Chapter 5:

Something's Not Right

When Elena wakes up, she doesn't feel good. She doesn't feel safe, either. That she's not even herself. She waits a little before getting out of bed and flops down the stairs. Once she reaches the bottom, she notices a figure on the couch. She slowly inches closer to it, only to find that it is Alaric. With a sigh of relief, Elena heads to the kitchen to make breakfast. She makes eggs and pancakes, and coffee. When she's almost done, she calls for Jeremy.

"Jer! Breakfast!" it only takes her three seconds to hear footsteps running down the stairs. Jeremy turns the corner, sits, and takes as much food as he can. Elena just rolls her eyes and starts making a couple more eggs for Alaric.

"yum." Jeremy moans as he scarfs down the pancakes. Elena walks over to Alaric to wake him up.

"Ric, I made breakfast." Elena whispers softly while slightly shaking his shoulder. His eyes slowly open and he shifts a little.

"good morning." he says as he lifts himself up and stumbles over to the table.

"morning." Elena replies back. " how did you guys sleep?"

"ok, but the couch isn't the most comfortable place to sleep on." Alaric responses. Elena chuckles and turns to Jeremy.

"eh, I've had better nights." Jeremy answers. "hey, Bonnie's coming over today. She said she wanted to see if the elixir has takin any affect, yet." and he dives into his eggs. Elena walks over to a cabinet and pulls out a plate for Alaric.

"here." she hands him it. He takes it with a thanks as they continue to eat.

"thanks. Hey, Damon called to ask if you were ok." Alaric says. Elena suddenly stills and the two guys with here see it.

"Elena, are you alright?" Jeremy asks with concern. She takes a deep breath and nods.

"yeah, I'm fine." she turns to Alaric. "and you can tell him I'm fine, but I just want to be alone for a bit." she suddenly doesn't feel hungry any more so she cleans her plate and drags herself to her room. Jeremy and Alaric share a glance in confusion and worry for her.

Jeremy is watching tv when there's a knock at the door. He places the remote on the sofa and shuffles to it.

"I'll get it!" he yells as he opens it to reveal Bonnie with a grimoir. She stands there with a sweet smile on her face. "hey." he says in a hush voice.

"hi." she looks down so he can't see her red colored cheeks.

"come in." Jeremy ushers her into the house and they head to his room. Bonnie settles herself on the floor and he sits next to her. "so, what do you got?"

"well, I was looking in this," she holds up her book. "and I found something about the potion inside. It says something about the consequence. It reads,

This potion is very powerful, but as all spells, there is an important side-effect that can mess with the emotion and/or actions of the doppelganger that can ruin and destroy their life.

Bonnie and Jeremy stare at that section of writing in wonder.

"so, I guess we just have to keep a close eye on her, then." Bonnie states as they look at each other. "did you notice anything strange about Elena this morning?" Jeremy shrugs.

"when Alaric mentioned Damon, she kinda froze as if the name hurt her in some way. And she didn't finish her breakfast. That's it, though." he answers.

"well, I think I have an idea on what is going on. I'll go talk to her." she stands up and exits his room. While she walks to Elena's room, a strong scent of vervain hit her nose. Bonnie decides to follow the smell and ends up at Elena's door. What is she doing in there? Bonnie thinks to herself. When she reaches for the handle, she can feel more vervain. Ok, something is definitely with her. She turns the handle and opens the door to see Elena sleeping soundly on her bed, holding a picture. Bonnie strolls over and sees that the picture is of Elena's family. When she goes for the picture, Elena suddenly jumps out of bed with a stake in her hand and almost attacks Bonnie. Bonnie places her hands on Elena's shoulder and tries to wake her up. "Elena, Elena! It's me, Bonnie! I'm not gonna hurt you." with those words, Elena slowly opens her eyes and calms down, until she realizes what she did.

"oh my god, Bonnie I'm so sorry." Elena sobs as Bonnie pulls her into a hug. "I didn't know what was going on. Are you ok? Did I hurt you?" Bonnie shakes her head.

"no I'm fine. The question is, are you ok? And what's with all the vervain? I don't think you need it on the door nob." Elena remains silent for a few seconds.

"I'm ok. Nothing's wrong, I just want to be protected from Klaus in-case he returns." Elena says with a yawn. Bonnie nods at her excuse, but doesn't buy it. "hey, Bonnie, it's good to see you, but could I go back to sleep please?" before Bonnie could make a sound, Elena is already pushing her out the door and closes it. She stares at it in shock.

"ok, whatever is going on, we need to fix it. And fast." Bonnie mumbles to herself as she goes back to Jeremy, who is waiting for her.

"so, what happened?" he asks, curiously. Aw, Jeremy's afraid for his sister. That's sweet.

"oh, nothing. It's just that her room is pretty much drenched in vervain, she's sleeping with a stake under her pillow, and she kicked me out of her room because she's tried. And Elena is always cheery, but today her voice sounded dead." Jeremy's eyes widen in fear. "I can only come up with one conclusion at the moment." suddenly Bonnie's throat becomes dry at the thought and the air is filled with silence.

"well, what is it?" Jeremy asks impatiently. Bonnie inhales deeply and replies.

"I think Elena might be afraid of vampires." Jeremy stiffens.

"what?"

Hi guys! Sorry if it feels like forever since I wrote another chapter, but I've been pretty busy. I'd like to thank all of you who gave me suggestions on what the elixir would do:) I hope you enjoyed this chapter. If you did, review. If you didn't, review. If you got ice cream, awesome!

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