Cora and Damon were waiting outside the witch house. They were listening in on Elena and Stefan talking. "How did you know he'd be here?" Damon asked.

"Just a feeling I had. I knew some of the witches when they were alive, and I had a feeling there was someone else besides us that hated Klaus." Cora explained. "So I figured he might have turned to them for help."

They saw Elena come outside. She didn't look happy. "That didn't go over well." Damon said.

"Don't even start, Damon!" Elena said. Cora was surprised, but understood how she must be feeling.

"Let me talk to him." Damon said.

"You can't get in! The witches won't let you!" Elena pointed out.

"Well, they can't stop me." Cora said.

"Are you sure you want to risk it?" Damon asked.

"Unlike some people, I haven't made enemies with witches." Cora pointed out.

"If you're not out in five minutes, I'm coming in." Damon said. He turned to Elena. "Get back home." He handed her his car keys. "You deal with your brother, we'll deal with ours."

Cora entered the house. She was surprised by how empty it was, though she could feel the presence of the witches all around her. "Thank you for trying to help us." She said to them. She was greeted with a soft breeze. "Leslie, if you're here, can you please lead me to my friend? He's hiding here somewhere."

She followed a feeling she had and ended up downstairs. She found Stefan sitting down there. "Stefan."

"Do I know you?" He asked.

"It's me, Cora. I was turned a couple years after moving to Mystic Falls." He stared at her, as though he was trying to figure out if she was telling the truth. "I can prove it's me." She lifted her necklace up and showed it to him. "You gave my sister this necklace to protect her while we were in London. She gave it to me after you found me at that dock party."

"Anyone could have made an imitation of this." He pointed out, handing the necklace back to her. Cora ran her hand through her hair. Then she thought of another way to prove herself to him.

"Could anyone have imitated this?" Cora reached into her jeans pocket and pulled out an old-fashioned pocket watch. The gold color had faded from the years, but the face of the watch was undamaged. The battery had died long ago, but it was still in good condition.

She took it everywhere she went. Stefan glanced at the watch, recognizing it. "Cora…it really is you." She smiled. "What are you doing here?"

"Helping your brother and friends deal with a murderous Original hybrid." Cora told him. "And now Elena and the others are in trouble."

"Look, I can't help them." Stefan said.

"Then maybe you can explain why you saved Klaus' ass at that party." Cora was surprised to see Damon standing next to her. He turned to her. "I told you I was coming in if you weren't out in a few minutes."

"Maybe we should take this outside." Cora said.

"No problem." To her surprise, Damon grabbed Stefan and sped out of the house. Cora closed her eyes.

"Not this again." She had seen a lot of their feuding back when she was human. She ran outside. She found Stefan on the ground. Damon had stabbed him with an olive branch. Cora rolled her eyes at the irony, then sped over and threw herself between them.

"Enough! If you're going to fight, then what's the point of us even being here?" Cora pointed out.

"It still doesn't make sense. Why would he stop us from killing Klaus then steal his family?" Damon asked.

"Klaus took everything from me." They turned to Stefan. He was still on the ground. Cora could see there was a lot of anger in him, and a lot of pain. She really hated Klaus for what he did to Stefan, and his actions toward her friends was getting out of hand.

"Okay, but why did you mess up the plan?" Cora asked. "If we'd succeeded, he'd be gone."

"I did it to save Damon." Stefan said, sitting up. He looked at his brother. "If you had killed him, his hybrids would've killed you."

Damon was still looking at him, surprised by this new information. "See? I knew there was a reason he saved him." Cora said.

"So, what exactly is your plan? Hold the rest of his family hostage?" Damon asked.

"Look, the witches hate Klaus, too. They're helping us hide the coffins." Stefan explained.

"Us?" Cora asked. "Wait, don't tell me you dragged Bonnie into this madness, too."

"I didn't have a choice."

"There's no way you can take on Klaus by yourself, brother." Damon pointed out. "He'll kill you for sure."

"And I didn't come here to lose either of you all over again." Cora added.

"What are you two saying?" Damon and Cora looked at each other and knew they were thinking the same thing.

"We want to help you." Cora said. "No matter what, we have to take Klaus down." Damon nodded.

"Fine. But keep Elena out of this." Stefan told them.

"That won't be a problem." Damon said.

"Speaking of which, we should check in with her." Cora pointed out. "She's been unraveling since Klaus guys' hit Ric."

"You go on ahead." Damon told her. "We still have some things to talk out."

When Cora got to Elena's street, she saw an ambulance down the block. She knew it couldn't be a good sign. She sped over to Elena's house. The door was open and there were two paramedics on the floor by Alaric. "What happened?" Cora asked.

"I don't know, the ring didn't heal him." Elena said as she entered the house. The paramedics were getting ready to move him.

"Let's not. Say we did. Why don't you two meet us at the hospital?" They turned and saw the hybrid who ran him over in the doorway.

"What?" The paramedics left. "No, no, no wait. No wait! You have to help him!" Elena said.

"They've been compelled, Elena! They can't help him!" Cora told her.

"What are you doing?" Elena asked him.

"You can still save his life, Elena. Here- take my blood." He stood outside. The girls stared at him. "I can't get in. You're gonna have to invite me in."

"No. Why are you doing this?" Elena asked.

"Klaus asked for his family. You didn't deliver." He said.

"We don't know where his family his, we already told him this!" Cora pointed out. Ric started coughing. Elena ran over to his side. Cora realized she could help him, but at the same time, she didn't want to reveal herself to the jerk watching from the doorway. Suddenly, he fell to the ground.

"Jeremy!" Elena was relieved to see him.

"He´s not dead yet." Jeremy said. He went in and passed the girls. Cora bit her wrist and held it up to Alaric's mouth. She had to admit, it was always weird doing this. She heard Elena scream and looked up to see what was wrong.

"What happened?" Cora asked. Elena was standing by the door. She looked pretty shaken up. Then she walked to the doorway and almost felt sick. Elena put an arm around her and forced herself and Cora away from the scene in front of them.

"How is he?" She said.

"He should heal soon, but we should get him to the hospital just in case." Cora told her.

"We'll take my car." Jeremy said, entering and helping her lift him up. Cora turned to Elena.

"Are you coming?"

"I can't." Elena said. "I know he's going to try again unless we give Rebekah back."

Cora looked at her, understanding her situation. She knew from experience that in dealing with the supernatural, you have to do whatever it takes to protect your family. "Do what you have to do." She told her. "We'll make sure he's okay."

"Thanks, Cora." She and Jeremy left the house, carrying Alaric with them.

On the ride there, Jeremy noticed she looked worried. "You okay?"

"Yeah. It's just…this whole situation sucks." Cora said. "My siblings are fighting each other when we've got a bigger threat to handle. How'd you know Klaus' hybrid would be there?"

"Tyler warned me." Jeremy said. "You guys were right about the vervain thing, but he doesn't seem to want to be part of the Klaus thing anymore."

"Well, that's good news." Cora sighed. "I just wish our lives weren't so effected by him being here."

"I've learned to accept it long ago." Jeremy told her. "It's like normal is impossible in this town."

"Well, to be fair, I think normal is overrated. But still…it's when good people like Alaric get involved that concerns me."

"I know what you mean. You wish there was some way you could protect the people important to you." Cora looked at him. He was only sixteen, but so many supernatural things had effected his life. They parked in the hospital's parking lot.

"We should go." Jeremy said.

"Hey…if it helps, I'd kick my brother's ass for pissing Klaus off." Cora told him.

"Easy, Cora. You're starting to sound like Damon." He pointed out.

"I'll take that as a compliment."

They brought him into the emergency room immediately. After waiting for about an hour, Cora saw Damon enter the waiting room. "Finally! What took you so long?"

"It's a long story. How is he?"

"He should be okay. I gave him my blood at the house, but he was still in bad shape when we brought him in." She told him.

"Good thing you were there to help him."

"Well, it was either help him or stay behind and break up another one of your arguments. I think I made the right choice."

A few hours later, Cora and the others arrived home. Alaric was finally all healed. 'So, what happened tonight wasn't normal?" Cora asked.

"Yeah, normally the rings heal any damage we take when something supernatural kills us." Jeremy said. "I wonder if there's a warranty on these things."

"Well, maybe we should be more careful with them." Cora said. "I don't want to have to go through what happened tonight again."

"Neither do I." Jeremy said. "Then again, when you're surrounded in a town with vampires, these things just happen." Cora looked at him. He was still in danger from Klaus and she wasn't sure how they could keep him safe.

"I'm going to check on the others." She told him. She headed downstairs. When she was near the kitchen, she heard Elena and Damon talking. "I made a deal with Klaus. I gave him Rebekah."

"What? No. No, no, no you did not do that! She's gonna come here and try to kill you!"

"No she won't. Klaus won't let her because he needs me."

"And suddenly you trust him?" Damon asked.

"No, I don't trust him. But what other choice do I have?" Elena pointed out. "I don't trust Stefan. Do you think he's just gonna give up the coffins?"

"My brother is- sort of running his own show right now."

"My brother just chopped off someone's head!" Elena countered. "It's not right. It's not fair. He's 16 years old. He shouldn't have to live like this." Cora entered the room. Elena was facing the sink, so she didn't see her come in. "There has to be another way. We have to fix it."

"We will! Hey, Elena." Damon got her to look at him "Hey. We will! Okay?" She nodded, calming down.

"Whatever we do, we're going to have to do it fast." Cora said. "To me, it sounds like Jeremy's given up on normal life."

"Then maybe we should give him a normal one." Elena said. They both turned to her. "I know what I have to do." Cora understood, as though she could hear the human girl's thoughts.

"Elena, are you sure?"

"If we're going to protect him, it's the only way." She said.

A few minutes later, they all headed up to Jeremy's room. Cora waited in the hallway. "I've been thinking about what you said earlier. About how we should pack up and go." Elena told him.

"Elena, I didn't mean any of that." Jeremy said.

"But you were right. You shouldn't have to give up a normal life just because of me."

"What's going on?"

"Your sister thinks we should have another one of our talks." She heard Damon say. She went to the doorway. "Here's the thing, Jer: You go out of town for a while- a long while. You're gonna stay with some nice family friends in Denver, you're gonna be at a new school, you meet new girls, living girls."

Cora put her hand over her mouth to keep from laughing. She noticed Alaric had showed up next to her.

"Tell him he's gonna leave Mystic Falls behind and never think twice about it." Alaric said. Damon turned to Elena. She nodded.

"You're gonna leave Mystic Falls behind and never think twice about it. You'll have a better life, Jeremy."

Once it was done, Cora followed Elena into the hallway. "You okay?"

"Yeah. It's hard, but if Klaus had his way, he wouldn't stop until Jeremy was gone." Elena told her. "I've already lost my aunt to him."

Cora already knew this because Damon filled her in on everything that happened before her arrival. He'd also told her about the accident that took her parents. "You'll get through this."

"I hope you're right." Elena said. She left to go outside. Cora followed and Damon came with her. "I feel like a horrible person."

"You just saved his life, Elena." Damon pointed out. "Take it from me: strange is bad, dead is worse."

"I just can't stop thinking about what happened last time when I asked you to compel him."

"He found out. And he got over it. Again: not dead, Elena!" Cora raised an eyebrow. "It's a long story." Damon told her. He turned back to Elena. "He's so lucky to have you for his sister."

"Thank you." Elena said.

"No problem."

"Not just for this, Damon. For everything. I don't know what I would do if you weren't here." She told him.

He looked at Cora. She took his hand and nodded. "You should know this, Elena. Stefan didn't screw us over." He said. "He screwed us over but he had a good reason."

"What?"

"He saved Klaus to save me. Then he stole the coffins to get even." Damon told her.

"What? Damon, if he did it to protect you then... Why would he even do that?" Elena asked.

"I guess he just knew he had to save his brother." Cora shrugged. "After a hundred years, that protective instinct doesn't just go away."

"Yeah, though I feel like an idiot." Damon admitted. "Why don't you wait in the car?"

"Actually, I'm staying," Cora told him. She turned to Elena. "If that's okay with you."

"Hey, you're welcome anytime." She said.

"I'll meet you tomorrow before school." Cora told Damon.

"Okay. Have a good night, Cora."

"Be safe, Damon." She hugged him briefly, then went back inside. She knew this was going to be hard on all of them, but they had to do something.