I managed to grab hold of the passenger door handle just as Jeremy pulled away and he slammed the brakes on and let me climb into the car. He was gripping the steering wheel with such force that his knuckles were beginning to lose their colour and I could sense his anger. I reached out and took his hand and pulled it away from the steering wheel and he turned towards me. He didn't speak. I'd never seen him like this, even when he had held me prisoner, even when he had stood nose to nose with Klaus, I had never seen him so angry, I could sense something else underneath the anger and I did my best to help him.

'Hey' I said, looking into his eyes 'What's going on? What was all that about?'

'It just...it's complicated' He replied

'An ex?...' I hazarded a guess

Jeremy chuckled sarcastically 'not exactly'

'You didn't know she's be here?' I questioned

'I didn't know she was alive!' Jeremy said, the anger returning to his voice

'OK, I'm really lost here - you need to start from the top' I said, trying to calm him down.

As we sat stationary in the car, Jeremy explained everything to me. How he had died, how Bonnie had brought him back, how the Other Side had begun to collapse and how Bonnie had remained there in order to save everyone else.

'And you had no idea she was back?' I asked once he had finished

'None' Jeremy said 'I just don't get why she wouldn't at least call'

'Maybe you should go and ask her' I suggested

'No' Jeremy interjected angrily 'I need to get out of here'

'OK' I said 'I understand - but that guy in there' I said gesturing towards the old boarding house 'He knows who I am and I'm sorry, but I needed to know more. Would you mind if I stayed?' I asked

'Sure' he said coldly 'I'll come back for you in a bit'. I could sense that he was not happy with me staying but my intrigue won out and I climbed out of the passenger door and slowly shut the door behind me. As soon as the door was shut, Jeremy quickly pulled away and sped from the boarding house. I took a deep breath in and made towards the front door of the house and pushed it open. I was not sure how the inhabitants of the house would react to me returning without Jeremy, but I hoped that they would be kind enough to hear me out. I stepped in and the guy with the hazel and green eyes was waiting for me.

'Stefan, right?' I questioned

He stepped towards me and studied my face and my eyes, he seemed as if he was trying to figure something out 'You really don't remember do you?' he said

'I'm afraid not' I replied 'I was actually hoping that you might help me out on that one?'

'What do you want to know?' Stefan said seeming sarcastic

'Who am I? What does Klaus want with me?' I asked

Stefan face suddenly changed and a look of worry stretched across it 'Klaus? Is he here?'

'I think so' I replied 'He told me that he would meet me in my home town and Jeremy and I went through some old things and found an old Tiara and Jeremy said it was something to do with Mystic Falls'

'To be honest' Stefan replied 'I had no idea that you were from Mystic Falls'

'What do you know?' I asked hesitantly

'I'm not sure you want to know' he replied hastily

'Why not?'

'Because, when I knew you - you weren't the nicest of people. You were cold, you were calculated, you were a killer - you and Klaus were like two peas in a pod'

I was taken aback, it was as I had feared, the person that I believed I was, she was simply a façade, a new invention made by a mind that had been wiped clean - the mind that originally belonged to a monster and a cold blooded killer.

Damon interjected into the conversation, noting my silence 'don't worry about him' he whispered behind his hand, gesturing towards Stefan 'he wasn't the nicest of people in the past either - he gets kind of touchy about it!'

It wasn't the most constructive of interjections in a conversation, but it certainly did a raise a smile from both me and Stefan and for a moment whilst smirking we locked eyes and a though occurred to me 'wait a minute...I mean...we didn't?' I said gesturing between us. It took a moment for Stefan to realise what I was insinuating.

'hhmmm...oh, god no!' he said with a smile

'OK!' I said offended 'I'm not exactly that bad!'

'It's not that' he said with a laugh 'I was all about his sister at that point in my life and you were always with Klaus''

'With Klaus?' I asked 'You mean I was WITH him?'

'I mean nothing was every confirmed' Stefan said 'But it always kind of seemed that way'

'So, what's the deal with you a little Gilbert?' Damon interjected

'What do you mean, deal?' I questioned

'Why'd he bring you here?'

'To condense things, I saved his life, he took me prisoner and tortured me...'

'Kinky' Damon said with a laugh.

I continued trying to ignore Damon's childish comments 'Then when he realised that I didn't have any memories beyond two years, he explained that it wasn't usual for a vampire to loose their memories when turned - after a run in with Klaus, turns out I'm much older and started life as a vampire hunter...'

'A hunter?' an unfamiliar voice interjected, and the girl that Jeremy had called Bonnie entered the room and the conversation. I already had an inborn dislike for her, not that I could explain why - but I suspected that it had something to do with the way that I perceived she had treated Jeremy.

'Yes' I answered coldly 'and also a witch - a syphon I think Klaus called me - I kind borrow other people's supernatural energy'

'You steal it' Bonnie correctly

'I'm sorry?' I asked offended

'Syphons don't borrow power - they steal it'

'Do I know you' I demanded angrily stepping towards Bonnie. Her eyes flashed with anger and I gathered that she disliked me as much as I her.

'You don't intimidate me' Bonnie said calmly, you can't do anything unless I let you touch me

'Really?' I asked with a sly smile, as I felt my fangs bare themselves and the veins under my eyes fill with blood - exposing my vampire nature.

'Now, now ladies' Damon interjected, standing between us and placing a hand on each of ours chest, attempting to separate us

'You don't know anything about me, don't presume to' I spoke across Damon

'Neither do you by the sounds of it' Bonnie taunted.

I felt the anger rise within me and just as I was about to lung towards Bonnie, eager to tear her throat out and wipe the taunting smile off her face, I felt a familiar warm hand on my shoulder and heard a comforting voice

'Hey, calm down' Jeremy's voice began to bring me out of a blood lust craze and back to my normal self as he stepped in front of me, blocking my path to Bonnie 'We're going to get out of here now - but you need to calm down'.

I looked up at his face and nodded, as I felt my fangs retreat and my face return to normal.

'Now that's the Lori I remember' Stefan remarked from across the room and I knew immediately that I had cemented his opinion of me, he would never believe me a changed woman - only the blood thirsty emotionless vampire he used to know.

'Well it's not the one I know' Jeremy snapped across at him. I had to supress a smile. I was so happy that at least one person in the world knew that I was more than that now, that I was better than that.

'She's a vampire, Jeremy' Bonnie said 'and a Siphon - and she used to hang around with Klaus'

Jeremy looked angrily across the room at Bonnie 'and you're dead, things change!'

With that, he grabbed my hand and pulled me towards the door as we quickly left the boarding house.