Elena

She sighed as Caroline dragged her to the front door of the house.

"JEREMY!" She watched her bang on the door with her fist while she struggled not to burst into hysterical laughter. "Let us in!"

Jeremy appeared at the door looking thoroughly confused before his face lit up when he say her.

"'Lena! Come in!" She stepped inside the door smirking at Caroline who stood fuming on the doorstep. "Oh Caroline. Hey." He left a large obvious pause, trying to wind her up to see how annoyed she would get. Clearly Caroline was not in the mood.

"Jeremy, if you don't let me in I will wait until you come out then rip your head off." She spoke sweetly, her eyes innocent.

"Come in Care." She smiled sarcastically at him before barging past him and storming upstairs to her bedroom yelling as she went.

"Elena! Get your ass up here. We. Need. To. Talk." She laughed softly before charging up to her room and crashing on the bed.

"Yes Caroline?" She winked.

"Elena! What the hell is going on with you and Damon?" She sighed, how could she explain something like what they had?

"I love him Care, I have for a while. I fell for him hard, harder now that we actually have a chance."

Caroline's eyes softened and she smiled at her.

"I get it El, I really do. You loved someone, but you didn't know it wasn't what you really wanted until you met someone else."

She watched Caroline carefully. She spoke the words with so much feeling that it couldn't be referring to Matt and Tyler. There was someone else? She didn't push, Caroline was usually so outspoken with her feelings. This was something she was going to have to admit to herself before she could admit it to anyone else.

"What I don't get though-" She waggled an accusing finger in her face "Is how the two of you managed to get any time alone to talk about everything, let alone talk about your feelings. That must have been one hell of a conversation." She burst out laughing before catching site of Caroline's face.

'I'm sorry Care, just the idea of us really talking about it made me think. We haven't really talked about it. In passing, yes but over the summer-" She broke off with a shrug of her shoulder's.

This time it was Caroline's turn to laugh, her bubbling laughter lighting up everything.

"I suppose, you and Damon in a room alone." She winked suggestively. "It's not like you'd be talking."

"Care!"

"What?" smirked Caroline. "Come on 'Lena, you two have been dying to jump either other's bones since before Stefan left! So spill, when was the first time you kissed?"

"You know that Care, it was the night Stefan left." She shrugged off-handedly, knowing that wasn't what she'd meant at all.

"Fate is I ever saw it, but I don't mean that, I mean really." She elbowed her before continuing.

"After he compelled Jeremy to leave for Denver, he'd just found out about Stefan. He'd pushed Damon away from Klaus so that Damon wouldn't die. He felt guilty for feeling the way he felt. I was sort of angry, I mean, how could he feel guilty if nothing had ever happened? I'd kissed him that night." Caroline's eyes widened, sensing the main part of the story was drawing closer.

"I told him that if he was going to feel guilty about something he should feel guilty about this. Then I kissed him."

Caroline squealed "Elena! Okay, next juicy make-out sesh?"

She laughed easily, Caroline made everything so bright and fun and carefree.

"Denver, we were in a motel. I was pretending to be asleep then we were talking and I kind of freaked-"

Caroline rolled her eyes. "Elena, you were so scared of admitting your feelings for him to yourself but you still kissed him?"

"Yes Care I did. Judge me later."

"I won't judge, that's Bonnie's job." Under normal circumstances she would have defended her other friend but she wasn't up to it. Bonnie had turned her back on them and judged almost everything.

"Anyway, you want the fun part or not?" Caroline nodded excitedly, miming zipping her mouth shut. "You're such a dork Care! I left the room to, I don't know, calm down or something but he came out after me. I don't know. I just sort of launched myself at him."

"That is so romantic Elena. First kiss is a goodbye; full of regrets of what could have been." The line was so unlike Caroline it almost shocked her until she continued. "Blah, blah, blah. The second is hesitant and soft and the third-" she broke of wickedly "- I'm assuming it was passionate and full of fire?"

"Yep. Then Jeremy walked out on on."

"No! That boy has the worst timing!" She raced the the bathroom she and her brother shared before sticking her head through Jeremy's door.

"JERMEY YOU HAVE THE WORST TIMING EVER. GOD." she yelled before slamming the door in a huff and stalking over to the bed where she was currently bend over at the waist, convulsing with laughter.

"God, Care, I love you." she said her eyes sparkling. Caroline frowned.

"It's not funny!"

"It is Care, it is." There talk was interrupted by a knock on the door. "I'll get it!" She called through to Jeremy. "Don't worry, Caroline won't kill you."

She smiled before opening the door with her smile of her face which soon faded when she saw who was standing there.

"Hey." she said, deciding she might as well be polite for once.

"Wow, that's an unusually polite greeting. What's up with you?"

She sighed. Clearly being polite wasn't even worth the effort. "Nothing. Why are you here?"

"I don't even know. To help? I know what you're thinking, you're thinking 'Nah, that can't be it. She must have some evil, destroying plan.' I know, its strange but I want to help you-" She broke off and shrugged.

"So my little doppelgänger, what do you say?"

"Well Katherine, that depends. What do you want to help with?" She felt unexplainably at ease with her, despite the many twisted plans and back stabbings.

"I know how to kill trap Klaus. You stay alive, his 'soul' stays zombie like and trapped, it's a 'win-win' " She looked sincere, not a smirk or trace of sarcasm in her face.

"Katherine, you know it's never a 'win-win' with you. It's always a 'win-win-win' with you getting the best outcome. So which is it?"

Now Katherine smirked. "My my Elena, you certainly have the Petrova fire in you. So answer me this, will you accept my help? In a very loose term of the word of course."

She looked at her spitting image trying to see something that was different about Katherine, she looked different but acted strangely. She was almost warm.

"Good luck convincing the other's to accept your help. I'm all for it but they won't be as willing."

"Oh but Elena, you can wrap the world round your little finger can't you?" She snorted.

"About you?" Katherine rolled her eyes.

"Yes about me!" Now it was her time to roll her eyes at her indignant tone.

"Head to the Boarding house. You can say your piece but I won't be making the decision."

Okay, REALLY don't like the conversation between Katherine and Elena. Meh, I've rewritten it about six times! Anyway, I do love the caroline/elena closeness that i've conjured up form somewhere. It doesn't show much on the show. Love you all! Thanks you so much for reading and reviewing!

-Ex