Season Three

In The Birthday, Elena has just turned 18 and is still trying to find Stefan ever since he left Mystic Falls. She gets a lead fro

m Sheriff Forbes and tells Damon about it. Damon goes with Alaric to Tennessee, while Elena stays with Caroline and Tyler to help in her 18th birthday party. Later that night, Damon gives Elena the necklace that Stefan gave to her once, which she lost a while ago. After Elena discovers that Damon has been looking a lot more for Stefan then she thought, she confronts him about not telling her. Damon tells her that Stefan is gone and is not coming back. At the end of her birthday, she gets a call from Stefan and tells him that she loves him and to hold onto that. Elena is as determined as ever in The Hybrid to find and bring Stefan back home. After unsuccessfully asking Damon for help, Elena goes and seeks help from Alaric. She then finds out information about werewolves and where certain packs could be hanging out from Tyler, specifically those packs in Tennessee. Alaric and Elena head off to the mountains, where they engage in bantering, and her telling Alaric that he's not a lost cause. Damon surprises her and flings her into the lake.

It turned out Alaric sold her out, as he didn't want to take her somewhere without protection. The trio find Ray Sutton in the woods, where he attacks Damon. After bombing him with a wolfsbane grenade, they tie him up, and Elena is determined to ask him the whereabouts of Stefan. Ray starts to change into a werewolf while the sun is up, and they flee. As Damon lures him away, Elena and Alaric run off to the car. Back at the house and in her room, Damon tells Elena that he will help her search for Stefan and bring him back, but he wants her to remember that in Stefan's absence, she was worried about Damon getting hurt, and that she has to remember those feelings.

Later Elena with Damon goes to Chicago where Stefan and Klaus are, They go into his apartment and she see a list if all his victims and is shock. Later she hides in the closet when Stefan and Klaus enter only Stefan see her but doesn't say anything . She gets Damon to distract Klaus so she can talk to Stefan and drug him with vervain but it doesn't work.Elena then is hurt when Stefan tells her he doesn't want to see her again

In Disturbing Behavior Damon is helping Elena make so chill for the Lockwood party and the two share a moment. Later when Damon wants to go after Bill Forbes Elena along with Alaric tries to stop him but Damon kills Alaric in Elena shock, she calls Caroline then for help. After the fight between D

Klaus offers Elena to Stefan (ripper)

amon and Caroline she yells at Damon whats wrong with him he tells her he not Stefan.

In The Reckoning Elena the the other are plan senior prank night when she walks in to Klaus he brings her to the gym.Later she watchers him kill Tyler. When Stefan enters saying Elena means nothing to him Klaus hits Elena as she falls, Stefan attacks Klaus and gets compelled to attack Elena in 20 mins. When times up Elena runs away while Stefan tries to follow, Klaus then makes Stefan turn it off and he bites Elena. Later Damon saves her from the hospital and brings her to the Salvatore boarding house where she is upset.

In Smells Like Teen Spirit Elena is being train by Alaric