Elena was sitting in the living room, and she was really angry. Thanks to her best friend, she was stuck inside the house and couldn't leave. Not to mention, her other friends were missing as well. Stefan was stuck in the tomb with Katherine, Bonnie was trying to figure out how to unspell the moonstone, and who knew what Damon was up to?

"I can't believe I'm locked in my own house." She said into the phone.

"I hate to say this, but you probably deserve it. Rose told me all about your suicide mission."

"Yeah, but the worst part is that I though Bonnie understood. I don't want anyone else to die because of me."

"Elena, I understand. But you can't die on us, either." Maria sighed on the other end of the line. "I've only been gone for like, a day or two, and everything's falling apart for you guys."

"Yeah, we're all trying to work things out here." Elena told her.

"How's everyone doing?"

"Well, my boyfriend's locked in the tomb with his psycho ex-girlfriend, and everyone else has disappeared on me today. After Bonnie spelled me into the house, she's been out."

"I'll try to make it back soon. But I need to take care of things here first." Maria told her.

"Good luck with everything." Elena said.

"Same to you guys. And please don't try to get yourself killed before I get back."

"Don't worry, I won't." Maria hung up after she finished talking.

Back in the house, Damon showed up. "You should really lock your door. Oh, come on pouty. Just give me two points for ingenuity."

"You think this is funny?" Elena snapped at him.

"Yes, Elena. I find hilarity in the lengths that I have to go to repeatedly save your life." He shot back.

"What does Stefan say about this?"

"Pretty good laugh."

"And what did he say about Elijah still being alive?" Elena asked. Damon sat next to her.

"Yeah, that... I didn't tell him." He said.

"Why not?"

"Well A: he can't do anything about it, and B: what I just said."

"Well, since you're enjoying this so much, you'll be happy to know Maria's on your side with this one." Elena told him.

"Speaking of, how's that half-witch doing?" He asked.

"She's busy, but she seems to be okay." Elena told him. She'd noticed he'd gotten a little more stressed since she left. "You don't need to be worried about her. Being a vampire who can also do magic, I'm sure she can handle herself."

"I'm not worried about her." Damon told her. That was a lie. He knew he cared about her like a sister, anyway. "She's not the one on a suicide mission."

"We've been over this already, Damon." Elena said. Jeremy came into the room just then.

"Where's Bonnie?" Damon asked.

"I thought she was meeting you." Jeremy told him.

"No, she's on moonstone duty and I'm on Elena patrol." Damon explained.

"And who's on Tyler Lockwood and the full moon?"

"Vampire Barbie asked me if she can handle this and why not? Because if she screws up he'll bite her and then I'll be rid of two of my problems." Damon said.

"Hold on a second. Tonight is a full moon?" Elena asked.

"Yeah, but you were too wrapped up in your suicidal tendencies to notice." He told her. His phone rang, so he answered it.

"I wonder what she'd think if she found out about this." Jeremy told Elena.

"I think she'd tell Caroline to go for it, anyway. I mean, since she's friends with him and everything." Elena told him.

"Change of plans. I'm going out. You watch her." Damon said. He got up. "Hey, you know. You should get out, enjoy the sun. Oh, wait. You can't." Elena threw one of the couch pillows at him. Jeremy started laughing, so she pushed him off of her.

After his confrontation with Jules at the Grill, Damon headed back to the Boarding House and locked the door. He went into the library to find Rose waiting. "You just can't stay away, can you?" He said. He was still angry about her running off the other day.

"You don't answer your phone." She pointed out.

"What do you want?"

"I wanted to apologize."

"Just admit it, you don't have anywhere else to go." He pointed out.

"I'm sorry about Elena. I wasn't thinking straight. I didn't know she had a death wish but I called you, I tried to make it right, okay?" Rose told him. "I'm sorry, Damon. And I have nowhere else to go."

"There's nothing for you here, Rose."

"That's not true. I promised Maria I'd help you three." She told him. "Of course, that was before I knew about Elena's true intention. Still, I've never betrayed a friend before and I'm not going to start now."

"You know…" Suddenly, they heard a crash and went into the living room. A wolf was there. It rushed over to them. Rose pushed Damon out of the way. It jumped on her and bit her in the shoulder. She screamed in pain.

Damon picked up the sword and stabbed the wolf with it. It ran from the room, escaping from them. He turned to Rose, who was still lying on the ground. "How bad is it?"

"It hurts." She told him. They looked at it and were surprised as it began to heal.

"It's healing."

"Oh my God, I thought a werewolf bite was fatal and I thought…" Damon held Rose as she cried. A few hours later, she calmed down and sat with him in the living room.

"I talked to Caroline. She said Tyler was all locked up." He told her.

"So it was Jules. The other werewolf, the one who attacked you."

"Yeah. I'm sorry. I picked a fight with her. She was coming after me."

"It's okay. Besides, promise or no promise, I would've taken the hit either way." Rose told him.

"Really? Why?"

"Because you're my friend." Rose said. "It's that simple."

"You two are a lot alike, you know." Damon told her. "You and Maria, I mean."

"That's not surprising, we've known each other for a while. Once I ran into her at the Botanic Gardens. Turned out we were both there for research projects." The two of them talked for a few minutes, before she felt a pain in her shoulder. Damon looked at it to find it looking infected, to their surprise.