Elena sat with Damon as they waited on their order to arrive. She was still mentally drained from her outburst earlier and she knew that sooner or later she was going to have to apologize to Bonnie. Elena was just grateful to have Damon there for her when she needed him. He was the only thing keeping her sane right now.
Caroline had stayed with Bonnie to console her, and the only remaining Gilbert was glad that Caroline was such a good friend. Bonnie had already had one friend hit her with the hard truth, what she needed now was a friend who was able to relate to her.
Neither girl had been able to say what they thought before that horrible train wreck that had derailed the "Kill Klaus" campaign, but just like Elena knew some part of her blamed Bonnie for Jeremy's death, Elena knew some part of Bonnie was blaming Elena too. If Elena wasn't the doppelganger than Klaus would never have come here looking for her; Rebekah wouldn't have diverted Matt's truck over the Wickery Bridge and straight into the water with Matt and Elena inside, and no one would have been looking for the cure for Elena. Jeremy would never have died.
Elena wanted to blame Klaus. It was his own insecurities about being alone that had sent him on a thousand year mission to break the curse on him that prevented him from being a hybrid. It was his parents' wish to protect their children from death that had caused the doppelganger curse on her line, but...although Elena's fate was irreversibly intertwined with Klaus's, she saw the bigger picture there. Jeremy had died because Silas had reached out to a grieving man; using him to lure Bonnie into helping him with whatever his scheme was.
Elena wanted to blame Klaus. Elena didn't know who to blame.
"She's hurt," Caroline tried to assure her friend. "Jeremy was the only family she had left; the last tie to her parents and now he's gone. It doesn't help that Tweedledee and Tweedledum are filling her head with nonsense " the blonde babbled.
"But she's not wrong," the witch replied. "I did lose my powers and now I'm trying to cheat the system by using expression. There's no connection to nature only to darkness. Somewhere along the line I lost my sense of right and wrong in trying to protect Elena. Maybe I just need to stop and get some perspective."
The vampire watched as her best friend left, leaving her alone yet one more time.