AN: I am sorry this is so short and terrible, and I will not be working on this fic until Monday. I will be posting this weekend, however.
She asks him to tell her what she really missed, and he tells her of the changes in New Orleans, and in the world. He tells her about the cupcakes. She yawns, and tells him it's hard to sleep for a week. While her brain was active while sleeping, it was harder to get out of after a few days. Turning off her awake switch for so long made it harder to find and turn back on. He looks intrigued, and she realizes he hasn't told her something. He hadn't mentioned sleep at all.
"Did you sleep since I last saw you?" She asks, adjusting one of the quilts covering them. She moved them out of her room, couldn't stand to look at her bed any longer, but the couch in her ideal living room is fair game.
"I did not. I had pressing things to attend to, and I can go without sleep longer than a mere six days, Elena." He's trying to convince her that it was a good choice. She just raises a disapproving eyebrow.
"You need sleep." She reminds him, as if he didn't think about sleep at all while she was sleeping for a week. He just gives her a grin.
"I am aware of that, lovely Elena."
"Good." She says, and they hear something. Elena focuses.
It's Caroline, saying that Bonnie, Jeremy and Alaric are coming in a week. Elijah looks at Elena and sees her face light up. A little, selfish part of him wishes he could have time with Elena more frequently than he does. Caroline tells them that she'll come back and get Elijah when it's time, and after that, she wants in Elena's head. Elena stifles a giggle and then Caroline is gone. She wants to talk with him about serious, heavy things but he looks happy albeit tired, and she can't bring herself to do it. She just puts her head on his shoulder again and admits this whole coma business was harder than she had previously thought. He reminds her she's not alone. He's right, but her problems are too heavy to share at the moment. She yawns, trying to wake up, and he yawns out of tiredness. She wants to laugh at that, but she just sits next to Elijah, and sends him out when Caroline says they need him for a meeting with the other supernatural leaders. He promises to see her tomorrow, and she nods.
When Caroline asks to see her, she lowers her walls. She has to explain why she slept for a week. What Caroline told Elijah was almost close, but it wasn't. She admits that doing so again could help everyone free up their schedules to lives their lives. Caroline is mad where Elijah was not, and tells Elena her idea was stupid. Elijah was off his game while she was sleeping. She missed Elena like crazy, and tells her a week without her wasn't fun. They're in this together, and she looks at Elena for a moment before she understands something.
"You didn't tell Elijah how you feel about being here." It's not a question, Caroline knows she didn't tell him. Her face has guilty written all over it in Caroline's mind. Elena admits that she doesn't know how to tell him. Elijah already seems worried about her as it is. Admitting that she's terrified she'll go insane isn't really something that's casual conversation worthy. Caroline tells her that Elijah will be fine.
It's hers to tell, Caroline says and lets the topic drop. She mentions the call from Bonnie, and Elena grins. Trust Bonnie to find the spell to get into someone's mind completely, out of the thousands of spells in the world. She's excited about Jeremy and Ric coming, she wants to talk to them. She didn't think she was going to be able to, the fact that she can see them again makes things better. She talks to Caroline for a long time, until the blonde yawns and Elena sends her out.
She sorts memories until she hears Elijah, begin to speak. Then he yawns, and she waits for him to continue for a few minutes, but then realizes he fell asleep. She's not sure if she's relieved or if she wanted to talk to him. Having him fall asleep in her mind while she was uninterested in sleep didn't sound like a good idea, but she wonders if he had something to tell her.
She just sorts and listens to the playlist that's going, about some revolutionary new car.