My name is Jeremy Gilbert I am a guardian a true keeper of the balance except unlike witches I don't go looking for trouble, trouble finds me. It's not easy living a double live I've seen things that my sister Elena and girlfriend Bonnie would not believe. I've learned things that would shake the very core of their beliefs I've gone to places they will never go and I have done things they would never understand.

My sins are my own cross to bear and I have to live with them I've been a guardian since before my so called resurrection yeah that's right Bonnie didn't bring me back I was already alive. Before you judge me I need you to understand something I didn't plan it Bonnie acted on her own I was supposed to go back to being dead but then Bonnie tried bringing me back when there was no one to bring back she died and I was left holding the bag. On the bright side those acting classes I took in freshman year paid off. That's ironically the least of my issues.

Upon becoming a guardian I remembered every compelled memory and I started putting things together. I put together Bonnie's involvement with Anna's death, I remembered Elena trying to control my life and sending me to Denver I also remember Vickie dying. So amidst all these revelations I started drinking and gambling and hiding my damn problems from my so called friends I mean seriously sometimes the self-righteous indignation makes me want to take out my flask and drink in front of everyone and then tell them all off.

Any way as a guardian I've lost friends, comrade's people that became like family I've let people down so I want you to know the happy go lucky person you see me as that's not who I am that's who I pretend to be because I know that if my friends and family every saw the real me they could never cope. The truth is I am a somewhat suicidal, self-loathing, barely self-functioning alcoholic that fights the forces of darkness in my spare time I'm also a sex addict I couldn't stay faithful if I tried all of this is the real me.

So turn back while still can because unlike my sister who lives la la land I'm living in hell.

Chapter One:

I woke up next to Samantha a local prostitute and drug addict I rubbed my head feeling a nasty hang over I stood up and opened her night stand drawer I looked inside it for my flask.

"Up already?" She asked groaning.

"Yeah Sam. I got work down stairs where's my gun?"

"Right where you left it in your holster on the door knob babe. I thought bullets couldn't kill vampires and were wolves." Sam said a little bit confused.

"Yeah normally they just piss them off but my bullets are packed with my own special blend vervain mixed with wolf's bane and inside silver bullets blessed by a priest. It's a quadruple threat and when it hits it's like a cannon ball hitting them especially the explosive rounds."

I got dressed and attached my gun holster to my waist. "Sam you got a switch blade?"

"It's on the dresser in front of the mirror. Why are you asking?"

"When I pin them down I'm going to sever their spinal cords it's sort of like decapitating a vampire only it involves a little less head removing." After that I went down stairs and to another room in the hotel and started opening fire.

Mean While…

Jake a warlock and Jeremy's secret best friend was looking some old books with an older man named Thomas. Thomas was Jeremy's mentor and teacher he had been secretly teaching Jeremy how to be a guardian and protector of the innocent.

"Shouldn't Jeremy be helping us do research?" Jake asked finding it odd that they were doing the heaving lifting aka monster research.

"Well you must understand Jake he's a guardian a servant of the Celestial Court he's morally obligated to fight off the forces of darkness. Our purpose is to provide moral and emotional support as he cannot ever reveal his secret to anyone less they be put in mortal danger." Thomas explained in a empowering and moving speech.

Jake just starred at the partially bald Brit "You know he's a drunk, a womanizer, only with Bonnie because he feels guilty that she sacrificed her life for nothing and oh yeah he secretly harbors feelings of hate towards both the Salvatores and some partial resentment towards Elena who he secretly refers to only as his cousin when she's not around. He also spends his free time at the bar where he gets drunk and last but by no means least he blows all his money on hookers like Samantha his personal prostitute slash secret girlfriend and that's not when he's blowing it all away when he's gambling."

"He seriously blows all his money on hookers, gambling and liquor?" Thomas asked surprised.

"Yeah."

"Son of a bitch! He told me that he need five hundred more dollars to enroll in college!" Thomas screamed slamming a book on demonology on to the table.

Jake smirked "Dude let me give you some advice Jeremy the real Jeremy isn't that sweet heart that he's got his sister or cousin or whatever and her friends fooled into thinking he is he's the guy you hide your money and booze from. How did he become a guardian anyway?"

"Well it's complicated but the Celestial Court was short on soldiers so we picked a bunch fallen warriors, soldiers or hunters to resurrect. I barely got him out of that fire if I hadn't done that he'd be…"

"Really dead wouldn't he?"

"Yes, yes he would Jake."

"And we'd never of had our money swindled from us. Hard to believe the fate of humanity is in the hands of a drunk, gambling, cheating womanizer. You know what that means right?"

Thomas nodded "Indeed the world is doomed especially if he can't get his shit together."