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Jeremy, Alaric, Caroline and Matt wait nervously outside, above the tombs. Amoria had ordered them to stay out while she performed the spell.

"She's been in there for forty minutes" declares Caroline impatiently.

"It takes time" says Alaric.

"But what if she passed out or something!"

"If she passed out we would hear Stefan yelling for us, Care" Matt inputs, his voice soothing.

"Hey, guys" all four heads snap to Stefan, who is now standing at the top of the staircase holding a frail looking Amoria.

"Stefan!" Caroline exclaims happily.

"Is she okay?" asks Jeremy

"Yeah, she's just really weak at the moment" Stefan says, sympathy is his voice.

"Her pulse is a-" Stefan squeezes his eyes shut "it's slow, but there".

Caroline steps forward extending her arms. "Here, I got her" she says, as she grabs the red headed girl from his arms.

"Thanks" Stefan says. In relief that he can no longer feel her pulse against his body. He can still hear it, but it was easier to resist her tempting scent.

"Well it's been nice and all" Katherine interjects sarcastically "but, I really must be going". As she steps around Stefan.

"We're even now" comes a tired rasp from Amoria.

Katherine turns to look at her "I guess we are" her tone nonchalant.

She turns to Stefan, a sly smile on her face "see you later lover boy" Before speeding off.

Caroline rolls her eyes, even though Katherine is long gone. "Anyways" she says annoyed, before continuing "should we bring her to the hospital, just in case?"

"No, no. Just bring me home. I just need a little rest, then I can do the tracking spell".

"Really?" Jeremy says hope evident in his voice.

Amoria nods in response, too tired to talk at the moment.

Mat opens the truck door and Caroline settles Amoria inside.

As soon as she places the red head down, her phone starts ringing. She looks at the caller I.D.

"It's Damon" she says before accepting the call.

"What?" She asks rudely, hitting the speaker phone button.

"I just found out that there were two guys asking around, looking for a girl, none other than Katharine Pierce yesterday" Damon lies.

"You think they took Elena and Bonnie?" Asks Matt.

"I'm guessing they assumed Elena was Katherine, and Bonnie just happened to be there".

"Do you know who they are?" Stefan puts in.

"No, but I'm working on it." Damon pauses, trying to sound hopeful for the next question "Did Amoria get you out?"

"Yeah" he replies "but now she's weak. So when she's recovered, she's going to perform a tracking spell".

"Well how long will that take?" Damon demands in frustration.

"We don't know" Jeremy says sadly.

Alaric phone vibrates "It's Jenna" he announces. "She's freaking out, since Jeremy wasn't there when she woke up".

"Crap" Jeremy breaths out.

"Did she say anything about Elena?" Asks Stefan.

"Elena told Jenna that she was sleeping over at Bonnie's." Jeremy tells him.

"Okay, that covers today. What happens tomorrow or the next? " asks Matt.

"Amoria's casting the tracking spell today, we'll find them before tomorrow" Jeremy says, trying to figure out whether he's trying to reassure them, or himself.

"We still need a backup plan" Damon's voice comes though the speakerphone.

"He's right" Stefan agrees.

"Alaric, you take Jeremy and Stefan to Jenna's house. Talk to her, if worse comes to worse compel her. The quarterback can take Barbie and Amoria to her house to rest."

"What are you going to do Damon?" Caroline asks "besides bossing everyone else around?"

"What I've been doing already, finding leads." And with that he hangs up.

He smiles at his cell phone. He had been on edge when he watched Amoria leave with Jeremy and Rick. He knew if they saw the tracking spell, it would leave them to his house he would be the prime suspect. So as soon as the coast was clear he ran as fast as he could to the boarding house.

He compelled Elena to stay asleep until he woke her up, then he had stuck her in the truck.

Bonnie was tricky, since he couldn't compel her, but in the end a simple threat against Elena was enough to get her into the backseat.

Damon drove to the furthest for closure lot he could find that was far from his house, and secluded yet still in mystic falls. Using vampire speed he opened the trunk and slung the unconscious Elena over his shoulders before Bonnie could even register that he was no longer in the car.

"You had her in the trunk?" Bonnie spat at him as she got out of the vehicle.

He didn't answer, instead he grabbed her arm and pulled her to the empty basement.

He dropped Elena on the cold cement floor. Bonnie rushed to her. "Why isn't she waking up?" She screeched in anger.

"Wake up, Elena" Damon said in a bored drawl.

Elena's eyes had fluttered open, but she didn't move. She simply looked around in confusion.

Damon grabbed Elena and brought her face to his.

"No" her voice broke as she tried to scramble backward.

"Let go of her!" Bonnie demanded as she threw herself in front of Elena.

Damon flipped his sunglasses back revealing his midnight eyes. "Relax" he growled at Bonnie. "Back off, before I do something you'll regret" he warned.

Bonnie hesitated before she stepped back in worry and anger.

Elena began to cry before Damon caught her eyes.
"Elena" he influenced "you will not leave this basement until I give you permission. You will not yell out for help. If Bonnie leaves this basement, yells for help, or does anything that seems like she's trying to escape. I want you to bite your tongue off and smash your head against the wall until you're dead."

Bonnie eyes bulged out and she gasped. Damon stood and straightened out. A twisted grin etched his features as he looked at Bonnie.

"I recommend staying put, unless you want to be the reason for Elena's death" flicking his sunglasses back into place.

She glared at him, her throat tight from the angry tears she fought back "you're fucking twisted" she had managed to whisper out.

"Thank you" he said, his grin widening. He turned and strutted up the stairs to the main floor.

Damon got into his car and dialled Caroline's number. He needed to know how long he had until the tracking spell was cast".

"What" he heard the bitch ask.

It was better than he thought as he headed back towards the boarding house. Stefan had been released, which sucks, but he was amped to find that Amoria was weak, so weak, in fact that she couldn't perform a simple spell, which means now is the perfect time to strike.

He drives home at top speed, before getting out and runs to Amoria's house again. He silently curses when he finds no trace of the quarterback, Barbie or Amoria. He growls in annoyance before slumping to the forest floor a few hundred feet from the house. 'How the fuck did I beat them here?' "For fuck sake" he says to himself as he bitterly waits for them to arrive.

"What the hell Jeremy!" Jenna demands in anger. "I wake up, and you're nowhere to be found. No note, no phone and more importantly, no permission to be out. Where were you?".

"I-" Jeremy tries to explain, well, technically he was going to lie.

Jenna holds up her hand to shush him. "I don't want to hear it"

"But, you just asked-"Jenna purses her lips in anger and stares daggers at him.

"And you" she looks at Alaric pointing a finger at him accusingly "were with him, and never called, or texted to let me know he was safe?". Her breathing is shallow from anger and her hair is a tangled mess as she stands in the kitchen in her nightgown.

"Hi Stefan" she adds as a second thought as she sees him standing behind the two other guys.

"Hey, Jenna".

She look back at Alaric "well?" She asks expectantly.

"I'm sorry" he says sincerely.

She looks at him hard, "really? Sorry is the best you can do? How about an explanation?"

Jeremy glances at Alaric, and Alaric just stares at Jenna.

"Well?"

Stefan moves forward until he is standing in front of Jenna. He stands rigid in concentration as he musters up the will of influence.

"Jenna" he addresses hoping it will work "you knew Jeremy was not here last night, in fact you're the one who insisted he spend the night with Alaric."

"I did insist" she agrees in a trance.

Stefan clenches his teeth together as he thinks of the next compulsion "you also told Elena that she could stay with Bonnie as long as she likes. You won't call because you know she's safe."

"She's safe" agrees Jenna.

Stefan releases Jenna from his compulsion and she blinks a few times.

"I'm going to get ready for work" she smiles at Alaric and gives him a peck on the cheek while pointing at Jeremy "try to do something productive this weekend".

Jenna walks upstairs and the boys hear her door close behind her.

"That takes care of one problem" Alaric says to quickly, because as soon as it comes out of his mouth, they hear Jenna's door fly open as she runs to the staircase. "What do you mean Elena's safe?"

Alaric takes out his phone and quickly sends a message to Caroline.

'Get to Jenna's house, now'

Amoria is sitting up with her body resting on the passenger door. Matt is driving while Caroline sits in the middle fiddling with the radio.

"Care, just pick a station"

"I'm trying to decide"

"Could you please just turn it off?" Asks Amoria.

Caroline switches off the radio and sits back tapping her fingers against her denim clad thigh.

There is a moment of silence before Caroline blurs out whats on her mind.

"Damon is a dick"

"He's just worried about Elena" counters Matt.

"We're all upset that Elena and Bonnie are missing. It doesn't mean we all have the right to be dicks to each other."

Matt replies soothingly "Damon is just being Damon".

"That's not an excuse, Matt!"

"Salvatore?" Amoria rasps out.

"Yeah, Damon and Stefan Salvatore. You just saved Stefan from the tomb"

"Oh, that was Damon's brother?"

"Yeah" says Matt.

"They don't really look alike" Amoria ponders softly. Caroline nods in agreement.

"They're both really attractive though" adds Amoria.

"Yeah, but Stefan is nicer" Caroline says bitterly "because Damon is suck a-"

"Dick? yeah we know, Care"

"He can be a sweetheart, though" says Amoria.

"What do you mean?" Caroline asks.

"Well in nineteen-fifty he was a swell guy".

"In the fifties?" Caroline repeats her voice rising at the end.

"I'm a lot older than I look."

"So, like... You don't age?"

"Oh, I do. For every year a regular person ages I only age a day".

"How old are you then? Asks Matt.

"Eighty-five this December"

"Wow" Matt says.

"And you were friends with, Damon?"

"No, we just shared a bed for about a week".

"Oh" Caroline replies. Before hearing her phone go off.

"Alaric needs me, it's an emergency".

"Should I turn back?"

"No it will be faster if I run"

Matt pulls off to the shoulder and lets Caroline out.

"I'll be right back" she calls behind her shoulder before appending off.

Mat climbs back into his truck. "How are you hanging up?" Matt asks Amoria.

"OK, the sooner we get to my place the better".

"Sure" Matt agrees as he nods his head. "Are we close?"

"Yep. Just turn onto Pinesview drive until you hit the gas station. We should be there in about eight minutes" she tells him, while she keeps her eyes closed.

"Alright".

"What were you thinking Stefan?"

Stefan looks at Caroline tiredly "I was thinking it would work"

Caroline had to re compel Jenna to override Stefan's failed attempt. "You just got out of the tomb Stefan, and you've only had half a cooler of blood. You're not healed enough to be /compelling/ anyone"

Stefan licks his lips as Caroline brings the memory of the sweet human blood passing through his lips. "I know Caroline" Stefan says.

"You say you know, but-"

"Caroline!" Stefan shouts shocking Caroline into silence while Jeremy and Alaric look at him in surprise.

"I made a mistake, so fucking drop it" he says before storming outside.

Caroline turns to Jeremy and Alaric "Did I say something?" She wonders aloud.

Alaric pats Jeremy's shoulder a silent 'have fun explaining' before he heads after Stefan. Alaric doesn't have to go far because Stefan is sitting on the porch steps. He takes a seat next to him.

"So... How are you keeping up?"

"The best I can in the current predicament" Stefan answers stiffly.

"We're going to find them" Alaric tells him.

Stefan doesn't reply so he continues "we all know how Caroline gets" Stefan gives a short humourless laugh at this. "but you've never snapped at her before".

Stefan closes his eyes, pretending that he can't hear Alaric's hot blood pumping through his veins. "I know" he says sadly.

"Don't look at me like that, Jeremy" whines Caroline.

"Caroline-"

"I know, I know. I shouldn't have pressed Stefan" She says with a sigh.

"You can be a little... Forceful, sometimes".

"I don't mean to be" Caroline says in exasperation throwing her hands in the air.

"We understand, its been a long day" Jeremy tries to comfort her.

Caroline shakes her head " I just- I just want to find them" Caroline tells him, her throat beginning to tighten from sadness.

Jeremy opens his arms, gripping her into a tight hug "me too" he whispers.

"I should probably apologize to Stefan" Caroline says into his chest.

Jeremy releases her firm his grip "I'm sure he understands".

Caroline smiles weakly at Jeremy before her phone goes off.

"Hey Matt" Caroline answers, pressing speaker phone.

"You don't have to do this d-ahhhhhh" A loud scream cuts Matt short.

"Matt?" Caroline and Jeremy yell in union before the call is abruptly ended.