"Jesus!" Jeremy exclaimed in surprise.

"Well it's not him…you can call me Isobel," she said with a smirk.

"I remember you just fine," he said, thinking back to when he and John were taken by her a few months back. "Why are you here? How are you here for that matter?"

"Well the how it simple. I was invited in by your uncle as he was dying in the kitchen," she said easily. "And as for the why, I just wanted to see if Elena was alright."

Jeremy let the information sink in before he answered. "John…is he alive then? What happened to him? They never found a body," he said apprehensively.

"Ugh…I hate questions. But if you must know, once I was invited in, I took his body away someplace safe and did the best I could with it," she said with a shrug. "Make what you will with that information. I don't really care. Now where's Elena?"

"You can't just be all cryptic like that where….fine," he said stopping as he saw her fangs extend in anger. "Elena's safe and she's fine, but I'm not telling you where she is; I don't' trust you. Why do you even want to know anyway?"

She retracted her fangs and looked at him a moment. "I wanted to see if Katherine had killed my daughter or not. If you say she's alive and well, however, then that works for me."

"From what Elena told me, you don't care about anybody or anything but yourself…so why are you really here?" he asked. "Oh…it's your ex-husband isn't it? Making sure Katherine didn't off him either?"

With that she grabbed his neck, opened his door, and threw him into his room. "Don't presume to know anything about me. I don't care if you're Elena's brother, I will kill you if you piss me off enough," she said with a snarl.

"Hit a nerve with that one," Jeremy said.

"I was checking on Rick too, yes, but to see that his ring was in fact gone. I assume since he's all bandaged up that he doesn't have one. But I could only check from the window…" she said annoyed.

"So you're just checking in on people like a good wife and mother then?" Jeremy said testily.

Isobel looked at him in annoyance, but shook it off. "I'm done now with making sure promises are kept. Now I know for a fact what's been going on…and what I think Katherine plans to do, I want to take her down."

"And what is it that Katherine's planning anyway?" Jeremy asked curiously.

"You don't need to concern yourself with such things," she said. "But from what I overheard from you a few minutes ago was that you were tired of just being left out…not being able to help. What if I told you that you could be useful?

"And what if I told you that there was no way in hell I could trust you?" he said. If he was being honest, he really did want to see what she was getting out because he wanted to help. But he knew better than to get involved with vampires, especially this one.

"Then I'd say you're destined to just sit back and watch while the people you love die around you…not the first time for you though, huh? So I guess you're fine with that," she said, turning toward the door.

Anger flared through him at her words although she was probably right. "Damn it," he muttered. "Stop…what did you have in mind?"

"You're lucky I have GPS or you'd actually be shit out of luck right now," Bonnie said angrily as she drove her car. It was unnerving to have Katherine sitting in the passenger seat, but she insisted they retrieve the ring a.s.a.p.

"Can you seriously not even tell me what you need the rings for?"

"That's on a need to know basis," Katherine replied easily.

"Ugh….well how about what you were going to show me at the church then? Can you show me now ?" Bonnie asked, remembering what Katherine had offered before their conversation changed.

"While you're driving? For a human you don't care for your own welfare do you?" Katherine said with a chuckle. "Let's wait till we're stopped, and then I'll let you see it."

Bonnie wasn't so sure anymore if it was a good something or bad something. Either way, she wanted to be away from here soon. Thankfully the GPS system said that the house wasn't that far away. But she wasn't looking forward to getting there and running across the dead body or someone worse.

Then something occurred to her. She didn't have to actually go there to get the ring; she could call it to her when she was close enough. "We don't need to go to the house," Bonnie finally said. "If I get close enough I can just summon the ring and…"

"No. I want to go there and see the vampire on the floor and find out anything else…nice try though," Katherine said.

It was the most awkward car ride Bonnie had ever had in her life. The silence was thick, and so was the tension. She wasn't sure if Katherine would attack just for fun. But she resolved to attack back if she felt the first sign of being threatened.

"I have a question for you," Katherine finally said after a moment. "What do you think of Elena and the Salvatore's…do you think her and Stefan should be together."

The question shocked Bonnie so much she almost braked the car. "What? Why does it even matter to you? You're dead set on getting back your boys because you're a psycho bitch…" She assumed the serum was giving her a no holds bar on her words, but she didn't care. "Why do you want to know?"

"Humor me," Katherine said with a snarl.

Bonnie answered, but at the end of it wanted to kick herself because she forgot she couldn't lie. "I think she should be with someone who doesn't put her in danger or puts others' lives in danger. So no, I don't think she and Stefan should be together. I actually even think it'll end up being her and Damon in the end," she ended, throwing her hands over her mouth.

"Stupid," she moaned internally. She looked over nervously at Katherine to see her reaction, but she only laughed.

"Oh that's just funny….even her best friend can see there is something going on between them…Poor Stefan, I wonder if he sees it. Well their little development may just help me win them one brother at a time," she said triumphantly.

"We're here," Bonnie said miserably as they turned down the street the GPS instructed.

Bonnie parked on the street and got out carefully. "Let's make this quick, then."

She turned to see Katherine who was smelling around, her senses on high alert. "I should have guessed it was Isobel. No wonder she wanted to meet," she said as she walked toward the house.

"Isobel?" Bonnie said in confusion. But she shook her head and followed Katherine, who had walked around so that she was at the back door.

"Alright, your job's about done. Go get it," Katherine said, pointing at the door. "Well, I guess you can do your little summoning thing right out here. I don't want you out of my sight."

Then a thought occurred to her: she couldn't get in because she wasn't invited. And she didn't want Bonnie to do something to the ring while she was outside.

Brushing her thoughts away, Bonnie conjured up the image of the ring and started to summon it outside.

When Elena had finished her phone call, she went over the events of the past several hours, starting with Katherine's threat with Matt and ending with where Katherine sliced off a bit of her shoulder. She couldn't help but wince at that part.

Stefan gave her a comforting squeeze, but his eyes held fury. "Why would she even need that?"

"She wanted to make some Elena jerky? Who knows," Damon said angrily. "The point is that she's up to something that goes deeper than just wanting her quote, boys back."

"What I don't understand is why she felt the need to tell her story to Elena when no one else had ever even heard it," Stefan said confused.

"She said something about not wanting history to repeat itself, so knowing her story would prepare me and make her revenge sweeter or something. She's insane," she said, shaking her head.

"So she left you there by yourself after that, or did she have someone like a henchman there?" Damon suddenly asked. "We heard a man's voice on the phone and you said he wasn't helping."

She closed her eyes, bringing up the images. "It's hard to describe him at all…it's fuzzy and hazy to explain. Probably the compulsion I'm guessing, but I know for a fact who it was. It was Katherine's maker," she said, unable to say his name until the vervain kicked in to full effect.

"What? Klaus? The guy you mentioned in Katherine's story?" Stefan said in surprise. "That's too much of a coincidence."

"So she's working with him again? To what means?" Damon said, thinking out loud.

"No…the thing is, he's not. He said there was some sort of spell he had a witch do on the house that would warn him if Katherine arrived there again. That's why he popped up," she said, trying hard to remember the events. "And he said he hadn't seen her in ages, yet he knew who you guys were."

"Never seen or heard of the guy. And I wouldn't forget a name like that. It sounds like an evil Santa or something," Damon said, taking a swig out of the bottle.

Elena stood up then and surprised Damon yet again by taking the bottle out of his hand and taking a generous amount for herself. "Woo...Oh, even you could admit I needed that," she said as Stefan looked at her in surprise while Damon merely chuckled. "What sucks is that I know there's more that happened…that he told me, but I can't bring it up…it's frustrating."

"Do you remember kicking Stefan in the balls?" Damon busted out, barely able to keep the smirk off his face.

"What?" she said turning around to face Stefan full on. "I didn't did I?"

"Now isn't the time to umm talk about such things…."Stefan said uncomfortably. "We need to discuss the action. We can't just wait for her to pop up anymore and hope we're around. We need to go to her and end this; find out what she really wants."

Elena agreed, but she looked like she felt bad for apparently causing Stefan harm.

"Well she said she wants us one at a time, so let's draw straws," Damon said, crossing his arms over his chest.

"No, no, no, You can't just separate. That's when she'll get you or something. Besides, you don't know where she is," she said aloud. But Klaus does, a little voice nudged inside her. It was a random memory she remembered as she was passing out. She remembered him saying something about he already knew where she was….

"Unless we can find Klaus," she said slowly. "He seemed to have an idea where she was…Maybe she's staying somewhere he's familiar with."

"Since we can find Klaus…" Damon said shaking his head.

"What we need is more information," Stefan said sighing.

"No, what you need is more people," a voice said from the doorway. "Or possibly werewolves from what I've heard about them lately."

They each turned quick to the door and Elena's jaw dropped in shock.

"John?"

Sorry if this chapter seemed slow at all. I'm building up to something larger and I just realized that while I'm uber pumped the next season is coming up, that means I need to slowly start to bring things to their conclusion. Hopefully I can achieve that by Sept. 8th or 9th. And I apologize in advance if it goes past it. Anyways, hope you enjoy and review. Cheers!