Hello!!! Once again happy new year with health, calmness and love!!! The previous chapter was a bit small so I'm posting another one! Hope you like it!!!

With this chapter I suggest you listen to; Who The Hell Is Edgar by TEYA Ft. Salena from Eurovision 2023.

I hope you enjoy this too!!!

Monday morning came and as Elena was walking the halls of her school to the way to the stadium for PE she got a text from Miriam letting her know she had just boarded the plane to London and would text once she's safe home. Cheers and claps greeted Elena along with the blinding sun as she saw Rebekah Mikaelson doing somersaults and being cheered on as Caroline looked mesmerized.

"She's incredible!" Caroline gushed as she rushed to Elena's side as Elena tried not to be shocked. Just then, Rebekah turned her head towards her and smiled kindly. Rebekah walked towards them and introduced herself and Elena played along.

After PE Elena was studying some of her bruises from a recent training session when Rebekah walked in on her.

"Oh my god!" Rebekah gasped and Elena scrambled to cover the bruises.

"Who did this to you?" Rebekah asked concerned and Elena turned to face her.

"No one! It's nothing! It's martial arts training! Rebekah, please don't make a big deal out of it! Please!" Elena essentially begged the Original who looked concerned but nodded.

"If someone is hurting you, is it the Salvatore brothers? You can tell me...I can deal with them!" Rebekah told her honestly and Elena slowly nodded.

"Thank you, but you don't have to worry about them. We aren't as close..." Elena said calmer now and Rebekah smiled.

"Thank you for what you did for my brother." Rebekah admitted quietly and Elena smiled saying it was no big deal, it was fate.

"Is he handling the change okay?" Elena asked intrigued as she finished getting dressed as Rebekah watched her.

"I think so...I don't really know...I have been mad at him for keeping daggered for so long..." Rebekah admitted and Elena nodded understandably.

"Not saying that your anger isn't valid, but he fears for all your safety...from a psychological standpoint; what you all went through before you were turned and after it's pretty traumatic it's bound to leave something behind, that something is the fear of losing control for your brother. Not knowing what the other person might do. It's a trauma response. He needs to heal, you all do. I do know some supernatural friendly therapists when you're ready, I can recommend a few." Elena said wisely and wholeheartedly causing Rebekah to look surprised at her.

"How do you know so much about my family? Did Elijah tell you anything?" Rebekah asked and Elena realized she might have put her foot in her mouth again.

"No...um...the spirits of the Ancestors told me your stories when I was younger, in my dreams, to prepare me for what's to come. Then I did a lot of research that's how I found out about the therapists." Elena lied effortlessly putting on a guilty and uncomfortable front.

Rebekah looked surprised but not mad which was a good thing! Rebekah and Elena fully dressed exited the locker room and went to their next classes.

The rest of the day Elena was hounded by her friends and Stefan asking how she knew the new girl. Her answers varied; to her friends she explained who Rebekah Mikaelson is while to Stefan she played dumb but asked if Katherine was still living with them and if Isobel showed up.

John hadn't shown up yet meaning that no one knew that the sacrifice had happened. Stefan's answer was that Katherine was gone but they hadn't seen Isobel. Alaric had shown everyone a picture of Isobel so everyone was on the lookout for.

And as if the universe really said "wait for it" Elena was picking up lunch for her and Slater plus Enzo they were having their weekly/semi-weekly lunches when Isobel appeared right in front of her car.

"Hello, Elena." Isobel greeted her with a bit of emotionless which let her know that she must have had her emotions switched off.

"Isobel!" Elena gasped in shock and annoyance because she was looking forward to the lunch, she had bought sweet-savory sauce tortilla wrap they were very rare in the Grill's menu!

"So, you know about me?" Isobel asked surprised and Elena nodded rolling her eyes as she dug into the lunch bag and grabbed her lunch and unwrapped it taking a huge bite out of it.

"You're not ruining my lunch, though! So, to make this short, yes I know about you and the whole sacrifice. And I don't mind being sacrificed as long as my family isn't going to be killed. Nor you or John will be trying anything! I wish we could get to know one another as bio-mum and daughter but I don't think you want that." Elena talked while chewing but her tone was dead serious and her eyes said so.

Isobel studied her for bit before nodding.

"You really have resigned yourself, haven't you?" Isobel asked surprised and Elena shrugged.

"We are all going to die some day and honestly I don't mind, Jeremy and Jenna have much better things to live for, I was created for this." Elena played along although for the first time in a while she was being the most honest in a while.

"I won't let that happen, Elena, you have things to live for too!" Isobel tried to reason with her.

"Your parental rights ended the day you gave me up even if you were heartbroken doing so. Now, I really want to enjoy this delicacy of a wrap in peace, so goodbye for now." Elena said seriously and quickly she unlocked the car and got inside driving away. In her review mirror she saw the shock and worry in her face but didn't care much about it she was too late already.

Reaching Slater's house she grew annoyed that her 1st tortilla was halfway gone thankfully she had bought a second one. Entering the house she eagerly shared her encounter with Isobel while setting the table and whining how hungry she is.

Eating and catching up was euphoric she had missed them so so much and she was in a mood to have fun.

"Let's go out clubbing tonight! I'll call Anna, Nathan, Dave and some others! I'll call Anna to see if Dave is DJing any party with people from my old universe meaning having some actual music." Elena suggested as she dialed Anna's number and let them know her idea while Slater and Enzo looked to be game.

"Yeah, Dave is DJing a party in Richmond. It's in a warehouse in the outside the town's limits." Anna was heard through the phone and Elena eyed them for confirmation and they all nodded.

"We're in, count us for the tickets." Elena said excited and Elena vibrated with excitement. She started thinking about what to wear when Anna texted her that she had some outfits in mind and to come by her house.

Six hours later Anna, Enzo, Nathan and Slater walked into the warehouse as music boomed through the walls to the song "Who The Hell Is Edgar" by TEYA ft Salena which made Anna, Nathan and Elena chuckle as they started dancing to the music. Elena dragged both Slater and Enzo, who frowned to the song's lyrics amused, to the dance floor and fun commenced!

The next song made Elena chuckle in a nostalgic manner urging Enzo to question her.

"So far Dave is playing songs from the Eurovision of 2023, before that it was Austria and now it's Moldova." Elena yelled over the music as Soarele Si Luna by Pasha Parfeni played as they danced.

Anna had dragged Slater deeper into the dancing crowd and Enzo had remained with her while Nathan was dragged by a girl he knew somewhere else. They all had agreed to meet at 1 am at Enzo's car, they were meant to help Dave dissemble his equipment.

Another song started and people went insane and Elena was grabbed by Anna screaming that she loved this song and Elena agreed with her as they started jumping along with the rest of the crowd. Enzo was the only one not jumping even Slater was jumping and encouraged him to join but he shook his head feeling too childish to do this.

"What language is this?" Enzo yelled over the music and Slater with Elena answered at the same time it was Finish.

"It's called Cha Cha Cha and it's Finland's song in the 2023 Eurovision by Kaarija. And in my humble opinion he should have won." Elena answered as she kept dancing and moved Enzo's hands to the rhythm in an attempt to make him dance.

After this song finally an English one played in the form of Riot by Hollywood Undead which made everyone lose their shit as they started screaming the lyrics with such a cathartic feeling that made Slater and Enzo pause their dancing and look concern around them.

Elena saw them and gently guided them through the crowd to a quiet corner to check on them.

"What's up?" Elena asked oblivious to their concern.

"Why everyone seems to be experiencing some sort of emotional catharsis with this song?" Enzo asked concerned since he had seen a bunch of his agents and co-workers in the crowd.

"Because this song although came out about two years before the pandemic it became my generation's anthem...theme song if you will and it represented the second stage of our mindset which was anger and fury towards governments and life in general. I used to listen to this song in full volume whenever I was feeling angry at the world. I bet it's the same for many people. Some even had gone to actual riots...Anna was killed by a cop...he slammed her head so hard against the pavement he cracked her skull while arresting her for protesting against police brutality and racial injustice." Elena explained calmly with sad undertones as she eyed Anna who was having the time of her life.

"That's how she died?" Slater asked shocked and Elena nodded not hiding how sad she was.

"How do you know?" Enzo asked concerned and a bit disbelievingly.

"I was with her...I was shot in the arm...we were twenty years old...she was my best friend...I was held down by three cops when it happened...after they killed her and saw blood they let me go and ran away...I foolishly tried to gather the blood back into her skull but couldn't....her empty eyes staring back at me...they still haunt me some days." Elena explained hesitantly as she played with her bracelets not really wanting to relive such memories.

"Oh my god!" Slater mumbled shocked and Enzo looked like he was ready to kill somebody.

"Please don't say or do anything that will let her know that you know, Enzo! I shouldn't have told you..."Elena rushed to snap Enzo from his killing mode as she grasped his shoulders and made him face her.

Next song came up and the majority moved away from the dance floor to go get some drinks and Anna came up to them all smiles and out of breath.

"Anyone is thirsty?" Anna asked oblivious to the conversation she walked in on. Enzo smiled trying to cover up his distraught and anger as he gracefully guided Anna to the drinks station.

Slater then embraced Elena who was tensely watching the interaction and once they left she let a deep sigh out.

They danced and drank for a bit before they decided to just sit to the sides and enjoy the music too tired to dance anymore when Witch by Apashe ft Alina Pash started playing and Elena smiled saying she liked the video clip of that song which prompt to be asked by Slater to describe it.

That started an intellectual debate between her, Slater and Anna with Enzo listening in since he had spent too long cut out from society and he was still figuring things out. Slater was a huge help in modernize Enzo's views of the world.

Elena's, Anna's and Slater's debate reached the ears of other bystanders who joined their conversation offering their views and opinions making the entire ordeal so enticing in Enzo's and Elena's eyes. Between the debate, some more dancing and drinking one o'clock came and Elena found herself helping Dave pack up while Anna was already adding some of the equipment in Enzo's car trunk.

Returning home she almost fainted from the tipsy state of herself but she saw someone in her room, Stefan, he was waiting for her.

"Hey...are you drunk?" Stefan started to say but then noticed Elena's slightly wobbly steps into the room and he grew concerned.

"Yep! Was at a party! What do you want?" Elena slurred as she rested on her bed and her eyes closed.

"Isobel came by the house told us about you being in danger and wanting to be sacrificed to break some curse and you are aware of it and willing to do die! Why Elena?" Stefan exclaimed angrily as he stood up from the window bane.

Hearing that Elena felt a sobering annoyance lift the tipsy happy haze she was in and sat up glaring at him.

"What I do with my life and body is my choice, Stefan! You don't have a say in this and neither has your brother or Isobel! So, kindly go home and let me sleep!" Elena glared at him as she gritted the words out and she fought ever fiber of her being not to throw him out of her window with her magic.

Stefan sighed defeated and left her room and house allowed Elena to sighed in relief.

"I need to re-cast the spell of who is allowed and who is not in this house..." Elena mumbled to Finn who appeared in front of her.

"Agree...also fabreeze! He has a horrible perfume selection!" Finn exclaimed as he sat on his side of the bed and Elena went to change while chuckling at his comment.

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