Elena's twin sister, Ember, (younger by 12 minutes) Is the responsible, levelheaded sister. Shy and bookish, she is very close to their younger brother Jeremy. And despite what everyone else and her common sense say she can't help but love Damon Sal...
Damon knocks hard on the door of a little farmhouse in the woods.
"Pearl! Open this door. I swear to God I'll bust through and rip your head off."
The vampire from last night opens the door. "Pearl's not home." He looks out at the drizzly wet weather. "Hmm. Beautiful weather. Not a ray of sun in the sky."
"Where's my brother?" Damon demands.
"Billy." The vampire calls and two vampires drag a beaten and bloody Stefan into the hallway.
"You're dead." Damon snarls and moves forward but can't cross the threshold.
"Whoa. I'm sorry. You haven't been invited in. Miss Gibbons?" A middle aged woman sporting numerous bite marks and clearly under compulsion walks in.
"Yes, Frederick, honey?" She asks.
"Never let this bad man in." Frederick orders.
"I'll never let him in." She promises.
"160 years left starving in a tomb, thanks to Katherine's infatuation with you and your brother. First few weeks, every single nerve in your body screams with fire. The kind of pain that can drive a person mad. Well... I thought your brother might want to get a taste of that before I killed him. Billy." Behind him Billy stabs Stefan with a stake and Stefan screams a little.
"You have a nice day." Fredrick smirks.
Ember and Elena are sitting in Damon's car and see him approaching through the rain and get out.
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"What happened? Where is he?" Elena asks worriedly.
"They have him. I can't get in." Damon confirms.
"Why not?" She asks.
"Because the woman who owns the house is compelled to not let me in." He explains.
"I can get in." Ember volunteers and starts to turn that way but Damon's eyes go hard and he grabs her shoulder and pushes her back before he replies dangerously.
"You're not going in there."
"I can go! I'm not helpless! I've been practicing how to..." she begins.
He takes a step closer to her, so close she steps backwards and bumps into the car. He follows and suddenly she is pressed between the car and Damon's hard body with his hands braced on each side of her caging her in. "You're not going in there." He repeats with a growl.
The rain has plastered his black hair to his head and his eyelashes are spiky around his crystal blue eyes. She can smell the rain and the scent of his cologne, and his expression is slightly dangerous, but she refuses to drop her eyes.
Elena tries to get them to focus and asks. "Why are they doing this? What do they want with him?"
"Revenge. They want revenge." Damon replies while still holding Ember's gaze.
