AN: I'm so sorry but I will only be able to update tonight, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday afternoon. I'm working 25 hours this week plus 40 hours get taken up by school- I do not have that much free time but that isn't spent on hw will be spent on this.
He wakes up when he hears glass shattering, immediately awake. He hears Kol curse about stupid humans and their fragile food packaging in the kitchen, and his tense body relaxes. Elena, he remembers, looking over at her. His memory takes a second to catch up with him. He was going to talk to Elena, before he fell asleep. He pauses the playlist, and asks Elena to lower her walls for him. He's unable to hide the yawn that escapes his throat as he asks. It's almost a challenge to keep his eyes open, now that he knows it's just Kol, his body is intent on returning to sleep.
He focuses on staying awake, and on Elena. It's not an easy task, he can hear Kol cooking, Rebekah is humming and Caroline is laughing. Surprisingly, his brother is laughing with her. The realization that Niklaus is laughing and happy at the moment makes him pause, but since he is laughing with Caroline in her room, he isn't going to intrude.
He returns his focus back to Elena, and enters her mind. He has so much to tell her, he runs through his list as he walks to her mind palace, but he wonders when he doesn't have a long list of things to tell her. He enters the house, unsure where she is. He leaves his mind open, he has something in mind that he wants to show her. He worked hard adapting it for her while she was gone, unsure how well it would work.
He sees her as his eyes close, and he wishes he wasn't so exhausted.
She moves him with little effort to a couch without touching him. He must be exhausted. She moves his hands so they don't dangle off the couch, and his mind blends with hers for a moment. She got an image. A city. Elijah has told her she has an all access pass to almost every room in his mind palace, she thinks as she debates investigating further. It hadn't felt like a dream, she had felt Elijah's dreams before. It felt like the time he had shown her the stars. She moves them to her ideal living room, and sits in a chair next to him, before hesitantly taking one of his larger hands in hers.
It's an interactive city, she discovers. She can't tell what city, but she soaks in the sunlight and the people, all of her senses are pleased while simultaneously being overloaded. She likes the feeling.