"Right" Felix looks around the place "creepy graveyard of train cars, nothing to see here"

"Abandoned" holding Felix's arm, I asked him to come with since I don't trust the travelers and Felix makes me feel safe.

Shaking his head no "They're here" Demetri assured me

"When do you think" I ask "Damon will tell Elena that he killed her one friend she made at Whitmore?"

"He won't" Caroline says

"He will" Stefan promises "but it isn't exactly a casual conversation to be held"

"Especially with Elena" Damon feels Caroline's look "I know she's your friend but she isn't mine, I only tolerate being around her and be a nice civil man for you"

"Still" Caroline shakes her head "Damon killed Aaron in cold blood oh so casually, if he's able to do that then he's able to tell Elena"

"Or I" we turn around seeing some vampire here with short black hair, a small stubble of facial hair with blue eyes and light tan skin "could tell her? Considering I was lying in the road when he stopped his car"

"Who are you?" Felix asks

"This is Enzo" Stefan says

Raising my eyebrow "The only other friend of Damon's besides myself?"

"Is it that hard" Enzo laughs "to imagine Damon having a friend in this world? Damn" scratching his jaw "actually I'm not that surprised"

"What's in this for you?" Stefan demands "besides getting Damon to undo every positive decision he's ever made"

"Okay" Caroline walked forward "we're here, where's the antidote"

"Is it with the travelers?" Felix asks

"Ask them" he turns his head and a bunch of travelers come out from the train cars to surround us, oh perfect.

This woman with long dark brown hair, light olive skin with dark brown eyes comes forward. I hold Felix close since the way she's eyeing him, I don't like it "Who the fuck are you?"

"I'm Sloan" she looks at me "and your the Paragon" she looks over to a few travelers "you met a few of the travelers Stefan when they were taking your blood and Elena's"

"How could I forget?" Stefan asks

"Do you" Demetri asks "have the antidote to the ripper virus? Both Elena's and Damon's?"

She nods her head "We do thanks to Enzo"

"I was trapped in that bloody farm house" Enzo explains "with Damon, set to have my head torn off when out of nowhere comes Wes with the help of the travelers saves my life. On the condition that I owed them one"

"Why are we here then?" Caroline demands

"Wes was running low on vampire blood" Enzo explains "so I let him experiment on me. Among other things, he managed to find a cure for what he created" Why? Why would he willingly do that?

"Why?" I ask "why put yourself through that pain?"

He shrugs his shoulders "For Damon, I could care less about your twin" Elena really does know how to make enemies or make it so people don't like her "point is, there's a cure"

"When Wes died" Sloan adds "the travelers took it and his research, seeing as Elena is valuable to us were in the process of Wes's resources to find a cure for her virus"

"What's the cost?" I ask

"Katherine dead" she shakes her head "we need Elena since she's a vampire, Katherine is human"

"And Autumn?" Felix wrapped his arm around my waist "Why is she here? Demetri?"

"You're a paragon" she looks at me "there's an herb that we need you to grow for us but also we need Demetri's blood since he's a rare kind of doppelgänger. There only should have been Stefan and Elena"

"But there was also me and Galen" she nods her head

"Your also the first of your kind" She adds "so your blood is more potent, from what research we found from Wes" she looks at me "Autumn will be able to keep you alive and gain the blood we need"

"What about me?" Stefan asks "Why am I here?"

"We need your other you" He's not here, he's on his way to New Orleans from what Klaus texted me "your doppelgänger. We need him dead as well"

"Why are there so many of you?" I ask

"We aren't like your typical witch" she explains as I look around seeing more than two dozen people here "we need to channel on each other to have this spell work, we need to channel off something else. Like blood"

"Why?" I demand

"None of your business" she looks to the others who nod their heads and they start to add fire to a bunch of barrels for a fire it seems "now will you help us or not?"

"Why?" Felix demands

"Apparently their blood is special" Enzo shrugs his shoulders "according to traveler lore, the last remaining pairs of doppelgängers have much more special blood in their veins. Like Demetri"

"Special how?" Stefan demands

"Don't you think" Enzo asks "I didn't ask? If you can see the travelers are very secretive. I know that they can't be in the same place"

"It causes natural disasters" Felix looks around narrowing his eyes "if there are too many of them, they'll cause horrible disasters. Their curse from what Silas tricked my daughter into doing for him"

"Blood" Sloan demands

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"As the guidance counselor" my old guidance counselor looks at us all "you'll first meet with me then you'll have a chance to meet individually with your child's teacher"

"Why is your sister here?" Felix looks over

Looking over seeing Elena here, she comes up next to us "Autumn? What are you doing here?"

"I'm Jeremy's primary contact" Jeremy had his primary contact switched to me after Silas arrived and had to deal with Elena's recent drama.

"No" shaking her head "I am"

"He switched it to me" looking over seeing the guidance counselor holding my ID out "Hi Miss Santos"

"Autumn, Elena" she smiles at us "it's good to see you both?" Looking at Felix "who's this?"

"This is Felix" motioning to Felix "he's..."

"Her friend" Felix says "Jeremy talks to me sometimes"

"Ah" she nods her head "okay? I understand that but Elena? Why are you here?"

"Jeremy's my brother" she shakes her head

Miss Santos makes a face looking at the list "Yes but Autumn here is his primary contact, he had it changed from Damon Salvatore to Autumn a couple months ago"

"It's okay" holding my hand up "Elena can be here" I'm sure she'll want to hear how Jeremy is thriving with me "along with Damon" Elena looks over shocked to see Damon "who is also here"

When we are led to a classroom, we are silent as Elena shakes her head "I'm the oldest, it should be me in charge of Jeremy and I love him more"

A scoff escapes me "Some sort of love you're offering"

Damon clicks his tongue "Clock's busted. What am I" he makes a joke as he looked at the clock "paying the school for? I am going to file a complaint"

"Is that why you're here?" Elena demands

"You left me in charge of your baby brother" he waves his phone "I've had this date set for months"

"Really?" She sneers "so no other reason?"

"Aren't you two" I ask "dating?"

"We broke up" Damon nods his head "after Elena realized how horrible we are for one another"

"Was this before" Felix motions to them "or after you two fucked. I can smell the sex"

"Okay" Miss Santos came in "sorry to keep you all waiting. Bad news first. Jeremy didn't get into the art program he applied for"

"What art program?" Elena asks

"There was an art program" Miss Santos tell us "that I thought Jeremy would be perfect for, he didn't get into it unfortunately but he was close"

"What's the good news?" Felix asks

"Who has Jeremy been living with?" She asks

"Us" Elena motions to her and Damon.

"Actually" they look my way "Jeremy recently moved in with me, about two months ago"

"If that's a problem" Elena quickly says "we can"

"On the contrary" Miss Santos informs us "since Jeremy has been living with Autumn his grades have gone up that he's now an A plus student"

"A plus?" Elena smiles

Nodding her head "Yes, he's been getting good grades, he's participating more in school. Specifically with our art club and the decorating committee, he's no longer missing school"

"He was" Elena asks "missing school?"

Nodding her head "Since moving in with Autumn, Jeremy has been thriving"

"But she" Elena motions to me "has three children, surely that's a bad environment"

"Excuse you?" Felix demands

"Those children are all babies" she looks at me "crying and"

"On the contrary Elena" Miss Santos firmly said, clearly not liking with what Elena implied "When Jeremy was living with you, he was close to needing to being expelled"

"What?" Elena is taken aback "that can't actually be possible, I'm a good influence on him"

"No" shaking her head no "Autumn is, I highly recommend that Jeremy stays with her until he goes to college or does whatever" looking at his file "Jeremy recently took this language exam and he's now legally fluent in Italian and Greek"

"I speak Italian" Felix informs her "we are teaching the children Italian and Greek"

She smiles at him "Well done then, you both are doing wonderful jobs with Jeremy" she looks at Elena who is visibly upset "I know how hard this is to hear Elena but think about Jeremy"

"I do!" She screams

"Elena" Damon held his hand out "this is good news"

"No! It isn't!" She splutters motioning to me "Autumn can't be his primary role model, in high school she got married and had a baby"

"Marriage and teenage pregnancy" Miss Santos argues annoyed with Elena "in some cases cause the person, specifically the one having the baby to be affected. For Autumn and Jeremy, they have excelled. Your sister went to a boarding school in England and when she graduated she not only spoke English but now also Italian, French and Latin while you Elena barely passed high school. You nearly needed to repeat senior year. I don't know how but it's true" motioning to me "Jeremy excels with Autumn" motioning to her "with you he started multiple fights. He cheated on tests with several subjects three times. And he was failing. Lookin back, seeing all the times Jeremy nearly failed school that we suggested to your parents and your Aunt Jenna when they were alive that Jeremy should go to military school" she sighs "I firmly believe that Jeremy fails in life with you around Elena, as long as Jeremy stays with you Autumn then he has a chance at a better life"

After the teacher parent day, Felix and I go to the Mystic Grill "This is amazing" jumping up and down looking at Felix "how well Jeremy is doing"

"Shows how amazing of a mother you are" Felix tells me

When I see Tyler and Matt, they look our way "Hey guys"

"Someone's happy" Matt smiles

"Elena was told she's a bad guardian" Felix massages my shoulders "and that Autumn here is the best thing for Jeremy"