Odette was in the middle of unpacking the various boxes that had been delivered to her new apartment, she finally found somewhere to rent which meant she no longer had to sleep on Alaric's couch and now had a nice bed to call her own. Odette's new apartment was right in the middle of Mystic Falls and it came furnished which meant the only things in the boxes she needed to unpack where the stuff that she had delivered from Boston. A few days ago Odette had gone back home to Boston to pack up most of her personal belongings and clothes from her apartment which she was subletting to a friend of hers. Now she was in the middle of unpacking them as Ric was too busy marking term papers or something to be of any help. And Odette didn't really know anyone else in town well enough to ask them for help so here she was doing it alone. There wasn't may boxes but Odette was exhausted from unpacking them all and it made her realize how much stuff she had. Odette had more books that she did shoes and that was saying something as she had a lot of shoes. Most of the books were hers but a lot were books that had belonged to her father, it was her dad who got her really into books as he used to read to her constantly. Even when Odette could read herself, they would spend lazy Sunday afternoons after lunch reading books out loud to each other, swapping when it got to a new chapter. Those were some of Odette's fondest memories of her father. Taking a sip of her beer Odette started on another box when there was a knock on her door, not expecting anyone Odette put down her beer and made her way over to the door and looked through the peephole and saw that it was Alaric.

"Well about time you showed up, typical of a man to show up once most of the work is done…" Odette said as she opened the door and Alaric just rolled his eyes as he crossed the threshold, heading straight to the fridge and grabbing a beer. "Please feel free to help yourself Ric."

"We need to talk Ettie."

"Okay, what's up?" Odette asked as she shut her front door and popped herself down in one of her armchairs and picked up her beer and resumed drinking. She decided that she was might as well give up on the packing for the rest of today, it had been a long day and she had unpacked the major things. Everything else could wait until tomorrow.

"I set one of my students some extra credit, I told him that I wanted a in depth paper on something here in Mystic Falls, I wanted a paper on the local history and nothing off wikipedia and he handed in this to me." Alaric said as he handed Odette a large manila envelope. "The essays is on vampires in Mystic Falls…"

"Are you kidding me?" Odette demanded as she opened up the envelope and pulled up the essay and began scanning, she could not believe that some kid had handed her cousin an essay on vampires in this small town. How the hell did a teenager know about vampires?

"No and I think your theory about the founding families is right as Jeremy Gilbert wrote this. Apparently he got most of the information for this essay from a journal by his ancestor Jonathan Gilbert who lived in Mystic Falls during 1864 when these vampire attacks were documented. I've asked Jeremy for the journal, I pretended I was curious about it and Jeremy's going to lend it to me. He's sceptical about the entire thing, he believes it just contains the ramblings of a drunken lunatic." Alaric explained and Odette couldn't believe what she was hearing and reading, somehow there was a written and some what detailed record about the vampire attacks in Mystic Falls over a hundred years ago...

"Unbloody believable." Odette slowly said as she began to reread the essay, if she didn't know any better than she would have taken this essay to be some piece of creative writing. Some of the things that this Jeremy Gilbert had wrote in his essay just sounded so far fetched and unbelievable but Odette knew better than that. She was well aware that there were things that did more than go bump in the night out there and some hiding in plain sight. "We need to get our hands on this journal Alaric, if this Jeremy Gilbert boy got most of his information out of this journal god knows what else is it. Even if the boy thinks it's the ramblings of a drunk ancestor."

"I know Ettie, I'm just waiting on Jeremy."

"Well I'd hurry him up Ric as we need that journal…" Ettie retorted as she tugged at the ends of her long blonde ponytail.

"You don't have to tell me that."

"This whole thing is bigger than we expected Ric, maybe even bigger that what Isobel was researching. This town has a history of vampire attacks going back over a hundred and forty years. The attacks happen sporadically over the years, the town covers it up and everything goes quiet for a few decades and then returns. Something's weird about this about this town and the situation it has with vampires, something is bringing vampires back here every so often. Isobel's research was focused on this town, it brought us here but there is something that we're missing here." Odette wearily replied as she put the essay down to the side and stood up and walked over to one of her windows that looked out onto the street.

"Like what?" Alaric questioned and Odette just shrugged her shoulders, if she knew what they were missing then she wouldn't be telling her cousin that they were missing something. Mystic Falls had a secret, lots of secrets and they involved vampires and the founding families and Isobel had somehow stumbled onto it and it had gotten her killed.

"I don't know but we're going to have to figure it out Ric."