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Stefan woke up the next day and groaned out loud. He shifted trying to get away from the sliver of sunlight coming through the drapes he had haphazardly closed after "Jill" left. She didn't look like a Jill, not even close. But she hadn't offered her name and didn't seem to remember him giving her his. What she did was leave her camera sitting in the chair he had dragged over for her. Fighting the urge to go through it he had placed it on the bedside table as he rolled himself onto the mattress. Sleep was instant and deep and full of sunshiney hair and rosy red lips.

Opening his eyes he saw the camera again.

What had she been doing with it in the hallway anyways? She had been going to get on the elevator with it but where was she going? She didn't have it in the club when he had seen her earlier. Not that he noticed anyway and he had noticed a lot.

He ran his hand over his face realizing that for all their time (15 minutes was a long time right) he didn't know anything about her . And he wanted to know her. See what made her tick. She was funny and quick and clever and possibly the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. As awkward as the situation was last night she seemed at ease. Like she was on top of the world and she knew it. But at the same time the way she bit her lip and and smiled made her seem small and frail. A perfect contradiction wrapped up in a beautiful package and he wanted more.

Staring at the camera he decided maybe he could get a little insight to her that way. Was it intrusive and kinda creepy? Yes. Did he care? Not even a little bit.

He grabbed the camera of the table and began flipping through the photos. Mostly of the past few days. There were photo's of the club and a chippendales type of male strip show that he was glad only had a few had gone shopping for the dress she wore at the club last night and then had dinner with a glass of red had flown in apparently since there were photos of her friends on the plane and a few of the view out her window. The further back he looked he realized there were no pictures of her. Not her face anyways. There were a few that were clearly taken while she was unaware. Laying on a couch with a pillow shielding her. In a diner with her hand in front of the camera. There was only one where he could see all of her. The one with her in a beautiful white ball gown. Glass of bourbon in hand. Hair pulled back gracefully showing off the slope of her neck and bare shoulders. Amazing bright white smile.

And a brown haired, brown eyed man hanging off of her.

Stefan frowned and dropped the camera down on the bed.

Of course she was with someone. Woman like her. Beautiful, clever, strong spoken, fun woman like her couldn't stay single if she tried.

Not that he was single either though.

With a sigh he grabbed his phone and dialed katherine. At almost one in the afternoon he would probably be able to catch her while she was on her lunch break.

"Hello Stefan" her sultry voice came through the speaker.

"Katherine hi how are you?" he said to her frowning at the noise in the background. Her lunch hour would be coming to an end in a few minutes but she didn't seem to be at the office.

"I'm fine stefan. Work has been crazy today. I had so many patients come in to be seen. You wouldn't believe how rude people getting plastic surgery can be. I can't imagine being the Dr to these people. Thank Goodness i'm only the receptionist here. Although sometimes i feel like that's worse. People always saying they want my nose or my lips or my breasts. I mean can you believe that!? How many people are out there being a Katherine lookalike can you imagine? Haha not that anyone can look this good i mean it's a gift. Good genes my mama says. Oh i have to get into work now. Gotta go."

With that she hung up. Conversation over. He couldn't help but compare the two women. When Jill had been rambling last night she had still been paying attention to him. The conversation focused in both of them. Katherine hadn't even asked after him despite her telling him how much she would miss him and how it wouldn't be the same not having him around. Truth be told it definitely felt the same to him. Her talking about her and him not really listening. She was a smart girl, charming as well. Everyone loved her. Everyone but Enzo anyways. Damon hadn't met her yet and with Enzo's scheming, he had already said that he didn't think too highly of her either.

Thinking of Enzo gave him the push to get up and shower and make his way two doors down to his friends room to see if he was ready. Fining both him and Alaric ready to go he walked back to his room and stuck a note on his door in case "Jill" came looking for her camera. He laughed thinking how neither Enzo or Ric remembered his girl.

His girl.

Despite being the last to sleep Caroline was still the first one up at just past noon. Her first thoughts were about bright green eyes and a loose red tie standing out along a harsh black shirt.

"Jack" she said softly and laughed

No matter what his name was in her mind from now on her stranger was forever branded Jack and the thought brought on a round of giggles as she got out of bed. She wanted to make sure her camera charged so that she could use it for the day's activities. A slow spa day followed by a concert that night. But first she needed to take advantage of the free bathroom before Liv got in there. Unruly curly hair apparently took more time than Caroline realized and she wanted to get in there before Liv monopolized the mirror.

After a hot shower she wrapped herself in a big fluffy robe smirking as she wondered why she hadn't used the robe the night before. But then again if she had she never would have taken Jack up on his offer and never would have sat with him while she waited for her key and never would have heard him laugh. She definitely never would have flirted with her Jack.

Flirted.

Caroline forbes had openly flirted with a man who's name she made up for him. In the middle of the night. Dressed in what amounted to lingerie.

She laughed out loud at the thought then jumped when she heard Elena behind her.

"Whats got you all sunshiney Care? Tyler call you? I told you no boys!" Elena chuckled

Tyler.

That snapped her back to reality. Gaaah what had she been thinking! She had a boyfriend. A very committed boyfriend at that. She had no business doing anything with some guy she met whose name she refused to get lest it break her little fantasy.

A fantasy she didn't want to end despite her very committed boyfriend. What was wrong with her? How could she even think about some other guy when her guy was sitting at home right now. Well not right now. Right now he was probably at work. Where he has probably been since 6 this morning if he was following his usual routine. Not that she would know since she hadn't actually heard from him since she left three mornings ago. She frowned slightly realizing she hadn't heard from him at all since monday morning. He hadn't called or text her to see if she had arrived safely or to see how things were going for her being on a trip with mainly acquaintances if not full on strangers. Though to be fair she hadn't contacted him either. Hadn't even thought to reach out to him. That was wrong wasn't it? Two people in love should feel the need to talk to each other especially when they were far apart. She never really noticed that when she was home they only ever spoke at home. The only time they text or called each other was when they needed something. Like if milk needed to be picked up or if someone was in the mood for take out. But they led busy lives so that was the compromise. Little to no romance, except on their standing date night twice a month, in exchange for a beautiful home and high social standing.

"No boys" she confirmed to Elena " i was just laughing thinking about what Matt's face would look like if he saw you screaming for him to "show you what he's packing" the way you did that poor guy last night" Caroline snickered watching Elena blush deeply. "Come on let's get sleeping beauty up so we can get this show on the road"

With that Caroline went over to her luggage to retrieve her camera. She scowled when she couldn't find it. Where else would she leave it yesterday. While Elena worked on dragging Liv out of the bed she searched the room to no avail. She couldn't even remember what she did with it when she got into her room last night. Retracing her steps she paled realizing she might have left it out in the hall. That was her last birthday present from her mother before she passed away and she would be devastated if she lost it.

Snatching open the door she looked around the hallway but came up empty still, but noticed a piece of paper on Jack's door. Looking over her shoulder to make sure that no one was watching her she stepped over to the door to peek at the note smiling when she saw it was addressed to "Jill"

Jill,

I tried knocking on the door this morning but no one answered. I have your camera. I'm not holding it hostage, just figured you'd rather i hold onto it than leave it out for someone else to find. I should be back in tonight/tomorrow morning no later than 2 if you want to come get it. If not i'll leave it with reception tomorrow. Hope to see you again though.

Jack

p.s i'll make sure to have ice this time

Caroline laughed under her breath and her pulse quickened at the thought of seeing him again. She ran back into her room and grabbed a pen to write her own note.

See you then-

Jill