I suck. sorry:/ I know this is BEYOND late and that this is definitely not my finest work but here it is. Enjoy!

QUESTIONS IN REVIEWS ANSWERED

Both Q's asked by LK

Q. Why would Stefan call Elijah of all people and not maybe Bonnie?

A. Stefan called Elijah instead of Bonnie because he hoped that him being an original vampire that he might have come across this before and have answers. Also, Bonnie hasn't been exposed to much vampire happenings outside of Mystic Falls so if he didn't know, Bonnie didn't know. The answer may have been magical but Stefan's question was purely vampire related with not much to do with witches. He didn't expect a magical answer so he didn't ask Bonnie but he knew Elijah might know about that if it was, considering his age and upbringing.

Q. Are Stefan and Elijah close? Have they kept in touch?

A. No to both but since Elijah is the most reasonable of the originls, he felt it was ok to call him. Also he was desperate.

Never Let Me Go

4. Enlightenment

"It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves."
Ken Kesey

Damon's head was pounding when he woke up. He sat up in his bed, taking deep breathes to ease the pain, when suddenly Stefan and Caroline came bursting through the door.
"Tell us what you did to him right now Damon or so help me God." Stefan spat.
"Jeez brother, a little 'Hello glad to see you're okay' would be nice." Damon got out of bed but before he could even get half way to the bathroom, Stefan had him by the neck pinned to the wall.
"I'm serious Damon. Tell us what happened. Now."
"Okay, okay, fine." Damon shoved Stefan's hands away and went back over to the bed to sit beside an impatient Caroline.
"It was just after I escaped from Whitmore in the 50s" Damon began.
"I was living in Philadelphia at the time. Since my escape included flipping my humanity switch, I was a bit homicidal."
"What's a bit?" Caroline questioned shortly.
She was sick of him tip toeing around the truth, avoiding telling them. She wanted answers and she wanted them soon, because she was too exhausted for Damon's crap. She could feel her energy draining with every unnecessary breath.
"I went full blown murder mastermind if you must know." Damon retorted.
"Yes, Damon, we must know." Caroline barked and shot up to stand right in front of him.
She made a 'go on' gesture with her hand and glared at him. Damon huffed but continued his story.
"Whilst I was there, I met a group of vampires. A family actually.' Damon said looking to Stefan for a reaction.

"A family?" Stefan questioned. Caroline was confused. She looked between both brothers for clues but got nothing.
"What?" She asked.
"Well, vampire families aren't really the norm. The only one I've ever met are the original family, but they're kind of an exception to the rule." Stefan explained. Caroline was still lost.
"Why are they so rare?" Caroline questioned.
"Well, most people don't have they're entire family turned into vampires and then stay together." Damon answered sharply.
"Anyway, Matthew was, or is apart of that family. And let me tell you, they were more Adams family than the Brady bunch. Real creepy folks. And they also had a witch in there mitts".
"A witch? How did they manage that?" Stefan wondered.
"Pretty easily as it would happen." Damon answered. "The mother was a witch."
Stefan's eyebrows shot up.
"So you're trying to tell us that there's a freaky ass vampire family with a witchy mother and you managed to piss them all off. Fabulous." Caroline huffed and flopped onto the couch in the corner.
"Also, could you please quit stalling and tell us what horrible sin you committed already."
"Ok firstly, I was getting to that.
And second, how do you know I pissed all of them off?" Damon asked defensively.
"Because you're you. It's practically impossible for you not to without injuring yourself." Caroline answered matter-of-factly.
Damon opened his mouth to protest, but quickly closed it knowing he won't win an argument against her.
"Continue Damon." Stefan ordered rolling his eyes at the both of them.
"Gladly." Damon smirked at Caroline and she gave him a sweet fake smile.
" Well, after I met the Halsted family, they took me in. Treated me like another son. Which was nice, you know since I thought my brother would save me from daily dissections from the asshole Augustines, but no such luck."
Stefan shifted his weight awkwardly but said nothing.
"Anyway, one day this guy came up to me, said he wanted to offer me a deal. Apparently there was some bad blood, no pun intended, between him and the Halsteds. He said that if I help him no harm would come to me."
Damon took a long breath not knowing what to say next.
"So you betrayed them." Caroline finished, a look of pure disgust on her face.
"It was self-preservation." Damon countered.
Caroline scoffed and rolled her eyes, too horrified to say something witty.
"I told him when the next time they would all be together, and he burnt the place to the ground with them inside."
He said bluntly, wanting this interrogation to end.
"Although some survived, as you know." He finished scanning both of the vampire's faces before him.
Stefan didn't look all that satisfied with Damon's story.
"That still doesn't explain why Matthew is after Caroline." Stefan questioned.
Damon looked at Stefan quizzically.
"What are you talking about Brother." Damon asked shifting his gaze towards Caroline.
"Oh yeah, you were out cold, forgot." Stefan chuckled.
"Forgot what? What happened between Matthew and Caroline?" Damon urged, frantically looking at both Caroline and Stefan for answers.
Caroline awkwardly avoided both brothers gazes, not wanting to talk about earlier's occurrence. She honestly didn't know what happened. Everything that had happened to them over the last few days were surprisingly pointing towards her in one way, shape or form and she could honestly say she wasn't thrilled about her sudden limelight experience. Making trouble and getting attention was Elena's thing and she was happy to let her continue to be the one in the group that held that title. She just wanted to get through the rest of the year alive and with no blood on her hands. Was that too much to ask for? Maybe in Mystic Falls.
"Well Damon, after we established that Matthew had no interest in Elena and then snapped your neck, he moved onto his hidden agenda." Stefan said.
Damon rolled his eyes, clearly still out of the loop.
"Which was?" Damon asked as if his question should have already been answered 10 minutes ago.
Stefan made a gesture to his left pointing to the blonde beside him, who was nervously chewing her fingernails.
"Caroline was the one he had been checking up on me for? Why?" Damon asked dumbfounded.
"We don't know." Caroline and Stefan said in unison.
"But we need to find out." Stefan continued.
"Between the fainting and the blood and the whole being-jumped-and-Caroline-shocking-Matthew incident, something is definitely going on."
"Caroline shocking Matthew?" Damon asked confused.
Stefan just ignored him.
Caroline felt so drained and confused that she couldn't think straight. What would anybody want with her? She was just plain old Caroline, Elena's sidekick. Nothing special. Not worthy of all this drama and commotion.
Suddenly an idea popped into Stefan's head.
"Anybody up for a road trip?"

A/N: TADA! Please continue to review and all that stuff! Again sorry about the lateness and the suckieness I had a lot of trouble with this chapter for some reason. Anyway, Until next time...