AN: Hi people, here's the next chapter. I have to say thank you to everyone who's reading this, and while there aren't many of you, the support I have gotten is proportionally better than what I have gotten on other stories. I'm really glad those of you who are reading this are enjoying it and I hope that continues with this chapter.

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After both of the teens had gotten dressed, Anna in her clothes from the day before and Jeremy in a new set of clothes. "Next time I need to remember to bring some clothes," Anna commented as they walked out of the room and down the stair.

Jenna was sitting at the table, coffee cup in her hand and a disapproving look on her face. "Jeremy," Jenna said sternly before looking over at Anna. "And Anna, why am I not surprised it's her? Both of you are going to sit down over here right now, we have a lot to talk about."

"A lot more than you know, but there are a couple things we'll have to talk about before we get to what I imagine you were going to talk to us about," Anna told her mate's aunt as she sit down across from said person.

"Really, there's stuff that has to be talked about before the fact that I walked in on you two dealing with the aftermath of having sex," Jenna said, sounding slightly annoyed.

"That is an apt description of how you found us, I woke up from you closing the door, you should work on that by the way, but I digress, yes, there are more important things we need to talk about. First off, we need to talk about what I am," Anna declares, getting a raised eyebrow from Jenna. "I'm a vampire."

Jenna starts to laugh. "Great joke, but let's talk about stuff that's actually real," Jenna tells the teens sitting in front of her.

Anna smirks before using her vampire speed to be right behind Jenna in a fraction of a second, causing Jenna to stop laughing instantly. "We weren't joking Jenna," Anna says, before moving just as fast back to her seat.

"So, you weren't joking about her being a vampire," Jenna remarks, letting out a breath she didn't notice she had been holding.

"No, we really weren't, and from here your life will forever change," Anna tells Jenna.

It took about an hour to go through all the relevant information on vampires and bringing Jenna up to speed the history of Mystic Falls, both recent and from the founder's times. "So, how does this all relate to you two sleeping together?" Jenna asks.

"There is a special thing that a vampire and a human can do together if they are in love with each other, which we are. I designated him as my mate, which means our lives are intrinsically tied together now. If either of us dies, both of us do," Anna explains.

"So basically, you married the vampire way?" Jenna asks.

"You can think of it like that," Anna replies.

"What's the benefit for you guys?" Jenna asks.

"Well, first off, Jeremy will stop aging, so I won't out live him naturally. The other thing is, to kill one of us, you have to do something that would kill both of us, meaning it takes a lot more to kill us, which, with how things have been going with the council after blood, is a good thing," Anna explains.

"Wait, what's this about the council?" Jenna asks.

"The council knows about vampires, and it exists to hunt vampires down. Uncle John is one of the major players in the council, and has an extreme dislike for vampires," Jeremy says, speaking out for the first time in a while, having let Anna do most of the Vampire talk.

"Well, he'll have to deal with staying with a vampire now, and I will make it very clear that if he touches Anna, there will be hell to pay," Jenna states strongly, drawing raised eyebrows from the couple in front of her.

"What do you mean Aunt Jenna?" Jeremy asks.

"Well, you two are basically married, so Anna, I figured you would want to move in with Jeremy, though I insist at some point, you two have a proper wedding," Jenna states, shocking both Anna and Jeremy.

"I can agree to that," Anna says, a smile covering her face.

"While I imagine you need to go get your stuff, I think we need to have a family meeting," Jenna says, calling both Elena and John, ordering them both home with a tone of voice that left no room for disagreement, and telling Elena to bring Stefan and Damon with her.

Elena was the first one to arrive back, followed by the Salvatore Brothers. Elena saw Anna cuddling up with Jeremy and sent a worried look to her aunt and Stefan. Damon, though, noticed something was different. It took him a minute to figure it out, but when he did, he took a small step back before asking Anna, "Really?"

Anna just nodded her head, leaving both Elena and Stefan confused. "What's going on?" Elena asked, the worry from her face seeping into her voice.

"You have nothing to worry about Elena, she won't try to harm you anymore," Damon states, taking a seat in the living room.

"How can you be so sure?" asked Elena.

"Because of what's happened to her, you'll get all the information when this meeting actually starts, wouldn't want to spoil the surprise," Damon teases.

Soon enough, the group was joined by John walking through the door, an annoyed expression on his face. He stopped, taking in the view of the three vampire interspersed with the members of his direct family. He was distracted, he didn't see the slap from Jenna coming until he already had a red mark on his face. "I am not happy with you, you will sit down and you will behave," Jenna states, seething slightly, with an expression that would make the devil himself run for the hills.

John complied quickly, for fear of his life ending due to Jenna more than from the vampires. After another minute, the group situated themselves throughout the living room, Jenna started up. "First off, due to some events that have happened with Jeremy and Anna, who I think most of you know, I have been let in on the little secret you've been keeping from me," Jenna states.

The reaction from the group was varied, Jeremy and Anna were indifferent, while Elena was shocked, the Salvatores were slightly worried and John we freaking out inside, worrying about what this would do to his plans. He knew Jenna, while she was lax most of the time, when she became passionate about something, like she was about Elena's and Jeremy's wellbeing, nothing would stop her except god himself, and that would be stretching it.

"I have nothing against vampires," Jenna states, reassuring Damon and Stefan. "There will some rules that I will set out with you two at a later date, but that is not for today," Jenna adds, pointing at the brothers. She got compliant nods in return. "Now I'll let Jeremy and Anna give their news before I give out some instructions. And John, we will be having a talk when this is done, and I promise you John, you won't enjoy it," Jenna finishes off, a creepy smile showing up on her face as she talks directly to John.

After a split second of everything sinking in, and John getting even more scared, all eyes turned to the couple sitting on one of the couches. Anna is the one who ends up speaking up, "Last night, I claimed Jeremy as my mate."

Stefan's eyebrows disappear behind his hair at the news. "Fuck," John says, the words slipping from his mouth.

"What exactly does that mean?" Elena asks.

"A mate is a human life partner for a vampire. It's one of the few magical things that a vampire can do, and is slightly volatile, but if it works, like it did with these two, their lives become forever intertwined. He will stop aging around the same age as she did, so they won't seem odd, and if one of them were to die, so would the other. The other side of the coin though, is that it takes something that would kill them both to kill them, which makes them very hard to kill," Damon explained to Elena.

"Basically, I'm treating it as if they were married, which, while I'm disappointed in them for doing this at this young of an age, at least for Jeremy, but I won't contest it as they have filled me in on all the requirements on what it takes to do properly," Jenna explains. "Now, Anna will be moving in with us, and in a little bit we will have an actual wedding for these two, which they have already agreed to. Damon, you have the better relationship with Peal, go with Jeremy and Anna to get her stuff and explain things to her. Then I want you to invite her to dinner here, so I can have a chat with her, guardian to guardian. Make sure she knows that I have Anna's best interests at heart at this point, since she is basically my daughter-in-law now. Stefan and Elena, you two go inform all the other people who know the vampire thing about this, but only the ones you trust. John, stay there, I need some food before I tare you a new asshole," Jenna spews off, before walking into the kitchen.

The room she left behind was full of shocked face, no one really having seen Jenna like this before. It took a couple minutes for it all to wear off and different groups heading their separate ways, leaving a cowering John Gilbert behind. Like the others, he hadn't seen Jenna like this before, but unlike the other, being a parent, he knew why she was like this, and how scary she could be, and it wasn't something he wanted to go through.


AN: Well, there you go, that's another chapter. I'm playing with Jenna. She may seem OOC, but I think this could have always been a part of her, but there was never an event like this one I'm portraying to really set her off. She will become someone who is a lot more of a leader as time goes on.

A slight note on timing, Jenna called John and forced him to come back when he was on his way to take care of Pearl, so she will be alive. It may not be exactly how it would have laid out in the show for timing, but it's AU, I'll do what I want.

Next chapter will follow the three different groups, and I hope finish off through Founder's day. There will be a couple of OCs coming in at the beginning of what in cannon would be season 2