Emily walked into one of the many biology classrooms in Mystic Falls High School with Elena quickly trying to keep up with her. Emily smiled when she saw the Bennett witch, "hey, you called. What's up?" Emily was beyond happy when Elena had told her Bonnie made up with her. It felt off balance without Bonnie talking to him.

Bonnie looked up from the grimiore she was looking through and smiled, "hey! Thanks for meeting me. I wanted you guys to see this."

Emily and Elena moved closer to Bonnie, who was sitting at one the desks with a large book. Emily looked at it closely, remembering the book, "is that your ancestors?"

Bonnie nodded, "I've been going through it since Grams died." Bonnie pointed to the book, "check this out."

The two Gilbert twins looked down at the old page Bonnie had pointed to. Elena looked at the page in surprise, "that's the vampire compass."

"Yeah," Bonnie nodded. "According to Emily, Johnathan Gilbert never actually succeeded in inventing anything. Emily secretly spelled them all with magic. Compass, rings, and the mystery device you told me about," Bonnie explained.

Bonnie began to flip through the book slowly, to point out everything she mentioned. Elena quickly placed her finger on a drawing that looked familiar. "Yeah, that's it. Well, a part of it. Damon only has the one piece," Elena explained to Bonnie.

"Emily pledged her loyalty to Katherine," Bonnie began to explain, "but she couldn't stand by and watch innocent people get killed. This is the only way she could think of to help. To let Johnathan Gilbert believe that he'd actually invented these devices."

Emily looked down at the drawing of the device before looking up at Bonnie in wonder, "does it say what the device does?"

Bonnie looked down at the page before she started to read to herself. It was silent for a moment before Bonnie looked at Emily in confusion, "are you sure this is what Isobel wants?"

Emily nodded her head, "I'm extremely sure, she threatened Elena for it," Emily rolled her eyes.

"Well, this a weapon," Bonnie explained, "against vampires."

Emily's eyes widened once Bonnie finished her sentence. She quickly turned to Elena, "we need to find Stefan." The two girls quickly ran to the door, but not before Emily paused and turned to the confused Bonnie, "thank you so much Bon Bon! I owe you one!"

Once Emily caught up with Elena, she grabbed onto her hand before quickly jogging outside the school, knowing Stefan was helping with the Miss Mystic Falls float. The two sisters slowed down and carefully looked through the students for the green eyed vampire.

"Elena! Emily!" Someone called from behind them.

Emily glanced behind her and saw that it was her brother, "hey, Jer," Emily called out while continuing to look through the students.

"Hey, have you seen Stefan?" Elena questioned Jeremy, "we need to find him."

"No, not lately," Jeremy told his sister before quickly catching up with his two sisters. "Listen, do you have a second?" Jeremy questioned.

Emily turned and looked at Jeremy in worry, "what's wrong, Jer?"

Jeremy sighed, "well, it's Anna. I left her all these messages, and she hasn't gotten back to me - not even a text."

Elena glanced over at Emily before looking towards Jeremy in confusion, "Anna? I didn't know that you guys were still friends."

"We're more than friends," Jeremy corrected his sister. "Look, something could be seriously wrong and if you know anything, you've got to tell me."

Elena shook her head, "I haven't talked to her, Jer."

"Are you lying to me right now?" Jeremy asked seriously.

Emily rose an eyebrow at her brother's attitude. "Jer, what's going on? Why would we lie to you?"

Jeremy glanced over at Emily and mumbled, "that's what you guys do. You lie. You lie about everything. I know what Anna is and I know that you both know." Jeremy looked over at Emily with sadness, "I thought you would tell me the truth." Jeremy glanced over at Elena, "so tell me, do you have any idea where she is?"

Emily's eyes widened, she never wanted Jeremy to find out. And now, he wasn't going to trust her since she never told him. Emily bit her lip, "no." Emily sighed when Jeremy just stared at her, "Jer, I was prot-"

But before Emily could try to get Jeremy to understand, he quickly rushed away from his two sisters. Emily sighed and turned around to face Elena, but when she did, she saw the woman she didn't like at the moment over Elena's shoulder. Emily quickly pulled Emily beside her and glared at the older woman, "Isobel. What could you possibly want at this time?"

Isobel smiled, "I'm your mother, Emily. I want to be more involved in yours and Elena's life."

"Thanks, but no thanks. We're going to pass," Emily smiled fakely at Isobel.

Isobel nodded her head, "you both have so many people that you care about. But I've been studying." Isobel smiled before turning to the crowd of students, "let's see if I got this right." Isobel looked around before stopping on someone, "there's the witchy friend, Bonnie. Gonna stay away from that one." Isobel moved her eyes to someone else with a sigh, "oh… sad little brother, Jeremy." Isobel continued to move her eyes before she stopped on a blonde, "and there's Caroline, Emily's best friend and obnoxious Caroline. I got all of my info from her by the way. She had no idea who I was and she wouldn't stop yapping." Isobel moved her eyes to another person, "and there's Tyler, Emily's best friend since childhood. Too bad you guys didn't date, would have been so cute," Isobel told her older daughter. She focused once more before mumbling, "oh." She glanced back at her daughters before staring at her next target, "and there's Matt, Emily's friend, Elena's ex, and yappy's future ex. Lots of connections there."

Elena glared at Isobel, "Matt is not involved in this."

"He's involved with you, isn't he?" Isobel questioned right back.

"You need to leave, Isobel," Emily glared at the older woman. She didn't take it kindly when her birth mother was threatening all the people she cared about.

"No," Isobel spoke strongly, "I have some friends here too. Look," Isobel pointed towards her right, causing the twins to look where she was pointing at, "you see that man over there, standing next to Matt by the float? His name's Frank. He's very handsome and he's also quite handy. And he noticed that the axle was kind of rusted, which is very dangerous. So, all you have to do is apply a little bit of pressure and…"

Elena realized what Isobel was doing so she quickly yelled out, "no!" But it was too late, because Frank quickly jumped on top of the trailer, causing it to slam right into Matt's hand. Elena tried to run to help Matt, but Isobel quickly gripped onto her arm. Isobel looked at Emily pointedly, letting her know that she will keep her promise from yesterday.

Emily had to watch Matt be in constant pain while people tried to help raise the trailer from Matt's hand. Emily glared at Isobel, "why are you doing this? They have nothing to do with this."

"I'm showing you how easy it is to hurt the people that you care about," Isobel explained.

"And you're doing this just because of Johnathan Gilbert's invention?" Elena questioned out of breath.

"Hand it over and the fun will stop," Isobel told Elena.

"I told you, Damon is not going to give to me," Elena stressed.

"And I think you underestimate how much Damon cares about you," Isobel smirked over at Elena.

"He'll kill you before he gives it up," Elena told the older woman.

"Is that before or after I kill your brother, Jeremy?" Isobel questioned with a head tilt.

Emily eyes widened, she quickly turned around and tried to find her brother through the crowd. When she couldn't see him, she yelled out, "Jeremy!" Emily turned back around to Isobel, but saw that she was already gone. Emily looked over at Elena with wide eyes, who was looking at her with the same expression. "We'll get him back," Emily whispered in Elena's hear when she pulled her sister into a tight hug.


After explaining to Stefan and Bonnie what happened, the group was in a quiet classroom trying to think of what to do. It was silent for a moment before Bonnie spoke up, "where is the device?"

"Damon has it," Stefan explained, "he's going to be difficult to reason with."

Emily rolled her eyes with her arms crossed, "that's an understatement," Emily mumbled.

"Then we'll - we'll go to him. I'll talk to him," Elena spoke quickly.

"He's not just going to hand it over," Stefan told his girlfriend, "especially if it's harmful to vampires."

"What if it's not?" Elena questioned after coming up with an idea.


"Absolutely not!" Damon yelled out when the four people walked through the Salvatore boarding house with their idea.

"Just hear me out," Elena begged.

"I'm not gonna give the device to Isobel, so she could give it to John, who is gonna turn around and kill me. I like being a living dead person," Damon explained.

"But it'll be useless," Elena exclaimed, "Bonnie can take its power away."

"I don't trust her," Damon told Elena.

"I can remove the original spell," Bonnie explained to the vampire.

Elena looked at Damon pointedly, "John and Isobel will never know."

Damon thought for a moment before shaking his head, "no, I'll get Jeremy in my own way."

Emily glared at the vampire, "no. I am not leaving my brother's life in your hands, Damon."

Stefan rose an eyebrow at his brother, "really? How are you going to do that? Because Isobel is a vampire and Jeremy could be dead the second you walk in the door," Stefan spoke, agreeing with Emily.

Damon ignored Emily and his brother, instead he turned to Bonnie in question, "are you even up for this? I mean, no offense, but you're no Emily Bennett. Emily knew what she was doing."

Bonnie rolled her eyes, "I've been practicing."

"It's not piano lessons, honey," Damon glared at Bonnie.

Bonnie stood up and walked right in front of Damon before questioning, "what's your favorite book?"

"What?" Damon mumbled.

"Name a book, any book," Bonnie continued.

"Name a book," Damon repeated before thinking, "how about 'Call of the Wild', Jack London?"

Bonnie nodded her head once before walking closely towards the library. It quiet for a moment, before a book flew straight into Damon's hands. The older Salvatore looked at the book in his hand, "Jack London. Great parlor trick," Damon spoke before throwing the book on the couch.

"We're doing this, Damon," Elena spoke. "And we're doing it my way. Now, give me the device." When Damon only stared at her, Elena yelped, "we're wasting time!"

Damon moved his blues eyes towards Bonnie's brown eyes, "I don't trust you, I tried to kill you."

Bonnie smirked, "hmm. You're right, you can't trust me."

"But you can trust me," Elena quickly spoke before Damon would back out of the agreement.

Damon stared into Elena big brown eyes for a long moment before pulling out of the device and handing it over to Elena with a sigh. "Thank you," Elena whispered to Damon.

After a moment, Elena walked towards Bonnie and handed her the device. Bonnie walked towards a tall table and laid it down before pulling her ancestor's grimiore out of her purse before turning to a certain page. She looked at the pocket watch carefully before she pulled out the vampire device from it. Bonnie stared at the device before lifted her hands up and the device began to float in the air. The lights in the Salvatore boarding house began to flicker and flames in the fireplace grew larger, Bonnie opened her eyes and the device fell into her hands. Bonnie turned towards Elena and mumbled, "done."

"Great, now what?" Damon questioned.

"Now we give it to Isobel," Elena exclaimed once Bonnie handed over the device.


It was now dark in Mystic Falls when Emily and Elena began to walk through the town square, looking for their birth mother. They took a few more steps in quiet town before suddenly there was a loud sound. Emily turned around and saw that Isobel stood right in front of them.

"Where is the device?" Isobel quickly asked.

Emily glared at the woman, "this is not how we are going to do this, where's our brother?"

"This isn't a negotiation. Where is the invention?" Isobel tried again.

"Where is our brother?" Emily questioned again.

"Do you really think I am came alone?" Isobel questioned with a small smile.

Emily glanced behind her when she heard two pairs of footsteps, and saw the man from earlier and a woman. Emily smirked, "oh mother, we are so alike. Do you think we came alone?" Emily questioned right back and pointed her head behind Isobel.

Isobel looked behind her and saw the Salvatore brothers. She rolled her eyes, "for God sakes, call home."

"What?" Elena questioned in confusion.

"Call home and ask to speak to your brother, Jeremy," Isobel continued.

Emily quickly pulled her phone from her pocket and dialed the Gilbert house. She waited for a few nervous seconds before Jeremy spoke, "hello?"

Emily sighed in relief, "hey, Jer. are you okay?"

Jeremy sighed, "yeah. Yeah, I'm fine. Uncle John hit his head, it was an accident."

Emily heard Jenna speak up in the background, "and we are all laughing."

Jeremy chuckled, "but yeah, I'm okay."

Emily nodded her head with a small, "how about we make fun of John when I get home, yeah? I'll see you soon," Emily promised her brother before ending the call.

Elena looked at Isobel in realization, "you were never going to hurt him."

"No," Isobel pouted, "I was going to kill him." Noticing Elena's furrowed brows, Isobel spoke, "don't look for any redeeming qualities in me. I don't have any."

Emily rose an eyebrow at Isobel, "how did you know Damon was going to give her the device?"

Isobel smirked over at her two daughters before focusing on Elena, "because Damon is in love with you," Isobel turned back to Emily with a brighter smirk, "and Stefan is in love with you."

Emily glanced over to Stefan in confusion and saw that he was staring at the ground. She then glanced over at her sister, who wouldn't even look at her. Emily glared at Isobel and spoke seriously, "thank you."

"For what?" Isobel questioned in confusion.

"For being the worse person in the world. Thank you for giving us away," Emily shook her head with a smirk, "I'm glad we didn't get raised by you and became such a bitch, like you."

Isobel smirked over at her older daughter, "you have Katherine's attitude." She glanced over at Elena, "goodbye, Elena, Emily. As long as either of you have a Salvatore brother on your arm, you're doomed. Katherine was smart. She got out." Isobel looked only at Elena, "and we all know you're no Katherine, sweetie."

Emily watched with a sigh when Elena walked towards Stefan and pulled him into a tight hug once Isobel had walked away. Emily didn't know what to think, with what Isobel told everyone. She didn't feel that way for Stefan, or did she?


Later that night, Emily knocked on Elena's door softly before opening the door. "Can we talk?" Emily asked quietly.

Elena only nodded her head.

"I just want to clear something help, I don't have feelings for Stefan," Emily told her sister when she stood in front of Elena's bed. "Isobel doesn't know what the hell she is talking about. She has to be lying, Lena. I'm your sister, please believe me."

Elena stood up from her bed softly before pulling Emily into a hug, "I believe you, Emmie. You're right. Isobel will only do what she wants to mess everything up. I just didn't know what to think when she said that."

Emily smiled at Elena, "it's okay. I love you, Lena." Emily kissed the top of Elena's head, "get some sleep."

Emily stepped out of Elena's bedroom and sighed once she closed the door. She was glad that nothing would change between her and Elena. Emily quietly made her way to her bedroom. She closed her door before grabbing a t-shirt and sweatpants from her closet. But Emily dropped her clothes to the ground when she saw someone standing in the middle of her room. "What are you doing here?" Emily asked quietly.

"I needed to talk to you," Stefan spoke carefully.

Emily nodded her and mumbled, "I figured that," before she picked up the clothes she dropped and threw her on her bed.

Stefan twitched his head to the side, "are you heading to bed?"

Emily nodded before tried to pull off her hoodie over her head. But of course she would struggle getting it off. Stefan stood behind her and helped her take it off, but what Emily didn't know, Stefan slipped off her vervain necklace along with it.

Emily threw her hoodie on her desk chair before turning to Stefan, "so what did you want to talk about?" Emily really hoped it wasn't the conversation she knew they needed to have.

Stefan looked into Emily's green eyes before closing his eyes with a sigh, "I need to get this off my chest and if I don't, I'm going to explode."

Emily's eyes furrowed, "what is it?"

Stefan walked closer to her and spoke quietly but passionately, "Isobel was right. I am so in love with you that sometimes I can't breathe when I'm around you."

Emily's eyes widened in shock, "Stefan…"

"Please let me finish," Stefan begged. Once Emily stayed quiet, he continued, "every time I look at you, my heart tightens when I can't just walk right up to you and kiss you."

"Why are you telling me this?" Emily whispered.

Stefan grabbed the side of Emily's face softly and stared into her eyes deeply, "because it is killing me from not telling you. I just need to tell you the truth. I love you, Emily Gilbert." Before Emily had the chance to say anything, Stefan molded his lips with hers. Emily's eyes widened, but she couldn't stop what she was feeling, and kissed Stefan back. But it was over before she could she enjoy it. Stefan looked into Emily's eyes with tears in his eyes, "I am going to hate myself for doing this."

"What are you talking about?" Emily questioned with wide eyes.

Stefan looked right into Emily's eyes before compelling her, "you talked to Elena after you came home. You made up with Elena. You don't believe what Isobel said about me being in love with you. You took off your necklace so you could clean it. You will not remember this conversation."

Emily blinked her eyes in confusion when she realized she was standing in the middle of her room. She looked around before she saw her necklace on her desk. Emily rolled her eyes, she can't believe she didn't put her necklace right back on after cleaning it. That was definitely not a smart thing to do when vampires around. Emily changed into her sweats before laying in her bed with a sigh. She was glad that Isobel was hopefully leaving. Emily rolled her eyes when she thought about what Isobel had said. There was no one Stefan was in love with her. Emily was glad that she and Elena had made up and moved passed Isobel's lie quickly. Emily didn't know what she would do if Elena was mad at her.