"There was a time I trusted him more then anyone,"

"Trust breeds true. You have to give it to receive it," Elena explained as she cleaned off the counter.

"Are you lecturing me?,"

"Do you need to be lectured?,"

"Sometimes but Eliza has that covered more times then not,"

"Damn right I do!," she called back towards them.

"I just want her back, I'm sure you can understand that,"

"I can understand that you would do anything for her, yes,"

"Then you understand what I will do if anyone gets in my way of saving her and Eliza's parent's," he said before going to the living room to join Jeremy in the video games.

"You said you never played this thing before," Jeremy was annoyed Damon was kicking his ass even with Eliza curled up against his ribs.

"Fast learner, quick reflexes," Jeremy phone chose to go off making him pause the game.

Tossing the phone aside he ignored it knowing it would most likely get him lectured by Eliza.

"Who are you dodging?,"

"This girl Anna, she can be persistent,"

"I told you to go for it, she is my friend Jeremy she would never hurt you," she said as she wrote the numbers 1864 in the skin just under the edge of Damon's shirt.

"Is she hot?,"

"Yeah, yeah but she can be weird,"

"Hot trumps weird trust me," he gestured to Eliza making her slap him as they all laughed.

The doorbell rang making everyone look up.

"That'll be Stefan,"

"Dude!," Jeremy called out as Damon jumped up to answer the door with Elena.

"Who took it," Damon asked as they stepped out on the porch to talk.

"I don't know,"

"It's that teacher there's something off about him,"

"No he doesn't know anything, somebody got to it right before me,"

"Who else knew it was there?," that's when they looked inside at Jeremy.

"No Damon leave him out of it,"

"Why what's the big deal?,"

"Damon!,"

"So I heard you found a really cool journal from back in the day who else did you show it to," Damon sat down on the arm of the couch as he asked.

"Damon?," Eliza acted curious about why he was asking about it.

"Huh?,"

"Don't ask questions just spill,"

"You're kidding me right?,"

"Did you tell anyone other then Mr Saltzman about Jonathon Gilbert's journal?,"

"Why is everybody obsessed with that?,"

"Who else did you tell?,"

"Just Anna,"

"The hot weird one?,"

"Yeah,"

"Wait who's Anna?,"

"That's what I wanna find out. How do you know her?,"

"I just know her, she wants me to meet her at the grill tonight,"

"Perfect I'll drive come on," Damon gestured for Jeremy to get up so they could head out.

"Damon don't get him in trouble, and don't ruin his chances with the girl,"

"Will try," Damon called out as they headed out the door.

Eliza curled up on the couch holding a pillow as she swapped the TV from video games back to television.

Stefan followed Elena upstairs so Eliza wouldn't hear them not knowing Jackie was in the greenhouse able to hear them. When they were upstairs Eliza pulled her phone out of her housecoat pocket and texted Damon letting him know they had a copy of the journal she had seen it in his back pocket.

"Where's Damon?,"

"He left to track down Jeremy's friend Anna to see if there was anything there,"

"Aren't you going to go? If he get's to the journal before we do..,"

"Doesn't matter," Stefan said pulling a stack of papers out of his back pocket.

"What is that?,"

"It's a copy of it,"

"How did you get it?,"

"Well Mr Saltzman made a copy of it and was kind enough to loan it to me,"

"He did?,"

"Not exactly, but I got it," Elena gave him a smirk knowing they were ahead of Damon.

At the grill Jeremy hung out by the pool table when Anna walked up.

"You couldn't live without me huh?,"

"Well I kind of missed my daily dose of of cute stalker chick,"

"Funny,"

"Let's play," Jeremy gestured to the table.

Damon sat on the other side of the bar with a 'oh shit' look on his face now he knew why Eliza said she needed to save 3 bodies from the tomb. She knew Anna was their Anna from 1864 and her mother was in there as well.

1864

Emily and Anna sat on the porch of the small apothecary store that Pearl ran in town. She was inside with Katherine.

"The sheriff was in here earlier, he bought large volumes of the vervain elixir,"

"Did he try to put his hands on you," Katherine asked as Damon stood wringing his hat in his hands.

"Doesn't he always?,"

"She's saving herself for Jonathon Gilbert,"

"I am beyond saving, we know that,"

"How can you be so calm? They're getting closer to you every day,"

"We're respectable ladies of Mystic falls. Thanks to Emily we walk the streets in daylight. No one will ever suspect us,"

"Not unless a human tell them,"

"I would never dare to, I already lost two important people in my life I don't want to lose Katherine too I'd sooner die,"

"And soon enough you will," Katherine smiled kissing him.

"Mrs Fell is approaching,"

"Thank you Annabel," Pearl smiled hugging her daughter and joining her outside.

Back at the Gilbert house Elena sat on her windowsill as Stefan stood each going through a stack of the papers each to find references.

"Here's a reference that he wrote about Emily. The fall family believed it should be I not them who protected the witches spell book. But I feared she would haunt me from the hereafter. They mocked my fear but it was Giuseppe Salvatore who.. is that your father?,"

"Yeah. It was Giuseppe Salvatore who removed my fear. He told me he would protect the secret of the spell book. He said he would carry it to his grave," Stefan finished reading aloud as he sat down beside her taking the paper to read it.

1864

"Stefan to what do I owe this pleasure?,"

"Did I interrupt your writing?,"

"These are the dull musings of my troubled mind,"

"A great mind,"

"Still I will carry the real secrets with me..,"

"To your grave,"

"And a full grave it will be," he said before gesturing for his son to sit with him.

"Now speaking of troubled minds, what's on yours?,"

"I have concerns about your plan for the vampires,"

"And why is that?,"

"We are making the assumption that all vampires are evil as they have been characterized. But what if that's not true?,"

"Do you have any evidence to the contrary?,"

"Do you know of any vampires?,"

"No. No of course not. But are we to take what others say at face value? You always taught us so differently,"

"Stefan these creatures are of the darkest parts of hell. They have the ability to control your mind, seduce your spirit, and make people disappear if they want to. Like Elizabeth and her parent's. They are deadly and they must be destroyed. Those that stand with them, those who bring shame to their families will be destroyed as well," Giuseppe handed Stefan a glass of alcohol and after clinking glasses drank together.

"I know where it is," Elena gave him a strange look as they took off downstairs leaving the house to get to it first.

Eliza perked up opening up her text messages to Damon. Jackie had entered right away telling her what she heard.

They just left. Head to your father's grave. - E

Thank you baby girl - D

At the graveyard they had set up torches for light. As Stefan got ready to dig up his father.

"Why isn't your father buried in your family's tomb?,"

"It wasn't built til well after he died,"

"Are you sure the grimiore is in there with him?,"

"Sure as I can be,"

"Great,"

"Elena I can do this on my own,"

"I said I would do whatever I can to help, at least we are keeping Eliza out of this would hate to see her get hurt cause of it,"

"Me too, and I know and I appreciate that but..,"

"This town is my home Stefan. My friends and family are here. You're here. I don't want that tomb opened any more then you do," nodding Stefan handed Elena a shovel and began digging.