While Rachel began throwing insults at Katherine, Captain Chandler felt his eyesight begin to fade. As he swayed back and forth, he titled his head staring at Elena. It couldn't be her. he thought. There was no way that this was Elena. Slattery noticed Chandler's odd behavior and asked, "Tom, are you okay?"

Chandler quickly pulled Slattery aside, "Mike, have you looked at this girl? This is her. This is Rick's Elena." Slattery titled his head in thought. then, his eyes grew big as he said, "My god."

Captain Chandler quickly left the dumbfounded Slattery and called out to the group saying, "My name is Captain Thomas Chandler of the U.S. Navy. Welcome to our ship. Please make yourselves comfortable," then to Elena, "Please, may I have a word with you."

Confused, Elena tilted her head, but nodded. She followed them through the halls and into a large room. Looking at the pictures on the desk, she realized it was Captain Chandler's. Captain Chandler pulled the door shut, as Slattery stood, a little more relaxed, by the desk, leaving Elena awkwardly standing in front of the bed. She didn't even know these men, yet they wanted to talk to here…almost as if they knew her…

Chandler began, "Our apologies for being so...mysterious...but we need to speak with you, Elena. Did you know an Alaric Saltzman?"

Caught off guard, Elena blinked several times and opened and closed her mouth, though no sound came out, before saying, "Rick? Of course! He was Jeremy and my guardian, when our Aunt Jenna died. He was like a father..."

Slattery leaned against the wall and asked her, though not looking at her, "Did you know he was in the Navy?"

Elena's eyes grew big and a small smile crept onto her lips, "No. I had no idea, although I wouldn't be surprised..."

"He was one of our best officers," said Chandler, looking at Elena directly and taking a step closer to her, "He could have even become an XO. But we unfortunately had to relieve him of his duties."

"What? Why?" asked Elena suddenly confused.

"You see, he began this obsession, and it started to interfere with our missions," said Chandler carefully watching her expression, "He was obsessed with vampires."

Elena nodded her head, "Yea it started after my biological mom, uh his wife Isobel was killed by Damon or actually turned by him, though Rick didn't know it at the time—"

Both officers were stunned. "Whoa," said Slattery, "Isobel was your mom?"

Elena nodded, "But Alaric wasn't my dad. My dad was Isobel's high school lover, John Gilbert. But being that it was a teen pregnancy and John's brother, Grayson and his wife, Miranda delivered me and wanted kids, they adopted me."

The room was quiet for a moment before Chandler spoke, "Is Alaric still alive?"

Dejected, Elena shook her head. "No. He was killed after being spelled by Esther, The Original Witch, to become a vampire hunter. She made a connection between him and myself, so that if I died, he also would and Klaus wouldn't be able to make his hybrids. So when I became a vampire—"

The room was silent,after Elena cut herself off, until a small knock made everyone look up.