"Hello?" Stepping into the Salvatore house, Kai cheerily called out as he searched for Damon and Elena, Jerome trudging behind him with a look of annoyance plastered across his face.

"-On his way to Portland!"Damon finished the sentence just as the two stepped into the room.

"Whew! I forgot how massive his house was."

Scoffing at Kai's words, Jerome sneered announced his presence, "I didn't know it was this big, you know, spending all my time here locked in a basement."

"Yum, cupcakes!" Ignoring Jerome's words and the threatening glares Damon was sending him, Kai stepped towards the cupcakes, immediately grabbing one.

"Sorry, are we interrupting something?" Kai questioned using a sarcastic tone, however Jerome frowned at the slight edge of sincerity in his words.

"What are you doing here?" Damon groaned,Elena had yet to take her gaze away from her brother.

"Funniest thing. We need your help." Coughing loudly, Jerome glared at Kai, "I need your help."

"Why would we give a letter to Jo?" Elena spoke up for the first time, crossing her arms as Kai jumped onto the table whilst eating the cupcake, Jerome groaning in boredom and deciding to simply lie on the kitchen floor. Throwing a small dagger into the air above his face and catching it, repeating this motion over and over again, Jerome pouted like a child when Elena used her vampiric speed to catch it mid air and take it away from him.

"I can't find her using a locator spell and you know, good on her because under normal circumstances I'd be super jazzed to gouge out her belly button." Licking the frosting off the cupcake, Kai spoke casually as Elena and Damon gave him looks of disgust.

"Why would we help you Kai?"

"In case you haven't figured out by now, I'm a sociopath."

"Well duh!"Jerome muttered as Kai spoke the obvious.

"I know, shocker. I like being a sociopath, you know? I'm not burdened by things like guilt or love." As Kai spoke this, his eyes darted to Jerome for a split second, luckily with his eyes closed Jerome didn't see, however Elena caught it with a frown.

"So then, this merge happened with my brother Luke, and I won. Which was great because I absorbed his ability to do magic…but now I can't stop thinking about how Luke died. How Liv's life is ruined. For horrible reason, I can't shake…how badly I feel about it." Shaking his head, Kai sighed tiredly at the emotions surging through him.

"You feel bad?" Elena asked in utter disbelief.

"Yeah. So when I absorbed Luke's magic,I must have got some of his qualities or something, like empathy. So I googled how to process emotional pain and they said if you write everything down in a letter and burn it, you'll be healed. So I started writing and this water literally started pooling in my eyes. Has that ever happened to you? Like, like water just oozing out of my eyeballs like I'm some alien creature excreting fluids."

"You mean you cried?"

"Yes! He did. And he would. Not. Stop. Got to the point I was considering gouging out his eyes." Jerome spoke through gritted teeth, refusing to get off the hard tile floor. Elena and Damon shared looks of doubt at the situation, unable to believe that Malachai Parker actually cried.

"And after that was done, I burned the letter. The feelings, whoop, they're still there. So I really feel strongly that Jo need to know how sorry I am for destroying our family." Looking down guiltily, Kai finished.

"Yada, yada, yada. What a boring story. Long story short, I think my sociopath is broken and if you giving this stupid letter to Jo is gonna fix him, you're gonna do it. Alrighty then?" Standing up, Jerome glared sinisterly at Elena and Damon, sanding up to his full height so he could tower over Elena as he spoke.

"Okay I think we're done here." Damon stepped up to Jerome, pushing him away from Elena with a protective edge in his voice as he spoke.

"Actually," Elena paused Damon,"what if there's something he can do for us in exchange?"

"I knew you had a manipulative side in you sis! It's in your blood."

"Okay, so we know Jo stored her magic in a hunting knife. Bonnie sent hers over with Miss Cuddles. What receptacle of magic am I not thinking of?" Elena was stood against the wall, Kai leaned over the pool table inspecting the broken ascendant, Jerome sitting on the pool table swinging his legs back and forth and Damon was walking around the room drinking alcohol.

"Let me give you a hint. Scorned lover." Damon spoke in a mysterious voice.

"Katherine?" Jerome found it hilarious that Katherine was what Elena immediately thought.

"Older."

"Silas."

"Hotter."

"I dunno, Silas was definitely hot." Elena tiled her head in thought while Damon looked disgusted.

"For once, I agree with you, dopplewrench." Jerome laughed, fantasying about Silas and Stefan, once again missing the jealous look Kai threw him.

"Qetsiyah!" Damon gave Elena a wink and a thumbs up to confirm her guess.

"Her blood is on Silas's headstone. It's filled with magic."

"Yup, so in Bonnie-land, that means on an island off Nova Scotia, there's a magical battery waiting to be tapped. We just need to remind Bonnie of that." Damon grinned at his solution.

"And what reminded you?" Jerome raised his eyebrow, actually curious to know the answer to Elena question.

"I was just gonna plan a trip there, change of scenery, you know. There's only so much you can take of Mystic Falls on repeat."

"Oh, thank god! You two together, is still totally revolting to me. Finally, a familiar feeling. Luke didn't take me over completely." Kai laughed, sighing in relief as he looked up.

"Well thank god for that, you're hot doll-face, but if you really had gone completely Lukey I would probably have to kill you which would be such a waste." Jerome slapped Kai's cheeks once, happy that his partner in crime was still in there somewhere. His eyebrows furrowed in confusion when slight red blush peaked on Kai's cheek.

"Your cheeks gone all red. What's up with that?" Poking his cheek, Jerome laughed croakily when Kai swatted his hands and move away, Elena and Damon sharing a knowing look.

"What the hell are they doing here?" Jerome's eyes brightened with mischief when Jeremy walked in to the room.

"Broski!"Jumping from the table and running towards his brother, Jerome was stopped by Damon who grabbed his arm in a tight, warning grip.

"YOU stay away from me! You belong in an asylum." Jeremy pointed at Jerome angrily, Kai looking up at the sibling conflict that was taking place.

"I'm hurt! So how ya been? Oh you look great! To think I used to be the handsome Gilbert! Being a hunter suits you brother." Giggling, Jerome relaxed in Damons grip, who still wouldn't let go of him knowing his history with trying to kill Jeremy.

"How've I been? How do you think I've been?! You killed our parents, you're crazy!" Stepping forwards, Jeremy glared at Jerome who froze up, his gaze turning stone cold as a nefarious laugh fell out of his cracked lips.

"Crazy? No, no, no I'm not crazy, I'm a visionary. Oh, we could all go insane with one bad day bro, although I guess for me it was one bad life! What you call 'sanity' is just a prison in your mind that stops you from seeing that you're just tiny little cogs in a giant, absurd machine. WAKE UP!" Jeremy flinched back as Jerome reached for him, Damon holding him back with his supernatural strength as Elena stepped in front of Jeremy to protect him.

"You blame us and our parents for everything that has gone wrong in your life, but the truth is, Jerome, you were born bad!" Jerome's eye twitched at the words, Kai having stopped what he was doing took a step forwards, something in him wanting desperately to comfort Jerome and murder everyone who ever hurt him.

"Born bad, huh? So is that why you let mommy and daddy beat me? Is that why you stood and watched whilst I was turned into this! This is your fault, every single life I take is on you and Elena and our parents. Nobody ever helped me, ever." His voice broke off, he looked to the ground before he burst into laugher, "Ah it's been fun bro, I looove catching up with you! We should do this more often. Hah remember your birthday and I held a cake knife to your throat? Oh good times!"

The room filled with a tense silence after Jerome finished, Kai clenching his fists to stop himself from killing Jeremy, his heart heavy for with an unknown emotion. Elena grabbed Jeremy, pulling him from the room so she could explain the situation to him and to get him out of Jerome's sight, worried for his safety. Once Jeremy was out of sight, Jerome's body relaxed, Damon finally letting go of him, shoving him towards Kai who watched him with an unreadable expression.

"I think that went well." Laughing, Jerome walked back to the pool table and lazily sat on it again.