"So, you're just giving up on him, is that it?" Amy asked from the doorway of Damon's room.

"We've been over this, Amelia. Stefan's gone, and I don't just mean metaphorically," he replied, pulling the papers down from his closet.

Amy gestured her hand while speaking as he walked further into his room. "True, but you also told me more about the Emery girl. If you claim his love for Elena was that strong then you can use that."

"You're grasping at straws," Damon shot back. "You don't know what you're doing."

Amy tried to just let that 'fly away'. "Maybe so, but it's because of you that the only person who was able to ever get him to turn his humanity back on is dead. Thanks for that, by the way."

Damon threw the papers into the fireplace, sighing. "I'm sorry, Amy. Okay? I'm sorry."

"Yeah, well, sorry isn't going to bring Lexi back and it's not going to get Stefan to put his switch back on. I owe Lexi to try and whether or not you want to admit it, so do you." Amy turned around to take her leave, adding in, "I'm not giving up on your brother, whether or not you do." She just about made it out the door before turning around to say, "You know what I don't get? Even if you don't think Stefan can be saved...what about the girl? Isn't she worth anything?" Amy raised her brow before finally walking out of the room.

Damon clenched his fist before forcefully igniting a match and throwing it into the fireplace.


The Salvatore house wasn't the only stop on Amy's list that day. She found out Alaric's address from Jeremy after being informed that he moved back to his apartment. Amy didn't bother calling first and just went ahead to knock on his door, and continued to knock until he answered. The sight of his shirtless self caught Amy by surprise, but a pleasant one. After all she did, as the kids say, swung both ways. "Wow."

Alaric cleared his throat as he fixed his pants. "You're not who I was expecting."

Getting to the reason why she came there, she got right to it. "I need you to tell me everything you know about Stefan and the Emery girl, so I can see what matches up with my info and find out what I don't already know. If Damon's not going to try and find them anymore, I will."

Alaric looked confused. "Finding Stefan I get, but why Emery?"

"I owe someone who cares about her a favor. Let's just leave it at that," Amy replied. "So, are you going to tell me or not?"

Alaric scoffed, "Ask Damon."

"He's not in much of a talking mood. You know with the dead, fake girlfriend and all." When Alaric walked away from the door, Amy tried to get in but failed. "Are you going to invite me in or is this something you're comfortable with me shouting from the doorway?" She raised her hands and looked at him with a 'really now?' expression.

Alaric sighed, "Come on in."

Amy smiled a pleased little smile and entered the apartment, closing the door behind her. "As far as asking Damon goes, I've tried, but he won't budge. Which is weird if you ask me, but whatever. You two are obviously friends so I bet whatever he knows, you know. So spill the beans or do I have to compel it out of you?"

"I'm on vervain," Alaric retorted as he pulled on a shirt.

"Okay, then I'll torture it out of you." Amy grinned after saying that.

Alaric pulled a couple beer bottles from the fridge an after opening one, he handed it to her. "It's not safe to go after them, Amy. Stefan's off the rails, Klaus is Klaus and going after Emery, as much as I hate to say it, isn't a good idea either."

"Klaus is going after werewolves and Emery is one. Do you really think her being with them is safer than attempting a rescue mission?" Amy scoffed at that before sipping her beer.

Alaric scratched the back of his head and sighed. "Okay, I'll tell you what I know if you tell me exactly why you're so invested in Emery."

Amy took a long drink before answering. "Fine. I had a run in with a wolf pack awhile back. My traveling companion at the time wanted to mess with them and I got caught up in it. The Alden wolf let me go on the condition that I owed them one. And I always pay back my debts."

After taking a drink he asked, "Why did they let you go?"

"That's a story for another time. So, do I tie you up and wait for the vervain to leave your system, torture you, or the easy route and you just tell me everything I want to know?" Amy smiled sweetly as she propped her elbows on the counter and placed her chin on top of her laced hands. "Your choice."

Alaric sighed. "You know, there is an even easier way."

Amy looked intrigued. "Such as?"

"You can pour me a drink," he replied, sliding onto one of the kitchen stools then added with a glare, "Save the bondage until after the second bottle."

Amy grabbed a couple bottles of whiskey from the counter and planted one right in front of him. As she sat across the counter from him she said, "You know, having a drink with a living drunk guy is a step up from a cup of coffee with two dead girls."

They clinked their bottles of whiskey after that then Amy asked, "Now spill it, mister."

Alaric took one long drink before telling Amy what she wanted to know and then some.


Emery still couldn't believe that Ray had revealed the packs location and that once Ray woke up he was going to transition into a hybrid. This hike through the Smoky Mountains was starting to get tedious and it worried her with every step as to whether or not Klaus was going to try and turn her as well. She was pulled from her thoughts when Klaus spoke.

"Are you alright?" Klaus asked Stefan. "Ray getting too heavy for you?"

"I'm fine," Stefan replied as he carried Ray over his shoulders.

"You sure about that?" Klaus further inquired. "You know, we've been walking for some time now." He looked back to Emery and asked, "How about you, Pup? Need a break?"

"Like you care," Emery spat back.

Klaus looked at her in mock offense. "Oh, but I do. You're Stefan's girl, therefore I must worry for your well being. So if either of you need a sit down, or some water...a few minutes alone?" He added the last part in with a wiggle to his eyebrows.

Emery was beyond irritated at this point. "Klaus, I get that we're all stuck together but can we please skip the chitchat? If we could that'd be awesome."

Klaus sighed and softly chuckled. "You two were made for one another. So much brooding, a touch of self loathing, and palpable sexual tension that is even making me blush."

Stefan could tell that Emery was about to lose it, so he chimed in. "Maybe it's because we're both a little tired of hunting werewolves. We've been at it all summer. Not much time for fun."

"Thanks to our friend, Ray, we've found ourselves a pack," Klaus replied as they walked around the bend. At the sight of the camp being set, he grinned. "There."

Emery stopped dead in her tracks because she recognized at least one of them from her travels with Vivian a few years back. Only it wasn't any of the wolves...it was the human.

As Stefan presented Ray's body on the ground to them, Emery stepped back. "I can't be here for this..."

"And yet, you are." Klaus grabbed her arm and joined Stefan with her.

"Who are you?" a female asked Stefan.

"The more important question is, who am I." Klaus replied as they joined them. "Please forgive the intrusion. My name is Klaus." During his introduction, he pushed Emery Stefan's way for him to deal with.

The woman stepped back saying, "You're the hybrid."

Klaus smirked. "You've heard of me. Fantastic."


Blair hadn't slept that soundly since Elena's death. It was a strange feeling for her to wake up and actually feel rested. That rested feeling didn't last for long when she realized she was in Tyler's arms and sat up with a jolt. Looking around, she saw that Caroline wasn't there and neither were her clothes.

"Morning," Tyler greeted with a sleepy grin. "Sleep well?"

"Caroline left," Blair replied, as she got up to get her clothes together.

"She probably left last night." Tyler rolled out of bed and pulled on a pair of boxers.

Blair was not as calm as he was being in that moment. "She didn't wake me, Tyler. What if she's freaking out about what happened?"

Tyler chuckled. "I didn't hear anyone complaining."

Blair glared at him with her 'not funny' expression.

He saw this and sighed. "Blair, calm down, okay? She probably didn't wake you so you could actually sleep."

"And what if that wasn't the reason?" Blair retorted, pulling on her bra and shirt.

"Then you'll deal with it. We'll deal with it," Tyler replied. He walked over to her and said, "You know Caroline, if she had a problem she'd say something."

Blair tried to see it that way and just nodded in reply.

Tyler thought for a moment and winced. "We have another problem..."

Her shoulder's slumped when she heard that. "What is it, now?"

"How are we going to sneak you past my mom? She's probably been up for awhile," he replied.

Blair had a literal facepalm moment because she didn't even think about that until right then. Finally, she came to a decision. "I'm not even going to try to sneak out." and with that notion in mind, she turned around and walked out of Tyler's room.

"What?" he called after her, grabbing some clothes and quickly pulling them on as he did.

By the time he made it to the bottom of the stairs he was fully dressed and they walked into the living room together.

Carol looked shocked to see Blair walking in with him. "You were here too?"

"That a problem?" Blair asked in reply, baiting her.

Carol looked as if she had no idea what to say, so she just said, "Coffee's hot." Before the teens had entered the room she poured some vervain in the coffee to test them.

Tyler proceeded to pour himself and Blair a cup as his mom said, "Well, at least one of the girls had the tact to not sneak out like a prostitute."

Tyler could tell that Blair was about to shoot back with some remark and since he didn't want to start anything with his mom that morning, he gave Blair the cup of coffee and said, "Drink."

Blair grumbled and took a sip but almost gagged at the taste. "Yuck, that's disgusting."

"Be nice," Tyler replied and took a sip himself but also thought it was disgusting. "Oh man, yeah, that is disgusting. I think the cream is bad." Figuring they should get out of there, he looked at his mom and said, "Don't wait up tonight." After giving Carol a peck on the cheek, he grabbed Blair's hand and practically pulled her out the door.

Blair stopped to turn around and say, "For the record, Caroline isn't a prostitute," then continued out the door with Tyler.

When the kids were gone, Carol let out a breath of relief. Yes, Vivian told her that Tyler and Blair weren't vampires, but she had to see for herself. Since they passed the test, it was time to make a call. Carol picked up the phone and dialed. When the person on the other end answered, she said, "Bill, hi, it's Carol Lockwood. There's a bit of a vampire situation that needs your attention..."


It was Jeremy's day off from work but he headed into the Grill anyway. After walked into the back room he spotted Chris changing into his work attire.

Unknown to them, Chris broke away from Vivian at the beginning of the summer. Due to the fear of what she might actually do as a result, he didn't tell anyone who he really was but that didn't stop him from making a life. He got in with the little 'pack' that consisted of Blair and Tyler, got a job at the Grill, and everyone in the 'circle' knew what he was and that he knew what they were. After a rocky start at the beginning of the summer, he was now a part of the 'Scooby Gang'.

Chris laughed when he saw Jeremy walk in. "Did you forget it was your day off or something?"

"No, I actually wanted to talk to you," Jeremy replied then looked around to make sure no one else was back there.

Chris adjusted his shirt and walked over to him. "What's up?"

"You know anything about witches?" was Jeremy's reply.

Chris crossed his arms and nodded. "I dated one once and learned a thing or two. Why?"

"Because I think Glory teleported into my room last night and cast a spell on me to see ghosts." Jeremy's answer was quick because he was afraid if he wasn't that he might sound crazy.

"Sounds like astral projection to me," Chris answered with an affirmative nod. "And as far as ghosts go, yeah that doesn't surprise me. I bet your witch picked you for the spell because of the ring. You've been dead, technically, so it makes you prime Medium material."

Jeremy wasn't going to ask how he knew all that and was just gonna sum it up to because he dated a witch. "For the record, Glory isn't my witch. I want nothing to do with her, but that's not the point. I saw a ghost, a ghost of my dead girlfriend and she said help me." As he went into his bag he continued. "I found a whole bunch of this stuff on the web about contacting ghosts...but we need a personal item."

Chris was starting to look a bit on the confused side. "And you're telling me this, why?"

"Want to help me convince Matt to get something of hers?" Jeremy grinned as innocently as he could.

"Matt? As in the the token human in this town who's been compelled to remember nothing about the supernatural?" Chris raised his brow in an 'are you serious?' way.

Jeremy winced a little. "I hadn't really thought about that."

"No biggie, I'll just steal something," Chris replied like was nothing.

"Dude, seriously?" Jeremy was surprised to hear that.

Chris shrugged. "Sure. It wouldn't be the first time." He pat Jeremy's arm in an 'I got this' manner before heading to work.


Amy and Alaric went to the Grill and while he was getting something to drink and Blair went to the bathroom, Amy cornered Tyler at his table. "Hello, Mr Lockwood," she greeted.

Tyler furrowed his brow in question. "Do I know you?"

"No, but you have information that I need. Alaric and I are going on a little Emery rescue mission. So, you can tell me what I need to know or I'll ask her sister which will make her want to come along and..." Amy was cut mid sentence when Tyler spoke.

"Whoa, slow down. I don't want Blair in harm's way so I'll tell you, okay?" Tyler then asked, "What do you need to know?"

"I need a location of where a wolf pack might gather in Tennessee," she replied.

Tyler held out his hand. "Give me your phone. I'll pull up a map." Amy did as he asked and he entered the coordinates. Once the map was up, he handed it back. "That it?"

"Yeah, just one more thing." Amy grabbed Tyler by the shirt and yanked her up so she could look him in the eye. "Stefan and Emery are in this mess because you couldn't control yourself and bit Damon. Learn to control your wolf, kid." Amy dropped him back into his seat then walked over to the bar to speak with Alaric.

"You learn anything?" Alaric asked, chuckling.

"Oh yeah." Amy slid on the stool next to him and grinned. "How about a little hike through the Smoky Mountains, hot stuff?"

"Hot stuff?" Alaric asked then shook his head. "Forget that. You want to hunt down a pack of werewolves on a full moon? You do realize you're a vampire, right?"

"I'm fully aware of what I am, thank you very much. And I'm not stupid enough to stick around during the full moon." Amy moved from her seat and held up her hands as she backed away saying, "I'm going whether you come along or not. You're choice."

Alaric rubbed his face with a groan. "Do always get your way?"

Amy tapped her lips in thought before grinning. "Ever since the late 1700's."

Alaric sighed and tossed her his car keys. "You're driving."

"Well, duh," she replied and led the way out of the Grill.


Emery was forced to sit down on a boulder next to Stefan as Klaus did his spiel to the pack.

"It's fascinating, isn't it?" Klaus said to the group. "A werewolf who isn't beholden to the moon, a vampire who doesn't burn in the sun. A true hybrid."

Ray gasped awake in that moment and Emery rushed over to him.

Klaus looked amused. "Excellent timing, Ray. Very dramatic."

Ray looked at Emery, worried. "What's happening to me?"

Klaus looked at his vampire companion. "Stefan."

Stefan knew what that meant and went over to Emery, to pull her away from Ray.

Emery snarled at Stefan and pulled herself back. "Screw you!" she shouted and went back to Ray's side.

Stefan looked at Klaus with an 'oh well' shrug then asked, "Are any of you human? Your friend here needs human blood to complete his transition to vampire. If he doesn't get it, he will die."

Emery tried to comfort Ray as best she could, but she couldn't even imagine what he was going through and prayed she'd never have to find out.

Klaus picked up where Stefan left off. "It doesn't take much. Just a sample." Rising to his feet, he asked "Anyone? A boyfriend, a girlfriend along for the ride?" Klaus looked around and his eyes stopped on one of the young men. "You."

"No!" Emery cried out as Klaus bit into his arm and threw him to Stefan. She ran over to Stefan to try and get him away, but Stefan shoved her to Klaus. Emery's eyes turned golden and she tried to get out of Klaus' grasp but to no avail.

Stefan had the human pinned to the ground. "If you don't drink it I will. Problem is, I don't know how to stop."

"It's the new order," Klaus said to the group. "You join us, or die." He leaned down a little to whisper into Emery's ear, "Even you, Pup, if you don't start to behave." When Emery stopped fighting back he let her go and moved to another wolf. After he forced that wolf to drink his blood and snapped their neck, he looked around and asked, "Ok, who's next?" with his hybrid smile.


"She's not answering my calls," Blair said to Tyler as they played another game of pool.

"If she's freaked then give her space. She'll call when she's ready," Tyler replied as he took his shot.

Chris went over to them with a pot of coffee in his hand. "Where's your other Musketeer?" he asked as he poured them each a mug full.

"She's avoiding my calls because of our threesome," Blair answered.

"Blair!" Tyler exclaimed, really not wanting that information out there.

Chris grimaced a bit. "Yeah, I didn't want or need to know that. If it helps I haven't seen her around. Which is weird since tonight's the full moon."

"That doesn't help," Blair replied snarkily and took a sip of the coffee with a gag. "What the hell is wrong with the coffee?"

Chris sniffed it and looked grossed out. "Sorry, I didn't mean to grab the vervain pot."

"That's what vervain tastes like?" Blair asked then looked at Tyler. After he took a sip he nodded to confirm that it was the same taste as this morning.

Chris looked between them and asked, "Why?"

"We had some vervain coffee this morning," Tyler replied.

"His mom served it to us," Blair added.

Chris' posture straightened a bit. "I'll make a new pot for you guys." After he went into the back room, he pulled out his cell and quickly dialed. "What did you do?"

Vivian, on the other end of the line, smiled. "I'm afraid you're gonna have to be more specific, dear."

"What did you do to Caroline?!" Chris all but screamed into the phone.

"Oh, Christopher, did you really think you and Liz could run amok without any consequences?" After letting that sink in for a moment she said, "Ta-ta" and ended the call.

Chris gripped the phone so tightly that he almost broke it after Vivian hung up. He knew that she was far from the best person in the world, but he honestly never expected anything like this.


Amy and Alaric hiked through the Smoky Mountains towards Tyler's coordinates. As they walked, Alaric said "In a few hours the full moon is going to be right above that ridge. If Tyler's coordinates are right, that's where they'll be."

"Were you a boy scout?" Amy asked in an almost teasing tone.

"Shut up," he replied.

Amy smiled. "A boy scout slash vampire slayer slash whiskey drinker. No wonder I like you."

Alaric scoffed a chuckle "You forgot all around lost cause."

Amy scoffed. "I don't believe in lost causes. Not anymore."

They stopped for a water break but that wasn't the only thing Alaric packed in his bag. He pulled out a liquid grenade and handed it to Amy. "Here, put this in your bag."

"You really think it's a good idea for me to carry around a vervain grenade?" There was no way she was gonna touch that.

"It's wolfsbane," Alaric corrected.

Amy's expression instantly went to 'oh, in that case' and she slipped it into her pack. Looking at Alaric's hand she asked, "Family heirloom?" referring to the ring.

"No. Actually, Emery gave it to me before she was taken. It belonged to her father. It's spelled to protect the human wearer against the supernatural," he explained.

"So if I ever get too hungry and drain your blood it'll be okay? Good to know." Amy winked and set her backpack down to pull out one of the blood bags she brought along.

Alaric watched her down the bag of blood in what looked like one gulp. With a grin he said, "You are one terrifying woman."

"Aww, thanks. But flattery will get you nowhere. Unless I'm drunk again, then it will get you everywhere," she teased as she slipped the empty blood back into one of the pack's pockets."For amusement's sake, why exactly do you think you're a lost..." The ending of Amy's sentence was replaced with a shriek as she was thrown into the nearby lake. Of course, the one time she lets her guard down, something like this happens.

Amy shot out of the water with a pissed off expression when she saw who had thrown her. "Damon! What? How are you even here?"

Damon looked back to Alaric. "Thanks for the tip, brother."

Upon realization of what had happened, Amy's once American accent turned into a quite thick British one upon saying, "You wanker!"

Alaric moved next to Damon and called back to her. "I get we don't know each other very well, but did you really think I was going to take you into a mountain range full of werewolves on a full moon without any backup?"

"I'm a vampire, Alaric! I can handle myself!" Amy shouted back in her American accent and emphasized that point when she sped out of the water and proceeded to throw both Alaric and Damon into it. When they both shot up to the surface, Amy crossed her arms. "Any questions?"


Emery sat against a tree in fuming silence as Klaus went through each member of the pack to turn them into a hybrid. Ray had finally finished feeding off the human, off of Tim. When Klaus finished healing Tim, Emery went over to him.

"Hey, Timmy boy," Emery softly greeted as she wiped some blood from his mouth.

"I thought that was you," he replied, smiling then whispered, "I'm not afraid."

Emery grabbed hold of his hand and gave it a squeeze. "I know, Tim. But that's okay. I'm afraid enough for the both of us." Since Klaus had compelled Tim to relax, Emery moved away from him and over to Ray. Ray was freaking out.

"They're dead. They're all dead." He looked at Emery and asked, "Why aren't you dead?"

"Klaus isn't going to turn me," she replied, sitting on the boulder next to him.

"Lucky you," he shot back in sarcasm.

Ray was still shaking and looked very ill. This made Emery look at Klaus, asking "Why isn't he well yet?"

"He's through his transition," Klaus replied, joining them. "He should be feeling better soon."

That didn't ease her mind because Ray was still shaking.

Stefan leaned against a nearby tree, asking "So is this your master plan? To build an army of hybrid slaves?"

"No, not slaves," Klaus retorted. "Soldiers, comrades."

Emery scoffed "For what war?"

"You don't arm yourself after war as been declared, Pup," he replied, simply enough. "You build your army so big that no one ever dares pick the fight."

"What makes you so sure that they'll be loyal?" Stefan asked.

"Well, it's not difficult to be loyal when you're on the winning team." Klaus smiled then added, "That's something you'll learn when you shake that horribly depressive chip off your shoulder."

While Klaus and Stefan were doing their back and forth, Emery was watching Ray. Something was wrong, she knew it even before the blood starting coming out of his eyes. "I don't think this is supposed to happen!" Emery shouted loud enough to interrupt them.

Klaus turned his attention to Ray and moved his head to face him as he answered Stefan's question of why Klaus was keeping him around. "You'll know why I'm keeping you around when I've decided that I want you to know." Going back to Ray he stated, "You're right, Pup. Something's wrong."

Stefan decided to check Ray out as well. Upon seeing him, he said "Huh, that's not supposed to happen, is it?" That's already been established and he knew it, but said it anyway to get under Klaus' skin.

Klaus glared at him for a moment before answering. "Well, obviously."


After Damon and Alaric got out of the water, Damon shook out his hair as he said to Amy, "Yeah, I have a question. Why are you acting like a child?"

Amy mockingly mouthed Damon's word and imitated him in reply, making Alaric say "Right now, you're both acting like children."

"I'm not acting like a child, Damon. I'm doing what you refuse to do because you gave up on your brother." Before Amy could add more to that statement, Damon cut her off.

"I did not give up on him, Amelia. I face reality." Damon picked up her pack and thrust it at her. "Now let's go."

"You seem to forget that I am older, stronger, and faster than you. I can run out of here in the blink of an eye and you wouldn't be able to catch me," Amy retorted, shoving the bag away from her. "But you want to talk about reality? Let's talk reality. Not only have you turned your back on finding your brother, but you refuse to even try and save Blair's sister. What's up with that, Damon? I've heard all about your little love story with the Cursed One, so please, explain why you won't do this for her."

Damon gave Alaric a glare, figuring he was the one that told Amy about himself and Blair, then finally answered. "Blair has already lost one sister. I would much rather give her the hope that her other one is still alive than find evidence of the contrary or find out that Klaus did something else to her. It would break her. Ignorance, right now for Blair, is bliss."

Amy stared at Damon blankly, the only thing that moved on her face were her eyelids as they blinked. Finally she burst out laughing. "Damon, that has to be the stupidest thing I have ever heard." She shook her head, laughing and picked up her bag from the ground. "Wow...just wow..."

When Amy walked away from the, Alaric called out "Where are you going?"

She turned around and started walking backwards, saying "I'm going to try and be the hero this time. Let's see what happens." She held up her hands and shrugged in a 'what's the harm?' way and kept on walking.

Damon clenched his fists, saying, "Fine! But we are out of here before the moon is full!" and charged off after her.

Alaric seriously couldn't believe what had just happened. "Seriously, does she ever not get her way?" he said to himself and followed after them.


Ray was going downhill and fast. He was full on shivering, the blood continued to come from his eyes, and his complexion was paler than Casper. "You said it was going to get better. Why isn't it getting better?" Ray barely got the words out as he shook.

Emery rubbed his arms, doing what little she could to warm him up. Yeah, she knew that vampires had a colder than normal body temp but Ray felt like an ice block.

Klaus didn't have an answer for him and crossed his arms in silence.

"Some master race," Stefan said snarkily as he leaned against the tree.

"Lose the attitude," Klaus replied, not wanting to hear it. When the female werewolf awoke, Klaus looked over at Tim. "Tim, come feed your girlfriend."

Tim rose to his feet to stand near Klaus to proceed to do as he was told.

Ray snarled at Klaus and in a quick motion he threw Emery onto his back and took off into the woods with her.

Emery had no idea what the hell was going on, so she just held on tight until she had time to react.

Stefan was just as shocked of the turn of events and looked at Klaus in a 'what are we gonna do about that?' way.

Klaus simply answered, "Go get them."

Without another thought, Stefan took off.

Ray ran with Emery for a bit before stopping. She got off his back and asked, "Ray, what is going on?"

Ray just growled in reply. All words were lost to him. The growl turned to a snarl when Stefan appeared and pinned Ray to the ground. Ray was fast and strong so he managed to bite Stefan in the arm before taking off without Emery this time.

Emery rushed over to Stefan and almost freaked but then remembered. "Bright side, you're on the walking cure's team."

"Funny," he replied sarcastically through a wince of pain. "Did he say anything to you?"

Emery shook her head. "That'd be a no...he's rabid Stefan. I don't know how else to explain it. It's like...he's more animal now. This isn't right."

Stefan brought his hand to her face and gently cupped it. "I know," he said softly. "I know." His attention was heard elsewhere when he heard Damon's voice and an all too familiar voice of his past.

Emery recognized his listening face. "What do you hear?"

Stefan didn't get a chance to answer before Klaus joined them asking, "Where did he go?"

"He got away," Stefan answered quickly and tried to divert the direction elsewhere. "Let's go get him."

Klaus grabbed onto Stefan's arm as he tried to pass. "A fatal werewolf bite, ouch."

"He's going to need your blood," Emery interjected, stating the obvious.

Klaus looked at them and smirked. "Well, I tell you what. Find Ray, then you can have my blood."

Stefan scoffed. "You can't be serious."

"You two better hurry, that bite looks nasty," Klaus replied. "It doesn't matter who finds him first, but one of you will."

As Klaus walked off Emery and Stefan looked at each other in slight worry. Not wasting another minute they both took off to try and find Ray.


Blair and Tyler both agreed that they had to confront his mom about the vervain. If she had something to do with Caroline being MIA then they had to know. As a united front, they both went to his house and found Carol in the office. Tyler was the first to speak. "You put vervain in the coffee this morning, why?"

Carol acted like she had no idea what he was talking about. "Vervain? What?"

Blair's patience was running very thin. "How about we just skip the part where we pretend we don't know about the vampires in this town. Because that'd save us so much time."

Carol's expression dropped at that.

"You were testing us," Tyler continued,. "though Blair was probably unintentional, but you tested us nonetheless to see if we were vampires. I want to know why."

Carol tapped her hands on the back of the chair before answering. "You've been spending so much time with Caroline. You both have. I had to know for sure."

Blair did not like where this was going and her mind went to the worst possible place. "What did you do to Caroline?"

"Neither of you should be with her," Carol replied, grabbing her pearls nervously. "I can't control you, Blair, but I can't let my son be with her. I won't allow it." Her tone was quite emotional in that moment.

Tyler walked closer to his mom, asking with a raised tone, "What did you do with her? Where is she?"

Carol wasn't going to answer that question. "She's a monster!"

Blair shouted, "She's a monster?! Wait until you see me if something happens to her!" She wanted to charge for her but Tyler stopped her and asked, "You don't know about me, about us, do you?"

Vivian left out that little werewolf detail, so no. Carol had no idea what Tyler was talking about. "Know what?" When he didn't answer, she looked at Blair and asked, "Know what?"

Neither of them gave a reply other than an 'I can't believe this' kind of scoff.


"We have about a mile left," Alaric stated as they continued their hike.

"And the sun is setting," Damon added.

Amy sighed and answered in a sing-songy tone "I can see that, Damon." In her normal tone she continued with "But the moon doesn't reach its apex for awhile. We have time."

Twigs snapped nearby, causing the group to stop. Alaric raised his crossbow towards the sound and watched as a man, as Ray, walked out of the trees. Ray locked onto Amy and snarled before attacking her. She defended but still managed to get pinned against a tree. "Psycho werewolf is stronger than he looks!" she shouted, trying to keep his fangs as far away from her as possible.

Alaric fired a bolt into Ray's back but that didn't deter him. Damon acted by getting the wolfsbane grenade and ran over to break it in Ray's face.

Ray cried out as he fell to the ground in writhing pain.

Alaric rushed over to inspect Amy, asking, "Are you okay? Did he bite you?"

"I'm fine," she assured him. "I'm fine." Looking at Ray she said, "Him, not so much." Amy kicked the hybrid in the head, rendering him unconscious.

"Let me guess, hybrid." Damon looked from Ray to Amy, asking, "Now do you see why I didn't want Blair tracking down her sister?" That wasn't the whole reason though, not by a long shot. But he wasn't about to tell Amy how he didn't want Blair anywhere near Klaus for more reasons than one.


Chris met up with Jeremy at the Gilbert house and handed over a bag of stuff. "You're on your own with the contacting her. Moon's tonight, I have stuff to do."

"Okay, thanks man," he replied, taking the bag from him.

Gesturing to the bag he explained, "I grabbed some clothes, jewelry, even a pot pipe. But since it's you trying to make contact, I'd go with the frame."

Jeremy pulled out what Chris was talking about and saw it was the only picture he and Vicki had posed for together. Taking a breath at the sight, he said, "Yeah, I think you're right."

Chris wasn't sure if Jeremy doing this alone was a good idea. "If you're willing to wait until tomorrow, I can help or something."

Jeremy shook his head. "I got this. Go take care of your wolf business."

Chris nodded in an 'okay' manner then left the house. If only there was enough time for him to track down Vivian to find Caroline before the full moon, but there wasn't. Finding her would have to wait. One thing was for sure though, Caroline better not be harmed when he did find her or Vivian would one way or another regret it.


The trio tied Ray around a tree with everything they had, including wolfsbane and vervain. It wasn't going to hold him for long and they knew it. This took so much time that they also knew they weren't going to make the ridge in time. After Alaric pointed that out, Amy replied with "If he talks, we won't have to."

Unfortunately when Ray awoke, he wasn't doing any talking. In fact, he started to shift into a werewolf.

"Is he turning?" Alaric asked, because that's sure as hell what it appeared to be. "Those ropes aren't going to hold a wolf."

"This is bad, this is very bad! Wolves aren't supposed to be in these woods until the moon apex thingy! It's still daylight!" Amy exclaimed then stepped back. "Forget it. Damon, we have to get out of these woods, now. We'll try again later." When Damon didn't seem to be too quick to move, Amy shouted, "Damon, now!"

Damon reluctantly moved his feet and the three of them got the hell out of there.

They moved as fast as humanly possibly, since Alaric was the human of the group and set the pace, but it wasn't fast enough. The sun had set and the moon, while it wasn't at its apex, hung in the sky. They skidded to a stop when the sound of growls reached their ears.

Amy gasped when a werewolf stood right in front of her. "Oh, hell."

She was about to make a run for it when Damon said, "Here, doggie, doggie," and sped off with the wolf going after him.

Amy looked towards where they ran like he was insane. "I can take care of myself!" she shouted.

"Yeah, we know," Alaric snarked as he grabbed her hand. "Now lets get out of here before another one comes after you."

Amy grumbled "Freaking sexists," but took off running down the mountain with him anyway.


Blair and Tyler each agreed that his mom had to be let in on their secret, that she had to understand. They brought her down into the cellar and to say that she was starting to freak would be an understatement. "What's going on? Will one of you please tell me?" Carol pleaded.

"Not gonna happen," Blair shot back and Tyler said more politely, "It's something you have to see for yourself."

Blair grabbed some chains and that made Carol freak out even more.

Carol watched them for a moment before exclaiming, "What are you doing?!"

"You think Caroline's a monster?" Blair shot back, gesturing to herself and Tyler she added, "We're the monsters. The Lockwoods, the Aldens, it's our curse," she explained as Tyler locked his mom in the other area, but with a clear view.

They ignored her as she kept asking what was happening because their changes were starting and they weren't fully chained yet. Not that Blair really needed to be. She had far more control over her wolf than Tyler. Blair chalked it up to having so many lives within her, that the wolf was just like controlling another one.

When they were chained, Blair grabbed onto Tyler's hand for support and they both looked at his mom with their glowing eyes and fangs as their wolves started to take form.

Carol screamed at the sight of them and moved as far back from the gate as she possibly could. She didn't even know something like was possible but she couldn't deny what she was seeing with her own two eyes.


Damon lost the wolf so he was headed back to catch up with Alaric and Amy. He didn't get too far before Ray, in his human form, leaped out of the trees and started attacking Damon. They scuffled for a bit and just when Damon thought he was done for, a wolf with dark fur lunged for Ray and pinned him to the ground.

The wolf bit into Ray's and chewed it apart before finally biting onto what it was looking for. The dark wolf bit onto Ray's heart and ripped it out of his chest. Once Ray was dead, the wolf slowly turned to face Damon.

Damon, figuring that it was going to attack him next was going to beat the wolf to it. He didn't get a chance to move a muscle before Stefan appeared.

"Don't!" he exclaimed, holding his hand out to Damon. "It's Emery. The spell that stopped Blair from turning that night triggered her curse permanently and she's not a hybrid." he quickly threw in that explanation.

Damon looked at the dark wolf that was now calmly standing next to Stefan and said to his brother, "Fancy meeting you here."

Stefan sighed. "What part of don't follow me anymore, didn't you understand?"

"I wasn't following you. I was following Amelia and she doesn't really care what you have to say," Damon replied then pointed out, "She spent all that time with Lexi. She's not going to give up on you."

"Well, she has to." Stefan shot back. "Because I'm never coming back."

"What about her?" Damon asked, gesturing to Wolf Emery. "You going to let her come back?"

Stefan looked at her before turning back to Damon. "It's not up to me." he failed to mention that it really wasn't up to her either. "So go home, Damon. And stay there this time."


Amy sat on the hood of Alaric's car and drummed her fingers. "I don't like this. I don't like it one bit. I'm a freaking vampire, so why am I acting like a helpless little human?"

"Maybe it's because you talk more game than you're willing to play?" Alaric suggested as he stood next to the car.

Amy scoffed a chuckle at that. "Yeah...that's not the first time I've been told that. Granted she was nicer about it, but still." She slid off the hood and stood in front of him. "Saying that I'm capable of doing something, even if I don't believe it, it keeps me...grounded. So to speak."

Alaric said the first thing that came to his mind. "That makes no sense."

Amy shrugged. "Does or doesn't, it's one of the few things that keeps me from going ripper."

"Talking about sex with strangers again?" Damon asked as he made his way over to them, having heard what was being said.

"I've grown out of that, thank you very much," Amy replied before inspecting him. "You bit?"

"I'm good, lets get out of here," Damon replied right before they heard a howl coming from the woods.

Amy held up her hands in an 'I'm out' manner while saying, "No argument here," as she got into Alaric's vehicle.

They went to their respective cars and headed back to Mystic falls.


Stefan had to give Emery his shirt to wear as a bit of a dress since her clothes unintentionally got shredded during her transformation. They silently walked back to camp with Ray's body, neither of them about to risk Klaus hearing what was wanting to be said.

When they arrived, Klaus was sitting all alone with the dead bodies of the wolf pack surrounding him. As Stefan laid Ray's body on the ground, Klaus explained what happened. "They went rabid. Some of them I killed but the others just...bled out." Klaus rose to his feet saying, "In the end...they're all dead."

Emery didn't like how eerily calm Klaus was being about all this and figured he was about to explode. Well, she was right.

Klaus yelled as he threw the beer bottle in his hand, shattering it against the boulder. "I did everything I was told!" He then took a breath but was still irate. "I should be able to turn them. I broke the curse. I killed a werewolf. I killed a vampire. I killed the Doppelganger. It should have worked." Changing the subject, he looked at Stefan. "You look like hell."

"Last I checked, I was dying," Stefan replied.

When Klaus looked at Ray's body, Emery said, "I killed him, He was going to rip Stefan apart. I didn't have a choice."

Stefan came to her defense by saying "We failed you. I'm sorry. Do what you need to do, but do it to me. Not her."

Klaus walked away and just when they believed he wasn't about to give Stefan his blood, he bit into his hand and filled a beer bottle with it. Holding it out to Stefan, he said "Bottoms up. We're leaving." He started walking away then looked around at the dead bodies. Turning back to them he said, "It appears you're the only comrades I have left," before walking away.

Stefan downed the blood to heal his bite before wrapping an arm around Emery. He could just imagine what she was feeling and closed his eyes as he kissed her head. "I'm so sorry," he whispered to her.

Emery bent her hand back to hold onto his for a moment before walking off to follow Klaus, with Stefan right behind her. As she walked, all she could think of was what the hell had she done to make Klaus see her as a comrade?


Back at the boarding house, Damon walked into Amy's room saying "I was wrong."

"Music to my ears," she replied with a smile. "But about what?"

"I thought Stefan was gone, but I was wrong," he clarified.

Amy got off her bed to go over to him. "You saw Stefan? How is he?"

Damon scoffed. "How do you think he is? He's an insufferable martyr that needs to get his ass kicked, but he can be saved."

Amy looked at Damon in an 'I knew it' way before asking, "And Emery?"

"She's a full blown werewolf now, who apparently didn't have to kill anyone to trigger her curse, but we'll get into that later," Damon replied. Seeing Amy's questioning expression, he said "Stefan's got her back."

Amy sat on the edge of her bed and asked, "What changed your mind?"

"You were right," Damon answered. "Love is the answer. Only, I don't think it's love for Elena, or for me." He shook his head at the history of it since once again, they were each in love with a sister. "It's for Emery." After a moment he added, "I'll help get him back...I'll help get them back."

Amy rose to her feet and placed her hands on Damon's shoulders with a smile. "It's about damn time."


Blair and Tyler awoke in the Lockwood cellar, still in their chains. Tyler was getting better as well, he didn't break out of them. Blair grabbed a blanket that they kept down there and covered herself up before they looked over at Tyler's mom.

If Carol hadn't seen it with her own two eyes, she wouldn't have believed it. Wiping the tears from her cheeks she had a change of heart. "I'll take care of it. I'll make sure nothing happens to her."

Blair felt her body relax with relief because she couldn't take it if something happened to another person that meant so much to her.

Tyler was grateful to hear that as well. "Thank you."

Blair didn't say a word and just glared at her to no end. She didn't deserve thanks after what she had done.

That morning, Carol did try to make things right but Bill wouldn't hear anything of it. He had every intention of doing what he had to do even if it meant doing it to Caroline...his very own daughter.


End Episode 2


a/n: Thanks writing buddy! :)