Delena
Damon Salvatore/Elena Gilbert
The Vampire Diaries' endgame couple: the volatile elder Salvatore and the girl who saw something worth saving in him. Their road trips, the 'I will always choose you' era, and a love that survived sire bonds and supernatural comas defined the show's run.
What is Delena?
Delena is the fan-given name for the romantic pairing of Damon Salvatore and Elena Gilbert from The Vampire Diaries. With over 7,000 works on Archive of Our Own, it's one of the most popular ships in the fandom.
Why fans love Delena
Consuming, messy, all-or-nothing romance — fans wanted the love that challenges over the love that's safe, and Delena is the archetype.
Most Popular Delena Fanfics
The highest-rated Delena stories on AO3, ranked by kudos.
A Thousand Years
by vanessa_rein
𝔪𝔦𝔨𝔞𝔢𝔩𝔰𝔬𝔫/𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔳𝔞𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔢 After nearly two centuries of lies, betrayal, and survival, Adelaide Salvatore thought she'd finally built a life worth living. But when the past returns, in the form of the brothers she spent a century longing to find and the man she thought she'd lost forever.
Seeking Sanctuary
by eefdone
She hides her face into the pillow, finally letting the tears fall and soak into the fabric in relative privacy. He waves his wand and mutters healing spells over her back. She can feel the lashes knitting together and grits her teeth against the pain, his healing is a fair bit rougher than the more
What The Living Do
by BellaDonnaslove
Damon and Elena took the cure. Now they have to figure out what a life actually looks like when it has an end.They wanted this. That doesn't make it easy. A post-cure Delena story about the first weeks of a mortal life, told in alternating chapters.
New orleans will remember
by Moonlit_Daydr3amer89
Elena wants to bring Lexi back to life so Lexi can help Stefan trough the trauma of drowning over and over. She doesn't want Damon to find out about this so she asks Bonnie and Caroline to help her find a solution. After Bonnie and Elena also had a "private" conversation Bonnie finds out Elena is up
Bite Back
by Kay_Squared
After a long night of writing her OC’s lore, Stefanie gets caught in a storm and wakes up as her OC Ivanna Montclair who has a high chance of falling into a fate similar to death.-This is gonna be a pretty slow burn because Damon hates her right off the bat due to her doppelgängers actions.Im in the
Salvation Epilogue
by Ruall
When Elena finally turned around, she found him leaning against the wall near the entrance, watching her through half-lowered lashes. Elena ignored the feeling his gaze stirred in her. Was it apprehension, or anticipation? Sometimes, with Damon, she wasn't entirely sure there was a difference. "Make
𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲|ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴀᴍᴘɪʀᴇ ᴅɪᴀʀɪᴇꜱ
by NebulaVoyager
Sam never imagined his death; the thought never even brushed his mind. But fate had something extraordinary in store for him when it finally happened. He awoke, reborn not as himself but as a character he had once watched from the sidelines-a plain human in a world teeming with vampires, werewolves,
Metanoia
by Wanda_galathynius
Metanoia - A journey of changing one's heart, mind, or way of life.Emalyn Gilbert never knew what her purpose was, all she knew was that someday she would find it. A journey full of doppelgangers, vampires, witches, and death was not what she had in mind. Oh well, what're you going to do?
Witches of the South
Completeby poshpunk96
Mystic Falls is celebrating a wedding. Bonnie Bennett thought the worst thing she’d face was heartbreak. Now something in the dark has started circling her door—and it already knows where she sleeps.
Down, Down, Down
by Wanda_galathynius
Alice Lockwood loves Mystic Falls; she’s loved it since the second she set eyes on it. Even with the dangers in the shadows and demons of the night, it is her home. Alice will fight to keep her home safe because, unlike the isolated embrace of Portland, Oregon, Alice belongs in Mystic Falls
Young God, Young Blood
by Ai_Megurine
In which Caroline Forbes is born Charles "Charlie" Forbes, a gay teenager in the middle of Nowhere, Virginia. Things change a lot. Pairings: Charlie/Jeremy (briefly), Charlie/Kol Mikaelson (endgame), Bonnie/Tyler. Charlie's face claim is Joseph Zada
Old Debt
by abcABC910
When Elena is suddenly kidnapped, Caroline rushes to the Salvatore Boarding House to warn Damon and Stefan. The group discovers Elena’s abandoned car and a chilling message meant specifically for Damon, revealing the kidnapping is revenge for a massacre he committed over a century ago against the Bl
In Our Own Time
by dreamsaslightasfeathers
Falling in love is never easy. Choosing to love is even harder. Being in love doesn't mean you let go. Feeling in love doesn't earn your trust. We had to find out if our love was real. We had to believe we were enough. Looking back on it, it was inevitable. We just had to figure it out in our own t
The Last Melvraux
by Celiadiaries
Lily Parker was born from two powerful bloodlines-the Gemini Coven... and the last surviving heir of the Melvraux witches.A siphoner as a father and an elemental witch as a mother. Raised in the shadows by Katherine Pierce, Lily became her mirror: sharp-tongued, untrusting, dangerous, and taught to
Viajeras del Tiempo en Mystic Falls
by Darleny062001
Un hechizo fuera de control. Tres jóvenes atrapadas en el pasado. Un futuro que pende de un hilo.En medio de una acalorada discusión, Hope Mikaelson, Lizzie y Josie Saltzman activan accidentalmente un hechizo que las transporta al año 2009, una época en la que el mundo era muy diferente: Caroline Fo
Blood and Brambles
by Gwenaria1
A lot happened in Alice's life - being orphaned and being adopted by her uncle, watching her sister fall in love to a member of a Founding Family, to them dying and having to suddenly look after her niece and nephew with her sister Jenna. Surely nothing else could happen? X post on Wattpad and FF.
The Coffin Years
by WalkingThePlank
Caroline Forbes wakes up thirty-nine years in the future, desiccated in a coffin for reasons she incorrectly remembers.The world has changed. Mystic Falls has adapted.Everyone has moved on without her.Everyone except Klaus Mikaelson.A future-set Klaroline about time, immortality, searching, and wait
Back in your arms
by isy_correa
Caroline was in a terrible moment, her daughters were taken from her, and her “friends” acted as if everything was fine, on a night tired of everything, she receives a visit from a being who gives her the mission to go back in time to fix what went wrong. The blonde just did not count that she would
Neon Magic and Velvet Teeth
Completeby Lovely_lyonn
This is my first fic and probably the last lmao 🤣 I just wrote it just for shit and giggles please don't take it seriously yes I used Ai to do some work but this is my idea if you don't like please don't read and if you like the it and want to continue I don't mind I'm more of a reader than writerS
Promise of Eternity
by 25lilshifter
When Eve Frost Salvatore abandoned her peaceful life in Paris to save her brothers' lives, she never expected to be dragged into the mess that was Mystic Falls. Nor did she want the near-death experiences that seemed to occur every day, testing her immortal nature. Eve thought she'd seen everything
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What does Delena mean?
Delena is the ship name (portmanteau or nickname) for the pairing of Damon Salvatore and Elena Gilbert. It's used by fans to tag and search for fanfiction featuring this relationship.
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There are over 7,000 Delena fanfiction works on Archive of Our Own.
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