Can I use my HD wich i alrady have my documents in it? Will time machine de

Will time machine delete them?

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
Your best bet is to partition the drive, so TM has it's own, exclusive space. As Thomas says, TM is designed to fill all the space available to it, then it will begin deleting the oldest backups to make room for new ones.
Be aware, though, that TM should have, as a general rule of thumb, 2 - 3 times the space of what it's backing-up, so it can keep a reasonable "depth" of backups for you.
He's also right about backing-up the other partition. Time Machine will do that, and it's better than no backup at all, but when (not if) the drive fails, you may lose both copies. So it's best to use a separate drive, or back-them up some other way, like to DVDs.
To partition the drive, see item 6 of the Frequently Asked Questions post at the top of this forum.

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