A sleek red car rolled up outside Elena's house, and a few seconds later, the doorbell rang. Elena, in the kitchen with Stefan, went to answer it, although Damon, who stormed down the stairs, beat her to it. The door swung, and there stood, in Elena's opinion, the most beautiful woman she had ever seen.

She was tall and elegant, with almost silvery white skin and deep green and gold hair, with large green gold glistening eyes. She was wearing a short black dress and tall boots, with an agressive shade of lipstick. Elena, transfixed by her beauty, watched in horror as the woman pounced on Damon, and locked herself in the tightest embrace Elena had ever seen. She was not sure who to be jealous of.

"Damon!" the woman breathed, her cat-like eyes fluttered in happiness, and she bared her teeth to show a terrifying smile of glimmering white teeth.

"Sky," Damon murmured, still clutching the woman.

They broke apart, and the Sky woman laid eyes on Elena. There was a flicker of recognition, and her expression harderned. Elena suspected this was some kind of reaction from having known Katherine, given she had seem the same look on many people's faces in a similar situation. Though, what surprised Elena was that Sky's expression cleared almost immediately, and she then addressed Elena.

"Have you fed?" her question was uncomfortably direct.

"No," came a voice from behind Elena, and she turned to see Stefan, his brow knitted, standing in the doorway of the kitchen, his arms crossed. "Hello Sky." his words were more of an acknowledgement as opposed to a welcome, though Sky didn't question it.

"Stefan," she said, her smile genuine, "Is that no a no, or a not yet?"

Stefan laughed, and she joined in. Elena, whose muscles her schreeching in her body and her head was banging, suddenly snapped any restraint.

"Is anyone going to tell me what the hell is going on?"

Damon stepped forward. "Elena, this is Sky. She's my oldest friend, and she's here to help you."

Sky nodded. "If that's what you want, of course."

Elena felt a coldness from the woman. She supposed that it can't have been easy hearing many stories about the girl that Damon was in love with who had chosen his brother, despite the fact that Stefan had chosen to forget her. Elena guessed Sky had listened with a surging and brewing dislike of her, and now Elena felt endebted.

Breathing in, trying to abolish these unwelcome thoughts, Elena said "Thank you, that would be extremely helpful."

Sky nodded again, and walked outside, and Damon followed, taking her hand. Stefan then laid a hand on her shoulder.

"She's a good person, Elena."

Elena turned, "She's met Katherine before, hasn't she?"

Stefan nodded, "Actually, Sky was friends with Katherine in 1864. We met her whilst we were still human. Katherine took us both to the country one day and we were guests in Sky's house. During the day, Katherine stayed with me, and Damon began talking to Sky."

"Wait, Sky was friends with her?"

"Maybe friends isn't the right word... Acquaintances. Sky has been around a lot longer than Katherine, and I suppose it seemed fitting for Katherine to have strong allies, given so many wanted her dead. Anyway, Katherine struck a deal with Sky: If anything were to happen to her, if they were to take her away, Sky was to turn me and... and kill Damon."

"What?!"

"Katherine already had an escape route out the church from that George Lockwood. She had planned to escape with me, supposedly. However Sky refused, so in exchange Katherine tried to expose her. She was the one that found us the day we were shot trying to rescue Katherine. Damon was never meant to be saved, even though Katherine was feeding him her blood she never wanted an eternity with him. At least probably not, I don't know. It was down to Sky that he survived, she got him out. They've been in touch ever since."

Elena was perplexed. "I had no idea..." pausing in discomfort, "Are they, a kind of, like... thing?"

Stefan laughed, "No. Sky has had a lot of girlfriends, actually."

"She's gay?"

"I don't know, maybe. I think she's more... anything goes."

"Oh." The image of Sky naked and moaning conquered Elena's mind, and her body trembled... "Right."