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Early in the morning Isabel met up with Caroline and Stefan and talked about Elena's situation.

They figured it was a sire bond after Elena seemed to be agreeing with Damon more then usual and the fact Damon had turned her. Stefan had been a little more cautious about how things would effect her and about telling Elena while Caroline persisted that they tell her which left Isabel in the middle. While she agreed with Caroline she also told Stefan to try and get Damon to test out their theory so that Elena didn't throw a fit about assuming things.

Once they agreed to let Stefan go as it was 2-1, Stefan went back home and the two blondes left for school.

During the passing period, they found Bonnie at their lockers and talked for a little bit before Elena finally approached them.

"Elena, hey. Is everything okay?" Bonnie asked first.

"Yeah." Elena responded when she was close enough for them to hear. "Why wouldn't it be?"

"Well, Caroline told us you had to move out to stay away from Jeremy," Isabel said. "And Matt told me he'll be staying there for a bit."

"Yeah. He's at the house staying with him right now to make sure..." The doppelgänger glanced around the hallway, making sure no ears were listening. "...he keeps all of his hunter stuff in control. He's okay."

"But are you?" Caroline asked looking Elena over. "I mean, clearly, they don't have a flat iron at hotel Salvatore." She giggled referring to Elena's hair in a messy bun.

"Oh- I was in a rush. I mean- look, do you girls have any plans tonight? I'm in desperate need of some girl talk," she said while taking her hair out of the bun.

"I'm in. Shane taught me some small spells I've been wanting to try." Bonnie smiled at the thought.

"Oh, creepy professor guy is just Shane now." Caroline teased. She didn't exactly like whatever relationship was going on between the two and she wanted Bonnie to know her hesitation with him.

"He's not creepy," Bonnie argued defensively.

"We're not judging," Isabel said before glancing at Caroline with a raised brow. "Are we Caroline?"

"I am." Caroline nodded with a sarcastic smile and Isabel let out a huff while rolling her eyes in slight amusement.

"Don't listen to her." Elena waved off. "So, girls' night? We can raid the Salvatore wine cellar."

Caroline shifted uncomfortably as she asked, "um, are you sure that Stefan and Damon are cool with us crashing at their place?"

Elena caught sight of Damon walking in the school before looking back at her friends and adjusting the strap of her school bag. "I can't go home because my brother is trying to kill me." She looked back at Damon to see him motioning for her to follow him. "So their place is mine now, too. I'll see you in a bit."

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"I'm sorry I'm late!" Isabel yelled entering the Salvatore Boarding House. A grin appeared on her face as she saw her friends dancing around with either a blood bag or a bottle of wine.

Isabel had been late because Carol was running late to take care of Rose for the night after working in the office all day long.

"Come on in, girl!" Caroline shouted raising a glass of champagne in her hand.

"I'm ready for some fun girl time." Isabel smiled taking off her black cardigan. "So would someone please hand me a bottle of dom?"

The four teenage girls continue their night dancing, partying, and drinking. It was an amazing moment, getting all their day to day worries to slip their minds for just a little while.

Isabel's phone rang and she just barely heard it over the music. She stopped dancing but held a bottle closer to her chest as she walked to her phone. She picked it up to see Kol's caller ID. She held her hand then pointed up the stairs where she'd be if they wanted her.

With the girl's thumbs up she walked up the stairs and sat right on the top step.

"How may I be of service?" She asked as she sat her phone in between her shoulder and ear. She unscrewed the cap and took a sip.

"I was sitting here bored when I thought about what you told me. This cure. You said something about the hunter saying it could end vampirism and that he had these growing tattoos by killing vampires."

"Yes..." She trailed off not knowing where he was going with this.

"Did he say if he was in some kind of group?" He asked cautiously.

"Yeah." Isabel nodded taking another sip of her bottle. "Nik said something about The Five." She drawled slightly.

"How far has he gotten?"

"Mm..." She shrugged to herself. "Don't know. But he's deader then a door nail. Soo...yeah." She took another sip. "Can't ask him any questions."

"Good. Who killed him?" He asked again.

Isabel put the neck of the bottle to her forehead along with her hand. "Uh, Elena."

"Ah, the little doppelgänger finally grew a pair. Didn't think she'd be able to." He mused.

Isabel quietly laughed. "Yeah but she's fine now," she drunkenly said. She looked over the railing to see Elena partying hard with her blood bag. "Yep." She popped the 'p'. "Perfectly fine."

"Are you okay?" He asked worriedly noticing she was most definitely drunk.

When Isabel had called him the other day he found out that Hayley was over and that she moved in with her brother. She admitted to hurting and though Kol didn't know how to comfort her he did his best which made her feel better because at least he was trying. He said he'd come back permanently if she asked but she wanted him to enjoy the free time he had. She then assured him she was fine and she could deal with it without help and she appreciated him wanting to be there for her. And if she was getting drunk to escape he knew she definitely wasn't as fine as she wants to show.

"Fine fine. Just a little tipsy. No biggie." She giggled a little bit. "But uh, I want to get back to the girls and my free time so..."

Kol laughed at her insinuation. "You want to get rid of me? You have officially hurt my feelings, darling."

Isabel giggled. "I can call you another time." She promised.

"I'm keeping you to that, my darling wolf. Go have fun and enjoy yourself. Just not to much fun. I know you need it but you'll get a massive hangover." He decided to opt-out on telling her getting drunk wouldn't help her cope because he knew it wouldn't do anything at the moment and he'd need to be there physically to be able to truly help her. He'd be back whenever Klaus or Rebekah needed him or when Isabel admitted she needed him and then he'd finally be able to be there for her.

"Bye Kolioli."

Kol scoffed at the nickname she just gave him and shook his head. "That's not happening. Bye, darling."

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Somehow, during their partying, the girls found their way into the oldest Salvatore's room after partying hard. Elena in the tub, Bonnie sitting at the end of the tub on the floor, and Isabel sitting beside the tub with Caroline to her left.

"God, I love this bathtub." Elena gasped loudly, rubbing the tub she was currently relaxing in. "Why don't we come and hang out here more often?"

"I'll tell you why." Caroline started with a laugh, not thinking about how her words would be taken. "Cooties. Think of all the germ-ridden skanks that Damon has lured into his den of enequity." Caroline giggled. Elena sat up in the bath tub and does not look amused as well as Bonnie and Isabel who also look unamused by Caroline's attempt at a joke. "Okay, I'm sorry. I've been good all night. I am stopping now." Caroline raised her arms in defense.

Elena sarcastically said, "no, don't stop on my account. Rip away. I mean, it's only Damon, right?"

"Well, say what you want about Ripper Stefan, but at least he wasn't a man-slut." The vampire countered.

"Come on," Bonnie said sending Caroline a look that said 'stop this.'

"Guys please." Isabel sighed. "You're gonna make my head hurt more then it does."

"So, what exactly was it about him that made you jump right into bed with him as soon as you met him?" Elena snapped at the vampire.

"Elena! For gods sake she said sorry. Stop digging and leave it alone." The Donovan wolf practically growled at her.

"I didn't know what a sociopathic narcissist he was." Caroline retorted calmly.

Bonnie looked between the three knowing their night was taking a turn.

"He's always been there for me when I needed him." Elena defended Damon.

"Yeah, because he's hoping you'll sleep with him." Caroline enunciated as she looked straight at Elena.

"Well, maybe I did." At Elena's confession, the three girls looked to Elena in shock.

"You did what?!" Caroline gaped at the doppelgänger.

"You didn't." Bonnie tilted her head she gave Elena a disapproving stare.

"Dear, god," Isabel said pulling a face.

"Yeah, I did." Elena huffed out. "Look, I know you three have issues with him, but I'm happy, and I wanted to spend tonight with my best friends so that I could tell them about it."

Elena got up from the bathtub and stormed away, leaving Isabel, Caroline, and Bonnie in the bathroom, still in shock.

"Now why in the hell would we want to listen to that?" Isabel asked in disgust. "I barely like Damon. I'd never want to hear about her activities with Damon."

"We have to fix this," Bonnie said as she got up, followed by Isabel and Caroline.

The three walked to the entry of the parlor to see Elena cleaning up the mess from the mini party they had.

"Elena, come on." Bonnie pleaded.

Elena glanced up at the girls, continuing to stack things and fix them. "Party is over. You guys need to leave."

"Don't be mad, okay? We're just looking out for you." Caroline spoke up sincerely as she held her arms out a little.

"Do you think it makes me happy that you guys hate him?" The doppelgänger turned to face them. "I get it. His track record has been kind of spotty but I don't hate him. I can't. He's- I think I'm falling in love with him." Elena confessed to them.

"Ugh, you're not falling in love with him, Elena. You're sired to him!" Caroline blurted out.

Bonnie, Isabel, and Elena looked at her in shock and it was then that Caroline knew she shouldn't have revealed that information and looked slightly ashamed.

"What?" Bonnie asked wanting more info but it didn't look like Caroline wanted to.

"What are you talking about?" Elena pushed, clearly confused.

Caroline walked down the steps towards Elena. "I- Look, I'm sorry that it came out like that, but it's true. Damon's blood turned you. You couldn't feed from animals or blood bags because he told you so." Bonnie and Isabel glanced at each other as they also lay made their way down the steps. "Then he suggested that you try again with blood bags and suddenly-"

"No." Elena shook her head. "There's no way, I..."

Bonnie narrowed her eyes as she looked at Caroline. "Are you sure?"

Caroline looked back before saying, "yeah." She then looked back at Elena. "Ask Stefan about it. He can explain it better than I can."

Probably not the best choice of words Care.

"I'm sorry, you talked to Stefan about this?" Elena asked angrily, her eyes narrowed in on the vampire.

"It's not your fault, Elena," Caroline told her softly like she was a wounded animal. "Okay, Damon took advantage of you."

"Okay, you need to leave." Elena snapped angrily. Caroline looked shocked and speechless and doesn't move. "Now!"

Elena marched past Caroline, then went right in the middle of Isabel and Bonnie as she headed straight to the front door.

"Elena!" Isabel yelled.

"Come on!" Caroline grumbled.

"I said leave." Elena demanded as she opened the front door and looked at the three girls.

On the porch, there were two people none of the girls recognized, a pissed-off looking brunette and a black-haired man standing behind her. "Hello girls," the woman said.

Elena turned and looked at her but Kimberley rushed into the house and knocked Elena into the wall. She then sped at Isabel and grabbed her by the throat, slamming her into a wall.

Adrian rushed in and grabbed Elena who fought back and pushed him but the male hybrid wrapped his arms around her neck and snapped it. The doppelgänger quickly dropped into a heap on the floor while Adrian got shoved against a wall by Caroline but he got the upper hand eventually and slammed the blonde into the wall. Both of them having their hands wrapped around the others' throat.

Bonnie started to perform a spell which was so powerful it made the lights flicker and break but the male hybrid yelled, "stop!" Bonnie looked at Adrian and stopped the spell. The male hybrid's eyes had turned yellow. "One bite from a hybrid and she's dead, remember?" He asked.

Adrian threw Caroline to the floor at Bonnie's feet and Bonnie quickly went to help her get up. When the two turned around, they saw that not only have Kimberley and Adrian left but that Isabel had been kidnapped as well.

"Isabel?" Bonnie and Caroline looked out the front door and start to worry about Isabel's whereabouts.

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Isabel's hands were tied up in shackles by Adrian and once she was secure, Kimberley started to press down on her wrist which caused the werewolf to shout in pain. The alcohol had completely drained from her and replaced with a massive headache from the screaming.

"Arghh." Isabel groaned. "Why are you doing this?"

"To show Tyler who's in charge." The hybrid answered while swiftly cracking Isabel's wrists causing the girl to scream in pain again, her face screwed up as she clenched her teeth.

As much as Isabel wanted to argue that Tyler didn't care for her anymore and that Hayley would be their best bet, she knew that Tyler did care in his own way and Hayley helped them break their sire bond and Isabel would never throw one of her wolves to be freely tortured just because they had bad blood.

Tyler and Elena rushed into the barn and toward them in a panic. "Stop! Stop it, Kim. Isabel's with us. All right? We're all on the same team." Tyler tried to persuade the woman.

"She's on your team, not mine." The hybrid bit back.

Behind Tyler and Elena, the other hybrids entered the barn, outnumbering them. They immediately restrained Elena and Tyler while Kimberley continued to torture a screaming Isabel.

"Hey wait. Not her." A hybrid protested. Isabel moved her eyes tiredly to see it was Chris. She guessed he didn't make it far before the hybrids got to him.

Chris moved up to stop it but Kim Just motioned the others to hold him back by hands on the chest.

"Don't interfere Chris. This is the only way." Kimberley gritted through her teeth.

Chris' worried eyes locked on the wolf's and she mouthed, 'it's okay.' With a small lopsided smile and he eased up, though the worried look never went away.

Tyler attempted to free himself from the grasp of the two hybrids holding him back but they didn't even budge.

"Stop it! Stop!" Tyler yelled.

Kim Just smirked over at Tyler as she stomped on Isabel's ankle. The she-wolf screamed again as she started to tug at the chains, trying desperately to get out.

"Ease up, Kim." Chris pleaded.

"Listen to Chris, Kim. You know the Mikaelsons won't like this, especially Klaus." Adrian spoke up. "They're not going to be happy that their precious parabatai is hurt."

"That's a very good point." Kim stated as a malicious smile spread across her face. For a moment she looked around until she spotted a piece of wood laying a at arms length away. She picked it up and showed it to Tyler and the rest of the hybrids. "Do you think he'll like this?"

"Kim! Don't do it. I swear to God!" Tyler growled watching Kim lower the stake over Isabel's heart. The wolf continued to try and get out but to no avail.

"No, wait, wait, wait, wait." Elena shouted gaining their attention. "If you really want to hit Klaus where it hurts, then torture me instead." She offered. She couldn't stand watching Isabel get hurt. And she didn't want her to be killed. Not when she had a baby who needed her. Elena hated not having her parents to watch her grow up, she couldn't let Rose suffer the same. "He's fixated on keeping me alive. You want real revenge or not?"

Kimberley hesitated for a moment but lowered the stake and got up to move toward Elena. She grabbed Elena by the throat and was ready to kill her just when Tyler managed to get himself loose from the hybrids holding him back. He immediately grabbed Kimberley and stuck his hand in her chest and wrapped his hand around her heart. Kimberley gasped in pain as the other hybrids move toward her in defense.

"Stay back! I'll rip her heart out right now!" Tyler threatened making sure the hybrids don't make any more moves towards the pair of them. Tyler looked Kimberley dead in the eye. "Kim put you all at risk today but I'm not gonna hurt her. I'm not Klaus. I don't kill and torture my own friends to get what I want." He broke eye contact and looked around him. "Now, we broke the sire bond, but if you want to be free we have to work together. No one can step out of line. Now, you're either with me or you're against me. Submit." Tyler growled, tightening his grasp on Kim's heart. "Submit or you die."

Kimberley, no longer being able to hold herself up, fell down on her knees and Tyler kneeled down with her, keeping his hand in her chest and his grasp around her heart.

"I'm....I'm sorry." She gasped out. Tyler removed his hand from her chest without her heart.

Kimberley gasped and caught her breath as Tyler stood up and looked down at the female hybrid. He looked around at the other hybrids. One by one, all of the other hybrids got down on their knees, submitting to Tyler and showing him that he was their Alpha.

Elena rushed to Isabel's side and let her free. Isabel rolled her wrist, hearing a crack as they healed themselves. She wiped the tears from under her eyes and looked from her right to her left. "Touching. Very touching. But I'm pissed." Isabel brushed herself off. "As hybrids I have no control over you and you have no loyalty to me." She looked over all the wolves as she slowly walked to stand by Tyler's side. "But as wolves you are terrible people with no respect for anyone but yourselves. I may be running with Klaus and he may have feelings for me but I'm not a pawn to be played with." She gripped Kim's chin with her hand and made the hybrid look in her eyes. "You don't deserve the power Klaus gave you." The blonde wolf glared before whipping her hand to the left, effectively snapping the hybrids neck.

The wolf Queen watched her fall face first before looking to Chris. "Come with me. You're getting your tail out of here."

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Isabel wrapped her arms around herself as she decided to walk alone. She had helped Chris get what he needed then carried on on her own while he sped away. Chris had offered to speed her home but she needed a good walk with the cool breeze and fresh air.

"Hey Isabel." Isabel pursed her lips but kept walking. He rushed to keep up with her pace. "Listen-"

"No. You listen." She started as she kept her eyes from his, not wanting to look at his face yet. "You hurt me. You allowed her in the house without me knowing. You didn't tell me anything about her or what you did. And I think that's probably what hurts the most. I could have forgiven you! Not for awhile but I would have eventually if you just told me!" She sniffled a little bit before wiping her eyes. "God! I love you Tyler. I really do. But I don't want to be with you anymore. I can't be with you anymore. It hurts. So much."

Isabel sniffled again and finally looked him in the eyes, her arms wrapped around herself as if she was holding herself together and keeping the pieces from falling in front of him.

"I'm sorry. For all that I have done. I understand that I hurt you and I would understand if you're not ready to forgive me for a while." He grabbed a hold of her arm and turned her to face him. He wiped the tears away and leaned down to give her one last kiss on the forehead. When he pulled away he pulled her into a hug. She sniffled once more, her eyes closing and her arms staying wrapped around herself. "But I'll always be there for you. And I will always love you Isabella. No matter what."

When she opened her eyes Tyler was gone and she was left on the road.

Like she said hybrids she can not control. They are free from any type of restraint.