Well, this is getting interesting! At the end of Chapter 6, I had absolutely no idea where this was going, so now I'm just writing every plot twist that comes to mind! Hope you like!

The car ride to the old Lockwood property was silent and awkward. The only one who said anything was Elena, who was still confused about the gang's intentions on going on another "road trip" and why Stefan and Damon looked at her like she was crazy. Elena sat in the back seat next to Bonnie and Caroline.

"So, where are you guys from?" Elena asks Caroline and Bonnie. "I've lived in Mystic Falls my whole life. Went to Mystic Falls High school. Well, going there right now actually. I'm a senior."

"Um…" Caroline starts. "I just moved here a couple of months ago from uh… Michigan! And Bonnie usually just visits Mystic Falls to see her grandma every once in a while, but she lives with her dad in West Virginia…"

"Oh, cool!" Elena replies, too excitedly, and the car ride becomes silent again.

"Where are Matt and Rebekah?" Damon asks Stefan out of the blue.

"I don't know. They just kind of left," Stefan replies, wonder becoming very apparent in his tone.

"Maybe they ran off because somebody didn't appreciate their help very much. I mean, they were trying their best," Bonnie's voice projects sarcastically from the back seat.

"Yeah, whatever, bitchy witchy. We all have the same objective: fixing Elena, so let's get on it," Damon replies, annoyed from Bonnie's sarcasm, as he pulls the SUV into a grass clearing off the road near the entrance to the underground of the Lockwood property.

Caroline, Damon, Bonnie, Stefan, and Elena pile out of the car and Damon leads the way down the stairs and through the dank tunnels towards the cavern. He stops short and lets Bonnie pass to the front as they come to the cavern.

"Vampires can't get in, remember?" Damon tells Stefan and Caroline as an explanation to his halt.

"Ugh, that's really convenient," Caroline mutters as she sits down on the edge of the tunnel, eyeing Bonnie.

Bonnie walks up to the wall on the far left side of the cavern and runs her fingers over the carvings. "I don't see it anywhere," she tells everyone, as Elena walks in circles around the clearing still wondering what they're up to.

"Are you sure this is the right place?" Stefan asks Bonnie, looking for her confirmation.

"Absolutely! I saw it. I just don't know where on the wall it is."

"And once again, hasn't she been very helpful?" Damon smirks sarcastically, frowning at Bonnie as she turns to glare at him.

"Damn! Where is it? I saw it!" Bonnie becomes angry by her apparent miscalculations and slaps the wall in front of her. A hollow bonk echoes through the cave, and everyone suddenly looks at the wall, awoken by the noise.

"It would be stupid not to take that as a sign," Damon says, almost cheerfully.

"There's something behind the wall," Bonnie confirms.

"Well obviously," Damon says in a snarky tone. "Can you break it? No super vampire strength is available over there."

"Not with my hands," Bonnie says, slapping at the wall again and listening to the reverberating sound flow throughout the cavern.

"We can't get in though. How about some magical powers that will make you strong or something?" Damon tries to offer a solution.

"It doesn't work that way."

"God, this is why we needed Alaric and Matt," Damon groans.

"I'll call Matt!" Caroline exclaims, whipping out her bright pink phone.

"And now we might be getting somewhere!" Damon explains to Bonnie.

"Damon," Stefan glares at his brother.

"There's definitely something behind the wall, but if I could just find the edge…" Bonnie continues, searching furiously around the wall for any sign of an opening.

"Matt's on his way!" Caroline announces to the group. "So now what do we do?"

"Wait," Stefan says solemnly.

Caroline, Stefan, Bonnie, and Damon sit down on the cool stone ground for a few minutes in silence.

"Um, guys…where's Elena?" Caroline asks as she looks up and down the tunnel and around the cavern.

"What the hell? How come we always lose her?" Stefan asks as he stands up and walks back through the cave towards the exit.

By then they were all looking around the underground tunnels for Elena, but none of them could find her. They all returned back to the cavern.

"She's not here," Stefan said, frowning at the impossible circumstance.

Just then, Bonnie looks up towards the ceiling of the cave. "Yeah. What's that?"

They all stare up at the roof to see a small indent on the ceiling, perfectly round, a shade darker than the rest of the cavern walls.

"It looks like a button," Stefan replies.

"This seems really cliché. We lost a girl and now we've found a button…very…original," Damon rolls his eyes at Stefan and Bonnie. "It's nothing."

"You don't know that. Maybe it opens the wall, or door. Whatever we're calling it," Caroline replies, a glimmer of hope tracing her smile.

"Then push the damned button!" Damon yells to no one in particular.

"Careful Damon. Don't let your humanity show!" Stefan taunts and Bonnie smirks.

Stefan reaches up to the ceiling and circles his finger around the indent, pushing it in slightly before feeling a bit of a shake from somewhere to the left of the dank cavern.

"It's not the wall," Bonnie announces in dismay.

"No, but the noise came from the direction of the wall!" Caroline concludes.

"How about we just wait for Matt and then we can take down the wall and find Elena. Maybe she has her phone with her," Stefan wonders.

'I don't think she does," Caroline says, but pulls her phone out of her purse again anyways.

"How did we get in such a pickle?" Damon wonders aloud. "One minute we lose the chick, then we save her, then she's messed up in the head, when does it end?"

"When she dies," Bonnie says, sheepishly hiding her frown after the thought.

"We're not going to let that happen," Stefan scowls at the thought.

"Technically she's already dead. It's not that far of a stretch," Damon tries to break the awkward silence between everyone, but his comment only makes the emotion in the room worse.

"Matt's here!" Caroline perks up, sensing her friend's presence as Matt walks into the cavern carrying a crowbar and a shovel.

"That's the best you could do?" Damon asks him, raising his eyebrows, but Matt just gives him a dirty look.

"Here," Matt hands the crowbar to Bonnie, taking the shovel in his right hand, and swinging it at the wall.

A sickening crack exits the tunnels, piercing everyone's eardrums. The entire wall breaks loose, leaving behind a cloud of dust and small chunks of a hard, white, airy substance.

"What is this stuff?" Caroline asks as she picks up a piece of the wall that landing at her feet.

"It looks like…"

"Paper Mache?" Stefan looks at the material in wonder. "Why would someone make a wall out of paper mache?"

"I have no freaking idea, but this doesn't look right," Damon stares through the hole in the cavern where the wall was, his eyes wide and worried.

Everyone turns to look in the same direction, frightened by what they see: A mountain of dead, bloody, bodies piled in the center of the cavern, and a teary-eyed Elena sitting on the ground next to a barely recognizable woman lying near the bottom of the heap.

Miranda Gilbert.

Poor Elena :/ Hope you all liked the chapter. Wasn't expected? Got ya! Please review! I'm not sure if I'm going to finish the story unless I see that a lot of people want me to continue. It's going somewhere, I just don't know where yet, so R&R if you have ideas or predictions. That would be really helpful.

Thanks,

The Salvatore/Somerhalder Fanatic