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AN: I forgot that it was still day not night so I just changed that. Sorry for any confusion :)

Elena and Bonnie resumed their seats on the beds after their failed escape attempt whilst Ben paced in front of them.

"Witches don't have eternal life, right? So you guys can die." Ben said curiously.

"Yep. We can die." Bonnie said glaring at him.

"Ah. That sucks." Ben said before the door was suddenly kicked open by Stefan. He had locked himself in his room for a while, just crying, before he remembered Elena and Bonnie being kidnapped. He couldn't wallow until he had them both safe so he reluctantly left his room to save them. Every move of his felt sluggish, everything felt meaningless, and every moment knowing she was gone felt as if someone had ripped his heart out of his chest. Even Sheila had noticed something wrong and asked if he was alright but he just shook his head, he couldn't even put into words how much he was not alright so he didn't say anything.

Ben screamed as the sunlight starts to burn his skin. Stefan rips the curtain open, allowing more sunlight to pour in as Ben hides in the darkness between the two beds.

"Stefan!" Elena said shocked before both her and Bonnie quickly dash out the door.

"Let's get outside!" Stefan said to them but before he left he walks over to Ben and he doesn't know what came over him, all he had wanted to do was threaten him but it was like a force just took over him and all of a sudden he was looking down at the guy's rapidly healing, bruised up body and his own bloodied hands. Stefan had no idea what just happened but he still had to threaten the guy just in case he came back for Elena so he said, "When the sun goes down, leave town. If I ever see you again, I will kill you." Then he left wiping the blood off his hands, trying to clear his mind but thoughts of her wouldn't leave him alone, he felt moments away from breaking down but he knew what that would lead to. He couldn't go against her last wish no matter what though so he pushed it all aside, he would deal with it later.

Bonnie was sitting next to her Grandmother as she asked curiously, "How did you know where we were?"

"Many things can fuel a witches power. Worry. Anger. After Stefan told me they had taken you, I had a lot of both. Simple locater spell was easy after that." Sheila explained."I'm sorry. About all of this." Bonnie apologized.

"Not as sorry as they're gonna be." Sheila said as she smirked at her granddaughter.

Stefan and Elena then enter the room as Elena said, "So what do we do now?"

"Well, for now, you need to stay here," Stefan said to them, he didn't want them getting hurt after all. He leant his back against the wall as his mind began to wander before abruptly pulling himself back to the present when Sheila answered his demand.

"A prisoner, in my own home? I don't think so." Sheila said her brows furrowed as she looked at him scrutinizingly, there was something bothering him, something deep. When he had come here to tell her about Bonnie, she noticed the tortured look in his eyes before they went blank and now it was the same look again.

"I can't protect you if you leave the house." Stefan said ignoring the voice in his head telling him he couldn't care less, Lyra was dead, nothing mattered anymore, just turn it off, all the pain you're feeling will go away just like that, but again he ignored it. Lyra had asked him not to and he would honor that wish till his dying breath no matter how much pain he was in, she deserved at least that much, she meant more to him than to disregard her last wish only moments after receiving it.

"We'll protect ourselves." Sheila said forcefully, she didn't understand the turmoil she could see behind Stefan's eyes and asking in front of them would not help matters so she left it alone.

"We need to let him have Katherine back. He's not going to stop until he gets her. If we help him, maybe that ends it." Elena said after a moment, it was the only logical solution.

"No! He doesn't deserve to get what he wants." Bonnie said angrily.

"What other choice do we have?" Elena asked turning to Stefan for support here but he wasn't looking at any of them, he was staring off into space, she tried to get his attention but it wasn't working, she had noticed that there was something off about him ever since he had saved them so she vowed to ask him later what was bothering him.

"Witches being pulled down by vampire problems. As much as we tried to do to stay out of it. I'll open the tomb. You get your brother's girl and destroy the rest with fire. Then this will be all over." Sheila said unhappily, she did not want herself nor her granddaughter to get caught up in this but right now, they had no choice.

"We still have to get Damon to agree." Stefan reminded them after he came out of his mind once again, as much as he tried to push the memories away, they just randomly popped up. Like the time when Lyra, Lexi and him had gone out to watch a movie a long while ago, Lyra's presence made it so much fun, Lexi literally adored her, she had always been sweet and kind to everyone she's met and her innocent look also helped with making everyone easily love her.

"He already agreed once," Elean said.

"Yeah, and then we double-crossed him. So now he's angry." Stefan countered.

"He's hurt. There's a difference. I think I know what I have to do." Elena said as she looked at Stefan but again he looked somewhere far off.

[Motel Room]

Anna walked back up to the motel room only to see the door wide open and no one but Ben inside and she said, "You've got to be kidding me."

Anna walks in and looks over at Ben, who is still crouched between the two beds, his hoodie over his head as he tried to defend himself, "It was Stefan. There was nothing I could..."

Anna holds her finger up to stop him as she said, "Shut up! Stop talking." She rubbed her face with her hands and sits down on a chair before saying a moment later, "Without the witch, we don't have Damon or the grimoire. Damon's not gonna stop. He'll find a way in. And we're gonna be there when he does."

[Salvatore Boarding House]

Damon was putting on his jacket preparing to leave when Elena entered the room and removes her scarf. Damon looks up at her surprised and says, "I'm gonna have to change the locks. You stage a jailbreak?"

He picks up the grimoire as he said this whilst Elena answered him, "Stefan."

"Ah, brother. Ever the white knight." Damon said a little surprised that Stefan had went to save them after his break down before, which still annoyingly wouldn't leave his mind.

"Speaking of Stefan, would you know if there's something wrong with him? He's been acting really weird." Elena said confused and concerned.

"No idea." Damon said even though he knew, there was honestly no point in telling all of that right now, he was still coming to terms with it himself.

Elena sighed at that before she said what she had came here to say, "I convinced Bonnie to help you."

"I doubt that." Damon said scoffing at that in disbelief.

Elena walks around the edge of the study towards the stairs, leading to the sunken part of the room where Damon is as she said, "I'm not gonna say that I'm sorry we got the grimoire without you last night, because I'm not really."

"Well, at least you're honest," Damon said still not forgiving of her betrayal, she had lied to him and went behind his back.

"I was protecting the people I love, Damon. But so were you, in your own, twisted way. And as hard as it is to figure, we're all on the same side, after the same thing." Elena said as she descends the stairs.

"Not interested." Damon said before he starts to leave.

"Yes you are, because you were willing to work with us yesterday," Elena said desperately, she really needed him to agree.

Damon turned around to say, "Fool me once, shame on you."

"Okay, when we were in Atlanta, why didn't you use your compulsion on me?" Elena then asked.

Damon places the grimoire on a table and walks towards Elena, crossing his arms as he raised an eyebrow at her and said, "Who's to say I didn't?"

"You didn't. I know you didn't. But you could have. You and I...we have something. An understanding. And I know that my betrayal hurt you, different from how it is with you and Stefan, but I'm promising you this now, I will help you get Katherine back." Elena said truthfully.

Damon groans unconvinced as he said, "I wish I could believe you."

Elena tries her last tactic and unclasps her necklace, takes it off holding it in her hand, showing it to Damon as she said, "Ask me if I'm lying now."

She places the necklace down on a table and waits for Damon to respond, he looks at her for a second as he says, "You know Anna won't stop, by the way, no matter what I do."

"Then we'll deal with it." Elena said before Damon picks her necklace up off the table and clasps it around her neck as he said, "I didn't compel you in Atlanta because we were having fun. I wanted it to be real. I'm trusting you. Don't make me regret it."

Before he could walk away they both suddenly turned to see a girl pop out of nowhere. Damon's eyes widened as he saw her face, it was the same face as the one in the pictures he saw in Stefan's photo album but she was supposed to be dead, right? What the hell was going on?