Elena arrived home after finding her clothes and parade dress were missing from the school where she had left them. She walked in the front door and heard a noise coming from the kitchen.
"Jenna?" She didn't know if anyone would be home yet after Founder's day celebrations.
Elena walked in to the kitchen expecting Jenna to be there, but she only saw… herself, only it wasn't herself or a mirror reflection, it couldn't be, she thought, it was Katherine Pearce, standing right there in her kitchen, with a large knife in her hand, standing over the body of John Gilbert.
"Elena, we finally meet, I have been waiting so long for this moment. Sorry about the mess, I was just cleaning up" Katherine told her, bending down, she dipped her fingers in John's blood and put them in her mouth, sucking each finger clean one by one, as if to tease Elena. She was speechless; all Elena could utter was "Katherine"
"Yes It's me, who else" she stood up and faced Elena. "I can't believe those boys have fallen for my doppelganger, shows just how gullible they are"
"I am nothing like you" Elena finally got out. Suddenly she heard Jenna scream her name from upstairs.
"Elena? Come quick!"
"Coming" As quickly as Elena turned to look at the stairs and turned back around, Katherine was gone, and John was still bleeding on the floor, close to death. He was whispering something.
"John? What is it?" She bent down closer to try and hear him.
"My ring" he told her weakly. She got up and looked around the room for his special ring, but it was missing.
"I'm sorry, Katherine must have taken it" she dialled the ambulance, "it's ok the ambulance is on its way John" she wraps up his mutilated hand. "I'll be back ok, I've got to check on Jenna" John weakly nods and Elena runs upstairs.
Jenna is sitting beside a motionless Jeremy in his room crying over him. Elena comes to the top of the stairs and sees him.
"Oh my god, Jeremy?" her heart sank into her stomach when she saw her brother's motionless body, then Jenna's face. "No no no Jeremy!" Elena then saw his bloodshot eyes and a bit of froth coming out of his mouth and knew immediately that it was overdose, she didn't say it though, she just reached for her phone and hit speed dial.
Stefan picked up after the first ring, "are you ok?"
"It's Jeremy, hes dead, and John" she was crying so much she could hardly talk, but Stefan understood her.
"I'm outside, I just saw Katherine"
"Yeah she was just here" The next thing Elena heard was dead air and then her front door opening and closing. Stefan was by her side immediately. Elena hung up and threw her arms around him. Stefan pulled Elena out into the hallway so Jenna couldn't really hear.
"Katherine was here, in the house? Who invited her in?"
"I don't know, Jenna maybe, thinking she was me" then a thought hit her, "she was the one who stole my clothes from the school"
"After Jeremy and John are in hospital I'll talk to Damon about seeking out Katherine, or letting her come to us"
"She has John's ring too" she added.
"We'll find her" Stefan told her, holding her close as they waited for the ambulance.
Damon walked into a room in an up market hotel, stripping down to his underwear while walking to the bed. He laid next to Katherine.
"Hello again Damon" she kissed him passionately.
