The big city.

"Sorry Cora. He threatened to kill Carlisle and Carlisle ran out of arguments to save himself." Rose said quietly. She didn't move from Damon still

Blake sighed and hugged her back. "It's okay, I shouldn't have freaked out so badly.

~!!~
James stood up. "Your crazy!"

after a few moments George let her go.

When Layla was released she turned around and punched him in the chest. "don't do that again!", she snapped at him.

"what? you mean this?", he asked and grabbed the pressure point in her neck again. Layla tensed up and glared at him.

Lenora stood up, and looked around.

"What's going on?!" She demanded. "Who are you, anyways??" She asked, looking at George.
~!!~
"Sorry," Ava mumbled again.
~!!~
Cora shook her head, holding her head in her hands. Suddenly, she stood up. "Please make sure he stays away from Carlisle," She said. "Please."
~!!~
Laurinda was out a few minutes later. She got dressed in the outfit she had gotten from Lance; it fit her perfectly. She combed her hair with her fingers and put her bag on her shoulder, and poked her head out of the bathroom.

James said nothing.

~!!~
Blake pulled back. "Next time leave a note, please."

~!!~
Lance was down stairs.

"I can try but my main worry is Ashley, even if she hates me, she's my charge. I'll do what I can to keep him away but... I can't promise you" Rose said slowly. She turned bright red when Damon's hand wrapped around her waist but she moved away quickly, cheeks still red.

George smirked and let her go, and grabbed her hand when she went to punch him again. He looked at Lenora. "My name is George", he said smiling at her.

Layla glared at him and yanked her hand free. She crossed her arms and sat down on the foot of James' bed.

"And.....why are you here?" Lenora asked.
~!!~
Cora frowned when Damon touched her. She glared at him, remembering what she had seen of Carlisle's past.

"Rose...you do know who he is, right?" She asked, glaring at him.
~!!~
Laurinda wandered downstairs, her bag on her shoulder. She didn't know where he was.
~!!~
Ava nodded. "I will," She said.

"Carlisle's brother..." Rose said, "And the guy I loved before I died..."

Damon frowned at Cora when, knowing he would probably be ratted out.

Lance's head poped out of the kicthen. "Clean?"

~!!~
"That's all I ask,." Heb said.

George shrugged. "I was going to ask Layla if she knew where my little monster siblings are", he said.

Layla shook her head. "no I haven't seen them lately", she told him still having her arms crossed.

Laurinda nodded. "As clean as I'll get," She said.
~!!~
Ava nodded.
~!!~
"You know what he did?" Cora asked, still glaring at him.

"No..." Rose answered.

Damon's frown deepened as his past was about to come out, "Cora, don't..." he pleaded, knowing it would have little success.

"Oh, I'm sorry. If I were her, I'd want to know," Cora said. "He killed Carlisle," she said, looking at Rose. "And was the cause of Annabell's death, too."

"Is that true?" Rose asked Damon, hurt was written all over her face.

"Rose, I- he started

"Is it true, Damon?!" Rose shouted

Damon looked at Cora sadly before turning back to Rose, "Yes." he said defeated.

"I had to go..." Rose said before disappearing.

"Rose!" Damon shouted but he was too late. He looked up at Cora angrily, "Great! Now you've made the angel upset!" he shouted

"Do I look like I care?!" Cora shouted. "She deserves to know the truth about you! You're horrible! I was forced to watch! Lee showed me!" She realized he probably didn't know who Lee was, but didn't care right now.

Abby apeared in the room, holding the Penny, and Adrian by thye back of the shirts. "I would kill them, if they weren't already dead." She wasn't 12 this time. She looked the age she died at; 28. She threw them at him.

"How many demons need to be in here?!" He demaned.

~!!~
"You need anything to eat?" Lance asked.

"I would have left rather than want you to tell her that!" Damon shouted, "Now she's heart broken and it can't be fixed!" he shouted, "Damn it! She has a job to do that won't get done!"

Penny was struggling to get free and fell forawrd along with Adrian when she threw them at George.

He managed to catched ADrian before he fell, but missed Penny and she fell on her face. He held back laughter as she got back up and smoothed out her clothes.

Layla laughed when Penny fell on teh ground.

~~~~~~

Alice had called James a few minutes ago, but he had never picked up. She left a message still sounding a little upset from last night. When she finished her message she closed her cell and threw it on her bed and went into Bailey's room watching her play with her toys. She walked over to her and sat down on the floor and played with her and made one of the toys do something funny and made Bailey laugh.

Cora was silent. "Maybe you should have thought about that before you killed Carlisle," She said simply, before turning away from him.
~!!~
Lenora sighed.

"This place is getting overrun..." She mumbled.
~!!~
Laurinda shook her head. "I've got....some, in my bag," She said, walking over to the table and emptying it out. There were a few snack foods, but that was it. She was glad he hadn't mentioned anything about her birthday again.

Lance smiled. "Thats not a brithday meal." Hesaid.

~!!~
James found. "No kidding?" He didn't hear his phone going off because it was downstairs.

"Because I knew I would meet someone centuries later, right!?!" Damon shouted, "When I lived I had to! I didn't want to die! As for Annabell I have regretted that everyday since! So please Cora, spare me your opinions and move on! I'm sorry you had to watch what I did but you didn't exist then so you don't know why I did what I did!"

Cora shook her head, and didn't even turn to face him. She knew she should feel bad, but quite frankly, she didn't. He killed Carlisle. She didn't care.
~!!~
Ashlyn got off at the next station, and didnt' get back on. She climbed up onto the streets, and looked around. She was in a town a good ways away now. She would stay here, she decided.

She slung her bag over her other shoulder and began walking, looking for a motel. She would stay there for the night, and then find apartment listings in the morning.
~!!~
Lenora sighed. She didn't even know most of them, and wondered why they were here.
~!!~
"It's not my birthday," Laurinda said. "I mean, it is, but it hardly feels like it. And it doesn't matter," she said. "I'm a year older, but nothing else has changed."

Penny got up and was about to run at Abby but George grabbed her next to tightened his grip a little on presure point on her next.

"ok ok!", she said going back down trying to get out of his reach.

Adrian watching but didn't move or say anything.

Layla rolled her eyes. "You guys should probably get back to the underworld", she said and looked at Abby for a moment then back at George and his siblings.

"Plus is I hadn't killed him you wouldn't have met him, how's that for a turn around?" Damon said before he disappeared.