Chapter 7

Damon woke up the next morning in the same spot he remembered being in the night before.

"What the…"

He brushed leaves from his sleeves and ran his hand through his hair, as he shook his head, trying to clear it. He was groggy from the two 6 packs he killed in very little time and his neck was sore from sleeping on the ground.

He pulled out his phone to check the time and realized he had a missed call.

"Finally." He hit '1' on his keypad to listen to the voicemail.

Damon Salvatore. I wasn't expecting to hear from you so soon. And I'm surprised it sounds like this has nothing to do with the girl who's sired to you. Shame, I'm interested to hear more about that. Anyway, it looks like you won't be leaving me alone anytime soon, so call me back.

Nandi was arrogant, just like her mother and her grandmother had been. He had asked for Nandi help when he found out Elena was sired to him. She tried to trick Damon into believing that she wasn't Nandi. After Damon called her bluff, it seemed like she might have some respect for him. Or at least he liked to think so. But that was an issue for another time. For now, he needed Nandi's help with the DiLaurentis case.

He scrolled down to her number and hit call.

Damon. How nice to hear from you.

"Hello yourself, Nandi. I need your help."

I figured you might. What can I do for you this time?"

The sunlight shining through the window woke Spencer early the next morning. She was still unsure as to why Melissa was really here. It was suspicious that the day Damon saw a picture of Melissa and thought he recognized her that Melissa just shows up in town… It could be nothing.

But Spencer knew her sister. And there was definitely a reason she was here in Rosewood at this moment.

She sneaked past Melissa's bedroom door. It was opened a crack and Spencer could see Melissa was still in bed, sound asleep.

Spencer rushed downstairs to see if her sister left any of her bags down there. She respected certain people's privacy, but Melissa was not one of those people. Unfortunately, it looked like Melissa had all of her belongings with her in her room. Spencer was seriously considering going upstairs and into Melissa's room, when her phone went off.

It was a text from Hanna.

'A' emergency. My house. Now.

Spencer ran upstairs and threw on the first clothes she could find; some jeans and a white t-shirt. She looked in the mirror and ran a brush through her hair, grabbed her purse and laptop, and ran out the door with phone and keys in hand.

Melissa rolled over in bed just as Spencer's car was pulling out of the driveway. She grabbed her phone.

"Hey Katherine. I've been waiting for Spencer to leave. She just left. Come over."

Damon was pleased with himself. He made plans with Nandi; she had been meaning to take some time off. Supposedly a freak tropical storm was making its way to New Orleans. Damon didn't want to know if she had any control over that or not. Plus, Nandi was insisting she really wanted to meet the vampire girl who was sired to Damon. So she decided to make the trip to Mystic Falls. She'd be arriving in a few days and after she helped Damon with his present case, then he promised he would introduce her to Elena.

Sounded like a good plan.

Not necessarily one he was looking forward to, but good enough.

Damon just finished talking to Rebekah and she sounded pleased. Caroline wanted to travel to New Orleans and finally get to check out the area, but she would settle for things this way.

Who ever thought you'd be best buds with the original bitch herself? It was strange, the curve balls life can throw at ya…

He shook his head to clear his thoughts. He felt pretty accomplished so far. Being that he had already taken care of one of the things on his to do list, he was onto his more daunting task. He decided he'd go see Meredith Fell. He wouldn't be able to get into her house; she had never invited Damon or any of his other vampire friends inside. And he wouldn't be able to compel her to let him in. She wasn't stupid and she'd definitely be wearing vervain, probably even drinking it.

He figured the best idea was to just go visit her. No, he wasn't planning on undressing her in the hospital, although he wouldn't have minded that at one time. But that was before she had slept with Alaric. Now, thinking about her in an intimate way was just wrong on so many levels. And not even Damon stooped that low.

He just wanted to see her and have a chat with her. Maybe he could make plans to meet up with her later. He wanted to see what she was up to; if she was acting suspicious.

He made his way to the hospital. Damon knew what floor she worked on, so he sauntered right up to the nurses' station.

"Hello, ma'am. I'm looking for Dr. Fell." He smiled his sexy Damon smile at the elderly nurse.

"Can I ask who you are, sir?" She looked up from her computer and Damon captured her eyes in his.

"I'm a friend and I figured I'd stop by and see if she was free for an early lunch." His smooth voice captured the woman and held her mesmerized, or rather, compelled. She couldn't look away if she tried. And she was not trying.

"Let me check her schedule." She rummaged around some papers on her desk to clear away everything blocking her view of the giant calendar that covered her desk.

"I'm sorry, but it looks like Dr. Fell isn't in today."

"Really? Do you know where she is?"

"It says here she took a few vacation days. She'll be back next week."

Damon peered forward and took a look at the calendar. Sure enough, in green marker were the words, "Dr. Fell-Vacation Day" for the rest of the week and weekend.

"Thank you…." Damon looked down at her name tag. "Patricia." She smiled up at him.

"I'll see her another time. Forget I even dropped by."

She turned to the computer and went back to her work, humming along to the song on the radio.

On her way to Hanna's house, Spencer got a call from Aria to pick her up. She recently had a fight with her dad and he took the keys from her. They called Emily but she said she'd meet them there. They all got to Hanna's around the same time.

Hanna was already waiting at the door for them and they were being ushered up to her room.

"You girls are here awfully early, is everything okay?" Mrs. Marin was in the kitchen, dressed for work, eating cereal and reading the morning paper. She checked her watch. "It's not even 9 o'clock. Why are you even up that early in the summer?"

The four girls exchanged hurried glances.

"Good morning, Mrs. Marin. Yes everything is fine. See, it's Toby's birthday this week and I just panicked because I got an email and what I ordered him online is going to be late. I need help picking out another gift. Who better than Hanna and Aria?" She smiled and added, "Emily is just here for support."

Emily gave Spencer a face, while both Aria and Hanna stifled giggles. "See you later, mom." Hanna pushed the girls the rest of the way upstairs.

Once they got to her bedroom, she closed the door.

"What they hell, Spence? Why did you have to add, 'Emily is here for support?' What does that even mean?" Emily snapped at Spencer.

"I was just teasing Em. But you know, you don't have a boyfriend. Honestly, if it was Toby's birthday, would you help me pick something out for him?"

"Um, yes, hello! Toby and I are really good friends. I'd totally tell you to get him the most recent Call of Duty and a gamer headset and he'd love you forever."

That shut Spencer up quickly, as she remembered Emily did know Toby pretty well.

"Sorry Em."

"No worries." She smiled at her and sat next to her on Hanna's bed.

"Yeah, she picked out Caleb's Christmas gift and let me just say, he thanked me all night long." Hanna winked at Emily.

"Eww Han, too much info! And cool, now if you guys are finished arguing about Toby's imaginary birthday gift, can we please talk about why we're all here?" Aria reminded everyone of the severity of the situation. Hanna grabbed her phone; she looked nauseous.

"Han, what's going on?" Spencer was sitting on the bed in the middle of Aria and Emily.

Hanna made her way over to them and passed the phone to Spencer. There was a text conversation opened on the screen.

The brown haired lady visited me again. I'm scared, Hanna. Help me.

"Mona sent me this text this morning." She paused, for dramatic effect. "She isn't supposed to have a phone in Radley so I don't know how she got her hands on it."

"What does she expect you to do about it?"

"Why does she keep calling Jenna the brown haired lady? She knows her name!"

"Did you respond to her?"

Spencer, Emily and Aria all spoke at the same time.

"I am her friend, well I used to be anyway, and she told me about the brown haired lady before, so she must think I can do something? I don't know why she isn't just calling her 'Jenna'. And no, I didn't know if I should text her back. There, I think I covered all your questions." Hanna threw her hands up in exasperation. "Obviously, I need your help. That's why I called you all here." She looked like she was close to tears.

"I am so sick of this!" Spencer handed Hanna back her phone and got up off the bed. "Jenna has played with us long enough. I'm putting a stop to it."

"What are you gonna do, Spence?" Hanna took Spencer's seat between her friends; Aria grabbed her hand and Emily put her arm around Hanna's shoulders to calm her down.

"I don't know yet. But I'm sure we'll come up with something." She grabbed her laptop out of her bag and opened it up to their Jenna schedule.

"Now, let's figure out how to take this bitch down once and for all."

Katherine was in no hurry this morning. She got the call from Meredith about ten minutes ago, but it had interrupted her breakfast. Ever since Katherine was forced into Rosewood, she had been staying in the DiLaurentis household, under strict orders. The hot DiLaurentis brother, Jason, came and went as he pleased. When he came, Katherine made him her play thing, feeding off of him and fucking all over the house. Unfortunately, he wasn't here right now, so Katherine had to find other ways to occupy herself.

Currently, she was sucking on the neck of some hot girl who had the unfortunate luck of picking today to run by the DiLaurentis house. But Katherine was cool with that. She woke herself up when she heard someone panting and breathing heavy on the wooded trail out back. It took her no time at all to catch her, compel her and bring her back to the house. Katherine was just finishing up with her when her phone rang. She told Meredith she'd be there within the hour.

Katherine looked at the half naked girl. "Go back to your house. You finished your run and you really need to take a shower."

The girls blue sports bra was covered in blood.

"And maybe dispose of that too."

Katherine was sad to have to force the girl to leave so soon. She was pretty sure she could have some fun with her. She watched the girl leave, her ass swaying back and forth in the tight spandex shorts she had on.

"Damn shame." Katherine muttered to herself as she headed upstairs. She looked at herself in the mirror. Her cheeks had a healthy, post-feed blush to them and her hair was still curled, lying perfectly around her face. She washed the blood from her lips and smiled at herself. "Yes, Katherine. You do look perfect this morning."

She changed into a clean red tank top and tight white shorts. She threw on some sandals and was out the door.

Katherine wasn't too concerned about running into Rebekah, Caroline or Damon this morning, seeing how Meredith lived very close to the DiLaurentis house. She snuck her way behind the house and through the barn where Ali first went missing. Katherine knew the details of that night all too well.

The girls were all asleep in the barn. Ali heard a noise and walked outside by herself. Of course, Katherine had been following her, watching her for months now. It was the perfect timing. All the girls were passed out. Meredith made sure of that. They wouldn't hear a thing…

A snap of a twig brought Katherine back to the present. A little chipmunk scurried across the ground in front of her. She snatched it up and held it in both of her hands. Then she snapped its neck, just as she had done to Alison's.

Spencer had it all figured out. Hanna was going to go visit Mona and look in the visitors log book from the past few weeks and see if Jenna had been to visit her. That was simple enough.

In the meantime, Spencer was going to break into Jenna's house and search her room. She still had a set of Toby's keys and he definitely had one for Jenna's house.

Spencer was beyond ready to confront Jenna as to why she was bothering Mona, or why she was going to see her, but she wasn't going to do it without having any evidence.

"Wait, Spence, think this through…" Emily wasn't sure she was thrilled with breaking into Jenna's house.

"Yeah, first of all, isn't the visitor's logbook like, confidential or something? She's not going to just be able to go through the whole log book with the nurse standing right there!?" Aria wasn't exactly on the same page with Emily.

"That's not exactly the plan I had a problem with… Why are you going to break into Jenna's house?!" Emily muttered under her breath, but was interrupted by Spencer.

"Look, don't you want to know why she's visiting Mona? Or maybe Mona is playing us. Again. I'm done and I want to get to the bottom of it." Spencer folded her arms over her chest, determined to carry out her plan.

"Besides, Hanna's not going in alone."

"I'm not?" Hanna looked at Aria and Emily to see if they had any idea what Spencer was talking about. They just shrugged. By the sound of Spencer's speedy typing, the wheels in her head were already turning.

"Ugh." Emily fell back onto the bed. Aria patted her arm. "You know we're here for you Spence, just tell us what to do."

When Katherine arrived at Meredith's house, she listened closely just to make sure no one else was home. She then knocked on the door.

Meredith opened the back door cautiously, looking around to make sure no one was watching them. "Come on in, Katherine."

Katherine stepped into the house. She could already smell him. Damon had definitely been here.

"Don't you think we could have met at your place? You do live right next door." Meredith asked Katherine as she poured herself some coffee. "Spencer is gone for now, but she could be back any minute."

Katherine ignored Meredith for the moment and followed Damon's scent into the living room.

"I can still smell him. The others too, but his scent is stronger." She looked up at Meredith. "Did he come back yesterday? After he had originally left?"

Meredith gave her a blank stare and raised her eyebrows. "I don't know? You're the one who said he was here in the first place. Spencer didn't mention anything to me about it, but why would she? We're not exactly tight."

She put down her coffee mug on the counter.

"What are we going to do?"

Katherine looked around the living room. There were a pictures lining the room; on the walls and the table, above the fire place.

"There was no way they were in this room and didn't see all these pictures." Katherine picked up one of the frames. "You know, you'd almost think you were a happy family, with all these family pictures."

Meredith looked over at the picture in Katherine's hands. She smiled. "That was when we went on a family vacation to North Carolina. We had a hotel right on the beach. Spencer and I shared a room. We even bought matching bikinis, just in different colors." She looked away. "It was only a few years ago, but sometimes it feels like forever."

Katherine wasn't interested in the family drama. She had heard the story once. Something about how Spencer kissed someone Melissa was dating. Their sibling rivalry had always been fierce; that was the last straw. Melissa was going to college that fall and she wanted nothing more to do with her family. She had always planned to be a doctor; much to her mother's insistence that she follow the family business and go into law. She left Rosewood and found a town called Mystic Falls, where she met Katherine. There, she searched the town for a founding family whose members were all deceased, which is where she created Meredith Fell. She lived a dual life for the past few years and no one ever knew. Until now.

"Ok, here's what we're going to do." Katherine pulled herself back to the present and put the picture back down on the end table. It looked as if Meredith was having her own flashback of the past; perhaps bringing her back to a happier time, when her family wasn't so torn.

"We don't know how much they know. We're just going to pretend that they know nothing. If you're here, you are Melissa Hastings. If you're in Mystic Falls, you are Meredith Fell. They'll think you must be a doppelganger." Katherine shrugged her shoulders and lifted her eyebrows, looking to Meredith, proud of her plan.

"And what about when they want to put Meredith and Melissa together?" Meredith frowned, the corners of her mouth turning down. "What then?"

"Well, this is the best we can do for now. We'll figure out something by then. Okay?"

"Fine."

"Good. Now that that's settled, I have news for you as well." Katherine made her way over to the counter and stood across from Meredith. "I was doing some recon of my own. Rebekah is staying at a house on the other side of town. I tried to get in but I couldn't, so the owner has to still be alive. I need you to find out who lives there."

"Ok, I'll make my way into town today so research that."

"Wait, there's more."

"Ok, spit it out Katherine."

"I only caught a glimpse of the girl living there, but I know what I saw and she looked an awful lot like Rebekah. And Rebekah had just left for a date with Emily, so it wasn't her."

Meredith inhaled quickly, taken by surprise at the information. "I'll check it out." She was already opening one of her doctor books, Supernatural Medicine.

"Maybe it won't be so hard to convince them that I have a doppelganger."

Rebekah didn't want to let Emily and her friends deal with Jenna by themselves. However, Emily insisted they were fine and didn't want to bring anyone else into their mess. Rebekah said she wouldn't interfere with Emily's wishes, but she was going to keep an eye on her without Emily knowing. She knew the girls were convening at Hanna's, so Rebekah perched herself on Hanna's back porch; far enough away to not get caught, but close enough to hear every word of their conversation.

The liars knew for a fact that Jenna had an eye doctor appointment today. Ever since she made it publically known that she can now see again, she made a point of driving around as much as possible in the day so everyone could see her. Her doctor was in Philly, so she'd get up early, go out to eat, shop, do as much as she could in the most public places. Luckily, the liars had been keeping an eye on her for the past few weeks and knew her schedule.

Hanna and Aria were going to follow her into the city. Aria was going to go with Hanna to Radley and visit Mona. Hanna would ask the nurse at the front desk to accompany her to Mona's room, seeing as how she was afraid to see Mona by herself because of her freak out last time. That plan would give Aria a few solid minutes to check the visitors log book.

"Well, what if she used a fake name?" Aria asked Spencer.

"If she's smart, she definitely used a fake name. But don't worry, I made a list of all the aliases 'A' ever used on us. Here." She handed over the list to Aria.

"Ok, so while you guys are gone, Emily is going to keep a look out on Jenna's street. Once she leaves for her appointment, I'm going to enter in through the back door and check out her room. If I find anything, I'll take pictures."

"And you're out of there the second I see anything happening outside." Emily warned Spencer.

"Yes, Em. Definitely.

Damon got a call just as he was leaving the hospital.

"Hey Damon. What's going on?"

He explained to Rebekah his recent encounter.

"She's on vacation? Interesting…." Rebekah took a moment to process this information.

"Well I just got a call from Emily this morning. Whoever's bothering them is at it again. Hanna got a text this morning."

"Great, Beks, do you have any useful information for me?"

She snorted into the phone. "Oh yeah, Spencer's sister, Melissa, is randomly in town."

This caught Damon's interest. "Really? Melissa is conveniently in town as soon as Meredith isn't." He contemplated for a moment.

"Yep, so I think you should probably make your way back to Rosewood."

Aria and Hanna wasted no time. Once their plan was set, the girls left immediately for Radley.

Emily and Spencer also had work to do. They got into the car and headed over to Jenna's street. Emily found a spot at the end of the block and parked her car. This was their usual hideout when watching Jenna's house and Jenna never seemed to notice them there. They knew she left for her appointment around 11:30. Sure enough, the clock hit 11:32 and out walked Jenna in a cute flowery sundress and high heeled wedges. Her sunglasses were on her head, holding back her hair. She had a bag over her shoulder and keys in her hand. She was hopping into her car.

"Spence, give her five minutes. Just in case she forgot anything and has to come back. Then you can go in." Emily looked to Spence, not negotiating this.

"Okay, good thinking." Spencer was jittery with excitement. A little nervous, but more excited than anything.

Jenna pulled away from the curb and disappeared around the corner. Emily called Aria to fill her on the plan. Aria and Hanna were just parking at Radley.

Five minutes ticked by slowly, but finally it was Spencer's time to act. She got out of the car and made her way across the street to Jenna's house. She checked to make sure no one was walking up or down the street and make her way to the back porch.

Emily made Spencer promise to put her on speaker phone for the whole time she was in Jenna's house. Her phone rang within two minutes of Spencer leaving the car.

"I'm in."

Meredith was curious after her chat with Katherine. She had to check out the house Rebekah was staying at. Katherine mentioned the location to her, but it didn't sound familiar. Meredith knew that part of town, but she didn't know anyone who lived there. It was out of her school district, so Spencer wouldn't even go to school with them.

Speaking of Spencer, Meredith was tempted to ask her if she knew anyone from that part of town, but Spence was a smart girl. She'd want to know why Melissa was curious about it. So she was left to figure it out on her own. She searched the address online but found nothing.

Her best bet was probably to just check out the house. Meredith wanted Katherine to do this; she was unrecognizable to anyone in town and she could compel people to forget if anyone did happen to see her. Plus she was a vampire, so if anything went down she could protect herself better than Meredith could. Meredith was by no means weak, but she didn't have the strength of a vampire if anything happened at this house.

She parked her car across the street and looked at the house. All the shades were pulled down and the curtains were drawn; the house looked dark. It seemed like no one was living there.

Meredith wanted to believe that Katherine had actually seen something suspicious but it wasn't looking plausible. She got out of her car and went to the door. She rang the bell. If anyone answered she would give the impression that she was selling something or looking for someone; she was sure something would come to mind. She didn't have to concern herself with those thoughts, however, because no one answered the door.

She tried to look through any of the windows, but she couldn't see inside at all.

Determined to not give up, she headed back to her car. She'd charm her way into the town records to find out who lived there. Or maybe the house had a colorful history.

Once in her car, her phone rang. It was Katherine. She wanted to ignore it, being that she had no additional information to share, but thought better of it. For all

"Hello, Katherine." She tried to not to sound as pathetic as she felt.

"No, nothing new at the house. It looks like no one is there. But I'm heading to town. I'll find record of it somewhere."

"Ok, keep me posted."

"Wow, Spence. That was fast."

"Well I had a key, Em!" Spencer rolled her eyes, but forgot Emily couldn't see her.

"Okay, I'm heading into her room." Spencer had her eyes peeled for anything and everything in the house. She did a quick inventory of the kitchen and living room, but other than the occasional picture of Toby and Jenna together, nothing seemed out of place or unusual.

Spencer knew Jenna's room was on the first floor, due to the fact that she used to be blind, so she had an idea of where she was going. Luckily, the door was unlocked and wide opened. "She really likes pink." Spencer informed Emily when she entered Jenna's room. The walls and sheets were a pale pink color. "Heading to her closet."

"Yeah, that's where I'd hide anything." Emily said in agreement.

She could hear Spencer rummaging around. Emily really wished she could be in there with Spence. This being a lookout was too nerve-wracking.

Suddenly she heard a quick intake of breath on the line. "Spence, you okay? Talk to me, what's going on?"

"Em. You are never going to believe what I just found."

"What? What do you mean?"

"Jackpot. Everything we need to bring down Jenna is right here. Let me take some pictures and video. I'm sending it to all of our phones and emails so it can't be mysteriously deleted." Spencer laughed, because it was ridiculous, the things that happened to them over the last year.

"Wow, Spence. I can't believe you found stuff."

"Well of course she feels like her house is safe. Don't you? We hide things in our closets all the time."

"True. Aria just had those diary papers of Ali's in her closet last week and Meredith found them!"

"Give me five more minutes and we can get out of here."

Spencer went to town taking pictures and video of all the contents in the back of Jenna's closet.

Spencer was too wound up to do much after leaving Jenna's house. Her and Emily went for lunch and went to relax in the park. They had nothing to do while they waited to hear back from Aria and Hanna.

"This was a pretty eventful day, Spence." Emily and Spencer were sunbathing on a towel, watching some little kids splash around in the sprinkler. "It's been a long time since we found something solid against Jenna."

Spencer had her eyes closed, but she smiled and enjoyed the feel of the sun on her skin. "Yes. I agree with you, Em. I feel good right now. Better than I have in a long time."

Just then her phone rang. "Hopefully some more good news." She answered her phone. "Hey Aria, what's up?"

We're just leaving Radley now. They wouldn't let Hanna in to see Mona. I guess the nurses knew she got her hands on a cell phone and she was being punished. So I didn't get a chance to look in the book.

Spencer nodded her head. "Okay. Well it doesn't even matter anymore. Because what I have is more than enough to get Jenna talking. Meet us at the park. I'll tell you everything."

Spencer had been too busy all day to really get a chance to talk to her sister. When she finally arrived home after the Jenna home invasion, she was exhausted but her adrenaline was still pumping. She was happy to see the lights were on. Maybe now she'd get to see what Melissa was up to. She pulled her car into the drive way and walked inside. Melissa was on the couch, watching the latest episode of some ridiculous show where these four girls are best friends and are getting anonymous threats from some mysterious person. The irony. Spencer kicked off her shoes at the door and figured she'd join her.

"Hey Meliss." She flopped onto the couch next to her sister. "How was your day?"

"Fine, Spence." She smiled. "You?"

"Oh, pretty uneventful. Summers in Rosewood usually are." Spencer leaned her head back on the couch and closed her eyes. She flashbacked to the items she found in Jenna's closet; the spell books and dagger, the bowls that were stained with a reddish material. Spencer imagined the bowl to be the same one found at Ali's grave. Spencer knew all along that Jenna was involved. She just never realized how much. And now she had proof. She let out a deep, satisfied sigh.

"You okay, Spencer?" Melissa turned to her and gave her a concerned look.

"Yeah, I just found something that I'd been looking for." Spencer smiled at her sister. "Good night, Melissa."

"Good. Night, Spence." She turned back to the TV.

Spencer left the room and was too preoccupied to notice her sister's nervous movements to her cell phone.

"Something is up." Message sent to Katherine.

Yes you're definitely right about that. I'm on it.

"Let me know what you find out." Melissa leaned back on the couch and let out a sigh of her own.

She was suddenly startled by the doorbell ringing.

"What the hell…." She muttered under her breath.

She got up and headed to the door. She looked out the window to try to catch a glimpse of who was ringing her door bell, but couldn't see anyone there. She had a bad feeling and didn't want to open the door, but she had to know who was out there.

She unlocked the door and opened it up. Her stomach dropped. Standing on her front porch was none other than Damon Salvatore.

"Hi. You must be Melissa. It's so nice to finally meet you."

The story is heating up! Lots going on! :D Hope you enjoy! Have a great rest of the week!