AN: Kudos to anyone who notices the True Blood reference
Elijah tells her about Jeremy's wedding plans, he's invited to go in a few months. He tells her of the magic of New Orleans, and how she must let him take her there. He's started a travel list too. He has Spain and Prague and most of Europe on the list. He's wonderful. He knows how to distract her. She wants to cry at the thought that he will have known her longer in a coma than when she was really alive. He tells her stories, of hilarious mix ups and he tells her a few more on places he's loved. He stays as long as possible, and his hand in hers is always a welcome sensation.
She dreams of places she's never seen when she decides to stop thinking. Dreaming is a little scary-she hasn't done very much in her first decade. She wakes up not knowing what day or time it is. She misses colors. When she wakes, she'll never wear black. She hopes Elijah has a few gray suits because she wants to never see him in black again either.
He tells her that Caroline is coming to see her in the next week, something that worries her. She hadn't heard from Caroline in a while. She has an impressive fashion empire, Elijah tells her. She's stayed out of the media, no one knows what the head of Forbes fashion looks like aged. Elijah has advised her to fake her death in a few decades, and make herself an heir to all she has. Bonnie is doing well, the coven she belongs to doesn't like Originals, so he keeps his distance. Jeremy has taken Kol out of his life. He wants human normalcy, she can't fault him for it. She thought she wanted the same thing. He tells her about the other patients, he tells her about the blonde vampire who had a witch mess with her face in return for something, he's sure. He tells her of the vampire baby ward, babies that have a very boring existence, they're never mature enough to be able to do anything. When the person giving birth takes vampire blood to help and dies, and the baby dies as well, they're both vampires. It sounds terrible to her. He points out baby vampires, other vampires in the hospital with magic related injuries, and some have surgery to carefully remove bullets that were too close or touching their hearts. There's more reasons than she could have thought have to be in the hospital. One of the nurses comes in, but she's new, Elena can tell because she asks Elijah if she's his fiancee or love.
"Neither." He keeps his tone neutral. The woman just looks at him. She has no idea he's an Original.
"Honey, someday you'll figure out that de-nial isn't just a river in Egypt." They both hear her say and leave.
"That was unexpected." He says, and she wants to laugh. Of course he's not in love with her. He's just a man of honor and his word. Her ally. He's not in love with her. That would be too cruel. Sixty years of not being able to say the words to him is going to kill her. Maybe someday he will be, but she highly doubts he is now. He's living in New Orleans after all. It's a city filled with pretty people and history. Or at least, she thinks. She's never been.
