Emily smirked while watching Jenna help Elena put on her 18th century dress. Elena couldn't sit still when Jenna began to pull tightly on the strings in the back of her dress. Emily had to admit that putting on the large dress was a pain. She had to stand for forty minutes when Jenna placed her dress together. But it was part of being a Gilbert and a founder, Emily wouldn't have it any other way.
"Ouch, this dress hurts," Elena mumbled when she tried to move.
"Suck it in, baby," Jenna chuckled at her niece.
"Beauty is pain, my lovely sister," Emily smirked over Elena's shoulder in the long mirror.
Elena rolled her eyes, "let's get this over with before I change my mind."
Jenna chuckled at the younger sister and pinched her rosy cheeks, "you knew what you were getting into when you signed up for Miss Mystic Falls," Jenna took a step back and smiled at both girls dressed up, "now, go have fun."
Emily looped her arms with Elena's and pulled her out of the room and towards outside, where everyone was getting ready for the Founder's parade. "Yeah, let's go have fun," Emily smirked at her sister.
Elena shook her head and chuckled. The two Gilbert sister's made their way through the crowd of students, until Elena came to a complete stop. Emily looked at her sister strangely before looking to where Elena's brown eyes had landed. And it was on the Salvatore brothers. Emily could see that Damon's eyes were only focused on Elena. But when Emily looked over at the younger Salvatore brother, he was only looking at her with bright eyes and a small smile.
"John?" Elena questioned in shock. "Is that even possible?"
"Well, there's no proof, but he dated Isobel when she was a teenager and he was the one who brought her to your dad's office for the delivery," Stefan explained.
"You got to be kidding me," Emily groaned. She couldn't believe that uncle John was actually their father. Of course both of her birth parents are the two people that she doesn't like.
"My whole life, I've never liked this man. I-I..." Elena spoke in shock, not knowing to say.
Stefan sighed while staring at Elena, "sorry, I'm sorry. I just... I wanted to tell you before Damon dropped it on you on some typically inappropriate way."
Elena shook her head, "no, I'm happy that you told me, I just... I really hope that it's not true." Elena sighed while glancing over at Emily, "what are we supposed to do? Do we just walk up to him and say, 'are you our biological father?"
Emily shook her head while biting on her bottom lip, "I don't know, Lena. the last time we tried to confront one birth parent, they threatened you," Emily pointed out, "there's no easy way."
"I guess, when you're ready," Stefan told Elena, trying to console her.
Elena shook her head, "I'm never gonna be ready. Stefan, we have enough family problems with the family we actually care about." Elena looked over at Emily in nervousness, "Jeremy read my diary, he knows."
Emily's eyes widened, "are you serious? What does he know?"
"He knows what happened with Vicki and about compelling him to forget," Elena explained.
"I need to go find him," Emily quickly spoke. "He's never going to trust me," Emily mumbled to herself when she walked away from the couple.
Knowing that Jeremy was going to be on the founder's float, Emily made her way where they were setting everything up. Emily looked for a few seconds, before she finally saw the brown hair of her brother.
"Jer!" Emily yelled out.
Jeremy turned to see who called him, and when he say it was his sister, he ignored her and began to walk away.
Emily sighed before picking up her dress, and began to run after her brother. Once she was close enough, she spoke, "Jer, can we talk?"
"Why? So you can lie to me again? Like Elena did?" Jeremy growled out.
"Jeremy, I did it to protect you!" Emily yelled out. "If you want to hate someone, hate me, I'm the one that told Damon to take your memories away about Vicki. Elena just agreed with me." Emily sighed, "I just wanted you to know the truth and not from Elena's diary. It hurt every time I couldn't tell you the truth, but I was doing it to protect you, Jer."
"I thought you would never lie to me, Emily," Jeremy told his older sister before stomping away.
Emily noticed that Mrs. Lockwood was running around like she had her head chopped off, so she decided to get on the float before the older woman had a heart attack with everything not being perfect. Emily chuckled at the thought, she loved Mrs. Lockwood, but she always had to have everything perfect.
Emily started to walk towards the float, when she heard someone yell out to her. "Emily! There you are!" Caroline yelped in excitement.
Emily chuckled when she saw the smiling blonde, "hey, Care. You look gorgeous."
Caroline smiled brightly before turning around and scolding, "Tyler! Help your date up on the float."
Tyler rolled his eyes before walking to the edge, and pulled Emily up on top of the founder's float. "Looking good, Emmie," Tyler smirked at his best friend.
"Why don't you look dashing," Emily smirked back.
"Get into places!" Mrs. Lockwood yelled loudly.
Emily chuckled, "I think that's our cue. Lead the way, my good sir," Emily joked.
"Let's give a big hand to the Mystic Falls High School marching band!" Mrs. Lockwood yelled into the microphone when the parade began to slowly move forward. Everyone that lived in Mystic Falls, stood on the side and cheered when the marching band began to walk and play loud music. "And for a little local history, Mr. Saltzman's students have recreated Virginia's Battle of Willow Creek," Mrs. Lockwood continued when the next section came down the street. "Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome our stunning Miss Mystic Falls Court and their handsome escorts! This is Caroline Forbes, Miss Mystic Falls. Aren't they beautiful?"
When the Miss Mystic Falls float began to move, Emily smiled brightly and waved into the crowd. She and Tyler stood next to Caroline and Matt, who were centered in the middle of the large float. As a child, Emily would always imagine being on the floats when they used to watch them back when she was six years old. And now she was living her childhood dream, Emily was glad that she and Elena stayed and participated in the Miss Mystic Falls for their mother.
While the town of Mystic Falls were cheering in excitement from the founder's parade, two adults had more important things to deal with. In Grayson Gilbert's old medical building was the said man's brother and the mayor of the small town.
John held a small box in his hand before opening and pulling a small piece out of the box. He held it up to show the mayor before speaking, "this is the key. Once inserted, the device will be activated. It will work only once, for an estimated time of five minutes," John explained.
"Yeah, so how does it work?" the mayor questioned.
"It's a high pitched frequency that humans can't hear," John began, "any vampires within a five-block radius will be incapacitated, exposing them. At that time, the sheriff's V5 deputies will inject them with vervain and bring them here, where we will finish them off."
"And you are certain they're attacking tonight?" Mayor Lockwood asked loudly.
"I had a source," John told the man, "one of the vampires from the tomb, he confirmed the attack." John paused before continuing, "they want revenge for what our ancestors did in 1864. Which makes us their targets."
Mayor Lockwood shook his head before looking back at the man, "we're taking an enormous risk. We're talking about our families, John!"
"It's the only way to draw them out and kill him. All of them," John told the mayor seriously.
Emily was walking through the town, where the huge celebration was taking place. There was not a single spot where no one was smiling and being happy. It was crazy how fast the small town of Mystic Falls could join together. Emily turned around when someone called her name.
"Hey," Stefan called out once he was close enough for Emily to hear.
Emily smiled at brunette before bumping her shoulder with his, "does today bring back memories?"
Stefan chuckled and shrugged, "maybe a little bit." It was quiet while they walked together before Stefan asked softly, "so, how are you dealing with John being your father?"
Emily sighed, "I don't like it. But yeah, it makes sense, my birth mother is a horrible person so why not my birth father too."
Before Stefan could speak, Damon quickly walked over to the duo and questioned Emily seriously, "where's your sister?"
Stefan looked at Damon weirdly, "what's going on?"
"Fifteen words or less... tomb vamps are here. Founding families are their target," Damon explained quickly.
Emily eyes widened so she quickly pulled her cell phone from her pocket and dialed Elena's number. Emily's heart was beating out of control while she waited for Elena to answer her phone.
"Hey," Elena spoke in her phone.
Emily sighed in relief but quickly questioned, "where are you?"
"I'm with Caroline, Matt, and Tyler at the Grill," Elena answered before wondering, "what's wrong?"
"Listen, I need to get away from the town square as quickly as you can. Just please go with Tyler if he leaves. I'll explain to you later," Emily quickly commanded.
Elena stayed quiet for a moment before speaking confusingly, "mayor is making us leave, so we are probably going to Tyler's."
Emily sighed, "that's good, please be careful. Love you."
"I will and love you too," Elena spoke to her sister before hanging up the phone.
Emily sighed thankfully when she hung up her phone. She turned to the Salvatore brother's, "I'm pretty sure you guys were listening, but she's going to Tyler's."
Damon nodded his head before quickly walking walking away. "Where are you going?" Stefan called out to his brother.
"That's more than fifteen words, Stefan," Damon called out before jogging away.
Stefan grabbed onto Emily's hand, ready to get her out of there, but Emily quickly came to a stop and turned to Stefan with wide eyes, "I don't know where Jeremy is."
"We'll find him, I promise," Stefan told Emily before pulling her with him, to find the youngest Gilbert.
Emily felt like she couldn't breathe as she and Stefan ran around the crowds of people looking for Jeremy. She knew from experience that the tomb vampires weren't someone you wanted to mess around with and they would kill Jeremy without a second thought.
Emily suddenly came to a complete stop when Stefan dropped to his knees in pain. "Stef, what's wrong?" Emily questioned quickly.
"My head," Stefan groaned.
Emily grabbed onto Stefan's shoulders, "come on, we have to get up, Stefan."
Elena didn't know what was going on, but she decided to trust her sister and leave with Tyler. She sat in the back of Tyler's car next to Caroline while Matt sat in the front next to Tyler. Suddenly Tyler growled out, "what the hell is that?"
"What's wrong, Tyler?" Elena questioned her sister's best friend.
"That noise," Tyler yelped.
Matt looked over at brown eyed boy weirdly, "wait, what noise?"
Tyler didn't reply, so the three teenagers glanced at each other in nervousness. Tyler began to push one hand against his left ear in pain while he tried to hold onto the wheel. But that didn't last long before he pushed both hands to the side of his head, trying to stop the loud noise that no one else could hear.
"Tyler!" Caroline yelped when she saw the boy let go of the wheel.
The car started swerve in the empty street, causing Elena to start getting freaked out so she yelled out to the blonde in the front seat, "Matt! Grab the wheel!" Matt tried to grab onto the wheel, but he couldn't get total control on the heavy car before it crashed against an iron fence and came to a complete stop.
Emily didn't know what to do as she sat on her knees in front of Stefan. She tried to help him up, but he was like dead weight while he was in pain. Emily looked up when she heard someone running towards her, she sighed thankfully when she saw it was Alaric.
Alaric quickly helped the young girl pull up Stefan from the ground, before they slowly began to walk away from the crowd. "He just dropped out of nowhere," Emily explained to the history teacher.
"Yeah, he's not the only one," Alaric groaned while holding up most of Stefan's weight. "The cops have gotten everyone who's going down, injecting them with vervain."
Emily's eyes widened when she glanced around the town square and seeing deputies grabbing the people that are falling to the ground. She turned to Alaric quickly, "they're planning to kill all of them."
Alaric and Emily brought Stefan where there was no one, so he could at least heal and stand. It took a few moments of silence, before Stefan was leaning against his knees and huffing. Emily watched Stefan in worry, "are you okay?"
"It was like needles were piercing my skull and it just stopped," Stefan explained.
"I saw at least five vampires go down," Alaric explained. "They're taking them to your family's old building," Alaric told Emily.
It was quiet for a moment before Stefan exclaimed, "it's the Gilbert device. It has to be."
"But I thought Bonnie took away its powers?" Emily questioned in confusion.
"Maybe she didn't," Alaric commented.
Emily shook her head, "why would Bonnie lie to us about unspelling it?"
"Think about it," Stefan spoke, "we asked Bonnie to deactivate a device that could protect people against vampires."
Emily groaned, she thought Bonnie had actually unspelled the device. "What are we going to do?" Emily questioned while looking at the two men.
"We need to get you out of here," Alaric told the young girl.
Emily glanced over at Stefan and shook her head, "we need to find Damon." Even though Emily didn't like Damon that much, he was Stefan's brother and Elena had a soft spot for him, so she would do her best to help him as much as she could. Emily turned back to Alaric, "can you find Jeremy and get him home, please?"
Alaric quickly nodded his head, "sure," before jogging away from the duo.
"Can you walk?" Emily questioned Stefan.
Stefan nodded and stood up, "let's go."
Elena stood next to Caroline right in front of the car accident while nervously bouncing her leg up and down. She didn't know what to think or to feel. She was scared out of her mind, it reminded her so much of the last car accident she was in.
Matt quickly walked up the two girls, "are you guys okay?"
The two girls nodded their heads at the same time. "We're fine," Caroline told her boyfriend.
Matt looked at the two girls in worry before focusing his eyes on the blonde, "are you sure? You have a huge cut on your head, Care." Matt moved his eyes to his ex girlfriend and noticed little spots of blood falling from her ears, down her neck. "You both need to be checked out," Matt spoke seriously.
Elena chuckled, "we're fine, Matt. Plus, they need to focus on Tyler, he looks like he got the worse out of all of us."
Matt nodded his head before quickly jogging over to Tyler and the paramedics. As soon as Matt arrived, one of the paramedics were yelling in shock, "what the hell?"
"What's wrong?" Matt quickly asked.
"His eyes," the paramedic mumbled in shock.
They stared down at Tyler, before suddenly the Lockwood took a deep gasp and woke up with a fright. Tyler looked around before focusing on his blonde friend in confusion, "what happened?"
Matt chuckled, "dude, don't scare me like that."
Suddenly a female voice yelled, "hey, we need some help over here!"
Matt glanced over towards the voice and saw Caroline and Elena both laying on the floor. He quickly ran towards the girls and saw they weren't awake. "Help!" Matt yelled.
Emily and Stefan were jogging down the crowded streets, when Stefan quickly pulled Emily to a stop, "wait, wait, wait." Stefan was silent for a moment before his eyes widened, "I can hear them. The building is on fire."
"What?" Emily questioned in shock.
"The building is on fire," Stefan told the young girl before he pulled her with him again.
"Wait," Emily told Stefan before pointing across from the street, where she saw her uncle/father. They quickly ran towards John and Emily growled out, "where is Damon?"
"With the rest of them," John told her simply before looking over at Stefan, "where he should be. It's over for Damon."
"You have right to being doing this!" Emily yelled out.
"Why?" John questioned. "Because I'm doing what should have been done a hundred and forty five years ago? This is the right thing, Emily."
Emily glared at John, "this is not a choice you get the right to make! You don't decide when someone gets to die!"
John shrugged his shoulders at Emily before glancing over at Stefan, who was staring at the building behind him. "Go ahead, you won't make it out. It'll save me the trouble of killing you myself," John told the vampire.
Stefan ignored John and turned to Emily instead, "you know the building well, is there another way in?"
Emily thought for a moment before she quickly nodded her head, "utility door, there's one around the side."
Stefan nodded his head before quickly jogging away. Emily went to follow him, but John grabbed her arm tightly. "You take one more step and I'll alert those deputies that they missed a vampire," John threatened.
Emily glared at John, "are you really going to threaten your daughter?"
John loosened his grip in shock, "you know," he mumbled.
Emily pulled her arm away from John, "I wasn't sure, but you just proved me right."
Emily quickly ran towards the side of her father's building and saw Bonnie standing out of an opened door. "Where's Stefan?" Emily asked the Bennett witch quickly.
"I'm so sorry," Bonnie mumbled to Emily.
"What did you do, Bonnie?" Emily asked in anger.
"I couldn't do it. I'm sorry I lied to you," Bonnie apologized.
"If they die, this will be all your fault, Bonnie," Emily glared at her friend.
Emily tried to run into the building but Bonnie quickly grabbed her arm tightly. "I can't let you go in there," Bonnie spoke she began to recite a spell, "Ex spiritum intacullum, in terrum incendium, fes matos salvis adisdum." Emily tried to pull her arm away but Bonnie held onto with all her might.
Suddenly, Bonnie stopped chanting and only just stared into Emily's green eyes. "Are they okay, Bonnie? Bonnie?"
But before Bonnie could say anything, there was loud coughing right behind the two girls. Emily quickly turned around and sighed in relief when she saw that it was Stefan carrying Damon. She quickly jogged to the two vampires, "oh, thank God you guys are okay."
Emily sat at one of the busy tables inside of Mystic Grill, while she waited for Stefan to walk in. Emily looked up when she heard someone coming to her, and saw that it was the Salvatore she was looking for. She quickly stood up and pulled Stefan into a hug, "I'm so glad you're okay."
"I'm okay," Stefan told Emily with a small smile.
Emily looked at Stefan carefully before nodding her head, "Jenna called and told me Jeremy is home so I'm going to go check on him before calling Elena to check on her. I'll give you call later," Emily told Stefan before leaving Mystic Grill.
Emily walked into the Gilbert house with a sigh, she was glad to be home but she still had to check on her siblings. Once Emily closed the door, she was shocked when she saw who was standing in front of her. "Hey, I thought you were going to stay at Tyler's until I called you?" Emily questioned her sister.
But Elena/Katherine was staring at Emily with wide eyes and an opened mouth. Emily looked at her sister weirdly, "what's up with you? And what's up with your hair and outfit, Lena? Black and curls, definitely not your style." Emily rolled her eyes, "I know I told you beauty is pain, but this wasn't what I meant."
Elena/Katherine quickly closed her mouth before chuckling, "I just got bored and decided to try something new."
Emily rolled her eyes and touched Elena's soft curls, "I like the straight hair better on you." Emily looked at her sister in remembrance, "you should give Stefan a call before he worries too much, okay?"
Elena/Katherine smiled up at the green eyed girl, "I will. I'm about to head to bed anyways."
Emily nodded and gave Elena a small smile, "good night, Lena," Emily called out before making her way to the living room with her dress.
Once she had sat her large dress on the couch, she made her way to the kitchen for a glass of water before she would check up on Jeremy. What Emily saw once she walked into the kitchen, shook the brunette to her core. It was John laying on the kitchen floor with blood coming from his side. Emily rushed forward and grabbed a dish towel before pushing it on John's stomach wound, which caused him to gasp in pain. Emily quickly grabbed her phone from her back pocket and dialed 9-1-1. "I need an ambulance to 2104 Maple Street, please hurry!" Emily yelped into her phone before placing it back into her pocket.
"Behind you," John whispered in pain with wide, scared eyes.
Emily leaned closer to John, having not heard him and questioned, "what?"
"Behind you!" John yelled as best as he could.
Emily gasped loudly and quickly turned around, but when she did, she couldn't see anyone. Emily glanced back at John and saw his scared expression, so she grabbed the bloody knife that laid on the ground before quietly standing up. She carefully began to walk towards the hallway, looking for anyone that shouldn't be in the house. Emily quickly turned around when she felt someone behind her, but when she looked, there was no one. Emily gasped in shock when the front door opened and quickly closed. She realized that it was a vampire that was in the house, so she dropped the knife on the floor before rushing upstairs. "Jeremy!" Emily yelled out.
Emily ran right up to Jeremy's room, where she found her brother on his bed. She quickly rushed to him and shook his shoulder, but he wouldn't wake up. "Jeremy! Come on, Jeremy!" Emily cried out. Emily sighed thankfully when Jeremy gasped awake. She leaned her head on Jeremy's chest, "oh, thank God!"
Emily leaned against the stairs with a heavy sigh while she watched a paramedic pull John on a stretcher out of the Gilbert house. Emily followed when her eyes to the door and quickly walked down the stairs when she saw an officer trying to keep Stefan out of the house. "He can come in," Emily smiled at officer.
The duo quickly walked up the stairs before Emily brought him to Jeremy's room. Stefan looked confusion, "what happened?"
"He said Anna gave him her blood and then he took these pills and now..." Emily trailed off as she explained to Stefan. Emily sighed, "can you make sure he's really okay?"
Stefan nodded his head before walking towards Jeremy and grabbing his face, "look at me," he commanded.
Jeremy tried to push the vampire's hands away and huffed, "I'm fine, okay? I feel exactly the same."
"Is he okay? Is anything happening?" Emily questioned Stefan in nervousness.
Stefan shook his head, "no, he's fine," Stefan spoke while staring into Jeremy's eyes.
"You mean I'm not a vampire?" Jeremy questioned sadly before growling, "damn it!"
"Jer, you don't want to have that life. Why would you want to?" Emily questioned in brother in shock.
"Did you hear about Anna, what happened to her tonight?" Jeremy questioned, but when Emily shook her head, he continued, "she's dead."
Emily closed her eyes with a sigh before looking into her brother's teared eyes, "oh, Jeremy, I'm so sorry."
"Jeremy, Jeremy. Come here, sit down," Stefan commanded the younger Gilbert quietly. Stefan in front of Jeremy and spoke seriously, "I am very sorry about Anna but it's very important that you listen to be right now. With every passing moment, Anna's blood is leaving your system. If you try to kill yourself right now, you could really die."
When Jeremy only looked away from the green eyed vampire, Stefan slapped his face, "hey! Do you understand me!?"
"Yeah, I understand," Jeremy mumbled.
"Good," Stefan told the young boy before walking towards Emily.
Emily continued to stare at her brother in worry, "what about the pills he took? Could they still do something to him?" Emily asked Stefan.
Stefan shook his head, "he didn't take enough to die so Anna's blood actually healed him."
Emily nodded her head but groaned when her cell phone began to ring. She pulled her cell phone from her back pocket before answering, not bothered to look at the number. "Hello?" Emily spoke.
"Emily, it's sheriff Forbes... there was an accident," the sheriff spoke softly.
Emily was confused, what more could happen. "What happened?"
"It's Elena... she was in a car accident and she got hurt, along with Caroline," sheriff Forbes spoke. "You should come to the hospital as soon as you can."
"Okay," Emily mumbled in the phone before hanging it up.
Emily didn't understand what was happening. She had saw Elena downstairs when she got home, what the hell was sheriff Forbes talking about? Emily then began to think back to when she came home, Elena was wearing different clothes then she was earlier, her hair was extremely curly - more than it was earlier that night, a vampire tried to kill John. But the vampire didn't kill John, instead the vampire played with Emily while she looked for the vampire. Emily's eyes widened in shock before she quickly turned Stefan, "I think I met Katherine."