Isobel stood over a mound of dirt that looked freshly disturbed and shook her head angrily. "You were fun while you lasted," she said as she looked around the woods.

She had tracked Frank's scent originally to some blood splatters some ways off, and then followed his deathly stench to the spot she stood on. Sniffing around, she also discovered that Katherine was indeed there along with the Salvatore's.

"Now the only question is who found you? Brothers or Katherine?" she wondered to herself. There was no way of knowing by just looking around here. Sighing she made up her mind. She would have to ask Damon if he'd run into Frank or not.

As she was shaking her head in anger, she caught a whiff of human on the wind. "I could go for some hiker for breakfast," she thought smiling.

But then she thought of Katherine's scent lingering in the air. "I don't need to find her yet…" she said contemplating her options. "Especially if I don't know if she knows I was spying on her."

"I have to know," she finally decided, turning away from the hiker smell. "I'll talk to Damon and see what he knows," she thought as she took off in the direction of the boarding house.

She took her cell phone out as she walked hurriedly to the boarding house. On the second ring, Cherie picked up. "Yes?"

"Cherie. Is our guest cooperating with you?"

"No problems here," Cherie said sounding bored. "Any sign of Frank?"

"Frank's dead," Isobel told her bluntly. "I'm going to find out what happened. I just wanted to make sure everything was fine at home."

There was silence as Cherie took in the news of Frank's death. "I will call you if anything at all happens," Cherie said after a moment.

"You better," Isobel said hanging up the phone.


Stefan had heard more than enough to have him worried. Now there would be three known werewolves running around town. He was still curious about what happened to Tyler's mom and to Tyler himself. But his questions would have to wait as he saw Sheriff Forbes approach. He slunk down low so he was out of view as she walked up the path and rang the doorbell.

Stefan took the opportunity to sneak off into a set of bushes nearer to where he could see what was going on near the front door. Moments later, the door opened and Stefan got to take a look at Rio. He favored his father was the first thing that came to Stefan's mind as he analyzed him. Second was that he looked pretty formidable with the sheer bulk of muscles he had.

"Sheriff Forbes. I haven't seen you in ages," Rio said smiling as Liz looked on startled. "Rio Lockwood," he said after she remained silent.

"Sorry. Yes. I remember you. It's just been so long. And I wasn't expecting you here," she said finding her voice. "I came to check on Tyler and to take his statement."

"Well he's fine and we'll take care of him for the time being. As for his statement, you'll have to ask him yourself," he said waving into the house.

"Who is it?" came Chloe's voice and suddenly she was in view.

Stefan scrunched his brow in confusion as he stared at her. She seemed so familiar to him, but he couldn't think of why. She was similar to Rio in the arch of her brow, the blue eyes, and the high cheek bones, but that's where the similarities ended. She didn't seem to carry their father's harsh looks and she was shorter by at least a foot.

Stefan thought hard as to why she looked so familiar to him, but he was drawing blank. He shook his head and resolved to think of it later when he wasn't busy hiding out and finding out information.

"Chloe," Liz said as she saw her. "Nice to see you too. How've you been?"

"Hi Sheriff. I've been good. Just busy running here and there….what's up?" she asked, her eyes darting between the sheriff and her brother.

"She wants to talk to Tyler," Rio told her.

"I'll go get him," she offered and turned around to head back in the house.

"I'm sorry about everything that's happened." Liz said honestly.

"It's not like it was your fault, Sheriff. Crazy things happen…" Rio said looking at Liz sadly.

"Still. It's my town and I feel responsible," she said honestly.

"Well if there's anything I can do to help you out, " he said looking behind him before continuing, "like with the council, just let me know."

She looked surprised that he even knew about the council. But she thought better of it. "Of course you'd know about the council. Your father must have told you since you're the eldest." She didn't know if she was comforted by the fact considering Tyler's background and the possibility that the man in front of her was also a werewolf too. All she needed was the thing she was hunting on the council…

"He did mention it to me quite a few times. No one else knows though," he said whispering.

Stefan wondered if he was lying. After all, he had a twin sister who probably shared a lot of the same information between them.

At that moment, Tyler came to the door. "What can I do for you Miss Forbes?" Tyler asked.

"I'd like to talk to you alone if you will," she said nodding at Rio.

"Of course. We'll be inside," Rio said, patting Tyler on the back.

Tyler put his hands in his pocket and waited for Liz to start talking before doing anything else.

"So can you tell me what you remember about that night," she asked, getting straight down to business.

Tyler began telling her the story he had come up with and had been playing out in his mind. "I don't really know. I had been really tired, but I wanted to get some fresh air. So I left my house after doing homework and went for a walk..."

"Do you know what time?" Liz asked, thinking of when his mother was attacked.

"No. I just remember telling my mom that I was going out and that'd I'd be back soon…so I went for a walk and sat by the bridge and I must have dozed off. The next thing I knew, some giant wolf was on me scratching at me, "Tyler said, shaking his head as if he was remembering something horrible.

Stefan wondered if any of it was true and was betting Liz thought the same thing.

"And the next thing I know, I'm in the hospital," Tyler ended. "Sorry I can't be of more help."

"Well I hear you are good at drawing…Do you think you can make out a sketch of the wolf so that I can hand it out to the officers so they know what to expect?" she asked, waiting for his reaction.

"Yeah…sure.." Tyler said after a minute. "Just give me some time."

They continued to make small talk, but Stefan was distracted by the buzzing coming from his pant pocket. He checked the caller id and made the decision to leave the area and head back into the small bit of woods on the other side before road began.

He opened the phone and answered. "Elena? Hey… I….what's wrong?" he asked, listening to the tone in her voice. "I'll be right there," he said after she was done talking.


"She alive back there?" Damon asked as they pulled into the driveway.

"Yeah. She just fell asleep about five minutes ago," Jeremy said looking over at Elena, who was slumped over on the window. He gently shook her awake as they were getting out of the car. She awoke with a start and groaned. "You scared me," she said, looking at Jeremy a bit angrily.

"Sorry. Just wanted to let you know that we're home," he said.

"Road trip's over, kiddies," Damon said sarcastically.

Elena shook her head and got out of the car. Before she reached the front door, she pulled out her phone and scrolled down to Stefan's number. Damon looked at her curiously, but she waved him ahead as she stood by the car.

"Elena?" he answered. "Hey….I"

"Stefan…" she said, getting a bit emotional out of nowhere. She shook her head and cleared her throat. Hearing his voice made he want him there even more, but she didn't need to freak him out.

"What's wrong?" he asked as she composed herself.

"There was a fight at the hospital. We're all ok, but could you just come to my house? I really want you here," she said, glancing up at the porch to see Damon staring, and then turning her back on her. She hung her head and waited for Stefan's reply.

"I'll be right there," he said quickly and hanging up the phone.

She approached the front porch and looked at everyone waiting there. "I thought Stefan should be here so we could all discuss everything," she said, walking up the steps.

"Jeremy, you need to go inside the house and tell Elena to come inside," Damon said, getting to business.

He looked at Damon and then Elena confused. "She's not a vampire," he said staring at Damon like he was crazy.

"You have to quit gnawing on bunny rabbits in public Elena, or you're going to give people the wrong impression," he said with a sarcastic nod at her. "Yes, Jeremy. I know she's not a vampire. Bonnie did a spell that backfired and you need to invite Elena in, got it?" he said raising his brows at him.

Elena looked at him and shook her head, but decided not to comment. Instead she looked over to Jeremy. "We were doing a spell to make sure Katherine couldn't come in, but I pictured both her and me, so I can't get in until I'm invited, so that's what happened," she explained.

"This is all so weird," he mumbled as he walked into the house and turned around. "Come on in, Elena."

"Non-vamps first," Damon said, waving his arms out as Bonnie entered, giving him an unamused look. Elena looked at Damon a moment before going in the house. He nodded his head. "You're safe to go," he said seriously.

She nodded her head and was relieved to find that she was no longer barred from entering the house. But her relief was short lived as she felt the pain start up in hear head. She yelled out in pain, but it didn't last long when she felt Damon's arms on her as he pulled her outside.

"What the hell…" she panted as she bent over and put her hands on her knees, taking a moment to calm down.

"Bonnie, do you not know how to read? Was there some fine print to the spell you failed to see?" Damon asked angrily.

She came rushing out the door and went to Elena's side. "I know how to read. The spell was for a simple un-invitation. I don't know why she's still reacting. She was allowed in the house. You saw her walk in…I don't know why..." she said, looking dismayed.

"Wait," Elena said suddenly. "It's stupid, but just maybe," she said standing up and taking off her shirt.

Damon and Bonnie looked on confused as to why she was stripping down to her bra. "If this is your way of thanking me, I accept," Damon said smirking. Bonnie smacked him as she looked at Elena.

"What are you doing?" she asked, but Elena waved her off, took a deep breath, and walked into the house again.

Damon sped in, putting his arms around her-ready to pull her out- when Elena let out a sigh of relief. "So glad that worked," she said smiling.

"I was trying to think why I was allowed to enter and then shoved out again," she explained in response to their confused faces," and then I remembered…I have Katherine's blood on my shirt…the magicks that be, as you call it Bonnie, were probably confused," she said smiling, proud of herself for coming to that conclusion.

"It always goes back to blood, doesn't it…" Damon said, shaking his head. "Should you be more worried Elena understands magic a little more than you do?" he said to Bonnie.

Bonnie ignored Damon and looked at Elena with relief, glad that she hadn't messed up big time with the spell. But she didn't get to talk before they heard a voice from the porch.

"What the hell's going on? Stefan asked, eyeing a shirtless Elena standing with Damon's arms around her.

Haha. Everyone loves awkward moments. Especially when it comes to the brothers. Anyways... This is the last chapter for this title at least. I messed up with combining all the chapters and people aren't able to review. So, I will fix it by ending this story title here, but continuing it under the creative title Homecoming: Continued. lol

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SO the story isn't ending, just continuing on under another name. As promised, I plan to continue till the new season starts.