Hey you guys. ^^ How is everyone? I know this update took me a while, but I was just too busy with RL, sooo many summer and pool parties, and then relationship drama. Well, you know that crap. But now I am back.

So, finally someone complained about the T Ration. I was asking that in chapter one, if it's too much, but I didn't get an answer on that, so I thought it all would be alright. I don't wanna change the Ration. And I can promise that it won't give much more of this violating scenes between Klaus and Elena. Maybe something in that direction, but nothing that hard anymore. So, I thought I'd warn the readers of this story in the summary. I'll add that this story is going to the edge of Rated T, because of domestic violence and that Klaus is abusive. I hope that is enough for you, please mention it in the review if there are any more problems. ;)

This chapter starts where we left off, ENJOY.


Elena was sitting on the couch in the great living room upstairs, only wearing a hoodie and sweat pants, because she was alone and wanted to relax a bit. She had sent Rosa home and Klaus was working. The door bell started ringing as Elena switched the tv channel, and she looked over to the widow, wondering who would ring at her door.

The last time she was alone and someone was at her door was when Stefan brought her the jacket back, and that wasn't the best day she'd had.

But she hoped the best when she stood up, went downstairs and opened the door. Bonnie, what was she doing here, Elena wondered, frowning softly to herself as she wrapped her arms around herself.

"Hey, Elena!" Bonnie greeted her smiling. This girl was one ball of sunshine, she could tell.

Elena shifted lightly on her spot. "Umm, hey.." she smiled quickly back at her.

Bonnie let her eyes run over Elena's body for a minute, and her eyes indeed caught a new bruise on Elena's leg, next to her knee, Bonnie couldn't remember that one when Stefan had brought Elena home with him. So it must be a new one.

"Can I come in?" Bonnie tried to invite herself in. Looking hopefully up at Elena. But she shook her head.

"It's a little messy in here." Elena muttered softly, shrugging her shoulders.

Bonnie frowned at her, knowing that this was just a lame excuse, she wondered what the actual reason was, though. Maybe Klaus was home. But no, there wasn't one car parked on the whole property, besides Bonnies now.

But Bonnie wouldn't gave up that easily. She knew she had said that Elena would come back all by herself, because woman like her always wanted help, but now she wasn't that sure anymore herself. Klaus seemed to have something on Elena, she wouldn't stay with him otherwise.

"Please?" Bonnie hacked in again.

Elena rolled her eyes under her eyelids, she was avoiding Bonnie's eyes. She sighed and shook her head to herself before she stepped aside and let Bonnie in, waving her towards the kitchen.

"Thanks." Bonnie smiled warmly. Making her way in the direction of where Elena's hand pointed.

"Mhmm.." Elena huffed and followed the black girl into the kitchen, offering her a chair as they sat down around a table. "So, what do you want?" she asked, her eyes on the table in front of her, she was still avoiding Bonnie's eyes, but Bonnie didn't care. She had spoken to people like this before, she knew what to do.

"I.." she started but decided that she didn't have to make a great show around Elena, so she was just direct. "Come with me." she broke out. "We can help you." Bonnie nodded at her, reaching her hand slowly over the table to take Elena's, but she pulled back.

"No." Elena said while leaning back into her chair. "I don't even need help, why would I?" she asked before she continued with something that made Bonnie fall out of her chair in her mind. "I'm happy." Elena said, simply as if it was true.

Bonnie couldn't help it but laugh at Elena, leaning back in her chair as well. "What are you telling me? You are happy? Where? Here? Never!" Bonnie answered her own questions and got a roll with the eyes from Elena for that.

"You don't know me, or anything about my marriage." Elena stated and leaned away.

Bonnie huffed. Frustrated with herself. "No, you are right, I don't." she said, and then her eyes went somehow sad. "But I can see that you're not happy." she murmured, shaking her head slowly at Elena. And her brown eyes bore into Elena's.

"You don't know anything.." Elena noted, more to herself than to Bonnie and looked down to the ground. This girl had no idea what was going on in her life and thought she could just show up at her door, uninvited, and save Elena from the mess that she'd once created.

No, no one could that. And no one would ever understand what she was doing, what she was living, why she was living like this and that it was unchangeable.

"So, tell me." Bonnie finally broke her out of her thoughts. Reaching over the table again and grabbing her hand, capturing it tightly this time and not letting it go as she looked Elena deeply into her eyes, letting her know it was okay to talk about things like this.

Elena really thought about it for a few moments as she just starred back at Bonnie, chewing on her lower lip in thought. But she figured that it was just a waste of time and shook her head again, closing her eyes as she pulled her hand out of Bonnie's and stood up again.

"I want you to leave now." she said, waving Bonnie away.

Bonnie let out a deep breath of disappointment. She really thought she had had her this time. But it was nothing once again.

So she stood just up and nodded, grabbing her bag. "Good, but if you ever need something. You know where to find Stefan and here.." she dived her hand in her bag and pulled out a card with her phone number on it. "This is my number. If you ever need me, I'm there."

And with that Bonnie walked out again.

Elena picked the card up, looking thoughtfully at it for a few moments. Maybe she could need a friend like Bonnie, but that would never work for her. She wasn't allowed to have friends she would actually like, she made sure of that when she started living this life, with Klaus and everything, with the friends she didn't like, that weren't there for her when she could need them, that friends that looked and heard away when Elena was hurt.

Yes, friends that actually cared about here was a luxury that Elena couldn't afford.


"Stefan, look Bonnie is coming!" Damon yelled as he saw the car driving towards the house, Stefan was making sandwiches in the kitchen, for Bonnie when she came home from her 'Save Elena' mission, and just in case she brought the girl with home, he had made some more Sandwiches.

Stefan wasn't a great cook at all, but simple things like Pancakes and Sandwiches were okay with him. It was eatable.

Both of the brothers ran towards the door, jerked it open and waited until the car came to stop, as they saw Bonnie stepping out, they sighed, both weren't too happy to see her coming back all alone, without Elena. But maybe she had some news, Stefan hoped and leaned against the door frame.

"Hey, Bon." he smiled as she walked up to them.

"Hey Stefan." she waved at him, smiling as she leaned over to Damon and pecked him on the lips. "Hey, Damon." she winked, smiling even wider now.

"Hey, angel." Damon smirked against her lips and pulled her closer for another quick kiss.

Bonnie pushed herself away from Damon's chest, to not get too distracted by him. "Later, baby." she said, petting Damon's cheek. "Now, we've to talk about what I was doing all day." she noted and made her way into the house and then into the living room, sitting down.

Stefan walked after her, followed by his brother, but Damon stopped next to Bonnie as Stefan continued walking to get the Sandwiches. When he came back, they could finally talk.

"So, what did you see, or hear?" Damon asked, sitting down on one of the couches.

"Elena was alone at home." She started. "Or at least it seemed like it. She wouldn't let me in at first, but of course I didn't just go away again, so she had to let me in at some point." Bonnie giggled and Damon gave her a proud smile. That was his girl.

"Go on." Stefan mumbled as he chewed on the sandwich.

"Yeah yeah.." Bonnie sighed. "Well, then we sat in the and talked, I wanted to help her, but she blocked every try." Bonnie shrugged sadly. "I didn't think it would be that hard to get her out of the hell, but still."

"Still what?" Stefan asked, he couldn't take his eyes off Bonnie, all his attention was focused on her and the things she told them.

"But we still won't give up. I gave her my number and she knows where you work." Bonnie winked at him. "Stefan, it will be okay." she reassured him softly.

"Mhmm..." Damon nodded, agreeing with his girlfriend on this one.

"Yeah, probably. Was that all?" Stefan asked, hoping to get something else.

"Yep. Sorry." Bonnie shrugged.

Stefan huffed slightly, standing up and grabbing his jacket. "I have to work now anyways." he said and made his way outside.

"Do you think he'll be okay?" Damon asked Bonnie who was looking after Stefan with a frown on her forehead.

She was asking herself the exact same question, even thought Stefan didn't know Elena at all and had her only seen like two times in his live, he was fighting for her to get out of the hell that she called her live, but that was him, and Bonnie didn't know him any different, but she was still worried that he'd put himself in danger to save the girl.

She turned back to Damon and shrugged. "I hope so.." she admitted.

"Great, because..." Damon was grinning now and two of his fingers where walking up Bonnie's thigh, he shifted closer to her and then attacked her with kisses.

"Damon!" She yelled through giggles.

But he wasn't able to stop himself anymore. "You said 'Later, Baby'!" he nodded and pulled her into his arms, kissing her with all the passion he had, he had missed her all day whist she was with Elena. Now was Damon time.


"Hey, Matt. Mind if I do kitchen today?" Stefan asked as he arrived at work and knotted the pinny around his waist.

"No, do whatever you want." Matt laughed and grabbed the paper to wait the table.

Stefan really wasn't in the mood to put his happy face on and smile politely at all the people that were sitting in the Diner, and they didn't deserve to get pulled down by his mood, so he went right into the kitchen and stayed with his grumpy self, backing waffles and pancakes all day.

He had just burnt his finger on a too hot plate of pancakes as Matt yelled for him. "Stefan!"

"What?"

"Two pancakes, with Nutella, three coffee, one of them with sugar and milk and the other one black, please." Matt yelled softly. "Oh and here's a woman waiting for you, she says it's important." He added.

A woman, waiting for him? He didn't need to think twice until he knew it must have been Elena. "I'll be there in a second." he answered loudly from the kitchen and got to work with the three coffees.

He accidentally poured too much sugar in the first one, which didn't really matter to him, no, not at all, all he was seeing right now was that Elena was waiting for him. She was there and maybe needed help.

He placed the three cups of coffee in front of Matt, one of them was too sweet because of the sugar, he had put milk in the second instead of the first and the third was too full at all. He had messed them all three up, but it all didn't matter to him, because it was really Elena, who was sitting at the table, playing nervously with her hands.

He made his way over to her, raning a hand through his messy hair before he arrived at where she sat. "Hey!"

She looked up at him, and his eyes fell on the scar that was still above her eyebrow. But he shifted his look quickly back to hers, his green orbs meeting her brown ones.

She was still, not saying anything, Stefan thought she might be uncomfortable, so he took the seat beside her, frowning softly as he turned to her. "Why are you here?" he asked her, bringing up a warm smile to smooth her a little.

She seemed to still struggle with herself, she regretted coming here if she was honest. She didn't even have a clear plan or idea why she was here and what that would change for her, or if she wanted to change something.

Of course she would love if her life turned out good for her, just for once, and it seemed like that was possible, with the help of Stefan and his family. But Elena didn't even know them at all, and could she really burden a few nice strangers with her problems?

She fidgeted with her fingers, playing with her ring. "I came to see you.." she finally brought out and Stefan saw her relaxing a little in her seat.

He leaned back, keeping the smile on his lips as he looked at her. "That's nice.." he laughed quietly. "And now, you have seen me." he nodded, kind of to himself.

Elena let out a small laugh, even though she didn't really feel like it. "Yeah, true." she shrugged.

Stefan sighed, she was like a rock, not giving much away. "C'mon, why are you really here?" he leaned forward again, closer to her over the table, "You can always tell me." he noted.

"I..." she lifted her shoulders in an uncomfortable manner. "I guess.." he stuttered out. "Bonnie told me, I could always come to see you and.." she trailed off, not knowing how to continue her own sentence at all.

"...and you wanted my help...?" Stefan tried to finish.

And it took a moment, but he then gained a small, slow nod with her head from Elena.

"I came, looking for help." she agreed. "...but, I don't know if I want help." she mumbled out, not sure if she made any sense today.


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