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mafia king: I don't know about a broken nose, but she's definitely an enemy of Sarah now, after that little stunt. And that's no somewhere you want to be.

YES! Season 2! We're here. Soooo much cool and awesome stuff coming up. Just like with the show, I'm picking right up from where we left off in the last story. I've got more OCs coming up later in the story, a few more dives into Sarah's detailed past and some struggles for both her and Scarlett. Oh yeah, they're going to suffer so much in this story. Sorry in advance. And I feel the ending of this chapter is gloriously evil. It's probably my favourite ending to a chapter that I've written in a long time. And in contrast to that I love the opening for Scarlett in this chapter. It was just so blissfully easy to write. Gosh I can't wait for you all to read it!

So really quick, thank you to all that have continued on from the first story and hello to anyone who's new. If your confused about anything, just ask me in a review or PM me, I'll do my best to respond. And Happy New Year to anyone who's currently in 2019!

Also just a quick point on the cover image for this story, I've designed three for the three arcs of Season two. The one up just now will be for the first arc and once we enter the second I'll switch it to the second image and so on, just so you know.

Hope you enjoy the start to the new story and I'll see you all later!

Chapter 1: It Ends Tonight

My name is Sarah Salvatore. I am 161 years old. I am a vampire. A few months ago I returned to my home town of Mystic Falls. My brothers also returned home. Stefan, and Damon Salvatore. Having returned home, we all came to know Elena Gilbert. Doppelgänger to Katherine Pierce, the living incarnation of the devil, who turned me and my brothers into vampires back in 1864. Before that though, she abused us, manipulated us and forced us to love her. Elena, is not like her. She is a good person, and someone I'm proud to call my friend. And she wasn't the only new face we met. I adopted an orphan named Scarlett, who also turned out to be a werewolf, and she's started a relationship with Jeremy Gilbert, Elena's little brother.

My reason for coming back was to reunite my family, and finally, we are one again. We've built a life in Mystic Falls. We each have friends and relationships and each other. There were, of course, a few bumps along the way. Damon originally came back to free Katherine, who we all believe to be dead, but in fact was trapped in a tomb with a group of vampires. Only when we finally got inside, it turned out Katherine had never been there at all. Then we were left with a tomb full of anger vampires to deal with. But we killed them all, with a few more bumps here and there.

I'd thought everything would be fine after that. But it turns out, I was dead wrong. Our problems, were only just beginning…

"Sarah!" Damon called from down the hall. At that, she finally snapped from the trace she'd been in. She'd just been staring at the letter for a while now, heavily breathing as she thought over what it meant. It obviously meant that Katherine was back, but why just tell her? Why wasn't she making her presence known to her brothers or to anyone else and why now after all this time? Sarah didn't have time to think over those particularly questions right now. She had to get herself together before Damon arrived. She couldn't have him asking questions and finding out about Katherine. Sarah would have to deal with this before her brothers found out, there was no telling how they'd take it and she couldn't risk either of them doing something stupid.

Quickly rubbing at her tear stained cheeks, Sarah tried to hide the wet trails as she stood up, grabbing the letter as she did. Sealing it back up she tucked it in between her pants and back and counselled it beneath her jacket. She swung to face the door, rubbing away the last of her tears before slapping her cheeks to bring more colour to them and then plastered on as causal a look as she could. She was ready when Damon opened the door and stepped into her room.

"What's up, Damon?" Sarah asked with an everyday smile as Damon frowned at her. For a brief moment Sarah was worried he'd seen through her disguise and was on to her.

"Caroline's in hospital." Sarah relaxed before then immediately tensing up as she knew she was supposed to. She was just relieved Damon wasn't onto her or asking questions she didn't want to answer.

"What happened?" Sarah asked with a concerned frown forming.

"Car accident. Didn't get all the details. Dumb ass Tyler was behind the wheel apparently," Damon said with a shake of the head. Then again none of them particularly liked Tyler. Sarah barely knew the guy but what she knew of him was that he was a jerk. Considering what he'd done to Vicki when she first met him and what he'd done to Matt, Sarah could careless if he died. She cared about Caroline though, she was a good person. Had her issues obviously, but Sarah could see she was a good person and got along with her. Though the compulsion had helped break her in at first.

"I'm heading over to the hospital to see Liz. You want a lift?" Damon asked, nodding towards the door behind him.

"I've…got some stuff to take care of. I'll meet you there in a bit," Sarah said slowly, thinking over her words before she said them. Again she was sure Damon would catch her out but her only nodded before heading for the door.

"Alright, I'll see you there," he said as he pulled the door shut behind him. Sarah held her breath though, until she heard the front door close and then let out the breath she'd been holding in. She dropped back onto her bed, placing her hand on her chest as she felt it heave up and down. Retrieving the letter from her back, Sarah unfolded it and read it once more.

Guess who's back?

K.

xxx

Sarah felt her breathing increase and her blood boil before she tore up the letter. She wouldn't lose everything she'd worked so hard to get over the past few months. She wouldn't let Katherine walk in her and tear her world down again. She was going to end this now, before her brothers could find out and get involved. No, this was going to be between her and Katherine. And once Sarah was done with her, Katherine was going to regret ever coming back to Mystic Falls.

Still reeling from what they'd just done, Scarlett lay breathlessly with a smile on her face. One arm was rested across her chest, the other was tucked above her head. And beneath her head, was Jeremy's arm, who lay next to her with just as happy a smile. "Wow…" Jeremy said in awe as he blinked, his smile somehow growing as he stared up at the ceiling along with Scarlett. Scarlett chuckled, smiling at her boyfriend before rolling up on to this chest, rising her arms along side his head as she began to play with his hair.

"'Wow'? That's what I get after all the work I just put in?" Scarlett asked teasingly.

"What work?" Jeremy scoffed in her face with a playful grin.

"I think you'll find I was doing most of the heavy lifting there," Scarlett said as she pocked the side of Jeremy's head with enough force to bring her point home. He laughed at that and she joined in, happy to hear that laugh. After everything that had gone down, this was the last thing she'd expected to happen. A few hours ago her friend was murdered right in front of her and she'd been left to die in a burning building. Now she was in bed with the nephew of the guy who'd tried to kill her, after sleeping with him for the first time. But even with all that in mind, Scarlett was still glad it happened.

"Hey, you're the one with supernatural strength," Jeremy pointed out.

"Excuses, excuses," Scarlett chuckled, smiling down at him as he smiled back up at her. Their bodies both wrapped in a cocoon of Jeremy's bed sheets, their bodies pressing together happily as they both just lay there. It was nice, peaceful, and just what they both wanted.

"I'd get used to it if I were you," Jeremy said and Scarlett burst out laughing at his self hating joke. "Beside," Jeremy began, calming his own laughter down along with his girlfriend's. "If I had supernatural strength, then I totally would have-" Despite having her entire focused on Jeremy in that moment, Scarlett still heard a yelp from below. She frowned at that, looking towards Jeremy's closed door before then hearing the front door slam shut.

"Scarlett?" Jeremy said, brining her hearing back into his bedroom.

"Somethings wrong," Scarlett said as she rose from her laid down position on Jeremy, eyes remaining on his door. She could sense it, smell the blood in the air as well as the odour of anxiety.

"What?" Jeremy asked with a light laugh following his words. But all humour left him when Scarlett rolled off him and climbed out the bed, leaving Jeremy's bottom half covered while she stood fully naked in the room. She looked back at him, motion for him to stay in the bed while she went to check it out. He ignored her and swung his feet out of bed, keeping the sheets over his waist just to be safe. The main thing was he was still behind her, so Scarlett carefully made her way his door.

Someone was running up the stairs now, Scarlett didn't need her hearing for that, Jeremy would know that too. Scarlett readied herself, fingers flexing at her side as her claws grew and her eyes began to glow a golden amber. She felt her canines form and she hunched over, ready to leap the second the door opened. The thudding foot steps reached Jeremy's door and Scarlett growled as the door flew up to reveal Elena.

All at once Scarlett's werewolf feature vanished, sucked up inside her as hot red embarrassment filled her checks. Elena yelped at the sudden change of Scarlett's features then got a look at her. All of her, and her eyes widened. The bloodied knife in her hand dropped to the floor and she staggered back a step as she took in the sight before her. Without a doubt this was the most embarrassing moment of Scarlett's life. As if suddenly remembering she was naked, she threw her arms around her chest to conceal the girls, and then turned back to Jeremy with a pleading sheepish look. Like he could fix all this just because it was his sister who'd caught them both. When Jeremy just stared back with his jaw open and embarrassingly horrified eyes, Scarlett had little choice but to turn back to Elena. At least now her attention was on her brother and not on Scarlett. She'd obviously already pieced it all together.

"Jeremy?" Elena stammered out.

"Hey, Elena," was all Jeremy could think to say.

"Wha…what where you…?" Elena began to ask. Scarlett opened her mouth but then swung her head towards Jeremy to find he was doing the same. The start of whatever they were about to say was floating out their mouths in uncertainty when they both turned back to a shocked Elena. "You know what," Elena then cut in before either of them could begin. "I don't want to know." She then looked back to Scarlett and cringed before lifting her hands to cover her face, crying something into the palms of her hands.

Scarlett bit her lip, contemplating how best to move forwards from this. She could grab her cloths and get changed but whatever had been going on downstairs was clearly important, as implied by the bloody knife lying at Elena's feet. "Elena," Scarlett began as the older girl, parted her finger so she could see through her hands. "What happened?" Scarlett asked. She saw horror flash through Elena's eyes, horror at the thought of having to keep talking about this awkward encounter. Then the realisation hit and a new type of horror filled her eyes as her hands lowered. "What's with the bloody knife?" Scarlett prompted, when Elena remained silent.

"Eh…em…" Elena began, still recovering from the situation she'd found herself walking in on.

"Is everything alright, Elena?" A stupid question for sure, considering what had just happened, but Scarlett knew Jeremy meant in regards to what was troubling his sister. Or at least troubling her before she walked in on the two of them. Scarlett could only imagine the emotional and mental whiplash going on inside Elena's head right now.

"J-John was stabbed," Elena finally said.

"What?" Both Scarlett and Jeremy said in shock, Jeremy now standing up, thankfully holding the sheets up around his waist as to avoid further scaring his sister.

"I think it was a tomb vampire," Elena said with a fearful look to Scarlett. Unlikely, as Scarlett understood it all the tomb vampires died in the fire at the old Gilbert building. Then again she couldn't be one-hundred precent sure on that, she and Damon hadn't exactly had time to conduct a census while fighting for their lives. And although she wouldn't put it past Sarah or Damon to stab John, they would've had made themselves know, not like what ever vampire had attacked him.

Knowing what Elena wanted her to do, Scarlett sniffed the air, tilting her head back as she took in a good whiff. No vampires. Just her, Jeremy, Elena and the bleeding to death John downstairs. She didn't really care about the last one. He'd killed her friend and left her to die because of his hatred towards the supernatural. As far as she was concerned, he deserved to die. But seeing as he was Jeremy's uncle she wouldn't go down the stairs and rip out his throat right now. But she wasn't going to do anything to help save his life either. She didn't need that on her conscious.

"It's just us," Scarlett declared after a good sniff. "We're alone." Elena sighed in relief.

"Alright. Can you call Stefan for me. I need to check on John," Elena said as she began backing away towards the stairs, feeling more secure now.

"Of course," Jeremy said before Scarlett could answer.

Elena smiled at them both before her frown reformed. "And for God sake put some cloths on," she added with a cringe before jogging down the stairs. Scarlett let her head drop shamefully and she turned back to Jeremy. Normally she would have closed the door, but with a tomb vampire on the loose, and with access to the house, it was probably better to keep the doors open for the time being.

"We're never going to live this down are we?" Jeremy asked as he dropped back down onto the bed.

"Probably not," Scarlett admitted as she turned back around with a small sheepish smile to her boyfriend. "Now help me find my cloths," Scarlett said as she bent over to pick up her jeans while searching for the rest of her attire with Jeremy.

Once they eventually pulled their cloths on, Scarlett and Jeremy joined Elena down stairs in the kitchen. Jeremy helped where he could with John but by this point, Elena more or less had done all she could for her brith father. While that was going on, Scarlett called Stefan, like she said she would. She provided him with a quick brief over what had happened before he promised to be right over. But otherwise she did very little, other than keep her nose on alert for any vampires that might decide to return. And since both Elena and Jeremy knew her secret, and John was pretty much unconscious, it was open season on any vampire that set foot in the Gilbert house.

As it turned out the vampire that attacked John never returned. The ambulance eventually arrived and the paramedics assessed the situation before carefully removing John from the kitchen. While doing that they had suggested the younger teens wait upstairs while they talked to Elena about what she'd done to help John. Scarlett didn't have any issue with it so she went willingly. Jeremy didn't go quite as easily, wanting to know what was going on with his uncle. But eventually after the paramedics and Elena urged him to, Jeremy took Scarlett's hand and let her lead him upstairs. They were only in his room for a few minutes before Elena then came up the stairs with Stefan right behind her. Scarlett looked for Sarah but no one else came up after Stefan. She briefly wondered where she was as Elena and Stefan entered the room, but was snapped from her thoughts when Stefan started to speak.

"So what happened exactly? Scarlett just gave me the short version over the phone," Stefan explained, hands on his hips as he looked between Elena and Scarlett, giving Jeremy a slight glance out of respect. Scarlett could understand that. He wasn't as well versed in all this compared to her and Elena but he still deserved respect, which was what Stefan gave him. But he knew Elena and Scarlett were the ones to ask, trusting that if Jeremy knew anything of importance, then he'd speak up.

"I-I came in and I called up to Jeremy." Scarlett could already feel her cheeks heating up as she remembered Elena walking in on her and Jeremy. Even more embarrassed now as when Elena originally walked into the house she and Jeremy were more than likely finishing off. She really was never going to live this down. "Then I heard a noise in the kitchen…and then I found John," Elena sighed.

"And it was just a stab wound?" Stefan asked, his usual frown in place along his forehead. "Nothing else."

"Multiple stab wounds. His fingers had been chopped off too."

"Which hand?" Stefan asked rather quickly.

Elena thought about it for a second before releasing what he was getting at. "His ring hand," she answered.

"So however was here really was trying to kill him," Stefan said as he ran his hand across his chin in thought.

"I would have thought that was obvious by the stabbing part," Scarlett stated, folding her arms when Stefan and Elena looked her way.

"No, but, whoever was trying to kill him new about the ring, meaning they probably knew him closely," Stefan explained.

"Or tried to kill him before," Jeremy threw out, a fair point too. If someone had killed him and saw him walking around town the next day, they could have possibly worked it out and then tried again.

"But if not, then how could a tomb vampire know about the ring?" Elena asked with a frown on her face.

"I don't know," Stefan admitted as he turned back to his girlfriend.

"Ms. Gilbert?" The four ceased in their conversation and looked over to see a policeman standing by the open door. Scarlett had overheard the paramedics talking about when the police would arrive. She supposed it must be standard practise for when they found a stab victim, call the police and bring them in to question people.

"I'll be right there," Elena said and the officer nodded respectfully before stepping back outside to wait for her.

"You need to be at the hospital," Stefan said with a look to Elena. That was Stefan's news when Scarlett called him. Turns out Caroline had been in a car accident and was now at the hospital, not looking so great. While this wasn't a big deal for Scarlett, she understood how serious it was for Elena, knowing she was close with Caroline and all.

"But," Elena began to protest, looking to her little brother.

"No, no, no, I'll stay here with them," Stefan quickly said with a small helpful smile to Elena.

"We don't need a babysitter," Jeremy snapped defensively with a glare to his sister. Despite her walking in on him and Scarlett, he was still mad at his sister for keeping the truth from him. He wouldn't admit it, but Scarlett knew he was starting to get over it, at least when Elena was around or speaking to him. When she was around though, he was still mad. It was just a matter of time though, and Scarlett would help them both. She knew Jeremy was better off with Elena in his life – and as his sister – than without her.

"Yeah, I can look after Jeremy," Scarlett said with a grin to her boyfriend who then turned his glare onto her.

"That's not what I meant. I can take care of myself," Jeremy pouted.

"Not against a vampire you can't," Elena pointed out to which Jeremy scoffed before dropping down onto his bed in a mood. Scarlett could see why he was annoyed, but that said she wasn't about to leave him unprotected when a vampire could walk in at any moment and kill him. And if Stefan was here with her then that was even better. She liked doing things on her own but the fact was Stefan had probably killed several vampires in his life, Scarlett had killed a total of zero. She'd fought a few and had been getting better with training from Sarah, but even so she still hadn't killed one herself yet. And Jeremy definitely hadn't killed one either. So having Stefan stick around was probably for the best.

Jeremy didn't say anything, he just groaned again and fell backwards onto his bed as Scarlett let out a light hearted sigh, smiling softly at her boyfriend while the other couple said goodbye before Elena stepped out to speak to the officer. After that she left to go to the hospital and the police and paramedics cleared out leaving Scarlett, Jeremy and Stefan alone in the house. Just waiting for whatever would happen next.

Pulling back the string on the crossbow, Sarah loaded a fresh stake into place before lifting up the weapon for inspection. She'd already gone through all their stakes, taking what she considered the best three. She had one strapped to her leg, one tucked behind her back and the other she'd be carrying along with the crossbow. She'd managed to snatch a vervain grande off Alaric a while back and had that in her jacket pocket There were other weapons she could and wanted to take, but then she'd need a bag and that would only slow her down. The crossbow was a little much as it was, but Sarah needed to make a point of this. She was going to finish Katherine off tonight.

As she finished checking over the crossbow, her phone buzzed from her back pocket. With a silent groan, Sarah lay the crossbow down and retrieved her phone. Across her screen was a message from Damon. "Katherine's back. Meeting up at Elena's. Now!" So now her brothers knew about her too. She had even less time than she thought. But unlike her brothers she had somewhere to start looking. The remains of their old house. Not as a hideout, but if Katherine wanted to meet, then she'd go there for Sarah. She had to know what that place meant to her and the scars it represented in her mind. That was were her world had changed forever, it was were she and Katherine had first met. And when starting the same game over again. You had to start at the beginning.

Turning off her phone, Sarah returned it to her back pocket before picking up the crossbow. She couldn't risk her brothers calling her while she was tracking Katherine and she didn't want to talk to them anyway. One final check of the crossbow, and she grabbed her sharpest stake before heading out the door.

With nothing better to do, Jeremy had popped in a movie down in the living room. Both he and Scarlett would have rather gone out and done something but Stefan wasn't budging. As far as he was concerned they were all staying put. Scarlett could see why. If Jenna or Elena came home there'd be no one here to protect them if the tomb vampire came back. So it made sense for one supernatural to stay here. Unfortunately Stefan wasn't letting Scarlett and Jeremy leave without him and Scarlett wasn't going to wait here by herself to die of boredom. So the three sat on the couch in silence more or less, the only chatter occurring between Scarlett and Jeremy in regards to the movie. Stefan just sat on the other side of the couch taping his foot impatiently.

Then came the jingle of keys and Stefan was up on his feet before the door was unlocked. Scarlett shared a smile with Jeremy both standing as he paused the move. They stepped into the next room, watching from there as Stefan walked to the opening door which Elena then stepped through.

"Hey," Stefan greeted her instantly. "How was Caroline?"

"Not good," Elena said with a deep look to Stefan. Clearly whatever had happened at the hospital, it hadn't been good. Stefan smiled softly at his girlfriend and then brought her into a tight hug. "Just what I needed," Elena said with a smile as she rested her head on Stefan's shoulder, her arms wrapped underneath Stefan's. It was then Scarlett began to frown. Something was off. Something in the air. It wasn't right. She looked to Jeremy and he frowned, seeing her look.

"Everything alright?" Jeremy whispered, noticing the uncertainty in Scarlett's eyes.

"I'm not sure…" Scarlett murmured back. Her eyes moved back to the hugging Stefan and Elena. Whatever it was it had to do with the two of them. She'd only felt this odd feeling when she saw them hug. Like it was unnatural. But she'd seen Stefan and Elena hug all the time. It had to be something else. The couple parted, Elena's smile now gone as she looked up into Stefan's eyes. Even now that they'd separated, something still felt amiss.

Elena reached up to kiss Stefan and he went down to do the same. Scarlett's nose flared, as she sniffed the air and that was when she caught it. She hadn't been certain until then but now that she'd properly done it, she knew it for sure. That wasn't Elena's scent. And no one could chance their scent to that degree.

"That's not Elena!" Scarlett shouted before the fake Elena could kiss Stefan. Reacting quickly, Stefan hissed at the fake before grabbing hold and throwing her across the couch and into the living room where Scarlett and Jeremy were. Before any of them could blink, the imposter was back on her feet, brushing her hair out her face.

"Katherine," Stefan snarled, his vampire features coming out as Scarlett pushed Jeremy behind her. If even half of what she'd heard about Katherine was true, that meant they were all in serious trouble, and even more so Jeremy, since he couldn't possibly defend himself against someone like her.

"One out of three ani't bad," Katherine said with a shrug before her cat like eyes moved across to Scarlett and Jeremy. Her mere look made the hairs on the back of Scarlett's neck rise and she flashed her golden eyes at the vampire. That seemed to amuse her as she chuckled lightly and smirked. "Down girl," Katherine warned with a delicate finger point to the wolf, but Scarlett could sense the threat that was hidden behind that cute facade.

Seeing his chance, Stefan ran in, leaping over the couch in one move before grabbing Katherine by the throat and forcing against the far wall. Now putting himself between Scarlett, Jeremy and Katherine. Scarlett could hear his laboured breathing all the way across the room, and that was without her supernatural abilities. He was angry, properly full on angry. Scarlett had heard the stories and knew how mad Sarah could get when talking about it. But Stefan was even madder than Sarah was when just thinking about Katherine. What was she going to be like when she came face to face with Katherine.

"Feel better?" Katherine asked as Stefan growled at her. Scarlett wasn't too sure what to do. Stefan had Katherine pinned, what could she do. She wanted to help but she wasn't about to go over there and leave Jeremy defenceless. Another set of jingling keys filled the air and all eyes moved to the front door. Elena or Jenna were home now. The sound of a sharp twist followed by Stefan's groan of pain, and when Scarlett looked back, Katherine had the upper hand. She'd broken free and had twisted Stefan's arm behind his back, now having shoved him against the wall. Scarlett ran across the room, her teeth and claws growing as she lunged for the back of Katherine. She was halfway through her flight when she suddenly found herself on the floor, the smug Elena look alike towner over her. Then she was gone in a blur of movements and Jeremy dropped down to her side.

Hearing the front door open, Scarlett pulled back her werewolf features and let Jeremy help her up, looking to the door to find Elena and Damon as she did. "Guys?" Elena asked with a frown after seeing her boyfriend, up against the wall holding his arm, and Jeremy helping Scarlett up off the floor.

"Elena," Stefan replied as he stared back at her, almost like he wasn't sure it was really her. Scarlett wasn't even sure of it. Two seconds ago that very face had been above her looking like she was about to kill her. But a whiff of her scent calmed the wolf inside Scarlett, realising this was in fact Elena and that Katherine was now gone.

"What happened?" Elena asked as Damon took in the situation from beside her, the answer already coming to mind.

"Katherine happened," the eldest Salvatore said simply as the group shared varying levels of worried looks.

"Who the hell is Katherine?" Jeremy asked, looking between the three supernaturals and his sister. Elena's mouth opened but nothing but uncertain noises came out as she looked to Stefan for him. "Come on, Elena. Just tell me the truth for once," Jeremy begged as he stepped towards his sister, leaving Scarlett now that she was securely on her feet.

"He needs to know, Elena," Scarlett added with a pointed look. They couldn't very well have an Elena look alike running around and not tell Jeremy. He was already involved in the supernatural world anyway, and she wasn't about to let any of them play with his head again, seeing as that ended so well last time. The truth was the only option, but this time Elena was going to tell him herself.

"She's right," agreed Stefan from the corner of the room as he approached his girlfriend and brother.

"Right then, you catch him up to speed," Damon ordered Elena as he motioned between her and her brother before then turning to his own brother. "You, me and Scrappy. In the kitchen," Damon said, not bothering to wait for responses as he marched off into the next room from the hallway. Stefan rolled his eyes before following and Scarlett did the same, leaving Elena and Jeremy to talk in privet.

"So what happened?" Damon asked as he rounded the island in the kitchen which Stefan and Scarlett joined him at.

"Katherine came in pretending to be Elena. She hugged me and then went to kiss me," Stefan explained, hands on his hips as he spoke.

"How'd you know it was Katherine?" Damon asked quickly, leaning down on the counter top as he eyed his brother. Stefan looked to Scarlett who looked to the vampire. She wasn't about to say anything, not seeing as Damon already suspected her and she assumed Stefan wasn't going to say anything either. The look was to confirm nothing had changed on that front.

"I only spotted it when she went in for the kiss," Stefan answered as he and Scarlett looked back to Damon. The eldest vampire's blue eyes danced between the two, suspicion obvious, but nothing more than he'd already had after the fire. And he was a little preoccupied with the Katherine issue to start interrogating Scarlett about whatever he suspected.

"Then what?" Damon asked as his eyes settled on Stefan.

"I pinned her against the wall. She got free and then ran off," Stefan explained.

"Uh-uh, and you were on the floor, why?" Damon asked as he pointed to Scarlett.

Or maybe he wasn't to preoccupied to interrogate Scarlett.

"I ran over to help when I heard you guys coming in. But before I could get there she was free and had knocked me down," Scarlett explained shamefully as she fiddled with her necklace, pretending to feel like an idiot. She didn't have to pretend that hard, she did feel like an idiot. She'd been trying to help and when she finally did she got taken out like she was nothing, and that was with her werewolf strength. If Katherine was that strong, then had Anna must have been holding back all those times, or was she just naturally weak. Or was Katherine super supernaturally strong?

"Classic, Scrappy," Damon said with a smug look to the teenager before his attention moved back to Stefan once more, done with his questioning for now. "Did she say what she wanted?"

"No," Stefan answered, now pacing around the kitchen while Scarlett leaned back against the dinning table and Damon continued to lean on the island countertop.

"Woman certainly knows how to make an entrance," Damon muttered with an irritated look on his face.

"She said she fooled one of us at least. What does that mean?" Stefan asked as he ceased in his pacing and looked to both Scarlett and Damon.

"You don't think she got to Sarah do you?" Scarlett asked, worry consuming her face at the thought of her poor friend falling back into Katherine's clutches. After hearing briefly about what she'd gone through the first time with Katherine, there was no telling what that bitch would do to her this time, especially now that compulsion was out of the question.

"No, no, Sarah's fine…for now," Damon said, sounding a little worried at the end as he sheepishly glanced at Stefan, bitting his lower lip. Something told Scarlett it wasn't his sister's safety that had Damon looking so worried. "She pretended to be Elena too when I saw her earlier tonight," Damon explained as Scarlett eyebrows lifted up. She looked to Stefan and saw all she needed to in his frown. He was definitely thinking the same thing she was. What had Katherine done with Damon when she was pretending to be Elena?

"So, Katherine's you're doppleganger?" Jeremy asked as he and Elena walked into the room, still wrapping his head around the concept apparently. It had taken Scarlett a few days to understand it too, and that had been without the visual aid of Katherine herself. "And you're ancestor…and that's why she looks identical to you?"

"To sum it up, yeah," Elena said with a nod as her lips rolled in. One look and it was clear that while Jeremy was confused, Elena was riddled with fear. Jeremy's confusion of the situation was apparently enough to conceal his concern of the situation. Elena didn't have that luxury as she'd known about Katherine for even longer than Scarlett. All she had was fear left in her now.

"Are you alright?" Stefan asked as he approached his his girlfriend who was by the table. Jeremy remained by the archway to the hallway so Scarlett moved over to his side, leaning against the wall with folded arms as she sent him a comforting smile. She was just glad he was okay, too lost in his thoughts to waste time worrying about the very real threat of Katherine.

"No, I'm not alright," Elena exclaimed. "I thought that with all the tomb vampires gone things would get better," she sighed.

"I know. We all did," Stefan agreed with a comforting look to his girlfriend as he gently rubbed her arm.

"Katherine was in this house, that means she's been invited in. What are we gonna do?" Elena asked, realising that Katherine could now enter at will and kill any of them in their sleep. That thought terrified Scarlett, there was no way she was leaving Jeremy alone in this house, when Katherine could come in at any moment and snap his neck while he slept. She wouldn't lose him like she lost Anna, unable to do anything to save her.

"Move," Damon suggested bluntly.

"Very helpful, thank you," Elena said with a glare to Damon as she pulled out a chair at the dinning table and sat down. Stefan's hand resting on the back of her chair as they all watched Damon.

"If Katherine wanted you dead then there's zero you can do about it, you would be dead, but you're not. So clearly she has other plans," Damon explained, making it all seem so obvious.

"Like what?" Scarlett asked with a frown, waiting for Damon to give her an answer to that question. No surprise he had nothing, but he did offer Scarlett the conciliation prize of a glare.

"We don't know," Stefan admitted. "But we're going to find out what she's up too, and not provoke her in the process," Stefan said with a pointed look to his brother.

"Don't know why you're looking at me. Sarah's the one you should be worried about, Brother," Damon said as he straightened up with a smug look back to Stefan. He waited for Stefan, or even Scarlett, to return with a witty comeback but he both remained silent, glaring at him.

Finally Stefan spoke up, asking, "What happened tonight, when you thought she was Elena?" Damon hesitated in his answer as Elena straightened up from where she was sat. Everyone now eyeing Damon as he squirmed a little. He wasn't desperate or nervous, just putting on a show to rub Stefan the wrong way.

"To risk another frown line encroaching on a very crowded forehead. We…kissed," Damon answered with a thin smile as Stefan's glaring intensified. Scarlett could feel the tension building, and this would normally be the point when Sarah jumped in to stop the two from fighting. Maybe she should call her, let her know what was going on before the two brothers started an all out fight in the Gilbert's kitchen.

"And you thought it was me?" Elena asked, now frowning along with her boyfriend as she stared up at Damon.

"What do you mean you kissed?" Stefan cut in before Damon had a chance to answer Elena, his emotional state very clear from that sentence alone. Come on, Sarah. Feel free to come through the door now? Scarlett said in her head, praying that Sarah would show up now before the fight broke out. And Scarlett was hardly surprised by what Damon did next. She'd known him long enough by now to see something like this coming. Anyone that spent five minutes with the guy knew he would do this next.

"Well, you know, when two lips pucker and they go…" as Damon spoke he pursed his lips and began making kissing noises. Scarlett got a single step away from the wall before the Salvatore brothers switched positions. Stefan having run at Damon while Damon ran around the island and to Elena's side, a smug smile on his lips. "Don't be obvious, Stefan," Damon teased as Stefan advanced on his brother, this time at human speed. Making it much easier for Scarlett and Elena to get between them.

"Enough!" Scarlett said firmly, like Sarah normally did when her two brothers got into a fight like this.

"Stefan, he kissed Katherine, not me" Elena added, reminding her boyfriend of what really happened and not what he thought happened. Elena then looked back over to Damon with a pointed look. "I wouldn't do that." She then lowered her arms seeing the two were no longer about to kill each other. Scarlett however remained along side Elena, ready to shove them apart at a moments notice. "We don't have time for this guys. Now where's Sarah?"

"I texted her, telling her to come here," Damon answered, but his eyes remained on Stefan who was continuing to glare at his brother. Still itching for a fight after what his brother had tried to do.

"So where is she then?" Elena asked with a pointed look to the eldest Salvatore.

"I'll call her," Scarlett said as she pulled out her phone, remaining still though as she called the vampire. It went straight to voice mail. Not a good sigh at all. "She's got her phone turned off," Scarlett said to the group.

"Crap," Damon sighed, running a hand through his hair.

"She'll be going after Katherine, alone," Stefan said, his eyes finally breaking from Damon's as he looked to Elena and Scarlett.

"We've got to go and find her then," Elena said with clear worry in her voice as she looked back at Stefan.

"No. We've got to look for Our sister," Damon said waving a hand finger between himself and Stefan. "You're staying here with Scrappy and Mopey, in the same room with the lights turned on," Damon said to Elena with looks to Scarlett and Jeremy. No room for argument judging by his tone. "We'll be back once we find Sarah," Damon said before looking to Stefan, his smug smile returning. "Or would you rather hash this out before we find her?"

"Later," Stefan answered with a glare to Damon who merely shrugged as he walked away, turning into the hallway as he headed for the front door. "We'll be back soon," Stefan said, planting a kiss on Elena's forehead. They shared a quick smile before Stefan moved onto Scarlett, fixing her with a pointed and serious look. "Keep an eye on them." Scarlett nodded back before Stefan then made his way past her and Jeremy and into the hall. Damon led him outside, closing the door behind them and leaving the three mortals alone in the house.

It didn't take Sarah long to reach the ruins of her old family home. The one she'd been born in, the one she'd been raised in. Part of her was sad, staring at the rubble that remained of her childhood home. Part of her was glad, considering everything that had happened here, not just in regard to Katherine. And then she was angry, that was all because of Katherine. The woman might as well have taken this place down herself. If this house represented the Salvatore family, then it's remains where what Katherine had left behind. She'd taken it all from Sarah. And now she was going to take the only thing she could from that devil. Her life.

Tightening her grip on the crossbow, Sarah searched the grounds for any sign of Katherine. She paced around the perimeter twice, exploring the outline that remind of her home. There was no sigh of her. It had been a hunch more than anything else, coming back to her home where they all first met. Maybe Katherine wasn't as sentimental as she thought or she'd already been here and gone off to start playing with her brothers once again. But Sarah couldn't afford to give up like that. If she did then she'd have to go back to her brothers who more than likely were now aware of what she was up too. She'd needed some other lead, somewhere else to search and fast. She could head to the fancy foreclosed houses on the other side of town. That would probably be the kind of place Katherine took over, assuming she was here for a while. Either that or she will have taken over a rich house and compelled its residents to cater to her every whim. Just like she did with the Salvatores.

A foot step from behind caused Sarah to swiftly turn, her vampire reflexes kicking in as she took aim with her crossbow. Nothing was there…now. It had to be her. Sarah was certain. "I'm not playing around, Katherine!" Sarah shouted out into the woods as she began to turn, keeping the crossbow steady and ready in her hands. "Come out here and face me!"

Then came that laugh. That girlish, demonic laugh that made Sarah's insides turn. She bit down on her lip in a futile attempt to stop it from trembling. She waited for Katherine to reveal herself but she didn't. She kept laughing, her laughter echoing all around Sarah and making it impossible to know where she was. "Stop it!" Sarah shouted when it became to much. Then no sooner had the words left her mouth, the cross bow was knocked from her hands. Sent flying off into the darkness and out of sight. Sarah couldn't even be sure were it went. She lost sight of it the second she saw Katherine standing before her. Looking just like she had all those years ago. With that sick twisted smile and those innocently devilish eyes. Her outfit had evolved with the time, but everything else was exactly as Sarah remembered in her nightmares.

"Hello, Sarah," Katherine said gleefully, clearly happy to finally be face to face with Sarah once again. The Salvatore sister however, did not share the older vampire's view. Pulling out her sharpest stake, Sarah lunged for Katherine's heart. The vampire smirked before raising her own arm to block Sarah's stake. With ease she then grabbed Sarah and flipped her over onto her back, kicking away the stake as it fell from Sarah's grasp. Then with a stylish cartwheel, Katherine landed on Sarah, straddling her like she had back in Sarah's room. Only this time with cloths on.

Sarah reached for her second stake but Katherine was one step ahead, pulling out a syringe and stabbing it into Sarah's neck. A gasp flew from Sarah's lips at the pain of the pricking needle in her neck. Then she felt the liquid fill her body. Vervain. "That's better," Katherine said as she began to smile at the now defenceless vampire beneath her. Sarah felt her body limp and collapse onto the ground, her head rolling back before Katherine placed her elegant hand beneath to lift her back up. Deja vu struck hard as Sarah looked up into the eyes of a woman who had been able to control her with just a single look. Once again she was beneath Katherine, helpless as she did what she pleased with her. That pleasant and creepy smile once again hovering over her, like she was the devil himself. Her nightmares finally coming true.

"It's not enough to knock you out," Katherine said, matter-of-factly. "Just enough to keep you down." The elder vampire then produced another syringe, having discarded the empty one. "This one will knock you out for a good few hours."

"Wh…wha…what do you…" Sarah was struggling to speak. She was halfway between passing out and staying awake, making it hard to form a sentence. Her vision was on the edge of blurriness, but Katherine's perfect features were still as clear as day. She could fill in the blurry bits from her nightmares alone.

"Hush," Katherine said, placing her finger to Sarah's lips and keeping her from speaking. "You can ask your questions later. Right now, I just need you to relax." Katherine's hand then left Sarah's lips, moving down to Sarah's cleavage as she began to pull down the collar of her shirt. With her smirk growing, Katherine began to trace circles across Sarah's chest, sending unwanted tingles through her.

"No…" Sarah tried to protest, but she didn't have the strength to fight.

"Okay, Sarah," Katherine said pitifully as she leaned down, brushing Sarah's hair from her face. "We can play later. I can see you want to get some sleep. It's been a long night for you. First those tomb vampires and now you're out looking for me." A giggle fluttered out of her throat. A demonic giggle that made Sarah want to cry. "You couldn't wait until morning, could you. How sweet," Katherine said, tilting her head as she smiled down at the vampire she'd created. "But you need your rest before we start playing. Now." A fresh needle pricked into Sarah's neck, only this time she didn't have the strength to gasp. Katherine then pushed down on the plunger and a fresh wave of vervain filled her body. "Night, night, Sarah," Katherine said with a satisfied smile on her face. Watching as Sarah's eyes rolled back into her head before she passed out peacefully.