The next day Elena walked into the school, having promised Bonnie she would meet her in the English classroom.

"Hey, thanks for meeting me." Bonnie smiled as she leafed through Emily's grimoire. "I wanted you to see this."

"Is that Emily's witches' cookbook?" Elena asked as she sat down by Bonnie.

"I've been going through it since Grams died." Bonnie said and showed her an open passage in the book. "Check this out."

"That's the vampire compass." Elena hummed as she looked closer at the pages.

"Yeah, according to Emily, Jonathan Gilbert never actually managed to successfully invent anything. Emily secretly spelled them all with magic." Bonnie sounded very proud of her ancestor as she flipped a couple of pages to show the device everyone was so interested in. "Compass, ring and the mystery device you told me about."

"Yeah, that's it." Elena looked at the device depicted in the book. "Damon only has the one piece of it."

"While Emily pledged her loyalties to Kathrine, she couldn't stand by and watch innocent people get killed." Bonnie tried to keep the righteousness out of her voice but Elena caught it anyway. "This was the only way she could think of to help. To let Jonathan Gilbert believe that he'd actually invented these devices."

"Does it say what it does?" Elena asked but if she remembered correctly it stopped vampires by making a high-pitched sound only someone with supernatural hearing could hear, or something like that.

"Are you sure this is what Isobel wants?" Bonnie asked after she read through the pages.

"Yeah I'm sure." Elena nodded. "Why?"

"This is a weapon." Bonnie said. "Against vampires."

A while later Elena and Bonnie had rejoined the float preparations and Elena was walking around looking for Stefan outside the school when Jeremy walked up to her.

"Elena." Jeremy smiled at her.

"Hey Jeremy." Elena looked around. "Have you seen Stefan?"

"No, not lately." Jeremy shrugged. "Want me to help you look?"

"That would be appreciated, thank you." Elena smiled in thanks.

"We'll split up so we can cover more ground." Jeremy kissed on the cheek and started to leave. "I'll call if I find him."

"Thanks Jeremy." Elena called after him, then she turned around to see Isobel standing right there.

"Isobel." Elena sneered. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm your mother, Elena." Isobel smiled condescendingly at her. "I want to be more involved in your life."

"Pull the other one, it has bells on it." Elena snorted. "And even if that was true, I don't want you in my life."

"I understand that. You already have a lot of people you care about but I've been studying you" Isobel smirked.

"Stalker alert." Elena muttered

"Let's see if I got this right." Isobel looked over at Bonnie. "There is the witchy best friend, Bonnie. Going to stay away from that one." She looked the way Jeremy had left. "Little brother Jeremy." Then she turned to watch Caroline. "And there's Caroline...obnoxious Caroline. I got all my info from her by the way. She had no idea who I was and she wouldn't stop yapping."

"Oh, she knew who you were." Elena smirked. "So, how sure are you that the information she gave is accurate?"

"And then there's Matt, friend, ex, yappy's future ex." Isobel tried to hide the uncertainty in her voice. "Lots of connections there."

"Can you just go away?" Elena groaned. "No one want you here."

"You need to be a bit nicer to me, I have some friends here to." Isobel gestured towards a man standing by Matt who was working on a float. "You see that man over there? His name is frank, he's very handsome and he's also very handy and he'd noticed that the axles are a little rusty which is very dangerous. So, all you have to do is apply a little bit of pressure and..."

In some ways Elena thought Matt would deserve to get hurt after the way Caroline had cried as she told him how he treated her, making her feel bad about herself and trying to change her.

"You are such a bitch!" Elena growled as Frank jumped on the trailer above Matt, making the trailer break and Matt's arm got stuck under it. Elena started to make her way over but was stopped by Isobel grabbing her arm.

"I'm just showing you how easy it is to hurt the people you care about." Isobel smiled.

"You really need to get away from me!" Elena glared at her bio-mom.

"Hand over Jonathan Gilberts device and everything will stop." Isobel promised.

"I thought vampires were supposed to have good hearing?" Elena sneered. "Damon is not going to give up the device, not to anyone."

"I think that you underestimate how much Damon cares for you." Isobel chuckled.

"He will kill you before he gives it up." Elena shrugged.

"Is that before or after I kill you little brother?" Isobel asked pleasantly.

Elena started to look around frantically for her brother. "Jeremy!" Elena turned back to rip Isobel a new one only to see that she was gone to.

"If one single hair on my brothers' head is hurt, I'm going to cut a bitch!" Elena ranted as she silently planned the most painful, horrific ways to kill someone.

XOXOXOX

Elena walked into the boarding house followed by Stefan and Bonnie. Bonnie had said she could spell the device useless but Elena knew she wouldn't do it, her hate for vampires ran to deep and it didn't just take a day or two to get over that.

"Damon." Elena smiled sadly as she walked into the parlor.

"What's with the sad face?" Damon asked softly.

"Isobel took Jeremy." Elena couldn't stop the tears from falling anymore.

"Hey, hey, it's going to be okay." Damon pulled her into a hug as she sobbed into his chest.

Elena knew that Jeremy would be fine, he was in future episodes but at the same time she couldn't risk it. She didn't know what she would do if she lost her little brother but it would be bloody and very painful for those involved in Jeremys death!

"What do you need?" Damon asked softly.

"Isobel said she wanted the device or she would kill Jeremy." Elena sniffled as she pulled back.

"I can't just give up the device to Isobel so she can give it to John who will turn it on to kill me." Damon looked regretfully at Elena. "I like being a living dead person."

"I can remove the original spell on it." Bonnie piped up. "John and Isobel will never know."

"I don't trust her." Damon said to Elena who mouthed 'Neither do I' back to him but the desperation was shining through her eyes so Damon sighed and turned a glare in Bonnies direction. "Are you even up for this? I mean, all offence meant, you are no Emily Bennett."

"He's right." Stefan agreed, having hidden a snort by coughing. "Emily knew what she was doing."

"I've been practicing." Bonnie defended herself.

"It's not piano lessons, honey!" Damon mocked her.

"What's your favorite book?" Bonnie demanded to know.

"What's that got to do with anything?" Damon asked.

"Name a book, any book." Bonnie ordered.

"Call of the wild by Jack London." Damon said after a while.

Bonnie concentrated for a while and suddenly a book flew into Damons hands.

"Jack London." Damon looked at the cover. "Great parlor trick."

"Please Damon." Elena pleaded. "It's my little brother."

"Fine, for you Elena." Damon sighed, then he turned to Bonnie with a glare. "I don't trust you."

"Thank you." Elena almost collapsed in relief, then she whispered so only Damon and Stefan could hear her. "Can I talk to you in the kitchen?"

"I'm going to get something to drink while you set up the spell." Damon muttered and walked away towards the kitchen.

"I need to go to the bathroom and Stefan could you please call aunt Jenna and tell her what's going on?" Elena asked as she to walked away.

"Sure." Stefan smiled and made his way out of the room, pretending that his phone was in his room.

"We can't trust Bonnie to do the spell." Elena said quietly to the Salvatore brothers when they all made it to the kitchen. "But even if she doesn't do the spell I will try and steal the device back from uncle John."

"Isn't she your friend?" Stefan asked. "Why wouldn't she do the spell?"

"She hates vampires and she blames you and me for her grandmother's death." Damon shrugged.

"It wasn't your fault." Elena declared. "Sheila should have thought about the consequences of her actions."

"What if you can't steal the device back?" Damon looked at Elena.

"Then I'll try and find out when it will be used so you, Stefan, Anna, Pearl and Harper are far enough away not to be affected by it." Elena promised and walked back into the parlor were Bonnie was setting up.

"I just need the device." Bonnie looked up at Damon as he and Stefan reentered.

Damon handed it over with a glare and Bonnie began the spell as Stefan, Elena and Damon watched.

"It's done." Bonnie declared and gave the device to Elena.

"Thank you, Bonnie." Elena smiled, hoping that if Bonnie hadn't done the spell, she would feel guilty for lying to a friend.

"Now what?" Damon asked.

"Now we give it to Isobel." Elena said as she made her way out of the boarding house.

Elena had been standing at the town square waiting for Isobel for a while when she arrived behind her.

"Where is the device?" Isobel asked.

"Where is my brother?" Elena asked back.

"This isn't a negotiation." Isobel glared. "Where is the device?"

"No brother, no device." Elena shrugged and turned to leave.

"Do you really think that I came alone?" Isobel smirked as two people arrived stopping Elena from leaving.

"Did you think I did?" Elena turned to look at Isobel with an unimpressed sneer as Damon and Stefan appeared.

"For god sakes." Isobel sighed. "Call home."

Elena quickly pulled her phone out and called Jeremy.

"Hello?" Jeremy answered after the third ring.

"Jeremy are you okay?" Elena asked softly.

"Yeah I'm fine but uncle John took a hit to the head." Jeremy informed her with a chuckle. "We are back home with aunt Jenna."

"We are all laughing." Elena heard Jenna call out.

"But yeah, I'm okay." Jeremy assured her.

"Movies and ice-cream when I get home?" Elena asked with a smile.

"Absolutely." Jeremy agreed. "I'll invite Anna and we can watch 'The Empire Strikes Back'."

"Sounds good to me." Elena giggled and hung up, then she turned and glared at Isobel as she handed over the device. "Lucky for you he wasn't hurt."

"I wasn't going to hurt him; I was going to kill him." Isobel shrugged. "Don't look for any redeeming qualities in me, I don't have any."

"You took a risk with Damon." Elena hummed. "We might be friends but that was no guarantee that he was going to give me the device."

"There wasn't a risk at all, I knew he was going to give the device to you." Isobel smirked. "Because he is in love with you."

"No, he's not." Elena said with certainty.

"Goodbye, Elena." Isobel chuckled. "As long as you have a Salvatore on each arm, you're doomed. Kathrine was smart, she got out, but we all know that you're not Kathrine."

"Hey Isobel." Elena called out as Isobel started to walked away, when she turned back towards Elena, she aimed her vervain filled water gun straight at Isobel's face and pulled the trigger. "That was for taking my baby brother in the first place."

Elena turned on her heel and walked away, leaving Isobel holding her face and cursing and screaming in pain. Stefan and Damon joined her on either side and she smiled at them "Thank you for coming with me."

"No problem." Stefan smiled.

"I loved the ending though." Damon laughed.

"She deserved it." Elena growled.

"Oh definitely." Damon agreed with a smirk as Stefan laughed.

"Elena?" Damon asked hesitantly after they had dropped Elena off at the Gilbert house. "Why did you sound so certain when you said I wasn't in love with you?"

"Because you can't be." Elena smiled softly. "I'm not the sort of person people like, I'm weird, to blunt, I don't care about people that aren't close friends or family and most of the time I have very dark humor that puts people off."

"Elena." Stefan said sadly.

"Hey, it's okay." Elena stopped before she opened the door to her house. "I accepted that about myself a long time ago. Anyway, good night and sleep tight."

Elena walked in and closed the door, ready to join Anna and Jeremy on the couch for some Star Wars and ice-cream, but first, when she saw that Anna hadn't arrived yet, she went in to the kitchen where she could see John sitting with Jenna.

"Hello, uncle John." Elena smiled pleasantly and then she rammed his head into the breakfast bar.

"What the heck, Elena?!" John called out in pain as Jenna looked on in uncertainty.

"If you ever, and I do mean ever, try and kill my friend or Jeremys girlfriends' mother again." Elena spoke darkly. "I will make your death look like an accident, you get that?"

"They are vampires." John tried to defend his actions.

"And you are an ass. Are we done stating the obvious?" Elena muttered.

"Seriously, John?" Jenna huffed. "You can't just kill someone because of what they are, that's discrimination."

"If you want to be in mine and Jeremys life's you will have to accept that we are friend with vampires." Elena slowly let John up. "I don't expect you to be happy about it, I don't even expect you to be friendly with them, what I do expect is for you to be civil when you talk to them and not try to kill them."

"Okay." John said quietly.

"Good, then you should probably leave before Anna gets here." Elena smirked. "You did just try and kill her mother recently."

Elena then grabbed three spoons and a carton of ice-creme and walked into the living room where Jeremy had fixed so everything was ready for the movie night, the only thing missing was Anna.