Meredith was thankful for Alaric's support. She smiled up at him, still wondering what she'd done to deserve a guy like him...besides have a grandfather who'd survived a vampire attack, a friend who had been a vampire, a friend in love with a vampire...oh! and friends who are vampires. *Except, I don't know if Damon is a friend...*

She turned her head away from Alaric's and raised her hand to knock on the door. To her, it seemed to take hours for her hand to actually reach the door. *I guess I whacked my head harder than I thought!*

They waited patiently for someone to come and let them in.

Matt glanced at Mary from where he stood next to the phone when there was a knock at the door. "I'll get it." he said rushing forward to open the door. "Mer, Alaric, nice of you to join us." There was a smile on Matt's face but his eyes were full of worry. "We have to get to the others before something bad happens. I guess we'll take separate cars." Turning to Mary he gave her a questioning look. "You want to ride with me?"

Meredith glanced at Matt looking at Mary. "Matt, is she okay??" Meredith turned around to talk to Alaric, "Alaric, do you know what's going on here?"

Katherine jumped back two steps, the edge of the axe blade nicking her cheek. "Ow," she giggled.

The smile faded when she realized just how deep the nick was. She came back at Damon with ferocity, and grabbed the handle of the axe. Blood was trickling down her
face, and that really bothered her.

"Having fun, yet?"

"You bet." Damon hissed. He jerked at the handle, trying to get it in his grasp only. "Such a pity." He said, nodding towards the cut on her cheek. "Actually, it adds to your charm." He yanked on the axe again, this time pulling Katherine closer as well. "Would you care for a matching one on the other side?" He breathed into her ear.

Running forward as the two vampires began to fight over the axe she grabbed the flaming torch. 'Oh what do I do now, do I try to set her on fire or something? If I try that then there is a chance of setting Damon on fire too.' She wondered how long it would take Damon to forgive, much less talk to her again if she were to set him on fire. Shrugging she took a chance and stepped toward them, extending the flame toward Katherine's cloths. 'Oh please let this work.' She thought hopefully, her eyes wide.

Elena reached forward to catch Bonnie's arm before the redhead surged forward with the torch, but her movements were too slow. Watching Katherine and Damon in their stalking dance around one another, Damon with the axe, Katherine with nothing except for the fact that she could probably tear them all apart with her bare hands.

*Someone's going to get killed,* Elena thought, eyes narrowing. There was no sunlight; her old trick wasn't going to work. But she watched Bonnie, seeing what her friend was planning on doing and attempted to make eye contact with her to see if there was anything she could do to make sure Bonnie got Katherine, and not Damon, in her attack.

Trying to use her still newfound powers Bonnie caught Elena's look and nodded to the other end of Damon, behind him. She pushed with all her might and sent a message to Elena. *If this goes off right then I want you to grab Damon from behind so his cloths won't catch flame. This probably won't kill her but it'll push her away and maybe she'll retreat.* She clutched the blazing torch that was inches away from the vampire girl's cloths.