Chapter 21:

Jasmine followed Katherine fairly quickly through the streets of Chicago and Katherine led them straight to a 24 hour McDonald's.

"This doesn't look like a warehouse!" Jasmine said as Katherine headed straight towards the counter. After ordering a drink each Katherine walked over to a two bar stools and sat down next to an old man. Jasmine noticed that directly across the street from them was an old looking Warehouse. It was far enough away to see anyone come and go but not be spotted watching them.

"Kath-"

"Hello Joel, any sightings?" Katherine asked the man next to her cutting off Jasmine. Jazz watched fascinated as the man, who looked as though he was homeless turned towards Katherine.

"Miss Pierce." The older man nodded in acknowledgement. "Both Klaus and Stefan are currently in the Warehouse. They have only been back once."

"Thank you, Joel." Katherine took a brown envelope out of the inside pocket in her black leather jacket. It was very bulky and Jasmine found herself wondering what was inside. Even though she had a good idea. Joel's name was written delicately on the front. "Here is your reward. My number is in there, in case you see anything else. You will be rewarded for any other information you give me."

"Good day, Miss Pierce." Joel got off his stool and left the fast food restaurant.

"What was in the envelope?" Jasmine asked Katherine and the Vampire just rolled her eyes. Jasmine knew it was money and she smiled. Katherine could have just compelled a passer-by, instead she offered a large amount of money to a homeless man to do her a small job. "I knew you had a heart, Miss Pierce!" She joked as she drank her coffee.

"Whatever," Katherine grumbled. "How did you do that back there? It was like you compelled Elena."

"When Elena died in the ritual she crossed the boundaries of life and death. Its become apparent to me that I can control anything that has died, human or not." Jasmine told the vampire, quietly so no one would overhear them.

"How is that even possible?" Katherine asked confused.

"I'm still not quite sure," Jasmine said her brow furrowed. "Damon and I have been in England, looking into it. Why is Klaus even in Chicago?"

Katherine turned to Jasmine surprised, "You came all this way and you don't know?"

"Well, it's not like you explained on the phone!" Jasmine said and Katherine shrugged. "I thought you already knew. Klaus can't make any Hybrids. He's tried and all the Werewolves he turns just end up dying. He came here to get advice from a Witch he met in the 1920's."

Jasmine eyes widened, "Elena?"

"That's my main theory. If he finds out she's alive, he'll march straight to Mystic Falls and kill her." Katherine said and Jazz nodded. Knowing she was right. They both watched the Warehouse for over twenty minutes. They almost spilt their half empty drinks from shock when they saw Klaus and Stefan exit the Warehouse and walk away. They waited five minutes before heading over the road and towards the warehouse. Once inside they saw it was almost empty except one container. The only thing in between them and Klaus' stuff was two guards that wouldn't be much of a problem.

"Sorry, Ladies, no one is allowed past for any reason at all." The first guy said and Katherine rolled her eyes.

"And why not?" Katherine asked.

"It's a restricted area, Ma'am. We're going to have to ask you both to leave." One of the guards stepped forward.

"That's likely." Jasmine waved her hand and both of the guards stiffened up like boards and fell backwards. "Can you compel them to forget we were here?" Katherine nodded her eyes a little wide from the spell the little witch had performed. She had expected to take the lead and knock the security guards out before they continued until the little witch took it into her own hands.

Jasmine stepped over the to petrified bodies and walked towards the only storage container in the whole of the warehouse. The container was already open and in front of it was an open empty coffin.

"Well Klaus, just gets creepier and creepier." Jazz said as she looked inside the empty coffin and then into the open storage contain. Four more coffins were stored on either side and in the middle at the back was a desk and a chair, on the back of the chair, was man's jacket. It wasn't a very big cabinet. The fifth coffin looked as if it had been stored on a shelf above the desk.

Katherine joined her next to the creepy coffin and folded her arms across her chest. Katherine looked around to the left of the coffin and noticed a body drained of blood, her eyes widened. Before she had the chance to warn the unsuspecting Jasmine, she was cut off.

"Oh, good. My no good brother sent dessert!" Rebekah said from the door where the two petrified guards were, before rushing at Jasmine. Jazz barely had time to see the vampire rush at her, before she lifted up her hands in defence. Rebekah was too fast and had the girl pinned to the floor. Jasmine mustered up all the strength she had in her and shouted, "Stupefy!"

Before Rebekah had the chance to sink her teeth into the witch, who surprisingly had no smell, she was flying back.

Jasmine quickly recovered, climbing to her feet before Rebekah could get to hers. "Petrificus Totalus!" She shouted, rather than doing it silently like she had done with the guards, she was less focused now and didn't want to put it to the test. Rebekah was frozen. Jasmine turned to Katherine with wide eyes and confused expression. "Who the hell is that?"

"That's Rebekah Mikaelson, Klaus' sister. Charming isn't she." Katherine said. Jasmine walked over to the blonde Original Vampire and smiled.

"Nice to meet you, Rebekah. I'm going to release the spell, but you're not going to do anything until I say otherwise, Okay?" Jasmine released the spell and Rebekah didn't move, they were both happy and relieved to know it worked on Originals. "Great. We should probably look around. See if there is anything that could help us here." Katherine nodded and heading inside the cabinet and began to look through the coffins. Jasmine walked straight over to the table and began sifting through the papers, being careful not to mess up the order. Most of them were drawings of horses and sketches of woman or landscapes. Jasmine was surprised to see that every picture was signed, 'Niklaus'. She was admiring more of the sketches when Katherine joined her at the table.

"It's the rest of Klaus' family. I'm fairly certain. Though one of the coffins is locked." Katerina said as she picked up her own set of papers and began to look through them. Jasmine came across a watercolour painting of a girl. Long black hair, emerald green eyes. Her wind was blowing through her hair and she stood in a field of five leafed white flowers. The same flower she was named after. It was the image of her, right down to the partly hidden scar on her forehead. Jasmine made sure Katherine hadn't noticed the picture before shoving it to the back of the pile and to the back of her mind and she began once again to glance through the papers. Every now and again there was a sketch that looked like her but Jasmine just brushed it off as a coincidence.

"Why does Klaus have his dead Family in a storage cabinet?" Jasmine asked it was slightly weird.

"They aren't dead. Just daggered, like Elijah was." Jasmine nodded, she remembered.

"So why would a man, who is clearly lonely and scared of betrayal keep his only blood relatives in coffins?" Jasmine speculated trying to put the pieces together to solve the mystery that is Klaus Mikaelson.

"Perhaps he was scared of losing them, they were going to leave and he stopped them?" Katherine suggest and Jasmine's eyes narrowed. "Or he was protecting them?" Katherine muttered as though she had had an epiphany. Jasmine looked at her intrigued and nodded her head once as if to tell her new friend to continue. "A friend of mine from the eighteen hundred's told me of a weapon that could kill an Original."

"Dead dead?" Jasmine asked though her heart sank. She didn't want to have to kill anyone.

"Yes. The thing is, Pearl kept the information to herself. As leverage. She knew as soon as I knew she would become less important to me and more disposable. What I'm saying is, Klaus would have more reason to be scared if there was actually a weapon out there to kill him. Scared for his families lives too, so maybe this is his way of keeping them safe until the threat is terminated." Jasmine nodded. What Katherine had said made sense. They kept looking for another ten minutes until Katherine stopped them both.

"Jazz." Katherine said and moved a piece of parchment closer for the young witch to see. "This is the curse that was placed on Klaus all those years ago, it's written in English."

Jasmine took the old looking piece of parchment from Katherine and scanned the words. It reminded her of the Snape's Potion Puzzle from her first year at Hogwarts. It was one of the puzzles protecting the Chamber of Secrets. She'd had a puzzle in her fourth year as well. The Golden Egg. The more Jasmine read the curse the more Jasmine began to see through it's fancy wording. She recognised the ingredients for the sacrifice and then it began to talk about siring a hybrid line.

"I know why Klaus can't make any Hybrids!" Jasmine announced, before almost running from the room and towards Rebekah. "You are going to answer me truthfully!" Rebekah nodded dazed and Jasmine smiled. "Is this the real curse?" She showed the words to the blonde vampire and she nodded once more. "Why is your brother carting his age-old family around in coffins!"

"Nik wants to keep us safe!" Rebekah said though her eyes told Jasmine that she didn't want to answer.

"How is this keeping you safe?" Jasmine asked she was confused as to why Rebekah would defend her brother. By the looks of her clothing, she hadn't seen the light of day since the 1920's.

"We wanted to leave, we were sick of running." She choked out, Jasmine could see that Rebekah was trying to fight it so she left it there. "Thank you, Rebekah!" She had had people inside of her head, controlling her and it wasn't a nice feeling.

Katherine stood behind her with her arms folded, watching the whole thing. "So they were running?"

"The question is, Whats big and bad enough to scare the world's oldest Vampires?" Jasmine asked and Katherine shook her head. She had no idea. "Elena's blood is the key to siring Hybrids." Jazz told Katherine and The Doppelganger's eyes widened.

"What are we going to do? Sooner or later Klaus' witch will figure it out or Klaus will realise Stefan is hiding something."

"Maybe it's best if Niklaus does find out!" Jasmine muttered and Katherine looked shocked. "Are you willing to do anything to have the threat of Klaus removed?"

"All I've ever wanted was my freedom. So long as Klaus is alive, I'll be running."

"We need to find out what the weapon is," Jasmine said. "But when we do find this Weapon, we need to know where Klaus is." Jazz walked over to Rebekah and looked into her eyes. "Over the next couple of days you are going to help your brother on his quest, but you will also be dropping hints to Klaus on Stefan Salvatore's disloyalty. Let your brother know that Stefan is hiding something and that he seems distant. When your brother realises you are right your job is done. As soon as Katerina and I leave you will forget we were here and that it was me that told you want to do."

"What are you doing?" Katherine asked Jasmine as she walked back over to Klaus' container and up to his desk. She quickly found a blank piece of paper and pencil.

"I'm luring Klaus to Mystic Falls, using Elena Gilbert as my bait!" Jasmine said nonchalantly and Katherine smirked.

"You're a never ending bag of surprises." Katherine said and Jasmine smiled as she wrote a neat message out on the piece of paper, folded it and placed it in the top pocket of the dark blue denim Jacket. "What's my part in this?"

"You'll stay here, keep Stefan alive and let me know when Klaus is finally beginning to suspect Stefan. As soon as Klaus begins to have his doubts, head back to Mystic Falls where I will hopefully have found a lead on the Weapon." Jasmine took her car keys out of her pocket and handed them to Katherine. "Would you mind bringing my car back? I'm not letting Elena back in it ever and I'd rather not leave her alone with Damon for twelve hours. He'll surely kill her."

Katherine smiled and took the keys. "Deal. What was on the note?"

"Just a little hint in case Klaus isn't as smart as we think!" Jasmine smiled. "Hopefully by the time you've found the weapon Klaus won't be a threat to any of us. and he won't need to die."

"I wouldn't bet on it, Jazz." Katherine said and Jasmine smiled sadly. She had a plan and hopefully Klaus would stop to listen.

Jasmine released the two guards and they left the building.

"Remember, keep me updated." Jasmine smiled and before the Vampire could turn to leave she pulled her into a hug. "Thanks for you help, Kat." She smiled before turning on the spot and apparating back to an alleyway near Stefan's apartment.

She and Katherine had been gone almost two hours and it had gone dark.

She walked slowly round the corner and smiled when she saw Damon in his car, only to cry in frustration when she saw Elena in the back seat. As she climbed in Damon smiled at her. "Any luck?"

"Not really. Katherine's Warehouse was a dead end." She lied. She knew how Damon would react if she told him the truth. Jasmine wasn't okay with using Elena as bait, but she knew that Doppelgangers life would be fine if Klaus listened to her. Though she doubted Damon would see it the same way. He may be passed fixing point with Elena, but he hadn't properly gotten over her yet. "You have any luck?"

"Nope, Elena tried to vervain Stefan without telling me! He flipped. We left before Klaus ripped out my spleen." Jasmine cringed at the thought of it. "But hey, that's what she gets for tagging along uninvited!"

"Just drive." Elena said rudely and Jasmine whipped her head around, to face Elena, angrily.

"Don't speak to him like that!" Jasmine snapped. "you're lucky you're even getting a ride and I haven't just turned you into the police, you car thief! If Damon didn't have a heart of gold you'd be walking home! SO stop treating him like he's the one who has done something wrong and realise you're the one who deserves the blame!" she snapped and turned back around to face the front leaving Elena to think about what she is done.

Damon had a small smile on his face, he liked it when Jasmine stuck up for him. Elena was quiet or asleep for most of the ride home. Damon and Jasmine talked and laughed, about their shitty day in Chicago and how Katherine was going to return her car in a few days. It wasn't long before they were back home in Mystic Falls. They agreed to all crash at the boarding house and first thing in the morning Damon and Jazz would go and get Stefanie from Andromeda. Where Damon had begrudgingly left his little fur ball. Jasmine couldn't get Klaus' drawing off her mind. Why would he draw her? He let her die because she wouldn't kill innocent people for him. Were they even her?

She didn't know but she wanted to find out, she was determined to find out.

Hello, my Lovelies.

I've decided to update again because ideas keep coming to me and I and I can't stop writing. Hopefully, you enjoy this chapter as much as I did. Jazz shows more of her Slytherin side. Next chapter is Senior Prank night and Chapter 23 will be Rita Skeeters trial.

Hopefully, I can update soon.

Thank you for reading it really means a lot to me. Let me know if you liked it and what you think of a Damon/Rebekah pairing?

Kat xox