The next day, Anna showed up at the school. Stefan had asked her to come and help explain things to Jeremy. They were in the hallway. He handed him a twig. "It's the same as the bracelet Elena gave you." Stefan told him.

"It protects me from compulsion." Jeremy said, seeing if he was getting it straight. Anna nodded.

"Vervain is toxic to vampires." Stefan explained.

"Like poison?" Jeremy asked.

"It can burn their skin." Anna told him.

"Yeah, it's very poisonous. It keeps them out of your head."

"But why vervain?" Jeremy asked them.

"Don't know, certain natural herbs and roots and other elements are just harmful to vampires."

"And spirits." Anna pointed out. "There are certain ones that will prevent ones like me from entering. It depends if their essence is good or bad, though."

"You're pretty confident in yourself telling me all the different ways I could kill you." Jeremy told Stefan.

"Jeremy, if I thought you wanted to kill me we will be having a much different conversation." Stefan pointed out.

"Yeah, Damon is the one that deserves it." Anna looked at him in shock.

"Haven't you ever heard of don't harm another with evil purposes?" Anna told him. "Cause they all say it'll return back at you times three."

"I want you to forget about Damon, all right? He's hundred times stronger than you and right now he's not stable." Stefan added. "You got to try to move forward."

"I was killed by a vampire and brought back by a magic ring. How do you move forward from that?" Jeremy asked.

"Right. Well, today we have a nice little distraction encouraged by the slave driver Elena." Stefan said. As though on cue, Elena walked over to them. "Hello Elena."

"Hey, do you…" Elena began.

"Yeah, yeah, I set up the golden fish toss all through hundred golden fish." Jeremy told her. "It's gonna be epic!" He left the three of them standing there.

"He's gonna be alright, he's just been through a little bit of a whole deal." Stefan told her.

"Hey, anyone would be like that if they were in his position." Anna pointed out. "At least he didn't see his body lying there."

"I was just hoping that this carnival would wild him back into the land of a high school teenager." Elena said.

"That was what we were doing here?" Stefan asked.

"Yes, we all are." Elena told him. "We're gonna be boring high school students who live in a world where the "v" word is not ordered."

"Got it!"

"I'll take that as my cue to leave." Anna said. "See you around." She disappeared from view.

"I'll still never get used to that." Elena said once she was gone.

"Well, we're all still new at kinda having a friend like her." Stefan pointed out. "It's not every day you meet…" He stopped, trying to find a way to phrase it.

"Someone as spiritual as her?" Elena asked.

"Yeah."

At the fair, Anna was hanging out with Jeremy. "You're really good at ring toss."

"It's a gift." Jeremy said. "What's wrong?" Anna looked away from him. Damon was standing behind them.

"Jeremy, it's so good to see you alive." He told him.

"Aren't you a little old for a high school carnival?" Jeremy asked.

"A hundred and fifty years too old."

"You're pretty funny cracking jokes when I could I don't know...led the hold of this thing telling by telling someone what you really are." Damon grabbed Jeremy's arm. Not liking where this was headed, Anna followed them.

"So please tell that was not a threat."

"Maybe it is."

"Jeremy, don't. You don't want to rise to his level on this." Anna said. Damon got him from behind.

"This is what we're not gonna do: we're not gonna walk around like we are invincible when it's this easy for me to end you." He let go of him. Anna rushed to his side. "If you want to tell people what I really am go ahead and try." He held up Jeremy's ring. "I will shove this ring so far up your ass that you'll really have something to choke on."

"If you so much as touch him again, Damon, I swear, I will take you down." Anna said.

"Big talk for such a little one."

"Don't underestimate me. I've learned a few things on the other side, like how to manage my powers." He threw the ring at Jeremy and walked off.

"You okay?" Anna asked.

"Yeah, what is his problem?" Jeremy said.

"Don't ask me. I have no idea." That was a lie. She had a feeling that Katherine was getting to him. "Look, maybe you shouldn't go near him. He's really unstable, Jeremy."

"Yeah, I get it." Jeremy said. Anna headed outside. She ran into the guys soon enough.

"Hey, what's going on?"

"Damon thinks that the Lockwoods are some kind of supernatural force." Stefan told her.

"Because Tyler passed out on Founder's Day?" Anna asked. Stefan looked at her. "Damon told me. So, what's up?"

"Well, we know they're not vampires." Damon said. "So what the hell are they?"

"Maybe they're ninja turtles." Stefan said. Anna started laughing.

"Dude, not funny." Damon said.

"Or zombies, or werewolves."

"Okay, zombies don't exist." Anna told them. "Vampires are the only form of the walking dead."

"And there's no such thing as werewolves." Damon added.

"Well, that I'm not so sure of." Anna said. "I don't know if the exist, but I do know I've seen some major animal damage around here before. It's not always vampires, though. I don't know what it is, though."

"Do you think it's something we should be worried about?" Stefan asked.

"I'm not sure, but it wouldn't hurt to check things out, you know." Anna told him.

She decided to check on Jeremy, when she felt something was off. The next thing she knew, she was in the school hallway. She saw a blonde girl push Damon to the ground. "You suck." She told him. She walked away from him.

"Are you okay?" Anna asked.

"Just surprised."

"Who was she?"

"Caroline. One of Elena's formerly human friends. Apparently, Katherine turned her."

"Oh, that bitch. Now she's turning people to mess with us?" Anna said.

"Later, we need to let Elena know what's happening." Damon told her. They found her outside.

"Elena."

"What do you want, Damon?" She asked.

"I know I'm the last person you want to see right now, but I need you to come with me." He told her.

"Whatever it is, I'm not interested." Elena said. She was still mad at him about killing Jeremy.

"It's Caroline." Anna told her. She turned to Damon. "That is the girl's name, right?" He nodded. Elena looked at them, then followed them inside.

In the classroom, the group met up. Anna had just brought Stefan in. "Sorry about this."

"It's okay. So what's with Caroline?"

"She's a vampire." Damon told them.

"What?"

"It's true. I saw her fling him down a hallway single-handed." Anna said.

"How did this happen?" Elena asked.

"Well, I fed her blood and Katherine obviously killed her and A plus B equals..." Damon pointed out.

"But why?"

"Because Katherine is a manipulative nasty little slut." He said.

"You can say that again." Anna said. "I've knew she was trouble the moment I wanted to leave town in 1864 and she insisted on staying."

"And she said "game on"? What is that even mean?" Stefan asked.

"It means she's playing dirty, she wants us to know." Damon said.

"She hasn't changed a bit, has she?" Anna asked.

"But why Caroline?" Elena said.

"I don't know." Damon told her.

"I hate to say it, but I don't see what the big deal is over this girl apart from Katherine turning her and probably will be using her." Anna told them.

"She's a friend of mine." Elena explained. "I've known her my whole life. We used to be on the cheerleading squad together and while she can seem annoying, she's a good friend deep down."

"We better find her before Damon ends her." Stefan told them. They turned and noticed that Damon had left while they were talking.

"Damn it, why did I ever befriend that guy?" Anna asked as they started looking around.

"Hey, you're not the only one." Stefan pointed out. "Just be glad you're not related to him."

"I think he's outside." Anna told them. "I could be wrong, but I'm going to go check. You guys meet me out there."

She found Damon outside, standing near the girl. "Please don't! I don't want to die!" She heard Caroline saying.

"Yeah but you are already dead." He pointed out. Anna knew she'd have to intervene soon.

"No! I'm not. Don't say that okay?" Caroline yelled at him. "Just help me!" Anna felt bad for her. She was still in denial over her transformation. Then again, the same thing happened when she first realized she was a ghost. He held her. Anna rushed over and knocked the stake out of his and as Stefan got in between him and the girl.

She nodded to him, thankful for his help. "Stefan!" Damon growled.

Elena was standing near Caroline. "Get away from me! You killed me!"

"That's not Katherine." Anna said, then she remembered Caroline didn't know her, nor did she have any psychic abilities or trinkets, so she couldn't see her.

"No, no, no, no Caroline! That wasn't me. You know that! That was Katherine." Elena explained to her.

"No! Then why did she look like you?! And why, why did she do this to me?" Caroline asked.

"Stefan, we've got to get her inside." Elena said.

"Yeah, we don't need everyone to see her having a nervous break down." Anna added.

"It's okay Caroline, come with me." Stefan started dragging her away from the area.

"She'll die, it's only a matter of time." Damon told them.

"Yeah, but it's not gonna happen tonight." Stefan said. Anna was so angry with Damon, she didn't even realize it was giving her a power boost. As he rushed to stake Caroline, Elena put herself between them, and Anna used her powers to throw him back, hard.

Everyone, well, the ones who could see Anna, looked at her. She shrugged. "She's your friend, right?" Anna told her.

"Thanks." Elena said.

"What just happened?" Caroline asked.

"I'll explain inside, come on." Stefan told her. Anna followed them.

A few minutes later, Caroline had calmed down. "Why did Katherine do this to me?" She asked Stefan.

"I don't know, I wish I did." He told her. "Hey, hey, I promise you I will not let anything happen to you. Come here." He held her for a few seconds.

"How did you guys stop him from killing me? It was like he just fell over."

"You don't believe in ghosts, do you?" Stefan asked. Caroline looked at him.

"Are you kidding me?" Anna knew she couldn't see her, but had an idea. She wrote on the mirror.

"No, I'm not." Caroline turned around and saw the writing. It read:

I'm here to help. You have no reason to be scared of me.

"Okay, what's going on here?"

"Relax." Stefan told her. "Anna's a friend of ours. She's helped us out a few times."

"How come I can't see her?" Caroline asked.

"Maybe it's because you've never met her." He explained. "Most ghosts can only be seen if they have a connection to the person or if a person has the ability to see them."

"So you knew her or something." Caroline said. "Wow, and I thought that séance we had that time was weird, but I didn't know ghosts were real then."

Outside, Anna met back up with the others. "I can't believe this is happening." Bonnie said.

"Hey, nobody expected this, okay?" Anna pointed out. Suddenly, she used her powers on Damon. "What are you doing?"

"I told you this would happen if anyone else got hurt." Bonnie told him.

"Bonnie, it wasn't his fault!" Elena told her.

"She's beyond reasoning right now, Elena." Anna said.

"Everything that happens is his fault." Bonnie said. She sent a fire toward him.

"Oh, no." Anna said. "Snap her out of the trance. I'll try to stop the flames!" She went over to his side, using her powers to put a barrier between them and the fire. Elena grabbed Bonnie's arm.

"Why did you stop me?!" Bonnie asked as the fire went out.

"Because this isn't us. Bonnie, this can't be us." Elena pointed out.

"Are you okay?" Anna asked.

"Yeah, I might wake up with a headache tomorrow, though." He told her. The girls left.

Anna felt Jeremy calling her and found him in front of the Boarding House. "What the heck are you doing here?" Anna asked.

"I was planning to kill Damon."

"Are you insane? This is wrong, Jeremy." Anna said. "I used to be a vampire too, you know. I know what it's like to make a mistake like that. Think about this before you do something you'll regret."

She went inside only to find Damon. "Hi. How are you doing?" Anna asked.

"Fine." Damon said. "Why did you try to save me?"

"I don't know. Maybe it's because I respect you in a way." Anna said. "That, and I hate seeing an innocent person die. I know you didn't turn Elena's friend."

"This have anything to do with the fact your dead?"

"I'm not about to tell." Anna told him. She watched as he poured a drink. Jeremy entered the room then, surprising her for a change.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Damon asked him.

"You don't lock your front door." Jeremy pointed out.

"Yeah." He lifted his glass.

"No I wouldn't...I laced it with vervain."

"You did what?" Anna asked.

"Why would you do that?" Damon asked. Jeremy was holding a stake.

"So I could stake you… with this." Jeremy said, throwing the stake to the floor.

"You came here to kill me?"

"It's only fair, you killed me first."

"Are you insane?" Anna told him.

"My father hated vampires, my uncle too." Jeremy pointed out. "They were absolute they knew exactly what they stood for and I figured maybe I should too. I mean, stand for something but killing you, what's that gonna do?" Anna looked relieved.

"Well, it's a good thing there's one person around here who's not willing to kill him." Anna said.

"Look, I don't do the big brother thing very well." Damon said. "Sorry, I don't have any milk and cookie stuff for you."

"Dick." Anna suppressed a laugh as he turned to leave.

"Wait." Damon said. "My father hated vampires too."

"He did?"

"Oh, yeah. He was part of the team that trapped my mother in the tomb." Anna said.

"For the same reasons your dad did." Damon continued. "Only it was 1864, people knew how to whittle." He looked at the stake. "Did you do this?"

"Yeah I tried, it's harder than it looks."

"Good thing you're not one of them." Anna said. "Otherwise I'd probably hurt you."

"I've never believed in family legacy anyway." Jeremy told her. He left the house.

"You know, I always meant to ask about the front door." Anna said. "Never had the time."

"Not like it does any good when other vampires and who knows what else will just break in anyway." Damon pointed out. "I mean, a locked door can't keep you out."

"Point taken, but I'm technically not really here. Not everyone can see ghosts, Damon." Anna said.

"So, what are you going to do now?" Damon asked her.

"I want to be able to find my mother, but I've also got a score to settle with that bitch Katherine." Anna said. "No matter what it takes, if it means getting her out of our town, I'm in."