Chapter 2:

"So you're telling me that Matt hasn't been in Rosalie's life that much?" he asked as he watched her take a bite of the beignet she was enjoying.

She nodded as she used her thumb to get the remaining powdered sugar from the corner of her lips. Though their clothes were covered in the white powder. "Yes. I mean, I get that he's busy being a Deputy in Mystic Falls and I'm volunteering as a nurse in Whitmore but that doesn't mean that he can just ignore her and begin playing video games that are way to violent for her to see."

He agreed with her one hundred percent. He had banned Kol's more violent, graphic and extremely provocative video games though Kol told him that if the girls were around, he wouldn't be playing them at all.

"You must think that I'm a horrible person for leaving him three years ago." She sighed sadly. "I didn't want to at first until Damon of all people told me that he was bedding Nadia."

Seeing the tear escape her eye, he leaned over and wiped it with his thumb. "You know I hate it when you start crying."

She nodded. "I know." She did know and the number of times he had sat with her, just drying her tears made her smile, "and thinking back to my relationship with him from high school to when we broke up, I realized that we wouldn't have worked out well." She gave a sad little giggle. "Caroline was wrong this time. She said that we'd 'last forever'."

He winced and knew that if Caroline had found out about what Matt had done, she would have him arrested and maybe even detained until the custody hearing would be sorted out.

She did the same thing to Hayley when he and Klaus were trying to do that.

He had never been more afraid of anyone until he met her.

"How long are you in New Orleans?" he asked her and she gave him a real smile.

"I was just looking for an apartment here."

In the end, he had found her a great apartment in the same complex that Cami lives in and as she twirled around in the living room, she nodded.

"I want this apartment." The landlord and realtor who were with her nodded and hand her papers to sign as Elijah watched her.

He was filled with happiness as Rosalie-who inherited her mother's looks with her father's baby blues-was looking around her new home happily in her little pink dress and her hair pulled into a French braid that was tied at the end with a pink ribbon.

Once the men left, Elena looked at Elijah and smirked.

"Want to help me unpack?" He snorted.

"You want me to get the help of my brothers to help you unpack, don't you?" she nodded with a smirk. "Fine-I'll call them but don't be surprised if you see Stefan here."

"I won't be." Pressing her lips to his cheeks, she walked into one of the bedrooms with Rosalie and he pulled his phone from his jeans pocket.

Twenty nine missed calls from Klaus, Caroline and surprisingly enough Fin and a little over eighty texts from his siblings.

It took him six minutes to get his brothers on board with helping Elena move her things into the apartment in which Stefan and Klaus tried moving the couch only for Elena to hate in one spot ("I don't want it in front of the front door!") and to love it in another ("Right up against the wall on next to the window looks perfect!") while he, Fin and Kol had to move boxes and boxes of things.

By the time they all finished, it was dinner time and Elijah decided to take her and Rosalie out to dinner with him and Katelynne.

"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone; we find it with another"

Caroline Mikaelson sighed as she read that quote to Hope who was clinging onto wakefulness before Caroline kissed her forehead and the girl went out like a light.

"Is she asleep?" She turned to look at her husband of five months and nodded.

"I read that quote to her and kissed her forehead," Caroline told Klaus as she stood up. "Fell asleep right after."

He wrapped an arm around her waist and placed a hand on flat abdomen. She was currently two months pregnant with their child and she had always considered Hope as her daughter.

"Elena lives here in New Orleans with her daughter." Klaus divulged. "She's single as well."

Caroline sighed. "Damn it Matty, what did you do."

"Does Nadia's surprise pregnancy ring any bells?" Caroline was now furious.

"He knocked her up?" at his nod, she was hissing softly. "Where's Elena?"

"Out with Elijah, Rosalie and Katelynne."

The restaurant was beautiful and a bit crowded but she didn't mind. Oceana was the type of restaurant that one would love going to for that homemade food.

Both girls decided that they wanted-Katelynne wanted the Greek Omelet while Rosalie wanted the egg white and spinach one. Elena smiled at them both and kissed Rosalie's head.

"Do you know what you're getting?" Elijah asked. She thought for a moment and nodded.

"Catfish."

"Here I thought you would get the oysters."

"I was thinking that we all could get that as an appetizer."

He kissed her forehead once he dropped her off and smiled. "Do you think that we could do this again?"

"I would like that."