Emily was pacing up and down her sister's bedroom floor while Elena and Stefan laid next to each other the younger twin's bed. Emily was nervous because they had to talk about the car accident that only took place two days ago. They knew it was a vampire that Emily had hit with her car, but they didn't know who and what he wanted.

"Stefan, who was that man in the road?" Elena questioned Stefan while glancing over at her sister.

Stefan shook his head, "I don't know." Stefan looked over at the pacing Gilbert and called out to her, causing Emily to turn to him. "Do you remember anything else about him?" Stefan asked Emily, since she was the one who awake during the whole car accident.

Emily thought for a moment before sighing, "it was too dark. All I could see was a dark figure coming straight towards the car and then he left once Damon came."

Stefan stared at the oldest Gilbert for a moment before standing up, "I brought some vervain," Stefan told the two sisters. "For you guys and Jenna." Stefan grabbed a small box that he had sat down once he arrived in Elena's bedroom. Stefan opened the wooden box and pulled out a thick bracelet, "and, um, I made this bracelet for Jeremy, few extra one for friends." Emily went and sat on the bed beside her sister so she could have closer look. Stefan handed the older Gilbert a small vile of liquid. "You can put it jewelry, or you can even put it in food or drink, but as long as it's in you or on you, a vampire cannot control you," Stefan explained.

Emily realized the small bottle in her hand was a bottle of liquid vervain. It a lot to remember about protecting yourself or others from a vampire. Elena must had the same idea, because she picked up a small plant and stated, "wow. So much to remember."

"I know," Stefan mumbled. "But there's another vampire in town." Stefan glanced over at Emily when he spoke, "so until we find out who it is and what he wants, we have to be careful."

Elena and Emily both nodded their head in agreement. Emily would do whatever she had to do to protect her sister from the new vampire. Suddenly, Emily heard her brother calling for her from downstairs. She listened carefully and realized Jeremy needed money for the pizza they ordered. Emily rolled her eyes, of course Jeremy wouldn't have any money. "I'll be right back," Emily mumbled to the couple before hurrying to her room and grabbed her wallet.

Emily rushed down the stairs and saw the pizza guy placing the pizza down on a small side table close by the door. Emily quickly opened her wallet and grabbed a twenty dollar bill and a five dollar bill. Emily handed over the money with a smile, "keep the change."

The pizza guy smiled at Emily and mumbled, "thanks." the pizza guy walked slowly backwards while continuing to stare at the girl and spoke, "and you have yourself a good night."

Emily looked at the pizza guy weirdly, but didn't think anything of it before closing the front door. Emily grabbed the pizza from the side table and moved towards to the dining room table, but not before yelling towards her sister and best friend, "pizza's here!"


The next morning, Emily had looked through the wooden box Stefan had left for the two girls, that was filled with vervain items. Emily wanted something to protect her best friend, Caroline Forbes, from vampires. Knowing that the blonde was very stylish, Emily grabbed the jewelry that Caroline would really like. It happened to be a silver heart shaped locket with vervain in the center.

Emily and Elena were walking towards Mystic Falls High School with the blonde right by their side. Caroline was looking down at her necklace with a smile, "it's so pretty. Thank you." Caroline looked over at her best friend, Emily, "God, it'll go with, like, everything." Caroline's face scrunched in confusion, "what's the occasion?"

Emily looked over at Caroline with fake hurt, "can I not give my best friend a gift?"

Caroline rolled her eyes, "of course you can." The three girls sat down at red table out of the school. Caroline smirked over at her best friend, "lesbian friend necklace? 'Cause we're freaky like that?" Caroline asked with sarcasm.

Emily smirked back at the blonde and joked, "you know it, Care."

Elena rolled her eyes at her sister but then she turned to Caroline seriously, "your friendship is important to us."

Caroline knew that Emily and her liked to give each other things since they were so close. But with Elena, she never did do that. So Caroline looked over at Elena weirdly, "why are you being so mushy?"

Elena thought for a moment, "because, you've been avoiding me, and I wanted you to know that whatever is going on with you and Matt, it's okay." Elena explained to Caroline.

Caroline glanced over at Emily for second, she was glad that her best friend didn't tell her own twin sister about what she said about liking Matt. Caroline turned back to Elena and spoke carefully, "I was gonna talk to you about that. I was, but there's just not much to say." Caroline shrugged, "you know, we've hung out a couple times. That's it, but… I feel like we've peeked as friends." Once Caroline saw Elena nod her head, she quickly shook her head, "this is weird. I shouldn't be talking to you about this. It's weird." Caroline looked over at the amused Emily, "it's weird, right?"

Emily chuckled, "it's a little weird."

Elena slapped her sister's arm lightly with a scowl before looking at Caroline with a small smile, "if it's what you and Matt want, then it's not about me."

Caroline looked at Elena with furrowed brows, "but it's all about you. Matt's not over you, and we all know it."

Elena shrugged her shoulders, "I'm with Stefan now. Matt understands that. He knows he has to move on." Emily knew that Caroline was right.

Everyone knew that Matt will forever be in love with Elena, but everyone also knows that Elena has moved on. Emily saw the facial expression on her best friend's face, Caroline didn't believe a word Elena was saying. Once Caroline looked over at Emily, she gave Caroline a small smile which Caroline returned. Caroline just needed confidence that Elena wouldn't be any competition for Matt's attention.


Emily sat a small table in Mystic Grill with her sister, Elena and their friend, Bonnie. Who was shocked when Emily explained to her what she found out yesterday. That she and Elena were adopted. Bonnie shook her head, "I can't believe you guys are adopted. I never saw that coming."

"Tell me about it," Emily mumbled. She couldn't believe it either. Never in her life had she ever thought she and Elena would have been adopted.

Elena nodded her head in agreement, "and it gets weirder." Elena glanced over at her sister before continuing, "we looked at our birth certificate. It lists Miranda and Grayson Gilbert as our birthparents." Elena huffed, "none of it makes sense."

Bonnie glanced at the two girls, before settling her eyes on the oldest Gilbert twin. "Which is why you should ask Jenna." Knowing that Emily was closer to Jenna than Elena was.

Emily groaned. She felt like she couldn't trust Jenna at the moment. She always believed Jenna would always tell her the truth. But now she knew Jenna didn't tell her something major about her life, she didn't know if she could trust Jenna. Before Emily could make up an excuse, Bonnie quickly spoke. "When has the Emily Gilbert stood down from a fight?" Bonnie rose an eyebrow at the older girl, "you always get answers, no matter what, so what's stopping you?"

"Never," Emily mumbled. When Bonnie smiled triumphantly, Emily rolled her eyes, knowing the Bennett witch was right. She never backed down, especially when she needed these answers. "Fine. I'll talk to her. You win, Bonnie Bennett," Emily sighed playfully. Emily was just being stubborn. She didn't want to talk to Jenna after she lied for her whole life. But talking Jenna could solve her and Elena's questions, so she would do it.

Suddenly Elena stood up from the wooden table and told Bonnie, "we'll see you later. My outfit for the dance is severely lacking accessories."

Emily stood up as well and smiled to her twin sister, "I got you covered. I know the perfect thing for your outfit."

Bonnie chuckled at the two sisters when Elena rolled her eyes at Emily. The older twin was more of the stylish one. "Okay, I'll pay the bill," Bonnie told the two girls.

"Thanks Bon Bon," Emily smiled at her friend before quickly following after Elena who was already heading out of the door of Mystic Grill.

Once Emily caught up with her sister, they both headed towards Elena's car. Since Emily's car was in the shop, the two sisters had to share Elena's car. Emily commanded her sister to go this small little shop about ten minutes from Mystic Grill. Emily and Caroline would always come to this small shop that selled vintage clothing, they had beautiful jewelry from back in the day.

The two sisters looked around the store before Elena groaned and said, "I can't find anything for my outfit."

Emily rolled her eyes, "stop being so serious, Lena. relax, have some fun." Emily pulled her sister's arm and pulled her towards the collection of vintage scarves. Emily grabbed a colorful pink and blue scarf and threw it around Elena's neck and twisted and turned while dancing around Elena.

The younger sister rolled her eyes but chuckled anyway. Elena looked around and found another colorful scarf that was orange and green and did the same with her sister. The two best friends and twin sister's danced together to the forties music that was playing softly in the background. It had been a long time since the two Gilbert sisters had been shopping together. Emily remembered it was right before the party last year when the sisters went shopping with their mother, Miranda Gilbert. That was the last time that the two went shopping together.

After a few minutes of dancing and laughing with each other while playing with the different accessories in the store, the owner shushed the two girls. While Elena quickly turned red and turned her back to the owner, Emily just chuckled at her sister and apologized to the older women.

Emily laid her arm across her sister's shoulder with a smile, "see, you still know how to have fun. I thought that Elena was gone." Emily was truly happy to see her sister have fun and not care if anyone was watching. It felt normal for the two girls. It was like when they were together, they could do anything.

Elena chuckled before growing serious, "please help me with my outfit."

Emily sighed and nodded, "alright. So what does your outfit look like so far?"

Elena thought for a moment before explaining, "a blue button down shirt, dark jeans, and white sneakers."

Emily nodded before turning back to the collection of scarves that they were just playing around with. Emily found a salmon pink scarf with a black outline. Emily smiled in appreciation and handed her twin the scarf before moving towards the hair accessories with Elena following quietly behind. Emily looked over at Elena's long brown hair for a moment before turning back to the accessories and finding a thick white headband. She quickly handed it over to Elena before moving a few spots over where she found the jewelry. She knew her sister was covered with a necklace, since they couldn't take off their necklaces for safety. So she settled on earrings. Emily looked carefully before smiling when she found the perfect pair. It was a pair of huge white pearl earrings. Emily turned to hand the earrings to her sister and saw Elena looking at the items confused. When you look at the three items, they don't look like they match, but Emily knew what she was doing. Emily was about to tell her sister that she was done, but suddenly her eyes widened and quickly jogged towards the belts. Emily knew exactly what Elena needed. She had seen the belt before when she and Caroline came, and knew it would complete Elena's outfit. It was a thick dark red belt.

Emily turned to her sister with a bright smile who still looked at Emily confused. Emily chuckled, "it'll go together in the end, Lena."

Elena rolled her eyes, "fine. I guess you know what you're talking about."

Emily smirked at her sister, "you bet your ass I know what I'm talking about." Emily hooked her arms with her sister before the two girls headed towards the cashier to pay for Elena's accessories for the dance tonight.

Emily and Elena both walked out of the store with a smile on their faces. It was the first time Emily saw her sister smile so brightly while just shopping. "That was fun," Elena admitted to her twin sister.

Emily squeezed Elena's arm and was about to reply but before she could, she cell phone rang. While Elena looked at her sister worriedly, Emily just shrugged and pulled out her phone from her black purse. The two girls continued their way to Elena's car when Emily answered the phone without looking at the caller I.D. "Hello," Emily answered.

"Hello, Emily," the male voice spoke on the other side of the phone. Emily froze where she stood which caused Elena to become more worried and moved closer to her sister so she could hear the phone call. It didn't take a genius for Emily to realize this wasn't a friendly person.

"Who's this?" Emily questioned carefully while she placed the call on speaker phone so Elena could hear.

"You hit me with your car," the man spoke through the phone. Elena looked at her sister in shock, not knowing what to do. The voice spoke again when Emily didn't say anything, "I see you're driving with your lovely sister now." Emily and Elena quickly looked around the dark streets, realizing whoever Emily had hit was watching them right now. Emily glanced around before she finally spotted someone coming straight towards them when the voice spoke again, "you both got away from me. You won't next time."

"Get in the car now," Emily commanded her sister before jumping in the car as well and quickly driving away from the vampire that wanted something from her and Elena. She didn't understand what the vampire wanted. It was like he wanted to scare them to death while stalking them.

The two sisters didn't say anything on their way to the Gilbert house. They both were thinking about the male vampire. Both worried about what they were going to do and what the Salvatore's were going to do to stop the vampire that seemed to take enjoyment in torturing the two sisters.

Little after thirty minutes of being home, Emily made her way up to her sister's room and saw Elena laying her outfit on her large bed. Emily smiled from the doorway and questioned softly, "so, what do you think?"

Elena jumped in fright but calmed down when she saw it was only her sister. Elena looked back her outfit and smiled over her older sister, "it looks great, just like you said it would."

Emily smiled while moving towards Elena's bed. She helped her sister place her outfit carefully into her closet for tomorrow night. Emily pushed Elena towards her bed and laid down with her sister. Just like they did when either of them had a problem. But this time, it was both of their problems. Emily looked at her younger sister carefully, "are you okay?" Emily questioned worriedly.

Elena sighed but nodded. "I'm scared," Elena confessed to her sister.

Emily looked her sister softly and pulled her closer to her so Elena was lying on her shoulder. "We will be okay, I promise. I never break my promises, do I?" Elena shook her head with a small smile. Emily smiled back at her sister, "then don't worry. We will go see Stef in the morning and we will come up with a plan." Emily looked at Elena seriously, "I won't let anything happen to you, I promise."

Elena nodded her head. She believed that Emily was telling the truth. Emily would always protect her loved ones. She didn't care if the vampire was coming after her or her sister but she would do everything in her power to protect Elena.