-Disclaimer- I don't own TVD or any of its characters! All rights belong to the owners… Thank you so much for your honest reviews, they really mean a lot to me. Also what I wanted to say is that I don't know exactly with whom Elena will end up. I haven't decided yet and with every chapter that I'm writing it gets harder to decide. So if you have wishes you can send them to me. :D Second I also don't know how many chapters this story will have in the end…: D Anyway… have fun reading!

*Last chapter*

"Have you found something?" I asked the man in charge of the search. "We might have found a trace, Klaus. But we to stay hidden and careful, that witch is extremely mistrusting." Came the immediate response. "Good, but hurry up. We don't have much time." I quickly said and hung up. 'Now it's up to you and me, Elena… Don't give up before it's finished.'

*End of last chapter*

Elena's P.O.V.

After another long and weird dream, I woke up sweating like crazy. I felt like hell, my stomach was hurting, my mind was fuzzy and my eyesight was weak. As soon as I had woke up, I had felt another presence in the room, but I just wasn't ready yet. I took my time in calming my emotions and that feeling of dizziness and turned to the person in the room.

"Do you need something?" Elijah asked with concern laced in his voice. After hearing him say that, I had to laugh a bit, because my mind was playing tricks with me. His voice had changed from quite deep and normal, to nearly slow-motion. This combined with the changing colors that I could see, made me laugh slightly. Of course as soon as I started laughing Elijah looked even more concerned. "Elena, are you alright?" "No, but I'm sure I don't have to tell you." I answered fighting back the urge to run to the bathroom. After I had successfully calmed my stomach, I tried to sit up, but I failed miserably and slumped back into the pillow.

Elijah then stood up and I was quite sure that he would leave, but he came over to me and helped me sit up. "Thanks, Elijah." He smiled sadly and sat on the edge of my bed. "How are you feeling Elena?" He asked with such a soft and caring voice, that it remember me of the voice my father had when I was sick as a young child. "It's really weird. I'm feeling kind of dizzy, I can see you, but it's like if I see you through moving water, I can hear you, but it changes from normal speed to a really slow one. All in all I feel horrible." 'Yeah, horrible because I treat you like trash and you're still so nice to me…' I thought, while I looked down on my hands.

"That's interesting." He said slowly and after some seconds of silence he continued. But I wasn't seeing him anymore. I saw my father sitting on the exact spot Elijah was some seconds before. "Do you want me to leave?" My father said with concern written all over his face. "No! Dad, don't leave me!" I started crying and in an urge of power I leaned forward and hugged him tightly. "Please, don't leave me again. I've missed you so much." I continued crying into his chest and held him tight. I could feel myself getting tired, my eyes were starting to close on their own accord and so I let my tiredness consume me.

Klaus's P.O.V.

I had just finished with my calls, when Elijah came running into my room. "There's something wrong with Elena." He nearly shouted. 'Wow, that so big news…' "First, there's no need to shout. I can hear you very well. Second, we had that already figured out an hour ago, so that's really no new news Elijah." He let out a low growl, which was atypical for him, and slammed his fist on my desk. "We don't have time for your stupid games, Klaus! There's something wrong with Elena. I was just talking with her and suddenly she got a strange look and she started calling me dad!" 'Okay, that's really not normal… All thought from the age difference he could be her dad…' I thought for a moment, before I controlled my thoughts again.

"Under which circumstances did this happen?" I asked Elijah, while we were on our way to Elena's room. "We were talking and suddenly she seemed to zone out and when she came out of me she called me dad and hugged me really tight." He silently opened the door and I could see a very pale Elena on the bed. She was asleep, but she kept mumbling things and her legs were permanently moving. "For me it sounds like a werewolf bite. But Kol said that can't be it, since she didn't get bitten." Elijah said, closing the door behind me. "The symptoms you described me, would describe the ones you would have after a bite. I wonder if she's still in that state." I said and walked to stand next to Elena's bed. I started shaking her lightly. "You sure that's a…" Elijah never got to finish his question. "Alaric? Jeremy? What are you doing here?" Elena asked weakly. "Elena, it's us. Elijah and Klaus." Elijah said from behind me.

Something seemed to shift in her and suddenly she seemed to recognize us. "Klaus? Elijah? Wh-… What happened?" She asked with a weak voice and with fear. "You seem to have developed the same symptoms like you would have after a werewolf bite." She laughed out loud, but suddenly she stopped and you could see fear coming into her eyes. "Am I dying?" Elena slowly asked. '… Yes you are darling…. Should I, I mean we tell her?... No, that wouldn't help… We have to tell her…' I battled inside of me, but I decided to go with the absolute truth. "We believe so, Elena. But Rebekah, Kol, Elijah and I we're trying to find out why and how we can stop it." I told her and gave her and a good squeeze, before I stepped a bit back. "But what if…" She asked in tears "If what?" I asked her, trying to bring comfort into my voice, trying to calm her fear. "What if I am meant to die? What if it was my time?"

There was a long heavy silence, but it was interrupted by heavy coughing from Elena. She was coughing blood and I gave her a tissue, so that she had something to clean up. In between some of the coughs she was able to whisper thanks. After some minutes the coughs had slowed down and she was breathing heavily. "How… long?" She said with a lot of pain. "What do you mean?" Elijah asked, but I understood it quickly. "It's different with every vampire." Elena nodded and Elijah finally seemed to realize what she had asked. "Elena, you won't die! Don't even start with that idea! I promise I will do everything in my power to save you, I promise!" Elijah said energetically and stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind him. Elena looked questioning to me and I only shrugged my shoulders in response.

Rebekah's P.O.V.

I just entered my car, after a visit at the blood bank, when I got a call from Klaus, saying that I had to hurry up with the witches. 'I know that too…. Jeez, can't he wait a bit?!' I thought, while starting the car and putting it in gear.

I drove for about half an hour, before I was in front of her house. There was light, where I supposed the bedroom to be and a small light coming from the kitchen. I took my time going up the stairs, but I hadn't even reached the first step, when I could already sense the magic. 'That's really a lame protection spell…' I thought shaking my head. And knocked one, hard time on her front door. I could hear her, descending the stairs and stopping just on the other side of the door. I wasn't in the mood for some games and so I made my presence clearly known. "Open the door, I know you're here." I heard her curse, before the door finally opened. "Good, now explain what you did." I told her menacingly. "Rebekah." Bonnie greeted just as coldly. "What did you do?" "Who says I did anything?" She asked playing innocent. I had to fight back the urge to punch her, as that wouldn't help my cause. "Look, I don't know what you think I did, but would you go away please?" I just had to laugh, she was so pathetic. She still believed I would believe her lies, but there she was completely wrong. She was on thin ice with me and she could be very lucky, that I had practiced my patience.

Luckily for me, she was a bit over her threshold, so I moved right up to her and took her arm in a strong grip. "Now listen closely, witch. I am much older and powerful then you, so you better think twice before doing anything. Got it?" To prove my point, I squeezed even harder. I could see her wince, but it made me only angrier. 'She has no right, to play the fragile little witch! Not after what she's doing to Elena! …' I kept telling myself. "Y-… Yeah, got it." She said, with a shaky voice. "Good, so you're going to tell me everything you know, or you'll be an entire head shorter." I said and made sure to smile brightly at the end. A bit paler then before Bonnie nodded and allowed me to enter her house.

Elena's P.O.V.

'Was that how Damon felt when he got bitten by a werewolf? Did he feel that strangely? Did he feel that lost?' I thought, while I lay in my bed. Klaus and Elijah had left the room some minutes ago, promising to stay in earshot.

As soon as the door had closed behind them, I was back in my fake world. It was winter and it was snowing. I remember that day very well, we were still younger and Jeremy had just learned skiing. Here in my dream it was night and we were playing with our parents in the middle of the ski slope. Dad and Jeremy were making a real arsenal of snowballs and mom and I were just laughing at them. The only light we had, was the light of the moon and the stars, nothing else. "Mom, they're cheating!" I said laughing. "Mom came nearer and hugged me. "Let them be, they have their weapons and we have ours." She whispered into my ear, while smiling. "But we don't have anything." I whined and looked over to Jer and Dad. "They have tons of snowballs and we have nothing, that's not fair." "Darling, we have food and hot chocolate. That's all we need." She said, but she was fading and seconds later I was back in my room, alone.

'I miss them so much…' I cried silently, not wanting Klaus and Elijah to hear it. I was about to try and get up, when I had another flashback. I was my fife birthday and my parents had organized a big party for me. I was wearing a read princess dress and a golden crown. My friends were sitting all around the table drinking and eating the cake, while Mum was watching us from the kitchen with a big smile and dad was filming the entire party. I had just eaten a big piece of chocolate cake, when dad came up to me with his camera. "Elena, how old are you?" He asked from behind it. I showed five with my hands and gave him the biggest smile I could muster. "Five! And I got lots of presents, too!" I told him happily, while showing to my pile of presents. "And they're all for you?" "Of course! Dad!"

And I was back in my room, with tears cowering my face. I just couldn't take it anymore, these flashbacks were killing me. Every time I came back from those flashbacks, my heart hurt worse and worse. Whatever it was, that was consuming my body and mind, it was doing it fast and violently. Suddenly the door banged into the wall and a very furious Kol was standing in my room.

"How come nobody told me, what happened to you?!" He shouted, while pacing up and down in front of my bed. I wanted to answer, I wanted to hug him, or do something anything. But the feeling of sickness was overwhelming and I didn't trust my stomach one bit. Realizing that I wasn't answering Kol calmed down slightly and turned to me. He must've seen the color my face had, because the next second he gave me a pot.

After the incident he helped me clean up and put me back in bed. I whispered my thanks and just watched him. "Why didn't they call me as soon as they found it out?" He asked w bit calmer, but you could sense the hurt and fear in his voice. "I d-…don't know, Kol. All I've been a-..Able to do was lay around and sleep." I hated how my voice was weak and vulnerable, but that was exactly how I felt. He looked at me, with an unreadable expression and came nearer to my bed. He then lifted me up and sat on my bed, putting his head on the headboard, while still holding me in his arms. It was nice to be simply hold, he didn't say anything else. He just sat there, traced patterns on my back and had a faraway look. He was deep in thoughts and so I decided to let him be and made myself a bit more comfortable in his arms.

Kol's P.O.V.

When I burst through Elena's doors and saw her lying in that bed, I got the urge to kill the person who did this to my Elena. 'Wait? My Elena!? Ha!... She would NEVER be with someone like you! Face it, you're not good enough!...' I told myself and decided to concentrate the anger on the responsible person. "How come nobody told me, what happened to you?!" I shouted angrily. 'That was surely Elijah's doing… Trying to be the hero…' I continued thinking angrily.

Normally Elena would've answered by now or would've done something, anything. But when I realized that she wasn't answering, I turned around. She looked as if she was going to be sick and so I did the first thing that came to my mind. I took a pot from somewhere and was able to give it to her just in time.

After that, I helped her clean up and put her back in bed. She was shaking slightly and there was cold sweat on her forehead. I could see her body twitch from time to time and I was sure that she was in pain, but she was more than brave and didn't say anything. Seeing her courage, made me calm down slightly and after I laid her down on her bed, I asked again. "Why didn't they call me as soon as they found it out?" I tried to stay calm and to keep my voice in check. "I d-…don't know, Kol. All I've been a-..Able to do was lay around and sleep." She said in an extremely weak voice. It was nearly a whisper and I could see it in her eyes that she hated how weak she sounded. I could understand her with all my heart, really. 'And here you thought you didn't have a heart…' I thought mockingly.

Suddenly I had this overwhelming need to be near to her, to hold her and for once I allowed it. I approached her, lifted her up and laid down on the spot she previously was. I hugged her a bit nearer to my body and led my thoughts drift away. I could feel Elena's eyes on me for a while, before she came even nearer and slowly I could hear her breath deepen. As soon as her eyes closed, I took the covers and put them around me, to keep Elena warm. Even in her sleep her body was slightly shaking, but she looked a bit better than she had just before. Having someone in my arms, someone who I cared for, was a feeling I just couldn't describe. I felt safe, I felt rested and… could it be happiness? She seemed so peaceful, lying in my arms, that I let my thoughts drift even farther and soon my eyes were closing too.

Thank you so much for reading this chapter. Hope you liked it and please review and let me know what you thought of it. Thanks! :D P.S. probably already in the next chapter, I will start to bring in a new character. Hope you'll like it! :D