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Damon was pouring himself a drink when the phone rang. He at first thought it was Taylor, but the number was unlisted. He decided to answer, hoping it wasn't a telemarketer.

"Hello?" He answered.

"Miss me?" Ronnie asked. She was in a phone booth.

"No, Ronnie." He responded. "So where are you?"

"I'm watching you from outside your window like Edward Cullen." She joked. Damon knew that she would only do that to Stefan.

"Why are you calling me?" He asked.

"I feel homesick." She stated. Damon somewhat felt the need to point out that Mystic Falls wasn't her home. "I need a recap of what's happened the past few months."

"Well Stefan is still with Klaus and Taylor still thinks that she can save him and you're still a bitch." He replied. He knew better than to mention her doppelganger's new lycanthropy.

"What about you? I'm guessing that since you've given up, you've probably decided to make a move on Taylor." She replied.

"You know just because I loved you doesn't mean that I feel anything for her." He argued.

"How did your GF take it when she found out what being sired to you meant? Did she dump you?" She asked.

"That's none of your concern, and for your information, I didn't give up on Stefan. I just have no way of knowing where he is." Damon pointed out. "You do though. Are you following them?"

"There's a hybrid that wants to kill me and an off-the-rails, sidekick. I am far away as possible." She stated.

"But you know where they are." Damon added.

"I know Klaus had a tantrum when all of his hybrids died." Ronnie remarked. "He wants to find someone who can help. He's looking for a witch in the city of Bartman."

"Why are you following him? Is it because you love him?" Damon asked.

"Maybe." She answered before she hung up.

Taylor's POV

I went downstairs, still in my pajamas. Casey and Elena were having breakfast.

"So how did you become a werewolf?" Elena asked me.

"I don't know." I replied. "All I know is after I killed that deputy to save Damon, I turned into a wolf. Now I have to figure out what I'm going to do next month."

"Well I'm pretty sure it's not from our side." Casey said. "Your father accidentally killed someone in the past and never changed."

I guess doctors can cause death if they treat something the wrong way.

I knew I should probably feel tired considering how little sleep I got. Maybe this was a wolf thing.

At that moment, Anna walked downstairs.

"Morning." She replied. She seemed to be in a good mood. At least someone was. "What's up?"

"I'm a werewolf." I answered.

"What?" The Goth vampire remarked. "That doesn't make sense."

"We know." I told her. "I don't know why it happened, but I can prove it."

I went over to her and lifted her above the ground. She seemed surprised. I was pretty weak before, another why I was terrible at cheerleading. I then put her and all 110 pounds of her down.

At that point, I heard the door ring and there was Damon.

"You need to get dressed because we're about to leave." He stated.

"Damon, where are we going at 7:00 in the morning?" I asked.

"Windy City." He answered.

"Stefan's in Chicago?" I asked. At that point, Casey came to the door.

"Don't you think you did enough traveling yesterday?" My aunt asked.

"Yesterday didn't exactly go as planned." I replied. I imagined Ric would be too tired for this one. "I want to try at least one more time."

"Maybe you should get a job too." Casey suggested.

Ashley's POV

I made my way to my mom. She was calling Caroline. I was wearing a white tunic with a black leather jacket and leggings. I really couldn't wait until I had this baby.

"About that, she can't call back." I explained. "Mrs. Lockwood said that Dad has her somewhere."

"What do you mean that he has her?" Mom asked.

"I mean that she told him Caroline was a vampire and now he's holding her somewhere. I don't know what he's planning on doing to her, but we need to find her."

"I didn't even know that he was back in town." She replied. "Do you have any idea where she is?"

"No, Mrs. Lockwood doesn't even know." I answered.

"We'll find her." Mom promised.

"I wish Bonnie were here because then she could do a locator spell." I declared.

"We'll find her." Mom repeated as she gave me a hug.

Taylor's POV

I was in Damon's car yet again and he was driving way over the speed limit. I felt my necklace.

"You know you don't need that anymore." He stated. "Werewolves can't be compelled."

"It was gift and I want to wear it." I explained. Damon reached into the back and pulled out a book.

"You need to read this." He declared. "It gives you a good idea of Stefan from the 20s."

"I'm not going to read his diary." I argued.

"This is not the Stefan you know." Damon told me.

"I've seen Stefan in his dark period." I reminded him.

"That was in no way his darkest." He replied as he grabbed the book and started to read. That is not something that should be done while driving. "3/12/22, I black out most days. I woke up with strangers' blood in places I don't know with woman I don't remember. I'm shocked Stefan's not a virgin."

"I would prefer not to get in a crash." I declared. "Even if I heal now, that still means we'd have to walk."

I read it some as Damon tried to convince me to play driving games.

Anna's POV

I decided to talk to Tyler. I first called him.

"Hey." He answered.

"So why did you cancel on me last night?" I questioned.

"My mom took Caroline somewhere." He declared. "I needed to show her what happens to me."

"Where did your mom take her?" I asked.

"I don't know, but she didn't seem to realize that you were a vampire and also thought I was into her." He explained.

"Do you want to try to find her?" I questioned.

"I don't know if it would be safe for you." He declared. "We don't know what her dad is capable of. He might not be as merciful towards you. I'm going to talk to her mom to see if she knows anything."

I don't know if the fact that her dad might not want to kill her was a good or bad thing. She probably wishes Damon would help her.

Taylor's POV

We pulled into in front of an old apartment building after we reached our destination.

"What are we doing here?" I remarked as Damon got out of the car.

"We're stopping by Stefan's old place." Damon answered as he went inside the building.

"If Stefan could live anywhere in Chicago, why would he choose this dump?" I asked.

"There was a girls' high school nearby." Damon explained. "It eventually closed because of attendance issues. You weren't the first school girl that he had eyes for."

"If you're trying to scare me back home, it won't work." I stated.

Damon just grabbed the door handled and ripped it off. We walked inside to find a dusty old room.

"Here we are: Ripper Stefan's home." He announced.

"I don't think he's been here." I remarked. I wonder if I could smell him.

"There's more." Damon added. He went behind the liquor to reveal a secret compartment with…more liquor. Damon turned on the light.

"He hid his booze, so what?" I responded, not feeling surprised by anything. "Prohibition in effect."

"Look harder." He suggested. I walked inside of the closet to see a list of names, headed by Giuseppe Salvatore.

"Are these all of his victims?" I asked. There had to be at least a hundred on there. "What did you do in the 1920s? I'm sure you were a saint."

"I was here. Chicago's a big city." Damon explained. "Me and Capone were good friends. He asked me to turn him and I said no and got him arrested for tax evasion."

"Why not murder or any of the other illegal things he was doing?" I asked.

"Because not paying taxes is one of the worst things a person can do." Damon quipped.

"You don't pay taxes." I pointed out.

"I don't work." He countered. Okay, that was true.

"Where are you going?" I asked as I noticed him by the door.

"I'm going to his old hangout." Damon announced.

"You're not going without me." I argued.

"I need you to stay here and come up with a plan and I'll try not to die before I come back." Damon stated. I sighed and looked around the apartment. There weren't even any books. I had his diary, but that was about it.

Ashley's POV

Mom was currently at the station as she tried to locate anyone who had seen my dad. A locator spell would have been much easier.

At that point, Jeremy came over. I let him in.

"I have something that I need to tell you." He responded.

"I'm a bit occupied right now because my dad has kidnapped Caroline or vamp-napped." I stated.

"When did your dad get back?" He asked.

"It was yesterday I guess." I told him. "Mrs. Lockwood told him that Caroline is a vampire and now my mom is looking for her. I wish Bonnie was here, or that we knew another witch, BUT if this is something equally or slightly less important, you can tell me."

"I'm seeing ghosts." He stated.

"What?" I asked.

"Yeah, it's mostly been Vicki, but I've also seen Logan." He told me. "I'm pretty sure it's because Bonnie brought me back to life."

"Why didn't you tell me sooner?" I asked.

"I haven't told anyone." He responded. I didn't know how to deal with it and I thought that they would just go away, but they haven't. I don't know what to do."

"We'll talk to Bonnie about it when she gets back." I told him as I gave him a hug. "Thanks for telling me, but I really need to find Caroline."

Taylor's POV

I continued to read the diary as Stefan talked about his dark past. Eventually Lexi ended finding him and putting him through rehab. Apparently it took a long time to go through the process. Maybe there was a way to do this quicker. The Stefan had his humanity off. I was pretty sure that in the present, Stefan still cared because he wouldn't have called me or saved Damon.

I heard footsteps and voices. It sounded like Stefan and Klaus. I needed to hide. I went behind the bookcase or liquor case or whatever.

"Do you feel that?" Klaus asked. "Someone's been here."

"It's been deserted for decades." Stefan pointed out. "People probably break in all of the time. Why am I here?"

"Your friend, Liam Grant, I wondered why you asked for his name." Klaus stated. I looked on the wall and noticed Liam Grant was on there. "Then you told me. It was part of your special ritual. You kill and write the name down to relive it over and over."

Klaus came and moved the bookcase. I hid, hoping he wouldn't see me or hear me.

"Do you believe me now?" Klaus asked. "Come. Take a look."

Stefan walked in and looked at me. I had my finger over my lips.

"Look what I found." He stated. Well, I'm about to die. However, Stefan instead grabbed a bottle. He definitely cared about me. "1918, single malt"

"My favorite." Klaus declared. I almost had a heart attack, though I guess I would probably heal from that. I need to talk to someone about these werewolf rules. "Let's find someone to pair it with."

Stefan closed the case and I guess I was safe for now. I texted Damon to let him know that they were here.

After they left, I grabbed a vervain needle in case they came back. Luckily, it was Damon who came in.

"What took so long? I texted you an hour ago." I told him before he threw a bag at me.

"Put this on." He ordered. "I know where Stefan will be tonight."

"Did you not get the part about me almost dying?" I asked in frustration as I opened the bag to find a faded black dress

"I had an hour to realize that I shouldn't have left you alone and now I'm bringing you along." He told me. "Are you okay?"

"I think so." I admitted.

"Good now take a shower and get dressed." Damon replied. "You're all sweaty."

"So where is he gonna be?" I questioned.

"He'll be with Klaus. I'll distract him and you can deal with Stefan." He explained.

"Alright." I agreed.

"But you'll have about five minutes before Klaus kills me." Damon remarked as he got up. "I need you to be a brave dog here."

"Is this going to become a thing?" I asked.

"It's a term of endearment." Damon stated. "I finally know a wolf that I don't want to kill."

Anna's POV

I went to the Grill with Elena.

"So do you have a plan for winning Matt back?" I asked.

"I don't know if he'll want to take me back." Elena replied.

"He took you back before." I argued. "You broke his heart and you two still found a way back to each other. You're meant to be."

"I'm not sure if he thinks the way that you do." Elena argued.

"Just tell him you're sorry." I suggested. "I like people to be happy. Also, do you think Alaric might be interested in Casey? I know he's getting over Jenna, but one thing I've learned in my years on this planet is that you have to know when to move on."

"You know you're a good friend, Anna." Elena remarked. "I think you should let Alaric move at his own pace. If he likes Casey, he'll find his way to her. "So enough about other people's love lives. Let's talk about yours. You are with Tyler. What is that like?"

"Well we haven't been together much." I admitted. "This Caroline stuff has made things a bit difficult.

Ashley's POV

I sat at home as I waited to hear from my mom. I finally rang.

"Call Tyler because I found her." She told me. "We're going to get her back."

I made sure to notify him. They were in an old building that I didn't know about. It was on our family's old property. Tyler then came by to wake me up. I hoped that she was okay. I was pretty sure that Dad wouldn't kill her because he still loved us.

Once we got there, I went in with Mom and we saw him.

"Where is she?" She demanded, pointing her gun at him.

"Put the gun down, Liz." He requested. This was much different from the fights that they used to have. "I know what I'm doing."

"That's our daughter." Mom stated. "Her sister is about to have a baby. Caroline especially looks up to you. I also doubt that you want Ashley to lose whatever respect for you she has left."

"They'll trust me to do the right thing." He argued. Did he really not get it? "Let me do this, not because she's a monster, but because she's our daughter."

"You don't get it, Dad." I stated. "We don't care that she's a vampire. We don't care what she's done. She's been here for us when we need her, unlike you. Caroline knows right from wrong and she's helped Mom see it too. You need to trust her."

"Tyler." Mom stated. "She's in there."

Tyler walked down the stairs as Mom kept the gun pointed at him.

"You're not going in." Dad declared. Mom decided to shoot at the wall by him and that got him out of the way.

"Go in." She instructed.

Tyler walked out and brought Caroline with him. She seemed very weak.

"You three go home." She then told us. We headed out to Tyler's truck.

Taylor's POV

Damon went inside while I waited for him to bring Stefan out. I hoped that I would be able to convince him to come back with us.

Stefan threw Damon against a car as soon as he came out.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" The younger brother asked.

"What's wrong with you?" The older one countered. "First you kill my girlfriend and then you save my life. Are you good or bad? You can't be both."

"Klaus almost saw Taylor." Stefan replied. "You have to tell her to leave Chicago."

"She's not leaving until you're in rehab like Lindsay Lohan." Damon responded. I don't know if she was in rehab right now or not. I stopped keeping track. "I've tried to get her to stop, but she's stubborn."

"She's the reason why Klaus can't make hybrids." Stefan argued. "She was supposed to die in the ritual and now Klaus can't make hybrids. His witch will find that out any minute now. You need to tell her to leave. Compel her if you have to."

"You tell her." Damon remarked as I revealed myself. "And that compulsion thing is not gonna happen ever."

"Vervain doesn't stay in something." Stefan declared as Damon went inside.

"But my werewolf blood does." I stated. "I'm a werewolf, Stefan."

"You shouldn't be here." He stated, seemingly unfazed by my revelation. I don't know if he didn't believe me or didn't care.

"Why not?" I argued as he stood in front of me.

"What do you want?" He asked. I don't know what the point of that was. He knew the answer. "Damon won't be able to distract Klaus very long."

"I want you to come home." I stated as I put hand on his face. I then hugged him as I prepared to take out the needle. He grabbed my hand and I pushed it back, inadvertently losing the needle in the process.

"I don't want to come home." Stefan replied. "Even if you are stronger now, you're still not as strong as I am. Klaus is obsessed with siring hybrids. When he finds out that you're alive, he'll know what the problem is he'll kill you. I want to keep him away from you."

"So you're just going to give up?" I asked. "I thought you were a fighter. Come with me."

"What do you expect will happen?" He rebutted. "Things won't be like how they used to be."

"I know." I admitted. "We're both different, but that doesn't mean that we can't fix this."

"We can't fix this." Stefan replied. "You need to go home and find someone else. I don't care if it's Damon or Josh or whoever, but leave me alone."

"Lexi fixed you before." I replied. "She found you in the 20s and made you better."

"That took 30 years." Stefan told me. "I'm not going to let you waste your life trying to make me better. Let me go."

"I'm not giving up on you, Stefan." I declared.

"Yes you can and you're going to have to." He remarked. "I never want to see you again."

I raised my hand and slapped him, hoping it would knock some sense into him. I made sure that it wasn't too hard because I didn't want to accidentally knock his head off. He just walked away at that point. I guess this was the closure that I wanted.

I went to Damon's car and waited for him to come back.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"Just take me home." I ordered.

Ashley's POV

Mom and I were with Caroline as she drank some blood to get her strength back. She laid down in her bed.

"Honey, we were raised this way, to hate vampires." Mom told her.

"You did." Caroline pointed out.

"You two taught me to." Mom declared.

"I just thought that he was the one who loved me the most." Caroline stated.

"He did and he will again." Mom promised. I wasn't so sure.

Mom then left, leaving the two of us to talk.

"For what it's worth, Mrs. Lockwood says she's sorry." I told her.

I got under her covers with her and she began to cry.

"Dad hates me." She wept. I hugged her tightly.

Taylor's POV

It didn't take that long to get back Mystic Falls. We made it back by 1:00. I noticed the street we were on.

"Stop here." I told Damon.

"You can't exactly walk from here." Damon replied as he stopped the car.

"Just stop." I ordered as I got out of the car. "I'm not going home."

I walked up to the house and decided to see if I could climb up into the open window. I could. I'm finally coordinated. I entered through it…before tripping over something like I always do.

"Taylor?" Josh asked. "What are you doing here?"

"I didn't want to be alone." I replied. "Is there any room in that bed for me?"

So Taylor wants to at least try to move on. The next chapter will have something big happen too. Please don't forget to review.