matter of time before Damon and Stefan will turn her into a vampire, Klaus states that the worst thing for her was the Salvatore brothers. Stop it," he tells her. When they arrive at Stefan's house, she confesses her love for him and he kisses her. Elena wanted to do the worst possible thing she could—go find Jeremy. Stefan teases her about worrying for her brother while she teases him bout Caroline. Damon tells her that he is helping him by teaching Stefan how to control his blood lust. But Stefan is still certain that it was his fault and knew he could have stopped this. I don't know." Jeremy went to Elena, who was lying on the ground. Jeremy volunteers to go alone, even though it could mean he gets stuck there. 5'6" (Feet)1.68 (Meters) Elena meets Stefan's brother, Damon, who tells her about Stefan's first love, Katherine. Elena attacked Katherine and almost killed Katherine including Bonnie in the process until Stefan stopped her. "Stay the hell away from my brother," she said. But the car belongs to Matt. Elena saw that she was meeting someone at 2 p.m. named "em". He calls her bluff, not believing she would kill herself for so little an issue. When she goes to see Damon, he offers his lovely Elena the cure but she does not accept. Elena can see that Damon doesn't approve of Elena trying to live on an animal blood diet, not drinking human blood and feeding on innocent people from the vein. Elijah could tell Elena was not herself, and it was not just her being a vamp now. She freaks out, yelling that everyone is lying to her. Elena shoves the cure down Katherine's mouth and Katherine becomes human. She was about to feed on a woman when the would-be victim said, "Katherine, what are you doing?" Later, Elena and Damon meet Liv with the ascendant and blood from Lucy. Stefan learns from Damon that he apparently killed Elena as something so bad he can't look himself in the mirror, Stefan then punches him in the face. Elena tries to find them but is running behind on time. Things go well until Kai ruins Jo and Alaric's wedding and casts a sleeping spell on Elena, linking her life to Bonnie's. After Klaus is desiccated, Elena returns home to find the others celebrating a Klaus-free life. They are huddled in a corner to escape the sun's rays streaming through the dilapidated house. When she comes up, she sees Jeremy making out with Sarah. She encounters Esther at the dance, and tells Jeremy to warn Stefan and Damon. She called for Damon, and he grabbed her and jumped off the bridge into the water. Elena understands leading them to officially end their relationship for good. Jeremy returns and they go to the stoner den at the high school. She reveals that the surprise was that he thought she would kiss him back, and he admits he's hurt. As Liam returns, Elena wants to know how Stefan knew he could trust her with the fact he was a vampire. Afterwards, she breaks up with Matt and she and Jeremy begin to live with their aunt, Jenna Sommers, who became their legal guardian. Caroline separated them, then Stefan held Caroline back from going after Elena. In the final episode, Elena makes an appearance. After taking a tortured shower, Elena wrote in her journal some more about how the worst feeling isn't when you lose someone, it's when you lose yourself. Later, at Salvatore house, Elena arrives with groceries and meets Damon who is in the kitchen arranging cupcakes. She starts to sweat. "Damon" said it was because she knew she was more like him than she is like Stefan as a vampire. Liam calls Elena to stop a girl who's bleeding to death. She's thrilled, Damon less so. The boys excuse themselves. However, her aunt Jenna is turned into a vampire and, as part of the sacrifice, is killed by Klaus, leaving Elena without a guardian. According to Plec during an interview with TVLine, Elena "really believes what she feels is 100 percent genuine and real", and the couple "wants to be together and realizes that they shouldn’t, yet really wants to. Matt arrived to try to talk Jeremy out of finishing the job, but it was Stefan who finally saved Elena. She told him to kill her, he'd be doing her a favor. Elena was ready to die in the sacrifice, Damon force fed her his blood to make sure she would come back after. As for Elena's body, she will rest in the Salvatore crypt, where Bonnie will put a spell around her to protect her from any vampires who might want to suck the cure out of her. When Elena is with Tyler, she unchains him and she tells him to get out of Mystic Falls and embrace his wolf side. She realized Stefan was right: Killing Katherine would do nothing for her. She knows this will make Elena vamp out. Matt delivers Elena an ultimatum: she can choose to head to the warehouse to be with Damon or she can return home to her friends, and Stefan. And so was the headstone. If he wouldn't let her go to a party, she'd bring the party to her. She tells Matt and Jeremy her plan to have Alaric compel away her feelings for Damon and asks that they keep the truth from her. They woke up, fully clothed, in the same bed. At some point before 2016 Damon gets desiccated, wishing not to be revived by Stefan until Elena wakes up. Damon told her and Elena not to worry. Stefan said. She says she wants to talk about it but is not sure if Stefan will be honest about it today. She is surprised to see her and the girls happily hug each other. Matt helps Elena break into Meredith's. Elena follows Damon and said, "Being human is not going to change my feelings for you!" They dance—very, very slowly. Damon said what he really wanted to do was throw her back in his bed and never let her leave. Damon declined to tell Elena if he'd take the cure when it's found. He was about to oblige when he had to drop her to catch a stake which was shot by Jeremy. He explains that by killing her, she won't have to choose and neither brother will get hurt. Elena, Caroline and Bonnie arrive at the Salvatore house and join the drinking game of toasting to all of Katherine's bad deeds with Damon, Matt and Jeremy. But that didn't exactly work for Stefan, considering he could suddenly remember everything.After learning Stefan's plan, Elena was worried that Stefan would get himself killed by going after Silas. His name's Aaron Whitmore. Elena speaks the truth all the time and it's brutal and not fun for the people who have to listen to it. However, these drugs enhanced her blood thirst and she decided to resort to a different mechanism which involves erasing her memories of loving Damon. [7], In the books, Elena is considered "one of the popular girls" at her high school and always gets "anything she wants". [10] Describing Elena from the books, Dobrev said she is "one of those mean girls that gets what she wants, popular . That was another classic Matt face when he turned around to tell Elena, "Me, too." Jo tells her to keep her acute panic attack to herself as she doesn't want to Ric to worry. She says they can't stop because Damon is still on the Other Side. She bites her wrist to give some blood but he refuses it while Tyler is trying to get him to take it. They then tell Jo about the cure and tells her she wasn't really sure what to do after he kind of proposed to her about it. With everyone almost there, Elena says she can't find Damon and won't leave without him. Elizabeth didn't notice he took it. This flashback, however, is altered, and Elena dies along with her parents in the crash on Wickery Bridge. He accuses Elena of killing Megan and possibly of killing his parents. Because Grayson was a doctor, he was able to tamper with the birth records, making himself and Miranda appear as Elena's biological parents on her birth certificate. Elena wrote on a handy blackboard for Matt to go help Stefan find the dagger, and for Jeremy to go get Bonnie. He has felt guilty ever since, which is why he thought that this was his personal hell. Caroline and Enzo leave them alone and eavesdrop their conversation from another room. She is the second Petrova doppelgänger to be linked to Bonnie. Stefan called Damon to ask him to find Elena because she'd listen to him. This humanity makes it only harder for Elena to hide her true feelings for Damon. Liam comes by Elena's dorm room with medical records for "Lady Whitmore", the old wound she came to the hospital for doesn't exist anymore. He then confesses that he knew she lied because she was afraid that he will spiral out of control again but he didn't this time despite every nerve in his body wanting him to because for her. She sees their shocked expressions and tells them about her traveling companions. She then says that if he refuses her deal, she will let herself bleed to death so Klaus will never be able to go through with the sacrifice like Elijah wants. She leaves the Night of the Comet party early, upsetting Stefan, but later shows up at his house. April asked. While Elena is taking a bath, a ghost Enzo who now has the power of touching things in the real world tries to drown her for revenge. Stefan reveals to Elena about her memory loss. He is a vampire who is affected with cancer and since Caroline fed Liz her blood, it is going to happen to Liz too. They both take a deep breath and Elena finally opens the door. When Damon tells her about how Stefan killed his father, she is amused and confesses how she hated their father. She is a clever one. Damon stepped in between them, and Jeremy looked at a smiling Bonnie and handed the wood to Damon. In Woke Up With a Monster, Elena awakes at a table in the Mystic Grill, accompanied by Kai. Elena is disgusted and asks when the last one was. Silas' hand came up to her head. Elena, Caroline and Bonnie during Christmas 2009. [4] Dobrev felt that her biggest challenge on The Vampire Diaries was distinguishing Katherine and Elena, and found it "interesting" to create a whole new character. They have a bond that no one could ever break. In Down the Rabbit Hole, Elena recapped everyone's whereabouts on the phone for Caroline. Damon then tells her that Stefan is gone and that he is not coming back, not in her lifetime. Lily serves them tea and tells them about her life. Elena asked Klaus how he made the torment stop. with a booty. She doesn't want to believe he'd be part of a place that would cut Damon's eyes out and breaks down. "Dear diary, I know it's been a while. On the island, the hiking began. She goes back upstairs and sees Damon, but realizes she's remembering the scene from Rose, where Damon tells her he loves her and compelled her to forget. Bonnie has mentioned that she and Elena are so close they're like sisters, and she would die for Elena in an instant without hesitation. When Bonnie wakes up, it was Stefan who resuscitated her. She's happy, she said. "Saved by the cell phone," Damon said. However the show's producers, Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson, felt that it wasn't the direction they wanted to go with their heroine in The Vampire Diaries television series. But Bonnie's fails and Stefan, and Rebekah kill a guard to help Elena finish the transition. In The End of the Affair, Elena and Damon go to Chicago where they find Stefan and Klaus. Liz took her and Jeremy to school as well as tried to cook for them but wasn't good at it, just like Elena's adoptive mother/aunt Miranda. Elena tells Damon that they need Bonnie to fix Stefan's memory and Damon finally tells her about Bonnie's death which shocks her. Elena always lived by her set of rules, what she thought was right and wrong, and now it's like she's thrown all the rules to the wind and she just does whatever she wants to do. She's upset. Damon surprises her and flings her into the lake. They hear footsteps and hide in the closet. Damon says they should find Kai and kill him. They discover that Damon has been caught and Stefan goes in the burning building to find him. When he left the room, Connor appeared again. At his mansion, Klaus showed Elena to her new bedroom. Later, Damon is packing up the car in order to move to a new location when Elena approaches him. Stefan convinces her by saying that Damon won't be able to handle it. They share a flirtatious smile and the conversation soon becomes awkward when Damon mentions Enzo. Jeremy tells her that their Mom found out that he was smoking and this why she called Liz to complain about Jeremy. Bloodlines - After rescuing her from her totaled car, Damon takes Elena on a road trip to Georgia to \"have fun\". Before he gives it to her, he tells her he loves her but compels her to forget it. She put a fork in Katherine's hand to keep her at the table and grabbed her phone, on which Elena accessed Katherine's calendar. Caroline's the captain, so she said yes. Klaus let something slip: He didn't want the cure so he could make hybrids. He puts it on her, and after Elena discovers that Damon has been looking a lot more for Stefan than she thought, she confronts him about not telling her. Elena is one of two characters sired to Damon. Fortunately, just before Elena attacks her, Caroline overpowers her and makes her stop. After Katherine is daggered by the Traveler's Knife she dies for good and Elena gets her body back. At the end, a compelled Elena calls Caroline and tells her she feels like things are taking a turn for the better and is ready to go to a party. But then Silas showed up and knocked the power out. Esther then stabs Alaric in the heart with the White Oak Stake. When a weakened Bonnie dies from the sounding bell, she meets Elena in a dream-like forest. Damon comes to this decision when Bonnie gets hurt and so their mutual friends won't have to risk their lives trying to help him before Elena awakens in 60 years or so. Damon hugs her and tries to calm her down, eventually telling her to "turn it off." Rebekah sensed that the reminder of Stefan's devotion to Elena made everyone uncomfortable, and Caroline finally blurted out that they'd broken up. Elena, still empty after losing her parents, begins to fit back into school. Elena finds John on the kitchen floor. He cured her from a congenital heart defect, which is why Megan had a picture of Grayson Gilbert in her phone. Damon does not trust Mikael, or Stefan, so tells Elena that has a Plan B: use Katherine to avoid putting her on the battlefield. She tells Damon that they burned the letter and he tells her she sucks at torturing people. While in the hallway, Jo is ready to fall over and Kai finds the trio after her cloaking spell wears off. He stabbed her in the neck using his stake rail-gun. Elena and Caroline prepare to go search for her. Shane asked Jeremy how he felt about Elena now, and it didn't matter that the concept of "persuasion" was kinda hard to follow, because Jeremy's response was worth it: "She ruined our lives. She later walks in Matt's hospital room and asks him why he was refusing her blood. At the start of the school year, Elena meets Stefan and is drawn to him. She makes a sacrifice to let Bonnie live out her life until it is her turn. After Caroline tells Stefan to burn the letter, Elena is shocked and tells him no, but Stefan wants to keep the ruse up and does. A doctor, Grayson fakes a birth certificate so that it appeared Elena was his daughter with Miranda. He thought she hated whiskey. He asks her if he's lost her forever, but she just thanks him. She doesn't want to get out of her bed. The three then reveal their past to the gang. In his thoughts, Elena meets with Damon to where they first met and she asks him how bad it is. Like & Subscribe for more content ♥ Before Elena could blink, or Damon could be helpful in any way, shape or form, Katherine and Nadia were both gone. Now that Elena is a vampire, her feelings are magnified, including her feelings for Damon, and they're much harder for her to ignore and push aside. Elena comments how its the only baby picture of her boyfriend in existence, so of course she brought it back. Caroline then sees Liam coming and leaves. However, after realizing that Katherine had secretly escaped the tomb but hadn't cared enough about him to find him, he resented her. Elena realized that their lives are connected meaning if she dies, he dies. She says she's afraid that he'll lose a bit of himself if he takes the cure and that he'll resent her for it. Elena is then confronted by Stefan about feeding off of Damon and she feels guilty for doing so when she realizes how upset and distraught Stefan was. Elena forgives her. He tries to kiss her, but she rejects him, saying that she needs to be by herself and make sure everyone's safe. Elena is seen with Bonnie trying to cover up the bruises on Bonnie's neck when Lily tried to choke her to death. As Damon lures him away, Elena and Alaric run off to the car. Stefan comes down and frees her. She asks Liz if she really thinks there was something up with her parents' crash. April dropped. They are just about to take things to the next level, when instead of seeing her beloved Stefan, she sees her be-lusted, Damon. She dropped the match, and they walk out as the flames built. She is told of her former feelings for Damon soon afterwards, but decides to stay the way she is, as she doesn't want to go back to being unhappy again. However, Klaus killed Elena's aunt Jenna, after turning her into a vampire, leaving Jeremy her only blood relative left alive. Jo tells them they need to get it back as Lily's companions are a group of siphoners called the Heretics that were turned into vampires and they are a lot more dangerous. Yet Elena had become human, although in a supernatural coma, since the end of season six, leaving Stelena fans quick to point out the possibility of the triangle resurfacing. And then did it. Guardians are said to create balance between good vs. evil on Earth and are destined to fight all darkness and evil vibes on Earth, restoring good on Earth as much as possible. For some reason, Elena thought this was a good time for her and Stefan to talk about Damon. Finally, Stefan can't take it anymore and tells her that she had Alaric compel her to forget loving Damon.