Author's Note:

Here is the second chapter! Two chapters in one day. I am on a roll! I don't own anything! I hope you enjoy this chapter! Should be longer or at least longer than the previous. I would like to thank those of you whose reviewed, favorite, and followed my story so far. Here are some questions that were asked from your reviews so far.

Beachgirl97: I do plan to reveal Elena's backstory of how she became a werewolf. I have in mind to keep it close to the Bitten storyline both the show and the book, but more the show than anything. But I think it's going to be awhile before we get to her backstory.

I hope you continue reading this story and enjoy it.

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The next morning out in the woods, Elena quickly jogged to her house in wolf form around to the backyard where she could see Logan standing with a pile of clothes in his arms.

Elena mentally sighed in relief at the sight of Logan. Last night when she reunited with Logan, Elena was so taken aback and caught up in the situation that there was no time for hugs and welcoming greetings.

"Come on," Logan said, motioning with his head towards the house. Elena walked after Logan who opens the sliding door and closes it behind her entrance.

"I'll stay down here while you change in your room," he said as Elena warily glanced around the house. "Don't worry. I've checked the perimeter last night and early this morning. I've taken care of everything in your absence, Elena. No one's here." He hands her the clothes which Elena takes carefully into her mouth.

Elena jogged up the stairs and into her room, closing the door behind her. She drops the clothes onto her bed and walks over to her windowsill, proceeding to close her curtains as gently as possible to not rip them. She walks to the end of her bed and inhaled through her nose before whimpering as her bones begins to reset themselves until she was back in her human form. She collapses onto the floor, panting as the pain settled and slowly sat up.

She paces herself as she gets dressed into jeans and a dark tank top after putting on a bra and underwear. Her curly hair cascaded down her back freely as the pins that were in her hair slipped out through last night's transformation.

Elena walked down the stairs, meeting Logan in the living room where she proceeds to hug him with a smile.

"Thank you so much for covering me," she said gratefully as they released one another from the hug.

"It's no problem. I was already going to find you once I got into town but then I heard about the Mikaelson ball and instantly knew you were going," Logan said and Elena shook her head at him.

"What are you doing here? I thought you hung around Toronto." Elena asked and Logan's face became serious.

"I got a text from Jeremy," he answered, digging in his pocket and pulled out his hand to see her phone in his grasp. "So did you. Sometime last night after you changed." Elena takes her phone back and unlocks it to see said text.

"Did you call him?" Elena said, glancing up at Logan through her lashes to see him nod.

"Yeah. I thought about coming to get you since not a lot of people knows where you are. Jeremy said that a girl was killed by a mutt in Bear Valley and he's calling a meet." At seeing her hardened expression, Logan hurriedly continued, "He expects us all to be there. It's a family obligation."

"Not my family anymore so not my obligation," Elena said, walking away from him and into the kitchen to make some breakfast. Logan followed her path.

"Just call him back, you know you have to." He said to her as she doesn't stop her preparations.

Logan sighed in resignation. "If this mutt does anything that shines light on our existence, we don't have these lives much longer."

"Which mutt killed the girl?" Elena asked as she walks to the counter with a bowl of cereal and a cup of coffee in each hand.

"He doesn't know. Jeremy caught the scent but he can't place it," he answered and Elena scoffed.

"Well that's easy which ones the most pissed off at Clay right now?" She quipped.

"Besides you?"

Elena gave him deadly glare that he gazes back at head on.

"Clay is a reason enough for me not to go back," Elena said.

"A girl was killed, Elena. Right outside Stonehaven," Logan said. "The pack needs you."

"But what about what I need?" she said, gazing up at him with a desperate look in her eyes. "My life is here now. It's normal for people to go out to have some brunch where you don't have to murder someone to hide your secrets. I just want to be normal."

"Elena, that ship sailed years ago," Logan spoke sympathetically and Elena closed her eyes sadly only to open them to gaze down at her breakfast. "Look, I'm staying at a bed and breakfast for a few days. I need to take care of some errands in the next town before leaving for Stonehaven. Just think, once we're there we can run free no questions asked."

"Don't you see? It's the minute I get out there that the questions start. Clay grilling me on my years away. I can't possibly tell him about Matt, Stefan... and Damon."

He looks over her shoulder blindly in understanding. "Unless you want to put their lives at risk." Elena sighed in frustration. "Nah, I'm kidding. Sort of." He added at the last minute. "But listen a few years ago when that coyote came at me you had my back there, right?" She nodded her head before he finished his sentence. "Well that's what family does for each other. That's why Jeremy is calling for a meet. The pack needs you."

She looks back at her food in contemplation.

"What if I wanted out altogether?" Elena asked and looked up at Logan with a defiant gaze that he sighed at.

"You're a werewolf, Elena. Ultimately, there is no way out."

She breathed out through her nose in defeat. "I'll be out on the first flight this evening."

"It's the right thing to do," he said with comforting touch on her hand.

She gave a small sad smile with a quiet, "Yeah."

He patted her hand comfortingly before walking away and out the door.

Elena fiddled with her fingers before resting her aching head in her hands.

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Author's Note:

And that's the second chapter! I hope to have another chapter ready for you sometime this week but here's an idea of what I hope to do with next chapter.

Chapter 3: Elena meets up with her friends and confrontation occurs between enemies