"This has Katherine written all over it." Stefan said to Damon, as they were standing by the olders' car, in the parking lot of Mystic Falls High.

"Katherine is in the tomb, Stef," Damon argued, "I would know, I'm the one who shut her in there."

"Did you?" Stefan asked.

"Did I what Stefan?"

"Well I know the kind of hold that Katherine has on you."

"She's in the tomb. Period." Damon said, in an annoyed tone of voice, "But she did say something to me right before I shut her in." he muttered to himself, "I thought she was lying."

"What did she say?"

"Um, Elena's in danger."

"You didn't think to ask her to elaborate on what exactly she meant by that?"

"Everything she says is a lie!" Damon argued, making a valid point, "How was I supposed to know she was just going to start spouting off the truth for once?"

"What, so you didn't think to tell me this?" Stefan asked, pinching the bridge of his nose in aggravation, "We have to go talk to her."

"No, no, no, no, no. Let me tell how that's going to go," Damon whisper-yelled, Stefan nodded, urging him to go on, "We're gonna go ask her for help, she's gonna negotiate her release, which we're gonna be dumb enough to give her, and then she's going to get out and, oh you know-kill us!"

"I don't really care." Stefan says.

"It's a bad idea, Stefan." Damon warned.

"It's Elena!" Stefan says, before running off, "And Aria, too!"

"Aria." Elena whispered, "Aria, Ari, wake up."

She slowly opened her eyes, "Elena? Where are we?" she groaned, feeling the affects of the Vervain she was injected with hours before hand, "We were taken, weren't we?"

"Yeah." Elena sighed, helping her sit up, "It was when we were walking out of the Masquerade last night. We were laughing about the story you were telling me when you were with Stefan and Damon in 1865. I think whoever captured us injected you more than once."

"I've been Vamp-Napped."

"Is that Vampire for kidnapped?"

"Yes."

"Wow." A woman with a pixie haircut suddenly entered the room, "You look exactly like her."

"But, I'm not." Elena explained, "My name is Elena Gilbert."

"I know who you are, be quiet."

"Why are we here?" Elena demanded, "And why did you capture Aria too?"

"That's none of your business." Rose stated, "And you're here because you are the Petrova Doppelganger." she said, "You're the key to breaking the Curse."

"You don't have to do this." Elena was close to tears.

"Be quiet."

"What do you want?"

The woman snapped, slapping the Gilbert across the face, watching as she faceplanted the floor, "I want you to be quiet." she looked at Aria, who was glaring hard at the floor, "You really do have captivating looks. You look amazing as always."

Aria snapped her head up at the woman with a hard glare, "Who the hell are you?"

"I'm Rose." she smiled.

"Is that supposed to mean something to me?"

"Well, it should." she said, with a hopeful expression, "Bleeding Kansas, 1855."

Aria gave a confused face, "Sorry?"

"I know you're not good with names and you block the people you hate out of your head. That must be why you don't remember me." Rose realized, "Maybe this will help..." she sighed, "The woods, a man who was fed on, a Vampire-Witch Hybrid, a regular Witch, another Vampire and a Werewolf bite." she explained, "You helped me cure my friend when I thought all hope was lost and she was going to die. You saved her life, and for that I told you I was eternally grateful."

Aria came to a sudden realization of who exactly this was and she rolled her eyes, "Rose-Marie." she scowled, "Lovely."

"You don't seem happy." Rose realized, "Look, my friend-"

"You lost the benefit of my friendship when you-" she growled and sighed, deciding not to bring it up for eavesdropping ears to listen to, "-well, you know what you did." she turned away, "Get out of my sight, Rose-Marie. I have nothing left to say to you. Not after you showed your true colors in 1860."

"I can see you're upset." Rose said sadly, "Here." she held out a ring, "It's your daylight ring." when she saw that Aria didn't even make a move to take it, she set it on the table next to her, "I'll leave you to your thoughts, then." she moped out of the room and left Aria there with an unconscious Elena Gilbert.

"Traitor." The raven-haired woman took her daylight ring off the table and slipped it back on her right ring finger as she rolled her eyes in true annoyance, hatred for the pixie red-headed Vampire, "I thought I could trust you."

"Ari." Elena whispered, rubbing her sore jaw, "Wake up."

"Why must you always wake me from my naps?"

"It's important." Elena whispered, "We have to be quiet, and walk down the hallway, because I think Rose is talking to Trevor."

"Fine. Go get slapped again." Aria rolled her eyes and sat up from the couch, "Can you not involve me in your crazy scheme?"

"It's not a scheme." Elena defended, "I just want to know what they're talking about."

"Also known as spying." Aria commented, "It's probably about you."

"Why do you think I want to listen to it?" Elena asked, "I want to know."

"If you want to get slapped again, be my guest." Aria raised an eyebrow, getting up from the couch.

"Please?"

"Fine."

They walked into the hallways and Aria could hear everything they were saying, but Elena could not. Hence why Elena tugged Aria along with her to get closer to the door Rose and Trevor were behind.

"How's the girl?"

"Still passed out."

"You didn't touch her, did you?"

"Give me some credit. So you called him?"

"No, I called one of his contacts. You know how this works."

"Did you or did you not get the message to Elijah?"

"They say he got it."

"Wonderful. And, what?"

"So, that's it, Trevor. He either got it or he didn't. We just have to wait and see."

"Look, it's not too late. We can leave them here." Trevor was panicking, that much Aria could tell, "We don't have to go through with this!"

"I'm sick of running."

"Yeah? Well running keeps us from dying!"

"Elijah is old school." Rose said to her friend, "If he excepts our deal, we're free."

Elena moved her foot, making a floor board creek and Aria glare at her, "Seriously? You can't stay still for five minutes?"

"Well, excuse me," Elena defended in a whisper, "I'm not a Vampire!"

"You!" Rose yelled as she stormed up to Elena, "There's nothing around here for miles. If you think you're getting out of this house, you're tragically wrong. Understand?" she didn't wait for an answer before she turned away.

"Who is Elijah?" Elena blurted.

"He's your worst nightmare."

"I'm sure that's a bit dramatic." Aria countered.

"It's not, Ari." Rose frowned, "It's really not."