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She remembers being nervous, she remembers terror and she remembers Rose announcing Elijah had arrived. She doesn't remember anything after that. She's on the couch she was on earlier and there are four vampires staring at her. One is unfamiliar and she blink blink blinks.
She's never actually seen-the new vampire-Elijah. He had to be the reason. She sees color now.
"Elijah-" Rose trails off.
"You're free to go." He tells her and she's gone. The Salvatores both begin to speak and Elijah silences them with a look.
"I want to talk to the doppelganger. Alone. Let me or one of your heads will be on the floor in a few seconds." The thought reminds Elena that Trevor is missing, she sits up, and gasps when she sees Trevor's head on the floor. She smells blood.
"Alright." Stefan says, and Damon looks pissed. Elijah looks at her, and she gets up from the couch, and walks with him. In a flash, she feels his hand on her arm, and they're in a forest, surrounded by trees. He looks at her like he wants to figure out exactly how she works.
"You're my-" She can't say the word.
"Your bodyguards can't hear." He tells her.
"We're soulmates?" She asks him, and he nods.
"This doesn't change my plans, however." He tells her, and she keeps looking at him, and then the trees behind him. She wonders what color their leaves are. Blue?
"What plans?" She asks.
"I intend to use you to lure out Klaus and kill him." He says casually, like they're talking about the weather.
"You're going to-" She trails off. She doesn't know him. But she wants to. She doesn't believe he'd let her die-she would never let him, if only for the colors.
"Lure him out so he can break his curse. The sun and moon curse is fake. It's Klaus's curse. It is a very long story, one I will tell you someday. I'm prepared to make a deal with you to placate your bodyguards." He says. She wants to be mad, she is his soulmate in all senses of the word-and he's making a deal. But she hasn't seen what he has seen. She has no idea what he's doing or what he's lived through. She has no idea how old he is, but she trusts him.
"What kind of a deal?" She barely recognizes her own voice.
"I will protect your loved ones, in return-you assist me in killing Klaus." He says.
"You tell your loved ones of the first half. I intend to lure him out, keep you safe and kill him. However, no one else needs to know that we are soulmates." He says, and she looks at him, with a raised eyebrow.
"If it is discovered that you are my soulmate, someone might kidnap you and attempt to use you to get to me. Or vice versa. It is safer for both of us that we do not discuss this until Klaus is dead."
"Deal." She says. He grins, and they're back-the Salvatores cast suspicious looks at him, intending to lead her out of the house.
"Oh, and Elena?" He asks, and she turns around.
"I look forward to seeing you in the near future." He says and gives her another grin.