AN: I'm planning on this being three chapters unless I get reviews to make it longer.

"Elena." She hears a voice, and it's familiar. Soft. She wants to keep her eyes closed.

"Elena, you need to wake up now." The voice suggests and she tries to shake her head.

"I'm dead, right?" She asks the voice.

"No, lovely Elena, you are very much alive." The voice says and she recognizes it. Elijah.

She opens her eyes.

"You need vampire blood." He tells her.

"What?" She asks. The word comes out later than she means.

"I'm not going to force you, but you have two minutes before you die from blood loss. Even with a transfusion." He tells her. She tries to nod.

"Okay. I'll take it. I don't want to die-Jeremy and Caroline and Bonnie and-" She stops when she sees his bleeding wrist.