[ biting her bottom lip, she shakes her head. she lifts it, eyes red with tears and her skin wet and pink. he doesn't know. maybe he left for new orleans before it even happened, but elena knows she's already sacrificed herself for nothing. klaus is a hybrid, and she knows he'll wreak havoc in mystic falls because of her. being trapped in the gull has given her time to think, a lot of sleepless, agonising opportunities to reply the last year over and over.

but that's not why she's digging her heels into the ground. no, he doesn't understand. it's her time to stop asking for help. ]

Everyone dies around me. My parents, Bonnie, Jeremy. Stefan's probably dead. Caroline's dead because she knows me. You're probably here because of me.