Elena and Alex

### Intimacy Levels

Twins, Close Family Bond, Allies; Protective of one another, Love each other, Would do anything for each other.

## Family Information

### Status

Twins; Allies

**This is the family relationships between the tribrid-doppelgänger, Elena Gilbert and tribrid-doppelgänger Alexandria Gilbert.**

***They are referred to as "Elalex" by fans.***

## Early History

Elena and Alex are the biological daughters of Isobel Flemming and John Gilbert. When Isobel was about to give birth she was in New Orleans and ended up at the Abattoir where Marcel Gerard was. He compelled doctors and nurses to help deliver the babies. After giving birth she took her babies to the bayou where the Crescents were and left them their for Lilith to take better care of them. When they were only four months old, Richard Xavier Dumas murdered Lilith and Logan Labonair and once again Marcel came and took Hayley, Elena, and Alex to Father Kieran. John showed up since he knew Father Kieran. He stated that he can take the twins to his older brother and wife and that they'd take them in as their own. Grayson Gilbert and Miranda Sommers-Gilbert adopted the twins and renamed them Elena and Alexandria. Two years later, Miranda gave birth to Jeremy.

After Grayson and Miranda picked Elena and Alex up from a party, their car ran off Wickery Bridge. An unconscious Elena and Alex was saved by Stefan as their parents died. Elena, Alex, and their little brother were left orphaned and left in the care of their aunt, Jenna.

## Throughout The Vampire Diaries

### Season One

On the first day of school, Elena and Alex tried to move on from their parents death so they put on a happy face. At the welcome back party, they went together to try and get some normal back to their life. Elena and Jeremy brought Vicki's body back to the party and Alex came over to help. Both twins tried to comfort an upset Jeremy, but he dismissed them. Elena tried to get Jeremy to stop seeing Vicki because she was older than him but Alex tried to convince her sister that it was fine. After they witnessed Stefan killing Vicki, Alex explained to her sister that Vampire's were real and to not tell anyone. Elena asked Damon to erase Jeremy's memories of Vicki's death but Alex was against it at first. Elena explained that it was for the best and Alex eventually agreed. They gradually returned to the strong bond they had once had before their parent's death. Alex revels to Elena that they were adopted and they both wanted to know more about were they came from. Eventually Alex finds out she's a witch and Elena had the gene, but wasn't able to do magic.

### Season Two

After hearing Katherine in the house, Elena and Alex ran to check on Jeremy who was in his room, unconscious following his failed attempt to become a vampire. Both twins attended the mayor's memorial. Alex tells her sister that Mason was in fact a werewolf. After Katherine uses compulsion to make Jenna stab herself to send a message to Alex, Elena and Alex hug and she comforts younger twin. Elena later showed up at the masquerade ball where Jeremy and Bonnie explained their plan to kill Katherine. After Elena feels the injuries Damon and Stefan, are inflicting on Katherine, Bonnie discovers she's linked to Katherine and Jeremy runs to tell Stefan and Damon before they kill her. Katherine uses a stake to cut open her hand but Alex's uses her magic to throw it across the room, preventing her from hurting her twin even more. Both Elena and Alex gets kidnapped by the vampire Trevor and brought them to a building were Rose-Marie was so that the vampires could trade the twins for their freedom from Elijah. During the sacrifice she was heartbroken to see Jenna and her twin die right in front of her. Later she was revived as a Tribrid and she attends Jenna and John's funeral with her twin, friends, and family. Before going to Klaus, Alex asked Bonnie to take the memory of knowing Elena's alive to protect her.

### Season Three

Elena spent all summer trying to find her twin and for Stefan with the help of Damon. When Alex returned to Mystic Falls she was cruel to the people around her, but deep down she just didn't want to feel anymore but she didn't turn her humanity off. Eventually she got the memory of Elena back and she cried, telling her that she was so sorry for what she's done and Elena pulls her into for a hug. They're devastated when Esther turns Alaric into an Enhanced Original Vampire, thinking it was their fault.

### Season Four

Alex finding out Elena's a vampire helped her in any way she could. She tried to find any spell to reverse vampirism but she was not successful. Eventually she finds out that she's sired to Damon and she tried to tell Elena that her feelings for him may not be real. She tries to find anything about a sire bond with a vampire. After Elena and Stefan return to town with a dead Jeremy, both Elena and Alex are in denial and believes his ring will bring him back. When Meredith arrives, wanting Elena and Alex to release the body to her, Alex is infuriated and attacks her. Bonnie then returns to town and reveals that she may be able to bring Jeremy back to life. As Bonnie, Caroline and Matt argue about the consequences, Elena and Alex realizes that Jeremy's really dead and begins to smell his decaying body. April calls, looking for Jeremy, but Alex tells her he's dead. Alex cries and Klaus comes and tries to help her. At prom, Elena with no humanity and Alex who had dark magic planned to help Rebekah get the cure so that the Mystic Falls Gang wouldn't use it on them. After *Graduation* Alex tells Elena and the others she want's to go to New Orleans and have the time of her life.

### Season Six

Alex returns from New Orleans to attend Elizabeth Forbes' funeral and Elena was happy to see her twin.

### Season Eight

Alex was happy to see Elena was out of her magical coma.

## Throughout The Originals

### Season One

Elena and Alex have a few phone calls. At the end of the season Elena, along with Stefan, Alaric, Matt, and Jeremy all visit Alex to see how she was doing.

### Season Two

Elena along with Damon and Jeremy comes and attends Jackson and Alex's wedding.

### Season Five

"*After mine and Alex's parents died, we thought we truly knew sadness. I've seen my brother die a couple times, but now when I see that my other half is gone, it's ten times worse then what I've ever felt before. Even though we did fight a lot of times but we stood by each other. She told me that our twin bond will never be broken or separated. That we'll always be there for one another and bring each other up. Now I don't have my other half to tell secrets too, or just talk about things. But being here with family is important, it says that we're not alone in this dark time. Alexandria Marie Gilbert-Salvatore will never be forgotten by me, or any of you. I hope you tell your future children or grandchildren about her and how she fought for all of us. She's a unique soul that cannot and will not be forgot, I love you my twin, my other half.*"
— **Elena** to **the Crescent Wolves**
In *God's Gonna Trouble the Water*, Elena learns of Alex's death and asks Freya, Katherine, and Arielle if it is actually true. She then attends two funerals of Alex, one in New Orleans and one in the Bayou that the Crescent Wolf Pack is holding. Before the second funeral, Elena walks into Hope, Nina, and Lily's room and tells them, along with Jax, that Alex always use to tell her something; which is: "*No matter how sad and angry you are, you have to be strong, not for other people but for yourself*".

Later on, Elena encounters Klaus in the Bayou after he carved Alex's name into the Kenner family memorial tree and they talk about Alex. Freya told Elena to tell Klaus he can go say his goodbyes to Alex; in the same way Elena's friends, Katherine, and Hope said bye to her when she was put in her magical coma thirteen years ago.

At her funeral in the Bayou, Elena delivers her speech after Freya delivered hers and talks about her and Alex's relationship as twins and how close they us to be before her death. After all the speech's, when they were going to torch Alex's body; Hayley told Elena she should be the one to do it. Elena then dropped the torch on the boat Alex's body laid upon and then pushed it out into the river.