Emily leaned against one of the old walls that surrounded the Salvatore boarding house and gazed calmly outside and watched while the rain, that suddenly took over Mystic Falls in less than one night, bounce off the diamond shaped windows. Even though, Emily hated water that took her parents lives and almost took hers and Elena's, the effect of rain hitting the exterior of an house, always calmed her down. The sound of rain always made Emily feel like everything was okay. It would always bring back memories when she and Elena would make cookies on a rainy day with their mother and the three women would cuddle together on the couch. But her piece and quiet was interrupted by the reason she and Elena were at the Salvatore boarding house while there was a storm brewing through the small town. Damon was pounding heavily on a wooden plywood that he placed in front of the broken window that got ruined the night before.
"I say we go to Pearl's, bust down the door, and annihilate the idiot that attacked us last night," Damon told his brother simply once he finished hammering the makeshift window.
"Yeah. And then what?" Stefan questioned Damon while pacing slowly in front of the roaring fireplace. "We turn to the rest of that house of vampires and say, "oops. Sorry?"
Emily rolled her eyes when she saw Damon shrug playfully at Stefan's question. She moved away from the window and stood above Elena who was sitting on the couch before speaking towards the older Salvatore brother with distaste in her voice. "I can't believe you made a deal with Anna's mother, who kidnapped Elena and I."
"It was more like a helpful exchange of information," Damon told the green eyed Gilbert girl. "It's not like I had choice. She's..." Damon paused before adding, "scary." Damon smirked over at the two sisters that were in his eye sight, "besides, she's gonna help me get Katherine back."
"Of course she is," Elena huffed. "Damon gets what he wants, as usual. No matter who he hurts in the process."
"You don't have to get snarky about it," Damon stared at Elena.
Elena stood up from the couch and growled out towards the older Salvatore brother, "we woke up this morning to learn that all the vampires have been released from the tomb. I've earned snarky." Emily's face lifted up a small smirk at Elena's remark to the vampire. She was glad that her sister was finally standing up for herself when it comes to the blue eyed vampire.
Damon sighed heavily when he sat down on one of the leather chairs before turning to the fuming Elena, "how long are you going to blame me for turning your birth mother into a vampire?"
Elena crossed her arms over her chest with the shake of her head, "I'm not blaming you, Damon. I've accepted the fact that you're a self-serving psychopath with no redeeming qualities."
"Ouch," Damon mumbled towards Elena.
"Damn, that's gotta hurt," Emily smirked over towards the older Salvatore, who rolled his eyes at the two Gilbert sisters.
"This isn't being very productive," Stefan quickly spoke up, trying to stop the tension in the room. "We're gonna figure out a way to deal with Pearl and the vampires." Stefan looked towards his brother with a serious expression, "yeah?" But all Damon did was get up from the leather chair and leave the living room without a word.
"I'm sorry. He just makes me so cranky," Elena told her boyfriend when Stefan pulled her into a soft hug.
"I know. He makes everyone cranky," Stefan told Elena while he held her close to his body.
"So, what are we going to do?" Emily questioned from the couch she decided to occupy.
"Damon and I are gonna handle everything, I promise," Stefan explained simply.
Elena quickly pulled away from her boyfriend's embrace, "well, what about me?" Elena shook her head, "I can't just sit here and do nothing."
Emily nodded her head in agreement, "Elena's right. We can't just do nothing. You can't take down all the tomb vampires without some help," Emily tried to persuade Stefan.
Stefan quickly shook his head at the two Gilbert girls, "you are going to do nothing, because that's what going to keep you two safe." Emily rolled her eyes at Stefan's statement, she knew that he was very protective her and Elena but they wanted to help, this is their town they need to keep safe too.
"Which means nothing if you're not safe, too," Elena grabbed Stefan's hands that held her face gently.
"What do you mean?" Stefan questioned humorously, "I'm perfectly safe. I have Damon, the self-serving psychopath on my side."
Emily rolled her eyes from the couch and mumbled, "well, that's comforting."
Emily glanced over her shoulder when she heard the familiar sound of Elena's phone ringing once again, causing Emily to groan towards her younger sister, "either answer him or shut your phone off," Emily scolded Elena.
Elena rolled her eyes at her sister before picking up her phone and glancing at the screen before pressing cancel on her phone. As soon as she pressed cancel, someone was pounding on the front door. Elena glanced over at Emily who rose an eyebrow at her before going towards the door and opening it. Once she opened the door, Damon quickly walked into the Gilbert house and spoke, "you're ignoring me." Damon glanced over at the older sister on the couch, "both of you."
"Oops, my phone is off," Emily shrugged carelessly at the older Salvatore.
"The 6 missed calls?" Elena questioned Damon, "sorry. My phone is dead."
Damon ignored the playfulness in both Gilbert sisters voices and asked seriously while staring down at Elena, "is Stefan here?"
"No," Elena deadpanned. "Why? Is something wrong?"
"He went out in the woods and didn't come back," Damon explained. "I can't get him on his phone," Damon mumbled while looking down at his phone before continuing, "I figured he was here with you."
Emily quickly pulled out her phone from her jacket pocket and dialed Stefan's number but hung it up right after and quickly walked towards the duo. "My call is going straight to voicemail," Emily told her sister and Damon.
Elena quickly dialed Stefan on her phone and sighed, "so is mine." She then turned to Damon in worry, "where could he be?"
"You're not gonna like what I'm thinking," Damon mumbled while glancing at the two Gilbert girls. Emily glanced over at her worried sister with the same expression. She knew whatever Damon was thinking, it wasn't going to be good. And for the sake of Stefan, they needed to act fast.
Emily and Elena both sat in Damon's blue mustang in the middle of nowhere in the raining Mystic Falls. Damon had driven to a small house that was surrounded by woods, where Stefan might be located. Emily constantly bounced her leg while looking outside the rainy window in nervousness. She never had to be in a position where she had to worry about Stefan, and now that day has come, she didn't know what to think. Stefan had always protected Emily and her sister, so now they needed to help and protect Stefan.
Emily's green eyes focused on something that she saw in the pounding rain. She quickly grabbed the black umbrella that was sitting at her feet and commanded, "come on, Lena," before stepping out of the blue car and opening the umbrella. She waited for Elena to run underneath the umbrella before quickly walking up to Damon, who was alone.
"What happened? Where is he?" Elena quickly asked Damon once she realized he didn't have Stefan with him.
"They have him. I can't get in," Damon explained while carefully getting under the large umbrella.
"Why not?" Elena questioned back.
"Because the woman who owns the house is compelled to not let me in," Damon told the two girls.
Emily glanced over at her sister, who was getting more worried by the second, before looking back at the blue eyed vampire with determination in her eyes, "I can get in." She wasn't just going to sit here while her best friend was hurt, she had to do something to help.
Damon quickly shook his head, "you're not going in there."
"Damon! We have to do something!" Emily yelled at the older Salvatore brother.
"But you are not going in there," Damon exclaimed before looking at Elena, "neither of you."
Elena deflated once she realized that Damon knew what she was thinking, she wanted to help just as bad as Emily did. "Why are they doing this? What do they want with him?" Elena cried out.
Damon paused before exclaiming, "revenge. They want revenge."
"We gotta do something," Emily told Damon with seriousness with a hint of worry for her best friend.
"I know," Damon mumbled while glancing back at the small house that held his brother.
"We can't let them hurt him," Elena spoke. "We gotta get him out of there."
"I know." Damon grabbed Elena's face softly, "Elena, I know. But I don't know how to get him out."
Apparently, Damon thought of an idea on how to get Stefan from the small house that held all the tomb vampires, because he headed straight towards Mystic Falls High School instead of going back to the Salvatore boarding house.
Emily walked through the empty hallways of Mystic Falls High School with Elena while Damon was quickly walking ahead of them. Emily glanced around the hallways weirdly, she never once been in the high school when there was not one student crowding the hallways. Emily glanced over at her sister, and saw that she was biting her lip in nervousness. Emily grabbed Elena's hand and squeezed it tightly and gave her sister a reassuring smile before continuing to follow Damon through the empty hallways.
"Well, don't you look.... Alive?" Damon called out.
Emily pulled Elena to a stop behind a corner, and decided to listen to who Damon was talking to. "You can't hurt me," a new, familiar voice spoke towards the vampire. Emily scrunched up her face when she realized it was her history teacher, Mr. Saltzman.
"Oh, I can hurt you, all right," Damon threatened the teacher.
Emily pulled Elena from the corner and faced the teacher and vampire. They didn't have time for Damon to fight with the teacher, so Emily quickly called out, "Mr. Saltzman. We need your help."
Luckily, Mr. Saltzman promised he would hear what the Gilbert sisters had to say. Emily knew it had nothing to do with her or her sister, it had to with the teacher being interested in their aunt. But Emily didn't mind, she just wanted to help Stefan in anyway she could.
"Stefan's in the house," Elena quickly explained to the history teacher once they walked into his classroom. "Damon's a vampire. He can't get in. We need you." Elena glanced over at her sister before turning back to the teacher, "I would go, but..."
"Your life is valuable," Damon called out from the other side of the classroom before looking towards the history teacher, "yours, on the other hand is."
"Stefan told me about your ring," Elena told Mr. Saltzman while glancing down at the large ring on his finger.
"What about it?" Mr. Saltzman questioned.
"Let me recap... you tried to kill me. I defended myself. You died. Then according to my brother, your ring brought you back to life," Damon explained. "Am I leaving anything out?"
"Yeah." Mr. Saltzman stood up and threateningly moved towards the vampire, "the part where I try and kill you again. Only this time, I don't miss."
Emily quickly stood in front of the history teacher before he could stand directly in front of Damon. "Mr. Saltzman. We need your help, please."
"It's Stefan," Elena pleaded next to her sister.
Mr. Saltzman stared at the green eyed girl before focusing on the younger sister, "I'm sorry, Elena. But it's not my problem."
"That's a shame," Damon spoke. "Because the woman in charge of the crowd can help find your wife." Emily quickly glanced over towards Damon with furrowed brows. That definitely wasn't true, or she would have found out where her birth mother was by now.
"You're lying," Mr. Saltzman stared hard at the vampire.
"Am I?" Damon questioned. "Why don't you ask her for yourself?" When the teacher didn't say anything, Damon commented, "coward." Damon walked towards the door and called behind him quietly, "come on, girls."
"All right!" Mr. Saltzman yelped before the two sisters and vampire could walk out the classroom. "Wait. I'll go."
As soon as the words were out of the teacher's mouth, the trio walked back towards the classroom and silently surrounded Mr. Saltzman's desk. He began to pull a large leather bag from his desk drawer and opened it up to show multiple weapons.
"Teacher by day, vampire hunter by night," Damon commented.
"I've you to thank for that," Mr. Saltzman told the vampire.
Emily ignored the bickering between both men, and focused her eyes on the weapons that are meant in hurt vampires. Emily's brows furrowed when she realized she didn't even know what she was looking at. "What are these?" Emily questioned the vampire hunter.
"Those are tranquilizer darts filled with vervain," Mr. Saltzman answered without a thought.
"Just get me in," Damon commanded, "I'll get Stefan out."
Emily rose an eyebrow at the vampire, "that's your plan? You're going to take on a whole house filled with vampires by yourself?"
"Well, I'll be a little stealthier than that, hopefully," Damon told the older sister.
Emily rolled her eyes at the blue eyed vampire before focusing her eyes back on the vampire weapons. Emily carefully grabbed one of the vervain filled darts and moved it around her fingertips, getting a close look at weapons. "Whoa. what are you doing?" Mr. Saltzman quickly questioned in the young girl.
"I'm coming with you guys," Emily told the two men like it was obvious.
Elena nodded her head in agreement before sneakily grabbing one of the darts. "We can help," Elena tried to persuade the vampire and hunter.
"No. no. no. no. No way," Damon smirked at the two girls while Mr. Saltzman grabbed the dart from Emily.
Emily looked over towards the vampire in shock, "you're kidding me, right? I came here to help my best friend, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines while Stefan is in danger."
Elena nodded her head, "you could distract them, and then Emily and I can get Stefan out." Elena told the vampire while staring hard into his blue eyes. While Damon was occupied when Elena, Emily quickly and quietly slid another vervain dart into her jacket pocket while no one was watching.
"You'll get yourself killed," Damon told the two girls while looking at Elena. "You're not going in there."
Emily folded her arms over her chest and told the vampire, "we're going."
Damon ignored the two stubborn girls and turned towards Mr. Saltzman and exclaimed, "so, when you get me in, get out as quickly as you can. I know how to sneak around where they can't hear me." Damon rolled his eyes, "you'll basically just be in the way."
Emily rolled her eyes at Damon, "you need our help. You can't get Stefan and fight the vampires at the same time, Damon."
Damon smirked over towards the older Gilbert sister, "I'm a vampire, I can get him by myself." Damon rolled his eyes playfully before exclaiming, "if you want to help, you can drive the getaway car and watch your sister. Happy?"
Emily glared at the vampire, "no, I'm not happy. I'm going into that house and helping Stefan."
Damon huffed, "you're not going in the house."
"It's Stefan we're talking about here," Elena cried out. "You don't understand."
"Oh, I understand," Damon spoke. "I understand. He's the reason you live. His love lifts you up where you belong," Damon spoke playfully. "I get it."
Elena however didn't find it funny, she glared at the older Salvatore. "Can you just not joke around for two seconds?"
"I can't protect you, Elena," Damon growled out. "I don't know how many vampires there are in there." Damon snapped his fingers in front of Elena's brown eyes, "that's how long it takes for you to get your head ripped off." Damon paused before continuing his rant, "I have to be able to get in and get out. I can't be distracted with your safety," Damon glanced over towards the older Gilbert girl with a pointed look. "Or this will end up a bloodbath that none of us walk away from... including Stefan. Damon watched carefully when Elena's sadden eyes glanced to the floor before speaking softly, "I know. I get it. I understand."
"If we're gonna go. Let's go," Mr. Saltzman spoke after they stood in silence for a moment before packing up his weapons.
Emily felt like she was experiencing deja vu, here she was once again sitting inside Damon's blue mustang in the constant rain while bouncing her leg. But this time the nervous feeling was much worse. Emily drummed her fingertips on the leather steering wheel while continually to glance through the windows, looking for Stefan and Damon or the trouble that would follow.
Emily glanced towards the passenger seat, where Elena was sitting and was moving things in black purse that sat in her lap. Emily rose an eyebrow when she saw Elena pull out a vervain dart. "That's my girl," Emily commented with a tiny smirk on her face before pulling a vervain dart from her jacket pocket and held it up. "Come on," Emily commanded her sister before quickly jumping out of the blue car.
Emily didn't care if she got in trouble with Damon, all she cared about was getting Stefan away from the vengeful vampires that taken over the small house. Once Elena was out of the car and by her side, Emily grabbed her sister's hand tightly before quickly and quietly walking towards the white house. The two girls made their way successfully onto the small porch before Emily quickly pushed Elena back towards the brick wall when she heard a voice speak. "Billy, Jacob, get back in here!" A male voice spoke loudly.
Emily waited for a moment before there was no more voices before taking a deep breath she was holding. She glanced carefully around the porch before she saw a cellar. If she was going to torture someone, that was the place she would do it in so she quickly grabbed Elena's hand and pulled her down the stairs as fast as she could without being seen. Emily moved towards the closed door that blocked the inside of cellar. She carefully tried to open the door, just it was locked. Emily looked for anything to break the window, but there was nothing around so she slammed her covered elbow into one of the small windows of the door. Emily carefully opened the door before grabbing onto Elena's hand tightly. The two sisters quietly walked down the hallway before Emily froze when she saw a vampire sitting in a chair with his eyes closed and headphones in his ears. Emily quickly pushed Elena behind the wall before peaking around the corner to look at the man.
"Stay here," Emily mouthed towards Elena before pulling out the vervain dart from her jacket pocket. Emily saw that the vampire was coming towards her way, so she held up the vervain dart high to get ready to attack. But it was useless, because Damon came from an open spot and stabbed the vampire in the neck with his own dart.
Once Elena came around the corner, Damon glared at the two girls, "are you insane?"
But Damon didn't get an answer back, because as soon as the vampire was dead, Elena was rushing down the hallway with Emily close behind. They didn't have time to listen to Damon rant about them being in danger, they needed to get Stefan and get the hell away from the vampires that didn't even know they were there.
"Elena, Emily," Stefan groaned in pain once he saw the two Gilbert girls busting through the last door of cellar. "You shouldn't be here."
"They were supposed to stay in the car," Damon told his brother before moving towards the only other vampire that was in the room. Damon held up a wooden stake above the vampire's heart but didn't move, because Stefan quickly spoke up to stop him.
"No. No. No. Not him," Stefan told his brother before he could touch the vampire's unbeating heart with the wooden stake.
"Whatever," Damon mumbled before walking away from the vampire. "Let's get you down," Damon told his brother before walking towards one of the ropes that held Stefan up in the air.
"There's vervain on the ropes," Stefan grunted out to warn his brother.
"Emily, pull that," Damon commanded while pointing at the rope. Emily quickly jogged towards the soaked rope before pulling. As soon as she pulled, Stefan came straight down with a groan.
"All right, let's go," Damon commanded while walking towards the door. "Clothes on."
"Wait," Stefan groaned out.
"What?" Damon groaned before whispering, "guys, come on. We have to get out of here."
As quick as Stefan could while being sore, he pulled out one of the stakes that were stuck in the vampire's legs with a grunt.
"Come on, we gotta go," Damon complained quickly.
"The other one," Stefan whispered in pain.
While Elena helped Stefan stand, Emily quickly leaned down and grabbed the wooden stake with both hands and pulled with all the strength she had before throwing the stake towards the ground. Once the stakes was out of the vampire's legs, he groaned thankfully. Emily grimaced at the vampire. She felt bad for him, because he must have helped Stefan, if he was staked in the cellar with the Salvatore.
But Emily couldn't think much about it, before Damon questioned the two girls, "can you get him in the car?"
Emily grabbed one of Stefan's arms while Elena grabbed the other and the two girls moved as fast as they could out of the room with the exhausted Salvatore. "Yeah," Emily mumbled out towards Damon.
"All right, go," Damon commanded before moving towards an open doorway.
"What about you?" Elena quickly questioned Damon in confusion.
"You rescue, I'll distract," Damon repeated Elena's words for earlier before commanding, "go."
The two Gilbert girls quickly walked up the steps from the cellar and as quietly as they could, they hurried down the stairs of the white porch and made their way towards the woods. Every step they took through the difficult woods, the more Stefan would groan in pain. "You okay, Stef?" Emily questioned quietly. But all she got in response was a grunt.
"Can you make it?" Elena asked her boyfriend while they quickly moved through the tree branches. But of course, with their luck Stefan ended up tripping on a large rock, causing all three to crash towards the ground.
Emily groaned in pain when she lifted her face from the dirty ground. She sat up onto her knees before glancing over towards her twin sister in worry. "You okay?" Stefan questioned the brown eyed girl.
"Yeah," Elena whispered.
Once Emily knew that Elena was okay, she quickly stood up from the ground and the two girls helped Stefan up from the ground. Emily wrapped an arm around Stefan's waist and carefully pulled him up, "come on. We're almost there. We have to keep going."
After walking for a few more minutes that felt like hours, Emily finally spotted Damon's blue car up ahead. Emily sighed thankfully, "oh thank God," Emily mumbled out.
Elena looked up from the ground when her sister spoke before smiling lightly, "come on, it's right over there," Emily told her boyfriend while the two sisters continue to lead the injured vampire.
Once they reached the blue car, Emily leaned Stefan against the car before commanding her sister, "go start the car." Elena nodded her head quickly before running towards the driver's seat. Emily caught her breath for a moment before opening the passenger door and carefully setting Stefan into the seat.
"Emily..." Elena trailed off with a scared voice.
Emily quickly glanced over towards her sister once she recognized Elena's voice. She glanced down where Elena was looking, and realized that the key was missing from the ignition. But Emily didn't get to think of what happened, before a vampire was tossing her out of the way and grabbing Stefan from the passenger seat.
Emily groaned in pain when hurt back hit the bottom of a large tree. All Emily could hear was Stefan gasping and groaning in pain, so she ignored the pain she was feeling in her lower back and quickly helped herself stand up and looked over towards Stefan and the vampire. What she saw, made her eyes widen in fear. The vampire was holding Stefan in the air with a stake in his hand. Emily quickly searched through her jacket pockets and found the vervain dart.
"And this is for the tomb," the vampire growled out and raised his wooden stake towards Stefan's heart. But Emily moved as quickly and quietly as she could before stabbing the vampire in the neck with the vervain dart. Emily gasped as she watched the vampire fall towards the ground. The vampire was the man that was outside the Grill the other night when she and Jenna had been drinking. She couldn't believe she let Jenna flirt with the vampire, when she was supposed to be protecting her family.
"Stefan," Elena gasped as she quickly ran towards her boyfriend, who fell towards the ground. After getting over the shock of the vampire, Emily quickly moved towards her sister and best friend. Emily's eyes widened when she saw the wooden stick that was inside Stefan's stomach. Emily glanced over at her sister with the nod of her head, before the two girls grasped onto the stick and quickly pulled it out of Stefan. The green eyed vampire groaned in pain before he began to fade and close his eyes. "Stefan," Elena called out before realized what was happening. "No, no, no. Stefan, Stefan!" Elena yelled out.
Elena looked over at her sister in shock, she didn't know what to do. Emily quickly began to shake Stefan as hard as she could. "Come on, Stefan. You can't do this," Emily cried out in anger.
Elena glanced behind her when she heard a loud groaning sound, knowing it wasn't Stefan. Elena's eyes widened when she saw the vampire was getting up from the ground. "Oh, please Stefan. Get up. Stefan," Elena mumbled out as quick as she can while glancing back at the awake vampire. Elena grabbed Stefan's face before glancing down at her hand and seeing that she was bleeding. Elena took a deep breath before bringing her bloody hand towards Stefan's pink lips before whispering, "here."
"Elena, please run," Stefan whispered against Elena's hand.
"No," Elena whispered while shaking her head quickly.
"Please," Stefan tried again.
Emily looked over at her helpless sister and her best friend who was in pain. "If you are going to something, you need to do it now," Emily commanded her sister before standing up from the ground while watching the vampire carefully.
Elena nodded her head at her sister before turning back to Stefan with a plan. "Stefan. My wrist. Here," Elena told her boyfriend while rolling up her sleeves and pushing her wrist towards Stefan's mouth. "Take my wrist. You need more blood."
"Go, Elena. Run. run," Stefan commanded with a groan.
"No," Elena cried out. "I trust you." Elena stared into Stefan's eyes, so he would know that she was serious. Once Stefan made sure, he carefully bit into Elena's wrist and began to drink her blood. Elena groaned in pain, before the pain went away and she watched her boyfriend drain the blood from her small wrist.
Emily's eyes widened when she saw the vampire looking towards their way while slowly getting up from the ground. "Guys, we got a problem," Emily mumbled quietly towards the couple.
Emily watched the vampire stand directly up and grab a wooden stick from the ground before stomping towards her direction. Emily quickly ran towards her sister and grabbed her arm. She pulled her away from Stefan and away from the angry vampire. The vampire charged towards Stefan with the stake, but Stefan quickly jumped up and attacked the vampire with his new found strength. Stefan threw him against a tree and grabbed tightly around his neck with a large growl. He grabbed the stake from the vampire hand and stabbed him deeply in the side. Stefan grabbed the stake from his side before stabbing him straight in the heart, and killing the vampire instantly. But that wasn't enough for Stefan, because he took out the stake and stabbed him into the heart multiple times in anger.
"Stefan!" Elena quickly called out to her boyfriend before running towards him and grabbing his hand that was stabbing the vampire.
But something that neither of girls ever thought would happen. Stefan turned around and growled right into Elena's face with his vamps sticking out through his mouth and his eyes red with anger. Emily quickly pulled Elena behind her and stood face to face with the angry Stefan. Noticing the scared expressions on his girlfriend and best friend's faces, Stefan turned his face back to normal and looked at the two girls with a horrified expression. Emily finally eased her tense back once she saw Stefan drop the broken stake towards the ground. For a second, she was even afraid of Stefan in his vampire state. But she also knew that he wouldn't have hurt her nor Elena.
Emily sighed when her back finally hit the warm mattress of her bed. She was glad to finally be home at the end of the day. Emily was also happy that Stefan was safe at the Salvatore boarding house with her twin sister. Emily closed her eyes and was about to drift off into sleep, but it was interrupted by her cell phone ringing. Emily groaned, all she wanted to do was to sleep, but she decided to answer it encase it was Elena.
Emily didn't bother to look at the screen before pressing accept and tiredly placed the phone to her ear and mumbled, "hello?"
"It's Vicki," Caroline spoke to her best friend while trying to hold her tears in.
Emily quickly sat up in her bed, wide awake with interest at hearing Caroline's cracked voice. "Wait, wait. What happened?"
Caroline cried out, "Vicki's dead."
"Oh, no," Emily mumbled out. Emily was in shock that someone had found her body, she thought Damon had taken care of it. Emily was in worry for her friends that cared for the older girl. "How's Matt taking it?" Emily asked quietly.
"He's a mess," Caroline whispered. "That's why I'm calling, could you come over to his house?"
"Yeah, sure," Emily quickly responded without a thought. "I'll be right over," Emily told her friend before hanging up her phone and jumping out of her bed and quickly slipped back on her boots.
Emily quickly knocked on the door of Donovan house and waited patiently. She began to play with her fingers in nervousness but looked up when the door was pulled open. When she looked up, she saw her blonde best friend. "Hey, Care," Emily mumbled.
Caroline pulled the door open and waited for the brunette to come in before closing the door. Emily grabbed one of Caroline's hands lightly, "you okay?" she whispered. Caroline nodded her head before pointing her head towards the kitchen.
Emily quickly followed behind Caroline and saw her baby brother sitting at the small table and across from him was someone she hasn't seen in a long time since all the vampire's came to Mystic Falls, it was her best friend, Tyler Lockwood. Emily quickly walked over towards her brother and kissed the top his head. Jeremy didn't respond but he did squeeze Emily's hand before looking down at the table. Emily moved over and sat in the chair next to Tyler. She leaned her head on his shoulder and whispered, "you okay?" Tyler looked down into the green eyes of his best friend and gave her a one tiny nod. Emily reached down and squeezed Tyler's hand before sitting in silence.
Emily looked up when she saw someone walk into the kitchen. It happened to be her twin sister, Elena. "He wants to talk to you," Elena mumbled to her sister. Emily nodded her head before quietly walking towards her sister and giving her a small smile before making her way back towards the bedrooms of the house by herself.
Emily stood in front of Matt's closed bedroom door before thinking, if Matt was anything like she, he wouldn't be in his room but in Vicki's room. So she quietly moved a few doors down, towards Vicki's room where the door was wide open. Emily took a peek and saw that Matt was sitting on Vicki's bed with his head in his hands. Emily sighed sadly before mumbling out, "Matty."
Matt quickly looked up when he saw the person he wanted to talk to. He rushed towards her and leaned his head on her shoulders with his arms wrapped around her tightly. Emily quickly held her friend close to her. Matt had always been the closest towards Emily, other than Tyler but he didn't know what it was like to lose a parent like Emily. Matt was even closer to Emily than he was with Elena. While they dated, Emily and Matt had always been best friends no matter what happened.
"I got you. I'm right here," Emily spoke softly to her friend while running her fingers slowly through his short blonde hair. Emily stayed quiet while she heard Matt take deep breaths against her jacket and cry silently before she spoke softly, "you will get through this. It's going to hurt, but the pain will become bearable."
Matt pulled away from his friend and locked his teary blue eyes to her green eyes and mumbled, "it hurts," with all the pain he felt through his whole body.
"Oh, Matty," Emily spoke. Seeing her friend in pain made her heart break. Matt did everything in his power to control Vicki while their mother was never around. He had to grow up as soon as he entered high school and Kelly left. Emily felt bad for Matt, he didn't deserve to put all Vicki's problems on his back. Emily carefully moved her friend towards the large bed and made him relax against the bed. She grabbed his hand tightly and looked into his clouded blue eyes, "if you need me for anything, please let me know, okay?" Once Matt nodded his head, Emily gave him a small smile. "I promise you, that you will be okay. You will feel like you don't want to be here anymore, but trust me, in a few months, you will feel okay and you will be smiling at something stupid Tyler is doing," Emily tried to joke. She was successful, Matt's lips twitched into a small smile. Emily leaned down and kissed the top of Matt's head, "try to get some rest, Matty. I love you," Emily told her blonde friend before leaving Matt to his sister's room so he could have some time alone.
Emily sighed and leaned her head against the closed door. She was in shock that they had found Vicki's body. Emily had always hoped that they wouldn't find her body for the sake of Matt. He didn't deserve to deal with the deal of his own sister. It was going to be a hard thing for Matt to deal with, but Emily will try her hardest to be there for her friend no matter what. Then there was Jeremy, her baby brother who was in love with the girl and who thought she had left town. She knew Jeremy was going to find out that she in fact didn't leave Mystic Falls. Emily wanted to protect her brother from all this, but it looks like that plan is already turning upside down every moment that goes by.