When Damon had left, Katherine used her time alone to go and pay Elena another visit. When she arrived at the Gilbert home she saw a note on the front door 'Gone to hospital', obviously left for the missing brother or a friend, Katherine thought, so she made her way to the local hospital.
On the way in she asked for Gilbert and the nurse gave her the directions to the room with 'Gilbert' posted outside the door. It was unoccupied, lucky for them, she thought to herself, and walked right in to John Gilbert's room.
"What the hell! I thought I already killed you" she exclaimed when she realised John Gilbert was still alive.
"Katherine!" John exclaimed weakly, he was about to call for security or press the buzzer but Katherine got a syringe and was just about to insert air into his intravenous tube, when she was interrupted by Elena walking in.
"Oh My God, Katherine, step away from him!"
"He's a bad man, you don't want him"
"He's my father, leave him alone"
"I could snap your neck like a twig in two seconds flat Elena, don't argue with me" Katherine was in front of Elena in a flash, with her hand at her throat, fangs protracted, Elena gasped but held her ground.
"I am not afraid of you" Elena told Katherine
"You should be when Stefan isn't here to protect you"
"I can protect myself" Elena injected Katherine with vervain so she collapses unconscious on the ground. She drags her into the bathroom and shuts the door, then goes back to check on John.
"Are you ok?" She asks him, he nods weakly.
"I've got to find Stefan and Damon"
Stefan waited in the woods for Damon; in the meantime, he looked for any possible sign that Jeremy may have been that way or nearby. He heard a twig snap behind him, he turned around and Damon was right there.
"So, find anything?" Damon asked, impatient like a little child when he arrives.
"No not really, you're late" Replied Stefan
"Yeah I came at human pace" He replies, Stefan rolled his eyes
"You can get back to your girlfriend soon, now come help me track" Stefan bent down and examined a broken leaf.
"Decades of animal blood has made u a weak tracker, here let me" Damon took the leaf from his brother and sniffed it.
"Yes Jeremy has been this way" he dropped the leaf and jogged off into the woods, Stefan followed him.
Damon caught a scent and ran at vampire speed towards it, and before long he realised it was a preschool, filled with young innocent, vulnerable children, and Jeremy was walking right inside. But before he could enter to stop him, his phone vibrated in his pocket, the second time at the wrong time, he thought, he pulled it out and answered it.
"Elena I can't talk now"
"Its important, listen, Katherine is at the hospital and she tried to kill John again"
Damon paused, "Katherine's there, at the hospital? I thought I told her to stay in the room" he muttered the last part to himself.
"What?"
"Nothing, listen, tell K…" Stefan appeared so he couldn't finish his sentence, "scrap that, I'll be there soon" and he hung up and faced his brother.
"You're a bit slow, Jeremy's inside the preschool; I've got to get to the hospital"
"Why have you got to go to the hospital?"
"I'll explain later" and with those as his last words, he ran off at vampire speed, leaving Stefan standing outside Mystic Falls Kindergarten alone.