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Daddy Issues

We had all decided that the best plan was to sleep on the revelation that our Uncle John was in town and staying with us. That news itself was nearly enough to shock Elena into fainting. Luckily she didn't. I wasn't too sure what the big deal was though, Uncle John didn't seem like a bad guy in my eyes, he hadn't done anything really. I sighed as I got up out of my bed and trudged over to my bathroom.

After my longer than usual shower I changed into black skinny jeans, a white vest top and a bright red bodycon one shouldered top. I completed the look with bright red peep toe heels. Smiling at myself in the mirror I left my room. I bumped into Elena in the hallway as she was about to go downstairs.

"This is going to be weird." Elena said to me.

"And why would it be weird?" I asked

"Because John is here." Elena said in a 'duh' manner.

"So, Uncle John isn't that bad, lighten up Elena."

"Wait, what the hell are you talking about?"

"What are you talking about Elena? John isn't that bad of a guy, he's never done anything to harm us just let him be." I replied.

"Are you forgetting trying to burn all the vampires in the town, including Damon and Stefan?" Elena hissed at me.

"Would you stop making up lies Elena, I know you don't like him but accusing him of things like that is just too far." I said going down the stairs. I walked into the kitchen and went straight to the coffee machine.

"Well you certainly have grown up." Someone said behind me. I looked round to see John behind me sitting at the counter. Now I have never had a problem with John as he has never done anything that would harm me or my family so I treated him like the uncle he was. I smiled at John and went over and hugged him. He looked shocked but smiled and hugged me back.

"Morning, Uncle John. How are you?" I asked genuinely interested as I went to get a mug out of the cupboard.

"I'm fine, Alex. Are you alright?" He asked skeptically.

"And why wouldn't I be alright?"

"I don't know." He replied. I shrugged my shoulders and poured the coffee into my mug and took a long drink, relishing the burning sensation going down my throat.

"Good morning." I heard John say behind me. I turned to face the entrance to the kitchen and Elena was standing there glaring.

"What are you doing here?" Elena asked darkly.

"What, no welcome hug like your sister?" He asked gesturing towards me. Elena looked over at me in shock and glared. I smiled at her.

"Coffee?" I asked holding up my mug.

"We're not doing that. We did that last night, no more avoiding. Why are you here?" Elena asked.

"Elena, simmer down. Don't try and bite his head off." I said, Elena ignored me and kept her focus on John who seemed to notice. He shook his head.

"I'm here to protect you. Both of you." He said looking towards me. "That's all I can say for the moment."

"See, good intentions." I added. John looked at me strangely, as if there was something I was missing.

"What do you mean that's all you can say?" Elena huffed.

"I'll tell you more when I'm convinced I can trust you." John replied then he looked over at me. "Are you sure you're alright?" He asked. I was about to answer when Jenna and Alaric walked into the kitchen. Alaric caught my eye and smiled. I smiled back, Alaric was like my other Uncle. Jenna saw John and narrowed her eyes.

"What the hell?" Jenna said.

"Good morning to you, Jenna. Alaric." John said nonchalantly

"It's okay I'm confused, right? Because we were not expecting you like ever." Jenna said looking at John and Elena.

"Well, I got in late last night. Elena and Alex let me in." John replied, missing out the fact that it was Stefan that let him in and brought him here.

"You know, I'm probably just gonna take off." Alaric said looking at Elena and smiling at me on his way out. I gave him a small wave. John noticed this too. He seemed to catch everything.

"I'm still confused here." Jenna said.

"I decided to come back and stay for a while." John said confidently.

"Not here you're not." Jenna replied bitterly.

"Actually, you can't stop me from living here." John said. I looked at him confused.

"Actually I can, as legal guardian." Jenna said thinking she had one up on John but John just smiled.

"Yeah, about that...Elena, Alex, you want me to explain the situation or would you like to do the honours?" John asked. I looked at him weirdly.

"What situation?" I asked. Elena's gaze slipped towards me unbelievingly

"Okay, I'm with Alex. What's going on?" Jenna said.

"I'm sorry, Jenna. We should have told you earlier but..." Elena said slowly.

"We should have told her what?" I asked.

"I'm Elena and Alex's biological father. There, now you know." John said and left the room. I looked at the space he had left in disbelief. I didn't even register what was happening around me. John was my father. How did I not know this. How did Elena know this. I moved my head towards Elena and saw Jenna doing the same thing, obviously just as shocked as I was.

"What?!" Jenna and I shouted.

"He's our father!" I shouted at Elena. We were in my room and I was pacing the length of my room as Elena sat on the bed. "How the hell could you not tell me Elena, I'm your sister."

"But you were there. You were there when we were told." Elena defended.

"When?"

"Founder's Day. Stefan told us then John confirmed it when we were trying to save Damon." Elena said.

"We were trying to save Damon?" I asked feeling so confused.

"How can you not remember? John had the Gilbert device and he used it on all the vampires. It's how the mayor died as well." Elena said coming towards me.

"No, I don't remember anything. Why can't I remember? It's like I wasn't even there." I fell backwards onto my bed. Elena sighed.

"But you were, Alex. I remember you were there." Elena said.

"Then why can't I?" I asked. I sat up quickly suddenly feeling very dizzy. I had black spots clouding my vision and my head started to feel funny. It was like pins were pricking my brain. I held my head and screamed in pain. Elena jumped in surprise and ran towards me. I could see her mouth moving but I couldn't hear anything.

I closed my eyes to try and block out the pain but all I saw were flashing images. Ones I've never seen before. Elena and I were in a classroom with Stefan. We were then outside in the square and people were falling to the floor all around us and being taken away. Then we were outside a building and John was confirming he was our dad and Stefan was rescuing Damon. All the images started blurring together in my mind and I screamed as they seared through my brain and burned. Then it stopped. The pain, the images all stopped and the sound came back to my ears. Elena was yelling at me asking what was wrong. I dropped my hands from my head and looked up at her.

"I'm fine." I sad horsely. Elena sighed in relief and dropped to the ground engulfing me in a hug.

"Thank God. I thought you were going to die." She whispered.

"Well, I now know what Damon and Stefan feel when Bonnie goes all witchy on them." I replied shakily. I could still feel the images searing through my head but they didn't hurt. "What were we talking about?"

"You were saying that you didn't remember being told that John was our biological father." Elena told me.

"But I do remember. Stefan sat us down in Alaric's classroom and we were told that he had suspicions. Then John confirmed it when we were trying to save Damon from the fire. How did I not remember that before?" I said. Elena looked at me curiously.

"I think we should talk to someone about this." Elena said. "I called Damon."

"Why would you do that?" I asked. I didn't want Damon's sarcasm right now, it was the last thing I wanted.

"Because I was scared for you and his was the first number on my phone that I could easily dial." Elena defended.

"Fine. Whatever. I don't want to get in an argument right now. My head hurts too much."

"What happened?" Elena asked.

"I'll tell you when Damon gets here. I'm not explaining it twice." I replied. I sighed and fell backwards on my bed. We sat in silence for a few minutes before the doorbell went. Elena and I sighed and we got up to answer it. Elena went to answer the door while I went and sat in the den. Damon and Elena came through.

"Where's John?" Damon asked. I involuntarily shivered at my recent findings about my Uncle...Father.

"He's not here, he left. I don't know where he went. He just blew in, announced to Jenna that he's our dad and then took off." Elena replied.

"It's public knowledge now?" Damon asked.

"Apparently not." I said. Damon looked over to me.

"What?" He asked.

"Alex didn't know John was our father." Elena said for me.

"How? You were there!" Damon replied.

"Something weird happened when you weren't here." Elena said. She motioned for me to continue. I sucked in a deep breath.

"When John told Jenna he was our dad I was just as shocked as Jenna." I started. "I didn't remember being told about it at all. Elena and I went upstairs to figure out what was going on. She told me everything that happened on Founder's Day but I couldn't remember any of it. Suddenly my head was spinning and there was a piercing pain in my brain and all these images were flashing through my mind. Images that were exactly like what Elena had described. There was a burning pain in my head as if something was burning the images in to my memory." I said.

"So you had no recollection of a event that we all remember you being involved in. Then when you were given a detailed description of said event you were suddenly getting memories burned into your head, as if they were there all along?" Damon summarized.

"I guess." I said. Damon hummed and nodded.

"That is odd. Very odd." He said. "But I have no idea what it means." He said.

"Helpful." I murmured.

"Back to business." Damon said. "Are you guys okay?"

"I'm a bit creeped out but alright I guess." I said not wanting to make a fuss.

"Yeah. Jenna's head is spinning but I'm okay." Elena told Damon.

"John said what he was doing here?" Damon asked us.

"No. You know, Stefan thinks that he's telling the truth about wanting to help me." Elena replied.

"Do you believe him?" Damon asked.

"I do." I said.

"No. I don't believe him for a second." Elena said glaring at me.

"Me either." Damon said agreeing with Elena. I still knew John as the Uncle who had never tried to harm me. Even if I did have these new memories he was still my Uncle...Father.

"What are we going to do?" Elena asked.

"Kill him." Damon suggested.

"No!" I shouted. They both spun around to face me. "I may have just gotten these new memories that show John to be a complete dick but I still know him as my Uncle who wouldn't hurt me. We are not hurting him." I said confidently.

"I'm joking." Damon said, his hands in a 'surrender' position. "Okay, I'm a little serious." he said. I narrowed my eyes and he took a step backwards.

"Damon!" Elena said

"I'm not gonna hurt him, guys. I'm the good guy now, remember." Damon said. I scoffed.

"I'll believe that when I see it." I said.

"What does that mean?" Elena asked.

"I'm gonna have a civil conversation with your father." Damon said making his way towards the door.

"I don't trust you alone with him. I'm coming." I said picking up my leather jacket and following him.

"Wait." Elena said. "I'm coming too." We nodded and left the house.

We entered the Mystic Grill and saw John looking towards us. I smiled at him and he smiled back.

"Don't smile at him, it's creepy." Damon said.

"He's my Uncle, Damon." I said rolling my eyes.

"Look, we just need answers. Please don't do anything stupid." Elena said.

"Yeah but stupid is so much more fun." Damon replied I swatted him in the stomach really hard and he bent over a bit. "That one actually hurt a little." I smiled at him.

"Next time I'll hit lower down." I said.

"Damon, I mean it. All I'm asking is for you to try to keep it together. Be a better man." Elena said. I rolled my eyes at her and her ridiculous flirting with Damon. Could she not lead him on like that. It wasn't fair on him.

"Okay then." Damon said to her. I scoffed and made my way towards John, Jenna and Alaric.

"John, buddy, how have you been?" Damon asked with a false smile.

"I've been alright, Damon. It's good to see you." John replied with equal falseness. Lord it was tense.

"Been a while." Damon replied.

"Well this is beyond awkward." I said. John chuckled.

"I think I'm going to pay my respects." John said.

"I'll come with you." I said and we walked towards the memorial they had put up for the victims of the previous days.

"Things seem a little tense between you and Elena." John said, getting straight to the point.

"Yeah, I guess they are." I agreed.

"Care to tell me why?" He asked.

"Can I trust you?" I teased

"If I can trust you, Alex. You can trust me."

"I just feel like I don't belong here. Like I'm missing something." I explained

"What do you mean?"

"Everyone I seem to bump into that's an older vampire notices something about me." I continued

"Notices what?"

"They seem to think I'm different. They say my blood smells off and they believe I'm not human."

"That's ridiculous."

"Is it?" I rebuffed. "Were you there when I was born. Do you remember me being born. Can you?" I asked. John was silent, I could see he was searching for an answer.

"No." he said.

"That just proves my point. You're my dad and you have no memory of me being born. Something is just not right." I said. John opened his mouth to say something as he started lighting a candle but he was interrupted.

"So John, rumour has it that you know a lot and won't say anything." Damon said.

"How do I know you can be trusted, Damon? Originals can compel vampires and according to Stefan, that's why Katherine is still in the tomb, because an original has compelled her to stay there." John said.

"Katherine. She's someone that noticed something was off about me." I said to John. He raised an eyebrow but Damon interrupted us again.

"Only because all of the vervain had left her system. Stefan and I on the other hand are chock full."

"You guys are drinking vervain?" John asked

"It's an acquired taste. I don't see that magic little ring on that stitched finger so if you know something about Klaus, you better start talking or I will kill you in your sleep." Damon threatened.

"Don't you dare." I said, stepping towards Damon. John placed a hand on my shoulder and gently pulled me back.

"Is that anyway to convince me that you and I are on the same side? First, I need to know that I can trust you, Damon. That I can count on you. Then we'll talk. I'll see you later Alex." John said giving my shoulder a reassuring squeeze and leaving the Grill.

"You are crazy, sticking up for him like that." Damon hissed at me.

"He's my father, Damon. And he's one of the only people around here I can actually count on." I said.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Damon questioned

"You know exactly what it means." I hissed. "Stop trying to pretend that you don't have a favourite twin, Damon." I said bitterly and stormed out the Grill. I walked into the parking lot and saw Matt and Caroline talking. I walked towards them.

"Yeah. You're avoiding me a little." Matt said.

"Okay, maybe a little." Caroline admitted.

"Can we talk later?" Matt asked. "I mean, I'm heading to work right now but maybe after, to clear some of this weirdness."

"Yeah, yeah, I'd really like that. I'll just swing by when you're closing?" Caroline asked.

"Sounds good." Matt said.

"Okay, bye." Caroline said. Matt turned to the Grill and noticed me standing there.

"Oh, hey, Alex. Bye, Alex." Matt said. I chuckled.

"Later." I said. "Hey, Care. Seems like something good is happening between you and Matt?" I asked.

"Well I want us to get back on track, you know?" She said.

"I totally understand." I replied and she smiled at me. "You want a ride home?" She asked.

"Thanks, that would be great." We walked towards her car but Caroline stopped. She turned round and I followed her lead, confused. Jules was standing behind us.

"Excuse me," She said. "Caroline right?" She asked. "And Alex?"

"Yeah." Carline answered for the both of us.

"I'm looking for Tyler. You haven't seem him, have you?" She asked.

"No, not since earlier. Sorry" Caroline replied, taking the reigns in this conversation, which I was perfectly alright with.

"I know you're lying." Jules said. Her eyes darkening.

"Really? How? Is that one of your little wolf tricks?" Caroline mocked.

"Actually it is?" Jules replied.

"Well, I have a trick too." Caroline said. She vamped out and launched herself at Jules but Jules brought out a spray can from behind her back and sprayed Caroline in the face with that I can only guess was vervain. Caroline hissed in pain but recovered and tried to launch herself at Jules again but someone came and shot her in the head.

My eyes widened and I couldn't help the scream of shock that escaped my lips from seeing one of my friends being shot in the head. I wasn't an idiot, I knew she would heal but still, it was a massive shock. A hand clasped over my mouth to stifle my screams and I saw the man who shot Caroline walk towards me with the gun in his hand. I saw him raise it high and I felt a dull pain spread through my head as I blacked out.

I woke up to Caroline screaming in pain. I looked and shot up, smacking my head on metal bars. I looked at my surroundings through blurry eyes and saw that I was in a cage in some sort of crappy trailer or RV or something. I looked to my left and Caroline was in a cage next to me, pulling a wooden bullet out of her head.

"Care! You alright?" I gasped moving as close to her as the bars would allow me to.

"Yeah, just hurts like hell." She replied. I was about to ask here if she knew where we were but someone came into the room.

"I see you got that bullet out. That was nasty. I got lots of wooden bullets, other toys. It's gonna be a long night, sweet pea." The man said. He shot Caroline again and she screamed in pain.

"Caroline!" I shouted. "Stop it!" I screamed at the man.

"I didn't know you'd be awake already. I hit you quite hard." He said.

"I'm tougher than I look." I said. He smirked at me.

"I guess we'll see about that." He said. Jules came into the room with a cell phone in her hand. I saw it was Caroline's phone. I searched my pockets for mine and came up empty.

"We're not gonna leave you with a phone, sweet thing. We may be animals but we're not that dumb." The man replied.

"Brady, hush." Jules said as she dialed a number and put in on speaker phone. "Not a word." She said to Caroline and me. Someone answered.

"Hey. Is everything okay?" A voice I recognised as Stefan's answered.

"That depends. How badly do you want to keep her alive?" Jules asked.

"Who is this?" I heard Stefan ask.

"Ask your brother. Where's Tyler?"

"Jules? Where's Caroline?"

"You made a mistake, Stefan. I'm gonna give you a chance to fix it."

"Where is she?"

"Right here. With Alex." Jules replied.

"Alex is there too?" Stefan said. Worry laced in his voice.

"You want proof?" Jules asked. "Brady, Stefan wants proof." Jules said. Brady grinned and shot Caroline again. She screamed in pain.

"Caroline!" I shouted.

"Hurt them again and you're dead." I heard Stefan say on the other end of the phone.

"I hurt them again and they're dead. Bring Tyler to me, the clearing by Wickery Falls. You have 20 minutes until they die." Jules said into the phone and hung up. "Sit tight girls, help is on the way." She said mockingly. She turned to Brady. "Give them something to scream about." She said as she walked towards the door.

"Both of them?" Brady asked, his eyes lighting up. Jules nodded and left. Brady turned to face me an evil look on his face. He looked over at Caroline who was still recovering from the bullet wound. Brady picked up a baseball bat from the corner of the room and stalked towards me. "This isn't going to hurt." He said. "Much." He slipped the bat into the cage and brought it down with all of his strength on my leg.

The bat snapped in two and I felt my leg do the same. I screamed out in agony as I felt the bone of my leg protruding out of my skin. I didn't dare look down for fear of throwing up. He turned towards Caroline and sat down.

"So how many vampires are there in this town anyway?" He asked. Caroline didn't answer. Brady sighed and squirted her with vervain from a toy gun. She hissed in pain. I tried to say something but I was still blinded by the pain from my leg. It felt like my leg was burning. The same burning I felt when the memories were planted into my head this morning.

"No?" He asked.

"Why are you doing this to us?!" Caroline screamed, hitting the cage with her feet. "Why are you doing this? Why?"

"You're a vampire, why not?" Brady replied.

"But Alex isn't" Caroline said looking over at me. I was clutching my leg as the pain increased. I could hear blood rushing in my ears and Caroline screaming again as she was shot with yet another wooden bullet.

"I'm sorry, what was that?" Brady asked mockingly

"Let me out!" Caroline screamed.

I didn't bother listening to anything else as I looked at the blood flowing from my leg. That was a hell of a lot of blood. Too much. I looked at my leg and felt dizzy from blood loss. I tried to focus, looking at the blood pooling on the floor of the cage. But the blood wasn't becoming a bigger pool, no it was shrinking in size. I blinked, trying to figure out if it was because of the blood loss that I was becoming delirious. The burning sensation in my leg didn't let up and I felt the skin stretch. I screamed in agony as my skin pulled around the protruding bone. My whole leg seized up and I felt the bones moving around inside my leg. It was agony. I was blinded by pain, all I could see was this whiteness and all I could hear was my blood rushing around my body. I screamed again as the bone pushed its way back into my leg and the skin around it started to pull itself together. I looked at my leg that was healing itself in utter shock.

Through all of the weirdness I had just experienced I didn't notice that Brady had left. I looked up to see Tyler come into the trailer and see us in cages.

"Alex!" He cried seeing me locked up with tear stains down my face.

"Tyler, there's a latch on the door and I can't get to it." Caroline cried. Tyler looked over at her and hesitated.

"Tyler?" Caroline asked, obviously confused at to why he was hesitating. "Tyler, please! Tyler?" Caroline begged. I looked up at him.

"Tyler. Please, help us." I said horsely. He finally made his way towards us and opened the cage.

"Alex, are you alright?" He asked, cradling me in his arms as Caroline got out of her cage.

"I'm fine, Ty. Thanks for coming." I said. He sighed.

"You shouldn't have been dragged into this. You're just human." He said. I didn't say anything. Not ready to share what just happened to me. He helped me stand up and we walked out of the trailer with Caroline behind us. As soon as Caroline stepped outside, Jules had her by the throat with a gun to her head. Tyler pulled me closer but didn't say anything to try and help Caroline.

Suddenly Jules cried in pain, holding her head in her hands. All the other werewolves bar Tyler were doing the same.

"What's happening?" Caroline asked.

"What the hell is going on?" Tyler shouted. We looked around and saw Elijah's witch Jonas walking through the woods. He was casting a spell on the wolves. Damon and Stefan got up from where they had fallen.

"Elijah made a promise to Elena. I'm here to see it's up held." Jonas said, looking around. "You need to go. Get out of here. Now." Stefan walked over to me. Tyler held onto me a bit tighter but Stefan took my hand. I looked at Tyler and nodded and I let Stefan pull me away.

"Are you sure you're alright?" Stefan asked me for the thousandth time. I smiled.

"Yes Stefan I'm sure." I said. I hadn't told anyone about the baseball bat to my leg but Caroline did look at me strangely. We made our way up Caroline's front porch, Stefan not letting go of my arm and he hadn't since we left the clearing.

"So is your mom home?" Stefan asked.

"No, she's at work." Caroline replied. Caroline had invited me to stay at hers tonight after what we had gone through, and I had the distinct impression she wanted to talk about things.

"I can come in if you want me to." Stefan said.

"I'm fine, Stefan. I've got Alex." She said smiling at me.

"You don't have to pretend with me. Anybody would be upset after what you went through tonight. I bet Alex is upset." Stefan said looking at me.

"More like emotionally scarred." I replied.

"I'm okay. I'm not girly little Caroline anymore. I can handle myself." Caroline said.

"Sure you can." Stefan nodded.

"I just really want to go shower so." Caroline said opening her door.

"Okay." Stefan replied.

"Good night." Caroline said disappearing into the house. I looked up at Stefan.

"Thank you for saving me, Stefan." I said smiling. He wrapped me up in a hug.

"I'll always save you, Alex." I smiled into his neck and we let go.

"Good night." I said to him.

"Good night." He replied and I closed the door. I walked into the hallway and Caroline was waiting for me.

"You two were very cosy." She said.

"Shut up, Caroline. He's one of my best friends." I said bumping her hip with mine as I walked into her bedroom. She followed me in.

"I'm just saying." She replied sitting on her bed.

"Don't just say anything. He's my twin sister's boyfriend. I have morals you know." I said.

"Yeah but you did like him first." Caroline reminded me. "And Elena knew that yet she went after him."

"I know I did. And it broke my heart. But they're really happy and I got a great friend out of it. Everyone's a winner."

"Sure." Caroline said. I was about to reply but her phone rang. She looked at the caller ID and it read: Matt. She answered.

"Hi." She said. I moved closer to her so I could hear both sides of the conversation.

"Hey. Did something happen?" Matt asked. Caroline placed a hand on her head and closed her eyes.

"Oh my...I'm so sorry Matt." She said.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"Yeah. Something came up with Bonnie and she needed me. A friend thing. You understand?" Caroline lied. There was silence on Matt's end for a while before he said.

"Yeah, so you're with her right now?" He asked.

"Yeah so I'm not gonna make it tonight but can I see you tomorrow?" Caroline asked.

"Yeah, sure. I hope everything works out. Good night." Matt said and hung up. Caroline sighed.

"I just lied to him, Alex." Caroline said.

"Yeah, and it was a bit of a shit lie" I told her. She looked at me in shock before we both burst into laughter. Our laughing was interrupted by the doorbell ringing. "Want me to get it?" I asked her.

"We'll get it together" She said linking our hands. I smiled at her and we went to the door. Standing outside was Tyler. Caroline opened the door and he looked at us.

"Are you okay?" He asked

"We're fine." Caroline replied.

"I had no idea they would come for you." Tyler said. "Especially not you, Alex." He said looking at me. I looked at my shoes.

"Do you know what they did to us?" Caroline said.

"I'm sorry but it's crazy now okay? I don't know who to trust. You lied to me. Both of you." Tyler said.

"I lied to protect my friends. I lied to protect you. Don't you get that?" Caroline said, tears pooling in her eyes. I squeezed her hand.

"Caroline..." Tyler tried.

"You just stood there when they were going to kill us. You just stood there, protecting Alex like you didn't care about the rest of us. You didn't do anything." Caroline cried.

"I didn't know what to do." Tyler defended.

"You help your friends, that's what you do." Caroline snapped.

"I'm sorry." Tyler said.

"No, it's too late because we're not friends anymore and what happened to me tonight, that will never happen again so you take that back to your little werewolf pack and you get the hell out of my house." Caroline screamed and slammed the door. She let go of my hand and ran into the bathroom. I heard the shower going not too long after. I sighed and opened the front door, stepping out of the house.

"Tyler." I said quietly, even though he was at the far end of the porch I knew he would hear me. He turned around and walked up to me. Before I could say anything else I was whisked up in a hug. I sighed into his neck and hugged him back.

"I thought you were mad at me. I couldn't stand it if you hated me too." Tyler said as he let go of me.

"I'm not mad, Tyler. I'm disappointed that you didn't do more to help your friends but I'm grateful to you for saving me." Tyler looked at the ground.

"I'm so confused, Alex. I don't know who I can trust. I don't know if the person I'm talking to wants to help me or just wants to use me." He sighed. I placed my fingers under his chin and lifted his head up to my level.

"Tyler, I don't know what I can tell you. There are only so few people in this world that really want to help you. Most others are too selfish to put others before themselves, but you have to know that you have surrounded yourself with some of the most genuinely kind people in the world and you have to make sure you don't lose them. I will always be here for you, Ty. But you have to work at all your relationships. You will lose your friends if you're not careful, Ty." I said to him

"That's why I am so thankful to have you, Alex." He said bringing me in to another hug. We both sighed and pulled away from the hug. I looked up at him, our faces only inches away. I saw his eyes trail down to my lips and he looked back into my eyes, asking for permission. I moved my head a little bit closer and he closed the gap, our lips touching in a soft kiss. Breaking away he rested his forehead against mine and looked at me.

"Thank you, Alex. For always being there for me." He said and left me standing on Caroline's porch. I sighed and looked towards Caroline's door. All I wanted was to curl up in my own bed and cry about how confused I was feeling. I went back inside Caroline's house and wrote her a note saying I was going home to get some things for tonight. I had to think about Caroline right now not myself.

I walked up the steps into my house and walked straight into the kitchen, looking for some pain killers. My leg was still aching. Elena walked in and saw me. Her eyes widened and she ran over to me, engulfing me in a hug.

"Alex, are you alright? I heard you were taken. Did they hurt you?" Elena asked me.

"I'm fine Elena, just a bit shaken up." I said. I turned around and saw John standing in the doorway. He walked over to me.

"Are you alright? Elena wouldn't tell me what was going on." He said

"I'm fine, John. Just you know, got kidnapped, tortured, randomly healed, rescued, kissed my best friend and feel so confused by everything that happened tonight." I snapped. I sighed and looked at my leg which was still stained in blood. "I'm sorry for snapping I am just so confused by everything." I said. John moved closer and brought me into a hug. He looked over the top of my head towards Elena.

"I'm sorry about earlier." He said.

"Enough already. I don't want you here and I can't make that anymore clear." Elena replied.

"I didn't come here to fight with you Elena." John said.

"Yeah, I know, you're here to protect me. Got it, get in line." Elena said bitterly. John sighed and let go of me, making his way towards Elena.

"I thought you might want this. It was your mother's." John said holding out a bracelet. Elena looked at it in disgust.

"Isobel?" She asked.

"No, your mother, Miranda. I remember her wearing that when she was young. I found it in a box with some things your dad left me. Here, it's yours now." John said, giving Elena the bracelet. "Miranda and Grayson were your parents, Elena and I know I'm nothing to you. You have no reason to believe or trust me. I've done so many horrible things but when you lost your parents, I lost my brother, my family. I lost my way. I know that it won't probably ever make things right with you but I'm gonna do everything I can to protect you and protect this family." He didn't wait for a reply but walked towards me. "I meant that to you too, Alex." He said.

"You don't mean nothing to me John. I trust you, you're my Uncle and I love you no matter what." I said. He smiled at me and hugged me one last time before walking out the door. I turned around to face Elena and saw she was crying. I made my way over to her and pulled her into a hug. She cried into my shoulder. I looked up and saw Stefan. I gently let her go and pushed her towards Stefan. They hugged and Stefan nodded a thanks to me. I nodded back.

"Are you okay?" Elena asked.

"I'm fine" Stefan replied.

"Did you hear that? I don't believe him, Stefan. I just don't" She said. It actually hurt me to see John's own daughter hate him so much. "What happened tonight? How's Caroline?" Elena asked.

"I could use your help." Stefan said looking at both of us.

We walked up Caroline's porch steps, this time I had an overnight bag and Stefan was holding Elena's arm instead of mine. Stefan let go of Elena's hand and knocked on Caroline's door. She opened it.

"What's doing on? Where did you disappear to, Alex?" She asked. I just held up my overnight bag.

"I was a little worried about you after everything you went through tonight." Stefan said.

"I'm fine." She said.

"Good, but just in case, I brought a little back up." Stefan said as Bonnie and Elena joined me at her door.

"We're gonna slumber it." Elena said with a soft smile.

"We haven't done it in ages." Bonnie replied. Caroline looked at us and started to cry, we smiled and embraced her. I walked inside and placed our bags in Caroline's room and walked to the kitchen. I got out the massive tub of ice cream Caroline always kept in stock for occasions such as this and brought out 4 spoons from the drawer. I met up with the girls in Caroline's room and waved the ice cream.

"Let's dig in!"

That was a long chapter! Now to answer those who reviewed.

Guest - Thanks I tried to make Alex able to see through Elena's bullshit because Elena needs someone to tell her when she's being too stupid. I'm glad my writing affected you so much, I try to make this seem real and let my readers have connections to the characters so I'm glad its working. Thanks for the review

vix vik - Thanks for the review, I actually can't wait until the originals get into this story I'm so excited to have Alex interact with them all!

Midori - Yeah Elena annoyed me too a bit, I guess you can tell that from the way Alex treats her. Kol is a very interesting choice I don't know who I'll pair her up with yet but Alex will definitely be interacting with Kol in some way. ;) Thanks for the review!

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Guest - Thank you for the review! It might be a while until you find out what Alex is but hopefully this chapter keeps you interested.

Out For Revenge - Thank you so much for your review. I'm glad you like Alex because I always thought that Elena's twin would be neglected and I'm glad it seems to be working out. I'm so excited for the originals too and I hope you'll like it when they eventually come into the story.

Thank you so much to everyone that reviewed, you guys are amazing. Please keep reviewing, favouriting and alerting to this as it literally makes my day to see that people like this story! See you all for chapter 8 and have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!