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I know you wanna go to heaven but you're human tonight

It was a new morning and a new start of a new day. In the house that belonged to the Gilbert's sat a teenaged girl by the kitchen counter and ate her meal of cereal. She took her time, as she knew that she didn't need to do anything important that day. So she ate her cereal in silence as she read one of her favorite books. Soon that silence was interrupted by the sound of the teenager's strawberry blonde aunt bouncing into the kitchen.

"Good morning, Jo," she greeted her niece with a smile. The teenager smiled back and gave her aunt a two fingered salute. The aunt snorted before she looked in the cupboards for something to eat herself. Just then she had a thought. "Where's Elena and Jeremy?" she asked.

"Still probably sleeping," the girl, Jo, answered without looking up from her book. "Why?"

"Well, nothing except that it's their first day in school," her aunt noted with a small, teasing smile. Jo's eyes widened as she looked up at her aunt. She had forgotten that her siblings were to start their first day at school after the summer. "So, could you maybe be a good big sister and wake your siblings up?" her aunt asked with a charming smile, one she knew the teenager couldn't resist saying no to.

Jo groaned as she climbed down the stool. "Fine," she huffed. "But you owe me, Jenna," she pointed to her aunt before she disappeared out of the kitchen. She ran up the stairs and finally reached the door she was looking for. She banged her fist against it hard. "Yo, Jer! Wake up, you're gonna be late!" she yelled through the door. She heard a muffled 'fine' and decided that it was good enough of an answer from her brother. She then turned to the next door and decided to knock a bit more softly on it. "Oh, dear sister!" Jo sang through it. "Get your ass out of there before I drag it!"

Her twin sister opened the door to reveal herself, looking very tired and exhausted while doing so. "Hey, Jo," Elena greeted her sister. "What's up?"

"Jenna told me to get you up for school," Jo explained to her twin. "And… All I can think of is; You sure you're ready? I mean, you really wanna go there?" she asked with a concerned look as she saw her sister still seeming to have that permanent frown on her face.

"Gotta do it sometime," Elena muttered an answer and walked past her sister to continue down the hall. "So why not now?" she added as she started to walk down the stairs.

Jo sighed at her sister and decided to follow her back down, but not before she woke Jeremy up completely. She opened up her brother's door and sneaked in, seeing that he was still asleep. She huffed at her brother before she grabbed his comforter, dragged it off of him in a swift motion also while yelling "GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM!" very loudly. Jeremy groaned and hissed at his sister that she was annoying and wished she died. Of course Jo didn't take it at heart so she only chuckled and kissed him all over his face to continue to annoy him before she ran out of his room seeing that he was ready to throw his lamp at her.

"Was that really necessary?" her sister asked her from the bottom of the stairs, having heard the whole thing.

"What? He needs to wake up and not be late for school, am I right?" Jo said and passed her sister so she could walk back into the kitchen. Seeing as her bowl of cereal was still on the counter, she grinned and sat back down to continue to eat her breakfast. She looked up from her bowl seeing her sister go to the coffeemaker while Jenna had her head buried into the fridge.

"Toast. I can make toast," she said and looked back to Elena who poured herself a cup of coffee.

"It's all about the coffee, aunt Jenna," Elena stated as she finished pouring the beverage into her cup.

"Is there coffee?" a new voice entered the kitchen and Jo couldn't help but to smirk at her brother as he walked in without a care in the world. Although when he saw his big sister he snorted and scowled at her as he went for a cup and poured coffee into it.

Jo, being Jo, took the opportunity to further annoy her little brother. "How lovely to see you this morning, dear brother," she beamed sarcastically and winked when Jeremy looked her way.

"Shut up, Jo," he hissed which earned a laugh from his sister.

"It's your first day of school and I'm so unprepared," Jenna mumbled to herself, not noticing the bickering between the oldest and youngest Gilbert sibling. Instead of noticing she went to her bag and dug through it before she found what she wanted and held out some money to the two that was going to school that day. "Lunch money?" she asked Elena and Jeremy. While Elena declined, Jeremy took the money from both hands earning a sigh from Jo. "Anything else?" Jenna asked. "A number two pencil? What am I missing?" she turned to ask Elena that last part, thinking she still forgot something.

"Don't you have a big presentation today?" Elena asked her aunt.

Jenna gave a small nod. "I'm meeting my thesis advisor at…" she trailed off as she looked down on her wrist watch. "Now - Crap!" she exclaimed and pulled her hair out of her incredibly messy bun.

"Then get out of here," Jo urged her aunt. "I'll take care of these two," she smirked at Jenna as Elena gave her twin a playful glare thinking that if anyone between the two of them needed a babysitter it would be Jo. Since they were twins it of course meant that they were the same age, only Jo was fifteen minutes older than her sister.

Jenna sighed at the siblings, but gave them a thankful smile, before she disappeared out of the door. Jo grinned before she began to eat her beloved cereal again, choosing to ignore her siblings the best she could. They seemed to fall out more than usual after the death of their parents. It was something Jo didn't like, but choose to not get in the middle of it. She heard her brother leave the room and her sister sigh next to her before she took a sip out of her coffee.

Jo, not being one to pay attention, turned to her twin with a concerned look. "You okay?"

Elena scoffed at the irony that she would ask her the same thing that she had asked Jeremy. She shook her head with a ghost of a smile on her lips. "Don't start…" she joked and walked out of the kitchen as well.

Jo stared after her in confusion. What had she missed? See, this is why she didn't have any friends in this town alone, she didn't pay enough attention. She sighed and thought about going after her sister, but stopped at the sound of the news on the TV. Jo turned to it and saw the report being about a couple that had gone missing the night before. Quickly turning it off, Jo scoffed and left the room with a shake of her head.

Later on the morning Jo stood out on the porch of her home in Mystic Falls and waved goodbye to her sister that climbed into the car with her friend Bonnie. Since Jo was seventeen she should have technically gone with them to the high school, but she was kind of just visiting her hometown for the time being. She had been living in Chicago and gone to a boarding school for about a year and only came to visit a few days before her parents had died, and she had just stayed with her siblings and aunt ever since. She wasn't complaining. She loved her family and Chicago somehow felt… Empty… She didn't know why, it hadn't always felt empty. But the last months of her staying there she just felt like something was missing. Something that was supposed to be there but just wasn't.

As she watched Elena get into her friend's car Jo smiled at them both and they returned it to her while adding a wave. Jo chuckled to herself and turned to walk back inside, but heard the sound of flapping wings. She turned and saw a crow had shown up out of nowhere and landed on the porch rail, staring right at the dark haired teenager. "Hello, birdie…" Jo said slowly as she examined the bird. The crow tilted its head to the said, as if to say that he was listening to the girl. "Great," Jo scoffed and turned her head away from the bird. "Now I'm talking to a crow…" she sighed and walked back inside, not daring to give the crow a second glance.

Elena and her best friend, Bonnie, was walking down the hall of the high school together, taking it all in once again after a four month break. They both reached the information desk when suddenly Bonnie stopped, pulling Elena with her.

"Hold up," Bonnie told her friend and made her turn towards the desk as well. "Who's this?" she asked in curiosity as she looked at the guy standing in front of the desk with his back turned to the two girls.

"All I see is back," Elena commented as she watched the guy as well.

"It's a hot back," Bonnie said, making Elena scoff in amusement. "I'm sensing Seattle, and he plays the guitar," she predicted as she examined the guy.

"You're really gonna run this whole psychic thing into the ground, huh?" Elena asked her best friend, which Bonnie shrugged at amusingly. The whole car ride Bonnie had talked about how her grandma had told her about their lineage of witches and that apparently Bonnie was one of them. This also meant that she had premonitions and things alike.

"Pretty much," she stated and kept staring at the back of the guy. Elena giggled at her friend and Bonnie joined her shortly after.

As Elena watched her friend with an amused smile, she saw her brother Jeremy through the corner of her eye walking into the men's room. This made Elena's smile drop. "I'll be right back," she told her friend before she marched over to her brother.

Bonnie however barely paid her any attention as she kept staring at the guy. "Please, be hot…" she pleaded with a whisper as she kept staring.

Elena marched through the doors to the bathroom for men, nearly knocking over a guy who was on his way out, and went straight to her brother and grabbed his face. As she examined his eyes and face in general, Jeremy looked at her like she was crazy.

"Great…" Elena sighed and let go of Jeremy's face. "It's the first day of school and you're stoned," she said matter factly and stubbornly watched her brother.

"No, I'm not," Jeremy protested against Elena.

"Where is it? Is it on you?" Elena asked the boy and searched his pockets for pills, weed or other drugs, while Jeremy just tried to push her away.

"Stop!" he demanded. "You need to chill yourself, alright?" he yelled at his sister and tried again to push her away from him.

"Chill myself? Do you hear yourself?" Elena sighed and stopped searching him for a moment. "If Jo was here she'd hit you over the head for stoner talking, then kick your ass for doing this again," she lectured her brother and continued to search his pockets. Elena didn't like being the nagging sister, but since Jo hated it more then someone had to do it.

"Stop, I don't have anything on me!" Jeremy tried to argue again. "Are you crazy?!" he yelled.

"You haven't seen crazy, Jeremy!" Elena stopped and stared dead into Jeremy's eyes. "Be glad it's me and not Jo, okay?" she said and sighed. "We gave you a summer pass, but I'm done watching you destroy yourself!" she told him in a pleading way. Jeremy snorted amusingly and tried to leave the room, but Elena pushed him back, not finished with her lecture. "No, no, no. You know what? Keep it up. But just know that I'm telling Jo and we're both going to be there to ruin your buzz every time, you got it?" Jeremy just kept glaring at his sister, but she finally seemed to have his attention. "Jeremy, I know who you are and it's not this person. Don't be this person," she begged her brother as a final plea.

Jeremy looked away before whispering in a low, irritated voice. "I don't need this," he said and left the bathroom in an angered rush.

It took a while for Elena to storm out as well, and when she did she accidently ran right into someone. She looked up only to see someone she had never met before. Although, he was handsome for sure. Green eyes, pale skin, great and soft hair.

"Uh, pardon me," he said as the two kept staring at each other. Elena felt like she was melting under his gaze. The guy then broke the stare to shift his gaze to the door Elena just came out of, then he looked back at her. "Uhm…" he said a bit confused. "Is this the men's room?" he asked suspiciously.

"Yes!" Elena said a bit too quickly, then regretted it. "Uhm… I was just - Uh… I-I was just…" she tried to come up with a good response, but it wouldn't come. She sighed then. "It's a long story," she said instead.

The guy smiled at her tightly, probably to get away all the awkward tension. Elena smiled back and tried to go to her class, but the guy seemed to have the same idea about leaving and accidently stepped in each other's way. To not make either feel even more uncomfortable the guy stepped out of the way so Elena could pass. She smiled at him as she thanked him and left, but looked back the last second to see him stare after her.

Jo slept on her bed in her old bedroom. She had spent the last couple of months in it, but it still felt so foreign to her. All those memories she had in the house in general felt like it was just something that was disappearing, vanishing into thin air. It was like her memories was just going away.

The girl however woke up from her slumber when she heard the front door open and close. Knowing that it was her sister coming home, Jo dashed up from her bed and down the stairs to greet Elena with a squeezing hug.

"Finally, you're home!" Jo exclaimed in Elena's ear as they swayed their hug. "I was getting bored out of my mind without you around!" she exaggerated and squeezed tighter.

"Jo?" Elena wheezed, trying to catch her breath from the bone crushing hug she was given by her twin.

"Right, sorry," Jo apologized and let go of her sister. "I guess I'm just used to having you around all day now…" she muttered, but quickly smiled as she grabbed her sister's arm. "So… Tell me everything that happened today!" she said and pulled Elena into the livingroom where they fell into the couch together in a laughing mess.

"Well… There's a new guy there-"

"Hot?" Jo interrupted her sister, having the need to know.

"Totally," Elena stated with a small, girlish giggle, making Jo join in on the laughter. Elena took a breath before continuing. "His name is Stefan, and I guess he's kinda mysterious," she told her sister with a small smile still on her face as she brushed a piece of her hair behind her ear.

"Ooh, I like where this is going," Jo told her twin in a teasing manner, but Elena just sighed while her gaze turned down to her hands on her lap. Jo knew very well why she lost her giddiness. She sighed as well before opening her mouth. "Oh, c'mon, Elena! You can't brood about Matt forever. You were the one who broke up with him, remember?" Jo whined at her twin.

"He hates me, Jo."

"Doubt it," she turned it down immediately and looked right into Elena's eyes before she gave up and shifted her gaze elsewhere. "But what else happened today?" she asked instead.

Elena frowned a bit as she went through her day in her mind. "This really… weird thing…" she trailed off while furrowing her eyebrows and looked back to her sister as she explained. "I was by mom and dad's grave, when this… crow just showed up and sat on it, and it acted weird and-"

"Wait, a crow?" Jo asked.

"Yeah, why?" Elena asked cautiously.

Jo shook her head a bit. "I saw this crow on the porch after you went to school with Bonnie," she said. "It just really felt like it was staring at me, and understood what I said…"

Elena looked at her sister in the same confused look as Jo bore. Before either of them could say anything however, Elena's phone buzzed indicating that she got a text. She fished it up and read it quickly.

"Come on, we're going to the grill," she said and stood up.

"Wait, who was that?" Jo asked as she stood up with her sister as well.

"Bonnie," was Elena's short answer before she grabbed Jo's arm and dragged her up the stairs to change into more appropriate clothes.

When the two were done getting dressed, they walked out of Elena's room together and down the stairs. Since Jo wasn't really a girl for style, she just put on something comfortable yet not resembling pyjamas. She had some comfortable boyfriend-jeans, a baseball tee and her leather jacket.

As the two walked towards the door, they past their aunt. "Hey, we're meeting Bonnie at The Grill," Elena informed Jenna as they past.

"Okay, have fun," Jenna called and almost turned back around to go to the kitchen, but thought better of it and turned again to the two teenagers. "Wait! I got this," she assured herself and the snickering twins. "Don't stay out late, it's a school night, for the both of you."

Oh yeah, Jo had agreed with Jenna that since she's not going back to Chicago anytime soon, she should at least start going to Mystic High like her siblings. It was a discussion that ended pretty quickly, with Jo agreeing pretty quick.

Jo playfully rolled her eyes at her aunt and walked closer to the front door as her sister praised Jenna. As the two talked a bit and then Jenna leaving the twins, Jo finally opened the door to reveal a pretty handsome guy just standing there, which startled the girl. "Holy mother of god!" she gasped loudly at the guy and put a hand to her beating heart.

"Sorry, I was just about to knock," the guy told Jo with a small smile on his lips. Elena came up to stand beside her sister as she saw that it was Stefan standing by the door. Stefan's eyes danced between the two twins a few times in confusion. "There's two of you?" he asked in slight surprise.

"What? Can't handle two, buddy?" Jo sassed at the guy and took a step forward with a hand balled into a fist. Elena had to physically hold her sister back. She knew how short tempered she could be.

"Joanna!" she whispered to her sister in warning, having Jo freeze in a second. She hated when people called her Joanna. It only meant that the people that said it was mad or they were mad enough to give a severe warning. Elena looked back up at the guy and stepped in front of Jo so she couldn't punch Stefan in the throat, which was something she had done numerous of times. "I'm sorry, Stefan," Elena apologized. "This is my sister, Jo," she told him.

"This is Stefan?" Jo whispered to her sister with furrowed eyebrows and Elena nodded to her question. Jo looked at the guy with a suspicious eye. Something was off about him, like he had some creepy aura around him, and it only made her want to punch him even more.

"Sister?" Stefan asked. "With how you two look you could easily be twins," he joked, but still seemed a bit confused.

He wasn't wrong though. They were twins, but not entirely identical, yet they were very much alike. Same skin tone, body structure and partly same face. However, while Elena had brown eyes and pin straight brown hair, Jo had green-brown eyes and shorter, darker, wavier hair.

"We are," the twins said in unison, although Elena said it with a smile while Jo said it irritatedly with an eyeroll. It made Stefan stare at the two with a bit amusement, but the confusion hadn't left his facial features.

Jo looked from the guy to her sister a few times before she sighed. "I'll just wait outside," she told Elena, since it was pretty obvious that Stefan came to the house for her. She walked out, seeing the smile on both of their faces, and waited for her sister by the sidewalk.

Turned out that Stefan came to the Gilbert's house to give Elena her diary that she had lost in the cemetery when she was freaked out by the crow. When they had talked a bit, Elena had also invited him to come with the twins to The Grill to meet their friends. He reluctantly accepted and that's how the three ended up at the parking lot to The Grill. Just as they were about to walk into the building, Jo's phone buzzed.

"You guys go ahead inside, I'll be there in a sec," she told the pair beside her and they nodded before walking into the building together, while Jo fished out her phone from her jacket. She looked at the caller ID, but it was an unknown number. She answered either way. "Hello, Jo Gilbert speaking?" she said into the receiver as she looked in by the window to The Grill, to see Matt awkwardly greeting Elena and Stefan. She winced a bit at that before remembering she was on the phone. There was no answer so she tried again. "Hello?" she asked. There wasn't a sound, not even some creepy breathing. Jo sighed irritatedly. "Dude, if this is a prank call, then I'm not amused!" The other end hung up at that. Jo took away her phone from her ear to look weirdly at it. "Okay… Weird," she muttered to herself.

She shrugged her shoulders and walked into The Grill, seeing her sister and her friends sitting at a table together. She walked over and took a seat next to Stefan, who she had apologized towards after her behaviour earlier.

"So you were born in Mystic Falls?" she heard Caroline ask Stefan as soon as she had sat down.

"Mhm," he hummed a yes. "And moved when I was still young," he answered.

"Parents?" Bonnie asked. Jo felt a bit uncomfortable. They were questioning a lot. Sure it wasn't questions towards her, she just felt uncomfortable for Stefan's sake.

"My parents passed away," he answered the girl.

It got a bit quiet around the table as the twins and Bonnie shared a look. "I'm sorry," Elena then said, knowing damn well how it feels to lose one's parents. Both the sisters knew.

"How about siblings?" Jo asked and looked at Stefan, expecting an answer.

"None that I talk to," he answered with a slight smug smirk. "I live with my uncle," he said and looked to Elena, who stared back with a shy smile.

"So, Stefan," Caroline said, ripping his attention away from Elena. "If you're new, then you don't know about the party tomorrow," she said, as in she was inviting him. Jo's attention however was still stuck at the word 'party'.

"It's a back to school thing at the falls," Bonnie explained further and Jo's attention perked up even more. Party? Alcohol? Falls? Count me in! She thought as she practically bounced in her seat.

"Are you going?" Stefan asked Elena beside him, giving her his full attention.

"Hell yeah, she's going! I'm gonna drag her ass there!" Jo spoke up, now excited as hell for a party.

"What Jo meant was;" Bonnie spoke, giving Jo a meaningful look as if to say 'shut up already'. "Of course she's coming," she smiled at Elena who shyly smiled back.

"The Battle of Willow Creek took place right at the end of the war in our very own Mystic Falls," Tanner taught his students, but not many listened to the boring man. It was the next day and Jo had successfully been again enrolled in Mystic High. Although, she wasn't particularly happy with having Tanner as her history teacher. She loved history, but loathed Tanner with all her heart… "How many casualties resulted in this battle?" he asked the class, but didn't give anyone time to answer before he turned to Bonnie. "Miss Bennett?"

Bonnie confusingly looked up from her notes. "Uhm… A lot?" she asked rather than stated. "I'm not sure. Like a whole lot," she said and a few students snorted and snickered, Jo a bit included.

"Cute becomes dumb in an instant, Miss Bennett," Tanner said lowly and unamused.

"And Tanner becomes a douche in an instant as well," Jo muttered just as lowly and unamused as her teacher, however he seemed to have heard her.

"Would you like to try and come up with the correct answer, Miss Gilbert?" Tanner asked her. Just as she remembered him, he seemed to remember her, and it was not for any good reasons.

Jo sighed and relaxed into her chair, looking casual. "If I remember right, there were about 300 casualties," she told him with a little smirk, proud of herself for remember her studies in Chicago.

However, Tanner didn't seem as proud of her, but still smirked a little to himself. "Ah, but I want exact numbers, Miss Gilbert," he tsked and turned his attention to Matt, but not before he heard Jo's carefully selected curses for him. "Mister Donovan?" he asked loudly, earning Matt's attention. "Would you like to take this opportunity to overcome your embedded jock stereotype?" Yep, Jo hated that guy.

"It's okay, Mister Tenner. I'm cool with it," Matt told the teacher with a little smirk as he sat just as casual as Jo did. Jo smiled over to her friend as a few students again snickered.

Tanner hummed in acknowledgement before he turned to Elena. "Elena? Surely you can enlighten us about one of the town's most significantly historical events?" he asked the girl, who looked up at him a bit frightened.

"I'm sorry, I-I don't know," she said while shaking her head a bit.

Tanner again didn't look amused. "I was willing to be lenient last year for obvious reasons, Elena," he told the girl who shrunk down in her seat. "But personal excuses ended with summer break."

Jo's temper rose with those words. "I'll break his arm!" she hissed and was halfway up her seat to kick the teacher's ass all the way to China, but a hand gripped her shoulder and pushed her right down. She knew it was Stefan, since he had taken the seat behind her.

"There were 346 casualties," Stefan spoke up just as he had pushed Jo back to her chair. "Unless you're counting local civilians," he said, making Jo turn around to watch him. How the hell did he know the exact number? Jo hadn't even read of an exact number? Was the guy some kind of history freak?

Tanner looked a bit shocked that a student actually had the right answer, one of his own at it as well. "That's correct, Mister…?" Tanner asked Stefan.

"Salvatore," Stefan answered with a small, polite smile.

"Salvatore," Tanner repeated and looked up to the ceiling, trying to figure out where he had heard that before. "Any relation to the original settlers here at Mystic Falls?" he asked then and looked back to the student.

Stefan hesitated, then gave a smug smile. "Distant."

"Well, very good," Tanner praised and walked over to his board the turned back around to watch Stefan. "Except, of course, there were no civilian casualties in this battle," he said and turned back to his board.

"Actually," Stefan interrupted the teacher's movements. "There were 27, sir." Tanner turned back around to watch Stefan with a skeptical eye. "Confederate soldiers, they fired on the church, believing it to be housing weapons. They were wrong. It was a night of great loss," Stefan said it in such detail like he could've been there himself, witness it. It made Jo feel more cautious to him. But, that soon changed. "The founder's archives are, eh, stored in civil hall if you'd like to brush up on your facts, Mister Tanner," Stefan said and some laughed mockingly at Tanner's shocked face.

Jo herself was beyond amused as she turned in her seat to speak to Stefan. "Dude, you know your history," she grinned in amusement and Stefan only shrugged with a small satisfied smile of his own.

It had finally come to the time of the party. Elena, her sister and Bonnie stood by the warm bonfire while listening to the blaring music and talking to each other. Or it was more like Bonnie and Jo trying to get information out of Elena over how she felt about Stefan.

"Just admit it, Elena!" Jo whined at her sister while giving her a pleading look while Bonnie just watched the two of us with an amused look.

"Admit what?" Elena tried to innocently crawl her way out of the conversation.

"Elena!" Bonnie yelled as well as laughed at her best friend.

"Okay, so he's a little pretty," Elena shyly confessed to her friend and sister while looking down at the beer in her hand.

"A little?" Jo huffed a laugh at Elena.

"He has that whole romance novel stare," Bonnie said and all three of then laughed together.

"'Stefan stared at her intensly, hiding his feelings in his stare,'" Jo joked as she deepened her voice and narrowed her eyes the slightest as she stared at Elena. The trio laughed again. Jo had missed that, she had missed the sincere sound of her sister's laugh.

"So," Bonnie said as they recovered from their giggles. "Where is he?" she asked.

"I don't know," Elena frowned as she looked around a bit, but then turned to her best friend with a smirk. "You tell me, you're the psychic one," she said.

"Right, I forgot," Bonnie smiled back and nodded her head a bit, then straightened up and closed her eyes. "Okay, so give me a sec. Grams says I need to concentrate."

Jo couldn't help but to giggle at her friend. "Wait!" she interrupted her concentration. "You need a crystal ball," she said and gave Bonnie her now empty beer bottle. "Here," Jo smiled and held the bottle to her. Just as Bonnie was about to take the bottle, her fingers skimmed over Jo's and she froze as she seemed to zone out. "Bonnie? You alright?" Jo asked her friend in concern.

Bonnie quickly snatched her hand away and continued to stare at Jo. "That was weird," she said and didn't take her eyes off of Jo. "When I touched you, I saw a crow."

"What?" the twins asked in unison, now getting creeped out since they had both seen a weirdly acting crow lately.

"A crow," Bonnie stated and for once stopped staring at one of the twins. "There was fog, a man…" she said as if she was trying to figure everything that she saw out.

It concerned Jo. "Bonnie?"

The psychic looked up. "I'm drunk. It's the drinking. It's nothing psychic about it. Yeah?" she said, but didn't convince the twins since they both knew that Bonnie had only drank one beer. "Okay, I'm gonna get a refill," she said quickly and walked away from the two girls.

"Well…" Jo said slowly to her twin as they both watched Bonnie's retrieving back. "That's not weird or anything," she said as she turned to her sister. She saw someone familiar with green eyes standing behind her sister patiently and she couldn't help but to smile. "Hey, uh, I'm gonna look for something with a little more spike," she said quickly and left as well, but turned just in time to see Stefan and Elena smiling to each other.

Jo paced through the loud party a bit until she had had enough of the blaring music and the hormonal drunk teenagers. She ended up in the woods, right by the falls. She wasn't too far away, she could still hear the music clearly. However, she was sulking. She had so much on her mind that it almost killed her inside. It made her kick everything she came close to.

"Lost?" a voice behind her asked her. It didn't particularly scare the girl just surprised her. She turned to see a tall guy standing just a foot away from her. "And you're pissed too. Ooh… Not good," he said and his icy blue eyes twinkled in amusement.

"I'm not lost," Jo defended and crossed her arms over her chest and looked to the guy with furrowed eyebrows. She felt like she knew that guy, somehow. How or when or why, she didn't know. All she knew was that she recognized him somehow. "Are you?" she asked him with a raised brow.

The guy scoffed at the question. "Do I look like a lost soul to you?" he asked with a smirk.

Who said anything about souls? Jo thought as she stared weirdly at the guy. "You look like a guy who wished you didn't have a soul at all," she said with a small frown as she looked him over.

At that statement the guy's smile faded a bit and he took one step closer, but Jo stood still and didn't move away from the guy. "Who are you…?" he asked quietly, but it didn't seem like he asked Jo, it was more like he asked himself.

When Jo was just about to say something, a scream in the distance interrupted her. She recognized the voice immediately. "Vicki?" she breathed out as she looked at the direction of where the scream came from. She then turned back to the guy to excuse herself and run to the scream, but he wasn't there anymore. She looked around everywhere around her, but didn't see him anywhere. She then sighed. "Did he seriously just go Batman on me?" she muttered to herself with a shake of her head. Without further thinking or staying, she left to find Vicki.

She had found Vicki along with Jeremy, but Vicki seemed pissed off and ran before Jo could even reach the two. Jo asked her brother what was up, but he seemed pissed as well and left, but not without some confrontation from his sister. It didn't end happily, which was why Jo again paced in the woods. She was just about to head back to the party when she heard another yell, but this was one out of fear. Jo ran towards the shriek, even though every cell of her body told her not to. When she had gotten pretty far into the woods again, she heard voices and recognized them as Elena and Jeremy. Her telling him to stop and him trying to get away. It was like déjà vu for Jo.

"I don't wanna hear it," Jeremy said and stumbled over something.

Jo ran over and got his drunk ass up from the ground, and that's when they both saw what Jeremy had fallen over. "What the hell?!" Jo shrieked in suprise and in the process accidently dropped Jeremy. They were all speechless after seeing that it was an unconscious Vicki with an incredibly bloody neck lying there.

"Vicki?" Jeremy called and lightly slapped her cheek. "No… Oh, my god, it's Vicki!" he told his sisters.

"You don't say, idiot?!" Jo yelled at him in frustration. Yeah, she wasn't very good at handling those sort of situations.

"Oh, my god…" Elena breathed out as she could only stare.

"No," Jeremy mumbled again and went to check her pulse.

Just then Vicki jerked awake and gasped for air, successfully scaring the living hell out of the siblings. "Holy mother of god!" Jo exclaimed and backed so much that she fell on her ass.

Jeremy quickly picked Vicki up as Elena helped her sister from the ground, then they all ran back towards the party. "Somebody help!" Elena called as they were close enough. Matt instantly ran forward, yelling his sister's name. Next was Tyler, then Caroline and Bonnie. They all crowded around Vicki as they all tried to help the unconscious girl.

Stefan had ran from the party as soon as he had seen the injured girl. He only knew one thing that could do that. Vampire. As far as he knew, he was the only one in town, so who had just strolled into town that was like him? Who was a vampire?

He went up to his room and felt a slight breeze. Stefan looked behind him and saw that the balcony door was open and soon enough a crow flew in and past him. He stared at the crow for a long time before he heard another sound.

He didn't even have to look to know who it was. "Damon," he stated calmly as he watched the bird. Then he turned to see the raven haired, blue eyed brother of his.

"Hello, brother," he greeted, his grin not fading even once as he strolled further into the room.

"Crow's a bit too much, don't you think?" Stefan asked his brother as he kept a careful eye on him wherever he went.

"Wait till you see what I can do with the fog," Damon smirked as he looked around Stefan's bedroom. It had been a long time since he was there last.

"When'd you get here?" Stefan asked, not taking his eyes off his brother.

"Well, I couldn't miss your first day of school," he said sarcastically as he walked up to the bookcase. "Your hair's different," he commented as he looked through the books. "I like it," he said and looked to his brother with another smile.

"It's been 15 years, Damon," Stefan sighed, getting bored of his behaviour already.

"Thank god!" Damon said with wide eyes. "Couldn't take another day of the 90's. That horrible grunge look?" he scoffed as he cringed. "Did not suit you," he went to stand in front of his brother. "Remember Stefan, it's important to stay away from the fads."

"Why are you here?" Stefan asked his brother with a firm tone.

"I missed my little brother," Damon shrugged innocently.

"You hate small towns," Stefan stated. "It's boring, there's nothing for you to do," he shook his head, trying to understand his brother's twisted mind.

"I've managed to keep myself busy," Damon smirked smugly and looked around again.

"You know you left that girl alive tonight. That's very clumsy of you," Stefan told him.

"A. That can be a problem…" he then looked straight at Stefan. "For you," he finished with his signature smirk.

"Why are you here now?" Stefan asked again.

"I could ask you the same question. However, I'm fairly certain your answer can be summed up in two little words…" Damon paused as he held up two fingers, then dropped them as he looked to his brother again with a smirk. "Gilbert Twins."

After probably 30 minutes or so, animal control, an ambulance and cops showed all up at the party. The ambulance was now getting Vicki inside and Matt climbed in right after before the drove off towards the hospital. Elena stood next to her sister Jo and watched the whole thing. Jo slid her hand into Elena's and gently squeezed it, as if telling her that she wasn't alone. She must've seen how nervous and anxious Elena was over the whole situation.

"I'm gonna take Jeremy to the car. You get there whenever you need, okay?" Jo told her sister. Elena nodded to her and they parted ways. Jo was sober enough to drive, which was why they didn't have to call Jenna or ask someone else to drive them home. Elena watched as Jo walked over to Jeremy and pulled him up from his sitting position with the collar of his shirt and dragged him towards the car.

Bonnie showed up and stopped beside her best friend. "Hey," she greeted Elena. "We're gonna go to Mainline Coffee, wait for news and sober up," she told her with a slight smile, as if she was being cautious around her.

"I gotta help Jo take Jeremy home," Elena said and looked over to how her sister struggled to get Jeremy to walk straight, so the cops wouldn't get any ideas.

"Elena," Bonnie's voice brought back Elena's attention to her. "There's no way I'm psychic. I know that. But whatever I saw, or think I saw when I touched Jo, I have this feeling…" she said a bit uneasily.

"Bonnie, what?" Elena asked, getting concerned.

"That it's just the beginning…"

"She and her sister took my breath away," Damon said as he paced around. "They're dead ringers for Katherine," he smirked at his brother again, still taunting him. "Is it working, Stefan? Being around Elena, being in her world? Does it make you feel alive?"

"She's not Katherine," Stefan stated firmly. "Neither is Joanna," he added quietly, trying to stay calm over the situation.

"Well, let's hope not. We both know how that ended…"

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A/N: About damn time I get this done... Fucking hellllllll oh my god you have no idea how hard I've worked for everything to actually come together...

Yeahyeah, well, here's the first rewritten chapter. If you've read the previous one then you can see that it isn't that much difference, except that it is in third person and I deleted some stuff that I didn't found necessary.

Hope you liked it either way and that you will continue to read this further on. -Kisses