"Thanks for this Ric," Elena walks him to the door and Alyssa stands back so she wouldn't be cast in the sunlight when the door open.

Stefan comes over to Alyssa. "I'm going to go check on Caroline. Are you going to be okay?"

"Like I have a choice," she says pointing to the light. "It's not like I can go anywhere."

He walks out the door and Damon stops in his place.

"Go, I'll be fine." He heads out the door with Stefan Elena and Rick.

She turns and looks around the room to find something that will occupy her time. She wasn't sure how long Stefan would be gone but she knew Damon's road trip with Elena and Rick was going to take over four hours alone with the drive there and back. It was no telling what they were going to find when they get there and how long it was going to take to look through all the information that Isobel had obtained over the years.

What she did know was she was going to use the new found freedom to do a little snooping. She hadn't gotten a chance to check out the full scope of the place.

She already knew the basement was the cellar. The dining room, conservator, living room, and kitchen were on the second floor. She grabs her her bag on the way up taking inventory of what was upstairs. She counts a total of seven bedrooms upstairs, Stefan and Damon's included.

Stefan's bedroom was her last stop on the tour and she tosses her bag on the bed and takes a look around. The last time she had been in his room she had been discussing the tomb vampires and his past with Damon.

She had been curious about what laid behind the glass case and walks over to take a look-pulling the first book she saw. She opens it and discovers that it was his journal.

"Finally, something interesting." She takes the book and finds a seat cracking it open and reads it.

She's halfway through the century when she hears the door open and goes to downstairs seeing Stefan with Caroline.

"I guess you were able to convince Bonnie to make a daylight ring if she's not on flames." She stops in front of them crossing her arms.

"I did."

"And?"

"Oh you wanted her to make you one too. See I wasn't sure because you weren't planning to be one in the first place."

"I'm going to take assume that you're joking."

"Wait," Caroline finally begins to put it together.

Alyssa sees the confusion on her face and decides to help her out before she hurt herself thinking, "yeah I'm dead. Katherine killed me too. But she wasn't expecting me to come back." She turns to Stefan. "Now about my ring."

"I don't have a ring, but I do have this," she recognizes it the minute he pulls it out of his pocket. "Damon thought you might want it back."

She gave him back the necklace that he gave to her filled with vervain as protection. She takes it with a bit of nonchalance. "If it's the only thing." She starts to put it around her neck but stops.

"It's vervain free. Damon removed it before he gave it to me," Stefan says after noticing her hesitation and she clips it on.

"So when are you going to teach me how to hunt I'm starving?" Caroline whines.

"Wait, you're teaching her, Caroline Forbes how to survive on a Stefan Salvatore diet? Oh this I got to see."

She follows Stefan and Caroline to the woods where Stefan is explaining to Caroline the basics to how he survives.

He starts with something small.

"So what I do when I see the rabbit?" Caroline asks as she trails behind them.

"Chase it, catch it, feed on it."

Alyssa thought that was kind of self explanatory.

"Isn't killing cute defenseless animals the first step in becoming a serial killer?"

"Well, you sort of skipped serial killer and went straight to vampire. Caroline, if you're not serious about all of this I think you should tell me."

"No I am. Look, I swear that I am okay?," Caroline stops and faces him and Alyssa could sense she was going to go into one of her famous meltdowns so she finds a tree to rest against and waits. "But it's just...I haven't been in the sun for days and everyone is at the swimming hole having fun and Matt is there! And he finally told me that he loved me but I have been blowing him off and now you want me to eat bunnies and I'm kind of freaking out okay?!"

Stefan starts laughing.

"And now you're laughing at me."

"No, no, I'm not laughing. None of this is funny, trust me. It's just that…"

"What?!" She exhales in frustration.

Stefan calms himself enough to explain, "When someone becomes a vampire, all of their natural behaviors get sort of amplified."

Caroline doesn't get, "What do you mean?"

"I mean...as a human I cared deeply for people, how they felt. If they were hurting I felt their pain and I felt guilty if I was the one who caused it and as a vampire all of that got...magnified."

Caroline still doesn't seem to get it and Alyssa leans up from the tree and walks over to them, "What he's saying is that were insecure, neurotic control freak when you were alive and now your a insecure neurotic control freak on crack."

"Well, I wasn't gonna say it like that."

"But that's basically what you are."

"So then what does that make you?" Caroline asks and she didn't know how answer that because she never gave it much thought.

She turns to Stefan, "I don't know Stefan what does that make me?"

He didn't know how to answer that because as he came to realize she was a complex person and there was no telling who you would get moment to moment which is what made her unpredictable and dangerous, "Let's hunt okay? And then after that we'll go to the swimming hole."

"Really?" Caroline says with a gleeful smile.

"Yeah. Matt is the closest connection that you have to your humanity and I think that being around him is a good thing."

"Okay."

She goes off to find something to hunt and Alyssa places her hand on Stefan's arm to stop him.

"Are you sure she's ready for that, to be around people? And by people I mean Matt."

"Matt's good for her, he'll help her feel normal and she needs that right now."

"I'm all for her hanging on to her humanity but not at the expense of Matt."

"We have to at least give her a chance."

"You can give her the benefit of the doubt I'll be keeping my eye on her."

She catches up to Caroline Stefan soon afterwards and after a few unsuccessful attempts Caroline finally catches her prey. Alyssa couldn't stand to watch it so she turns her back but it doesn't help with the sound.

"Next time I say I wanna come," she says when they make it back to the boarding house. "Don't listen."

"Can we go to the swimming hole now?" Caroline asks growing rather impatient.

Alyssa gives him a look reminding him of the warning she gave back when they were hunting but he stood by what he said, Caroline needed to stay connected with her humanity and Matt was the best way of doing that.

Alyssa, however was a little skeptical but she'd try his way for now but she was going to keep her promise to keep an eye on her, which is exactly what she had been doing since the moment they arrive at the watering hole.

Mason was the first thing they saw when they got there. He was passing by as they got out of the car. They share a look and Alyssa turns to Stefan after he's pass, sharing a look of their own one that Caroline happened to pick up on.

"Why are you looking at him with your serious vampire look?"

Alyssa leaves him to answer any questions she might have on the Mason front and walks over to Matt. She hadn't spoken to him since the night of the carnival because she wasn't sure what to say. She wasn't even sure if it was safe to be around him but she had controlled herself so far and she was hoping to continue that.

"Hey," she approaches him with a smile which he returns with his own also surprise.

"You're alive."

Alyssa took that to mean that he was referring to not hearing from her for a few days and not the fact she was on her deathbed, "I am. I'm sorry about being M.I.A. I know I promised I wouldn't do it again but there was something I had to take care."

"Yeah, Jenna told me, you were doing some extra credit work for Mr. Saltzman."

That was the story Elena was telling to explain why Jenna hadn't heard from her while. The project involved earling morning and late nights. It was the only cover story she could think of. "Yeah, I was but I am done with that now and I'm here."

"Yeah I saw that, with Caroline and Stefan no less."

"Elena had something to take care of so I told her that I'd keep Stefan company and Caroline came by the house hoping to catch her but Elena couldn't come and I don't think Bonnie is either so she tagged along. Why aren't you in the water?" She says hoping the change the subject before he could ask anymore questions and poke a hole in what she had said.

"It's not waterproof." She says holding his cast.

"Right," she spots Caroline out talking to Stefan, "listen, I know this is going to sound weird but I need you to be careful around Caroline." She sees the confused look on his face and she understood. It was coming from left field. "She's different, I can't really say more than that just don't be alone with her okay, at least for a while."

Before he can ask anymore, Caroline joins them and Alyssa walks away.

"I heard that," Stefan steps in stride with her as she walks back over to the car.

"And?" That was of no consequence to her. "I know you're okay with giving her a chance but I'm not willing to bet Matt's life on it." But she was willing to compromise, "But I'm not going to stand in the way either, not if Matt can keep her natural instincts from taking over." The last thing they need was another rouge vampire.

Stefan knew that it was the best he was going to get out of her. Her personality dictated that and now that she was a vampire the need to protect the people she cared about was was enhanced. Along with some other potentially dangerous qualities that she posses.

"I think that tree can stand up all on it's own," Tyler approaches her from where she had been standing the entire time keeping an eye on Matt and Caroline.

"Go away Tyler, I'm not in the mood."

"You've been standing here the whole time. Why don't we take this party somewhere else?"

"I said go away," she says looking him directly in the eyes. He turns around and walks away. It takes her a minute to realize that she had just compelled him without meaning to. It made him go away and so she didn't think on it.

She turns back to Matt and saw Caroline had approached him and they were now talking.

"I saw that," Stefan says coming to stand beside her. "You compelled him."

"I didn't mean to. He wouldn't go away and I desperately wanted him to. It won't happen again."

"It will if you don't learn how to control it."

Control it, she didn't even want it. Nor did she understand why she spent a perfectly warm day at the lake being a wallflower when it suddenly hits her, "this is my naturally behavior, being a protector," she turns to Stefan, "I always think about my friends and my family first, constantly worried about them and now that I'm a vampire, that need to protect them just doubled ten fold. I'm going to spend the rest of my undead life playing watch dog instead of living my life."

"No one said it was going to be easy."

"Easy, this is impossible. I never wanted this and now I'm stuck with it all because of…"

Stefan phone's and he takes it out of his pocket, "Elena,"

"Of course."

Stefan answers it, "Hey."

"Hi. Listen we've learned some stuff here and I know it's gonna sound crazy but I

wanted to fill you in."

"What's up?"

Alyssa turns to him so she could fully listen in on the conversation as she begins to tell Stefan everything they found on werewolves.

"I don't know what that means or if we should even believe it but it's a full moon, Stefan. After what you saw Mason Lockwood do…"

Stefan looks at Alyssa. "I'll be careful."

"There's one more thing."

"What is it?"

"According to the legend, a werewolf bite can kill a vampire."

Alyssa turns to the last place she saw Caroline with Matt and saw that both of them were gone. Stefan notices the same thing and checks the perimeter visually but doesn't seem them.

"Listen, I gotta go." He says trying not to alarm her and Alyssa jogs over to the last place that she saw them, by Matt's car. "I'll see you when you get home, okay?"

"Okay."

Stefan hangs up and calls Caroline but she forgot her phone in her bag, in Matt's car. Alyssa hears it ringing and pulls it out of the car. Stefan comes over to her and she shows him her phone.

"It's a full moon tonight Stefan." Alyssa tells him both knowing what that meant.

"I know. We'll split up and look for them." He points to the direction he wants her to take which is opposite side of the lake. "You take that side I'll check this one, get back to the car if you find her." He says jogging away from the car.

She nods and looks the direction that Stefan told her to take. She jogs into the opening that leads you into the woods before using her vamp speed the rest of the way once she was out sight from in one who could see her.

She stops and listens when she doesn't see them after a few miles. She hears Matt calling out to Caroline in a panic and she runs into that direction and stops when she sees them. Caroline has bit his neck and his taking a drink and she runs over to them and pulls her off him pinning her against the tree. She holds her forearm against her neck keeping her there.

"Caroline stop! Look at me!" She does as she asks and she helps her through it until her face is normal again. She lets her go seeing that she's calm.

Caroline looks over at Matt just as he faints from the loss of blood. "Oh my god." She starts towards her but she stops her and grabs her.

"Caroline, Caroline, look at me," she turns her towards her, "We need to get out of these woods now. We need to leave."

They hear a growl.

"What was that?""

"You and me, we're gonna run. It's going to follow us; we need to lead it away from Matt." Caroline wanted to know know more but she didn't have time to explain. "Caroline look at me, you need to run as fast as you can. Do you understand me? Go, go!" She pushes her to get her to running and she follows after her until she comes to a stop at the old ruins forcing her to do the same.

"Wait!" Caroline turns to he wanting to know what was going on and what they were running from. "What is it?!"

"It's a werewolf! He will try to kill us and he can!"

Tyler comes out of the cellar.

"Hey! What are you two doing?"

"Tyler get out of here!" Alyssa says worried about her friend. Yes even after everything that happened between them she still considered him one.

"Why?"

Before she could answer the werewolf rushes into Caroline. She falls on the floor, the werewolf is on her. Alyssa rushes on the werewolf with her powers and pushes him. It turns on her and she doesn't move a muscle.

"No!"

The werewolf looks at him seeming to recognize him before taking off.

Alyssa helps up Caroline and Tyler looks to them for answers, but he wasn't going to get any because Alyssa and Caroline needed to get back to Matt.

She calls Stefan when they got back to Matt truck watching as Caroline compels him. Stefan shows up after she's done making him think that an animal attacked him after warning him about the vervain in his ring.

"What are we going to do about Tyler?" Caroline asks as she joins them.

"I took care of it." Stefan says. Alyssa had told him where he could find Tyler so that he could handle it himself since she was new to the whole compulsion thing and she wasn't strong to make the lie stick.

"Maybe I should get Matt to start drinking the vervain instead of it just being in his ring. It'll keep you from being able to compel him but it also to keep you from drinking his blood." Alyssa says since it hadn't been that effective against getting fed on.

"I can't believe I hurt him. He is the one person on this entire planet that I never wanted to hurt."

"It's not going to get any easier." Stefan warns her and also says, "you're just gonna have to work that much harder."

"I shouldn't be with him, should I?" She asks Stefan, "Because if there is any danger…"

"I think Stefan's the last person to make that kind of decision for you."

Stefan agrees, "If I had follow my own advice, I would walked away from Elena a long time ago."

Caroline asks, "You ever think you should have?"

"I know I should have, I just can't."

Alyssa didn't know what it was like to be with a person that you could lose control with and hurt, but she did know what it was like to feel something for someone she shouldn't. So on that, she sympathizes with Caroline and also could agree with Stefan. It was hard walking away from someone you know you should, but can't.


"Looks like you've had a hard a day as me," Damon says as he sees Alyssa stand in the living room with a drink watching the flames of the fireplace.

He pours himself a drink. "That would be the understatement of the century." She turns to him, "how did you road trip go with a Elena?"

"Very productive, I learned a lot," he takes a sip from his drink and Alyssa couldn't help but notice the double meaning behind him "learning a lot" but he didn't elaborate so she wasn't going to ask. "How was your first day in society as a the undead?" He sits in the chair.

"Let's see," She joins him on the couch and he raises her legs sitting them on his lap. "I saw Caroline go Ozzy Ozbourn on a bunny, then I spent the rest of the day standing guard over Matt so Caroline doesn't use him as her personal snack machine because apparently being protective is in my DNA and it's worse now that I'm dead and I spent the night running from a werewolf who was trying to kill me. But it's all just a normal day in Mystic Falls."

"Yeah, we're going to have do something about Mason Lockwood." He removes her legs off his lap, "but first things first," he disappears out of the room for a second and she sips on her drink until he returns with a glass filled with a red substance.

"Damon," she sits up straight and he comes to sit beside her.

"I know, it's immoral and beneath you, but your a vampire. No matter how it happened, you're one of us, and if you didn't want to be you wouldn't be wearing that." He points to the necklace, "but it's your choice," his sits the cup down on the table and gets up walking out of the room.

She watches him go before looking at the cup. She had two choices. She could drink what was in the cup and go on living the rest of her life as a vampire or take off the necklace and walk into the sun. After the day she had, there was only one choice she could make. She picks up the glass and drinks it.