[Elena's life had been tied to Alaric's, and at the time she had believed Nik to already be dead (she'd learn differently, of course). The irony (if you could call it that) is Elena would later end up helping kill one of her brothers anyway.]
Elena and I have made peace here, as much as we perhaps ever can as that was far from the beginning of our bad history with one another, but some of our other citizens from Mystic Falls are not huge fans of me.
Even if they would go to whatever measures necessary to protect their loved ones. They've killed for it. They've killed two of my brothers, but I'm the bad guy.