"You want me to turn you?" Jeremy's eyes widened. The brunette nodded and smiled, her cheeks dimpling faintly. "Yes…can you do it now? Please?" Jeremy furrowed his brows and shook his head, pulling back from her. "No…" he protested, sighing heavily. "I…I don't even know you…" "I'm Nikki," she promptly replied, as if that would end Jeremy's resistance. "Well Nikki, you don't know what you're asking for," he insisted.

Nikki shook her head and protested right back. "I do know. I know exactly what you are now…and I want to be like you. I want to be with you forever, Jeremy." Jeremy wrinkled his nose, disbelieving. "How can you say something like that?" Nikki shrugged a little, not understanding what the big deal was. "No one would miss me, I wouldn't miss anyone. Don't you want someone to be with?"

Jeremy looked away, feeling a twinge of despair as he thought of Anna, regretting that things didn't work out how they were planning. "I can't be with you though, Nikki." He sighed heavily, "Even if we did get to know each other better…I couldn't ask you to do something like that."

Nikki nodded softly and smiled, moving close to Jeremy, reaching down for his hands. "I know you couldn't…you're too sweet to." Jeremy met her gaze as she laced their fingers together. "How do you know-?" "-So you don't have to ask," Nikki interjected, dismissing Jeremy's question. "That's why I'm offering. I'm asking."

"All you have to do is give me some of your blood…" Nikki continued, tilting her head to the side a little. "…then kill me." Jeremy looked into Nikki's eyes, looking for any signs that she wasn't being serious. She looked back at him, unflinching. "Or I can do it the way you did it, if you're worried about hurting me. Whatever makes it easier."

"How do you know how I did it?" He asked, feeling very suspicious. Nikki simply grinned and shrugged. "I know a lot about you Jeremy. I think we'll grow very close." She sighed softly, seeing that he wasn't granting her request. "Okay, we can do this another way then."

Jeremy looked at her curiously as she let go of his hands and reached into her jeans pocket. He watched her pull out a safety pin. He shook his head instinctively. "Nikki, don't." She laughed softly. "Don't worry. I'm just gonna make it less difficult for you." She opened the pin and placed the point against her skin. "Maybe a little taste will take your nerves away."

Jeremy squeezed his eyes shut on the first glimpse of red and stepped back as far as he could. "Nooo…you should leave," he groaned, already smelling the freshness of her blood, desiring to taste it again. "Jerrrr," Nikki whined, advancing toward him, offering him her wrist. "It's okay, I promise." "No!" He snarled in frustration, roughly pushing Nikki away from him and into the wall.

Nikki gasped when her back hit the cement of the wall then she stumbled forward a bit, rebounding from the impact. "Geez, that hurt y'know…" She complained, rubbing the back of her neck. Jeremy turned away, trying to ignore his intense hunger pangs. "I'm sorry," he choked out. "I just…you need to go…now."

"Why are you being so stubborn?" Nikki sighed, approaching Jeremy again once she got her bearings. "I'm just trying to be a good future girlfriend for you. It's obvious you don't know how to pick the right ones for yourself." Jeremy frowned deeply, turning to face her. "What's that supposed to mean?" Nikki shrugged, remaining close to him. "….Vicki and Anna?" She scrunched her nose in disgust. "Apparently, neither of them was good for you. They were both stupid enough to get themselves staked."

Jeremy's jaw clenched and he snarled at her again, filling with hatred for this girl. "Don't you talk about them!" Nikki stood her ground, bracing herself, knowing Jeremy was close to giving in. All she had to do was push him just a little further, like Katherine said to. She smirked to herself, choosing just the right words. "They didn't love you, Jeremy. But I will. I won't betray you like your so-called sister. I won't leave you. Like Vicki…and Anna…and your parents…"

"Shut up!" Jeremy growled, wrapping his fingers around Nikki's throat, pushing her back to the wall, moving in front of her to keep her there this time. He squeezed her windpipe tightly, leaving her unable to make any more noise aside from wheezing. "You want this so bad?" He seethed. Nikki squirmed, trying to breathe. She couldn't nod, so she just lifted her arm, offering her wrist to him again.

Jeremy furiously knocked her hand away. "Fine." Keeping her pinned against the wall, he eyed her neck instead. Nikki looked at him confused, starting to feel light-headed from the pressure of his fingers on her neck. She watched his fangs protrude as he parted his lips and leaned toward her throat, biting down where her pulse was strongest. She winced, shutting her eyes, wondering how long he'd feed from her before letting up. Jeremy bit down deeper, sucking harder, feeling her blood quicken into his mouth the more she squirmed.

There was no voice in Jeremy's head telling him he should stop before it was too late this time. He was surrendering to his blood lust and he couldn't bring himself to care what happened to Nikki at all. He only drank more deeply when she clutched at his shirt, trying to pry him off with the last bits of her strength. Jeremy wrapped his arms around Nikki, holding her close to him as her pulse weakened.

Slumping down to the ground after a few moments, Nikki exhaled her final breath. Jeremy knelt down, cradling her in his arms, making sure not to waste even one precious drop of her blood. He licked his lips, cleaning them off, looking down at Nikki's lifeless body when there was nothing left. He felt odd, looking down at Nikki now, knowing that he'd made her a corpse.

"Jeremy Gilbert," a voice called to him from the stairs, "What have you done?"