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*Last chapter*

Before I turned off the lights, I turned one last time to our family picture. It was a picture which was taken four years ago, where everything was still normal. The vampires hadn't entered into our life and neither had the bigger Dramas. "Goodnight. Love you guys." I told the picture, turned off the lights and fell into a dreamless sleep.

*End of last chapter*

Elena's P.O.V.

After the run in the woods and after dinner, I went up into my new room. My new room, because my old room was Elijah's and I didn't want to steal it. So now my new room was the room next to Elijah's and Rebekah's.

It was still early and so I took a book and read a bit. But I was only able to read a page or two, before my thoughts were taking over. 'I have to tell them…. I can't stay here forever, hiding myself from the other…. They're searching through the entire country and I… I'm hiding just under their nose…' I knew that at one point I would have to face Damon, Stefan, Caroline, Bonnie, Alaric and… Jeremy. But I didn't feel ready for it, I was too afraid of them.

I know they're my friends, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't reject me… especially Bonnie. 'Yep, Bonnie's going to take it really bad…' I thought, while imagining how she would take it. 'Oh, yes…. That's going to be really, really bad…'

Suddenly my room door opened and Rebekah entered the room. "You want to come to the grill and get drunk?" She asked while letting herself fall unto my bed. "Not really… I don't want to… see them." I answered and put the book, which I had still in my hands, on the nightstand. "Ugh! Elena, come on. They're surely not there and besides you're not getting boring again, are you? Because I really like the new and improved Elena, who can kick ass! Especially if it's one of my brother's!" Rebekah laughed, remembering the story of the hunt in the woods. "I swear I thought he was another vampire! I didn't mean to kick Kol!"

*Flashback*

We had all parted in the woods, to find our prey. I could smell that they were many humans in the woods and Klaus said that if I would attack a human, that he would lock me into a room and take away my new sun ring.

I was just observing a human from behind a tree, when I saw a vampire attack her. I could smell the blood coming from her neck, but I resisted the pull. The only thing on my mind, was saving this girl from being drained and so I tried to go nearer and nearer. He was too focused on drinking her blood, that he didn't hear me. I took all my courage and kicked him as hard as I could in his butt.

"What the hell?!" The vampire shouted angry and turned around. 'Oh god! I want a hole, right now!...' As soon as I heard his voice, I knew that it was Kol. "Oh… S-…Sorry, Kol…" I stuttered, only wanting to get away from him and to hide in a hole. 'Great… As if I wasn't pathetic enough...' "Why did you do that?" He said, while rubbing his butt. I knew that he was making fun of me and of that situation, and that god me to be even more ashamed. "You know if you wanted to have a bite too, you could've asked. I would've loved to share with you." He said while raising his eyebrows suggest fully.

*End of Flashback*

"Okay, I believe you. But are you coming or not? Come on say, yeeeeeees." Rebekah begged, going even on her knees and giving me a puppy eye look. I took a deep sight and chuckled. "Okay, okay. I'm coming, but we leave if we see them!" She gave me a devilish smile and stood up. "If you wish, but I have one condition!" 'Uh, that's never good…' "What is it?" I asked a bit worried. "I can choose what you're wearing and I'll pay." 'Oh, she's going to regret saying that…' I thought, feeling it was perfect time for payback. I pretended to think about it, but I had my answer since the beginning. "Okay, you win."

An hour later I was all dressed up and I looked like Katherine. "Ha-ha, very funny." I told her, while giving her a glare. 'I should've known… I should've known…' I thought while walking down the stairs with Rebekah. "You are going out?" Klaus asked appearing from the living room. "Yes, we're going to the grill." Rebekah said, while searching the car keys. "And you think you'll handle it?" Klaus asked turning towards me. "Yeah, I'll try. Rebekah promised we could leave at any time." I said, feeling more confident . "Well then, have a nice evening ,ladies." Klaus said and went up the stairs into his room. "Found them!" Rebekah shouted, while letting the keys dangle from her finger.

Caroline's P.O.V.

We had been sitting the entire day, drink and eating at the grill. We still hadn't a plan, we hadn't found Bonnie and we hadn't found Elena. I was getting really desperate. 'We're never going to find Elena… Bonnie's never going to help us…' I was thinking, when the doors opened. In came a laughing Rebekah and … Katherine? 'What are they doing here?... I never knew they got along…'

I elbowed Damon and pointed at Rebekah and Katherine, who were walking up to the bar. I saw Damon's eyes widen, before he nudged Stefan and Stefan nudged Alaric, who nudged Jer. "Did you see who just walked in?" I whispered loud enough for them to hear me. "What are Rebekah and Katherine doing here?" Alaric whispered. "They're friends?!" Jeremy whispered half shouting.

Damon hadn't said anything until now and I could see him having an intern battle. "I'm going over there." Damon simply stated and was about to stand up. "NO! Stop! Don't go over there." I said, while holding him back. "Why not?" He said, while trying to pull my hand of his arm. "We have already enough problems with the originals. We don't need more and besides, we need their help. And if you're going to pull something stupid, they won't help us finding Elena." He gave me a hurt look and sat back down. "And why would I do something stupid? Why would you think I would screw up?" "Damon. You always pull something stupid, especially when it's with originals. So please, you let it be." He gave me a hard look, but continued drinking his bourbon.

Elena's P.O.V.

As soon as I entered the grill with Rebekah, I saw Caroline, Alaric, Stefan, Damon and Jeremy, sitting in a booth. I instantly stiffened and Rebekah gave me a look, which clearly said 'calm down'. It took me a great amount of effort, but I was able to relax a bit and to walk to the bar.

While we waited for our drinks, I listened into their conversation. I had to smile when Caroline, told him not to come over. And it really was true, Damon always had problems controlling himself, when the originals were involved. Rebekah was also listening into the conversation and nodded, when she heard what Caroline said.

After the first 'shock' their conversation got quite boring and I decided to stop listening in. I decided to have some fun and so I looked at Rebekah. "Rebekah, where's Mattie? Didn't he want to come and meet you here?" Rebekah gave me a pointed look and answered. "I don't know, Katherine. We didn't talk in a while." She finished, while looking for a millisecond sad. 'Oh, guess I shouldn't have said that…' "You know what? Let's drink to a good night and to better boys!" I said and Rebekah and I drowned our shots.

After an hour of drinking, laughing and dancing I got bored. "I'm bored Rebekah. Let's go back and do something!" I suggested. "Oh, but there it's boring too! Klaus won't allow us to do anything." After a moment of silence Rebekah seemed to have an idea. "No, you're right! Let's continue our party at home! Come on Elena, let's go!" Rebekah said, while dragging me out of the grill.

Caroline's P.O.V.

After an hour Rebekah and Katherine were still sitting at the bar drinking. And we, well we were still drinking too. Only difference was, that Alaric, Damon and Stefan were completely drunk and that Jeremy had fallen asleep next to me.

Damon and Alaric where singing and they weren't singing quietly either. Stefan seemed completely in another world and Jeremy was snoring quite loudly. Not knowing what to do, I started to listen into Rebekah's and Katherine's conversation. When I heard the name Matt I listen in more closely and then I heard Rebekah say Elena to Katherine. 'Na, that's not possible… That's Katherine, she's a vampire after all…' I thought for a short moment about it, but decided to blame it on the alcohol. 'Yeah, must have a bit more alcohol in me then I thought…'

Rebekah's P.O.V.

When we arrived at the house, I went to get out some more alcohol and told Elena to start the music. For some reason Klaus, Elijah and Kol weren't home, so I told her to turn it as high as she wanted. Of course with our hearing, we didn't need to turn it on really loud.

When I came back into the living room, Elena was jumping up and down on the couches. "You're having fun?" I asked while getting on the one opposite of her. "Yes! Try it, it's too fun!" She said while doing some acrobatic, but nearly falling of the couch. It was true, jumping on them was really fun and soon we were having a pillow fight, while still jumping.

*The next morning*

I woke up, because of the sun shining into my face. I looked around me and realized that we had fallen asleep on the couch, while we were watching a movie. My back was hurting quite a bit, because the couches weren't that comfortable like they seemed. Elena was lying on the other couch, with a little blanket securely wrapped around her. 'Elijah, Elijah… It's really too obvious…' I rolled my eyes and went in the kitchen to prepare two mugs with blood and came back into the living room.

Elena was still fast asleep, but I wanted her to wake up. So I went with one mug in my hands to her and positioned it just under her nose. It took her a minute to wake up, but then she took the mug gratefully. "Thanks." She said in between to yawns. "No, problem."

After she finished her mug, she sat up and folded the blanket. "Where should I put it?" "Ask Elijah, it's one of his blankets." She look shocked and then answered. "Oh. Well, I'll bring it later to him… I'm going to take a shower." "Okay, but we'll go shopping after!" She laughed and went to her room.

Elena's P.O.V.

During my sleep, I thought I had felt someone moving near me and thought I had felt someone putting something around me. But I was too tired to react and so I fell asleep again. When I woke up this morning I was quite thirsty and it didn't help to be woken up, by the smell of blood.

I saw the blanket right away, but ignored it, I was still too hungry. But when Rebekah told me that the blanket was one from Elijah, I couldn't help to be shocked. 'Why would he give me one of his blankets?... Did he put the blanket around me?' Thoughts like this, were swirling in my head, but I couldn't hold on one.

When I left the living room, I took the blanket with me and went upstairs. I was about to open my door, when I thought it would be best to bring it back to Elijah. I knocked once at his door and opened it. Elijah was snoring softly in his bed, topless. His usually perfect hair stood in every direction and his mouth was slightly open.

I laid his blanket on his nightstand and searched for paper and pen. On a table I found some paper and a pen and wrote a quick message for Elijah. I put it on the blanket and was about to leave the room, but something or someone (Elijah) made me stop. I simply looked at him, nothing else. He looked so peaceful in his sleep, he looked so human, that you could forget he was a vampire. Suddenly Elijah began to move in his sleep, he was slowly waking up and not wanting to be caught staring at his sleeping form, I quickly got out of the room.

I sped to my room and closed the door behind me. 'What has gotten into me?... Why am I staring at him?... Why can't I stop doing it?...' I thought while I showered. I knew that I had some feelings for Elijah, but I knew that they were changing. They were changing fast, but I wasn't ready to acknowledge them just yet and so I quickly put these thoughts and feelings in the back of my head and continued dressing.

Elijah's P.O.V.

Klaus, Kol and I went to the woods to hunt a bit, while the girls were at the grill. It was nice to see them bonding and getting along so well, so we all agreed to let them have their time and to do our own thing.

After running through the woods, we discovered a group of hikers and compelled them, so that we could easily feed of them, without them making too much noise. When we finished we went back again, only to find Rebekah and Elena fast asleep on the couches. There was music coming out of the stereo and a lot of alcohol on the tables. "That's so mean. They can have a private party at the house and I can't ?!" Kol half joked. "Oh, be quiet Kol." Klaus said, while turning off the stereo. "I will talk with them in the morning, but for now… Let them sleep."

You could see the effects Elena had on us. Since Elena was staying with us, we hadn't had a real fight in a long time. Normally Rebekah and Kol, or Kol and Klaus, were having almost every day a fight, but since Elena was here there was none. Not a single one.

Even if my brothers and sister wouldn't admit it, she had an effect on all of us. She had a good influence on all of us. Rebekah had finally found a friend, a good one, and she was trying to be helpful she was doing nice stuff without being asked. Klaus seemed to be a bit more relaxed, not so angry. Or at least he could control it more, I could start to see the old, carefree Klaus. This old Klaus was coming back into daylight with Elena around us. Kol, well he seemed to have found a partner in crime. We all knew that Elena and Kol had spiked the forest with lots of traps, we knew that they did it together and we knew that they were enjoying themselves by doing it.

And I, well I felt free and happy when I was around Elena. I felt love, I felt so many things when I was around her. She seemed to bring out the best in me, she brought back joy into my life. Something I had tried to block away, because of the horrible things I had done in the past. With her around me I felt as if I was allowed to be happy again, allowed to live again.

I waited for Klaus and Kol to go into their rooms, before I went up as well only to come back again with one of my blankets. I secured it around Elena and kissed her on the cheek. I just couldn't help it, this was something completely new for me, this urge to touch her, to feel her. After I made sure she was fine for a last time, I went up as well and fell into a deep sleep.

The next morning I woke up with the smell of Elena coming from my pillow. The night before I had thought about changing pillows, but for a reason I just couldn't do it. Sighting and making a mental list of the things that had to be done today , I turned around only to be met by a note with Elena's handwriting on it and the blanket I had given her the night before. It was a simple note, but I was still astonished.

Thank you for the blanket.

~E

'How did she find out, that the blanket came from me?' I thought, while placing the blanket back in the closet.

Thank you so much for reading this chapter. Hope you liked this chapter, please review and let me know what you thought! :D p.s. if you have special wishes you can send them too, I'll see if I can integrate them into the story!