I had no idea why I was doing this and what was urging me to do it but I owed Elena an explanation. I'm sure her friend has a few tricks up her sleeve that could help, not like I wanted to ask for it. Being close with a witch was not in my nature.

"What does Bonnie have anything to do with this?" Elena asked, crossing her arms.

"The witch could possibly have something in her book of spells that could help us see what is up with the necklace." I said.

"She has a name." Elena spat.

"Mmm yeah." I commented trying to forget Elena's friendship with her.

"Up here." Elena said motioning towards a white house.

"Trust me I cold smell her." I admitted.

Elena grunted and took of her seat belt.

Being around this house was very antsy. I didn't like it.

Elena waltzed right up to the door.

"Is she home?" Elena asked me.

"Yup, her scent in drowning me." I told her while clutching my throat.

She rolled her eyes in the same motion and it made me smile.

Just as Elena was about to knock the door opened.

"Elena?" the voice asked.

"Yeah Bonnie can we come in?" she asked looking towards me.

I could tell there was tension. The witch hesitated and then looked towards me.

He green eyes felt like daggers driving into my heart.

"Yeah." She said.

Elena stepped in and I stood at the threshold.

"May I?" I asked her politely.

She nodded her head "Yes."

I stepped into the house and it was like crossing the line. The scent of inscents and herbal crap was all around. I glanced over at the table to see seven candles lit in a circle.

Gave me the creeps.

"Bonnie I need your help with something." Elena practically begged. "You know when you asked about my necklace?"

Bonnie nodded.

"I…I think Katherine is trying to get to me or be me." She said, seeming confused with her own words.

Bonnie didn't look the least bit shocked.

She looked at me with hatred and then back at Elena.

Suddenly Elena ripped of the necklace and held it in her hand.

What the hell did she think she was doing? I could easily reach over and compel her to do anything or even worse kill her. Was she insane? When she trusts she really means it.

The witch looked at the pendant closely and her squinted her eyes.

"There is defiantly something wrong with it." Bonnie said.

Elena ran her hand through her hair. She was nervous.

"Look I know you don't want to help me." I said. "But Elena is in danger." I informed her.

She looked hesitant on what to do.

Bonnie grabbed the necklace from Elena and walked over to the bookshelf. She grabbed a black book with a weird symbol engraved on the front.

"This is defiantly old." She said. "Older than yours." She said while pointing to the ring on my finger.

"The red stones are very familiar, they…they mean something. I-I just can't remember." She said. Rubbing her forehead.

"I remember Katherine telling me it protected her." I said trying to help. I knew I would regret it. I wasn't the helping type.

"Yes, back then red stones, well rubies were very precious and hard to come by. Many called them their shields, a way of protection. This must be at least 400 years old." She said.

I looked at her questioningly.

"But I met Katherine when she was seventeen…and still human, there is no-" I stopped.

Bonni- I mean the witch had shock on her face.

"If that necklace is 400 years old, then Katherine was here before Mystic Falls was established." Bonnie stated.

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. All I had known had been a lie; Katherine was not human when I met her…She was in transition.

"Transition." I whispered.

"What?" Elena asked.

"Transition." Bonnie repeated. "Katherine was in transition when you met her. She wasn't human or vampire….she was both."

"Wait that isn't possible." Elena said. "She would have died, she couldn't have been in transition for over 200 years."

That's what I had thought.

"No it may be possible." Bonnie said. "When you become a vampire you are at the same age for the rest of eternity, but when your in transition there has to be something that you can do to stay in that period of time for as long as you please." She said.

I thought about this for a moment and then I looked at my ring.

"I know how she did it." I said.

The both looked at me.

I lifted my hand and flashed my ring at them.

"When you're a vampire you have to have a ring to protect you." I said. "What if that necklace was there to protect her during transition?"

Elena's face iced over in shock.

"She used this necklace to keep her safe and alive while she stayed in transition for over 200 years." She said.

I nodded my head.

"Meaning that Katherine had to be one of the first vampires in Mystic Falls. Someone had to give her that necklace with those very stones that would keep her alive." Bonnie added.

"So Katherine was ignoring her thirst for hundreds of years and was able to be safe by the necklace that I had around my neck." Elena repeated. "No wonder she could get to me, she had a perfect gateway, this necklace kept her alive when she was in the middle but me I'm…I'm still human meaning it would do nothing to protect me."

"Except for the three ounces of vervain that were put inside it." I added.

She exhaled.

Bonnie tore open the black book and rummaged through the pages.

"I don't have anything that goes back before Mystic Falls, or even at least before her." She said.

"Does Stefan know about this?" Bonnie asked.

Elena shook her head.

"I would prefer to keep it that way for now." She said.

Bonnie looked over at me again like it was my fault that Elena didn't want him to know.

"Well it looks like Katherine was never fully honest with me." I said.

"It was you, wasn't it?" Elena asked.

"What?" I replied.

"She transitioned off of your blood." Elena said.

The words hit down deep and I had no words to say.

"She drank your blood, and it was her way of marking you." Elena guessed.

Suddenly I flashed back to the night I met Katherine.

We were sitting out in the garden, deep in the woods. She looked at me weird and suddenly her eyes were staring mine down.

You're not going to run. She told me.

I remembered staring at her.

Run from what? I asked.

Then she jumped on me.

At fist I thought she was messing with me but then I had realized I hit my arm on the rock when she jumped, blood was running down my arm.

She reached over and touched it with her hand and then brought it to her mouth. The veins around her eyes were pulsing and bulging from her ivory skin.

Then she grabbed my arm and started to drink.

I passed out and when I was passed out I heard her saying that I was hers know and that we could all be together. All? I remembered thinking.

Then when I awoke she told me everything and I believed every word.

"I know what she wants." I said, breaking the silence.

"What?" Elena asked.

"She wants me and Stephan." I said. "She wanted us to be together forever." I said mocking her words.

Elena looked at me.

"She thinks I stole you both from her?"

I nodded my head.

Bonnie dropped the necklace on the table and interrupted our thoughts.

"It needs to be destroyed." She said. "I blocked some of the doorways that were used but it won't hold off. Elena you can't wear this necklace without risking your life." She said.

"But I can't go without it either, she could come to me and compel me or even worse kill me." Elena said reaching for the necklace back.

"No." I shouted.

I couldn't believe I was doing this, every thought in my head was yelling at me to not do this but I couldn't help it. I loved her.

I slid my ring off my finger.

Elena gasped.

This was the stupidest thing I had ever done I was removing the thing that kept me alive… in a rival's house, I could have easily been killed.

I looked down at Elena's shocked eyes and grabbed her hand.

I slid the ring in place on her middle finger. She looked up at me.

"Damon I can't wear your-" I cut her off

"Yes you can, you need it." I told her.

Her eyes twinkled and she smiled.

"Thank you." She said.

Bonnie handed me the necklace. I quickly pulled away.

"The vervain isn't in it anymore." She said.

Oh.

I grabbed it.

"Thank You." I told her with a meaningful expression.

She looked up at me and smiled with a real smile.

"Your welcome."

She glanced towards Elena and at the ring.

She couldn't believe that I did it either.

I huffed and turned on my heal out the door. Elena followed.