Interior; School: Stefan catches up with Elena at her locker and tells her Caroline is okay and he'll check in on her later. He also lets her know Carter's body has been "taken care of." When Elena frets that things won't end well for Caroline, Stefan assures her he's going to make sure Damon's wrong -- and that it will be okay. Elena can't believe she thought she'd have a normal day. "My best friend's a witch. My boyfriend's a vampire. And? I have a doppelganger who is hellbent on destroying all of us." Stefan apologizes, but Elena says it's nobody's fault, it just is what it is. As he caresses her face, she insists she's fine, but seems at a loss for words. She shuts her locker and says she'll call him tomorrow -- leaving without even a kiss.

Lockwood Mansion: Carol is glad to have Brick House around the house, for Tyler's sake, I'm sure. She promises to try to find the moonstone he's been looking for and heads upstairs, just as Tyler enters the room. Mason apologizes for earlier and Tyler says they're good, but once his uncle is gone, Ty heads into his father's study, removes some floorboards under the rug, opens the hidden safe and takes out an old box containing the moonstone! He pockets it and we cut to...

Mossy Manse: When Damon arrives home and pours himself a drink, he calls out the hooded Jeremy, who is waiting for him. Just before Damon takes a swig of his drink, Jeremy warns him off -- confessing he laced it all with vervain. Oh the boozemanity! So, Germ came to Mossy Manse to disable Damon and stake him, but now he doesn't have it in him, even though "It's only fair. You killed me first." Damon wonders why the change of heart. Jeremy tells him about his father and uncle's vampire hatred, and while he feels the pressure of his legacy, he can't see what good it will do to kill Damon. Well Germ, I don't want the Evil Pixie Monster gone, but were I in your Chuck Taylor's I'd still be thinking about how Damon snapped your neck THE NIGHT BEFORE. I mean seriously? I get that Jeremy is a troubled kid and has been drawn to troubled people like Vicki and reasonably untroubled vampires like Anna, but this... is just too soon. I do think it has to happen, but wow, I did not expect this tonight and now that I've watched more than once, I'm not sure how well it works for me. Anyhow, after Damon cracks that he's not the milk-and-cookies type of big brother, Germ calls him a dick and starts to leave, but Damon stops him, confiding that his father hated vampires, too. "But, it was 1864, and..." He holds up Jeremy's rough homemade stake. "...People knew how to whittle." Heh.