Damon professed desire for his future wife, Elena, long before she reciprocated those feelings, but it turns out, not before she first felt them. Damon admitted his love for Elena in The Vampire Diaries season 2, episode 8, "Rose", when he returned Elena's vervain necklace to her.
Season 1 - Enemies To Friends
It's easy to forget that Damon wasn't always desperately in love with Elena, and when they first met, he was willing to let her die on more than one occasion. All he cared about was getting Katherine out of the tomb, but things changed when he realized Katherine had been free all along.
It's discovered that because Elena had feelings for Damon when she was human and it was his blood which turned her, a sire bond has been created between them. Damon begins to doubt her feelings for him and believes they are solely built on the sire bond.
The Vampire Diaries: 3×10- Damon and Elena first kiss HD.
The Vampire Diaries - 4x01 - Elena Remembers Damon Telling Her He Loves Her.
Similar to when a human becomes a vampire, the transition serves to break any and all past compulsions. As such, Alaric's previous efforts were undone and Elena's memories of Damon were restored — starting with the charmingly awkward official first date the two shared.
And yes, the show later confirmed that Damon and Elena have multiple children - Jenna, Sarah Lillian and a son, Grayson.
Though a few years later, Elena and Damon divorced; with Elena getting custody of their five children. Elena is a member of the Petrova Family, and a member of the Gilbert Family. She is also a member of the Salvatore Family via her former marriage and her children.
"Do You Remember the First Time?" is the 7th episode of the sixth season of the American series The Vampire Diaries and the series' 118th episode overall.
Somtime during season six of The Vampire Diaries, Elena give birth to her and Jacob's first and only child, Bonnie Rebekah Fogerty. They named their daughter in honor of their two friends, Bonnie Bennett and Rebekah Mikaelson.
Couple Goals: Damon Was Devoted To Elena
Although he comes to Mystic Falls to free Katherine from the tomb, Damon falls for his brother's girlfriend and is irrecoverably in love with her throughout the rest of the series.
'The Vampire Diaries': Damon and Elena (Season 4, Episode 7) It was the moment Delena fans had been waiting for: Damon and Elena finally got it on. And, after a few fake-outs, it was the real deal.
Elena and Katherine (as well as Tatia) are all doppelgangers of each other, stemming from Amara, the first look-alike genitor of the Petrova family. This means they all look exactly the same. Elena and Katherine's paths keep intertwining throughout the whole series.
In My Brother's Keeper, and We'll Always Have Bourbon Street, it was revealed that Elena, as well as Charlotte were sired to Damon, as it was his blood that turned them. Damon also mentions that it is rare among vampires.
Indeed, Stefanie Salvatore — as referenced during a Season 1 episode of The CW's Legacies — is the daughter of Elena Gilbert and Damon Salvatore, named in loving memory of the late, great Stefan.
Stefanie is the witch daughter of Damon Salvatore and Elena Gilbert; the younger sister of Jenna, Grayson, and Zachary Salvatore; the older sister of Sarah Salvatore, and the older half-sister of Macaria, Johnathan, and Alatheia Mikaelson.
She eventually chooses Stefan in the season finale but before she can tell him, Elena drowns while having vampire blood in her system. During the last moments of season three, she awakens as a vampire in transition.
Stefanie Salvatore is the heretic daughter of Damon Salvatore and Elena Gilbert, as well the younger twin sister of Stefan Salvatore. She is a witch from the Salvatore bloodline and a vampire, she gets her vampire side from both of her parents.
In "The Vampire Diaries," lead Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev) was 17 at the start of the series, while vampire brothers Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder) were 162 and 169 years old, respectively (as the show explains within the first season).
Grayson is the hybrid son of Damon Salvatore and Elena Gilbert, the twin brother of Jenna Salvatore, and the older brother of Stefanie and Sarah Salvatore. He is the grandson of Giuseppe Salvatore, Lillian Salvatore, John Gilbert, and Isobel Flemming and the step-grandson of Alaric Saltzman.
Like mentioned before, Elena and Damon did live a long and happy life together before they both died. Since Legacies takes place about 10 or so years after the end of The Vampire Diaries, they are both still together and alive.
He was no longer an Original while he was across the barrier, therefore he died as a mortal so it didn't effect the compulsion.
Elena Falls for Damon Without Her Memories
Despite no longer remembering her past with Damon, Elena still feels a strong connection to him and eventually falls for him again.