He drives carefully but assuredly, she notes for a few moments before she looks out the window. She can see streetlights, but it's darker than she'd want to drive in. She's glad she let him drive as he parks.
She grabs her phone and helps him get their bags out of the trunk. She knows he's more than capable, but she wants to help, and he'll need a free hand to open the door to the apartment anyway.
He locks the car and she follows him to an elevator. He pushes the button and he watches her pupils adjust to the light of the elevator as the doors open.
As they get in and she tells him she's going to call Jenna in a few minutes. He nods, he plans to call his siblings as well.
They walk down a hallway that's brightly lit, and then Elijah stops in front of a door. Elena realizes she'll need to change her phone's time zone and then he unlocks the door and pushes it open. She carefully follows him in.
It almost feels like trespassing for a moment, it's so starkly Elijah. It's modern, but it has older touches that aren't overdone. It's elegant and it looks like something out of a magazine, but it looks like someone lives there, it's not as perfect as a magazine. There are little things that show he likes it here, that he lives here.
He tells her to pick whatever bedroom she wants, and she sets her bags down by one of the dark bookcases near her, so she can explore.
He moves to his room, and calls Rebekah as he unpacks.
He listens to Elena with half his attention, and he hears Rebekah say hello.
He tells her that they've arrived at their destination, and Elena is perfectly fine. She updates him on what she and Caroline are doing, and Finn and Sage, who had sent a postcard.
"Tell Nik and Kol I say hi." She tells him and he nods.
"I will." He promises before he hangs up to call his brothers in NEw Orleans.
She picks a beautiful bedroom, the large bed would dominate and shrink any other space, but it fits somehow. There's a desk and she's sold on the room because of the window seat. It's something that reminds her of home and she likes it. She moves her bags into the room as she waits for Jenna to answer her phone.