A/N: This is super duper short. I'm sorry. It's not even two thousand words. The separation lines push it close, but those don't really count.

Chapter Six

Alexandra

I walked into history class right as the bell rings with Elena. As we sit, a tall sandy blonde hair man walks in. He goes to the front of the classroom and writes his name on the board.

'ALARIC SALTZMAN'

"Good morning everyone. Alrighty, I'm Alaric Saltzman. It's a mouthful, I know. Doesn't really roll of the tounge. Saltzman is of German origins. My family imigrated here in 1755 to Texas. I, however, was born and raised in Boston. Now the name Alaric comes from a very dead great grandfather that I'll never be able to thank enough. You'll probably want to pronounce it Al-er-ic, but it's Al-ar-ic, okay? You can call me Ric and I'm your new history teacher."

Whoa. How odd. I'll have to talk to Elena after class and also to see what happened with Stefan and to let her know Damon isn't dead, if she didn't already know.

"Elena," I say as class ends. We walk out and she turns to me. "He's a weird teacher so far. I think he'll last. What do you think?" She shrugs. "I probably shouldn't ask you this but where's Stefan?"

"Right there." I look up and almost crumble to my knees. I have to thank him privately for not killing him.

"Hey, I got all your messages," Stefan starts.

"Well an 'I didn't kill my brother' message would have sufficed."

"I didn't kill my brother. He mostly has Alexandra to thank for it and I told him that." I lean against the lockers, trying not to explode with feeling. I'm usually the non-emotional one. I need to stop being so emotional. I've cried more in the last two months than I have in my entire life.

"Thank you," I whisper. Stefan looks at me and understands. "I'm gonna go to class. See you two later." I touch Elena's arm, making sure she's cool by herself. When she doesn't ask me to stay or turn to come with me, I leave desperately wishing I had Damon's number. Just so I could tell him that I'm glad Stefan didn't kill him.

At the end of the day, Bonnie, Elena, and I came back to our place after Bonnie threw her necklace out into a feild, the one Caroline gave her that Caroline wanted back because Damon wanted it back. Why did Damon want it back in the first place? Besides the fact that he scared Bonnie today. Which was totally stupid. I'm pissed off at him right now. I don't think he can get on my good side for a while.

"Who has their kit?" Caroline said happily when everything was somewhat settled. She came over and her and Bonnie had another arguement and it was getting old.

"Mines in my bag," Bonnie says. Caroline started searching while Elena, Bonnie, and I talked.

"Why are you such a little liar Bonnie?"

"Caroline!" Elena and I exclaimed at the same time.

"What are you talking about?" She asked. Caroline turned holding the necklace. All of our eyes widened.

"You threw that necklace into a field Bonnie. How did it end up here?"

"Emily?"

"Maybe."

"Who?"

"She did give me nightmares, I couldn't deal with it anymore. I had to get rid of it. I threw it. Elena you saw it. Alexandra, you saw it!"

"Why am I not in this conversation? You guys do this to me all the time."

"No we don't," Elena says.

"Yes we do Elena," Bonnie says. "Caroline, you don't listen."

"Yes I do!"

"I'm a witch."

"And don't we all know it."

Bonnie was exasperated. "This is what I'm talking about Caroline!" She stormed out of the room and Caroline followed.

"Bonnie, I'm sorry." And her speech continued till Elena and I came in and Caroline said we should summon spirits.

"I don't think that's a good idea, Care." I say.

"Come on, it'll be fun." And that's how we got sitting in my room, with candles and the lights off, holding hands to concentrate. "Contentrate everyone. Alright, Bonnie, call to Emily."

"Emily, you there?" I started laughing really hard. Caroline scolds her. "Emily, I call on you. I know you have a message for me. I'm here to listen." The candles suddenly flare. We all jolt back.

"Did that..."

"Yup."

"Air conditioning. It's gotta be," Bonnie said trying to calm us all down. The window burst open, the cold rush of air comes through and Bonnie is done with this whole summoning spirits 'game' as she likes to call it. "Get the lights."

"I've got it," Elena says. She flicks the light on and says, "guys, the necklace. It's gone."

Bonnie finds it a minute later. "Guys, unlock the door. I'm done." She says after she grabs the necklace from the floor in the bathroom. Soon Bonnie starts screaming, we all start opening the doors and it's not working. "Help me," Bonnie screams. Within the next minute, she stops screaming and the doors unlock. Caroline accuses her of faking it and storms off. Bonnie leaves too, till Elena figures out that Emily is now in her body.

"Stefan," Elena says over the phone. "Where would Bonnie, no Emily, go? Wait. The graveyard. She's been telling me all of these stories about what's been going on in her dreams and that she's been waking up in the weirdest places."

"Let's go," I tell Elena.

"Meet you there Stef."

When we finally get there Elena and I are in the bushes. Damon is standing with Bonnie, well Emily, and is talking to Emily.

"Hello Emily. You look different."

"I won't let you do it."

"We had a deal."

"Things are different now, I have a family I need to protect." It was odd seeing and hearing Bonnie talk but it was actually Emily.

"I protected your family! You owe me."

"I know, I'm sorry." She sounded as if her heart was breaking as she said it. It probably was. Damon was furious and he didn't see it coming when the witch forced him against the tree, a branch striking his abdomen and he was suspended there. Stefan comes and helps Damon down from the tree. "I wont let you unleash them into this world."

"Them? What part did you leave out of the story Damon?" Stefan asks.

"What does it matter?"

"Emily, what did you do?"

"To save them, I had to save them all." Stefan's eyes went wide. Were they talking about the vampires that wre burned in the church with Charlotte and Katherine?

"You saved everyone in the church?"

"I didn't care about that. I just wanted Charlotte." Damon yells at Stefan. I felt my throat tighten. I fell back, landing on my bottom. I put my head between my knees and breath slowly.

"This isn't about love. It's about revenge."

"The two aren't mutually exclusive."

"You can't just bring them back." I hear the conversation and so does Elena but she just holds me. She knows I care about Damon. More than I should.

I stop listening and just let everything play out. Till I see light and I see the crystal exploding in the air. My eyes widen as I know exactly what is going to happen.

"Damon, no," I yell at him. He ignores me as he bites Bonnie's neck. Stefan pulls Damon back and I run to Bonnie with Elena hot on my trail. Stefan crouches down and bites his wrist, putting it to Bonnie's mouth. I sigh when I see her neck healing. He carries her to the truck when the healing is done. I get in the driver's seat and start the car. Elena gets in the back with Bonnie. "Thank you Stefan. So much. Do you want to come with us? Make sure we get home okay?"

"No, just explain everything to her okay?" I nod.

"Thank you again." He nods and we drive off.

Bonnie's tears as we tell her are the breaking point for mine and I can't be in there. I wish them a fair night, considering it's not going to be good anytime soon and go to my own room. I tilt my head back when I walk in. I pinch the bridge of my nose and sit on the edge of my bed. I kick off my shoes and take my jacket off. I put it up and go to the bathroom so I can change.

I come out wearing my pjs. And I see Damon sitting on the edge of my bed again. My tears start.

"So you wanted her this entire time? I thought she was dead! You lied to your brother, you lied to Elena, and you lied to me," I yell at him. "What made you think that was okay? What made you think caring about me and making sure I'm okay would be a good thing to do? I'm not Charlotte. What ever the hell made you think I was, needs to be out of your head, now. Did you think that I'd be okay with being used? Were you even thinking?" I yell.

"Just because I care about you doesn't mean I never stopped loving her." Wow, way to hit it right on the head.

"It's been one hundred and forty five years Damon! Grow up and move on. This isn't healthy, chasing after a woman you don't even know is where you think she is! For all you know she could be partying in China and not giving a crap about what you think, feel, act like. She might be out there, not caring about you at all." He doesn't respond. "I don't want to talk to you anymore." He doesn't take the hint. "Leave!" I yell at him.

"No. I want her but I want you too."

"You can't have us both. It doesn't work like that."

"She's in there." I shake my head. "She is waiting for me to open up the tomb under the church and free her. I need to do that for her."

"Damon, don't you see? You've deluded yourself into thinking she's in there when she probably isn't. What would you do if she isn't? You would have just opened up the tomb for all twenty-seven of those vampires to come back out and raise hell. It's not alright for this town, my home. Damon, don't you see that at all?"

"She's in there, Allie. She is."

"You don't get to call me Allie any more. Leave." He doesn't budge. "I said leave, Damon."

"I care about you too much to let you go," he says before he is finally out of my bedroom. I'm numb as I sink down onto my bed. Elena and Bonnie sneak through my door and find me sitting there, not crying, not dry heaving like I feel like doing, just numb.