Elena and Alex

### Intimacy Levels

Twin Sister, Close Family Bond; Allies; They are protective of one another and love each other, They would do anything for each other, Elena knows Alex's style of clothing very well

### Status

Twin Sisters, Close Family Bond; Allies

**This is the sibling relationship between hybrid doppelgänger, Elena Gilbert and original tribrid doppelgänger Alex 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 Alex. 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
* Season Two
* Season Three
* Season Four
* Season Six

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 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 Elena witnessed Alex killing Vicki, Theo and Alex explained to Elena that Vampire's were real and to not tell anyone. 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.

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, Alex now wants to kill someone who she thought was her friend. 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, Theo, and Stefan, are inflicting on Katherine, Bonnie discovers she's linked to Katherine and Jeremy runs to tell Damon, Theo, and Stefan 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.

Elena spent all summer trying to find her twin and for Stefan with the help of Damon and Theo. 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 accepted the face that it wasn't her and that she needs to feel pain before she could be truly happy. Alex apologizes to Elena and they pull each other in for a hug.They're devastated when Esther turns Alaric into an Enhanced Original Vampire, thinking it was their fault.

Alex finding out Elena's a hybrid 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 cursed by a witch to be sired to Damon and she tried to tell Elena that her feelings for him are not real. Alex tries to find anything about a curse that made someone sired to someone. After Elena, Stefan, and Theo 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, Ariana, 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.

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