"If you're trying to get her to eat you might want to give her something that wasn't rolling around in dirt first." Damon calls from over his shoulder as Stefan comes from catching breakfast in the woods.

Elena, who's coming by to check on the progress and to bring her a change of clothes stops and looks at the Salvatore brothers and asks, "she's still not eating?"

"It's normal," Stefan is quick to assure her.

"Especially since it's nothing something she wanted in the first place," Damon says flipping through the book that he was casually reading.

"You know you could be a little more helpful." Elena says dumping the bag on the couch next to Damon.

"I am," he says looking over his shoulder at her and sees the doubtful look in her eyes as she stares back, "by respecting what she wants."

Elena crosses her arms looking at him in disbelief, "since when has that ever mattered to you."

Damon closes his book and stands tossing it on the couch, "since I'm the only one who's in this room who hasn't force someone to turn." He leaves the room and Elena watches him with a scowl.

"He's right," Elena turns to Stefan dropping her defense stance and he walks over, "and I hate that. Now she's never going to forgive me."

He pulls her into his arm, "she will. It's just going to take some time."

"Thanks to me she has a lifetime of it."

Stefan sits her head on top on her head. "You didn't want to lose her."

"But I could end up losing her anyway."

Stefan was going to keep hope for her sake that they could turn thing around for the better impossible as it may be. He kisses the top of her forehead before letting her go and taking the cup up to Alyssa to see if he could get her to eat

He knew that it would a task in of itself since she had already made he clear that becoming a vampire was the last thing that she wanted all reason he understood. He never allowed himself to get too close to anyone outside of Elena and Lexi after he was and turned the only people he had in his life was his father and Damon when he was alive. It was the reason he talked Damon into turning. He didn't want to be alone.

It was he could so easily understand where Elena was coming from but he had hoped that she would have learned from his mistake and let her made her own decision. No one should have to be forced to live this life if they didn't want it.

She was standing by the window holding her hand out to the sun watching as it burns with a mild curiosity when he walks in. She didn't seem to have notice him or if she had she shown no signs of it. She moves out of the direct sunlight when she finally takes notice that he's there and turns around.

He sits the cup on the table and take step forward hearing a crunch sound. He looks down to that it's the water bottle he brought up just last night that she had thrown shortly after he left if the drips of blood on the wall was any indication.

"You know what's going to happen if you don't eat."

She was well aware. She had first hand knowledge of what could happen to a vampire if they don't feed and she was more than happy for it to happen to her. It was better than watching the world pass by you and you're stuck in the same place and body you're in and always going to be in.

"I know this isn't what you wanted. It's not fair what happened to you."

"You mean what your girlfriend did to me. What you let her do to me?" She uses her vamp speed and runs to him so she's standing directly in front of him. "All I ask was for you to do one thing!" She knocks the cup fill with animal blood of the table. "Don't tell Elena, and you couldn't even manage that!"

"Stefan," Elena calls from the door having ran upstairs after hearing the cup smash against the floor.

He puts himself in between the two of them holding his palm up to Elena. "Elena stay back." He recognizes the look feral look in her eyes and he knew that it wasn't safe for Elena to be around her right.

"Why?" She takes a step inside instead "Stefan what's wrong with her?"

"Listen Elena, trust me." He speaks to her while also keeping his eyes on Alyssa. "I need you to go and wait for me downstairs." It was the first time that the two had seen each other seen Alyssa's transformation and he knew that it wouldn't be a good idea for them to even be in the same room especially with Alyssa's refuse to eat.

Elena wasn't sure what was happening but she trust Stefan and so she nodded and does what he says.

"Hey look at me," Stefan tries to get his attention off of Elena so he could begin to get her to calm down but doesn't make any sudden movements. "It's okay. You're going to be okay." He wasn't sure if what he was saying or if any of is coaching was going to get through to her until he saw her face slowly start to turn normal. "Breath through it," he says taking a chance to take a few more steps towards her. She had calm down by the time he was standing in front of her and he realizes a little. "You're going to be okay."

"I know." She says giving him a reassuring smile and with a firm nod and tossing him aside and running out of the room. He immediately got to his feet and ran behind her. Damon had her trapped in between his arms when he reaches the living room and Elena is holding her throat otherwise un-harm.

"I'm gone two seconds," Damon says to Stefan as he joins Elena side checking to see if he's okay. Alyssa almost slips out of Damon's hold but he reestablishes his grip. "Get her out of here."

Stefan takes Elena by the arm and takes out of the house. When he's sure they're far enough away Damon lets around and gets punched in the mouth for no other reason than she was upset and he was there.

"Feel better?"

"I will when she's dead."

"You're upset."

"No Damon, upset is what I was when our dog died. I am way passed upset." He walks over to the bar and pours them a drink. "I have all this anger inside of me at Elena, at Katherine, at everything and I don't know what to do with it."

He hands her a glass, "getting drunk helps."

She sits down on the couch emotionally drained after the passed seventy two hours she had. "You were drunk when you killed Jeremy, I wouldn't say it helps." She downs the glass despite what she says.

He sits down beside her realizing something. "I never apologized for that did I?"

"Didn't think you apologized for anything."

He looks at her with a serious expression, "there's a first for everything."

She leans back on the couch taking a look at her empty glass. "I don't know how you did it," she looks over at him, "forgive Stefan. Every time I think about what she did I get angry all over again."

"So don't think about it."

"It's not that simple."

"How do you think I was able to spend all those years knowing Katherine was in that tomb and knowing I couldn't get her out until the comet. By focusing on something else."

"Like making your brother life miserable?"

"Tormenting Stefan was just a bonus," he says with a pleasant smile. "No, I mean finding other things to entertain me. That's what you got to do, find something to take your mind of it."

She thought about what he was saying and there was something that came to mind. If she was going to spend the next however many centuries as a vampire she might as well find something productive to do with her time. There was still the Lockwood family secret that needed to be figured out. There was only one person she knew that could help with that.

"Thanks for coming, Ric." Damon let him in. "Can I get you something to drink? Coffee, bourbon? Bourbon in your coffee?" He lead him to the living room.

"Elena mentioned you needed my help." After filling Damon in on the plan, they discussed it with Elena and Stefan after Alyssa made it clear that she was done trying to kill Elena, for the time being.

"We were hoping you could help shed some light on the Lockwood family." Ric stops and looks at Alyssa was sitting on the arm of the couch where Damon had taken a sit at.

He gives her a once over trying to find any signs that she was different then the girl he came to know but he didn't see anything that would speak to her being dead. "Elena told me what happened. How are you holding up?"

"Well I haven't killed anyone yet so and all I say it's been an excellent three days."

He doesn't know whether to take that as sarcasm or if she was being serious so he just took his seat in the chair across from them. "You say you want to know about the Lockwoods but I don't get why you think I would know anything."

Damon takes over the answer, "Well, you wouldn't. But you're dead, not-dead vampire wife might." Isobel did a lot of research on the town when they went to Duke together and there was bound to be more information on the Lockwoods.

Ric understood what they were getting at and why they needed his help. "Isobel's research here in Mystic Falls rooted in folklores and legends but at the time I thought much of which was fiction."

"Like that amazing vampire story." Well they all knew that wasn't a myth so it might turn out the whatever else Isobel dug up wasn't either.

"Aside from vampires, what else did she find?" Alyssa wanted to hurry the conversation along. She didn't trust herself to be around Elena for too long even though she was doing as Damon was suggesting and focusing on something else. Being that close to Elena was making her a little antsy and even Ric wasn't starting to look a little tasty.

"The lycanthrope." His answer one no one would expect and all of Alyssa supernatural movie watching taught her the more popular version of that name.

"Wait, like werewolves?" She asks.

"No way, impossible, way too Lon Chaney." Damon wasn't buying it but even he couldn't deny that they've seen a lot of things they were impossible even for them.

"Is it?" Stefan wasn't as sure as his brother that they didn't exact. Most people didn't believe vampires exist and yet there were three under one roof as they spoke.

Damon was more into believing what he saw rather than he heard. "I've been on this planet one hundred and sixty some odd years, never came across one. If werewolves exist, where the hell are they?"

That was a good question, especially since vampires and werewolves were known to be enemies of vampires. Wouldn't they've been able to sniff each other out or else or at challenge each other to a death match.

"Why do you suspect the Lockwoods?"

Damon goes about answering what should have been already obvious but she guessed he was a little quick to catch on then the rest, "Because vervain didn't affect the mayor at Founders' Day but the Gilbert device did and it affected his son Tyler."

Stefan adds what he saw just a few a days, "And at the school carnival his uncle Mason exhibited inhuman behavior when he fought with one of the carnival's workers. It suggests it's some sort of a supernatural entity."

"We were hoping that something in Isobel's research could help us figure it out what it is." And by we, Alyssa meant them, since she technically couldn't go out in the daytime and she didn't exactly trust herself to be around people.

"Well, all her things are still at Duke. I mean her office is still there. She's technically still missing."

"So can we get access to it?" Rick wasn't sure he wanted the memories that came with digging all that stuff up, especially since he was trying to put it behind him. "Ric, we need to know what we are dealing with. If this wolfman thing is true, I've seen enough movies to know it's not good. It means Mason Lockwood is a real-life Lon Chaney and that little Tyler punk may just very well be Lon Chaney junior, which means Bella Lugosi, meaning me, is totally screwed."

If that were true, Alyssa knew Damon was going to stop at nothing to prove if what they thought was true about the Lockwoods but also find a way to kill him and that didn't bode well for either of the Lockwoods.