This one's a little different in its content, more focussed on the entire dynamic but Jeremy has the added advantage of having the actual insight of Elena's thoughts xx Please read and review to tell me if you like it!
It's times like this that he really wishes that he hadn't read Elena's diary. They say that ignorance is bliss and it's true, not just another of those meaningless platitudes.
Because if he hadn't have read Elena's diary then he would know about vampires or curses or tombs. He would have continued to think that Vicki had happily skipped town and nothing went bump in the darkness of the night. He knows that she was only thinking of him when she asked for Damon to compel him and he knows that for sure - he's read her innermost thoughts on the situation. And he almost wishes he didn't know. He wouldn't have known anything about the vampire that was an exact replica of the sister that was actually not his sister, with a vampire for a mother.
He wouldn't know about her feelings for Damon.
But he did read her diary and that's why he's so worried - because he's read everything that she knows about Katherine and the love triangle between her and the Salvatore brothers and Jeremy can't help but see the similarities for himself.
He knows about Katherine's selfishness, how she'd toyed with both brothers and faked her own death in order to escape them, and comforts himself with that knowledge because he knows that Elena would never think of doing that for herself, only for other people. Elena is selfless, most of the time, to the point where it's detrimental to her health, like when she attempts to comfort bloodthirsty vampires.
But it's hard to remember that right now, because as selfless as Elena is, Jeremy is starting to think he's stepped back in time, back to the nineteenth century and ball gowns and balls and Damon and Katherine and all the feelings that were wholly human like lust and love and jealousy. He wonders at how the tension between two people can be so visible, when they aren't even touching.
He wonders if Elena will be selfless enough to remember that this has happened before, to remember Stefan.
He knows that she almost certainly will and his heart aches just a bit, because Elena has been so selfless, even when she doesn't need to be, even when it hurts her.
And as much as he loathes Damon Salvatore he wishes that Elena would stop being selfless and instead be selfish.
Jeremy realises then that she could never be Katherine, even if she tried.
