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DONE

It had been two weeks since Elena had turned and she was getting sick and tired of Caroline, Damon and Stefan constantly crowding around her, making sure she wouldn't snap. She didn't even know which part of her was enhanced by being a vampire since she hadn't been given the space to explore her new self.

Being inside all the time and hearing everything everyone was saying about her was beginning to make her feel empty and numb. And even though there were always people walking around the house ready to take care of her, she felt alone.

She knew she needed to get out, to find something that would make her feel again and she had decided tonight was the night that that something needed to be found.

Because Elena had been so numb to everything since she was turned, everyone thought she was complacent with how they treated her. Like something fragile that would break, not realizing that she was already very close to breaking. But tonight that would be to her advantage in getting away. They would never expect her to leave after she went up to her room as long as she was quiet. It was her usual routine after all. Wake up, get ready for another day spent inside, come downstairs, drink a single bag of blood, go back to her room and lay on the bed for a few hours, get up, write in her diary, go downstairs drink a bag of blood, wait for everyone to arrive and bombard her with more questions she wasn't ready to answer, listen to their pep talks about how it would get better, watch them nod to themselves as if they are making a difference in her life, go back upstairs and lay down to sleep.

Tonight, though she endured it without spacing out. Thinking about her soon to be escape and what she would need and want to bring with her.

She headed upstairs slowly as per usual, though she wanted to run, to get out quickly rather than quietly but she knew if she did the gang would be suspicious. However as soon as she got to her room she grabbed her large backpack went to her dresser and grabbed a few pairs of jeans, some shirts and tanks, a pair of jean shorts, a jean skirt, a pair of sweatpants and a thin grey sweatshirt. She then ran to her closet and removed a few favorite pair of shoes. A fancy set of heels, casual wedges, boots, converse, and some sneakers all squeezed in. She then jumped up to grab two photo albums, one filled with pictures from before the crash with her adoptive parents Miranda and Grayson, her brother Jeremy, her aunt Jenna, her and her best friends Bonnie and Caroline in their cheer uniforms, and Matt in his football uniform. The other album had photos of Elena with the vampire brothers Damon and Stefan Salvatore, her best friends Caroline and Bonnie now known as a vampire and a witch, and even a few pictures of Elena's history teacher Alaric also known as the local vampire slayer. Last but not least Elena grabbed her diary, and her vervain necklace, which she's had no use for as a vampire but wanted to keep it all the same.

Elena took one last quick look around her room before jumping out her window and landing on the ground without so much as a thump, and took off running until she hit the woods. She took a quick glance around before moving forward, hopefully to seek out her new destiny now that she was no longer, THE doppelganger everyone was so interested in.

But before she could make it very far a dark figure stepped out of the woods in front of her, blocking her path. She crouched prepared to attack, and then figure's smooth cultured voice rang out of the shadows. She would know that voice anywhere, the soft lilts and curves of the tiniest bit of accent slipped into speech, making it warm, inviting and familiar yet clipped, strong and different. Elijah.

"Where are going, Elena?" he asked, with seeming indifference. But I could see the confusion in his eyes. After all why would leave my home, where my supportive if overbearing friends and family could take care of me. Why indeed?

Away." Elena replied before side stepping the original and walking farther into the forest.

"But, why?" he reiterated following behind her with the silent steps that all the supernatural seemed to have.