Elena and Stefan were outside talking with Bonnie when they heard the gunshot. The three of them looked at each other before Stefan ran inside the Lockwood Mansion.

He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw his brother on the floor and a deputy pointing a gun at his head. But that was not the main problem, he knew his brother wouldn't die from a wooden bullet in the stomach. His biggest concern was the crowd forming around them with frightened looks on their faces. The room was deadly calm until a voice broke the silence.

"Oh my god, someone call an ambulance!"

Stefan had to do something, there was no way he could let the paramedics check his brother.

"Stefan, what's…" Elena put a hand on her mouth.

"Elena we have to get him out of here, an ambulance is probably already on its way"

Carol Lockwood and Sheriff Forbes ran toward the deputy that was standing over Damon. After exchanging a few words, they both carried Damon out of the room leaving Mrs Lockwood alone.

"Alright people, I am sorry for this…" she paused for a while "…incident, sadly we are going to have to call it a day. Thank you so much to everyone for coming and again, I am really sorry. Everything is being taken care of, so go home and have no worries." she had an apologetic look on her face as whispers could be heard from the crowd slowly heading toward the exit.

Stefan, Elena and Bonnie rushed toward the door where they had last seen the sheriff take Damon.

They entered a huge office with a leather couch, a desk and a fireplace dominating the room. He spotted Damon being tied by a deputy to one of the chairs near the desk, while another one was injecting him with vervain.

"Sheriff what's going on?" Stefan asked. He didn't know exactly how much she knew about he and his brother so he decided to play dumb.

"I'm pretty sure that you know the answer already, and I bet that you are one too" She said pointing a gun at him.

Stefan raised his hands up and took a few steps closer to the sheriff, leaving Elena and Bonnie behind him.

"listen, I have no idea what you're talking about but-"

"cut the crap off Stefan, I know that your brother's a vampire, Gordon heard his conversation with Alaric" she said looking toward the guard on her left who was now pointing a gun at the unconscious vampire.

"Bonnie, we have to do something!" Elena whispered as she looked into the witch's green eyes.

"like what? it's not like Stefan or Caroline can use mind compulsion on them they've probably been ingesting vervain, and half the town saw Damon get shot. There's no way we could come up with a good explanation, unless we can prove…"

"prove what?" Elena urged her to continue.

"…unless we can prove that he's human."

Elena looked at her confused "yes, but he's not. How are we going to…" she then realized what her friend meant "is there spell that could turn him human?" she asked hopeful.

"there is a temporary spell, but it's way too dangerous, no one ever survived" She replied.

"At this point we have to take this risk! they're about to kill him at least he'd have a chance" She looked so helpless.

"I don't know Elena, I'm not strong enough" She said apologetically.

"please Bonnie, you have to try! It's not just Damon that we're talking about, Stefan's in danger too" Elena begged. Her brown eyes filled with tears. Bonnie rapidly looked at the scene taking place in front of her and nodded.

"Alright, I'll try" She concentrated to remember the spell and as she closed her eyes she began chanting. After a few seconds she opened her eyes.

"Did it work?" Elena asked looking at Damon's lifeless body.

"I think it did. Look Damon's waking up"

"if the spell worked it probably means that the vervain's not working on him anymore"

"Look sheriff I don't know what you heard, but my brother is not a vampire" Stefan tried to convince her.

"stop lying to me, he reacted to the vervain"

Damn Stefan thought. That was it. they were going to kill his brother and he'll probably be next on the list. He looked at Damon and realized that he regaining consciousness. He wondered how that was possible, he was strong but there was no way he'd wake up after only a few minutes.

"I'm sorry Damon I really liked you" Liz said pointing the barrel at his heart.

"WAIT!" Elena cried.