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Road Trip:

Beth walked through the hallways in the bottom of the Salvatore house, as she reached the cell they had, now housing her godfather. She looked through the bars of the cell door. "Alaric?"

"Yep, still me." He called back. She opened the door to see him laying on his cot. He sat up as she walked in. "You know, you shouldn't be in here. It defeats the point of the whole being locked in a cellar thing." He reminded her.

She handed him the bag she brought. "Well, you still need the basics. Toothbrush, toothpaste, clothes, and some boring books to help you sleep. Harry Potter was too entertaining so I threw Moby Dick in there." She nodded with a small smile

"Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde?" He asked with an amused smile, handing her the book.

"What? No, I grabbed...Damon, thinks he's hilarious, which he's not." She yelled in the direction of the living room.

"At least one of us still has a sense of humor."

"Are you sure that you want to be here? You don't have to be kept here, Ric." She reminded him. He sighed and sat up a little as she sat down next to him.

"No, this is the right place for me to be." He told her with a nod and she took his hand. "At least until you guys can convince my highly uncooperative alter ego to fess up to where I or he hid the white oak stake." He gave her a weak smile and small squeeze of her hand.

"We'll find it, don't worry. Stefan is going to watch over you for a little bit. Elena doesn't think it's safe to keep Jeremy so away from home, so Damon, her and I are going to go to Denver to pick him up." She told him reassuringly.

"You've been spending time with Damon?" He asked curiously, holding up the book.

"Kind of. We're getting there. I just hope that the annoying underlying sexual tension between him and Elena, doesn't make me scream at them." Beth said with a roll of her eyes. Alaric chuckled. "I'll see you later." She promised giving him a hug. She was reluctant to let go. She didn't want to leave him here, but Damon convinced her it was best. They never were going to get anything out of his alter ego, if she was there. Beth pulled back slowly and stood up, leaving before she could change her mind.

She walked past Stefan and Elena, quietly who were having a moment that she didn't want to disturb. Outside, Damon was throwing all of the bags into the back. "You ready for a road trip?" Damon asked her with a smirk, making her roll her eyes. "Aw, come on you can have shotgun."

"Can I drive?" Beth asked with a smile.

"Don't push it." He retorted, dropping his smile. She rolled her eyes at him again as she slid in the passenger seat, waiting for Elena to come out so they could get moving.

Her phone suddenly rang. It was a text from Tyler, whom she hadn't heard from in a month. "Hey, stranger. Coming home today. Going to see Caroline. Swing by after?"

Beth smiled at the text. She couldn't believe that Tyler was actually coming home. "You have the worst timing in the world, wolf boy. I'm going to bring Jeremy home. Long story, see you when I get back?" She awaited impatiently for him to reply.

"Yeah, I'll see you when I get back. I've missed you too, Beth. Be careful." Beth smiled as she put up her phone. It would be nice to see Tyler after everything. She did miss him a lot. Even if this trip worked out or sucked, she at least knew that her friend would be back to talk with her.

xxxxx

They finally made it to Denver in one piece. After arguing all the way down there with Damon about the music or stopping, he finally let her have her way to shut her up. She was just happy to finally get out of the car and stretch out. They were at the batting cages that they knew that Jeremy went to with his friends. Damon and Elena searched one area, while Beth searched the other.

Looking through the cages and down the aisle to find Jeremy, she found herself faced with another familiar face. "Kol?" She asked in disbelief. There he was though. The tall, youngest Original brother carrying a bat in his hand. Walking down the aisle with a huge grin on his face, as she ran to him. He picked her up in a hug, just as happy and surprised to see her as she was. She gave him a quick kiss. "I've missed you so much, you have no idea how much."

Kol chuckle and kiss her back slowly before pulling away, leaning his forehead on hers. "I'm pretty sure that I do." He grinned, making her smile as she slid down. They started walking, automatically. "Are you okay? You're safe, right? You scared the bloody hell out of me after I heard you fainted."

"I'm fine." She fibbed to him. She had been feeling a little weak on the way there, but she wasn't going to worry him with that. Right now, she just wanted to be with him. Kol looked at her, obviously not believing her. "I am. Are you okay?"

"I'm amazing now. What on earth are you doing here, darling?"

"I came with Damon and Elena. We were looking for Jeremy." She told him, not thinking about what he was doing here. It must have been a coincidence and she was too happy to see him to think about it. As they walked she saw Jeremy standing behind Damon and Elena. "There he is. Hey, Jer!" She called out.

The young Gilbert smiling seeing her and Kol. She let go of Kol's hand only to hug him. "Hey, I've missed you." He smiled as he hugged her back. He nodded at the Original over her shoulder. "Hey, man."

"Damon, it's Kol!" Elena cried out. Beth turned around just to see Kol connect his baseball bat to Damon's face. She gasped, covering his mouth as he grinned. Damon fell to the ground with a groan from the pain he felt and the bat split in half.

"What are you doing?" Jeremy exclaimed.

"Jeremy, get back he's an Original." Elena yelled at him

"No hard feelings, mate, but we're not buds." H e told Jeremy as he grabbed a long aluminum bat from the case near them. He looked at it admiringly. Beth knew she should have seen this coming. Damon already killed him once and had Ric kill him. She was silly to think he wasn't the least bit angry.

"Kol, stop it!" Beth snapped at him. He sighed and turned to face her angry expression. Before he could reply though, Damon rushed to stick a broken piece of the wooden bat in his chest. She gasped as he fell to the ground and the aluminum bat fell with him.

"Did you kill him?" Jeremy asked, obviously in shock to learn his friend was a vampire, an Original, nonetheless. Beth made herself, tear her eyes away from Kol's incapacitated body as Jeremy pulled her away.

"No, but it'll give us a head start. Come on." Damon said, trying to pull Elena along and signaling Jeremy and Beth to follow. She really didn't want to leave him there, but she didn't have a choice as she followed the rest of them out.

xxxxx

A few minutes later, after stopping by Jeremy's place and grabbing some clothes, they headed away to a motel. Getting out of the car with their baggage in hand, Jeremy was still trying to take in all that they told him about the Originals. "For the record," Damon interjected before anyone could make any comments. He glanced at Elena. "She's the one who wanted to stop at a motel, not me."

"So, where are we?" Jeremy asked as they climbed the stairs to their room.

"Corner of somewhere and nowhere, where Kol can't find us." Damon replied.

"I still can't believe Kol was a vampire." Jeremy commented as they walked to their room. Beth couldn't believe that he had been there that whole time spying on Jeremy, probably for Klaus.

"Well, didn't find it weird that you made a friend so fast?" Damon asked, making Beth roll her eyes at him. "Have you met you?"

"Don't be an ass." Beth told him. He shot her a look, saying they weren't finished talking. She shot him one back, not in the mood. She figured that he wanted to talk to her about Kol. Thankfully, he wouldn't mention anything while they still had to work on Jeremy contacting Rose. Beth opened the door to one of the 2 motel rooms they got. "Well, this should work, right Jer?"

"Yeah, it'll work. It doesn't really matter." He shrugged as he took a seat on the chair and Beth sat down on the bed. Damon started closing the blinds to block out any unwanted strangers.

"Alright, Whoopi, what do you need? Candles? Incense? Pottery wheel?"

"That's not how it works." Jeremy reminded him.

"I know, I know. They push from the other side and you pull from this one." Damon said bored.

"Alright, um, you got a picture of her?"

"Picture? Of what, a trip to Disneyland? Come on, Rose, you're not going to actually make us wait, are you? I know you're obsessed with me." Damon smirked in a sing-song voice. Beth and Elena both rolled their eyes at his arrogance. Elena sat next to her brother.

"Alright, tell me something about her." Jeremy told him. Beth was surprised at the amount of patience Jeremy had for Damon, even now. She was used to being around him too, but there were definitely times she wanted to strangle him.

"Well, she does this little thing with her tongue." He grinned, sitting down besides Beth. She groaned. The last thing she needed to hear was about Damon's sex life, especially when she started getting a headache again.

"Something that matters, Damon." Elena reminded him.

He sighed and sat up. "She spent her last day in paradise."He told them seriously. "Soaking in the sun and reminiscing about what it means to be human. And when death came...she didn't fear it." He admitted softly.

"I was with her on her last day and she definitely wasn't in paradise." Elena interjected. It didn't make any sense to her, how with all the pain that she was in and her hallucinations, how that could have compared to paradise.

"Yeah, she was." Beth added, giving Damon a small smile as he glanced at her. He obviously remembered that one drunk night that he admitted what he did for her. Beth knew that he wasn't exactly keen on showing off that he could do nice things. Elena looked at the two of them confused.

"It was in the dream he gave her." They all turned to Jeremy as he stared at the other bed. "She's here." Beth had no doubt that she was there listening to there every word. She just hoped that what she had to say wouldn't be bad news.