Season 1 Episode 12

Now that Ms.Elena Gilbert is being stalked by a crazy psycho vampire, Stefan wants to do everything he can to protect her. He gave Elena A LOT of vervain. He told her to give it to friends and family to protect them. In this episode we see Elena give a fancy necklace, with possibly some vervain to Caroline. No more Damon I guess. Sorry buddy. He also gives Elena back her family watch. Which is now turned into a vampire compass. This way she will know when ever there is another vampire around. The only problem? Her boyfriend IS a vampire.

            Well it seems like I won’t be ordering pizza anymore seeing as anybody can show up. A night alone Jeremy and Elena decide to buy pizza. The pizza boy comes and when Jeremy goes to pay him he realizes he doesn’t have the money. He then asks pizza boy to COME IN, while Elena brought down the money. When the pizza boy leaves you can realize whom he is. The crazy stalker vampire. OH! He has a name. Noah.

            While Bonnie and Elena are hanging out at the grill, Bonnie notices a hot guy. The bartender named Ben who used to be a student at Mystic Falls. Elena says she has to go and while she’s leaving out to her car she gets a phone call. Guess who? Yep! Crazy stalker vampire is calling Elena and he is right across the street. Elena spots him and rushes to get into her car. Do you want to know what he said? “You won’t get away from me next time” Uh, yeah I would be peeing my pants. But back in the bar Bonnie gets into a little confrontation, with Damon. Then guess who comes over! Ben, Bonnie’s eye candy. He asks if there was anything going on and Damon gives up with out a fight. I think Damon is going a little soft.

            Meanwhile, Jeremy got an A on his report! Good for you J! Mr. Saltzman goes all under cover when asking Jeremy is he really believes in vampires. Jeremy then says No but he loves the stories. Mr. Saltzman then asks Jeremy if he can borrow his journal. Hm. Could this have anything to do with the fact he knows Damon killed his wife? Possibly. So he gives it to him.

            Oh! Did I mention Matt got a job as a bus boy? Yep. At the Grill. So Stefan wants Damon out of Mystic Falls so he tells Damon that he will help him do anything just for him to leave. Even to get Katherine out of the tomb. Gasp! Really Stefan? Damon isn’t sure though, he has trust issues. So Stefan leaves to go to Elena’s house leaving him alone to think. At Elena’s, before Aunt Jenna leaves she finally confronts her about her adoption, this is the story: Her mother name was Isabella. She was only sixteen when she saw Elena’s adoptive father leaving his office. Please note he is a doctor. He noticed that she was about to give birth. Elena’s adoptive parents gave Isabella a place to stay for a while. Then she just up and left Elena. Never to be seen again. Elena’s adoptive parents had been trying to give birth to a child for a long time and it wasn’t happening. So her father being a doctor forged the birth certificate and put them down as her real birth parents. They didn’t want to lose Elena. Elena was a little shocked by the news but was satisfied with the truth. Aunt Jenna then leaves to chaperon the school dance.

Elena is still at the house getting ready for the school dance. And then…she hears the compass go off. She tries to call Stefan to only get Damon. Apparently Stefan left his phone there and told Elena that Stefan was on his way to her house. She is then relieved; thinking the vampire the compass caught was Stefan. See, this is the problem. It wasn’t Stefan. Just as she hangs up the phone and dropping down from the ceiling, which was pretty impressive, is Noah, the crazy stalker vampire. He almost gets his teeth into her before her love comes to the rescue this time and pry’s him off of her. Then Noah leaves before Stefan can get his hands on him. Stefan calls Damon to help. What?! Yeah. They talk about how they figured out Noah got in. Dressing up as the pizza boy. Damon decides to go after the vampire that very night. Elena agrees to it but Stefan doesn’t seem to keyed up about it. Did Stefan seem a little tense or was it just I? They show up to the school dance together and Caroline asks if it was a threesome now. Ha classy Caroline. 

            On the other hand Jenna and Alaric seem to be hitting off pretty well. He tells her a little bit more about his wife and how he hopes to find the murder soon. So Damon is suppose to have an irresistible charm right? Well I’m guessing it has worn off. Wait, I know it has worn off. He asks Bonnie to dance and what dance and what does she say? NO! The he decides to give it another shot. He asks Elena if she would like to dance and she said…she would! But then she turns to Stefan and asks him for this dance. Harsh. Well maybe Damon should think about being nicer to people. He did seem a little hurt by it though.

            Jeremy has this friend who has been pretty stuck on him for a while. Her name is Anna. Sounds like an innocent name right? Well not so much. See Anna shows up at the school dance, a school she does not attend, starts to ask Jeremy about his ancestor’s journal. He tells her that he gave to Alaric to borrow. She then gets all upset and tells him that he shouldn’t just be giving out to anyone. He says so what it’s a stupid book. That’s when she gets all vampire. Her eyes go red and veiny . She shakes it off before Jeremy really notices and says that it’s just something in her eye.

            She leaves the dance and goes out in the hall to meet…Noah? Yeah, well apparently their working together. They both want to get into the tomb, but Noah wants Elena because she looks like Katherine. Apparently Katherine got around.

            Well Bonnie and Caroline left the dance, all thanks to Damon. They go to the grill where Bonnie sees Ben again.  She tells Caroline that she has a crush on him and Caroline says that he’s just a ‘washed up jock’ while saying it Matt, who is a jock and needed a job, was standing right behind her. She doesn’t notice though. And when they go sit down she notices thought that Matt is ignoring her and she doesn’t know why. Bonnie gives some good advice and tells her that if she wants something done to go do it. Don’t wait around. Great pep talk Bonnie. She then takes her own advice and goes up to the bar and asks Ben out. He says yes!

            Back over at the dance, Stefan and Elena are dancing to see if they can spot the other vampire. Which was really cute! Damon is standing out in the wings looking too, then Alaric walks up to him and tries to make small talk. Asking him very personal questions. Way to act oblivious Alaric. Alaric then walks away seeming not have gotten anything out of him. On the dance floor, Elena spots someone in a black hooded sweatshirt. The same exact what Noah was wearing. She tells Stefan and then the hooded sweatshirt guy walks out with Stefan following him. When he gets to him he realizes that it’s not him. It was a set up! Smart vampire. While Stefan is out there Noah calls Elena on her cell phone. He tells her that if she doesn’t leave put the door he tells her too that he would kill Jeremy. She does it and leaves the dance. Running the halls of the school trying to get out.

            He finally catches up to her and tosses her around. Elena tries to defend herself with pencils which is pretty smart if I do say so myself. She then breaks a mop stick and tries to stake him. He grabs her arm before she does and goes to bite her but than Stefan and Damon show up. So he doesn’t get too. They ask him what he wants with Elena and he says she looks like Katherine. He says that they weren’t her only guys. Then Damon asks him how to get in the tomb and he says he doesn’t know. Stefan then stakes him, missing the heart so he can still talk. They ask him again and he says that you need Emily’s Grimwa, and that they could find it in Jonathan Gilbert’s journal. They eventually stake him when he doesn’t give any more conversation.

            They both see Alaric walk by and Stefan tells Damon to go check it out. Damon catches up to Alaric and uses compulsion on him. He thinks it works but what he doesn’t see is the vervain in Alaric’s hand. Thus saving Alaric’s life. He fakes the compulsion.

            Back over at the grill Caroline finally confronts Matt. She asks him why he was ignoring her. He says because that he doesn’t want to ruin their friendship because that was the only good thing he had left and he was afraid to take the next step. He also told her he wasn’t over Elena. Really Matt? So Caroline gets upset and says he already made the next step and that she doesn’t want to seem him again. Ouch!

            Alaric decides to walk Jenna home after the dance and when he gets to the door he apologizes for talking about his wife. Then he says her name was…Isabella! What?!  Uh-oh!

            While Ben is closing up the grill Anna watches him in the dark. As he starts to walk away she attacks him but he… turns around and grabs her by the next and pushes her up against the wall. Yeah. You guessed it. He’s a vampire too. He tells Anna that the witch (whom I’m guessing is Bonnie) is falling for him. Then he starts kissing Anna.

            So there were three of them in it together. Well now only two. A lot of this episode I did not see coming. I cannot wait until next week to see what happens when they go back to where it all started. Check it out on the CW Thursday @ 8.

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