Just as Emily promised Stefan that she would help stop Damon, early the next morning, she and Elena were looking through old boxes from the Gilbert family history. They were looking for the journal that was mentioned at the fifties dance, Jonathan Gilbert's journal. Emily didn't know much about the man, only that he was alive during the Salvatore brother's human lives and he knew of vampires.
"Do you think Damon really believes us?" Elena questioned after a moment of looking through one of the many boxes that was sat on the dining room table. Elena looked over at Stefan, who was sitting and watching the two sisters, "that we're trying to help him?"
Stefan thought for a moment before shaking his head slowly, "I don't think Damon knows what to believe. Trust isn't something that comes naturally for him." Stefan explained to his girlfriend and best friend.
Elena shook her head once and turned to an album that she began to flick through. "You know... I really think that Damon believes that everything he's done, every move that he's made, he's done for love. It's twisted, but kind of sad."
"There are other ways to get what you want," Stefan commented. "You don't have to kill people. Damon has no regard for human life," Stefan began to explain more into his brother as a vampire, "he enjoys inflicting pain on others. For 145 years, every single time that I have let my guard down and let Damon back into my life, he's done something to make me regret that." Stefan shook his head, "I'm not going to make that mistakes again."
Emily looked up from the photo album she had been looking through and looked over at Stefan in wonder, "what do you think will happen once Damon gets Katherine back and out of the tomb?"
"I think no matter what Damon promises, a lot of people are going to die," Stefan answered truthfully.
That is what Emily was afraid of. She didn't want Damon to get is way for only everyone to be put in danger. She wasn't going to put her family and the whole town in danger for one vampire, who happened to look like her twin sister. Emily sighed and continued to flip through one of the very old photo albums when suddenly Emily saw a picture between two pages. Emily held the photo closer to her face to get a better look.
"That's Jonathan Gilbert," Stefan spoke up from behind Emily. She looked over her shoulder and saw her sister and best friend standing behind her looking at the old photo. Emily looked back at the photo carefully and saw man with a face full of hair with a dark hat and suit.
Elena leaned over her sister's shoulder and leaned down in the box and grabbed a wooden box that was seated at the bottom of the larger boxes. "What's this?" Elena questioned before carefully opening the box.
Emily looked down at the small wooden box and looked at the device confused. She never seen anything like it before. It was metal and black with brown cloth laces going around the sides and there was a small pouch. Emily looked up at Stefan, wondering if he knew what the device was, but when she looked up at the younger Salvatore, is eyes were wide.
But before Emily could voice her concern for her best friend, her younger brother came walking into the dining room and asked, "what are you guys doing?"
Emily carefully shut the old wooden box before smiling up at her brother, "we were just looking at our family's history." Emily wondered if Jeremy knew about the journal, "have you seen this old journal from back in the day? Dad mentioned to me before," Emily questioned before making an excuse once she saw her brother's confused facial expression.
"Jonathan Gilbert's journal?" Jeremy questioned.
Emily looked at her brother in wonder, "have you seen it lately?"
Jeremy nodded, "I did a history project on it."
"Did you remember where you put it?" Emily asked Jeremy, hoping that he still had it or this would be more difficult.
"I gave it to Mr. Saltzman," Jeremy explained, "he wanted to see it."
Emily sighed quietly, there goes the more difficulty of the plan in stopping Damon. Emily knew the task wasn't going to be easy, but now Emily had to worry about her history teacher who was into her aunt Jenna. Emily looked behind her and saw Elena and Stefan both glancing over at her. How were they going to stop Damon from getting Katherine when they didn't even have the key in their possession?
Emily and Elena both walked through the door of the Gilbert house after spending time with Caroline and Bonnie. They wanted to have a break from the whole tomb issue while Stefan worked on getting the journal from their history teacher. Emily always enjoyed her time when she got to hang around Caroline and Bonnie, she felt like everything was okay when she did. Like no vampires or witches existed for a little while. Every now and then she needed a break from all the vampire world for a little bit, and that is what Caroline and Bonnie brought when they all hung out with each other.
As soon as Emily quietly closed the front door, Elena moved to walk up stairs. But Emily heard something from the kitchen, so she grabbed her sister's arm and carefully pulled her towards the kitchen, where she heard two voices speaking. When Emily walked towards the kitchen entrance, she was surprised to see Jenna and Damon talking to each other like old friends.
"Hello, girls," Damon called out with his back turned towards the two sisters and the buzzed aunt Jenna.
Jenna turned around in confusion and saw two nieces staring at her with the same confusion. As soon as she laid eyes on the two girls, Jenna jumped off of the kitchen counter and moved towards the middle of the two sisters. Jenna squeezed each of the girls' sides, "hey! Where have you guys been?" Before either of the girls could respond, Jenna continued, "we're cooking dinner!"
"Is Stefan with you?" Damon questioned while glancing between the two sisters.
Elena glanced over at her sister in nervousness. Emily knew Elena was never good at lying, so she quickly jumped in, "he should be here soon."
Damon gave the oldest Gilbert a small smile before looking back down at the chopping board that was covered with vegetables. Emily moved towards her sister, who leaning against the counter with a scowl on her face while watching Damon. Emily really hoped Stefan was coming soon, she didn't like to be in the same room with Damon with her family. She knew that Damon is unpredictable, you never know what he'll do and he's in a house full of people with blood pumping through their veins.
It has been about over thirty minutes since Emily saw that Damon Salvatore was cooking in her kitchen. She and Elena were going to set the table since Damon walked out of the room. Neither sister wanted to be alone with Damon, so they decided to stay together until Stefan would finally arrive.
Emily handed her sister half on the plates in her hands, before taking the rest of the plates towards the dining room table. While Emily made it to the dining room table, she realized after a few seconds that Elena did not. Emily glanced behind her and saw that Damon had bumped into Elena.
"Whoa. Mmm," Damon mumbled in fake surprise when he bumped into Elena, who wasn't playing attention.
Elena smiled over at Damon with an annoyed facial expression before handing over the rest of the plates to her sister and turned back to Damon. "Don't do that," Elena commanded Damon with a strong voice.
"Do what?" Damon questioned the younger Gilbert sister with fake confusion.
Emily rolled her eyes and continued to set the plates around the large dining room table. She knew Damon was just trying to get under Elena's skin. And surprisingly, it was working.
"You know what," Elena stated to Damon. "That move was deliberate."
Even though Damon could be very annoying and she didn't trust him very well, she couldn't help but watch in amusement while Damon messed with her sister. She continued to watch, just to sure Damon wouldn't do anything dangerous to her little sister.
Damon walked over to the stove, where he had food cooking and spoke with his back turned to the two sisters. "Well, yeah, I was deliberately trying to get to the sink," Damon told Elena.
Elena scoffed before moving to stand beside her sister, who was leaning against the kitchen counter across from Damon.
"Speaking of Stefan, where is he?" Damon questioned after a moment of silence while the two sisters glanced over at each other in nervousness. Emily was strong and she would always be protective of her sister, but she still didn't like to be alone with the older Salvatore brother. Damon barely paused before turning to look at the Gilbert sisters with a small smirk, "he's missing family night, which I am enjoying immensely."
Neither of the sisters responded to Damon, because they didn't know what to tell him. All Emily knew that Stefan was busy trying to get the journal from her history teacher and she knew she couldn't up and tell Damon that. So she decided to focus on letting the table, Emily moved towards the kitchen drawers and looked for the right amount of silverware while Elena dealt with Damon.
"Is it real?" Damon questioned after a few moments.
"Is what real?" Elena asked confused while turning to look at Damon.
"This renewed sense of brotherhood," Damon explained. It was quiet for a few seconds before Damon turned directly to Elena and asked seriously, "can I trust him?"
Elena stared Damon straight in the eyes and answered, "yes, you can trust him," before walking away from Damon towards the dining room table.
Before Emily could even blink, Damon was standing right in front of Elena. Emily tensed up once she saw Damon was standing so close to her sister with a serious face. "Can I trust him?" Damon asked again.
"I'm wearing vervain, Damon. It's not going to work," Elena told the vampire seriously.
Damon looked at Elena with furrowed brows, "I'm not compelling you. I just want you to answer me. Honestly."
Elena stared at Damon for a long moment before mumbling, "of course you can."
Elena quickly moved away from Damon and walked towards the kitchen and stood directly next to her older sister, not wanting to be that close with Damon. Emily grazed her hand with Elena's, letting her know that everything will be okay. Emily knew that Elena was being brave to answer Damon with the biggest lie she ever told, but it had to be done.
While Damon was out of the room, Emily turned to her sister in worry, "are you okay?" Emily asked Elena.
Elena didn't answer right away so Emily knew the answer before her sister even opened her mouth. "No," Elena whispered quietly, worried that Damon would hear me.
Emily gave her sister a small smile and grabbed her hand softly, "you did a good job." Emily thought for a moment, she wanted to get Elena out of the room before goes and tells Damon their whole plan. "How about you give Stefan a call?" Emily suggested to her sister.
Elena nodded and squeezed Emily's hand, "be careful," Elena told her sister before quickly walking away from the kitchen.
Emily sighed lowly once Elena was out of the room. As bad as she didn't want Elena involved, she knew that their was no stopping from Elena being in danger by Damon or Katherine or any other vampire that comes into Mystic Falls. But she would stop at nothing to protect her twin sister and she was going to make that clear.
Emily was grabbing multiple pairs of silverware when she heard Damon speak behind her. "There was a time when I trusted him more than anyone," Damon told the oldest Gilbert.
Emily turned around and leaned against the kitchen counter, she looked at Damon with a confused facial expression, "how do you lose trust for your own family?"
Damon shrugged lightly, "lies and betrayal happens."
Emily twitched her head to the side, "is that what happened?" Emily questioned, "do you think Stefan betrayed you with Katherine?"
Damon didn't answer, he only turned his back to the oldest Gilbert. Silence always speaks the loudest words, Emily knew that she already had the answer by Damon turning his back to her. It quiet for a moment, before Damon turned to Emily seriously, "I just want her back. Surely you can understand that."
Emily nodded, "I can." Emily shrugged, "you love her. You'll do whatever you have to for the one you love."
Emily turned back towards the silverware she was looking for when Damon moved closer to her and spoke threateningly, "then you understand what I will do if anyone gets in my way."
Emily turned back around and glared hard into Damon's blue eyes. She didn't like the fact that the older Salvatore brother basically threatened her, so she moved even closer to Damon before stating hard, "then you understand that I will end you if you hurt anyone that I care about."
Emily had gone to get Elena from upstairs after a little while later after her conversation with Damon. She didn't want Damon to think they were hiding anything, so she and Elena were seated at the dining room table with a couple of boxes that belonged to their parents, Miranda and Grayson Gilbert.
"He is ridiculously hot!" Jenna told her two nieces when she walked towards the two girls with a glass full of red wine.
Emily rolled her eyes playfully at her aunt with a smirk, "are you drunk, aunt Jenna?"
Jenna looked at her oldest niece with wide eyes and yelped, "of course not!"
Emily and Elena both laughed at their obviously drunk aunt. Emily looked up from the box she was looking at and saw Jenna was still staring at Damon dreamily. Emily smirked, knowing Damon was probably listening with his vampire hearing. "He's an ass," Emily told her aunt while Elena chuckled at her sister.
Jenna rolled her eyes before focusing her attention at the two young girls. "What are you doing with all this stuff?" Jenna asked confused while glancing into the family boxes.
Emily shrugged, "I thought we might find something about our birth parents in some of dad's old boxes."
Jenna nodded before questioning quietly, "have you told Jeremy?"
The three girls glanced over to the youngest Gilbert, who was playing a game on the TV with Damon. Emily sighed, "we will," before correcting herself, "I think I should tell him when the times right. Maybe it'll be easier coming from me." Elena nodded her head in agreement, even though she wanted to be the one to tell their brother. But everyone knew that Emily and Jeremy were very close, so it would only make sense for her to tell him the big news.
After a moment of silence while the girls continued to look through the boxes, the front doorbell suddenly rang through the house. "That's Stefan," Elena stated before quickly grabbing Emily's hand and walking towards the front door.
Elena quickly opened the front door, where Stefan was standing. The younger Salvatore brother looked at the two sisters before looking over their shoulder with a hard stare. Emily glanced behind her and saw the older Salvatore brother staring at Stefan, "well?" Damon questioned with impatience.
Stefan twitched his head to the side before walking away from the front door. The two sisters and Damon quickly walked over Stefan towards the side of the white porch. "Who took it?" Damon questioned again with the same amount of impatience.
"I don't know," Stefan mumbled.
"You know what, it's that teacher," Damon exclaimed. "There's something really off with him."
"Leave Mr. Saltzman out of this, Damon," Emily growled out. She didn't want her history teacher to be messed up into all of this when he was interested in her aunt Jenna.
Stefan shook his head, "no,he doesn't know anything. Somebody got to it right before me," Stefan explained.
"Who else knew it was there?" Damon questioned his brother in confusion.
Stefan didn't answer, but he did look through the window of the Gilbert house that showed Jeremy playing his game. Damon realized what Stefan was basically saying, and quickly walked back towards the front door of the house.
"Damon! Jeremy isn't involved in this!" Emily yelled out to Damon once she realised what he was going to do. She wasn't going to let her baby brother get wrapped into this. Emily quickly tried to catch up to Damon who was almost to the front door.
"Why, what's the big deal?" Damon questioned, not really wanting an answer before slowly opening the front door and walking through the entrance.
"Damon!" Emily whispered yelled at the older Salvatore brother, but it was for nothing, because Damon was already walking straight towards Jeremy. Emily sighed, she knew that she couldn't stop Damon now. But at least Stefan is here now, he would stop Damon before he hurt anyone in the house.
"So..." Damon began once he walked into the living room before sitting on the arm of the couch and continued, "I heard you found a really cool journal from back in the day. Who else did you show it to?"
"Huh?" Jeremy questioned in confusion before focusing on his game.
"Don't ask questions," Damon commanded, "just spill."
Jeremy chuckled before looking over at Damon, "you're kidding me, right?"
Emily remembered that Jeremy had shown the journal to their history teacher so she asked in wonder, "did you tell anyone else about the journal besides Mr. Saltzman?"
Jeremy looked at his older sister confused, "why is everyone obsessed with that thing?"
Emily glanced over at Stefan in worry before turning back to her brother, "who else knows, Jer?"
Jeremy thought for a moment before shrugging, "just that girl, Anna."
"The hot, weird one?" Damon questioned not even a second later.
Jeremy turned to Damon and nodded, "yeah."
"Wait, who is Anna?" Stefan jumped in.
"That's what I want to find out," Damon told his brother.
Suddenly, a familiar phone began to make noises. Emily glanced over at her sister who was looking down at her phone in conflict. Elena looked up at her sister, who nodded her head, letting her know what she can answer it and she can handle it from here. Elena nodded her head back before quickly jogging upstairs.
"How do you know her?" Damon questioned Jeremy again.
Jeremy shrugged, "I just know her. She wants me to meet her at the Grill tonight."
"Perfect," Damon commented and glanced up at Stefan. Damon grabbed Jeremy's arm from the couch, "I'll drive. Come on."
"O-okay," Jeremy mumbled before quickly following Damon out of the door.
Emily didn't like the idea of Damon alone with her brother so she tried to follow behind them, but Stefan quickly grabbed her arm. Emily looked up at Stefan in confusion, "why are you stopping me? He could hurt Jeremy."
Stefan shook his head lightly, "he won't hurt him. He needs our help and if he did hurt Jeremy, he knows we won't help him."
Emily sighed, but nodded. She knew that it was true, no matter how bad that sounds. This will be his only chance in getting Katherine back, he wouldn't ruin that. Emily then remembered why Stefan was gone the whole day, "did you find anything out?" Emily questioned.
Stefan nodded before pulling out a stack of papers from his jacket pocket. Emily was confused so she grabbed the papers and looked at the first few words. Emily eyes grew wide once she realized what this was. "Is this Jonathan Gilbert's journal?"
"It's a copy of it," Stefan answered before grabbing the stack of papers from Emily's hands.
Emily nodded her head before grabbing Stefan's hand and pulling him upstairs, towards Elena's bedroom. Elena needed to hear what Stefan had found and they needed to act quick before Damon found anything.
"Where's Damon?" Elena questioned when she only saw her sister and boyfriend walk through her bedroom door.
"He left to track down Jeremy's friend Anna, see if there was anything there," Stefan told Elena.
"Aren't you going to go with him?" Elena questioned Stefan confused before glancing over at her sister in worry, "if he gets to the journal before we do, then..."
"Doesn't matter," Stefan interrupted Elena from continuing her thought before pulling out the familiar stack of papers.
Elena looked down at papers in wonder, "what is that?"
"It's a copy of the journal," Emily told her sister, having just been told about the stack of papers.
Elena glanced over at her sister before turning to Stefan in confusion, "how did you get it?"
"Well, Mr. Saltzman made a copy and was kind enough to loan it to me," Stefan simply stated.
Emily rose an eyebrow at her best friend, "so, he just handed it over?" Emily questioned, not really believing Stefan.
"Not exactly," Stefan mumbled, "but I got it."
Emily shook her head and chuckled, "damn, Stef is a bad boy," Emily joked.
Stefan gave the oldest Gilbert sister a small smile and shook his head. Stefan moved towards Elena's bed with the stack of papers before separating them into three piles and handed one for each of the sisters. Emily grabbed her set of papers and moved towards the head of Elena's bed while Elena and Stefan sat beside the large window in Elena's bedroom. It was quiet for a moment while the three teenagers tried to find something that would help find out more information about the tomb.
After a moment, Elena spoke up, "here's a reference that he wrote about Emily," Elena paused before looking at a certain paragraph, "the Fell family believed it should be I, not them, who protected the witch's spell book. But I feared she would haunt me from the hereafter. They mocked my fear, but it was Giuseppe Salvatore who-" Elena paused before glancing over at Stefan, "is that your father?"
Stefan nodded, "yeah," before grabbing the stack of papers out of Elena's hand and focused back on the words and read out loud, "it was Giuseppe Salvatore who removed my fear. He told me he would protect the secret of the spell book. He said he would carry it to his grave."
Emily looked over at Stefan when he finished reading and saw that he had sadden face before he exclaimed softly, "I know where it is." While Elena was shocked that Stefan quickly knew where it was, Emily realised just as Stefan did. That their answers were buried with Stefan's father. Emily felt bad that Stefan would have to dig up his father but it was better they did now before Damon did and ruined the town.
Elena had her arm linked with Emily's while they quietly followed Stefan through the only large cemetery that Mystic Falls had. After a few minutes, Stefan suddenly stopped. Emily quickly shined the bright flashlight that she had brought towards the headstone and read 'Giuseppe Salvatore.'
"Why isn't your father buried in your family's tomb?" Elena questioned after reading the headstone.
"It wasn't built until well after he died," Stefan explained before beginning to line up four fire torches around the headstone.
"Are you sure the grimoire's in there with him?" Elena questioned Stefan again.
"As sure as I can be," Stefan sighed.
"Great," Elena mumbled in nervousness.
"Elena," Stefan spoke while staring at his girlfriend, "I can do this on my own."
Emily shook her head, she wasn't going to let her best friend dig up his own father on his own. This wasn't something you could do by yourself. Emily grabbed one of the shovels from Stefan's hand, "I promised that we would help and we haven't finished the job yet, so we're not stopping now."
Stefan nodded, "I know, and I appreciate that, but-"
Emily quickly interrupted Stefan and walked closer to her best friend, "this is the town I was born in. this is the town where my sister was born and where I met my best friends. I'm not going to let Damon ruin everything for Katherine. I promised you that I would help you, and I don't break my promises."
Stefan nodded gratefully over at the oldest Gilbert sister before handing Elena one of the shovels and glanced over at the grave he was going to have to dig up. Emily softly touched Stefan's arm, "I'm really sorry you have to do this."
All Stefan could do was nod his head before he sighed and began digging up the grave that belonged to his father. Emily and Elena helped the best they could with helping but most of the time, it looked like Stefan had it under control. Emily felt like they were more there for moral support rather than helping with the digging. She didn't mind, she would always be there for Stefan. So that's what she did, she stood patiently next to Elena and watched carefully while Stefan dug up his father's grave.
It was silent besides the sound of metal of the shovel hitting against the dirt in the ground, but suddenly Emily heard a giggling sound. Emily glanced over at her sister confused, "what?"
Elena shrugged, "not many girls can say they've done this."
Emily rolled her head at her sister before smirking, "now you decide to get adventurous."
Before Elena could say anything, the three people in the cemetery heard the sound of metal hitting metal. The two girls quickly moved closer to the grave and watched Stefan move dirt away with his hands and saw the top of a wooden coffin. Stefan slowly opened up the coffin and saw the remains of a body with a old book sitting in the middle. Stefan carefully grabbed the book from his dead father's arms and quickly slammed the coffin shut.
Emily sighed softly when she saw the facial expression when he turned to the two girls. She knew that he was saddened by seeing the bones of his dead father. Anyone would be heartbroken by seeing their father's bones.
Stefan carefully climbed out of the hole and bent down towards the ground and carefully began to open up the book with small leather bind that held the book together. Stefan quickly began to flip through the pages, looking for the certain spell for the tomb.
But before Stefan could find it, a voice spoke behind the trio, "well, what do you know?" Emily quickly grabbed Elena's hand when they all stood up and moved Elena so she would be behind her with Stefan standing slightly in front of her. "This is an interesting turn of events," Damon snarled out.
Stefan shook his head, "I can't let you bring her back. I'm sorry."
"So am I," Damon paused, "for thinking for even a second that I could trust you."
"Oh," Stefan chuckled humorlessly. "You're not capable of trust. The fact that you're here means that you read the journal and you were planning on doing this yourself."
"Of course I was going to do it myself," Damon stated like it was obvious. "Because the only one I can count on is me! You made sure of that many years ago." Damon glanced over Emily's shoulder towards the younger Gilbert sister, "but you... You had me fooled."
Emily glanced back at her sister and saw that she was looking down ashamed. Emily knew that Elena felt bad about lying to Damon. Emily turned back to Damon and saw a hurt facial expression before it turned to anger when he looked at Stefan. "So what are you going to do now? Because if you try and destroy that, I'll rip her heart out."
Stefan shook his head, "you won't kill her."
Damon nodded his head before vamp speeding directly behind Elena and pulled her into a tight hold with his arm wrapped around her neck. "I can do one better," Damon commented before biting into his wrist and forcing his blood down Elena's throat. Emily gasped her shock and tried to walk towards Elena, but Stefan quickly grabbed her arm and pulled her behind him, not wanting her to get hurt too.
"Give me the book, Stefan, or I'm snapping her neck," Damon commanded. "And Emily will have a vampire sister instead."
"Let her go first," Stefan pleaded.
Damon pulled his bloody wrist from Elena's mouth and yelled, "the book!"
"I'm not going to give this to you until she is standing next to me," Stefan told Damon.
"Problem is, I no longer trust that you'll give it back!" Damon yelled at his younger brother.
"You just did the one thing that ensures that I will," Stefan spoke softly.
Damon stared at the book that was in Stefan's hands before nodding his head slowly. He slowly let Elena's neck go from his tight grip. Once the book was fully on the ground, he realized Elena all the way. As soon as Elena was freed, she ran right into her twin sister's arms.
Emily held her crying sister like she would escape from her fingertips. Because, for a second, she really thought Damon was going to kill her only sister. And she wouldn't be able to do a damn thing about it, she felt like she let Elena down. She always promised she would protect her but she didn't. Emily would rather her being in danger than Elena, but she couldn't go back and change the past, so she just held her sister tightly and let Elena cry into her shoulder.
Emily leaned against the bathroom door with Stefan at her side while they both watched Elena rumble through the bathroom drawers. Elena paused and held her head between her fingers, "aspirin must be downstairs." Elena looked over at Stefan, "is my head supposed to hurt like this?"
"Oh, you'll be fine," Stefan told his girlfriend, "that was just a small amount of blood. It should pass out of your system by tomorrow."
Elena nodded her head before continuing her search for the aspirin in the many cabinets and drawers in the bathroom. Emily glanced over at Stefan who was watching Elena quietly, "are you okay?" Emily asked softly, knowing this whole day must have been difficult for the younger Salvatore brother.
Stefan shook his head and avoided looking into his best friends and girlfriends eyes, already knowing what he would see, two worried facial expressions. "Damon was right," Stefan mumbled quietly, "this is, uh... this is my fault."
Mystic Falls 1864
Mystic Falls were in a state of mayhem, all you could hear was yelling and screaming in the middle of the woods of the small town. Two older men in dark suits and jackets quickly carried a tall brunette into a small cart that had metal bars covering the only tiny window. If you look closely, you would see the tall brunette was none other than Katherine Pierce.
Suddenly, running through the woods and straight towards the small cart was Damon Salvatore. "Damon! Damon! Stop, stop," Stefan Salvatore, Damon's younger brother called out, trying to stop his brother from getting into caught by the older men. "I'll help you. We'll get her back," Stefan told Damon.
Damon quickly pushed Stefan's arm off of him, "help me!?" Damon growled out, "don't you think that you've done enough? You promised you wouldn't tell him!"
"I didn't think this would happen," Stefan tried to explain.
When the two brothers turned back around to the women they both cared about, she was being taken away while inside the small metal cart. "You did this," Damon seethed, "this is your fault," Damon yelled out towards his brother before running the opposite way through the woods. Leaving Stefan heartbroken of his older brother's words.
"I put my faith in my father, but Damon put his faith in me, and I destroyed that," Stefan explained to the two girls. "This is my fault."
"You didn't do anything wrong," Elena told her boyfriend while caressing his face softly.
Emily nodded her head in agreement from the other side of the wall while watching the loving couple. "You couldn't have known your father was going to do that. That wasn't your fault," Emily smiled at her best friend.
Elena was about to speak up, but before she could, she groaned from her head hurting. "I'll go get the aspirin," Stefan told his girlfriend before kissing the top of her head and walked out of Elena's bedroom.
"Come on, twin," Emily told her sister while grabbing a hold of Elena's arm and softly moved her towards the bed and constructed Elena to lay down. Emily laid down next to her Elena and asked softly, "how are you doing?"
Elena sighed and laid her head against one of the many soft pillows she made on her bed, "my head hurts," Elena mumbled, "and I was scared of dying tonight," she confessed to her older sister.
Emily grabbed onto Elena's hand tightly and stated seriously, "I would never let that happen to you, Lena." Emily smiled at her sister, "neither would Stefan."
Elena nodded her head, "thank you, Emmie," before closing her eyes in sleepiness. Emily pulled her sister closer to her side and closed her eyes. She wasn't going to be leaving Elena's side anytime soon. Emily didn't want to lose her twin sister. This was the first time since the car accident that she really thought she was going to lose Elena. If anyone wanted to harm Elena, they would have to go through her first. Little did she know, her worse thought might come true.