THE WOODS
A loud and painful groan escaped the mouth of the human Petrova doppelganger as her green eyes slowly cracked open. Emily then began to tiredly rub her temples as she started to regain feeling in her body along with the severe pounding in her head. It was something Emily had never felt in her entire life. It was like as if someone was continuously screaming directly in front of her with a large blow horn. It also didn't help the agony that Emily was currently enduring as she finally realized her body was in an awkward and scrunched up position.
However, the pain and the discomfort instantly turned into panic and terror as soon as Emily's last memory began to play through her mind. It all started to come back to her at hyper speed as she remembered going to the Grill, playing Switzerland for her sister, going out to her car to check on Stefan and Tyler, talking to Caroline, before she finally remembered the cause of her current dilemma; the two werewolves.
Emily then began to look around her surroundings with her green eyes widened as she tried to connect the dots together. But sadly, the only thing the Gilbert girl could actually see in the dark was a set of bars directly in front of her. A cage? Emily questioned herself in confusion, who the hell puts someone in a cage? The human girl then quickly shook her head as she knew she needed to find a way out of here instead of questioning why the psychopathic werewolves kidnapped and locked her in a dog kennel-like cage.
It took the human Petrova doppelganger a little over two minutes of searching around the small space once she got over the shock of the situation she was in before she finally found something that could help her; a cell phone. Emily immediately realized it was Caroline's device when she turned on the screen and saw the smiling picture of the blonde vampire and human duo.
A loud gasp instantly escaped the human girl's mouth once she shakily pushed onto the flashlight icon and saw that her currently dead blonde best friend was lying beside her. Emily quickly scooted closer to the vampire as she shinned the light on Caroline while she also kept a lookout for any sign of the werewolves.
"Caroline. Care. Caroline," the Gilbert girl whispered as she began to shake her best friend awake. Emily knew she needed to get the blonde vampire up now before Jules and Brady came back. She didn't want to find out what they would do to her and Caroline now that the werewolves knew the truth about what really happened to Mason.
Thankfully, after about three shakes, the ocean blue irises of Caroline Forbes finally opened before a painful moan sounded through the cage as the blonde was trying to get use to being alive again after being dead for a couple of hours. Once Caroline could actually focus her mind and knew where she was, the blonde vampire swiftly looked over at the human girl with panic in her eyes before she whimpered, "Emmie."
The Gilbert girl instantly found her best friend's hand through the dark as soon as she heard the sobs escape Caroline's mouth as she tried to comfort her. "Hey, hey, hey. It's okay. We're gonna get out of here," Emily assured the blonde vampire as she gave Caroline's hand the tightest squeeze she could offer. There was no way in hell Emily was staying here any longer than she needed, so the human girl knew she needed to try to calm Caroline down so they could think clearly about how they were going to get out of this hellhole.
However, the blonde vampire either didn't hear the human girl or she was too distracted of being in the middle of an anxiety attack as Caroline began to hurriedly shake her head with warm tears clouding her blue eyes. "I-I-I c-can't," the blonde vampire hysterically cried out as she was scared out of her mind along with the fact that she felt frozen in her spot from all of the pain she was feeling.
Emily quickly moved up onto her knees and pushed the sleeves of her white jacket up to her elbows as she moved closer to the blonde vampire. "We have to move," the Gilbert girl whispered to Caroline in a deadly serious voice while she also kept glancing behind them as she cautiously looked out for the werewolves before she continued to hopefully get Caroline to move out of her shock trance, "they will come back and they will kill us, Care."
The blonde vampire continuously shook her head as loud and tearful sobs kept falling out of her sore body. Caroline then shakily brought her hand towards the middle of her forehead as she finally explained to the human girl why she couldn't get up, "I-I'm not healing. It hurts." She swiftly moved her scared eyes up to Emily as she began to panic, "y-you have to pull it out. Please!"
Emily confusingly shined the flashlight from Caroline's cell phone up to the vampire's forehead and took a closer look before her green eyes widened in shock when she saw that there was a bullet lodged in her best friend's skin. The human girl had totally forgotten about the shot that Caroline had took at the hands of Brady when she was remembering what happened as her memories ended with only seeing the two werewolves.
The Gilbert girl swallowed thickly as she continued to hear the blonde vampire begging for her to take out the bullet while she stared at the wound. It made Emily quite nervous as this isn't her field of expertise. However, though, the human girl knew this was going to be the only way for them to escape, so Emily sucked it up as she mumbled, "okay," before she gave Caroline an apologetic grim smile and shakily brought her thumb and point finger to the vampire's forehead.
"I'm so sorry," Emily whispered as she closed her green eyes before she swiftly grabbed ahold of the bullet that was sticking out of Caroline's head and began to pull. The human girl immediately cringed when she heard the blonde vampire cry out in pain, but Emily knew she couldn't stop. She just needed to rip the band-aid off, so that's exactly what she did without overthinking it as she grabbed and pulled at the edge of the bullet until it finally and thankfully popped out of Caroline's forehead.
Another loud and painful groan escaped the blonde vampire's mouth as the bullet was officially removed - which allowed her skin to finally heal. Caroline then brought her shaky and bloody fingers up to her forehead before she let out a sigh when she realized she could only feel a flat and painless surface - no more bullet wound.
"You okay?" The human girl whispered as she had carefully watched her best friend with the flashlight for a couple of seconds. "Do you need any blood?" Emily continued to worriedly interrogate as she held out her wrist. The Gilbert girl would never openly offer her blood to a vampire, but she knew they were in a difficult predicament and it could help them escape this mess.
The blonde vampire quickly shook her head as she wouldn't dare try to drink from her best friend. She just couldn't do that to Emily. Instead, Caroline moved herself into the very corner of the small cage as she tried to clear her head and think of what they were suppose to do while her body slowly began to heal as she refused to feed off of the human girl.
Emily sighed as she gave the blonde vampire a sad look as she could see that Caroline was struggling with her true nature. But the human girl knew she couldn't focus on that right now as she needed to find a way out of here. So, while Caroline was trying to calm herself, Emily scooted to the edge of the cage with the flashlight from the aforementioned vampire's cell phone as she tried to see what was stopping them from leaving.
"There you are," Emily mumbled as she pushed her thin arm through the steel bars and felt her fingers graze a large latch that would open the cage. Thank God it's not a padlock, Emily praised as they wouldn't have been able to open it unless Caroline was fully healed and could break it. However, though, when Emily tried to get ahold of the latch, she realized her reach was just too short to actually grab ahold of their only escape.
"Caroline!" Emily yelled in a whisper as she knew the blonde vampire would be able to reach it since she was much taller. "Caroline, I need your help!" The human girl continued to whisper as she knew the vampire wasn't paying attention as she could only hear Caroline's whimpering from behind her.
Finally, after about a minute or so after Caroline got, mostly, over the shock of what was happening to them, the blonde vampire hurriedly scooted over to sit beside the human girl. Caroline then waited until Emily moved her hand out of the way before she slowly slipped her arm through the steel bars and reached for the latch.
"I don't think so, sweethearts," the thick and gravel voice of Brady, who Emily instantly recognized, called out as he stepped out from the shadows that he had been resting in. The male werewolf then slowly began to stalk towards the human girl and the vampire with the same gun that he had shot the vampire with as a large smirk settled onto his lips.
Brady squatted down in front of the cage as he tsked at the two captees, who were trying to escape. The werewolf then reached into his belt loop and pulled out a small squirt bottle before he swiftly sprayed it onto the blonde vampire when she continued to try to reach the latch. "I see you got the bullet out," Brady commented with a smirk as he watched the vampire scream out in pain before she finally pushed herself back into the corner of the cage.
"Please," Emily begged to the chuckling werewolf as she grabbed ahold of Caroline's hand to comfort her while the vervain did its job by burning the blonde vampire's skin. "You don't have to do this," the human girl continued as she prayed she could hopefully save Caroline from feeling anymore pain by convincing Brady to stop, "you can just let us go."
The werewolf shook his head with another loud chuckle as he stared across at the human girl. Brady then silently grabbed the chair behind him and pulled it in front of the cage while he kept eye contact before he lastly sat down in the chair in a backwards position. "Actually, I do have to do this," the werewolf uttered as he finally spoke directly to the Gilbert girl while he began to clean the steel gun with his plaid shirt, "your friends killed Mason, so this is just payback."
"Mason wouldn't want this," Emily hurriedly uttered as she kept her eyes cautiously locked onto the psychopathic werewolf as she tried to reason with him, "he accepted his death. So, please just let us go. I'll personally make sure my friends don't come after you and Jules. You guys can just leave town." Emily definitely wasn't the begging type, especially with someone that kidnapped her, but Emily would do it if it meant she could get Caroline and herself out of danger.
"You know, since you're human, I can't use the same toys I'm gonna use on the vampire," Brady began as he completely ignored the compromising the brunette girl was trying to do as he got up and moved towards the table on the opposite side of the RV. "But I do have some other toys," Brady continued once he walked back to the cage. He then pulled his hand from behind his back and showed the human girl what he had; a long cattle prodder.
Emily immediately began to panic when she realized the werewolf was going to use the weapon on her. "Please! Mason wouldn't want this!" The human girl shouted as she knew she wasn't going to be able to convince the werewolf to let them go. Emily then quickly looked over to Caroline for some sort of help, but instantly began to tremble when she saw that the vampire had passed out from the pain. So, Emily did the only thing she could do once she realized she was all alone - she moved to the far right corner while she prayed the shocking device wouldn't be able to reach her.
"Oh, this is gonna be a long night, sweetpea," the male werewolf uttered with a large smirk settled on his lips before he pushed down onto the button and saw the electricity fly through the air. "Perfect," Brady whispered, mostly to himself, before he stalked towards the shaking human girl. The werewolf then stuck the thin device through the small hole in the cage and placed the cattle prodder onto the human girl's thigh before he uttered sinisterly while he enjoyed the sounds of her cries, "let the fun begin, princess."
***
LOCKWOOD MANSION
Meanwhile, across town inside of the mayor's large white estate was the newest werewolf of Mystic Falls and the younger resident Salvatore vampire. Stefan was still trying to convince the Lockwood teenager to keep the knowledge of his uncle's death to himself. But that was over five hours ago and they were still not getting anywhere - which was making both supernatural beings that much more agitated as the seconds ticked by.
"You want to be friends?" The Lockwood werewolf questioned as he stared across at the vampire while he lounged in his deceased father's leather chair. Tyler instantly nodded his head once without waiting for a response before he uttered sarcastically, "great, we're friends." The werewolf then shot Stefan a glare before he deadpanned, "will you go now?"
The Salvatore vampire rolled his green eyes at the werewolf as he finally stopped pacing for the first time in over an hour before he took a seat in the adjacent brown leather chair. "I don't know what else to say to you, Tyler," the vampire mumbled as he leaned his elbows on his knees and tiredly ran his fingers through his hair.
Stefan shook his head once he looked back up into the annoyed brown eyes of Tyler Lockwood after a couple of silent and tense minutes had passed before he continued to try to convince the werewolf to forget about what happened to Mason, "I came back to this town because I wanted a life, I wanted to exist where I could have friends and where I could build a family." The Salvatore vampire then padded his chest to express his intentions and exclaimed, "I have that here. We can both have that."
However, when Stefan saw the Lockwood teenager shake his head, once again, as he was disagreeing, the Salvatore vampire let out another sigh. It was an endless cycle of Stefan trying to convince the werewolf to let it go and Tyler not agreeing. It was getting on the vampire's nerves that he wasn't getting anywhere with the teenager and it was testing Stefan's temper.
"What would Emily think of this, huh? Do you think Emily would want this for you?" The Salvatore vampire interrogated after another moment of tense silence had passed as Stefan thought bringing up the werewolf's best friend would help get Tyler to understand that he was going to make a mistake if he goes to confront Damon about his dead uncle.
The Lockwood teenager immediately frowned when the vampire mentioned his best friend. Tyler hadn't spoken to the Gilbert girl since he found out the truth about Mason. He didn't even know if he wanted to talk to Emily now that he knows that she knew about Mason's death this whole time - thanks to the information Jules gave him. It angered Tyler that Emily would hide this secret from him and side with the vampires when Mason always treated her like family.
"She di-" Tyler began to speak angrily as he was still pissed about how Emily didn't tell him the moment she knew about Mason. However, before the Lockwood teenager could rant and annoy the Salvatore vampire even more, Stefan's cell phone began to ring.
The Salvatore vampire ignored the werewolf as he stood up from the leather chair and pulled out his cell phone. Stefan then quickly shouted, "shut up," as he began to read the new text message from his ex girlfriend with concern.
ELENA : Did Emmie make it? She's not answering my txts. I'm worried.
The Lockwood werewolf grew curious and a bit anxious once Tyler noticed the furrowed expression on the vampire's face after Stefan began to look down at his cell phone. "What's going on?" Tyler inquired as he knew it had to be something bad if the vampire was so worried like that.
The Salvatore vampire, once again, ignored the Lockwood teenager as he swallowed thickly while he stared down at the small and short sentences from the Gilbert vampire. Stefan then quickly shook himself out of his shocked and concerned state before he finally mumbled out an answer, "it's Emily," while he hurriedly dialed the familiar number.
"Come on, Emmie," the Salvatore vampire uttered under his breath as he waited for the human girl to pick up. It felt like it was taking hours just for the call to be picked up as it should really only take seconds. The waiting was making Stefan feel like a nervous wreck as he was worried about the human girl. Stefan had thought Emily was at the Gilbert house like they had agreed this morning, so it made him even more anxious since he didn't even know where she's been all day.
"Hey!" Stefan sighed out in relief once he could hear breathing on the other end of the call. The Salvatore vampire then took a seat on the edge of the leather chair now that he could relax before he questioned curiously, "where are you? Elena's worried and so am I. Everything okay, Emmie?"
"That depends," a calm voice muttered that certainly didn't belong to the aforementioned human girl. It instead belonged to the dirty blonde haired werewolf. Jules then paused for dramatic effect as she waited for the vampire to realize who he was speaking with as she walked through the woods before Jules questioned, "how badly do you want to keep sweet Emily and the blonde vampire alive?"
The Salvatore vampire swiftly became on high alert as he jumped up from the edge of the leather chair at the unfamiliar voice that was answering the human girl's cell phone. Stefan then slowly began to pace the small office that belonged to the deceased mayor before he cautiously asked after a short moment of silence, "who is this?"
"Ask your brother," Jules muttered as she rolled her blue eyes at the memory of yesterday when the oldest Salvatore vampire bothered her when she was just trying to eat a grilled chicken sandwich at the Grill by asking about his friend's poisonous bite. The female werewolf then jumped over a high branch in her way before she interrogated, "where's Tyler?"
Stefan furrowed his brows in confusion about how this unknown woman knew Damon. There hadn't been any woman in Mystic Falls that his brother had pissed off lately, unless... "Jules?" The Salvatore vampire cautiously guessed as he began to connect the dots with the information of his brother and the young werewolf coming out of the woman's mouth. "Where's Emily and Caroline?" Stefan interrogated now that he knew who he was talking to before he commanded, "don't you dare hurt her."
Jules ignored the vampire's measly question and demand as she paused in front of the brown and white RV as she exclaimed, "you made a mistake, Stefan." The female werewolf then placed her hand onto the door handle before she told the vampire, "I'm gonna give you a chance to fix it."
"Where are they?" The Salvatore vampire commanded as he didn't have time for any games. If he wanted to play games, he would go visit Katherine. The brunette vampire only cared about making sure Emily and Caroline were safe and away from the revenging werewolves.
"Oh, they're right here," Jules uttered in a singing voice before a smirk settled onto her pink lips. The female werewolf then finally pulled open the door to the old RV and inquired, "would you like proof?" However, when Jules didn't hear a reply but only a growl, the female werewolf let out a low chuckle before she made her way down the narrow hallway towards Brady and their captees.
Jules ignored the cries from the human girl and the sobbing vampire as she moved Emily's cell phone away from her ear as she looked at the curious Brady. "He needs proof," the female werewolf explained to her companion as she pointed her head towards the cage with an amused smirk.
The werewolf with the buzz cut gave Jules a smirk right back as he knew exactly what he needed to do. "You got it, babe," Brady muttered to the blue eyed wolf before he stood up from his chair and grabbed the two weapons; the gun and the cattle prodder. The werewolf then walked towards the cage before he twitched his head to the side and wondered, "which one?"
"Hmm," Jules mumbled as she realized she has an option. The female werewolf then grinned sinisterly as she heard the Salvatore vampire shouting at her. "The human," Jules finally answered Brady as she knew the brunette girl would get the vampires to bring the Lockwood werewolf to them much faster.
"Good choice," Brady muttered, mostly to himself, before he squatted down in front of the steel cage. "Oh, princess," the male werewolf sang as he taunted the crying human girl and ignored the pleading vampire before he finally placed the cattle prodder onto a spot he hadn't touched yet; Emily's right collarbone.
Back in the Lockwood mansion, the young werewolf jumped up from his leather chair for the first time since they were interrupted by learning the disappearance of the Gilbert girl as he became worried. "What's happening?" Tyler asked the vampire with his dark brows furrowed as the Lockwood werewolf had heard his best friend scream in pain thanks to his new enhanced hearing.
The Salvatore vampire, once again, ignored the young werewolf's question as he placed his squeezed fist against the pale wall of the room after hearing the agony that Emily was in. "Hurt her again and you're dead," Stefan threatened in a snarl.
"I hurt her again, and she's dead," the female werewolf muttered as she left Brady alone with the human girl and the blonde vampire. "Bring Tyler to me," Jules commanded as she was done compromising with the vampire, "the clearing by Wickery Falls." The female werewolf then stood in front of a small fire as she commented in a calm voice, "you have 20 minutes until she dies and I rip out the vampire's heart," before Jules swiftly ended the call as she knew the vampire would come now that he knows his precious Emily is in danger.
***
THE WOODS
While the younger Salvatore vampire was busy calling up his brother and the human girl's sister to devise a plan to get Emily and Caroline back from the werewolves, back in the dark woods and inside of the rundown RV was just the beginning of the interrogation and the torture for the human girl and the blonde vampire.
"So," the male werewolf trailed off once he finished listening in on the conversation that Jules was having with the vampire. Brady then slowly began to walk up and down the side of the steel cage with his two weapons hanging by his side. "How many vampires are there in this town, anyway?" The werewolf wondered as he glanced over to the sobbing blonde.
However, when Brady didn't get the answer he wanted as the blonde vampire only avoided his question by looking away, the male werewolf sighed before he grabbed the spray bottle from his belt loop and squirted the vampire with the vervain mixture. "No?" Brady teased as he listened to the vampire cry out in pain.
"Please, stop!" The human girl begged while she held her left hand onto her burning collarbone. Emily couldn't take it, having to hear her best friend cry from the pain of the vampire poison. Honestly, the Gilbert girl would rather take all of the pain, so Caroline could heal. At least that way, they could surprise the werewolves and get the hell out of here.
"Why are you doing this to us?!" The blonde vampire hurriedly called out as she saw the werewolf was moving towards Emily. Even though she was going through hell, Caroline knew she could survive the shots for at least a couple more hours, unlike the human girl who was taking the electric pokes and wouldn't be able to heal. The blonde vampire kicked her heeled boots as hard as she could against the steel bars of the cage as she continued to yell at the werewolf, "why are you doing this? Why?"
Brady swiftly turned course at the nuisance the blonde vampire was making instead of going to shock the human girl, once again, like he had planned. The male werewolf shot the vampire a wide grin once he was standing directly in front of her before he explained, "you're a vampire." Brady then glanced over to the human girl as he added, "and because everyone loves her."
The werewolf with the dirty blonde haired buzz cut dug into the pocket of his jeans while he, once again, ignored the yelling and crying from his targets before he pulled out a wide straw and three pieces of wood. Brady then brought the new toy up to his lips and muttered as he continued to further his answer before he shot the wooden sticks at the vampire, " and why not?"
"Leave her alone!" The human girl screamed as she quickly pulled the wood out of Caroline's neck as she hoped it would help. Emily just couldn't stand by and let the wolf hurt her best friend. The doppelganger didn't give a crap if she was the only one to get hurt anymore, so she would gladly take the pain instead of Caroline right now. I'm mostly numb, anyways, Emily thought as she glared over at the werewolf.
Brady rose an amused eyebrow at the strong human girl that was testing him and protecting the vampire. "I'm sorry. What was that, princess?" The werewolf inquired as he moved a little bit down so he was now eye to eye with Emily. Brady then stuck the cattle prodder through the cage bars as he silently threatened for the human girl to backtalk him again.
Emily swallowed thickly as she stared at the weapon that had been causing her pain these last couple of hours before she swiftly shook her head. She wasn't backing down. The Gilbert girl was going to protect Caroline from anymore agony no matter what. Bring it on, Emily thought before she threatened the werewolf back but with her words, "my friends and my sister are going to kill you." Emily shook her head with a chuckle, "and they aren't gonna go easy on you."
"Ah, you stupid, stupid, little girl," Brady chuckled sinisterly before he slammed the cattle prodder against the human's stomach. "They aren't coming," the werewolf taunted the screaming girl before he slammed the cattle prodder onto her shoulder. "You're going to pay for your role in Mason's death," Brady snarled as he pushed the weapon onto the human girl's neck before he finally turned the electricity off once the brunette fell over and made his way out of the RV for the first time in hours since his targets were just about knocked out from the pain.
The small and dark mobile home immediately grew silent once the werewolf slammed the door behind him - well, besides the sounds of the blonde vampire and the human girl sobbing and crying from the vicious attacks. The two best friends were just trying to catch their breath after all the torture that the werewolf had done to them over the last hour.
Finally, after about ten minutes of the blonde vampire wailing as she pulled out four new wooden bullets from her limbs, Caroline slowly turned her sore body to look at the shaky human girl with a sad expression before she whispered, "w-why did you do that?" The Forbes vampire couldn't believe Emily had actually taunted the werewolf - who was probably going to kill them. Caroline couldn't decide if the human girl was stupid or just crazy.
The Gilbert girl slowly lifted up her head from her knees in her huddled position before she gave her best friend a grim smile. "I was protecting you," Emily explained softly before she let out a groan as she could feel the electricity firing through her veins. The human girl coughed heavily before she whispered as she shook her head, "I couldn't watch you get hurt anymore."
The Forbes vampire let out a small sigh that was equally thankful and annoyed that the stubborn human girl was so willing to get tortured by the werewolf so she wouldn't get anymore wood shoved into her body. Caroline then slowly and silently scooted closer to her best friend before she muttered, "I'll heal but you won't, Emmie." The last thing the blonde vampire wanted was for Emily to take all of the pain for her as it could end up killing the human girl.
Emily shrugged her left shoulder, since her right collarbone was still on fire, as she showed Caroline that she wouldn't take it back. "I'll always protect you," the human girl whispered as she squeezed the blonde vampire's hand before she added, "anyways, I can take the pain until someone comes for us."
Caroline sat there in silence for a couple of minutes as she tried to force her body to heal as she thought she got all of the wood out of her skin. The Forbes vampire then slowly looked over at the resting human as she whispered frighteningly, "I don't think we're ever gonna get out of here." Caroline didn't see how anyone would come for them when no one knew they were missing. So, the vampire didn't really have a lot of faith that help was coming like the human girl did.
Emily sluggishly shook her head as she felt the fatigue stage enter her body before she locked her confident green eyes with her best friend's scared blue ones. "Jules was using my cell phone," the human girl whispered as she hoped the werewolves weren't listening before she concluded with a small smile, "someone knows we are in danger. They're coming for us."
The human doppelganger could only pray that she is right as she rested her head onto the blonde vampire's shoulder while she held her best friend's hand. Emily didn't have supernatural hearing so she didn't hear if Jules was talking to one of their friends or just another werewolf when she came into the RV. The Gilbert girl just had to keep on hoping and praying that help is on its way as she wasn't sure just how much more electricity her body could handle.
***
It took about fifteen minutes of the female werewolf pacing in front of the small fire that Brady had made when the sun had started to disappear for the night before she finally heard a movement in the dark woods. Jules twitched her head at the sound as she tried to figure out if it was just Brady. The blue eyed werewolf then smirked after a second as she could smell the scent of death and the fast heart rate that had to belong to the Salvatore vampire and the Lockwood teenager. "I know you're out there," Jules called out in a loud voice as she moved her focused eyes between the trees as she tried to find the two figures in the dark.
The thick and cold woods of Mystic Falls was silent for a couple of minutes before the younger Salvatore vampire stomped his way through the brown leaves with the young werewolf on his left. Stefan glared at the woman he guessed is Jules before he interrogated, "where are they? Where is Emily?"
Jules titled her head behind her to the small mobile home as she crossed her arms over her chest to keep herself warm. "They're locked up tight," the female werewolf explained with a small smirk playing on her lips.
"Let them go and I'll release Tyler," the Salvatore vampire commanded along with a compromise as he held onto the young werewolf's upper arm. Stefan shook his head and stated as he continued to walk towards the female wolf, "it doesn't have to get any messier than it already has." The Salvatore vampire came to a stop in front of the aforementioned supernatural being before Stefan added, "I'm not your enemy, Jules."
The female werewolf scoffed in disbelief before she growled, "it's a little late to be waving the white flag, don't you think?" We are way past that, Jules thought. The vampires crossed that line when they decided to kill Mason.
The Salvatore vampire nodded his head once as he licked his pale lips while he momentarily closed his green eyes. Stefan then looked directly at the werewolf with an emotionless expression before he told Jules, "you need to leave town." He squeezed the young werewolf's upper arm to get his point across before he added, "no one else has to get hurt."
"I'm not leaving without Tyler," the female werewolf stated as she kept her hard gaze locked onto the vampire. There was no compromising in this situation. It was either the vampire hands over the young Lockwood or the human girl and her vampire friend dies.
Stefan silently nodded his head as if he was agreeing with the werewolf's terms as he released the Lockwood teenager's arm before he uttered with a humorous grin, "Tyler is free to make his own decisions." The Salvatore vampire paused for dramatic effect before he added with zero emotion, "as soon as you release the girls."
However, before Jules could open her mouth to disagree with the Salvatore vampire, once again, they were soon interrupted as the youngest vampire in Mystic Falls vamp sped right in front of the female werewolf. "Let my sister go," Elena snarled as her face turned black and red with anger.
"Ah, my brother - the peacemaker," the new voice of the oldest Salvatore vampire called out as he lazily walked up and placed a warning hand around the angry Gilbert's shoulder to tell her it wasn't time just yet to attack the wolf. "Since Stefan got here before we could," Damon began as he pulled Elena a few steps away from Jules before he continued with a smirk, "I'm gonna let him try it his way before we resort to my way, which is a little bloodier."
"Give us my sister and Caroline," the Gilbert vampire growled out as her vamp face was still showing as she couldn't control her anger with knowing that the wolf had been harming her twin sister. That was the number one thing that stopped Elena from getting control of her emotions; when her twin sister gets hurt. It was like her kryptonite and Elena wanted nothing more than to rip the werewolf's head off - but she knew she couldn't... at least not right now.
"Let go of Tyler," the female werewolf snarled, once again, as she was not compromising with the vampires. That was the last thing Jules would ever do. She was going to get the Lockwood teenager and they were not going to stop her.
"Give us Emily and Caroline," the older Salvatore vampire commanded right back. Damon then glanced up at the dark sky before he looked back at the female werewolf as he shook his head and uttered cockily, "without a full moon, it's not an even fight and you know it." The blue eyed vampire took a threatening step closer as he growled, "we will take you."
Jules rose an eyebrow at the vampire in amusement before she let out a loud and hearty chuckle. "I'm not so sure about that, tough guy," the female werewolf uttered tauntingly before she brought her left hand up to her lips and let out a piercing whistle before she glanced to her left towards the open space as she waited with a proud smirk.
The three vampires and the young werewolf anxiously followed Jules' eyes as they had thought they were all alone in the woods. However, unlike what the anxious supernatural beings thought, about seven men walked out from the shadows with all different types of weapons like wooden stakes, heavy crossbows, and one guy even had a flamethrower.
"Now," the female werewolf exclaimed with a smirk as she twitched her head to the side now that she has the upper hand on the three vampires. "Let's try this again," Jules uttered before she commanded for the last time, "give us Tyler."
Damon glanced around them as he held a tight hold on the still angry and now scared Elena. However, when the older Salvatore realized that they were out numbered, he moved his blue eyes over to the Lockwood teenager. "You heard her," Damon exclaimed before he pointed his head towards the female werewolf, "go. Get over there."
Once the young Lockwood glanced anxiously between the two Salvatore vampires and his best friend's sister, Tyler finally slowly walked across the woods until he was standing close to the RV before Brady, the buzz cut werewolf, spoke up as he moved to stand beside Jules as he questioned the three vampires, "so, which one of you killed Mason?"
The blue eyed vampire slowly raised up his hand in the cool air like he was embarrassed to confess before a large smirk swiftly rose onto his lips. "That would be me," Damon proudly told the werewolf with humor shining throughout his eyes.
Brady silently nodded his head as if he was soaking in the information before he spoke directly to the pack that surrounded the woods. "Boys," Brady uttered as he pointed at the dark haired vampire before he ordered, "make sure that one suffers."
Damon chuckled at the werewolf like he wasn't worried about anything before he slowly moved his gaze over to his nervous brother and girlfriend. "We can take them," the older Salvatore vampire whispered confidently.
"I don't know about that," the younger Salvatore vampire mumbled as he glanced at the angry werewolf glaring at him over his brother's shoulder and noticed the large crossbow that was most likely loaded with wooden arrows.
The Gilbert vampire moved her brown eyes around as she tried not to move too much so she wouldn't gain the angry werewolves' attention. "We don't really have a choice," Elena mumbled to Damon once she focused back onto the Salvatore brothers. "We have to save them," the Gilbert supernatural being stated with determination.
Stefan turned his gaze over to his ex girlfriend for a moment before he finally nodded his head. This is Emily, the Salvatore vampire had to remind himself and he knew he would do whatever it took to keep her safe. So, if he had to go through a couple of werewolves that wanted to kill them - then so be it.
Damon smirked when he saw his girlfriend and brother were on board with attacking the werewolves. "Let's go hunting," the older Salvatore vampire whispered with a small nod as he turned his eyes onto the werewolf that bit the now deceased Rose with a glare before he vamp sped over to Jules to attack her.
That was all the vampires and werewolves needed as if Damon vamp speeding towards Jules was like a gun being fired for the start of a track meet as the werewolves cocked their stake filled crossbows and started up the flamethrower while the three vampires showed their true nature and sped to rip out the werewolves' hearts.
However, for the young Lockwood werewolf, while the fight broke out, he rushed into the small mobile home to keep out of the vampires' way so he wouldn't accidentally get killed like the pack of wolves. Tyler swiftly let out a heavy sigh once he ran towards the back of the RV. It felt like he could finally breathe after the long day of arguing with Stefan and trying to stay alive.
"Tyler!" The human Petrova doppelganger gasped as soon as she heard the noise inside of the RV. The blonde vampire had told Emily that their friends were here as Caroline finally could use her enhanced hearing now that she was healed. "Tyler, come on! We need help out of here!" Emily shouted out to her shocked best friend, who probably hates her and Caroline right now. "Please! They're going to kill us," the human girl continued to beg as Tyler was only staring at her and the Forbes vampire.
"Tyler!" The blonde supernatural being shouted as she began to shake the bars of the cage. "There's a latch on the door," Caroline explained to the Lockwood as she pointed down to the steel lock before she hurriedly uttered, "I can't get to it."
The Gilbert girl's green eyes instantly widened in shock and betrayal when she noticed through the pain as her best friend took a step back away from the cage like he was actually thinking about leaving them in here. "Don't you dare leave us like this!" Emily shouted with tears clouding her vision. The human girl couldn't believe Tyler was even second guessing about helping them - his best friend and a girl he had been getting close to.
"Tyler?" The blonde vampire whimpered as she shook the door of the cage. Caroline furrowed her blue eyes in confusion as she didn't understand why the Lockwood werewolf wasn't helping them. "Please, Tyler!" The Forbes vampire begged as he was their only chance of escaping this hellhole, "please help us!"
The Lockwood teenager glanced between the hysterical Caroline and the teary-eyed Emily before he quickly jogged towards the steel cage. Tyler then bent down and hurriedly undid the large latch on the door as fast as he could before he slowly lifted up the heavy sliding door and waited until Caroline and Emily crawled out.
"Come on, Emmie," the blonde vampire whispered as she tried to get the human girl to stand up. The Gilbert girl was far weaker than they had both realized, so Caroline swiftly tossed Emily's arm over her shoulder before she jogged her way towards the entrance of the RV as quickly as she could as she was also still hurting from all of the wooden weapons her body had endured.
Finally, after about two long minutes of Caroline hopping around with the fatigued Emily leaning against her, they reached the chilly woods of Mystic Falls. The blonde vampire immediately let out a heavy sigh once she felt the leaves crunch underneath her black heeled boots before a loud gasp escaped her mouth when she felt her body being slammed against the RV before she fell to the ground.
The Gilbert girl let out a painful groan when she all sudden felt the back of her head bang onto the mobile home before she felt a hand tightly grip her throat. Emily then opened up her green eyes before they instantly widened as she saw an angry Jules in front of her with a gun tucked under her chin.
"It's your fault," Jules growled as she pushed the gun against the human girl's skin, "Mason would have left after his brother's funeral if it wasn't for the precious Emily Gilbert." The female werewolf shook her head with a sadistic chuckle as she stared at the crying human before she whispered, "tell Mase I said hi."
However, before Jules could pull the trigger and end the human girl's life, someone swiftly rammed into the side of the werewolf's body before she was thrown against a thick tree. "You do not touch my sister," the Gilbert vampire growled as she squatted protectively in front of Emily.
The angry vampire went to end the life of the werewolf that hurt her twin sister, but before she could even take another step towards the frightened but confident Jules, who was stalking towards her, all of the werewolves instantly fell to the ground in pain as they all held onto their heads while they screamed - well, except for the youngest werewolf; Tyler Lockwood.
The Forbes vampire looked around in confusion once the werewolf that was holding her on the ground started to scream. Caroline glanced beside her and saw Elena holding the human girl close before she looked across the woods as she mumbled, "what's happening?"
"Hey, hey, hey," the Gilbert vampire uttered as she brought her hands to her twin sister's face. "Are you okay?" Elena questioned worriedly as she stared into Emily's teary green eyes. The young vampire didn't care what was happening with the werewolves. She only cared about making sure her other half was still standing.
The human girl silently nodded her head as she gave her twin sister a grim smile before she wrapped her arm through Elena's so she wouldn't fall. Emily then looked around as she just realized that all of the werewolves were falling to the ground while they screamed. However, when the Gilbert girl glanced towards her right, she noticed that Tyler was the only wolf that was still on his feet - which confused Emily even more. "What the hell is going on?" Emily mumbled as she didn't understand why they were all dropping like this.
Caroline and Emily's question soon got answered when the vampires, human doppelganger, and the Lockwood werewolf noticed a dark skinned man walking in their direction with his hands out as he was controlling the wolf that was crawling in front of him. The man, the warlock - Jonas Martin stopped once he was standing in front of the Gilbert twins before he spoke directly to the human doppelganger, "Elijah made a promise to you." The warlock then glanced over to the Salvatore brothers, who were quickly walking towards the sisters, before he told them, "I'm here to see it's upheld. You all need to leave now."
The warlock then slowly walked towards the human Petrova doppelganger that he was here to keep safe before he placed his point finger onto her temple and began to chant in Latin. The woods that surrounded Mystic Falls grew thick with silence and tension for a few minutes before Jonas explained to the concerned vampires, who were looking down at the now passed out Emily, "she'll be fine. I healed her."
The four vampires all sighed out in relief after knowing the human girl was going to be okay as Caroline had witnessed all the torture Emily had endured and the other three could tell the Gilbert girl was hurting badly. The younger Salvatore vampire gave the warlock a cautious but thankful nod and swiftly grabbed Emily out of Elena's hands before they all vamp sped out of the woods now that they didn't have to worry about the werewolves - thanks to the human girl's deal with the original.
***
GILBERT HOUSE
It was about three long hours later, at around eleven o'clock at night, when the human Petrova doppelganger finally and thankfully opened her tired green eyes. Emily swiftly jumped up from the soft material that she was lying on when she felt her body wake up before she hurriedly looked around as she didn't know where she was. The Gilbert girl was worried that her being saved was all just a dream and she was still inside of the cage being tortured by the werewolf.
"Hey, you're safe," a soft and gentle voice interrupted the human girl's fears as the aforementioned girl's twin sister placed her hand onto Emily's lower arm as she whispered, "you're okay. You're home." Elena had been sitting beside her sister in a chair ever since they left the woods a couple of hours ago. The Gilbert vampire knew her sister was okay as there wasn't anymore wounds on her body, but Elena felt like she just needed to watch her twin to make sure she really was okay and wasn't going to die on them as Elena had been so worried for her sister's life.
Emily let out a heavy but thankful sigh once she realized she was in her bedroom in the Gilbert house instead of in that creepy cage in the middle of nowhere. The human girl then glanced up from her pillow once she relaxed her heart rate and over to her worried-looking sister as she wondered, "how's Care?" Emily couldn't even remember most of the events that happened tonight, so she had no idea how her best friend was doing or if she was even okay.
The Gilbert vampire grabbed ahold of her twin sister's hand in a tight grip as she quickly wiped the loose tear out of her eyes. "She's okay," Elena finally answered Emily's question with a rough and emotional voice, "Damon took her to the Forbes house while Stefan and I brought you here."
"Good," the human girl mumbled as she briefly closed her sleepy green eyes. Emily was glad that Caroline was okay. She was glad that her taking the vampire's torture kept her alive and well. That was all Emily really cared about. She just wanted to keep everyone safe.
Elena squeezed her twin sister's hand as she watched Emily relax with her clouded brown eyes. The Gilbert vampire just couldn't help but still be worried about her other half. Elena felt like Emily was going to disappear on her again and get hurt. "How are you feeling?" The Gilbert vampire whispered once her twin sister focused back onto her.
Emily squeezed the vampire's hand back to show she was okay before she answered, "I'm not hurting anymore, so I'm better than I was." The human girl then lifted herself to lean against the headboard as her body was starting to ache from lying down before she wondered curiously, "did you or Stef heal me?"
Elena shook her head as she sat up straight in her sister's vanity chair while she kept Emily's hand tightly in her own. "It was, uh, Elijah's witch," the Gilbert vampire explained to her twin sister about who was the one to heal her.
"Oh?" Emily mumbled with her brows furrowed. The human girl couldn't remember much, so that was definitely new information for her. Emily only remembered getting pulled out of the mobile home by Caroline before everything just blended together.
However, before the human girl could ask anymore questions about the things that she couldn't remember during the werewolf and vampire showdown, the two sisters were soon interrupted as the resident strawberry blonde shouted from downstairs, "Emily! Someone's at the door for you!"
The Gilbert twins stared at one another in confusion when they heard their aunt as they didn't think anyone would be stopping by the house this late. The human girl then shrugged her shoulders at her sister before she slowly got up from her large bed and sluggishly made her way down the stairs with Elena following closely behind.
Emily was instantly surprised at who she was standing in the middle of the foyer, other than her aunt, who quickly walked back into the living room. It was none other than the young Lockwood werewolf. "Tyler," Emily awkwardly greeted the person she saw as her best friend.
The Lockwood teenager gave the human girl a grim smile as he wave his hand out of nervousness while he mumbled, "hi." Tyler then pointed his thumb towards the front door before he wondered softly, "can we talk?"
The Gilbert vampire swiftly moved in front of her twin sister and blocked Emily's view of the werewolf before she snapped, "no." There was no way Elena was going to let the wolf talk to her twin sister when he was involved with that woman that kidnapped Emily and Caroline in the first place.
Emily lightly placed her hand onto her tense sister's shoulder as she uttered gently, "it's okay, Lena." The human girl then walked around the vampire and gave Tyler a short smile before she faced her worried sister. "I'll be right outside," Emily uttered as she tried to assure Elena that she would be okay with the Lockwood teenager, "you can even listen in if it'll make you feel better."
Elena stared into her twin sister's green eyes for a couple of seconds before she finally nodded her head. The Gilbert vampire figured she could listen out encase it was a trap. Elena then turned her gaze onto the Lockwood teenager with a fierce glare before she snarled, "watch yourself, Tyler."
The human girl let out a small sigh at the fact that she knew her twin sister was never going to like the Lockwood ever again. However, Emily quickly pushed that thought away as she needed to focus on the talk that she knew would happen. The doppelganger then squeezed Elena's hand before she gave Tyler a small nod and walked out onto the Gilbert porch.
The air around the white two story house grew heavy with tension as the human girl took a seat onto the large porch swing while the Lockwood werewolf kept his wide brown eyes locked onto his best friend. Finally, after about another minute or so of quietness, Tyler opened his mouth and questioned, "are you okay?"
Emily glanced up from her fingers, that she had nervously began to play with, before she moved her gaze over to the Lockwood teenager. "I'll be fine. I always am," the human girl uttered with absolutely zero emotion in her voice. Emily honestly didn't know how to feel about the Tyler situation. This morning Emily was worried that Tyler was going to hate her but by the end of the night, the only thing that was on Emily's mind was that if she could even trust him since he hesitated helping her in the woods. It made Emily confused and it made her wonder if Tyler would do that again. Would he side with the wolves again over someone he grew up with?
"I had no idea they would come for you and Caroline," the Lockwood teenager quickly explained as he didn't want Emily to think that he had any involvement in her kidnapping and whatever else Jules and Brady did to her.
The human girl chuckled humorlessly as she moved her teary eyed gaze back onto her now clean fingers. Elena must have cleaned me up, Emily guessed as she also noticed she was in a new outfit that consisted of a black pair of sweatpants and a black long sleeve crop top instead of her bloody white crop top, jacket, and blue jeans.
Emily then moved her green eyes back up to the anxious werewolf once she got control of her emotions. "Do you know what they did to us?" The human girl whispered as a shiver ran down her spine at the memories of the torture. "Brady shot Caroline up with wooden stakes and vervain for hours," Emily broke down angrily as she told Tyler what happened while he was busy doing nothing, "and I took about 5,000 volts of electricity all over my body to the point I couldn't feel anything!" The human girl swiftly wiped a loose tear as she snarled, "so I don't want your bullshit about how you didn't know."
"I'm so sorry. But I really didn't know, Emmie," the Lockwood teenager apologized wholeheartedly as he cautiously took a step closer to the human girl on the porch swing. Tyler hurriedly shook his head as he ran his fingers through his dark hair before he exclaimed, "I-I didn't know who to trust. Jules told me about Mason and what your friends did. I didn't know if I could trust you or Caroline." Tyler looked down at the emotional Gilbert as he questioned, "did you know? Were you involved like Jules said? Did you know all this time and lied to me?"
The human girl scoffed at the werewolf at the fact that he didn't know if he could trust her. It shouldn't matter if she lied about something. That shouldn't change Tyler's mind about the girl he grew up with. Emily then nodded her head once to answer Tyler's question after she got control of her anger and stated, "I was there. I knew. I said goodbye to Mason right before he died."
The Gilbert girl swiftly held out her finger when she saw Tyler was about to say something. "I'm not finished," Emily growled, "I didn't tell you the truth because that is what Mason wanted! He wanted me to protect you from this cursed life. Everything I did was to protect you." Emily wiped the tears from her eyes, once again, before she uttered in a whisper as she was growing tired and sad, "so you do not get to come to my house after I was attacked by your new wolf friends to yell at me about lies and betrayal because you caused the biggest betrayal of them all."
"Emily," the Lockwood teenager uttered softly as he watched the Gilbert girl sob into her hands after her large rant. Tyler didn't know what to think now. He never would have thought that Mason had something to do with his best friend lying to him. Tyler only just saw anger and betrayal towards Caroline and Emily after Jules told him the truth about what happened to his uncle. But now, Tyler felt bad that he never asked Emily, someone he sees as a sister, about what really happened.
The Gilbert girl shook her head as she swiftly stood up from the white porch swing before she crossed her arms over her black crop top and looked at Tyler in disgust. "I saw you," Emily mumbled in disbelief, "you just stood there while Jules had a gun to my head." The brunette girl then lifted her arm and shook her hand as she continued with a hateful glare, "never mind me, but you also just let a wolf hold Caroline, the girl who cares about you, on the ground. You did absolutely nothing to save your friends."
The Lockwood werewolf's anger couldn't handle being yelled out any longer as he suddenly threw his arms in the air and exclaimed, "I didn't know what to do!"
Emily pointed her finger at the werewolf that she thought she could trust as she snapped, "you help your friends, that's what you do, not a pack of wolves you just met!" The human girl couldn't believe that she even had to tell Tyler this. Emily always thought it was common sense, but apparently she was wrong.
Tyler let out a heavy sigh as he ran his fingers through his messy brown hair. "I'm so sorry," the Lockwood werewolf apologized softly before he slowly and gently grabbed ahold of the angry human girl's hand.
"Do not touch me," Emily snarled as she ripped her hand out of the Lockwood teenager's grip. The human girl then shook her head with an emotionless chuckle as she mumbled, "I don't even know who you are anymore." Emily placed her hand over her heart as she poured out, "I thought you would always believe me and trust me." The human girl then started to walk towards the white door of the Gilbert house before she turned back and faced the wolf. "You need to figure out who your real friends are and who will always have your back," Emily told Tyler, "until then, I can't be around someone who doesn't trust me like I trust them," before she ignored the Lockwood's pleading and silently made her way back into the Gilbert house.
The human girl let out a heavy sigh and wiped the tears from her green eyes after officially letting go of one of the people that she had always loved and cared deeply for. Emily grew up beside the Lockwood family and was closest to Tyler her entire life, but now; Emily knew she needed to let him go. She couldn't be friends with someone that wouldn't protect her and defend her against people that he had just met. Toxic people are never good, so Emily just couldn't keep Tyler in her life especially when she has Klaus and sacrifice issues right now. She just needed to focus on the good in her life before it all turns to hell.
"Hey," the Gilbert vampire uttered softly as she slowly walked towards her silent but heartbroken sister. Elena had listened to everything like her twin sister said she could, so she knew Emily was going to need her after letting go of the Lockwood teenager. "You okay?" Elena whispered as she rubbed her twin's right shoulder.
Emily swiftly wiped the rest of the tears from her green eyes before she gave her twin sister a small smile. "I'm fine," the human girl promised as she rubbed her hands across her crop top covered arms. I always am, Emily thought as she gave Elena an assuring look. Emily then let out a large yawn before she told the vampire, "I think I'm just gonna go back to sleep and rest."
"Okay," the Gilbert supernatural being mumbled as she gave her sister a tiny smile. Elena knew her sister just needed time to deal with all the stuff that she went through tonight. If her sister wasn't emotional right now, Elena would of been worried. It was normal to feel this way after a traumatic experience like feeling constant physical pain and letting go of someone she loved.
Elena watched her twin sister walk up the stairs for a couple of seconds before Elena's brown eyes widened when she felt the cold metal bracelet around her wrist that John had gave her a few minutes ago. "Wait!" The Gilbert vampire yelped. However, though, when Emily turned back around and faced her, Elena changed her answer as she was originally going to tell her sister about who was waiting for her. Elena wanted to tell her sister that their biological father was waiting on her, but she knew she couldn't. She had promised John that she wouldn't say anything. So instead, Elena just gave a twin sister another smile as she told her, "you're gonna be okay," before she added, "I'll be up in a little while to check on you."
Emily rose an amused eyebrow at her twin sister as Elena was being weird again. But the human girl didn't question it. Instead, she just have a twin sister another smile and uttered, "come up soon and we'll watch a movie." Emily hadn't had a movie night with her sister in forever, so why not? It could at least help her forget about the horrible night for a couple of hours.
Once the human girl saw her twin sister nod her head in agreement, Emily turned back around and sluggishly and tiredly made her way up the staircase. Emily was just ready to jump into her bed with her other half and just relax. However, the human girl's plan of having a good rest of the night with her twin sister was immediately thrown away when she saw her biological father staring at a picture on her dresser.
The older Gilbert man quickly turned towards the entrance of his daughter's bedroom when he heard someone clear their throat. "Hey," John uttered quietly when he noticed it was the child he was waiting for. "I heard what happened tonight," the blue eyed man commented as he leaned against the tall dresser before he wondered, "are you okay?"
"I'm fine," the human girl mumbled as she walked past her biological father without looking at him before she sat at the edge of her bed. Emily then began to play with her fingers for about a minute or so before she looked up and sighed when she noticed John was still in her room. "What do you want, John?" Emily interrogated boredly as she wasn't in the mood to talk to the man. She didn't go through everything today just to have to talk to her father like she did this morning.
John crossed his arms over his dark sweater as he stared across at his daughter before he finally spoke as he shook his head, "I didn't come here to fight with you, Emily." The Gilbert man moved towards the large bed and stood a couple of feet from the brunette girl as he added, "I want to help keep you safe."
Emily silently nodded her head as if she was finally agreeing with her biological father before she looked up at John with annoyance displayed in her green eyes as she moved her point finger up and down as she uttered, "you know, you keep saying that but I still haven't seen anything from you." The human girl folded her legs underneath her as she moved further into her large and comfortable bed before she continued, "all you do is talk but you never show anything for it. So excuse me, if I don't believe that you are here to help."
The blue eyed man ignored his daughter's ranting about him not helping as he couldn't actually tell her how he was in fact helping keep her and Elena safe. John made a promise to Isobel, so Emily could yell at him all she wanted as he knew what he was doing to keep her safe. So instead of blowing the raven haired vampire's plan, John dug his hand into his pocket before he pulled out a ring and told his oldest daughter, "I thought you might want this. It was your mother's."
Emily rolled her green eyes as she huffed out a sigh before she took a quick careless glance at the item in her biological father's opened palm. She then looked up at John with a bored expression as questioned, "it's Isobel's?"
John shook his head and muttered, "no," as he continued to hold out the small piece of jewelry before he explained softly, "it belonged to your real mother, Miranda." The older man looked down at the ring with a small smile as he continued, "I remember her wearing it when she was young - along with the silver bracelet I gave to Elena. I found it in a box, with some things that your dad left me." John then held out the small piece of jewelry out to his oldest daughter as he muttered, "here, it's yours now."
Emily looked at her biological father with her brows furrowed before she slowly grabbed the ring from John's hands. The human girl then rolled the item in her hands as she looked it over. It was a simple ring that anyone could find in any jewelry store, Emily noticed. It was a two piece set that had a thin band of small diamonds and the top layer was a thicker band with two small and one large stone in the center. But it wasn't like any regular white diamond, either. No, the main piece was a beautiful light sea blue color that instantly reminded Emily of her mother's eyes.
"Miranda and Grayson were your parents, Emily," the older man spoke after a moment of calm silence had settled in the bedroom. John shook his head as he uttered, "and I know I'm nothing to you or Elena. You have no reason to believe me or trust me." The Gilbert man then paused for a moment as he cleared his throat before he continued with emotion clouding his blue eyes, "I've done so many horrible things, but when you and Elena lost your parents, I lost my brother, my family. I lost my way."
John took a small breather as he quickly wiped the tears from his eyes at the memories of the family he had lost and the nonexistent relationship he has with his daughters. The older man then looked down at his oldest child that was staring into his eyes with tears in her own before he brought his hand down onto Emily's lower arm. "I know that I probably won't ever get to make things right with you and your sister," John began as he gave Emily his undivided attention as he confessed, "but I'm gonna do everything I can to protect you and protect this family."
The older man cleared his throat as he tried to get rid of the sadness he was feeling and back to the careless person he had became over the last couple of years. John then walked towards the doorway of his daughter's bedroom before he swore, "I'm not going to let anything happen to you or Elena. You will always be my daughter no matter how you feel about me." The Gilbert man then gave his oldest daughter one last look before he silently exited out of her bedroom.
Emily didn't know if it was the emotions of hearing about her mother, Miranda, or John's confession, or even the traumatic experience that she went through tonight, but as soon as her biological father walked out, all of the tears and sobs began to pour out of Emily's body like a waterfall. It was like all of her emotions just broke down this wall that she had built and Emily didn't know how to make it stop. So instead of fighting it like she wanted, Emily just let it pour out as she stared at the light blue colored ring that belonged to her mother as everything came crashing down.
"Babe," the soft and concerned voice of the youngest Salvatore vampire called out as soon as he noticed the state that the human girl was in once he walked into the Gilbert bedroom. Stefan then swiftly vamp sped in front of Emily before he squatted down in front of the brunette girl and grabbed her face. "Hey, are you okay?" Stefan worriedly questioned.
The human girl sniffed as she wiped all of the tears from her face before she finally looked up and gave Stefan a grim smile. "I'm fine," Emily mumbled as she shakily pushed her mother's ring onto her point finger before she explained to the vampire with an eye roll, "it was just John doing John things."
Stefan silently nodded his head in understanding, even though he was still worried about the human girl. The Salvatore vampire had came over because Elena had told him what happened between Emily and Tyler along with the talk with John. Stefan figured he must of caught the end of it as he saw John grabbing a bottle of bourbon from Alaric's cabinet before he rushed out the front door.
The Salvatore vampire then lifted up the human girl's face by her chin and stared into her green eyes for a moment before he whispered, "are you really okay?" Stefan needed to make sure Emily was absolutely okay as he felt guilty that he wasn't there when the human girl woke up and didn't have the chance to check on her after the torture that Jules and her werewolf did to Emily.
Emily gave Stefan the first real smile all night as she slowly brought her hand to the vampire's left cheek. "I'm fine," the human girl promised. Emily didn't know how Stefan does it, but whenever she's in his presence, all the bad things just disappears. The Gilbert girl then leaned across and brought her lips to Stefan's for a sweet and passionate kiss before she whispered, "thank you."
Stefan brought his lips in for another kiss after the human girl had pulled away as he couldn't get enough. The Salvatore vampire then released the doppelganger's mouth after about another minute or so before he began to trace a small pattern onto Emily thigh as he wondered curiously, "for what?"
The human girl gave Stefan another bright smile as she stood up from her soft bed, while also bringing the vampire up with her, before she wrapped her hands around Stefan's neck. "Just by always being here for me," Emily answered the vampire's question as she began to aimlessly play with her mother's ring, "I can't thank you enough for all that you do for my family and I. It means a lot."
The Salvatore vampire let out a small chuckle before he brought his lips down to the human girl's as if he was accepting her praise. Stefan then pulled away after a couple of minutes of their passionate embrace and told Emily with a cheeky grin, "you can thank me all you want by allowing me to sleep next to the prettiest girl in the world."
Emily rolled her green eyes at the Salvatore vampire in amusement and turned bright red at his compliment. The human girl pushed Stefan's shoulder as she mumbled, "whatever," in complete embarrassment. Emily then brought Stefan into another kiss as she cuddled up next to his cold body before she suddenly pulled away as she thought of something.
The Gilbert girl ignored the vampire's pouting with a soft chuckle before she began to rub her fingers through the back of Stefan's brown hair and stated, "Lena mentioned that Damon dropped Caroline off earlier." Emily then twitched her head to the side as she wondered, "do you know how she's doing?" The human girl knew that her sister told her that Caroline was okay, but she couldn't help but still be worried about her best friend.
Stefan bit down on his bottom lip as he recalled the short conversation that he had with the blonde vampire before Elena called him and he showed up at the Gilbert house. The Salvatore vampire then focused back onto the human girl as he silently nodded his head to himself and told her, "she's okay but I think I could use your help with something."
***
FORBES HOUSE
It took the younger Salvatore vampire about fifteen minutes to get his plan all in order once he had explained to Emily about what he wanted to do before he showed back up at the blonde vampire's house with the perfect strategy to make the night end with a good note after what Caroline and the human girl had went through with the pack of wolves. Stefan took a quick glance over to his left on the Forbes porch at the three grinning girls before he shook his head with a chuckle and brought his knuckles down onto the white door.
"Hey," the blonde vampire greeted Stefan, who she had barely saw twenty minutes ago, in confusion as she straightened out her clean sweater that she had barely just put on after she finally took a shower and washed away all of the blood and wooden pieces. Caroline rose an eyebrow at the brunette vampire as she wondered, "what's going on?"
"I was a bit worried about you," the Salvatore vampire explained to the blonde supernatural being as he leaned the side of his body on the edge of the white Forbes door before he concluded, "after everything that you went through tonight."
Caroline shook her head with a soft chuckle at her concerned friend. "I'm fine," the blonde vampire promised as she grabbed onto the edge of the door to close it. Caroline didn't need anyone to worry about her. She just wanted to sleep for a couple of days and wash out the horrible night.
Stefan nodded his head as he mumbled, "good." The Salvatore vampire then pushed the door back to all the way open for what was about to stun the blonde vampire as he told Caroline, "but, just in case, I brought some back up."
The Salvatore vampire then quickly took a couple of steps back on the porch and gave the three girls a nod to let them know that they could show themselves. The three girls, Emily, Bonnie, and Elena, then swiftly jumped in front of the doorway as they all yelled excitedly, "surprise!"
"Oh, my God!" The blonde vampire squealed as she quickly placed her hand over her mouth while her body was instantly racked with sobs. Caroline couldn't believe it. It was her three close friends - here for her. Caroline was so touched that Stefan arranged this along with the fact that she didn't have to be all alone when she falls asleep - which she always hates doing since her mother is always working long hours at the police station.
"We're gonna slumber it!" The Gilbert vampire uttered softly as she walked through the entrance of the Forbes house while she gave the sobbing and emotional blonde a small smile.
Emily pushed her twin sister's shoulder playfully as she rolled her green eyes before she interrogated, "when have we ever called it a slumber?" The human girl then stood directly in front of her blonde friend as she corrected her sister with a bright smile, "it's called girls' night."
"Well, whatever it is called," the Bennett witch began with a chuckle as she followed after the Gilbert twins through the foyer of the Forbes house before she stood in front of Caroline with her own smile and uttered, "we haven't done it in ages but that is about to change tonight."
"I love you guys," the blonde vampire finally spoke in a loud sob after she got over the shock of seeing all three of her best friends in her house for the first time in forever. Caroline then wrapped her arms around the three different supernatural beings; vampire, witch, and doppelganger as she absorbed the very happy moment with her favorite people.
The four girls stood there for a couple of minutes as they hugged each other before the human girl was the first one to pull away as she noticed the Salvatore vampire was about to leave. "Hey, I'll be right back," Emily promised her friends and twin sister before she quickly jogged out onto the porch and threw herself into the smiling Salvatore's awaiting arms. "Thank you for this," Emily whispered once she pulled away from Stefan's embrace.
"You are very welcome," the Salvatore vampire uttered with a grin while he pushed the human girl's brown hair behind her right ear before he cupped Emily's face and began to softly rub along her cheek. Stefan then brought his lips to the human girl's forehead before he told her, "have fun."
Emily silently nodded her head with a happy smile before she brought her lips back to Stefan's for another meaningful and passionate kiss as she showed the vampire all that she was feeling. After about a minute or so, Emily pulled away and took a step back before she uttered, "I love you."
The Salvatore vampire brought the tips of his fingers to his lips as he slowly stepped backwards until he reached the steps before he blew the human girl a kiss. Stefan then gave Emily one last smile and whispered, "love you too," before he finally forced himself to vamp speed away so the Gilbert girl could have time with her close friends.
The human Petrova doppelganger shook her head with a small chuckle once she was standing all alone on the Forbes porch before she turned back around to go back inside of the warm house. But before Emily could take the two short steps through the entrance, she was suddenly vamp sped to the side of the porch before she felt her back land against the hard wall of the house.
Emily winced when she felt her body come in contact with the rough surface and opened her green eyes, that she didn't even know she had closed, before they instantly widened when she saw who was in front of her; the original.
The original, Elijah, swiftly placed his point finger in front of his lips when he noticed the human girl was about to open her mouth as he heard footsteps coming towards them. Emily furrowed her brows in confusion about this whole situation. She hadn't seen Elijah since they made their deal and she didn't understand why he was showing his face now. But Emily did listen to the original as she figured someone was coming and she wanted to know what he wanted with her.
It was a good thing Emily did listen to the original, too, because after a second of the human girl nodding in agreement, the Gilbert vampire popped her head out of the door while Elijah hid in the shadows. "Hey, come on," Elena told her twin sister as she pointed towards the inside of the Forbes house.
Emily gave her twin sister an easy smile as she told Elena, "give me a sec." The human girl then furrowed her brows in fake worry as she explained, "I dropped my ring." Emily knew she needed to make up excuse or Elena would end up coming out onto the porch to see what was wrong with her.
The Gilbert vampire silently nodded her head as she remembered their biological father showing her the ring that he was going to give to Emily. "Alright," Elena mumbled and commanded teasingly, "well, you better hurry up," before she headed back into the Forbes house.
Emily immediately closed her green eyes and let out a heavy sigh once her twin sister actually listened to her and went back inside to Caroline and Bonnie instead of coming out onto the porch and finding the original. The human girl then quickly remembered why she was feeling relief and remembered Elijah.
Emily swiftly reopened her green eyes and cautiously watched the original, who had moved out of the shadows once he heard the vampire sister begin to talk to their friends. The human girl quickly grew nervous as she watched the original slowly move until he was directly in front of her with barely an inch between them. It also didn't help that Elijah's presence always made her nervous and feel something - so needless to say, Emily was becoming quite anxious to why the original was here right now.
The thick tension on the porch only lasted for about two minutes, which felt like a lifetime for the human girl, before the original slowly brought his right hand to Emily's warm cheek as he kept his brown gaze locked onto the confused human girl's green irises. "You just don't know how to stay out of trouble," Elijah finally spoke in a soft whisper as he looked at the brunette girl with a look of remembrance as if he was staring right at Darina Petrova. The original vampire then brought his smooth lips down onto the human girl's forehead for a couple of seconds and vamp sped away a moment later before Emily even had the chance to question him.
What the hell just happened? Emily silently questioned herself as her green eyes widened in shock. The human girl was so confused that she couldn't even form a sentence. Emily just still couldn't understand the connection that she had with Elijah or why she feels like she can trust him with her life. Emily figured that he has something to do with whatever relationship Elijah had with her doppelganger - well, that's what the human girl had been telling herself. It was the same thing with Katherine as the original Petrova treats her like she is her sister, so Emily guessed it was the stupid doppelganger connection.
The human girl quickly shook her head after a couple of minutes of standing outside in the dark all by herself as she didn't have time to question some sort of connection with a dangerous original and her sister's bitchy doppelganger. Instead, Emily turned to the right to finally go back to her sister and friends.
"Hey!" The Bennett witch exclaimed as she bumped right into the human girl. Bonnie had came to check on Emily since she nor Caroline or Elena hadn't heard anything from her in a while. "Did you find your ring?" The brown eyed supernatural being wondered as the Gilbert vampire told them why Emily was out in the cold.
Emily looked at her friend with her brows furrowed for a second before her green eyes instantly widened. "Oh, yeah!" The human girl exclaimed as she held up her hand and showed the Bennett witch the new ring she was sporting. Emily mentally sighed as she was almost caught up in a lie as she had momentarily forgotten that she told her twin sister that she was looking for the piece of jewelry.
Bonnie gave her a friend a small smile as she muttered, "good." The Bennett witch then held out her arm for the human girl as she exclaimed, "well, come on then." She shot Emily a smirk as she added, "we're about to watch The Notebook."
Emily let out a heavy groan when she heard the title of the movie fall out of the Bennett witch's mouth. The human girl then pouted as she linked her arm with the giggling Bonnie before the two girls began to walk through the Forbes house and headed towards the living room, where Caroline and Elena were waiting to push play on their movie.
The human girl wanted to complain about the blonde vampire's choice of movie, but Emily knew this was what they all needed. They just needed a night of normalcy and that all starts with watching the movie that they have all seen over a million of times.
So, instead of complaining like she usually would, Emily leaned her head against Bonnie's shoulder and held Caroline's left hand while she watched the bright orange sunset display onto the large TV in the Forbes house and listened to the beginning of the soft classical music of Caroline's favorite movie.