"Jeremy, wait!" Caroline yelled running to catch up with him. He was running towards the spot where Bonnie and Tyler were kidnapped by Klaus. Though Jeremy had hoped that Gabriella was wrong about Bonnie and Tyler being kidnapped, his heart stank. Nothing was left behind but parts of the salt that Bonnie had used to cast a circle. Caroline ran right in front of Jeremy and continued, "Hey, do you understand what you just did? We have no leads as to where Klaus could be keeping Bonnie and Tyler. None!" Jeremy ignored this and continued to keep walking as if Caroline had not said anything to him.

"Caroline is right," Matt interjected once he caught up with them trying to catch his breath. "We need someone like Tasha!"

"No we don't," Jeremy responded. "We just need to come up with a plan."

"We need Stefan and Alaric. We can't fight Klaus alone." Caroline said.

"No, we can do it. We have to find Bonnie and Tyler! They need us! We don't have time to get to Stefan and Alaric and then come up with a plan."

"Look dude," Matt grabbed Jeremy's head, looked into his eyes, "Bonnie and Tyler will be alright. Klaus will not kill them because if anything Bonnie could be useful to him. Bonnie will only agree to help him if he keeps Tyler alive. They will be fine."

Jeremy did not want to believe it, but Matt and Caroline were right. He was letting his heart think for him when he needed to use his brain. "Okay, you're right." Matt and Caroline seemed to both let out a simultaneously sigh of relieve because neither of them was ready to go up against Klaus. "So what do we do next?"

"Like I was saying, we go back to the cabin, tell Stefan and Alaric what happened and then we come up with a plan. Matt, where is the truck?"

….

Matt pulled up to the cabin in his red, four-door Ford. Jeremy could see that the lights were on which meant that Stefan and Alaric were still home. Jeremy, Matt and Caroline got out of the truck and head for the door. They all gathered around the front door of the Hunter's Cabin, Jeremy's secret base. Alaric, Stefan and Matt helped him build it out of stone, wood and plaster. They could not jeopardize Klaus or his henchmen finding his base and destroying the white oak stakes. There weren't many left as Rebekah burned most of the wood that was used on the Wickery Bridge.

"Where are Bonnie and Tyler?" Alaric asked as soon as they came in. He was reading Mystic Falls Daily as he usually did to find leads on Klaus. Klaus had been able to cloak himself well. Alaric looked down from the paper, his eyes over his reading glasses.

"Klaus has them and we have no clue where they could be," Caroline answered. She and Matt left out the fact that Jeremy killed their only lead because Alaric might give him a lecture about controlling his anger.

"Okay, we need a plan." Stefan stood up and walked towards the fire place and stared into the flame. After Elena's deaths, he locked himself in his room in the Salvatore Boarding house. Whenever someone would check on him, insisting that he needed to feed, he would lie on the bed with a blank, empty gaze in his eyes and Elena's diary in his hand. He lost his hunger, as if his soul crawled out of his body and all that was left was an empty shell. The kind sweet reformed guy that they met years ago became ball of despair. They all expected him to become "Ripper Stefan" but he was the complete opposite which scared them just as much as the Ripper.

"This would be a lot easier if we at least had an idea as to where Klaus was," Alaric started. He opened up the top button of his reddish plaid button up, fanning himself with the newspaper he had been reading.

"I think we should split up and ask around," Caroline suggested.

"Do you think that's a good idea?" Jeremy asked.

"I mean, we are sitting ducks," Caroline replied. "Klaus has Bonnie and Tyler and he wants to kill us all."

"Who's to say that Klaus hasn't already killed Bonnie and Tyler," Stefan interjected.

"Stefan, don't think that way!" Caroline snapped.

"Why not? He wants us all dead anyway."

"This isn't about Klaus vs. us anymore Stefan," Matt said. "Klaus wants us dead but he also wants to make supernatural beings domain. He wants power, he wants control. We have to keep him from getting what he wants."

"Matt is right," Alaric followed up. "Stefan, we all understand your pain. We all miss Elena and we all miss Damon. We know that you have a special connection to both of them, especially Damon because he was your brother. But, what would Damon want you to do?"

"Damon didn't care about humanity. He would probably just join Klaus."

"You know that isn't true," Caroline snapped. She walked over to him and looked into his eyes. "Stefan, Damon cared. He was damaged but he cared. He would try to help fight with us to make Elena's death worth something. Damon would make Klaus pay and that's what we are going to do."

"And you know what happens to us when we finally do kill Klaus?" Stefan yelled at her. Caroline was taken aback for a minute. "We die Caroline! They don't get it but we die anyway." Stefan reached for the Jack on the mantel of the fireplace.

"I know Stefan," Caroline spoke in a low voice. Caroline didn't like to think about her death much but she came to accept that she died a long time ago. She died the evening Katherine smothered her with a pillow. Her heart no longer beat with a vibrant youthful joy, she didn't age, and she depended on blood for her existence. She was no longer a real girl. She reached her arms out to hug him and she began to shed tears. "But I've accepted that. We were never meant to be immortal."

The room was silent and everyone could feel the somberness that plagued their futures. There would be trials, there would be heartache and there most certainly would be death, again.

"Look," Alaric began, "We should all get some sleep as the sun is coming up. Most vampires will be inside anyway."

"What?" You can't be serious Alaric," Jeremy retorted. "Bonnie and Tyler are out there and they need us."

"Klaus won't kill them. They are supernatural, if anything he needs them. Based on what you told, Klaus wants to secure supernatural dominance and it would be counterproductive to kill supernatural like Bonnie and Tyler."

"But how can we be so sure of that?"

"We can't be Jeremy. But what good are we to Bonnie and Tyler if we are exhausted?"

Alaric had made a good point. He usually did which is why Jeremy was glad when he came back from the other side. He had older person wisdom which is what Jeremy lacked in his life since his parents and his guardians died. "Okay, you, I and Matt will sleep. But, Stefan and Caroline should try to keep looking out for leads."

"That's fine," Caroline said, "you guys rest up. It shouldn't be too hard to weed out any vampires with daylight rings on."

"Alright but call if you need us."