Derek. He had Damon's phone. Oh no. I looked up and saw Shane in the corner of the room. I saw his menacing smile.

"Are you a vampire too?" I asked Derek. I heard him laugh and say, "No hybrid."

"Peachy," I muttered. I heard him laugh again.

"So sweetheart have you missed me?" he asked in a sweet tone.

"Not really," I said to him in a bored tone before asking, "What have you done to Damon?"

"Oh you mean your vampire lover," he said in a distant tone as if he was staring at something or someone.

I growled and said, "Don't you dare hurt him!"

"Or what your slap me," he snapped over the phone.

"You have no idea what you are getting yourself into," I growled into the phone. I heard a scream. A woman's scream. Not just any woman Elena.

"You bastard, you took Elena too?" I yelled in the phone having totally forgotten that Shane was standing close by.

I looked over at Shane who took me in. Looking me head to toe three times. I shook with fury.

I hoped off my bed and reached the stake from under my bed I had more than one. I make them myself, well used too.

I looked up at Shane who widened his stance. He knew about me. What I could do. I saw the evidence in his eyes.

I lunged for him, but he was quick to move out of my way so I fell into the wall making a loud noise.

I turned to see him smirking by m bed. He picked up my phone and said, "Derek, Shadow has returned."

I growled and lunged catching him off guard this time. The phone fell to the floor. I punched him making his head move to the side and I staked him in the heart.

I heard him yell before he died. I looked at him before I looked at the phone. I saw that Derek was still on the phone.

I picked up the phone and said, "Shadow is back and she is coming after you. And when I do get to where you are you will die in a painfully slow way and I will make sure of it."

I heard the line disconnect. I closed my phone and reached into Shane's jacket. His phone and wallet were in there. I pulled out both, and I texted Shane's sister: Hey where is Derek.

Not even seconds later had I received: You forgot already? GD Shane! The old warehouse outside of Mystic Falls!

I got up and took the battery out of his phone. I dragged his body towards my closet where it would stay so Jenna wouldn't freak out.

I returned to my dresser and exchanged my PJ's for my full on full black outfit: Black boots, Black skin tight stretchy jeans, and black shirt that stuck to my body, and to complete the outfit was my leather jacket. I grabbed my keys, but before I left I went to my rug on my wood floors and lifted it to reveal a small door.

I lifted the small door open and took out the medium sized filled duffle bag. I pulled out guns that were filled with vervain wooden bullets, I had vervain grenades, and I had a belt that had multiple uses on it.

Some would say it looked like I was a secret agent, but really I was a vampire assassin. The one secret I hadn't told Elena. I regretted ever finding out about vampires. I had to play dumb around Elena, Stefan and Damon.

I pulled the guns strap over my head and buckled the belt around my waist. I tucked a stake in my boot and rushed toward the door grabbing my bikes keys on the way out.

I hopped on the railing and slid down. Jenna was walking towards the kitchen before she stopped and said, "Jade what the hell! Is that a gun on your back?"

"Can't talk now Jenna. I'll be back to explain when I get home!" I yelled over my shoulder. I ran out the door and hopped on my bike. I raced down toward the exit of Mystic Falls.

All my life I had a thing for the supernatural. I learned how to protect myself and my sister from it. That was until my past has finally caught up on me.

I had been gone from home more than two years, but Elena would visit with mom and dad. That was before they had died crossing the bridge.

I twisted my hand so that I hit over eighty. I thought back at how I was trained to have instinct. To fight. To kill. To hunt.

I was being trained at the school I went to. My parents were fully aware of what I was being taught. They were also fully aware that they only needed one of us to go there to protect the other from getting hurt.

So my parents talked to me one day in dad's old study and said, "Jade there are things out there that you're not yet aware of."

I had stayed quiet while they continued to talk to me. My mother turned to me and said, "We want you and your sister to be safe. IF we aren't there to protect you one day we want one of you to be able to put up a fight or even kill the monster attacking you."

"Jade we know that Elena might not be able to handle it as well as you. We want you to be the one to choose this opportunity. For protection," my father looked at me and said.

"Then I will do it…for Elena," I said to them. They both looked at each other than back at me and nodded.

I hit the brakes once I was outside of the warehouse. It looked like was dark on the inside from the outside but I knew it was an illusion. I hid my bike behind some brush and throat now how stupid I was not for bringing a car.

I knew what I had to do now. I raced towards the ware house door knowing they would all be inside. I opened the door and made sure not to close it so it would be and easier escape.

I saw lights on in the middle of the room. Damon was hanging by ropes that looked to be soaked in vervain. He had several open wounds. I saw Elena tied to a chair her head hanging but I could still make out the slashes she had on her arms and legs. Stefan tied with his hands behind his back. Derek was cutting him.

I hide behind Boxes that would keep me out of view. I pulled my gun from behind me to the front of me. I pulled the trigger and fired at Derek. I heard him yell out in pain. Stefan looked up and watched Derek withering in pain. I growled and ran toward him. I pulled the stake out of boot and began stabbing Derek. His blood sprayed on me and Stefan.

I was stopped by someone throwing me off of him. I landed into wooden crates.

"Shadow," I heard the person say. I hopped out of the broken crates and yelled with fury I staked the person who threw me off of Derek. I pulled out the stake and went to stab Derek when I heard and gun click. My hearing picked up and I looked to see a gun in Derek's hand that was pointed at Elena.

"Hello Jade," he said in a tauntingly sweat voice. I looked at him and said, "Derek."

"Jade," I heard Damon moan. Derek walked over to Damon and said, "Ah look Jade your Boy toy knows when your present."

I reached behind me and pulled out my dagger I held it in my palm to keep it hidden from view.

Derek turned toward me gazing at me up and down and said, "Jade you haven't changed one bit."

"Not on the outside," I mumbled as I stood in an attack stance.

"Jade what's the rush," Derek said with his hands held up. I didn't budge.

"I thought you would had this place more covered, but knowing you, you probably got pissed at half of them and killed them," I said to him looking over again to see Elena looking at me.

"Well you know me and my temper," he said signaling to himself for more emfencice.

I sighed and said, "Just let them go Derek."

He laughed at me. Mocking me. He turned and said, "Well you still hadn't asked what I wanted yet."

"Fine Derek. I play along, what do you want?" I said standing up straight crossing my arms. Before I could get back into stance or move out of the way he had me back against the wall. His hand hovered over my throat and his head buried in my hair and neck.

"I want your blood," he whispered. I heard someone thrashing. I looked up to see Damon trying to tug free of his ropes. He stopped when his blue eyes caught my brown eyes. I looked Derek in his hypnotic green eyes and fluttered my eyes as I put on an act and said, "Derek I never realized."

He pulls back and looks at my body and then lingers at my lips. I pull him into a kiss quickly. I reach for my vervain spray on my belt pocket and tug it free. I lift up my hand that had the spray in it and closed my eyes and sprayed him on the face. I heard him screaming in pain.

I opened my eyes and kick him where it hurts. I heard Derek groan and fall to the floor.

"You bitch," he yelled at me.

"Hey that is a female dog. I am not a dog, I am Shadow. Your worst fucking nightmare," I tell him as I kick him in the face knocking him out cold.

I turned but regretted it since I was punched in the face.

"You ugly whore! You killed my brother!" Monica said spitting on my body lying on the ground. I looked up and saw Elena watching me with a horrified look on her face.

It was running all in slow Mo. I kicked Monica's out from under her. I heard her growl. I hopped off my feet and ran towards the wall knowing Monica was already on her feet and following me. I hoped up on the wall and did a round house kick at her. Monica flew into boxes disappearing from sight for now. Derek came too and was on his feet in seconds. Derek hollered something in Russian and more Vampires started appearing.

I sighed and raced off towards my gun that lay next to the dead vampire. I picked up my stake along the way and tossed it at the vampire who was rushing towards me. He turned grey and fell to the ground.

I pulled out a vervain grenade from my belt and rolled it towards the bunch of vampires who immediately fall to the ground when it exploded. I took the stake out of the dead Vampire and rushed towards the vampire that were in pain. I stake three vampires before I was thrown across the room. I groaned and slowly got to my feet. I felt a kick in the stomach and I groaned rolling to the ground again. Clutching the area.

I heard the sound of more guns firing. I looked up and saw Carter rush over to me. He smiled and held out a hand. I took his hand smiled back and said, "What took you so long you bastard!"

"Traffic," he replied with a smile. I laughed and started firing my own gun. I dragged a wounded body towards boxes and lit a match and threw it on the body. The man screamed as he burned to his death.

"Men you will pick up the injured vampires and put them in this fire. Leave Derek to me," I told them. They rushed to follow my order the whole twenty six of them.

I turned back towards Derek who I had requested to be tied in vervain drenched ropes.

I circled him while pulling out a dagger from my belt. I heard the footsteps of my followers stop. I turned to see them standing in a line waiting for my next command.

"Cut the vampires and my sister loose. Once you have done so you are free to go," I said turning back to Derek who looked up at me and smiled.

I slashed his stomach and sprayed it with the vervain spray that I had in my other hand. He screamed out through his grounded teeth.

I tisked and said, "Derek, Derek, Derek you kidnapped my sister, my friend, and my-"

He cut me off saying, "Your boyfriend?"

I stabbed him in the abdomen causing him to groan. I turned around and saw Stefan looking over Elena while Damon sat there looking around in disbelief.

"I can tell you love him you know," Derek whispered to me. I turned back to him looking in the eyes. I said, "You know anything about me."

I pulled out a stake of my jacket and said, "You see Derek after the little episode between me and you, I learned to limit myself to Vampires and Werewolves."

"You didn't do a very good job apparently because it seems to me you feel for a Salvatore," he retorted. I growled and shoved the stake in his chest close to his heart.

"He maybe a Salvatore, but has a better and bigger heart than you ever had," I said whispering into his ear. I pulled the stake out of his chest and staked his heart.

I cut the ropes off his wrists when his body turned grey. I let it fall to the ground. I lifted up his upper half and dragged it towards the bodies on fire. I rolled it on the fire and backed away watching his body burn.

I was turned around when I was pushed to the ground the fire singed my skin. I screamed threw clenched teeth. I looked up to see Monica who was standing over me.

"You still aren't dead," I groaned. She picked me up by the leg and threw my across the floor. I smashed to a window landing outside. I rolled off the glass and crawled to get up, but I was kicked which sent me flying again.

"You just don't want to die do you," she said when she found where I was on the road. I coughed and said, "Touché."

With slow movement I pulled out my last stake from my jacket and turned over to face her. She had crouched down next to me. I chuckled and said, "Not now anyway. I'll see you in hell."

With that I shoved the stake in her heart and pushed her body off of me. I laid there on the dirt side of the road before crawling to my feet. My ankle hurt so I limped over to the ware house again. The overhead street lights were on so I was able to make out where I was going. I slumped against the warehouse and coughed.

"Jade!" I heard Elena call out. I felt her arms around my waist in seconds.

"Lena," I whispered trying to shake my head from the blackness that tried to consume me.

"Stefan!" I heard her call I fell another set of hands on me.

"She's lost to much blood," Stefan said to Elena. I fell to my knees.

"Stefan do something!" Elena sobbed. I looked up and saw her face streaked with tears. I placed a hand on her face and said, "No Elena."

"Jade, don't do this to me," she sobbed. I chuckled and said, "'Lena I'm not dying for Christ sake!"

Stefan and Elena both were taken aback. I chuckled again and said, "I have abnormal blood. I heal faster than a normal human should."

I groaned as I felt the skin knit back together. I crawled to my feet. They watched me heal.

"Some doctors of mom's thought it would be fun to mutate my genes. So I am a quick healer and a pretty damn good fighter. Vampires who drink my blood will be one hundred times stronger than they were before," I said and ended with a sigh. I head towards my bike where I had my duffle bag. I took out a blood bag and tossed it to him saying, "Mountain Lion."

He didn't reply he just took the bag and sipped it. Elena walked in front of me and said, "So you knew about vampires before you met Stefan and Damon."

"Duh, I dated them," I said taking off my jacket and throwing it on the bike. I pulled out another jacket from my bag and slipped it on.

"So you decided to let me just suffer. All this god damn years Jade and I could have had the upper hand on the situation I had been in!" Elena yelled at me. I blinked at her and said, "I have done everything for you Elena!"

She looked taken aback at me out burst. I threw my duffle bag on the ground and said, "You think I wasn't dying inside that I had to keep this hidden from you forever! I had to leave Mystic Falls for you and Jeremy! I gave up my whole fucking life to protect you! And you want the upper hand!"

I grabbed my bag tossed it to Stefan and yelled, "There is car on the other side of the building the keys are in the ignition!"

With that I hopped on my bike and raced away from them. I raced off towards the town ignoring the stop signs. I pulled up to the graveyard gate and hopped the fence. I walked towards my parent's grave and sat in front of them.

I let a few tears fall. I closed my eyes and leaned my head on the tombstone behind me.

"You know it's very dangerous to be in a graveyard at night when there is a world filled with Vampires," someone said behind me that made me jump. I opened my eyes and looked behind me to see Damon standing there. I got up and said, "I can handle vampires."

His face wasn't showing any emotion. He replied and said, "I know I learned that tonight. I learned many things about you tonight."

"Damon-"I started but he cut me off by saying, "Why couldn't you tell me?"

"Damon I didn't want you to think of me as a threat to you," I told him honestly. He scoffed and said, "Bull Shit."

"Damon," I said with tears trickling down my face.

"Save the act Jade. I'm done with you," he said before turning on his heal and walked away from me.

I raced toward him and grabbed his arm, "Don't walk away from me Salvatore."

Damon threw me against the tree and had me by the neck in tight grip. I wheezed and said, "Damon-your-hurting-me."

He didn't budge but held my gaze with his. I saw a flare in his eyes. I felt the heat of hatred run off him in waves.

"You will never touch me again," he said in growl. I kicked him in the groan and he released immediately falling to the ground clothing his crotch.

"I thought you out of all people would understand Damon. You were different. I thought you were different, but you proved me wrong. I went to that god for Sakin School for Jeremy and Elena to learn how to protect them from the creatures they didn't know about. I-I saved you tonight Damon because of the love… and that keeps me getting hurt either physically or mentally for you," I said getting up from kneeling down next to him. I got up and ran out of the grave yard over the fence on my bike and out of town where I got a hotel room for the night.

Once I showered using the cheap hotels shampoo and body wash I laid down on the creaky mattress and looked up at the ceiling thinking how much I screwed things up. They think everything I have done has just been an act. My feelings were real. My personality was real. Everything I had in Mystic Falls was real, but so was the secret life I held behind that veil of protection.

Everything I have done was real. I tried to lay low yes, but only because I wanted to have a normal life, a life that didn't have killing. I became something I utterly regret a vampire assassin. Elena was never going to forgive me.

If I could have anything in the world, anything at all, I would take away my memory for ever having gone through that training. It was the worst mistake of my life, but at the same time the best. Elena didn't have to go through all the complicated things I did. I was in ways grateful; I can protect Elena and Jeremy. I just had to get Elena to forgive me.

A/N: Wow what will Elena think now that her sister is a vampire assassin when she needs to be? What will Damon say now that he has once again hurt Jade?

I know this had an unexpected twist to the story but I didn't want Jade to seem too weak to need help from her friends in Mystic Falls so I had her get help from Carter who I know is supposed to be dead but isn't you'll find out in the next chapter if I get one or two reviews. I want to know if I should change the story line back to innocent Jade or vampire assassin Jade.

Review to let me know!

-pixiegirl1234