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06

Walking into the kitchen, Alaric is already roaming around in the cabinet. "Morning... what are you looking for?" I ask him, grabbing a water bottle from the refrigerator. "Aspirin. I thought we had aspirin?"

"I don't know where it is." I respond and Elena walks into the room with us, answering Alaric. "It's in the vitamins."

"Why are you hungover?" I ask him, crossing my arms. He turns around and gives me a sympathetic look. "Yeah, sorry about that. It was a bit of a weird night the other day."

"I told you, you don't have to feel guilty about inviting Meredith over here." Elena jumps in as she drinks her glass of water. Alaric nods,  "I know. And I thank you for that. But I do feel a little guilty for whisky dialing her at 2:00 in the AM."

All I knew was that Alaric and Meredith, the doctor, kissed and Elena walked in on them. "Ohh. No, you didn't." Elena laughs and Alaric laughs along, "Oh, yes, I did."

"Ohh. Was she cool about it?" Elena asked him. "Well, as soon as these aspirin kick in and I remember the conversation, I'll let you know." He told us and I laughed.

"Good luck with that." I smirked and patted his shoulder. The doorbell rang so I quickly walked to the door and opened it, seeing Sheriff Forbes there.

"Oh, hi." I smiled. "Is everything okay?" Elena asked as she and Ric walk out the door with me. "This is an unconventional conversation were about to have, so I hope you'll protect me on it." She told us and I crossed my arms, nodding.

My smile quickly turned into a frown. I don't feel good about this.

"Of course." Alaric nods, full of concern. "I assume you guys heard our medical examiner was murdered the night of the wickery bridge fundraiser." She told us and we all nodded, knowing what she meant.

"Yeah, Brian Walters. Why?" Alaric asked. "We've been investigating. Someone drove this stake through his heart." She showed us a plastic bag and inside it was a wooden stake, covered in blood.

Alaric took it from her hand and I was confused. "It's one of ours." Alaric scrambled on, "I mean, this is one of a set from your parents' lake house."

"That's why I'm here. I haven't told anyone, but forensics ran it for prints and found only one clean set." Sheriff Forbes sighed. "Yours." She looked at Elena.

"What?" She asked, clearly confused as I am. "I- I don't understand."

Later, Elena called Damon on her phone and put it on speaker. Alaric came to the kitchen and set down the bag of wooden stakes as Damon was speaking, "So you're the prime suspect, huh?"

"She doesn't think that I did it. She's just trying to find out why someone used on of my family's weapons to kill a council member." Elena explains to him through the phone.

"Well, why don't you just ask Ric if his dirty little doctor had access to the weapons." Damon points out and Alaric snaps,. "You're on speaker phone, dick."

"I'm just saying, first suspect is usually the right one. Don't get so defensive." Damon replies, "Brian Walters was killed days ago, all right? I didn't show Meredith this stuff until last night."

"It wasn't Meredith." I tell Damon, grabbing the phone from Elena's hand and she gives me a look. "But Brian Walters was her ex-boyfriend and Ric saw them fighting that night." Damon answers back.

"I don't think it's Meredith, just leave it at that." I sigh, running my fingers through my hair. "I refuse to believe that your luck with women is that tragic." Elena says as she looks up at Alaric.