Hello if you are reading this story for the first, I would suggest reading "Jar of Hearts". This current story is the sequel to that and you might get a little confused if you don't read it before reading this story.

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John stood in the kitchen closing the fridge. Elena stood on the other side of the door causing John to jump.

"You scared me" he smiled.

"Sorry" Elena replied.


Damon walked back into the boarding house. Kissing Elena kept replaying over and over in his mind. What was he thinking? Where did this leave Dia and him? He walked into the living room.

"Dia?" he called out. No answer. He frowned and called her name again.

"Dia are you here?"

Still no answer. He pulled out his phone and dialed her number. He waited and soon heard a phone ringing. He looked over to one of the coffee tables and saw her phone.


"Is Jenna home?" Jon asked Elena.

"She had to meet the fire chief about the building. She doesn't know the truth, they had covered that up" Elena explained.

" Yeah I know, how's Jeremy?" John asked.

"Held up in his room" Elena told him. She started messing with some of the dishes in the sink.

"Can I help?" John asked.

"Sure" she smiled. She slammed a knife on his fingers and pushed him on the wall.

"Katherine?" John exclaimed. Her faced changed.

"Hello John. Goodbye John" Katherine smiled evilly.


Elena walked into the house and yelled up the stairs.

"Jeremy? Are you still up?" She heard a noise in the kitchen and walked in. She saw John bleeding on the floor. Elena gasped and rushed over to him. She grabbed the phone and dialed 911. Unbeknownst to her Katherine was right behind her.

"Hi I need an ambulance to 2104 Maple Street" Elena said quickly.

John gasped and looked at Elena. "Behind you!"

"What?" Elena frowned.

"Behind you" John repeated frantically.

Elena quickly turned around, but no one was there. She grabbed a knife and went into the hallway. Katherine passed behind her as Elena quickly turned around again. Katherine smiled behind her. Katherine sped to the door and got out of the house leaving Elena terrified. She ran upstairs.

"Jeremy!" she called out. She rushed into his room and found him unconscious on his bed.

"Jeremy! Jeremy!" Elena shook him. "Jeremy please wake up." Jeremy opened his eyes.


The police and ambulance arrived at Elena's house. Stefan arrived also and when up to Jeremy's bedroom.

"What happened?" Stefan asked walking in.

"He said that Anna gave him her blood and then he took this pills and now… I mean he looks fine but so do you. I just… I don't know" Elena said concerned.

Stefan looked at Jeremy and took his face in hands.

"Look at me" Stefan demanded.

"I'm fine okay? I feel exactly the same" Jeremy protested.

"Should I call a paramedic? What should I do?" Elena asked.

Stefan looked into Jeremy's eyes. "No, he's fine."

"You mean I'm not a vampire?" Jeremy groaned. "Damn it!"

"Don't say that Jeremy!" Elena told him. "Jer, why do you want that?"

"Did you hear about Anna, what happened to her tonight? She's dead" Jeremy looked at her.

" Jeremy, Jeremy. Come here, sit down" Stefan asked him.

Jeremy walked over to Stefan and sat down on his bed.

"I'm sorry about Anna but it's very important that you listen to me right now. Every passing moment Anna's blood is leaving your system. If you try to kill yourself right now, you could really die" Stefan explained sternly. Jeremy just rolled his eyes. Stefan slapped him.

"Hey! Do you understand me?" he asked.

"Stefan…" Elena spoke.

"Yeah I understand" Jeremy replied.

"What about the pills that he took?" Elena asked.

"He didn't take enough to die so Anna's blood actually healed him" Stefan explained.

A policemen stepped into the room.

"Miss Gilbert?" he said.

"I'll be right there" Elena replied.

"You need to be at the hospital" Stefan told her.

"But…" Elena protested.

"No, no, no, I'll stay here with Jeremy" Stefan replied.

"No I don't need a babysitter" Jeremy protested.


Sheriff Forbes stood in the hospital by herself trying to keep herself together while waiting to hear news of Caroline. Damon rushed up to her.

" Liz, I came as soon as I got the message. Is she okay?" Damon asked concerned.

" She's in surgery, it's ... they're doing everything they can" Liz looked at Damon. " I need your help Damon."

"Sure anything Liz" he replied.

"Mayor Lockwood is dead. They thought he was a vampire. They put him in the basement" the sheriff told him.

"Mayor Lockwood is a vampire?" Damon frowned.

" No, no. A mistake was made, they said he drops like the others when John's device when off but he… he couldn't have been a vampire, I've known him my whole life and know Carol Lockwood is gonna want answers and all I can think of right now is Caroline and ..." the sheriff began to cry.

"It's okay" Damon hugged her as Liz cried.


Elena arrived at the hospital and saw Bonnie.

"How's Caroline?" she asked.

"She's weak. They don't know if she's going to make it" Bonnie told her.

Elena's face fell. Bonnie embraced her as Damon looked over at them.

"Is there something that we can do? Like a spell or something?" Elena asked.

"She doesn't know how, do you?" Damon said walking up.

"No, I don't" Bonnie said.

"No, you don't because it took Emily years to learn a spell like that" Damon looked at her.

"Now I can take down a vampire. That spell was easy to learn" Bonnie glared.

" I can give Caroline some blood" Damon suggested.

"No, no way" Elena protested.

" No, just enough to heal her. She will be safe in the hospital and it will be out of her system in a day she will be better Elena" Damon told her.

"It's too risky. I can't agree to that" Elena sighe.

"Do it" Bonnie said. She looked at Elena's expression.

"This is Caroline. We can't let her die. Do it."

"If I do this, you and me, call a truce?" Damon smirked.

"No" Bonnie snapped. "But you'll do it anyway, for Elena." Bonnie walked away leaving Elena and Damon alone.

Damon looked at Elena. "I know this is probably the last thing you want to do right now but we should talk about what happened tonight."

" Yeah, one of the tomb vampires has got into to house and almost killed John" Elena told him.

Damon frowned at her confused. "What? When? What are you talking about? After I left?"

Elena frowned. "You were there?"

"Come on Elena you know I was" Damon replied.

"When were you at the house?" Elena asked.

"Really?" Damon looked at her. " Earlier, on the porch, we were talking, exposed our feelings, come on, we kissed Elena!"

"Okay, I don't have time for this Damon" Elena snapped.

"If you want to forget what happened fine but I can't" Damon told her.

"Don't know what you're talking about Damon" Elena glared. "Where's Dia?"

"I don't know. She's not at the house and she left her phone and her car is gone" Damon replied.

"Do you think something has happened?" Elena frowned. "That doesn't sound like her to disappear without telling anyone."

"I know, but I haven't gotten to the super worried point just yet" Damon said.

"Maybe she went to my house" Elena suggested.

"I hope" Damon replied.


Jenna came through the hospital doors walking toward Elena. Damon walked away while receiving a glare from Jenna.

"Elena, I came as soon as I get you message. How is John?" she asked.

"Where have you been?" Elena asked her.

"At the fire department, I deferred a report" Jenna looked at her. "I told you earlier."

"No you didn't" Elena protested.

"Yes I did" Jenna shot back.

"No Jenna you didn't" Elena huffed.

"Yes I did" Jenna snapped.

Damon watched the two of them continue to go back at one another. It suddenly all clicked. One name came to his mind.

"Oh you got to be kidding me!" Damon exclaimed.


Stefan continued to look after Jeremy. He heard the front door open and went down stairs. It was Elena.

"Hey!" he said. "How was Caroline?" He hugged her.

"Not good" she replied. She hugged him tightly.

"Just what I needed."

She looked at him and leaned in for a kiss. Stefan looked at her and threw her on the couch. It wasn't Elena. It was Katherine.

"Katherine" Stefan sneered.

"At least I fooled one of you" she smiled.

Stefan rushed over to her and threw her against the wall.

"Feeling better?" she said icily.

Stefan sneered and pushed her against another wall. Stefan heard the front door open again. Katherine grabbed his arm and threw him on the floor and sped out of the house. Damon and Elena walked into the house and saw Stefan on the floor. He got up immediately.

"Stefan?" Elena frowned.

"What happened?" Stefan said.

"Katherine happened" Damon looked at them.

"Excuse me?" Elena's mouth dropped. "You know what fill me in later. I'm going to go check on Jeremy." She walked past them and went upstairs.

"I can't believe this" Damon walked into the kitchen. "Did she say what she wanted?"

"No" Stefan replied.

"That woman certainly knows how to make an entrance" Damon smirked.

"She said she fooled one of us at least" Stefan looked at him. "What does that mean?"

"She pretended to be Elena too when I showed up earlier tonight" Damon replied.

Elena walked back into the kitchen.

"I told Jeremy, I can't lie to him anymore." Elena said.

"Are you alright" Stefan asked.

"No, I'm not alright. I thought that with all the tomb vampires gone things were getting better" Elena sighed.

"I know, we all did" Stefan told her.

" Katherine was in this house, that means she's been invited in, what are we gonna do?" Elena asked.

"Move" Damon smirked.

"Very helpful, thank you" Elena rolled her eyes.

"Katherine wants you dead, there's zero you can do about it, you will be dead but you're not. So clearly she has other plans" Damon said.

" Right and we need to find out what those other plans are and not provoke her in the process. What happened tonight when you thought she was Elena" Stefan asked curiously.

"To risk another front line encroachingon your very crowded forehead….we" Damon stopped."Kissed."

"And you thought it was me?" Elena looked at him.

"What do you mean you kissed" Stefan frowned.

"You know, when two lips pucker and then." Damon feigned a kiss mockingly. Stefan rushed over to him but missed Damon.

"Don't be obvious Stefan" Damon rolled his eyes. Stefan went toward Damon again, but stopped when Elena put herself between the two of them.

"Stefan wait, he kissed Katherine, not me" Elena looked at Damon. "I wouldn't do that. We don't have time for this guys."

"Later" Stefan said glaring at Damon.

"John must know something. It has to be a reason why Katherine tried to kill him" Elena told them.

"She's Katherine. She loves to play games and you're fooling yourself if you think you're going to find out what she's been up to before she wants you to know" Damon smirked.

"No, actually Elena's right, John could know something through Isobel. Your mother, she was in touch with Katherine so maybe we can go to the hospital and talk" Stefan suggested.

"I've got a better idea" Damon smiled.

"What's that?" Elena asked.

" I'm just gonna ignore the bitch" Damon smirked. "See you"

"Is that smart?" Elena asked.

" If Katherine thinks she's been ignored it will low her out, she'll make a move" Damon replied.

"Yeah? And then what?" Stefan crossed his arms.

"Stake her, rip her head off, something poetic. We'll see" Damon smiled.

"Is this before or after Dia finds out that you kissed Katherine?" Stefan glared.

"Oh my god I completely forgot" Elena ran her fingers through her hair. "Stefan has Dia been by here at all?"

"No I haven't seen her for a while" Stefan looked at Elena. Damon's face fell and looked worried.

"What's wrong?" Stefan asked.

"I came over here to talk to Jeremy and Dia told me that she would meet me back at the house. There's no trace of her. I found her phone, but her car is gone" Damon explained.

"Any idea where she could be?" Stefan asked.

"Not a clue" Damon began. "And besides I'm too irresistible to not say goodbye to." He smirked.

"Could Katherine have something to do with it?" Elena looked at them.

"If she does, I've officially come to that super worried point" Damon looked at Elena.

There you have it! First chapter. Now I know Dia was only mentioned, but don't worry she'll come back soon. I have so much planned for this story. Get yourselves prepared for many twists and turns. Read and Review!