Plan to Kill a Vampire:

I had another weird dream last night. It was like before I met Damon and Stefan except they weren't in it. There was this man. He was tall. Had dark hair and dark eyes. He seemed to be a bit older than Damon. He had a certain fearful yet wise aurora to him. I wasn't frightened of him though. It was though we had been close. It was strange. I can't get distracted now, though.

I'm going to visit Jenna today. She's getting out of the hospital and since I won't be able to see her tonight, I'd like to see how she is. Damon and Stefan are hell bent on getting Katherine tonight. After what she's done to them and Jenna, I can't blame them. She's dangerous. I haven't been feeling well. It's odd. I think it's from over exhaustion. I just hope it'll go away. I need all my strength. Tonight we're going to kill Katherine at the masquerade ball.

Beth

Beth knocked on the door and Matt answered. He smiled at her and she came in. "She okay?" She asked him and he nodded. She walked into the family room to see Jenna on her back lying down on the couch. "Hey, how are you doing?" She asked her.

"A bit of pain but good otherwise. Feeling incredibly stupid for walking into a knife though." She smiled patting the floor in front of her and Beth sat down. "How's Ric?"

"He's good, worried of course but he's coming later on." Beth assured her. She saw Jenna wince in pain. She hated to see her like that. Matt and Jenna started talking. So she closed her eye and started muttering an incantation under her breathe. She soon saw Jenna smile as the pain slowly left her. Beth felt a bit exhausted seeing as she hasn't practiced that spell but she shrugged it off.

"Beth?" Matt asked and she stood up to go talk to him. He led her into the doorway of the other room near the staircase. She looked at him, waiting for him to say something. "Are you okay?" He asked her concerned.

"Uh, yeah, I'm okay. Why?" She asked him surprised.

"I don't know. You just seem a little off color today." He admitted. He could see when she came in she wasn't exactly feeling well, which was true. She woke up feeling a bit dizzy and she had a headache but she wouldn't stay at home. "Are you sure you're okay?"

"Yeah. I'll be okay. Just a bit of a headache." She assured him and he still looked slightly concerned. She smiled at him, surprised he noticed. "Thank you though." He smiled back at her. For a second he couldn't help but notice how when she smiled her whole face lit up. Before either of them could speak they heard Jeremy arguing with Elena in the kitchen. Jenna heard too and Beth looked at her nodding, telling her she was going to go check on them. She walked into the kitchen where the siblings were fighting near the counter. Jeremy was angry.

"Where are you going?" Elena asked Jeremy exasperated as he headed for the kitchen door. He barely turned around to see Beth.

"Out. I'll be back." He said harshly, leaving. Elena looked like she wanted to go after him but Beth did instead. She ran out the door to see him stalking off.

"Hey! Jeremy!" She yelled after him and he stopped and turned to her. "Wait up. What was that all about?"

"She thinks Katherine is just going to leave us alone." He shouted pointing to the kitchen. She knew that this had to be tough on him. It would be on anyone. "She's being naïve and she wants to just turn a blind eye on what she did to Jenna."

"I know! Don't worry. Damon called me. We've got a plan to kill Katherine." She promised him. Jeremy was shocked that they had gotten a plan together so quickly. "Just go inside and take care of Jenna."

He scoffed as she tried to walk away. He grabbed her arm to stop her. "No way! If you have a plan I want in. I don't care that Elena doesn't want to get involved but I do!"

Beth shook her head. She knew what Elena would say. "Yeah, no! Okay, it's dangerous! Like, extremely dangerous and risky. Elena's right you shouldn't get involved. You could get seriously hurt, Jeremy." She might not have known them as much as Caroline or Tyler but she did care about them. She didn't want them to get hurt.

He sighed, tiredly. He was sick of people treating him as though he was a child. He was already in this and he wasn't going to let Katherine hurt anyone else again. He knew Beth was just looking out for him but he wasn't just going to sit around and wait. "What would you do if it were Alaric?" He asked her. Beth didn't say anything. "Could you just sit here while she just walked around? Could you let them handle it and get involved? Please, I can help!" He asked her.

Beth looked to the house and back at him. He was right. She would want to help in any way possible. "Elena is so going to kill me." She complained and Jeremy smiled, happily as she led them to her car. He got in after picking up her grimoire that was sitting in the passenger seat. He started to flip through it. "Hey! Be careful. That thing is old and fragile."

"Yeah, yeah I'll be careful." He said waving it off and she rolled her eyes as she started to drive. He looked through it, interested. He then saw a bad on the floor. "What's this?" He asked and before she could answer he opened it to reveal an array of weapons to kill vampires. "Awesome!"

"It's just some things Alaric wanted me to bring. It'll help when we go after Katherine." She said.

"Do you know how to use these?"

"Kind of. Alaric has been teaching me but I don't really need them." She told him. He looked impressed as he put it back down. They finally got to the Salvatore boarding house. The door was already opened and they walked right in. Alaric was getting his weapons ready and had them spread out on a table where Damon was looking at them. Bonnie, looking surprised was talking to Stefan.

"What's going on?" Bonnie asked Stefan.

Jeremy answered her as he Beth walked by. "We're going to kill Katherine." Beth nodded in agreement. Bonnie was surprised and looked at Stefan.

"I can explain."

"Please." She asked him. She still didn't understand.

"We're going to kill Katherine." He said not really having a way to soften the blow. They made their way over to the table where Damon, Beth, Jeremy, and Caroline surrounded Alaric who was teaching them how to use the weapons. Damon took the heavy bag of extra weapons from Beth and put it on the table.

"Thanks." Alaric said glanced at Beth and she nodded. He had a weapon in his hand. "This works with compressed air." He explained to them. "The trigger mechanism is up here. I have two of these in a different size. For you I recommend this." He told Stefan and Damon. He put the wepon under his sleeve, which hid the stakes. "It fits nicely under the jacket sleeves. You use the trigger when you're ready." He pressed the trigger and the stake fell into his hand and feigned staking a vampire. Damon and Stefan exchanged a look. Alaric shrugged. "You wanted me to show you how to kill a vampire."

Beth drifted off to Caroline, having known all this from Alaric. "Hey you okay?" She asked her worried. She had been unusually quiet. She was still shaken up from the Katherine encounter.

"Yeah, I just can't wait to get this bitch." She said truthfully and Beth laughed. "Do you have a dress?" Beth in all the preparation forgot a dress. The look on her face said it all and Caroline knew. "Don't worry. I'm sure I have a dress for you." She assured her. "Will you be okay tonight though?"

"Yeah, definitely." She looked over at Stefan and Bonnie talking. "If Stefan gets Bonnie on board with the spell then it should be no problem between the two of us."

"Oh you're not coming." Damon told her from the other side of the room where he was still looking at the weapons with Alaric. Beth scoffed.

"Excuse me?" She asked. She had helped with this whole plan and now Damon of all people wanted her to stay out of it. Alaric was looking unsure of her going too. He didn't want her to get hurt.

"You heard me, Sabrina." He looked up to meet her angry eyes. He didn't care though. "Katherine could come after you, we don't know what she'll be planning and everything will go smoother if it were just us." He explained.

"I agree with Damon." Alaric told her and she turned towards him. "Wow, words I never thought I'd say. But he's right. Katherine already showed she doesn't mind killing anybody." It's a good thing Beth didn't tell him about the encounter she already had with Katherine or else he would be more concerned. She still hasn't gotten around to telling him what Damon had told her either. She thought they could talk about that after everything.

"Are you kidding me? You guys will need all the help you can get. I can take care of myself against Katherine if it comes down to that." She defended herself and Damon snorted. He didn't doubt her powers but he knew how Katherine could be and she would hesitate to kill Beth if she wanted to. He wouldn't let that happen to her. "Alaric, it'll be safer for everyone if they had help from another witch." She promised him and Alaric, still leery about her involvement nodded.

"No!" Damon decided. Beth raised her eyebrows at him. He didn't tell her what to do.

"Yes." He ran to her and stood right in front of her but she didn't budge. He glared down at her. He didn't intimidate her like he could anyone else. Alaric, Caroline and Jeremy looked on at their intense stare down, neither of them giving up their argument. Damon usually didn't get like this except with Elena. "I'm coming." She said determined as she pushed past him. Damon didn't want her to get hurt but she would be easier to keep an eye on if she was close by and there was no way he could stop her from coming. She was too stubborn. Everyone there had started to become like her family and she wasn't going to let them get hurt.

Stefan and Bonnie finally met up with everyone in the living room. "You sure you guys don't want me there tonight?" Alaric asked concerned.

"No, I need you to stay with Elena. I don't want her knowing about this." Stefan said.

"Okay. Well, I'll make sure she doesn't leave my sight." Alaric assured him. He nodded and then Stefan turned to everyone.

"All right. If anybody wants to back out now, I'll understand." Stefan told them graciously. Damon was a little less gracious when addressing everyone.

"Yeah. Cold feet speak now. I don't want this going wrong if someone chickens out." Damon turned to Caroline who was sitting on a chair. "Caroline." He called her out with a smirk and Beth hit him.

"I won't. Look, she killed me. Fair's fair." She reasoned, rationally. She deserved whatever she got. "As long as there's no werewolf running around."

"Oh I took care of Mason." Damon said knowingly.

"As long as Tyler doesn't kill any one he won't turn." Jeremy informed them. Damon turned to Beth. She shook her head knowing what he was going to ask. She wasn't going to back down from this.

Stefan however turned to the other witch, who looked unsure. "Bonnie, are you with us?" He asked softly. There was a long moment of silence before she answered him.

"But no one gets hurt."

"Except Katherine." Damon let them know. Beth knew that Damon wanted Katherine dead more than anyone. Being lied to, and thinking that she loved him when she didn't. Loving someone for 145 who lied about loving you had to hurt more than anything.

"Tonight, Katherine gets a stake through her heart."