A/N. This chapter is short but I had to finish it where I did. I know I've been gone for a while but that's only because I had no WiFi! You can expect quicker updates now!

Ellie stood up and felt Katherine and Elena's eyes follow her. They had been talking about something, a hanging or death, Ellie hadn't been paying attention. All she knew was that she had to get out of their now. Before she lost it completely. She turned to Elena.

"I'm sorry, I have to…go."

Ellie's chest was rising and falling rapidly and both Elena and (to Ellie's surprise) Katherine were looking at her with concern.

Elena nodded at her to leave, "Go on. I think Caroline will be at the grill if you want company."

Ellie weakly nodded and began to half run away. Just before she reached the exit she heard Katherine's voice.

"Wait! Don't you want to know what your part in the curse is?"

Ellie jerked to a halt and was silent for a few seconds. "Maybe another time". She threw the words over her shoulder before leaving the tomb.

She reached the tomb of her stairs to find the wind blowing madly. When they had entered the tomb there hadn't been a breath of wind. Wrapping her coat around her body she started run towards the grill.

The door to the grill was thrown open in a blast of wind as Ellie hurried through. Her cheeks were bright red from cold and exertion and she was panting from having run the whole way to the grill. Although she would never admit it to anyone she hadn't run because of the wind. Ellie loved any part of weather and nature and she would never hurry to get away from it. Today, however, it had seemed like someone was chasing her, or at least watching her. The feeling of eyes is enough to make anyone run and Ellie was no different in that aspect. She glanced round the grill and saw Caroline sitting at a table with Stefan. Ellie smirked slightly. When she had been watching the show she had predicted that the two would become good friends, and it was beginning to look like she was right. Ellie almost didn't want to interrupt them but she had no desire to be on her own anymore. As she approached the table she caught the end of Caroline's sentence.

"-kill innocent people urges!"

Ellie stopped suddenly in surprise which made the two vampires aware of her presence. She quickly re-arranged her facial features into something other than shock, convinced the must have heard the wrong part of Caroline's sentence. It didn't seem like Caroline to want to kill innocent people.

Caroline must have guessed what she was thinking as she quickly re-assured the younger girl. "Don't worry Ellie. I swear I'm not about to bite anyone. I was just telling Stefan that eating helps the urges."

Ellie let out a breath she didn't know she had been holding as Caroline explained. Ellie felt a connection with all the characters and she didn't want to see one of her favourites become a killer right in front of her.

"Right…," Ellie said, drawing out the word and rolling her eyes as she joined the table. "I'm sure that was what you were saying."

Caroline mock gasped as Ellie winked at Stefan. The younger brother grinned at her before speaking to Ellie.

"Hi, I'm Stefan we haven't officially met. How are you…coping?"

Ellie smiled wryly. It felt weird being introduced to someone who she felt she already knew. "I'm…alright I guess. Everything a bit of a shock. It's not every day you find out that you're needed in a curse."

Stefan grinned in appreciation of her trying to make a joke before his face settled back into its normal serious expression.

There were a few seconds of comfortable silence which were quickly interrupted by Caroline.

"Anyyyywayyyy. Tyler said he gets these urges to."

Stefan's eyebrows furrowed slightly at Caroline's words. "Yeah, what exactly did you say to him?"

"Not much. I was trying to keep the questions to a minimum."

Caroline's voice had a hint of deception in it and Ellie raised her eyebrows as she figured out that this was Caroline's way of distracting Stefan. The older blond had said she wasn't good at deception so she was using a real situation to avoid having to lie.

"Are you mad?" Caroline somewhat groaned as she directed the question a Stefan, who was looking weary.

"Yes Caroline. As a matter of fact I am a little mad. I mean you put yourself at risk, if Damon finds out-"

Ellie interrupted Stefan, concerned for her new friend. "You won't tell him will you?" Ellie knew the depth of the Salvatore's bond and she knew that both of the brothers weren't the best at thinking rationally, especially Damon.

"No, of course not," Stefan's voice was calming to Ellie's tense nerves and she felt herself relax more at Stefan turned to face Caroline again, "He would kill you."

Caroline smirked slightly, "Always looking out for me."

"Yeah, well you don't exactly make it easy." Stefan was grinning in contrast to his annoyed words.

"Then why do you do it?" Caroline teased before turning some-what serious. "Why are you such a good friend to me?"

"I don't know, I guess you remind me of someone. My best friend, Lexi."

Ellie paled slightly at Stefan's words as flashbacks of Lexi's death entered her mind. Damon had been the one to kill Lexi and if Caroline reminded Stefan of his old best friend it was no doubt that he was so willing to protect her from Damon. It was like he was trying to succeed where he had failed before.

"You have a friend?"

Stefan and Ellie both winced at Caroline's use of present tense, though Stefan less noticeably.

"You say that with such a…discouraging amount of surprise Caroline." Stefan chuckled, ignoring the hurt over Caroline's mixed up tenses.

"No, I just…Sorry, I just…" Carline smirked seemingly at a loss for words, "Tell me about her."

Stefan's grin vanished abruptly and a look of eternal sadness entered his eyes. Ellie found herself wanting to do something to help him, make it so he wouldn't have to talk about Lexi's death, and without thinking, Ellie spoke.

"Damon killed her."

Stefan eyes locked with hers and froze there. Ellie was unable to pull away. The words had been stupid and careless. She wasn't supposed to know about Lexi.

"How did you know that?" Stefan asked in a troubled voice and Ellie scrambled for a believable answer.

"Urm, Elena mentioned it. In passing. I was just um…asking about what had happened before here and she told me."

Stefan's eyes searched hers for a moment before seeming to accept her explanation. Ellie just hoped the conversation never came up with Elena.

Caroline who had been watching the conversation with curious eyes spoke up again, obviously feeling slightly ignored.

"Hello? I'm sorry Stefan but can we go back to bigger issues? What do we do about Tyler? I don't want Damon to kill him 'because there's a full moon coming up and Tyler's freaking out about it."

Stefan shot a glance at Ellie who sighed. Stefan was starting to put together that Caroline's reason for dragging him to the grill weren't entirely innocent. Her suspicions were proved correct when Stefan started to speak again.

"Okay Caroline. You have two seconds to come clean before I leave."

Caroline looked down and schooled her face into a confused expression. "What do you mean?"

"I'd believe the whole innocent act a little better if I didn't know how good you were at providing a distraction on demand. Where's Elena?"

Ellie pulled her chair back from the table softly, not really wanting to get involved in the coming argument.

"I can't tell you." Caroline said giving up her façade.

"You can't tell me?" Stefan's voice was shocked and more than a little annoyed. "Are you kidding me?"

"I'm sorry! But I…I can't tell you."

"Caroline, Elena was kidnapped! She could have been killed and you're seriously not going to tell me where she is?"

Ellie couldn't stand it anymore and broke in the semi-argument. "She's not in any danger Stefan. I promise."

Stefan turned to Ellie. There accusations in his eyes and he was obviously annoyed that she always knew where Elena was. Before anything could be said Stefan changed. The fire that had been burning during the argument burnt out and he leaned back on his chair.

"She's with Damon isn't she?"

Stefan's voice was resigned and even though she was a Delena shipper Ellie could never enjoy seeing Stefan like this. "No. She's not with Damon."

The relief Stefan obviously felt was quickly overpowered by aggravation. "Then where is she? Listen Caroline, Ellie. If you two are actually my friends you'll tell me where she is."

Ellie looked into her lap and shook her head. She vaguely heard Caroline speaking but she didn't focus on it. It was so strange. Less than a week ago she would have been at home, watching this happen on TV now she was here. A part of it and there was a very strong chance that she would die. She was so unprepared for this. She felt tears burning in her eyes. She was never had been very strong. She had to do something, anything to help herself. Find out why she was here. An idea came to her and she looked up to see Stefan storming out, with Caroline watching him regretfully.

Ellie cleared her throat and Caroline looked at her. When the vampire saw the tears she frowned in worry.

"Hey Ellie you okay?"

Ellie nodded determinedly, wiping away the tears. "I have to find out more about the curse. I have to find why I'm here."

Caroline nodded. "You have to talk to Bonnie."

A/N. Thanks so much everyone who reviewed the last chapter! Again sorry this chapter is so short! PLEASE REVIEW! Love ya guys x