So I'm pretty sure that Stefan and Elena had different ideas when it came to how to deal with Elena now that she was a vampire. Stefan wanted her to drink animal blood whereas Damon didn't think it would work. Elena and I were currently in the downstairs part of the boarding house. The two of them were going on a camping trip. Once they left, I decided to talk to Damon.

"Damon, I don't think you should try to force things on her. I said once he came downstairs.

"Why should I listen to you?" He asked me. "I don't like you. I'm not friends with you. The only reason I put up with you is for Elena's sake and I wouldn't be surprised if Stefan feels the same way. I wouldn't be surprised if even she doesn't need you now that she has Stefan back."

"Why are you being such a dick to me? I was the only one who supported you and Elena." I remarked. "I told her that I thought that she should go out with you. It's not my fault that she chose Stefan."

"Get out of my house." Damon ordered. "This is now a no-hybrids zone."

I decided that I would go help Jeremy, Anna, and Matt set up for this memorial for the members of the council. I guess the average citizens didn't need to know about what was really going on. I don't even know what happened. What caused the place to go up in flames?

"So what's happening here?" I asked.

"Student council made these paper lanterns for the memorial." Jeremy explained. "They want to light them up to honor the dead."

"Am I the only one who thinks fire is inappropriate?" Matt asked. No, it was very inappropriate no matter how racist they were. "How's Elena?"

"She's fine." I answered.

"Considering…" Jeremy added.

"Jeremy, please stop. Her being a vampire is not the worst thing in the world. Your wife spent half a millennium as one. Not to mention you asked her to turn you once." I told him.

"Is there anything I can do?" Matt questioned. "She's a vampire because she asked Stefan to save me so if I can help, I want to."

"Jeremy?" A girl said as she walked up to us. I don't think Jeremy was quite sure who she was. "Picture an emo pixie cut and braces."

"April? You look great." Jeremy said in surprise. "This is Laura and Anna. Elena used to babysit her."

"Before I got shipped off to boarding school by my dad…" April trailed off. Oh, she's Pastor Young's daughter.

"I'm so sorry about him." I remarked. I was sorry for her at least.

"Thank you, I guess. I don't really know how to respond to that." She admitted. I think I liked this girl. "You know I'm supposed to be grieving, but in a weird way, I'm kind of glad. I guess it's because I get to come back here."

"I know how that feels." I told her. "My dad and I didn't have the best relationship either."

"I have to go register so I'm gonna go." April replied.

I currently had my phone off, so I didn't know that Elena was trying to contact me.

"If you don't remember where everything is, I can help you." I volunteered before the two of us walked off.

"So when did you move here?" She asked.

"I got here in the summer." I explained. "I bounced around a little before the Gilberts took me in. I made it here for Florida after my mom killed my dad, which was later overturned as self-defense."

"I don't know what to say to that." She responded. "My mom died of cancer."

"I'm sorry about this. I don't know how to answer questions sometimes." I replied. "I should probably get headed to soccer practice."

"I thought you were the athletic type, but I wasn't sure." April commented.

After practice, I got a call from Caroline. Apparently this guy showed up at the Lockwood house and shot at Tyler. I met them at the boarding house. Damon wasn't going to be happy since it was his so-called "hybrid-free zone."

"So what can you say about this guy?" I asked.

"He knew what he was doing obviously. I think his gloves were dipped in vervain or something." Tyler explained.

"These bullets are specially carved." Stefan noted. "You'd be dead if you were a normal vampire and I think there's something on the bullet. Something is carved into it."

"So what are we going to do?" I asked.

"I don't know." Stefan admitted.

The next morning, we were setting up for the memorial. I was wearing a strapless black dress with my hair curled. I looked to Elena, having got her voicemail.

"Are you okay?" I asked. Matt seemed to be wondering the same thing.

"I'm fine." Elena answered. "My emotional are just out of whack right now. Seeing all the names of all these people I knew makes me wanna cry."

She then noticed April sitting front by herself.

"Is that…" Elena asked.

"April Young? Yes." Matt responded.

Elena then walked over to her and gave her a hug. April was upset because she didn't know what to say about her dad and she was also afraid that no one would say anything nice about her father. It was pretty sad.

Suddenly, Elena ran off. I followed her to the bathroom where she started to puke up blood. I had to look away. I was never good around people vomiting.

"Do you want me to call Stefan or Damon?" I asked.

"I'll call Damon." She declared. She called Damon as someone tried to open the door. I took some paper towels and did my best to clean up.

"This is occupied." I said to whoever was at the door. Damon brought a new dress. I went outside and saw a bald man with a goatee. I hoped we did a good enough job cleaning the bathroom. I don't why she was puking. Something about the guy made me not want to trust him. I don't understand it. "She had a really nasty breakfast burrito. You don't want to know."

"Did you bring the blood bag?" Elena asked.

"You might want to keep it down." Damon remarked. Damon and I covered her up while she drank the blood. I was still upset with Damon over the fact that he's hated me for this whole time I knew him. I've done enough to make him like me and I wasn't going to try any more.

Suddenly, Elena started gagging. Why was none of this working? She couldn't have animal blood, she couldn't have vampire blood. She couldn't have it from a blood bag. I didn't understand any of this.

"Do you have any idea what this is?" I asked Damon.

"I've never seen anything like this before." He admitted. "Maybe her doppelganger blood is rejecting the transition or something."

"I have an idea." I stated. "But I'm pretty sure that neither of you are going to like it."

"She just needs to drink from the vein." Damon replied. "There's reason to bring your boyfriend into this."

"I can't risk killing anyone." Elena responded. "Maybe I'm better off dead."

"I'm pretty sure that would desiccate not die." I pointed out. Damon glared at me. "I'll shut up now."

"You'll be fine." Damon promised her. At that time, the bells chimed and I went inside with her. I sat on her left with Matt on her right.

"Hey April was looking for you." Jeremy declared. "She wanted her with her speech."

"Where is she?" Elena questioned.

"I don't know." Her brother replied. Why did I have a bad feeling about this? When people disappear, it's never a good sign. The mayor called for her and she didn't appear.

"Would anyone like to share a memory about Pastor Young?" The mayor asked. I don't know why but Elena got up. She looked very shaky. She didn't need to say anything. Damon walked in and he and his brother had some choice words for each other.

"When I talked to April earlier, she was kind of nervous about coming up to speak. The worst day of loving someone is the day you lose them." Elena remarked. She seemed to be losing it. I then smelled something. There was blood dripping from the sealing. I decided to go up and get Elena. I guess the high emotions could be blamed. I took her back to her seat. She was so good.

"What's wrong with her?" Matt asked.

"She's hungry and can't seem to keep any blood down. Damon suggested she drink from the vein." I explained

"Feed from me." Matt suggested. "Just do it. I know you won't hurt me. It'll look like you're crying on my shoulder."

She bit into his neck. The position looked kind of weird, but if this helps her, I won't complain.

"Thank you." Elena whispered. "The blood…I think it's April's. We have to help her."

"It's too risky." Stefan remarked.

"I have an idea." I suggested. I went to the front. "I have something to say. Now I know that I didn't really know anyone here, but I wanted to personally lay out my sympathy for all of those who lost someone. I know these were important members of the community. I…"

Then as I wanted, the hunter shot me. It caused a panic. It also hurt like hell. I fell to the floor. Everyone came up and removed it from my heart. I'm glad that I'm not that easy to kill, but he ruined a perfectly good dress.

"I'm going to kill him." I stated.

"I have to call an ambulance." Mayor Lockwood said as Stefan ran off.

"She's fine, Mom." Tyler declared.

"The whole town just watched you get shot. I'm calling an ambulance." The woman reiterated. I sighed. I need to make sure that Meredith is the doctor that I see. Elena ended up running off. I think she found April. I decided to listen up in the balcony area.

"April." She replied. Yup, she found her. Things weren't exactly going easy. She tried to feed on her, but Caroline managed to stop her. Thank God for that because I know that Elena would have regretted that.

I was glad that Caroline was there to calm her down because I couldn't be at the moment. I think Caroline gave April some blood and then she taught Elena how to do a compulsion. I don't know why we couldn't just tell April about this stuff. I have a feeling that this won't be the last time that she's involved in this and I don't think she's anything like her father. I guess compulsion was the easy route for now. I think it worked. I hated having to be here. I guess it was better than being in an ambulance. I was guessing that I would have to at least spend the night in the hospital.

When the ambulance got there, I was forced to ride. At least Carol had the brains to ask for Meredith because any other doctor would probably be confused by the fact that there is blood but no wound.

"So I heard about what happened from the mayor." The doctor told me. "I guess hybrids really can't be killed with stakes."

"It still hurt like hell, but I'm fine now." I told her. "Look, not many people even know who I am. I think I can get away with getting out tonight. I want to see Elena to make sure that she's okay. So no one has tried to fire you today?"

"Nope." Meredith responded. "I have to say that I've had some personal good luck even though I only kept my job at the expense of 13 people dying and Elena becoming a vampire. You're lucky that you were shot in the chest. That way no one can ask to see a scar. Just be careful and don't play any sports for a few days."

"Okay." I replied. I called Elena to find out that she was at the boarding house. I decided that I would meet her there where she was with Stefan.

"Hey." I greeted.

"So I take it Meredith was your doctor." Stefan replied.

"Stefan, Damon said something to me yesterday that made me wonder." I remarked. "Do you like me? Not in any sort of romantic way, but would consider me a friend of any sort. Damon hates me."

"I'm glad that you were there for Elena when she needed someone and I was too focused on killing Klaus to care about her." He responded. "I think I could consider you my friend, yes."

"Cool." I declared. That was kind of an awkward thing for me to say. "So what are we drinking?"

"Damon's bourbon." Stefan answered. Elena didn't seem to like the taste of it. I think we may need to get some beer. "It helps with the cravings."

"You're mad." Elena said to him.

"Yeah, I'm mad." Stefan confirmed. "You lied to me and you went to Damon for help."

"You were just so happy that things were going well." Elena started. I decided to leave and let them fight. They needed to work this out.

I ended up going to the school after receiving a text. I don't know what was going on, but everyone seemed to be there. We had a bunch of those lanterns which were never set off.

"What are we doing?" Damon asked.

"We're finishing the memorial that we didn't get to have earlier." Stefan explained. "I know the people who died may not have been that important to us, but we've all lost someone."

"So you're lighting lanterns?" Damon asked in disbelief.

"We need to do this." Stefan replied.

"What we need to do is find out who this hunter is and kill him." Damon remarked. "We have more important things to be doing."

"Not tonight we don't." Stefan declared. He lit his lantern. "This is for my uncle Zach and my friend Lexi and Alaric."

"This is for Vicki." Matt said as he lit his.

"This is for my dad." Caroline remarked.

"This is for Mason, and my dad." Tyler replied. I decided that I would go next as I got up.

"This is for Jules and Ric." I responded.

"This is for my mom." Anna added. Jeremy went next.

"This is for our parents, Vicki, Jenna, and Alaric." He said. He handed it to Damon, but he went away, not wanting any of it.

"This is for my Grams." Bonnie stated.

"This for everyone." Elena finished. With that, we sent our lanterns into the air.

So, it's a sad episode. It shouldn't be a surprise that Damon doesn't like Laura since the only people he really cares about are Stefan and Elena. Being unknown has its advantages. Please don't forget to review.