The human Petrova doppelganger's mind had been going crazy with rapid thoughts ever since she had left the loud Boaster Club Barbecue and took the long journey to the Salvatore boarding house in her silent black Honda. Emily was getting quite worried as the seconds ticked by with the news that Rose was bit.

The brunette girl knew it wasn't like how humans react by a bite as they would only need a trip to the emergency room. This bite was a life or death situation for Rose as Emily knew without a single doubt that it was from a werewolf since her sister had texted her and Elena only does that if it's important.

Emily was curious to what werewolf had done it, though. She figured Caroline would have told her if it had been Tyler, so that canceled out her best friend. The Gilbert girl was also confused as she didn't even know that there was any other werewolves in Mystic Falls besides Tyler. I just hope the legend isn't actually true, Emily thought as she didn't want what she had barely told Tyler to be real.

Finally, after about fifteen minutes of the human girl driving frantically along the streets of her hometown with a million of thoughts running through her mind, Emily reached the Salvatore boarding house. The Gilbert girl didn't even bother wasting a single second to rest before she jumped out of her black Honda once she was parked beside Damon's blue Mustang and jogged her way to the front door of the large estate.

However as Emily carefully and quietly made her way inside of the boarding house, she soon came to realize just how nervous she was as she didn't want to lose another person that she is close to. She had already lost her parents, Grams, Mason, and even Lexi as she had began to care for the vampire in the short time she had gotten to know Stefan's best friend.

The human girl took a shaky deep breath once she had silently closed the door behind her as she tried to prepare herself to what she could be walking into. But as Emily had barely taken four small steps out of the foyer once she had felt calm enough and walked into the living room, she swiftly came to a stop as she saw the oldest Salvatore vampire along with her twin sister looking down at the werewolf-bitten Rose.

"It's definitely... better," the blue eyed vampire lied as he told Rose while he stared down at the large wound on the back of her right shoulder. Damon then glanced up as he had heard the fast heart rate of his girlfriend's sister as soon as she had arrived inside of the boarding house. "Right, Emily?" Damon questioned with a raised eyebrow as he alerted everyone to the human girl.

Damon knew he hadn't been convincing enough with his response as he had heard Rose scoff at him and he knew Elena, who was standing by his side, wouldn't have been able to lie, so he knew Emily was his chance to get Rose to be convinced even though he really did lie. The Salvatore vampire was just tired of all of this gloomy death talk and the older vampire was definitely not helping with her whining every couple of seconds.

The human girl swallowed thickly as she stared down at the scabby wound on the vampire's back like she was in a trance before she quickly looked up and over to her twin sister when Elena had cleared her throat since she hadn't said anything in over a full minute. The green eyed girl then swallowed down the nerves she had once Elena nodded her head in Rose's direction with a meaningful look before Emily turned her gaze to the injured vampire with the best comforting smile she could offer.

Emily then slowly made her way towards the three vampires as she walked fully into the living room since she finally had the confidence she needed. The human girl laid her hand softly onto Rose's healthy shoulder as she told the vampire with her usual bright smile, "you can barely tell it's there."

The short haired female vampire looked down at the human girl with a pleased smile before she gently placed her cold hand over Emily's warmer one. "Thank you," Rose whispered in a frail voice before she took the bottle of bourbon from Damon's awaiting hand and slowly made her way over to the empty leather couch.

Once the ill supernatural being was relaxed down on the couch, the vampire couple and the human doppelganger migrated towards the edge of the living room so they could talk without the injured vampire hearing them.

The Gilbert vampire was the first one to interrupt the tense silence of the Salvatore boarding house as she stared at her twin sister in confusion. "Where's Stefan?" Elena wondered as she figured the vampire would of been with her sister since he hadn't been here.

The human girl immediately rolled her green eyes at the question as she was still irritated at where and what the younger Salvatore was currently doing. "He left this morning to find our birth giver," Emily told her twin sister before she glanced between the two vampires as she begged, "can you please tell him to stop?" The Gilbert girl shook her head while she crossed her arms over her chest as she added, "he thinks we need Isobel's help and it's only going to piss Elijah off and he's going to think we're messing with the deal he and I made."

"No can do," Damon told the human girl with a wide smirk before he carelessly shrugged his shoulders and commented, "it's not our fault that you made this stupid deal with an original, no less." The Salvatore vampire then wrapped his arm around his girlfriend's waist and told the human girl while he pointed towards the resting Rose, "it's your turn to babysit."

"It's not necessary," the ill vampire called out before the brunette girl could even open her mouth to respond. Rose then placed the bottle of bourbon into her lap that Damon had mixed with warm blood to help speed up the healing process of her werewolf wound before a painful groan escaped her mouth as she turned her body around to look towards the two vampires and the human doppelganger.

"It is necessary," Damon exclaimed as he disagreed with Rose. He then placed his arm over Elena's shoulder instead of her waist before he began to pull her towards the front door of the boarding house. "Emily here is a do-gooder with her doctor nonsense," Damon explained to the older vampire with an eye roll as everyone knows of the human girl's doctor aspirations, "she likes to protect people, so you're in good hands."

The brunette girl gave Rose a quick smile as she didn't mind helping the vampire and muttered, "I'll be right back," before she quickly went to stop her sister and Damon from leaving the boarding house. "Wait!" Emily exclaimed right before Damon could open the door. "How is she doing with the bite?" The Gilbert girl questioned in a whisper as she didn't know much about what was going on and she wanted to prepare herself for what could happen.

Damon huffed out a sigh before he faced his girlfriend's sister with an annoyed expression as he just wanted to leave the dreary house already. "She's probably going to die," the vampire uttered with a false careless shrug as if he didn't actually care what happens to Rose.

The Gilbert vampire slapped her boyfriend's chest with a glare at this tall wall he was putting up to show he couldn't care less about the werewolf-bitten vampire which Elena knew was completely a lie as they all had gotten close to Rose recently. Elena then looked over to her twin sister with a soft gaze before she explained as she knew Emily was clueless to what all went down last night along with the fact that she knew her sister also cared for Rose, "the werewolf bite caused some kind of infection. It was getting better at first but now it seems like it's just getting worse by the hour."

"Dammit," Emily mumbled to herself as she closed her eyes and grimly shook her head. The human girl was really hoping that the legend that she had learned about at Duke was really just that; a legend or a myth. But no, it seemed to be one hundred percent real which Emily hated. It just means that she gets to watch another person die.

"You know what?" Elena exclaimed as she interrupted the tense and gloomy silence before she faced her boyfriend and told Damon, "I think I'm going to stay behind." The Gilbert vampire didn't feel right about leaving her twin sister all alone with the ill vampire, who was slowly dying. Elena knew her twin sister was going to have a hard time as she knew Emily has the tendency to care deeply about people and she didn't want her twin to have to go through that alone.

"Seriously?" Damon sulked with a heavy sigh before he mumbled to his girlfriend, "I thought you were going to come with me to threaten a werewolf." The Salvatore vampire figured this was the right time to show Elena the enjoyment of torturing and tormenting someone with the power of being a vampire; especially the bitch werewolf that bit Rose.

"As fun as that sounds," Elena began with a small giggle before she glanced over to the upset Emily with a small smile and concluded, "I'd rather spend time with my sister." The Gilbert vampire then pulled her pouting boyfriend into a slow and sweet kiss before she told him teasingly, "have fun and don't get killed."

"Yeah, yeah," Damon muttered as he rolled his blue eyes before he laid a goodbye kiss to his girlfriend's forehead. The Salvatore vampire then grabbed the keys for his blue Mustang before he headed out of the boarding house all alone while he mumbled complaints to himself.

"You are literally dating a big baby," Emily told her twin sister with a chuckle as she watched the older Salvatore vampire stomp his way to his car like an angry toddler from the small window of the large estate's front door.

"Shut up," Elena mumbled in embarrassment before she linked her arm with her sister's and pulled Emily back into the living room, where they immediately saw the ill vampire bent over on the leather couch as Rose coughed her lungs out.

The human girl swiftly released her twin sister's arm as soon as she saw the condition that Rose was in before she rushed towards the ill vampire's side in worry. "Hey, hey, relax," Emily exclaimed as she rubbed the vampire's lower back while Rose continued to cough. The Gilbert girl didn't really know how she was suppose to comfort the vampire as she never experienced a sick supernatural being, but Emily knew when she's sick that she just likes to lay in bed and watch trashy movies all day.

However, before Emily could voice her thoughts once she turned around and faced her vampire sister, Elena beat her to it with the exact idea she was just thinking about. "Maybe we should move her into a bed," Elena suggested as her brown eyes stayed glued onto the ill vampire with concern written all over her face.

"That was exactly what I was thinking," Emily stated before she mumbled as they, of course, would have the same idea, "twins." The human girl then nodded her head towards Rose's direction before she made her way to the vampire's left side while Elena went to Rose's right.

It took a couple of tries before Emily finally found the right position so she wouldn't hurt the ill vampire. The human girl just looped her arm through Rose's while Elena had a strong grip thanks to her new supernatural strength. After they got situated, the two sisters then began to slowly and carefully help Rose walk up the long staircase.

Once they finally reached the second story of the boarding house, Emily decided that they would take Rose into the bedroom that she had claimed as hers seeing as it was the closest. She also figured Damon wouldn't be happy with blood on his sheets and she didn't want to dirty up Stefan's bedroom, so she figured it would be their best option.

"I hate this," Rose moaned as the human girl pushed the deep blue plush comforter to the side while Elena had began to carefully put her into the large bed. "I'm a vampire," Rose continued to rant, "I haven't had a cold in five centuries."

"We all get sick," Emily exclaimed as she tried to get the ill vampire to relax. She knew it wasn't good for Rose's healing with all this stressing out. It was just going to make it that much more difficult - if the werewolf wound could actually even heal.

Rose slowly shook her head while the Gilbert vampire helped her remove the black sweater that was resting against her wound. "We don't get sick," Rose explained to the human girl about the life of a vampire, "when we die, it's fast and sudden and it's certainly not drawn out with an illness."

The human girl silently placed her large comforter across the ill vampire's body once her twin sister had removed Rose's sweater. "Well, good thing you aren't dying anytime soon," Emily remarked as she looked down at the vampire with a soft smile once Rose was comfortable in her bed. The brunette girl knew that she wasn't one hundred percent sure that the vampire would survive the bite, hell, she wasn't even fifty percent sure, but she was still going to keep comforting Rose as best as she could to help her through this tough time.

Rose looked up at the doppelganger from the soft pillow she was resting against with a tiny smile for a couple of seconds as she enjoyed actually being cared for before she told Emily in a soft whisper, "that's such a human thing to say."

Emily's green eyes instantly widened in fake shock as she stared down at the ill vampire in complete disbelief. "What!?" The brunette girl gasped. "I'm human?" Emily hurriedly interrogated as if that was brand new information for her before she uttered with a smirk, "I had no idea."

The Gilbert girl knew the one way she could help a human, vampire, or werewolf feel better and that is by just making them forget about their problems and laugh. It was what she did for Tyler, so Emily hoped it would help Rose keep herself calm and at least keep the pain at bay.

The ill vampire slowly shook her head with an amused eye roll at the comical human girl - just like Emily wanted. Rose then sluggishly rotated her neck to move her groggy gaze over to the Gilbert vampire before she inquired curiously, "is she always this sarcastic?"

The brown eyed Gilbert stared down at the ill vampire as she silently nodded her head before Elena moved her gaze over to her twin sister with a playful glare as she reworded what Emily had told Rose a few moments ago, "you have no idea." Elena then leaned into Rose's side as she muttered teasingly as her glare that she was giving her twin sister turned into a humorous grin, "she's the worse."

The human girl instantly gaped at her other half in disbelief before she quickly grabbed ahold of one of the many pillows that was on her bed in the boarding house and chucked it at Elena's face. Emily then pointed at the Gilbert vampire as she exclaimed with a wide smirk, "you have it backwards, dear sister, you're the worse."

"You remind me so much of Darina," Rose whispered in a hoarse voice as she had only silently watched the two siblings go back and forth with one another like she remembered watching Darina do the same with Katerina. It made Rose recall the many times she had secretly witnessed behind a thick tree as the human Petrova twins ran through the small village in England while they giggled and laughed as they chased after one another.

Emily's humorous and teasing expression that she had been giving her twin sister slowly died out once she looked over to the ill vampire as she heard the name of her doppelganger. The human girl never really got to hear anything about Darina since Rose and Katherine are the only ones that actually knew her and Katherine was obviously locked in the tomb, so she couldn't get any information from her.

The human girl twitched her head to the side while she stared down at the sick vampire before she wondered softly, "what was she like?" Emily decided this could be the only opportunity she could ask Rose about her doppelganger since there would be disruptions while Rose is stuck on bed rest.

A soft smile instantly appeared onto Rose's face at the fact that the human girl wanted to hear about her deceased best friend. "She was literally an angel," the ill vampire whispered with a small chuckle. Rose then quickly coughed for a couple of painful seconds as the action caused the anguish that she had been feeling to run up her lungs thanks to the werewolf wound on her back.

Once Rose could actually breathe again, she shook her head when she noticed the worried expression on the sisters' faces before she continued to speak about the good and angelic Petrova twin, "she was the absolute opposite of her sister; Katerina. She was sweet, caring, and above all; protective. However, Darina did have her ways of showing that spark of Katerina. She could get someone to do anything she wanted. But the difference between the two sisters was that Darina never abused the power she had like Katerina always did. Darina was just an angel." The ill vampire then gently grabbed ahold of the human girl's warm hand as if she was looking right into her deceased best friend's green eyes before she whispered, "she was lovely."

"She sounds great," the Gilbert vampire exclaimed with a kind smile once she had interrupted the calm silence that had surrounded Rose and her twin sister as they all thought of the type of person Darina Petrova was. Elena didn't know that much about her sister's doppelganger since she's dead along with the fact that Emily rarely talks about her unless, of course, they are in Katherine's presence. Elena only knew that Darina was caring and protective just like her sister from the stories she had heard.

"She was," Rose whispered as she looked anywhere but at the girl that reminded her so much of Darina. She instead began to let her teary green eyes roam around the large room as memories of her best friend began to play through her mind. The ill vampire instantly saw the moments she would always remember like the times she and Darina would pick flowers in the field once she saw the roses on Emily's dresser and how she and Darina would always laugh and gossip together when they would watch the sun rise in the early chilly mornings of England once Rose's gaze landed onto the sun peaking through the deep blue curtains of the human girl's bedroom.

The tranquility and content silence in the bedroom of the large estate was, once again, disturbed by the Gilbert vampire. But instead of Elena's voice, it was the nuisance of her cell phone blaring loudly in the back pocket of her jeans. The Gilbert vampire quickly gave her sister and Rose an apologetic smile before she pulled out the device and glanced down, where she noticed she had a new text message.

STEFAN : COME 2 THE GRILL. I NEED UR HELP W/ ISOBEL. WE NEED 2 KEEP EMMIE SAFE.

"It's Stefan," Elena told her awaiting sister once she had sent a quick text back to the younger Salvatore that said she'd be there soon. "He needs my help finding our mother," the Gilbert vampire further explain what Stefan wanted before she gave her twin sister a sheepish smile as she knew Emily didn't want them to find Isobel - which Elena completely disagreed with. If Isobel knew away to stop this, then why shouldn't they ask for her help?

"Will you be okay on your own?" Elena worriedly questioned her twin sister after a moment had passed as she just realized she would have to leave Emily alone with Rose. The Gilbert vampire didn't really like the idea of leaving her human sister with a sick vampire as she didn't know what would happen. However, Elena knew it would be better if she was helping Stefan find Isobel as their birth mother could be their only chance in getting answers about Klaus.

The human doppelganger immediately let out a loud groan as she rolled her green eyes at what Stefan needed her sister for. "Can you guys please stop trying to find her?" Emily begged as she seriously didn't want Isobel involved in their lives anymore than she has been. She just causes destruction when she's in town. Emily also didn't want them to find her and Elena's birth giver as she was afraid that it would mess up her deal with Elijah as he was her only chance of keeping everyone she loves safe.

Elena shook her head and told her sister, "that's not happening." The Gilbert vampire then walked around the large bed and placed a loving kiss to Emily's brown hair before she continued, "Isobel might be able to keep you from being sacrificed and we're going to do everything in our power to keep you safe." Elena looked down into her sister's annoyed green eyes and told her, "give me a call if you need anything," before she gave Emily and the ill vampire a small smile and took her exit out of the bedroom so she could help Stefan hopefully find an answer to solving this sacrifice problem that they are all worried about.

"You know," the tired Rose began once she silently watched the vampire sister make her way through the wooden door and moved her gaze over to the irritated human sister, "you're very lucky." A small sad smile slowly made its way onto her sweaty face before Rose concluded, "no one's ever loved me the way you're loved."

Emily lost her annoyed expression about her twin sister and Stefan searching for Isobel when she heard the ill vampire before she took a seat at the edge of the bed. The human girl then lifted an eyebrow in disbelief at Rose as she knew what the vampire was saying isn't true. "I don't believe that," Emily voiced her thoughts, "from what I've heard, Darina and Trevor both cared for you."

"Trevor was my best friend," Rose began in a whisper before she shook her head, "nothing more." The brunette vampire brought the deep blue comforter closer to her body and continued, "Darina was the only exception. She was like my sister. But after everything that happened, I spent all those years on the run from Elijah. I just never thought it was a good idea to set up roots." Rose gave the human girl a grim smile as she concluded, "the whole idea of family is not exactly compatible with being a vampire."

"Well, my sister is living a life with people that love her, so I think it's possible," Emily told the ill vampire with a small smile. The human girl hated that Rose was filled with such negative thoughts while she laid on her death bed. However, Emily wasn't going to give up on her. She was going to continue to help as much as she can to make the vampire feel better at a time where Rose feels like the world is crashing down on her as it was one of Emily's specialties - the ability to make anyone, supernatural or not, feel happier during a bad moment in their life.

"Why are you so eager to give up?" The ill Rose interrogated as she interrupted the human girl's thoughts of her goal to help the aforementioned vampire while Emily had began to walk away from the bed and over to the small table, where Elena had placed the bottle of bourbon mixed with blood. It saddened Rose that Emily was just so willing to give up like this. It was not what Darina would want for her and it is neither how Rose thought of the route Emily would go on from what Rose had heard from Elena and the Salvatore brothers about how strong and fearless the human girl is.

"I'm not giving up. I'm simply keeping everyone that I love safe," Emily easily responded to the ill vampire's question while she slowly poured the dark red concoction into a small crystal glass that she had in her room. Emily was telling Rose the truth. She wasn't giving up. She was just doing what would keep her family and friends safe from receiving the same fate she would when Klaus arrives in Mystic Falls. "Here," the human girl exclaimed once she had filled the glass half way and walked back over to the large bed.

Rose tiredly grabbed the heavy glass from the doppelganger, but her strength immediately failed her, so she dropped her arm onto the dark sheets and held the glass that way. The ill vampire then drowsily moved her green eyes up to the brunette girl before she continued to question as she couldn't understand why the human girl was giving up like this, "what do you call this whole deal with Elijah?"

The human girl paused as she tried to think of the right way she could explain to the vampire about why she was agreeing to this deal with the original. "I call it my best option," Emily finally answered as that was the only way she could get Rose to understand. She only agreed with this deal because it would be the only sure way she would know that her family and friends would still be alive and that was all she cared about. And Emily knew she couldn't protect them all by herself, so why not enlist the help of the original?

"It's your easiest option," Rose uttered as she disagreed with the human girl. The ill vampire just couldn't get on board with what Emily had decided to do as she knew this wouldn't have been Darina's choice. The Petrova girl would have kept fighting and that was the opposite of what Emily was doing.

"I will do whatever it takes to keep everyone safe and Elijah is the only one that can make that happen," Emily stated as she continued to explain to Rose why she was doing this and how this wasn't her giving up or taking the easy route. She was doing what was right for the people around her. She wasn't going to be selfish like Katherine when she could save everyone from having to experience what Klaus did to the Petrova family.

The ill vampire raised her left eyebrow at the human girl's stubbornness that was so much like Darina's before she continued her interrogation but moved onto another topic as she wondered, "do you really think that your witch friend destroyed the moonstone?" Rose remembered that before everything went horrible with the werewolf last night, that the human girl's witch friend had been over and told her, Damon, and Elena that she could get rid of the moonstone for good so Emily wouldn't get sacrificed.

The brunette girl bit down on her bottom lip at the question as she thought back to the phone call that she had before she fell asleep last night with Elena and Stefan. Elena had explained to her and Stefan that the Bennett witch had released the spell from the milky stone with the help of another witch like they wanted to do all along while Emily was trapped in the Gilbert house.

Once Emily finally looked back into Rose's awaiting green eyes after thinking, she silently shook her head. "I think it's not possible to get rid of it forever like my friends and family all think," Emily explained her thoughts on the whole moonstone release plan they had done, "this sacrifice has been in place for centuries, so no. I don't think the moonstone is actually destroyed."

Rose looked at the human girl in sadness before she mumbled out her question, "you really are determined to die, aren't you?" The ill vampire then stared at the doppelganger with a disappointed expression before she uttered, "at least I ran. You're not even trying."

"I'm protecting -" the green eyed girl had began to explain for the millionth time as to why she was agreeing to Elijah's plan to bring Klaus to Mystic Falls, but before she could say anything more, the ill vampire interrupted her as Rose squeezed her eyes shut and loudly moaned, "I'm so tired."

Emily let out a slow sigh as she realized this conversation was over when she noticed the ill vampire begin to relax into the large bed. The human girl then waited to see if Rose was actually going to sleep or was staying awake, but when she didn't hear anything for a moment from the vampire, Emily slowly grabbed the crystal glass from Rose's hand and silently made her way to the bedside table before she gently placed the bourbon and blood mixture down.

The human girl soon came to the conclusion that she would go back downstairs while Rose slept as she knew the vampire needed all the rest she could get. However, before Emily could even place one of her white shoes over the threshold of the bedroom, she was soon stopped when she heard the pained voice of Rose.

"No," the ill vampire shouted as she thrashed around in her sleep, "stop, wait." Rose then slowly opened up her drowsy green eyes as she looked in the direction she saw a figure before she commanded in a sleepy whisper, "tell them to prepare the horses."

This isn't good, Emily thought to herself as she stood at the edge of the bedroom while she watched Rose move around in a dream-like state from the werewolf bite. The human girl then quickly made her way to the vampire when she noticed Rose was starting to panic by the way her chest was moving. "Hey, hey. It's okay, Rose," Emily uttered softly as she rubbed the vampire's arm while she tried to comfort her, "you need to rest. Sleep will do you good."

The vampire either didn't hear the human girl or she thought she was still dreaming because Rose didn't cling on to Emily's advice like she thought she would. Rose instead continued to speak in her dream-like state, "Trevor don't be stupid. You're never going to make it there before the sun." The ill vampire then swiftly threw her body forward as soon as the last word escaped her mouth as she felt the pain take over every inch of her being. Rose thrashed around in the bed for a few seconds before she couldn't take it any longer. "Emily!" Rose shouted, "Emily, I need more blood!"

The human girl quickly became worried for the vampire, so she moved as fast she could to the small table and grabbed the glass of bourbon and blood before she swiftly jogged back to the pained vampire. "Here," Emily hurriedly uttered as she placed the heavy cup into Rose's hand while watching carefully so Rose wouldn't drop it from her weak state.

However, that still didn't stop the blood from being spilled all over the large queen sized bed because not even a full second passed after Rose sipped on the bourbon concoction before the ill vampire coughed up all of the blood she had drank along with the blood she had earlier today onto the clean sheets.

Emily instantly sprang into action when she saw the liquid pouring out of Rose's mouth and swiftly grabbed the glass before the vampire could drop it. Once Emily placed the glass onto the bedside table, she then began to rub the vampire's back as she tried to comfort Rose. "It's going to be okay," the human doppelganger whispered. But when Emily realized that more blood that was originally in the glass was coming out of the vampire, she quickly jumped out of the bed and rushed to the adjacent bathroom.

The human girl figured that the vampire just needed to cool her body down from the werewolf bite, so she quickly picked up a clean towel from the bathroom counter and began to run it under the water. Emily then squeezed the excess water from the white towel before she jogged back into the bedroom. However, when Emily looked towards her bed, she was instantly confused as she didn't see the ill vampire where she had left her.

"Rose?" Emily nervously called out as she gently placed the wet towel at the edge of the bed since she didn't need it right now. The Gilbert girl knew she needed to be cautious as she didn't know what the bite could do. Emily soon came to the conclusion as she looked around the bedroom was that Rose wasn't in the room, so the human girl turned around to search the rest of the boarding house. But when Emily turned around, a gasp instantly escaped her mouth as she saw that Rose was standing right behind her with a glare shining across her pale face.

The human doppelganger didn't even get the chance to try to calm down the vampire before Rose lifted up her hand with new found strength and squeezed her fingers around Emily's throat. The sickly vampire then sped towards the closest wall and slowly began to lift the brunette girl from the ground as she growled, "where is Katerina?" But when Rose didn't get the answer she wanted, the vampire continued her torture by squeezing the human girl's neck harder. "I want your sister, Darina," the angry vampire shouted, "this is all her fault and she deserves to die!"

Another loud gasp escaped the scared brunette girl's mouth as she tried to get air into her lungs once she felt her shoes lift from the ground. But when Emily realized there was no way she could do that thanks to Rose's tight grip on her neck, the doppelganger quickly began to scratch at the vampire's fingers. "Rose!" Emily shouted as the vampire still wasn't budging and she had realized Rose was hallucinating the past from the mention of the Petrova sisters, "Rose! It's me, Emily!"

"Stop hiding Katerina!" Rose continued to shout as if she didn't even hear the words coming out of the human girl's mouth. The ill vampire's face then began to transform into her true self as veins began to craw under Rose's eyes before she snarled, "she betrayed us all, Darina!"

"Darina is dead!" Emily shrieked out as she tried everything in her willpower to get the sick vampire to jump out of whatever trance or hallucination she was in. The brunette girl was worried that the older vampire would end up killing her from the tight grip on her neck and the black spots in her vision, so Emily decided to try to wake up Rose by giving her a bad memory of the person Rose thought she was.

It seemed like that was what Rose needed to hear because as soon as the words were out of the human girl's mouth, Rose swiftly dropped Emily to the ground as her face began to transform back to normal before her brows began to furrow in confusion. Rose didn't understand. If Darina is dead, then who is in front of her?

"Emily," the sick vampire whispered as she tried out the name after a moment of staring at the girl in front of her before Rose finally came to her senses. "Oh, my God!" Rose gasped guiltily, "Emily!" The vampire quickly took a couple of steps back as she tripped over her feet to get away from the human girl she had harmed. "I'm so sorry," Rose hurriedly apologized, "I-I d-don't know what happening to me. I'm so sorry."

The human girl took a deep breath and swallowed thickly once she realized she wasn't in anymore danger with the ill vampire picturing the Petrova twins. Emily then closed her green eyes as she tried to calm her nerves before she placed the best comforting smile she could offer after almost being killed by an angry Rose. "It's okay," Emily told the vampire even though she was still mentally shaking before she added, "no harm done."

"My mind," Rose mumbled as she tried to understand what had just happened. She only remembered throwing up all that blood before everything just went dark. The ill vampire quickly looked over her shoulder as the human girl helped her back to the bed with guilt in her eyes as she tried to excuse her behavior, "I'm..."

"It's okay," Emily swiftly interrupted the vampire before she could apologize again. The human girl knew by the look of things that Rose would be saying sorry for hours. But Emily didn't want Rose to feel even worse, so the human girl tried to console her as much as she could. "You just got confused for a moment," Emily added as she rubbed the vampire's lower back.

The vampire swiftly twirled her body around, once again, as she stared into the human girl's green eyes with a frantic expression in hers. "I'm so sorry, Emily," Rose apologized once more before she begged desperately, "please don't be afraid of me."

Emily gave the vampire a small smile as she rubbed Rose's healthy arm. "It'll take more than that to scare me," the human girl stated with a smirk as she hoped she could make the vampire forget about what just happened as that was all she wanted. It was just an accident. Emily didn't blame her, so Rose shouldn't either. It was just the werewolf bite that was causing the ill vampire to act that way.

"Please don't hate me," Rose continued to beg with tears sliding down her green eyes. It was as if the sick vampire didn't even hear the human girl accept her apologies like how she didn't hear Emily when Rose was choking her out. "I didn't mean to scare you," Rose whispered barley above a whisper. The vampire didn't want the human doppelganger to be scared of her as she had only been trying to help her like she tried to do with Darina.

"You're okay," the human girl uttered with a kind smile before she added to get the vampire to understand that she wasn't mad or scared of her, "and we're okay." Emily then silently linked her hand with Rose's and placed her other hand on the vampire's back as she slowly helped the sick supernatural being back into the soft bed. "I think a nice nap will help you feel better," Emily told Rose as she placed the comforter over the vampire's body.

The ill vampire didn't say anything for a moment as she focused on lying her pained and tired body on the healthy side that was facing the human girl before she slowly placed her head onto the soft pillow. "I'm scared," Rose finally confessed after staring into the human girl's concerned green eyes that were so much like her best friend's. Those eyes just always had the ability to make her want to spill her guts and Rose couldn't help but want to trust the human girl even though she swore she would never trust another Petrova doppelganger again.

Emily took a seat on the edge of the bed beside the ill vampire before she gently grabbed ahold of Rose's cold hand at her confession. "I got you," the human girl whispered as she consoled the vampire, "you'll never be alone when you are here with me." Emily could tell that Rose was just afraid to be alone like most people are when they are this close to death, so, the human girl just wanted to comfort the vampire as much as she could to make it easier.

The sick supernatural being quickly lifted up her body from the bed at the doppelganger's words and stared into Emily's green eyes in panic as she realized she didn't know where she was. "Here, where's here?" Rose hurriedly questioned frantically.

The Gilbert girl swiftly placed her hands forcefully onto the ill vampire's arms as she saw Rose was starting to get worked up again. "You're in the Salvatore boarding house in my room," Emily explained in a soothing voice to keep the vampire calm, "you're safe here."

Rose laid back onto the large bed with the help of the human girl before the vampire's green glazed over eyes began to look around around the bedroom as if she couldn't remember ever being inside of it. Rose then pulled the deep blue comforter up to her neck as her body began to shake before she whispered with tears streaming down her cheeks, "I want to go home."

Emily softly raised her hand to the sweaty brunette vampire's face and pushed her hair away from her eyes. The human girl felt extremely bad for Rose. She didn't ask for any of this. Rose was just trying to live her life as best as she could while running from an original. But then she got mixed up in all the drama that comes with associating with the supernatural teenagers of Mystic Falls.

"Tell me about your home," the human girl softly ordered after a moment of staring down at the saddened Rose. Emily knew at least this could make the ill vampire feel better by talking about something that she loves and is close to her heart.

"St. Austell, thirty kilometers south of London," the ill vampire began with a soft smile slowly rising onto her cracked lips at the memories of where she spent her human life and part of her vampire life before she had to get up and leave to run from Elijah. "There was this one place in the village of St. Austell that was my favorite," Rose stated before she told Emily the place she had mentioned to the doppelganger before they had went to find Slater, "it's where I would spend my days in the bright green fields with all the horses trotting around." The sick vampire looked up into Emily's green eyes with tears in her own as she concluded, "that was always my home away from home."

Emily placed her warm hand into the vampire's sickly cold one as she nodded her head to show she was listening with a small smile. The brunette girl instantly remembered Rose telling her about reading in those fields when the vampire mentioned the horses. It always sounded beautiful to her. It reminded Emily of the spot she and Tyler always go to when they are feeling sad or pressured. It was just a place to feel safe in, so Emily could understand why that would be the vampire's happy place.

"It sounds wonderful," the Petrova doppelganger whispered to the vampire after a moment of silence as she gave the vampire's hand a tight squeeze to let Rose know that she was still there with her like Emily had promised to not leave her alone.

Rose let out a small huff as she pushed her head further into the soft pillow before she mumbled, "when you live long enough, everything disappears." The vampire then looked up into the human girl's eyes for one last time and added dishearteningly, "so much time wasted. I just wish I wouldn't have been so afraid," before the fatigue of the bite swallowed her whole.

The human girl breathed out through her nose as she watched the vampire's hand go limp in hers and the small sound of Rose finally sleeping. Emily was glad that Rose was getting some rest. She deserved at least a couple of hours of no pain. The human girl then moved the sweaty hair from the vampire's face once more after making sure Rose was okay and whispered, "sleep tight," before she slowly got up from the bed as quietly as she could.

Once Emily silently exited the bedroom and closed the door behind her, she squeezed her green eyes shut while she leaned her back against the wood. The human girl then took a heavy deep breath as she prayed to whoever was listening that Rose resting would help heal the werewolf bite. Emily was just not ready to lose another person in her life.


It was about four hours of silence in the Salvatore boarding house before the Gilbert girl found herself trotting back up the long wooden staircase after she herself had a nap along with Rose, who had been resting upstairs in the human girl's bedroom.

Emily had awoken on the couch to the sound of the ill vampire moaning in pain. So, the human girl had grabbed a fresh glass of blood and went to check on Rose. The werewolf-bitten vampire was doing much better after drinking the crimson liquid than she was earlier from what Emily could tell. Rose hadn't had any hallucinations in a couple of hours, so Emily figured that meant Rose was finally healing.

So here was the Petrova doppelganger now, making her way back towards the wooden door of her bedroom with a set of clean sheets. Emily had decided she would get rid of the bloody sheets once she saw that Rose was fully awake and was doing much better after she had drank the whole glass of blood about ten minutes ago.

Emily knocked onto the door once she reached her destination as softly as she could as she didn't want to frighten the vampire. The brunette girl then slowly pushed the door open when she never got a response. "Rose?" Emily called out while she was busy looking down at the sheets in her hands before she questioned, "are you ready to go back downstairs for a little while?" The human girl had told the vampire before she left that she would move her to the couch while she fixed the bedroom up with clean sheets.

However, when Emily finally walked all the way into the bedroom and looked up, she immediately rolled her green eyes, despite her current situation, when she saw Rose was, once again, not in the spot she had left her. "This is the second time," the human girl mumbled in annoyance before she placed the clean sheets onto the wooden dresser to the left of her. Emily then began to search around the bedroom and the bathroom for the vampire. But sadly, Emily couldn't find Rose, so she turned back around and made her way out into the hallway to continue her search.

Emily let out a sigh as she stood there in silence as she knew the scavenger hunt for a sick vampire was on. The human girl then began to look through all ten bedrooms in the boarding house before she, once again, came up empty. "Rose?" Emily called out once she made her way back out into the hallway. But when Emily didn't hear anything, she slowly made her way down the wooden staircase while her green eyes continued to search for the vampire.

The Petrova doppelganger slowly and quietly made her way towards the living room once she had reached the first level on the boarding house. She searched through the study, the library, and the deceased Zach's office. But, of course, Emily still couldn't find Rose anywhere. The brunette girl was beginning to become nervous about where Rose could be or if she having another hallucination again. So with the tense feeling in her bones, Emily moved her body to a small corner in the living room before she pulled out her cell phone from the pocket of her leather jacket.

Emily then began to go through her contacts before she got to the 'D's' and selected, 'Devil,' for the oldest Salvatore. The human girl figured Damon would be her best option since Stefan and Elena were busy with looking for Isobel. So, Emily tapped on the vampire's name before she brought it towards her ear. Dammit, Emily thought as she only got his voicemail. The Gilbert girl waited for a couple of seconds for the beep before Emily quickly uttered, "Damon, you should get here. I don't think I can control Rose for much longer. Something is wrong."

The Gilbert girl let out a huff once she finished her message before she pushed the device back into her pocket. However, when Emily had barely tucked her cell phone away, she instantly heard the sound of something falling to the ground. It sounded close, Emily realized. "Rose?" The human girl called as she figured it could only be the sick vampire before she began to head towards the stairs to the basement, where she had pinpointed the noise.

Emily walked down the small set of steps before she slowly began to travel through the dark tunnel of the familiar basement. However, before Emily continued her journey to find the vampire, she quickly stopped, turned to her left, and grabbed the wooden stake that was sitting on top of a shelve. I'm not facing her again with a weapon, Emily thought as she didn't want to take a chance of getting choked again by the brunette vampire.

The doppelganger took a deep breath to ready herself before she slowly continued to walk through the dark hallway for the vampire. However, Emily barely had to take three small steps before she spotted something on the floor. The Gilbert girl bent down and noticed that it was a blood bag that looked to have been drunken recently. Emily then quickly became on high alert once she placed the blood bag down and noticed a trail of blood. She took a big gulp of air to calm herself before she slowly began to follow the trail, which instantly caused a gasp to escape her mouth at what Emily saw.

There on the floor of the Salvatore basement was the vampire, Emily had been searching for, drinking hungrily from another blood bag while the refrigerator that the brothers had stashed was ripped open with bags of fresh blood from Mystic Falls Hospital spewed across the ground.

Emily silently placed the wooden stake that she was holding into the pocket of her leather jacket as she knew she had to care for Rose as if she was a caged animal. One wrong move and the vampire could snap. "Rose, hey," the Gilbert girl softly called out as she didn't want to spook the vampire or cause another accident like earlier when Rose attacked her.

The hungry and sick vampire swiftly twisted her head around when she heard the familiar voice. Rose stared up at the brunette girl with a soft gaze before she whispered, "Darina." The vampire then instantly switched a flip inside of her head before a loud snarl escaped her blood-covered lips. "Stop hiding Katerina!" Rose growled like she did earlier while she let the blood bag fall to the ground before she gripped the concrete floor and began to tauntingly crawl towards the human girl.

At the familiar names of her ancestors, Emily quickly pulled the wooden weapon from her pocket and hid it behind her back. The Gilbert girl then held her free hand out in front of her as she slowly took a step away from the vampire before she uttered gently, "this isn't real, Rose. Katherine is locked up in the tomb and Darina is dead."

However, the vampire either didn't hear the human girl or she was just too blinded by rage and betrayal to listen to what Emily was saying. The only thing Rose did do is jump up from the ground with a fierce growl before she began to chase after the human girl, who had started to run from the erratic vampire as soon as she saw Rose's quick movements. "Katerina will cause our death, Darina! Give her up! She deserves to die!" The brunette vampire shouted as she began to run and slam into the walls of the basement to catch her prey.

The human girl run as fast as she could up the stairs and through the living room. Emily was really glad that she didn't wear her usual heeled boots today as she knew she would have tripped by now. But sadly, that still didn't matter because Rose is a vampire and she's only a human. That statement was instantly proven right as the vampire appeared in front of Emily with veins crawling under her fiery eyes.

Emily swallowed thickly when she saw that she was stuck with her back towards a wall with the vampire slowly caging her in. "Rose, this is not real," the Gilbert girl uttered as she knew she would have to use her words again to get the angry vampire out of this trance, "my name is Emily Gilbert. Darina is not here."

Thankfully for the human girl, Rose finally came to a stop at her words. But unluckily for Emily, they did nothing to change the vampire's face back to normal. The brunette girl knew that meant she was definitely still in danger, so she continued to try to convince Rose that she's, in fact, imagining things. "This is just the werewolf bite talking," Emily began to explain in a shaky voice as she held the stake tightly behind her back, "you're hallucinating the past, Rose." The human girl then held out her hand to show the vampire that she wasn't going to hurt her before she continued, "you're here in the boarding house. You're safe. Katherine is gone."

It seemed like the angry and sick vampire was finally turning back to normal at Emily's soothing voice. But it was like Rose was fighting herself because one second her face was human before it went straight back to the monster that's hidden inside. The vampire then swiftly grabbed the brunette girl's hand with the monster in her in charge before she threw Emily across the room.

Emily immediately let out a groan once she felt her body finally fall to the ground. "Dammit," the human girl mumbled as she felt like brain was bouncing off the walls in her head from how hard she landed. Emily then took a small breath of relief before panic instantly raced back into her chest when the angry vampire pounced onto her form and began to, once again, choke her out.

The Gilbert girl's eyes widened in fright as she realized she was now in trouble. Emily quickly began to reach around her for the stake she had but the brunette girl instantly deflated when she saw it was out of her reach. She then started to search around for anything that could keep her alive before she finally spotted something.

Emily stretched her short left arm as far as she could before she squeezed her fingertips around the soft material and pulled the tan and red curtains away from the window - which automatically caused the sun to shine brightly into the living room.

The vampire instantly started to scream as soon as the painful sun reached her exposed skin from her tank top. Rose then swiftly began to crawl off of her targeted prey and tried to push herself away from the bane of her existence while she cried out for mercy.

While the vampire was busy trying to hide away from the sunlight, Emily hurriedly scrambled over to the stake she had dropped before she sprinted towards the front door. The human girl knew this was her only chance to escape, so she ran with everything she had as her life depended on it. However, before Emily could fully open the door and rush out of the boarding house, she was soon stopped by the angry vampire as Rose slammed the door and blocked the human girl from her freedom.

Emily didn't even have time to panic before Rose stretched her mouth open and let her fangs sprout from her gums. The human girl tried to push the vampire away from her awaiting blood before she felt something in her hand. Emily's eyes widened as she had forgot about the weapon. The human girl then tightened her grip on the stake before she swiftly stuck it into the side of the vampire's neck to stop Rose from reaching Emily's own neck.

The Petrova doppelganger swiftly pushed the vampire out of her way as Rose was distracted by the pain of the stake and the pounding agony in her back before Emily rushed up the staircase. The brunette girl knew Rose could grab her if she tried the door again, so Emily decided to put as much space between them as possible.

Once Emily reached the second story of the boarding house, she thought for a second before she jogged towards the last bedroom in the corner of the hallway which happens to be Stefan's. The Gilbert girl figured her room would be the first one Rose would look in, so with Emily going to the aforementioned Salvatore's it gave Damon or whoever was going to help her some time to get here. It was like a very dangerous game of hide-and-seek.

Emily hurriedly slammed the bedroom door behind her as soon as she was in Stefan's bedroom before she dead bolted it. She then took a deep breath for the first time since she was attacked by the sick and angry vampire. However, while Emily stood there as she tried to relax her out-of-control heart rate, she realized she still wouldn't be safe. Rose is an older vampire and she could break down the door at a snap of her fingers. So, with that thought running through her mind, Emily quickly began to look around the room for anything that she could protect herself with.

The Gilbert girl firstly pushed a heavy dresser that was just as tall as she was in front of the door so it could at least stop Rose for a few minutes as Emily knew it would take her a while since Rose was weak right now. The brunette girl then looked around Stefan's bedroom for anything else that could help before she jogged over to the balcony and pushed the doors and curtains out of the way. The sun would always be her protector, Emily realized. So she widened the door as far as they would go - which caused the sun to shine all around the large bedroom.

Emily walked out onto the balcony and glanced over it once she felt the sun on her skin before she thought if she could make it. However, the brunette girl quickly shook her head a moment later as she knew she would break a leg without supernatural healing if she would take the chance to jump down onto the grass. Emily huffed out a disappointed sigh as she ran her hand through her hair before she suddenly thought of something else that could help protect herself from the ill vampire.

The human girl swiftly jogged across Stefan's bedroom before she reached his desk. Emily remembered one night she had spend the night that Stefan had hid stakes for her so if she was ever to be in danger. The brunette girl pulled open the bottom drawer of the wooden desk before she smiled when she saw at least ten stakes already to go. She then swiftly grabbed the largest one before rushed over to another one of Stefan's dressers and grabbed the decanter of vervain that Stefan had been drinking lately. Emily tossed the glass lid to the side, not caring if it broke, before she poured the clear liquid all over the stake.

"Okay," Emily whispered to herself with complete confidence in her voice as she held the stake in a tight hold, "I got this. I can protect myself." She may be only human, but Emily knew she could keep herself safe until someone showed up. She didn't need to be saved all the time. I don't need a knight when I have a sword, Emily thought to herself as her hard green eyes stayed locked onto Stefan's door with fearlessness she had never felt in her life.

It was another three minutes of the steady human girl standing strong on her own before she swiftly stepped back towards the opened door to the balcony when the handle on Stefan's bedroom door began to shake rapidly. "Emily?" The erratic voice of the sick vampire called out as she tried to assure the human girl that she was fine, "I know I'm not in danger because of Katerina right now. Darina is dead and you are Emily Gilbert." The vampire then started to cough roughly as she began to spit up all the blood she had consumed before she begged, "please, Emily. I really need your help."

The Gilbert girl silently shook her head as she knew she would be making a mistake if she went to try to help the vampire again. The same thing would just end up happening and Emily couldn't risk it. "I'm sorry," Emily whispered to the hurting Rose before she stepped back until she reached the sunny balcony. The human girl knew this would be the safest place for her right now since the vampire wouldn't take the chance of getting harmed but the sunlight again. Emily just prayed help was on the way as she held the vervain stake in her hands while the sun continued to beat down onto her warm skin.


Emily had sat out on the balcony for hours until the sun had sadly disappeared for the day and the bright moon arrived. The Gilbert girl slowly got up from the ground and moved into Stefan's bedroom as her hiding place was no longer any use with the sun not being able to hurt the sick vampire anymore. Emily instead sat down onto Stefan's bed while she nervously kept her green eyes glued to the dead bolted door.

The human girl had soon realized as she boredly sat there for a few minutes that she hadn't heard any noises from the ill vampire in a long time. The last time Emily had heard something was when Rose was continuously pounding on the door as she begged for the human girl to open up - but that was over two hours ago.

Emily promptly came to the decision to scope out the boarding house as she figured Rose must have calmed down after her murderous hallucination rampage or she fell asleep somewhere. The Gilbert then slowly got up from Stefan's bed once she had plan and moved the tall dresser out of the way before she began to search the boarding house all over again with her stake tightly in her hand.

The doppelganger was extra cautious as she slowly moved through the hallway and down the staircase as she didn't know if this was some trick or if Rose was actually sleeping. The human girl felt like she was apart of a SWAT team as she checked every corner and hiding spot for the ill vampire while she made sure to never leave her back open to be attacked.

However, when the human girl finally reached the foyer, she became even more alerted as she noticed the front door was wide open. Emily took a moment to swallow thickly out of nervousness before she slowly began to move towards the entrance with her stake high up in the air as if she was Norman Bates while she kept a look out for any quick movements from Rose as she knew she needed to be ready for anything.

There was just one thing Emily wasn't expecting once she was half way to the front door. and that for two vampires to suddenly pop in front of her. The human girl instantly jumped in fright at the shadows before she thrusted her stake at the attacker. However, before the weapon could come in contact the vampire, which happened to be Damon, the aforementioned Salvatore quickly grabbed ahold of the stake as it reached him before he swiftly released it.

"Dammit, fuck," Damon snarled once he let go of the wooden weapon as it had instantly burned his skin. The vampire then looked into the furrowed and serious green eyes of his girlfriend's sister with his left eyebrow raised before he questioned in annoyance, "seriously? Vervain?"

The Salvatore vampire, however, didn't get his answer as Elena had pushed Damon to the side once she saw the state her sister was in and what the human girl was holding. "Emily! Are you okay?" The Gilbert vampire gasped before she swiftly pulled her twin sister into a tight hug while also avoiding the weapon that would burn her. Elena had pulled Damon out of Mystic Grill as soon as he had noticed that Emily left a worried voicemail about Rose. She hated that she left Emily alone with the vampire even more. But Elena was glad by the looks of things that her sister wasn't hurt.

Emily numbingly nodded her head as she hugged her sister right back with her unoccupied hand and arm. She was silently praising the Lord right now after finally seeing the two vampires as she didn't know what would have happened.

Once Elena had finally released the human doppelganger after a few minutes of the Gilbert vampire uttering soft assuring words, Emily took a step back and crossed her arms over her chest before she looked towards the Salvatore vampire. "Rose is gone," the human girl finally explained as she felt like she could relax for a second.

A serious look immediately spread itself onto Damon's face as he had thought Emily was just pissed at him for leaving her with the duties of watching Rose and that she was just messing with him. But now that Damon knew she wasn't joking around, the Salvatore vampire became worried. "Where did she go?" Damon quickly interrogated as they now had a sick and hungry vampire on the loose.

The human girl bit down on her bottom lip as she glanced between her twin sister and the Salvatore vampire for a moment but didn't say anything. In reality, Emily didn't actually know where Rose was since the vampire had been trying to get her to give up Katherine for the last couple of hours along with continuously attacking her. So, Emily gave the two vampires the only answer she could as she mumbled, "I don't know."