Bonnie and Shane

Again Bonnie was with Shane at his office in the university he taught it, she was beginning to think that he liked more than a friend, she was cautious around him but always had to let her guard down when she wanted to practice magic around him and learn more about what he had to offer her.

"So tell me more about this Silas guy," Bonnie explained,

"Well its just a myth but he was a warlock who is possibly the first immortal creature in history. Like I said in my lecture he created a spell to become immortal with the help of Qetsiyah. It may possibly be part of the ritual Esther used to turn her children into the first vampires. Of course Qetsiyah helped Silas because she was in love with him, but once she found out he loved someone else who he intended to make immortal as well she murdered his lover and imprisoned him for all eternity. He is supposedly still alive and trapped and there are no known weapons that can kill him." Shane explained.

"Well, does it say what his powers are, what kind of an immortal he is, what his weaknesses are?" Bonnie seeming interested about Silas,

"There isn't really much on him that I have found over the years, he may still be the warlock he was and may have all the powers that he used to have, I don't know, no one really knows, shall we begin with mediation today?" Shane changing the subject, she couldn't find out his plans before Jeremy completed the tattoo that was just beginning to grow.

Damon

Damon was getting ready to go to the grill, when his brother stopped him,

"Me and Elena broke up, and don't stand there and act like this is the greatest day of your life, I decided that I am leaving after the party at the Lockwoods, you two can do what you like," Stefan trying to keep his calm.

"Stefan," Damon wanting to try and stop him, they had ganged up to keep Elena safe, and she still needed both of them, one to keep her calm, collected and keep her from killing anyone else, and the other to keep her safe and to feel loved.

"No," Stefan dropping the bag that he held over his shoulder and swiftly pinning Damon to the nearby wall, Damon had that questioned look on his face,

"If it hadn't been for you, if you hadn't needed to be saved from a werewolf bite, I wouldn't have had to turn into a ripper and I wouldn't have lost Elena!" Stefan seriously.

"In case you hadn't forgotten brother, this is all your fault because you chose to save yet another quarterback instead of Elena first! You have always tried to protect her, and each time you let her choose the outcome, she made you choose to save Matt that is why she is a vampire, you chose to save me from the werewolf bite, which is why you went all ripper, you could have had Elena now, and I would have been out of both of your lives so you could have rode off in the sunset together without me getting in the way of your relationship with her," Damon seriously.

"You know I would have lost Elena the second I chose to stay with her and to let you die, she will save anyone before she saves herself, and I chose to save you because you are my flesh and blood, you are my brother, family, I love you, I will always choose to save my family before Elena," Stefan seriously. He let Damon go and walked away, he stared at Stefan walking away and was concerned that he would turn all ripper again.

Maybe Stefan just needed time and as much as Damon wanted to be with Elena and start the ball rolling on their relationship but he didn't want to push his brother off the edge again, and he was right, they were family, and it was why Stefan had made Damon turn, because they were family and he didn't want to walk the earth alone without Damon, now he knew he couldn't blame him, he would have been the same way at first. Okay now he really had to get out of the house.

At the Grill

It wasn't even noon yet, Matt had just now arrived and started pulling the chairs off the tables and putting them around the tables, Damon walked in,

"Hey man, we don't open until another thirty minutes," Matt explained.

"I just needed a drink," Damon shrugged,

"You run out at your place?" Matt asked,

"Nope, just family drama taking place and I needed to get out," Damon sitting down at the bar, Matt came over and poured Damon his usual bourbon.

"Have one with me," Damon seriously,

"Why?" Matt asked,

"Because you had helpful information the last time we spoke, I wanted someone to pick at something with me," Damon seriously.

"Alright, but I am not suddenly going to start doing your dirty work for you," Matt pouring a glass of bourbon and sitting it beside him, when he walked around he found his glass on the other side of Damon,

"Come on man, really every time you have a drink you are going to save a place for Mr. Saltzman?" Matt sitting down,

"Even if you somehow were as helpful as he was you would still come in second," Damon half smiling.

"Fair enough, so, what's up?" Matt asked,

"I don't like that Shane guy, why would he be helping miss judgy get her powers back unless to use her for something?" Damon asked.

"Maybe he is tied to those hunters, I mean he is the one that showed you guys how to stop Elena's hallucinations right? And you had to have a hunter of a potential hunter to make his first vampire kill, maybe that tattoo us some sort of a map," Matt drinking the offered bourbon. Damon knew it was already a map to a cure supposedly but kept the information from Matt, he gave a half smile but then his face turned into the questionable look.

"You know, you are not as useless as I thought you were," Damon glancing at Matt.

"Thanks, I think," Matt a bit confused over the statement,

"So the tattoo, hypothetically speaking is a map, to what does it lead to exactly?" Damon asked out loud, the bar was quiet, just the two of them putting their heads together to think,

"Well Shane was going on and on about that rock and it being a gravestone for that Silas guy right, maybe he knows the location of that burial site of Silas or maybe the tattoo is a map for the location of Silas?" Matt threw out.

"What if Shane is Silas and he is trying to get Bonnie back into business with the hocus pocus stuff and the map is for his dead lover's burial site and he would then need Bonnie to bring back his dead lover who holds the key for the cure to vampirism?" Damon having a light bulb turned on in his head.

"Thanks brother, I gotta run," Damon about to disappear,

"What if its not a cure, what if they are both a weapon to wipe out vampires all over the world?" Matt seriously. Damon's heart just took a jump over the Wickery Bridge, there had to be a cure, I mean sure he loved Elena either way but he had wanted her to have a different kind of life not having to fight the blood lust every second of every day, it took him centuries to gain control over it,

"A weapon, Silas did want to turn his lover into an immortal," Damon thinking, but maybe he was also right, maybe there was a cure, a cure that Silas' dead lover was the key to.

"Supposedly that Silas guy is immortal, and if you don't know how to at least weaken him, he may be dangerous to all of us and none of us will be safe," Matt seriously. Damon had to get back to Stefan, he had to tell him about the new theories that they had came up with, he couldn't leave town just yet, but would he still want to help them with the supposedly cure?

"Sorry Matt, I've gotta go now, you've been extremely helpful," Damon swiftly leaving and in his place was money to cover both drinks. Matt was left to ponder about Silas and his dead lover by himself.