Previously on The Bad Twin:
I wish I didn't have to return home. But I had no choice. I had to save her and I had to find out more about her.
"How come you don't sparkle?" Caroline asked Damon as she pulled the light blue strapless dress up her body.
"Because I live in the real world, where vampires burn in the sun." he told her annoyed.
"Yeah, but you go in the sun." she said.
"I have a ring. It protects me." He told her, showing her the ring.
"The pocket watch. Where is it?" I asked Jeremy.
"It's supposed to be mine." He told us.
"Did you get the Gilbert watch?" Sheriff Forbes asked.
"I can get it." Logan said next to her.
"We're going to need it." Sheriff Forbes informed them.
"What is that?" Caroline asked looking at an amber gem.
"A very important crystal." Damon told her, putting it in his pocket.
"You're the mystery guy, and I like that. But with mystery comes secrets." Elena said to Stefan.
"I just need you to trust me." He begged her.
"Trust is earned." She said before walking away from him.
"You were right, you're no one's second choice." He kissed my cheek before smiling down at me. I smiled up at him lightly.
"Don't!" I lifted her scarf up and saw a bad bite mark.
"Oh god, Caroline, what happened?" Elena asked her.
"Did Damon hurt you?" I asked angrily.
"There are bruises all over Caroline's body." Elena told Stefan.
"I'm handling it." Stefan told her.
"Vervain could weaken him if he ingested it. It would help get you the upper hand." Zach said, remembering his lessons from his father.
"You stay away from Caroline or you'll be dealing with me. You got it? Stay away from her or I'll make your life a living hell." I told Damon before walking away.
Damon bit Caroline and drank from her. Suddenly, they both fell to the ground.
"You know, I couldn't spike your drink... So I spiked hers." Stefan told Damon as he walked up to him.
Caroline took a drink of the champagne flute Stefan had given her.
Zach and Stefan locked a weakened Damon in the cellar next to where the vervain was.
"5 bodies all drained of blood?" Sheriff Forbes confirmed.
"They've come back." Logan agreed.
"Where is my ring?" Damon asked weakly, lying on the ground in the cellar.
"Won't be needing it anymore." Stefan informed him.
"How long have I been here?" Damon asked him.
"Three days." Stefan told him.
"What are you doing?" Damon asked him.
"During the dark ages when a vampire's actions threatened to expose or bring harm upon the entire race, they would face judgment. They sought to reeducate them rather than to punish them." Stefan told him.
"You know what will happen if I don't... Feed on blood." Damon reminded him, not liking the outlook of his fate.
"You'll grow weaker and weaker. Eventually you won't be able to move or speak. In a week your skin will desiccate, and you'll mummify. A living corpse. Unable to hurt anyone. Ever." Stefan told him.
"So what, you're just going to leave me in the basement, forever?" Damon asked him.
"I've injected you with enough vervain to keep you weak. Once your circulation stops, I'll move you to the family crypt, and then in 50 years, we can reevaluate." Stefan told him.
"I'm stronger than you think." Damon warned him.
"You always have been. But you're not stronger than the vervain. And we both know it. I'm sorry. Didn't have to be this way." Stefan told him before walking away from him.
I sat down stairs with Jenna thinking about how stupid I was. How could I have so stupid as to fall for Damon's tricks when they were the same tricks I've used before. I really was an idiot.
"Jenna! Chloe! Are you aware of what's going on upstairs?" Elena asked us walking to the two of us.
"Uh-huh." Jenna said as I nodded my head. I wore a black tank with a red blazer over it, black skinny jeans with black boots and a red purse.
"And you have no objection?" Elena asked us.
"He could be craftier about it, at least make an effort to sneak her in and out. Oh, and just so you know, I won't be home for dinner." Jenna said with a smile on her face.
"Oh, so you're actually going to do it. You're gonna go out with Logan Fell?" I asked her with a smirk on my face.
"I'm going to show up and torture him, yes. And have you heard from Stefan?" Jenna asked moving the conversation from her to Elena making me roll my eyes at her.
"Not since he left that very vague message three days ago. "Hi, um, Elena, I, um, have something I have to do. I'll, uh, explain in a few days."" Elena told us and I gave her a confused look at his words.
"Haven't you called him?" I asked her.
"Nope. Not going to either." She told me sternly.
"And you're ok with everything?" Jenna asked her. We knew the truth but Elena didn't need to know that.
"No, I'm not ok with any of it. But I'm not gonna cry about it, either. You know, I was going to write in my diary this morning and then I thought, what am I going to write? Honestly, I'm not gonna be one of those pathetic girls whose world stops spinning because of some guy." Elena told us harshly.
"Ok, then." Jenna said, shocked at her words and her tone.
"I'll be fine." Elena said walking away from us.
"She won't be fine until she talks to him." I told her before grabbing my things and going to school.
Stefan walked downstairs with his school supplies ready to all he had to do was leave instructions for Zach.
"He's awake. He's weak, but it's probably best to stay out of the basement. He's Damon. I'm not sure how dangerous he still might be." Stefan warned him.
"You're going to school?" Zack asked him.
"Came here to live a life. It's about time I get back to that. And Elena, if she's still speaking to me." Stefan said.
"Why haven't you called her?" Zack asked him.
"What am supposed to do, feed her another lie? I hate lying to her, Zach. I'm not good at it. She already thinks I'm hiding something." Stefan told him.
"What choice do you have? You came here because you wanted to live as normal a life as you could. You knew this was going to be a part of it." Zach reminded him before he left.
"I remember the party." Caroline said sitting at her vanity telling Bonnie what she remembered from the last time she saw Damon. "Damon came up behind me, and he was kissing my neck, or biting my neck. I passed out. It's like there's holes in my memory lately. It's just weird. Maybe I let him bite me." She said using her makeup to cover the bite marks on her skin.
"Why would you do that?" Bonnie asked her from the bed holding a candle.
"Can we just not talk about it, ok? Don't want to talk about Damon. I don't want to talk about any of it. Just want to go back to normal. What are you doing with that candle?" Caroline asked her.
"Um... Nothing. What's this?" Bonnie asked when she saw the crystal Damon had been trying to take from the party.
"Damon gave it to me. Or he was going to give it to me. All I know is, it's mine now." Caroline told her, getting up and walking to her.
"It's ugly." Bonnie told her.
"Well, get your grubby hands off it." Caroling said taking it away from her.
"The sexy suds car wash is tomorrow. The football team and the band have committed. Well, not all the band. Just the ones who could pull off the bikini. I want, in your face, sexy. I mean, it's a fund raiser, for god's sake." Caroline said walking in the school with a small crowd behind her.
"Unbelievable. It's like nothing happened." Elena said to Bonnie and I.
"She's in denial." Bonnie told us.
"It must some big denial." I told them.
"Hey." Stefan said as he walked up to us.
"Hey. You know, I gotta go. Be somewhere right now." Bonnie said walking away from the three of us.
"I'm so sorry I haven't called." Stefan told Elena.
"No worries. I'll live." She told him.
"I was dealing with Damon." He explained which caught my attention.
"And did you deal with Damon or does someone else need to?" I asked him.
"I dealt with him." he answered giving me a strange look.
"For four days?" Elena asked him.
"You have every right to be upset with me. But can I explain it all to you? Please." Stefan begged her. She looked at me and I nodded lightly to her.
"Sure. When?" she asked him.
"I gotta be home after school, but The Grill, around four o'clock?" Stefan asked her.
"Ok." She agreed.
"Thanks." He said with a relieved smile.
"Stefan," we all turned to see Caroline next to us. "Where is Damon? He has some serious apologizing to do."
"He's gone, Caroline." Stefan told her. The smile she was wearing faltered before coming back with more pep.
"When is he coming back?" she asked him.
"He's not coming back. I'm sorry." Stefan said before walking away from the three of us with Elena following him.
"This is a good thing, Care. This way he can't hurt you or anyone here anymore." I told her offering her a rare kind smile.
"I know that." She told me before going and talking to someone about the car wash. I sighed and shook my head before going to class.
At 4 Elena was waiting at the Mystic Grill for Stefan when she saw Matt playing pool solo.
"Hey, Matt, um, have you seen Stefan?" she asked him.
"Nope. If you want to kill some time, um, you can rack. Come on. We haven't played in forever. I'll let you break." Matt told her. She smiled at him and walked to him.
Zach cautiously went down to the cellar to watch Damon suffer slowly.
"I'm full of vervain. I've been putting it in my coffee for 16 years. My blood will only make you worse. Damon?" Zach called out.
"So it was your vervain. Good for you. Good for you. Family only runs so deep." Damon said to him.
"We're not family, Damon. Only in the most dysfunctional sense. In fact, I avoided having a living, breathing, loving family because of you." Zach told him.
"I don't guess I could talk you into bringing me a rabbit or something? I'd settle for Stefan's diet at this point." Damon begged.
"You know I can't do that." Zach told him.
"You succeeded, Zach. I'm shutting down. You're like your grandfather. He didn't like it when I came to visit, either." Damon said remembering the last time he'd seen Zach's grandfather.
"But you don't visit, Damon. You appear, unannounced, reminding me that this isn't my house; that you're just permitting me to live here. Hell, that you're permitting me to live." Zach reminded him.
"Someone had to mow the lawn." Damon replied sarcastically.
"I came to say good-bye, Damon." Zach told him. Damon rushed up to the door and grabbed Zach by the throat, trying to kill him or convince him to open the door.
"Unlock it. Unlock the door, Zach." Damon tried compelling. Stefan ran down the stairs just in time to wrestle Zach out of Damon's grasp.
"Keep it up, Damon. The more energy you expend, the faster you'll go." Stefan warned him.
"And there's Vicki, all nonchalant in the bathroom like it's no big deal that they're hooking up." Elena vented to Matt what had happened that morning.
"Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. Your brother and my sister, that's weird. Not weirder than if your sister and I hooked up." Matt joked with her.
"Yeah." She said laughing. She checked her phone for the time before putting it back.
"How late is he?" Matt asked her.
"Hitting the hour mark." She told him as she saw her sister walk in the Grill. "Nothing's wrong though. Which means I'm not talking boy problems with you." Elena told him, shooting the cue ball.
"Good. I mean, it's not like we were ever best friends or anything. Hey, look it's Chloe. Chloe!" I turned and smiled at Marr and walked over to him and Elena.
"Hey, what are you two talking about?" I asked them.
"Elena was about to tell us about her issues with Stefan." Matt said with a smile looking at Elena.
"Ok." She sighed. "Here goes- What do you think of Stefan? Is he a good guy?" she asked us.
"Why? What's he done?" Matt asked her.
"Not any one thing. He's just so secretive all the time. I think there's something that he doesn't want me to know, which makes me want to know all the more." Elena told us.
"Everyone has secrets, Elena. It's part of being human." I told her.
"Like that he's a serial killer and he keeps a clown suit in his trunk?" Matt asked making all of us laugh.
"No, of course not. But what do we know about him, really?" Elena asked.
"He's great at football. A little bit of a loner. And as much as I hate saying it, he might be a nice guy." Matt told her.
"So you think I'm just being paranoid?" Elena asked.
"I think you should talk to him." Matt told her.
"I think you should trust him. He's a nice guy, Elena." I told her as Stefan walked up to us.
"Trust who?" he asked. "I'm so sorry that I'm late."
"What happened?" Elena asked him.
"I got held up." Stefan said.
"Is everything ok?" Elena asked.
"There was this thing with my uncle." Stefan told her.
"And you couldn't call and tell me that you were going to be an hour late?" Elena asked him.
"Ok. You two have fun." Matt said walking away.
"I'm really sorry. It was unavoidable." Stefan told her. I picked up a pool stick and began to pick up Elena and Matt's game while listening to them talk.
"What was unavoidable?" Elena asked Stefan. He didn't answer her and I saw her shake her head. "Ok."
"Oh, uh, Elena, please..." Stefan begged her as she walked away from him.
"No, Stefan, don't you get it? Every question gets a vague non-answer. What is so awful that you're afraid to tell me?" Elena asked him. Suddenly an old man walked up to Stefan and Elena.
"I know you. My God." The man said to Stefan.
"I'm sorry?" Stefan asked him.
"I know you. How can it be?" the old mas asked them.
"I think you have the wrong person, sir." Stefan insisted.
"You haven't aged a day." The man said to him. I watched Stefan's face fill with dread and realization.
"I'm sorry. Excuse me. Hey, can we- can I take you home and we can talk about it? Is that ok?" Stefan asked Elena as he started pushing her towards the door. She stopped him and turned him to look at her.
"Wait, what was that?" she asked him.
"I-I don't know. uh, nothing." Stefan told her.
"Right, nothing. Ok, um... I gotta go, Stefan. Excuse me." Elena said before leaving. I turned to the old man and saw him watch Stefan. I quickly left and went home.
I tried. I want so much to make things right, but every instinct in my body is telling me to be careful. What you don't know can hurt you.
I sat in my room on my personal computer, looking things over. Something was wrong here, but I couldn't pin it. The broken bottle with fresh blood on it, but no fresh wound. Stefan and Damon's name's on the registry for the first Founder's Party. I'd gone back to look at it and saw two other names that disturbed me once I'd found them. Sadly Damon was the only Salvatore willing to talk about who I wanted to know about. Their names would forever be etched into my memory.
Katherine Pierce
Anna Pierce
At the Mystic Grill that night Logan walked up to the bar and stood next to the sheriff.
"Evening, Sheriff. Anything?" he asked her.
"We went over the entire west side of the lake. All the caverns by the falls were clean, no signs of habitat." She told him.
"Then they're staying in town." Logan told her.
"We canvassed all abandoned buildings and warehouses." She said.
"There has to be a private residence." Logan suggested.
"And that much harder to locate, if not impossible. These creatures are smart, they know how to go undetected." She reminded him.
"Well, someone who only comes out at night should eventually become obvious." Logan said quietly.
"What about the watch?" she asked him.
"I'm working on it." He told her.
"I knew the Gilberts. That watch is passed down to the men in the family. I'd start with Jeremy." She told him.
"Hey, Logan." Jenna called from a table. Logan nodded to the Sheriff and went to her.
"I can't believe you really came." He said to her.
"You have an hour. Make it count." She told him.
Elena sat in her bedroom alone when Jeremy walked in.
"You ok?" he asked her.
"Is Vicki in there?" she asked him with attitude.
"Don't answer a question with another question." He told her with a smile on his face. "Maybe. What's wrong with you?"
"I'm miserable." She told him as I walked up behind him.
"Well, you should go get something to eat." I said. She looked at me questioningly as Jeremy went back to his room. "Just go feed yourself. Don't be one of those girls who doesn't eat just because a boy hurt your feelings." I told her going back to my room and doing my research on what was happening in town.
Elena walked out of her room and down the stairs, hearing nothing.
"Jenna? Jenna?" she called out before walking into the kitchen and seeing… "Stefan? What are you doing here?"
"Dinner. Jeremy told me that Chicken Parmesan is one of your favorites, and I happen to be a good cook. The Italian roots demand it. I can even make my own homemade mozzarella. Only tonight, it is unfortunately store bought. Sorry." He told her with a smile.
"I don't know what you're trying to accomplish." She told him.
"You want to know me, right? Well, I figure if you're going to dump me, you should at least, um, know who you're dumping. So let's start with Katherine and her twin, Anna." He told her while chopping up the vegetables.
"Stefan..." Elena started to stop him, but he didn't let her.
"Katherine was... the most beautiful girl that I had ever met. She had this perfect olive skin. And she had this laugh. It was ridiculous. I mean, her laugh made you laugh. And she was fun. She knew how to have a good time. But Anna was very manipulative and impatient and entitled and selfish, and, um, impulsive. She'd do whatever it took to protect her sister. Enter Damon. He found his match with Anna and I with Katherine. I did some things that...I'm not proud of. And my biggest regret... Is not being able to make it right before she died. I miss her, but... I'm no longer crippled by her loss." He told her.
"It was very nice what you did for Stefan. Very romantic." Vicki said to Jeremy after seeing his sister happy with Stefan.
"Well, I was feeling romantic." He told her.
"Look what I found. "Elena Gilbert, take one tablet every 4 to 6 hours, as needed for pain."" Vicki read off the prescription bottle.
"Those are left over from the car accident." Jeremy realized.
"So she won't miss them." Vicki said sitting at his desk. Vicki poured the pills out and grabbed the pocket watch to use to crush the pills up before Jeremy stops her.
"No not with that, that's an antique." He said taking it from her. She grabbed something else to crush the pills up. "I feel like we're always getting high."
"That's the beauty of choice." She told him with a smile.
"Well, then let's choose not to. I mean, we don't have to be high all the time, right?" he asked her.
"I really hope you're not one of those guys who, now that we're together, tries to change everything about me." She said rudely.
"No." he told her quietly.
"Good." She said, crushing the pills up.
"I'm an avid reader, a huge Fitzgerald fan, "The Great Gatsby", his masterpiece. But I'm no snob. I love some good Grisham. I think Seinfeld is the best American television show for the past 50 years, but I love Lucy is all-time. "The loving cup" episode was the best, I think. Huge Scorsese fan. I can watch Taxi Driver over and over again." Stefan told Elena.
"Here, let me." Elena told him, taking up the chopping of the garlic.
"As far as music, it's pretty much across the board. Um, Dylan, Hendrix, Patsy, Willie. A little Kanye. You know what? I even like that one Miley song." He told her and she smirked at him. "Easy."
"I didn't say anything. Hey, this is for the garlic bread, right? Because I'm not eating garlic unless you agree to, too." She told him.
"Are you kidding? I love garlic." He told her with a smile. She smiled at him before continuing the chopping.
"Ow! Ahh." She said, having cut her finger on the knife.
"You ok?" he asked her worriedly.
"Yeah. Think so." She told him, going to the sink to wash off her hand. Stefan looked down at his hand, feeling a cool liquid on his fingers, and saw Elena's blood. He looked back up at her as she looked in the window of the sink and watched as his face began to transform. "Your face..."
"I-I, uh, I think I got something in my eye." Eh told her quickly turning around so she wouldn't see.
"Stefan. Hey. Stefan!" He turned back to her, his face normal and she sighed. "Um, I think that my paranoia has turned into full-blown hallucinations."
"Part of your charm." He told her. He hesitated before kissing her but she beat him to it.
In the cellar at the Salvatore Boarding House, Damon looked up at the ceiling and used some of his vampire abilities to contact the one person he could control to get out of his prison.
"Caroline. Caroline." He called out. Caroline was in her room on the phone with one of the other cheerleaders, talking about the upcoming fundraiser.
"No, Tiki, do not do the one-piece, ok? I've seen it on you. Trust me. Yeah, but you're going for stripper pole vibe this year." She said laughing.
"Caroline." Damon called to her again.
"Yeah, maybe we should wash the cars in slow motion. No." Caroline told her friend.
"Caroline." Damon called.
"What? oh, um, no, sorry. Um, so I'll just see you tomorrow. Two-piece. Ok, bye." Caroline hung up the phone smiling. She turned and saw a crow at her window. She grabbed her pillow and pushed it at the crow trying to get it to leave. "Shoo, shoo! Shoo! God!"
The next day Stefan stood in the cellar, watching his brother suffer. He didn't take any joy out of this. He loved his brother and always would. But Damon was a danger to the people of Mystic Falls, to Elena and her sister. He had to protect them.
"I bet you're feeling pretty good about yourself, aren't you?" Damon asked him.
"Not particularly." Stefan told him.
"You won. You got the bad guy. Now nothing could come between you and Elena. Except the truth. The lies will catch up to you, Stefan. As long as you keep lying to yourself about what you are." Damon warned him.
"The beauty of you in there and me out here... Is that I can walk away." Stefan said before doing just that.
"No friend discounts. No freebies. No pay ya laters. We are not running a charity here. No, we are not." Caroline told Elena and I at the sexy suds car wash.
"No we are not." Elena and I agreed as Stefan walked up to us.
"Hi." He said with a smile.
"Hey!" Elena said, standing to greet him.
"The event is called sexy suds, you know." Caroline told them before she and I walked away. I walked to Bonnie and Matt and began to help them wash the car they were working on as Caroline moved to someone else.
"Did we just get scolded?" Stefan asked Elena.
"And judged, yeah." She confirmed.
"Wow." He wasn't used to that from someone who'd tried to come onto him.
"I'm sorry, but I guess you're going to have to take that off." Elena told him, gesturing to his sweatshirt.
"I think you have to go first." He told her.
"Ok." They both pull off their shirt, revealing their undershirts. Elena's shirt had gotten stuck on something as she was pulling it off. "Ok, um-sorry, So not sexy. Ugh."
"I disagree." Stefan said, helping her pull her shirt off. They smiled at each other before kissing.
"Uh-uh, no. None of that tortured pining stuff." Bonnie told Matt as he watched Stefan and Elena.
"I'm just observing." He told her.
"That's not observing. That's pining." I told him and he gave me a look before going back to washing the car.
"Oh. Tiki. this one's yours." Bonnie called to Tiki as a car pulled up and a man got out.
"Why do I always get the homely ones?" Tiki asked staring at it. "Just to be clear, your car's a p.o.s. I mean, we can wash it, but it's still a p.o.s." the man tossed his keys onto the front seat and walked away from her.
"You don't have to be rude." Bonnie told her.
"Rude is uglying up the road with that junk." Tiki said getting a bucket and hose.
"Why didn't you say anything Chloe?" Bonnie asked me.
"Because I have no opinion about it." I told her. I watched Bonnie stare at Tiki when suddenly the water splashed up at her.
"Whoa! What the hell?" Tiki asked.
"Wet and wild, Tik." Matt laughed.
"What did you do?" I asked Bonnie.
"Nothing." She told me before going back to her washing.
"All proceeds are going to the school's athletic department still healing from the tragic death of their football coach William Tanner. The citizens of Mystic Falls coming together in support of one of their own. Cut it." Logan said, standing in front of the sexy suds car wash.
"Classy." Jenna said, walking to meet him as he walked to her.
"Thank you." He said to her, smiling.
"But you're still going to video the girls in bikinis, right?" Jenna asked him.
"Well, 53% of Americans watch the news with the sound off." He told her, making her laugh.
"Thank you for dinner. I had a nice time." She told him.
"Do you remember the last time we were in the school parking lot?" he asked her.
"Nope. Doesn't ring a bell." She told him.
"Really?" he asked her.
"Nada. Especially not having sex in the minivan." She told him, smiling at the memory.
"That was a good day." He said, before seeing her look. "What?" he asked her.
"You're getting soap in that." Elena told Stefan as they washed a car.
"Oh, it's fine." Stefan told her, looking at his ring.
"I noticed that Damon has one, too. Is there a story behind it?" Elena asked him.
"Yeah, it's the family crest from the Italian renaissance." He told her.
"Hmm. What's the stone?" she asked.
"It's called lapis lazuli." He said.
"Oh. You should really take it off. I could put it in my bag." She told him.
"No, it's- it's fine, really. Thanks, though." He said, looking down at his ring.
"Ok. I'm gonna get some towels." She told him walking away.
"Ok." He said.
"Hey, we're out of towels and those shimmy things." Elena told both me and Caroline as she sat down next to us at the money table.
"I'll go get some more. Mind the money." Caroline told us.
"I'll go with you." I told her. We walked through the halls of the school and tried to open one of the doors to find it locked. Caroline quickly turned and looked behind us, having seen a shadow that I couldn't see. "Care? What is it?" I asked her.
"Caroline. Caroline, help me. Caroline. Help me. Help me." Damon told her and she started walking away from me.
"Care? Caroline?" I called after her before following her.
"That'll be $20. I saw you last night. You were talking to a friend of mine. At the grill?" Elena said, remembering the previous day where the old man at spooked Stefan.
"Well, I-I thought it was somebody I knew." He told her.
"Stefan Salvatore." She said.
"Nah, it can't be. It's just my mind playing tricks on me." He told her.
"Where do you think you'd seen him before?" she asked him.
"When I first moved here, I stayed at the Salvatore boarding house." He told her.
"Oh." She said.
"Stefan was just passing through to visit his uncle. I mean, none of us knew he was even here until the attack." He told her.
"The attack?" she asked him confused.
"His uncle got killed. Mauled by an animal in the woods." The old man said.
"His uncle? Zach?" Elena asked him.
"Mm-mmm. Joseph." He told her.
"I'm sorry, sir. I don't think I'm familiar with the story." She told him.
"Oh, how could you? I mean, this happened years ago." He told her.
"Grandpa, you gotta go. Mom wants you home. Ok?" Tiki told him.
"Ah." He said, turning and walking away.
"He wasn't bugging you, was he? He's a little alzy-heimer." Tiki said to Elena.
"No, he was sweet." She told him getting up and following him. "Hey, sir, I'm sorry. Um, are you sure that the man that you saw, that you knew, his name was Stefan Salvatore?"
"Yes. I remember his ring and his brother—" the man said.
"Damon?" she asked him.
"Yeah. Stefan and Damon Salvatore." He said.
"When was this?" she asked him.
"It was early June, 1953. Yeah. June, 1953." He told her.
"Caroline finally freed you, huh?" Stefan asked her having finally found her after a moment of her thinking to herself about what she'd learned.
"Uh, I don't know where she and Chloe went. They abandoned me. Hey, I realized earlier, I had no idea that your family was from Italy." Elena said holding his hands.
"No? Last name Salvatore didn't do it for you?" he asked her with a smile.
"Right. Duh. Are there any other Salvatores in Mystic Falls?" she asked him.
"My uncle Zach." He told her.
"Where did everyone else go?" she asked him.
"Kinda just spread out." He said.
"Hmm." She said thinking.
"Why?" he asked her.
"I'm just trying to learn more about you." She told him.
"Hmm." He said with a smile.
"Where are you taking me?" Jeremy asked as Vicki pulled him to an unknown place in the woods.
"We can't hide out in your room all the time. Welcome to my other favorite party place." Vicki told him with a smile on her face.
"What, a cemetery?" he asked her.
"Yeah. It's cool, huh?" She asked him. It wasn't what he would call cool but he liked Vicki and he wanted to spend time with her. Together they walked to where two guys and a girl were laying around.
"Yo, Vick!" one of the guys called to her,
"What's up, Jared?" Vicki asked him.
"You baby-sitting, Donovan?" the other boy asked him.
"This is Jeremy. He's cool." Vicki told him.
"Smoke up." The boy said handing her a joint. She inhaled deeply before blowing the smoke in Jeremy's face.
"Your car was done an hour ago." Elena told Jenna.
"You're saying that out loud why?" Jenna asked her as Logan walked up to them.
"Hi. Elena, right? I think I met you once when you were 9." He told her.
"Oh." Elena said with a smile.
"Your emotional maturity level when we were together." Jenna said.
"Ouch. Here I thought we were making progress." He said to her.
"Is he enough in your good graces that I can ask him for a favor?" Elena asked Jenna.
"If I do her a favor, will I get back in your good graces?" Logan asked Jenna.
"Uh, a very reluctant maybe to both." Jenna said, giving them both a look.
"Done. Wait. One condition. Dinner, tonight, your house." Logan said.
"Fine. But you're eating leftovers." Jenna told him.
"Ooh. What do you need?" Logan asked the teenager.
"Do you have access to old news stories, say, fifties?" Elena asked him.
"Yeah, at the station. Between the archives and the Internet, we pretty much have everything." Logan said.
"I have this report way past due. It'd be a life saver." She lied. She never liked to admit it, but she and her sister had a lot more in common than they both let on.
"Heading there now. Let's go." Logan said walking away.
"If anyone asks, you don't know where I went. I don't want Caroline to know that I left." Elena said before glancing at Stefan and walking away with Logan.
"Caroline, help me. Caroline. Help me." Damon called to Caroline as she and I walked into the boarding house.
"Caroline what are we doing here?" I asked her as we walked down to the basement.
"Damon?" Caroline called.
"Care, what would Damon be doing down here? Stefan said he left town." I reminded her.
"Damon? Damon?" We got to a wooden door and looked inside a small window to see Damon lying on the floor. "Oh, my god! What is this? How did I know that you were here?" Caroline asked him.
"Better question is what happened to you?" I asked him.
"I'm here because Stefan put me here." He told me and my head went spinning. "And you knew I was here because I wanted you to. Very, very badly. Let me out of here. Please."
"You bit me." Caroline said to him.
"You liked it. Remember?" he asked her and I stared between the two of them.
"Why do I keep remembering the same things, but in different ways?" she asked him.
"You remember what I want you to remember. And now that the vervain has passed out of your system, you won't remember what you're about to do." He told her.
"What am I about to do?" she asked him.
"You're gonna open the door." He told her. "You're gonna open the door." She looked down a at the door lock and began to open the door.
"No!" Suddenly we were pushed back by a man, I assumed Zack. "No! Get out of here. Run! Run!" Caroline and I ran up the stairs as Damon pushed open the door and snapped Zach's neck. We ran up the stairs when Damon grabbed Caroline's foot and tried to pull her down the stairs back to him. She kicked him and he fell down as we continued to run. We ran through the house and threw the doors open and ran out. I heard him scream in pain and turned and watched him burn as Caroline ran away.
"What are you?" I asked him and he just stared at me in the shadows of his house.
"Sweeper duty." Tiki told Bonnie holding a large sweeper broom.
"What?" Bonnie asked him.
"We have to clean the pavement." Tiki told her with a smirk.
"It's a car wash. By definition, the pavement's clean." Bonnie told her.
"But not dry." Tiki said.
"And I'm doing this why?" Bonnie asked her.
"Caroline and Chloe bailed, so that leaves me in charge." Tiki said handing her the broom.
"Fabulous." Bonnie said before standing up, holding the broom. She stared at a small thing of water and focused on it drying. Suddenly a fire started and followed the water stream to Tiki's car. The car burst into flames and everyone freaked.
"Bonnie! Bonnie! Bonnie! Hey." Stefan said, trying to shake the young girl from her trance.
"What just happened?" She asked him confused.
"You were in some kind of a trance." He told her.
"Did I do this?" Bonnie asked him.
"I think so, yeah." He nodded.
"Nobody else saw, did they? Don't tell anybody. Please." She begged him. He agreed and she ran away from the car wash
Damon just stared at me from his shadow as I stood in the nicely bright sunshine.
"I asked you a question, Damon. What are you?" I repeated.
"Why would I tell you?" he asked me weakly.
"Your brother's hand heals extremely quickly. Jer cut Stefan's hand with a bottle the night Mr. Tanner died, but when he showed Elena his hand their wasn't a cut." I told him.
"Then he didn't get cut." Damon said.
"Except he was. I found the bottle that Jeremy used and it still had fresh blood on it." I corrected him. "Now tell me, what are you?"
"Figure it out." He told me and I smirked at him.
"Well aren't you helpful." I said. "I take it until sunset you can't hurt me."
"Or at least shady enough that it doesn't hurt as much." He told me and I watched him.
"The sun will always hurt a vampire." I said and he gave me a slightly shocked and surprised look. "I've been putting the pieces together for a while now, Damon."
"We digitized all our archives last year. You can pull all the remote footage right up on screen. What is it exactly you're looking for?" Logan asked Elena in the News station.
"An incident from 1953. If it even happened- At the old Salvatore boarding house." Elena told him as Logan's cell rang.
"Sorry, one second." He answered the phone. "Yeah? Fire? All right, be right there. I gotta go. You believe there's actual news to cover in this town? All right, use keywords to search the database. It's pretty easy to navigate. And Brady down in tech will help you out with anything you need." Logan told her.
"Ok." Elena said.
"All right? Oh, hey. Could you put in a good word for me with Jenna?" Logan asked her.
"You got it." Elena agreed with a smile.
"All right. Good luck." Logan said before leaving to go back to the school.
"What?" Vicki asked a quite Jeremy at the cemetery.
"I'm stoned in a cemetery." Jeremy said with a small laugh.
"They don't mind, they're dead. Let me take this up a notch. Hey, Tony." Vicki threw a bottle to Tony and he caught it. He glanced at it and smiled.
"Oh! Nice. Vickies from Vicki. Ha!" The girl in his lap took the bottle and read it.
"Well, thank you, Elena Gilbert, whoever you are." She said with a smile.
"You took those from the house?" Jeremy asked Vicki, freaking out.
"She wasn't using it." Vicki reminded him.
"She's gonna notice if they're gone. That's not cool." Jeremy told them.
"It's no big deal, Jer." Vicki insisted.
"Yeah, it kinda is, Vick." Jeremy snapped at her.
"Damn, dude." One of the other guys said to him as he snatched the bottle and walked away.
"Vicki brought the party police." Tony said laughing slightly.
"Shut up, Tony." Vicki said, following after her boyfriend. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you mad."
"Well, what are we doing, partying in a cemetery with a bunch of losers?" Jeremy asked her.
"Those are my friends." She told him.
"They're waste of space small-town lifers." He told her.
"Yeah? What am I?" She asked him offended.
"You're different, Vick." Jeremy told her.
"No, you are. You're the kid with the big house who's acting out because his parents died. Guess what- You'll get over it. You will pull yourself together, move on, and one day tell your kids stories about your dark period growing up. And I'll still be here, waiting tables at the grill, partying at the cemetery with a bunch of waste of space small-town lifers." She told him angrily.
"Look—" Jeremy started saying but she stopped him.
"Go home, Jeremy. If I want to feel like crap about myself, I'll just go back to Tyler." She told him walking away.
At the sexy suds carwash, Stefan was looking everywhere for Elena but couldn't seem to find her.
"Hey, have you seen Elena?" Stefan asked Matt when they crossed paths.
"No, not for a while." Matt told him.
"You think she went home?" Stefan asked him.
"Not sure." He said.
"Thanks." Stefan said. He was about to walk away when Matt stopped him.
"Hey. I'm not saying this for you. I'm saying it for her. But she's big on trust. So whatever you're holding back from her, the more you try to hide it, the more she won't stop till she figures it out." Matt warned him.
"When did you find out?" he asked me.
"When you couldn't step out into the sunlight. Kinda narrows the list." I told him. I looked into the sky and saw the sun starting to set.
"Running out of daylight, Chloe?" he asked me and I looked back at him to see him standing closer to me. The shadow in the doorway had gotten larger and he was almost able to touch me if he didn't mind a small burn on his arm.
"I better take my leave then." I said turning and walking away from him.
"You won't get far enough in time." He told me and I turned back to him with a smile.
"You won't kill me." I stated.
"And why's that?" he asked me and I walked back up to him, making sure to stay just out of, what I thought, would be his reach.
"Why aren't I dead already?" I asked.
"Maybe I want something else from you." He suggested.
"Like what?" I asked him.
"Blood." He grabbed my arm and slammed me against his body before biting my neck, making me scream.
Elena finally found the footage she was looking for and watched it.
"This is Franklin Fell reporting to you from the Salvatore Boarding House, where a brutal animal attack has ended in tragedy. Ok, they're bringing out the bodies. See if you can get closer. Is that the nephew?" She watched as the camera zoomed in. She saw Stefan on the porch and stared in shock.
Caroline laid on her bed and stared at her ceiling. She'd forgotten what had happened at the Salvatore Boarding House, but she felt horrible about something.
"I didn't see you at the car wash." Her mother said, standing in the doorway.
"Left early." Caroline told her.
"Honey, are you ok? Anything you want to talk about? Is it a boy thing?" Her mother asked her.
"Mom, if I want to talk boys, I'll call dad. At least he's successfully dating one." Caroline told her.
Stefan walked into his home and found the doors to the house and basement wide open. He quickly ran downstairs and found Zach's body and Damon gone.
"Zach! Oh, no, Zach..."
Elena rushed into her room and stared into her mirror, thinking about everything she learned.
Dear diary, I'm not a believer. People are born, they grow old, and then they die. That's the world we live in. There's no magic, no mysticism, no immortality. There's nothing that defies rational thought.
Someone knocked on a white door and waited patiently for the owner of the house to open it. When she did Bonnie turned to her and cried.
"I don't know what's happening to me." Bonnie cried to the woman in front of her.
"I know, dear." Bonnie Gran said to her with a smile before bringing her in for a comforting hug.
At the Gilbert House Logan was waiting for Jenna to be occupied in the kitchen with dinner. Once she was he snuck up to Jeremy's room and began digging around for the watch.
"Logan?" Jenna called from downstairs. "Logan?"
People are supposed to be who they say they are. And not lie or hide their true selves.
When Logan found the watch, he quickly left the room he bumped into Jeremy.
"What are you doing here?" Jeremy asked him.
"Oh, hey, man. Just looking for the bathroom." Logan told him.
It's not possible. I'm not a believer, I can't be. But how can I deny what's right in front of me? Someone who never grows old...
"1953."
Never gets hurt...
"Oh, my god, your hand! Is it deep? How bad is it?"
Someone who changes in ways that can't be explained...
"Hey, um, are you ok? Your eye. Your face."
Girls bitten...
"What is that? Oh, my god, what happened to you?"
"It's nothing!"
Bodies drained of blood...
" Did she say what kind of animal it was?"
"She said it was a vampire."
At the cemetery the local druggies were still hanging around.
"Donovan?" the boy asked, offering her a joint.
"No, I'm good." She told him as the music from one of their vehicles
"Not it."
"Not it."
"Not it. Ah, Vicki." Vicki rolled her eyes and got up to turn the music back on. Once the small task was done she heard someone coughing and groaning. She looked up to see a man leaning on the bed of the truck she just turned back on.
"Hey, man, you ok?" she asked him.
"Come here. Come here." He said quietly to her.
"You don't look good." She said.
"Come closer. I have something- That I have to tell you." He said, keeping his face hidden from her. He started to move towards her but fell. She caught him before he hit the ground and helped him stand.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. I got you, I got you. It's ok. It's ok." She told him. He quickly put his hand over her mouth and bit her neck. He looked up, revealing himself to be Damon and biting back into her neck. She called out as loudly as she could but no one could hear her due to his hand over her mouth. She reached for something in the bed of the truck but her hand fell as she fell into unconsciousness.
Back at the Salvatore House, Stefan grabbed a stake he'd hidden and ran to the door. He quickly opened the door and Elena turned to look at him.
"What are you?"
I opened my eyes and quickly sat up on the bed I was laying. I looked around to see a bare room with a very modern bathroom attacked to it. I put my hand on my neck and pulled it back to see blood on my hand. I crawled out of the bed I was in and left the room to see I was in the Salvatore House. What happened after Damon bit me?