She did it. Two nights ago Elena saved Grayson and Miranda Gilbert. By not going to that party and not needing to be picked up because a fight with her now nonexistent boy toy they didn't crash over the railing of Wickery bridge, meaning they didn't die and her and Remy still have their parents.
At least that's what she thought.
What she didn't know was that they wanted to surprise her and Jeremy with a week at the family lakehouse.
This time there was no storm, just a shitty driver.
This time they didn't drown, they crashed into a tree and died instantly.
This time it wasn't just elena and her parents in the car, Jeremy was there too.
This time she saw Stefan saving her while passing out.
This time her last thought was "If he saves Remy I'll never call him bunny muncher again."
Waking up in the hospital with a sleeping Jeremy in the next room and Liz Forbes sitting next her bed with pity filled eyes reminded Elena what happened.
She failed.
She failed to save her and Remy's parents.
She failed to protect Remy from the pain of losing half his family.
She failed to complete the most important thing in her plan.
She failed and now she has to tell Remy, her best friend, her favorite person in both lives, her baby brother, that she failed to protect him and that she has know idea to help him now.
Jeremy or Remy as his sister liked to call him, always knew there was somthing more than the whole "I know the future" thing up with El.
He always thought it had somthing to do with what what she knew.
Somthing that was coming she refused to talk about or something she was going to change.
He never really put much thought into it, trusting that if he needed to know she would tell him.
Jeremy adored his sister, he always had.
She played with him when he was to little to play by himself, and she took care of him when he was hurt or sick even though their dad was doctor and she was only two years older.
She protected him from the big kids even when they were bigger than her.
He loved and trusted her his with all his heart.
Which was why when he woke up in a hospital bed and was told about his parents death he was heartbroken. And not just because they were gone, but because he was terrified she knew.
That she knew and didn't tell him.
That she knew and didn't tell them.
That she did nothing to save them.
That she did nothing to save him from this pain.
But then he remembered that all his life she saved him.
She saved him from bullies and mean teachers, from big dogs and spiders, and from embarrassment in front of pretty girls and cool kids.
And when she couldn't save him, she comforted him with cheesy movies and video games. She was there with his favorite snacks and an understanding ear.
So after three second of blaming his sister, he fell into her arms and remembered all the times she saved him and hoped to god she would save him now.
-- Ch 11
It's been two weeks since her parents died and Elena has been doing everything in her power to help Jeremy.
She stays up with him when he's too scared to sleep because of the nightmares.
She holds him when he cries.
She doesn't judge when he tells her he wished it was him.
She doesn't blame him when he pushes her away, knowing it's because he's afraid to lose her too.
She doesn't hesitate to forgive him when he apologizes for it.
And she doesn't forget to tell him she loves him and she will always be there for him.
But what Elena noticed the most was that helping Jeremy helped her not feel so numb and guilty.
When she broke down and confessed she knew and tried to prevent it only for it to happen anyway, Jeremy didn't hesitate to hold her and assure he didn't blame her.
And that is what made Elena feel better.
She was still sad that the people who took care of her for the past sixteen years were dead, but having the most important person in this life and the last, be there for her and not blame her, made her feel normal again.
Which was why right now after getting ready to go Bonnie's and leave her house for the first time since her parents funeral
Elena grabs a piece of paper and begins writing on it with a sharpie.
She walks over to her bedroom window and tapes the piece to it.
While walking into the kitchen, to get a snack while she waits for Bonnie to pick her up she runs into Jeremy.
"Hey Remy, whatcha doing?" Elena asked while noticing Jeremy rummaging through the pantry.
"Oh hey El, just looking for those little cupcakes jenna got at the store, I'm really craving something sweet." Jeremy replies while looking at Elena up and down and smiling when he saw her put together for the first time in a while.
"You won't find them in there, I hid them in the big pot after I caught jenna trying to hoard them in her room."
Jeremy laughed while pulling the pot down and taking off the lid "Aha! There they are, thank you, El. Where are you going?"
"Um, Bonnie's, I think it's time to start spending time with friends again, I mean it feels like it. But if you want me to stay I can call Bonnie we can watch a movie or someth-"
"No El, it's great. You've been here for me so much you haven't had time for your friends. I'll be ok by myself for a few hours. Go have fun." Jereny interrupts while smiling reassuringly at his sister.
"Okay! Thank you Rem." Elena says while hugging Jeremy.
They pull away when Bonnie honks and Elena walks towards the front door.
"Have fun El!" Jeremy calls out as she leaves the house.
"Hey El!" Bonnie shouts out the window when she sees Elena coming out of the house.
"Hey Cinnabon!" Elena replies while getting in car.
Bonnie fondly rolls her eyes at the nickname and asked
"How are you doing?"
"I'm feeling a little better. It's just weird, one minute they're there in the house telling me to do my homework and to help with the dishes and now they're not and the house feels so empty. I have no idea what I would do without Remy, he's really the only thing keeping me sane. Anyway, thank you for asking your a good friend, honey."
"I'm sorry your in pain El, I wish I could help you." Bonnie looks over at Elena sympathetically and then curious. "Hey, why is there a sign in your window that says "stalking is for perverts, stop peeping my toms?"
Arriving at Bonnie's house Elena sees Caroline's car in the driveway and excitedly jumped out of the car and ran to the porch were Caroline was sitting and jumped into the blondes awaiting arms.
"Care Bear!" Elena shouts while still holding her friend.
"Hey Ellie, how are you? Are you good?" Caroline asked her bestfriend while they pull away.
"I'm doing better. What are you doing here? I thought you didn't get back from your dad's till next week."
"Well I didn't, but I wanted to be here for you a little earlier and Bon texted me this morning and said you were having a lazy day at her place, so here I am."
"I'm so glad! Thank you guys so much for being here for me." Elena says while smiling at her friends.
"Of course El, it wasn't even a question, you're our baby." Bonnie says and they all laugh at her bringing up when they used to play house and Elena was the baby. What? Just because she was seventeen when she died didn't mean she didn't want to play like a kid.
"So I brought Mean girls, Clueless, and 10 things I hate about you." Caroline says while they walk into the house.
"And because I knew Care would bring only rom coms, I got out Superbad, Step Brothers, and also Mean Girls." Bonnie says while getting out three pairs of pajamas and fuzzy socks.
"Well seeing as you guys both picked Mean Girls let's go with that." Elena says while they change into the pjs.
As they all sit on the couch in their pajamas and fuzzy socks with a very large bowl of popcorn they start the movie.
After laughing at one of the scenes Elena looks over at her friends smiling faces and feels so loved and taken care of by two of the people she loves most and realizes shes ready to tell them the truth about the future.
She decided after telling grams it was time, she would spend one day with each of her friends and tell them what could happen in the next few years.
Ch 12
After Elena got permission from Bonnie's Grams, she sat with all her friends and individually with thoughtfulness and sensitivity and explained to them that she knew parts of the future and their roles in that future while assuring them that she would fix whatever she could.
Okay, that's a lie. She was too lazy to go to all their houses and she thought doing it in a mass text was kinda shitty so she invited them all over to her house.
"Okay, now that your all here we can get started." Elena said in a weirdly professional tone.
"El, why are you talking like a vice principal?" Jeremy asked her while their friends nodded along.
"I have no Idea what your talking about Jeremy."
"Why did you just call him Jeremy? You have literally never called him that, you always call him Remy. What the hell's going on?" Tyler asked while frantically looking around waiting for something to jump out at them.
"You're right, that sounded weird to me too. The thing is, I have to tell you guys something pretty important." Elena said talking normally.
"If this about you being into girls? We already know and fully support you. Caroline said in an understanding tone.
"What? No. I was never hiding that, I once introduced a girl to you as the girl I was seeing."
"I know but you never officially came out. I wanted to throw a party." Care said with a pout.
"Ok, let me officially come out. I like people of various gender identities. Happy?" Elena said pandering to Caroline.
"Yes, thank you. Should we leave... or-"
"What? No. That was not what this was about, you totally sidetracked me." Elena whined.
"Care, you know how short her attention span is, she's like a goldfish." Bonnie said to Caroline.
"Yeah! I'm like a goldfish... Hey!" Elena shouted offended at Bonnie.
"Sorry Ellie." Bonnie apologized. "What were you going to talk to us about?"
"Right. Well before I got sidetracked." Elena glared at Caroline. "I was going to tell you I know the future and that vampires are real."
Silence...
"I'm sorry, it sounded like you just said you know the future and vampires are real." Vicki said while staring confused at Elena.
"Yeah, I heard that too." Matt added equally confused.
"So... El's finally lost it. We all knew this day would come." Tyler said whole solemnly looking at his friends.
"I call jenna, we will find the best doctors available." Caroline said while already mentally making a list of all the things she needs to prepare.
"El, what the hell are you talking about?" Jeremy asked his sister.
"Look, I know I could have probably done this with more tact, but I just wanted to get it out." Elena said apologetically.
"So... what? You're seriously saying that you know the future and vampires are real?
Tyler asked genuinely concerned for his best friend.
"Yes. And so are werewolves and witches." Elena adds.
"Okay, so what you're saying is that you know the future and vampires, werewolves, and witches are real." Vicki says still confused.
"Yep." Elena says cheerfully.
"Assuming we believe you. Why are you telling us?" Matt asked Elena suspiciously.
"Caught that did you? No one gives you enough credit Matty." Elena says while Matt smiles.
"I'm telling you because... well in layman's terms some shit is going down. And you're all involved in some way or another." Elena says while looking around at her friends.
After explaining what she thought they needed to know about the upcoming future, like Stefan, Damon, Katherine, and the Tomb Elena thought it was time to tell Bonnie and Tyler the fact that they are supernatural.
"Hey, Bon Bon can we talk for a minute?" Elena asks while nodding her head towards the stairs.
"Um... sure, of course." Bonnie said confused while standing up.
"Anyone else think that's super suspicious?" Tyler says while looking around at his friends.
"You too, Sweets. Just give me a minute." Elena yells from the stairs at Tyler.
"What'd you want to talk about?" Bonnie asked Elena after sitting down on her bed.
"You know how I said the tomb was sealed by a witch in 1864?" Bonnie nods. "Her name was Emily Bennet."
"Bennet? As in my last name? What does this mean?" Bonnie asked on the verge of freaking out.
"It means you're a witch Cinnabon. A very powerful witch, from a very powerful bloodline." Elena says
"I don't know what I'm supposed to say." Bonnie whispers.
"Don't say anything. You don't have to. Just know that I will always love and support you and that If you're ever ready to tell the others they won't care either, honestly I think they'll think you're as awesome as I do." Elena comforts her friend.
"Thank you for telling me alone, I don't know if I want everyone to know yet."
"That's fine, I'm gonna go talk to Ty, just go downstairs when you're ready. I love you Bon Bon." Elena says while standing up.
"Okay."
Elena walks halfway down the stairs at yells.
"Ty come up here."
"Coming!" Tyler yells from the kitchen while walking towards the stairs.
"Have a seat." Elena says gesturing to Jeremy's bed while sitting in the desk chair.
"So... your a werewolf."
Tyler snorts then notices Elena serious face.
"I think I would know if I turned into a big dog every month, but thank you." Tyler says fake sincerely.
"Right, silly me. You're not a werewolf, you just have the gene. Your uncle Mason is a werewolf."
"El, that's crazy. I'm not a werewolf or have the gene." Tyler adds when Elena raises an eyebrow.
"Is it Ty? I mean I just told everyone I have a 500 year old vampire doppelganger. Is it really so crazy to believe your family comes from werewolves?" Elena asked.
"Yes El, it is SOO crazy to think my family comes from werewolves. But seeing as how if this was a joke you would've broken by now, you're serious aren't you?" Tyler realizes.
"Yeah Ty, I'm so sorry. I wish I was joking."
"What do I do? Am I gonna start turning into a wolf or something? When? Does it hurt?" Tyler starts freaking out.
"Ty, calm down."
"I can't calm down Elena, I'm a fucking werewolf!" Tyler yells.
"Well, there goes that secret." Elena murmurs knowing everyone in the house heard.
Matt and Jeremy burst into the room.
"Tyler's a werewolf?" They ask at the same time.
"No."
"Yes." Elena and Tyler reply.
"If Tyler would've let me finish, I would have told him that it's a curse that you trigger not an age thing." Elena says to the boys.
"Explain everything El, please." Tyler says calming down a bit.
"Alright, well a really long time ago this witch cursed the tribe that killed her.
To activate the curse any descendant of the original Seven Worewolf Bloodlines has to either on purpose or by accident take a human life." Elena says
"Oh my god, mason killed someone?" Tyler asked
"Yes, but by accident. But that's not all."
Tyler gestures for her to continue.
"What makes the curse so terrible is that when triggered, on every full moon every bone in your body breaks and rearranges to become a wolf. When in wolf form you have no control and often kill people if not locked up."
"So if I ever kill someone this will happen to me?" Tyler whispers terrified.
"Yes, but we will never let this happen. Do you understand?" Tyler nods. "But if it does I have a solution."
"Wait, you said seven bloodlines, there must be tons of werewolves or least people with the gene." Jeremy muses.
"There used to be but for the past thousand years they have been hunted into near extinction." Elena tells them.
"By who?" Matt asks.
"Vampires."
"Why?" Tyler asks now paying attention.
"Originally? Male ego. But now, because a werewolf bite is lethal to vampires. And there's no cure yet so vampires usually kill any werewolf they meet just in case." Elena says.
"Oh great, not only could I have to lock myself up and break everyone in my body once a month, but every vampire we meet might kill me "just in case" how wonderful." Tyler says sarcastically.
"I'm really sorry Sweets, but on the brightside you'll have a really good sense of smell." Elena deadpans.
Tyler cracks a smile and the boys laugh at her attempt to lighten the mood.