AN: I saw a fanvideo explaining the finale thing that they used to explain Nina's leaving vampire diaries and wow that was not okay, so I wrote this. It used to be called Cor Meum, but I always think of the song when I think of Elena in a coma so it was changed. Sorry for any possible confusion.


She has a few minutes left, and she dials the familiar number, hoping, praying her ally in New Orleans will pick up.

"Elena?" He sounds surprised but she doesn't have much time for pleasantries. He's survived everything, he's the oldest person she knows, she wants to make a deal. She doesn't bother trying to stop the tears. He has to make the deal. Please, she wills. Please.

"Elijah, I don't have much time. My life is tied to Bonnie's. I can't live while she does. I'll be in a coma in a few minutes, and I want to make a deal. Protect Jeremy. Please. For me." She says, and he can hear the shakiness in her breath.

"Anything else?" He asks.

"Can you be there? When you know that Bonnie's dead-can you be there?" She asks. She's asking him to be there when she wakes up into a strange world.

"We have a deal. I'm sorry to hear about that." He says, and they're talking as fast as possible.

"Me too. I'll see you when I wake up. Goodbye, Elijah." She says.

"Goodbye for now, Elena." He says and she hangs up. I love you, she wants to say, but Elijah deserves to live his life-not wait for her. She's been told he's getting close to Hayley. The thought had made her heart hurt, but she had been a coward, and hadn't told him. It was her fault. Besides, if he loved Hayley, he should be with someone who made him happy.

All of her affairs are in order, she'll be in a coma in a hospital run by vampires. Stefan and Damon, and Caroline promise to check on her. Her house is still standing, the Salvatores promise to take care of it. Her journals are being copied into digital files by Caroline, and her things are either donated or saved, depending on their life span. She looks at them, looks at all of the people she loves, save one.

"I love you." She says as she feels her mind start to go. It's not to a single person, they know. It's to all of them. She falls-someone holds her before her mind goes black and she remembers the feeling of being held.