Hello. Thank you for your reviews, i really appreciate them. And thanks to everyone who has stuck with me so far.

I know i'm not sticking accuratly to the TV series, sorry about that, but i just include stuff which would fit with what i'm writing here.

Anyway, i'll let you read on.

Dinner that evening was an awkward affair. Jeremy kept glancing over to Elena.

You're dating a vampire, you're dating a vampire, the thought was going round and round in his head. He would have to speak to her, but not whilst Jenna was in the room.

He glanced at her again, this time Elena caught him and raised her eyebrows.

"What?" she mouthed.

Jeremy shook his head.

"Can I be excused?" Jeremy said suddenly.

He didn't wait for his aunt to reply. He got up from the table and put his plate on the side.

"Jeremy, wait," his aunt said as he went to climb the stairs. "What has got into you lately, Jeremy? You seem so quiet and secretive. "

"Maybe I do have a secret, " he said and then carried on up to his room.

There was a loud bang as Jeremy shut his door and went to load up his computer.

Jeremy sat on his computer for what seemed like an age, waiting for his sister to come upstairs so he could talk to her alone. About an hour later, he heard her familiar footsteps and went over to his door so he could catch her as she went past.

"Elena,"

"What?"

"Can I speak to you a minute?"

Elena bit her lip and then followed Jeremy into his room.

"This better be good," she said, "I have a date tonight, I need to get ready,"

"With Stephen?"

Elena looked at Jeremy confused. "Who else?"

Jeremy didn't know how to approach the topic. He decided to just come out with it.

"You know you're dating a vampire, right?"

It looked like Elena had stopped breathing.

"How- how do you know about vampires?"

"I figured it out,"

Elena narrowed her eyes and walked towards Jeremy, sitting on his bed.

"How?"

"With what happened with Vicky, and," Jeremy seemed reluctant to say her name, "Anna. Anna is a vampire."

Elena seemed to nod in agreement though she remained in a trance-like state.

"I don't think you should see Anna," Elena suddenly blurted out.

"What?"

"Stephen knows them. The vampires living in her house tortured him."

"What?"

"Jeremy, I don't know if Anna was involved or not, I don't think she was in at the time, but that's who she's associated with Jeremy. I can't truly say that you can't be with her because that would make me a hypocrite, but I would advise you t-.."

"How long have you known about them, Elena?"

Elena sighed.

"I don't know. A long time. It's not something that you can go telling people about." Suddenly Elena panicked. "You must not tell anyone Jeremy, understand? If the sheriff found out about Stephen, they would also figure out that Damon is a vampire and maybe Anna too."

Jeremy nodded with understanding.

"Okay,"

"How long have you been dating Anna anyway?" Elena said curiously as she went to leave the room.

"Oh, not long. I've known her a while though."

"Well, just go careful." Jeremy noticed that her eyes immediately focused in on his neck. "She hasn't fed off you then,"

"No," Jeremy realised that it had been very convenient that Anna had fed off his wrist the other night. He could hide the wounds quite easily.

"Just go careful, and don't go near that house,"

"Don't worry, I won't." Then Elena left to go and get ready.

Jeremy went over to his bed and rubbed his eyes. They were sore from the lack of sleep the other night, but it had been worth it.

Jeremy thought of the previous night against what Elena had just told him about Anna and the vampires at her house. So she had lied to him about there only being three vampires in town. He couldn't understand why she had lied to him. And they had tortured Stephen. He had to ring Anna.

He took out his phone and dialled, Anna picked up on the first ring.

"You lied Anna,"

"When?"

"Vampires, there are more." There was silence. "Anna?"

"Not anymore,"

"What do you mean?"

"I'll come over, okay?"

"I'll see you in a minute."

Anna put the phone down. She saw that there was black smoke billowing out the house and several fire engines surrounding it from where she stood watching. They weren't going to save it, it was too late. Anna felt comforted in that.

She was watching from a distance, from the blackness of the nearby forest. There were clouds of black smoke billowing from the smouldering remains of the building, and she shook her head over the useless attempts as the human's tried to put out the fire. They might as well give up, she thought. There's no way there're going to stop that.

Then she turned into the darkness, running through the forest. She would be at the Gilbert's house soon.

Jeremy already had his window open when she arrived. She took it as an open invitation to let herself in, so she jumped up into his room to be met by Jeremy who didn't seem happy at all.

Jeremy sat over on his desk chair as Anna walked over to him.

"Will you tell me the truth Anna? Just tell me what's been happening with you and these other vampires."

She walked slowly over to his bed and sat on the edge facing him.

"I can't tell you everything, you wouldn't understand everything."

"Try me."

Anna sighed, then she began.

"Vampires can't exactly die, unless there're exposed to sunlight. But I have this," she flashed her ring at Jeremy, "its protection. Which technically means, we can survive hundreds, even thousands of years without blood. Though we might as well be dead. You could call us an empty shell, just preserved."

Then she told him about the tomb and why the other vampires wanted to hurt Stephen and what the Salvatore's had to do with her family.

Jeremy didn't realise that Anna had stopped speaking finally.

"So, now you know everything,"

Jeremy blinked.

" I find it... hard.. to believe... like anything like that could happen. It shouldn't be real. You shouldn't exist."

"You understand though Jeremy?"

"I-I don't know."

Anna got up and started walking towards him.

"Do you still want me.. after everything?"

Jeremy looked into Anna's eyes. So beautiful, he thought.

"Please," Anna said. "I love you, Jeremy. I promise, I've changed."

Jeremy's face was torn, he closed his eyes. Everything was so complicated.

"Anna, " he said.

Then something over took him, a desire, a screaming aching desire.

He got up from his chair with alarming speed and walked over almost threateningly towards Anna. He met Anna halfway across his room and threw his arms around her sending them backwards and collapsing onto his bed.

His lips pressed down on hers, and for now he didn't want to think of anything but what he was going to do next.

Anna responded to Jeremy's eagerness curling herself to the shape of him. She ripped her own t-shirt off whilst Jeremy struggled to get his off too. Then it was off and Anna could see Jeremy's boyish figure that had just the right amount of muscle. He was perfect, and so good looking.

They made love noiselessly, knowing that Jenna was in the house. The only sounds were their silent panting and the slight squeaking of bed springs. Jeremy had one hand tangled in Anna's thick auburn hair and the other on her back, keeping her close.

But Anna kept her face hidden, behind Jeremy's shoulder. When both of them reached their peak, and the bedroom was filled with glorified moans, Anna pulled her face back and for the first time Jeremy saw why she had decided to keep her face hidden.

Dark patches were fading from black eyes that were fast becoming lighter. For that small moment, she looked like a vampire. And Jeremy didn't care about Anna's history, or what she did, what she does, Elena had said it herself that Anna wasn't involved in Stephen's torture, he had decided now.

"Change me, Anna. Change me now." His voice was rugged as he spoke, and he stroked Anna's face.

"Jeremy," Anna whispered.

But she felt the moment was perfect, right. How could she refuse him?

Anna closed her eyes, kissing his lips, down to his chin and jaw bone, continuing down his neck, planting small, delicate kisses. Then she let the sharp point of her fang graze his skin.

"Are you sure this is what you want?"

She felt Jeremy nod. He didn't speak. She took the nod as confirmation.

"I'm sorry," she whispered in his ear.

Then she bit down, hard.