"Wait, Matt slow down," Alyssa urged so she could be able to understand what he was saying.
"Have you seen or talk to Vick? She didn't come home last night" he repeated a little slower this time. "And I've tried calling her a bunch of times but it just goes straight to voicemail."
"I haven't heard from her," and she she was beginning to think that maybe she should be worried after all.
"What about Jeremy?"
"No," she shook her head, "he hasn't seen or talked to her since yesterday. Are you sure she didn't come home at all last night. Maybe she snuck in late and left this morning." Vicki was known to pull stunts like that. "Maybe for work?"
"I called to check, she's not on the schedule, and I don't know where else she can be."
"I know of a few places I can check. I'll call you if I find her."
"Find who?" Jeremy walked into the kitchen at the end of the conversation and Alyssa turned to her brother after hanging up with Matt.
"Vicki, she didn't come home last night and Matt's worried about her. I'm headed out now to look for her."
"I'm coming with you" he told her and she stopped her progression to the front door and turned to look at him.
"No, you're not. I need you to stay here in case she shows up." She knew that it was a good possibility that she would to come sleep off whatever it is she had taken. "I'll call you once I know anything." She said leaving.
She pulled up to the old cemetery a few minutes later to see it crawling with police officers. She got out of the car.
"Never smelled one this bad before" Logan said to Sheriff Forbes as he walked over.
"It tried to cover its tracks." the sheriff responded.
"Are you sure?" Logan asked
"I'm positive. You only burn corpses to try and hide cause of death, and they're are no shell casings."
"We know who they are?"
"Doc'll have to check their dental records." They were too badly burned for facial recognition.
"What story should I run?"
"Drug deal gone bad. It's not too big a stretch"
"Sheriff Forbes," Alyssa called as she sprinted over but was stop by deputies from getting too close.
"Alyssa," she said as she walked over, "what are you doing here?"
"Looking for Vicki, what happened?" she asked as she surveyed what appeared to be dead bodies.
"We don't know yet. You said you were looking for Vicki?"
"Yeah, Matt called" she watched as the corners picked up the bodies preparing to load them into the back of the car. "Vicki didn't come home last night and promised Matt I'd help look for her. I use to come here a lot with Vicki and I thought…." she turned to the sheriff to her question. "You don't think one of them could be here could they"
"I don't know. They're bodies were too badly burned to be recognized."
"Oh my god" she said as if the wind had been knocked out of her.
A deputy walks up carrying a purse and stops next to Sheriff Forbes carrying a purse. "Found this in the bushes about ten yards away"
Sheriff Forbes opens it and pulls out a driving licences
"Vicki," Alyssa breathlessly whispered going a little pale when she saw who the purse belong to. "Vicki's one of them"
Sheriff Forbes stuck the driver's license back into the purse and turned to her. "You don't know that. Not for sure. She could have left before this happened and just dropped her purse."
But she didn't hear any of what Sheriff Forbes said. "What am I going to say to Matt?"
"Nothing, you're not going to say anything to Matt" Sherrie Forbes said firmly which broke her out of her stunned state. "This is a still an ongoing investigation and we don't know for sure if one of those bodies belongs to her."
"But you found her purse"
"And their could be millions of reasons for that we don't know. Until we do you can't jump to any conclusions. Just go home and let us do our job" Sheriff Forbes said and walked away.
Matt opened the door to let Alyssa in who was still silently stunned by what she saw and heard she didn't hear Matt question her about Vicki until she was seated on his couch and he was standing in front of her.
"What?" she looked up at him still a little out of it.
"I asked you did you find out anything about my sister."
She had but she didn't know how she was suppose to tell him that Vicki could be gone in a permanent way. She also knew it was something that she couldn't keep from him. "Matt you should sit down," she said after silently studying him for a moment.
"Okay, you're starting to scare me" he said but obliged with her request. "Is it about Vick?"
"Yeah, it is" she then started to tell him about what she saw and at the cemetery and what Sheriff Forbes had said about them not jumping to conclusions but it was hard to do with the evidence that they found.
"You're telling me my sister could be dead." He asked after she was done explaining.
"We don't know that. Sheriff Forbes that there's a chance that none of them were her."
"But they found her purse ten feet away from the bodies which means that she was there and that it she could be one of them."
"We can't think like that Matt" she couldn't afford to think like that. It being a slim chance that Vicki did in fact leave before anything had happened was the only thing keeping her together. "We have to hope for the best" she said holding his hands for comfort. She just hoped she was proving right.
"Thanks sheriff Forbes" Matt said and hung up after calling for an update on the situation. A deputy had stopped by to ask Matt about Vicki's whereabouts since she was the only witness in the case which confirmed that at the Vicki wasn't one of the four and was alive.
"They still haven't found her" Alyssa stated rather than asked hearing the one sided conversation.
But he answered anyway, "No."
"Where the hell could she be?" she asked exasperated. "She has to have seen or heard the news by now. She has to know where worried."
"I don't know" there wasn't a lot of places she could possibly be in a small town like Mystic Falls but it wasn't the first time she'd run off either. He tiredly sighed.
"Hey," Alyssa put a comforting arm on his shoulder. "We're going to find her. Don't worry."
His phone rung and he dug it out of his pocket. "It's Here," he said answering it and from the bits and pieces of the conversation she got she assumed Vicki had found her way to her house. "Okay, keep her there, I'm on my way."
"Jer," Alyssa called when she walked into the house followed by Matt and he met them at the door.
"Where is she?" Matt hastily asked.
"Come this way?" he showed them into the kitchen where they saw the spread on the kitchen counter that Vicki laid out.
"What she on?" Matt knew that was the logical reasoning behind her behavior.
"I-I don't know" she wouldn't tell him what she was on or where she's been.
Matt slowly approached her as if she were a caged animal. "Hey Vick, how you doing'?
"Not good Mattie, I hurt."
"Ok, where's it hurt?" he tentatively asked.
"My gums. My jaw hurts." she raked her fingers across her gums. "My gums-there's something in my gums, and it hurts."
"Ok, well" he set his hands on her shoulders and she began freaking out.
"No, just leave me alone" she backed away from him.
"Come on Vick, don't be like that. Let's get you home." He tried to coax her.
"Just turn it off!" she yelled.
"Turn of what?" Jeremy asked confused.
"The talking the chatter," she walked into the living towards the TV. "Just turn it off."
Jeremy turns it up instead when he sees Logan reporting from the cemetery. "...Horribly. 3 bodies were found dead in what is believed to be a drug deal gone awry. The bodies have yet to be they were discovered earlier today at the old Mystic Falls cemetery."
"That's where we were yesterday" Jeremy said in shocked surprised.
"What happened Vick?"
"...Homicide, and are fast underway looking for the suspects. They're asking anyone with information…"
Matt started towards the phone, "I'm calling the cops."
"No. Don't" Vicki voice causes him to pause.
"What happened after I left last night Vick?" Jeremy steps to her but but Vicki pushes him away with force and he lands on the floor.
"Jer, are you okay?" Alyssa rushes to his side helps him up.
"I'm fine. I'm fine" he said standing.
"Damn Vick," Matt comments as Stefan and Elena walk in.
"What's going on?" Elena ask.
"She's really messed up" Matt answers and Stefan steps up.
"Elena back up" He grabs the sides of Vicki's face and stare her straight in the eyes. "Vicki look at me. Focus. You're gonna be fine. Everything's gonna be fine. Take her up to bed. Shut the blinds. She's gonna be okay"
"I never seen her like that before" Alyssa said quietly as she watched Matt and Jeremy to take Vicki upstairs and she had been around for a lot of Vicki's drug induced haze but she never once seen her react like that. "What's wrong with her?" She asked Stefan and he looked to Elena for help but instead of answer she said. "Why don't you go check on Vicki?"
If she wasn't so worried about Vicki she wouldn't have been so quick to follow Elena suggestion but instead of putting up a fight and asking more question she said, "Okay" and went upstairs.
Matt was coming out of Jeremy's room she walked up. "How is she?"
"She's out of it. I've seen her pretty messed up before but not like that."
"I know. Me neither. But were going to get her through this and then get her some help. Whatever it takes."
"I'm sorry I'm so much trouble" Vicki said to Alyssa walked back into the room with a glass of water and some Aspirin.
"It's nothing you or Elena have had to do for me about a thousand times" She sat in front of her folding one leg underneath her. "You're just going through a rough patch right now but you know what" she grabbed her hand. "Were going to get through it like we've gotten through everything else. Together."
Vicki wraps her arms around her and pulls her into a hug and Alyssa reciprocates it. "You're going to be okay."
She felt Vicki's hold tighten around her before she was thrown aside and Vicki stood up and ran out of the room.
"Vick" she got up and followed her downstairs and out the door but didn't see her.
"What's going on?" Elena came out of the house.
"Vick just freaked out. One minute she was fine and then the next-"
"I"m going to go look for her" Matt said heading to his car.
"I'm coming with you" Alyssa started to follow but Elena stopped her.
"It's too dangerous"
"It's Vicki," she said wrenching out of Elena's grasp. "How dangerous can it be?"
"So...Where's Stefan?"
"He's out looking for Vicki."
"Don't look at me with those judgy little eyes. Girls gonna thank me for what I did to her."
"Did you thank Katherine?" Alyssa quietly shut the door behind her as she heard her sister's voice followed by one that she didn't think she would hear again, let alone in their house.
"Mmm. Got the whole life story, huh?"
"I got enough," she stayed by the door so that she could listen to the conversation going on in the next room.
"Oh I doubt that." Damon replied snidely and Alyssa surmised that she must have gotten more of Stefan's life story from him. "Tell my brother I'm looking for him." He walked out of the living room and towards the front door and stopped briefly when he saw Alyssa before continuing on. "Oh and tip for late, be careful who you invite in the house" he said before leaving and Alyssa turned to her sister.
"What was that all about?"
"Nothing" Elena answered as she knew she would but it didn't stop her from wanting to know. "Did you find Vicki?"
"No, Matt's still looking. What what was Damon doing here. I thought Stefan said he left town."
"Guess he's back."
"Right, well I'm going to go check on Jer. Let me know if you hear anything from Stefan about Vicki."
Elena nodded. "I will"
Alyssa came downstairs an hour later after seeing Elena pass by her room on her way down stairs followed by the front door opening and shutting and followed her down.
"I tried to stop her. I couldn't."
"What does that mean?" She saw Elena standing on the front porch talking to Stefan and cracked opened the front door wanting to get answers.
"She fed, and then I lost her." Alyssa scrunched her face of at his answer in a confuse manner not knowing what he meant by fed but after Elena's next words it was clear she did.
"Oh, my god"
"I'll take care it. I'll find her and I will show her that she can live like I do." Stefan tried to assure her but since she couldn't see her face she wasn't sure she bought it. "I will make sure that she does not hurt anybody Elena. I promise.
"What do I tell Jeremy, Alyssa, and Matt?"
"We'll come up with a story."
"You mean we'll come up with a lie
"I'm sorry"
"I gave you today just like you asked. And I understand you you would never do anything to hurt me and I promise I will keep your secret but I can't' be with you Stefan I'm sorry I just can't."
Alyssa quietly shut the door and step back as Elena made her way in closing the door behind her. She was startled to find Alyssa standing there.
"How much of that did you hear?"
"Enough. I'm sorry about whatever happen with you and Stefan." She said as a cover to up the fact that she has been eavesdropping. "I know we don't always get along but I never want to see you hurt."
"Thanks" she walked around her and started for the stairs.
Alyssa turned around, "Did he happened to say anything about Vick?"
Elena paused on the third step and turned to Alyssa, "No, nothing, sorry." She turned back around and walked up the stairs.