"Present," October 21st 2010

Elora comes to in Mason's car. She had been thinking about a year ago, school had just started and her sister had an innocent crush on the new guy... how did things get so out of control?

Elora: "How long was I out?"

Mason: "A couple hours."

Elora: "Where are we going?"

Mason: "This place I know in the mountains... are you alright?"

Elora is silent.

Mason: "You know back there, you didn't kill him."

Elora: "I shot a man in the head."

Mason: "No, you shot a vampire in the head."

Elora: "Vampire?"

Mason: "You really didn't know anything?"

Elora: "I read old journals my uncle gave me from our ancestors but I guess I never took it too seriously."

Elora starts giggling,

Mason: "Whats so funny?"

Elora: "I once asked Stefan if Damon was a cannibal... I guess I wasn't too far off. Wait is Stefan a..."

Mason: "Vampire? yes."

Elora: "Are you?"

Mason: "No, I'm something else."

Elora: "something dangerous?"

Mason: "Only if your a vampire... or I don't chain myself up in time on a full moon."

Elora: "You're seriously telling me your a... a a werewolf?"

Mason: "Yup, and if we could skip over any dog jokes that'd be great."

Elora: "Pull over."

Mason: "What?"

Elora: "Pull over now, I'm gonna be sick."

Mason quickly pull over to the side of the road and Lo gets out emptying the contents of her stomach. Mason tries to go over to hold her hair or stroke her back but she moves away from him making it clear she doesn't want to be touched.

Finally she's done and turns around to face Mason, he hands her a bottle of water that she uses to rinse out her mouth.

Mason: "Im sorry you had to get involved in all of this."

Elora: "I was always going to be involved, thats not on you... it was set in motion long before you ever came to town..."

Flashback

September 24-25th 2009

Tanner: "World war II ended in...Anyone got anything?"

Elora: "1945."

Tanner: "At least one of my students seems to be awake, maybe I should have you all up early running laps... Pearl Harbor? The other miss Gilbert perhaps."

Elena had been talking to Stefan and had no clue about the answer and slowly she felt like the walls were closing in, she hated being called out in front of everyone in class, it was the worse, it made her want to dissolve onto the floor and slither away.

Elena: "Um..." Elena looked to her sister for help but Stefan was the one to come to her rescue.

Stefan: "December 7, 1941."

Tanner: "Thank you, Miss Gilbert." Mr. Tanner narrowed his eyes at Stefan letting him know he was not amused.

Stefan: "Anytime." Stefan replied smugly unphased by Tanners hard stare.

Tanner: "Very well. The fall of the Berlin wall."

Stefan: "1989. I'm good with dates, sir."

Tanner: "Are you? How good? Keep it to the year. Civil Rights Act."

Stefan: "1964."

Tanner: "John F. Kennedy assassination."

Stefan: "1963."

Tanner: "Martin Luther King."

Stefan: "'68."

Tanner: "Lincoln."

Stefan: 18-

Elora: "65, Maybe we can continue with class and save the dueling for another time?"

Tanned huffed but carried on with the class picking on other students.

After School Elena shows up to cheerleading practice with Elora

Bonnie: "Oh, my God! You're here! And you got Elora too, that'll make Caroline happy."

Elena: "Yep. I can't be sad girl forever and Elora was just happy to get to spend more time with her favorite twin."

Elora: "Please, it was straight up blackmail, she kidnapped baby puffallup it was the only way to get him back."

Bonnie: "Baby puffallup?"

Elena: "It was her favorite stuffed animal growing up, she still sleeps with him. And this will be good for us, the only way to get things back to the way they were are to do things that we used to."

Elora: "I was never a cheerleader."

Elena: "But I was and you would do anything to support your sister who you love so much, right?" Elena turns to Bonnie, "Oh, and you're coming to dinner tonight."

Bonnie: "I am?"

Elora: "Yeah didn't you know, under Queen Elena's rule we have all lost free will just make your peace with it and it will go easier."

Elena sighs and ignores her sister to keep talking to Bonnie,

Elena: "Mm-hmm. You, me and Stefan. You have to give him a chance."

Bonnie: "Fine. I'll go."

Elena: "Good."

Later that night in the Gilbert House

Elena, Stefan, Bonnie, and Elora are sitting at the dining room table eating together. There is an uncomfortable silence and everyone is fidgety. Elena finally tries to break the ice,

Elena: "Did Tanner give you a hard time today?"

Stefan: "Well, he let me on the team, so I must have done something right."

Elena: "Bonnie, you should have seen Stefan today. Tyler threw a ball right at him, and..."

Bonnie: "Yeah, I heard."

Elora: "And I didn't have to just hear about it I got to see it first hand, pretty badass mr. Salvatore."

Stefan: "Why thank you Miss Gilbert."

The conversation moves on to witches and Stefan seems to have thawed some of Bonnie's reservations about him. The positive mood is interrupted by the ringing of the doorbell.

doorbell rings again

Elena: "I wonder who that could be."

Elora: "It's alright, I got it."

Elena sits back down and Lo goes and opens the door, Caroline and Damon are outside, Damon is surprised to see a face he doesn't know.

Caroline: "Surprise! Bonnie said you were doing dinner, so we brought dessert."

Elora: "And a grown ass man?"

Damon: "Damon, a friend of Caroline's, hope you don't mind us dropping by."

Damon tries working his baby blues as he tries to charm his way past the mysterious brunette,

Elora: "And do you often make a habit of befriending underaged teenage girls?"

Caroline: "Lo! You are not my mother, just invite us in already."

Before Elora can reply Stefan appears behind her, Elora can see how tense he is... he must know this Damon person.

Stefan: "What are you doing here?"

Damon: "Well brother, I am waiting for this lovely lady to invite me in, although maybe it should be Elena who does the honors?"

Elora: "Hoping to befriend my twin as well?"

Damon: "Twin?" Damon asks confused, he wasn't aware of this information and is kinda pissed Stefan never mentioned it.

Elora: "Yeah you know when two eggs release during the same ovulation and..."

Stefan cuts off Lo's sassy response,

Stefan: "Elora is Elena's twin sister, sorry didn't think to ever mention it." Stefan gloats happy to have gotten one over Damon,

Damon: "Well it's a pleasure to meet your acquaintance miss Elora Gilbert, how about we continue to get to know each other inside?"

Stefan: "No, no, no. You can't, uh...he can't stay. Can you, Damon?" Elena comes over wondering what's taking everyone so long and not sensing Stefan's discomfort she invites Damon inside.

Elena: "It's fine. Just come on in." Damon smirks victorious as his boot is able to cross the threshold into the house,

Damon: "You have a beautiful home, Elena...Elora."

Elena: "Thank you."

The gang moves into the living room with dessert plates and coffee

Caroline: "I cannot believe that Mr. Tanner let you on the team. Tyler must be seething. But good for you. Go for it."

Damon: "That's what I always tell him. You have to engage. You can't just sit there and wait for life to come to you. You have to go get it."

Elora: "Is that why you're still here in Mystic Falls? You clearly must have graduated a long time ago... never tried to get anything more?"

Damon is not amused by Elena's twin, and is making plans inside his head for when he can remove her of her own.

Damon: "Well, parents died couldn't leave Stefan all alone, what kind of brother would that make me?"

Elora: "One that didn't spend his time hanging around highschool kids."

Damon ends up shattering the glass in his hand.

Elena: "Oh my god, are you okay?"

Damon: "Fine, just going to go into the kitchen and clean this up,"

Stefan: "I'll help you."

After the Salvatore's leave Elena slaps her sister,

Elena: "Did you have to be such a bitch."

Caroline: "Probably"

Elora: "At least I was nice to Stefan... and in the future I prefer the term hellion,"

Caroline: "it does seem to come oftly naturally to her."

Elora rolls her eyes and picks up everyone else's dishes to bring into the kitchen, on her way she overhears the brothers talking,

Stefan: "All right, you've had your fun. You used Caroline, you got to meet Elena and Lo, good for you. Now it's time for you to go."

Damon: "Lo, already on a nickname basis? Maybe I'm trying to steal the wrong twin,"

Stefan: "They are not yours to steal, they aren't puppets, they don't exist just for your amusement, for you to feed on whenever you want to."

Damon: "Of course they do, they all do. They're whatever I want them to be. They're mine for the taking, especially that uppity little bitch in there."

Stefan: "I won't let you hurt her, I'll throw you out in front of them if necessary."

Damon: "That's not a problem. Because...I've been invited in, and I'll come back tomorrow night and the following night and I'll do with those little cheerleaders whatever I want to do. Because that is what is normal to me."

Not knowing what to do about what she'd just heard Elora steps out back and dials a number she never thought she'd use voluntarily but she doesn't know what else to do.

"Uncle John... hi, yea its Lo, I think I may need your help."