The morning after the masquerade ball I wake up and relieved. It finally happened, Katherine Pearce is out of everyone's lives and we can move on. And now thanks to my idiot brother I have to go to school. What a dick. I get up and have a shower. After I'm cleaned I put on a pair of jeans and a white tank. I place my hair in a bun on top of head and am ready for the day.

I head downstairs and head down into the basement where the blood bags are. I take two and head back out. I crash on the couch and unplug the bag and down it. Follow shortly by the second. Damon comes into the lounge. "Ready?" He asks me.

I glare at him angrily. "I'm going to kill you for this."

He just grins. "Before we head to school we have to head to Blondies."

"Why?"

"I have to get everything that happened with Tyler last night." He answers and I follow him out the door.

Damon and I are in Caroline's house getting information about what happened last night with Tyler. Luckily I got invited in easily with her mother going off to work just as we arrived."So Sarah attacks Tyler and he pushed her away and she tripped and she fell and she hit her head." Caroline informs Damon and I.

"Matt doesn't remember anything?" Damon asks her.

"Hmm, he thinks he blacked out but I think they were both compelled by Katherine. That's why I covered for Tyler and said it was an accident."

"Yeah, I don't understand that. The guy is a tool." Damon remarks.

"Gee, duh. Tyler getting blamed for Sarah's death just opens up questions that he can't answer and do you really think that it's a good idea for him to tell his mom he's a werewolf?" Caroline asks.

"Well, no." I answer.

"And that werewolf road leads straight to Vampire Boulevard! I thought I was thinking fast on my feet."

"You did well Care." I tell her.

She smiles at me as Damon asks Caroline. "So where's your mom going?" He asks Caroline.

"Leading the search party for Aimee Bradley. They haven't found her body yet." Caroline informs him.

"Oh, teens today and their underage drinking. Tragic. Wait, did you see Tyler's eyes turn yellow?" Damon asks as I nudge him hard.

"They were more gold with amber highlights." Caroline responds.

"Oh." I say intrigued.

"Can he turn into a wolf now?"

"Only on a full moon but now he has increase strength and who knows what else. I wonder how much Mason told him." I wonder.

"Does he know about us?" Damon asks Caroline.

She is texting but doesn't tell him anything. "Hey! What did you tell him?" Damon asks again.

"Nothing, really. I don't think he knows much of anything. He seemed really freaked out and honestly, I felt kind of bad for him." Caroline responds as she leaves her room and goes toward the door.

"He's got to know something." I continue.

"Alright, I'll ask him." Caroline responds.

Damon then rushes over to her and catches her by the collar. "Damon." I scold.

"No don't Caroline. He cannot know about us. A bite from a werewolf can kill a vampire so don't be his friend!" Damon lectures.

"Hey lighten up." I scold him further. "Just be careful now Caroline don't give anything away." I add nicely.

"Okay, i won't. No we really need to go, I'm late for school." she tells us.

"Right, now if you want, you can drop a hint to your mom, that Aimee's body is at the bottom of a ravine with a cracked spine. Might save your mom some time." Damon jokes and I just scoff.

I go to leave. "Don't listen to him he's an ass."

"He can hear you." Damon shouts.

"I wasn't whispering." I argue and leave Caroline's.

When I arrive at the high school I am given some looks from some girls and some guys but I ignore them. Stefan comes up to me. "Elena's missing." He announces.

"Is that supposed to mean something to me?" I ask him.

"Please help me?"

I see the look in his eyes "You owe me big time."

We walk into Alaric's classroom. "This has Katherine written all over it." Stefan says to Damon and I.

"Katherine's in the tomb, trust me I'm the one who shut her in there." Damon responds.

"Are you sure?" Stefan asks him.

"Yes I was with him. We shut her in." I assure.

"She's in the tomb but she did say something before we shut her in." Damon says.

"What?" Stefan asks.

"That Elena's in danger." I answer.

Stefan looks at us pissed. "What? And you didn't think you should ask her to elaborate?"

"Everything she says is a lie Stefan. How were we supposed to know that she's gonna start spouting out the truth?" I argue.

"We have to go talk to her." Stefan pursues.

"No, no. Let me tell you how that's gonna go: we're gonna go ask her for help, she's gonna negotiate her release which we're gonna be dumb enough to give her and she's gonna get out and kill us! This is exactly what she wants!" Damon says annoyed.

"I don't really care." Stefan says.

"It's a bad idea, Stefan." I tell him.

"It's Elena." Stefan says sternly.

"And I get it you love her but we are not talking to Katherine we will find another way to find her. I'm going to go find Bonnie. Please don't kill one another while I'm gone." I order them and walk out.

A little while later Stefan and I have informed Bonnie about what's happened. "Jessie's right we can't undo the tomb spell, Stefan. She's going to want to get out." Bonnie says.

"I know that Bonnie but there's got to be something we can do." Stefan says.

"What if there was a way to find her?" Bonnie then looks to me.

"You can do it." I tell her.

She nods and I go to fetch Jeremy. Once I've found him I rejoin them in the classroom and find Bonnie setting up a map and candles. "How does this work?" Jeremy asks.

"I'll use your blood to draw energy for the tracking spell. You're blood related; it'll make the connection stronger." Bonnie says and I nod with approval.

Stefan arrives. "Alright, Alaric said we've got to clear out of here within 10 minutes. I've got weapons, he stocked us up."

"Are you ready?" Bonnie asks Jeremy.

He nods and she cuts Jeremy's hand. His blood falls on the map. The blood drops and merges into one and goes toward Elena's location. "There. She's there." Bonnie points.

"That's 300 miles away." Jeremy says.

"No Bonnie, we need a more exact location than that." Stefan says.

"That's as close as we are going to get." I inform Stefan.

"We can map it, aeriel view it and it will show us what's around there, help us narrow down the area." Jeremy suggests.

"Perfect. Call me with whatever you find." Stefan asks him.

"No, no, I'm coming with you!" Jeremy argues.

"No Jeremy, you're not." I agree with Stefan.

"No, I'm not just gonna just sit here. What if she's hurt okay?" Jeremy asks concerned.

"She's not. You two go back to your house just in case. I'll call you the minute I find her." Stefan tells Bonnie and Jeremy.

"Well, you can't do this alone." Jeremy argues further.

"He's not." I say and Damon says it from behind me. "He's got us." Damon says. "Let's go." He adds and I smirk at my older brother.

"You two are going to come?" He asks us.

"And let you go in there alone, I don't think so, now let's go." I order and walk out of the classroom.

On the drive to wherever this Elena is we are small talking. "Alaric sure likes his weapons." Damone speaks up.

Stefan has a little bottle with vervain in it in his hands. "What is that?" I ask.

"I don't know, it's a vervain bomb or a grenade launcher or something like that." Stefan answers.

"Weird."

"Hey, how much further is it?" Stefan asks Damon in the drivers seat.

"About 80 miles." Damon responds.

"Who do you think took her?" I ask the two boys in the front.

"Someone from Katherine's past. She said she was running from someone. Maybe they got the wrong girl." Damon guesses.

"Thank you for helping me you two." Stefan then says.

"Can we not do the whole road trip bonding thing? The cliché of it all makes me itch." Damon responds.

"Oh, come on Damon. We both know that you being in this car has absolutely nothing to do with me anyway." Stefan replies.

"And the elephant in the room lets out a mighty roar." I joke from the back seat.

"Well, it doesn't have to be an elephant, let's talk about it." Stefan continues.

"There's nothing to talk about." Damon says sternly.

"That's not true. I'm sure there is. Just get it out. I mean, are you in this car because you want to help your little brother save the girl that he loves? Or is it because you love her too? Hmm? I mean come on, express yourself. I happen to like road trip bonding." Stefan teases.

"Stefan you need to cut that out, Damon is helping you because he knows you can't go in there alone. I'm helping you because I help my brothers even though I don't get why you two are so fond of this girl that I haven't even met yet who is a doppelgänger of Katherine. I don't want you two to make the same mistake that you have already made and what I can see is that history is going to repeat itself and one of you is going to get your heart broken and it's going to make you spiral and do crazy things. I want you two to think about it, because if it does happen I'm not going to be there to clean up the mess." I tell the two brothers.

"Just give her a chance Jessie." Stefan responds after a moments silence.

"Give her a chance, I don't want to see you two hurt I know for a fact that she will and it's going to destroy you two." I continue.

"I'm not going to let that happen."

"We will see, now drive faster." I order Damon and he hits the accelerator further down and we speed up.

Still in Damon's car I am starting to get really bored. "How far?" I ask annoyed.

"We're getting close. Jeremy said there's an access road just past mile marker 6." Stefan answers.

Damon rips open a blood bag and starts to drink one of those. "I'll have one." I pipe up from the back seat.

Damon tosses me a bag and we both look at Stefan. "If you want one just ask." Damon says to Stefan.

"I want some." Stefan answers and I blink.

"Awe isn't that sweet wanting to be all big and strong to save your girl don't worry Jess and I have your back." Damon teases.

"Knock it off Damon. Sure you can handle it Stefan?" I ask concerned.

"Yes and I'm not joking Damon. I've been drinking a little every day. I'm slowly increasing my intake and building up my strength." Stefan informs us.

"Does your precious Elena know about your blood drinking?" I joke chugging my blood bag.

He gives me a look. "I've been drinking hers." Stefan responds and my mouth gasps.

I see Damon's eyes in the mirror and they look hurt. God, they are whipped, and poor Damon's going to get hurt.

"Hmm how romantic." I mutter.

"Since we're road trip bonding," Damon begins to say. "Do you remember the days when all you lived for was blood? You were the guy who ripped someone apart just for the fun of it." Damon teases further.

"You mean when I was more like you and Jess?" He asks.

"Yes, Stefan, exactly. Back when you put blood into me so I could be a big bad vampire. I wonder if Elena would be so quick to open her veins to that guy. By the way, what happened to that guy? He was a hoot." Damon continues.

"I guess he found something else to live for." Stefan says seriously.

"Okay I'm going to barf." I say from the backseat and Damon laughs as Stefan sends me a hateful look. "Oh please Stefan your whipped." He just shrugs and turns back to facing the front. "All I'm going to say is the 20s was fun of what I can remember it's mostly blackouts but we ripped it up." I leave him with that comment.

Finally we arrived and have gotten out of the car. "The house should be beyond those trees." I address my brothers as we walk.

Damon then stops and turns to face us. "Wait." He says. "I got a lot more experience than you do with those sorts of things." Damon adds.

"What is your point?" I ask him pissed.

"My point is, whoever has Elena is probably who was after Katherine in 1864 and before that."

"And?" Stefan questions.

"And it puts them at 500 years old and strong. Are you sure you two want to do this?"

"Yeah, I'm certain I want to do it." Stefan responds without blinking.

"I don't even want to be here but Stefan begged me to help so no I don't want to do this but you may need me." I tell the two brothers.

"Good because if we all go in that house, we may not come back out." Damon adds.

"Alright, then I won't come out." Stefan responds.

"So nobel Stefan." I joke.

"I can't think of a better reason to die, but if you two want to stay here, I'll totally understand." Stefan says and walks off.

I glance at Damon and caress his arm. "Come on our brother is being a martyr we better go help." I joke and he just laughs and we follow close behind Stefan.

We arrive at the abandoned house finally and can hear voices in a main room of the house. I nod to my brothers and I knock over a vase and flash off as do they.

"What is that?" Says a familiar British voice that I have not heard in decades.

"I don't know." Says a frightened British female.

"Who else is in this house?" The guy asks again. I flash and shake the house with my witch powers.

"I don't know." The girl says loudly.

We hear them coming into the room that we are zipping around. Damon, Stefan and I are flashing around the four of them.

We see that a handsome guy in a suit has the doppelgänger in his grasp. He tosses her to the short haired brunette lady. It's Elijah, what's he doing here? "Rose." Elijah threatens.

"I don't know who it is." Rose answers scared.

I then flash to the upstairs. "Up here." I shout out.

The guy flashes up the stairs to where my voice is but I've flashed away.

"Down here." Damon's voice echos.

The guy flashes downstairs. Stefan then flings a stake in his hand. Elena and Rose are suddenly not seen. Damon and I have Rose covering her mouth and making her quiet while Stefan has Elena doing the same. I then send a look to Damon and nod and flash off to another room. "Over here." I shout.

Elijah then speaks up. "Excuse me. To whom it may concern, you're making a great mistake if you think that you can beat me. You can't. Do you hear that?" He says making a steak out of a coat rack. "I repeat, you cannot beat me. So I want the girl, I'm gonna count to 3 or heads will roll. Do we understand each other?" Elijah repeats.

I am about to go but The doppelgänger appears at the stop of the stairs. "I'll come with you, just please don't hurt my friends, they just wanted to help me out." Elena pleads. God she's as annoying as Katherine, same voice, yuck.

The man in the suit flashes up the stairs with his super speed. He has the stake in his hand. "What game are you playing with me?" He asks her. I smirk inside at his warning tone, he's dangerous you don't want to be on his bad side.

"This one." She answers and throws the vervain bomb in his face and it explodes. His skin begins to burn but he heals immediately. He goes toward Elena but Stefan arrives and shoots him with the compressed air weapon and it doesn't even affect him.

Stefan throws the weapon and rushes at Elijah. They fall down the stairs. Elijah gets up immediately but Stefan stays on the floor.

He goes toward Stefan but I come out of no where and give him a brain aneurysm over and over again as I don't want him hurting my brother, he's going to know my secret now. He holds his head in pain. "It's impossible." He whispers to me.

I give him a sad smile. "I'm sorry." I mouth "I'll see you soon." I mouth again just as Damon arrives and stakes him. Damon pushes Elijah against the door. Elijah's body slowly desiccates and he dies, me knowing he's an original won't be killed but I have to play it out.

I suddenly turn to look up the stairs to see a short haired vampire come out of hiding. She was the one I had my hand over her mouth. She looks at us and looks shocked and flashes off. Damon and I are about to go after her when a painfully familiar voice speaks up. "Just let her go." Elena exclaims.

"We can't Damon she knows." I say agitated and worried.

He just nods. "We will find her." He mouths. And I nod uncertain.

Elena then starts walking down the stairs and smiles to Damon and Stefan. I see Damon looking up at her in awe. Not him too. Elena walks straight into Stefan's arms and I look at the hurt on Damon's face. I squeeze his hand and he squeeze back.

Elena then mouths to Damon. "Thank you."

Damon mouths back. "You're welcome." He says and looks down hurt.

Elena and Stefan break apart and Elena is eyeing me closely. "Thank you for helping Damon and Stefan out, but who are you?" She asks kind of rudely if you ask me.

I gasp and am about to retort when Stefan interrupts me. "Elena this is our sister." Stefan answers looking at me and pleading.

I ignore him. "Your sister, you never told me you had one." Elena says hurt.

"There's a reason for that." I say rudely. I turn to face my brothers. "I'm going to go wait in the car, I have done my part I will wait." I say and flash out.

When I walk back to the car I go over in my mind how much Elijah has been apart of my life. He's he an original, one of the oldest vampire ever to exist. We bumped into one another over 100 years ago, and never new my secret until now. I'm just hoping that when he wakes he doesn't come after me. I recall him being a noble and charming man. Always so kind but when wanting to, he can scare and kill you in seconds. He saved me from an egotistical vampire. And we've known each other ever since. He became a brother to me helped me through some tough times and now I helped put him down for a couple hours, I hope he still trusts me.

I sit in the back seat folding my arms over my chest as I wait for my brothers and Elena.

Damon comes first. "That was a little mean." He says getting into the car.

"I saved her and she had the right to be rude to me, I don't care if you two are in love with her no one speaks to me like that, and hopefully the next time we cross paths she'll be a little more greatful." I shout frustrated.

Stefan and Elena arrive at the car next. Stefan and Elena were in the back as Damon and I were in the front, I kept my eyes on the road and didn't talk to anyone.

On the way back to mystic falls we stop for toilet breaks where I buy food and alcohol. Going to need it for this car ride. I hop back in the car after a couple swigs of vodka and smile at Damon. "Mind if I have some?" He asks.

I grin and pass him the flask. "It's rather boring in this car, thought I would spice it up a bit, get everyone to tell their little secrets." I respond with a smirk.

"Your evil." He laughs.

"Who do you think I get it from?" I reply glancing at him as we wait for Stefan and Elena.

Once we drop Elena off at her place we head back to the boarding house, a little tipsy but that's okay. I head for my room and I here a knock at the door and I yell. "Come in."

Stefan walks in. "Hey Stefan."

"Can we talk?" He asks.

"Of course."

"Look I want you to try with Elena be nice."

"Ok stop, I'll be cordial but the last time you asked me to be nice to a girlfriend it was Katherine and look how that came out. I knew she was trouble but you didn't believe me. And now I see the same pattern happening again and I do t want anything to happen to you guys, as one of you is going to get hurt or worse killed. I just don't want to lose my brothers again." I confess with tears.

He holds me tightly. "It's not going to happen, I promise you."

"You promise?" I ask looking at him.

"Promise." He responds.

"You better not break this promise cause if you do I don't think I could be around you anymore."

"I promise."

"I'm not going to sugar coat things, but I don't like her Stefan, I had the same feeling about Katherine, but because I love you and for some reason you and damn can't seem to get a normal girlfriend I'll try my best to hold my tongue. But it's a two way street, I helped save her today and all I got was a 'who are you?' No thank you. Just remember this is my home, so please be courteous around me."

"I will and I promise it won't end like Katherine."

"I really want o believe you." I whisper.

"I'm going to gain your trust back." He finishes and stands up. "Thank you for today Jess, I know it was hard for you but I appreciate it."

"Love you." I whisper.

"Love you." He responds and leaves.

After a while I walk down stairs and see and hear Stefan and Damon in the library. Damon is pouring himself a drink. "Thanks. Listen, what Rose told Elena about the curse." Stefan addresses to Damon.

"I know, we'll keep her safe." Damon replies. "Did you speak with Jessie?"

"I did and she isn't going to sugar coat it, she doesn't like Elena, but because she loves us, she'll be cordial but, I promised her, that it won't be like the last time, we have to learn to work together as a team."

"We will." Damon assures. "And I don't want to lose my younger sister again."

"Same here, that means we have to put her first."

"You're right."

I smile at that. "Hey." Stefan says as Damon goes to walk away.

"What?" Damon asks turning to face him.

"I'm sorry." Stefan apologises. I smile. He finally did it.

"About what?" Damon asks.

"For being the guy who made you turn 145 years ago." Stefan responds. Damon nods and walks off.

I walk into the room Stefan is in and we both hear a noise. Stefan takes a stake out. "Who's there?" I shout using all my senses.

The girl from before Rose arrives in front of us. "I'm not here to hurt you." She assures.

"Then why are you here?" Stefan asks.

"Lexi once told me that you're one of the good ones."

"You knew Lexi?" I question.

"Trevor was my best friend. For 500 years I have lived with one person and he's gone and I don't want to run anymore because I don't have anywhere else to run to." Rose tells us.

"Well, I'm sorry but we can't help you." Stefan tells her.

"I don't need your help but I think you need mine. Elijah may be dead but this isn't over." Rose announces.

"What do you mean it's not over?" I ask.

"It isn't over. The originals, they'll come for her. They have to. They're doing it for him." Rose continues.

"For who?" I ask.

"Klaus." Rose answers.