When the three of them arrived at the grill Damon separated from them to walk over to the bar and Stefan was stopped by an older woman who started to flirt with him. Elena smirked and left him to his faith while she walked over to where she saw a laughing Caroline and a blushing Matt.

"Hey guys." Elena smiled at them.

"Hey Elena." Matt muttered while Caroline beamed at her.

"What's so funny?" Elena looked at Caroline for the answer.

"Matt's already been hit on, like, 35 times." Caroline giggled. "He's total cougar bait."

"Not bad Matt." Elena chuckled.

"It's embarrassing." Matt muttered with a blush.

"Hey, Mrs. Donovan." Caroline smiled at Matt's mom who had walked up to them.

"Elena, honey." Kelly smiled at Elena and pulled her in to an awkward hug while ignoring Caroline.

"Hi, Mrs. Donovan." Elena forced herself not to sneer at her for the way she treated Caroline.

"Long time, no see." Kelly looked at Elena.

"How are you doing?" Elena plastered a fake smile on her face.

"Oh, same old." Kelly shrugged. "Matty tells me you broke his heart."

"I guess we have that in common you and I." Elena smiled innocently. "But I at least only broke it once."

"Mom!" Matt called out even as he was shocked by Elenas response.

"Just kidding, calm down. He found his rebound girl." Kelly glared lightly at Elena, then she glanced at Caroline and hands her some money. "Here you go sweetheart, however many that'll buy."

Caroline accepted the money and walked away with a small forced smile. Would it be possible to 'accidentally' trip Matt's mother or should she just ask Damon to eat her? Elana thought to herself.

"I just hope I don't get Bachelor 3. I dated him in high school. Not impressive," Kelly leaned in to whisper. "in any way."

"Who are you hoping for then?" Elena asked just to mess with Matt who looked a little green.

"You see the guy over there." Kelly nodded over to where Damon was talking to Carol Lockwood. "He is absolutely dreamy."

"You mean Damon Salvatore?" Elena smirked.

"You know him?" Kelly turned her whole attention towards Elena.

"You could say that." Elena said without elaborating just as Stefan walked up to them.

"You are on cruel young woman." Stefan told Elena. "You left me there, alone!"

"Did the big bad cougars scare you?" Elena smirked.

"Oh, just shut up." Stefan groaned.

"Hello." Kelly held out her hand towards Stefan, trying to look flirty and seductive as she obviously undressed him with her eyes. "I'm Kelly Donovan."

"Stefan Salvatore." Stefan introduced himself politely if a tad stiffly.

Caroline came back with a few tickets and Kelly hummed. "Very exciting." And the she walked further into the grill.

"I am so sorry, Stefan." Matt groaned with embarrassment.

"It's okay, Matt, it's not your fault." Stefan reassured him.

Elena and Stefan made their way over to where Jenna was sitting with a lot of tickets.

"You think you bought her enough?" Elena whispered to Stefan.

"Dear god, I hope so." Stefan muttered back.

"Hey, aunt Jenna." Elena hugged Jenna before she sat down.

"Elena, Stefan." Jenna smiled and hugged Elena back, then she shocked Stefan by hugging him to.

"Jenna." Stefan smiled slightly at her.

"How about we start this raffle!" Carol Lockwood called out from the stage where she was standing with the five bachelors and the woman in the grill cheered.

"Bachelor number 1," Carol walked up to a dark-haired middle-aged man with glasses. "What is your name?"

"Hank Brown." The man introduced himself with a handsome smile.

"And what do you do for a living, Hank?" Carol asked.

"I'm a chef at a small restaurant just outside of Mystic Falls." Hank told her.

"Well, well, ladies, it seems like the man can cook and if you are lucky, he might just cook you something special on your date." Carol teased the woman in the room and then she moved on to a handsome, muscular man in his late twenties. "Bachelor number 2, what's your name?"

"Eddie Garcia, ma'am." The second bachelor introduced himself.

"Oh, ma'am, huh?" Carol pretended to fan herself. "What do you do for a living?"

"I'm in the navy, ma'am." Eddie smiled.

"A man in a uniform." Carol smirked and moved on.

"You ever wear a uniform, Stefan?" Jenna asked, mostly just teasing.

"I did join up for service in World War II." Stefan admitted quietly to Jenna and Elena.

"Thank you for your service." Elena kissed him on the cheek and Jenna hugged him again as she nodded in agreement.

"You're welcome." Stefan whispered and looked at Elena in awe and gratefulness.

"And what do you do, Bachelor number 3?" Carol asked up at the stage when Elena tuned in again.

"Yeah, I'm a plumber." The man answered.

"Oh, so sexy." Jenna drawled sarcastically, making Elena giggle and Stefan smile.

"Moving on. Bachelor number 4." Carol hurried over to Ric. "Alaric Saltzman, that's quite a mouthful. What do you do, Alaric?"

"I'm a teacher at Mystic falls High." Alaric answered even as he looked highly uncomfortable.

"Oh, beauty and brains, ladies." Carol smiled at the crowed. "This one's a keeper. What do you teach?"

Elena snorted and at the looks from Jenna and Stefan she mumbled out, "Keeper...Quidditch...Harry Potter."

"History." Ric said form the stage.

"History. Oh, well, give us a fun fact about Mystic Falls, something crazy." Carol looked at Alaric who seemed to get a brain freeze or something, so she saved him from making a fool out of himself. "He's probably saving the best stories for his date."

When Carol approached Damon, Elena smiled and whispered so only Jenna, Stefan and Damon could hear her. "You got this, Damon, don't forget that you are epic."

"Yeah, you go big brother." Stefan smirked up at his brother with a teasing glint in his eyes.

"And last but not least, Damon Salvatore." Carol said into the microphone. "We don't know much about you."

"Well, I'm though to fit on a card." Damon smirked.

"Dude, you would need a whole book." Elena laughed along with Stefan and Jenna.

"Do you have any hobbies? Like to travel?" Carol asked with a smile.

"Oh, yeah. L.A, New York and a couple of years ago, I was in North Carolina. Near the Duke campus actually." Damon turned to look at Alaric. "You went to school there, didn't you Ric?" Damon started to smirk. "I know your wife did. I had a drink with her once. She was a great girl, really...delicious."

Elena stood up and walked out with shaking shoulders and Stefan hurried after her. When they got outside Stefan opened his mouth to ask if she was okay when Elena burst out laughing.

"He basically just told everyone in there that he ate Alaric's wife and they had no idea." Elena's laughter brought a smile to Stefans face. "That was awesome."

"And you don't care that Damon killed your biological mother?" Stefan asked slowly.

"Should I?" Elena shrugged. "She didn't want me and seriously, if she knew so much about vampires and still got eaten by one, what does that say about her?"

"I guess you're right." Stefan hummed, still getting used to think the way Elena had taught him to.

"Stefan." Elena grabbed his arm as she looked at something down the street. "That man."

"What about him?" Stefan asked as he turned to look.

"I saw him outside of Trudie's" Elena informed him.

"Let's go back inside and see if I did buy enough raffle tickets for Jenna." Stefan told Elena and she started to walk inside but Stefan stayed outside for a few seconds to see what the man would do.

"Ow." Elena stumbled as she ran into someone.

"Whoa, easy there." Damon caught her around the waist. "Buy a ticket like everyone else."

"Thanks for catching me." Elena smiled up at him and then she laughed. "And I give you kudos for the whole 'telling everybody I ate someone without actually telling them' thing you did."

"I remembered who the woman in the picture was when I read over the information Liz gave me. And I didn't kill her, I turned her at her request." Damon told her as Stefan walked up to them. "I hope I didn't make you sad with the way I talked about your biological mom."

"You didn't." Elena reassured. "As you said earlier, she gave me up, she sucks."

"You are one of a kind." Damon murmured and walked away but not before he patted Stefan on the arm.

"You okay?" Elena asked when Stefan just stood there.

"He patted my arm." Stefan said in wonder.

"And?" Elena smiled at him, slightly confused.

"I can't really remember the last time me and Damon had physical contact without fighting and pain." Stefan's smiled at that moment could light up a room.

"37649." Carol called out from the stage and Elena saw Jenna raise her hand.

"That's me!" Jenna beamed and walked up to carol.

"Congratulations." Carol smiled at Jenna.

"You go aunt Jenna!" Elena called out smirk. "Have fun on your date and don't do anything I wouldn't do!"

"Elena!" Jenna laughed as she tried to scold Elena while Ric blushed.

"What?" Elena smirked deviously.

"Stefan," Jenna turned pleading eyes towards Stefan. "Get her out of here!"

"I'll do my best." Stefan smiled and started to lead Elena out of the grill.

Before they could get very far the man from earlier stepped in front of Elena.

"I have a message for you." The man said.

"Huh?" Elena looked shocked and then she remembered, this man was sent by Isobel to tell her to stop digging.

"Who are you?" Stefan stepped forward to be able to protect Elena better.

"Stop looking." The man completely ignored Stefan.

"For what? The meaning of life?" Elena asked sarcastically.

"She doesn't want to know you." The man said like Elena hadn't asked anything. "She doesn't want to talk to you."

"Isobel." Elena stated.

"You need to stop looking. Do you understand?" The man asked blankly.

"Elena, he's under compulsion." Stefan informed her.

"Do you understand?" The man sounded almost like a robot.

"I understand." Elena said shortly.

"Good." The man looked down the street. "I'm done now."

The man stepped backwards into oncoming traffic. A large truck blared its horn but the driver had no time to react before the man was dead. Elena and Stefan ran into the street and Stefan kneeled down and looked at the man.

Elena on the other hand saw the man's phone and felt a pressure in her head to pick it up and after fighting it for a few moments she bent down and picked up the phone.

"Come on, let's get out of here." Stefan led Elena away.

Around a half an hour later Elena walked into the boarding house after Elena had told Stefan off the phone she found. When they walked into the parlor, they saw Damon drinking by the fireplace and Alarics dead body on the floor.

"What happened?" Stefan rushed forward. "What did you do?"

"Stefan what did we say about accusations without the whole story?" Elena asked Stefan sharply before Damon could say anything.

"You're right." Stefan looked over at Damon. "I'm sorry for accusing you without getting your side of the story."

"That's okay." Damon said shocked, then he shook his head and continued. "He attacked me."

"What happened?" Elena asked kindly.

"All I did was tell him the truth; his wife didn't want him anymore." Damon shrugged. "It's not my fault he couldn't handle it."

"And he attacked you after that?" Stefan asked.

"Yeah, even tried staking me." Damon chuckled. "He gets an A for effort."

"So where are we burying the body?" Elena wondered, knowing Alaric would be back soon but decided to have a little fun. "We could freeze him and then put him in a wood chipper."

"I like the way you think but we don't have a freezer big enough." Damon smiled at her.

Then Alaric sat up with a gasp suddenly, looking around in confusion. "What happened? What's going on?"

"Did you turn him?" Stefan asked Damon shocked.

"No!" Damon exclaimed.

"You stabbed me!" Alaric glared at Damon.

"In self-defense." Damon sneered.

"If Damon didn't turn you, how are you alive?" Elena looked at Alaric seriously.

"Elena?!" Alaric looked shocked to see her. "What are you doing here?"

"That's nonaya." Elena smiled brightly.

"Nonaya?" Alaric asked.

"None of ya business." Elena smirked. "Now again, did someone slip you vampire blood?"

"No, it's something else." Alaric flexed his hand. Then he proceeded to tell them about the ring and what Isobel had told him.

"Now there are magic rings?!" Elena groaned, "What is my life? I mean seriously. My history teacher is technically my stepfather and also my sort of step uncle, this really is turning into the bad plot for a porno."

Damon burst out laughing after Elena was done with her mini rant, Stefan shook his head with a smile and Alaric looked ready to either faint or puke.

"I need to go." Alaric was up and out of the house before Damon had managed to calm down.

"How do we know he won't try and kill us?" Damon asked as he looked towards the door.

"We don't." Stefan shrugged. "But we'll keep an eye on him."

"So... what should I do with the phone?" Elena asked after a while.

"What phone?" Damon asked confused.

"Oh, right, we didn't have time to tell you about that before Alaric woke up." Stefan said and told him about the man at the grill that had been sent by Isobel.

"Call her." Damon suggested.

"The only reason I might even think about calling her is to rip her a new one." Elena growled. "I don't really care if she kills people but if she does, she could do it her fucking self! Get her own hands dirty instead of compelling a man into committing suicide, that's just cowardly on so many levels."

"You are kinda hot when you are angry." Damon murmured but luckily only Stefan heard him and nodded in agreement.

Elena picked up the phone with a glare and dialed the only number programed into it."

"Was there a problem?" A female voice answered. "Did you find her? What's going on?"

"The problem is that you are a coward and next time you want to tell me something?" Elena seethed. "Don't!" Then she hung up the phone.