The Owl Gilbert

2:17: The Seeds Of Isobel

It's the next morning after Elena told me that Isobel is back as I'm with Elena, as I open the front door with my right hand and see Dad. "Hey. Is she up yet?" He asks and Elena shakes her head, and Dad walks in, and I turn around, and close the door. "She won't come out of her room." I say. "What'd you tell her?" He asks as I walk over to him. "Nothing. She won't talk to us." Elena says and I cross my arms. "We're gonna have to fix this, Elena, Adam." Dad says as we look at him. "Yeah." I say and we hear footsteps, and see Jenna walking down the stairs, holding a bag as I uncross my arms. "Hi." Elena says. "Jenna." Dad says. "I don't want you here, Ric. You need to go." She says, walking past us and drops the bag as we look at her, and she walks to the closet under the stairs . "Ok, listen. I can't begin to imagine what you must be feeling right now." Dad says and she opens the door with her right hand, looking at him. "Rage and betrayal would pretty much cover it." She says and grabs her jacket, and shuts the door, walking over to the bag and puts her jacket on. "Where are you going?" I ask. "I'm going to stay on Campus. I have a Thesis to write and I don't want to be in this house." She says and picks up her bag with her right hand, and looks at us, and heads to the door. "Jenna, please just stop. Let us explain to you exactly what is going on." Dad says and she turns to me. "Adam, I need you to go to the Lockwoods' today and accept the Historical Society's check for your Mom's Foundation." She says and turns to the door, and opens it with her right hand. "Ok, but, Jenna, please just." Elena says and Jenna turns to her. "I don't have it in me to hear any more lies from you." She says, crying, looking back and forth to Dad, Elena and I, and she turns around, and walks out, slamming the door. "Jenna just--" I say, stepping forward and get interrupted by John, and we look at him as he's walking towards us. "It's better that she's not here, what with everything that's going on. But maybe had you been a little more honest with her from the beginning, this-- He says, as I'm frowning at him and Dad punches him on the left side of his face with his right hand, and John staggers back as Elena and I both gasp, and Dad begins to walk off, as we look at him. "Sorry, Adam, Elena." He says and opens the door with his left hand, walks out and closes it, and we look at John, and laugh. "You know this is your fault, right?" Elena asks and I see John's left nostril bleeding. "Right." He says and I look at the stairs, as I'm walking over to them and up them.

I'm in the kitchen with Elena, Stefan, John and Isobel as John's sitting on the table with his right foot on a chair and Isobel's sitting down, as I'm walking around with my arms crossed. "Since I was last here, I've been doing everything possible to find Klaus. We knew our best chance was to find him before he could find the two of you." Isobel says and I walk over to Stefan, as I put my arms down. "Best chance at what?" Stefan asks as we look at him. "Keeping Elena and Adam alive. Well, human." John says as Elena looks at him and puts her right hand up, and down, taking a step forward. "You don't get to talk, ok, not after everything you've done." She says and looks at Isobel, sighs, and turn around, walking to the counter. "Were you able to find Klaus?" Stefan asks. "No. Nobody knows where he is." Isobel says and I look at her. "But there are these rumors that are flying around. That a Doppelganger exists." She says. "Which means any vampire that wants to get in favor with Klaus will be lining up to capture you both." John says as I have my arms crossed, and Stefan looks at me, and I look at him, and turn to John. "I'm not buying any of this." I say and step forward, and look at Isobel. "The last time that you were here, you made it clear that you didn't give a shit about us. Now all of a sudden we're supposed to believe that you want to help?" I ask. "Isobel's been helping all along." John says as we look at him. "Klaus has been obsessed with finding Katherine and Dimitri for centuries. All it would take was any one of those eighteen sixty four Tomb Vampires to spread the word around that Katherine and Dimitri werr still alive." He says and I look at Stefan. "And it would bring him straight here to Mystic Falls, where you were bound to be discovered, so we killed them." John says as we look at him, and Elena puts her hand out towards Stefan. "And almost killed Stefan and Damon in the process. Not to mention Adam and I." Elena says and puts her hand down, and look at Isobel as she stands up. "I have a safe house that I can take you to. The deed is in your name, Elena. No vampires can get in without your permission, not even me. Let me help you." She says. "You wanna help? Then get the fuck out of my house." Elena says.