Things didn't go as planned with Tyler. Blair didn't even make it out of the foyer before Mrs Lockwood came in and made it abundantly clear that she wasn't allowed to stay the night. Tyler tried to get his mother to change her mind but it didn't work. Since Blair couldn't handle any more drama after everything else that happened, she just took her bags and left. Tyler called after her to stay but that didn't stop her from leaving.

After leaving Tyler's place, Blair actually found herself standing outside the motel Harper was staying at. She couldn't believe she was considering knocking on Harper's door. Blair was still processing the fact that Harper was her mother and not Vivian. There were so many questions and Blair wanted the answers, but she wasn't ready to deal with all that – Plenty of time for all that later…Right?

Blair didn't end up knocking on Harper's door and instead went to the Gilbert's house after shooting a text their way. She walked up the porch steps, knocked on the door, and waited.

Elena heard the knock first and went down to answer the door. She didn't expect to see Blair there, especially after everything that had happened with Emily earlier that night. "What are you doing here?"

Jeremy walked up behind his sister and opened the door wider. "Blair's crashing in my room tonight." He took Blair's duffel bag and cocked his head for her to follow. "Come on."

"I need to talk to her first." Elena looked back to Jeremy. "I just need a minute."

Jeremy shrugged with a, "Whatever," then headed upstairs with Blair's duffel.

With Jeremy out of earshot, Elena turned her attention back to Blair. "What are you doing here, Blair?"

Blair was completely worn out and tired beyond words. She was at her wit's end and wanted to sleep. "I need a friend, Elena. I'm not going to tell him anything if that's what you're worried about. I just need a friend."

"I know what you're going through, Blair." Elena was sincere with her words. "That's why I told Bonnie everything after what happened tonight. I needed a friend. Why can't we be that for each other, too? Seriously, why can't we be friends anymore? I know we've talked about this, but it doesn't feel like we've ever come to an answer, not really."

"Honestly?" Blair was too tired to care about what she said next. "When I look at you…it's like history repeating. I've tried to get over it – I've done my best to ignore it, but I can't keep it up anymore. I am so tired and I just want to crash on my best friend's floor. Can I do that, please?"

Blair didn't give Elena a chance to respond and pushed past her to go upstairs and right to Jeremy's room. As soon as she walked in, Jeremy shot a pillow at her.

"You can have the bed. I'll sleep on the floor." He got himself comfortable, making it clear he wasn't going to budge on his decision.

Blair was too tired to argue and dropped her bag before climbing into bed with her clothes still on.

Before Blair actually fell asleep, Jeremy lifted his head to get a better look at her. "You want to talk about it?"

"About what?" Blair's voice was muffled due to being face down on the pillow.

Jeremy figured he knew what this was about so he answered based on that. "You're mom - Harper."

Blair moved onto her side to look at him. Yeah, Harper was a part of what she was feeling and at least that was something she could talk with him about. "I don't know if I want to get to know her."

"Then don't." Jeremy propped himself up on his arms. "Screw her. She doesn't deserve to just show up and expect to have a role in your life. You shouldn't have to get to know her."

Blair smiled at his words because they actually made her feel a bit better. She couldn't help but tease him a bit. "You're smarter than you look, Gilbert."

Jeremy scoffed a chuckle at that with a sarcastic, "Thanks."

"You're welcome." Blair snuggled into the pillow. "Goodnight, Jer."

Jeremy got back into a comfortable position on the floor. "Night, Blair."

Blair woke up the next morning to find Jeremy at his desk with an open sketchbook. "If you're drawing me, that's creepy."

Jeremy laughed. "I'm not. Don't worry."

Blair stretched and went over to see what he was doing. "Can I see?"

"No." Jeremy gave her a playful 'back off' look and shooed her away. "Don't you have to get ready for school or something?"

"Touchy touchy." Blair mussed up Jeremy's hair before grabbing her duffel and going into the bathroom.

While she was in there, her phone buzzed once again. "Hey, check your phone when you're done. It's been going crazy all morning."

Blair was in the middle of brushing her teeth when she answered with a mouthful of toothpaste, "Check it for me?"

Jeremy set down his charcoal and turned on Blair's cellphone to find some messages and missed calls from Tyler. "Your boyfriend is trying to get ahold of you." He scrolled through and found a text notification from Stefan as well. "And so is Stefan."

Blair was done in the bathroom and opened the door as soon as he said that. "Thanks." She took her phone from him and after texting Tyler she'd see him at school, she read the message from Stefan. All it read was 'Can we talk?' and nothing else. She didn't have an answer for Stefan's text yet.

"I'll catch you later, Jer." Blair grabbed her backpack and headed for the door.

"Early morning hookup?" Jeremy teased and got a pillow thrown at his head in reply.

Blair walked onto the school's parking lot and was met almost instantly by Stefan. "What do you want?"

"Can we talk?" Stefan looked at her pleadingly. "Please."

Blair rubbed her forehead – a trait Stefan recognized since it was something Mina always did before caving in. "Fine." Blair looked at the nonexistent watch on her wrist. "You have one minute."

Stefan had a feeling she meant that to the second, so he didn't waste any time. "Damon and I aren't leaving Mystic Falls as planned. At least not right now. There's…" Blair cut him off before he had a chance to tell her about the unknown Vampire in town.

"Good." Blair acted like this wasn't a big deal and didn't really care one way or another when in truth she really did. "You should try to make it work with Elena then. You two deserve each other." She shrugged a bit nonchalantly. "And hey, what do I care anyway? I'm with Tyler. I can have a normal relationship with Tyler. There's no supernatural entities to worry about there and that's just what I need." Blair clapped her hand on his arm. "You deserve that, too. But, hey, thanks for telling me you're sticking around." She made a clicking sound accompanied with a finger gun as she backed up towards the school.

On a more serious note she said, "Minute's up," and turned her back to Stefan.

Stefan stood there feeling so confused and jumbled up inside. Blair had a knack for doing that to him. Maybe she was right, though. Maybe he should try and make it work with Elena if he did end up staying longer than planned. Stefan still wasn't sure if he should for a multitude of reasons but if for nothing else…he'd try in order to give Blair the space she clearly wanted. Maybe they weren't 'meant to be' in this life…Stefan had a hard time accepting that 'maybe' though.

Later that day, Blair met up with Tyler and Matt playing basketball. "Don't miss!" She jokingly called out to Tyler before he took a shot and he did miss because of it.

Tyler scoffed a "Thanks" for that before going over and greeting her with a kiss. "You okay? You looked pretty rough last night."

Blair had to give him that. "I was. We can talk about it later." She jokingly pushed him away saying, "Not too close. You're all sweaty."

"You love it," Tyler jokingly growled in reply and tried to hug her again but she bolted away.

Matt clapped his hand on the basketball he was holding. "Are we gonna play or what? Because this is pretty nauseating."

Tyler was going to let Matt slide, but that was before the nauseating comment. Now he turned the tables on his friend. "Actually I want to hear more about you and Caroline."

Blair jumped right onto this train – She needed the distraction. With wide eyes turned towards Matt, she asked, "There's a you and Caroline?"

Tyler interjected before Matt could speak. "You didn't see them together in the hallway? Pretty cozy, I tell ya."

"Can you two go back to hating each other? I think I preferred dealing with that over dealing with…" Matt waved his hand between them, "…this."

Blair clasped her hands together and rested them on Tyler's shoulder. "Do you think they've become 'we people' yet?"

Matt had no idea what they were talking about. "We people?"

Tyler answered with a bit of mocking emphasis. "You know. We can't make it to the party. We'll never miss a game. We don't like the color red."

Matt took that moment to take a shot at Tyler and Blair. "You mean like the two of you?"

"Oh, no," Blair answered. "Tyler and I are not 'we people'. There's no joined at the hip at all times here."

"Although, that wouldn't be a bad thing." Tyler clearly meant something different as he checked her out.

Blair grabbed his chin and raised his face to look at hers. "Mind out of the gutter, Lockwood. We're trying to find out what's going on between Matt and Caroline."

Tyler gave her a mocking salute. "Yes, Han."

When Tyler and Blair both looked at Matt, he sighed and shot the basketball towards the hoop. "There's nothing going on. We hung out, like, twice."

Blair gestured between herself and Tyler. "Tyler and I hated each other, and now we're dating. So I'm pretty sure that makes you and Caroline practically engaged by now."

Tyler caught the basketball and looked at Blair. "Oh, yeah, they're 'we people'."

After school, Blair got a call from Damon. She was fully prepared to rip him a new one for even considering calling her. She whipped her hair away from her ear and answered her cell. "You've got a lot of nerve calling me."

Damon ignored her greeting. "As much as I hate to say this, I need your help finding the new Vampire in town."

Blair stopped dead in her tracks. "The new what in town?"

Damon was actually a bit surprised she didn't already know about the Vampire. "Stefan didn't tell you? He said he was going to tell you. Whatever. Are you going to help me or am I going to have compel Blondie to do it?"

Blair pinched the bridge of her nose in an attempt to control her temper. "What the hell do you need me for that you can't do for yourself?"

Damon pulled his car up beside Blair who was standing on the sidewalk as he answered. "Get in and find out."

Blair narrowed her eyes at him as she forcibly ended the call. She walked over to his convertible and slammed her hands down on the door.

Damon took a bit of offense to that. "Hey, keep the claws in. Watch the paint."

"Shut up before I key the damn thing." Blair threw the door open and got into the car before slamming it. "Let's get taking care of this Vampire over with before I stake you instead."

Damon answered that by tossing the Gilbert Compass into her lap. "I'm gonna have to explain a couple things first."

Blair picked up what looked like Jeremy's pocketwatch but opened it to find a Compass inside instead. "You better."

Damon explained to Blair how the Compass was used to find Vampires and since he interfered with the signal he needed someone else to handle it. So he dropped Blair off in the Town Square with it and got as far away from her as needed so the Compass wouldn't just direct her to him.

Blair stayed on the phone with Damon to make sure she wasn't following his direction anyway, but didn't speak unless she was checking his location. Finally, the Compass lead her to a warehouse. Now she just had to wait for Damon to arrive.

Damon appeared behind her and took the Compass from her hand. "I'll take it from here."

Blair scoffed, "Seriously? You just wanted me to find the thing and not help kill the thing?"

Damon had a look of consideration on his face. "I could use you as bait."

Blair almost put up a fight about this but it fully sunk in that she'd actually have to work with him and that just didn't sound too appealing to her. "You know what – Nevermind. In fact, I hope this new Vampire kills you."

As Blair walked off, Damon called out, "You'd miss me if I died…again. Admit it!"

The only response Blair gave to that was flipping him off without looking back.

Damon instantly thought of Kris when she did that because it was so a Kris thing for her to do. He didn't think too much about it because he had other things to deal with. So after he put the Compass into his pocket, he headed into the warehouse.

Meanwhile, when Blair walked down the street she was met by Harper.

It was completely coincidental but Harper was glad to see her. "Hello, Blair."

Harper was one of the last people Blair wanted to deal with. How she said, "Harper," for her greeting made that pretty clear.

Harper stepped in front of Blair to keep her from walking away and noticed the Black Kyonite ring on Blair's hand before she spoke – she was surprised that Vivian kept her word on that but didn't address it. Blair would eventually find out what that Ring would do for her. "I have something for you."

Harper fished into her bag and pulled out a set of keys along with some paperwork. "I rented out an apartment in your name. The rent is taken care of for the next twelve months. You shouldn't have to live at the Boarding House with those two young men and no parental supervision." She took a deep breath before continuing. "Liz told me you refused to stay with her like she offered so this was what seemed logical to me."

Blair scoffed incredulously. "Getting your seventeen year old daughter an apartment to live in alone is what seemed logical to you?"

"Yes." Harper handed the keys and paperwork over. "This is your own home. You can control who gets invited in or not. Besides, your history teacher offered to keep an eye out for you."

Blair wanted to question why Harper said what she did about being able to control who gets invited in, but what was said about her history teacher made her do a double-take instead. "Excuse me?"

"I met Alaric Saltzman when I was checking out the place. He lives down the hall from the apartment I got for you." Harper extended her hand further. "Just take this, please. I know the apartment and the money in the account I set up for you don't make up for anything but I need to do something. I need to know you're taken care of even if you don't want anything to do with me."

Blair was having a mental overload so she just rubbed her forehead and took the stuff from Harper in order for this turn of events to come to an end already.

Harper smiled when Blair took the things from her. "Don't worry about furniture – it's fully furnished and I stocked up the kitchen, including a drawer for take-out though there's not much variety in Mystic Falls."

Blair almost cracked a smile at that but kept herself from doing so as she put the keys and papers into her bag.

Harper knew when it was time to take her leave, so that's what she started to do. "I hope you like it."

"Did you love my dad?" Blair didn't even realize she had said anything until the last word came out of her mouth.

Harper stopped mid-step and turned to face her. She nodded with a melancholy look upon her face. "I did. I loved him very much, but he was a bit older than me. When people heard we were together…it didn't go over well. Vivian covered for us and told everyone that she was the one with Jae and not me. They pretended to date so Jae and I could be together but…they ended up falling for each other. Then I found out I was pregnant and…I think you know the rest." She waited a moment before adding in, "I don't know what you've heard, but what I've said…That's the truth."

Harper looked around and let out an awkward breath. "I didn't imagine having this conversation in the middle of an empty sidewalk."

Blair had an admission of her own. "I didn't imagine having this conversation at all. I didn't want anything to do with you. A part of me still doesn't."

"I get that. I do. And I don't expect you to automatically love and accept me, but maybe we don't have to start with love and acceptance." Harper looked at her hopefully. "Maybe we can just start with 'hello'?"

Blair thought about it for a moment and before she made herself change her mind, she extended her hand. "Hello."

Harper thought she was going to cry as she shook Blair's hand. "Hello."

Blair cleared her throat and moved some hair behind her ear. "Okay…bye." She turned around and walked away before things got weirder.

Harper stood there until Blair turned a corner out of sight. It was that moment she waved saying quietly, "Bye, Blair."

Harper went to the High School that evening. Richard Lockwood and Liz Forbes were already there chaperoning the 'Plan the Path for Your Future' career night, so she killed two birds with one stone by speaking with them together – She'd tell Richard what happened with Blair and get the Vampire update from Liz.

Richard was the first to see her coming towards them and asked in a hushed tone, "Have you spoken to Blair yet?"

"Did you doubt me?" Harper saw the looks exchanged between Richard and Liz, and sighed. "Yes, I spoke with Blair. She accepted the keys and bank account."

Richard was pleased to hear this. "Good. Now we know she'll be safe."

Liz had a difference of opinion. "Damon Salvatore dealt with the Vampire head on. I'm certain Blair would have been safe if she stayed at the Boarding House."

"If nothing else, Blair needs a place to call home," Harper retorted. "She hasn't had that for a long time, correct?"

Liz didn't meet her look because she knew Harper had her there.

Richard moved on from this topic as he started walking with them. "How are things proceeding, Liz?"

Liz knew exactly what he was referring to and answered. "My highly reliable deputies are all on alert, but if you feel the need to be more proactive, by all means, grab a stake and have at it."

Harper almost made a using the full moon comment but caught herself. As far as she knew, neither Liz nor the rest of the Council were aware of the existence of Werewolves, so she was going to keep it that way – Besides, it's not like her Werewolf curse was triggered either. So, instead she said, "If there are stakes being handed round, I'll take one."

Richard stopped at the refreshments table. "What extra precautions can we take?"

"For right now, there's nowhere safer than a crowded public place." Liz had to add in, "And for once, Mayor, we know where our kids are."

As if on cue, Blair walked into the Fair, making Harper say, "That we do. But I should leave before I'm noticed. Call me if anything comes up." Harper took one last look at Blair before leaving. They made a little progress that day, but she wasn't going to push it.

Blair didn't even notice Harper was there and went over to Tyler who was checking out the art station. "See anything you like?"

"I do now." Tyler grinned and draped his arm around her.

"What? You don't like your own stuff?" Blair tapped on Tyler's drawing in the book.

"I'd rather look at yours." Tyler flipped the book to the sketch she made of a guy who looked like he was from the Medieval times or something. "Though I'm not sure how I feel about you drawing other guys."

Blair looked away from the sketch of the man she knew long ago and returned her eyes to Tyler. "Well, if you agreed to pose for me then I wouldn't have to find inspiration elsewhere."

Before Tyler could respond to that, he noticed Jeremy looming nearby. "What do you want?"

Blair swatted Jeremy's chest a bit for that. "Be nice."

Jeremy wasn't meaning anything with his presence, he was just surprised and said so. "Just surprised to see you here. Art usually implies culture, and culture implies, well, not you."

All Tyler had to say to that was "Go to Hell," before walking away.

At Jeremy's smug look on his face, Blair smacked his arm. "Do you really need to be such an ass?"

Jeremy laughed at that. "Oh come on. Even you have to admit he deserved that."

Blair scoffed and flipped the page back to Tyler's sketch and tapped it. "I think you have to admit that he didn't." She didn't have anything else to say to him about that and left the table.

Jeremy looked down at the impressive sketch and almost didn't believe it when he saw Tyler's signature at the bottom. Perhaps he was wrong about Tyler…maybe.

Blair went into the hall to check out the other tables but stopped when she saw Stefan coming towards her. She really didn't want to talk to him again, especially since he failed to mention the new Vampire in town – but she wasn't about to admit that she didn't really give him a chance to. Evasive maneuvers kicked in and Blair went in the opposite direction.

Her plan was to leave the school but that didn't go over well thanks to Alaric Saltzman coming in just as she was trying to leave.

"Leaving already?" Alaric chuckled when they almost ran into each other.

"I've seen all I need to see," Blair replied. "Night, Teach."

Alaric held the door closed to keep her from going anywhere. "Did you really see everything?"

Blair's expression hardened a bit as she looked at him. "I've seen more than you can imagine. Look, I get that my – that Harper asked you to look out for me, but I'm not your responsibility. If it's not class related then it's none of your business." She pushed the door open this time, and walked past him.

Alaric didn't try and stop her but a part of him was wondering whether or not he should have.

Blair went out into the parking lot and dropped her face in her hands. After letting out an exasperated breath, she threw her hands down and composed herself. "Get it together, Han."

"Doing alright, Blair?" Logan asked as he walked over to her.

"Peachy," she shot back and sighed heavily. Blair didn't know that Logan was a Vampire, hence why she wasn't acting any differently toward him.

Logan laughed at her reply. "If you're trying to scare me off with your attitude, it's not going to work. I used to babysit you, remember?"

Blair rolled her eyes and scoffed at that. "Bye, Logan."

Logan had a bone to pick with the Council and wanted to get to them by going after their kids, so he wasn't going to let her get away that easily. "You could walk away or I could tell you what I know about your parents. As in your real parents."

When Blair stopped dead in her tracks, he looked pretty pleased with himself. "I thought that'd get your attention. More people than you think know Harper is your mother. At least, they all suspect it. It was quite the scandal."

Blair turned around on her heels. "What makes you think I don't know all about it?"

Logan grinned a bit. "Because you stopped."

Blair narrowed her eyes at him in annoyance.

"Come on." He cocked his head towards his nearby car. "Let me give you a ride home and I'll tell you everything I know on the way."

Blair took a deep breath as she rubbed her forehead. "Fine," she muttered and went with him to his car. After getting in, she started buckling up while saying, "This better not be some setup for me to give Jenna a good word about you or…" Blair didn't get a chance to finish her statement because Logan smashed her head into the window so hard that not only did it break her skin but render her unconscious.

Logan knew how much Blair meant to not only the Aldens of the Council but the Mayor and Liz as well. Why she meant so much to them, he didn't know, but she was the perfect target to make them pay.

When Blair woke up, she was in her room at the Boarding House with one hell of a headache.

Stefan moved closer to her saying, "Hey, you're alright."

"Why did Logan smash my head in the window?" Blair groaned in pain. "And where is he so I can kill him?"

Stefan answered her questions in order. "Logan is a Vampire and Damon is dealing with him." He reached out and touched the cut on her forehead. "That's gonna leave a mark. You want some blood?"

Blair touched the spot herself and winced a bit. "Might as well. It's not like it can turn me into a Vampire anyway." At Stefan's questioning look, she explained. "It's part of the Curse. Gotta die to become a Vampire. If I die with Vampire blood in my system it doesn't do anything to me – I don't transition. My next life usually ends up being a Vampire when that happens, now that I think about it."

Stefan bit into his wrist and held it out for her. He let her take what she needed before moving his arm down. "Maybe you should be the one leaving Mystic Falls."

Blair wiped her mouth and scoffed. "And why's that?"

"It's not safe for you here." Stefan was even more worried about her now than before.

"It's not safe for anyone if you think about it." Blair laughed and got off the bed.

Stefan got off as well and walked over to the vanity table with her. "I've seen you die before, Blair. I – I don't think I could handle seeing it again."

Blair looked at Stefan's reflection in the mirror. "We've both seen people die, Stefan. Should be used to it by now."

Stefan looked at her thoughtfully. "Are you getting used to it?"

Blair closed her eyes and inhaled deeply. "No. Of course not."

Stefan spoke softly into her ear, "Then what makes you think it'd get any easier for me watching you die?"

Blair opened her eyes and no longer saw Stefan's reflection in the mirror. She turned around and found he wasn't in her room at all. Blair wasn't entirely sure why, but she felt like crying and she did.

Earlier when Harper gave her the keys to the apartment, Blair didn't really have any intention of moving into that apartment but now she wanted it more than anything. She took a deep breath, wiped away her tears, and packed up everything she could carry. Blair wasn't going to sleep at the House that night…she couldn't. Not anymore.

With a few bags in hand, she went outside and looked up at the full moon. She used to love seeing it up in the night sky, but in this life all it seemed to do was make her blood boil and she had no idea why.

Blair didn't have a whole lot of stuff so the few bags, along with the one she picked up at Jeremy's, that was pretty much it. After staying up to put all her stuff away in her apartment, she looked around. It didn't really sink in that she was going to be alone until that moment.

Blair would sleep there but with how she was feeling, it was the last place she wanted to be. So she grabbed her bag and left. Where she was going to go, she wasn't sure, but knew she didn't want to be there.

She ended up in the Town Square and just sat on a bench there. The events of that night went through her mind and somehow she ended up going back again and again to the sketch that was featured at the art table. When Blair was given the assignment she played it off like she just imagined him – that he didn't exist. But he did exist and in one life he meant so much to her. In that life, she gave him all her love…only for him to give his heart to another.

Was that part of her Curse? She wondered. Would the ones she loved end up loving another and somehow – whether directly or indirectly – be the cause of her death? That seemed to be the pattern as far as she could remember and it was heartbreaking.

Blair was pulled from her thoughts when her cellphone started to ring. She didn't even look at it when she answered. "Hello?"

"Did you know?" a distraught Elena asked from the other end of the line as she drove her car.

"Elena? Did I know what?" Blair had no idea what she was talking about.

"Did you know I looked like her?!" Elena emotionally shouted back. "Did you know I looked like Katherine?"

Blair was rendered speechless by this question.

Her silence was all the answer she needed. "You did. You did and you didn't tell me?! What the hell, Blair?!"

Blair was about to say something but the sound of a crash from Elena's end took precedence. "Elena?" She stood to her feet and called out again, "Elena, are you alright?!" Blair didn't get an answer because the call got disconnected. "Oh my god." Her hands were trembling as she dialed Stefan's number.

"Pick up. Pick up." Blair repeated over and over as she waited for him to answer. When he finally did, she frantically said, "You need to find Elena. I think she's been in an accident."

End Season 1 Episode 10