It was a dark and stormy night, as clichéd as that was. Jessie was having a bit of trouble sleeping. She hated storms. Elsewhere, Anna had gone to Jeremy's room.
"I love storms." She admitted.
"Is that a vampire thing, because I read vampires don't like running water?" Jeremy replied.
"It's only Dracula." Anna explained. "He was a complete wuss: never showered, very smelly."
"Seriously?" He asked.
"First rule about vampires: don't believe anything you read, especially if it's by Stephenie Meyer." She told him.
He got up off of his bed and walked over to her. "You gotta tell me more. I gotta know." He told her.
"Stop obsessing over it and maybe I will." She remarked. "But I hope you don't expect me to turn you, especially if you like me."
"Why not?" Jeremy asked.
"It's just not something that I can do. There are too many consequences with it." She stated. "If you want to be my boyfriend, that's one thing, but I'm not going to turn you. I think that I should go. Someone's coming."
Jessie decided that if no one was around, she could look around. She couldn't sleep and still wasn't sure how much sleep she really needed, she decided to turn on the TV. It was on some foreign movie called Let the Right One In. Humorously, it happened to be about vampires.
The rain continued into the day. She knew that she would need coffee, which also helped suppress the urges for blood in addition to keeping her awake, so it was kind of a win-win. She needed to go to work. That wasn't something that she was looking forward to. She happened to notice that Anna and Jeremy were in.
"So I've got two steaks: one rare." She told the …couple? She wasn't sure if they were together or not.
"Thanks." Anna replied.
"So does she know too?" Jeremy asked. "I mean you've been hanging out."
"She more than just knows." Anna stated. "She's one too. She has been since we first met."
"Did you turn her? So you'll turn her, but not me?" Jeremy asked.
"There was a lot more to it than that. I don't feel like going into that now." She explained as Jessie overheard they conversation. "Anyway, she can hear us and I don't believe in talking about my friends, even though, she's really the only one, behind their backs. Anyway, I like your bracelet."
At that time, Jessie deduced the same thing that Anna did. There was vervain in Jeremy's bracelet.
"Your sister doesn't know that we're hanging out, does she?" Anna asked. She knew that Elena probably didn't take well to the whole kidnapping.
"No, but it's not like she knows what you are." Jeremy replied.
"I'd rather keep it our little secret." Anna replied. Jessie agreed that would be a good idea.
"You know why don't you keep this?" Jeremy suggested. Jessie wanted to slap herself in the forehead. "You like it and I like you."
"I still think you should wear it." Anna told him. "It was a gift and I'm not into regifting."
From inside the restaurant, Jessie could hear the rain, which made her happy that she was inside.
Unfortunately, her shift was short and they didn't really need her to work longer. She decided that could go to the school to see if she could talk to Alaric to at least get him to promise to not tell. Parent-teacher conferences were coming up and she would really like him to keep quiet, because she didn't want them to know about it.
"You really shouldn't be here." He told her.
"Look, I just want you to promise not to tell anyone." Jessie pled. "My parents are on the Founder's Council that kills vampires. If anyone is going to tell them, I want to tell them myself. Plus I don't want them to know about the other stuff that happened in the classroom.
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything." Damon replied as he walked over. She really didn't want to see him, especially after he had reintroduced Tina to alcohol. "I guess that ring you have must be really be something special."
"You can't hurt me." Alaric boasted.
"Oh I can hurt you, alright." Damon threatened. Jessie wondered if she would have to intervene.
"Mr. Saltzman." Elena interrupted, before looking at Jessie. . "We need your help."
Apparently, Stefan had been kidnapped by tomb vampires. She didn't stay for everything, but she knew that she kind of owed him for not killing her. She didn't think that they would be able to convince Alaric to help.
Jessie went to the house and apparently Anna had shown a picture to the woman and she was allowed in the house. She just had to rescue him.
She found him in a room with several other vampires, apparently torturing him. It looked like it was going to be harder than she thought. She realized that she probably should have planned better. She backed up to the door.
"Who are you?" A vampire with a beard asked.
"I'm Jessie. I'm a friend of Anna's. I was just checking to see if she was here." She lied.
"She's not." The man told her as she heard the sounds of torture. He tried to compel her. Apparently, he didn't know that she was a vampire. "I think you should go."
She then noticed the woman from before. Pearl might be mad at her, but she grabbed the woman and twisted her neck. It would at least help Damon get in. She grabbed and began to feed like she was rabid.
"Okay, we've got another one." The man said as he watched her.
"We should we do, Frederick?" A second vampire asked.
"It's simple, Billy." Frederick replied. "We let her join us or die."
Jessie then realized that working as a double agent could work to her advantage. She could get them to trust her, while learning of a way to double-cross them.
Jeremy and Anna were still in the Grill.
"So how old are you?" He questioned.
"Don't you know that it's rude to ask a woman her age?" Anna joked. "I hope you're ready to stop asking me to turn you, because I'll leave right now."
"I really just watch to understand you." He admitted. "You're the most interesting person that I know. I mean what have you seen? Where have you lived? What's your opinion on today's music?"
"I've seen a lot of things, I've lived on 6 continents and today's music isn't anywhere near as good as it was in the 60s." Anna answered. "I could talk about my life for days, but I don't want to live in the past Jeremy. I mean, I haven't been on a real date in a long time."
"This isn't a date?" He asked.
"This is us having lunch." Anna stated. "It's really friendly. A date involves dressing up, handholding, and kissing. I may find someone who will turn you eventually, but if I do, it won't be anytime soon. I am going to say that my motives for turning Jessie were very impure, and I didn't expect to actually become friends with her. I just wanted something from her and I didn't even care if she lived or died after that."
"If you want to go on a date, I could take you on one sometime." He offered.
Back in the house, Jessie cleaned herself off and walked over to the room Stefan was in. She also noticed that Harper was tied up with stakes in his hands. Stefan noticed her and she stealthy shot him a look. She hoped that he understood it.
"So why are you doing this anyway?" She asked. She actually didn't know why they kidnapped him.
"He killed my girlfriend." Frederick answered.
"So why not just kill him?" She asked.
"I like to have fun first." Frederick explained, before he stabbed her through her abdomen with a stake. It was a massive pain.
"You can't kill me." Jessie winced. "Anna will kill you."
There was a knocking on the door at the time.
"Someone tie her up while I go get that." Frederick ordered. She found herself attached to a hook on the ceiling with her hands tied. The ropes really stung, so she assumed that there was vervain on them. Though, apparently they only had enough rope to tie her hands and her legs were flailing
Before Anna could leave, Pearl ended up at a table with Mayor Lockwood. Apparently the mayor was a horn dog and she was stuck. She couldn't even hang out with Jeremy because she didn't want her mom to see her with him. All she could do was play darts.
Jessie heard a few screams as the other vampires went to investigate. She wished that she could do something to help. One of them came to check everything out and she did the only thing that she could think of. She kicked him in the head…apparently hard enough to knock his head off. It was a surprise to even her.
Anna was in the bathroom when her mom walked in.
"Jeremy Gilbert." She declared angrily. "You choose a Fell for your friend and now you have a crush on Jeremy Gilbert. Need I remind you the exact person who had me put in the tomb?"
"That doesn't mean that he'll make the same choices." Anna argued.
"I want you to stop seeing him." Pearl ordered.
"I've been on my own for a long time, Mother." Anna declared. "I can make my own decisions."
"Then stop acting like a child." Pearl scolded her. "As soon as Jeremy finds out what you really are…"
"He knows." Anna interrupted. "He likes it, and he likes me."
Pearl's only response was to slap her daughter, before she led her out the door. They were going home.
At said home, Stefan and Jessie were still tied up. Jessie was at least thankful that she wasn't in as much pain as them.
"Why did you come here?" Stefan asked.
"You spared my life, so I decided to try to save yours." Jessie explained. "Obviously, I need to work on that."
Suddenly the door opened and Elena and Damon came in.
"Thank God, get me down from here." Jessie replied.
"We don't have time for that." Damon replied as he went for the ropes of Stefan.
"There's vervain on the ropes." Stefan replied as Elena began to untie him.
"I would like to point out that I was trying to help." Jessie remarked. Fortunately for her, Alaric untied her.
"Did you do that?" Alaric asked, looking at the headless vampire corpse.
"Yeah, I guess I don't know my own strength." Jessie replied. She looked at her wrists. They were severely burned.
"We need to get out of here." Damon stated. "Those will heal when you get some blood."
Jessie grabbed her bag, which apparently no one through. She grabbed her bottle of blood and guzzled it before rushing out. She was done trying to help She needed to get the hell out. It was a good thing that she went out the back, because a group of vampires had surrounded the front. She didn't know if it was selfish to leave them, but she did not want to die. She also needed to talk to Anna.
She found Stefan and Elena. Stefan looked hurt and Frederick was getting up. She knew that it was against her best judgment, but she grabbed a branch and ran over. Before Frederick could get there, she stabbed him through the back and in the heart. It was a good thing she had done well in anatomy.
Apparently while that was happening, Elena had fed some of her blood to Stefan. Jessie then heard the sound of a car pulling up and needed to make sure that they didn't try to kill Anna. She ran back inside the house.
Damon and Alaric didn't hurt Pearl or Anna. Anna noticed Jessie's ripped, blood-covered clothing and was concerned.
"Are you okay?" She asked.
"I'm fine." Jessie told her. "I didn't get it as bad as Stefan or Harper did. But I could some new clothes."
Anna took Jessie to her room and Jessie put on a translucent navy blue tunic with long sleeves and black leggings. From there, Jessie decided to just go home.
Strangely, her parents were not at home. That did make it easier to wash her clothes. She found Blair and Tina after coming back from the laundry room.
"Where are Mom and Dad?" She asked them
"They had to deal with 'official media business'." Tina replied, holding up quotes.
"Word is that they found the body of Vicki Donovan." Blair explained. "That's what I got out of it."
Jessie did know that Vicki was dead, but she did her best to act shocked. She knew that it was going to affect Matt and probably Jeremy and Tyler since they both had dated her. She wouldn't know what to say. Once her laundry was done, she got in the shower, where she started to cry. She hated what happened.
As soon as she got out, she sent a text to Anna. Her parents were back and she asked them if Anna could stay over, to which they said yes.
Once they were in her room, she couldn't help but notice that Anna also looked upset.
"What's wrong?" Jessie asked. "I mean your day couldn't have been as bad as mine."
"It's Jeremy." Anna replied. "He basically told me that he held his dead girlfriend above me."
Jessie gave her a hug and let Anna cry on her shoulder. Afterwards, Anna did something unexpected. She pressed her lips against Jessie's.
I am thinking there will be a bit of a triangle. Jessie is going to be very confused. Also, her attempt at heroism had mixed results. She ended up getting caught, but also managed to kill Frederick. And I couldn't leave out the Vicki part because it was important to the story. Please don't forget to review.
