"How are your brothers?" Klaus asked as he and Kyra walked into the Grill, "You did reunite correct?"

"Oh, yes," Kyra said with a small smile, "They're okay."

"I know they're living with you, but are they still in Mystic Falls?"

"Kayden went back to Canada to meet his 'friends' family. Jonathan is doing what he usually does, disappearing randomly." she paused, "Uh, Leo has gone to Australia to see Amie, his girlfriend. And my twin, Kayne, is around. He's everywhere. Doesn't like to stay one place for very long, you know?"

"Sounds oddly very similar to my family." Klaus said, "Rebekah likes to travel. Elijah is always disappearing. And Kol was never one to stay in one place for too long. He just lost interest in certain places." he sighed, "He loved Mystic Falls though."

Kyra scoffed, "Why?"

"Because you were here."

Kyra's phone rang and she groaned before answering it, "What?"

IN THE GILBERT HOUSE

"She has to know he's not coming back right?" Caroline asked Stefan.

"I think deep down, she has to know he won't." he replied, "This is Elena we're talking about. She feels grief more powerfully than anyone else. That's just who she is. I think her denial is the one thing that is protecting her from letting it all in."

"She cant stay like that forever."

"I know, but I don't want to be the one to break her out of it. Not until we know Bonnie is safe, not until we get Damon over here to-"

"Use the sire bond to convince her that everything's all right?"

"I'm not in denial." Elena snuck up from behind them after hearing their conversation from upstairs, "I know that he was Supernatural. But, did you see?" she paused, "His tattoo is gone. The tattoo had the spell that opened Silas' chamber. Maybe it being gone beans that he's fulfilled his supernatural purpose. Maybe he's finally back to normal. I means, it's possible, right?"

"Elena-"

"It's possible Caroline. It is. It may be minuscule but it's still hope. And I'm going to hold on to that hope for as long as I can because there is no way that my brother..." she ran her hand through her hair, "there's no way that my brother is dead." she firmly glared at them, "I'm not in denial."

Stefan and Caroline were standing on the porch talking about what to do.

"Katherine has been running from Klaus for five hundred years." Stefan told her, "That's probably why she stole the cure: she wants to bargain for her freedom."

"I just can't believe after all that, the cure is just gone."

"I know, talk about denial, you know, in my head, I have been thinking there's no way Elena was going to stay a Vampire forever..." Stefan sighed, "And now with no family."

"We can't think about that right now." Caroline smiled sadly, "We need to male plans, lists. We need a funeral or a cover story. Or a funeral and a cover story." she paused, "I should call my mom, she'll know what to do."

"We should get Matt over here."

"You're right. I will call Matt and then I will go tell my mom, and make a list or a casserole or, I don't know, whatever people are supposed to do or make in these situations." she grabbed her jacket and then froze, staring at Stefan, "What's that smell?"

"It's his body." Stefan froze when he caught a whiff of it too, "He's starting to decompose." he looked at Caroline, "Tell your mom to get Doctor Fell over here. And while you're out doing all those things you mentioned: call Kyra."

"Kyra is pretty powerful." Caroline suggested, "Maybe she'll know what to do?"

"That's exactly why I said to call her." Stefan expressed, "She's more powerful than Bonnie."

"Elena..." Meredith sighed, "It looks like Jeremy died of extreme blood loss." Elena nodded, "His neck also appears to be broken. The lack of blood explains why there's no lividity, but his muscles have tightened passed the point of rigor mortis."

"No."

"If he's left unattended to he'll start to bloat." Meredith ignored Elena's protest, trying to get a point across the gentle way, "Within a few hours, his skin will start to discolor, and-"

"No, stop!" Elena protested, "Stop, he's not dead."

"I need you to release the body to me. We'll get him to a funeral home where you and your friends can say goodbye to him."

"No! Shut up! He's not dead! Okay?" That was all it took for Elena to go crazy, and shove her into the wall, "You're all about science? Well here was your science when you used Vampire Blood to save my life, huh?"

"Elena stop it!" Stefan yelled, pulling Elena off of Meredith.

"There is no science here." Elena seemed like she started having a panic attack, but she was being dramatic, "We need magic. We have to find Bonnie." she started fighting against Stefan's arms, "Wait, no! Kyra is more powerful." she yelled, "We need Kyra. Somebody just get me Kyra!"

Klaus and Kyra strolled in the front door of the Gilbert house only to hear a whole lot of yelling.

"Elena, it looks like Jeremy died of extreme blood loss. His neck also appears to be broken. The lack of blood explains why there's no lividity, but his muscles have tightened passed the point of rigor mortis."

"No."

Klaus and Kyra looked at each other with a 'what the hell' expression.

'What the hell happened while we were gone?' Kyra mouthed to Klaus.

He shrugged, a confused expression on his features, "I dont know." he sniffed the air, "Is that a rotting body?"

Kyra used her heightened senses, "I think it is..."

"If he's left unattended to he'll start to bloat. Within a few hours, his skin will start to discolor, and-"

"No, stop! Stop, he's not dead."

"I need you to release the body to me. We'll get him to a funeral home where you and your friends can say goodbye to him."

"No! Shut up! He's not dead! Okay?" The Hybrids could hear somebody being slammed into a wall, "You're all about science? Well here was your science when you used Vampire Blood to save my life, huh?"

"Elena stop it!" they heard Stefan yell.

"There is no science here." Kyra could hear that Elena's breathing was off, but she knew the doppelganger was just being dramatic, "We need magic. We have to find Bonnie." they could hear as she struggled against somebody's arms, "Wait, no! Kyra is more powerful." she yelled, "We need Kyra. Kyra can fix this! Somebody just get me Kyra!"

Kyra looked at Klaus with an annoyed expression, and rolled her eyes before climbing up the stairs with him following directly behind her, "All right! I'm here. What do you leeches want from me?"

"Kyra!" Elena breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank god you're here. I need you to help Jeremy."

"Oh, you want me to help you?" Kyra asked, "You want me to help your brother?" she scoffed, "after you so mercilessly killed Kol?"

"Help him!" Elena punched Kyra across the face, pushed her into a wall and sped towards her, letting the veins under her eyes show before growling in her face, "Now!"

"You won't be getting my help..." Kyra's eyes lit up, her Vampire-Witch Hybrid eyes, the color depends on her mood, and she growled at Elena, "...not with that treatment." she looked down at the shoulder Elena was trying to squeeze with her strength to hurt her, "If you don't get your hand off me, you'll be suffering with a case of aneurisms throughout the rest of your pathetic excuse of a life."

"Sorry." Elena immediately removed her hand, "Now, can you please help him?"

Kyra glared at Elena as her eyes slowly went from golden back to normal, "How much blood did he lose?"

"A lot." Stefan said, "And Silas snapped his neck."

Kyra knocked her shoulder into Elena's and trailed towards Jeremy, "Seems like he lost all of his blood."

"He did." Meredith said, "Whoever this Silas character is, he drained Jeremy completely dry."

"I'm sorry, Elena." Kyra looked up, genuinely apologetic, "There's nothing I can do. Not for you."

"What are we going to do?" Elena yelled, "Kyra doesn't want to help!"

"You need to accept it," Stefan stated calmly, looking at Jeremy's body that was on the couch, "Kyra is still pissed at you for killing Kol, and so is Klaus. Who knows? He could've convinced Kyra not to help."

"Now why would I do that?" Klaus asked, walking into the living room with Kyra behind him, "I'm not that cruel."

"Yes you are." Kyra said.

Klaus smiled at her in amusement, "Thanks, love."

"Where's Bonnie?" Elena asked.

"Matt took her home." Caroline said, "We thought it would be best."

"Fine." Elena grumbled, taking out a bottle of lighter fluid and emptying the bottle out on the counter, "We'll have to do this the hard way."

Caroline and Stefan flinched as she threw the bottle across the room and stormed into the living room, "Elena, what are yo doing?"

"I heard you talking to Kyra earlier!" she said, We need a cover story, right? What are we gonna say? Animal attack?" she questioned, "Tumbled down the stairs? No. We burn the house down with him inside of it."

Kyra rolled her eyes, "Don't be a baby, Elena."

"Elena, stop it!" Stefan yelled.

"Why? Because you want me to not be in denial? You want me to face the truth? This is the truth! I don't know what else to do! I don't want these sketches, I don't want this X-Box, and this Bourbon. We can get rid of it. I mean, Alaric's not here to drink it, right? Unless you guys are willing to bring back every supernatural creature on The Other Side to bring him back to us." Elena yelled as she walked towards Damon, "Would you? I know you want your drinking buddy back. Would you Damon? Because I wouldn't."

She let her tears slip out of her eyes as Damon, Stefan and Caroline watched her in sympathy, "I mean, does that make me a bad person? I have no idea." she yanked Jeremy's ring off his finger, throwing it to Damon and it nearly hit him in the face, "He's not gonna need that anymore."

"Elena stop it, you're scaring me!" Caroline yelled.

Klaus and Kyra watched the scene with blank expressions, unsure what the outcome of this was going to be.

"What else are we supposed to do with his body, Caroline?" Elena shouted as she threw a picture frame on the floor, the glass breaking, "There's no more room in the Gilbert family plot! Jenna and John took the last spots." She walked over to the shelf on the wall and grabbed a match, striking it on the wall.

"No, no, no." Stefan pleaded with her, "Elena, stop. Dont do this."

"There is nothing left for me here, Stefan!" she cried, "Every inch of this house is filled with memories of the people who I love that have died. My mom, my dad, Jeremy and Ric, Jenna, John, even John!" she whined, not noticing how the fire on the match was slowly sliding down the wood, "What am I supposed to do? There's nothing left for me-ah!" she winced as she dropped the match.

Damon caught it before it ignited the fire, "Elena, I need you to calm down."

"No, no, no, no. I can't. I cant. I cant." Elena dropped to her knees, clutching her chest.

Caroline looked down, holding back tears of her own. Stefan felt helpless, and Damon was contemplating just what to do.

Kyra and Klaus on the other hand, didn't much care for the doppelgangers' emotions or how much hurt she was in. They didn't care for her well-being. Klaus saw them as useless and Kyra saw them as traitor and unnecessary.

Admittedly Kyra felt a pang of pity for Elena, but she certainly wasn't going to say it out loud or help the traitors who messed her up, used her for her magic for almost two years before she found out what was really going on, and killed her boyfriend. She was still very angry about that.

"It hurts. Please stop make it stop," she cried, "it hurts. It hurts." she sobbed, "It hurts. Make it stop. Please make it stop. Kyra make it stop!"

All eyes adverted to Kyra, "There's nothing I can do to ease your emotions, Elena. That's all on you." she said with a blank face, "How about you get your sire to do that for you?"

"Kyra, please. Make it stop, it hurts." Apparently the doppelganger was crying and sobbing so much, she didn't hear a single word the Vampire-Witch Hybrid said, "It feels like my heart is being crushed. Make it stop. Please."

Kyra stayed silent, looking down at the floor, as if staring at the white tile and the worn out tan rug would help her current predicament: there being nothing she could do. She wasn't so much sure if it was that she couldn't do anything or that she didn't want to do anything. And even if she did, she wouldn't.

Realizing that Kyra was just being stubborn or there really was nothing she could do, Stefan spoke up, "Damon. Help her."

Damon looked back and forth between Stefan and Elena, before pulling the sobbing female into his chest, "Let me help you. I want you to let me help you."

She looked up at him, "How?"

"Turn it off." he said.

"No," Stefan went to step forward, but Damon stopped him.

"Just turn it off." Damon whispered, "And everything will be okay."

Kyra felt her tear ducts swell up, but she refrained from letting anything loose. Klaus was the only one who noticed.

She knew exactly what Damon was talking about, what he meant by 'turn it off', and she nearly stopped him herself. But, she held herself back from doing so by leaning against the wall next to Klaus, acting like she didn't care. She couldn't imagine losing her own humanity. She knew that Elena, losing her humanity was inevitably going to destroy her.

"How?" Elena whispered, "How, why?"

"Just turn it off. It's what you have to do." Damon whispered back, "It's what I want you to do."

There was complete silence for about twenty seconds as Caroline, Damon, Stefan, Klaus and Kyra watched as Elena's eyes went from having sadness and despair in them, to holding nothing.

"Why couldn't you just do something Kyra?" Stefan interrogated as he, Damon, Klaus and Kyra were standing on the front porch, discussing what just happened inside.

"I know there was something you could've done for Jeremy!" Damon whisper-yelled, and he paused in what he thought to be realization, "Did Klaus compel you?"

Klaus went to protest but Kyra beat him to it, "I asked him to compel me yesterday. It didn't work." she said,

The Salvatore's' eyes widened in shock, "What did you just say?"

"I can't be compelled." she replied with a smirk, "It was completely my choice. I didn't bring her brother back because she and Jeremy killed Kol and I made a promise to myself, and to him, that I would make her suffer until he can torture your precious girlfriend himself." she smirked, "And I will."

"Come on Kyra." Damon groaned, "Let bygones be bygones."

Damon and Stefan clutched their heads and groaned as Kyra gave them the most painful aneurisms they've ever experienced, "I'll let bygones be bygones when Hell freezes over."