Sitting down with Sheila Bennet about to explain everything to her gave Elena serious deja vu of when she told "Uncle John" the "truth" and what she wanted from him.
Flashback
"Hey Uncle John can we talk? An eight year old Elena asked her bio Pop.
"Sure thing sweetheart. What's this about?" John replied while sitting down.
"Okay, so this is going to sound crazy and your probably gonna want to have me committed. But I just need you to listen."
Elena glanced at him and he nodded with a confused and concerned look.
"I have been having visions of the future, in those visions vampires, werewolves, and witches are real, someone is trying to sacrifice me, I have an exact double who hates me, and you and a women named Isobel Flemming are my birth parents."
John stares at Elena wide eyed and open mouthed.
"So anything you'd like to tell me?" Elena asked with a devious smirk that looked wrong on such a young and innocent face.
End flashback
She remembered he was so shook that she got him to agree to weapons and self defense training, all while keeping it from her parents.
That was two years ago and now she's pretty okay in both.
Now it's time to enact the next steps in her plan to save everyone, by telling Shelia most of the truth and asking for her help.
"Hi Mrs. Bennet." Elena greeted.
"Hello child. What can I help you with?" Sheila asked like the sweet grandmother she was.
"Umm... ok... so I kinda have to tell you something." Elena said in a nervous voice.
"Go on." Gram urged with an confused yet comforting voice.
"Okay, just gonna say it. I know the future." Elena says after contemplating whether this was a terrible idea for a moment.
"What?" Sheila blinked
"The future, I know it. Well a version of the future that I could have already affected."
"And why are you telling me?" Shelia asked while looking at Elena warily.
"Well because... I know your a witch, a real one not just wiccan like you tell everyone." Elena swallowed
"Even so, why would you tell me? Unless you need something from me." Shelia finished sternly.
"Right, I forgot how wise you could be. I do want something from you, well multiple things, because I have literally no one else to ask. Your one of only two people that know about me and even one of the other people got the edited version.
Before I even ask, is you helping me a possibility?" Elena rambled then asked after realizing she might be telling her secret for nothing.
"It is a possibility, but I want to know everything. Start from the beginning." Sheila answered
"Ok, well that's one of the things I need the tell you, I can't start from the beginning."
Shelia looked confused.
"I know things and I can say them but when I try to explain how I know them, I literally can't. My brain wont let me, I can't even write it down." Elena explained.
Sheila still looked confused but replied "Well, please explain what you can."
"Ok, so I'm the doppelganger. Which you already knew. I'm sorry about Abby by the way." Elena said apologetically.
"No need to be sorry child, Abby knew what would happen and chose to do the right thing." Shelia assured when a guilty look came on Elena's face.
"Ok, well what you don't know is that the sun and the moon curse is fake."
Shelia looked shocked but didnt interrupt.
"And it's really a curse placed on the son of the vampire Abby desiccated."
Shelia nodded motioning for her to continue.
Elena began her story.
"You see, a thousand years ago in this very town there was a family that consisted of a mother, a father, five sons, and one daughter.
When the youngest son was killed by werewolves after sneaking out to see them on a full moon the mother, who happened to be a very powerful witch wanted to find a way to protect her family and asked a witch from your bloodline to help, when she refused the mother stole a spell for immortality that was passed down your bloodline.
But something went wrong and she turned her children into the first ever vampires, The Originals.
But then, while overcome with bloodlust one of her sons killed someone and immediately fell in pain while his eyes change colors, it was revealed that the mother had an affair with one of the local werewolves and he fathered her child.
When her husband realized this he was infuriated and demanded she fix it.
The mother, full of guilt and revulsion for what she created bound the wolf side of her son, taking away a part of him in the process.
When the son confronted his mother about what she done she refused to undo it and in a fit of magnified rage he killed her.
Terrified that his siblings would abandon him he lied and said that their father killed her for her betrayal.
The husband, after finding out about his wife's death, began hunting the bastard child, and by extension his other children.
Each time his children built a home for themselves the father managed to find them and they fled.
During this time the cursed son scoured the earth searching for a way to break his curse until a witch informed him all he needed was the moonstone, a witch, a werewolf, a vampire and the doppelganger to break the curse put on him."
When Elena finished the story Sheila looked horrified for her.
"So Mrs. Bennet the reason I am here is to prepare." Elena said solemnly.
"Because Niklaus Mikaelson is coming for me."
-- Ch 8
Sheila agreed to help Elena on the condition she doesn't tell Bonnie about the supernatural.
Elena protested informing her Bonnie would be unprepared when people inevitably showed up and terrorized the town.
But Sheila refused, believing Bonnie to be too young to get sucked into "vampire business" as she put it.
Elena didn't like it but because she needed Sheila's help she agreed to wait until Bonnie's powers came in naturally.
To say Sheila freaked out when Elena explained she needed her to make a daylight ring for a vampire she would be contacting soon would be an understatement.
You'd think further explaining you need him to help you get in contact with someone, who could get in contact someone ,who could then get in contact with Klaus Mikaelson, would calm her down a bit but shockingly, it didn't.
Realizing she wasn't explaining this very well Elena decided to explain the entire part of the plan that involved her.
"Okay, first I'm going to post on craigslist about a witch willing to sell daylight rings."
Noticing Sheila about to angrily interrupt Elena shook her head and continued.
"When he gets in contact, which he will on account of being totally obsessed with everything vampire related, I will have him come here and meet with me were i will explain some important things to him and offer a daylight ring in exchange for his very compelling services."
Sheila shook her head unimpressed with the lame pun.
"That's were you come in. We can meet at the grill and then you can get what you need from him to make it, I'm not really sure how you do that though, whatever, I'll leave the witchy business to you and Cinnabon."
Sheila smiled slightly at the girls nickname for her granddaughter
"After I give him the ring, I will have him compel me a walk in freezer which I will then have installed in a compelled storage unit."
When Sheila looked confused Elena decided to tell her something close to the truth.
"Right, sorry I forgot to tell you about my blood. Well something is going to happen and I'm going to need lots of doppelblood. I'd tell you more but I'm already risking changing the future so much that I'd rather not have the ancestors involved."
Elena didn't really care about the future she just knows that the Bennet witch would 100% disapprove of making hybrids so she kept that bit to herself.
"I will then have him compel a nurse and and two backup nurses to take one pint of blood every three months and to forgot about it until they see me. If I do this for the next eight years I will have twenty-eight pints of blood stored away for when I need it. I will then call him in a few years when I need him to get in contact with two vampires names Rose Marie and Trevor."
When Elena finished Sheila looked both impressed and uncomfortable with the ten year olds intelligence.
Sheila agreed and they were currently about to meet with Slater, the adorkable vampire nerd who decided to spend his immortality going to college.
Sheila wouldn't let Elena meet him by herself because she's a "child" and "way less powerful than a Bennet witch" what ever that means.
When Slater read a craigslist post about a "wickedly amazing jewelry maker who made rings so good it'd be like walking in sun for the first time" he thought it was both clever and entirely too on the nose, but got in contact anyway hoping for it to be real and not some lame trap set by an amateur vampire hunter. Imagine his surprise when he tracked the computer to a library in Mystic Falls, Virginia, home of Bennet witches, Salvatore vampires, and the infamous Katherine Pierce's death.
Walking into the Mystic Grill to meet his potential, anonymous craigslist savior, he did not expect a ten year old girl to be involved in the meeting with who he recognized to be Sheila Bennet, occults professor at Whitmore College and Bennet witch.
What he really didn't expect was that the ten year old now identified as Elena, would be leading this meeting.
But what had him absolutely tripping was that, said ten year old was actually the newest human doppelganger needed to break the sun and the moon curse.
"Right, now that you seem to have calmed down lets recap, I'm the doppelganger, I will have the lovely here make you a daylight ring in exchange for your services, provided you keep my whereabouts to yourself until the time comes when I will have you get in contact with someone who will help me with my pesky doppel problems. Do we have a deal?"
Elena asked after slater seemed to recover from the multiply bombs she dropped.
"Um... yes. I mean I want the ring and will keep your secret but what do you want from me?" Slater asked cautiously.
"Well Slater, can I call you Slater?"
When he nodded Elena continued.
"Well Slater, nice name by the way, all I need from you is to compel a few people for me. And not ask any questions." Elena told Slater with an authority that someone who is blowing bubbles in her glass of chocolate milk should not posses.
-- Ch 9
Throughout the next few years Elena has continued training, storing her blood, and getting closer to the Scooby Gang.
One afternoon while hanging at the grill with Caroline, Bonnie, Matt, Tyler, Jeremy, and Vicki, Elena suddenly realized how much she had changed, not plot wise but with character dynamics.
Caroline was no longer insecure or jealous of Elena, she was still blunt and bitchy, but overall more caring and vampire Caroline like.
Bonnie didn't follow Elena's ever word, she heard her and considered her opinions but they were no longer absolute. She was also more open minded about the supernatural, just because Elena had a deal with Sheila didn't me she couldn't drop hints.
Unfortunately Matt was still obsessed with Elena. Even when a fourteen year old Matt asked Elena to be his girlfriend and she promptly laughed in his face and told him she didn't believe in relationships, he still believed they would be great together.
Elena thanked whatever god that sent her here, that he was a gentleman and the only indication he gave that he loved her was the occasional longing look and not so subtle one on one invites.
But Tyler was her proudest accomplishment.
She helped him go from a future bully with daddy issues to a young man who cared about others feelings while simultaneously loved getting under people's skin in much more good natured way.
When they were kids Elena made a point of complimenting Tyler infront of his dad and staying over at Tyler's when ever he said his dad was in a bad mood, which more than likely happened near the full moon.
When they were teens and Tyler started feeling the effects of the werewolf gene, Elena started working out with him and teaching him yoga and breathing exercises.
So now whenever Tyler rarely got into fights he was able to walk away straight to Elena.
But the most she changed with Tyler's personality was his self hatred, in the show all of Tyler's inability to control his emotions which led to his dad verbally abusing him tore down his self confidence and had to put on a false persona.
But now whenever Tyler's dad tore down his confidence he had Elena there to build it back up even higher.
And Jeremy, no longer annoying little brother who she only saw at home and ignored outside of the house, now he was her best friend. Now he hung out with her and the gang more than his own friends. Now he was close to Tyler and Matt, which didn't happen till a few seasons in. Now he was confident and strong unlike a normal fourteen year old would be, he still had the usual teenage insecurities but what Elena could get rid of she did. Now he asked Elena's opinion on everything and always came to her with his problems. Now they were close.
But what's proven to be the greatest feat yet, strangely not fighting and weapons training, not helping Care bear be less insecure, Bon Bon less judgmental, Matt less infatuated, Tyler become a better person, or Remy more confident, but befriending Vicki Donovan, very hot older sister to Matty and insecure druggie with both mommy and daddy issues.
It was hard. Vicki simply refused. She would flat out ignore Elena when she was around. And when she wasn't ignoring her she was being her usual bitchy self.
Elena loved it.
It was the first real challenge of this life. Elena put Befriend and make Vicki love herself in her official plan.
At first Elena would just hang around Vicki. Then she would ask to hang out and when refused, she would make excuses to be around her.
What Elena never realized was that at first Vicki thought "Miss Perfect" was trying to use her to get close to Matt, but then she saw how Matt hung on her every word and how Elena never gave him the time of day.
Then she thought "Princess Elena" was bored and looking for some human Barbie doll to mold into a minion, but then she saw all the girls trying to get close to Elena, and she noticed she never paid any attention to anyone outside her friend group except her.
Then Vicki thought maybe Elena was taking pity on her because her home life but when Matt was talking to Elena about their mom she didn't see any pity in her eyes, just understanding.
Then for a moment, Vicki thought Elena was in love with her but quickly remembered Matty telling her how Elena didn't believe in relationships.
So Vicki came to the startling conclusion that Elena just wanted to be her friend. No tricks, no manipulation, no pity, all she wanted was her friendship.
And it freaked her out. No one had ever sought her out to be her friend before. All her current friendships were caused by her parents, proximity, or mutual interest in escaping sobriety.
She never had anyone just want to know her. Know what she thinks or how she feels. No one cared enough to listen. But Elena did. She cared, she wanted to know Vicki, and when Vicki finally let her she saw how interested Elena was her words.
She couldn't understand how someone she just befriended could care so much about her. She couldn't believe how in such a short time Elena prioritize her. How she made time for her when she needed to talk or just needed someone to be there for her.
But what she didn't know was that Elena had always cared, that she always prioritized her, that she would have always been there for her if she had asked.
Because Elena already considered Vicki hers.
Her friend. Her priority. Hers to protect.
Just like the future Mystic Falls Gang, helping, loving, supporting, and protecting her was already in her plans.