Jess stirred under Damon's tight grip as she began to wake and smiled when she felt Damon's lips lightly on hers before her eyes opened. She giggled when he nuzzled her neck and kissed her in the same spot.

"morning." He smirked and she smiled back lightly.

"morning." She replied simply before turning in his arms so her back was to his chest as he pulled her closer. "Time is it?" she asked curious as he kissed her shoulder.

"eleven." She jolted up disturbing Damon in the process as she jumped from the bed. "What's the rush?" he asked as she pulled on some socks she got from his drawers.

"I'm late for school. And I gotta go home and change." She groaned and leaned on the bed in front of him and quickly kissed him on the lips before running to the door. She gasped as she opened it seeing Damon there and he smirked before pulling her into a much longer lasting kiss.

"bye." She smiled and kissed him again before moving past him.

"So any idea of where you'll go?" Stefan asked as he walked into the room where Damon stood by a window.

"I don't know. London, maybe. See some friends." Damon informed from the window as he looked over to his little brother.

"You don't have any friends, Damon." Stefan stated matter-of-factly.

"You're right, Stefan. I only have you and Jessie, so where are we goin'? I said I'm gonna leave and I'm not leaving Jessie behind so she's coming." Damon stated firmly to his brother who was now confused and worried about his brother's intentions.

"'We' are not going anywhere. How do you know Jessie would go with you? She won't leave Jeremy and Elena." Stefan asked as Damon came closer. "I'm gonna live my life as far away from you as possible."

"But we're a team. We could travel the world together. I know Jessie will come with because, a; she said she loves me and B; because she's always wanted to travel the world. We could try out for 'the amazing race.'" Damon grinned as he stood face to face with his brother.

"Hmm. that's funny. Seriously, where are you goin'? 'cause we're not staying in this town." Stefan's eyebrows rose in question as he asked but before it could be answered the bell rung much to their surprise as they both turned their heads to face the door in unison.

Soon Damon was stood outside with the sheriff as they continued to talk.

"So, uh, what do we do?" Damon asked in uncertainty as he stood confused to who the other vampire may be.

"You're the only one who's ever taken on a vampire. We were hoping you could tell us." The sheriff's eyes widened as she saw Jessie standing by the door and Stefan came darting out after her.

"I'm sorry I did tell her not to disturb you." Stefan informed calmly.

"Jess, you must understand how important this and not to tell anyone about vampires." Liz urged to her with all seriousness while Jessie found herself holding back laughter to the fact of the sheriff's speech when she already knew and she was dating a vampire.

"I understand Liz, it's just a lot to take in, you know?" and Liz nodded at her in understanding.

"How are you dealing? I'm sorry I didn't tell you. I just didn't want you to get hurt." Jess nodded to Damon and she allowed him to pull her into a hug as she played the unknowing girl.

"Well jess, I'm sorry that you found out about this so soon. I suggest you start coming to the council meetings. I'm sure Damon will fill you in on the rest. And I think you should also stay from School today, to let all this sink in a little more." She patted Jess shoulder and she nodded from where she stood in Damon's arms. "Make sure to give her vervain." She ordered to Damon.

"Already done." The sheriff smiled lightly and drove away. Damon pulled Jessie back as he held her at arm's length,

"Not that I'm not static to see you, but why'd you come back?" he asked as he led her back into the boarding house.

"I lost my phone, wondered if you saw it?" she asked as they came to stand in Stefan's view.

"Oh yeh, I may have put it on silent and shut in I'm my desk drawer." She glared at Damon. "What? The alarm was going off and I was too comfortable." He informed calmly.

"Go get It." she crossed her arm and he leaned to kiss her but she dodged it and eyed her but she soon sighed and kissed him but stopped when Stefan cleared his throat.

"Um, hi. Still here." He waved his hand in front of them and Damon vamp sped up the stairs to go get her phone.

"So how are things with you and Elena after last night?" She came to stand closer to him and he looked down to his feet before back at her.

"I told her that I'm leaving but I obviously can't now that there's another vampire in town, I mean who knows who it is." He sighed and she put a hand on his arm.

"Why would you leave? You can't leave Elena. I mean what about Damon? I know you guys don't necessarily got along but-"

"He was leaving too, Jess." He cut her off and she shook her head and laughed lightly but her face grew serious when she saw he didn't flinch. "I'm sorry, it's not for me to say."

"Damn right it's not!" Damon growled from behind them and he put his hands on Jess's shoulders.

"What's he talking about? You were gonna' leave me?" she eyed him questionably as she turned to face him.

"No! I was going to ask you to come with me, but now there's another vampire in town…" he trailed off.

"Did I miss something?" Elena asked bonnie, curious as to why Matt and Caroline were spending so much time together.

"They've been hanging out." Bonnie said as though it wasn't weird.

"Kind of weird, don't you think?" Elena spoke to her friend.

"She needs someone nice like him, as opposed to a homicidal vampire like Damon. Jessie is so nice and much better than him, I don't get why she's with him at all." Bonnie sighed and shook her head.

"Yeah. I hate to admit it but she loves him and he's good when they're together but because they'd split when all that happened last night I think he acted out and when off the rails. How are you doing with all that by the way?"

"I'm freaked out. Damon attacked me. I could be dead right now. But I'm also grateful." She sighed "To Stefan. He saved my life, and have you seen him?" Bonnie asked Elena as she removed her scarf before placing it in her locker.

"Not since he told me was leaving. For all I know, he's already gone, and Damon told Stefan he'd leave too but I doubt that now Jessie spent the night there last night."

"What?! She's still with him?" Bonnie exclaimed in shock and hurt opposed to her friend still being with a murderous vampire who attacked her.

"I know. But like I said, she loves him. There's nothing we can do." Elena shrugged.

While Elena and Bonnie continued her conversation, so did Damon, Jessie and Stefan…

"When were you going to tell me? You promised no more secrets Damon!" she yelled at him and he shook his head.

"I wanted it to be a surprise. I know you always wanted to travel so I wanted to give you the chance to do that with me. I'm sorry I thought it would be a nice surprise." She sighed and walked closer to him.

"No, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to snap, I just thought the worst." She lazily rested her hands on his neck and pulled him down to her level and kissed him.

"You really will forgive him for anything won't you?" Stefan shook his head.

"It's my irresistible charm." He smirked and Jessie moved away from Damon and playfully hit Stefan on the shoulder.

"What was that for?" he whined and smiled lightly.

"For trying to leave my sister you ass. But I know you only wanted to do it for her own good." Her tone of voice calmer as she stood on her toes and kissed his cheek lightly.

Stefan realized how much different to Eliza she was, Eliza would never have forgiven Damon for half the stuff he'd done by now, Jessie's in it for the long run.

Stefan smiled lightly and walked away, leaving them to their own business.

"Kissing my brother? Not cool." He pointed at her before walking over to the alcohol and handed her a tumbler of whiskey and she accepted it with a smile.

"It was only on the cheek. Now he's practically my step brother..." She sipped on her drink and pulled it away as Damon spoke.

"So were married now?" he asked and kissed her on the neck from behind.

"Noooo. More like him and Elena are married. I mean he and Elena are bound to get back together and before we know it it'll all be unicorns and rainbows again, not to mention a gremlin in hiding waiting to strike or something." She took another sip of her drink as it burned down her throat Damon eyed her suspiciously.

"Have you already drunk a bottle of this today?" he asked with smile as she giggled and rolled her eyes before leaning into his chest letting his arms warp themselves around her waist.

She turned around and pulled away from him before setting both their drinks down.

"What are you doing?" he eyed with question before she kissed him all so suddenly before pulling his belt from his jeans.

"We didn't have make-up sex last night. So were going to do it now." She ordered.

"Yes ma'am." he smirked and they continued their 'sexcapaids' upstairs.

"What's on the schedule today?" Jessie asked after they calmed down more while she lay in Damon's arms peacefully.

"Well, I need your help on finding the new vampire in town." He stated as he looked down at her.

"And how do we do that?" she turned to face him as she asked.

In no time they were both dressed and Jessie was stood outside a warehouse after he took her to change her clothes and shower.

"Ok. So what now?" she spoke into the phone.

"Now you stay here." He spoke as he stood next to her. She sighed and hung up the phone before following him until he quickly turned to face her.

"I told you to stay here, not a very good listener are you?" she stalked closer to him with a blank face.

"I listen." She stated calmly. He raised an eyebrow at her and she sighed. "Be careful." She warned and he kissed the top of her head.

"Always. No matter what you hear, do NOT follow Me." he pointed his finger at her before leaving.

Of course hearing gun shots and Damon's moans she did not comply. She found a thick piece of wood on the floor and snapped it so the one end was pointed and slowly made her way into the warehouse, holding back a gasp as she caught sight of Damon.

"I have tons of these wooden bullets, so nothin' funky." He told Damon as he came more into view of both a hidden Jessie and injured Damon.

"You don't wanna do this. Trust me." Damon groaned as he tried to pull out one of the bullets from his shoulder but was stopped when the gun was fired again. "Aah! Ow!"

"That's what you get." Logan commented as he leaned closer to Damon.

"For what?" he breathed breathlessly.

"You made me like this." He informed as he crouched down to Damon.

"I killed you. I didn't turn you." Damon stated as he pulled a small wooden bullet from his arm.

"See, I know what you and your brother are. I've been watchin' the two of you, and your little girlfriend Jessie. She smells divine. I knew you'd show up here, and I'm glad you did, 'cause I have some questions, yeah you can come out now sweet heart, I can smell you a mile off." Logan added as he flicked the bloody bullet onto the floor while Damon attempted to remove another.

The bullet rolled over to where Jessie was crouched on the floor and she cringed seeing the cause of Damon's pain.

"So have you tasted her yet? She smells incredible!" he asked and pulled Jessie closer to him by the arm and breathed in her scent once more and Damon moved closer but stopped when he pointed the gun at her shoulder.

"One more step and I shoot her." he moved the gun to her head and her eyes widened.

"Who turned you?" Damon spat out in pain and anger.

"How should I know? Last thing I remember is I'm about to stake your brother, and then you grabbed me. That's it. Until I wake up in the ground behind a used-car dealership on highway 4. Somebody buried me." Logan complained while Damon continued to remove bullets from his body.

"It happens. ow." Damon groaned finally removing another bullet from his leg.

"You bit me." Logan stared blankly.

"Damn it." Damon sighed.

"It had to be you." He pushed Jessie down to sit on the floor and Damon growled as she scrunched her face up in pain.

"You have to have vampire blood in your system when you die. I didn't do that. Some other vampire found you, Gave you their blood." He informed as he fell back onto the concrete floor in exhaustion.

"Who?" Logan asked on edge.

"That's what I wanna know." Damon added as he propped himself up on his arm.

"Dude, it's not like the welcome wagon was waiting with a Bundt cake and a handbook. It's been a 'learn-as-you-go' process. You know, one minute, I'm a 'small-town on-the-rise' news guy, and next thing I know, I can't get into my house, because my foot won't go through the door." Logan ranted while Damon sat back up and begun removing bullets again.

"You have to be invited in." he notified clearly notified.

"I know. I live alone."

"That sucks." Damon chuckled still in pain as he glanced back over to Jessie who had now moved a little further away from Logan.

"So now I'm at the ramada watchin' pay-per-view all day, eating everything in sight, including housekeeping." He continued to rant and rave.

"It could be worse." Damon added.

"All I can think about is blood and killing people. I can't stop killing people. I keep killing. And I like it. I'm conflicted." He looked down at Jessie and winked at her.

"Welcome to the club. Wait a minute. Cops only found one body." Damon caught on now a lot better with less wounds.

"I left one. I was tired." Logan whined as he explained the reason to his sloppy work in annoyance.

"But I've been hidin' most of the bodies. They're right back there." Logan pointed with his gun to a cage full of corpses that lay piled one on top of the other.

"You're kidding." He breathed and looked to Jessie who frowned a little from where she stat.

"They're just pilin' up." He breathed in as he closed his eyes as he faced Jessie.

"Touch her and I'll kill you." Damon growled and stood quickly on his feet but stumbled a little.

"Why am I so overly emotional? All I can think about is my ex-girlfriend. I wanna be with her and bite her and stuff." He pushed Jessie over to Damon and Logan began to pace before sitting down then pointing the gun at them,

"You did this, sit!" and they both complied.

"Well, you probably love her." he looked down at Jessie who buried herself into his chest. "Anything you felt before will be magnified now. You're gonna have to learn how to control that." he said finally looking at Logan.

"What about walkin' in the sun? I'm a morning person. You can walk in the sun, which, by the way, is pretty cool. Council would never suspect you. It's not in the journals." Damon twisted his ring around so it now looked like a silver band and seeing Damon want to cover it up Jessie held his hand making it even harder to see.

"The journals?" both Jessie and Damon said at the same time.

"Yeah, the founding fathers, they passed down journals to their kids. Come on, man. You gotta tell me. How can you walk around in the sun?"

"Who turned you?"

"How do you walk in the sun?" Logan proceeded to ask now getting pissed off.

"Who turned you?" Damon edged forward egging him on until Jessie put a hand to his chest to calm him down.

"You know, I've been really nice so far, But I will kill you and eat her." Logan stood from the floor as he pointed his gun to Damon.

"Then you'll never know." Damon simply replied also standing. "You're not answering my question."

"You first." The newbie vampire spat now incredibly annoyed.

"Seems we're at a bit of an impasse then, doesn't it?"

"I have things to do, people to kill. Guess I'll be needing a little head start." Jessie jumped when he shot Damon and she leaned down to him as he fell onto the floor.

"Aaaah! Ow" Damon groaned as Jessie turned him on his back and laid his head on her lap.

"I'll find you to sneak a taste later." He added and pointed the gun at her before leaving.

"Fuck!" she cussed. "Hold on." She lay his head back town on the floor gently and straddled him before tearing open his shirt.

"Now's not the time for sex sweetie." He groaned with a slight smirk but she ignored it.

"Sorry if this hurts." She cringed a little before removing a bullet as fast as she could before removing the last few as he gripped her hips. Damon let out a heavy breath of relief as she pulled out the last one.

"Thank you." he breathed out and she nodded.

"Here." She held her wrist out to him and he looked at her confused.

"what are you doin'?" he sighed.

"I've done it before and you need it. Just do it." she ordered to him and he reluctantly bit into her wrist as gently as possible. It wasn't long before he pulled back and hugged her tightly.

"Come on." She stood up and held her hand out for him to take but he ignored her offer and got himself up as she sighed and shook her head.

He pulled her from the building by her hand and they made their way to his car where he parked it a little further down the road.

"I told you to stay outside." He sighed and held her head between his hands and looked down at her with a glare for a moment but saw she just looked back at him blankly he kissed her lips and hugged her small frame tightly.

"Let's go. I gotta get a new shirt. Thanks for ripping it by the way. I'm not gonna lie, I got a little turned on." He smirked at her as she smiled at him.

"Yeh, so I felt." she smirked back and they both got into the car before Damon drove them to the boarding house.

As soon as Damon turned off the engine he sped over to Jess' side of the car and picked her up before speeding up to his room and setting her down on the bed. She watched as Damon picked a shirt from his closet and dialled Stefan's number.

"Logan fell's a vampire, and when I find him again, I am gonna destroy him Limb by limb." He threatened as he had faffed about with his shirt, getting incredibly impatient and frustrated.

Jessie rolled her eyes and got off the bed to stand in front of Damon and begun buttoning up the shirt and he mouthed 'thank you' with a wink.

"No. I'm not ok. He threatened to drink from Jessie and shoot her in the head, then, I was ambushed. I was shot. Now I'm vengeful. Just gotta find him." He replied smugly.

"You're kidding me. Why the hell is he there?" and Jessie's eyes widened and motioned for him to give her the phone.

"Well, we'll be right there. Jessie wants to talk to you." He handed her the phone.

"Do NOT let him anywhere near Elena, Jeremy or Jenna! Or I'll…" she paused for a moment as she had trouble finding a threat. She looked at Damon and he pointed to a chair and pretended to stake himself in the stomach. "Or ill steak you very near to the heart and torture you with vervain." She smiled when Damon held his index and thumb together and nodded.

'Ok, wow. I promise I won't let him near them jess.' She hung up and gave Damon the phone back.

"I now feel slightly evil and guilty." she moaned and Damon chuckled.

"You not gonna make such a god vampire are you? Oh, which reminds me," he got a tumbler from the table of alcohol and sliced his hand open with a nearby letter opener before clenching his fist over the glass to allowed the crimson fluid pour into the glass.

He handed it her with a smile,

"I don't want you dying on me." he shrugged simply and she took it from him, looking down into the glass she cringed a little before knocking it back in one go and her eyebrows heightened,

"Actually not that bad." She reasoned. "A little coppery but still." She shrugged and placed the glass down,

"I was terribly wrong, you'll make a great vampire." he smiled and pulled her from the house into the car. She dug for her phone which started to vibrate in her pocket,

"Helooo?" she asked in a sing-song voice.

'Jess! My god I haven't seen you in ages! Where've you been? I need someone to play Call Of Duty with.' Jeremy chuckled and Jessie giggled at the same time.

"Well, I'll be at the school in a few and I'll ride back home with you and we could stay in and order pizza if you like and hang?" she could practically sense the grin coming from him.

'Yeh! I'd love to. I'll see you soon' she smiled and said her good bye.

"So I don't get to see you tonight?" Damon pouted and Jessie took the chance to kiss him before jumping out the car to the school.

"I'm gonna go find Jer." She informed him and he nodded with a smile.

"Oh, and Damon? Go kill that son of a bitch." They both smirked as they separated.

"Jess!" Jess turned to be bombarded with hugs by Tyler and Azz.

"Hey" she smiled widely. "So what'd you guys sign up for?" she asked casually as if there wasn't a newbie vampire who was probably waiting for the right time to 'sneak a taste'.

"Well I got my drama out the way." Azz tried to joke but it never seemed to work. "No? ok." He went quiet as both Tyler and Jess stared at him looking very amused.

"So, what about you Lockwood?" she nudged his arm and he smiled.

"Well I put something up on art display." He concluded. "Did you look about yet?" he asked with his hands in his pockets.

"No… I just…" she trailed off as she watched Logan fell walk past the corridor form talking with sheriff Forbes.

"I got go guys I promise we'll hang tomorrow." She kissed them both on the cheek and followed Logan out into the car park and phoned Damon.

'Hey, miss me already?'

"No. I mean yes, whatever. Look Caroline just got into the car with Logan. I'm pretty sure he's gonna use her as a snack. Just get out to the parking lot." She rambled and hung up. It wasn't long before Damon was standing next to her and pulling her to his car.

"Go. I gotta stay here and find Jeremy. I promised I'd hang with him." Damon quickly kissed her and drove off, allowing her to go find her brother.

She watched as the mayor tried to make Jeremy and Tyler fight before pushing Tyler back to stop him from walking away.

"Whoa. Okay. Tyler you ok." Jess asked as Alaric came into view,

"What's goin' on out here?"

"Just letting' these two kids work it out. We're good here. Go back inside. You too Jess." He looked over to her with a smile. Mayor Lockwood was always fond of Jess, she's the polite, pretty girl who he'd always hoped Tyler would start a relationship with.

"I don't wanna go back inside Sir. I just want to know if my brother and Tyler are ok right now."

"Neither do I." Alaric stepped in once again. "What I want is an answer to my question. What's goin' on out here?"

"Who do you think you're talkin' to? Do I look like a student?" the Mayor sarcastically asked.

"No, you look like a full-grown, Alpha-male douche bag." Shit just got real. Jess and Tyler, surprised, lowered their heads and widened their eyes.

"You don't talk to me like that. I can have your job like this." The Mayor clicked his fingers to express how quick he could get Alaric's job taken away.

"Yeah, you do that. Then it'll be you and me in this parking lot working things out. You cool with that?" Alaric smiled almost politely.

"You just marked yourself." He warned before turning to face Tyler, whose hand was in Jessie's, he let go before walking past his dad in shame and annoyance with his dad trailing behind him.

"You all right?" Alaric asked sincerely to Jeremy and Jessie and they both smiled and nodded their heads, showing their twin ways.

"Let's go Jer." He smiled and nodded at her. "Thanks, Alaric." He smiled and nodded to her.

"No problem." They both walked away and Jeremy stopped as they saw Tyler.

"Wait I'm gonna go try things out with him." He pointed to Tyler and Jess glared at him. "I'm gonna go try reason with him. Don't worry. Go find Azz or something and I'll come find you." she nodded and let Tyler and Jeremy to their business.

She soon got a call from Elena as she sat outside waiting for Jenna and Jeremy.

'Jess! I-I- look…. I look-'

"Elena? Slow down. Calm down, Ok? Tell me what's wrong." She tried to calm her.

"I look like Kathrine." She cried but Jess' heart dropped as she heard a gasp followed by a scream until the tires screeching on her car.

"Elena? Elena!" Jess yelled down the phone but no answer. She hung up and called Damon in an instant.

"Damon?! Elena. Find her. Please! Call me when you find her!" she hung up and ran as fast as she could back home to get her car and stopped when her phone began to ring, she immediately answered when she saw Damon's name on the caller ID,

"Did you find her?! Is she ok? What happened?" she asked panting heavily.

"Jess, she's fine. Calm down. I took her back to yours, meet me there. I want you to come with me someplace." He hung up before she could say more and continued to run home. Not like it was a problem as she always ran track and was healthy and fit enough to do so.

"Did you run all the way here?" he asked as he stood by the car when she came down the driveway. She jumped on him and wrapped her legs around his waist and he held her in place.

"I was so worried; I don't know what happened. Is she ok?" she rambled and he shushed her as he stroked her hair.

"She's fine. She's in bed. She had a car accident but I gave her some of my blood just to be sure."

"Thank you." She whispered lightly.

"listen, I want you to come with me on a road trip. We'll be back by tomorrow. I need to do something." she looked up at him and nodded before kissing him.

"Can I just go check on 'Lena first?" she asked and he nodded.

"Of Couse." She let herself drop from his hold and ran upstairs to see her sleeping peacefully and she sighed with relief to see she wasn't even marked from having Damon's blood. She walked into Jeremy's room and left a small note,

Jer,

I'm so sorry that I didn't stick to my promise but I'm gonna be back tomorrow. I'll explain when I get back. Tell Jenna and Elena not to worry, I'm with Damon on a small road trip. Call me if you need me.

-Jess xxxx

She sighed and made her way back to the car where Damon sat on the bonnet of his car waiting. He opened the door for her and eyed her as she held a pillow in her hand.

"What? I'm tired." He smiled at her and kissed her on the head. "So where we going?" she asked as they sped off.

"It's a surprise." He smirked and she sighed as she lay her head on the pillow while Damon rested his hand on her thigh, rubbing it with his thumb a little to sooth her, soon she drifted to sleep peacefully.

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