Elena woke up groggily and sat up slowly. When she saw Ben sitting in a chair by the end of the bed, she was lying on she remembered what had happened. She looked around the room for a way out and stared at the front door.

Quietly slipping of the bed, Elena slowly stepped over Ben's outstretched legs and backed away towards the door. As she made it to the door, she looked back towards Ben to make sure he hadn't woken up and then she unlocks the deadbolt and as gently as possible she turned the lock on the door so she could open the it.

"I wouldn't." A voice said from behind her.

"Shit!" Elena cursed as she spun around and tried her best to punch Ben who was standing just a few inches away from her.

"Don't try and escape." Ben said while he stared into her eyes after he caught her hand. "Don't even move. Do you understand?"

"I understand." Elena tried to sound as emotionless as possible and from the scoff Ben gave as he turned around it seemed to have worked. Then Elena quickly opened the door and bolted out.

"Seriously?!" Anna growled as she pushed Elena back into the motel room again.

"Oh, it's you." Elena groaned. "The psychotic little girl that's stalking my brother."

"I told her not to move." Ben said before Anna could register what Elena had said. "I did that eye thing you thought me!"

"And you forgot the lesson on vervain!" Anna glared at Ben. "She's dating a vampire, Ben. Duh!"

Anna dragged Elena over to the bathroom as Elena quietly wondered why people kept assuming she and Stefan were dating, and forcefully pushed her in and then she shut the door.

"Ow!" Elena groaned as she hit the sink, then she screamed through the door at Anna. "Get fucked by a cactus you bitch!"

"Ugh." Elena turned toward the bathtub when she heard a groan.

"Bonnie?!" Elena rushed over to her groaning friend.

"Elena?" Bonnie asked slowly.

"No, I'm the ghost of Christmas past." Elena deadpanned even as she pulled Bonnie in to a hug.

"Oh my God!" Bonnie gasped. "Ben is a..."

"Vampire? Yeah it would look like that, huh." Elena shrugged.

"I'm so stupid!" Bonnie scowled at herself.

"You're not stupid Bonnie, he had us all fooled." Elena hugged her again while quietly planning to start wearing a vervain-soaked string around her hand every time she met new people. That way when she shook their hand she would automatically know if they were vampires or not.

"What's going on?" Bonnie asked. "Where are we?"

Elena quickly told Bonnie a summarized version on what was going on and finished with, "I didn't want to drag you into all of this."

"Why did you try and keep me out of it?" Bonnies voice sounded accusing.

"They need a witch to open the tomb and let the vampires out." Elena admitted. "I was going to ask a friend of Damons to help so you didn't have to be pulled in and put in danger."

Ben slammed the door open and stalked into the tiny bathroom as Elena placed Bonnie protectively behind her.

"You are wasting your time." Bonnie declared, trying to sound strong and unafraid and Elena wasn't going to be the one to tell her that it didn't really work. "I'm not going to help you."

Ben smirked darkly and grabbed Elena by the hair. "That's why she's here, motivation for you to behave. You know, you shouldn't be so desperate, you made it too easy."

Elena growled and tried to kick Ben between the legs as hard as she could. Sadly, Ben had just turned away to push Elena into the motel room so she only kicked his leg.

"Bitch!" Ben shouted as he violently threw Elena on the floor of the motel as he quickly shut the door to the bathroom.

"You are pathetic." Elena called out to him from the floor.

"Don't hurt her too much, Ben, we need her as leverage." Anna said from where she was looking through the curtains.

"Bonnies not going to help you open the tomb." Elena told Anna as she got up from the floor painfully, she probably had some bruised ribs or something.

"Oh, I think she will." Anna muttered with certainty.

"So, who is it?" Elena asked.

"What?" Anna finally turned towards Elena.

"The one you want to rescue from the tomb?" Elena already knew it was her mother but whatever, she could stall and make conversation at the same time. "Because I assume it's not Kathrine."

"Only Damon, the love-struck fool, wants to see that girl again." Anna groaned. "I want to get my mother out of that tomb. I watched as Jonathan Gilbert took her away."

"That sucks." Elena hummed.

"We are skipping the whole dead mom bonding thing and going straight to you serving your purpose." Anna growled.

"Leverage?" Elena sighed.

"This yours?" Anna held up Elenas phone. She dials a number and waits. "She's fine, for now. Tell me you have the grimoire and she'll stay fine."

Anna paused as she listened to the person on the other end. "Which means your brother has it. And I have a witch, so one if you had better meet me in the very public town square in 30 minutes so we can safely discuss how fun it's going to be to bork together." After that Anna hung up the phone.

"I'm leaving!" Anna called out and Ben opened the bathroom door and led Bonnie out. "Keep them here, compulsion won't works so just use violence."

"Right, I got this." Ben nodded and pushed Bonnie onto the bed as Anna left. "So, you are the key to the door, huh? Tell me, how long have you been a witch?"

"Is there anything to drink here?" Elena asked as she remembered Bonnies fire trick from the show.

"Are you offering?" Ben leered at her. "There's water on the night stand."

"Can I have a sip?" Bonnie asked as Elena had predicted and she had to hide her smirk behind the glass.

"Of course." Elena smiled and handed over the glass.

Bonnie quickly tossed the water on Ben and set in on fire while she and Elena ran for the door. Bonnie was out the door when she heard Elena gasp and when she turned around, she saw Ben holding Elena by the throat.

"Come back in!" Ben told her with a glare.

"No, Bonnie, run!" Elena ordered her friend.

"Come in and shut the door!" Ben tightened his grip around Elenas throat and Elena couldn't help but wonder what it was with everyone's insistent need to choke her.

"Don't hurt her!" Bonnie pleaded as she slowly walked back into the motel room.

"That all depends on you." Ben growled. "Lock the door."

"Now let her go!" Bonnie begged after she had locked the door.

"With pleasure." Ben smirked and threw Elena down on one of the beds.

"Does it make you feel better about yourself when you hurt young girls?" Elena croaked out with a sneer as she rubbed her neck. She hated calling herself a 'young girl' but needs must and all that. "That truly is pathetic."

"Elena, please stop agonizing the vampire." Bonnie pleaded, not wanting to see him hurt her even more.

"You should listen to your friend." Ben glared at Elena who scoffed but didn't say anything.

"Witch's don't have eternal life, right?" Ben asked Bonnie after a while. "So, you guy can die?"

"Yes, we can die." Bonnie muttered quietly.

Suddenly the door was kicked in and Ben screamed as the sunlight started to burn his skin. Stefan, the one who had kicked in the door, quickly rips the curtains open to allow more sunlight into the room.

"Stefan." Elena croaked with a smile as she and Bonnie hurried past him and outside.

"Are you two okay?" Stefan asked as he joined them a little while later.

"I'm fine, just a little shook up." Bonnie admitted. "But Ben hurt Elena."

"How did you find us?" Elena whispered as to not put too much pressure on her throat.

"Bonnies grandmother helped by using a locator spell while Damon distracted Anna." Stefan explained.