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The next morning Elena woke up peacefully and content in Stefan's arms…that was until she saw the clock and realized how late to school they were. She shot up with a gasped and jumped out of bed to shower and get ready.

Once she was finished getting dressed she burst out of the bathroom into Stefan's room. "Stefan, we're late for school!"

"Let's be later." Stefan said with a smirk.

"Stefan. It's school, remember? That thing we keep forgetting about…" She bent down to tie her shoe.

Stefan went up behind her. "School? Doesn't ring a bell." He lightly tickled her making her stand.

"Hey!" she giggled.

Once she was standing Stefan gently turned her face to him and started to kiss her. She fought off the giggles and tried to stay stern."Stefan."

He didn't respond just continued to kiss her.

"Stefan." Elena giggled her sternness quickly fading.

He gave a playful growl and lifted her up and carried her over to the bed. Elena lost it and

giggled. "Ok five minutes, only five minutes."

He laid her down on the bed getting on top of her and growled again."Only five minutes." She giggled and they started to kiss deeply.


Five minutes later Elena giggled and tried pushing Stefan off her. "Ok time to get ready to go."

"Nope." He said.

"Stefan I said only five minutes."

"It hasn't been five minutes yet that clock is fast."

Elena shook her head giggling as Stefan kissed all the ticklish spots on her neck."Stefan!"

"Our five minutes isn't up yet." He continued to kiss her neck.

"Stefan that tickles!" She giggled.

Stefan chuckled and poked her side. She squealed. "Don't you dare. We have to go. Stefan we have to..." She squealed and burst into giggles when he started to tickle her sides. "...gohoho! Nohoho! Stohohohohohohop!"

He just continued to tickle her sides as he kissed her ticklish neck.

"Stehehefan, STOhohhohohoP!" She squirmed around on the bed trying to push him away but he was too strong.

"No can do. You promised me 5 more minutes and you didn't follow through." He teased.

"Lehehexi hehehehehelp!" She cried.

In a flash Lexi was in the room. She laughed. "What's going on?"

"Heheheheheehlp!" Elena squealed.

Lexi laughed. "Stefan, you're both going to late for school."

Stefan stopped to give Elena a break. He turned his head slightly to look at Lexi. "She's the one who promised me five more minutes."

"Yeah and it's been 15." Lexi laughed.

He laughed. "All right, all right. You win." He rolled off her letting her get up. She rushed back into the bathroom. Stefan chuckled and headed to get ready himself.


Stefan arrived downstairs just to see…Damon pinning Elena to the wall by her throat.

"What is going on here?" Stefan asked.

Damon slowly released "Elena".

"I don't know. You tell me. Is Katherine in the tomb or not?"

Stefan froze for a minutes then turned to run upstairs but Lexi stopped him.

"Lexi, what are you…"

"Just stop and listen. There are five people in this house. Only one of those people has a heartbeat. I want you to listen closely. Where is the sound of the heartbeat coming from?"

Stefan listened closely. "Upstairs."

"SO that means…."

"Katherine." Stefan growled looking to her.

"Hi, Stefan. I missed you. Long time no see." Katherine smirked.

"Not long enough." Stefan growled.

"By the way, Lexi, thanks for ruining my fun."

"Anytime. I wish I could say it's nice to meet you, but that would be a lie and I try my very hardest not to lie." Lexi smirked.

"I still don't understand what Stefan sees in you. Why did you have to go and change Stefan anyway? This new Stefan is boring."

"I didn't do anything. Stefan did it all by choice." Lexi said proudly. "Now onto a more important question why are you here?"

"I missed Stefan."

"How did you even get out?" Stefan asked.

"Um….magic….I think?" Katherine smiled.

"She's not going to tell us anything. I say we just kill her." Damon said.

"That's not a good idea." Katherine said. "You need me."

"We need you like we need a stake through the heart."

"Both of you stop it." Lexi groaned. She looked to Stefan. "Go upstairs and warn Elena of what's going on. I'll try and get some answers."

In a flash Stefan was gone. But in a flash so was Katherine.

Lexi growled and cursed under her breath and then in a flash followed after both of them.


"What is she doing here? I don't want her here. Get her out of here." Elena said the second she found out.

"When we killed Elijah we didn't know that she was understand compulsion by Elijah not to leave the tomb until he said so. So once he died…you get the idea." Damon said.

"I knew we shouldn't have killed him." Elena muttered.

"How is that even possible?" Stefan asked.

"He's an original. He has so many special skills that none of us could even comprehend." Lexi said.

"Why is she here?" Elena asked again.

"You all need me. We want the same thing, Klaus dead. Yet you're running around like chickens with your head's off."

"I don't need your help, and I don't want it."

"That's incredibly stupid of you. Do you even know where Klaus is, what he looks like?"

"If you know something say it and get out." Damon growled.

"Fine. I'll just go to the Grill and get some lunch. Maybe Aunt Jenna is free for a bite." Katherine smirked at Elena.

Elena glared trying to act tough but inside she was terrified.

Katherine walked away and Elena instantly looked to Lexi.

"Don't worry I'm on it." Lexi smiled softly. "You two go to school. I'll make sure nothing happens to your Aunt."

Elena nodded and went with Stefan to school.


After school Elena went to her Girl's Night and Stefan went to a meeting at the Girll with Luca and his father. Maybe if they could get them on their side they'd have a better chance at getting rid of Klaus.

Bonnie came along to be someone they both trusted.

"Thank you for coming." Stefan said.

"I didn't want to but my son made a case to hear you out." Jonas said.

"Bonnie said that you have information about Elijah." Luca continued.

"Elijah's dead. I'm sorry." Stefan said.

Jonas stood about to leave but Lexi appeared in front of him. "Please don't leave, for me stay and hear us out."

"Lexi, I didn't know you'd be apart of this."

"Please just hear us out. If you care about me at all you'll stay and listen." Lexi said.

"Do you know everyone?" Stefan muttered under his breath making Lexi chuckle softly.

Jonas sat down.

"Thank you." Stefan said.

"I'm doing it for Lexi. She's an old friend. I'd do anything for her."

"Good, because we need your help and we can help you in return." Stefan said.

"How can you help us?" Jonas asked.

"We know Klaus has your daughter. We'd like to help you get her back."

"How can you do that?"

"I suspect that you and Elijah had a plan to kill Klaus. I'll help you follow that out. I give you my word, we all do." Stefan said.

Jonas looked to Stefan, Bonnie, and then to Lexi.

Lexi nodded. "If we all work together we can all get what we want most. The people we love and care about will be safe."

"Fine. You have a deal."

They sealed the deal with a hand shake. Then Jonas and Lexi spent some time catching up.

"So how do you two know each other?" Stefan asked.

"We go way back. When Jonas was about Luca'a age we met." Lexi said. "He helped me through some…dark times in my life."

"What about Stefan?" Bonnie asked.

"We went our separate ways for a while. I needed Stefan to see he could live his life the right way without me coaching him by his side. That's when I met Jonas."

"We became very close friends. She is one of my best friends." Jonas said.

Lexi smiled.

"Did you two ever…" Luca asked.

"No!" Lexi cried out. "Ewww no. He was like my brother. We were both with people we loved romantically. We were just friends, like Stefan and I."

"Good. That would be weird." Luca said.

Everyone laughed and Lexi shook her head. "Thanks I think."

"Well we should get going. We will be in touch." Stefan said.

"Ok." They stood and shook hands again before they left.


As they were walking home Stefan spoke. "Why didn't you ever tell me about Jonas before?"

"I did. I told you about my friend I met who was a witch I just never gave a name." Lexi said. "He had asked me to keep it quiet. He didn't exactly trust all vampires at that point. He still doesn't."

Stefan sighed. "Lexi, we've been friends forever and I still feel like I don't know you."

Lexi sighed with him. "Is this about Klaus, you want to know about my past with him?"

"Why won't you tell me? You've told Elena."

"Elena needed to know to understand why we had to get rid of Elijah. You don't need to know."

"I'm your brother, you don't think I deserve to know?"

"You have no idea how hard it is for me to talk about, Stefan. I don't push you to talk about your father or your ripper days, why are you pushing this?"

"You did, for the longest time. I'm just trying to help you. Whatever it is, is eating you up inside. You haven't been the same since we first saw Elijah and learned about Klaus."

"My history with both of them is not a good one. I'm not going to let them hurt Elena the same way they hurt me."

"What does that mean?"

"When the time is right I'll explain it. Let's go home." Lexi said. In a flash she was gone.

Stefan sighed but followed after her.


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