A few good men

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*Woods,A man is backpacking through the woods near the church ruins. He hears the sounds of twigs snapping and turns around, coming face to face with Harper, the vampire from the tomb, who still looks hungry.*
Man: Jeez! You scared me.
Harper: Do you know what day it is?
Man: Saturday.
Harper: And what year?
Man: It's 2010. Are you OK?
Harper: Thank you.
Man: Wait, what's your name?
Harper: It's Harper, sir.(The man inches closer to Harper, observing him.)
Man: How did you get out here? And why are you dressed like that?
Harper: You seem like a very nice person. I'm sorry.
Man: Sorry for what?(Harper extends his fangs and bites down on the man's neck. The man screams loudly.Harper has killed the man. He has also taken his clothing. He pats himself down when a cell phone goes off in his pocket. Confused, Harper takes the phone out and throws it down onto the ground. He quickly leaves the woods.)

*Gilbert Residence,Elena is sitting on the porch swing, her journal laid out on her lap and her phone up to her ear as she leaves Bonnie a voicemail.*
Elena: Hey, Bonnie, it's me just checking in, seeing how you're doing. We miss you here. Don't let your aunt drive you too crazy.(Jenna walks up onto the porch and stops to look at Elena while sipping her coffee.)
Elena: Come home soon. Love you. (hangs up)
Jenna: What are you doing out here? It's cold.
Elena: Thinking, writing. The, uh, funeral for Bonnie's grandma, it brought back a lot about mom and dad. I was wondering...you said that you would do some digging about them, the adoption.
Jenna: Right.
Elena: So did you? Dig?
Jenna: Come on inside.(Jenna and Elena go inside. Jenna pulls out her laptop and sits down at the dining table and Elena stands next to her, removing her jacket.)Your dad kept everything from his medical practice—records, logs, old appointment books. (She pulls out a journal and opens it, showing a page to Elena.) I found an entry from the night you were born. Patient and a birth date. Isobel Peterson.
Elena: Do you think that's her real name?
Jenna: Pregnant teenage runaway? Probably not. First name, maybe. But where'd she get Peterson? Classmate? Best friend? So I binged it. (She pulls up the Internet and types in a name in the search engine) I searched for all the Petersons in this area born the same year as Isobel, found 3--2 men and a woman, Trudie, who lived in Grove Hill, Virginia.
Elena: That's not far from here.
Jenna: Well, watch this.(Jenna types something else into the search engine and pulls up an image of Isobel from high school.)
Elena: Isobel. (looks at the picture with a smile) She was a cheerleader.
Jenna: Trudie still lives there. (She hands Elena a post-it note) This is her address.
Elena: What about Isobel?
Jenna: I couldn't find anything about her. (Elena looks disheartened as she sits down at the table. Jenna briefly pauses before divulging new information but Elena speaks again)
Elena:Have you seen Aria...I checked her room but she wasn't there.
Jenna:she left a note saying that she was going into the woods for some practice,whatever she means. I think she just wants to grieve, she did had a connection with Bonnie's grams. But Listen. There's something else. Mr. Saltzman, Ric, his wife was—(suddenly they hear the door open and they see Aria enter with a bow and some arrows) oh,Aria now that here,can you come here,i need to tell you and Elena something (Aria walks over to them) as I was saying Ric's wife was from around here, and her name was also Isobel.
Aria:Her name was Isobel! As an...
Jenna:Mmm.
Elena: Wait. "Was," as in...
Jenna: She died.(Later, Elena is putting away clothes in her drawer while Aria is sitting in Elena's bed and Stefan stands behind Elena as they discuss this new turn of events.)
Stefan: Alaric's wife might have been your mother?
Aria:Crazy right.
Elena: (sighs) It can't be true, right? I mean, the coincidence alone is just crazy. (She turns around to look at Stefan and holds up the post-it note) I have the address for her friend Trudie.
Stefan: You wanna talk to her.
Aria:why?
Elena: I don't know. I...I--I don't know. If it's true and they are the same person, that means that our birth mother is dead, and I don't know if I could handle that.
Aria:Maybe they're not the same person.
Stefan: Elena, did Jenna tell you anything about Alaric's wife? How did she die?
Elena: Just that she was killed and the case was never solved.(Stefan nods at this prior knowledge. Elena looks at him, surprised.)You knew that already?
Stefan: The night at the school when he attacked me, he told me some things about her death.
Aria:there...there the same person aren't they...(she puts her head on Elena's pillow and groans)
Elena: Well—
Stefan: No, no. (He gently grabs Elena's wrists.) It's not possible. The coincidence is—it's too much. Now, listen, if you two do decide to go talk to Isobel's friend, I'll go with you. Okay?
Elena: I just don't know what I'm gonna do yet.(Elena wraps her arms around Stefan's neck and they embrace each other lovingly.)
Aria:(picks up her head and sees they are making love eyes with each other) Ugh! You two better not start making out in front me,because I will stake you both.(Elena rolls her eyes)
Stefan: I should get going. I gotta go deal with Damon.
Elena: How's he doing?
Stefan: He's dealing in his own way.
Aria:I'll go with you,if he is dealing in his own way I gotta make sure he doesn't kill any one or at least stop him from killing other people.

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