"It was bad. You know, John planted all these seeds about Isobel," Ric explained to the twins after Brea segwayed the conversation away from Katherine escaping the tomb and on to his relationship with Jenna. "And now Jenna knows I'm lying about something."

"John's going to end up dead on the kitchen floor if he's not careful," Elena scowled.

Brea nudged her sister lightly, "I mean it's true. He does have a bad experience with kitchen floors." Elena and Ric both turned to look at her funny. "What? It's where he ended up after Katherine cut off his fingers," she shrugged.

"Oh," Elena acknowledged quietly.

"Yeah," Ric said quietly before moving on. "Well, easier said than done. I gave him back his ring. But Jenna keeps asking about Isobel. You know, was she murdered? Why haven't they found the body? I mean, how much longer can she stay in the dark?"

"You think we should tell her the truth?" Elena asked shocked.

"Yes," Brea said. "Obviously. I hate lying to her."

"I'm saying I can't be with her and not tell her. It's not fair to her, and it's not the kind of relationship I want."

"Woah," Brea said standing up. "Nah uh. We have to tell her then, this can't happen. Oh my god, Jeremy's going to kill us," Brea said slumping down in her chair.

"Not to mention it's becoming more dangerous for her not to know," Elena added.

"Right. That too," Brea said pulling her head up.

"I just thought that we'd at least hold off until after we've dealt with Klaus."

"You mean after you've already potentially died?" Brea asked incredulously and Elena looked down at her shoes.

"Right. You know, and even then, how do we tell someone what we know? How does someone hear that?" Elena asked.

"Well, I'd say kind of the same way Stefan told us?" Brea suggested.

"Look, I'm sorry to put this on you two," Ric apologised. "But I feel it's your decision to make and whatever you decide to do, I'll respect it. I want to be honest with her. But until then, Jenna and I are done," Ric said.

"No!" Brea said outraged. "Oh god, this is so much pressure!"

"Hello?" Brea called out as she entered the Salvatore boarding house.

"Brenna?" Damon asked as he came into the entryway.

"Hmm, not you," Brea said walking around him. "Katerina!" Brea sang as she entered the living room.

"Care for a walk sister?" a voice sang back behind her.

Brea smirked and turned around. "I would love one. Bye boys," she called out without looking at the Salvatores as she and Katherine left the house. "So, you got out of the tomb."

"Yes, I did."

"So the compulsion broke but I still don't have my memories back."

"I think whatever is blocking your memory is a spell. Need a witch to undo that one. How did you dagger Elijah anyway? He's strong."

"Umm."

"What happened?"

"Well, the plan changed, and it worked so who cares right?" Brea smiled walking faster.

Katherine ran in front of her. "Tell me."

"Ok fine. Elena was going to stab herself."

"Joy."

"Stop it. She was going to stab herself in order to get him to agree to the deal again. Can't draw Klaus into town with a dead doppelganger. Elijah wasn't really buying it so just before she went to stab herself, I grabbed the knife and stabbed myself."

"What!"

"Just listen. I knew that if Elena died Elijah could still use me to draw Klaus into town. By stabbing myself he had no choice. He wasn't going to let me die. He agreed to the deal, healed me, and then Elena stabbed him."

"And this is all ok with you?" Katherine asked angrily.

"I mean yeah. It keeps everyone I love alive."

"Elijah got daggered."

"And I feel bad about it. But he was going to let Elena die."

"You can't just plunge a knife into yourself!"

"Hey, you stabbed Jenna!"

"That was different. I told her which part to stab so she wouldn't die."

"It's fine."

"No, Brenna. It's not. What if you died?"

"Well, I guess I'd just come back to life again right!" Brea yelled

"Oh my god," Katherine huffed laughing. "Seriously? This again?"

"What?" Brea asked confused.

"You don't even have your memories and you're still doing this reckless thing."

"What reckless thing?" Brea asked irritated.

"It's a little stage you go through in every bloody life. You take stupid risks. You do it every time."

"Do not."

"You don't even remember."

"Good point."

"Letting yourself get stabbed and not caring. It's all part of this stupid stage you go through. You have to knock it off now or you're going to get yourself in serious trouble. Trust me. You hate dying. And now is not the time to be rebellious. When Klaus gets to town and he will… he's coming for you."

"Wait I thought…"

"Not to hurt you. He's obsessed with you. He'll want you by his side. And if you start pulling these stupid stunts and allowing yourself to get hurt by others he won't hesitate to kill them. And I know you won't be able to handle that."

Brea's eyes were filled with tears but she nodded. "I just want my memories," she whispered. "I love my family now but I don't remember who I really am and it's tearing me apart. I just can't cope with these feelings because I don't know what I'm feeling. I just watched Elijah get daggered and it broke my heart but I can't remember why. As far as I'm concerned now, he's the original vampire who's trying to get my sister killed, I have no reason to care about him but watching him get hurt, killed me. And as soon as I saw that bloody dagger which I'd never seen before, I nearly had a panic attack. But do I remember why? No! Because I don't have bloody memories!"

"I know," Katherine said sympathetically. "I get it. Look let's just go back to the house ok? Your phone's been buzzing like crazy in your bag, Elena clearly wants attention."

"It's girl's night. She's probably just wondering where I am."

"I'm here! I'm here! Don't start without me!" Brea yelled as she barrelled through the front door. "Oh hey guys," she greeted Elena, Caroline, Bonnie and Jenna who were standing in the kitchen. "You started without me."

"It's hard to hold off hanging out when everyone's here but you," Elena laughed. "Speaking of, Jenna's joining girl's night!"

"Good call!" Brea said giving Elena an approving nod.

"You did come in yelling at a bad time though," Jenna said.

"Oh, what were you guys talking about?" Brea asked throwing her bag down on the couch.

"Relationships," Caroline answered.

"Yikes. I'm out," Brea laughed.

"Oh come on Brea," Jenna said grabbing her hand. "I don't get it you know. I mean you're cute as a button and you're not dating anyone? Doesn't make sense."

Bonnie laughed. "The only guys in our year level who don't want to ask her out are Stefan, Tyler and Matt."

"Helpful Bon," Brea said sarcastically.

"Come on Brea, go out with someone," Jenna said.

"I can't," Brea said.

"Why not?" Jenna asked and Brea locked eyes with Elena in a panic, not knowing how to answer.

"You know what we need?" Caroline said coming to the rescue. "Dancing. There is a band at the Grill."

"I'm in," Bonnie said.

"In," Jenna agreed.

"In," Elena also agreed and everyone turned to look at Brea.

"You just want to see Matt," Brea stated and Caroline's eyes widened. "So I'm definitely in. I love Matt." Caroline then clapped her hands excitedly and all the girls grabbed their bags and headed out the door.

Brea, Elena, Caroline, Bonnie and Jenna were laughing their heads off as they bounced through the door to the Grill. The band was already playing and the Grill was packed. "Wow!" Jenna gasped, looking around.

Brea looked around the Grill for Matt and spotted Ric standing to the side and her eyes widened and she leaned into Elena whispering. "Mr Cool alert! Mr Cool alert!"

"What?" Elena asked with a smile as she pulled away and Brea nodded her head in Ric's direction. "Oh."

"I need a drink," Jenna spoke up as she spotted him.

"Elena! You had one job!" Brea joked shaking her head.

"Why was that my job?" Elena laughed.

"Hey, Matt," they heard Caroline say from beside them and Brea's head whipped around.

"Matt?" she asked as he walked past them ignoring Caroline. "Wait no! Come back!" Brea called after him. She turned back to her friends. "I'll be back in one moment, Matt's in for a beating," she said before walking off after Matt. "Oi, punk."

"Hey Brea," he greeted happily.

"So what happened with Care? I mean you were talking this morning?"

"Yeah, didn't go so well," he said as he picked up plates.

"You know she dragged us all here tonight so she could see you."

"You guys would have come here anyway I'm sure. You guys are here all the time."

"True…"

"Look, Brea, I got to run out to the kitchen, but I'll catch you after my shift ends."

"Ok cool cool cool cool. See ya," she said walking back to the girls.

"Oh, there you are!" Elena said. "Jenna just sent me a text asking me 'where the troublesome one is?'"

"Did you reply with your location?" Brea asked with glee as Elena rolled her eyes before turning back to Caroline who was taking off her jacket. "Woah, where are you going?" Brea asked. Caroline didn't reply but threw her jacket over Brea's head and strutted off to the stage. Brea took the jacket off her head. "Bon, what's she doing?"

"I have no idea," Bonnie answered confused.

"Hey everybody!" Caroline said stepping in front of the microphone. "Let's hear it for the band!" she called out as Jenna got back to the girls and everyone cheered.

"This isn't going to end well," Jenna said downing her shot.

"Wait, what isn't? Jenna, what's going on?" Brea asked.

"So there's this guy," Caroline continued and Brea understood what was happening.

"Oh no!" she whispered head spinning round to face her friend on stage.

"And, uh, he told me to tell him how I feel about him."

"Matthew you fool," Brea said running her hand down her face.

"Like it's so easy. Um, you know, just cause I talk a lot doesn't mean I always know what I'm actually talking about…" she rambled.

"Exhibit A," Brea said peeking out through her fingers.

"Ah, like now, I'm feeling loopy and I don't really know how to express myself." The guitarist behind Caroline moved to grab the mic and Caroline threw her hands on it tightly so he couldn't take it. "I can sing. Yeah! Yeah. You know what, I'm going to sing."

"Sing?" Elena asked confused.

"This may work," Brea said tilting her head. "She's actually a good singer." Caroline then began singing.

"She's good," Jenna noted and all the girls nodded.

"Where is that Matthew?" Brea asked looking around the Grill. She spotted him across the room and they locked eyes. Brea raised her eyebrows and jerked her head towards the stage with a nod. He nodded back and took a deep breath before he went up onto the stage, grabbed Caroline and kissed her. Everyone cheered and Matt dipped Caroline in response. "Matthew! Matthew!" Brea whooped happily.

Bonnie and Brea were on their way to the bathroom when Elena cut them off, "I wouldn't. Caroline and Matt are…"

"Oh wow, that didn't take long!" Brea laughed.

"In the bathroom?" Bonnie asked shocked.

"If they're happy, I'm happy," Elena laughed before turning to Brea. "Come on. I'll buy you another coke. I owe you about a million of them after last night."

"Um, hey," Bonnie called after the twins, following them. "Speaking of happy, would it freak you guys out if I started dating your brother?" As soon as she said this the twins froze and slowly turned to face Bonnie.

"You're into our brother?" Elena asked.

"You're into Jer?" Brea asked. "Bon, I mean I love the kid, but you could do better."

"I know it's weird, but he's been so good and strong. It makes me happy."

Brea leant into Elena and whispered. "She just described Jer as strong Lena. I don't think knows our brother."

Brea looked back and forth between the twins, "I really can't tell what you're thinking right now…"

Elena let out a nervous laugh. "I'm thinking that our brother has had more pain in his life than a hundred people's worth of pain, and…"

"I don't know where this is going," Brea said with a frown.

Elena huffed at her sister. "He deserves to be with someone as amazing as you."

"Oh," Brea said with a smile. "That's what I was hoping she'd say."

"Really?" Bonnie asked shocked.

"Really," both twins said.

"Ah, Bonnie has a boyfriend," Brea squealed before jumping on Bonnie to pull her into a hug. Elena laughed from behind before joining the hug.

After a moment Elena's phone rang and they all pulled away. "Hey, Stefan, I'm at the Grill," she said answering it. "I can't hear you. Hold… yeah," she said excusing herself.

"So Bon," Brea said turning around to face her friend. "Well she's gone," Brea muttered noticing Bonnie had walked off. "AH!" Brea yelled as lights started smashing around her. "Ouch," she muttered bringing her hand up to her head and noticed some of the flying glass had cut her. "Dammit," she muttered looking around the Grill for her sister. "Elena!" she yelled.

"Brea," Ric yelled from behind her.

"Ric!"

"Your head," he said tilting her head so he could see. "Come on we got to get out of her. Jonas is here for Elena, no doubt he'll grab you if he sees you as well. We got to go," he said taking her hand. They walked through the Grill until they came across Jenna. "It's time to get out of here," he told her grabbing her other hand.

"I have to find Elena," Jenna said hesitantly.

"She's with Stefan, she's ok," Ric reassured.

"Oh my god Brea you're head!" Jenna said stopping.

"I know Jenna, come on we have to go," Brea said pulling her aunt through the crowd. "Oh my god!" Brea screamed as the bar was set on fire.

"We have to go now!" Ric ordered.

"Ric, it's Jonas. It's magic," Brea whispered.

"I know. Which is why we've got to get you out of here quickly," he whispered back tugging her arm and dragging her out of the Grill.

"Ric!" Damon called across the parking lot spotting them.

"Damon," Ric said running them across the parking lot.

"Here I'll take Brea," Damon said holding his arms out.

Ric released Brea's hand but Brea didn't move. "Yeah, she's not going anywhere with you," Jenna snorted.

Damon looked at Brea, "I have Elena, Brea let's go."

Brea nodded understanding. "It's ok Jenna. I left something of mine at the boarding house a while ago. I just have to go get it. I'll be home soon," she said moving towards Damon who wrapped his arm around her, guiding her to his car.

"Are you ok? Your bleeding? Did he hurt you?" Damon asked.

"I'm fine. Just some flying glass," she said looking up at him as they reached the car.

"What?"

"You care."

"Of course, I care."

"You never show it."

"Yeah well. Don't tell anyone," Damon smirked. "Figured I've got a lot of grovelling to do with you so I may as well show you I care," he said with a smile before opening the car door.

"You changed," Brea said looking at Elena.

"Yeah, Katherine's in my clothes. They're setting up a trap at home for Dr Martin," Elena said sourly.

"Well that's a good idea isn't it?"

"I don't trust her. I don't want her in the house."

Brea scoffed. "Lena, she's trying to save your life. I'll admit it is unusual though."

They sat in silence the rest of the way home. After a few minutes, they reached the twin's house and went inside. Elena eventually broke the silence and asked Damon, "how did you guys convince her to do this?"

"We didn't," Damon said. "It was actually her idea."

"Wow. That's… not good."

"You could say thanks?" Brea offered.

"No. No, that's not good at all," Damon agreed with Elena.

"Everything's taken care of," Stefan said coming down the stairs.

"I'm guessing you're going to want this back," Katherine said taking off Elena's necklace. "But your pretty little outfit is going to need a good dry clean," Katherine said gesturing to Dr Martin's blood on Elena's top.

Elena stormed forward and snatched the necklace back before turning to Stefan. "You're going to have to get her out of here before Jenna gets home."

"Elena," Brea said disapprovingly.

"Is that all you have to say to me?" Katherine asked incredulously.

"This doesn't change the way I feel about you," Elena snarled.

"I don't much like you either," Katherine growled. "You let my sister stab herself, you're lucky I didn't kill you for that alone, but if we're going to be open. Frankly, I'd be happy to see you dead, but if we're going to try to take on Klaus, we kinda need you to be alive. So I'm not a threat to you, Elena. If any of you are going to believe anything, believe that. See you tomorrow, Brenna," Katherine said walking out of the house.

The Salvatores and Elena turned to face Brea at this, "I don't know what she's talking about. I don't have plans with her," Brea defended raising her hands.

"Hey," Elena and Brea greeted as Jenna walked through the door.

Brea got up from the couch and walked over to the entrance to greet her aunt. "You made it home," Elena noted.

"Tonight was very weird," Jenna said walking through the hall. "Everything with Ric, Brea going off with Damon, very weird," she said as she wandered into the kitchen.

"Tell me about it," Brea breathed before sharing a look with Elena. "Bambi?" Brea asked.

Elena glared, "no."

"Why not? Jer's with Bonnie. I have no other friends."

Elena tilted her head and smiled. "You have plenty of friends."

"None that are here and willing to watch Bambi!"

"I'm not willing," Elena said walking off.

"No, come back!" Brea said following Elena into the kitchen with Jenna.

"Are John and Jeremy asleep?" Jenna asked.

Elena looked at Brea with a smirk knowing Bonnie was upstairs. "I think so."

"If I go to bed right now, there's a chance I'll wake up hangover-free," Jenna mused.

"But if you go to bed right now, Elena and I will eat all of your ice cream," Brea said taking Jenna's spoon of ice cream and eating it.

Jenna looked at Elena and Elena nodded as the doorbell rang. "Who's that?" Jenna asked.

"I'm not answering," Brea said with a mouth full of ice cream. Jenna got up and went to answer the door. "Move," Brea whined, shoving her sister with her hip. Elena then looked in the direction that Jenna went and slowly stood up. Elena then started walking off. "Wait where are you going?" Brea asked before getting up to follow but not before taking another scoop of ice cream.

As Elena turned the corner to the hall, she stopped short causing Brea to walk into her. Brea moved from behind Elena to look at who shocked Elena. Brea's heart stopped as she took in Isobel standing in the doorway in front of Jenna. "I'm Brenna and Elena's mother," she greeted their aunt.

"Isobel," Elena all but hissed as Jenna stared at the girls in shock.

"Hello Elena, Brenna," Isobel greeted them from the doorway as Jenna stared at the girls. "It's nice to see you two again."

"Again?" Jenna breathed out in shock as she looked on the verge of tears.

"Bugger," Brea breathed out as Elena just opened and closed her mouth, unable to say anything.

"So you're the woman who's dating my husband," Isobel said with a smirk at Jenna. "I need to speak to the twins. May I come in?"

"No!" Elena said quickly finding words. "No. Don't invite her in."

"I need to talk to you both, Elena," Isobel argued.

"No!" Brea and Elena yelled as Elena leaned forward and slammed the door closed.

Brea and Elena looked up at Jenna as a tear finally fell from her eyes. "You both knew she was still alive?" The silence the twins gave her was answer enough. "And Ric? John? Did they know?"

"Jenna…" Brea started as she began to cry as well.

"I can explain everything, Jenna," Elena said.

"No," Jenna said storming up the stairs.

"Jenna please!" Brea called.

"Wait. Jenna!" Elena called after her.

"Jenna! Please wait," the girls cried as Jenna slammed her bedroom door closed and locked it.

"Jenna, you have to talk to us," Elena pleaded.

"We can explain everything, Jenna, please. Talk to us," Brea said knocking on the door.

"Jenna, please. I…" Elena started before going quiet as the twins heard Jenna crying from the other side of the door. Brea started to cry more and slowly slid down the door and Elena sat down next to her. That was the way the twins sat for the rest of the night.

"Hey, hey, wake up," Elena said shaking Brea awake from the floor.

"Did she come out?" Brea asked.

"No. Damon called Ric. He's at the door," Elena explained. Brea nodded and got up to follow her sister.

"Hey, is she up yet?" Ric asked coming into the house.

The twins shook their heads and Elena explained, "she won't come out of her room."

"What did you tell her?" Ric asked.

"Nothing," Brea yawned. "She won't talk to us."

"We're going to have to fix this guys," Ric sighed.

"Yeah," the twins breathed as Jenna began coming downstairs. "Hey!" the twins greeted.

"Jenna," Ric started.

"I don't want you here, Ric. You need to go," Jenna said without looking at any of them.

"Listen, I can't begin to imagine what you must be feeling right now," Ric tried to say.

"Rage and betrayal would pretty much cover it," Jenna said and Brea nodded her head.

"Where are you going?" Elena asked.

"I'm going to stay on campus. I have a thesis to write and I don't wanna be in this house," Jenna said.

"Jenna, please, just stop. Let us explain to you exactly what is going on," Ric pleaded.

"Brea or Elena. I need one of you two to go to the Lockwoods today and accept the Historical Society's check for your mom's foundation," Jenna said.

"Okay, but Jenna, please just," Elena tried to say before Jenna cut her off.

"I don't have it in me to hear any more lies from you," Jenna growled before running out of the house.

"Jenna just-" Brea tried to say as the door slammed.

"Let her go," John spoke from behind them.

Brea turned around and yelled, "shut up!"

John ignored her outburst and continued. "It's better that she's not here with everything that's going on. But maybe if you had been a little more honest with her from the beginning, this-" John said before Alaric cut him off by punching him in the face. Both twins gasped in shock and jumped back at this.

"Sorry Brea, Elena," Ric said letting himself out of the house.

The twins turned to John and Elena sneered "you know this is your fault, right?"

"Right," John admitted looking down. Elena scoffed and took Brea's hand and dragged them upstairs.

"Not it for the Historical Society gig as well," Brea said before Elena could get out of it and Elena groaned as they stormed up the stairs.

Brea was pacing in her room calling Jenna's phone when Elena and Stefan came and stood in the doorway.

"Caroline told Matt about vampires last night," Stefan explained. "He freaked out about Vicki and ran out, Caroline can't find him."

"Oh shit!"

"And now she doesn't know where he is," Elena added.

"There's a place in the woods he, Ty and I used to go to when we were younger. Like a clubhouse, he could be there?" Brea suggested and then turned around hearing footsteps behind.

"Brea, Elena, can you two come downstairs, please? I need to talk to you both," John said.

"We've nothing to say to you," both twins snapped.

"Please. It's important. You too, Stefan." The twins looked at each other, rolled their eyes and began making their way downstairs, followed by Stefan. As they reached the bottom of the stairs they both froze as they took in the sight of Isobel standing in their kitchen.

"You've got to be kidding me!" Brea growled.

"I asked John for a do-over," Isobel said.

Elena spun around to glare at John. "You invited her in!"

"She has information about Klaus," he said quietly. "Please just listen to her okay?"

"We could have listened to her at the Grill. You don't invite vampire bitch moms into the house, John!" Brea yelled.

Both twins looked at Stefan and he nodded, stepping forward. "Alright, what do you know?"

"Since I was last here, I've been doing everything possible to find Klaus. We knew our best chance was to find him before he could find you."

"Best chance at what?" Stefan asked.

"Keeping Elena alive and keeping Brea with her family," John answered.

"You don't get to talk, okay?" Elena said to John. "Not after everything you've done."

"Were you able to find Klaus?" Stefan asked trying to avoid a fight.

"No. Nobody knows where he is."

"Great," Brea snarked. "So you're no help."

Isobel looked at Brea before continuing, "There are these rumours that are flying around that a doppelgänger exists."

"Which means that any vampire that wants to get in favour with Klaus, will be lining up to capture you. You find the doppelganger, you find Brea as well. Two for one deal with Klaus."

"I'm not buying any of this," Elena said before facing Isobel. "The last time that you were here, you make it clear that you didn't give a damn about us and now all of a sudden I'm supposed to believe you want to help?"

"Isobel's been helping all along," John explained. "Klaus has been obsessed with finding Katherine for centuries and Brea for a millennium. All it would take was one of those 1864 tomb vampires to spread the word around that Katherine was still alive and it would bring him straight here to Mystic Falls where you were both bound to be discovered. So we killed them."

"And almost killed Stefan and Damon in the process!" Elena snapped.

"And you did kill Anna!" Brea yelled as well.

"Yeah," John admitted.

Isobel stood up, "I have a safe house that I can take you both to. The deed is in both of your names. No vampires can get in without your permission. Not even me. Let me help you."

Elena walked up to Isobel. "You want to help? Then get the hell out of our house."

"Agreed," Brea smirked. "You know where the door is."

"Matt!" Brea yelled as she and Caroline walked through the woods.

"Are you sure he's out here? This place is gross," Caroline complained.

"It's the first place I'd go. Anyway, our hangout is close to here. So you can't come any further."

"Wait, what?"

"Sacred childhood promise. You get it."

"No. No, I don't. We have to find Matt."

"Look, I'm sure you, Elena and Bonnie have a hangout you haven't told me about."

"No. We included you in everything."

"Huh."

"Come on, let's just go to the place," Caroline said taking a step forward.

"No can do," Brea sang. "Look, Care, I'm worried about Matt, but we made a blood pact, I really don't want to see if they make me follow through on the punishment."

"Brea!"

"Care!"

"Fine, fine. Go on. I'll wait here," Caroline said crossing her arms.

"Thank you!" Brea smiled walking off. After walking for a minute and checking the area, she walked back to Caroline. "I think he was there, but he's not anymore."

"How can you tell?"

"There's a rock. We have to sign our initials each time we go there. His initials are the last ones."

"How do you know they're from now?" Caroline asked as they started walking back towards the Lockwoods.

"Well, I was there a week ago, when Ty ran away. So I signed it last, so that means he's been there sometime in the week, I'd assume that's today because you know… vampires."

"We're here!" Caroline said before running off.

"Wait… Care!" Brea called running after her friend.

"Mrs Lockwood, have you seen Matt?" Caroline asked running into the house, Brea on her tail. "I thought he was working a catering shift at today's luncheon."

"Hey Mrs Lockwood," Brea breathed as she tried to regain her breath.

Mrs Lockwood looked between the two girls. "No, I haven't, honey, sorry. But, if you see him, could you ask if he's heard from Tyler? I know Brea has a bit, I was just hoping maybe he had as well."

"Yeah of course," Caroline agreed.

"I'm sorry Mrs Lockwood, I don't think he has, but we'll make sure to double-check," Brea also promised.

"You still haven't heard anything?" Caroline asked Mrs Lockwood.

"No. The note he left said he needed time to figure some things out. But, I wish I knew where he was."

"Uh, excuse us," Caroline said after rubbing Mrs Lockwood's arm. She then grabbed Brea's arm and dragged her along behind her.

"Ow, ow, ow, I'm just a little human, don't hurt me," Brea whispered trying to yank her arm out of Caroline's grip.

"Hey," Stefan greeted the pair as they reached him and Elena. "Any luck finding Matt?"

"None," Caroline replied dejectedly. "What if he tells somebody? What if he tells everybody?"

"We just got to find him and make sure that doesn't happen," Stefan tried to reassure. "Do you have any idea where he'd be?" Stefan asked Elena.

"I wish I did. Brea would have a better idea than me, but he wasn't really one to run," Elena said and Brea nodded in agreement.

"You know, this wasn't how it was supposed to happen," Caroline said sadly. "I was supposed to tell him at the right moment, in the right way and he was supposed to be okay because he loves me."

"Well I mean you did save his life last night, he could've said thanks before he flipped out," Brea shrugged.

Elena tilted her head at this comment, before shaking her head. "We'll help you find him I just have to accept this thing for Jenna."

"All right," Caroline said nodding. "Call me when you're done and I'll be out looking for him," Caroline said leaving.

"So, she left me," Brea said as she watched Caroline leave. "And she was my ride, so I'm going to hang around with you guys."

"Maybe he'll come around," Stefan said comforting Elena. "You both did."

Elena smiled and then turned to Brea. "So now you're going to hang around at a function you forced me to come to because you didn't want to go?"

"Pretty much," Brea nodded. "Do you think they've got food around here somewhere?"

"So someone bit John?" Brea asked. Stefan and Elena had run outside and grabbed Brea, quickly pulling her towards the car. Someone had attacked John in the middle of the house.

"It's Isobel, Damon. It's gotta be," Elena said on the phone as they walked to the car.

"Tell him he needs to get over here and deal with John's body," Stefan said.

"You got some serious explaining to do to the council about John being not-so-dead," Elena said pocketing the phone. As soon as the phone was away Stefan shoved her into the back of the car.

"Stefan!" Brea yelled. "What the hell?"

Stefan ignored her and grabbed Elena's arms. "Where the hell is she, huh?"

Brea gasped. "Katerina," she realised.

Stefan let out a loud groan as Katherine plunged a syringe filled with vervain into his stomach. "I'm sorry, Stef, but I can't have you following us," she said as Stefan fell unconscious.

"Us?" Brea asked panicked as Katherine threw Stefan into a bush.

Katherine then opened the door to the passenger seat in Stefan's car. "Get in." Brea turned to run away but Katherine was right there. "Get in."

"No. Let me go. What did you do to my sister? Why did you betray Stefan? Why do you want me to come with you?"

"Enough questions," Katherine groaned spinning Brea around and grabbing her arm pulling her to the car. "Now get in. Please." Brea huffed but reluctantly got in the car. "To answer your questions, she's with Isobel, she's meeting us soon, she's fine, for now. I betrayed Stefan because I got a better deal with someone I think has a better chance of winning. I took you because you're coming with us. After we trade Elena and the moonstone to Klaus, I'll have my freedom and we can go wherever we want."

"What!" Brea yelled eyes filling with tears. "You can't do this. You can't. She's my sister. You're a monster," she growled as they pulled into a driveway.

"Get out and get inside. Please," Katherine said, avoiding Brea's eyes as she dialled a number on her phone. "We're at your house. But we have to hurry. Damon knows your lodging tricks," Katherine said into her phone, giving Brea a gentle shove through the doorway. "It will take them 20 minutes to find out where you're staying." Brea stomped into the house. "Good. How far are you?" "He? He who?" Katherine asked, which got Brea's attention. As Brea spun around she saw a man standing in the doorway and gasped loudly, making Katherine turn as well. "Run!" Katherine yelled at Brea before she ran at the man. Brea took off to start running into another room. Katherine only got halfway to the man when he stuck out his hand towards her, causing her to scream in pain, freezing Brea in her tracks.

"Katerina," she breathed running back towards her sister. Brea caught her as she fell to the ground unconscious. "Stop it! Stop it!" Brea screamed at the warlock as he circled them. Brea pulled Katherine's body close to her as the man got closer.

"Let her go," the man said.

"No."

"He doesn't want you just yet. He just wants her. He'll see you later," the warlock said before he started chanting.

"What are you doing?" Brea asked as her vision blurred and she slowly fell unconscious on the floor.

Brea groaned as she woke up, "Brenna?" a voice called to her. "Would be really handy if you woke up right about now."

"Damon?" Brea groaned.

"Brea?" a softer voice spoke.

"Lena?"

"Yep," Damon said. "You awake?"

"Getting there," Brea groaned as she sat up on the couch as Damon left the room.

"Are you ok Brea?" Elena asked.

"I think so. Katherine dragged me back to some house. She thought that we were trading you and the moonstone to Klaus and that we'd run off into the sunset together. Isobel betrayed her. A warlock came, and he knocked her out. For Klaus. He told me that he didn't need me right now, but he'd be back for me. He knows you're here Elena. What happened to you?

"Isobel's dead."

"What?"

"She took me to where her parents made a grave for her. She told me that she used to dream about the day she would meet her twin daughters. I think Klaus compelled her to betray us. I don't think she wanted to do it. She got a call and then after that, she took off her daylight necklace and just caught fire in front of me," she said sadly.

"Wow," Brea sighed. "What a bad day."

"Yeah," Elena sighed in agreement as she fiddled with Isobel's necklace.

"That Isobel's?" Stefan asked entering the room after he heard the twins stop talking.

Elena nodded. "I never thought I would feel bad about her being dead, and yet…"

"Same," Brea agreed.

"She was your mother," Stefan said to the twins.

"Why did they let me go?" Elena asked

Stefan shook his head unsure. "Well, anything that John told Isobel, we have to assume Klaus knows, right? So he knows that you're not going to turn yourself into a vampire. He knows that you have us keeping you safe."

"He knows that I'm not going to run," Elena realised.

"Which is why we need to take some precautions," Damon said coming back into the room. "Because we got played, all of us," he said with a small smile before placing a wad of papers on Elena's lap.

"What's this?" Elena asked.

"Why don't you have a look before you ask Lena?" Brea sniggered leaning over and grabbing the papers. "Woah," she said when she realised what they were.

"It's the deed to our house, it's in Zach's name," Stefan explained to Elena. "As soon as you sign it, it will be in your name."

"Cool!" Brea laughed handing the papers back to Elena.

"You're giving me your house?" Elena asked incredulously.

"Isobel had the right idea with the safe house, just stay here till it's over," Stefan said. "That way you can control who gets invited in and who doesn't."

"Although I'll be super pissed if you lock me out," Damon said.

"Good idea Damon thanks!" Brea smirked. "I mean it's a good idea, Lena. Would hate for Klaus to, oh I don't know, dress up as a pizza delivery guy and have Jer invite him in. Sound familiar?" as soon as she said that John gasped back to life from the ground. "Wow, I did not even see him there," Brea said jumping.

Damon immediately ran at him and held him up to the wall as John started pleading, "I swear, I have no idea what she was going to do. I'm sorry." John then turned to face the girls who were standing together, "I'm so, so, sorry," he said to them sincerely.