Elena and I began to head to the lake house. I couldn't help but wonder what was going to happen when I got there. I knew Jeremy would have to invite me in. I don't know if Anna could. The rules seemed to be a little bit iffy. When we got there, no one was there. Why was no one there?

"I have a bad feeling about this." I commented as I looked around. I listened to the woods and hear some noises and some heavy breathing and what appeared to be Matt screaming. I think that he was in trouble.

"We need to go this way." I replied. We put our stuff down at the door and began to run. I found a vampire that had Matt by the leg and bit into him.

"Are you okay?" Elena asked, before noticing that Matt's neck had been bitten.

"Get to the house. Hurry!" Jeremy ordered. He had Anna with him. We began to run to the house and Matt was the first one inside. Anna went behind him.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"They're coming." Jeremy stated. He then looked at me. "Laura, you can come in."

I entered the house, still not what was going on or where all of these vampires came from.

We stayed inside until morning. According to Jeremy, Klaus had turned a bar full of people for Jeremy to grow his Hunter's Mark. I can't believe that he did that. Elena was cleaning Matt's neck. She's shown major improvement in controlling her urges for blood. I wonder if the sire bond had anything to do with that. Damon also finally made his way into the house. I was currently dressed in a red plaid shirt, black tank top, and jeans with my hair in braided pigtails.

"What the hell were you thinking?" Elena asked. I don't think her boyfriend drama was as bad as mine right now. I think Damon has some moral ground at least. "All I asked you to do was teach him how to fight."

"He's not the best student in the world." Damon responded.

"Just shut up." Anna interrupted. "I have listened to you two fighting for the past week and I am sick of it."

"I was trying to do this in the easiest, fastest, and safest way to complete the mark and get the cure." Damon replied.

"I don't care about the cure if it means putting the people that I love in danger." Elena told him. I don't think Klaus felt the same way.

"Well there wouldn't have been any danger if your brother didn't have a guilty conscience." Damon opined.

"We need a plan." I announced.

"There's a group of compelled vampires that are after Matt as soon as the sun goes down." Elena added.

"Well how I take Jeremy to find where they're hiding and we can go slaughter." Damon suggested. I guess at this point, we had no choice to kill them. Was Klaus trying to push me away, because if he was, he was close? "I know it's tragic, but right now they're no longer people. We agreed he would have to kill vampires. There is no easy way to do this. So you two take the least-most valuable player and your stepsister home while Jeremy and I kill some vampires."

"Are you saying I should leave him here with you?" Elena asked.

"Trust me." Damon declared. I think he just invoked the sire bond. "I'll keep Jeremy safe, but we can't have any stragglers right now. Go back to Mystic Falls. It's safe there."

We began to drive back home It was kind of awkward especially since Anna was four months pregnant, or close. I don't know the actual number.

"We need to get some food." She complained.

"There aren't any restaurants for five miles." Elena informed her. She was driving. I hoped Jeremy's thing was going well. I wish that I had gone with them. I think vampires are easier to kill if they're suffering from a werewolf bite. I don't exactly have much experience with it. I know Caroline was definitely weakened when Tyler bit her. Instead, I was in this car.

As soon as we saw a sign for a restaurant, Anna made us get off at the exit. The restaurant in question was McDonald's, and they didn't even have the McRib. I haven't eaten at one in a long time actually. I guess I could go for an Angus burger.

"It feels so weird being in here." Matt commented.

"It's not so much for me." I replied. "There are several in Pensacola. I even worked at one very briefly. I had to quit because I came here, but I don't think it would be feasible for me to get every full moon off."

At that moment, Anna's phone began playing "Mine" by Taylor Swift. I chuckled a little because I didn't expect her to like that kind of music.

"So, the plan to kill the vampires didn't pan out." Anna remarked. "Kol kind of got to them first."

We finally made it back to the house. You know I kind of hoped that I would be staying in the lake house for more than one night and also kind of wanted to go in the lake.

"I'm sorry." Elena said to Matt. "When I asked you to stay with Jeremy…"

"What did you expect Elena?" Matt countered. "It's Damon."

"I never wanted anyone to get hurt." Elena argued.

"Then you shouldn't have left Damon in charge." He replied.

"Do you want to go somewhere else?" I asked Anna.

"Yes." Anna replied as we went up to her and Jeremy's room.

"So, is that thing about craving really weird food true?" I asked, trying to change the subject.

"Yeah, you don't how hard it was last night when I was craving marshmallows, but was literally unable to have them." Anna explained. "I don't know if not giving into cravings affects the pregnancy or not."

"I don't think so." I replied. "I don't know if I should still be with Klaus right now. It's like he has no soul."

"Maybe you should talk to him." Anna suggested. Our talk was interrupted by Elena coming upstairs.

"We need to go talk to Klaus." She told me. "Kol has Damon."

What was Kol even doing there? How did he know about Klaus's plan?

I sighed and Elena and I went to Klaus's home. We knocked the door and he let us in.

"Hello, Love." He greeted me.

"We don't have time for pleasantries right now." I told him. "We need your help."

That led us to his den.

"It's a bit ironic that you're coming to me for help." He told Elena. "Your friends tried to bury me recently."

"This is your fault." Elena responded. "You started this when you forced Jeremy to kill those vampires."

"Which I'm still mad at you for doing." I pointed out.

"I think it would be best suited for us to talk about that later, Love." Klaus declared. He was probably right. "Right now I have to deal with my little brat of a brother. I never liked Damon."

I glared at him.

"I suppose I can help get him back though." He stated.

"Call him off, Klaus." Elena ordered.

"You are no position to make demands." Klaus told her. "You may want to know that the main reason that I want to find the cure is so I can destroy so you lot can't use it against me."

"We can't get to the cure with Kol's interference." I reminded him. "For whatever reason we want it, we need to grow out Jeremy's Hunter's Mark and that will be impossible if Kol keeps killing vampires before he can."

Klaus then got on the phone with his brother. They began to talk and Klaus managed to remain calm even while threatening him. That had to take a while to perfect. Kol was very resistant.

"Listen closely, Kol. Stay away from the Gilbert boy. Do you understand?" Klaus asked.

"Fine, I won't touch him. You have my word." Kol replied. I don't know if his word was worth anything. Kol then hung up. I don't know if that call had actually accomplished anything because he didn't actually seem to convince his brother to let Damon go which was kind of the point.

We went home and instead of dinner on the table, there was a bunch of weapons. I didn't want to eat those.

"Jeremy, you can put all of this stuff away. It's over." Elena told him. I don't think it was.

"Klaus still wants me to finish the mark. He's not gonna stop." Jeremy explained.

"Well Damon will be back soon and we can figure it out." Elena proposed.

"I can't believe that you still trust Damon." Jeremy replied. I don't think she's able to not trust Damon at this point. Damon told her to trust him.

"He saved your life." Elena pointed out.

"He only cares about the map to the cure, not me." Jeremy argued. That was probably true.

"I care about you." Elena said, putting her hand on his shoulder.

"Don't." Jeremy warned her. "Everything that makes me want to hunt is on overdrive."

"Jeremy, put that down." I said, referring to the stake in his hand.

"What are we doing about dinner?" Anna asked as she came downstairs. "Did I interrupt something?"

"How about we get dinner and give them some time to talk?" I suggested to the human who was once a vampire and ghost.

That led us to going to the Grill to order some takeout.

When we got to the Grill, there were people gossiping that they caught the guy who caused the explosion at the Young farm, aka Professor Shane. We expected to see Matt there, but not April.

"Hey." She greeted us. "Can I get you anything?"

"We just need some takeout." I replied. "Also is Matt here?"

Suddenly Taylor Swift went off again.

"Jeremy's coming here." Anna announced. "Maybe we should get a table."

Sometime into our dinner, I got a text from Elena saying that Kol probably compelled Damon to kill Jeremy. That was bad. My boyfriend's family is very dysfunctional. Okay, Elijah seems sane, but everyone else, not so much.

I went to the back of the restaurant and found Elena.

"They're in the tunnels." She remarked.

I went down into the ground to see if I could find him. I could smell him. I ran in that direction and did notice that I passed Damon. He didn't seem to have any idea what he was doing or he just couldn't control himself. I went to find Jeremy because he was like a brother to me.

He almost yelled when I grabbed him from behind, but I covered his mouth so Damon couldn't find us.

"It's just me." I told him before I removed my hand. I then whispered. "We need to be quiet."

Jeremy then began to cut his wrist.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

Damon then came toward us and Jeremy had the bright idea to attack him. It went about as well as you'd expect. Jeremy then took some shots at him.

"I can't stop, Jeremy," Damon replied. "I need you to kill me. I need one of you to kill me. Him doing it would at least grow the mark."

Instead, I decided to break his neck because it would give us enough to escape.

"We need to find somewhere to hide you that Damon can't get in." I suggested.

"There really aren't any places like that aside from random people's houses." Jeremy replied.

"What about Matt's house?" I offered. "Has Damon ever been inside?"

"No." Jeremy answered.

"Then hide out there for now." I suggested. "And drink this."

I bit into my wrist and fed some blood into his mouth. It wouldn't do anything about the blood on his clothes, but it would stop the bleeding.

"Go!" I declared. Before he could go, Damon came over to us.

"Kill me now." Damon repeated. Before I could do anything, Stefan showed up. Where he had been all day? I guess it was good that he was here when we needed him, but it would have been better if he showed up a lot earlier. Stefan repeated my early action and broke Damon's neck before grabbing him. I hoped that he would have things under control because I needed to take Jeremy home for right now. I was glad that I already ate.

"Okay, so now it's official. We have an enemy." I announced. "He's caused our team structure to fall apart."

"There has to be something that we can do about this." Jeremy remarked. "I don't want to kill Damon because for all I know, the sire bond will make Elena want to strike me down."

"Do you think that's true?" I asked.

"I don't know, but it's not a chance I'm willing to take." He replied.

After Jeremy was home, I was about to head to the boarding house. I went outside before I noticed a car pulling up to the driveway. It looked really familiar. No, it couldn't be.

It stopped and the lights went out.

"Mom?" I asked in surprise.

She slowly walked over and hugged me. "What are you doing here?"

"It took me a while to find you." She admitted. "The private eye was able to tell me that you were enrolled at the high school and then I had to find out where you were staying."

"Why did you try to find me?" I asked. "You told me to run."

"I did, but now everything has been sorted out. I want you to come home with me." She explained.

"Mom, I can't go back to Pensacola." I told her. "I have a life here. These people have become like my family. I don't want to leave."

"I had a feeling that you'd want to stay." She replied.

"I'm sorry." I apologized.

"I've bought a house here." She explained. "The wrongful conviction suit gave me the money that I needed. You can stay here close by. You'll be just down the road."

"I don't know." I responded.

"Well at least you can come and check it out." She suggested. I guess there was no harm in doing that.

"So do you that Jules is dead, don't you?" I asked.

"Yes." She replied. I got in her car and headed to the house. I got out and headed to the door. "It's open."

"Mom, you have to invite me in." I explained. "I'm not just a werewolf. I was turned into a vampire/werewolf hybrid."

That ending probably surprised you. I bet no one was expecting Laura's mom to appear. She definitely won't be happy when she finds out who her daughter is dating. Please don't forget to review.