Elena woke up as someone placed her on something soft-ish and removed the rope around her hands and feet. Why did this keep happening to her? Like seriously, did she have a sign over her head that said 'please knock me out'?

"Who the fuck are you?" Elena glared at the man, Trevor, if she remembered correctly.

"Shh." Trevor hushed her.

"I will hurt you if you come any closer to me with those teeth." Elena kept glaring. "And you could just ask first if you wanted a few sips of my blood, you know."

"Trevor!" A woman called out. "Control yourself."

"Buzzkill." Trevor muttered as he left the room.

"Shouldn't that be up to me?" Elena asked.

"What?" The woman, Rose, looked at her.

"If I want Trevor to drink my blood, and I'm really not saying that I do, but then that should be my choice, not yours:" Elena raised an eyebrow as she looked at Rose.

"Oh my god," Rose whispered as she came closer. "You look just like her."

"What do you want?" Elena groaned. "Like seriously? I just wanted to go home, get out of this dress and then sleep for about a week."

"I want you to be quiet." Rose told her.

"And I want a million dollars but we can't always get what we want, now can we." Elena smirked.

"True but I can at least make my wish come true." Roes glared at Elena before slapping her hard enough to knock her out.

Elena woke up some unspecified time later and wished, not for the first time, that her dress had pocket in which she could have stuffed her phone.

"How's the girl?" Elena heard Rose ask from somewhere upstairs.

"Still passed out." Trevor said.

"You didn't touch her, did you?" Rose demanded to know.

"Give me some credit, will you. Even though she looks really good in that dress." Trevor hummed but turned serious again. "So, you called him?"

"No, I called on of his contacts." Rose sighed. "You know how this works."

"Did you or did you not get a message to Elijah?" Trevor sounded annoyed.

"They said he got it." Rose told him.

"Wonderful and then what?" Trevor wondered.

Elena decided to try and get out of there and slowly and as silently as she could she walked up the stairs while still listening in on Rose's and Trevor's conversation.

They kept talking about Elijah and that name made a bell ring in Elena's head. She knew who he was, didn't she? Elena accidentally stepped on a squeaky floor board making Rose and Trevor turn to her.

"You! There is nothing around here for miles." Rose Quickly walked up to her. "If you think you are getting out of this house, you're tragically mistaken. Understood?"

"Who's Elijah?" Elena asked instead of answering.

"Your worst nightmare." Rose glared.

"Eh, I don't know about that." Elena muttered. "My nightmares can be pretty horrible."

"You're really not scared of us, are you?" Trevor asked slowly.

"Nope, not really." Elena shrugged. "Anyway, anyone seen my scarf?"

"You weren't wearing one when I got you." Trevor told her, then he walked out.

"Damn, I really liked that scarf." Elena mumbled quietly. Then she turned towards Rose, "You said I'm not allowed to leave, but can I at least explore? I am bored out of my mind."

"Fine, but only the bottom floor." Rose growled.

"Yay!" Elena cheered and walked out to start exploring.

Around two hours later Elena found Rose in a room and decided to join her.

"So, what do you want from me?" Elena chirped.

"You keep asking like I'm actually going to answer." Rose glared at her.

"It's not like I can go anywhere and you did have me kidnapped so the least you can do is tell me why." Elena looked at her seriously.

"Personally, I want nothing from you; I'm just the delivery service." Rose smirked.

"You are a human trafficker!!!" Elena shouted at her in mock accusation.

"No!" Rose looked offended at the mere thought.

"Oh, so who are you delivering me to? Elijah?" Elena suddenly calm as a cucumber again.

"Two points to the eavesdropper." Rose glared.

"Is he a vampire?" Elena wondered as she looked around the room.

"He's one of the vampires, the originals." Rose turned to her.

"So, you are, like, a food delivery service or something then?" Elena chuckled as she looked at Rose.

"Haven't the Salvatore's been teaching you vampire history?" Rose asked.

"You know Stefan and Damon then?" Elena hummed.

"I know of them. A hundred years back, a friend of mine tried to set me up with Stefan." Rose explained. "She said he was one of the good ones. Om more of a sucker for the bad boys though but I digress."

"Oh, I though you and Trevor..." Elena trailed off.

"Trevor is my best friend and we've been running for 500 years." Rose turned towards Elena again. "We're using you to negotiate ourselves out of an old mess."

"It's because I'm a doppelgänger, isn't it?" Elena murmured.

"You do know some things at least." Rose smirked. "You are the key to breaking the curse."

"Isn't the moonstone the key to breaking the sun and the moon curse?" Elena asked slowly.

"No, the moonstone is what binds the curse." Rose smirked at her again. "The sacrifice is what breaks it."

Then Elena suddenly remembered who Elijah was and why the moonstone was important. Oh, poor Niklaus who had been forced to live as only half of himself for centuries.

"I'm the sacrifice, aren't I?" Elena hummed even if she already knew.

Rose and Elena walked back into the room where Elena first woke up, still talking.

"Why can't they use Kathrine?" Elena looked at Rose.

"Captivity had made her pushy, eh?" Trevor chuckled as he walked in. "What do you want to know doppelicious?"

"Well, you could tell me why they can't use Kathrine in the sacrifice and who you are running from." Elena smiled gently at him, wondering if she could save him.

"Because the sacrifice needs a human doppelgänger." Trevor told her. "As for who we are running from; The Originals."

"I assume by that, that they are the original vampires." Elena said thoughtfully.

"Yup and Rose and I pissed them off." Trevor murmured.

"Mm-hmm." Rose coughed.

"Correction." Trevor hummed. "I pissed them off, Rose had my back and for over half a millennium, they've wanted us dead."

"What did you do?" Elena wanted to know.

"He made the same mistake as countless others did: he trusted Katerina Petrova." Rose glared into space.

"Kathrine is such a bitch." Elena groaned.

"That she is." Rose agreed.

"I helped her escape her fate and I've, sorry, we've been marked ever since." Trevor finished the explanation.

"Which is why we're not going to make the same mistake again." Rose informed Elena.

"I wouldn't want either of you to risk your life for mine." Elena huffed and walked over to the couch and sits down.

She noticed a hand written note and discreetly read it. 'Stefan and Damon are coming for you. – Bonnie'

A while later Trevor came rushing into the room in a panic.

"He's here!" Trevor started to pace. "This was a mistake."

"No, I told you I would get us out of this." Rose told him firmly. "You have to trust me."

"No!" Trevor looked at her with scared eyes. "He wants me dead, Rose!"

"He wants her more!" Rose gestured towards Elena.

"I can't do this!" Trevor's panic was getting the best of him. "You give her to him; he'll have mercy in you but I need to get out of here."

"Hey!" Rose called out loudly. "What are we?"

"We're family," Trevor murmured. "Forever."

"You're scared." Elena murmured as there was a knock on the door.

"Stay here with her and don't make a sound." Rose instructed as she left to open the door.

Elena stood in front of the couch not really knowing what to do when she heard Rose arrive back with Elijah. She turned to look up at the stairs at the original and almost gasped, Daniel Gillies, the man that played Elijah in the tv show, was a very handsome man, but Elijah took it to a whole other level.

Well, that could just be the suit, Elena always did like a man in a suit. She saw the surprise on his face when suddenly he was in front of her. Elijah looked at her and bent down to smell her neck.

"Human. It's impossible." Elijah sounded delighted as he pulled back. "Hello there."

"Step away from the merchandise before said merchandise decides to rip your throat out with her teeth!" Elena huffed, fighting against the want to nibble on his jawline. That was one hell of a jawline tho.

"You have spirit." Elijah smiled at her and grabbed her arm gently as he started to walk out. "We have a long journey ahead of us, we should be going."

"Can we go to Disneyland on the way?" Elena asked hopefully. "I've always wanted to go."

"One last piece of business and we're done." Elijah let go of Elena's arm and walked over to Trevor.

"I've waited so long for this day, Elijah." Trevor mumbled. "I'm truly, very sorry."

"Oh no, your apology is not necessary." Elijah told him.

"Yes, yes, it is." Trevor said. "You trusted me with Katerina and I failed you."

"Yes, you are the guilty one and Rose aided you because she was loyal to you and that I honor." Elijah informed him. "But where was your loyalty?"

"I beg your forgiveness." Trevor looked at Elijah pleadingly.

"Granted." Elijah said.

Trevor smiled in relief but it was shot lived as Elijah smacks Trevor's head clean off his shoulders.

"So that is what people mean when they say they'll smack you face off." Elena hummed. "Cool."

"You..." Rose started to cry.

"Don't, Rose, now you are free." Elijah told her pleasantly then he turned towards Elena. "Come."

"Oki doki." Elena walked over to him. "Do you think we could stop for a change of clothes? My feet are killing me."

"I think you look stunning in that dress." Elijah smiled at her and offered his arm, when she gladly took it, he looked a little shocked but continued, "You are very different from most people."

"Who would like to be like everybody else?" Elena chuckled.

"And about your feet, you could just take off your shoes in the car." Elijah led her towards the front door.

"Fine, but I'm putting my feet on the dashboard." Elena told him. "By the way, don't we need the moonstone?"

"What do you know about the moonstone?" Elijah stopped and looked at Elena.

"I know that you need it and I know where it is." Elena shrugged like it was no big deal.

"Yes?" Elijah coaxed.

"I can help you get it." Elena hummed softly as she looked at him.

"Tell me where it is." Elijah ordered her.

"Doesn't really work like that, sweets." Elena smiled at him.

"Are you negotiating with me?" Elijah looked perplexed and amused as he turned towards Rose.

"It's the first I've heard of it." Rose defended herself.

"Where is the moonstone?" Elijah tried to compel her but it didn't work.

Elijah looked down and saw Elenas vervain armband and ripped it off.

"Hey!" Elena glared. "A very dear friend gave that to me."

"Tell me where the moonstone is." Elijah compelled her again.

Elena could feel the words trying to come out of her mouth. "In the tomb, underneath the church ruins."

"What's it doing there?" Elijah asked softly.

"It's with Kathrine." Elan admitted.

"Interesting." Elijah hummed.

"I knew I should just have kept it in my bra." Elena grumbled annoyed at herself.

"You kept the moonstone in your bra?" Elijah asked without compulsion and a raised eyebrow.

"That was the one place no one would ever look." Elena smirked with a shrug.

"That is actually very smart." Elijah smiled at her.

"Compelling me was just plane rude." Elena pouted. "But I guess I should thank you for compelling instead of torture."

"What was that?" Elijah asked as they all heard glass break on the upper floor.

"I don't know." Rose answered.

"Who else is in this house?" Elijah glared at Rose.

"I don't know." Rose repeated.

Elijah quickly grabbed Elena and walked into another part of the house. Damon and Stefan are moving around them at vamp-sped and Elijah throws Elena into Rose's arms.

"Rose." Elijah growled.

"I don't know who it is." Rose denied.

"Up here." Stefan's voice sounded from the upper floor.

Elijah vamp-sped up the stairs.

"Down here." Damons voice came from downstairs.

Elijah started to walk down the stairs again. He suddenly received a stake through one of his hands which he quickly removed. Then Elena was standing with Stefan on the upper floor as he gestured for her to be quiet.

"Excuse me." Elijah called out, still being polite even as he broke off a piece of the banister to use as a stake. "To whom it may concern, you're making a great mistake if you think you can beat me, you can't. do you hear that?"

Elijah slowly walked down the stairs, calm as could be. "I repeat, you can not beat me. I want the girl and I'm going to count to three or heads will roll. Do we understand each other?"

"I'll come with you." Elena said as she stepped out on the stairs. "Just leave my friends alone and unhurt, they just wanted to help me out."

"What games are you playing with me?" Elijah demands to know as he rushed up to her.

"I'm not playing any games." Elena looked at him. "I just want my friends safe."

Before either of them can react, Stefan shot Elijah with the compressed air weapon. It doesn't hurt Elijah at all so Stefan tackled him down the stairs. Elijah got up immediately while Stefan stayed down.

Elijah brushed dust from his suit as he approached Stefan but Damon appeared and staked Elijah while pushing him up against the door. Elijah slowly turned gray and desiccated before their eyes.

Rose ran off as soon as she saw Elijah die and when Damon tried to run after her Elena stopped him, "Just let her go."

"Are you okay?" Damon asked her at the same time as Stefan asked. "Are you unhurt?"

"I'm fine." Elena smiled at them. "Thank you for coming for me."

"Anytime." Damon told her as Stefan nodded in agreement.

"Can we go home now?" Elena asked hopefully.

"Sure, we can." Stefan chuckled.

Several hours later Elena walked out of her bathroom into her bedroom, newly showered and in only a tank top and panties, to see Damon standing there.

"Cute PJ's" Damon smirked.

"Thank you." Elena chuckled.

"I brought you this." Damon held out her armband.

"Thank you, I thought I was gone forever." Elena beamed at him and reached out to take it but looked confused when he pulled it away from her.

"I need to tell you something first." Damon said.

"Why do you have to say it with my armband?" Elena looked at him.

"Well because what I'm about to say is..." Damon shrugged. "Probably the most selfish thing I have ever said in my entire life."

"What are you on about?" Elena looked very confused.

"I just need to say it once." Damon looked her deep in the eyes. "I love you, Elena and it's because I love you that... I can't be selfish with you. I don't deserve you and it is wrong of me to peruse you when I know you don't feel the same."

"Damon..." Elena started to say but was interrupted by Damon kissing her softly.

"God, I wish you didn't have to forget about this." Damon murmured as he shed a tear then he compelled her to forget the conversation and that he had been in her room.

Elena opened her eyes, not really knowing when she closed them, and saw that she was alone in her room. She remembered that Damon had been there, that he gave her armband back but she didn't remember what they talked about, which was odd.

She slowly made her way to the bed and shut off the lights. It had been a weird couple of days and she needed to sleep.