Jenna locks herself in her bedroom and Elena and I press our faces to the door. "Jenna, you have to talk to us. I...I need to explain what's going on. Jenna, please" I beg but she doesn't answer and I could hear her sobs on the other side of the door causing tears to roll out of my eyes

-- --

I woke up a few minutes ago and Jenna still hasn't come out of her room or even talked to us but right now I'm downstairs watching one tree hill but the doorbell rings.

"Elena! The door." I shout upstairs. She runs downstairs but then narrows her eyes at me. "You were here the whole time?" She accuses and I shrug making her roll her eyes as she goes towards the door.

I stay watching my show until I hear Ric's voice. "Is she up yet?" He asks walking into the living room. "She won't come out of her room."

"What'd you tell her?"

"Nothing. She won't talk to us." I answer. "We're gonna have to fix this." Ric sighs. I finally get off the couch when I see Jenna coming down the stairs. I look at her not really knowing what to expect. "Hey." Elena greets. Ric gives her this apologetic look. "Jenna."

"I don't want you here, Ric. You need to go."

"Okay, listen. I can't begin to imagine what you must be feeling right now." He starts and she scoffs. "Rage and betrayal would pretty much cover it."

She puts on her jacket and takes her bag up and I furrow my eyebrows at her. "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to stay on campus. I have a thesis to write, and I don't want to be in this house." She replies. "Jenna, please just stop." Ric pleads. "Let us explain to you exactly what is going on."

"Emily,  I need you to go to the Lockwood's today and accept the Historical Society's check for your mom's foundation."

Damn that one hurt. Very few times Jenna calls me Emily and it's never good.

"Okay, but, Jenna, please just.." I start but she cuts be off. "I don't have it in me to hear any more lies from you." She leaves and walk out of the door.

Fuck this whole life.

John comes out of nowhere and he has the worst possible timing. "Let her go. It's better that she's not here, what with everything that's going on." He says. "but maybe had you been a little more honest with her from the beginning, this..." he continues but before he could finish Ric punches him in his face and my eyes basically light up in amusement while I try to hide my smile.

Ric looks between Elena and I with an apologetic look. "Sorry."

"Feel free to take another go." I shrug and he walks out of the house. "You know this is your fault, right?" Elena accuses at John who's still holding his face. "Right." He mutters. Elena storms off upstairs and I glare at John. "You're a really shitty person." I say and then go back to my seat on the couch watching my show.

There's a knock at the door and I get up and open it. Vicki standing outside and she looks upset about something. "What's wrong?" I as stepping aside for her to come in.

"Matt knows." She says walking in. I tilt my head at her narrowing my eyes in a confused way. "Knows what?"

"Everything." She answers. "Crap."

"Yeah, he was at Caroline's and I don't know what happened but now he knows everything and no one can find him." She explains. "I'll try to call him. Are you okay?"

"He's freaking scared of me, my brother is scared of me Em and I can't compell him because I have no freaking idea where he is."

I take out my phone and dial Matt's number while Vicki and I walk upstairs. The call goes straight to voicemail. "Hey um where are you? Call me when you get this."

"Didn't answer?" She asks and I shake my head causing her to sigh in defeat.

I call Caroline next and after I'm finished I hang up. "Caroline's out looking for him."

She groans in annoyance. "This is all her fault in the first place. You know what whatever, what's up with you?"

"Um.. well Isobel came back, Jenna found out we've been lying and now she'll barely look at us." I shrug and tears run down Vicki's face. Um...

"Did I say something, no no why are you crying?"

I kinda panic when people cry in front of me. I'm not the best at handling people's emotions.

"I've been a shitty friend." She says and I shake my head. "No, no you haven't."

"Yes I have, I didn't even know about the whole Jenna thing and I didn't even know that Tyler almost killed you and I'm supposed to be your best friend and I haven't been there." She argues. "If anything, I've been a crappy friend, if it makes you feel better...we've both been shitty." I chuckle and she laughs slightly.

"I know I've been distant but it's only because I'm scared, I just want things to be normal again, I don't want to die, I don't want you or anyone else to die." She cries and I hug her. "You're not going to die, neither am I or anyone else." I assure. "You don't know that."

"Nope I don't but like always we protect eachother."

"Emily." John calls. I wipe my tears releasing Vicki and see John at my door. "Leave."

"can you come downstairs, please? I need to talk to you." He says. "I have nothing to say to you."

He flashes this pleading look. "Please. It's important." He pleads and looks over at Vicki. "You, too."

I roll my eyes at him before getting off my bed. "This better be good."

We go downstairs and Elena and Stefan are already there. "What is this?" I ask. "I asked John for a do-over." Isobel announces revealing herself and I narrow my eyes at John. "You invited her in?!"

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

"What do you know?" Stefan asks her.

We go into the kitchen and I sit up on the counter top. "Since I was last here, I've been doing everything possible to find Klaus." Isobel admits. "We knew our best chance was to find him before he could find you."

I raise an eyebrow at her. "Best chance at what?"

"Keeping you and Elena alive." John elaborates. "You don't get to talk, okay, not after everything you've done." Elena snaps at him. Not gona lie I'm quite proud of my sister.

"Were you able to find Klaus?" Vicki questions.

"No."

"Nobody knows where he is but there are these rumors that are flying around. That the doppelgängers exist."

"Which means any vampire that wants to get in favor with Klaus will be lining up to capture you." John adds and I scoff. "I'm not buying any of this."

"The last time that you were here, you made it clear that you didn't give a damn about us. Now all of a sudden I'm supposed to believe that you want to help?" Elena scoffs at Isobel.

"Isobel's been helping all along." John defends. "Klaus has been obsessed with finding Katherine for centuries. All it would take was any 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 bound to be discovered, so we killed them."

"And almosy killed me, Stefan and Damon in the process." Vicki argues.
Isobel gets up now only looking between Elena and I. "I have a safe house that I can take you to. The deed is in both your names. No vampires can get in without your permission, not even me. Let me help you."

As I'm about to say something Elena beats me to it. "You wanna help? Then get the hell out of my house."

Damn Lena.

Isobel leaves and we go over to the boarding house to meet Damon plus John is lurking around our house so... make that make sense.

Right now, Elena, Vicki, Damon, Stefan and I are in the study talking.

"You know, both od you should just stay here. It's better for us to keep an eye on you." Damon suggests. "What, in the house that any vampire can enter? No. their house is safer." Stefan argues and Damon shrugs. "Well, then we'll stay there."

Okay enough of this. "No. so what? We just never leave your site again? we don't need bodyguards."

"Let me know when you come up with a better one." Damon comments and I raise my eyebrows at him. "Fine. Then one of you bodyguards is gonna have to come with me to the Lockwood luncheon."

"Actually, Bonnie and I need your help with witch stuff." He says. "Does that mean you're taking her to the..." I start but he gestures to be quiet and points upstairs.

"Bonnie's strong enough you don't need me." I shrug. "So Stef looks like you're stuck with me."

"Don't get quiet on my account. If you have a plan to combat the impending vampire doom, please do tell." Katherine starts walking into the room.

"Seriously, what is the plan to get us out of this mess, hmm? I delivered you a moonstone, a werewolf, and the dagger to lure and kill Klaus, and right now all you have is a moonstone."

"Or so you tell me." She continues.

"No we have it." Damon defends. "Where is it?" She asks. "It's in a very safe place."

"I've been honest with you. Time to return the favor." She says. "Hate to break it to you kit kat but no one here owes you anything." I tell her and she shoots me a tight smile before rolling her eyes.

"Don't mistake the fact that we haven't set you on fire in your sleep for trust." Damon adds. "Fine. Be that way." She leaves.

"Emmy you ready?" Stefan asks. "Yep lets go."

We walk into the Lockwood mansion where I haven't been in a while.

"Hey. Any luck finding Matt?" Stefan asks as Caroline walks over to us. "None." She answers and she gets her worried Caroline look. "What if he tells somebody? What if he tells everybody?"

"He wouldn't do that. As much as he probably hates everyone right now, he wouldn't put you or Vicki in danger." I tell her. "Do you have any idea where he would be?" Stefan asks me and I shrug. "Matt was never really one to run... but you can check the treehouse or down by the waterfall."

Caroline gasps. "Oh my god yes the treehouse, totally forgot about that."

"You know, I was supposed to tell him at the right moment in the right way, and he was supposed to be okay with it because he loves me." She tells us. See now Stefan's gona be nice because he has his sincere face on. "We'll help you find him after we're finished." He assures.

"right. Well, call me when you're done, and I'll be out looking for him."

"I thought the treehouse was just a you, Vicki, Matt and Tyler thing, how'd she seem to know what you meant?" Stefan notices and I scoff. "That's a long story."

We go to continue walking but Carol comes up to me. "Hey Emmy, nice to see you... by any chance do you know where Tyler went?" She asks. "Sorry, uh... we haven't really talked in a bit."

She flashes a small sad smile. "I'm sorry, thank you."

Carol walks over to the room that I'm guessing I'm supposed to go to so Stefan and I follow her.

We take our seats and after a while Carol finally announces my name and I walk up.

"Uh... hi. The Historical Society was my mom's baby. She considered all of you family and would be honored and touched by this gift."

There's a loud thod and as I peak out the door, John is laying on the floor, either dead or unconscious . Either way it serves him right.

Everyone follows my gaze, Stefan is already up and out the door followed by everyone else. I walk out of the room last but before I can get to anyone black dots cloud my vision and everything goes pitch black.

Maybe I do need a bodyguard.

I blink quickly to clear up my blurry vision and I'm in a car. Of course I'm in a car. I think I'm in a trunk. I glance around and Elena's next to me. "Lena." I call trying to wake her up. "Lena!" I kick her foot and she groans. Her eyes open and she shoots uo but hits her head and I snort earning a glare. "Sorry. So not the time." I breathe out. As I'm about to try a spell to get us out of here the car stops and the trunk opens.  It takes a while for my eyes to adjust to the light but when it does I see Isobel.

Of course.

"Just because you can't be compelled doesn't mean I can't force you to come with me." She warns and Elena and I get out. "So is that what happened? You were compelled to betray Katherine?" Elena asks getting out.

"If I was, I couldn't tell you." She answers. We're at a cemetery for some reason. Did I mention cemeteries are on of my fears.

"So you lied." I accuse. "You did find Klaus, didn't you? He knows where we now. Are you taking me to him?"

She doesn't answer but she stops walking and crouches down next to a tomb stone. "What the fuck is this?"

She clears some leaves from it and I finally understand. This was her tomb stone. "My parents, your grandparents, they put it here when it became clear that the police weren't gonna find my body." She explains. "They visit every week, and they bring flowers, even though there's no one buried here. The Isobel they knew is dead. So maybe there's a part of me that's buried here, the-the human part, the part that I abandoned when I-when I choose to become a vampire, the part that used to dream about the day that she'd know her daughters."

"Save it. Why are you showing us this?" I ask boredly and she shrugs. "instead you got to meet the other part...The part that would betray her own flesh and blood."

Her phone rings and I roll my eyes as she answers it. She talks for a few minutes and then hangs up with a sigh of relief.

"Who was that?" Elena asks. "I'm sorry Elena and Emmy. I was a disappointment to you." Why the heck is she acting so weird.

Suddenly she pulls off her necklace and she ignites in flames. She screams as the flames engulf her body and I stand there staring at the scene in front of me. Her burnt body falls to the ground and I glance over at Elena.

Her jaw is slightly dropped and tears roll down het face while I don't feel guilty or bad, I don't feel one bit of remorse for her. Maybe if I got to know the human her I may have felt differently but what's done is done.

I wrap my arms around Elena. "You okay?" I ask her and she shakes her head. "We're gona be okay." I assure.

We're back at the boarding house and I'm laying on the couch with my head resting on Damon's lap. Elena and Stefan is on the couch opposite us and Vicki's on the one person couch.

"Why did they let us go?" Elena wonders out loud. "Well, anything John told Isobel, we have to assume that Klaus knows, right? So he knows that you're not gonna turn yourselves into vampires. He knows that you have us keeping you safe." Stefan lists. "He knows we're not gonna run." I add.

"Which is why we need to take some precautions, 'cause we got played, all of us." Damon chimes in. He reaches over to the table and reveals some papers. I sit up now looking over his shoulder. "What is this?"

"It's the deed to our house. It's in Zach's name." Stefan explains. "And As soon as you both  sign it, it'll be in your names." Damon finishes.

I raise my eyebrows at them in surprise. "You're giving us your house?"

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

"Although I'll be super pissed if you lock me out." Damon comments and I smile mischievously at him. "So all I need to do to get a house is get on the hit list of some big bad vamp guy." Vicki chimes and Damon rolls his eyes at her.

"Try it and see." Damon taunts and she flashes him a smile while flipping him off.

"No get a rich vampire boyfriend and make him fall for you... make sure he's kinda hot though and then take the house." I smirk. "You're still not funny." Damon says and I smile up at him. Suddenly someone gasps and only when Damon rushes over to him, I noticed he was here. "Was he always just laying there?" I ask and of course no one answers.

Damon grabs him by his shirt color. "I swear I had no idea what she was gonna do. I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry." John apologizes. "Let him go,I need to talk to him." Elena says and Damon releases him. She wants to talk to John I don't. as far as I'm concerned John and Isobel will never be my parents.

Vicki went home to Matt. Appreciate he begged Caroline to compell him so she did, Elena's talking to John and last time I checked, Damon was downstairs talking to Stefan and I am in his bedroom laying down on his bed.

The bed shifts next to me and it's Damon. "How you doing?" He asks. "You want the honest answer?" He makes a humming noise. "Not good." I reply and I shift resting my head on his chest. "I don't want to die, I know it's selfish but even if it means other people have to...I don't want to die." I breathe out as he runs his hand through my hair.

"You're not going to die. Bonnie got the spell to destroy Klaus and with the both of y'all working together..."

"What if it doesn't work." I argue. "It will.. and if it doesn't, I would never let anything bad happen to you...now get some rest." He assures. I turn around kissing him and then my phone buzzes so I lean over picking it up.

I unlock my phone and it's a picture that Izzy sent me. Damon looks over my shoulder at what I'm looking at. "What is that?" He asks and I shrug. I don't know what it is but it looks like some kind of  bronze dagger or knife and it has a symbol of a snake engraved in it. "What is that?" I text back. "If dipped in mountain ash and witch hazel, it's the only thing that can kill a fighter. Good thing is there's only one in the world, bad thing is no one knows where it is or if if it even actually exists." She says and I let out a sigh. I hand Damon the phone showing him the text. He doesn't say anything and he turns resting the phone back on the bedside table.

"Everything will be fine just get some rest." He tells me and I close my eyes. Will it though because it doesn't feel like anything is going to be okay.