Elena Petrova [DISCONTINUED]

Chapter 1

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from the Vampire Diaries. They (unfortunately) belong to L.J. Smith and the CW.

Elena POV

I was talking to Gloria in her bar when all of a sudden I get a call from Klaus (or as I prefer to call him, Nik). "Nik, what do you want? I'm trying to have a conversation with my favorite witch," I whined playfully.

"Fine. I'll keep it short since someone's being cranky. I'm guessing someone's PMSing," Nik joked which was not smart since I really didn't have any patience right now due to me being interrupted when I was in the middle of something.

"Nik, get to the point. If you don't have anything important to say I'm going to hang up on you in 5 seconds," I warned him.

"Mother's back from beyond the grave and she claims that she wants to have a reunion ball with all of us in my current home in Mystic Falls," Nik informed me. Something stirred in my gut when I heard this. I just got this strange feeling that something was off about this. If I knew Esther, which I did, she as not one to forgive easily. Especially since her son Nik was the one who had murdered her. My instincts were telling me not go back to that hellhole, but I knew I had to go back to prevent whatever it is that Esther was planning. Before I decided to go back I needed to know one more thing.

"Is everyone undaggered?" I asked him curiously after my long pause of silence.

"Everyone. Even Finn and Kol, of whom I'm sure you have missed dearly," Nik promised me. He better not be lying to me or else I will torture him and then kill him slowly and painfully over and over again until he begs for me to relieve him of his misery which I would then refuse to do it (release him).

"Ugh. When's the ball?" I asked, a tad bit annoyed.

"Tomorrow," Nik said so nonchalantly as if it didn't even matter.

"TOMORROW! WHAT THE F*** NIK! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME EARLIER?" I screeched into the phone completely pissed off.

"I didn't tell you sooner because mother just came back to life yesterday and she didn't announce her desire to have a ball to celebrate our reunion until today," Nik replied, somewhat amused by the tone of my voice.

"I'll take your measly excuse for now. However, don't take me lightly Nik. If I wanted you to drop dead, you would drop where you're standing the moment I think it," I warned.

"Jokes on you love. I'm sitting on my couch as we speak," Nik laughed heartily, probably smirking as he's talking knowing that he's annoying me and that I'm fuming internally.

"You know what I mean Niklaus. I will see you tomorrow," I respond, extremely annoyed with Nik at this point. He just talented at getting people irritated just by simply having a conversation with him.

"I will see you tomorrow night, dear Elena," Klaus said before ending the call. I merely sighed and turned around to say goodbye to Gloria because I had to return to my once home which I now referred to as a hellhole. Anyways, that is besides the point. I sped home and packed all my stuff which wasn't all that much because I normally didn't stay in one place for very long.

~ Time Skip ~

It was the day of the Mikaelson ball and I was back in this hellhole for the first time in over a decade. Apparently the entire town was invited to the ball because the Mikaelsons can't seem to do things small. Since it wouldn't take much time to prepare for the ball I decided to take a look around the town and see what has become of this place.

I walked into the Mystic Grill which was such a crappy name. What kind of town only has one place to eat hang out at? This hell hole apparently. I sat down at a booth all by myself and a blonde waiter came to take my order. "Hello, I'm Matt and I will be your server today. What would you like to have?" He asked.