„You can't just kill people, Elena! That's not you.", Caroline cries hoping to see the sparkle in Elena's eyes, her humanity. But Elena has turned it off and is not capable to feel anything. „I don't care, Caroline and now get out of my way I'm still thirsty."
But her best friend doesn't want to back away, „That's not you, Elena! Please!", Caroline repeats her words and can't stop the tears running down her cheek. Caroline was with them when Damon told Elena to turn it off and she was completely on Damons side because it killed her to see her best friend so broken but she never thought Elena would change that much. And how should she know how it was like to be emotionless? Caroline was the 'perfect' vampire, she has never even considered turning her humanity off. The vampire in front of her isn't the friend she has known since kindergarten. She's the total opposite of herself. While Elena was nice and caring, the girl in front of her is cruel and couldn't care less. Elena isn't herself. She's a cold bitch who happens to look like her kindergarten-friend. If she didn't see her using the humanity switch, she would think it's another Katherine.
Caroline looks at Elena with pleading eyes. Her friend must be somewhere inside this emotionless body. „I said get out of my way."Elena repeats with dangerous slow calm voice.
When Caroline doesn't move, she pushes the blonde vampire and throws her on the floor. „Stay. Out. Of. My. Way."Elena whispers into Carolines ear and the next moment she's gone, leaving Caroline coughing on the floor.
Elena rolls her eyes, does the blonde vampire really think they're still friends? Elena doesn't care about such things anymore. Right now all she can think about is blood. And she'll get it. The only problem is that all people living in Mystic Falls have vervain in their system, that's why Elena lies down on the main-road, using 'Damons' trick. She has seen Damon and a few other vampires doing this and now she's doing it herself. Elena closes her eyes and shuts every thought out of her mind. About five minutes later she hears a car driving by. The driver stops abruptly when she sees a girl lying moveless in front of her and gets out of her car, rushing to Elena. „Are you okay? What happened? Are you hurt?", the woman asks Elena upset and starts feeling her pulse. When she feels no pulse she starts panicking and runs back to her car, looking for her phone.
„I don't feel anything" The woman feels a warm breath on the back of her neck and immediately whirls around, an alarmed expression on her face. „Oh my god. Are you okay? Were you in an accident?", the woman asks despite the bad feeling in her stomach. She tries dialing the number of the ambulance but with her shaking fingers she doesn't even manage to type one number into her phone.
Watching the nervous woman in front of her, soon bores Elena. So, she throws the womans' phone away and shows her vampire teeth. She feels her eyes changing and grabs the woman by her neck, holding her into the air. Before she can start screaming, Elena buries her teeth in the womans' neck. The woman flails around but soon her life power leaves her body and she sinks to the ground. Elena slicks the blood off her mouth and throws the dead body in the car trunk, not caring to clean up. After drinking the blood of six people, Elena's still thirsty but decides to pay the Salvatores a visit. She has an eternity to live, so, why thinking about time? She has plenty of time.
„Damon?", Elena calls out when she enters the Salvatore boarding house. When she gets no response she calls for the other Salvatore brother but it seems like nobody's home. Elena just shrugs and goes upstairs. Since this house has the only vervain-free showers, why don't use it? Elena puts her clothes off and turnes the water on, waiting for it to become warm. She watches herself in the big mirror and bows her head to the side. Her haircut doesn't fit her anymore, she thinks. Maybe it fit the old, human and boring Elena but she's not the same girl anymore. She's a vampire and has no emotions. Her haircut should show that she's changed. „Today hairdresser", Elena decides and steps into the shower.
„You will make my hair unforgettable. It will be the complete opposite of now.", Elena compells the hairdresser and adds,"Maybe shorter and curly" Then she sits down and closes her eyes, letting the woman do her work. Elena lets her mind wander to one hour ago.
Elena steps out of the shower and smirks when she hears that the Salvatores are back. Not caring to put something on she exits Damons' bathroom and is immediately greeted with shocked faces. Damon, Stefan and Caroline are standing in Damons' bedroom and were talking about the vervain problem in town, but when they saw Elena they immediately shut up. Caroline is the first to look away from Elena and suddenly seems to think that the ceiling is very interesting. It's not that she hasn't seen Elena naked before but it's still very awkward, especially because Damon AND Stefan are there. The brothers exchange a look, not knowing what to do or to say.
„What? It's nothing you guys haven't seen before", Elena breaks the silence, causing Damon to smirk and Stefan looking away from Elena. „Like what you see, Damon?", Elena asks since he's the only one still looking at her. Damon smirks wider and steps toward her. „I always like seeing you naked, Elena but you should get dressed now. I think you make it very hard for my brother, remembering that this", he says and points to Elena,"belongs to me now" Elena smirks at Damon and whirls around walking toward Damons wardrobe. She sees a dress she once forgot at Damons and picks it. „Wanna help me get dressed, Damon?" Elena turns around before she closes the bathroom door. „Nope I'm fine.", Damon responds.
If HIS Elena asks this question, he wouldn't hesitate to follow her into the bathroom but he wouldn't help her get dressed. Undressed it's much more fun.
Caroline clears her throat, getting both Salvatores' attention, and points outside the room. She doesn't wait for a reaction of the brothers but just walks outside. Damon and Stefan exchange a look and then follow the blonde vampire. Whatever she has to say, she doesn't want Elena to listen.
Elena still tries to listen but doesn't hear much. She just hears Caroline saying she's not herself and they have to do something blablabla. This isn't something Elena hasn't heard before, so she puts the dress on and leaves the house, going straight to the hairdresser.
„It's finished, Miss Gilbert.", the hairdresser informs Elena and causes the vampire to stop her thoughts and open her eyes. Her hair is shorter and a little bit curly-but not as curly as Katherines- as Elena told the woman to do it. A red-purple strand of her hair makes her brown doe eyes even more beautiful.
„You did a nice job. Now give me your hand and don't make any noise.", Elena compells the woman who immediately holds her hand toward her. „Thank you.", Elena smiles at the hairdresser and bites into her wrist. Since they're in public and the woman is nice to her Elena decides not to kill her and lets go of the hand. „Forget the last hour", Elena says and exits the hairdresser.
What to do now, what to do now?Elena thinks and grimaces when she looks down at her clothes. The dress is nice and fit perfectly for the old Elena but the new Elena definitely has to go shopping. Her old clothest wouldn't suit her anymore but that's not the only reason she's going to the shopping center now; she has no clothes. After she has turned off her humanity, she burnt her house down, her brothers body and her clothes in it.
„Damon what did you do? Her humanity was the only thing she had left.", Stefan screams at his brother, who has just told Elena to turn it off. „Humanity means nothing if you don't have someone to care about, Stefan", Damon responds tired.
It's been a long day for everyone and Elenas' breakdown gave Damon the rest. He hates that he had forced Elena to turn her humanity off but he had had no choice. He know it's the best for her. She just needs a rest from her life. She has lost so many people and now Jeremy-it was impossible for her to move on. Damon realized it and told her the only thing that can help her. Now she'll just have a break, have fun and when she's ready she'll turn it back on.
„You're right. I'm sorry, I...", Stefan starts but doesn't know how to end his sentence. „I know Stefan, I know." Damon half embraces his little brother.
Elena listens to Damon and Stefan and she knows she should care that they're sad how this all ended, but she doesn't. She doesn't care about anything anymore. Of course she still remembers blaiming herself for everything and sitting on the floor crying but when she thinks of this now she feels nothing. Still, she doesn't want to live in this house anymore. So, when the Salvatore brothers enter the house she takes a burning matchstick and let it fall. With a brother on each of her sides she leaves her old life behind her.
„What is in those bags?", Stefan asks Elena when she enters the boarding house. „I went shopping", she answeres and walkes by him to Damons room.
When she opens the door and sees Damons expression to her new haircut she smiles and throws her hair behind her shoulder. Elena puts her bags down on the bed and has to stop herself from laughing when she looks at Damon.
He can't take his eyes off of her. His mouth is wide open. He always thought Elena's the most beautiful girl he has ever met and didn't think she could get more beautiful but she just prooved him wrong.
„You look amazing.", he says when he's finally able to speak again. „Thank you, Damon. You know, I hoped you would like it.", Elena says and lies down next to Damon on his bed. „And I know what you would like too.", she adds seductively and crawls upon Damon.
She starts kissing him while she takes his shirt off. It costs Damon all the strenght he has to stop her but somehow he manages to. „What are you doing?", Elena asks annoyed when he puts his shirt back on. „ I won't sleep with you when you're emotionless. I want to make love to you not only fuck you, Elena.", Damon says causing Elena to roll her eyes.
„Fine then you can wait a long time because the Elena who cares about love or cares about anything is gone and won't come back." Elena takes her shopping bags and leaves Damons room not planning to come back very soon.