Chapter 26: To complicated Things

"It's complicated." Jeremy said resting his head against the window.

"How complicated?" Anna asked, her eyes on the road but he could see her trying to watch him out of the side of her eye.

He sighed, "Bonnie tried a spell on me a few days ago and it messed up my memories. I forgot something big and no one told me. When you asked how my aunt died. I figured it out. I had become friends with them, and no one, not even Caroline or Tyler told me that Klaus killed her."

"Klaus?" Anna asked, then she slammed on the breaks and spun around to look at him,

"Niklaus? As in Original vampire Klaus?" Jeremy caught himself on the dashboard at the sudden stop and winced at her loud tone.

"um yeah?" He said trying to play innocent.

"Jeremy, how the hell do you know an original vampire?" She asked as a car honked behind her. She growled and took her foot off the break. Jeremy laughed, as she pulled the car out of the way and parked it on the shoulder.

When she turned to glare at him he stopped laughing.

"Well?" She demanded.

"You kinda know one too." He said with a smile. She gave him a confused look.

"Elijah." He supplied her.

"What the hell Jeremy." She said staring at him in disbelief.

"Told you it was complicated." He said.

She sighed and turned the car back on.

"Are you in danger?" She asked as she started driving again.

"From the originals?" He asked, "No."

They were quite until she pulled in front of his house. It felt strange to him, walking up to the front door. To him he hadn't really been home much in months. First with the whole time travel thing which he was starting to remember more and more of, mostly the way it smelt, but then with him staying at Matt and the Mikaelson's to avoid his sister. He missed it.

He hesitated at the door, did he knock? It was kind of late and his Aunt wasn't expecting him. And what if Elena was there and she caused problems? He felt Anna grab his hand and then she squeezed it. He smiled at her and then reached out and opened the door.

The lights where on as he entered the living room.

"Elena?" He heard his Aunt shout, and panic set in. She was really here. She was back just like Anna.

"Elena, you can't just run out…." Jenna shouted as she walked out of the kitchen. She pulled to a stop when she saw Jeremy. Both stood stunned until Anna pushed him. Then he was moving, he ran across the living room and crashed into his Aunt. He wrapped his arms around her and started crying. He had lost so much in the last couple years and being able to hold her again was overwhelming.

"Jeremy." He heard his aunt cry around his name as she held on to him just as tight as he was holding her.

The stood that way for what felt like forever, then his aunt was pulling away.

"How are you? Where have you been? Elena said you were hanging around with Dangerous people…" His aunt took a breath, slowing her questions down, "But Ric said you were safe. I don't understand all of it but Jeremy I need to hear it from you. Are you okay?" She talked so fast that it took Jeremy time to process her questions. He rolled his eyes when she mentioned Elena not that it went unnoticed by his aunt.

"I'm okay." Anna snorted next to him. His aunt looked at her and raised her brow. Jeremy wanted to laugh, his aunt was great but the parenting look, she was trying just never worked well with her. God, how he had missed her.

"I'm fine." He said to both of them, neither seemed to believe him. He sighed.

"Fine, I'm a little confused and angry. But they are not hurting me or are going to. They aren't the monsters…" He choked on the word as he looked at his aunt. Was he really about to tell her that the man that killed her isn't a monster. "I mean. They aren't whatever Elena as told you about them. She is angry, self-centered, and somehow thinks that them being my friends or caring about me, is all about her. She doesn't care how I feel or what I'm going through. It's all about how it could be used against her!" He shouted. The front door slammed behind him. 'Fuck." He thought. He finally gets to rant about her and of course she picks that moment to walk in. He breathed through his nose then turned around.

Standing in the doorway was his sister, looking pissed and Ric who looked like he would rather just turn around and walk back out.

"Is that what you really think?" She snapped at him.

He thought about apologizing and trying to appease her just to avoid the fight that he knew was coming but he couldn't.

"Yes." He said crossing his arms. "You haven't given a shit about how I feel or if I was okay, you just ranted about how you were right and I was wrong. How they didn't give a shit and how it was all about you. Hell, you and Bonnie attacked me!" He was shouting again and he felt some one place their hand on his shoulder.

"Jeremy," Oh god, that tone, she was going to try and talk to him like he was a child, "We didn't attack you. Bonnie was trying to undo that magic they had placed on you. We are worried about you." She moved towards him, but Ric reached out and stopped her.

"You were so worried you didn't notice when I was gone?" He yelled, "Or you were so worried about me that instead of talking to me you started to plan on murdering them." He glared at her.

She gasped and turned on Ric, "You told him?" accusation clear in her voice.

Jeremy growled, "He didn't have to. I was there. You were so busy with Bonnie you didn't even know I was in the next room." His sister spun back around and her hand flew in the air, "You have the stake? I knew something wasn't right when Ric said he had moved it." She stomped towards him this time Ric was to slow to stop her.

"Jeremy." She wasn't shouting anymore but she was still loud, "They are dangerous. They hate me, they will do anything to get revenge." He laughed. "See, there you go again Elena, it's all about you. Don't you think if Nik or Kol really wanted you dead, you would be dead. Come on, you don't really think so highly of yourself to think you could actually take one of them in a fight." Her and Ric both gasped.

Elena raised her hand, but before the smack could land, her wrist was caught and yanked away from him, then he watched as his sister sailed through the air and slammed into the kitchen island. Anna moved to stand in front of him. Her vampire features out as she growled at Elena.

Elena moved to her feet, ready to fight but froze when she say her attacker.

"Your dead." Elena said.

"Not anymore." Anna said.

The hesitation faded as Elena charged at Anna, this time it was Jenna who moved in the way. "Enough." Elena looked like she had been slapped. Jeremy wondered if his sister had forgotten their Aunt was there. She was so used to being able to do whatever she wanted that she probably didn't even think she would be told to stop.

"Elena!" His Aunt sounded shocked. "You were going to hit!" Her voice got higher at the work hit, "Jeremy."

"I…" Elena went to explain.

"It doesn't matter." Jeremy said, "Aunt Jenna. I am so happy you are back. But I think I'm going to go to bed before this gets any worse." He grabbed Anna's arm and dragged her towards the stairs. He half expected one of them to call him out on taking her to his room but he heard his aunt started yelling at Elena again.

Once he was in they were both in his room, he slammed the door shut.

"You okay?" Anna asked sitting on the edge of his bed.

"I think so. It felt good to finally tell her off." He said with a small smile. He sat down next to her, "And I'm really happy to see Jenna again." He raked his fingers through his hair, "But Anna, what is going on? First you and now her?" He looked at her.

"I'm don't know Jer," She shrugged and started to take off her jacket. He watched her and smiled as she took off her shoes and crawled farther on this his bed. She laid her head on one of his pillows and tapped the bed next to her. He kicked off his shoes and moved to lay next to her. They were lying face to face, like they had done many in the past. It felt nice, but deep inside Jeremy felt like something was missing.

"Witches." She said breaking their silence.

"huh?" He asked.

"It has to be witches." She said using her hand to play with his blanket. "Not Bonnie, because I could see her bring your aunt back but not me." She wasn't looking at him, just looking at the blanket under them.

"Shit." He cursed and rolled on to his back.

"What?" Anna asked, pushing herself up onto her elbow.

"There is a coven in town. Killing vampire and wolves. But that doesn't explain why they would bring back two vampires." He said staring at the ceiling.

"Is there anyone else?" He tried to think of anyone, but as far as he knew Bonnie and the coven where the only witches in town. Neither of which would have a reason to bring back Anna or Jenna, it didn't make any since. He sighed.

"We'll figure it out. But for now…" And Jeremy could her the smile in her voice, so he turned his head to look at her. She had a mischievous look in her eye and a smile that said she was planning something. Before he could react, she pushed herself and rolled on top of him, "You need to relax."

He brought his hands up to catch her hips. She smiled at him and her hair fell forward, he was struck with how beautiful she was and how much he has missed her. "Hey." She said still grinning, he laughed, "Hey."

She leaned forward and so did he, meeting her half way. The kiss was something warm and familiar. So was the way her body moved on top of him. There was something comforting in the way he knew to bring his hand to her back and run his finger along her spine. A ball of pressure started to form in his head right between his eyes. He ignored it and ran his hand under her shirt and up her back. He heard her whimper, he used that to his advantage to slip his tongue into her mouth. The pressure increased, but he felt her rock against him and he pulled her closer. She moaned into the kiss.

An image slammed into his head. He was against a wall, Kol was standing in front of him smirking. He felt Anna tug at his shirt and he sat up enough for her to slide it off. Only breaking their kiss until the shirt was on the floor and then he pulled back against him and returned to kissing her.

"Kiss me."

Kol's voice echoed though his ears and his body shuddered. He tried to tell himself that it was because Anna had started to kiss his neck but he didn't believe himself.

He moaned when she bit down. Not to break skin or drink from him, but enough to a cause him to arch into her body.

Suddenly he was slammed against a tree, pinned against a tree. Fear causing him to try to fight off the attacker. But it was just Kol. His Kol. The fear was gone replaced by pure relief as he lunged forward and wrapped the vampire in his arms. His breath escaped him as he felt a mouth latch on to his nipple, Kol's smirking face flashed through his mind and he had remined himself that this was Anna. Anger grew in his stomach at his mind, trying to screw this up. The pain in his head increased as the images kept coming. He didn't want to see any more of them. He just wanted to enjoy his time with Anna, he opened his eyes tugged her up so that he could kiss her.

He was leaning in to kiss Elijah. Elijah slamming into him. The heat and passions behind a single kiss, was enough to cause Jeremy to feel electrified.

He pulled back and gasped for air. Anne pulled away, "Jeremy?" she asked.

He forced himself to smile, "Sorry. I just…" He pulled to seat up holding on to her so she didn't fall off, "I don't know." He mumbled out. Looking away from her. How did he explain to her that he wanted her but that there was someone or a couple someone's he seemed to want more?

"Elijah?" She asked, resting her hands on his chest. He jerked his head back to her and opened his mouth to protest but the words caught in his throat.

"I wasn't sure." She sounded sad, "I knew he wanted you from the way he looked at you. But I wasn't sure if you returned his feelings."

He growled, "That's the thing. I don't know. My memories of them are still messed up. I don't know how I feel about them. But I know how I feel about you…" He groaned, "But when we kiss…" He looked her in the eye, "I keep getting flashes. I think their memories. Me and Kol and me and Elijah."

She laughed surprising him, "Kol is another Original right?" He nodded still confused why she was laughing at him.

"Leave it to you…" She giggled, "To have two originals wanting you." Finally seeing the humor, he raised his hand and held up three fingers.

"Three?" She gasped and then she rolled off him, she still had a smile as she laid back down next to him. "Damn Jer, how did you manage to get three of them?"

"Anna," He reached out and took her hand, "I'm sorry." She smiled at him, it wasn't a happy smile but one of understanding, "Jeremy I died. It's okay that you moved on." She squeezed his hand.

"I have no idea what I'm doing." He said.

"You'll figure it out." She said.

They laid there for a while before Jeremy felt himself start to drift off to sleep, "Anna," He muttered.

"Yeah?"

"I really am sorry. But I'm so happy to have you back. Don't disappear on me okay?" He didn't feel like he had the right to ask her that but he wanted his friend to stay.

"I won't." She said squeezing his hand that she still held.