It took the last human Petrova doppelganger about twenty minutes before she finally pulled into the driveway of the Salvatore boarding house after she had left Stefan, Damon, and her twin sister back at the Gilbert residence as she didn't agree with their "master" plan. It took the brunette girl so long to arrive at the large estate instead of the short ten minutes it usually took her to reach her destination because she took a detour through Mystic Falls as she needed a few minutes to herself to gather her thoughts.
Emily wanted to make sure she was making the right decision with the plan she was about to set in motion. However, it only took a few short minutes for the human girl to realize that this was her only choice to keep everyone safe. She wasn't going to allow what happened to Darina and Katherine's family to happen to the people she loves. Emily would rather handle the issue on her own so her friends and family wouldn't be harmed.
Once the Petrova doppelganger arrived at her destination, the Salvatore boarding house, she pulled right up to the large wooden front patio of the estate since Damon's blue Mustang wasn't in her way like it usually was. Emily then grabbed her cell phone out of the cup holder of her black Honda after she took the keys out of the ignition. The brunette girl decided that she would text Elena now so her sister and the Salvatore brothers wouldn't start worrying about her while she was in the middle of completing her plan.
TWINNIE : I'M FINE. DON'T WORRY. GONE 2 HANG W/ TY.
Emily slowly read her text message before she finally hit send with a heavy sigh. The brunette girl hated lying, especially to her other half, but Emily knew that she had to do this. The three vampires wouldn't have agreed to what she was doing, so Emily had to keep them in the dark for her plan to go smoothly. They will be safe soon, Emily thought as she watched the message being sent as that was the only thing she has been concerned with after all this talk about the moonstone and sacrifice.
The Gilbert girl then grabbed her leather jacket from the passenger seat as she was ready before she finally exited her black Honda and swiftly jogged her way up to the large door of the Salvatore boarding house. Emily soon came to the decision once she was face to face with the door was that there was really no point in even knocking as the owners of the house were currently sitting at the dinning room table of the Gilbert residence.
Emily only took a couple of steps through the Salvatore boarding house after she closed the door before she paused as she tried to pinpoint to where the vampire she needed to complete her plan was located. The human girl, however, couldn't hear anyone or anything except for the loud sound of the maple logs crackling from the high heat of the fireplace. Emily then decided to head towards the living room as she figured someone would have to be actively moving the logs to cause that much noise from the roaring fire.
A small pleased smirk instantly made its way onto the human girl's face once she walked into the living room and saw that she was right as she noticed the short haired brunette vampire sitting on the love seat with an old book in her hands and three other ones settled beside her. "Hey," Emily softly whispered as she didn't want to spook the vampire. She figured it wouldn't be in her best interest to sneak up on a centuries old vampire unless she wanted to be attacked.
The vampire, Rose, swiftly lifted her head up from the book she was currently reading when she heard a voice in the supposedly empty house. However, the brunette vampire let her guard down when she saw it was only her deceased best friend's doppelganger. Rose took an unnoticeable deep breath to calm her nerves before she told the human girl, "your sister isn't here." The vampire figured that was the reason for Emily to be here as she noticed just how close the twin sisters are.
Emily silently nodded her head as she leaned her back against the corner of the wall that connects the living room and the foyer together. "Yeah, I know," the Gilbert girl murmured before she informed the vampire, "I just saw her at home. But that's not why I came here."
"Oh?" Rose questioned as she raised her right eyebrow at the brunette girl. She was now interested and invested to where this conversation would go. "So, why did you come here?" The vampire wondered as she didn't see any other reason for the Petrova doppelganger to be standing in the boarding house, except, of course, for seeing her sister and the younger Salvatore brother.
However as Emily opened her mouth to answer Rose's question, she swiftly lost her usual confidence which caused her to avoid looking into the vampire's bright green eyes as she awkwardly cleared her throat and began to play with her red fingernail polish. The Petrova doppelganger felt extremely nervous to be asking Rose for help especially with what she was planning to do.
So instead of telling the vampire the reason to why she was standing in the boarding house, Emily silently walked over to the wall beside her that was covered in all different kinds of literature. The Gilbert girl then began to run her soft fingers across the rough edges of the books before she finally spoke to Rose as she avoided talking about her plan, "I find it strange but comforting that no matter how many decades and centuries that pass, these words will always be the same."
Rose smiled slightly at Emily's statement before she glanced down at the book in her lap and confessed softly, "that's what I like about them. It helps me forget about how I am a five hundred plus year old vampire." Rose then ran her fingers across the letters of the book she had been reading while she continued as she was pulled into one of her favorite human memories, "it makes me feel like I'm back at the grassy field, where the horses would trot early in the mornings, while I read my favorite literature; The Book of the City of Ladies."
Emily couldn't help but fall into the vampire's explanation of one of her memories with a soft smile. It made Emily grasp that Rose was really just a scared young woman that had to run because of the mistake she and Trevor made by trusting Katherine. Emily felt bad for the vampire as Rose never got to see the good things the world had to offer over the centuries as she was too busy and scared that Klaus would find her.
The human girl quickly came to the conclusion after thinking about the tragic life Rose had to live because she was afraid of Klaus was that she couldn't chicken out on her plan like she currently was doing. Emily didn't want what Rose had to experience to happen to her family and friends by always running from Klaus until he would catch and kill them. It was no way to live. So instead of continuing to avoid the conversation, Emily finally grew a pair of nonexistent balls and told Rose in her usual confident voice like she had planned on doing all along, "I need your help."
The brunette vampire's green eyes quickly widened in surprise and confusion as she didn't think Emily would ever come to her for help along with the fact that their conversation instantly turned away from books. "Oh?" Rose muttered curiously once she got control of her emotions before she asked, "what did you have in mind?"
A small smile graced the human doppelganger's face when the vampire seemed to be on board with her plan so far. She then took a seat on the leather chair that was across from Rose before she began to explain, "my sister told me about your friend; Slater." Emily decided she would slowly start up the conversation so she could hopefully convince Rose to help her.
Rose silently nodded her head while her brows furrowed deeply in confusion as she didn't know why the Petrova doppelganger was bringing up her friend's name. "Yeah..." the vampire trailed off before she curiously questioned, "what about him?"
"Well," Emily began as she nervously played with her fingers, "I-I need you to set a meeting with him." The Gilbert girl then paused for a moment as she took a deep breath before she told Rose the part she was most nervous about, "I need more information about Klaus and from what Elena told me, he's my best option to get those answers."
The vampire instantly stood up from the love seat when she heard the reason why Emily was talking about Slater as she quickly shook her head. "No, no," Rose hurriedly uttered, "that is a bad idea!" There was no way in hell that Rose would go back to Richmond to see Slater after what happened yesterday.
Emily sighed as she knew there was going to be some resistance from the vampire when it had to do with the man she was currently running from. "Look, my sister told me that Slater is the person to go to when you want to know more about the originals. I just think we would have a better idea with how to deal with Klaus if I just talked with Slater," Emily explained as she partly lied. The Gilbert girl wasn't going to tell Rose the real reason why she wanted to meet with Slater as Emily knew the vampire would be on the phone right now to rat her out to Stefan or Elena.
Rose shook her head, once again, as she told the Petrova doppelganger, "there is no way I'm taking you to see him. Damon and I were almost blown up in a coffee shop with only being with Slater for half an hour." The vampire crossed her arms over her chest as she thought out loud, "someone must of figured out we were looking into Klaus."
"Well I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but that's not going to stop me," Emily honestly told the vampire. Blown up restaurant? That was like a kindergarten threat compared to all the things the Gilbert girl had endured while living in Mystic Falls this year. So, that was definitely not going to stop Emily from meeting up with Slater and completing her plan to protect everyone.
Rose rolled her green eyes at the doppelganger before she mumbled, "you are just as stubborn as Darina was." The vampire then sat back down onto the love seat with a heavy sigh as she knew she wouldn't be able to change Emily's mind like she never could with the older Petrova twin sister. "Why are you coming to me about this, anyways?" Rose wondered as she leaned her right cheek into the palm of her hand.
Emily relaxed back against the leather chair that she was sitting in with a small smile as she noticed she was reeling Rose back into her plan. "You said it yourself," the Gilbert girl teasingly uttered with a smirk, "we doppelgangers are quite stubborn." Emily then grew serious as she told Rose the real answer, "I know you can help with your connection with Slater, plus I can't just stand by while my family and friends get killed because of me. I can not and will not let that happen. I have to fight and do the right thing to keep everyone safe."
The vampire huffed out a sigh while she tiredly rubbed her green eyes as she listened to the human girl's explanation. "Your sister and the brothers are going to kill me if they find out about this," Rose uttered as she couldn't believe she was even entertaining the idea of taking Emily to see Slater.
"Well lucky for you, they are busy today," the human girl stated with a smirk. "Besides, they wouldn't even touch you if they knew about this," Emily told Rose before she added with an eye roll, "because they would be busy locking me up in a dungeon."
Rose gently shook her head as she didn't understand why the human girl wouldn't just let her sister and the Salvatore's do their plan to get the moonstone from Katherine. "They're just trying to protect you," Rose voiced her thoughts as she stared across at the Petrova doppelganger.
"I know," Emily murmured quietly as she felt guilty for lying to her twin sister and friends. But the brunette girl just had to keep telling herself that she was protecting them. It was her job, not theirs and she wasn't going to stop until they were all safe. "I'm not going to allow what Klaus did to Darina and her family to happen to mine," Emily stated before she asked hopeful, "so, will you help me?"
The vampire nervously tapped her combat boots against the hardwood floors of the boarding house at a fast pace before she heavy sighed as she decided to help the human girl. "Fine. But you have fifteen minutes with Slater before I'm dragging you back here or I will call your sister," Rose compromised.
Rose knew from experience with Darina that Emily wasn't going to give up, so she was at least going to put her foot down and set some rules. The vampire didn't want anything to happen to Emily as she knew she would be dead and she also had began to care for the human girl. However, Rose hated that she wasn't listening to her advice that she uttered a couple of days ago by not helping anymore Petrova doppelgangers, but Emily was just like Darina and Rose couldn't help but want to keep her safe.
The Gilbert girl instantly grinned at the vampire when Rose gave her the answer she had been waiting on. "Thank you so much," Emily praised passionately as she was one step closer to protecting her family and friends. She then stood up from the leather chair before she questioned with content smile, "so, should we get going?"
The vampire rolled her eyes at the brunette girl's cheerfulness before she shut the book she had been reading. "I'm taking this," Rose uttered as she held the book in the air before she strutted towards the front door of the Salvatore boarding house. I'm so dead, the vampire thought as she hoped their trip didn't go badly.
Emily shook her head with a small chuckle at the sluggish vampire before she quickly followed after Rose as she was already out of the Salvatore boarding house. However, as Emily shut the door behind her, she took a deep breath as her plan was slowly coming together. She only had to talk to Slater before her decision would be made and everyone would be safe again. That's all I care about, Emily thought as she calmed her nerves and gained the confidence to keep on pushing forward towards the part of her plan that would ultimately end the sacrifice for once and for all.
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
It took about three hours of driving through the grassy fields and the large mountains before the Petrova doppelganger finally began to see the actual city of Richmond. Emily noticed that it wasn't much different from Mystic Falls as she silently passed all of the different buildings. It was just a tad bit bigger than her hometown that only had a little less than nine big buildings in the town square.
"Turn here," the vampire commanded as she interrupted Emily's train of thought by pointing towards a small underground garage area.
The Gilbert girl didn't respond to the brunette vampire. She only nodded her head as she pulled into the parking garage before she found a spot that was closest to the apartment building. Emily couldn't even speak to Rose as her mind was filled with nerves about her plan, but Emily knew she couldn't back out now.
Once they were parked away from the sun, the vampire glanced over to the Petrova doppelganger, who was quickly tapping her fingers against the steering wheel of the black Honda. "You ready for this?" Rose questioned as she could tell the human girl was anxious by her silence and still body.
Emily swiftly looked over at the concerned green eyes of the vampire with her irises widened before she quickly calmed her emotions. "Of course," the Gilbert girl stated with a smile before she turned her car off and took the keys out of the ignition. "Let's do this," Emily exclaimed with her usual confidence back up as she realized just how close she was to keeping everyone safe from the danger of Klaus.
The vampire and the human girl then exited the black Honda before they silently began to climb up the side staircase that was located in the left corner of the underground parking garage. They walked up about two or three sets of stairs before they finally came to a stop in front of two doors that were an off white color with orange-brown faded rust running up the sides.
Rose glanced behind her at the Petrova doppelganger for a moment before she let out a soft sigh and turned around to face the door. She then began to pound on the door while she called out, "Slater?" However, when the vampire didn't hear anything after two loud knocks, she tried again as she pounded her fist against the door as she yelled once more, "Slater, it's Rose. Open up!"
The vampire then moved her ear close to the door when Slater didn't answer as she tried to listen for any movement inside of the apartment. But sadly, she couldn't hear a single thing so Rose turned back to the human girl and uttered, "he's not home." Rose was sorta glad that Slater wasn't here as she didn't want to be involved in this plan when the Salvatore's and Emily's sister would kill her if they found out about this mission.
The Gilbert girl rolled her green eyes at Rose's carelessness about all of this. She didn't even try hard enough. "We need to check inside," Emily commanded before she added with a small shrug, "he could be sleeping." The brunette girl wasn't just going to give up now and go back home when there was a possibility that Slater could still be here.
Rose sighed heavily at the stubborn doppelganger before she turned around and faced the door once again. She then grabbed ahold of the two metal handles before she used her vampire strength and pushed the doors open. "After you," Rose uttered sarcastically as she turned to the side and held her arm out.
Emily gave the vampire an equally sarcastic grin before she slowly stepped over the threshold and entered the extremely silent apartment. The Gilbert girl immediately felt like something was wrong as she slowly moved towards the living room and began to look around. It was like something bad happened but she couldn't exactly put her finger on it just yet.
However, the human girl soon got her answer a few second later as she heard the loud gasp escape the vampire's mouth before Rose mumbled, "I don't think he's gonna be much help."
Emily furrowed her brows in confusion as to what would shock the vampire, so she quickly jogged over to Rose, who was standing in front of a doorway. "Dammit," the human girl whispered with a heavy sigh when she saw what Rose was staring at. The thing that had shocked the vampire and what quickly put a damper on Emily's plan was the fact that Slater was currently lying on the ground with a stake stabbed right through his heart.
The Petrova doppelganger then quickly moved her gaze away from the dead vampire when Rose began to drag his gray body away. Emily didn't know what she was suppose to do now. Slater was her only chance to getting in contact with Klaus. However, while Emily began to pace up and down the hardwood floors of the silent apartment while she tried to think of a new plan, something quickly caught the brunette girl's eye; a computer.
Emily figured since that it's the 21st century, after all, then Slater would have stored his information about his different vampire contacts on his five hi-tech computers. The Gilbert girl then made her way over to his desk and quickly found the mouse. However, when Emily shook the set of computers awake, she sighed as she saw it was password protected. "I knew I should of took that class," Emily mumbled to herself as she remembered Matt tried to convince her to take a computer course last year.
The Gilbert girl stopped moving and let out another heavy sigh when she realized she reached another dead end as she knew she wouldn't be able to hack into the computer system. She then thought of another idea a couple seconds later before she began to look through the stack of papers that were scattered all around the desk. Emily just hoped she would find a paper that had Slater's password written down somewhere.
"It seems like you were right," Emily announced to Rose when she felt the vampire stand next to her while she carefully looked at each page for any type of clue to what Slater's password could be, "someone must of blown up the coffee shop because they found out he was telling people about Klaus." Emily figured that since not many people know much about Klaus, that one of his men blew up the coffee shop to keep Slater quiet, but they obviously went one step further and killed him.
"Yeah," Rose sighed, "probably to stop him from helping people like us." The vampire then glanced down at the papers that the human girl was looking through before she told her about the now deceased vampire, "the guy was a vampire almanac, and knowing too much information just bit him in the ass."
Emily silently nodded her head as she agreed to what the vampire was saying. The Gilbert girl instantly remembered a book her mother read to her about this author that would always say that knowledge could kill you and that is exactly what happened to Slater. Emily's thoughts about the fact that her plan was going off the rails was soon interrupted when something got her attention; a picture frame.
The brunette girl then lifted the heavy gold framed picture up in the air to get a closer look. However, before she could focus her eyes on the photo, she soon gasped in shock as the vampire swiftly pulled open the two big dark blue curtains and let the sun brighten up the room. "Oh, my God! What are you doing!?" Emily hurriedly shouted as she knew without a doubt that Rose didn't have a daylight ring to protect herself from the sun.
Rose chuckled in amusement at the human Petrova doppelganger before she explained, "it's tempered glass. They can't be penetrated by U.V. rays." The vampire then moved her gaze back towards the sunny sky before she told Emily as she was lost in her memories, "I used to just come here and watch the day."
Emily sighed as she calmed her fast heart rate after Rose explained that the sun wouldn't harm her. That's enough scares for one day, Emily thought as she had felt like her heart was going to jump out of her chest. The brunette girl then glanced down to the photo in her hand and saw that it was an image of Slater and a young woman with a pair of bright hazel eyes.
Emily couldn't help but feel bad for Rose while she stared down at the vampire she had tried to meet with. Rose not only lost Trevor a few days ago, but she now lost another one of her friends. Emily honestly didn't know how Rose was standing up right now after going through all that.
"Any luck?" Rose's voice interrupted the human girl's thoughts about the aforementioned vampire's life as she moved her green eyes away from the view of Richmond and over to the Petrova doppelganger, who was frozen in her spot.
Emily quickly cleared her throat as she got rid of the depressing emotions that she was feeling before she gently placed the picture frame back onto the desk. The brunette girl then shook her head as she told the vampire, "uh, not exactly. I need a password to get into the computer."
Rose sighed before she mumbled, "no, this is fine. Let's just go." The vampire was ready to leave Slater's apartment and get as far away from Richmond as she could. It just had too many memories and it wasn't helping her grieving right now - especially with Slater's dead body in the next room.
However, before the Gilbert girl could try to convince the vampire to give her some time as they still had at least nine minutes until their agreed fifteen minutes would be up, there was suddenly a loud sound of the front door rattling frantically.
Rose quickly moved her now serious green eyes over to the Petrova doppelganger at the noise before she commanded in a whisper, "stay here." Once the human girl nodded her head, Rose then slowly moved over to the set of doors and pushed them open. However, when Rose couldn't see anything right away, she carefully glanced around the hallway before she finally saw something hiding in the corner. "Alice?" The vampire called out as she recognized the woman's dark hair from all the times she had visited Slater.
"Rose!" The human woman gasped once she heard the voice of the vampire from the tight corner she was hiding in. She then ran full speed before she threw her body against Rose's as she cried out, "he's dead!"
It took about seven minutes before the vampire could finally move the sobbing human away from the entrance of Slater's apartment door and inside of the spacious living room. It then took another two minutes after settling Alice onto the tan couch before Rose could finally pull her body away from the dark haired woman's grasp.
Once Rose was free of Alice, she made her way towards the edge of the living room, where the Petrova doppelganger had been standing while she had tried to console the human woman. Rose then gently grabbed ahold of Emily's wrist and pulled her towards the kitchen before she informed the brunette girl about Alice, "she found him a few minutes before we did."
Emily silently nodded her head before she jumped and sat on top of the granite counter while she watched Rose move over to the stove and begin to heat up some water in a pot. "How is she doing?" The Gilbert girl asked once Rose equally poured the water into three white tea cups along with adding three small chamomile tea bags. Emily guessed Alice couldn't be doing so good after finding out her boyfriend is dead. Emily knew she certainly wouldn't be okay after something like that.
Rose scoffed as she looked up at the human girl and stated, "she's overreacting," before she added with a large and exaggerated eye roll, "big time."
Emily lifted her right eyebrow at the vampire in surprise before she commented, "I think she gets to be like that after finding her boyfriend dead." Emily knew she would definitely be hysterical right now if she was in Alice's position.
Rose rolled her green eyes, once again, before she explained to the brunette girl, "those tears are for her. She didn't care about Slater." The vampire then continued when she noticed the confused look that was displayed on the doppelganger's face, "she was only dating him long enough to see if he'd turn her."
"Wow," Emily mumbled in disbelief as she looked back into the living room and saw that the black haired woman was crying and sobbing into her hands. The Gilbert girl definitely didn't feel that sorry for her anymore. She was basically just using Slater. Well, now I won't feel bad about getting answers from her, Emily thought as she grabbed two of the three tea cups and walked up to Alice.
"Thank you," Alice whispered as she softly grabbed ahold of the warm cup from the young girl's hand. She then took a small sip of the tea while she watched the silent movements of the brunette teenager sitting across from her on the tan couch. "You look really familiar," Alice stated as she rose one of her dark eyebrows in curiousness before she asked, "did you know Slater?"
Emily thickly swallowed her mouthful of warm tea as she hurriedly shook her head. She silently placed the white cup down onto the glass table before she told Alice, "I just know him through a friend." The Gilbert girl then glanced over to Rose, who was standing at the edge of room, before she continued to speak to Alice as she tried to get the answers she needed, "I was told that Slater knew a lot about vampires and that he could help me get in contact with Klaus."
Alice scoffed and mumbled "doubtful," as she rolled her hazel eyes before she told the familiar looking girl, "Klaus doesn't want to be found."
Emily silently sighed as that wasn't the answer she was looking for. The brunette girl then began to tap her combat boots against the hardwood floors as she tried to think of an idea. It took about a minute or two before Emily finally thought of a way and she hoped it would work. "You wouldn't happen to know Slater's password, would you?" Emily curiously asked as she stared across at the black haired woman.
"Did you seriously just ask me that?" Alice screeched angrily before she growled, "I just saw my boyfriend with a stake through his heart!"
Emily mentally rolled her green eyes at the woman's fake act of grieving. She had to give it to Alice though, she definitely knew how to sell it. But luckily for Emily, she was just as good at lying. "Look," Emily began as she softly placed her hand onto Alice's bare knee, "I know this is hard time for you," before she gently asked, "don't you want to find who did this to Slater?"
Alice quickly ripped her knee away from the young girl's touch as soon as she heard what she said before Alice snarled in a loud and squeaky voice, "who do you think you are? You can't just walk in here and take over everything! He was my boyfriend!"
The Gilbert girl took a deep breath through her nose at Alice's yelling as she tried to not just reach over and slap the vampire-using-woman. Emily glanced over to the amused vampire in the corner of the room as she tried to keep herself calm before a thought suddenly popped into her mind. She then turned back to Alice with a condescending grin as she tried to compromise, "what if I got Rose to turn you if you gave me the information I'm looking for about Klaus?"
The proposition immediately got the black haired woman's attention as not even a second later after it was out of Emily's mouth, Alice quickly turned her wide hazel eyes back to the young girl with complete and utter interest. She then quickly nodded her head in excitement along with a loud squeal before she jumped up from the couch and fast walked over to Slater's many computers.
Emily couldn't help but finally roll her eyes at Alice. She was the fakest person the human girl ever saw. Rose was definitely right, Emily realized. Alice had only used Slater for her own personal gain. The human girl and the vampire then moved over to the computer after a moment of standing in silence and saw that Alice was already logged in and was pulling up a tab.
"Someone's been here," Alice commented while she looked through Slater's computer as she could see the reflection of Rose and the familiar girl walking behind her thanks to one of the turned off computer screens. "The hard drive's completely wiped out," Alice added as she pulled up a file that said it was empty.
"Yeah," Rose mumbled as she stared down at the computer that Alice was using which was obviously no help, "probably the same person that killed him."
Emily shot Rose a glare before she turned around and began to pace up and down the small area like she usually does when she gets nervous. The vampire's pessimist was definitely not helping her with completing her plan. It was actually making it much harder to think of a way she could get in contact with Klaus without Slater's help.
"Lucky for you," Alice uttered as she interrupted the tense silence, "Slater was paranoid." She then began to open up another tab and told them something that made Emily instantly grateful, "he always backs up everything on a remote server."
Meanwhile as Alice began to log in to the remote server, Rose silently took a couple of steps back until she was standing beside the Petrova doppelganger. "You know that she's not going anywhere near my blood, right?" Rose questioned in a quiet whisper. There was no way she going to turn the annoying woman who had been using one of her closest friends.
Emily smirked up at the short haired brunette vampire before she uttered, "oh, I know that. But she doesn't." The Gilbert girl then made her way back to Alice once Rose gave her a pleased and amused grin before she looked down at the screen as Alice was finally logged in.
"Kristen Stewart," Alice uttered once Slater's files were all in front of her thanks to the remote server. "God, was he obvious," the black haired woman added with an eye roll as she slowly began to look through the many files.
"I liked Twilight," Emily mumbled defensively before she shook her head and focused on the task at hand as she leaned over Alice's shoulder and began to read the words on the screen. "Are all of these vampire contacts?" Emily wondered as she noticed there was at least a hundred lines filled with different names, numbers, and codes.
Alice nodded her head as she kept her hazel eyes glued to the screen while she commented, "Slater was obsessed." She then began to push on each of the files as she added humorously, "almost as much as me."
The apartment soon grew silent as Alice slowly continued to click on different links before she was suddenly stopped as the brunette vampire quickly pointed at the computer screen when she noticed the familiar name of an original. "What about that one?" Rose asked the human woman before she stated, "Cody Webber. They exchanged dozen of emails about Elijah."
Alice glanced behind her and over to the vampire before she suggested with a small shrug, "I could call him."
Emily's green eyes instantly widened as her plan was falling together thanks to what Alice found. It was finally a way she could get in touch with Klaus since this Cody guy obvious knew how to get in contact with an original. She was now only one step away from ending all of this mess. The Gilbert girl then reached across Slater's desk and grabbed the house phone. "Call Cody and tell him we're trying to send a message to Klaus," Emily told Alice as she handed her the device. The brunette girl then took a deep breath before she sealed her fate for once and for all, "tell him that the doppelganger is ready to surrender."
"What!?" Rose gasped as she looked at the human girl in complete shock. She never thought this was what was going to happen when she agreed to take Emily to Slater this morning. This wasn't even on the list of possibilities as she didn't think Emily would be the type of person to just lay on her back and take it. She always thought the Petrova doppelganger was a fighter like Darina.
"Oh, my God!" Alice slowly uttered before she out a loud squeal as she interrupted the obvious tense stare down between the doppelganger and the vampire. Alice pointed at Emily as she exclaimed excitedly, "I knew I recognized you!"
Emily ignored the woman's happiness about her incoming death as she commanded, "get him the message." She then quickly rushed back into the kitchen as she need a moment alone. Emily was finally getting what she wanted all along, but now she was just scared to what would soon be happening once Klaus knew where she was.
"Are you out of your mind?" Rose shouted as soon as she stepped foot into the kitchen a couple of second after the human girl did. The vampire then glared down at the Petrova doppelganger before she continued angrily, "what do you think you're doing?"
Emily heavily sighed as she was leaning against the granite counter before she looked up at Rose and finally told her the real reason why she wanted the vampire's help, "I'm speeding up the process. I'm getting Klaus' attention."
Rose shook her head in disbelief as she closed her eyes for a couple of seconds before she looked back at Emily and explained in a scared voice as this was exactly what happened to Darina, "if Klaus knows that you're alive, he'll find you and he'll kill you." However, when Rose noticed the human girl was avoiding her gaze, the vampire's whole expression saddened before she whispered, "which is exactly what you wanted."
"I'm not going to allow my family and friends to be killed because Katherine wants to make a deal with Klaus to save her own ass," Emily told Rose as she crossed her arms over her leather jacket and red crop top as she tried to get the vampire to understand why she was doing this, "if I can meet with Klaus and turn myself over, then maybe I can save everyone from experiencing death."
"So, this whole charade is some suicide mission so that you can sacrifice yourself and save everyone else?" Rose interrogated as she wanted to make sure she was actually hearing the Petrova doppelganger right. She just couldn't fathom that Emily would just give up like this. Emily even told her she wanted to fight, but this wasn't fighting. It was giving up.
However, before Emily could respond to the vampire's question with the answer they both already knew by the confident and calm look on the Petrova doppelganger's face, they were soon interrupted by the cheerful Alice entering the kitchen.
"Cody is on his way," Alice exclaimed with a grin before she kept her hazel eyes locked onto the brunette girl as she told her, "and he's really wants to meet you."
Emily stared across at the vampire for a moment with a serious look that said she wasn't joking or backing out before she turned her gaze over to the black haired woman. "Thank you, Alice," Emily praised as she was ready to just get this all over with.
The human Petrova doppelganger had left the kitchen after a few minutes as Rose wouldn't even look at her anymore once Alice walked out of the room. So Emily silently moved to stand in front of the large tempered glass window as couldn't stand the tension while she waited for Cody to arrive. However, as Emily impatiently paced in front of the window while her thoughts were clogged with nerves of meeting Klaus, she was suddenly startled as she felt her cell phone vibrate inside of her jacket pocket.
The brunette girl quickly pulled her cell phone out before her brows furrowed in confusion when she saw it was her blonde best friend that was calling. Emily pressed the accept button while she moved her gaze down to the streets of Richmond before she uttered into her device, "hello?"
"Hey, Emmie," the blonde vampire's usual cheerful voice sounded through the small device as she greeted her brunette best friend.
"Hey, Care," the Petrova doppelganger uttered once more but in a softer tone before she wondered as she leaned her side against the windowsill, "what's going on?"
"Well, uh, I just wanted to call you because I've been with Tyler all day helping him with his new identity," Caroline informed the brunette girl in a whisper before she continued in her normal voice, "he said he tried to call you but I knew you would be busy, so I just told him you were looking into colleges today."
Emily heavily sighed when she heard Tyler was looking for her while she leaned her head against the cold glass window before she mumbled, "dammit." The Gilbert girl felt bad as she had promised Tyler that she would help him. But here she was, not even there for him on his first day of looking into his werewolf side. "Could you please tell Ty that I am so sorry," Emily pleaded to the blonde vampire as she didn't want Tyler to think that she was abandoning him.
"All ready done," Caroline told the human girl with a bright smile plastered on her face before she consoled Emily as she knew her best friend was beating herself over not helping the Lockwood teenager, "Tyler said it's okay. He just wants you to call him later."
"Thank God," Emily mumbled as she really wanted to be there for Tyler. She had promised Mason that she would help him with this, but she was already failing. "Thank you so much, Care," the brunette girl praised before she nervously questioned, "how is he doing?"
"He's, uh, he's just trying to understand what is going to happen to him," Caroline uttered with sigh as she knew Tyler was struggling before the blonde vampire gossiped in a quick voice to what they saw, "we found where Mason used to turn. It's crazy, Emmie. He would chain himself up and there's deep scratch marks all over the walls."
"Tyler must be scared out of his mind," Emily mumbled as she listened to what Caroline and Tyler has been doing this morning. "You need to make sure that he just keeps calm and tell him that he's going to get through this," Emily coached the blonde vampire as she wanted to make sure Tyler would be okay without her actually being there with him.
Caroline lightly chuckled while she shook her head at her best friend's concern and bossiness. "Yes, I know," the blonde vampire uttered humorously before she told Emily, "I should be going. Tyler's sitting in the living room right now and we're about to watch something on this USB that we found in Mason's things."
Emily silently nodded her head as she slowly relaxed with knowing that Caroline was watching and taking care of Tyler like she would have. "Alright," the Gilbert murmured and ordered, "tell Ty that I'll give him a call later," before she ended the call once Caroline said her farewell.
The Petrova doppelganger then let out a small sigh once she placed her cell phone into her leather jacket and focused her gaze back down to the busy streets of Richmond. Emily felt like the whole day was just a large mess. She really wanted to be there for Tyler when he began to look into his new identity, but sadly she couldn't. However, at least, Emily knew her best friend would still be alive by the end of the day like she had planned - she just wouldn't be able to see it for herself.
I'm protecting them. I have to do this. Everyone will be safe, Emily kept thinking over and over again as she tried to relax her mind. There was no backing out now. Cody was coming to deliver her to Klaus and then everything would finally be over. Emily's family and friends would be safe from the hybrid and everything could just go back to normal.
However, while Emily was lost in her thoughts about protecting the people she loves, she noticed that someone was staring right at her through the reflection of the window. The Gilbert girl's brows furrowed in confusion as she focused on the figure before a loud gasp escaped her mouth when she realized it was Elijah, the supposedly dead original.
Emily quickly twirled her body around but when she was facing the other direction, she saw that no one was standing behind her like the window had displayed. The brunette girl took a deep breath as she realized she was just seeing things. "I'm officially losing my mind," Emily mumbled as she ran her fingers through her hair before she hurriedly walked back into the kitchen.
The doppelganger felt like she was going crazy so, of course, she quickly began to pace the small kitchen while she ignored the stares that Alice was giving her. She was definitely not going to start with that insane woman.
Luckily for the brunette girl, it only took about thirty seconds or so before she spotted something that could help her calm down and relax her fast heart rate. "Thank God," Emily mumbled before she fast walked towards the alcohol cabinet in the corner of the kitchen. She then grabbed the bottle of bourbon and began to pour it into an empty clear glass.
However, the amber liquid didn't even get the chance to reach the bottom of the crystal glass before the bottle of bourbon was ripped out of the human girl's hand and she was instantly turned around by a strong grip.
Emily's green eyes instantly widened when she saw it was Damon who took the bottle from her and that it was her sister who had turned her around with a fierce glare. "Uh, hi," the brunette girl mumbled awkwardly before she questioned in fake confusion, "what are you guys doing here?" That was always Emily's tactic, to act like she didn't know what was going on. It usually worked, but Emily doubt it work now.
"No, the real question," the older Salvatore exclaimed after he took a sip from the bottle of bourbon, "is what the hell are you doing here."
The Gilbert girl rolled her green eyes at Damon before she moved her gaze over to her twin sister, who was still glaring at her with a tint of sadness in her brown eyes. However, before Emily could try to defuse the situation, she soon caught sight of the tall brunette vampire over Elena's shoulder. The human girl sighed as she realized what happened. "You called them," Emily mumbled as stared over at Rose.
The older vampire shrugged her shoulders as she tried to not cause more tension in the room before she uttered, "I said I'd give you fifteen minutes." Rose now understood why Emily was doing what she was doing, but she just couldn't let what happened to Darina to happen to Emily. She wasn't going to let another human Petrova doppelganger die again.
Emily huffed out a sigh as she should of known today wouldn't go as planned as she already failed Tyler. She then turned her gaze back to her twin sister, who was obviously pissed at her decision. "Look," Emily began as she softly grabbed ahold of Elena's hand, "I didn't want you to die with me. I'm protecting all of you by just going to Klaus by myself."
"You do not get to decide to just sacrifice yourself, Emily!" The Gilbert vampire exploded as she hurriedly ran her fingers through her messy long brown hair, "we were going to save all us with the moonstone!" Elena took a deep breath as she tried to control her loud emotions, but it didn't really help so she opened her mouth back up to continue to yell at her twin sister for her stupidity.
However, before Elena could utter another word, the three vampires and the human Petrova doppelganger were soon interrupted by the starstruck and vampire hungry Alice. "Oh, my God!" The human woman screeched in excitement, "Damon Salvatore!"
The blue eyed vampire rolled his eyes at the woman in front of him before he turned his annoyed gaze over to Rose and commanded boredly, "get rid of her."
"No way!" Alice gasped as she realized she was right. However, the human woman barely had about two seconds in the vampire's presence before she was quickly pulled away from the kitchen by Rose's strong grasp while she kept smiling like a child on Christmas morning.
Damon settled the bottle of bourbon onto the kitchen counter once the room grew silent before he lifted his head towards the door. "Let's go. We're leaving," the Salvatore vampire commanded as he was ready to get out of this town.
"Yeah, that's not going to happen," Emily exclaimed stubbornly as she crossed her arms over her chest. There was no way in hell that the Gilbert girl was going to leave right now. She was just minutes away from keeping everyone safe from Klaus, so she definitely wasn't going to fold over because Damon said so.
"Emmie, come on," Elena desperately begged as she looked into her sister's determined green eyes. The Gilbert vampire had calmed down after a moment of silence, so now she only cared about getting her sister home instead of just yelling at her.
Emily shook her head as she sadly stared across at her twin sister. "I'm sorry, Lena. But I can't," the human girl murmured. Emily couldn't just give up and let everyone be in danger. She wasn't going to let everyone get killed because of who she is; the last human Petrova doppelganger.
"You do not get to make the decisions anymore," Damon growled as he was growing tired of the conversation between the two sisters as it wasn't getting them anywhere. The Salvatore vampire knew that Elena wasn't going to force Emily to do anything that she didn't want, so Damon knew he would have to do it himself.
Emily switched the soft look that she had been giving her twin sister to a glare once she focused onto Damon. "You guys have never even let me make my own decisions!" The human girl cried out, "you guys just decided that I don't get a voice with how we deal with the moonstone and the sacrifice!"
"Emmie, we're just trying to keep you alive," Elena murmured in a gentle voice as she tried to get her twin sister to understand why they were taking the milky tone away from Katherine.
"You aren't listening!" Emily wailed. She didn't know why they just couldn't get that she was trying to protect them. "If Klaus comes to Mystic Falls and agrees to Katherine's deal, then he's going to kill every single person I have ever loved," the human girl explained before she shook her head, "and I'm not just going to let that happen when I can stop it."
"Don't care," Damon uttered sarcastically with a smirk before he commanded emotionlessly, "now get your ass out of that door before I make you."
However, when the Salvatore vampire noticed that Emily wasn't going to move, he rolled his eyes before he quickly grabbed ahold of her upper arm in a tight grip. "We're leaving," Damon growled as he went to pull her towards the exit.
"Day, go easy on her," Elena begged to her boyfriend as something began to crack inside of her as she hated when someone would grab her twin sister like that. Yeah, Elena was pissed and upset that Emily was trying to turn herself over to Klaus, but that didn't mean she wanted Damon to hurt her twin sister.
"No, Elena," Damon growled as he kept his glare down onto the human girl. "She doesn't just get to hand herself over when we have been busting our asses with trying to keep you all safe," the Salvatore vampire added in the same angry and fierce voice that he had been using since he found out about this suicide mission.
The human Petrova doppelganger was getting tired of not being taken seriously. She wasn't just going to let Damon drag her back to Mystic Falls when she was trying to keep them alive. Emily wasn't going to let them make her decisions. She was her own person and she was going to protect everyone no matter what the cost is.
However, as Damon continued to pull her towards the door, Emily grew tired and annoyed until she finally just snapped. The Gilbert girl then swiftly twirled her body around and faced the Salvatore vampire with a hard glare before she swung her fist back and punched as hard as she could right onto Damon's left cheek.
The only sound that echoed through the deadly silent apartment after the assault was the loud gasp that escaped the Gilbert vampire's mouth while the Salvatore vampire placed his hand onto his sore cheek. Damon then glared back down at the human girl before he growled, "you really shouldn't have done that."
Emily huffed out her fourth loud sigh in the last three minutes as she had been sitting on Slater's tan couch with Rose sitting next to her while her twin sister stood above watching her like a hawk. They had been like that for over twenty minutes now as Emily had lost the battle with the blue eyed vampire. Damon had threatened her with compulsion before he forced her down onto the couch and commanded her to stay still. Emily was just hoping that it would give Cody enough time to arrive and end all of this drama. She just prayed Cody wouldn't hurt Elena, Damon, or Rose if they tried to mess everything up like she had been trying to avoid.
It was another minute or so of nothing but tense silence before the Salvatore vampire finally reentered the living room after he had exited the main bedroom. "Time to go," Damon mumbled before he tiredly explained, "Alice is soundly sleeping and won't remember a moment of this horribly stupid day."
The Gilbert girl quickly become nervous as they were suppose to be heading back to Mystic Falls right now and Emily was definitely not ready. But luckily for the brunette girl, only two seconds passed after Damon closed his mouth before the front door of the apartment was thrown open by three large men.
"We're here to meet the human doppelganger," the man with the short brown hair and blue eyes loudly announced as one of his men stood by the door and the other one followed him to the middle of the room.
Emily grinned to herself before she stood up from the tan couch. "That would be me," the Gilbert girl exclaimed as she avoided her twin sister's grasp and stood in front of three men that were obviously vampires. Thank God they got here in time, Emily thought as she began to nervously tap her point finger against her black leggings.
Damon swiftly grabbed ahold of the human girl's upper arm, once again, before Emily could get too close to the unfamiliar vampires. "I will break your arm," Damon threatened in a whispering growl.
"And I will punch you in the face," Emily whispered right back before she forcefully pulled her arm out of Damon's grip, which hurt much more than she thought it would. Emily slowly rubbed her sore arm once she was free before she looked back up at the vampires. "You must be Cody," the brunette girl uttered politely to the man that was obviously in charge by his confident stance.
However, before Cody could open his mouth to speak to the doppelganger about going to Klaus, they were all soon interrupted by the sound of the vampire, that was standing at the door, dropping to the ground. Everyone's expressions in the room were either one of confusion or shock when they noticed the person that was holding the dead vampire's heart; the supposedly dead original.
The human girl instantly gasped when she saw that the original was staring directly at her as she realized she wasn't crazy when she saw Elijah in the window earlier. He was actually alive. However as Emily stared right back at the vampire, she couldn't help but become extremely nervous in his presence. He just gave off this intense aura that made Emily feel different emotions that she couldn't understand. But the one thing she knew for sure about Elijah was that he wouldn't hesitate to kill anyone if they got in his way, so Emily slowly took a couple of steps back until she felt her twin sister's cold hand. Emily then laced their fingers together as she wanted to make sure Elena stayed safe during this whole interaction with the original.
"I killed you," Damon exclaimed as he ended the tense silence that had overtaken the room which was also the time that Rose quickly made her escape after seeing Elijah. "You were dead," the Salvatore vampire added as he furrowed his brows in confusion while he stared at the very much alive original.
Elijah didn't even flinch at the Salvatore vampire's voice, he only kept his eyes glued on the human Petrova doppelganger that reminded him so much of Darina. There was a look of sadness in the original's brown eyes before he quickly remembered where he was. "For centuries now," Elijah uttered simply to Damon's assumption as if he wasn't just in a trance of memories before he looked over to the unknown vampires. "Who are you?" The original interrogated as he looked them up and down.
"Who are you?" Cody asked right back in a defensive voice as he crossed his arms over his chest as if he was the baddest man in the room.
"I'm Elijah," the original uttered in a calm and simple tone as he kept his brown eyes locked with the younger vampire's blue ones.
Cody's expression instantly turned from confident to frightened once he realized who was standing in front of him. "W-We were gonna bring her to you," the vampire hurriedly explained, "for Klaus." Cody then pointed towards the human girl as he added, "she's the doppelganger. I don't know how she exists, but she does. Klaus will want to see her."
The original silently stared down at the vampire for a couple of tense seconds before he twitched his head to the side and interrogated, "does anyone else know that you're here?"
"No," Cody instantly answered as he knew it wouldn't be a good idea for him to anger the original, so he tried to give Elijah all the answers he could as quickly as possible.
Elijah silently nodded his head at the vampire's answer before he moved his gaze back over to the human girl. The original then gave her a pointed look before he focused onto the vampires that were trying to deliver the doppelganger to Klaus.
While Elijah stared down at the vampires, Emily somehow knew exactly what the look she got from the original meant. She remembered getting that look right before Elijah had killed Rose's friend; Trevor. Emily then gave Elijah a small nod before she quickly turned her head into her twin sister's neck and squeezed Elena's hand tightly. Emily didn't know why, but she just couldn't help but trust everything that Elijah says.
"You have been incredibly helpful," Elijah uttered once he didn't feel the green eyes of the human girl on him any longer. The original then swiftly pushed his hands into the two vampire's chests and grabbed their hearts before he ripped them out which instantly caused the vampires to fall down to the ground; dead.
Once Emily heard the familiar sound of the bodies dropping to the ground, she left the comfort of her twin sister's neck before she looked across to Elijah, who was staring right back at her. The original then took a small step forward before he instantly changed his mind as he vamp sped out of the apartment.
The human girl couldn't help but let out a heavy breath that she didn't know she was holding once Elijah was gone as she could finally relax even though her plan did fall through thanks to the original. The Gilbert girl didn't know why, but she wasn't that mad as Elijah's presence just made her feel calm and safe. Emily guessed it had something to do with Darina.
"Oh, my God," the Gilbert vampire gasped as she quickly stepped in front of her twin sister while Emily was lost in her thoughts before Elena quickly interrogated, "are you okay?" Elena had felt so nervous during that whole exchange as she remembered trying to keep Emily safe the last time they were in the same room as Elijah. It made Elena feel more worried about her twin sister now that they knew Elijah was still alive.
"Yeah, I'm okay," Emily whispered to her sister as she was still in shock from not only seeing Elijah but also from him basically saving her from being sacrificed and leaving her sister and Damon alive. It was definitely different from their last meeting. Emily focused onto Elena's brown eyes as she assured her concerned sister with a tight hug, "I'm fine."
Emily hated that her plan fell through and she didn't get to end the sacrifice forever. But she was glad that her sister was safe - for now. Emily knew she would have to think of a different plan since Slater and Cody were both dead, but that would have to wait as she was so exhausted. Emily was just still trying to process her emotions from almost dying for the hybrid curse and to save her loved ones along with the fact that she just saw the supposedly dead Elijah.
GILBERT HOUSE
The human girl sighed as she slowly got out of her black Honda that her twin sister had drove home. It seemed like the drive back to Mystic Falls took much longer than it did when she and Rose drove to Richmond. Emily guessed it was because she was disappointed that she didn't get the chance to save everyone she loves. But Emily wasn't giving up. She was going to keep trying.
"Thanks for driving," Emily told her twin sister as she broke the tense silence while they sluggishly made their way up the stairs of the Gilbert porch with Damon walking by Elena's side. The human girl knew that she would have probably crashed her car if she drove with all the thoughts that were running through her mind.
"Well, your ride left you," Damon exclaimed before he threw the Gilbert girl a smirk as he added teasingly, "didn't want to leave you stranded."
Emily rolled her green eyes at Damon before she muttered, "I drove, you jackass." The human girl wasn't just going to let Damon think of Rose like that, especially when she had began to think of the older vampire as a friend. Plus, she just liked to annoy the older Salvatore.
"I can't believe Elijah is alive," Elena stated as she interrupted the tension between her twin sister and boyfriend. The day was bad enough, she didn't want to hear them argue like they always do. She then glanced between the both of them as she wondered, "why do think he killed those two vampires and just let us go?"
"If I had a dollar for every time some evil vampire surprised me," Damon trailed off sarcastically before he carelessly threw his long arm over his girlfriend's shoulder.
Emily scoffed at the Salvatore vampire as she mumbled, "it takes one to know one," before she reached to open the front door of the Gilbert house. She was just so tired. She only wanted to lay in her bed with Stefan and turn off her emotions for a couple of hours.
However, before Emily could walk through the door and finally get her wish of sleeping, she was soon stopped by the angry voice of the older Salvatore, "what you did today was incredibly stupid."
Emily huffed out a sigh as she closed her tired green eyes before she turned around and faced the two vampires. She could obviously tell by how her twin sister wouldn't look her directly in the eye was that Elena had silently told Damon to try to knock some sense into her. It was just how it always has been as Elena was always scared to yell at her.
"You know what was stupid?" Emily questioned as she glared over at the Salvatore vampire before she informed them, "it was getting caught." She then moved her green eyes to her twin sister as she spoke in a softer voice, "I know you guys want to protect me from everything, but you can't. Klaus is after me, not you. So, if there's a chance that I can save you guys from meeting the same fate, then I will do my damnedest to make sure that doesn't happen."
"Emmie, -" the Gilbert vampire began as she had tears slowly building up in her brown eyes at her twin sister's plan to sacrifice herself. However, before Elena could even utter a single word to hopefully change Emily's mind, she was soon interrupted by the youngest Gilbert sibling rushing out onto the porch with his brown eyes widened frantically.
The human Petrova doppelganger quickly forgot about the conversation she was having with the vampire couple as she instantly focused onto her brother. "What is it, Jer?" Emily worriedly questioned as she could tell that something was wrong by her brother's expression.
Jeremy silently looked at each face around the dark porch as he nervously avoided looking into his older sister's eyes. But the teenager knew he couldn't hold off for long, so he finally looked over to Emily and whispered, "it's Stefan."
FELL'S CHURCH TOMB
Once the youngest Gilbert had explained to the two vampires and the human girl about how Stefan was currently stuck inside of the tomb with Katherine because Stefan helped saved him, it only took a couple of seconds before they all took off. Elena had held onto her twin sister while she and Damon both used their vamp speed to reach the woods in a matter of minutes.
Emily ran down to the tomb as fast as her legs could move once Elena had planted her onto the still ground. "Stef!" The Gilbert girl shouted while she jogged down the small staircase. She was worried about the younger Salvatore as he was stuck inside of the tomb with Katherine.
The Gilbert girl instantly frowned as she looked down the dark tunnel and couldn't see the vampire. "Stefan!" Emily shouted as she was slowly growing worried that Katherine had done something to him. The brunette girl shouted once more, "Stef," but when she still didn't see him, Emily decided to make a run for it.
However, before the Gilbert girl could step one foot over the spelled barrier, she was suddenly stopped as her twin sister swiftly grabbed ahold of her waist. "No, Emily!" Elena shouted as she was slowly breaking from her calm demeanor, "I am not going to let you get hurt!"
Emily tried to push her twin sister's hands off of her waist as she needed to make sure that Stefan was okay. "You don't understand!" The human girl growled as she was growing annoyed of the tight grip that was holding her in place. She then finally gave up and moved her tired green eyes over to the older Salvatore before she growled, "why did you let him do that?"
"Oh, give me a break," Damon uttered with an eye roll as he wasn't even bothered by the human girl's ranting. "If your dumbass didn't go on this stupid suicide mission we wouldn't even be having this conversation," Damon added with a sarcastic smirk.
"I had it handled!" Emily growled as she went back to fighting her sister's tight grip, "your plan was stupid. I could have saved everyone!" The Petrova doppelganger was slowly losing all her sense of calmness as she was so exhausted and felt like a failure for not completing her plan.
The air then became thick between the two sisters and the Salvatore vampire as they all stared at one another before they were soon interrupted by the sound of someone clapping loudly. The two vampires and the human girl quickly moved their eyes to the tunnel and that is when they saw the smirking Katherine Pierce. "I was definitely right," Katherine commented as she stared at the fierce human girl, "you have the Petrova fire."
"Oh, shut up, Katherine," Damon uttered in annoyance as he didn't have time to hear anything his ex girlfriend had to say. He absolutely didn't want to hear her voice tonight after the long day he had with dealing with the suicidal Gilbert.
"Emily," the Gilbert vampire uttered in a strong voice as she ignored Katherine's smirking presence, "we made the choice we thought would save you. It was the right call." Elena couldn't understand why Emily couldn't get that they were trying to keep her safe.
"It was not the right call!" Emily argued, "I was making the right call. Everyone would have been safe from Klaus!"
"But you wouldn't!" Elena shouted as she took a step away from her twin sister. The Gilbert vampire's emotions were going crazy as she kept going from angry to sad every other second because of her sister's plan.
Emily calmed down as she stared into her twin sister's teary brown eyes. "I'm not going to let you die," the human girl whispered as her voice broke. That was all she cared about. She only wanted to protect everyone and they all wouldn't just let her do that.
Elena sighed as they both came to a standstill before she pulled Emily into a tight hug. "We're not dying," the Gilbert vampire whispered to her sister as they both sobbed into each other's shoulders, "we're going to save everyone. You just have to trust us that we're making the right choice."
Emily didn't say anything back to her sister. She just continued to hold Elena tightly while she stared across at the tunnel, where Katherine was looking at her with a concerned look. Emily didn't even bother questioning Katherine's bipolar attitude anymore as it always confuses her. She only gave her ancestor a small nod before she closed her eyes. The human girl didn't agree with what her sister and everyone else was doing, but Emily wasn't going to voice that. She was just going to continue to try to find her a new way as that was the only way she knew that would keep them safe. They might be trying to keep her alive, but she was going to do whatever it took to protect them from Klaus - no matter what it cost her.
