Elena was about to unlock the door to the Gilbert house when her phone rang. She quickly unlocked the door and answered the phone, "Yellow."

"Am I supposed to answer with Orange or something?" Came Rose laughing voice from the phone.

"Rose!" Elena closed the door behind her with a smile on her face. "How's Argentina with Lexi and Lee?"

"It's amazing!" Rose almost squealed. "Lexi, Lee and me just got back from this really nice restaurant by the water and it was awesome!"

"I'm so happy that you are enjoying yourself." Elena kicked of her shoes and walked into the kitchen.

"Thank you for reconnecting me with Lexi." Rose said gratefully. "I hadn't realized how much I had missed her until I saw her again."

"You are very welcome." Elena smiled. "But I assume you're not just calling to say thank you."

"I really wanted to say thank you but you're right, it's not the only reason for my call." Rose murmured a little awkwardly. "I... I might have met a guy."

"Eeeeep!" Elena squealed like a three-year-old on Christmas. "What's his name? What does he look like? Have you been on a date yet? Has he kissed you? Have you kissed him? Have...."

"Elena!" Rose interrupted with a laugh.

"Sorry." Elena mumbled embarrassed.

"To answer your questions; His name is Raphael, he's tan, with dark hair and green eyes, taler then Stefan and has this absolutely dreamy accent." Rose actually giggled as she told Elena about Raphael. "Yes, he took me on a picknick in the park and he kissed me as he dropped me off at the house I'm staying at with Lexi and Lee."

"I'm so happy for you." Elena gushed as she bounced around the kitchen.

"I'm actually staying in Argentina to see where this is going." Rose admitted nervously and hurriedly added. "You can still call me if you need help with Klaus and..."

"Rose!" Elena stopped her before she could start ramble. "Don't worry about me or us, we have things under control. And we actually have a plan."

The last part was mostly Elena's plan to undagger Elijah and the rest she hadn't figured out yet. Unknown to Elena a smile had spread across her face as she thought about Elijah.

"But I promised to help." Rose murmured.

"For the first time in 500 years you are not on the run and can enjoy life without worry." Elena told her softly. "And I'm so very happy for you. As I said, don't worry and remember that you will always have a home with us."

"You are so very special." Rose informed her. "And you'll always be my friend."

"And you will be mine." Elena said back. "But don't forget to come visit and do bring your boy toy."

"Bye Elena." Rose laughed and hung up the phone.

"Good talk?" Jeremy's voice came from behind her making Elena jump around and slip, falling to the floor with a huff.

"Don't sneak up on me, Jere." Elena playfully glared at her laughing younger brother.

"But you are so adorable with that look on your face." Jeremy smiled brightly at her.

"You take that back!" Elena pointed a finger at him.

"Hmmm..." Jeremy sounded thoughtful then he smirked. "Nope."

"Oh, that's it!" Elena got up and started to chase Jeremy around the kitchen. "I'm going to tickle you until you beg for mercy!"

"You have to catch me first!" Jeremy called back as he dodged his older sister.

They ran around the kitchen and the living room for a while, laughing and trading mock insults back and forth until Elena suddenly took a leap and tackled Jeremy over the couch.

"Gotcha!" Elena called out triumphantly and started to tickle him.

"No!....Hahahaha....stop..." Jeremy laughed and tried to get away from his sisters' agile fingers. "I give, I give, mercy!"

The both of them collapsed on the couch, laughing and catching their breath. 'Oh, how I miss spending time with my little brother', Elena thought with a bright smile as she cuddled into his side.

"I love you so, so much, little brother." Elena murmured softly.

"I love you to, Lena, more than you know." Jeremy pulled her closer.

"Hey Jeremy?" Elena spoke up after a while of them sitting in silence.

"Yeah?" Jeremy hummed.

"Would you like to own the boarding house with me?" Elena asked quietly.

"What?" Jeremy almost choked on his own saliva.

"Well..." Elena proceeded to tell him about her day and Damon and Stefan's idea about the boarding house being a safe house. "It was my idea to make us co-owners, never now if one of us is going to have an accident or something."

Jeremy was quiet for a long while until he said, "So, when are we doing this?"

"Tomorrow before school." Elena smiled and hugged him tighter while kissing him on the cheek. "Thank you."

"There is very little I wouldn't do for you." Jeremy hummed and kissed her head.

"Would you help me commit murder and then hide the body?" Elena asked with a giggle.

"Absolutely." Jeremy laughed. "And I know you would do the same for me."

"Any time, little brother, any time." Elena agreed.

XOXOXOX

The next morning Elena, Jeremy and Bonnie were standing inside the boarding house with a lawyer with Elena and Jeremy ready to sign the deed to the house.

"Please sign here and here." The lawyer indicated to two lines.

"Okay." Elena signed first and then she gave the pen to Jeremy.

"So, this place is all yours?" Bonnie asked. "They just gave it to you?"

"For now." Elena smiled. "Me and Jeremy being sole owners means that we are the only ones who can invite people in, if you know what I mean."

"Your own personal safe house." Bonnie nodded.

"That's the idea." Jeremy hummed as he gave the pen back to the lawyer.

"Wouldn't want to clean it." Bonnie said making Elena and Jeremy laugh.

"Come on." Elena started to walk to the door to lead the lawyer out. "Let's make the Salvatore brothers come in from the cold."

"Do we have to?" Jeremy whined playfully.

"Thank you, Mr. Henry." Elena shook the lawyer's hand and then he turned to leave.

Damon and Stefan walked up to the threshold but couldn't enter due to an invisible force keeping them out.

"Well, at least we know it work." Jeremy smirked.

"Are you going to let us in?" Stefan asked.

"Not yet." Elena said before Jeremy could invite them in.

"What?" Damon looked at her in annoyance.

"I need you two to promise me that we will have no more lies, no more secrets and that we will talk about things instead of going behind the others backs." Elena said strongly as she looked at them seriously.

"We just want you safe." Stefan told her.

"And I want to keep you all safe too." Elena turned to Damon who had nodded in agreement to her conditions. "Would you like to come in, Damon?"

"I would love to." Damon smiled at her, but you could see the happiness in his eyes at being chosen before his brother.

"Elena..." Stefan started, but when Elena just looked at him with her arms crossed, he sighed. "Okay."

"Good." Elena smiled. "Come in, Stefan."

Bonnie walked in from another room holding a maroon colored leather jacket. That was when Damon finally registered what Elena was wearing and nodded in appreciation. She was wearing black skinny jeans with a dark grey t-shirt tucked into them, a light grey scarf and black seven-inch heeled wedge shoes.

"Love the outfit, spitfire." Damon complimented.

"Thank you." Elena smiled brightly.

"There is just one thing missing." Damon murmured. "Wait here."

Elena watched as he walked away as she shrugged on her leather jacket and Jeremy smirked at her and said, "You just want to be tall for once, that's why you wear those heels."

"Jeremy, little brother." Elena smiled sweetly. "Get fucked."

Damon walked back in as Jeremy started to laugh, "Here, these will look really good with you outfit."

Elena accepted the Ray Bans that Damon were holding out to her and put them on. She had always liked pilot styled sunglasses but these were really fucking awesome.

"He's right." Bonnie piped up. "You looked really good in those."

"Thank you." Elena smiled and turned to Damon. "I'll give them back after school."

"Wait, what?" Stefan stood up straighter.

"We're going to school, Bonnie's driving." Elena explained.

"Huh?" Damon asked softly.

"No, no, no." Stefan denied. "We didn't create a safe house for you to leave it."

"I can't just put my life on hold because something could happen." Elena scoffed. "And I have Caroline, Bonnie and Jeremy with me at school."

"Always." Jeremy agreed.

"Forever." Bonnie piped up with a smile.

Elena smiled brightly and almost laughed at them unknowingly repeating the Mikaelson siblings promise to each other.

"Klaus is still out there." Stefan worried. "We know that."

"But we don't know where." Elena smiled gently at him, knowing that some of his and Damon's whole 'protect Elena' thing come from being raised in the 1800' where woman was seen as unable to protect themselves.

"I really do appreciate what you guys are doing." Elena continued softly. "But I can't be a prisoner in a safe house."

"Yeah, you would start climbing the walls after a few hours." Damon chuckled.

"Isn't next to Bonnie one of the safest places to be for Lena?" Jeremy asked. "I mean, Bonnie is super witch, right?"

"I guess you're right." Stefan murmured.

"You coming to school today or are you staying home with your brother?" Elena asked Stefan as she walked out of the boarding house.

"I'll come with you to school." Stefan decided and joined the others at Bonnie's car.

On the way to school Elena told them about her talk with Rose and her staying in Argentina with the guy she had met.

"I'm happy for her." Bonnie smiled and the boys agreed.

"Did you know that Lexi tried to set Rose up with our very own Stefan a few decades ago?" Elena smirked at Stefan.

"Really?" Bonnie giggled.

"So, what happened?" Jeremy wanted to know as Bonnie parked her car in the school parking lot.

"We just didn't click I guess." Stefan shrugged with an awkward look.

"What he means is that he was his usual brooding self and Rose prefers bad boys." Elena laughed.

"I've gotten better." Stefan defended.

"Yes, after my sister pulled you out of your shell." Jeremy chuckled. "Anyway, I've got math's, see ya later."

"Bye Jere." Elena called after him.

Elena, Bonnie and Stefan walked into the history class room and sat down as they waited for Alaric to arrive. Elena pulled out a poster for the 60s dance and showed it to Stefan who shook his head in disapproval.

Elena scoffed quietly in his direction before she turned to show the poster to Bonnie who nodded with a smile. Elena turned back and smirked at Stefan as she planed her outfit in her head.

"Hello class." Alaric said as he walked in. "What are we learning today?"

"With the decade dance tonight, we've been covering the sixties all week." Dana said out loud.

"Right." Alaric hummed. "The sixties."

Alaric looked at Elena and started at her for a while with an odd look in his eyes before he almost shook himself and turned towards the board.

"The, uh, ahem..." Alaric wrote on the board. "The sixties. I wish there was something good I could say about the sixties, but... Actually, they kinda sucked. Except for the Beatles, of course."

"We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow subma...." Elena trailed of in her humming when she noticed everyone looking at her. "Heh, sorry."

"Thank you for that, Elena." Alaric chuckled.

"You're very welcome." Elena beamed.

"As I was saying, the Beatles made it bearable. Uh, what else was there?" Alaric murmured. "The Cuban missile thing, the... we walked on the moon. There was Watergate."

"Watergate was in the seventies, Ric. I-I mean, Mr. Saltzman." Elena said even as she thought that he was acting very strange. She tried to figure out what was going on with him but it was just out of reach.

"Right. It all kinda mushes together up here, the sixties, seventies." Alaric gestured to his head. "Thank you, Elena."

The rest of the day passed by quickly until lunch. Elena was still trying to figure out what was going on with Alaric but nothing was making any sense, maybe he was just having a bad day.

After she had grabbed her tray with food Elena walked over to where she had spotted Bonnie and Jeremy sitting.

"Hey guys." Elena sat down beside Jeremy and opposite of Bonnie.

"Hey Lena." Jeremy smiled slightly at her.

"Have you heard from Jenna?" Elena asked.

"It looks like she's staying on campus for a while." Jeremy shrugged and got up. "I'm late for class."

"Is he okay?" Elena asked as she watched him walk away with a worried frown.

"Yeah, I just told him he had to dress up for the dance tonight and he got all pouty." Bonnie smiled but something was of about it.

"But he would look so cute." Elena chuckled.

"Hey Elena, there you are." Dana walked up to their table.

"Here I am." Elena said back.

"Okay, this is going to sound freaky, but this totally hot guy just asked me to ask you if you're doing to the dance tonight." Dana almost gushed.

"Oh, she's going." Bonnie smirked.

"Bonnie, don't try to set me up with some unknown guy." Elena protested.

"You could at least meet him." Dana giggled like a child. "He'll be at the dance tonight. Look for him. His name is Klaus."

"I'm sorry, what did you say?" Elena gasped.

"His name's Klaus." Dana said again. "I know the name's stupid, but I swear he's hot."

"Where is he?" Bonnie started to look around. "Is he here?"

"I don't know." Dana murmured.

"She's been compelled." Elena concluded.

"But he wants to know if you'll save him the last dance." Dana gave a small squeal. "How cute is that?"

"Cute isn't what I would call it." Bonnie murmured as she pulled Elena up and started to drag her out of the school.

"Bonnie, my lunch." Elena pouted, she was hungry, damn it.

"I'll tell Damon or Stefan to cook you something at the boarding house." Bonnie said as she pulled out her phone to call Stefan. "Hey Stefan, don't talk, just meet us at the car."

Twenty minutes later Elena was sitting in the parlor at the boarding house sipping some bourbon as Bonnie told Damon and Stefan what had happened with Dana. Elena looked at her glass and thought, 'Maybe I should stop drinking so much bourbon?... Nah'.

Elena tuned back into the conversation when she heard Damon say, "So we go to the dance, we find him."

"Really? How are we going to do that?" Stefan looked at his older brother with a deadpan look on his face. "We don't even know what he looks like."

"Something tells me he's not going to be sixteen and pimply." Damon huffed as he looked back at Stefan.

"He could be anywhere at any time. He compelled somebody at school." Stefan reminded them all as he looked at Bonnie and Elena. "I guess it's not as safe as you guys thought, huh?"

"That's it!" Elena said and hit Stefan over the head with a pillow just as Alaric walked in. Elena kept hitting Stefan with the pillow as she ordered him, "Apologize this instant or I'll...I'll...I'll..."

"You'll what?" Stefan laughed as he finally managed to get the pillow away from Elena.

"I don't know yet but it won't be pleasant." Elena sat down with a pout and her arms crossed. "Damon, my favorite Salvatore, get me some bourbon, please."

"Of course, your highness." Damon bowed to her mockingly and poured her some more bourbon.

"Sorry I'm late." Alaric told them as he watched Damon hand Elena the glass.

"It's okay, as long as I have my bourbon, I don't really care." Elena said as she sipped her drink. Then she smirked as she saw Bonnie doing her very best not to laugh and started to stroke her glass while muttering, "Mine, my own, my precious."

That was it for Bonnie as she fell of the couch and holding her stomach as she laughed until tears were leaking out of her eyes.

"Where you dropped on your head as a kid?" Stefan asked as he looked at Elena.

"Yes, how'd you know?" Elena asked with an innocent smile.

"I need you to put me down as a chaperone at the dance tonight." Damon turned to Alaric. "Klaus made his first move."

"I just have one teeny tiny question." Elena spoke up. "If we do find Santa, what are we supposed to do?"

"Santa?" Alaric asked as he looked at her.

"She's talking about Klaus." Damon chuckled. "First time Rose told us that he existed Elena assumed she was talking about Santa Klaus."

"You did what?" Bonnie started to laugh again.

"Well as I told Rose and Damon; How should I know?" Elena huffed defensively. "I mean there are vampires, werewolves, witches and rings that brings people back from the dead."

"And then when Rose said that Klaus was a legend Elena muttered that so was Santa." Damon smirked at her.

"Never change, Elena." Bonnie told her with a bright smile. "As for what we should do about Klaus, I'm the plan. He has no idea how much power I can channel. If you can find him, I can kill him."

"That's not going to be easy." Alaric spoke up. "I mean, he is the biggest baddest vampire around."

"Alaric has a point. I mean, what if he..." Damon rushed at Bonnie only for her to throw him to the other side of the room without even moving.

"Well, I'm impressed." Stefan smirked at his brother.

"It doesn't matter if he's an Original. I can take anyone who comes at me." Bonnie declared. "I can kill him, Elena, I know I can."

"No." Damon said as he saw Elena open her mouth to say something. "You are not handing yourself over to him."

"What?" Alaric said shocked.

"She still thinks handing herself over to Klaus is the best plan of action." Damon scoffed. "Which is why she isn't allowed to make the plans."

"Damon, he killed Kathrine's entire family because she defied him." Elena looked at him. "I don't want to survive if it means the rest of you die, okay?"

"You would actually help Klaus with the ritual?" Alaric looked at her with shock written all over his face.

"As long as everyone in my family and my friends are safe? In a heartbeat." Elena smirked at the look on his face. "Haven't you learned by now that I do not care if some vampire would massacre the town as long as those I care about are safe."

"Did you know she actually asked Jeremy if he wanted to go on a killing spree with her on her birthday?" Bonnie asked.

"What?!" Elena threw her hands up at the looks she received. "It could be a bonding experience for me and Jeremy!"

"Elena, your crazy is showing." Stefan chuckled.

"I'm not crazy." Elena pouted. "I'm just... you know...slightly unhinged."