Elena slowly opened her eyes and tried to take in her surroundings. Everything was blurry at first. She felt so disoriented. She was lying on a red couch, in a room that looked kind of like a psychiatrist's office. Carefully, Elena got up off of the couch and walked towards the door. She turned the knob and quickly found out that it was locked. Elena's head was throbbing. She automatically placed her hand on her head and rubbed her forehead. What had happened last night she thought to herself? The last thing that she remembered was being at the grill. She had been at the grill with Caroline-. Oh my gosh, Caroline. She must be freaking out, Elena realized, suddenly. She was really beginning to become slightly panicked. The door was locked and there were bars that covered the window. Elena began to pound on the door and scream. She should have known that no one would hear her.
Damon knocked on the door to Elena's bedroom. After a few moments of waiting, he opened the door ever so slightly. "Elena" he whispered into the dark room. Still there was no response. Quickly, he realized that something was wrong. He flipped the light on, which confirmed his suspicion that Elena was not there. Damon rushed out of the room and went to look for Stefan. "Hey Stefan where's Elena?" he asked, when he saw him.
"She slept over at Bonnie's house last night" he said, calmly. This news only relieved Damon's mind a little. He wanted to see Elena. He needed to talk to her, himself.
Bonnie was shocked when she saw Damon standing outside of her front door. "What's going on? I'm about to leave for a job interview" Bonnie explained. Damon didn't seem to hear anything that she had just said. "Where's Elena?" he asked her, looking intensely into her eyes. Bonnie looked very confused.
"What are you talking about Damon? She's not here. Caroline told me that she was at the grill with Elena last night. Then when Caroline turned around Elena was gone. Caroline called Elena and she said that everything was fine. She said that she had to leave unexpectedly because Jenna called and she said she was sick" Bonnie said. Damon furrowed his brows at this.
"That's not true. Jenna was fine. She went out last night to meet up with a friend of hers" Damon informed her. Now it was Bonnie's turn to look concerned.
"Where is Elena?" Damon said, this time sounding as though he were talking to the sky.
Michael opened the door and entered the room directly across from Elena's. "Can I go now? I did as you asked me," a very disgruntled Katherine, said. Michael shook his head back and forth.
"You did a very good job with the phone call. Caroline completely believed that you were Elena. You can't leave yet. She still needs you for something" Michael informed her. Michael turned to leave the room. Suddenly he felt teeth sink into his neck. He let out a scream and turned to use a spell on Katherine. However, before he even had a chance Katherine fell to the floor in agonizing pain. The door opened, and Michael saw piercing blue eyes that met his own. "Don't ever underestimate the power that I yield" she said icily, as Katherine grabbed at her side. She felt as though she were being repeatedly staked in the side. She closed the door and immediately turned toward Michael. "Don't ever let that happen again" she said sternly. "Next time I may not save you" she warned him.
Damon only felt it a second before it happened. Suddenly everything went dark. Damon clutched his head in sheer agony as he dropped onto his knees. Bonnie screamed at the top of her lungs. She didn't know what was going on. The world around Damon had completely shattered. All he could see was grey. All he could hear were voices in the distance. The voices got louder and louder. It was all too much for him to bear. It wasn't pain that had brought this upon him. At least, it was not physical pain. The all consuming unbearable pain, that he was feeling now, was all emotional. Bonnie rushed forward, trying to help him up. The very moment that she touched him, it was as though her skin set on fire. She involuntarily jumped backward. She could feel his pain. Quickly, Bonnie realized, he was under a very powerful spell.
Elena sat down with her back against the wall, with her knees pulled up to her chest. She looked like an angry little girl, who had not gotten her way. So many thoughts were floating through her mind. Most of them, consisted of the word why. She just couldn't understand any of this. Why her? What did Michael want? Why had he kidnapped her? Elena didn't realize that within the next few moments, she would receive her answers. She would also receive more questions than she had ever thought possible. The doorknob slowly began to turn. Michael came into the room, followed by a very tall, menacing looking blond woman. Elena could tell right away that she was a witch. "Hello Elena" she said, in a sickly sweet voice. She stared at Elena with a sparkle in her deep blue eyes that Elena had seen many times before. "It's so nice to finally meet you. I'm Sera" she announced.
Stefan and Jeremy raced over to Bonnie's house as quickly as they could. Jeremy had heard Stefan talking on the phone and he would not take no for an answer. Damon still lay on the front yard of Bonnie's house, clearly distraught. "Stefan, thank God. I-I don't know what to do. Every time that I go near him, the spell just courses right through me. I can't touch him. We have to bring him inside. My Dad isn't home right now" she said, breathlessly. Stefan nodded.
"Jeremy come on, help me try to grab him" he instructed. "We might be able to touch him because we're warlocks" Stefan said. Both Jeremy and Stefan grabbed one of Damon's arms. Luckily, they were able to move him into the house and onto the couch. After another few minutes, the spell finally seemed to wear off. Damon was still breathing very rapidly. He opened his eyes, and everything was blurry. "Stefan?" he asked, sounding confused. Stefan was standing over him.
"Yeah, it's ok Damon. I'm right here. What happened?" he asked, Damon.
Damon shook his head back and forth fervently. "I- don't want to—I can't talk about it yet" Damon stammered. Jeremy looked back and forth between Stefan and Bonnie.
"Should I get a blood bag out of the car?" he asked. Stefan hesitated for a moment before answering. Then, before he could tell Jeremy what he thought, Damon started talking.
"No, don't Jeremy. That's not going to help for this" he said. Damon swallowed and took a deep breath. "All the blood in the world is not going to bring back the people that I've killed" he said.
"Sera?" Elena repeated the name. Elena knew that she had heard the name before. She had been through so much in the last few days though, she just could not remember where she had heard it. Sera walked closer to her. Then she turned towards Michael. "You may go now" she informed him. Michael left the room as fast as he could. "Sit down Elena" Sera commanded. Elena did not move. She stubbornly folded her arms, and crossed them over of chest. Sera let out a shrill laugh. "Fine, be like that" she said. "You Petrovas are all the same. You think that you are high and mighty when in reality you are nothing but a little girl" she said, scathingly.
"What do you want with me? Elena demanded.
Sera smiled deviously at her. "Don't worry. I've only wanted to finally be able meet you. Well, I also want to tell you a little story" she admitted.
Damon sat up on the couch. He looked straight at Stefan. "Don't give me that antagonizing look, Stefan" he said. Stefan remained silent. " I saw visions. It was like a videotape of my past. It's wasn't any of that "your life flashes before your eyes" crap . It was more like a film. It was like a film of anything bad that I did in the past. It was like a list of victims all flooding my mind. They were screaming and crying. They were begging me not to kill them" Damon said, choking back tears. He didn't want to let anyone see how it really had affected him.
"Elena do you have any idea who I am?" she asked. Elena shook her head back and forth. She was not really sure what it was, but this woman did seem familiar for some reason. Elena was drawing a blank as to exactly why. "Let me see if I can help you a little bit with that. You know that necklace that you have? I was the one who gave it to Katherine to give to you" she said. Immediately, Elena reached into her pocket, to where she had earlier placed the necklace. It wasn't there. Sera held the golden locket up in front of her eyes. "I have it. I also have this" she said, as she showed Elena that she had her cell phone. "By the way, Katherine is very good at being you. Not that she wanted to be, but well let's just say that she didn't have much of a choice" she said, slyly.
"Katherine's here?" Elena asked, suddenly. Sera nodded her head.
Sera smiled slyly at Elena. "Ah there is so much information that you have yet to learn" she said. Sera looked at a nearby clock. "Hmm your boyfriends should all be here soon. Although I'm not sure how much more one of them will be able to take" she said menacingly.
Damon looked around the room, uneasily. Everyone was staring at him. "Look, we have to find Elena" he said. Everyone seemed to agree on this one particular point. Damon realized that he would be receiving some sort of "humanity" talk from Stefan later. Jeremy was the only one who was not paying attention to what was happening. Something lying on the floor near the front door had caught his eye. Jeremy picked up the object and saw that it said Giuseppe Salvatore on the front. "Hey Damon, Stefan I found your Dad's journal on the floor" he announced to them. Stefan looked confused, and Damon looked angry. At the same instant, they both ran over to Jeremyand tried to get him to hand over the journal. Stefan looked at Damon. "Have you read this?" he asked.
Hesitantly, Damon answered "No. I found it in your room . Then I was psychic witch attacked, so no I haven't had time to read it just yet" Damon said, sarcastically. Stefan ignored Damon, completely. He extended his hand out towards Jeremy. At this, Jeremy backed up a little bit. "I think I'll hold on to this for now. First, we should find Elena" he said, calmly. It was then that Bonnie spoke up.
"Actually, you don't have to find Elena. I know where she is" she said.
Elena stared back at Sera in confusion. "What are talking about?" she demanded. Sera looked over Elena, as though she trying to decide if her question was worth answering. Sera decided to ignore the question. "You'll see soon enough" she said, coyly. "Actually, I'd like to ask you a question Elena. Just how much do you want to be a vampire?" she asked. Elena was taken aback by this sudden turn of subject. "I don't know what you're talking about" Elena lied.
"You really shouldn't lie to me like that. I know that you love the feeling of power. I know that you're trying to keep this all a secret from Stefan and Damon. I know that you are actively using Katherine, by drinking her blood. So don't you dare lie to me Elena, because I have access to more knowledge than you ever thought possible. Not to say, that this knowledge did not come with a price. To honest, it was a price that I was not willing to pay. Do you know what it is like to have your soul taken from you?" she said. Elena was visibly shaking at this point. She had never been this scared. She was more scared now, then she was when she had encountered, Klaus just mere days ago.
Damon slowly turned the doorknob and looked around the room. "Are you sure that this is the place?" he asked, Bonnie. She nodded her head.
"I don't know why or how but I think that whoever took Elena wanted you to find her. When I touched you, I saw things. I was able to see what you saw but also so much more. I was given a vision of this office building. I saw Elena. She's here" Bonnie said, sounding confident about her knowledge. They walked down the dark hallway, looking for the right room.
"How are we supposed to know which door it is?" Jeremy asked. Bonnie swallowed hard.
"To be honest, I'm not really sure" she said. After walking a few more steps, Bonnie came to a sudden halt.
"What's wrong?" Stefan asked, immediately.
"That power. Can't you feel it Stefan? It just emanates from every direction. It is the same power that saved us from Klaus" Bonnie explained. Then she pointed to the left and they walked a little bit further and Bonnie showed them the door to the room that Elena was in.
Sera smiled deviously. "Your friends are here" she said, simply. "They're about to open the door, so I will courteous and open it for them". Sera walked over and opened the door. "Hello, you all may come in" she said, gesturing for them to come inside. However, Damon looked straight past Sera. His eyes went directly to Elena. There was no need for an exchange of words between these two. He could tell that she had not been harmed, physically at least.
Sera looked the four of them over. She spent most of her time looking back and forth between Stefan and Damon. She quickly glanced over Bonnie and Jeremy. Jeremy instinctively walked over towards Bonnie, standing close to her. "There's really no need for you two to be here" she said, pointing at Jeremy and Bonnie. "There's no point in you both witnessing this. I only need these three to hear what I have to say" she informed them. Then without another warning, Bonnie and Jeremy both seemed to lose control of their senses. They walked straight across the hall, opened the door and locked it behind them.
"There, now we can all talk" she said, as though they had been called to a board meeting. Elena looked longingly at Damon's deep blue eyes. Sera waved her hand back and forth. "Oh please Elena, go and run into his arms" she said sarcastically. "Nothing would please me more" she said, with a smirk. "It's not as though, it's going to help you in the end. It's not as though it is ever going to change what he is. He will always and forever be a demon. As will you, when you turn" she said to Elena. Both brothers stared at Sera and then at Elena.
"Go on, deny it if you want. Soon we will all know the truth. Oh and why don't you two start by telling Damon the truth?" she said, looking at Stefan and Elena. "Why don't you tell him what you both already know? Why not spare him the pain of reading through that journal himself? Go ahead and tell him the secret. A look of horrible comprehension arose, upon Elena's face. She looked back and forth between Damon and Sera. Those eyes, they both had those same gorgeous blue eyes. Elena didn't understand why she hadn't realized this before. Elena walked over to Damon. She took both of her small hands, and clasped them around his. Then she looked deep into his eyes and said "Damon I'm sorry. I have to tell you something".