So questions of curiosity for my readers; whats your guys' opinion of Elijah lately? I know many distrusted him last time I asked. And what do you guys think about Matt's proposal? Should Chloe and the others take it? Or is taking the story in that new direction too much?

It was starting to get dark out, the sun was setting and temperature was dropping. We sat around for maybe ten or fifteen minutes before Derek started twitching, he was going to change back to human. I stood up to go with him but Derek nudged my leg to get me to sit back down. He didn't care about Elijah seeing it because he was a werewolf and I guessed that he didn't care about Jeremy seeing it because it would prove he can withstand a lot of pain.

I looked up at Elijah, "You could get inside again right?"

Elijah nodded, "Most likely."

"Could you grab him a change of clothes?"

Elijah nodded and got up. By the time he was back a few minutes later, Derek was laying in the grass human again. His hand wrapped around my ankle. Jeremy was ghostly pale and barely holding on to the food in his stomach. If Derek did that to intimidate him, it definitely worked. Derek took the clothes and quickly got dressed.

"What are you sick with?" Elijah asked Jeremy.

Jeremy chuckled, "You're the first person to care enough to ask that."

"That's not an answer to my question," he pointed out. "You smell different. What are you sick with?"

"I'm fine," Jeremy said.

"That's still not an answer," Elijah said.

"Maybe because I don't want to answer," Jeremy snapped.

I grabbed his arm expecting Jeremy to try to get physical, but he didn't.

"Hey, now is not the time to start something," I said to Jeremy.

Elijah looked at me, "You know what's wrong with him. Don't you?"

"I'm staying out of this as much as possible," I raised my hands.

Elijah's shoulders dropped, "You two haven't done something stupid now, have you?"

"No," Jeremy shook his head.

Elijah smelled the air again.

"Oh you did not," he shook his head. Elijah was either a really good actor or he'd figured it out. Either way, Jeremy cracked.

"I wanted it, ok?" Jeremy said.

Derek finally joined in the conversation, following Elijah's lead.

"Oh really?"

"I was the only human alright? I couldn't do it anymore."

The two finally fit the puzzle together when he said 'was.'

"Jeremy!" Elijah shouted.

Derek turned to anger, "I swear to god if you laid a hand on Chloe."

I quickly moved so I was in between them and Jeremy.

"I didn't I swear," Jeremy hid behind me.

Elijah's temper showed through for a second.

"What did you do to Tess?!"

"Nothing!" Jeremy said.

"Stop blaming him," I interrupted. "You can't change the past."

"I'm not going to try to change the past," Derek growled. "I'm going to hurt him if he hurt you."

"Nobody's been hurt," I tell them. "Leave it be."

Elijah grabbed me and Jeremy by our shoulders and yanked us to our feet.

"Alright fine," he was back to his normal calmed self. "We're going."

"What?" Derek asked.

"I'm leaving it be," he said. "We are moving until we run into Kit. I don't care if he feels good or not."

And with that we started moving, Jeremy stayed on my left away from the other two as we walked down the side of the road. He mouthed 'thank you' to me. I nodded. Derek was obviously exhausted from changing but the new found anger kept him walking. He kept glancing at me ever few minutes.

"What?" I asked finally.

"I just want to know what this child did."

I saw Jeremy twitch out of the corner of my eye, he did not like being called a child.

"I used Chloe's toothbrush," Jeremy said.

He said it convincing enough because Derek's shoulders relaxed a bit.

We walked probably another half a mile before Jeremy finally lost his stomach. He doubled over and puked. As mad as the two were at him, I could tell they were concerned when he started puking.

"Let's take a quick break," Elijah suggested.

We moved off the road for our break, it was getting too dark to stand around on the road.

"How are you feeling?" I asked Jeremy.

"About how you would expect," he said spitting to the get the taste out of his mouth.

Little bit of a time skip here.

A car came towards us and slowed down. The window rolled down.

"Need a ride?" Kit asked.

We climbed in, Elijah took the passenger seat, the rest of us were in the back. I made sure to sit in between them again so no more problems would start. Kit and Elijah chatted quietly but it was a mostly silent trip to the motel.

I held Derek back as we got out of the car a the motel.

"Please don't be mad at him," I said.

"Chloe," he sighed. "He turned himself into a werewolf because he was sick of being the only human in the house. That's not a good enough reason to do that to himself."

"Derek, please. You had nothing to do with it so let it be," I said. "Can't you at least put that positive spin on it? You didn't do it. It's not your fault."

"How could you know about this and not tell me?"

"I found out after he started getting sick," I partially lied. "He begged me not to tell anyone. He made me promise. I have to keep promises Derek or else I'm no better than the people working for the Edison Group. I can't be a liar too, I had to keep my promise."

Derek's face told me he didn't like that I made that promise but he understood. We caught up to the others and made our way up to the rooms. We had to have two rooms to fit everyone but right now they were all in one. When we came walking in, Tess and Matt were icing their injuries and Tori and Simon were having a hushed conversation by the TV. Not that anyone was seeing them, but Liz and Kyle were sitting beside Tori and Simon, listening in.