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Refresher: After the Gilberts find out that Katherine is dating Damon, Elena (as Katherine) suggests that he come for dinner so that they could get to know him better. Damon reluctantly agrees and they both decide to keep the relationship private. Laurel meets a new guy in town, Justin and quickly falls for him. Later at school, Care also meets Justin in the hallway and 'calls dibs' on him, a term Kath coined that is used to reserve boys. It is obvious that Justin has feelings for Laurel, but because of Care, Laurel is forced to stepped back and she seeks advice from Katherine, who wouldn't normally be helpful in this type of situation. Meanwhile in Los Angeles, Kat and Klaus find Ruth Peterson, who was listed as Kath's and Elena's birth mother on their birth certificate and find out that she was paid to sign the papers, telling them that she isn't their real mother. Ruth also lets them know that both Kath and Elena were adopted into wealthy families before she lost contact with them.
"You should come to Care's party. Justin's gonna be there." Elena suggested Laurel as they were both collecting their lunch.
"To see Care." Laurel said.
"Maybe not. He gave his number to you." Elena reminded her sister.
"Guys like that give their numbers to lots of girls." Laurel said back as they started walking back to where Caroline and Bonnie were sitting.
"What about Trip Pierce? Might be good for you, Bon." Caroline was saying.
"Oh, thanks, but I have my sights set elsewhere." Bonnie told her just as Elena and Laurel sat at the table.
"Ooh. Exciting. Do tell!" Caroline said excited for a new gossip.
"Sorry. For now, that's just need-to-know, and this one is all about you, Care." Bonnie told her, not wanting to revile her love-interest.
"Ugh, I so do not care if any of these other people come. It's a lot of mini taquitos just to get close to one guy." Caroline said. It was paining Laurel to sit here and see them plan to get Justin and Caroline together, but she didn't have a choice. If she wanted to spend her school year without any 'incidents' she has to befriend with the them.
"So why not just skip all that, suck it up, and ask Justin out?" Elena said to Caroline.
"You mean make the first move?" Caroline asked.
"Why not? It's the easiest way to find out if he's interested. And if he isn't, if he wants someone else, then you know, you can just move on."
"You're crazy! And I'm not that brave. But even if I was, I can't ask him out in person. I don't have his number, and for some reason, I can't find him on Facebook." Caroline told them.
"Ugh. Fine. Here." Laurel said and started searching for his number in her phone.
"Laurel, no. Laurel." Elena said trying to pull her sister back down.
"Oh! It's Justin's number. How did you get this?" Caroline said when she received the contact number of Justin.
"Don't worry. I got it for you." Laurel said and left.
"Katherine Gilbert, please Katherine Gilbert report immediately to Mr. Beattie's room." The voice of the announcer said form the speaker. Elena got up, confused, collected her bag and left.
"Mom? What's going on?" When Elena reached her teacher's she saw Jenna was standing there.
"Apparently, there's a problem with your essay." Jenna told her.
"It wasn't good?" Elena asked Mr. Beattie.
"No, it was excellent." Mr. Beattie replied.
"And that's a problem?" Elena was even more confused.
"Well, it is if I check with your teachers from last year and the year before, and they both tell me you're not capable of this kind of work. Why don't you just tell us who really wrote the paper? 'Cause Katherine Gilbert did not." Mr. Beattie said.
"Whoa. Okay. So, what are you saying, that she cheated?" Jenna asked.
"No, I worked really hard on that paper. I promise." Elena told Jenna.
"Is this the only proof you have? The fact that Katherine's essay is so good? Then I'd say you have nothing." Jenna told Mr. Beattie.
"Her last two teachers said-" Mr. Beattie was saying when Jenna cut him off.
"I don't care what her last ten teachers said. She's my daughter. And if she says she wrote it, I believe her. Let's go." Jenna said and grabbed her hand and they left.
"I can't believe you believe me." Elena told Jenna when they left Mr. Beattie's room.
"I do." Jenna simply replied.
"With every reason not to, I mean, no questions asked?" Elena asked Jenna.
"I love you, honey. When you love someone, you have to trust them." Jenna told Elena wisely.
"I can't believe you don't believe me." Damon was saying to his brother.
"It doesn't matter what I believe. I'm a cop that found stolen property inside your room." Stefan told Damon.
"Yeah, what were you doing in there anyway?" Damon questioned. He didn't like when someone got inside his room without his permission.
"Right. Because that's what this is really about. That laptop is evidence that I needed to turn in. I have laws that I need to follow. So do you." Stefan told him.
"I have been." Damon yelled.
"Even if I do believe you, what do you want me to do?" Stefan asked in the same tone.
"I want you to help me. I want you to figure out who stole that laptop. Why it was planted on me." Damon said.
"You have any ideas? Anything to go on?" Stefan asked but then Damon didn't replied he continued,"No? Well, then, I'm sorry, I can't help you." He said and left.
There's a stranger in my bed
There's a pounding in my head
Glitter all over the room
Pink flamingos in the pool
I smell like a minibar
DJ's passed out in the yard
Barbies on the barbecue
Is this a hickey or a bruise?
Pictures of last night
Ended up online
I'm screwed
Oh well
It's a blacked-out blur
But I'm pretty sure it ruled
Damn
"New guy! You made it." Caroline said as she saw Justin enter. He was wearing a peach coloured button down with has all the buttons opened as this was a swimming party, paired with a pair of blue knee length shorts. The part were in full swing and the song perfectly discribe the scene in front of him.
"Yeah." Justin answered.
"Well, I got your text, so, uh, I have to come." Justin said. He didn't know how Caroline got his number. Maybe Laurel had given her. But why didn't she herself messaged her.
"Great! So now you have my number. Feel free to use it. Whenever." Caroline said.
Last Friday night
Yeah we danced on tabletops
And we took too many shots
Think we kissed but I forgot
Last Friday night
Yeah we maxed our credit cards
And got kicked out of the bar
So we hit the boulevard
"Thanks. Nice pool." Justin complemented.
"Thanks. Feel free to use that, too. In fact, feel free to use pretty much anything you see here." Caroline said a but seductively.
"I'm going to get a drink. Do you want anything?" Justin asked Caroline.
"Not from the bar I don't." She said with a seductive smile. Justin didn't like her that way. So he quickly left.
"Hey. You're Laurel's sister, right?" Justin asked Elena as he saw her nursing her drink, alone.
"And you are a fast learner." Elena said back, a little dizzy. She had decided to go Damon and fro that she needed liquid courage.
"She here?" Justin asked looking around.
"No." Elena said.
"Oh, but she's coming, right?" Justin hoped.
"Probably not. You see, Care has already called dibs on you." Elena told him.
"I'm sorry, Care did what?" Justin asked confused.
"It's the code, and I invented it. And it keeps us from stealing each other's boyfriends. Which is good, except..." Elena was trying to find something to say.
"Except I'm not Caroline's boyfriend." Justin completed for her.
"But she wants you to be, and as per the code, that is enough for Laurel to keep her paws off you." Elena told him.
"So who I want to be pawed by doesn't matter? It's decided for me?" Justin asked Elena.
"Pretty much. But that way, it keeps the sisterhood intact and good friends are just as important as family, right?" Elena asked him.
"Sure. I mean, I-I don't want to mess with the sisterhood." He said then paused before saying,"But I do want to date your sister. I know I just met her, but have you ever had that feeling that you just want to be with someone and you don't know why?" Justin asked her.
"Yeah, I've had that feeling." Elena said,"Do you have a pen?" She asked Justin and when he gave her a pen she wrote her address on his hand and said,"That is the new code."
"Hey. I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to be staying the night at Care's." Bonnie said in her phone. She was in her ballet studio wanting to get the phone call over with as soon as she can.
"I'm glad you called. But that's a lot of nights out this week, don't you think?" Mickel said.
"Yes, I know, I know. It's just she's really depressed about getting kicked out of the recital. And so I wanted to stay and keep her company." Bonnie said.
"You're sure that's all this is?" Mickel asked.
"Yes, Dad, I'm sure." Bonnie lied.
"Okay. Say hi to Care." Mickel said.
"All right, Daddy, I will." Bonnie told him and hung up.
"You okay? Did you forget something?" Luka as Bonnie came in.
"Yeah, actually I did." Bonnie said and kissed him.
"I can't believe my perfect parents were involved with something so screwed up." Katherine was saying to Klaus as the sat in a restaurant in L.A.
"Look, maybe Elena can look at it from her end. Do some investigation. Maybe the real answer's around Mystic Falls, not L.A." Klaus suggested.
"Maybe. Meanwhile, our birth mother wanted Elena back so badly that she faked her identity to come get her. I mean, why not me? You know, why didn't she want me back?" Katherine asked broken.
"I don't know, but something clearly went wrong. I mean, they didn't just walk off into the sunset. Why else would Elena have ended up in foster care?" Klaus reasoned.
"I came here to L.A. to meet my mother and to get answers to questions that I have wondered about for so long. And all I got was this big, scary mess." Katherine said just stopping a sob.
"Do you want me to drive you back to your motel now?" Klaus asked her.
"Actually, Can I stay at your place?" Katherine asked him.
"Yeah." Klaus shrugged.
"I'm so sorry. I'm-I'm all over the place. I am doing this insane thing in this strange place. and I-I start to think that it actually is making sense, and-and like, I actually belong and I-" Elena said as soon as she got out of her car.
"It's okay." Damon said but Elena just ignored him. She has to get this out of her.
It's the way you hear me with your patience
It's the way you speak til it all makes sense
And I thank you for the truth
And I'm here to tell you
That if your world should fall apart
I will remind you
I think you're perfect as you are
I will remind you
And if you feel like nothing is going right
I will remind you
"And then Katherine's dad, he's telling me that I shouldn't trust you, but then I have Kath's mom telling me that you should trust the people that you love, and not that I love you, or that they're even really my parents. I just I don't know what to do-" Elena was having a mini breakdown.
"Elena, stop, stop. It's okay. All right?" Damon said running his hands up and down her arms.
"I know I'm a crazy person." Elena said.
"Crazy- but not Katherine crazy. She'd never come to me like this." Damon told her.
"She's far too cool." Elena said.
"I like the Elena version. If nothing else, it's totally honest. That's hard to come by around here." Damon told.
It's the way you smile away your sorrows
It's the way you laugh about tomorrow
And I thank you for the truth
And I'm here to tell you
That if your world should fall apart
I will remind you
I think you're perfect as you are
I will remind you
And if you feel like nothing is going right
I will remind you
"I don't know why I do feel like I can trust you." Elena told him.
"I feel that, too." Damon said and they start to lean in, but just before their lips meet Damon pull back and said,"We can't do this. I love Katherine."
"I know. She's got dibs." Elena joked.
"I know I locked this door. Something's wrong." Klaus said as they entered his apartment. The door to enter his room was open.
"Well, at least your laptop's still here." Katherine said as she looked around and saw his laptop sitting there on the bed.
"It's warm." Klaus said as he touched the Laptop. It was warm, mean it has been used recently.
"So you didn't go to Care's party." Jenna asked as they, Laurel and Jenna, were eating a piece of chocolate cake as Laurel's mood was off.
"I'm tired of trying to get in with Katherine's friends. Like I'm trying to be her or something." Laurel confessed.
"Honey, you two are so different. And you are amazing in so many ways." Jenna assured her.
"Then how come it's so easy for her? I mean, good guy Luke, bad boy Damon, they all just flock to her." Laurel asked her.
"Which isn't necessarily a good thing. Sooner or later, the right guy's going to come along. And when he does, you won't be able to keep him away." Jenna said and then the door bell rang so she got up and said,"I'll get it." Usually Laurel would have offered going but she wasn't in a mood today.
"Sweetie, can you come here a sec?" Jenna called from the door. When Laurel went to the door she was shocked to see Justin there.
"Sorry for showing up so late without calling. I just, uh, had to see you." Justin told Laurel as Jenna left them alone.
"How did you know where I live?" Laurel asked.
"Your sister gave me the address. Hope that was okay." Justin tole her.
"Um, no, yeah. It's It's great." Laurel said. She was confused by her sister's behavior. Katherine wasn't the one to choose family over friends.
"I'm not a crazy stalker, I promise, it's just, uh I just didn't want to wait till tomorrow to, uh, ask you out." Justin said.
"Oh. Okay." Laurel stammered a bit.
"Do you think we could go and see a movie sometime? Or a band? Or just sit at the park and talk, while you play some of that music for me that you don't like anyone else to hear?" Justin asked hopefully.
"Yeah, I think we could do that." Laurel said and smiled.
"Cool. It'll be fun. I should go. Sleep well." Justin said.
"Thanks. I will." Laurel said and shut the door when he left.
It's the way you smile
It's the way you smile away your sorrows
It's the way you laugh
It's the way you laugh about tomorrow
And I thank you for the truth
And I'm here to tell you
That if your world should fall apart
I will remind you
I think you're perfect as you are
I will remind you
And if you feel like nothing is going right
I will remind you
Damon was sitting on the overlook off Route 18. Where his and Katherine's story has started. He was thinking about all the things that had happened. It was all so fast. He didn't know why but he felt this connection with Elena. She was nothing like Katherine. She didn't care about what everyone thought about her. She didn't thinks saying sorry will make her small. She was honest and cared about everyone she was something that attaracted him to her. But he can't do anything. She was his girlfriend's sister.
Elena sat in her room looking through Katherine's picture collection, as she had finally got the laptop back. She came across a folder which was named,'BF'. She opened it and there were thousands of pictures of Katherine and Damon. They looked so happy in all of them. Elena was feeling something towards Damon but she buried it deep inside her heart. He was her sister's boyfriend.
"Well, everything's still here, but whoever broke in saw it all." Klaus told Kathrine.
"No one knows I'm in L.A. Are you sure this isn't about you? Your video game apps? It's so competitive. You hear all the time about gamer espionage." Katherine suggested.
"No, Kath, that's that's not what this is." Klaus said.
"Okay, then you're freaking me out. I can't believe there was another break-in about another laptop." Katherine said and flopped down on his bed,"Sorry." She said when she realised that Klaus was standing there uncomfortably, as she hadn't left space for him.
"No, no, no, no. That's-That's okay. I'll just, um uh, sleep on the couch." Klaus said.
"No, come on. That's. This doesn't have to be weird. I mean, we've known each other since, like, forever." Katherine said.
"Yeah, yeah, uh, forever." Klaus said and then they heard a knock on his apartment door.
"Hi Mr. Webster." Klaus greeted as he opened the door.
"Here, I wasn't sure I even still had this. But, uh, there you go." Mr. Webster said handing them a photo.
"What is it? That woman- uh, the one who took our baby- she sent us that about a year after, and it meant a lot to us. Uh, but I know it's going to mean a lot more to you, and you should have it. She's your mother." Mr. Webster said and handed the photo to Katherine.
"Katherine." Elena said as soon as she connected to her sister on video chat,"Hi. So glad it's you. Look. So much has happened. This is a lot harder than you thought. I keep screwing it up." Elena told her not giving her a chance to speak.
"Stop. This doesn't matter." Katherine said.
"No. It does. Trust me." Elena said.
"Trust me. This is way more important." Katherine said.
"What? What did you find?"
"This." Katherine said holding up the photo in front of the camera. I n the photo there was a women, in her mid twenties holding a child in her arms,"That's you Elena. And that is our mother." Elena was in shocked when she was the photo. Suddenly there was a knock at her balcony glass window. She got up and saw Damon standing outside, so she opened the window and let him in.
"So, what was it, you wanted to tell me?" Katherine asked Elena.
"Stefan found the laptop." Elena told her sister," Inside Damon's room."
"What?!" Katherine said surprised.
"Yeah, someone planted it on me."
"Why would someone do that?" Katherine asked suspiciously."Where were you that night?"
"Are you seriously doubting me?" Damon asked.
"Where were you?" She asked again.
"He was with me. He didn't do it." Elena said.
"Then why was the laptop in his room?!" Katherine yelled.
"Someone planted it there." Damon also screamed. Thank God Katherine's room was sound proof. Otherwise the whole family would have came asking what was wrong.
"I think I will talk to you later." Elena said and ended the video call.
"She's just had a bad day. She doesn't really think you did that." Elena said to Damon who was trembling from anger.
"Yes, she does!" Damon said angrily. The she noticed it was Elena he was talking to not Katherine so me mumbled,"Sorry."
"It's okay." Elena said, took hie hand in hers and squeeze it and gave him a small smile.
A/N: So how was it? Did you liked it? I hope you do. Oh, oh. Katherine and Damon have started fighting. Share your thoughts. Comment! You know I live for them.
Caroline wore what she wore in the 'Sexy Stud Car wash' scene.
Song(s): I Will Remind You by Tiff Randol
Last Friday Night by Katy Perry