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Elena felt herself driving to nowhere in particular. She was letting the tears fall freely. She needed to escape from him, them really. Damon was off the rails, again. He was out of control. He wanted her to eat, snatch, erase. Stefan wanted her on the bunny diet, she just wanted to make her own choice. When she told Damon she didn't love him in the way he loved her, he turned it off. A humanity free Damon was very scary. He had been taunting her, she couldn't take it anymore. She didn't want to bother Stefan with it because at the end of the day he would always pick his brother, and that was fine to her. She was tired of getting in between them anyways. Damon though, he was terrifying her, she had to leave. Jeremy told her he would be fine as he was a hunter now.

She didn't realize how long she had been driving until she saw the "Welcome To New Orleans" sign. She decided she needed a drink of both kinds, hopefully she could control herself. For some reason her transition was harder than most according to Caroline and Stefan and they couldn't understand why. She pulled her jeep into a side parking spot next to a place called, "Rousseau's Bar".

She walked in and went straight to the bar seeing a pretty blond that reminded her of Caroline. She smiled at her, "Can I get a Bourbon please?"

"Sure thing!" She smiled back at her.

"You aren't from around here are you?" The blonde asked.

Elena shook her head while taking a sip of the strong drink. "No, just passing through"-she sighed-"Im Elena, whats your name?"

"Im Camille, but everybody calls me Cami. You know if want to talk about anything, I have a degree in sociology. What is said here stays between us, you seem like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders." She said placing her hand on top of hers, smiling.

This made Elena smile, Cami seemed like a very sweet person. "You have no idea, but I'm afraid I can't talk about it." she frowned.

"Well if you change your mind, Im here every night. This one is on me" she said pointing to Elena's second drink.

Elena smiled at her, nodding her head at her before the blonde walked away. The smell of all these humans was getting to her, she needed to feed, but not in here. She finished her drink in one gulp and walked to the alley out back waiting for somebody to come out for a smoke. It felt like a million years before a young good looking man walked out. He saw her and said "Hello, what brings you out here all by yourself?" Elena sighed she didn't want small talk she just wanted to feed and hopefully not kill him. She grabbed him by his jacket and looked in his eyes and said, "You will not scream." She leaned his neck to the side before digging her fangs into his flesh. His blood was so delicious it felt like she couldn't get enough. As she was draining him another person came out side causing her to look up. She let go him and ran to his girlfriend ripping into her throat before she could stop herself and drained her dry as well. Before she dropped her body, she felt herself being thrown back into the opposite wall, hard.

"KATERINA! Thats ENOUGH!" The voiced yelled.

Oh no she knew that voice anywhere, it haunted her thoughts. He pinned her up to the wall, off of the ground.

"No-" she tried to get out.

"What are you doing here? Do you have a death wish?" He snarled at her.

"Its Elena"-she choked out. His eyes went wide as he dropped her.

She looked at the two bodies she had just completely drained. She dropped to her knees sobbing- "No, I didn't mean to."

He was still in shock, he knew this couldn't be Katherine there is no way she could pull off this trick. It was Elena, her compassion was shinning through. He knelt down to her wrapping her in his arms.

She could smell him as her head was on his chest, the smell of spice and mint was calming her, she quickly jumped back.

"Im just like her- you didn't couldn't even tell the difference, and you always can." she cried out more.

He tried to pull her back into his embrace. "Elena you couldn't be any different than her."

She pushed him away, "No Elijah! I am a monster! I don't know why I am even here, I felt a pull to come here. I know now it was a mistake." She stood up and tried to flee, but Elijah was faster and stood in front of her stopping her.

"Lovely Elena, please let me help you." He pleaded with her.

She shook her head no at him. "You left me, just like everybody else has. I need to be alone." She tried to side step him, he wouldn't let her.

"That was never my intention, I'm afraid that I failed you Elena, I was and still am ashamed. As I stated in that letter I vowed Always and Forever to you and I don't take that lightly. Please at least stay the night, its late." Elena thought this over, she looked down at herself she was cover head to toe in blood and could use a shower. She just nodded.

He picked her up and brought her back to compound. When they got there he walked her up to the guest bedroom, but ran into Klaus coming out of his studio.

"Brother! Did you bring me a present?" He smirked, "I must say I have been looking forward to killing Katherine for a long time." He said stepping closer to her, causing her to step back.

Elijah growled, "Brother this is Elena! And you will not harm her, I gave her my word."

"Ah, so the Salvatore brothers finally changed you, Ill have to give them a proper thank you for getting rid of my blood bag." He growled out.

Elena looked down, "They didn't change me."

Both brothers looked shocked Klaus proceeded to say, "What happened, did you fall and hit your head again?" He mocked her

"Enough Niklaus!" Elijah raised his voice.

"No, I don't want to talk about it." Elena said.

Klaus got close to her face, "This conversation isn't over you are not to leave until I say." He walked away.

Elena sighed at least Damon couldn't get to her in here.

"You do not have to tell me right now Elena, but I would like to know when you are ready. I am inclined to agree with my brother, its not safe in New Orleans right now especially since people would mistake you for Katherine." Elijah said staring into her eyes. He lifted her chin up to look at him, "I will protect you Elena, you have my word." She nodded and wrapped her arms around him, shocking him but reciprocated happily.

"I am so tired, could I please just take a shower and then sleep right now?" She mumbled into his chest.

He chuckled, "Of course, lovely Elena."