Elena danced around her bedroom to Hollaback Girl as she got dressed for the day. Today she had chosen to wear red skinny jeans, sneakers and a tank top with one of Jeremy's flannel shirts over it. She danced her way into the bathroom where Jeremy was brushing his teeth.

"Having fun?" Jeremy asked after he rinsed his mouth.

"Of course." Elena beamed at him.

"I can't believe Tyler is a werewolf." Jeremy hummed.

"We're not sure about that yet. The only thing we know for certain is that Mason is one." Elena told him and then she smirked deviously. "And since when is he 'Tyler'?"

"Well, we've been hanging out." Jeremy rubbed the back of his neck.

"Mhmm." Elena kept smirking.

"Oh, shut up." Jeremy pushed her gently.

"How'd it go with Anna?" Elena asked gently as they walked into the kitchen fifteen minutes later.

"You were right, she appreciated me telling her the truth instead of lying or pretending." Jeremy said slowly. "But she was also very sad and even though she said we could still be friends, she decided to travel with her mom and Harper for a while."

"And how do you feel?" Elena looked at him. "And what about her mother's store?"

"I feel really bad about making her so sad but at the same time it feels like I'm lighter and it's easier to breath, you know?" Jeremy tried his best to explain. "And Pearl is going to travel so she can buy the stuff she needs, I guess. But they did reassure me that we could call them if we needed help."

"I know what you mean." Elena reassured him. "I love you, little brother."

"I love you too, sister dear." Jeremy hugged her.

"Let's go to the Volunteer Day thing." Elena said as she pulled back. "You're driving."

When they arrived at the public park Carol Lockwood was holding a speech, which they only caught the end of, "...everyone who has shown up today to lend a helping hand. Thanks."

"Hey Mason, Stefan." Elena dragged Jeremy over to the two men.

"Hello Elena." Mason smiled.

"Elena, Jeremy." Stefan nodded at them.

"Mason, this is my little brother Jeremy, Jeremy this our new puppy Mason." Elena smirked.

"Kinky." Jeremy laughed. "Does he beg prettily?"

"I don't know yet." Elena shrugged with a giggle at the blush on Mason's face.

"Why are you blushing?" Damon walked up to them.

"Elena and Jeremy are making innuendoes, sort of." Stefan chuckled as he explained.

"Have anyone seen Tyler?" Jeremy asked as he looked around.

"He went to the grill earlier." Mason told him.

"I'll go there then." Jeremy smiled and kissed Elena on the cheek. "See ya later, alligator."

"In a while, crocodile." Elena called after him. Then she turned back to the men around her. "One of you are going to have to drive me home later, Jeremy took the car."

"Sure." Damon, Stefan and Mason chorused.

"You three are so sweet." Elena smiled at them. "I'm going to go talk to my blond sister, see ya later ma dudes."

"Elena." Caroline smiled as Elena just walked up to her and hugged her.

"Care-Bare." Elena beamed back. "How have you been?"

"I've been good." Caroline pulled back and together they started to walk towards where people were painting a veranda. "I broke up with Matt and I feel good about being single for a while."

"As long as you're happy, I'm happy for you." Elena smiled. "But there is something that's making sad and/or annoyed, so spill."

"Is it that obvious?" Caroline asked and when Elena just tilted her head to the side with a raised eyebrow she continued. "It's my mom. You know how she hasn't really been around a lot in the past but now that I'm actively trying to avoid her, she's suddenly in the running for Mother of the Year."

"If she starts asking to many questions just tell her you're thinking about experimenting with girls or something." Elena offered with a smirk and a shrug. "That might make her feel uncomfortable enough to back off."

"You are a genius." Caroline laughed. "And if that doesn't work, I'll just make out with you in front of her or something."

"Sound like fun." Elena smirked. "I love scandalizing people and making them uncomfortable when they have to witness PDA."

"So, what's going on with you?" Caroline asked as they picked up a can of paint and brushes to help paint the veranda.

"Well, I want to go on a killing spree, I feel like have forgotten something important and I have a doppelgänger that is trying to destroy my life." Elena shrugged. "You know, the usual."

"Elena, Caroline, could you both help me with this?" Carol Lockwood gestured towards a couple of boxes filled with empty paint cans.

"Absolutely, Mrs. Lockwood." Caroline smiled and dragged Elena over to her.

"Can you carry these to the truck over there?" Carol pointed to a truck on the other side of the park.

"We'll get it done." Elena nodded and picked up one off the boxes while Caroline took the other.

On the way back they see Liz leaving the park while she's on the phone.

"Is she leaving?" Caroline asked, shocked. "Where is my mom going?"

"How should I know?" Elena muttered but Caroline ignored her and walked up to Liz.

"What's wrong?" Caroline looked at her mom.

"Nothing." Liz said quickly. "I just have something..."

"You mean work?" Caroline sighed sadly. "You surprised me, you actually lasted longer than five minutes."

"It's important." Liz tried to explain herself.

"It always is." Caroline murmured.

"I'm sorry." Liz turned to leave with tears in her eyes.

Caroline just stared sadly after her mom as Elena did her best to be there as silent support.

"Elena!" Mason came running up to them around ten minutes later.

"Mason?" Elena looked at him. "What's wrong?"

"Someone, I assume Kathrine, put vervain in the lemonade and the sheriff saw Damon drink it." Mason explained quickly. "I tried to get both Damon and Stefan out of here but Liz found us and she thought I was helping the council and her deputes shot them both with wooden bullets and then they took them away."

"Do you know where they're going?" Elena asked desperately. 'So, this was what she was forgetting about,' she thought, feeling angry with herself.

"The old Lockwood estate ruins, I think." Mason told her.

"Okay, me and Caroline will go rescue them, do you want to help?" Elena looked at him.

"Yeah, I think me and Damon are actually becoming friends." Mason smiled slightly and the three of them ran towards the old Lockwood estate.

When they arrived at the ruins, Caroline froze with a quiet gasp.

"What is it?" Elena asked softly.

"My mom." Caroline sniffled. "She's killing them."

"You stay here Caroline so your mother doesn't find out about you." Elena smiled reassuringly at her and then she ran into the ruins.

Elena rushed in and when a depute went to check out the noise she made, she hit him with an iron pipe, not caring if he got a broken bone or not.

"Elena?!" Liz asked as she pointed her gun at her. "What are you doing?"

"Saving my friends!" Elena glared and walked forward.

The depute she had hit with the iron pipe grabbed her from behind, restraining her arms so she couldn't interfere.

"Let go of me!" Elena snarled as she did her best to get loos.

Suddenly the door closed by itself and Liz turned towards Elena. "Who else is with you?"

Elena didn't answer, instead she leaned her head back and bit into the deputy's neck as hard as she could. When she felt the blood fill her mouth, she wrenched her head away, effectively ripping the man's throat out.

The man screamed in pain and let go of Elena who in turn grabbed him and forced him down besides Damon. Damon used what little strength he had to latch on to the deputy's neck and started to drink.

"You okay Stefan?" Damon asked after he had drained the man.

"Not really, but I'm healing." Stefan murmured quietly from where he was being supported by Mason.

"You want the other one?" Damon looked at Stefan as he pointed at the last deputy.

"No thanks." Stefan tried to give a reassuring smile but it came out more as a grimace. "I'll be fine."

"More for me." Damon said to lighten the mood and quickly drained the man.

"I gotta admit that seeing you literally rip someones throat out with your teeth was kinda epic." Mason chuckled as he looked at Elena.

"Fucker wouldn't let go off me." Elena smirked, blood covering her mouth, chin and down her neck. "And well, spending time with vampires seems to have rubbed off on me."

"This is a most unfortunate situation." Damon hummed as he carelessly dropped the dead body to the floor and turned to Liz. "Two deputies dead and you. What am I going to do with you?"

"You won't tell anyone, will you? Mom?" Caroline looked desperately at her mother. "Mom? Please? Look, I know we don't get along and that you hate me but I'm your daughter and you'll do this for me, right?"

"And if I don't?" Liz asked defiantly.

"I like you Sheriff Liz, despite you caring more about your job than Caroline." Elena walked over to Liz. "But the moment you become a threat to those I care about? Well, you saw what happened to your deputy. The only reason that I haven't already killed you for shooting my friends and planning on killing them is that you are Caroline's mother and she loves you."

"I can't take this." Liz looked at Damon. "Kill me now."

"But you were going to drag in out so painfully." Damon bent down to look Liz in the eys.

"No, please Damon, don't kill her!" Caroline pleaded.

"Calm down, blondie, no one is killing anybody." Damon looked seriously at Liz. "You're my friend."

"So... how are we cleaning this up?" Mason asked as he looked around at the dead bodies.

XOXOXOX

A few hours later Elena opened the door for Caroline as she brought a suitcase of her mom's things.

"I didn't know how much mom would need or how long she would be staying." Caroline murmured as she walked in.

"Damon said it would take around three days for the vervain to leave her system." Elena explained kindly.

"Hey Caroline, how are you feeling?" Stefan came up to them.

"I'm good." Caroline said bit it didn't sound very convincing. "I see you got some bunny in you."

"Deer actually." Stefan chuckled.

"Oh dear." Elena smirked and started to walk towards the basement.

"You're not as funny as you think you are." Stefan told her.

"Shows what you know." Elena giggled.

Elena, Stefan and Caroline stopped outside the cell that Liz is in and listened in to what Liz and Damon were saying.

"Can you keep Caroline far away from me please?" Liz said. "I don't wanna see her."

"She's your daughter Liz." Damon reminded her.

"Not anymore she's not. My daughter is gone." Liz sounded sad but certain.

"You have no idea how wrong you are about that." Damon informed her and left.

"Whoa!" Damon caught a pissed off Elena around the waist before she could rush into the cell and hurt the sheriff. "Calm down, spitfire."

"She doesn't know what she's talking about and she hurt Caroline." Elena growled but stopped trying to get away from Damon.

"I'm going to let you go now, okay?" Damon looked at her.

"I'm fine, Damon." Elena smiled slightly at him. "I won't try and hurt Liz."

"Good." Damon let her go and walked up the stairs.

Elena was about to follow when she caught a glimpse of Stefan. She walked over to the room and saw Stefan standing in front of a fridge filled with blood bags, holding a bag in his hand and looking at it in contemplation.

"Stefan, you okay?" Elena asked softly.

"Kathrine took a little vervain every day and built up a tolerance to it." Stefan explained lowly. "I could do the same with blood, I could learn to control myself on it."

"If that is something you want to do then I'll support you 100%" Elena smiled at him.

"I almost died tonight, Elena." Stefan sounded scared. "Because I was too weak."

"Then let's do this." Elena declared.

"I'm going to ask Damon keep an eye on me just in case." Stefan closed the fridge and together with Elena, walked up to join Damon in the parlor.

"Of course, I'll keep an eye on you." Damon told Stefan as him and Elena walked in. "I'll even keep two eyes on you if that would make you feel better."

"Thank you, Damon." Stefan sighed in relief.

"Anytime, little brother, anytime." Damon raised his glass toward Stefan with a smirk.

"Want me to take you home?" Elena asked as she sat down beside Caroline on the couch.

"I can't go home." Caroline shook her head.

"Why not?" Elena asked gently.

"Because I'm scared." Caroline admitted.

"Of what?" Elena placed a hand on Carolines.

"Kathrine's going to be there and she's going to want me to tell her everything that happened today." Caroline squeezed Elenas hand. "She told me to spy on you and report back to her."

"You already told me that and I'm not mad or anything." Elena looked at her.

"I know, but I'm so scared of her." Caroline said wetly.

"As you should be, we all should be." Elena said then smirked as she tried to lighten the mood in the room. "I'm just too much of an idiot to actually be scared."

"You really are." Caroline gave a wet laugh.

"Thank you." Elena beamed at her friend as she heard Stefan and Damon laughing in the background.

"Why is she doing this?" Caroline asked. "What does she want?"

"There is a very simple answer to that question." Elena nodded seriously. "She's a raging bitch."

"Elena!" Caroline snorted.

"She was probably turned when she was on her period and that just made her stuck in constant PMS and mood swings." Elena continued.

"That wouldn't fucking surprise me." Damon called out.

"Right?!" Elena looked at him. "Oh, bourbon!"

Elena quickly got up and walked over to where Damon was standing. She grabbed a glass and filled it with bourbon and hummed as she sipped it. "Want some Care?"

"No thanks." Caroline yawned. "I just want to sleep."

"I'll show you to a guest room." Stefan smiled and led Caroline out of the parlor.

Elena poured bourbon in another glass and turned towards Damon. "Vamp face."

"What?" Damon asked.

"Show me your vampire face." Elena told him.

"Why?" Damon looked adorably confused.

"I need something sharp to cut my finger on and your fangs are the closest." Elena smirked.

"Okay." Damon let his vampiric nature come to the front and stood still as Elena cut her left index finger on one of his fangs.

"Thank you." Elena smiled and squeezed some blood into the glass and mixed it with the bourbon.

"And why did you do that?" Damon asked her slowly.

"To help Stefan with the whole 'getting used to human blood' thing." Elena explained and held out the glass to Stefan who walked back in.

"What did you do?" Stefan asked as he took the glass.

"I mixed some of my blood with the bourbon for you." Elena hummed and stretched.

"Thank you." Stefan said gratefully as he quickly downed the bourbon. His face changed but he after a few seconds he got it under control.

"Nicely done, little brother." Damon raised his own glass in a toast.

"We'll just keep doing this every day while upping the blood every time." Elena said with a small gentle smile.