It's not easy to be with her family for a few days, Alaric and Jenna explain for hours about all of it, and Jeremy is just as hurt as she is. She hasn't mentioned her deal with Elijah, they won't need to know. Klaus is coming soon and they'll deal with it. Elijah's interesting to be with because he doesn't have the bias of Mystic Falls, he doesn't care about Founder's Events or small town gossip. They work their way through a bottle of wine and they're friendly but once this is over, Elena will stay in Mystic Falls and then leave to find a job, maybe her soulmate, she's going to have a normal life despite the target on her back. Her soulmate will be human, they'll have children or maybe not and she'll die of old age.
Elena has listened to Elijah speak about his experiences as she sat on his couch drinking wine over the span of a few nights. She can't imagine feeling like that, so powerful and infinite. It scares her a little. It's too much. She had admitted it and he had looked at her with a thoughtful look.
There are a lot of things that are ridiculous or too much and Elijah's brother is definitely both with this sacrifice. It's odd to have the level of trust she has with Elijah, as they walk to her death. They've already said what they've needed to, his associates are a father and son that are going to incapacitate Klaus by channeling a large power source Elena helped them find. Klaus will be locked away for the rest of time for what he did, and their lives will resume to normal. Klaus will kill Elena temporarily but the elixir that she just drank will keep her from being permanently dead and she won't wake up as a vampire. Elijah has bases she hadn't even thought of covered and she takes a deep breath before she looks at the man who's going to kill her.
Of course it doesn't go as planned. When Elena wakes up Elijah's witch friends, the Martins are hovering over her.
"Where-where's Elijah? Did we win?" She asks and they help her off the ground before they answer. They look grim and she sees a girl next to her, peaceful and Elena tries to remember. That must be the Martin witch Klaus had with him, and she tries to ask what happened again.
"Klaus wasn't killed, Elijah went with him to find their family. Greta is under a sleeping spell." The older man says, she remembers he's Greta and Luka's father. Elena shifts uncomfortably.
"He just left us?" They aren't a team, not really, she barely knows the Martins and she trusts them less than she trusts Elijah. But they didn't leave her dead on the ground alone either. Elena takes a step and stumbles as they nod. Elijah left them. Elena curses the vampire in her thoughts, she knows he values his family over all, but it's not a good sign for the rest of them.
"Klaus is going to kill him and put him with the rest of their siblings." Elena realizes and the Martins have the same annoyed look on their faces. Dr. Martin sighs before he speaks, Elena doesn't blame him.
"I can do a tracking spell on him."
"Great. What do you need?" Elena asks.
"There's no one here." Elena says as they look around the apartment they tracked Elijah to.
"There's blood bags in the fridge, I'm going to get one for Elijah." Elena says as the Martins look around. They know they don't need to tell her to hurry, they have no idea how long they have.
"We found the coffins." Luka says loudly enough for her to hear as she gets two blood bags out of the fridge.
"I'll pull the dagger out." Elena volunteers as the Martins keep a safe distance from the coffin, and Elijah's gray form. She pulls it out singlehandedly and they wait for a few moments.
"There's one too many coffins." Elena says as they wait for the gray to fade from Elijah's skin, and Dr. Martin shakes his head.
"Not our problem. I'm not investigating it. We all had a part to play, once Elijah wakes up I'm telling him that I'm leaving with my children. That's it." He says and Elena nods.
"Of course." Elena says and she sees Elijah move out of the corner of her eye.
"Go home." Elijah demands and Elena shakes her head, the Martins are gone.
"I'm staying. Plus I don't exactly have a ride home." She's not going to let him get daggered again, and he's not going to let her stay in the apartment as his family begins to wake. There's a pile of daggers in the coffin he spent an hour in.
"Niklaus cannot take on all of us." Elijah assures her.
"Call your aunt and go home." Elijah presses and she sighs before she sends a text and the address to Jenna.
"There's an extra coffin. The Martins found out that it was locked by magic." Elena tells him and he nods.
"I know. I heard." Elijah says and Elena's brow furrows.
"Once this is over you owe me a drink and a lot of explaining." Elena warns as her phone buzzes. Jenna is close.
"I promise I will give you both of those things." Elijah admits truthfully. He always tells Elena the truth, but he's sure he could lie if he wanted. There's just nothing he would gain from lying to her. They're both aware of when her phone buzzes.
"Go." Elijah urges and she sighs at him before she gets the hell out of the apartment.
