There was a knock at the door at three in the morning. Stefan went and answered the door to his home trying not to wake Elena. Gavin was at the door with Gena leaning against his arm.

"Are you sure you're ok, Gena? You've been through a lot tonight; why don't you take it easy."

"I'm fine," she yelled.

"What's going on," Elena said through a yawn at the top of the stairs.

'So much for trying not to wake her up,' Stefan thought.

Gena sat down on the couch next to Damon. She had called them on her cell phone from the airport. The story of her attack had brought chills down everyone's spine. They could tell that their sister was shaken.

"Sit down, Elena. We all have to have a little chat," Damon instructed.

With every seated, the inquisition began.

"Tell us everything; don't leave anything out," Damon said.

Gena told the group of the vacation and of the events that evening.

"Wait, you forgot about Philip," Gavin interjected.

"Philip," Stefan inquired.

"My ex-boyfriend was there with his new girlfriend…"

"Don't you guys think that's a little weird," Gavin solicited.

"We'll keep that in mind; it definitely has the possibility of being related."

"Call Will," Gena instructed.

She turned and looked at Gavin.

"I think we're going to need some back up; something is going to happen tonight."

"Gena, let me use your cell phone. I'm going to call Bonnie and see how Meredith is holding up," Elena said.

Elena dialed the number and held the portable phone to her ear. Then a look of anxiety came to her face.

"You guys; no one is answering the phone."

Bonnie was sleeping in the bed next to Meredith when she sensed something that was not right. There was something in the house and it was moving.

'Oh crap,' she thought.

"Mere," she whispered. "I'm going to call the guys; there's something here. Just pretend you're sleeping."

"No way," Meredith replied. "I'm going to let that thing push me around again."

Bonnie got off of the bed and reached for the phone. When she picked it up, there was no dial tone.

"What the hell? Meredith the phone is dead; we have to get out of here."

"Bonnie, we're on the second floor; they'll see us right away. I would jump out the window but I can't with the baby. We have to wait for the right time leave. We have listen for their footsteps to get the gist of where they could be in the house," Meredith whispered to her friend.

"Ok," she retorted. "I'll try to psychically shield our presence."

"That won't be necessary, girls."

The two women looked to the doorway and saw the silhouette of a woman. She walked further into the room and Bonnie and Meredith could make out her features; she had brown wavy hair and dazzlingly violet eyes. Smiling, she sauntered over to the girls and took hold of Meredith. The young mother-to-be fought as hard as she could, but the brunette was too strong. Bonnie was being held back by some sort of power that was way beyond hers.

"Don't you too recognize me? Phooey, I thought you wouldn't," she said childishly."

Then something happened; the aura around the woman changed. It was no longer the athletic stranger, but someone more familiar. Those violet eyes turned to the lapis lazuli blue they remembered.

"Katherine!"

"You didn't think it was me, did you? I knew this was the perfect body," she giggled.

Meredith struggled even harder in the dead vampire's arms.

"You're dead," Meredith said. "All you are is ashes in Fell's Church. It's just an illusion."

Katherine rolled her eyes.

"Oh please," she said as she twisted Meredith's arm.

"Ouch!"

Bonnie tried to move and go to her friend but power was holding her back.

"Now, you just stay there, redhead. Meredith and I have a little business to attend to. She's been a bad girl; she tried to take my Damon away from me," she whimpered.

"Screw you," Meredith yelled. "Who the hell are you to tell me who I can and can't love; he's his own person. You're just jealous because he never really loved you."

This time, Katherine twisted Meredith's wrist and broke it in one single movement. Meredith screamed out in pain.

"There, see what you made me do? We're leaving now."

With that, the two were gone and Bonnie was left alone. She gathered up all her strength and sent a clear message to Damon: Help us!

"They're in trouble; we need to go now," Damon said, reacting to the thoughts he received.

Then the house went dark. The power was completely out and messing with the fuses didn't help.

"The phone's dead too," Elena said quietly.

"I'm going. Stefan, stay here and watch Elena and Gena," Damon said.

"I'll go with you," Gena said.

"No, you're not. You're staying right here, little sis."

"Damon, shut up. I can help! I'm a good fighter and I'm not a little girl anymore."

He rolled his eyes.

"Fine, but you have to watch out for yourself."

Damon and Gena reached the front door of the house and found it locked…from the outside.

Gena could sense something in the air and it wasn't good. She started looking around and she felt her canines lengthen. Her friends and family stared at her but she didn't care, even with the looks of horror. The only person who looked at her with admiration was Damon.

"Something's here," she said.

'It's right here.'

She could see something move and she leaped towards the menace. The intruder hit her in the back, but she landed on her hands and did a backwards flip.

"I guess all those years of gymnastics finally paid off," she said.

Then she saw her opponent walk towards.

"Virgina," she asked.

She giggled and let her shields drop.

A collective gasp filled the room.

Gena growled.

"Katherine," she screamed.

"You're dead," Stefan said in awe.

"You silly boy; what makes you think that if your little blonde bitch couldn't come back that I couldn't come back? I just came back a different way."

"Wait, but weren't you the little blonde bitch," Damon smirked.

Katherine's face grew darker.

"Now that wasn't nice. You're just lucky I don't want you anymore. Now I have the partners that I always wanted; the people I want to spend the rest of my eternity with. Sweetie, won't you step forward," she asked.

Out of the darkness approached a male figure. Philip stepped out of the corner and put his arms around Katherine.

"Why," Gena asked.

"Oh, when she told me her story, I thought it was great and plus, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to get revenge on you for cheating on me. No one does that and gets away with it."

He moved almost too quickly for a young vampire and grabbed Gena so she couldn't move. The others tried to come to her aid and help but Katherine held them at bay with her new powers. Philip got a good hold on Gena's neck and looked to smirk at Gavin.

Katherine was almost prancing around the room.

"Oh, but there's one more person that wanted to see you, Gena."

Another figure was coming out of the darkness and this one radiated pure, unadulterated hatred.

"Are you surprised," he said with an accent.

"Oh, no. It can't be," Gena said frantically.

Dante stood in the room next to Katherine, eyeing their victory with triumph.

"Don't you dare touch her," Stefan screamed at Dante.

Gena could sense that Stefan and Damon were completely frustrated by their lack of mobility, and right now, she was too. One vampire against three very strong ones was not good odds at all.

As Philip held her, Dante approached her and grabbed her by the neck.

"Oh, I remember that pretty little neck of yours. Then that…boy tried to take you from me. We won't have to worry about him; he's being taken care of. I've been tracking you down for five hundred years, cara. You will be mine whether you like it or not," he scowled.

Then, to everyone's horror, he sunk his teeth into her neck. Gena cried out in pain Dante sent wave after wave of pain and torture into her. She knew she was screaming out but all she could hear was Gavin yelling for Dante to stop. Then Gena could hardly hear anything at all. It was if she was still underwater in that pool, hearing muffled sounds of the ocean from a distance. Her sight got darker and she knew he was going to drain her till the point of death.

'After all this time, he's finally won,' she thought as she drifted out of consciousness.

Damon watched at Dante picked up the limp body of his sister and carried her away. He was beyond rage. Philip went over to Gavin and started to beat him to a bloody pulp. After he had mauled him for a short time, Philip picked up the beaten male and carried him off as well.

Katherine glared at the rest of them with intensity and determination; the looked of a conqueror. Damon was snarling with anger and tried to break free of his invisible captivity, all the while thinking of Meredith, Bonnie, and Gena. He turned to look at his brother and found him huddled in the corner protectively holding his wife protectively.

Their villain saw the protective embrace and used her powers to break the couple apart, sending Elena across the room into a wall. Elena stood up and sent her own power into Katherine, knocking the darker soul to the ground. From the ground, Katherine looked up to the other blonde with shock and left to finish her quest.

As Elena slumped down the wall to the ground, Stefan grabbed her and held his wife in his arms. Damon knelt down to see her condition, but was still in shock from the scene that had taken place. Most of all, he was surprised at how Elena stood her ground and had that much power.

"Elena, how did you do that," Stefan asked.

She was shaking against him, obviously traumatized by the appearance her late foe.

"I have no idea," she answered.

Damon had enough. He had lost his someone he cared about for the last 500 years. Over and over in a continuous cycle, the people he cared about most had died before him. First it was his beloved mother, then it was Gena, then Katherine, then Elena, and he had almost lost Bonnie. Now Meredith was being threatened and there was no way in hell that he was going to lose her.

He stood up gallantly on his feet and looked to his brother who was still sitting on the ground.

"I'm going to find them. Elena, go find Bonnie and stay together. Are you coming Stefan?"