Just as Emily promised her sister, early the next morning she had texted Stefan and told him that she and Elena needed to tell him something important. Once the two girls made it to the Salvatore boarding house, they explained to Stefan what happened last night with the vampire.
"Why me?" Elena questioned scaredly before glancing over to her sister and spoke, "why us? What does he want? A-and why call first if he's going to kill us?" Elena questioned her boyfriend confused.
Emily sat next to her sister on one of the couches in the living room of the Salvatore boarding house when Stefan sat across from the two girls and stared at the scared Elena. "That's because we're predators, Elena." Stefan explained, "we hunt. We stalk. It's often as exciting as the kill." Stefan pulled out a silver device and handed it to Elena. "I want you to take this."
Emily moved closer to her sister so she could see what Stefan handed her. When she looked closely she noticed it was Jeremy's pocket watch. Emily looked up at Stefan confused, "this is Jeremy's. How did you get it?"
"I took it from Damon, who took it from Logan, who must have taken it from you," Stefan explained to the confused Gilbert sisters.
The two girls nodded their heads before Elena slowly pulled the front cover of the pocket watch open. Elena looked at the watch confused, "what happened to it?"
Stefan looked down at the device in Elena's hands and explained, "well, it's not just a watch. It's a… it's a sort of compass, but it points to vampires." Stefan clicked a small button on the watch and a few seconds later, the watch or compass began to make ticking noises before the small needle pointed directly at Stefan.
Emily looked at Stefan confused when she realized this device was her father's. If he had this device and kept it safe, it must have meant that he either knew the exist of vampires or it was a large consistence. "Why did our father have this?" Emily questioned the vampire.
Stefan looked over at Emily with a small smile before beginning, "Gilberts were one of the founding families, and back in 1864, they were among those who sought to eradicate the vampires. The compass was used to find us."
"Did you know them?" Elena questioned softly.
Stefan nodded, "yes." Stefan stared at Elena for a moment before glancing down at the device and closed his hand around Elena's. "I want you to keep this." Stefan glanced over at Emily and continued, "one of you need to have this at all times. That way, you'll know if you're in danger, either of you."
Emily gave Stefan a small smile, "we'll be okay. I promise."
Stefan reached over and squeezed Emily's hand and nodded and spoke quietly, "I know you will," before turning back to Elena, "I'll protect you, both of you. This vampire won't hurt you."
Emily really hoped that everything would be okay. She knows she can't really promise that they would be okay, but Stefan, she felt like everything would work out in the end, no matter what the issue was.
Emily and Elena walked into the Gilbert house after leaving the Salvatore boarding house, Elena threw her black jacket across the couch while Emily placed her small blue purse next to Elena's jacket. The twins were going to head upstairs to get ready for the dance when Jenna spoke from the other side of the room.
"Spoke to the insurance company," Jenna told her oldest niece, Emily. "Car's totaled. You can keep sharing with Elena for now."
Emily nodded her head. She was going to ignore Jenna, when she remembered what Bonnie told her. She decided to give Jenna a chance, she couldn't be mad at her forever. Emily turned around and looked at her aunt. When she did, Emily couldn't hold in her smirk, "looks like someone is going to the dance."
Jenna smiled softly, "Alaric asked me to help chaperone."
Jenna leaned against the back of the couch while staring at her two nieces. While Emily decided to give Jenna a chance, Elena was still mad at her aunt. Elena turned to Jenna quickly and mumbled upset, "why didn't you tell us, Jenna?"
Jenna stared at the younger girl for a moment before speaking quietly, "your mom was gonna do it eventually. I never thought I'd have to."
"If my mom were here right now and I asked, she'd tell me the truth," Elena told Jenna. Emily sighed, she knew that was low blow for Jenna. But apparently that is what Jenna needed to tell the two sisters the truth.
Jenna looked between the two girls with eyes full of unshed tears and sighed, "your dad was about to leave the office one night when this girl showed up." Jenna began to explain, "she was sixteen, a runaway, and about to give birth. He delivered her babies, and he gave her a place to stay, but a few days later, she disappeared." Jenna smiled softly, "and there you two were. Your parents were trying so hard to have a baby. I-it just wasn't happening. All Miranda ever wanted was to be a mom."
Emily looked over at her aunt confused, remembering when she and Elena looked at their birth information. "Why did it say Miranda and Grayson Gilbert on our birth certificates?"
"Your dad was a doctor, Emily," Jenna told the two girls while staring at the oldest sister. "He took care of it. They didn't want to lose you or Elena, so they kept it quiet, told as few people as possible, but if anyone ever wanted proof, they had documentation."
Elena finally spoke up to her aunt, "what else do you know about her? The girl?" Elena asked carefully.
Jenna thought for a moment, "just her name. Isobel."
Emily really wanted to know more information about her birth mother, but Jenna only had was a name. It was start, it was something that she knew where she actually came from. It was a lot to take in even if it wasn't that much information. Emily wanted to know more about her birth mother, but knew she had to focus on tonight and stalking vampire.
Since Emily's bedroom was the bigger room, the two sisters decided they would get ready in her room, together, like old times for the dance. Before their parents passed away, the two sisters would get ready together before any big event in the small town.
Emily had just slipped on her black heels when she saw her sister messing with her hair in Emily's long mirror. Emily had a small smile on her face when she walked up beside Elena. "Need some help?" Emily asked her sister.
Elena nodded her head in embarrassment. Emily chuckled and pulled her sister into their shared bathroom. Emily placed her sister in front of the large mirror and carefully pulled the white headband for Elena's hair. She fixed it so Elena's hair had a 50's vibe. Emily grabbed the hair dryer that was sitting next to the sink, and carefully ran it all the way through Elena's long hair. After a few moments, Emily looked at Elena's hair through the mirror and smiled gratefully. "There. What do you think?"
Elena looked into the mirror and ran her slim fingers through her hair and smiled, "I love it." Elena turned to her older sister, "thanks, Emmie."
Emily smiled happily back at her sister before pulling Elena back towards her bedroom. Emily grabbed the scarf Elena and she bought last night from her dresser. Emily turned around to hand the scarf to her sister when she heard a strange noise. Emily looked at Elena confused, but handed the scarf to Elena before walking out of her bedroom to the hallway. "Jenna? Jeremy?" Emily called out. But no one answered. Emily shrugged, thinking she might have heard someone beside herself and Elena, but it looked like no one was there.
"Emily," Elena mumbled and turned to her sister with compass in her hand scared. Emily quickly jogged towards Elena, and saw the needle of the compass was spinning out of control. Emily quickly dialed Stefan's number when she picked up her phone from her bed and grabbed Elena's hand that still held the compass and quickly walked out of her room.
After about three rings, someone finally answered the phone. But it was the person Emily thought pick up. "Stefan's phone. How may I help you?" Damon answered.
Emily looked down at her phone confused, but seeing as this was important and placed the phone back to her ear while pulling the scared Elena down the stairs. "Damon? Where's Stefan?"
"He's on his way to your house. Forget his phone," Damon explained to the oldest Gilbert.
Emily sighed thankfully and paused once she reached the living room. She mouthed to her sister, "Stefan." Emily turned back to her phone and told Damon, "the compass was spinning out of control. It must be Stefan."
"You're welcome," Damon sang through the phone, causing Emily to chuckle and quickly said, "bye now, Damon," before hanging up her phone.
Emily turned towards Elena was about to explain that it only Stefan, but when she turned around, she saw someone fall from the ceiling. It was the vampire that was after the Gilbert siblings. The vampire jumped towards Elena and pushed her roughly against the wall. The vampire was about to take a bite from Elena's neck, when Stefan came rushing from the kitchen and yelled, "Elena!" Stefan moved quickly and threw the vampire towards the other side of the hallway. Emily quickly ran towards her sister's side and carefully helped Elena from the ground. Elena leched onto her sister's neck, scared that she would disappear. Emily gasped quietly, she couldn't believe she left her younger sister almost get attacked by a vampire. They were lucky Stefan came in when they did. But Emily knew she couldn't blame herself, the guy was a vampire, she was no match.
Stefan quickly rushed towards the two girls once the vampire had fled the Gilbert house. Stefan grabbed Elena from Emily's arms and pulled her into a tight hug, "are you okay? Are you okay?" Stefan questioned worriedly.
But Elena didn't reply, all she could do was stare at the front door. Scared that the vampire would return for her. Emily gave her sister's shoulder a tight squeeze and pulled out her phone. Emily quickly dialed Stefan's phone number, hoping Damon would answer the phone again. And sure enough, he answered his little brother's phone. All Emily had to do was tell Damon that they had a problem, before the older Salvatore hung up the phone promising he was on his way.
Not even ten minutes later, Elena and Stefan were sitting on one couch while Emily stood behind her sister and Damon was pacing through the living room after Emily had explained what happened.
"How did he get in?" Damon questioned.
Emily rolled her eyes. "Jeremy invited him in. he was the pizza delivery guy from last night." Emily couldn't believe the person that was terrorizing her sister posed as the pizza guy.
"Well, he gets points for that." Damon looked over at Elena, "did he say what he wanted?"
"No. he was too busy trying to kill me," Elena glared at the older Salvatore brother. Emily smirked, of course Elena never lost her spunk after almost being bitten.
Stefan looked over at Damon, "and you have no idea who this is?"
Damon shook his head, "no." Damon saw the unconvinced facial expression is brother was sporting. He groaned, "don't look at me like that. I told you we had company."
Emily crossed her arms over her chest and looked between the two brothers. "Do you think there's more than one?" Emily asked. She wanted to know if her family was in even more danger. If there are more, they definitely would be in danger.
Damon shrugged, "we don't know."
Stefan looked at his brother seriously, "Damon, he was invited in."
Damon nodded, realizing that the two girls weren't save in the Gilbert house with vampire alive. He would come by anytime he wanted and hurt anyone who lived in the house. "Then we go get him tonight." Damon turned to Elena and glanced up at Emily, "you up for it?"
Elena looked up at her sister who was leaning behind the couch. The younger Gilbert didn't know what to do. So she looked up at her sister for guidance. Emily looked into her sister's eyes for a moment before looking up at Damon seriously, "what do we have to do?" Emily would do whatever it took to protect her family.
Damon looked over at Elena, "let your boyfriend take you to the dance." Damon smirked over at the oldest Gilbert, "the beautiful Emily Gilbert will be my date. We'll see who shows up." Emily rolled her eyes, she didn't want to be seen as Damon's date, but knew this was something she had to do.
Stefan stared hard at his brother and shook his head quickly, "that's a bad idea."
"Till we get him, this house isn't safe. For anyone who lives in it," Damon told his brother while glancing at the two Gilbert sisters. "It's worth a shot."
"I'll do it," Elena spoke up. Surprising her sister and boyfriend that she would agree to get the vampire. Elena looked up at her sister with a worried expression. Emily knew it needed to be done, so she nodded her head in agreement. Whatever it takes, she'll do it.
Stefan looked at the two girls in nervousness. He didn't want either of the girls to get hurt by the vampire. He cared too much about them to let that happen. Elena grabbed her boyfriend's hand and spoke softly, "I'll be with the three of you. I'll be safe." after a few moments, Stefan nodded at Elena before looking at the oldest Gilbert. He was worried about the girl that had became one of his best friends. Emily noticed that Stefan was worried, so she quickly shook her head, "don't worry. We will be okay, I promise." Stefan stared at Emily for a moment longer before nodding his head in agreement. He wouldn't let anything happen to the two girls.
Emily knew this decade dance wasn't going to be like all the other ones she planned for. No, tonight was the night they were going to find the vampire that was after her and her sister. She knew everyone in the school was possibly in the danger with the vampire around all the students filled with blood, she was filling to do whatever it took to keep her loved ones and everyone around her safe.
Emily and Elena walked into Mystic Falls High School that was decorated in bright colors following the 50's theme, each sister had a Salvatore brother walking closely beside them. Each of the four looked around the dance, looking for the vampire but no one could spot him.
"We won't find him if we're all standing around. Spread out, people," Damon commanded before walking through the party.
Emily linked her arm with Elena's and was about to walk away, but she noticed Stefan's worried facial expression. "We'll be okay. You won't be far," Emily tried to console Stefan. Once he nodded, Emily pulled her sister away from the younger Salvatore and looked around the party looking for the vampire while walking towards one of the many fruit bowls holding a deep red punch that reminded Emily of blood.
The two girls faced each other and looked behind each others backs, looking to see if they could find the vampire that was after them. But the two girls didn't get a long look before Bonnie and Caroline walked up to the two sisters.
"Having fun?" Elena questioned the two girls with a small nervous smile.
"No, but this took about two hours," Caroline smiled while pointing to her outfit that consist of a long brown dress with leaves and flowers all over with a light yellow jacket, and curled blonde hair. "So, I'm at least staying half of that."
Emily chuckled, "well, I think my best friend looks gorgeous," Emily told Caroline with a bright smile.
Caroline smiled back at the older Gilbert just as bright. Caroline grabbed Emily's hand and spun her around while the other two girls giggled at the two best friends. "My best friend is looking gorgeous also."
The four girls smiled before Bonnie lost her smile after seeing a certain someone after Emily's shoulder. "What's Damon doing here?" Bonnie questioned with disgust her voice.
Emily turned to see what Bonnie was staring at, and saw Damon and Stefan Salvatore. Emily knew that Bonnie was talking about the older Salvatore brother. Emily turned back to the girls with a shrug, "he wanted to come, so he's my date."
"So what is this, like, a foursome now, the Gilbert sisters and Salvatore brothers?" Caroline questioned her best friend with an annoyed expression.
Emily rolled her eyes, "you know it's not even like that, Care. I don't like him like that." She knew that Caroline didn't like the idea of Emily going out with Damon, even though she liked Matt. it was just how Caroline Forbes was.
Elena nodded her head in agreement with her sister, "if I'm going to be with Stefan, then I have to learn to tolerate Damon." Elena chuckled, "it's not like I can kill him."
Bonnie continued to stare hard at the older Salvatore that didn't know when to leave her alone, "there's a thought."
"Mmm. I'll help," Caroline told Bonnie when she smiled over at her friend. The two girls bumped their small plastic cups together that was filled with the red punch. Emily glanced over at her sister with a small smirk, causing Elena to look down to hide her smile. At least the four girls had something in common, their dislike for Damon Salvatore.
A little while later, Elena went to go join her boyfriend, Stefan Salvatore, while Emily stayed with her favorite blonde and the Bennett witch. But suddenly, Damon Salvatore swaggered over to the three girls with a smirk. "Hi, Bonnie. Wanna dance?" Damon asked the witch he was after.
Bonnie rolled her eyes, "I'm out of here," before pushing her way past Damon.
But before Bonnie could leave, Damon quickly stood in front of her, "please give me another chance," Damon stated with a serious expression.
Bonnie just stared hard at Damon before pushing past him and moved towards the crowd of dancing teenagers. Caroline walked closer to Damon and glared at the Salvatore brother, "back off, Damon."
Once the two girls were gone, Emily smirked at Damon, "wow. I'm impressed. You managed to piss them both off in less than three minutes."
Elena and Stefan walked up the two older siblings with a confused expression, "where did they go?"
"I don't know," Damon shrugged while staring at Elena. Emily chuckled lowly, no one would believe that he had nothing to do with it.
"What did you say to them?" Stefan smiled at his brother, not believing Damon.
Damon looked at Stefan, "I was perfectly polite." Damon then turned to Elena and smiled, "Elena...would you like to dance?"
"I would love to," Elena spoke while looking at Damon with a wide smile. Damon looked over at his brother with a smirk, but that didn't last long before Elena turned to Stefan with a bright smile, "may I have this dance?"
"Ouch," Emily smirked over at the older Salvatore, "that's gotta hurt."
Damon rolled his eyes at the older Gilbert sister before smirking, "does my date want to dance with me?"
Emily moved closer to Damon and stared into his baby blues eyes, before patting his chest with a smirk, "I don't think so. We have a vampire to find before he does anything."
Emily walked away from the smirking vampire and walked slowly around the dance, staring at each of the faces carefully, looking for the vampire that was after her family. Emily huffed, she couldn't find the vampire anywhere. But of course being the captain of Mystic Falls cheerleading squad, many people wanted to talk to her, so that is what she did. She mingled with several of the students that wanted her attention. She didn't mind talking to the different students, it's just she had more bigger problems to deal with than her cheer squad complimenting her on her fifties dress or comments on the decorations that were around the school for dance, that Emily and Caroline spent their time on. All Emily wanted to focus on was the vampire that was somewhere in the school. She didn't want her family, who was all in the building, to get hurt or even any of the students that didn't even know what was going on.
Finally after about 30 minutes, Emily finally escaped all of the chatter that was coming her way and saw her twin sister and best friend smiling at her in amusement, having watched her move from person to person talking about different things. "You're lucky you're not cheer captain," Emily told her sister once she got closer to the couple.
Elena chuckled but nodded her head, "have fun with that, Emmie."
Emily rolled her eyes and smiled before growing serious, "have you seen him? I've looked everywhere."
Elena sighed, "me neither."
Emily nodded her head before turning her head towards the crowd and continued her search for the vampire. But she did find a vampire, Damon Salvatore. He was dancing with tall blonde girl in a poofy red skirt. Emily smirked, seeing that Damon finally got someone to dance with him.
"You really can't take him anywhere, can you?" Elena questioned her boyfriend while watching the older Salvatore dancing, having seen the same thing as her sister.
"Uh, no," Stefan chuckled.
Emily laughed with the couple, before turning her head back to dancing crowd. But something caused Emily to freeze in her spot. She saw one person that was standing, more like staring in their direction. It was the vampire, he even had the same black hoodie on. "Stefan," Emily called out strongly.
Stefan quickly glanced over at the older Gilbert and looked in the direction she was looking in, and saw a black hoodie. He realized it was the vampire so he commanded the two sisters, "go find, Damon," before rushing through the crowd, right towards the vampire.
Emily quickly grabbed her sister's hand and made her way through the dancefloor, looking for the older Salvatore. She looked everywhere and couldn't find Damon anywhere. Emily paused and looked at all the faces, trying to find the blue eyed vampire. But suddenly, her cell phone rang from her black purse. Emily didn't bother to look at the name before putting the phone to her ear.
"Hello, Emily," the voice spoke on the phone. Emily froze in her spot, holding onto Elena's hand tightly, realizing it was the vampire. "Here's what you and your sister is going to do," the vampire began, "there's an exit door behind you." Emily quickly turned around and saw a door that was opened half way. "You have five seconds," the vampire stated.
"I'm not playing your games anymore," Emily growled into the phone.
"Or your brother dies," the vampire spoke into the phone. Knowing the two girls wouldn't come willing.
Emily quickly looked around the room, looking for her little brother. She saw her brother standing by the punch bowl, handing out drinks. Emily didn't release a thankful sigh, because right behind her brother, was the vampire standing directly behind Jeremy. "I can snap his neck so fast I bet there's not even a witness. Now, start walking," the vampire commanded.
"Leave him out of this," Emily growled before pulling towards the opened door slowly and carefully while keeping her eye on the vampire and her brother.
"Keep walking," the vampire commanded once he saw the two sisters moving towards the door he wanted them to walk through before following quickly after the two girls.
Once the vampire passed Jeremy, Emily quickly hung up her cell phone and grabbed Elena's hand tightly and jogged through the door. "Run, Elena," Emily commanded her worried sister and ran a little slower behind her sister, wanting to keep an eye on the vampire that was walking towards the two girls. Elena suddenly stopped when she reached a locked door. Emily quickly grabbed her sister's arm and pulled her through a different doorway that was opened. But of course, the set of doors inside of the cafeteria was locked also. There was no other way out since the vampire walked through the door and blocked the exit. Before the two sisters could move, the vampire quickly vamp sped in front of them. Elena tried to run so he pulled the younger girl by the back of her hair. Emily quickly ran towards the vampire, wanting him to leave her sister alone and focus on her. The vampire grew angry when the oldest sister tried to break his hold on Elena. The vampire quickly threw Elena across the room before growling at Emily and threw her across one of the tables, causing Emily to crash onto the floor along with the paper and pencils that were on the table.
The vampire turned around and stalked towards Elena, picked her up, and slammed her against the one of the walls. Emily groaned from the ground and glanced around, trying to find the vampire. When she looked across the room, she the vampire had Elena in a tight grip on the wall. Emily quickly looked around for something to help her sister before she found a stack of sharpened wooden pencils next to her. She grabbed a couple of the pencils in her hand and quietly walked towards the vampire. Emily walked quickly when she saw the vampire was about to take a bite out of her sister. Emily stabbed two of the pencils towards the vampires side, causing the vampire to turn to oldest Gilbert and growled before trying to bite her as well. But Emily counted on that, because as soon as the vampire moved closer, she stabbed the rest of the pencils towards the vampire's chest. The vampire dropped to the ground in pain, so Emily quickly pulled Elena from the ground and commanded her sister, "run, Elena! Find Stefan!"
Elena nodded quickly and tried to run from the room but the vampire quickly recovered and grabbed Elena's neck. Emily heard Elena yell in fright and when she looked towards her sister, the vampire was about to take another bite. Emily quickly looked around once again for help. She bumped into a mop bucket, she grabbed the wooden mop and tried to break the stick as fast as she could. Emily jogged towards the vampire and her sister and stabbed the vampire as hard as she could with the wooden stick in the side of the vampire.
The vampire was growing tired of the older sister getting in the way, so he quickly turned towards her after throwing the stick from his side. He grabbed her neck and went to take a bite, but before he could, Stefan quickly threw him across the room.
"Hey, dickhead," Damon spoke up from across the room. "Nobody wants to kill you. We just want to talk," Damon told the vampire with his arms up in innocence with the broken mop in his hand.
The vampire smiled at Damon before rushing back towards the two sisters. Elena was closer, so he ran towards her and went to bite her once again. But Stefan quickly intervened by stabbing him in the stomach with the wooden mop that Damon threw at him. The vampire groaned and fell to his knees in pain.
Emily wrapped her arms around her sister tightly, not wanting Elena to be any closer towards the vampire. Stefan moved towards Elena's side and gave her a small smile, while Damon moved towards Emily's side and stared at the groaning vampire.
"Now you feel like talkin?" Stefan questioned the vampire while moving away from the two sisters and walking around him slowly.
"Screw you," the vampire growled in anger and pain.
Stefan didn't like that answer, so he dug the wooden mop deeper into the vampire stomach, "wrong answer. Why are you doing this?" Stefan asked the question that had been on everyone's mind from the beginning.
"Because it's fun," the vampire looked up at Stefan with a smile even though he was in extreme pain.
Stefan dug the wooden mop deeper and questioned again, "what do you want with them?"
The vampire looked over at the older sister, Emily, with a smirk, "her blood smells heavenly," causing Emily to shiver in disgust. The vampire turned towards Elena and stated, "and looks like Katherine."
The four other people in the room looked at the vampire in shock. "You knew Katherine?" Damon questioned the vampire.
"Oh. you thought you were the only ones," the vampire laughed at the two brothers before gasping in pain. "You don't even remember me."
Damon leaned closer towards the vampire, "tell me how to get in the tomb." Emily was confused, was Katherine in the tomb?
"No," the vampire mumbled.
Stefan didn't like the answer, so he dug the mop deeper into the vampire's stomach. The vampire groaned in pain, "the grimiore," the vampire moaned out.
"Where is it?" Damon questioned in the vampire.
All the vampire did was stare hard at Damon. Stefan was losing patience with the vampire, so he pulled out the mop and slammed it back into the vampire's stomach. "Check the journal. The journal. Jonathan's journal. Jonathan Gilbert's," the vampire quickly told the brothers.
Emily looked over at her sister in shock. What the hell did their family have anything to do with the tomb?
"Who else is working with you?" Stefan questioned in the vampire after a moment.
When the vampire didn't say anything, Damon tried, "who else is there?"
"No," the vampire quickly shook his head, "you're gonna have to kill me."
Damon looked over at Stefan with an eye roll and nodded towards the groaning vampire. Stefan pulled out the wooden mop from the vampire's stomach and held the wooden stick in his hand. Emily realized what Stefan was about to do, so she quickly pushed Elena's face towards her shoulder so her sister didn't have to watch. Emily closer her eyes tightly once she saw the lights in the vampire's eyes disappear forever once Stefan stabbed him in the heart.
Once the vampire was dead, Emily let Elena's head go. Elena looked towards the body on the floor, that looked similar to Vicki's when she died. Elena gasped while glancing at the different faces in the room, "what do we… How are we gonna find the others now?"
Damon shook his head, "he had to die."
"But…" Elena trailed off scaredly.
"Elena, he's been invited in," Stefan told his girlfriend softly.
Suddenly there was a noise outside the double doors. The four looked up at the blue doors and saw a shadow pass by. Stefan nodded towards the doors, "go. I got this," Stefan told Damon before the older brother nodded and quickly ran through the doors.
Emily sighed once Damon left the room. She pulled Elena into a tight hug so Elena's eyes would move away from the dead vampire. Emily knew that her sister was scared out of her mind. So the only thing she could do was to hold her close.
Elena sat in the living room quietly after the eventful nice, while Emily and Stefan were the kitchen making tea. Well, Stefan was, Emily was just watching Stefan make the tea. Stefan looked over at the older Gilbert twin and questioned softly, "how are you doing?"
Emily shrugged, "Elena's okay. So I'm fine."
Stefan didn't say anything for a moment, focusing on making the tea. But when he finished, he turned towards Emily in worry, "but are you okay?"
"As long as Elena's safe, I will always be okay," Emily told Stefan.
Stefan handed one of the three cups that was filled with warm tea before leaning across the counter from Emily and spoke softly, "I can protect Elena. Just worry about yourself."
Emily shook her head, "it's my job to protect Elena, that's never going to change."
Stefan nodded before smiling, "how about I help protect Elena and I also protect you as well."
Emily gave Stefan a small smile before nodding her head, "I'd like that." Once Emily finished her sentence, she moved towards Elena and sat next to her, "are you okay?" Emily questioned her sister softly.
Stefan handed Elena her cup of tea before Elena answered, "is it weird if I say yes?" Elena questioned both her sister and boyfriend.
"Is it true?" Stefan questioned right back.
"I should feel more upset or scared or something, but I...feel king of exhilarated," Elena explained what she was feeling.
Stefan chuckled and sat across from the two girls, "it's the adrenaline. You'll crash soon enough."
"Yeah, I guess." Elena smiled and glanced over at her sister in excitement, "we fought back tonight. It felt good."
Emily smiled back at her sister, "hell yeah we did. You did good, baby sister."
Elena rolled her eyes and pushed her sister's shoulder before turning back to Stefan who had a serious expression. "I wish you didn't have to fight at all," Stefan told his girlfriend while glancing over at Emily for a moment.
"We needed to do it," Emily explained to Stefan, "we could have hurt a lot people tonight at the dance." Emily glanced over at her sister with a small smile, "we saved each other. It needed to be done."
Stefan nodded. After a moment of peaceful silence, Stefan turned towards Emily with a worried facial expression, "I need to tell you something, and I don't know how you're gonna feel about it."
Emily glanced over at Elena, who was equally confused. "What is it?" Emily questioned Stefan.
"I told Damon that I'd help him get into that tomb to get Katherine back," Stefan explained before quickly shaking his head at the two girls that were looking at him confused. "But it was a lie. I let him believe that he could trust me."
Emily continued to stare at her best friend confused, "why were you worried to tell me that?"
"Because you two have bonded a couple of times lately," Stefan explained.
Emily rolled her eyes and huffed, "I get along with him, we have the same humor, but I still don't trust him like I trust you." Emily quickly shook her head, "and I can't forget what he did to Lexi. There's no forgiving that, no matter what. She was my friend."
Stefan reached towards the oldest Gilbert and squeezed her hand, knowing that it was hard to talk about Lexi. It was still hard for him. Stefan glanced between the two girls, "I can't let him do it."
Emily nodded in understanding, "I'll do whatever I can to help you. I trust you." Emily glanced over at her twin sister, "we both will help you."
If helping Stefan stop Damon from opening up the tomb and getting Katherine out, protected Elena, then she was going to do it. They definitely didn't need another vampire in Mystic Falls. And if Katherine was anything like Damon, it would mean destruction for the small town. She wouldn't let that happen, everyone would be in danger. Emily's loved ones always come first, no matter what.
