A horse drawn carriage with a driver and his passenger are heading down a dirt road. Up ahead, in the middle of the road, lies a man with a woman kneeling beside him. The woman gets up when she sees the carriage and starts shouting.

"Please! Please, help us!"

"Elena?" She calls as she watches run pass her and towards the carriage as it comes to a halt.

"Please, my husband, he's been hurt! Please help him!"

The driver jumps down from his seat and goes to check on the man in the road. The passenger of the vehicle opens the carriage door and exits.

"What are you doing out here in the middle of the night? It's not safe."

"No. No, sir. It's not safe."

Alyssa watches as Elena bares her fangs and bites the man's neck. He screams as he gets the life drained out of him. Meanwhile, the driver is kneeling over the man's body, but turns around when he hears screaming. He sees his passenger's dead body lying by the carriage, but does not see the women.

He looks back the other way and she has appeared right in front of him. Her eyes become red and she drains the blood from the man who screams for his life. She tosses him aside when she has drained him, blood drenching her chin.

"And that's how it's done." She wipes the front of her dress with her palms. The man lying on the ground slowly and cautiously gets up and looks at the two dead men. Alyssa sees that it's Damon.

"What happens to the bodies?" Damon asks and Alyssa releases that the women in front of her hasn't Elena but Katherine. She also realize that it's not a dream but a memory. Damon's memory. Which meant he was close by.

"Well, I'll take them into the woods and the other animals will finish them off."

Damon seems frightened. "Are you sure you're ready for this?"

Damon nods. "I'm ready. I want you to turn me."

"When it's time. Kiss me."

Damon pulls a handkerchief from his coat pocket with a flourish. He moves to wipe the blood off Katherine's chin, but Katherine grabs his hand and moves in closer.

"You should get a taste."

Katherine moves in to kiss Damon, but Damon moves away.

"Sorry."

"Don't be. Soon you won't be able to get enough."

Damon hesitates for a moment before kissing Katherine with a fiery passion. Damon pulls away and the blood from Katherine's chin has smudge on Damon's lips which Katherine wipes at with her finger.

Alyssa wakes up from the dream/memory and turns over coming face to face with Damon Salvatore.

Considering what she had just witnessed she wasn't surprised to see him there though she was curious as to why he'd be there in the first place least of all show her what he had and she silently contemplated it while watching him but doesn't come to any logical conclusion and gets up. She raises her arms over her head stretching and walks into the bathroom, pushing the door shut but it cracked just a little. Damon watches her tie her hair up into a ponytail and then reach for her tooth brush.

Damon deciding that was it too intimate to be watching turned away from her only offering offering a quick glance her way when she came out.

"So that dream I had of you and Katherine wasn't a dream." She stated as she got back in bed. "But a memory," she pulled the covers to her waist and raised her knees looking at him, "yours or,"yours, one that you wanted me to see."

"I wanted you to see that I know exactly who Katherine is. I was never compelled. "

"That has to be the saddest thing that I have ever heard." He was surprised by her statement. "Damon you saw this women for exactly the person she was and not only did you accept her for the clear psycho that she is you loved her in spite of it. And you're telling me that she still had to have Stefan too? Do you know how crazy that is? That after all this time you're in love with a women who clearly never really loved you. Cause if she had, you would have been enough. People go their whole lives wishing for a love like that and she had it and she threw it back in your face. I'm sorry but she doesn't sound like she was worth saving to me. But we love who we love right and the women you love is stuck inside of a tomb so let's get her out. So how do we know that this journal will hold the location of the grimoire? We're really going to take the word of this vampire? He seemed like more of a lackey then a mastermind and there's obviously someone out there who knows who you are."

"And I don't like being at that disadvantage."

She laid back down pulling the covers over her head. "I'll ask Jeremy about the journal." She was content with just laying there for a while when she heard the door opened and Elena's voice asking for her help. She popped her head out from under the covers long enough to see the shocked expression on Elena's face.

"Elena"

"It's none of my business." She left shutting the door behind her.

Alyssa turned to Damon, "You heard her coming didn't you."

"Mmhm," he replied with a sly smile.

She collapsed on the bed."Great."

"I'll be there soon." Jenna hung up the phone.

"Be where?"

"Meeting friends," Jenna pointed to Damon. "Did he just come from upstairs?"

"He just showed up this morning," Alyssa assured hearing the accusation in her question.

"Next time," Jenna grabbed her keys, "he stays downstairs."

Alyssa watched her go and walked over to the fridge.

Damon went sifting through a box left on the dining table.

Alyssa walked over to it and him. "That's the box the journal was in. This must be what Elena needed my help with, looking for the journal. She must have already asked Jeremy."

Damon opened a box containing with look like a muzzle.

She recognized the look on his face. "You've seen it before?"

"A long time ago." He glanced at her over his shoulder at her. "The night the council was rounding up all the towns vampires, I saw them put it on Katherine."

"Stefan told me about that night." He turned to her. "He trusted your father with the truth even though he promised you he wouldn't. You blame him for not only Katherine but for convincing you become a vampire."She saw his surprise, "I can be pretty convincing when it comes to getting what I want."

He sat the box, "I trusted him once," and walked away.

A group of men walk across Mystic Falls, carrying torches and weapons, Johnathan Gilbert is at the head of the pack with his vampire compass out.

"Make sure the two of you stick together!"

"Go and check those woods over there!"

The men continue to talk to each other and bark orders.

Giuseppe watches the Sheriff place a muzzle over Katherine. The Sheriff and another man pick Katherine up and start carrying her off. Damon bolts into the room.

"No! Don't take her!"

Giuseppe grabs Damon and slams him against the wall. Damon struggles to free himself, but the two men carry Katherine out of the room. Katherine looks over at Damon, to weak to do anything.

"Do you know what they'll do to you if you're branded a sympathizer? You'll be killed along with them!"

Damon grabs his father by the shoulders and looks him dead in the eye.

"Then let me be killed!"

Two men carry Katherine to a cart and place her in it. Damon runs toward the cart, Stefan close behind him. Stefan manages to catch up with Damon and thrusts his arm in front of him, stopping Damon.

"Damon! Damon! Stop, stop. I'll help you. We'll get her back."

Damon violently shoves Stefan away. "Help me!? Don't you think that you've done enough? You promised you wouldn't tell him!"

"I didn't think this would happen."

The cart with Katherine in it starts to leave. Damon and Stefan watch as Katherine goes off to her death. Damon looks at Stefan with intense anger.

"You did this. This is your fault."

Damon runs off.

"Is that where you got shot?" He stopped chopping to look at her. "Yeah I got the full back story. He also told me how he convinced you to feed so that you were turn after he had already fed. I'm guessing he left that part out when telling Elena."

"Stefan likes to leave out that part when retelling our family history."

"Doesn't really paint him a good light. No wonder you promised him a lifetime of misery. I think if that'd been me I'd done the same thing. Of course, Katherine isn't really dead and you're one journal and a few carefully read words away from getting her back." She sat on the counter across from him. "So what's the first thing you're going to do when you get the girl of your dreams back. Go to Disney World?"

"Eager to get rid of me?"

"And loose my partner and crime and only person who's maybe more twisted and messed up than me?" He gave a crooked smile and she reached over and claimed a piece of the vegetable he was cutting. "Though I'd be more than happy to part with you if it means you take Stefan with you."

"Here I thought you had become friends after gossiping and braiding each other's hair."

"I tolerate him now that I've called a truce with Elena. We're working on our sisterly issues. Kind of like you and Stefan you know without all the backstabbing and sabotage." He didn't comment of her statement and she chose to switch the subject back to Katherine. "So was Katherine the most tragic love story or are you drawn to that type girl your father disapproved of?"

His lip upturned, "of course."

Elena returns sometime later and sees Jenna and her sister in the kitchen with Damon.

"Where have you been?" Jenna asked with a wine glass in hand. "We're cooking Dinner."

"Where's Stefan?"

"Uh-he'll be here soon."

Later on, Damon and Jeremy are sitting in the family room playing a video game. Jenna and Alyssa are in the kitchen talking while Elena goes through the box.

"He is ridiculously hot!"

"Yeah," Alyssa said not disagreeing with that knowing that there was a chance that he could listening, "but he's a bit of an ass, which naturally makes him hotter.."

The doorbell rings and Elena comes down to answer it.

Damon quickly gets up from the couch and walks over to the door.

Jeremy watches him go, agitated. "Dude!"

Elena opens the front door, Damon right behind her. Stefan looks at Damon, confused to why he's at the house, then to Elena, who shrugs.

"Well?" Damon asks impatiently and they step outside.

Stefan begins to tell them what he talked about with Alaric Saltzman. The person who now held the journal, or did.

"Who took it?" Damon asked when finding out that he had been stolen right before he got there.

"I don't know" Stefan answered.

"You know what, it's that teacher. There's something really off about him." Damon declared referring to the conversation that they had the night of the decade dance and how interested he seemed in getting to know him.

"No, he doesn't know anything. Somebody got to it right before me."

"Who else knew it was there?"

Stefan looks through the window at Jeremy, but doesn't say anything. Damon looks at Jeremy also and begins to walk back into the house.

"No. Damon," Alyssa grabbed a hold of him before he got out of it, "leave him out of it!"

"Why, what's the big deal?"

"Damon!"

Damon walks into the house, Alyssa, Elena and Stefan right behind him. Damon sits on the arm of the sofa to speak with Jeremy.

"So...I heard you found a really cool journal from back in the day. Who else did you show it to?"

"Huh?" He asked distracted with the game he was playing.

"Don't ask questions, just spill."

Jeremy chuckles," You're kidding me, right?"

"Jer, just answer the question," Alyssa said knowing how impatient Damon was and how irrational he was when it came to Katherine, "did you tell anyone other than Mr. Saltzman about Jonathan Gilbert's journal?"

"Why is everybody so obsessed with that thing?"

"Who else did you tell?" Elena asked.

"Just that girl Anna."

"The hot, weird one?" Alyssa and Damon asked in unison looking at each other.

"Yeah."

Stefan being out of the loop asks, "Wait, who is Anna?"

Damon answers, "that's what I want to find out."

Elena's phone starts ringing. Elena goes off to answer it, leaving Damon to question Jeremy.

"How do you know her?"

"I just know her. She wants me to meet her at the Grill tonight."

"Perfect. I'll drive." Damon volunteered, "Come on."

Jeremy was surprised by the offer but agreed, "O-Okay."

Jeremy gets up from the couch and follows Damon out of the house.

"I'll go with them." She said to Stefan and caught up to them before they could leave.

Damon and Alyssa take up a seat nearby as they watch Jeremy from his spot by the pool table as he waited for Anna.

"Do you think this Anna chick could be the vampire dimwit was working with?"

"I don't know," Damon said with furrow brow. "But she's interested in the journal so I wanna know who she is."

After a short paused Alyssa said, "well you don't have to wait much longer." She nodded towards the door when she saw Anna walk in scouring the place for Jeremy before she spots him at the pool table.

Alyssa see a look a recognize cross his face.

"You know here?"

Still watching Anna he answered, "yeah."

It's pouring raining outside, Anna and Emily are out on the front porch. Inside of the shop, pear is speaking with Katherine and Damon.

"The sheriff was here earlier. He brought large volumes of the vervain elixir." Pearl informs Katherine

"Did he try to put his hands on you?"

"Doesn't he always."

Katherine links her arm through Damon and says, "She's saving herself for Jonathan Gilbert"

"How can you be so calm?" Damon says with a hint of worry. "They're getting closer everyday."

"We are the respectable ladies of Mystic Falls." Katherine says essentially not worried about it. "Thanks to Emily, we walk the streets in the daylight. No one will ever suspect us."

Pearl to Damon, "not unless a human tells them. "

"I'd sooner die." Damon proclaims.

" And soon enough you will." Katherine says.

Katherine and Damon share a kiss. Anna enters the shop. The three of them look over at her.

"Mrs. Fell is approaching" She relies to them.

"Thank you Annabelle." Pearl walks over to Anna and hugs her. Anna smiles and laugh gleefully

Alyssa looks over to where Jeremy and Anna are playing pool. Anna oblivious to what was happening as she smiled and laughed with Jeremy.

Alyssa stayed back while Damon went to check out Anna deciding instead to catch up with Matt instead. She'd made a conscious effort to not let what was going on in her life get in the way of their friendship. Plus she needed one person in her life not to be world in all the craziness.

Matt was her place to fall when she needed a timeout and to feel like a normal teen. Something she hadn't felt like since she Vicki get staked by Stefan. Since then, she was hiding so many secrets and lying to nearly everyone. So when she got a moment to put all of that behind her she was going to take it.

Though every good thing must come to an end, and she had to get back to the real world. As surreal as her world was becoming. She left Jeremy at the grill since he hadn't been ready to leave Matt promising him that he would get him home. She walked out into the parking lot calling Damon for an update about what happened but got his voicemail.

"Seriously, Damon, you really gotta learn how to use a phone." She hung up and got in the car. Putting on her seat belt, she looked in the rear view window and saw someone popup from the back seat.