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I loved the feeling waking up next to Elijah in the early morning. He must love my hair though because, again, I woke up to him playing with it in his fingers. I sighed peacefully letting myself relax against him temporarily forgetting what today was.

"Oh no," I gasped sitting up, "Today's the full moon I have to go see if Elena's alright." I was absolutely panicking right now. I sat up to get up and get myself dressed and to the boarding house where I knew Elena and Jenna were. I would've if Elijah's arms hadn't snaked around my waist and pulled me back towards him. "Elijah I need to go see Elena and Jenna."

"No," he moaned into my neck, "Can we just enjoy this moment for a second," I sighed and leaned against him for literally a second before I stood up abruptly and practically ran to my closet. In a flash Elijah was standing in front of me smiling evilly.

"Elijah," I groaned and his smirk only grew.

"No," he said taking the jeans out of my hand and wrapping his arms around my neck pulling me close to him. "I don't want you to leave the house today."

"I know you told me that last night, but Elijah tonight either Elena and I are going to be used in the sacrifice. I need to make sure that she's okay," I explained to him. He sighed and buried his head into my hair.

"Promise me you won't do anything rash?" He begged looking me in the eyes.

"You know I can't promise you that," I said giving him a grim smile and kissing him softly again. "I can promise you though that tonight, tonight Klaus will die. We'll make sure of that." Elijah smiled and pulled me into his arms again.

"I can't lose you," he mumbled.

"You won't," I assured him. "I love you."

"I love you too." With that we got dressed and walked over to the boarding house where the gang was already waiting for us. Elijah told them all about the elixir that Elijah had possessed five centuries ago for, cough, Elizabeth. Elijah had looked away from me when he said that, and it's a good thing otherwise he would've seem my deadly stare. Damon cursed at Elena for believing that the elixir would work in the first place.

Another surprise though, Alaric came by the house. He had been released by Klaus like I had been, but he had been released to send a message.

The sacrifice happens tonight, just like Elijah had said. When he said that I retreated elsewhere in the house to think. It was all happening too soon. Sure I had known ahead of time when this was going to happen, but to actually have it be heard by the messenger himself. It just all seemed to be going so quickly. Elena or I were going to die tonight, and there was nothing any of us could do to stop it from coming.

"You left," I felt Elijah's arms slip around my shoulders. I sighed and leaned back into him while I closed my eyes. I thought all about what could go wrong, what could be right, and what the realistic options of how tonight was going to play out. I knew what the options were. One of use was going to die, and I had a really bad feeling about the elixir.

"I needed some time to think," I answered opening my eyes to look at him. His held sadness while mine held confusion. I was so confused on what was going to happen. I know what needed to happen, and I know what we wanted to happen, but those two things were entirely different from what I knew was going to happen tonight. "Something's going to go wrong, I know it."

"I know that you have doubts on what's going to happen tonight, but whatever does happen we'll still be together," he kissed the top of my head making me smile. A crash erupted both of from our thoughts. We turned around to see a very red Jenna trying to walk out of the room without being noticed.

"I, um, yeah," she said leaving the room very awkwardly. I gutted Elijah when he chuckled.

"So what are you doing today?" I asked him smiling mischievously.

"Making sure that you don't do anything stupid, or irrational," he responded. I frowned and he guided me towards the door. Before leaving he went over to the box where the elixir was and putting it away. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Damon coming down the stairs with a frustrated expression on his face.

"Are you okay?" I asked him. Damon nodded his head, and we both turned when Elijah started to speak.

"I guess you won't be needing this anymore, feeding her vampire blood rendered it useless," he spoke. I snapped around to Damon with wide eyes and an open mouth.

"You did what?" I yelled at him. "How could you? You know she doesn't want this. How could you?" I slapped him across his face. Damon growled and next thing I knew I was pinned down against the outside wall on the other end of the house with his mouth shoved in my wrist. I cried out which only caused the blood to seep down my throat faster than it would've if I had kept my mouth shut. Tears started streaming down my face when he didn't back off. He was suddenly shoved off of me, and I heard a familiar snap before I slumped down against the wall. Sobs racked my body hard enough for me not to realize that someone was picking me up and carrying me back into the house. When I did finally calm down I was sitting on the couch with Jenna holding me tightly to her and Elijah on the other side stroking my back softly.

I sniffled and wiped my eyes before looking at the two of them. I opened my mouth to say something, but words just refused to leave my mouth. Elijah seemed to know what I was saying though and got up to get me a glass of water to wash out the taste. I just sat there not moving for god knows how long before I finally asked the question on my mind.

"Why?" I croaked. Jenna had gone somewhere with Alaric, Elena was gone with Stefan, and god knows where Damon was. So it was just Elijah and I right now. He held onto me tightly refusing to let go.

"He knew that there were some chances of you being used instead of Elena. He does care for you," was that jealousy I heard? "As a younger sister, and he would do anything to make sure that you lived as well."

"But I-," I started but I couldn't find the strength to finish my thought. Instead I shut my eyes tightly and leaned back into Elijah praying for myself to wake up. This couldn't be happening. I couldn't be so close to being a vampire. I-I don't want to be a vampire. I don't want to kill innocent people, I don't want to kill innocent animals, and I don't want to steal to live. I would rather be dead, or at least not un-dead than ever become those things.

"I know," Elijah said kissing my forehead lovingly, "I know."

"Can you distract me?" I asked him hopefully. Elijah's eyes sparkled and he nodded his head leaning down so that he could kiss my lips softly.

"What do you want to do?" he asked, and I shrugged my shoulders.

"I have no idea," Elijah removed himself from me and stood up. He offered his hand for me to take, and I took in grinning.

"I have a small idea," he told me as I accepted his hand. Pulling my arm gently I landed on his back with my arms around his neck. "Hold on." I squealed when we were running out of the house at his vampire speed. When he stopped my arms and legs were wrapped very tight around his neck and waist with my head buried in his neck. "Open your eyes," he laughed, but I only shook my head.

Clinging onto him tighter I could feel him walking around somewhere, but I was just waiting for my head to stop spinning. "Not until the world stops spinning."

"You'll have a long wait," I hit his chest with my clenched fist making him chuckle again. Did I ever mention that Elijah could be such a bastard at times. Finally I opened my eyes and what I saw had me shocked. We were up really high in the mountains. I could faintly make out a waterfall in the distance, but it was so far away that I don't think I could really see it all that well.

"What is this place?" I asked him looking around at the smiling sun gazing down at us. This was definitely the distraction I had been hoping for.

"I used to love coming to this place many centuries ago, I thought that you might like it as well as I do," he said. "I also thought that we could just spend the day together, just you and me." I smiled.

"I'd like that," I smiled hugging him. For the rest of the day all we did was sit there watching the sun and talking. I hadn't realized how little I really knew about Elijah until today. Sure I knew the basic's and a little extra that he had told me, but today was a really great day. I found out everything, I think, about him. He told me about his siblings, how he thought me and his sister Rebekah would get along really well, even his favorite color. It was green, oddly enough. In return I told him all about e and asked any questions.

"You didn't," he laughed as I was telling him my most embarrassing moment. It was actually pretty funny. I had been visiting Mom's work at the university watching one of her colleges teach his history class when I interrupted him, and corrected him. In front of thirty college kids.

"It was so embarrassing, the professor had me thrown out of the class," I blushed looking down with my face in his hands. "I was ten, what was I supposed to do?" I asked him.

"Still," he started but I shoved him so that he fell over. Once he got back up I faced him with an evil glint in my eyes. "I don't like that look on your face."

"Tell me YOUR most embarrassing moment," I said eagerly. He tossed his head back in embarrassment as he thought.

"Alright I got one," he said looking deep in thought. "During the rock period I had the whole get up going on." I burst out laughing causing him to frown at me.

"Oh you're being serious," I cracked up leaning down so that my head was in his lap, "I just can't see it."

"Oh believe me I had everything from the leather jacket to the leather pants," I bust into a fit of giggles and not matter how much I tried to stop it they just wouldn't. It was just too hard to stop, and I could even see that Elijah had cracked a small smile.

"Oh I would do anything to see that," I smiled.

"Nope those picture have long since been burned," he told me stroking the hair away from my face. I just raised my eyebrows at him.

Oh I got a very evil glint in my eyes. "There were pictures?" he groaned.

"Is that all you got from that story?" He asked, obviously amused by the situation.

"All I heard was that there was evidence," I smirked.

"That you're never going to find, ever," he replied.

"So there is still evidence left?" he groaned leaning back. I crawled up on him so that I was top of him, and he placed his hands around my neck brining me down to kiss him softly. "I love you," he whispered.

"I love you too," I said relaxing myself on his chest. We both just sat there for the next few minutes watching the sun set in the distance. "I don't want this day to end," I told him honestly snuggling closer to him.

"I don't either," he replied sitting up, but still keeping me close to him. Watching the sunset was beautiful and so peaceful that I really didn't want it to end. I could practically feel myself shutting down every moment the sun got lower in the sky because I knew. I knew that either my sister or me was going to die and become a vampire tonight. It all seemed so surreal. Just barely a few months ago I was a normal girl living in the dark of my sibling's secret. I hadn't met Elijah until a few months ago, and I most certainly hadn't been in love with an almost thousand year old Original vampire. Yet I look back at my life and I realize how much it's changed in such a short period of time, and I found myself wanting to cry over how much has happened.

Before all this happened I had no idea how easily life could be taken, whether it was you or a person you loved. All it took was a second, and they would be gone. I had finally met my birthmother only to find out that she killed herself because of Klaus's compulsion, and John wasn't my real father according to Elena. Some other guy was, it had turned out that she pretended it was John's so that I could go to his brother's to live instead of some orphanage. I had cried for a long time when she told me that.

I was Elena's sister; I wasn't even related to Jeremy at all or Jenna. The only family I had was dead, or the rest unknown to me. When had life gotten so complicated.

"You're thinking about something," Elijah observed me silently. "Do you wish to talk about it?"

I thought for a little while staring off at the sun again, I was studying the pastel colors that were painted across the sky. "I don't know, I guess I'm just thinking about how much things have changed from a few months ago," I mused.

"Yes things have changed dramatically in your life," Elijah responded sounding slightly difficult, "I apologize for my part in it."

"That's not what I meant at all," I said quickly, "Meeting you was probably the best thing that ever happened in my life, but I could live without all the Klaus drama." He smirked.

"We should probably leave," he said sadly and I pouted at him. Sighing we both got up and I resumed my earlier position of being on his back with my arms wrapped tightly around his neck. "I'm leaving you with Jenna at the house. I don't want you to leave at all do you understand me?"

With a long dramatic sigh I nodded my head into his shoulder. "I understand Elijah."

With that we zoomed off into the night.

xXx

Jenna and I were chilling at the house watching some old home movies and thinking about the good times when her phone rang. We both stared at it with confusion laced in our expressions. No one was supposed to call us tonight. Everyone was distracted with the curse and everything, and they knew that we had been told not to take any participation in tonight (despite all of our arguing).

"Maybe it's Ric?" I asked hopefully.

"Yeah, just Ric," Jenna repeated taking the phone in her hand and pressing the 'call' button. "Hello?...Elena?...Calm down what's going on? Oh god, Elena!" Jenna yelled getting off of the couch.

"Jenna what's going on?" I cried feeling panic sweep over my body.

"I don't know, something went wrong," Jenna cried just as panicked as me. She grabbed her purse and started walking towards the door, but I quickly ran in front of her.

"No, Jenna we were told not to leave the house," I said.

"Abby something's gone wrong, we need to go help them!" She exclaimed. I bit my lip contemplating what she had just said. Jenna was right if something was going wrong then we needed to help. I nodded my head pulling my sweatshirt over my head. We both walked out the door, but the second the door was shut something grabbed Jenna. I looked over in terror as Klaus was feeding her his blood. Before I could even let out a word he had snapped her neck and blurred over to me.

"It appears that I get my wish after all, love you can thank that Salvatore brother for this," that was the last thing I heard before it all went black. The next time I woke up I was lying in the old quarry. Elena was holding Jenna in her arms and the witch from the house was standing there with a smile on her face.

"They're not dead," Greta said smiling at both Jenna and I. "They're in transition."

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