AN: I'm trying something new since most of you seem to enjoy longer chapters. Also let's just pretend Finn doesn't hate being a vampire so strongly because I like a whole family and they deserve that happiness. Also I apologize for weird formatting

She tells Caroline that Elijah is fine, looking at him intently for a moment, just to make sure.

"Rebekah asked Caroline to ask me if you were fine." She explains, the blanket still around her shoulders. He looks surprised that she would do that, doing so might make Elena wonder why his sister asked-

Her phone beeps again and she reads the text out loud.

"Good. Rebekah says he's her favorite brother." Elijah grins and the door opens.

"Rebekah's favorite brother is here." Kol announces. He looks at the blanket covered Elena and then to Elijah. So hopeful, but if Elena was his soulmate, they hadn't kissed yet. His favorite brother still looks terrible.

"Hey Elena, if you want to have fun today, join me in the backyard in an hour." He invites and notices Elijah's look of disapproval.

"I might join you." She says, and her eyes flicker to Elijah and Kol wonders if she and his brother need glasses. He's never seen two people more blind than them in his existence.

"Excellent." He grins and disappears. Elena drops the blanket onto the couch and tells him she'll see him in a few minutes. He nods, and she leaves his room. As far as she knows, the roads are still covered in snow. She might as well have some fun, she decides.

Elena's got wet hair that's drying when he sees her next. She smells like the mixture of products Rebekah wanted in all of the guest bathrooms and herself.

"Your hair is wet." She remarks, and Kol walks into the hallway. It's odd, and she wonders what he looked like when they were human. She can't imagine Elijah with longer hair.

As they talk of snow, Elijah realizes that they want to include Finn, and she assures his brother she'll be out in a few minutes. She disappears into her room, and comes back out with winter clothes Caroline must have packed for her. She has a scarf on, and then she puts on a hat.

"Sorry, but I've never had a snowball fights with teams and Kol said he won't use vampire strength." Elena says as she carefully makes her way down the stairs. She slips her gloves on and zips up her coat. Kol is waiting for her at the end of the stairs and he loops his elbow in hers and leads her outside.

Elijah pretends to be on his phone, but watches Finn and Elena team up against Kol. She says something that makes Finn laugh.

"Come on, Elijah! Help me out, I'm losing out here!" He hears a few minutes later.

He debates it, and leaves his phone on the kitchen table.

"I've got Elijah on my side now, you two are going down!" Kol exclaims as said brother stands next to him.

"No way!" Elena retorts, throwing a snowball directly into his chest. Finn compliments her aim as he aims at Elijah. It's fun because none of them like losing, especially Elijah. They get very competitive very quickly. Elena throws a snowball but Kol cheats and uses inhuman speed to avoid it. The snowball hits Elijah in the face, and she turns red with embarrassment. The war wages on until Elena gets too cold, and she and Finn claim victory. She high fives him, something he still seems mystified about. She enters the house first and carefully takes off her shoes and snow covered articles of clothing and Kol puts them by the fire. He even has a rug down for the action, Elijah notes. He takes off his suit jacket, and Finn is off, to his room to change he assumes.

Elena's stomach growls and Kol opens the fridge and gets pizza out in record time. Elena stands by the sink, and Elijah stands next to her. Kol wonders if they could be any more obvious. His brother is in Elena's space and she doesn't seem to mind at all, and he asks if she wants her pizza microwaved. She nods, and gives him a number to enter. She turns around to look at Elijah and blinks. She's never seen him without a suit jacket.

And there's a large piece of snow on his hair. He looks so different, just a few simple changes to his appearance makes her wonder what changes he's made over the centuries.

"You have a piece of snow in your hair." She tells him, and hears the microwave make noise. He runs his fingers over part of it, but there's a chunk left.

"There's some still left." She tells him and he moves his hands to his sides after he fails at finding it.

"I'll get it." She tells him, and her fingers carefully brush the ice out of his hair. It lands in the sink and Kol is hoping they'll kiss, he's sure Elena likes his brother as he likes her. He hasn't seen Elijah's face so soft and human looking in ages, and then the microwave makes noise again, demanding he take Elena's pizza out, and the spell is broken. Elena gets her pizza out of the microwave and thanks Kol.