A.N. Enjoy!

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She could feel the warmth on her face, it made her feel tingly, like when you jump into a cool pool on a hot summer day. She didn't want to get up, she was comfy, and warm. After a few moments she opened her eyes and realized she wasn't in her room. Sitting up frantically she looked around, beside her was a piece of paper folded in half.

Sorry I didn't wake you, I just figured you could use the rest. When your up come join us for breakfast.

D.

Slowly she remembered. She left her house to come to Damon's house, thing, to get away for awhile. She suddenly remembered her papers that needed to be marked. Jumping out of bed she looked around the room trying to find her bag. After a couple minutes of confusion she finally found her bag. Grabbing her pen, glasses, and the papers she started walking and marking. Every now and then she would look up to make sure she wasn't going to bump into anything, and then she realized she was lost. She stopped and listened. She could hear a faint noise of sizziling, following that and her nose, she wound up in the kitchen to a laughing Caroline, Damon, and another man. She stopped when her and the man locked eyes.

"He could be friendly, or another illusion." She looked at Stefan from the corner of her eye. After a few moments Damon turned around to grab a plate from the cupboard and he noticed Elena standing there staring at his friend.

"This is Niklaus. A co-worker." Smiling he nodded his head and continued to gather things around the rather large kitchen.

"Call me Klaus." He gave a warm smile, but she was still hesitant.

"So.. you guys can see him?" Klaus gave her an odd look and both Caroline and Damon gave her a sympathetic look.

"Yes, he's here." Nodding her head she walked over to the stools and placed the papers down and began marking, until she realized her glasses weren't on. She patted the top of her head, her face and even her chest, and she grew more puzzled until they were dangling in front of her face. Looking up she saw Caroline dangling them in front of her with a massive smile on.

"You were so worried about your papers you didn't notice me taking them when you walked by." This caused Elena to giggle, every now and then Caroline would do this to make her smile, and it always worked. She reached for her glasses only to have Damon pluck them from Caroline's hand.

"What is this? Keep away?" She crossed her arms and pouted. Causing everyone to laugh.

"It's called teasing, they're trying to cheer you up. Something I was good at." She turned to face someone she hasn't seen in awhile. This caused her to drop her pen and stare, not hearing Caroline or Damon. "Long time eh Lena'?"

She started reaching out, trying to grab the closest person near her, which ended up being Klaus. She just kept a firm grip on him, ignoring the voices, she just concentrated on the person in front of her.

"Oh come on! You haven't seen your best friend in years and I don't even get a hello?"

"bonnie..." It was barely audible, but they all heard it. Suddenly Caroline was in front of her holding her face, but all she could do is follow Bonnie who was pacing behind Caroline. All of a sudden she was facing the counter and her cheek was stinging. Bringing her hand up she looked at Caroline.

"I'm sorry Elena, but you weren't answering me, or looking at me." She gave a soft nod. Caroline gave a soft smile. "Who did you see Elena?" All she could do was stare at Caroline, she didn't know how to find her voice, looking down she saw paper and a pen. Not caring what she was writing on she wrote two words. Bonnie Benett. Caroline nodded and looked at the boys. "Damon, make a vanilla milkshake, Klaus go get a blanket." Confused they did as they were told not asking questions. "Elena, I'll be right back ok? I'm just going to get your walkman." She nodded.

After a few moments they had everything ready. Caroline walked over to the boys while Elena listened to her music.

"Whose Bonnie?" Damon couldn't take his eyes off of her.

"Bonnie was the care taker before me." Damon was curious, Klaus was just lost. "Bonnie was Elena's only friend when she was older, but Bonnie couldn't take it anymore and ended up leaving in the middle of the night, no one has seen her since. It's why Elena moved out here to Mystic Falls. Bonnie was like another sibling to Elena who didn't abandon her."

"So she was devasted when she woke to no one else in the house." Caroline nodded looking back at Elena. "How long ago was this?"

"Maybe 5 years ago? I've been with her for awhile so I don't know everything but I know enough."

"Does the music work?"

"Sometimes, her mother used to make her a vanilla milkshake and wrap her in a blanket when it was like this, most times it works other times... Well... other times it isn't this easy." They stared back at Elena watching her play with the straw in the milkshake.

"I'm completely lost." They looked back at Klaus who looked like a lost child trying to find his way home.

"I'll explain, but not in here. Damon-"

"Yea, I'll stay." Exchanging looks and nods Caroline and Klaus went to the living room and Damon went to sit in front of Elena.

After awhile Elena opened her eyes and took off the headphones. She couldn't meet Damons eyes, fearful of the judgement she would see.

"Sorry about that." She started to play with the straw again, not sure of what she should do.

"I told you. You don't have to be sorry about anything." She could only nod.

"Oooo, he DEFINETLY likes you girly!" Bonnie practiacally squealed. Looking up she saw Bonnie leaning agaisnt Damon. She gave her a death glare. Causing Damon to look at his shoulder.

"She standing beside me?"

"I wish she was here so I could hit her." Without another word she got up and walked out of the kitchen. She decided to walk around the house, since she would be staying there for awhile. She got to one part that looked like a mix of a library and a den. You had to take a step down to enter the giant room. In the middle was a massive stone fire place. On either side of the room was giant book cases filled with books, trinkets and alcohol. There was even a serving tray off to the side. She started leaving the room, she got into the hall way and something caught her eye. Walking down the hall she saw a small room no bigger than a childs room was tapped off. It looked like it was being redesigned. Looking around she didn't see anyone around her, feeling brave she crossed the tape.

"There was a reason the tape was up." Bonnie stood under the archway with her arms crossed, shaking her head.

"Shut up, I don't care." She carefully manuvered around the room, dusting off an old chest she opened it finding old photo albums. Picking one up, she saw people in the photos dressed up and dancing, flipping through she saw couples, children, teens even dancing and laughing. She kept flipping until she got to one page and stopped. There, in the picture smiling away, was her parents, her, Katherine, Jeremy and Damon, with Stefan and their parents, all happy. Jeremy was on their dad's shoulders. Katherine looking up at their mom, and Elena looking over at Damon, who was looking at his mother. Losing her footing she fell backwards, landing on her butt. She heard an odd creak, before she could stand up she felt the ground beneath her give. She threw the album and tried to grabbed onto the ledge, but this only caused her to cut her hand, she screamed, and in an instant everything went black.

Moaning she rolled onto her back looking up. She could see the hole in the ground that she fell through. Groaning she felt a sharp pain in her hand. Slowly sitting up she looked around, she was in a dark room, it smelled old and musty. Standing up she felt the walls with her good hand, she could feel a door handle but it wouldn't budge so she kept feeling. After a few stumbling walks she started to feel cylinder objects picking one up she brought it to the light. It was a bottle of wine, she was in a wine cellar.

"Told you."

"Shut up Bonnie." She didn't even look at her she just looked up. Suddenly Damon and Klaus were leaning over the hole. A sudden relief swept over her.

"You ok?!"

"I cut my hand pretty bad, sore, but I'm good."

"Did you not see the tape?" Klaus yelped as Damon punched him in the shoulder.

"Yea, just, someone told me not to, so I wanted to."

"Alright well I think I know what room your in, so I'll be down in a minute."

"I'm in some sort of wine cellar." Damon stopped and looked at her with confusion then back at Klaus.

"We don't have a wine cellar you sure?" Sighing, she held up the wine bottle that was in her hand.

"I found the door, but it won't open, and I can't do much with one hand." Damon sat there puzzled for a moment.

"Only thing I can think of is you banging around until I find the door. Count to 20 then start banging."

"Aye aye captain." She counted to 20 and started banging the door.

"It's not going to work, you're stuck in here sista."

"Bonnie, I swear to god, I'm going to hit you."

"Funny thing, you can't, I'm a ghost here, only you can see me."

"SHUT UP!" She whipped her head around and faced Bonnie who had a smug smile on her face. "All you do is trash talk, go bother someone else!"

"I'll go for now, but I'll be back."

"Leave me alone!" She screamed to the air, she was more angry than upset, she couldn't stand Bonnie, not after what she did. She felt a hand on her shoulder and she whipped around, smacking the person. Realizing it was Damon she felt worse, tears started to well up. "D-Damon, I'm so sorry! I didn-" He grabbed her hand and looked at it.

"Doesn't look that bad, I have a first aid kit upstairs, common." Without looking at her he walked through the door, and she silently followed. When they got up the stairs Caroline came rushing over.

"Are you ok? Let me see!" She took Elena's hand and inspected it. "You're going to need stitches. I'll drive." Before anyone could say anything they were out the door.

"I smacked Damon.." She looked over at Caroline whose face had worry all over it.

"You didn't mean to."

"Care... I hit him..." She stared at the blonde and started to cry. Lately all she seemed to be doing is cry. "I... I... I hit him..." She cried all the way to the hospital, she let Caroline drag her around, she let the nurse give her stitches. When the nurse left Caroline came back with her coat.

"You didn't mean to hit him." She stared at Elena long and hard. "Who did you think was standing behind you?"

"Bonnie.." Caroline gave a silent nod, and helped Elena with her coat.

"Tell him that."

"But-"

"Tell him that." They looked at eachother, long and hard. "You like him, he likes you. He know's what you're going through. The fact that he's still around says a lot. You need to be as honest as you can, even if you think you will lose him, or me. We are not going anywhere Elena... We're not Bonnie. Common' the boys are waiting." They spent the long drive home in silence, they were just entering the driveway when Elena spoke.

"I've loved him since we first met..." She looked over a Caroline who gave a shocked look.

"So... That's him? The one you told me about with your sister?" Elena nodded. The just parked the car and sat in the driveway for a couple minutes. "Well, as your friend its my job to help you get the guy you want." She gave Elena a soft punch to the shoulder. Making Elena smile. "It won't take a lot of work though." With that she got out of the car, causing Elena to rush out.

"What do you mean?" Caroline only smiled and walked into the house. Elena ran after her, but before she walked in the door, she saw Damon standing with Caroline and Klaus with suitcases at his feet. Before she could say anything, a tall thin woman came around them looking at Elena. Causing Elena to stop dead in her tracks. Waiting for something to happen, holding their breaths.

"Hey... Sis..."

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Dun dun dunnnnn haha joking. Don't worry Elena is getting her break soon, but I needed another plot twist even though its only the begining. But hey, least you guys will get why Elena is the way she is.

Thanks for reading!