Emily sat on the wooden porch swing that her father built when she was six, wrapped in her leather jacket trying to keep warm from the cold weather that took over the early mornings in Mystic Falls. She held her cell phone to her ear, listening to the multiple sounds of the phone ringing. Emily sighed when the call went to voicemail. She waited for the beep before speaking, "Hey Bon Bon, just wanted to see how you are doing." Emily paused before continuing, "I know it feels really difficult right now, but everything will be okay. Elena and I miss you so much. If you need anything please give me a call, I'll do whatever I can to help." Emily glanced up when she heard footsteps coming walking up the porch and when she did, she saw her aunt Jenna. Emily gave her aunt a small smile before quickly speaking into her phone, "come home soon. We love you, bye."
"What are you doing out here?" Jenna asked her older niece. "It's cold," Jenna chuckled while holding her hot cup of coffee.
Emily lifted up her phone towards Jenna, "I was just checking on Bonnie." Emily paused before continuing, "with Bonnie's grandma's funeral, it just reminded me mom and dad's." Emily looked up at her aunt in wonder, "did you ever find anymore about our adoption?"
Jenna gave Emily a small smile before pointing towards the front door with her head, "come on inside."
Emily quickly followed after Jenna, wanting to get away from the windy weather that was sitting her pale face. While Jenna went to grab her laptop from her bag, Emily moved to the dining room table where she saw her twin sister. Elena looked up from a book she was reading and questioned the two newcomers in the dining room, "hey, what are you guys doing?"
Emily gave her sister a smile, "Jenna might have found some more information on our adoption." Emily noticed that Elena perked up at her answer so she moved to sit next to her sister so Jenna could show them both the information she found.
Jenna sat down next to Elena and opened her laptop before speaking towards her two nieces, "your dad kept everything from his medical practice - records, logs, old appointment books," Jenna picked up a heavy leather book and exclaimed, "I found a entry from the night you two were born." Jenna flicked through a few pages before stating, "Patient and a birth date. Isobel Peterson."
Elena looked over at the name of the page before looking back at Jenna in wonder, "do you think that's her real name?"
Jenna shook her head, "pregnant teenage runaway? Probably not." Jenna shrugged lightly, "first name, maybe." Jenna paused before continuing, "but where'd she get Peterson? Classmate? Roommate? So I binged it." Jenna turned back to her opened laptop and pulled up the search engine and began typing, "I searched for all the Petersons in this area born the same year as Isobel, found 3 - 2 men, one woman, Trudie, who lived in Grove Hill, Virginia."
Emily looked over at her aunt shocked, "that's really close to Mystic Falls." She couldn't believe that someone could have information about her birth mother and that lived so close.
Jenna nodded, "well, watch this." Jenna turned back to her laptop and typed once again. Jenna clicked on a link and what popped up, made Emily smile.
"That's her," Emily pointed at the young girl in the picture. She new as soon as she saw the girl. Isobel had the same green eyes as Emily and straight brown hair that Elena and Emily both shared. Emily smiled brightly over at Elena, "she was a cheerleader." The two sisters chuckled while staring at the photo. It was the first real thing that they saw of their mother, it was a special experience for both girls.
Jenna smiled over at the two girls when she saw that the sisters were smiling happily. "Trudie still lives there," Jenna exclaimed before handing Emily a post-it note, "this is her address."
Emily looked down at the address for a moment before nodding at her aunt. But Elena looked up at Jenna in confusion, "what about Isobel?"
Jenna stared at the younger sister for a moment before turning her eyes back to her laptop and sighed, "I couldn't find anything about her." Emily quickly noticed Elena's fallen face, so she quickly squeezed her sister's hand tightly. Jenna looked back at the two girls carefully, "listen. There's something else. Mr. Saltzman, Ric, his wife was from around here, and her name was also Isobel."
Elena looked up at Jenna shock before realizing what she said, "wait. 'Was' as in..."
Jenna shook her head, "she died."
Emily looked over at her sister in shock. She didn't know what to say to Elena, because she never in a million years would even think that her birth mother could be her history teacher's dead wife. It had to be a huge coincidence that his wife was also born in Mystic Falls. If this was true, then the she and Elena had the worse luck in parents.
"Alaric's wife might have been your mother?" Stefan questioned in confusion while glancing at the two Gilbert sisters. After receiving the information from Jenna, the two girls decided to talk about it with Stefan before they made any decisions.
Elena sighed while she placed her clothes in her drawer, "it can't be true, right?"
Emily shook her head from Elena's bed, "it has to be a huge coincidence, there's no way that she is our mother. It's too crazy," Emily tried to console her sister. For Elena's sake, she really hoped that Jenna was wrong. Emily didn't want Elena to deal with the possibility that their birth mother was also dead.
Elena held up the post-it note that Jenna had gave Emily. "I have the address for her friend Trudie," Elena told her boyfriend in a small, nervous voice.
"You wanna talk to her," Stefan stated, rather than asking since he already knew the answer.
Elena stared at Stefan before shaking her head, "I don't know. I..." Elena sighed and moved to sit next to Emily, "I don't know. If it's true and they are the same person, that means that our birth mother is dead, and I don't know if I could handle that."
Emily sighed and gave Elena's hand a tight squeeze, "if you want to do this, then I'll be there with you the whole time." Emily shrugged her shoulders lightly, "and if you don't then, oh well, we know who our true parents were." Elena gave her older sister a thankful smile and squeezed her hand back.
Stefan looked at the two girls after a moment, "did Jenna tell you anything about Alaric's wife? How she died?"
Emily glanced over at Elena, and noticed that she lost in thought, so Emily answered, "all Jenna told us that she was killed and the case was never solved." Stefan nodded his head and looked away from Emily's green eyes. Emily looked up at Stefan shocked, "you knew that already, didn't you?"
Stefan nodded his head and explained, "the night at the school when he attacked me, he told me some things about her death."
That peaked Elena's attention greatly, because the younger sister quickly stood up and moved closer to Stefan with her mind stirring at the possibility of Alaric's wife being their birth mother. "Well - " Elena began.
"No. no," Stefan quickly interrupted his girlfriend and grabbed her hands softly. "It's not possible. The coincidence is - it's too much." Stefan glanced over at Emily on the Elena's bed before continuing, "if you guys decide to go talk to Isobel's friend, I'll go with you guys. Okay?"
Elena shook her head at Stefan, "I don't know what I'm gonna do yet."
"Whatever you want to do, I'll be with you the whole time," Emily promised her sister once again. Once Elena nodded her head, Emily decided to give the couple some alone time, so she stood from Elena's soft bed and quietly existed her sister's bedroom.
Once Stefan had left the Gilbert house, Elena had found her green eyed sister in the her bedroom. Elena bit her lip while standing in the doorway of Emily's room before quietly moving towards Emily's bed and sat next to her sister. Emily rose an eyebrow at her nervous looking sister before Elena exclaimed quietly, "I want to go see Trudie."
Emily quickly sat up in her bed and turned towards her sister, "are you sure?"
Elena began to play with with her small fingers and mumbled out, "yeah. I mean, why stop now? I can't let my cowardly attitude get in the way."
Emily reached over and squeezed Elena's hand with a small smile, "you're not a coward, Lena. You deserve to be scared and nervous. This woman might have information about our birth mother, you have the right to be scared about what we find out." Emily paused before looking deeply into Elena's brown eyes, "but I'll be with you the whole time, and if you want to turn around and come back home, then I'll be with you then too."
Apparently that it just what Elena needed to hear, because next thing Emily knew, Elena was pulling her from the soft and warm bed. Emily didn't complain since she knew deep down that Elena wanted to know everything about where they came from, she just needed that extra push from her twin sister. Emily would always support Elena in what decision she made, so she quickly pulled on her black boots and followed after Elena to her sister's car.
Just as Emily thought, it didn't take long to get to the small town of Grove Hill that Trudie lived in. It took about twenty-five minutes for Elena to enter Grove Hill before she began to slow down to look for Trudie's house. Emily pointed across the road, "there. That's her house," Emily told her sister, recognizing the address from the post-it note. Elena pulled over to the side of the road and turned off her car before glancing over at her sister.
"We got this," Emily promised Elena before the two girls slowly got out of the car and made their way across the road to the small white house with a light blue door.
Emily walked up to the door beside Elena and noticed that Elena was extremely nervous, so she decided to take over and she carefully knocked on the door. While she waited for the women to open the door, Emily turned to her sister and gave her encouraging smile. Suddenly the front door swung open by a smiling blonde. "Trudie? Trudie Peterson?" Emily questioned the women.
The women nodded, "yes."
Emily smiled at Trudie, "hi, my name is Emily Gilbert," she pointed to the brunette next to her, "and this my sister, Elena." Emily bit her lip before continuing, "I was wondering if we could talk to you about Isobel Flemming."
Trudie glanced at the two girls and smiled, "well, I haven't heard that name in years. How do you know her?" Trudie questioned.
Emily glanced over at Elena before asking, "do you know if she had two babies that she gave up for adoption?"
Trudie stared at the two girls in shock, "my God. you guys are her daughters." The blonde woman chuckled brightly, "I was just gonna make some tea. Would you like some?"
Emily glanced over at Elena, wanting to know if her sister wanted to continue or turn back around. After a moment, Elena smiled at Trudie, "I'd like that."
Trudie pointed behind her and mumbled out, "uh, the kitchen's this way." Trudie backed away from the door, so Emily and Elena walked through the entrance of the blonde woman's house and made their way to the direction she pointed to.
Emily and Elena both made their way carefully through the house until they saw the dining room table. The two girls took off their jackets and sat down at the wooden table. Emily spoke up as soon as they sat down, "I hope you don't mind that we just showed up." Emily glanced over at Elena before continuing, "we've been looking into Isobel and we found you."
Trudie smiled and shook her head, "it's no problem. Just a surprise, though." Trudie sat across from the two girls, "I haven't thought about Isobel in years."
"When was the last time you saw her?" Elena asked, shocking her sister that she finally got out of her shell about knowing about their birth mother. Emily was glad that Elena was ready to learn about their birth mother, they both needed answers.
Trudie thought for a moment, "about 17 years ago, when she left to go have you guys. We kept in touch for a while, but, you know, people drift apart."
"Do you know where she went?" Emily asked Trudie.
"She was in Florida for a while," Trudie answered. "She was on her own. I know it wasn't easy."
It was silent for a moment before Elena questioned softly, "do you have any idea who our father is?" Emily perked up at this question, this was one of the big question that had been going through her head since the name Isobel was spoken of.
But sadly, Trudie shook her head, "I could never get her to fess up." Trudie paused before continuing, "anyway, she finally pulled it together, got into college on a scholarship."
"Where did she go?" Emily wondered. Any information she could get so she could understand what type of person her birth mother was, it was gratefully appreciated.
"Somewhere in North Carolina," Trudie thought for a moment before stating, "Duke, I think. Smart girl, smart school."
Before either of the girls could comment, a loud noise was heard from the kitchen. "Let me just grab that," Trudie said before quickly walking towards the kitchen.
Once Trudie was out of the room, Emily turned towards Elena with a small smile, "how are you doing?"
Elena smiled brightly at Emily, "I'm good. I'm glad you convinced me to come today. I feel closer to Isobel somehow."
Emily squeezed her sister's hand, she was happy that Elena finally warmed up about the idea of learning more about their birth mother. Even though Grayson and Miranda raised them, Emily thought that they deserved to know where they came from and Trudie was helping to understand their birth mother.
A few minutes later, Trudie came back into the dining room table with three small cups of tea and a thin book. Once she sat the warm tea down, she quickly opened the book and turned to a certain page before passing it towards the two girls. Emily looked at the book, and she realized it was the same picture Jenna had showed them this morning.
"They came to the games for us," Trudie remembered while pointing towards the small photo of herself with Isobel dressed in a cheerleading outfit. "The football team hadn't won in years," Trudie explained, "we were the stars." Trudie paused, "well, Izzie was. But I was a damn good backup."
Emily smiled brightly before turning to Elena with a smirk, "like mother, like daughter."
Elena chuckled before explaining to the confused Trudie, "Emily is cheer captain at our school." Once Trudie nodded with a smile, Elena told the older women, "this is great. Thank you."
Trudie smiled, "you're welcome." Trudie glanced over at the older sister and stated, "you haven't touched your tea."
Emily glanced over at her cup of tea, and realized that she was so wrapped in learning about Isobel that she hadn't even touched it like Elena had. Emily quickly picked up the cup and took a small sip. Once the liquid reached the back of her throat, Emily furrowed her brows in confusion of the taste. "What is this?" Emily questioned, really hoping it wasn't what she thought it was.
"Oh, it's just some herbal mixture," Trudie answered simply.
Elena was confused why her sister was asking about the tea, so she moved her cup to her nose and took a quick whiff. Elena eyes widened when she didn't noticed the smell earlier, "vervain?" Elena questioned Trudie. But the only reaction they got out of Trudie was the size of her eyes and her stiff posture. "You know," Elena stated.
"Know what?" Trudie asked with fake confusion.
Emily sat down her cup of tea and stated, "you didn't invite us in, and you're serving us vervain tea. So, you know."
Trudie swallowed hard and quickly stood up, "I think you guys should probably leave."
Emily stood up and asked strongly, "what are you not telling us?" Emily didn't like the fact that this woman wasn't telling her and Elena the whole truth. What did she know about vampires? Was she involved somehow?
"Please leave. Now!" Trudie yelped.
Elena quickly jumped up and grabbed her and Emily's jacket and quickly pulled Emily from the woman and out of the house. Emily sighed, she didn't want to stop questioning the woman, but she followed after Elena since she promised she would leave when she wanted. The two girls slowly made their way to Elena's car but while Emily was waiting for Elena to unlock the car door, she saw someone standing in the middle of the road and staring directly at them. "Get in the car," Emily commanded her sister quickly before jumping into the car as well. Elena quickly followed her sister's advice and got into the car and quickly took off back towards Mystic Falls.
Later that night, Emily and Elena were inside the crowded Mystic Grill for the Mystic Falls Most Eligible Bachelors. "He's already been hit on, like, 35 times," Caroline explained to the Gilbert sister's. "He's total cougar bait," Caroline joked next to the door that she liked.
Emily smirked over at Matt, "good job, Matty."
Matt rolled his eyes playfully at his friend, "yeah right, it's embarrassing."
Caroline chuckled before she saw someone over the sister's shoulders that was coming towards the four. "Hi, Mrs. Donovan," Caroline greeted the older woman brightly.
Kelly stared at Caroline before turning to her son's ex-girlfriend with a smile, "Elena, honey."
"Hi, Kelly," Elena smiled brightly at the older woman.
Kelly then turned towards her left and saw the older sister, "and the gorgeous Emily!"
Emily chuckled at Matt's mother before pulling her into a hug, "it's good to see you, Kelly." The older women always loved the two sisters since the Gilbert girls had been friends with Matt since they were in children. Emily liked Kelly, but sometimes she could get on her nerves on how she treated people.
Elena pulled Kelly into a hug after Emily and asked, "how are you doing?"
Kelly shrugged, "oh, same old." Kelly quickly paused, "oh. Matty tells me you broke his heart."
"Mom," Matt scowled his mother with the shake of his head.
"Just kidding. Calm down," Kelly told her son before turning back to Elena, "he found his rebound girl," and quickly glanced over at Caroline. Emily rolled her eyes. She realized Kelly wasn't a big fan of Caroline since she was involved in Matt. Kelly always thought Elena and Matt would be together forever.
"Oh," Kelly yelped before pulling out some money and handed to the Caroline, "here you go, sweetheart. However many that'll buy." Once Caroline took the money, Kelly exclaimed, "I just hope I don't get Bachelor 3. I dated him in high school." Kelly shook her head and whispered, "not impressive. In any way."
Matt shook his head in embarrassment, causing Emily to chuckle. One thing she liked about Kelly is that she knew had to have fun and embarrass Matt. Caroline pulled out a few red tickets before handing them to Kelly who exclaimed, "very exciting."
Later in the night, Emily had spotted Jenna in the crowd at Mystic Grill, so Emily and Elena joined Jenna at a table when Mrs. Lockwood began to introduce the contestants of the Bachelor raffle. "And what do you do, Bachelor number 3?" Mrs. Lockwood asked the short man.
"Yeah, I'm a plumber," the man mumbled into the microphone with a small smile. Elena chuckled and hid her face in her sister's shoulder, trying to contain her laughter. Jenna and Emily joined in with the laughter of the younger sister and the rest of Mystic Grill.
"Well, isn't that wonderful?" Mrs. Lockwood exclaimed. "We could always use more plumbers," she mumbled before smiling, "moving on." Mrs. Lockwood looked down at the card in her hand before speaking, "number four, Alaric Saltzman." Emily bumped her shoulder with Jenna's with a teasing smirk, causing Jenna to roll her eyes and continue to stare at the man she liked. "Wow. that's quite a mouthful," Mrs. Lockwood stated. "What do you do, Alaric?"
"I'm a teacher at Mystic Falls High," Alaric answered simply in the microphone.
"Oh, beauty and brains, ladies," Mrs. Lockwood spoke to the crowd, "this one's a keeper." Mrs. Lockwood turned back to Alaric with a smile, "what do you teach?"
"History," Alaric answered.
"Oh, well, give us a fun fact about Mystic Falls, something crazy," Mrs. Lockwood instructed Alaric nicely.
Alaric glanced next to him, where Damon Salvatore stood and playfully placed his hand towards his ear. "Uh, well..." Alaric thought.
Mrs. Lockwood pulled the microphone away from Alaric and turned towards the crowd with a smile, "he's probably saving the best stories for his date." Mrs. Lockwood continued down the row of bachelors and locked down at the card in her hand, "and last, but not least, Damon Salvatore. We don't have much on you."
"Well, I'm tough to fit on a card," Damon smirked.
"Do you have any hobbies, like to travel?" Mrs. Lockwood questioned the blue eyed man.
Damon nodded, "oh, yeah. L.A., New York." Damon paused, "a couple of years ago, I was in North Carolina. Near the Duke campus, actually." Damon glanced over at Alaric, "I think - I think Alaric went to school there. Didn't you, Ric?" Damon nodded his head, "yeah, 'cause I - I know your wife did."
Emily quickly glanced over to Elena with wide eyes that matched Elena's brown eyes. The two girls glanced back over to Damon when he continued. "I had a drink with her once. She was - she was a great girl." Damon questioned Alaric, "I ever tell you that?" Damon smirked, "cause she was - delicious. Mmm! Mmm mmm mmm."
"Are you okay?" Jenna questioned Elena who was staring at Damon with tears in her eyes.
Emily gave Jenna a quick smile, "we're just going to get some air," before standing up and grabbing Elena's arm. As soon as the two sisters were out the Grill, Stefan quickly followed after them.
"Elena," Stefan called out.
"He killed her?" Elena questioned. "Damon was the vampire that killed her?"
Emily's eyed widened in shock, "wait. Isobel was killed by a vampire?" once Elena nodded her head, Emily questioned, "why didn't you tell me?"
Elena sighed, "I just found out before we came to the Grill. I was going to tell you," Elena promised. Emily couldn't believe it. Damon was the one that killed her birth mother, her best friend's brother killed Isobel.
"I don't know what happened," Stefan quickly spoke up. "Alaric said that they never found the body."
"Oh, my God. Stefan," Elena cried out in shock.
"I know. I'm sorry. I wanted to tell you," Stefan spoke quickly while glancing at the two shocked girls. "But I just - I wanted to know more."
"I was feeling sorry for him, hoping this whole Katherine thing would change him," Elena huffed, "I'm so stupid." Emily quickly pulled her sister into a hug, noticing that she falling apart every time she spoke.
Stefan shook his head, "he doesn't know the connection to you. I thought about confronting him, but he's already so on edge."
"Why are you protecting him?" Emily questioned Stefan in shock.
"Because Elena isn't the only one hoping that he might actually change," Stefan spoke softly.
Elena pulled away from her older sister and turned to Stefan with a sad expression. But Elena's eye widened when she saw someone over Stefan's shoulder. "That man," Elena trailed off.
Emily quickly grabbed Elena's hand and pulled Elena behind her. "That man was outside of Trudie's," Emily explained to Stefan stiffly.
Stefan turned around to look at the man before commanding the two girls, "get back inside. Come on," Stefan carefully pushed the two girls to the direction of the door of Mystic Grill.
Emily held onto Elena's hand while they carefully moved through the crowd in Mystic Grill trying to get back to the table where Jenna was. But unluckily, Elena ended up bumping into someone. "Whoa. easy there," the voice spoke. The two girls looked up and saw it was Damon who smirked, "buy a ticket like everyone else."
Emily rolled her eyes at the older Salvatore, "did you enjoy that?" Emily growled out, "rubbing it in to Alaric Saltzman?" Emily wasn't just going to let Damon walk around Mystic Falls happily without him knowing everyday that he killed they birth mother.
Damon looked at the two girls confused, "what?"
Elena spoke up with anger in her voice, "just as I was starting to think that there was something redeemable about you."
Stefan quickly walked up the trio with a shake of his head, "Elena," he mumbled, trying to get her to stop.
Damon glanced over at his brother before turning back to the Gilbert sisters, "am I missing something here?"
"Did I forget to mention earlier when we talking about my birth mother? The one that gave me up?" Elena questioned.
"Mm-hmm," Damon mumbled while continuing to stare at Elena.
"Her name was Isobel," Elena explained. Damon's face changed from smiling and happy to a frown and furrowed brows. "Go ahead. Reminisce about how you killed her," Elena growled out.
Emily quickly pulled Elena away from Damon before she would break down in front of the whole town that was in Mystic Grill. Emily quickly pushed anyone out of the way, and made their way outside the Grill once again. But of course at soon as they were outside, Stefan quickly followed after them.
"Come on. Let's get you home," Stefan called out to the two girls.
Before either girl could respond to Stefan, Emily abruptly stopped where she stood and quickly hid Elena behind her, because the man from earlier stood directly in front of them. Stefan quickly moved in front of Emily, protecting both girls.
"I have a message for you," the man spoke once all eyes were on him.
"What?" Emily questioned the man.
But Stefan placed his hand on her shoulder and questioned the man, "who are you?"
The man ignored Stefan and stated, "stop looking."
Elena moved from behind her sister and decided to stand next to her when she questioned the man, "stop looking for what?"
The man looked over at the two girls, "she doesn't want to know you. She doesn't want to talk to you."
Emily froze and asked breathlessly, "Isobel?"
"You need to stop looking," the man spoke before asking, "do you understand?"
Elena glanced at her sister before turning back to the man, "she's alive? Does that mean she's a -"
Stefan quickly spoke up, "Elena, he's under compulsion."
"Do you understand?" The man asked again.
"Yes. We do," Emily spoke up to the man.
"Good," the man mumbled. He looked over at the road before turning back to the trio and stated, "I'm done now." The man took one step back and when he did, a huge truck was passing by. Causing the huge truck to hit the man.
The two girls gasped in shock when the truck ran over the man. Elena quickly wrapped her arms around Emily and shoved her head into Emily's neck in fright. As soon as the truck slammed on it's brakes, Emily pulled Elena with her and followed Stefan to the accident. While Stefan went to check on the man, Emily saw a cell phone lying a few feet away. Emily looked around, making sure no one was looking, before picking up the phone and quickly sticking it inside her jacket pocket.
Stefan quickly stood up and grabbed one arm from both girls and pulled them away from the body and roaming eyes outside of Mystic Grill. "Come on. Let's get out of here. Come on," Stefan commanded while quickly pulling the girls.
Emily quietly walked towards Elena's room, she peeked inside Elena's room, and saw her sister sitting on her bed with a photo in her hand. Emily knocked on the door and spoke softly when Elena lifted up her head, "hey."
All Elena did was give her sister a small smile before looking back at the photo. Emily carefully walked to Elena's bed and sat next to her sister. She looked over at the photo in Elena's hands, which cause a smile to slowly form on her face. It was photo that Elena had taken, it was a photo of their mom and dad with the two of them in the middle. Emily couldn't place the memory, but she did know for certain is that they were happy.
Emily grabbed the photo carefully from Elena's hands and placed it back on Elena's bedside table. Emily noticed Elena's sadden face, so she pulled out the phone from her jacket pocket, the phone that belonged to the man that was following them. Emily showed the phone to Elena, who's eyes widened.
"Is that..." Elena trailed off.
Emily nodded her head, "I took it encase there was any information on Isobel."
"Have you checked?" Elena asked quietly.
Emily shook her head, "I wanted to do it with you." Emily carefully opened the phone and looked through the recently called. There was only one number through the whole phone. Emily glanced up at Elena before pushing call and placing it on speakerphone. Emily bit her lip while waiting for the phone to be answered. She was nervous, this might be the number of Isobel was alive and a vampire.
"Was there a problem?" A female voice spoke, "did you find them? What's going on?"
Emily quickly looked up at Elena who had tears in her eyes before speaking nervously, "Isobel?"
But the second Emily opened her mouth, the women on the other line quickly hung up the phone. Emily closed her eyes and sighed before placing the phone back into her jacket pocket. Emily glanced over at her sister who was playing with her fingers and avoiding eye contact with her older sister. Emily moved over and laid down on the right side of Elena's bed before pulling Elena into her side and began to play with Elena's long brown hair. Elena left out a small sigh when she finally began to relax beside her twin sister.
"We'll figure this out," Emily promised. "I won't give up trying to find out about Isobel." Emily paused for a moment before continuing, "just relax. We'll worry about everything tomorrow." Once Elena nodded her head against Emily's shoulder, she bent down and gave Elena a loving kiss on the top of her head before continuing to play with Elena's hair. Emily was going to stop trying to figure out where they came from. Everyone deserved to know where they came from, so she wasn't just going to stop because Isobel told them to. They deserved to know the truth, and that is what they were going to get.