It was Saturday night, the last night Devon was going to be here. His brothers went to some fundraiser where Damon was going to be helping out, which was unlike him. Devon went there for an hour or so but came back home since he wasn't that into it. As he is waiting for Damon or Stefan to come home, he is looking though some old photos from a photo book. Devon seeing all these photos and the good times with his brothers was making him happier that he made the decision to come here. If he didn't come then he wouldn't have them in his life anymore.

With his vampire hearing, Devon was hearing sounds downstairs. With a confused look, he stands up and closes the book, closing his door behind him. He walks down the steps, slowly, calling out Damon and Stefan's name. When he doesn't get an answer, he looks around the boarding house but shrugs it off, thinking the house is settling. When he walks into the living room, he sees Damon coming through the front door.

"I was looking all over for you, Dev, when did you come home?"

"About a half an hour ago, I wasn't that interested in it. Did you get a woman for the night?"

Devon says while he chuckles and smirks at Damon. Damon hits his brother playfully on the arm and shakes his head at him since he didn't care much about what woman won him for the night. He wasn't in the mood and was hiding it from Devon since he didn't need to know what was going on.

"I'll be upstairs Damon if you need me."

Devon goes up the stairs, to his room while Damon walks into the living room to pour himself a drink. As quiet as he can be Alaric goes into the room with a stake in his hand. Damon doesn't turn around; he smirks when he hears Alaric in the room.

"Are you really this stupid?"

Damon finishes pouring his drink and turns around to look at Alaric who is standing behind him.

"Guess so."

Damon takes a drink, places his glass down and with his vampire speed runs to Alaric, throwing him across the room. Alaric lands on the floor, heavily, but gets back up, ready to attack.

"You gonna put down the stake?"

Alaric doesn't move, remaining in the attacking position.

"Wow. That's courage."

Damon smirks at Alaric and walks towards Alaric.

"Where's Isobel? What have you done to my wife?"

"You want me to tell you I killed her? Would that make you happy? Because I think you know what happened."

"I saw you feeding on her."

Damon crocks a smile at him, not really caring about this.

"Yeah, I did, and I wasn't lying. She was delicious."

Alaric runs full force at Damon. Damon hits him in the stomach and Alaric kneels over, falling to the floor.

"Oh, come on. What do you think happened? Not an inkling? Never consider the possibility."

Alaric looks up at him with a confused face and raised eyebrows.

"I turned her."

Alaric raises his eyebrows, surprised by Damon's confession.

"She came to me, all pathetic, looking for vampires. There was something about her, something I liked. There was something special."

"You turned her because you liked her?"

"No, I slept with her because I liked her. I turned her to because she begged me to. Yeah, but you knew that too, didn't you? Hmm. I guess she wasn't happy at home, wasn't happy with life in general, wasn't happy with you."

Alaric runs, full force at Damon again, but Damon grabs the stake from Alaric's hands and stabs him in the chest, puncturing his lung. Alaric holds the stake in his chest and screams out in pain, falling to the ground. Devon, thinking it was Damon being attacked, runs vampire speed, down the stairs and into the living room, seeing Alaric on the ground because Damon stabbed him. Devon not really shocked by this, runs over to them, looking down at Alaric realizing he was the history teacher he met before he left.

"What… Why did you do this?"

"That is what happens when you attack a big bad vampire, like me. He deserves it Dev."

Devon couldn't believe his brother's attitude towards this right now. He blinks a few times, trying to wrap his head around this.

"No one, not even someone that tries to attack you deserves to die."

"You're young still Devon, you won't understand."

Before Devon had a chance to say something to Damon, Stefan comes home, seeing Alaric's body on the ground. Stefan rushes over to the body, checking for a pulse. He looks up at Damon, knowing fully well, this wasn't Devon that did this to him.

"What happened? What did you do?"

"Do what? He attacked me."

Devon backs away from his brothers, knowing he shouldn't get in the middle right now. Stefan stands up and with a cold expression looks at Damon.

"Damon…"

"All I did was told him the truth. His wife didn't want him anymore. It's not my fault he couldn't handle it."

"Like you've been handling Katherine?"

Stefan hits a nerve with his brother and Devon even knew it. Damon had a cold expression like he always does, towards his brother.

"I'm handling it fine. You know what? Isobel came to me. She found me. And if she's related to Elena, that means she is related to Katherine. Maybe Katherine sent her to me."

"Stop it. You don't have to keep looking."

"Can't be a coincidence Isobel sought me out. Mm-mmm, can't."

Damon points to Alaric as he keeps talking.

"I'm assuming you'll take care of this."

Damon walks past Devon and Stefan, exhausted by Damon's actions, sits down next to Alaric's body while Devon puts a comforting hand on Stefan's shoulder. When he turns to smile at Devon for being the loving brother he remembers, he turns towards Alaric's body and sees his fingers move which Devon was seeing too. He furrows his eye brows and Devon has a confused expression. Stefan leans over Alaric, he gasps back to life, panting heavily. He sits up, looking at Stefan and Devon, confused.

"What happened? What's going on?"

"You were just… Did Damon turn you?"

Alaric shakes his head violently at Stefan.

"No. I- I went for him and then he, uh-he stabbed me."

Stefan did not believe it since it was impossible at least he was turned. Devon was confused by all of this since he believed he had to be turned to be alive right now.

"No, no, no. You must have vampire blood in your system. Somebody slipped it to you, they must have."

Alaric twirls the ring on his finger, looking down at her, knowing why he was alive right now.

"No. It's, uh, it's something else."

"Then how?"

"I, uh…"

Alaric stares at the ring on his right hand, slightly smiling at it.

"Isobel."

Alaric continues to fidget with the ring and looks up at Stefan and Devon.

"This ring protected me."

Devon never heard of a ring that did that, that bought someone back to life. His ring and his brothers protected them in the sun but this was different. This ring brings people back to life, which confused the two brothers right now.

"That's impossible."

"I know."

Devon sees the looks exchange between Alaric and Stefan. Mystic Falls has become stranger since the last time he was human. This wasn't the town he remembers. Devon was confused by all of this so he leaves them both and goes upstairs to his room. He shuts his light off, hoping to get some sleep since he needed it at this point in his night.

The next morning Stefan was at the high school, talking to Elena. He was leaving early today to spend some time with Devon before he leaves.

"Damon hasn't said a word to me. Every time I try to talk to him he shuts me down."

Elena puts books into her locker, trying to pay attention to what Stefan is saying to her.

"Do you think he is still trying to find Katherine?"

"I don't know. He waited a hundred and forty five years only to find out that Katherine could not care less. I mean it's gotta hurt right?"

"And it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy."

Elena says with a hint of scarsm to her voice. She was upset with Damon still and probably will be for a while.

"You have every reason to be upset with him. Have you thought anymore about what you're going to do?"

"About what? Isobel, my vampire birth mother, who's related to my vampire ancestor Katherine, who screwed over your vampire brother? Nah… I haven't thought about it at all."

Stefan was expecting this reaction since he can see how upset she was at everything. It's a lot for one person, human, to take in.

"I'm sorry I bought it up."

They start walking to class, which Stefan wasn't going to since he was going to go home soon to see Devon and talk to him. He knew Devon wasn't happy either with everything. He was in the middle of everything and Stefan knew it had to bother him but he wasn't admitting it to himself or anyone else.

"It'd just be nice if we could get through one day without having to deal with any of it. No vampire mother or brother."

"No vampires at all?"

"No vampires but you and maybe Devon since he is a copy of you."

Stefan chuckles at that since it was true. Devon and he can be twins if they wanted to be.

"I just want to get us back to normal stuff like school and homework and here's a thought: fun."

"Ooh, that sounds good to me, when do we start?"

Stefan and Elena laugh. Elena goes to class and Stefan kisses her goodbye and leaves the high school.

Stefan gets home to see Devon outside with his headphones in. He was looking up at the sky, thinking about everything that has happened lately, wishing he didn't have to be in the middle of all of this. He didn't know knowing Isobel, dating her, would cause all of these problems. He didn't want to go home today and leave his brothers, he wanted to help them but he didn't think they wanted him to.

Stefan walks over to him and Devon looks up at him, while Stefan takes a seat next to him. Devon takes his headphones out and puts them aside of him, kicking a stone on the ground.

"You shouldn't be a bad mood when you're about to leave. I know you are going to miss us but we will stay in contact Dev."

"It's not that Stef, yeah I will miss you both, a lot, but I don't want to leave when all of this is happening right now."

"Dev, you don't need to be here. I don't want you to be struck in the middle of all of this when it's ours and Elena's problem not yours."

Devon looks over at him, hearing the seriousness in his voice. He takes a deep breath, calming himself so he doesn't yell at him for any reason.

"If you haven't noticed Stef, I have been in the middle way before I came here. I dated that girl, I let her use me. If I knew she was Elena's birth mother and Alaric's wife I would have gotten away from her when I first met her. She can come back and see me Stef, you never know."

Stefan puts a hand on his shoulder, squeezing it. His little brother was right though. Isobel can come back and see him which will make Devon angry and he would kill her. Devon was annoyed by all of this and it showed in his voice.

"If that does happen Devon you will know what to do. You are very smart Dev and even I know you can handle yourself but you do have us now so if she does show up, you can call us if you need to."

Devon smiles over at his older brother. Stefan puts an arm around him and ruffles his curly hair.

"I know Stef and thanks. I had a really great time with you and even Damon."

Devon narrows his eyes at Stefan when he says Damon to him. He was telling the truth. He never used to be happy, never smiling or laughing or showing any happy emotions but now the he had his brothers back in his life he has been truly happy. All he has been doing was smiling and laughing when he was with them or with Bonnie. Devon can go home now knowing he doesn't have to believe his brothers were dead, they were fine and alive.

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