Elena, Bonnie and Stefan had arrived at the Lockwood mansion together but had been split up to do different tasks. Elena was sent to sort through some masks when Damon and Jeremy walked up to her.

"Damon?" Elena playing at being shocked. "I thought you said that you weren't going to help today."

"I did but then baby Gilbert came to talk to me about Mason being after the moonstone which he found out from Tyler Lockwood." Damon smirked.

"And then Damon told me that Mason had already told you all everything and I feel like an idiot." Jeremy looked embarrassed.

"I actually think it's quite impressive that you found out all that on your own." Elena looked proudly at her brother.

"I want to help more." Jeremy admitted. "I know that you kept me out of it to protect me but I really want to help, Lena."

"Lena?" Damon murmured.

"Nick name from when we were kids and a sign of affection." Jeremy shrugged.

"Yeah, it's ten times better then NaNa." Elena chuckled, remembering the home video she had watched when she first woke up in this world. "When Jeremy was very little, he couldn't say Elena so I became NaNa."

"That changed when I was around 5, I think." Jeremy laughed. "That's when 'Lena' came into play.

"That is adorable." Damon mock gushed. "But now I need a nickname for Elena."

"Why?" Elena asked with her head tilted to the side.

"Because I said so." Damon smirked.

"So, what are you gonna call me?" Elena looked at him.

"I don't know yet." Damon shrugged. "I'll get back to you on that."

"Aren't you and Stefan going to commence the wolfnapping?" Elena hummed softly.

"Of course, we are just setting the scene." Damon walked off with a chuckle.

Around an hour later Elena had been joined by Matt in sorting through mask and costumes.

"So, where's Caroline?" Matt asked while trying to sound casual. "This is like her thing, I can't believe she's not here."

"She had something else to do." Elena shrugged.

"Is she avoiding me since she broke up with me?" Matt turned towards Elena seriously.

"No, she's not avoiding you." Elena told him. "She just had something to do."

Elena almost sighed in relief when Stefan walked into the room with a box filled with more masks. If Matt had kept asking questions, she would have either screamed at him or punched him and knowing herself option two was the most likely.

"Has anyone seen Mason?" Tyler walked in behind Stefan.

"I saw him take a call and then he took off." Stefan lied expertly.

"So weird." Tyler shook his head and walked off.

Stefan suddenly pulled his phone out and then he gestured for Elena to follow him. As Stefan drove them to the old Lockwood property, he explained about the plan Stefan and Mason had come up with.

"We need the moonstone to fool Kathrine into thinking that Mason is really dead." Stefan stopped the car. "But Mason said that the well he hid it in is filled with vervain, so you'll have to go down and get it."

"But how are we going to fool the world into thinking that Mason is really dead?" Elena asked as they walked towards the well on the old Lockwood property.

"Bonnie actually come up with a plan." Stefan smiled. "She is creating a pendant that contains a glamor."

"What will this glamor do?" Elena looked at Stefan from the corner of her eye.

"It will basically make him look like someone else to everyone not keyed into the pendant." Stefan explained. "And before you ask, to get keyed into the pendant you have to place a drop of blood on it."

"That is quite genius." Elena nodded and bent over to look into the well when they arrived. "How are we doing this?"

"We'll use this to lower you down and then I'll pull you up when you give the signal." Stefan picked up an old rusted chain from the ground.

"Sounds good." Elena smiled and took of her jacket. At Stefans look she shrugged, "I don't want to ruin it, Jeremy got it for me."

Elena had wrapped the chain around herself and hooked it into one of the links. She nodded at Stefan and he started to slowly lower her into the well. When she was around halfway down there was an ominous creaking sound and then the chain snapped.

Elena screamed as she fell the rest of the way down and then the end of the chain came down and hit her over her left shoulder and her back. The pain was white hot and Elena tried to call out but the sound froze in her throat.

"Elena!" Stefan called and looked down at her.

"I'm..." Elena had to lean against the wall of the well. "I'm okay, sort of."

"What do you mean 'sort of'?" Stefan demanded to know.

"It's nothing." Elena called back not wanting to make him worry. "How am I getting out of here after I find the moonstone?"

"You search for the moonstone and I'll call Caroline and have her come here with a very sturdy, long rope." Stefan called back to her.

Elena started to look for the stone but the water was murky which made it harder. The pain from the chain hitting her were making her dizzy and unsteady, her vision becoming double every few seconds.

"I found it!" Elena shouted as she finally after several minutes of searching found the box with the moonstone. Then she swayed and fell into the wall, making flames of pain race through her body.

"Stefan!" Elena called out weakly as she started to cough up blood. "Somethings wrong."

"Elena! Just hold on, Caroline is almost here!" Stefan sounded worried.

After that Elena started to lose time, one minute she was standing in the well, the next she was sinking down with her back against the well wall as everything started to go black.

XOXOXOX

Elena woke up in a weird place and she does mean weird. The sky above her was filled with different planets and galaxies and she was walking on something that reflected the sky making it seem like she was surrounded by several galaxies.

"Where am I?" Elenas voice echoed around her.

"You are everywhere and nowhere." A voice said from behind her.

"It's you." Elena breathed out as she saw the dark being standing there like it was completely normal.

"Hello, dear one, I have wanted to meet you for a long, long time." The Being said as its black formless appearance started to morph. "I'm sorry for snapping the chain but it was the only way for us to be able to talk."

"Why not talk to me when you visited my room." Elena wondered.

"It would have taken up too much time." The being sounded like it smiled. "Here we could talk for years while mere seconds pass in your world."

Elena gasped as The Beings form finally settled on an appearance and she finally figured out what and who The Being was.

"You're Death." Elena said with certainty.

"Indeed, I am, dear one, indeed I am." Death smiled gently at her. Then it conjured a mirror to look at itself. "So, this is how you see Death."

"How I see death?" Elena asked confused.

"This image is merely a reflection on how you see me." Death explained patiently as he/it admired themselves in the mirror. "I do not technically have a shape or form; I take the shape or form of what the people I meet think and expects me to look like. But I must admit that I do like this one."

"Oh?" Elena hummed.

"Most just see me as a skeleton in a dark robe with a big scythe, but not you." Death smiled at her.

"Guess I've watched too much Supernatural." Elena shrugged with an embarrassed smile. And it must be true if Death actually took the form of death from Supernatural as her...default?

"Delightful show." Death agreed.

"Why am I here and why did you want to talk to me?" Elena decided to ask.

"I have watched you for a long time, as I said." Death turned towards her. "Your whole life as Alex and you impressed me. You are the sort of person who sees people instead of labels but also doesn't fear me or try to prevent me from getting my souls."

"You should always greet Death as an old friend." Elena said quietly.

"And that is one of the reasons I gave you a second chance at life when your life as Alexandra ended." Death smiled at her.

"But what happened to Elena? The real Elena?" Elena asked softly. "Did I just erase her from exitance?"

"No, dear one, you did not 'erase her from exitance' as you say." Death chuckled. "She was already dead and her soul had left her body which is how I was able to place you in her body. Because no matter what the Harry Potter books tell you, there can't be more than on soul in a vessel at a time and if two should somehow end up in the same vessel the stronger soul destroys the weaker one."

"It's freaking awesome that you read Harry Potter." Elena laughed then she sobered up. "So, what happened?"

"The car crash that killed Elena Gilbert's parents weakened on of the blood vessels in her brain and one day the pressure on the vessel got to much and it broke, resulting in Elena Gilbert dying in her sleep."

"You said me feeling like you should always greet Death.... you as an old friend was ONE of the reasons you gave me a second chance." Elena looked at Death. "What are the others?"

"This world, the one I sent you to, was going down a very dark path." Death explained calmy. "And if it had kept going the way it was it would have been destroyed. You being there has already changed things for the better and the future already looks brighter."

"No pressure huh?" Elena asked sarcastically.

"As you have noticed some things has to happen and that's why you feel a pull to do something or say something at some points or why you forget important 'plot points'." Death smiled.

"What about the tattoos between my breasts, what are those?" Elena wanted to know.

"To be able to move you from your world to this one, certain changes had to be made." Death looked both sad and happy which was a weird combination. "I had to claim you as my chosen and I have never done that before. Those 'tattoos' are what binds you to me and to that body, so to speak"

"What does that entail?" Elena asked slowly, worried for the answer.

"You are the closest I will ever get to having a child of my own, you are my daughter." Death looked at her with love. "This also makes you immortal in some ways."

"Immortal how?" Elena demanded to know.

"I am not certain, as I said you are my daughter. I have never done this before so I do not know how it will affect you, my dear." Death told her. "But my theory is that while your body will be mortal your soul will be truly immortal and will never enter the afterlife."

"If my soul can't enter the after life what will happen when I die?" Elena asked softly.

"You will join me wherever I am and you could spend some time with me or I could send you to be reborn in another world of your choosing." Death said gently. "And the 'tattoos' will always appear on your body but not always in the same place."

"What happens if I get turned into a vampire?" Elena wondered softly.

"Then you'll be a vampire but you might be stronger and faster than just a regular vampire being the daughter of Death." Death smiled at her. "Vampires are part of my domain after all. Gaia, mother nature, and I created vampires for a reason that you have already figured out."

"Population control." Elena smiled. It was nice to know her theory about vampires were right.

"Precisely, my dear." Death nodded.

Elena stood there for a long while, just thinking about everything that has been said. She didn't know if she wanted to be immortal but... she had no clue what to think. She was grateful to have a second chance at life and she absolutely loved her friend and family in her new life, so she decided to be thankful and just roll with the punches so to speak.

Elena walked up to Death slowly and hugged him, "Thank you."

Death stood stiffly in Elenas arms for a while, like he had never been hugged before, then he slowly relaxed and hugged her back with very careful and gentle movements. "You are welcome, dear one."

After they pulled back Death explained to her that after she got back, she would start noticing that some animals would be drawn to her, like crows, ravens and other animals associated with death. That didn't bother Elena at all, she loved most animals as long as it wasn't like spiders or creepy crawlies with lots of legs, but she didn't really count insects as animals anyway.

Elena stretched several hours later when Death had told her everything she wanted to know, "Thank you for explaining to me."

"Anytime, dear one." Death smiled. "Are you ready to go back?"

"I can't tell anyone about this, can I?" Elena asked sadly.

"I'm afraid not." Death acknowledged with a nod. "But no one will be able to compel it out of you either."

"Am I going to be immune to compulsion? And will I be able to talk to you if I want to?" Elena liked talking to Death and from what she could see Death liked having someone to talk to too, someone that wasn't dead at least.

"With time you might build a resistance towards compulsion and to talk to me you'll have to meditate and be calm and I'll be able talk to you in your mind." Death smiled gently at her.

"Well then, let's get this show on the road!" Elena chuckled and just as Death touched her forehead she smiled and said. "I'll see you around dad."