"He didn't tell you anything?" Stefan asked Elena's room with Alyssa after discussing the details of the previous night with the man in the road who caused Elena's accident.

"No," Alyssa told Stefan about the conversation she had with Damon after Elena went to pay for the pizza. "But at least we know he went down there looking for a way to free Katherine. And I have suspicion it is to do with the Bennett's. He seemed interested after I mention that I talked to Bonnie's grandmother. I think it has something to do with Emily."

"Emily made sure Damon didn't get in the tomb by destroying the crystal."

"Yeah but the crystal isn't all she used. She had to have used a spell along with it crystal that's why he had to wait for the comet to pass around again. I'm betting if you know the spell, you can reverse it. And I'm guessing, Damon knows that or he will soon. So we just have to get to it before he does. Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Because, you've managed to uncover in one day what I've spent months trying to figure out."

"I had a lot of help from Damon. The rest is pretty simple once you've factor in the answers you already have. Witch equals, spell equals tomb. It's like a math equation you plug in the factors to find what you're missing. Plus it helps to have slightly higher than normal IQ."

She shrugged at the look he gave her at her admission.

"I'm a recovering drug user," she jumped down from Elena's dresser where she spent most of the conversation at the look he gave her when mentioning her IQ, "who skipped a grade. How else could you explain it?"

She saw his lip slightly twitch as she left.

"Just so we're clear," Alyssa said sitting next to Matt at the bar at the grill, "this is me waving the white flag." Alyssa said waving the napkin that she picked up from a table on the way to see Matt.

"That's a napkin."

"It's symbolic. I'm trying to apologize." She said after he looked unimpressed. "I know I'm a crappy friend from bailing on you when you need me the most and I'm not going to go sit here and make a bunch of excuses and promises that I'm probably going to fall through on but I can say that I'm going to make a conscious effort to do better because you're my best friend and you've put up all of my crap and still love me for it anyway. And I really need you to keep loving me even though I don't deserve it and to prove I'm sorry for being a total flake I brought you a gift."

He looked on as she pulled out a ring from what he presumed to be her pocket.

"It might not be your style but it's all I could afford so," she held it in front of him. The ring contained vervain in a secret compartment. "Matt Donovan, will you accept this ring with my heartfelt apologies and promise to make a conscious effort never abandon you in your time of need every again."

"You're nuts," he said but accepted it anyway and she smiled.

"And you yet your life would be empty and meaningless without me."

"I'd also be a lot more sane." He said and went back to eating.

She leaned in with a smirk."Who wants to be sane when being so much more for. Speaking of insane, you're dating Caroline now. Missed me that much you've decided to find a blonde perky replacement."

"We're not dating."

"That's not the consensus of the general population. And I know I've been missing lately but I want to change that starting with some friendly advice. If you want to pursue something with Caroline then go for it. Ah," she cut him off when he started to speak. "No excuses. If anyone deserves to be happy it's you and if Caroline Forbes helps you get that stick that seemed to be lodge up your butt then I'm all for it."

"She's Elena's best friend."

"And Elena is dating Stefan, it'll be weird yeah but she won't care. She wants you to be happy just as much as I do."

"Here I thought you would be all for it if it pissed of Elena."

She shrugged not denying that would have been true once upon a time but things were different between them. "Elena and I are working on our relationship. You know trying to be more like sisters and less like two outsiders in each other's lives."

"It's that's what been keeping you so busy? You working on your relationship with Elena?"

"Most of it. The rest is family drama I won't get into cause we're focusing on you. So me telling you to go for it has nothing to do Elena and everything with me wanting you to be happy. And you can start with asking her to the decade dance."

"I can't. I just got a job as a busboy."

"Has things gotten that bad?" She knew from previous talks that they were behind on bills but she don't know it had came to that.

"With my mom dropping in and out," he said with a shrug.

"Why don't you tell me?" She knew she had been missing out on a lot but she was hoping that he would have maybe found the time to tell her something like that. "I can help. I can get a job here and the grill to help you out."

"I can handle this on my own."

"You're 17 Matt you shouldn't have to. You should be worried about going to school dances and girlfriend drama not worrying about where your next meal is going to come from. And I know you don't want it but I'm here if you need me."

"Thanks." He stood up. "I got to go."

She watched him leave standing up herself she took out her phone and text Stefan as she headed for the exit looking up when she bumped into someone. She quickly put her phone away upon seeing that it was Damon.

"We need to talk."

"Are you going tell me the truth about what you were really found out during your road trip?"

"We already had that discussion and I told you I didn't find anything."

"Then we have nothing to talk about." She walked away but he grabbed her arm and she turned to him expectantly.

"Since I'm running out of time and options."

She freed herself from his grip. "I guess you're going to tell me the truth this time."

"You first. You're hiding something."

"Always the paranoid one aren't we Damon. But fine to prove I'm telling the truth I'll let you compel me. For real this time and then you'll see you can trust me."

"I thought you were on vervain." He said with knitted brows.

"Oh that," she chuckled and then smiled, " oh no that was a bluff. One apparently you brought. But I just got a supply from Stefan. Haven't had a chance to use it yet though I did make sure to have insurance in case you went through with it. The supply is back at the house if you want make sure I'm telling the truth. We can talk freely there."

"If you're lying."

His threat held no meaning to her and she was growing rather bored wit it."You really have to come up with another line. Cause I'm just not buying it." She walked away when but stopped when he didn't follow. "Are you coming or what?"

He snapped out of his stupor and followed her.

"Were in the clear," she said when she walked in her room. "Elena isn't here," she crossed her arms. "She's with Stefan so we can talk freely" She walked over to the small stash of vervain she had. "She doesn't know about any of this. I'd like to keep it that way. That's all of it." She sat it in front of him. "And I'm not wearing any jewelry, don't have any one me," she out turned her pockets and took off her shoes. "I guess the only thing left is my blood." She grabbed the pair of scissors that she saw on her dresser. "That can be drained out right. Just one deep cut," She pressed the open pair of scissors to her skin and pressed down but he took them before she could get deep enough. "Guess that means you trust me. But is it enough to tell me the truth."

The moment Damon left, Alyssa called Stefan but he was dealing with an issue that arose after Elena left the grill that she didn't get a chance to tell him about the conversation.

They continued the conversation in person after Stefan accompanied Elena home to make sure she was safe.

"Why go after Elena?" She asked Stefan when they were once again in the Elena's room for a powwow. "What does he want with her and if he's trying to kill me, why stalk her first why not get it over with."

"Because we're predators," he answers, "hunting, stalking. It's often as exciting as the kill."

"So what do we do? How do we protect her when we don't even know who it is?"

Elena took out the pocket watch that Stefan gave her back at the boarding house, "with this."

"The magic pocket watch that acts as a vampire detector?" She looked between the two.

"You know about this?" Elena was shocked to learn that she knew.

"Yeah," she looked at Stefan before turning to Elena. "Damon told me about it when he had me use it to track down Logan."

"What?" She looked at Stefan who failed to mention it to her.

"It's not Stefan's fault. I didn't want to tell you about it because I knew you'd stop me from getting involved. And that's not what I wanted."

"You shouldn't be apart of any of this."

"The hell I shouldn't. My best friend was killed because of vampires. Because of Stefan."

"Lexi," Elena said putting it together. "You helped him Damon kill Lexi. All to get back at Stefan."

"I had to Elena. And I'm not sorry that I did it," She got up, "I am sorry that I had to."

"I really wish you didn't have to work tonight." Alyssa said backing out of the closet with the outfit she had brought for the dance while on the phone with Matt. "It'd save me the embarrassment of showing up to the dance alone and spending the night holding up the wall. And with Elena not talking to me."

"I thought you were getting along better."

"We were," she sat her outfit on the bed and went over to her dresser to get the accessories to go along with it. "And then I torpedoed it by intentionally doing something that hurt Stefan and she's upset with me about." She placed her phone on speaker and sat it down on the bed to get dressed.

"Do I even wanna know what you did?"

"Stefan knows why and he understands. Don't think he's going to ever forgive me for it and honestly I don't really care if he does."

"So I can take it to mean you didn't apologize."

"No." She walked over to the dresser to put on her earrings and necklace. "And I'm not going to. Cause that would imply that I was wrong and have something to feel guilty for and I don't. He's in good health. That's all that matters."

"Jeremy?" Elena said stepped out into the hallway and Alyssa put Matt on hold.

"Hey, what's going on?"

The compass's needle spun around and Elena, hearing the noise, turns her head towards the compass, sees the needle spinning out of control and walks over to the bed, quickly Alyssa by her side.

"That's not suppose to happen unless…."

"I know." She said coming until the same conclusion picking up her phone. She dials Stefan's number and Alyssa quickly walking out of the room going into her own. She riffled through the top draw beside her bed for the small stash of vervain and followed Elena downstairs.

"It's okay," Elena said getting off the phone. "It's just Stefan."

Hearing that made Alyssa relax but only for a split second when she noticed someone hanging on the ceiling.

"Elena!" She called out trying to warn her as she ran the rest of the way down. He jumped down and grabbed Elena as she spin around gasping in surprise. He extended his fangs, getting ready to bite her neck and she screams.

Alyssa makes it to her in time before he could sink his teeth into her and pressed the vervain to the exposed side of his face burning him. He let go causing Elena to fall to the ground from the sudden movement. He turned his sights on Alyssa and she went on the offensive ready to use the small amount vervain still left in her hand but he grabbed her wrist before she could use it and the force from his grip made her drop it.

She saw the lines protruding up to his faces as his eyes turned red but he was quickly snatched away from her and over the couch. Noah grunts and gets up from the floor and vamp-speeds out of the house. When Stefan is certain that Noah won't be returning, Stefan dashes over to Elena who's checking on Alyssa.

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah," she said rubbing her sore wrist. "I'm fine. What I want to know is how he got in."

"He posed as a pizza delivery boy." Elena answered looking to Stefan.

"So now he can just come in whenever he wants?" Alyssa said looking between her sister and Stefan alarmed.

Stefan had been considering the same thing and took out his phone to call Damon.

Alyssa was coming out of the kitchen icing her wrist when Damon showed up.

His brows knitted when he saw the bruise starting to form. "I'm fine." She assured him sitting on the opposite couch from Elena and Stefan. "Elena won't be if we don't figure out how to stop him."

Damon turned to Stefan and Elena. "How did he get in?"

"He was invited in." Elena told him Stefan adding

"He posed as a pizza delivery guy last night."

"Well, he gets points for that." Damon replied. "Did he say what he wanted?"

"No. He was too busy trying to kill me."

"And you have no idea who this is?"

"No." Stefan looked unconvinced. "Don't look at me like that. I told you we had company."

"You think there's more than one?" Alyssa asked.

Damon sits on the arm of the couch. "We don't know."

"Damon, he was invited in."

Damon nods, understanding what Stefan is hinting at.

"Then we go get him tonight," to Elena he asked, "You up for it?"

"What do I have to do?"

"Let your boyfriend take you to the dance. We'll see who shows up."

"That's a bad idea." Stefan voiced and Alyssa had to agree. She didn't think it was smart taken the lamb to its slaughter.

"Till we get him, this house isn't safe." He took a quick glance at Alyssa, "for anyone who lives in it," before looking back at Elena. "It's worth a shot.

Elena nodding agreeing. "I'll do it."

Stefan looked anxious. Alyssa was skeptical but knew Damon was right. Now that he was invited in he was free to come and go as he pleased with anyone being the wiser. She looked up at Damon noded in agreement and then to Stefan and looked anxious.

Elena grabbed his hand Stefan's hand in her own and looks at him. "I'll be with the two of you. I'll be safe."

Stefan nods and looks up at Damon, who shrugs his shoulder.

"I didn't know you were coming tonight." Jenny said when she was approached by Alyssa.

"I can say the same for you. Thought you'd got enough of this place when you went here."

"Rick invited me." She said with a small smile.

"So it's Rick now." She said teasingly

Jenna still smiling when answering, "yes"

"And how long has that been going on? And more importantly how good of a kisser is he," she mocked whispered.

"It hasn't gotten that far but I have high hopes."

"Good for you. You deserve it after what happened with Logan."

"Ugh," she grimace, "Do ever mention him to me again, seriously."

She mocked locked her lips and Jenna looked at her curiously. "What about you? I saw who you snuck in with Elena and Stefan."

"Oh."

"Yeah," she gave her a look crossing her arms.

"Well don't read too much into it. I'm doing this to get closer to Elena. Unfortunately Damon comes along with Stefan ."

"You sure that's all that is," she said looking at him skeptically and she answered the skepticism with a question look. "I heard you talking to someone the other night. Was it him?"

"Oh look, punch," she left and headed over to the punch bowl that Jeremy was manning. "Manual labor looks good on your Jer. You should try it more often."

"As long as you never go around looking like that," He gestured to her to her poodle skirt with an actual poodle and high ponytail.

"What?" She feigned innocently posing, "You don't think I look the bee's knees?"

"I think that's wrong decade." He said with an amused smile.

"So who was that girl I saw you with?"

"Who Anna? She's a little out there."

"As out there as this outfit?"

"No," he chuckled. "But she's pretty weird.

"Well as long as she isn't a psycho stalker. I think you should be okay." She walked away as Anna walked back.

"Having fun?"

Alyssa turned to Damon, "i'm at a school dance trying to catch the vampire who's been stalking my sister dressed like I came out of a black and white movie. It's the highlight of my life." She finished sarcastically.

"Maybe we can change that." Damon held out his hand to her and after a second she grabbed it.

"Shouldn't we be on the lookout for whosoever after Elena?" She asked as Damon spun her.

"Stefan's on it." He pulled her back to him.

"What if he doesn't show?"

"Then we keep dancing," he spun her round again and she smiled.

"Only if you show me how it was done in the fifties."

He grabs her hand spins her out and then back to him grabbing her by her waist he picks her up and dips her on one side and then the other, holding her in the dip for a moment. She smiles up at him, surprised and he straightens them back up and places her on the floor. She laughs gripping on to his shoulder. Behind him she see's the vampire who was in their home earlier.

"Damon, he's here." She nods to the back corner and Damon turns around.

"Stay here," he grabs Stefan and they follow him out Alyssa walks towards Elena. Keeping a close eye on her. She watches as her phone rings seconds later and she takes it out her pocket and answers it.

She paused terrified looking around her eyes land near the punch bowl where Jeremy is serving punch. She sees the vampire from the house standing near him, on his phone and then looked back to Elena who starts backing up towards the door.

Noah starts walking past Jeremy and Alyssa push past the crowd following Elena as she hangs up her phone and runs out the exit. She rushes faster through the crowd when she noticed following Elena out and keeps up with his slow pace. She followed them into the cafeteria. She hears Elena screams and sees him pull Elena in towards him then throws her across a table. Elena lands hard on the floor. He tosses the table aside and strides towards Elena.

Alyssa sees the mop in the bucket by the vending machine and grabs it she hits him in the back with it. It breaks across his backs and he turns around. She attempts to stab him with the broken piece of wood but he knocks her to the ground and it flew out of her hand.

Elena frantically grabs at a pencil on the floor and stabs him in the back shoulder with it while he's distracted by Alyssa. Alyssa reaches for the broken mop while his focus was on Elena and jabbed it into his ribs. She twisted it as he fell to the ground and went to check on Elena. She looked behind her to make sure she he was still down and went for the other part of the mop. She broke it off collected the pencils off the floor and walked back to him and kneeled in front of him but at a safe distance.

"You and I need to talk."

"Screw you."

"Wrong answer." She dug the stake in deeper. He groans in pain. "Why are you doing this?"

"Because it's fun."

"So is this?" She jabs the pencil in his neck.

"What do you want with Elena?"

Damon and Stefan join them into to hear his answer.

"She looks like Katherine."

"You knew Katherine?" Alyssa looked up towards Damon.

"Oh. You thought you were the only ones." He laughs and gasps hurt but the stake planted deep inside of him. "You don't even remember me."

Damon leans over towards Noah. "Tell me how to get in the tomb."

"Hmm?" He pretends to think about it "No."

She twisted the stake in deeper. She held up the second pencil "The next one goes in your eye."

"The grimoire." He groans out.

"Where is it?"

"Check the journal. The journal. Jonathan's journal. Jonathan Gilbert's."

"Who else is working with you?" Alyssa asked when he failed to answer Damon repeated the question.

"No. You're gonna have to kill me."

Alyssa looks at Stefan, and nods. She takes the second part of the stick and stakes him in the heart. Elena gasps in shock. Noah falls to the floor and begins to desiccate. Alyssa stood up.

"How are you gonna find the others now?"

"He had to die." Alyssa said.

"But…"

"Elena, he's been invited in." Stefan agreed.

They hear a door open and see Alaric coming through one of the door's windows. Stefan looks at Damon.

"Go. I got this."

Damon walks out of the cafeteria. Steffan wraps his arm around Elena, comforting her.

"There's no way that idiot was working' alone."

Alyssa sat her phone down on the dresser and attended to the small cuts and bruises she got mostly on her hands on arms from the fall and from steak.

"He has to be protecting someone." Alyssa agreed with Damon's assessment of the situation. She stopped sobbing her elbow with the cotton ball when she remembered a certain vital part of the conversation. "The grimoire he was talking about ...That was Emily's, right? That's what you need to reverse the spell."

"When the founding families burned her, they took her things."

"And you were hoping your father's journal would tell you where it is." The last conversation they had about opening the tomb and he admitted that Bree had told him that if he could find Emily's grimoire he could reverse the spell and free Katherine. She got up with her phone and walked into the bathroom going inside of medicine cabinet she grabbed the tweezers. "But now when know it's in Jonathan Gilbert's journal, and so does whoever else is after it. Is that why you were so interested in making peace with Bonnie? You were hoping that she would help you open the tomb. You know that's never going to happen right." She walked back into her room. "I mean you did try to kill her."

"But I didn't," he said with a smirk standing in front of her, "now doesn't that count for something."

"I don't think they make a card for I know I almost killed you but I didn't and aren't we both glad." She took her seat back on the bed.

"No, but it's the thought that counts."

"You know it's really sad how much you really believe that," she said starting to pick the splinters off the palm of her hand.

He sat down in front of her grabbing her hand and the tweezers. "I was pretty impressed with the way you handled it was also pretty stupid ."

"Elena was in trouble. And I'm not the damsel in distress type. I can't just sit around and do nothing while the people I care about are in trouble. I'm not built that way. "

"He could have killed you."

"Anything can kill me, Damon. I'm human. I could slip on a wet floor. Get hit by a car. Die of an infection or disease. Nobody is meant to live forever Damon," she gave him a pointed look, "not even vampires." she took her hand from his. "I'm not going to let the possibility of getting hurt or worse keep me living or protecting the people I love. And I knew you'd be there to save me from myself." There's were when neither of them saying anything and Alyssa leaned back slightly. "So what's the plan? How do we get in the tomb with no crystal more importantly how do we do it before whoever pizza boy was working with."

"I don't know," he got up, "but it's something I plan on finding out."

"Try not to kill anybody when your looking."

"No promise," he left the same way he came out and Alyssa grabbed her journal but decide to sleep instead of writing and turned off the light.