This is quite unusual for me actually.

Disclaimer: I wish I could write for the show. I wish.

Stefan paced back and forth, trying to get a hold of his brother on his cell. Bonnie had used a locator spell to find Elena's whereabouts and Stefan knew he couldn't do any of this without Damon.

He also needed to talk to Katherine. He knew this was a bad idea, but in order to get Elena back he'd do anything.

Just as he was about to give up on getting in touch with Damon and go on his own, said brother walked into the house, followed closely by Alaric and Veronica.

"We have a problem." The brothers said simultaneously.
"Mines more important." Damon countered.
"I doubt that."
"Well you're just going to have to hold that thought because, trust me when I say, this is gonna blow your mind."
"Elena's been kidnapped." Stefan interjected quickly, before Damon could keep talking.

It got the effect he was looking for. Damon stopped talking and turned to face him. "Kidnapped? Are you sure?"
"She's just disappeared. Going off in the middle of the night without so much as a note? Does that sound like the Elena you know?"
"You mean getting herself into situations that almost get her killed? Wait that does sound like the Elena I know." Damon shot back. "But you're probably right." He turned to Veronica and grasped her gently by the shoulders. "I promise, once we sort this out, we'll get started on preparing you. I can't just leave Elena."
Veronica just smiled and nodded. "I understand, Damon. I'm not in any immediate danger. Besides, you'll tell Alaric to watch out for me and I'll never be without my own personal shadow."
Damon resisted the urge to chuckle and instead placed a lingering kiss on her cheek before turning to Alaric.
"She doesn't leave your sight. Tell blondie too, and the wolfboy. Might as well get Bonnie to put some spell on her. Do anything. I don't want to come back from rescuing one damsel and find the other one gone."

Alaric nodded as he led Veronica out of the house. But not before she shot one last lingering look at Damon.

Stefan was observing with some confusion.
"Wanna fill me in?" He asked his brother, who was still staring after their old friend. Damon snapped out of his reverie and faced him.
"On the road. Let's go."

Caroline knocked on Tyler's front door and waited patiently for it to open. When that didn't happen, she looked towards the garage. Carol Lockwood's car was gone, but Tyler's truck was still there.

"Tyler?" she called out, in case he hadn't heard the knock, or was still sleeping. She couldn't blame him after the night he had had. That's why she was here. To talk to him and help him prepare for the next full moon.

She remembers, after all, what it was like when she transformed and she didn't want Tyler to go through that alone.

"Tyler?" she called again, but still got no answer. She resorted to forcing the door open, something that was easy for her given her superhuman strength. She heard the lock break and made her way into the house and up the stairs towards Tyler's room.

His door was open but the lights were off and the curtains drawn. She tiptoed into his room and towards the bed. After a couple of seconds her new vampiric vision adjusted to the dark and she could suddenly see everything clear as day. Tyler was not in the bed, and she sensed a presence behind her.

Getting her game face on (hey, you never know who could be lurking in the dark) she turned with a growl towards the presence. But instead of finding some kind of intruder she found a rundown, and very surprised, Tyler.

'Of course you dummy, this is his room.'
"Caroline? What are you doing here? Are you gonna attack me?" He asked, staring intently at her vampire features.
Caroline breathed in and out slowly as she felt her eyes and teeth go back to normal.
"Sorry. I thought you were an intruder."
"In my own room? Sorry to say Care, but you're the intruder." She smiled warily and realized that he was right. Suddenly feeling kind of awkward she tried to address the issue at hand.
"How are you doing Tyler? You know, after last night?" She asked and stepped a little closer to him.
Tyler didn't move or answer straight away. Instead he hung his head and breathed deeply.
"I'm freaking out. I can't get a hold of Mason. I know that he was in league with that evil Elena look-a-like but, he could help me you know?" He looked at her and she nearly folded then and there. How could she keep it from him, the fact that his uncle was dead at the hands of her friend?

"Well, you don't have to go through this alone. I mean, I may have not gone through a werewolf transformation but I still know what it's like to go through something like this alone." He still didn't look convinced so she stepped forward and laid a hand on his arm. "OK, when I turned I had no idea what was going on, I didn't even know that vampires existed. I just had this urge to, to," she paused and looked at him sincerely, "to feed."
He looked back at her in surprise. "Weren't you...bitten?" She shook her head.
"No. Remember that car accident we were all in last year? The one that got me in hospital?" At this, Tyler hung his head in shame. He still felt guilty over that. But Caroline kept going. "I would've died if Damon hadn't fed me some of his blood. See, vampire blood heals all wounds but if you die with it in your system, you come back."
"As a vampire?"
"Well, not quite. You come back for twenty four hours. In that time you have to...feed...in order to complete the transformation."
"As in feeding on...blood?"
"Human blood." She confirmed. "I smelt out one of those blood packets that was hooked up to some man in the hospital and I took it and I drank it." She felt dirty, telling him such a gruesome detail about herself. But she knew that she needed to be honest with him about her own transformation if she wanted him to let her in.
"So, you didn't drink from anyone?" She hung her head at this.
"I did. A nurse. I couldn't control it then, but it's easier now. Especially with this." she reached into her bag and pulled out a bottle of scotch. She laughed at the face he pulled. "Seriously, it helps."

He smiled at her but it didn't reach his eyes. She put the bottle down and pulled him into a hug. "I know you're scared, but I'm going to help you through this. I promise I won't ever leave you." He couldn't resist hugging her back with all that he had. He knew that she wouldn't break under his hold after all she did appear to be stronger than him.

"Thank you." He mumbled into her hair. She smiled and released him gently.
"Come on. Let's go hunting for some scoop on your wolf thing." He laughed at her casual reference to his curse and left to go get ready.

Veronica sat with Alaric at the Grill. She had reasoned that if he was to be her shadow for the rest of the day, and night, that they should at least get dinner together.
"I don't know what I'd say to Jenna if she walked in and saw us right now. It's a little weird, me sitting here with a beautiful, strange woman that she's never met. She'll get suspicious." Alaric said, concerned that his girlfriend would walk in any minute.
"Why? Is this improper? I wouldn't think so looking around here." She replied, gesturing to all the couples sitting around them.
"They're on dates." He elaborated. She looked puzzled.
"Dates? You'll have to excuse me I'm not from around here." She said with a smirk.
"It's...a courtship." He explained. This she seemed to understand.
"Is that the only way that a man and a woman can dine together? It appears then that not much has changed."
Alaric shook his head. "No, not at all but...I'm just worried."
"Well this Jenna has nothing to be worried about. I have no intention of stealing you from her."
He was about to explain to her that it didn't matter what she said, women thought differently than that when he processed what she had just told him.
"Really? You wouldn't go for me?"
"Well of course not. You're much too old for me it would be improper."
"Damon is over one hundred and fifty years old."
"As far as I know that is not common knowledge." Alaric, for his part was slightly offended. "You're a handsome man but simply not what I am interested in."
"So what you're saying is that I'm not your type?"
"Is that how it's put these days? Fine, you are not my type." She didn't seem to realised that she had offended him somewhat. He supposed dating in the nineteenth century might have been a little easier. He only had books to go on regarding the subject after all.

Still, he wasn't that old.

After dinner Alaric was walking through the main square a couple of steps behind Veronica when his phone rang. Checking the caller ID he answered swiftly.

"Damon. Is Elena-"
"Take Ronnie home, make sure she's not there alone and then come straight here."
"What's going on?" But the line had gone dead. He knew something big was going on and it either involved Elena, Veronica or both.
He caught up to her as she was looking through a shop window at all the dressed on display.
"Come on, I'll get you home. Do you know if Tyler will be there?"
"I'm not sure. He wasn't up this morning." Alaric didn't want to leave Veronica in the Lockwood mansion alone so he decided to call Bonnie.

"Hello?"
"Bonnie it's Alaric Saltzman. Can you do me a favour?"

After dropping Veronica off at Bonnie's, Alaric drove straight to the Salvatore mansion.
"What's going on?" He said upon entering the sitting room. He noticed a strange woman standing in front of the fireplace. "Who's this?"
The woman went to introduce herself but Damon interrupted.
"Rose this is Alaric, Alaric this is Rose. We have a problem."
"When don't we?" He sighed as he sat down.
"Well this one isn't just some vampire coming after Elena. Turns out they're out to break the Sun and Moon curse, and they need Elena to do it." Stefan explained.

"Wait slow down, who's out to break the curse." Damon and Stefan turned to Rose.
"The originals."

Hope you guys enjoyed the interaction between Tyler and Caroline. This chapter was mostly focused on them and I think Caroline really talking about her transformation was a kind of catharsis for her.
Plus, it brings them closer together ;]

Also hope you enjoyed the little comedic exchange between Veronica and Alaric. I really like Ric as a character and I'm upset that he's just there nowadays. GIVE HIM A STORYLINE.

That is all.