The room was quiet, the only thing you could hear was the pair's synchronised breathing. His arm was wrapped around her stomach, her back against his chest; his face buried in her hair as she held on to his that was being used as a pillow for her head. The sheets covered their body from the cold air. Their clothes were placed all around the room and shoes flung to the sides.

But the quiet pair were being disturbed as a man walked into the room, observing the scene around him. He walked quietly towards the pair on the sleeping bed, stopping right infront of the sleeping girl. Lily started to wake up, feeling Damon's arm around her stomach. She was going to go back to sleep when she thought someone was watching her. She opened her eyes and saw a man standing next to the bed staring at her. Her instincts came out and she punched him in the crotch. The man cried out in agony, falling to the ground holding his crotch.

Damon woke up to a girlish scream and looked around to see what had happened. Lily was sitting up in bed, clutching the blanket to her chest; staring at the ground. Damon sat up and looked down, seeing the definition of annoying.

"Stefan, what are you doing on the ground?" Damon rubbed his eyes, too tired to deal with his brother.

"Your girlfriend punch me in the crotch." Stefan groans into the floor. This doesn't normally happen to him, what with his vampire senses but Lily caught him by surprise.

"Well peeping tom here was just watching me sleep."

"Lily, it's o-Wait, what the hell are you doing here?"

"I wanted to talk to you."

"Fine we'll talk, outside. Get out."Stefan slowly drags himself out of the room, his body still aching from the attack. He closes the door behind him, leaving them alone."Sorry about my brother, he doesn't understand the concept of privacy." Damon places his arm around Lily and kisses her shoulder, trying to get her to calm down.

"You're not mad that I hit him."

"I'm very upset, I missed my awesome girlfriend kicking my brother's ass. I will never forgive you for that."Lily laughs at Damon and wraps her arms around his neck, bringing him in for a kiss. Damon pulls away and places a kiss on her nose. "Why don't you take a shower and I'll see what Mr. Creepy wanted."

"Alright, you can join me if you want when you're done." Lily smiles at him as she climbs out of bed with the sheet still wrapped around her.

"You're killing me woman." She giggles at him and walks towards the bathroom, dropping the sheet. Damon stares at as she leaves, then manages to get out of bed and pull on his jeans.

I have been seeing Lily now for about two weeks and they have been nothing but joyful. She is constantly smiling-which makes me smile-and is willing to do stupid, crazy things with me. The more we have gone out, the more confident she is. On our first date I could tell that she was nervous, but now. She has no problem calling me out on my bullshit.

I didn't realise that Bonnie was her new roommate though. That made for a pleasant surprise when I went to pick Lily for our date last week.

I was planning on taking Lily to the carnival, since she has never been to one before. So being the gentleman that I am, I went to go pick her up from her dorm room. I've never actually been inside before since we hadn't done it yet. And if we did, you don't really want two other people hearing you.

I knocked on the door, expecting to see Lily but instead I saw a face I never thought I would see here. "Damon, what are you doing here?"

"What are you doing here?" Did she know about Lily?

"I live here now." That's a no then.

"I know that. I came here to see you, of course." Smooth. Real smooth, you idiot.

"You didn't know I even lived here."

A lie, think of a lie."Uhh-" Oh no, Emma.

"Oh hey Damon, Lily will be back soon. She's just taking a shower." Well, that blew my cover.

"Thanks Emma." Bonnie pushed me out the door and shut it behind her, staring at me intently.

"You're the one that's dating Lily. You're the reason that she's been smiling so much." Bonnie noted with a small smile on her face.

I scoffed and rolled my eyes. "No." Way to make it obvious.

"Damon." Well, the secret's out. No point in hiding it anymore. Actually, I could say that I'm going to eat Lily, but that doesn't bold well for me since I actually like her. So, truth it is. Stefan would be so proud of me.

"Alright, yeah. I'm dating her."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"It was nice, having something all to myself. Knowing that everyone else wasn't going to

screw it up for me."

"But why didn't you tell me?"

"We just got back from psychoville and I thought you would want more time to adjust to everything; and I, just, you know, wanted to keep this to myself." I sound like a teenager being asked about his crush. Dear God, this is what Stefan sounds like. Oh god, I'm becoming Captain Forehead.

"I'm not mad, I just wish you told me." Not the guilt trip, uhhhh. I hate this.

"Well, know that you know. Can you not tell anyone about this? I rather not have Caroline and my brother trying to stick their noses in. Stefan is already bugging me with his obsession with having our 'brotherly bond' return." I wonder if he had a spiritual awakening that made if rethink his need to forget his brother. The brother that died saving him and his annoying friends. And who was that brother? Oh wait, that was me(!).

"I promise I'll keep it a secret; but that doesn't mean that I'm going to let this go. Know that I know you're dating my roommate, I can tell her lots of embarrassing things about you."

"What things?" I don't do weird things, at least not in Bonnie's presence.

"Things that I have heard though the grape vine, things that may not be true."

"Bonnie." I could hear the shower being turned off inside, Lily was done.

"Oh, did you hear that? Lily's out of the shower." Bonnie opened the door behind her."I guess you should have told me about her sooner, huh?" Oh, I've been a bad influence on Bonnie

"No no no, Bonnie!" She shut the door in my face, with a wicked smirk on hers. I pressed my forehead against the door and heard Bonnie speaking to Lily quitely. I'm in trouble now.

However, there's a problem though. There have been cases where I've almost revealed my vampire self, and I've had to walk away for a while. But she never asks me why, she doesn't pressure me. I told her about the lousy relationship I had with Stefan, and she didn't even try to meddle (unlike Elena). She didn't even know why we aren't close and didn't push me to tell her. She's something different, I feel like if I told her-which I'm not because it is far too early-she wouldn't try to kill me. Actually, I've never told someone that I was a vampire, not really. They usually already know or figure it out themselves because they're nosey.

"Alright Stef, what do you want?" Stefan was waiting for me by the kitchen, he had taken one of my ice packs from the freezer and placed it between his legs. My girl got him good.

"You didn't tell me you had a girlfriend."

"I don't tell you a lot of things." 'Cause we've always been the an open family, huh? "How'd you find out?"

"Enzo let it slip a few weeks ago."

"Really? That guy can't keep a secret." Reminder: Never tell Enzo anything, unless you want everyone to find out.

"Why didn't you tell me Damon?"

"What, are you telling me you suddenly care what happens to me?" Great, this again. Him pretending to care whilst he is secretly planning to stab me in the back later. And I'm the evil one.

"Of course I care, you're my brother." Sure(!).

"Well, you're not mine. You were going to let stay in that hell hole forever."

"I didn't know-" Like that's a good reason to give up. This isn't Buffy.

"I died for you, for the town. And what's the thanks I get? You move to another town to forget about me. Way to show the love, brother." I wonder if he had a hard time picking a place to run away, like a child.

"Look, I didn't come here to argue. Caroline heard about Lily and wants to meet her, tonight

for Thanksgiving"

'Really, well you can tell her she's not gonna." I knew this was gonna happen. They find out about Lily and they jump at the chance to roast her.

"Why not? We deserve to know her."

"You don't deserve anything. So, messenger boy, tell Barbie she's not meeting her."

"Caroline and I, aren't on good terms right now."

"Why? What'd you do?" How did prince charming hurt the princess? Did she found out that he's the most...boring person ever.

"I found out that she has feelings for me and I don't feel the same."

"You're just realising that now?" Aw, he didn't know that she wanted him to be the Ken to her Barbie.

"You knew?"

"How could I not? It was so obvious. I was dead for three months and I knew." Stefan was always described as romantic, yet he could not spot the most obvious cliche romance brewing.

"Whatever, just come to the dinner." Hiding your feelings won't solve the problem.

"Fine, but only because I want to see Caroline make a fool out of you."

"I'm not not invited for….Friends-giving."

"That's the name she came up with? That's horrible." Caroline you are letting me down. "Anyway, tell Caroline I'm not coming unless you are. I want to get something out of this dinner."

"You are, you're going to find out if she's crazy or not."

"You couldn't even tell with Elena. Now, I have a sexy naked girl in my shower so, let yourself out. And please, throw out the ice pack."

"Hey Bonnie." I was sitting on my bed, studying some of the notes when Lily came through the door in last night's clothes.

After the past few weeks, I had gotten closer with my roommates, especially Lily. Even though I was new to the group, Lily tried her hardest to make her feel welcome. Taking me out to eat or staying up late at night, watching bad movies and making random comments about them.

After learning that she and Damon were dating, I admit that I was a bit weary of the idea; but after seeing how happy Lily would be after each date made all my worries disappear. I knew that Damon had a romantic side, but I never really saw it. In fact, when he and Elena were together they mostly spent it in his bed. But with Lily, he seemed to enjoy just talking to her. I had caught them at the college bar a few times, just talking and the occasional kiss. It was sweet, so sweet that I was a little jealous. Not that I want to be with Damon, I just miss being in the honeymoon stage in a relationship. I could always go back to Jeremy, but after what he did when I was gone; I wasn't sure I could ever look at him the same way again. Sure I was dead, but did that mean he had to do anything in a skirt? They were in love and when I died, the first thing he did was sleep with someone. Great, that's love.

I didn't expect him to be celibate or anything, just long enough for her to decompose a little. Was that too much to ask for? Damon had told me about his first few-well fifty years as a vampire. How he waited for Katherine but didn't sleep with anyone. How he felt like he was cheating on her. He waited 50 years and Jeremy couldn't wait one summer. However, this was a new year for me. I have my life, my friends, everything was going to be ok.

Although Elena and Caroline haven't met Lily and Emma yet. It was really hard to keep Caroline away from my new roommates. I knew as soon as Caroline found out that Damon was dating Lily, she was going to scare her away. But I couldn't let that happen, not after seeing how happy they made each other. So I had to constantly make excuses as to why they couldn't meet yet or telling her Lily's name. After Damon and Lily's first date, Elena would not stop talking about Lily, and how she put out on the first date. Which I obviously knew that wasn't true since Lily was with me the rest of the night, helping me unpack. It was obvious to me that Elena was jealous, but I couldn't understand why. The compulsion that Alaric did got rid of any lovey dovey feelings she had for Damon.

"Hey, so did Damon tell you about dinner tonight?" I was informed by Caroline that Damon's girlfriend was coming to Thanksgiving tonight. This means that Caroline and Elena will realise that I have been lying about not knowing who Damon's girlfriend is. Which also means that I'm in for a scolding.

"Yeah, he did. So I'm assuming that they are going to interrogate me, huh?" Lily placed her bag next to her bed and proceeded to take off her shoes.

"Well, not all of them." Definitely Caroline.

"It's fine, I get it. They want to make sure that I'm not going to go crazy and burn all his

things or something."

"Something like that." It's not like they want you to come so that they can see if you're a witch or some supernatural creature. That would be ridiculous."Did you see my bear when you were at Damon's?"

"Ms. Cuddles? Why would Damon have it?"

"I may have said something about his new place that he didn't like."

"Is there anything I should know for the dinner?"She laughed as she got up from her bed and to her dresser; most likely looking for a outfit to wear for tonight.

"Well, Elena will be there, and Damon use to sleep with Caroline. Who will be leading the interrogation."

"Ah, she regrets her discussion of sleep with Damon and wants to warn me off." Wow, that was surprisingly accurate. Lily saw the look of astonishment on my face and apologised. "Sorry, I've been analysing everyone I meet to practice for a test I have coming up."

"It's fine, I think it's pretty cool." We could have used her skill when we were up against Klaus or Katherine or you know, all of them.

"Thanks, will you help pick what to wear. I know Damon doesn't really care about their approval, but I would like it if they liked me." Lily pulled out a white dress from her drawer.

"You'll be fine. Sure they'll question your taste in men but, that will be it." Lily holds the dress up to her and faces the small mirror on top of her dresser.

"Ok, I can handle that. What do you think about this?"

Damon, Alaric and Stefan were standing in the hall waiting for Caroline to finish setting up the dinner table. As the waited, they quietly conversed between themselves. Then Stefan noticed the teddy bear that Damon had.

Stefan interrupted Damon's conversation with Alaric. "Why do you have a bear?"

"Oh, Bonnie made fun of the fact that I no longer have my amazing bathroom, so I took Ms. Cuddles as hostage."

"That's mature. So where's your girlfriend?"Alaric asked.

"She's coming with Bonnie."

"Why is she coming with Bonnie?" Stefan asked

"Oh, you didn't know. They're when they come you will see that she is normal."

"Just because we don't see anything doesn't mean it doesn't exist." Stefan mused.

"Not unlike Caroline's feelings for Stefan." Alaric interjected, smirking at the look on Stefan's face.

"Hilarious. Keep them coming."

EDamon held Ms. Cuddles next to his face and used a high-pitched voice, moving the bear's arms around."Oh, no. Is Stefan feeling sensitive about ruining his friendship with Caroline? She really liked him, and he broke her heart."

"See, Stefan? Even the bear knew." Alaric said, struggling to keep a straight face.

"I saw that from a mile away, and my brain's made of cotton." He moved closer to Stefan and made Ms. Cuddles arms move like she was punching him.

"Give me this." Stefan takes Ms. Cuddles and is about to throw her, when Bonnie calls out his name.

"Stefan, give me back Ms. Cuddles." Bonnie came through the door and stormed towards Stefan, Lily was outside parking her car.

"Sorry Bonnie."

"Bonnie, nice to see you here." Damon said, smirking slightly.

"Hi Damon, where are your keys?" Bonnie had a thoughtful expression on her face and put her finger to her chin as if she was thinking.

"Bonnie." Damon starts going through his pockets and patting his body down. He had only just gotten his precious car back from Stefan a week ago and was still reluctant to let anyone drive it. "Bonnie!"

Bonnie skipped away as Damon stared at her retreating form. He was about to go after her when he heard the door open. Lily came inside, wearing a white knee length dress with a jean jacket. Bonnie had told her that dressing casual and stylish was the best way to get Caroline on her good side.

"Hey, Damon." Lily came up to Damon and smiled at the others.

"Hey. Lily this is Alaric, but you already know him." Damon wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her next to him.

"She does?" Alaric questioned.

"I'm one of your students." She smiled softly at her professor, not surprised that he didn't remember her.

"Yes…"

"It's ok if you don't remember me, you teach a lot people."

"Well, it's nice to see you out of class."

"And you remember my brother."

"Yes, hello Creep."

"Yeah, I'm sorry about that." Stefan looked guiltily at the ground, ashamed that their first meeting was unpleasant at best.

"It's fine, but if does happen again I will be forced to be more aggressive."

"Fair enough."

"If you could excuse us, other people are just dying to meet her." Damon went to stand behind Lily, placing his hands on her shoulders.

The pair walked away from the group, in search of others that would undoubtedly want to speak to Lily.

"Why did she call you Creep?" inquired Alaric.

"I came in when they were sleeping and, kinda, stared at them."

"Stefan, I know you're having a hard time with Caroline. But that doesn't mean that you can stare at people when they're naked." Alaric commented.

"You're not going to let this go are you?"

"Would you? My, my this is going to be entertaining!" Alaric slapped Stefan on the back and walked merrily to the dining room, laughing quietly to himself.

After the pair left the others, Damon went in search of Bonnie so that he could retrieve his keys back from Bonnie; leaving Lily alone. Elena came into the room with a bowl full of salad when she saw Lily.

"Lily, right?" Elena placed the salad bowl on the table and turned to face Lily.

"Yeah, it's nice to see you again." Lily stood in the front of the room, with her hands in her pockets.

"You too." She put her hands in her back pocket awkwardly. What were you supposed to say to the girl that's dating your ex? "Look, I don't want to intrude or anything but, I wanted to warn you. About Damon. He can be dangerous at time. And I just wanted you to know."

"Dangerous how?" She stared at Elena, intrigued about what she had to say.

"He's just, not the kind of person that you want to have a normal life with. You know, children and families, they aren't really what Damon wants." Elena hoped that this would be enough to scare her away from Damon. He would only end up hurting her in the end. She had to do this, it was the girl code.

"Well I guess that's a good thing. I don't want those either." She shrugged.

That did not go like she thought it would. "You don't? Why not?" This girl was strange, Elena wanted nothing more than having the white picket fence with a perfect family.

"I guess I just don't want what everybody else has. I'm sure this is what you want but, I'm not you so…."

"Look, I was just warning you, ok." Lily was being really rude about Elena trying to warn her about the danger she is putting herself in just by dating Damon.

"You weren't warning me. You wanted to scare me away so that I would break up with Damon and you can have him back." Lily stated calmly.

"You're crazy. I have a boyfriend, Liam." Who was perfect, and nice and….normal.

"I can see that but you know what they say 'We crave for what we can't have'. And I'm probably coming off as a real bitch right now-which is intentional by the way-because I don't think it's right to play with someone's emotion and expect everything to be ok." Who was she to judge her? She didn't know what happened. She didn't know how hard it was to be in the crossfire of the brothers. Who was she to come here on her high horse and criticize her.

"You don't know anything about what happened with me and Damon." Elena's voice shook with anger.

"Firstly, it's Damon and I. Secondly, he told me about what happened."

"You don't even know the whole story."

"So are you saying that you didn't date Damon's brother and use Damon to get what you want. Then when you started to have feelings for him you lead him on and went back to his brother."

"That's taken out of context-"

"But it still happened."

"Yeah-" Forget it. There was no point in arguing with that girl. She was far too stubborn and had clearly chosen the wrong side. Damon was probably still bitter about her not loving him and wanted some to be on his side. Even though he believed that his infatuation was because of Katherine, she was sure there was a part of him that still cared for her. Seeing as Lily wouldn't budge, Elena decided to walk away."I'm going to get the rest of the food."

"Running from your problems won't help."

Before Elena could say a response, Damon came back in the room, swinging his keys around his finger. He walked straight to Lily and kissed her cheek."Lily, there you are." Damon wrapped his arms around Lily's waist from behind and laid his head on her shoulder.

"Sorry, I was just talking to Elena." He looked up from her shoulder and finally notice Elena standing there. She was fuming silently, unknown as to why the sight before her made her so enraged.

"Mmm, so Elena. How's life?" Damon spoke to her with indifference, which shocked her. He has spoken to her angrily, happily all of the possible ways. But he has never, ever, spoken to her like he didn't care about her. Even with her changed memories, Damon always caring about her didn't change. However, this Damon wanted nothing to do with her.

"Fine. I need to go check on the food, excuse me." Elena rushed out of the dining room and into the kitchen, barely able to stop herself from snapping the girls pretty neck.

"Ok, did you do something?" Damon watched Elena partially run away from them, he looked at his smiling girlfriend curiously.

"Possibly."

"Lily, stop doing these things, without me there. I want to see my girl go crazy." He turned Lily around so that she was facing him, his arms still around her tightly.

"I promise next time I do something crazy you are present or film it." Lily placed her hands on Damon's shoulders.

"That's all I ask."Damon leaned down to kiss her, but was interrupted by a blonde on a mission coming up to them.

"Hi, you must be Lily. I'm Caroline." Lily removed herself from Damon's grasp and turned to look at the blonde. Caroline stuck her hand out which Lily gladly took to shake.

"Yeah, it nice to meet you Caroline. I've heard so much about you"

"Well, we have heard nothing about you, so why don't we change that."

"Well, what would you like to know?"

"Let's see. Age, place of origin, family, mental health and major."

"Slow down Blondie. This isn't an interrogation." Damon settled his arm around Lily's shoulders.

"It's ok Damon, I'm happy to cooperate with this...interrogation."

"Good, so tell us."

"Well, I'm 20 years old, I'm from New York. My mental health is fine and I'm planning on becoming a psychologist."

"Ok." Caroline looked thoughtful for a moment then spoke again."Do you have any STDs?"

"Alright that's it, conversation over. Let's have dinner." Caroline looked like she was going to protest but stopped when she saw the look on Damon's face and thought better of it.

Elena walked into the kitchen after her strange conversation with Lily. What did she know about her, acting like she knew everything about her. And judging her relationship with Liam, they were fine. In fact she was planning on telling Liam what she was, she just had to find the right moment. Her wanting to tell Liam that she was a vampire was showing how confident she was in their relationship. She wouldn't do that if she was 'insecure' about them. Would she? No, this was the right choice.

The young vampire saw Stefan adding a few extra ingredients to some of the dishes that Caroline had prepared.

"So, what are you doing?"

"Well, if I want to get back in Caroline's good graces, I need to impress her with her my amazing cooking skills."

"And out shine Caroline's cooking skills?" Elena hinted.

"Right, I did not think about that." Stefan stopped adding food to the dishes and grabbed a washcloth to clean his hands.

"Well everyone's here. We're just waiting on Jo and Luke." Elena pointed back to the dining room. Enzo was suppose to come but Caroline said that there wasn't enough space, especially since Stefan had joined the dinner. Caroline had spent over an hour rearranging the sitting order so that everyone could fit.

"So just to be clear, Jo was invited to Friends-giving, but I wasn't." Stefan mused.

"Friend code states that in matters such as yours and Caroline's I must, without exception, take the side of my best friend."

"Huh."

"Can you two just kiss and makeup? It's getting weird."

"You're just mad cause Caroline's making you do all the work."

Elena laughed at Stefan's sad attempt of making a joke and sees Liam going towards the table. "Stefan, how did you know that you could trust me?"Is she really ready to reveal her biggest secret to Luke? Would he scream and run away or accept her for who she is?

"Trust you with what?"

"When you were honest with me about what you were. How did you know that you could trust me with such a huge secret?"

"That's easy. I was in love with you. I wanted you to know everything." Elena stares at Stefan sadly, reminiscing about their past relationship. "We better get the food out of here before it cools and Caroline kills us."

Elena looked at Liam thoughtfully; he looked back and they smiled at each other. Could she?

Once all the food was out of the kitchen, Caroline had gathered everyone into the dining room. Each seat had a card with everyone's name on it. Caroline and Bonnie were at the head of the table. One side was to have; Joe, Alaric, Stefan, Damon and Lily sitting together. Liv, Luke, Tyler, Liam and Elena would sit on the other side.

"All right! If everyone could gather around the table at their assigned seats, then, um…." Caroline called out, only to be delayed by a annoying late comer.

"Oh. Sorry I'm late." Luke walked in and sat down next to his sister.

"We will each share something that we are thankful for in 100 words or less, so…"Caroline went on as if she was never interrupted

Lily's phone started to ring from her jacket pocket. As she took it out, her face paled at the name on caller id. "I'm sorry I have to take this."

"Can't you get it after dinner?" Caroline protested, desperate to contain order in her first Thanksgiving dinner.

"No, I really can't, sorry." Lily mutters another apology as she quickly gets up from the table, leaving the room as Damon watches her; curious as to who was on the phone.

"Oh. You know what? Now would actually be an excellent time just to shut down anything with an on-off button." Luke chooses to ignore her and plays a video on his phone as Tyler and Liv watch from behind him."No. Please let the food get cold. Whatever that is is far more important(!)."

On the video, a woman's voice talks to two children:

"Happy Birthday! Wave to me!"

"Hi, Josie." Two children respond to the woman and speak in time with one another.

"How old are you?"

"Four."

"How do you add that? You guys want to do some numbers? OK. What's one plus one?"

"Two!"

"Two plus two?"

"Four!"

"Nice."

Jo enters the room the room and looks suspiciously at the group of people around the phone. "What are you watching?"

"I'm not sure but that kind of sounds like your voice." Elena commented.

"That is my voice. I took that video 18 years ago at a birthday party for the twins." Joe revealed, slowly putting it together.

"Oh, my God." Liv gasped.

"Lucas and Olivia?" How could she not see it? They still look like they did 18 years ago.

"Jo as in Josette?" Could it really be her? Luke wondered.

Caroline, along with everyone else are confused as to why they were saying each other's names. "Hang on. You guys know each other?"

Jo started to tear up as she looked at them."I'm their sister."

"So if you don't know each other, then how did you all just happen to end up at the same tiny liberal arts school?" Wow, Caroline asked a good question, I should check for flying pigs.

"We had a family friend here... Sheila Bennett." Why is it that Bennett witches are involved in every fucking god damn spell. Aren't there other witches?

"You knew my grams?"Bonnie whispers.

"She took me under her wing. She also helped my family put Kai away." recalls Joe.

"Kai? As it murder happy psycho stuck in 1994?" Wonderful, that dick managed to piss off an entire family of witches.

"As in our brother, my twin." Great, isn't being crazy genetic? Alaric sure knows how to pick'em(!) If she starts munching on pork rinds, I have no choice but to kill her.

"There are two sets of twins in your family?" Caroline wondered.

"Yeah, there were until my coven put Kai in a prison world." Luke notified.

"Now there's just Luke and I."

Dr. Junior stood up quite dramatically-I must say-with pale face and shaking hands. Why is he still here? Does he realise no one wants him here."I'm sorry. Did you say coven?" Oh great, now he's going to wet his pants and call Mummy.

"Oh, my God. Liam... is still here." Really Elena? Thank you for pointing that out, it's not like we have eye and ears or anything(!).

"I think he meant 'oven'." How does that change anything, Tyler? In fact it makes it worse because if he said 'oven' that means he said 'Yeah, there were until my oven put Kai in a prison world.' I think the part we should be hiding in the prison world. Idiot.

"Yeah." Thank you Elena, for being completely useless and unable to explain to your boyfriend what's going on.

"Hey Grey's Anatomy, go stand in the hall." Oh, how I do love compelling people.

"I'm gonna go check on Lily. She's been out there for a while now." Bonnie gets up from the table and walks outside. I hope Lily's ok, I'll go check on her later.

Bonnie was thankful to be out of that room, memories of Kai and her Grams was flooding her mind. The witch saw Lily leaning against the building with her eyes closed; her phone was clutched in her hand so tightly that her knuckles have turned white. However she was more considered about the tears on her face.

"Lily?" She opened her eyes when she heard her name being called; and looked towards the voice, seeing Bonnie coming towards her.

"Hey," Lily quickly wiped away her tears, in a feeble attempt of hiding her tears. "What are doing here?"

"What's wrong?" Bonnie quizzed.

"Nothing." She tried to smile, but it came out as a grimace.

"Come on Lily, you can trust me."

She knew she could lie, she's done it so many times before. Emma didn't even know and she's known her for two years. But she could trust Bonnie, Lily knew that. It would be ok to tell someone a part of her secret. Then she wouldn't have to carry the burden all by herself anymore. "I just got a call from the attorney general's office. Someone I know might be getting out of prison on 'good behaviour'."

"That's great." Unfortunately Bonnie was still confused, those tears didn't look like happy ones.

"No, it really isn't." She shook her head

"What do you mean?"

"I'm the one who put him there Bonnie. If gets out, he's gonna come for me." Lily looked fearful at Bonnie, her body tensed at the thought of him escaping.

"What did he do?"

"I'm sorry Bonnie, but I can't tell you. I want to I really do. And it's not about trust or anything. I'm just not ready to talk about it."

"It's alright. I understand."

"Please don't tell Damon. I really like him, and I don't want him to-" Lily pleaded, her eyes started to fill up with tears as she thought about Damon. What would he think of her? Would he ever want to speak to her again if he new the truth?

"It's alright, I get it. I promise I won't tell." Lily smiled at Bonnie thankfully and pulls her into a hug. When Lily had calmed down enough, she talks to her about pointless things to take her mind off her the phone call.

They still couldn't go inside because of Jo and her family, and Bonnie didn't want to think about that monster anymore. So they just talked outside until Bonnie thought they were done inside.

"Kai killed 4 of our brothers and sisters to make a point, but he was really targeting Lucas and Olivia." Joe explained, unable to tear her eyes away from her siblings.

"Why them?" Let them finish the story you overgrown dog. Oh wait, he's not a hybrid or a werewolf anymore is he? He's just an athlete with anger problems, because we have so few of those in the world.

"Because in our coven, twins are in line to be leaders." What happens if you get triplets then?

"Hence our lame-ass name... Gemini." No, a real lame-ass name would be….Pufpaff. That is without a doubt, thee worst last name ever.

"Kai wanted to be the leader, but that wasn't possible if Lucas and Olivia were alive." Wow, he just got the worst brother of the year award.

"He was a psychopath, so they sent him away. Kai went to his prison, Jo dodged bullet, and now the leadership falls on us." Liv clarified for those who are slow-Tyler.

"OK. Well, now that we've all gotten to know each other a little bit better, could someone please pass the dinner rolls?"

"Caroline, forget about the damn dinner, it can't be saved. We should be focusing on the fact that the ex-witch has a literal evil twin." I groaned.

"Hey , that's my girlfriend you're talking about." Oh Alaric, you silly boy,

"Girlfriend? You've been on, like, 3 dates." I think you qualify someone as your girlfriend after, you well, ask them.

"Nice, Damon. We could say the same for you, you know." You had to go there didn't you Stefan.

"There are two flaws in your theory. One, my girlfriend doesn't have a crazy person in the family that tried to kill me and Bonnie. Repeatedly. And secondly, we are talking about Alaric," I turn to face him "your choice in women doesn't bold well for you." Sure mine don't look good as well, but….I'm choosing to ignore that.

"Stop being such a asshole Damon." Sorry Stefan, but you've left me with no choice.

"That's it, go to the corner." I pointed to the wall outside the dining room.

"What? Damon I'm-"

"Corner or I tell everyone about what happened in 1947." That's a good boy, Stefan. He huffed and got up from the table, muttering under his breath saying 'I was tricked'. Well Steffy, that's what happens when you drink too much. It's not my fault you decided to strip off all your clothes whilst singing the national anthem.

"Why can't we just have a nice dinner without any drama?"

"Sorry that my family drama isn't appropriate dinner conversation, Caroline." Ooo, the teenage witch can bite.

"That's not what I meant. It's—"

"Liv—" Does the dog have a thing for the witch? Wasn't there a show that did that?

"Just... Leave me alone." Uh oh, teenage drama. Must make dramatic exit by storming out.

"OK. I think I may have missed something. If you and Liv can both be the leaders of your coven, why did she just get so upset?" Oh, my god, how is it that even when you're asking a question it must be all about you, doesn't it Elena.

"Because there aren't two leaders, are there, Jo?" Why? If they just had two leaders then Kai wouldn't feel like killing his family and we won't be involved anymore. I can't even remember what it was like to not be involved in some supernatural family crap.

"In our coven's tradition," Well anything that comes out after that is not good. There are no witch traditions that are good. "after their 22nd birthday, the twins merge their strength. The stronger one wins, absorbing their twin's power, and the weaker of the two…"See, what did I tell you.

"The weaker of the two what?" Worried about your girlfriend, huh? Definitely has a thing for her. The wolf and the witch, I've seen that somewhere before.

"The weaker one dies." Luke storms away after that, where I don't know. This isn't a damn coven, it's a fucking witch cult. What the fuck did I get into? Thank you Joe for coming here and bringing this to us so that we will inevitably have to help you save your family; because that's what always happens.

Caroline and Tyler leave soon after, probably going to find Sabrina the teenage witch before she throws a tantrum that ends up killing everyone.

"Ok, here's my question. If you're crazy dad is so obsessed with making sure Kai doesn't get out. How can he tell if he's still there?" Surely he didn't believe that palace was that secure, I mean, I got out.

"When they placed the spell my father had added something to it. Like a trip wire, if Kai was to be released, it would alert my father."

"How long would it take? Cause I'm thinking, Bonnie and I just got out of crazy land. What if he thinks Kai is out."

"Then my father would try and find a way to stop him."

"Kai can't become leader unless he merges with you before the wonder twins here do. So, if I was your a insane coven leader, about to die and pass on the hypothetical torch off. I want to give it to the person who didn't kill half my family. Meaning, the only way to ensure that Kai doesn't become leader, I would have to kill my daughter." Not the best way to do it, but it seems the most logical for an insane cult-sorry coven leader.

"He wouldn't do that."

"Don't be too sure, Alaric. Damon's right. In fact, I think my dad...my dad's trying to kill me." Told you. Jo suddenly collapses off the chair and to the ground.

"Jo? Are you OK?" No, she isn't Elena. Haven't we already establish that she's getting killed by her father?

"Jo?"Alaric gets off his chair and kneel on the ground next to Jo, cradling her head as she groans in pain.

"What the hell is she talking about? Her dad's trying to kill her?" Well she's not killing herself(!) Who let you back in? Didn't I tell you to stay in the hall? He's going to be a horrible doctor if he can't handle blood.

"Not the time lover boy." Jo starts coughing up blood. I got up from my seat and went to the hall, yelling out Bonnie's name. She dashed out from outside and into the hall, Lily was still outside from what I could tell.

"What's wrong?"

"Jo's dad is trying to kill her." With that we hurried back into the dining room, observing the scene before us. Joe's laceration was oozing out more blood, the napkins that Elena used to try and stop the blood weren't working. I moved towards the table and grabbed a cloth, dipping it in cold water. Then giving it to Alaric to place on Joe's head.

Bonnie kneeled down next to Joe, looking at the wound that had formed and ordered her. "Jo, Jo. I need you to lie on your back ok. Good."

"Elena, we have to do something. Definite signs of hemoptysis."

"Shut up, Liam." No wonder Ric likes her.

"Hey, get the wannabe out of here." Really Elena? You chose not to listen to me?

Bonnie places her hands on the wound and starts chanting….something. "Elementum recolligo Huic commodo locus mihi vestri vox. Elementum ego unda dico vos. Permissum Pluit es est meus nos sic vadum is exsisto"

"What is she doing?" God, just please, for the love of god. Shut up!

"Elena, what did I just say?"

"I'm not gonna leave her." Well if you don't you're annoying boyfriend will distract Bonnie and she will die.

"Either he leaves or he keeps his damn mouth shut." Go Alaric, I knew you had it in you. Although I'm more grateful that Liam decided to listen to reason and leave.

"Ok, I stopped the spell but I can't stop the bleeding."

"That's where we come in." Why? We just got rid of you and your annoying voice. Liam had gathered ice in a towel and placed it on Jo's wound."You need to tell me what's going on."

"Not the time lover boy, if you can't tell, your mentor is bleeding out" I turn to Bonnie and remember that Lily is just outside."Bonnie, make sure Lily doesn't see this." She nods and goes back outside where Lily is, no doubt wondering what's going on.

"You have to get more ice." Yes, that is a good distraction for McWhinney over there.

"I'm not an idiot, Elena. I know you're lying to me, so whatever it is, just tell me, please."

"She's crashing!" Alaric, give her your blood!

"Dr. Laughlin, look at me."

"Jo, can you hear me? Jo!" Her eyes just rolled to the back of her head, Elena. I don't think she can do anything right now.

"Let me help her Elena!" God dammit Elena, let Alaric help her. "Elena, I'm sorry. But I'm not letting her die." Alaric morphs into his vampire self and bites his wrist, then feeding it to Jo.

"Oh my god, your face."

"It's OK. His blood will heal her." Elena told Liam

"But I don't…."

"That's it, your time to play hero is over. Let's go" I can't believe that I've had to resort to dragging this dumbass kid out of here. Oh god, Lily.

Once I was sure that Joe be alright, I went in search of Lily. I wasn't sure if she was going to be mad about me practically abandoning her tonight. I just hope Caroline didn't find her and ask her more questions. 'Do you have an STD?', who would ask that to someone else's girlfriend?

I found Lily sitting on the staircase with an expression I could not place, Bonnie was next to her but got up and left when she saw me. When Lily finally looked up she simpered a little and patted the seat next to her.

"Well, I think it's fair to say that this dinner didn't go like everyone hoped it would." I commented as I sat down next to her.

"Yeah, I'm sorry."

"It's not your fault."

"It is. I was invited as a guest by your friends, then I'm mean to your ex because she's pretty and I'm insecure. I sit down for what? 5 seconds before I leave and don't come back into the room and I didn't even try any of the food that Caroline made; which she spent all day making. I'm just the worst." She groaned, dropping her head in her hands.

"Hey, you are not the worst. You wanna know what happened after you left?" She looked up from her hands and turned to face me "Joe told everyone that she was the wonder twins sister. Liv ran out, along with Luke after Caroline said something about drama. Which then lead her and Tyler to leave to find her. My brother was being a pain in the ass so I had no other choice but to send him to the corner, and he's still there. So,even if you stayed, everything still would have happened." I recounted, just leaving out the supernatural bits.

"Is it wrong that I'm happy that everything fell apart, 'cause that means it's not my fault?" I situated my arm around her waist and pulled her into me.

"No, that makes you pretty cool." She laughed and hid her face in my chest.

"I want to give you something." I pulled out a small box from my pocket, it was something I was saving for later but, now seemed like the right time.

"Are you saying that every time I freak out you'll buy me something pretty?" she joked as she propped her chin on my chest.

"Maybe, here." I opened the box and inside was the necklace. It a silver oval necklace with vervain pressed in glass in the middle.

"Oh, it so beautiful."

"Pretty necklace for a pretty girl."I placed the necklace in her hands and smiled down at her blushing face.

"Damon this is so thoughtful of you. Does this mean we're going steady now?" She wiggled her eyebrows teasingly at me as she played with the necklace.

"Unfortunately."

"Damn, now I have to cancel that orgy I planned." She quipped smiling at me.

"Do you like it?"

"I love it, put it on for me?" She held the necklace out to me and turned around, moving her hair out of the way. I reached out and clasped the necklace together. When she turned around the necklace was settled just above her chest. Lily looked down at the necklace and beamed. Her arms came around my neck and pulled me in for a passionate kiss.

When she finally pulled away to breathe, she was still smiling at me."Do you want me to drop you off at your place?" I got up from my seat on the stairs and pulled her up with me.

"Nah, you go home first. I need to make a quick stop at my teacher's office anyway."

"You sure?"

"I'm sure, I'll see you tomorrow ok?"

"Alright. Bye."

"Bye." I placed one last kiss on her lips before watching her walk away. I'm forgetting something….Stefan!

Joe was still recovering from the near death experience she had, her body was weak but Alaric continued to hold her close to him, wiping away the sweat from her face. She saw the worried look on his face and whispered "I'm ok."

"I'll get you some water." Elena got up and walked away, ashamed that she almost let her die just to keep her secret.

Liam, was nervously pacing in the hall where Damon put him, still hardly believing what he's seen. He saw Elena coming to the hall and grabbed her arm "Elena. Elena, stop! What happened in there? How did he do that?!" he spluttered.

Now or never "I'm a vampire." she proclaimed

"You're what?" the young doctor mused.

"It doesn't matter, because as much as I like you, my life is complicated enough." She looked at him sadly as she compelled him."So you're not gonna remember anything from tonight or the fact that we even dated at all. You're gonna go home, get some rest, and I'll see you at work on Monday."

Liam's face went blank, then a small smile came on his face as he said his goodbye to elena, not processing the remorseful look on her face."I'll see you Monday, Elena."

Lily left still looking delighted, but she still felt guilty for not telling him about the phone call. It shouldn't be so hard, she told Bonnie. Maybe she was just scared that if she told him about the call, she'd end up telling him everything. Lily wanted to tell him everything about her past, she knew he wouldn't judge her. But, what if he did? What if she lost him? She couldn't lose anyone else in her life. No, she couldn't tell him, not yet, when she was re-

Lily stopped walking as she felt something on her neck, it was sharp. I needle? No, it was a dart. Lily pulled out the dart from her neck and stared at it. Why would someone….? Whatever was in the dart was making her dizzy, she was striving to stand. She had to get to shelter, get help. She tried to call out but another dart hit her in her shoulder this time. Everything started to spin, unable to control her legs, she collapsed to the ground, eyes struggled to stay open as a silhouette of a man came towards her. Lily tried to move away but her body felt like marble, losing all control of her muscles she had no choice but to fall victim to the toxin.