While Stefan was spending a little time with his family, Elena was raging in her room. Katherine had told her that she needed Stefan cut off from Damon and Rachel completely if she wanted him to stay with her and she feared that she was failing. How was she supposed to do that? Could she really compete with a brother and a niece? If someone made her chose between Stefan or her own brother, would she really abandon her own family?

For months now Katherine was regularly coming to see her, checking on her and helping her as best as she could.

It started when Elena asked Bonnie to locate the vampire doppelganger and contacted her, asking to make peace since they were family. Of course Katherine had agreed and was now acting like the big sister Elena had never had.

Or at least it was the way it seemed to Elena.

Katherine was really just using this weakness of Elena to manipulate her into doing everything she wanted.

Once Elena's life is ruined, Katherine would be happy. Or maybe she would wait for the right moment to simply take over Elena's life and kill her, as simple as that. Until she made a decision, Katherine was acting all nice and sweet to Elena, manipulating her into doing everything she wanted her to do. She actually enjoyed watching the conflicts being created in her doppelganger's life and the new chaos that was in it.

Of all the people she had played with, Katherine liked Elena the best. She was malleable and mentioning family was the easiest way to get her to do whatever she wanted from her.

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In Lima, Santana was having a good time introducing Tyler to everyone. However she got into quite a big argument when she saw Quinn. It was at a party that Brittany had thrown to celebrate her visit. Quinn made a rude comment about Rachel and even her own mother not wanting anything to do with her when Santana snapped at the blond girl.

"Oh come on Santana, we all know that the only reason you're siding with Rachel now is because you want to get back at me. You're jealous of me and of the perfect life I have." Quinn said quite smugly.

"Why would I be jealous of you Fabray?" The hybrid replied with a hard chuckle.

"Everyone knows it Santana, I have a perfect life, a great boyfriend, barely any stretch marks left and no baby fat left. I'm the captain of the cheer-leading squad again and I have great grades. You got thrown out of town by your parents for God knows what and you're back only to see me and my perfect life. You have all the reasons in the world to be jealous of me." Quinn replied, her smug seemed printed on her face.

"I have absolutely no reasons to be jealous of you Quinn. Your boyfriend Finn? I've had him and he doesn't hold a candle to Tyler, my current hot boyfriend. My parents threw me out? Well, I never really got along with them and now that I live with Rachel, I gained a great sister in her and a super dad in her father. I'm happier than I've ever been Quinn, and I have no reason what so ever to be jealous of you. I don't know what made you think that but maybe it's the proof that you're the one jealous of me because you used to be the president of the chastity club and you got knocked up, had to give your baby up for adoption and realised that you can't get back to the top of Lima High's social ladder. Now if you'll excuse me, I have friends that I actually want to talk to." Santana snapped at Quinn before turning around, grabbing Tyler by the wrist and dragging him towards Mercedes and Tina.

All in all, everything went well for Tyler.

Puck was much nicer to him now compared to the last time they had seen each others. He understood that the Mohawked boy had feelings for Rachel when Puck asked him what he thought of Klaus and if he was good for Rachel. Tyler of course put his worries to rest but he had a feeling that Puck wouldn't be out of Rachel's life anytime soon. Also he really hoped for the guy's sake that he would be capable of keeping his feelings to himself. Who knew what Klaus would do to a rival in the race for Rachel's heart?

The day after the party, Tyler and Santana accompanied a bunch of the Glee club, including Brittany and Artie to the Mall to meet Santa.

Indeed, they had learned that she still believed in him and nobody wanted to burst her innocent bubbles. When she asked Santa to make Artie walk however, everyone stopped breathing. Santana looked at the others and told them not to worry, that she would take care of it.

"Are you going to compel her or something?" Tyler asked her.

"Compulsion won't work on her, I gave her a Vervain necklace that she never takes off." Santana sighted.

"You know, before we try anything else, we could feed Artie our blood and see if it heals him or not..." Tyler suggested.

"You think it might work?" She asked him.

"Well, at the party he told me he got in his chair after a car accident and vampire blood has proved to heal a lot of different things... I think that it's worth a shot, and the guy kind of deserves it, he's cool." Tyler replied.

After talking about how they were going to do it, they decided that during Christmas night, they would sneak in to see Artie with Tyler in a Santa suit, wake him up, make Artie drink some blood and compel him to go back to sleep.

Of course, everything happened according to their plans and on Christmas morning, as they were on their way to visit Santana's family for the first time since they arrived, Brittany was getting a very exited phone call from Artie.

"Merry Christmas Brit." Santana whispered as they closed the door behind them.

When they arrived at Santana's parent house, she stopped.

"Something wrong?" Tyler asked her.

"Look." She said, pointing to the yard.

Indeed, her parents had planted a lot of Vervain and Wolf's bane all around the yard.

"Wow, talk about trusting their own flesh and blood." Tyler exclaimed.

"And my grandmother's car is in the alley." Santana added.

"You don't think... You don't think it could be a trap do you?" He asked her.

"I don't know...With my Abuela here who knows..." Santana looked scared and Tyler put a reassuring hand around her waist.

"I can hear only 3 heart beats inside the house and nothing out of the ordinary around..." Tyler said.

"They could only want to reconcile and celebrate Christmas but all those herbs around the yard and my Abuelita being here... When I left it looked like she would never forgive me and now... Is she here to forgive me or is she here to try and kill us?" Santana said anxiously.

"The only way to know is to go in... Don't worry Santana, I won't let my guard down, your safe. I've got your back." Tyler said as he escorted her inside.

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As it turned out, they had planted the Vervain and Aconite to protect themselves and Santana's grandmother only came to ask for her granddaughter's forgiveness. Tyler got to know them and was welcomed into the family. They even suggested at some point that Santana moved back home but she refused, saying that from now on her home was in Mystic Fall's and that it would hurt her too much to leave it behind.

It was hard for them to hide the hurt they were feeling but they managed and looked happy for their daughter. They also informed Santana that they were going to have another baby and if Santana was happy for them, she promised herself that she would keep an eye on her little brother or sister in case she ever triggered her curse. She quickly texted Klaus and asked him to put one dose of Doppelganger blood aside, just in case and since he actually liked her and Tyler, he agreed and replied by text message that he would be happy to do it.

All in all, their Christmas day went nicely and everyone was happy about the way things went.

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