A/N This episode/chapter will have a Jeremy-Beth moment, for all those who want them to be together.

"Why are we here again?" I asked as Damon, Stefan and I went down into the tomb. I hadn't told them about my little run-in with Elijah. I wasn't all the way certain that I hadn't just imagined it and it had creeped me out, even if it hadn't happened. They didn't need to know unless he started causing a problem.

"Because Katherine knows something. Now help us with this." Damon told me, grabbing one side of the huge rock covering the opening to the tomb. Stefan and I grabbed the other and we easily pulled it aside. Stefan and Damon leaned against the frame of the entrance. I stood slightly behind Stefan, not willing to get any closer. Katherine came around the corner. I almost smirked, seeing her weak and hungry like she was.

"Please… Come on in. There's plenty of room for all of us. Except you, Beth. I don't like you." She said.

"I'd rather poke my eyes out." Damon told her.

"Aw… They're such pretty eyes."

"We're here for the moonstone!" Stefan told her.

"Feel like tossing it over?" I asked.

"Tell you what, get your little witch to hocus pocus me out of here and you can have whatever you want!" Katherine told us. Stefan cocked his head at her.

"I thought you liked it in here. Nice and safe where Klaus can't get you." Stefan reminded her.

"I've had time to reconsider." She admitted.

"Meaning you're hungry." Damon smirked.

"I'm starving, Damon. And dirty. But above all, I'm bored! At least running from Klaus wasn't boring. So here's the deal: you get me out of here, you get the moonstone and I'll disappear from MysticFalls forever."

"Let me know when you decide." She added a second later.

"Tell you what: I'll get you a slinky since you're bored. You're a lot like a slinky... Only fun once you've been pushed down the stairs." I told her. She gave me a dirty look, held up the moonstone for us to see and then slunk back into the shadows. Stefan, Damon and I replaced the stone over the entrance and hurried out.

Later that day Jeremy, Stefan, Damon, Bonnie and I stood in the living room of the Boarding House.

"I might be able to lower the tomb spell long enough for you to get in there and grab the moonstone from Katherine." Bonnie agreed.

"How? It took both you and your grams last time and look what happened to her." Jeremy said.

"I'm well aware of what happened. I've learned a few things." Bonnie snapped at him.

"How will you get it?" She added, looking towards Damon, Stefan and me.

"She hasn't been feeding. She's weak. We're not. Between the three of us, we can hold back Katherine and grab the moonstone."

"Let me do it. I've got my ring. I can get in and out, no spells necessary." Jeremy said. I shot him a look.

"No."

"Why not? What if Katherine gets you?"

"Damon and Stefan will be with me and trust me, with them in the room, Katherine won't give a crap about me. You, however, she'll kill without a second thought."

"Ring!" He held up his hand.

"She can take that off!" I reminded him.

"We're sticking to the plan, punk!" Damon told him.

"I can make it even easier. Do you have anything of Katherine's?" Bonnie asked. Stefan went up to his room and came back with a picture of her.

"I found it in her things after I thought she was dead, but it was hers." He assured her. Bonnie put it in a bowl and chanted something in Latin. The picture burned, turning into a pile of ash.

"Blow the ashes on her. It'll incapacitate her for a minute. Long enough for you to get the stone and get out." Bonnie explained.

"Okay. Let's go." Damon, Stefan and I walked outside. A minute later Bonnie followed.

"I need the grimorie from home. I'll meet you there." She promised. She got in her car and drove off. Stefan, Damon and I headed into the woods. Damon stopped halfway to the tomb when his phone rang. He answered it.

"Not a good time, Rose." She said something on the other end. He groaned as she talked. He hung up and looked at the two of us.

"Raincheck. I need to handle something. You guys can handle Katherine right? You got the punky wanna-be too. He can be bait."

"We'll be fine." I assured him, ignoring his comment about Jeremy. Stefan and I continued on until we got to the tomb. We waited at the top of the steps for Bonnie. Finally she showed up, carrying the grimorie. We went down into the tomb.

"Is that…?" Stefan ran over to the moonstone lying outside the tomb on the ground. He handed it over to Bonnie.

"How-." I started.

"I hate to interrupt but today was full of surprises." Katherine said from the tomb. We turned. She had Jeremy by the back of his shirt, blood ran out from a bite mark on his neck. I jerked forward but Stefan caught me, holding me back before I could get into the tomb.

"Don't worry. I know he's wearing his ring. So no matter how many times I kill him, he'll just keep coming back for more. So I'm going to be in the back playing with my new little toy and you can just give me a holler when the spells' down." She walked off into the back, pulling a barely conscious Jeremy with her. I struggled again Stefan.

"I'm going to go in there and kill her! Bonnie only needs to drop the spell for a second to get me out! We can leave her body in there to rot!" Stefan threw me down on the ground, getting on top of me and pinning me down. I stopped struggling, knowing that just because he was bigger than me he was stronger than me, no matter if we were the same vampire-age or not.

"Hey! We'll get Jeremy. But you're not going in there unless we have a plan." He told me.

"I have a plan! Kill Katherine Pierce!" I growled.

"We have to get him out of there. We still have what ash Jeremy didn't take left if you can get close enough." Bonnie said. Stefan glanced at her and then wearily let me up. I glanced at the tomb entrance but didn't go in.

"How long until the spells down?" Stefan asked.

"I don't know. A while." She replied.

"Just get us in there as soon as you can." I growled. She set up torches in a circle and then stood in the middle of it, chanting something in Latin as she read it out of the grimorie. Katherine came back into the view, dragging Jeremy with her. Stefan grabbed me, making sure I didn't dart in there.

"Ooh… Something's happening." Katherine sang annoyingly.

"Bonnie, don't!" Jeremy warned. He looked at us.

"She's not strong enough! You have to stop her!" He told us. The flames on the torches flared up, causing Stefan and I to jump back.

"Maybe she is…" Katherine murmured. We looked back at Bonnie. Her nose was bleeding, but she kept chanting the spell. Stefan went over to her, releasing his hold on me.

"Bonnie! Bonnie!"

"You've got to stop her!" Jeremy told him. Katherine elbowed him in the face and he fell to the floor. My hands curled into fists, my nails digging into my palms hard enough to draw blood. Stefan grabbed Bonnie's arm.

"You need to stop, Bonnie!" Stefan told her. Suddenly Bonnie fainted, collapsing on the floor. Stefan shook her.

"Bonnie! Bonnie, wake up, please, Bonnie!" He said, still shaking her.

"Yes, please because I'm still in here!" Katherine complained. Bonnie woke up and sat up with Stefan's help. She used his arm to pull herself to her feet.

"It didn't work. Even with help I'm not strong enough." She whispered weakly, dropping a pair of dog tags she'd had in her hand.

"That's too bad… I'm still hungry." Katherine said. We turned to her as she pushed Jeremy against a wall and let her fangs extend. Stefan darted forward, shoving Jeremy out of the tomb as he went in. I kneeled down next to Jeremy, shocked that Stefan had gone in there, let alone gotten in there before me.

"Stefan…" I whispered. He knew he was trapped now. He looked at me and then at Katherine, who smiled smugly.

"We're going to have such fun…"

I drove Jeremy home in Stefan's car. We drove in silence. Jenna wasn't home, so I walked him inside. He threw the rag he'd been holding against his neck wound into the kitchen sink and then went to search through the medicine cabinet.

"I'm home, okay? I don't need an escort to my room." He told me.

"Oh, I don't know. I'm sure that you can do something surprisingly stupid between here and the stairs. Maybe you can break a personal record for your stupidity!" I shot back. He grabbed a bandage from the medicine cabinet.

"I already feel bad. You don't need to berate me." He mumbled.

"My brother is stuck in a tomb with an evil vampire and I can do nothing to get him out! I've got all the time in the world to berate you, Jeremy!" I snapped.

"Bonnie's not strong enough and Katherine would have killed you!"

"We didn't have a choice, Jeremy!" I yelled as he stuck the bandage on his neck.

"Yeah, well, with both you and Bonnie's life on the line, I didn't either."

"Why did you even get involved?" I demanded.

"Because I didn't want you to get hurt!"

"I'm a one hundred and sixty-one year old vampire, Jeremy! I can handle things by myself that you can't even dream up!" I growled.

"Don't."

"Don't what?" While we'd talked, we'd moved so we were both by the island in the kitchen, no more than a foot away from each other.

"Don't act like this is one-sided. Like I'm some stupid little kid that has a crush on his sister's boyfriend's sister... You could have died today!"

"I'm already dead, Jeremy! It's called being a vampire. And you almost died! For real!"

"That was a chance I was willing to take. For you!" Then he kissed me, pushing his lips against mine suddenly. He pulled me closer to him. I heard someone walking up on the porch. Elena. Another set of footsteps told me Damon was with her. I pushed Jeremy away.

"Don't do that." He pleaded.

"Elena's back. With Damon. Unless you would like your neck snapped by my over-protective brother, I suggest containing yourself." We walked over to the front door as Elena opened it. She saw our faces as Damon stepped in behind her.

"What?" He demanded. I sighed.

"It's Stefan."

A/N I'll try to get the next episode/chapter up either today or tomorrow. Thanks for reading and please review!