Lily kept having nightmares and hadn't slept in a week. The makeup couldn't hide anymore, how bad it was. She kept smiling so people wouldn't ask her how she was doing but she couldn't help the look on her face; exhaustion, fear and even sadness for some reasons she couldn't figure out. She wasn't eating either, she looked pale, so very pale, like a ghost.

"My God, Lily you look awful!" Rebekah gasped as she saw her friend getting out of her car.

Lily didn't answer, she just gave the blonde a very small and weak smile.

"What's wrong with you?" she asked.

"Nothing" Lily shrugged. Rebekah gave a worry look to the girl. "I'm fine Bekah" she sighed before she turned around and walked inside the school.

Adam sighed. "She's having nightmares…I hear her at night…She doesn't eat… I'm worried"

Rebekah frowned. "What about your parents?"

"They're worried too, even though they think she's just going through a bad flu or something…"

"Isn't your dad a doctor? Can't he tell it's not the flu?" Rebekah asked.

"Lily knew what to tell him so he'd believe it…" he shook his head. "I think she's depressed" he finally said, looking up at her.

Lily was at her locker when Matt approached her. "Hey, Lily…you look…are you okay?"

"Hey, Matt, yes, I'm fine, just getting over the flu or something" she shrugged.

"Have you talked to your dad? Did he give something for the…flu?" he asked.

"I'm fine" she told him before walking away.

/

Rebekah was giggling on Adam's bed. "Did she really do that to you?" she looked up at him, he was sitting in front of her on his desk chair.

"Yope" he said. "I'm happy the most embarrassing moment of my life made you laugh"

"I wish I could have seen your face" she laughed. "I know what to do next Halloween, now"

"Please, don't" he begged which made her laugh even more.

"Lily got pretty great tricks" she said.

"Yeah, she comes up all sweet and stuffs but in fact, all she wants is to color your hair green" he laughed.

"Do you have any pictures?"

"God, no!" he replied which made her laugh again. "I'm starving" he said.

"You wanna get to the Grill?" she asked.

/

Lily was at the Grill. She thought the sounds of the people talking and the smell of the kitchen would help her not to fall asleep. Except she did fall asleep. Her elbow on the table, the back of her hands holding her chin, she fell asleep studying. She woke up and looked up to see if anybody had seen her like that, but nobody was staring. All she saw was Matt and the Salvatores going out through the back door. She frowned. She found it weird but was way too tired to think about it. She took her phone to call Adam so he would come and pick her up but that's when she saw that the last message she sent was to Kol "NEED YOU AT THE GRILL! SOS!"

Except she didn't send this text. She got up fast and rushed outside. She used the back door and stepped in the alley were she saw Kol fighting with Stefan. And he was losing.

"K…" she tried to shout his name but someone was now behind her and one of his hand was covering her mouth and his over arm was holding her.

She tried to fight back, to kick him but he was way too strong. Kol hadn't seen her yet, he was too busy defending himself against Stefan. Finally, Kol managed to throw the younger Salvatore brother away from him and that's when he saw her.

"Let her go, Damon" he groaned as he took Matt, ready to kill him.

"Sorry, not part of the plan" Damon replied and Stefan jumped on Kol once again.

Lily tried harder to get free of Damon.

"Stop it!" Damon ordered but she just tried to kick him harder.

Stefan was now behind Kol, holding his arms so the Original vampire wouldn't be able to escape. Matt had a white stake in his hand and he was ready to kill him.

Even though Lily was confused as she knew nothing could kill an Original, she tried to scream, to tell him to stop but the sounds were blocked by Damon's hand so she did the first thing that came across her mind and she bit him. He removed his hand.

"Matt, stop!" she said, trying to get to Kol but Damon was still holding her.

"I can't believe you bit me!" he said.

The back door slammed opened and Rebekah and Adam stepped out of the Grill.

"Stay away from my sister/brother!" Rebekah and Adam shouted at the same time.

Stefan and Matt were surprised and Kol took advantage of it. He managed to free himself from Stefan and he threw Matt against a wall before he snapped Stefan's neck. Damon let go of Lily and rushed to his brother. Adam went to his sister as she was released from the vampire's arms.

"Are you okay?" he asked, worried but she didn't answer. She rushed towards Kol who was still awfully close to Damon.

"Are you okay?" she asked, taking his head in her hands, checking for any injury.

"I'm fine" he mumbled. "I'll be better once they're all dead"

"Please, don't kill them" she begged him and he looked down on her.

"I received a text from you, saying you needed me and when I got here I was attacked by the Salvatores"

"I didn't send you any texts" she shook her head.

"I figured" he mumbled, trying to move pass her but she put a hand on his chest.

"Please" she begged him again. She locked her eyes in his and he considered her request as he looked at her sad, tired and scared face.

He sighed. "Fine" he said, looking at Matt. "Go, before I change my mind. But next time…I will kill you" he told them.

Lily sighed, relieved. "Thank you" she breathed out, hugging him before kissing his cheek.

"You're welcome" he said and she turned around to face Matt.

She looked at him with a disappointed, betrayed look but doesn't say anything. She picked the stake off the ground and gave it to Kol.

Damon looked at the girl who had just saved his life. He took his brother and they all left.

"We should've killed them all" Rebekah groaned.

"What is that?" Lily asked "I thought nothing could kill you"

"One thing can" Kol said and he looked up at his sister. "This looks like white oak tree to me"

Rebekah frowned but she looked scared. "Impossible" she breathed out.

"I thought you burned the tree a thousand years ago" Adam said.

"We did" she replied.

"Obviously we missed something" Kol groaned. "We need to tell Klaus and Elijah"

"Well…be careful" she said "they probably have more of these" she said.

"Don't worry, love" Kol said before he left the alley with his sister.

"Come on, let's go" Adam said to his sister.

/

"They won't stop until we are dead" Elijah sighed.

"No, they won't stop until we're out of this town" Kol said. "Let's just get out of here, why are we even here, anyway?" he asked.

"Because my doppelganger is here" Klaus groaned.

"Well, take her and leave" Kol suggested.

"We do that and the Salvatores will follow us everywhere" Elijah said.

"True" Rebekah sighed.

"Why do you need hybrids anyway?" Kol asked. "Let the doppelganger grow old and have children and come back in 500 hundred years to find another doppelganger" Kol said.

"No" Klaus merely answer.

Kol sighed.

"Do you really want to leave this town?" Rebekah asked. "Because I don't"

"You don't cause your boyfriend's here" Kol said.

"Adam isn't my boyfriend" she said. "And what about Lily?"

"What about her?" he asked.

"She asked you not to kill Damon and you don't. Since when do you do what other people tell you to do?" she asked and her brother didn't answer. He realized she was right.

"I have an idea" Kol said.

Elijah sighed. "Oh, no…"

/

Lily was lying in her bed, thinking about Matt. She felt betrayed. She knew it must have been him who took her phone and texted Kol. What was worse was he knew Lily liked the Original family, he knew they were friends. She didn't get why they wanted Kol dead, though, has she wasn't aware of anything bad he did to them.

When she woke up, it was noon. She had fallen asleep very early last night and she didn't have any nightmares.

"Damn it!" she sighed when she realized she had missed school.

She went into her brother's room but he wasn't there. She figured he let her sleep, she needed it. She frowned when she saw an earring on his desk. She recognized it as Rebekah was wearing them the day before.

She took a shower, ate and left for the Mikaelsons to give the earring back. But that was just an excuse. The truth is, she didn't want to be alone. She wanted to see them.

She felt much better after the good night of sleep and she hoped the nightmares wouldn't come back.

As soon as she entered the house she heard someone screaming in pain. She rushed towards the sound and gasped as she saw Damon in the room, shirtless, his hands and feet tied at some animal traps.

"Oh my God" she gasped.

"Hello, love" Kol smiled at her like there was no problem.

"What are you doing here?" Klaus asked.

"I…I…" she shook her head. "What are you doing?" she shouted, shocked.

"Well, you didn't want me to kill him so I thought, at least I could get some answers out of him" he said, still smiling.

"Uh?...But…"

"Miss Fell, what are you doing here?" she jumped at the sound of Elijah's voice behind her.

"I…earring" she said.

"What was that, love?" Klaus asked.

"Rebekah's earring…" she said, showing them what she had found.

"Thank you, I will make sure she gets it" Elijah told her as he took the jewel from her.

"But… What did you find out?" she asked and they frowned.

"You're not mad?" Kol asked, surprised.

"Mad? The guy tried to kill you" she said. "Did you find out anything?" she asked stepping in the room. She heard Damon groaned even though it didn't look like he was conscious.

"He still has vervain in his system so we can't compel the information out of him yet" Klaus answered.

"But we will, soon" Kol said as he stabbed Damon with a weapon she didn't recognize.

She couldn't watch the scene so she turned her head and she almost banged into Elijah. "Sorry" she said and he looked down on her.

"You look better" he told her and she blushed a little. She grimaced when she heard Damon cry in pain again and Elijah put a hand on her shoulder and dragged her outside of the room.

"Come on, maybe you would enjoy a cup of tea?"

"Oh, sure, thanks" she nodded. She would rather have a cup of tea with Elijah than torturing Damon with Kol and Klaus.

"Why aren't you in school?" he asked as he pour the tea in a small cup.

"I just woke up" she said.

"You needed to sleep" he told her.

"I'm still exhausted" she sighed.

"You'll feel better once you get more rest" he said as he sat down at the table in the chair next to her.

"How long has Damon been here?" she asked.

"Since this morning" he sighed. "I believe his brother will be here soon, to give us what we want"

"The stakes?"

He nodded. They drank their tea in silence. Elijah saw her worried face.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

She looked up at him and frowned. "Nothing" she saw he didn't believe her. "It's just…I don't understand why they would want to kill you? Or Kol?"

"We're a threat to them" he said. "The Salvatores are trying to protect Elena"

Lily sighed. "It's always about Elena"

Elijah raised an eyebrow. She wasn't wrong.

"So, Klaus needs her to make hybrids?" she asked.

"Yes"

"Why does he need hybrids?" she asked.

Elijah sighed. "Maybe you haven't heard, my brother is highly paranoid. What he fears most is to be alone"

"That's sad…" she said., looking down.

Elijah looked at the young girl, admiring her compassion. "Stefan is here" he said, getting up.

She looked up at him and followed him back to the room where Damon was.

"The 8 stakes for my brother" Stefan said.

"And how do we know you don't have more?" Klaus asked.

"Because there aren't any" Stefan answered.

"Let's make sure, shall we?" Klaus said, turning towards Damon.

Lily got closer to Elijah and put both her hands on his arm, staying behind him. He looked down on her with a small smile that Kol saw.

"How many stakes of white oak tree exist?"

"12" Damon painfully answered.

"12! Not 8" Klaus laughed.

"I will get you the others" Stefan said.

"Well, we've already established that you cannot be trusted" Kol said.

"So, we will let Damon go once we have all 12 stakes" Klaus finished his brother's thought.

Stefan wasn't happy about that but he didn't really have a choice. When his eyes landed on Lily, this one got even closer to Elijah, even though she was already pretty close, and gave the vampire an angry look.

"They'll kill you, you know?" he said and she frowned. "One way or another, you'll die because of them"

She squeezed Elijah's arm a little harder. "You've tried to kill them twice now, you don't get to tell me they're the bad guys" she answered and Stefan had a guilty look on his face when he left the house to get the other stakes. She let go of Elijah's arm. "Who does he think he is?" Kol chuckled. "Anyway, I should go" she sighed. "Bye guys" she waved at them.

"Have a nice day, miss Fell."

/

When Lily entered her house it was around 2PM. She was doing the homework she fell asleep on the day before when she heard her mother entering the house.

"Sheriff Forbes still hasn't found the person who is killing those people in town. We need to make sure she isn't hiding anything from us. Her daughter is a vampire and she is friend with Carol whose son is a werewolf, we cannot fully trust them."

Her mother must think she is at school. She had heard of the murders in town, but she didn't really know what was going on. She should ask Adam who must know more than she did.

/

"She knew Rebekah wasn't here earlier, she wanted to make sure we were okay, she does care about us" Kol said with a grin.

"Nobody cares about you, Kol" Rebekah sighed, entering the room stained with blood. "And I'm not cleaning that"

"There is still one stake out there" Klaus groaned.

"We will get it" Rebekah said. "They know what will happen if they don't find it"

"I think we should make peace with our neighbors" Elijah said and his siblings all looked up at him. "They won't stop looking for a way to kill us"

"Yes, and if we're "friends" with them it'll just make their job easier" Kol answered.

"Brother, I believe this is the worst idea you ever had" Klaus said.

"No" Rebekah said. "I agree. I don't want to leave this town and they don't either. We should try to make it work"

"Or we could just kill all of them" Kol suggested.

"I go to school with half of them" Rebekah reminded her brother.

"So?"

"So, peace" she said.

"Peace" Elijah echoed.