Elowen, Damon and Elena were all walking down the street in New York City. Elena had woken up hours ago and so far had done nothing but whine.

"You mean to tell me you snapped my neck and dragged me all the way to New York because you were feeling nostalgic?" She asked Damon.

"No, I snapped your neck and dragged you to New York because somebody, I won't say who, promised your stupid boyfriend that we'd keep an eye on you," Damon replied, causing Elowen to roll her eyes.

"Don't call him that. Having a boyfriend implies feelings, something I don't have. We've established this."

"Good thing he was never in love with you, then."

"If you're trying to make me feel jealous, it won't work."

"Are you two going to bicker the entire time we're here?" Elowen asked. "Because if you are, I'm gonna go do something else."

Damon sighed and changed the subject. "Look, Elena, it's probably a good thing I let Elowen convince me to take you because in a matter of three days, you managed to piss off everyone in Mystic Falls."

Elena shrugged. "I was hungry."

"No, you were reckless," Elowen corrected.

"Emotionless. There's a difference."

"Here's what we're gonna do," Damon said. "When I lived here, I fed like crazy and had a blast and went undetected for years. You want to feed and I just brought you to a city sized, all you can eat buffet."

"So… we're here to have fun?" Elena stopped walking and so did Damon and Elowen. "What's the catch?"

"There's no catch. That's the beauty of New York. There's so much life that a little death goes unnoticed. Come on, let's go get some lunch."

Elena smirked and walked ahead of Damon and Elowen. Elowen shot Damon a look, who simply shrugged and followed after Elena. After a moment, Elowen huffed and had no choice but to follow them.

xxxx

Later, after Elena went off to explore on her own, Elowen and Damon decided to call Stefan. Toby happened to be with him when he answered.

"What do you mean you took her to New York?" Toby asked incredulously.

"I told you I'd watch her after you left and I did exactly that," Elowen replied. "Would you prefer that Damon and I ditched her and left her alone?"

"Well, where is she now?"

"Out exploring," Damon responded. "Maybe she's eating a hot dog… vendor."

"So, I take it your search for Katherine is off?" Stefan asked.

"Relax. This trip is actually a cure hunt. Bringing Elena was just a bump in the road." Damon held up the picture of him and another man that he'd found the night before. "That vampire Katherine sent after Hayley and Alani was a friend of mine. He lived in the city. Will got vampires fake identities, and I'm sure that Katherine was one of his clients."

"And Elena's just okay with this? Just yesterday, she was living the vampire high life. She doesn't want the cure."

"That's why I didn't tell her."

"Damon, if she finds out you're still looking for it, she'll bolt," Toby said.

"I'm aware of that, wolf boy. What I'm hoping is that she's gonna be so wasted on booze and blood that she won't even think about it."

"Don't underestimate her."

"If I can handle Stefan when he flipped his switch, I can handle her. Besides, Elowen's with me. We'll be fine. Trust me."

"Trust you?"

"Fine. Trust Elowen, then."

"Damon, listen to me," Stefan spoke up. "Elena is ruthless without her humanity. The cure is the fastest way to get it back."

"What, you don't want it for yourself anymore, brother?"

Stefan sighed over the line. "Getting Elena's humanity back is more important than me becoming human."

"Really?" Damon's voice sounded surprised. "Interesting. Just be a good brother and keep Mystic Falls afloat for me and let me do my thing. You've got an immortal named Silas to deal with, remember?"

Damon looked across the street and spotted Elena walking towards them. He hung up the phone before she could figure out who him and Elowen were talking to. She walked up to them and showed off the red streak she'd gotten dyed in her hair.

"So? What do you think?"

xxxx

Caroline and Josiah were at the boarding house, cleaning up after the party from the night before. Angel had taken Adriana out for the day to get her to talk to him about what had happened last night, and Veronica was seated on the couch, filing her nails down. Rudy, who Adriana affectionately renamed Janus (they decided to change his name once they found out Bonnie's dad was also named Rudy, to avoid confusion), was currently sniffing at some of the trash on the floor and eating at the crumbs left behind. The poor boy had been locked in Stefan's room all night by Elena and everyone accidentally forgot about him because a lot had gone down. Caroline glanced at Veronica.

"Are you gonna help or are you gonna just sit there?"

"I'm gonna just sit here," Veronica answered without missing a beat. She inspected her nails, deemed them finished, and went to her other hand. Caroline scoffed.

"Wonderful."

Josiah opened his mouth to say something, but Caroline put her hand up.

"Don't even."

"Well, this place is a mess."

Caroline, Josiah and Veronica all looked over and found Klaus entering the room. Caroline groaned.

"You. What the hell are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be out chasing Tyler to the ends of the earth?"

"You know, part of me wonders why you care about Tyler so much. I mean, your boyfriend is standing right next to you."

"Oh, so you actually acknowledge that I'm her boyfriend," Josiah piped up sarcastically. "I wasn't aware that you knew."

"Don't waste your energy on him," Caroline told Josiah. She turned back to Klaus. "And for the record, I care about Tyler so much because he's my friend. You wouldn't know what a real friendship looked like if it hit you in the face."

"You say that like it's a bad thing," Veronica commented. "Friends are overrated."

Caroline glanced at her. "I thought you were Miss Popular when you were in high school."

"I was, but none of those people were my real friends. They only hung around me because they wanted their five minutes of fame. Therefore, friends are useless."

"Doesn't it ever get lonely?"

"I have Angel and Adriana. I don't need friends."

"But… they can't be with you forever."

"You're an only child. You wouldn't get it."

Caroline frowned. She looked to Josiah for help, but he shrugged. She even glanced at Klaus, who clicked his tongue.

"The girl whose name I never learned has a point. There's nothing quite like sibling relationships."

"It's Veronica."

"Oh, shut up. All your siblings hate you."

Veronica and Caroline answered at the same time, respectively. Klaus smirked.

"They didn't always hate me."

Caroline rolled her eyes. "Ugh. Just go away."

Behind them all, Stefan and Toby entered the room.

"Actually, I asked him to be here," Stefan announced. "We need his help. I think Silas is in Mystic Falls."

Klaus quirked an eyebrow. "Really now? And what makes you think so?"

"The blood banks from Mystic Falls hospital, Grove Hills hospital, and multiple others have been wiped clean."

Klaus walked over to pour himself a drink.

"I'll have one of those," Veronica spoke up. Klaus glanced at her, paused for a moment, before handing over the drink he had just poured. He made himself a second drink and then took a seat next to her on the couch.

"So, some blood went missing from a few hospitals. What about Elena? Don't vampires with their humanity off tend to overindulge in human blood, or were you the exception?"

Toby shook his head. "It's not Elena. There's no way she could've hit all of these hospitals and hid all of this blood under our noses."

"Well, let's say for a moment that it was Silas. I'm struggling to see how this affects me."

"Look, Silas wants to die and be reunited with his one true love, but he's supernatural, so if he takes the cure and dies, he gets stuck on the other side."

"How Shakespearian."

"But, if he destroys the other side altogether, he can take the cure, die, and pass on, but in destroying it, every dead supernatural being will return to our side."

"That means every werewolf, every witch, every vampire," Josiah listed off. "I wonder how many of those you personally killed. Care yet?"

Klaus grinned. "My interest is piqued. How do we stop him?"

"Bonnie said Silas needs to complete three massacres to do this spell," Stefan started to explain. "Before Professor Shane died, he convinced the pastor to blow up the council. Next, he had you kill you hybrids, and now he only needs one more massacre, so if he's here, that's what he's doing. We need to find him."

xxxx

Damon, Elowen and Elena entered a bar that was called Billy's. It was dimly lit and mostly empty, save for a few staff members and day drinkers.

"Looks about right," Damon mumbled.

Elena sighed loudly as she looked around the building. "I was promised hedonism."

"Well, it's early. Hedonism isn't a big fan of the sunlight."

Damon and Elowen walked further in while Elena stopped at one of the tables. She wrinkled her nose.

"Or soap."

"Easy, judgy. Not everybody got a new haircut today. Give it a couple of hours. This place will be crawling with more punked out nihilists than you can eat in a decade, trust me."

"How do you know?"

Elowen rolled her eyes. "Even with your humanity off, you still ask stupid questions. Clearly, he's been here before."

Elena scowled. Damon patted Elowen's shoulder.

"Play nice, girls. However, Wen is correct. I spent most of the 70s here. The Factory was too clean, the CBGB's was too high profile, but Billy's… Billy's was the underground of the underground."

Damon made his way towards the bar of Billy's and slapped down two ID's of two victim's he'd killed earlier that night. There was a punk rock band on the stage and loud music was blaring through the speakers.

"There you go," he told Will, the vampire on the other side of the bar.

"Two for one." Will nodded, pleased with this outcome. "Rock and roll."

"That's the third 5'7 brunette I've gotten for you, Billy boy. Is it the same client?"

"She's a runner. Some vampires need more identities than others."

Behind them, two partygoers in the bar were starting a fight. Damon saw them and his eyes briefly vamped out. Will turned around to see what he was looking at, then looked back at him.

"Hey, be discreet."

"I kill people and give you their ID's, you let me feed in your club. Discretion was never part of the deal."

Will sighed and shook his head. He got up from his seat and walked out from behind the bar with the ID's. He disappeared through the door that said 'Private: Staff Only' in capital letters. Damon watched him go, then turned back to the two people fighting. He made his way over to them, grabbed one of them and was about to bite into his neck when someone grabbed onto his arm to stop him.

"Hey."

Damon glanced behind him and found Lexi standing there.

"Lexi."

"You're gonna feed on him right here? You're getting sloppy, Damon."

Elowen blinked as she was brought back to the present. She shrugged Damon's hand off of her shoulder.

"Lexi was here?"

Elena raised her eyebrows. "You got Lexied?"

Before Damon could answer either of them, Rebekah swooped in and slammed Damon's head down on the table they were standing next to.

"Following a lead without me? Poor form, you two."

Elena looked on at the three of them, confusion written on her face. Elowen did her best to mask her emotions, but she wanted to grimace so badly at that moment. Rebekah was really about to ruin everything, wasn't she?

"I have to say I'm a little hurt." Rebekah released her hold on Damon. "I thought we made a good team. Not without its fireworks, but what classic pairing isn't?" She glanced at Elowen. "And you're supposed to be my friend."

"Wait." Elena shook her head. "What the hell are you talking about?"

"These two are following a lead to the cure. I'm following them. Notice your name never came up."

Elena turned to Elowen and Damon. "You're doing what?"

Elowen huffed dramatically. "Rebekah, you know I love you, but Damon and I's trip to the Big Apple was supposed to be a lover's retreat that Elena ended up crashing. I've never been and he wanted to show me the sights."

Rebekah narrowed her eyes. "Really? Where's Stefan?"

"Believe it or not, I don't have to do everything with the both of them. I might be dating them at the same time, but I'm allowed to spend time with them separately."

"Hm."

Damon wrapped his arm around Elowen's waist. "Since you're here, you can watch Elena for us while we go have fun elsewhere."

"I don't need watching," Elena said through clenched teeth, but they all ignored her. Damon smiled at Rebekah as he pulled Elowen away with him and she glared at him.

"Toodles."

Elowen pulled her phone out once they were far away enough to typed out a message.

We're screwed.

"Not entirely," Damon mumbled quietly into her ear as they reached the bar. "Fun fact about my time here in the 70s. I had my switch flipped. It's why Lexi was here."

Elowen quirked an eyebrow. "Is that so? Care to share why?"

"Nope. Maybe I can just show you."

"You know my power doesn't work like that. I can't control when I get premonitions."

Damon held his hand out. "Just try."

Elowen sighed, but took his hand anyway. She closed her eyes and concentrated. After a few moments, she gave up.

"I told you that-"

The back door to the club opened and Lexi pushed Damon out into the back alley. She followed him out, letting the door close behind them.

"That explains it. Your switch is flipped."

Damon groaned. "Ugh. Would you mind? I can't even hear my prey over your constant babbling."

"You're not even covering your tracks. We heard about you back in Mystic Falls."

"So, Stefan sent you? Hm. I thought we were on the off part of our endless, on again, off again eternity of misery cycle."

"Lucky for you, he cared just enough to send me. So, why'd you flip it? What traumatic event was too much for Damon Salvatore to handle?"

"Leave It To Beaver. The 50s bored me."

Damon turned to walk away, but Lexi grabbed him.

"Well, it's the 70s now, and keeping it off is gonna get you caught and killed."

"I'll take my chances."

"I won't. I promise Stefan that I would-"

Damon felt himself getting more and more annoyed by the second and he cut her off.

"Look, you and Stefan have a thing. I get it. He falls off the wagon, you pick him up. He gets redeemed, you get your Florence Nightingale jollies. Well, I'm not him, and I don't want or need you."

"Too bad, because you got me."

Damon smirked as Elowen blinked and drew her hand back.

"You were saying?"

Elowen grumbled. "Shut up."

"I don't know about you, but I'm gonna get a drink. Many drinks. Care to join?"

"You know I don't-"

"Yeah, yeah. You don't drink. It was worth a try."

Elowen laughed and shook her head endearingly as Damon walked off towards the bar, leaving her to stand by herself.

xxxx

Stefan, Toby, Caroline, Josiah, Klaus and Veronica all entered Professor Shane's office.

"What are we even looking for?" Caroline asked as she looked around the room.

"Well, if Shane really was working with Silas, chances are he was helping him plan his next move," Toby replied.

"Where, on his evil villain to do list? Steal blood, perform 3 massacres, pick up dry cleaning?"

"Actually, not to nitpick," Klaus chimed in, "but we evil villains usually use minions to pick up our dry cleaning, that sort of thing."

Josiah rolled his eyes. "Why is he necessary again?"

Stefan shrugged. "Well, we don't know what Silas can do, so if we have to go head to head with him, an Original hybrid who can't die might come in handy."

"Then why is she here?" Caroline gestured to Veronica. Caroline's comment didn't seem to faze her.

"Because I'm a nosy bitch who doesn't know how to keep to herself," Veronica replied nonchalantly, wandering over to a bookcase in the corner of the room. "And for the record, I'm good at finding out things. How else do you think I blackmailed my neighbor into paying me monthly to keep me quiet about her illegitimate son?"

"Is there anything good about you?"

"Nope, but I'm okay with that."

Klaus laughed. "I think I like you."

"Why, because I'm fine being the bad guy? I hate to break it to you, but we're bad guys in different ways. I'm Regina George and you're Voldemort."

"Just do you know, I wouldn't go about wasting all of my time trying to kill a child. I have better things to do."

Josiah snorted. "You read Harry Potter?"

Klaus shrugged. "When you live as long as I have, sometimes you have nothing better to do."

"Found something," Veronica announced as she looked up from a large book she'd pulled off of the shelf. "'Symbolic Figures in the Dark Arts'."

Toby walked over and looked over her shoulder. "Didn't Bonnie talk about expression triangles?"

Veronica came over and set the book on Professor Shane's desk. Everyone else gathered around it while Stefan began to read aloud.

"'In some schools of magic such as expression, human sacrifice can be used as a focus for power. It is rumored that the addition of two supernatural sacrifices compounds the mystical energy, creating an expression triangle'."

Caroline pointed to one of the symbols on the triangle diagram that was on the page. "Humans; that was the council fire." She pointed to another symbol. "Demons; Klaus's hybrid failure."

"Well, I wouldn't exactly call it a failure," Klaus commented. "What's the third?"

Caroline brought her hands up to her mouth when she looked at the last symbol. "Oh, no."

Josiah frowned. "What's wrong?" He looked down at the triangle and his eyes widened as he understood. "Oh." He lifted his eyes to look at everyone else.

"Witches."

xxxx

It was nighttime now. Billy's was in full swing. There was a band on the stage playing loud punk music while people danced on the dance floor. Damon and Elowen rejoined Elena and Rebekah.

Elena sighed. "I'm hungry."

Damon gestured to the crowd. "Pick."

She looked around the crowd before her eyes landed on a girl dancing by herself. After compelling her, Elena sank her fangs into her neck. Damon walked over to the girl's other side, moved her hair out of the way and bit into her neck as well. Rebekah leaned over to Elowen.

"You have no problem Damon is blood sharing with another woman? Surely he's explained the severity of this."

Elowen shrugged. "He has, but there's not much I can do about it. I'm not a vampire. We'd never be able to do something like this."

Rebekah rolled her eyes. "As your friend, I'm about to do you a favor. Thank me later."

She walked over, grabbed Damon's shoulder and pulled him away from the girl's neck.

"Don't be rude, Damon. Go be with your girlfriend."

Damon threw his hands up. "Fine. It's your turn, though."

As Damon walked away, Rebekah took his spot and started drinking from the girl. While they were distracted, Elowen nudged Damon's arm and nodded her head away from the crowd. He nodded back, and together they snuck off. They made their way towards a door marked staff only and disappeared towards it. Damon led the way and he stopped in front of another door.

"Bingo."

He pulled it open and him and Elowen walked through. She closed it behind them. The room was cluttered with various items and nicknacks and Damon groaned.

"Ugh. Packrat. Thanks, Will."

"Well, we sure have our work cut out for us." Elowen clapped her hands together. "Come on, let's do this before Elena and Rebekah come looking for us."