Chapter 7 - Stefan is Old, Road Trip fun and Tyler Lockwood's curiosity
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Gilbert Residence
It's been a few weeks since Halloween.
Damon has been having me training like crazy and I've made some wooden stakes for Jeremy and Aunty Jenna too so they have some just in case. (What she's wearing right now is the picture at the top.)
Bonnie came over about a week ago, telling me about her witchiness. It's pretty cool and I SO wish I was a witch.
I think it'd be a good idea to get Caroline a Vervain Tattoo as well but Bonnie wants us to wait on it.
I'm going to meet up with Damon in about 2-hours.
Until then I will be doing. Hmm... omg I'm bored, I'm in vampire diaries and I'm bored, maybe I should find some trouble? Hmm...
Nah, time for fun, I'll go get Damon now!!!
"Jere, I'm going to the Salvatore place, I have some fun to have, blanket forts to party in and Caroline to hang out with." I shout out, fun, fun , fun...
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Salvatore Boarding House
I arrive at the Salvatore Boarding House and I skip to the door and knock yelling out "Day-Day, I'm early, but I was thinking we'd drag your uncle that isn't your uncle around and Stefan, then we can go on a road trip or something."
The door opens and Damon is standing by the door with a raised eyebrow and says "We have a guest Darling Lena"
"Who?" I ask curiously.
"Lexi." He states.
"Ohh, the pretty blonde girl that RL Elena meets in a towel?" I ask huh, so it's Stefan's birthday then.
I yell "STEFAN, WE SHOULD ALL GO SOMEWHERE TO PARTY FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY"
He vamps down with Lexi who with look at me has her mouth popped open in shock.
I look at her and say "I am not her, I'm Elena or Lena or if you're feeling up to it you can call me Katie."
She blinks, once, twice and then shakes her head and smiles "He's told me about you. He says you're pretty, nice and he really likes you."
Intelligently I say "Huh, uh, we're great friends?"
She laughs. "Yeah, he told me that you won't date him either."
I stay silent looking at her, I turn my head towards Stefan and I see him blushing. I sigh "He's my friend." I say as he leaves the room with Damon.
"Who's totally into you." She says with a wink.
Uggghhhhh why does this always happen I internally cry...
"B-b-but he's my friend" I stammer out, my eyes are wide, I thought I ended his crush for me. . . .
"Oh you poor girl, you just don't see it huh?" Lexi asks me.
I blink. . . "It's because I look like her" I say with a sad smile.
Her face becomes serious "I don't think that's it, maybe at first but, now? I think he likes you for you."
Suddenly Damon and Stefan are both in the room, their eyes say that they heard the conversation that she was having with me, Stefan looks hopeful now. I hold back a sigh.
"LETS GO TO NEW ORLEANS!" I shout out excitedly.
"Like a road-trip?" Damon asks curiously.
"YES! Please, please?" I beg.
Damon sighs "fine, fine, we'll go."
"YAY!" I jump into his arms to give him a huge hug and he laughs happily.
Lexi asks hesitantly "Could we go too? It's Stefan's birthday tomorrow."
"Only if Jeremy can come too, I can't leave my Brother-mine behind you know" I say while bouncing around a little.
Stefan let's out a sigh, "Fine."
"Yay! Pack so we can go for a few days!" I excitedly say.
"What about school?" Damon asks me.
"We'll just have to make sure we're back by Sunday night then. Aunty would be pretty upset if I keep skipping. Probably." I say happily.
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Mystic Grill
We already stopped at the house and talked to Aunt Jenna, we have things packed for Jeremy and I. We just have to pick him up now!
Our little group is waiting in the car, I head inside for Jeremy.
"Jere-bear, Darling Brother, Brother-Mine, we're ready for our road trip now!" I say as I practically skip up to him happily, not caring who sees.
Jeremy says back "Sister-dear, Sister-mine, what road trip?" He finishes confused.
"We're going to visit New Orleans!" I say with a big grin.
"Really? When? For how long?" He asks excitedly.
"Yes, now and for like two days! It'll be so much fun, hey Jeremy, do you think it'd be bad if I tried to screw up that plot there too?" I ask curiously.
He looks at me a second then says "If anyone can screw up the plot just by being there, it'd be you."
"Yay!" I yell out excited.
He laughs and grabs my arm, I follow him "Come on Lena." He says while leading me to the vehicle.
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On the road
Since Lexi knows New Orleans best she's the one driving. Me, Jeremy and Damon are in the back and Stefan is upfront by Lexi.
It'd be a lie to say that there weren't any crazy awkwardness but we'll make blanket forts to fix that issue later.
I turn my head towards Damon and start randomly singing into the quiet "Show me the way to go home," (all of a sudden Damon and Jeremy are singing with me now) "I'm tired and I wanna go to bed, I had a little drink about an hour ago and it went right into my head, Over land or sea or foam"
We're singing loudly and probably annoyingly to the people in the front but the three of us are breaking into a laughing fit , but maybe Damon just had to much scotch on the way or me and Jeremy were just born goofballs and we rubbed off on him.
Now we just need to rub off Stefan. Lexi was whispering along with us so she's well on her way.
We pass the WELCOME TO NEW ORLEANS sign. Yay us!
Our first stop is a Hotel, it's pretty nice. It's called the Royal Sonesta. The rooms are pretty nicely sized too. I'm rooming with Lexi since we're the girls and the three boys are rooming together.
"I like this bed" I say as I jump on it. "Join me Lexi, we'll be the rulers of The Bedlands!" I say goofily.
"I knew I liked you." She said with a smile as she started jumping on the bed with me.
We hear a knock on the door so we stop jumping. Lexi calls out "Who is it?"
"It's me." Stefan shouts out.
"I'm going to take a shower before we go anywhere ok? It's already late so a bar or something will probably be open around here."
"Okay, don't take to long" Lexi says.
Stefan is just blushing a little.
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It's been probably about thirty minutes and I get dressed.
I'm wearing a pair of Blue holy Skinny Jeans with a Black Lace V-Neck T-shirt. For shoes she's wearing her black combat boots with a stake in each boot. She walked out of the bathroom to notice Lexi, Stefan, Damon and Jeremy were in her and Lexi's room.
"Anyone else need to get ready?" I ask them.
"Nope, we're all ready to go now, I scooped out the area, there's a bar called Rousseau's we can go to." Damon says while looking between all of us to see if anyone disagrees with coming.
"Alright! Yay!" I skip over towards Jeremy and grab his sleeve, Okay soo maybe I've grown a little itty bit over protective of my brother now and maybe just maybe We have become like non-born-together-twins. Or maybe I'm unintentionally mothering him and maybe he's oddly becoming like an overprotective Big-Baby-brother or something. . Who knows?
Jeremy laughs and removes my hold on his sleeve to grab my hand. Stefan and Damon look between us amused and Lexi just looks curious. Then off we walk!
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Rousseau's Bar
Okay so after our gallivanting through the quarter and the random probably vamps that stopped to stare before continuing on, we finally arrived at the Bar. It's loud and somewhat busy.
It's cute too, the bar itself looks nice, the bar has a lot of dark brown colors and a pool table. we're going to sit at a table though.
As we sit down to take our drink orders the bartender Cami, yeah, yeah, we're meeting Cami.
She comes over. "So what can I get you all to drink?" She asks looking between us.
Damon looks to her and instantly says "Bourbon."
"Bourbon for me." Lexi says quickly after Damon.
Stefan thinks a little then says "Water" Of course he does. Ugh.
"Beer" Jeremy says simply.
"Rose Wine for me if you have it" I say, I don't drink a lot, I normally don't drink at all but rose wine is yummy.
"Alright, I'll be back shortly." Cami says, then she walks to the bar.
Of course we're being looked at around the bar, most likely by Marcel's Vamps, considering they don't know who we are.
She brings us our drink "The bourbon, for you and her, the water for you, some beer for you and here's your wine. That'll be 31.76 please." She says.
Before any of our neighborhood friendly vamps can attempt to compel her I give her 40.00. She starts to reach for change when I speak up "Don't, just keep the change, be happy I didn't drop you a 100 or something."
Okay, so I've always preferred over-tipping, it's one of my faults that isn't a fault or something.
She looks like she really wants to object but instead she nods then moves back to the bar, I noticed tall dark and Marcel sitting up there, he keeps glancing towards us, maybe to make sure Cami doesn't get hurt by Vamps that aren't his vamps?
After I take a few sips of my wine I turn towards my brother dear, time for fun!
"Come on Brother-mine, we're going to dance and have some fun." I say excitedly.
Jeremy groans, "But I'm not drunk enough yet."
I snort. "Seriously Jere? Have I not taught you to have fun without being drunk yet? What a horrible sister I am." I say dramatically while grabbing my brother as he laughs at me and dragging him to the Vamp infested dance floor.
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Rousseau's Bar
3rd POV
All of the vampires could see the two humans being goofy and dancing on the dance floor , at first the brother seemed uncomfortable but now he's moving around as goofily as she is.
Damon, Stefan and Lexi are watching with amusement clear on their faces, trying hard not to laugh.
Marcel is just confused about why two humans he's never met are at a bar with not one but three vampires. Vampires that aren't his.
Marcel confidently walks over to the three vampires "Hello, I'm Marcel. So, what are three vampires and two human pets doing in my city?" He asks them, while standing there crossing his arms over his chest. Trying to look intimidating or something probably.
"We're only going to be here until tomorrow, I'd recommend not calling them pets though." Stefan says politely before Damon or Lexi can speak.
"And your humans?" Marcel asks.
Damon snorts out a laugh then says "God she would be so pissed if she heard you call her and her brother that." While shaking his head.
Lexi gives a small nod and laugh in agreement and Stefan looks between amused and exasperated.
Unluckily or luckily, Elena and Jeremy come running or skipping, depending on your perspective anyways, over to them.
Elena yells out curiously and with amusement. "Did you guys get in trouble already?"
Jeremy snorts and says "and I thought Lena was the danger magnet." While bumping her shoulder.
"I'll have you know, I am perfectly perfect and the bringer of flowers and sunshine to everyone's life." Elena says sassily to her now brother-mine.
The three vampires snort in unison and the human laughs a little.
Marcel can't help but feel amused by the group, so he stands silently by and just watches.
"Oh please, it's like you bring the danger to you, then dance with it." Damon says exasperated while running his fingers through his hair.
Jeremy and Stefan snort at the analogy and Elena says "I do not." Then she pauses for a second and says "sometimes"
Marcel snorts at that, but the group continues to ignore him, he wonders how they all came together. None of them seem to be dating, his only conclusion is that the brother and sister brought them all together somehow.
Jeremy looks at his sister and raises his eyebrow and says "Right, because you definitely didn't step between me and Tyler during a fight, you definitely didn't stand up to Damon's craziness by demanding a fort party of all things and you definitely weren't attacked by a vamp at a Halloween party."
Or maybe they've just been through a lot together.
Elena nods her head and says excitedly with a clap "EXACTLY, it was my twins, cousins, sister that was, not I!"
Marcel holds back his amusement and continues to just observe them. They seem to have forgotten that he's here, that doesn't normally happen to him.
"Danger Magnet" Damon declares happily while pointing at Elena. "It fits, that's your new nickname."
Elena groans "Damn, Brother-mine, this is your fault!" She says pointing at him with mock anger.
Jeremy laughs and says half teasingly, "it fits you Lena."
Elena sticks her tongue out at him and says, "Bite me"
Damon replies happily "I'd love to!" Then is all of a sudden he's behind her, fangs drawn out. Strangely enough both humans just look amused.
Elena just sighs, then blinks at him with amusement, then she snorts "I'm sure you would honey. However we both know I'm not going to die yet. Well, assuming I'm not already dead and that this isn't a messed up dream based on some weird kinky fantasies and fetish's, but thats all in the technicalities and I'd prefer to leave it as that until I die. . . again, or the first time? Ughh... Who knows..?"
Okay so now Marcel is watching with a lot of curiosity. Who are these people?
He coughs to get their attention. Apparently that startled them, they must've really forgotten where they were.
All five of their eyes snap to attention and the sister automatically pushes her brother behind herself, her brother rolls his eyes annoyed and then she pulls out a stake from her pocket and gets in a defensive stance, the three vamps are quickly stationed around the brother and sister. Damon is standing in between him and the siblings, he can see that they all care for each other in some way, what way he's unsure though.
Marcel see's that his vampires are getting ready for a fight as well.
Both the brother and sister look annoyed at Damon. But it also seems like it was an automatic response for them to protect each other like this.
Damon must feel a strong need to protect the girl, the other two vampires must feel the need to fight beside the boy and the girl. The girl must feel a strong need to protect her brother.
Marcel holds up his hands in surrender, he didn't actually mean to startle them. He puts on a cocky smirk and says "Sorry, you were all in your own world and I thought I'd remind you that we're here too."
The girl looks at him and snorts, then she puts her stake away, his vampires relax "Something we can help you with Mr. Marcel?" She asks him with a tilt of her head.
He blinks, he didn't tell HER his name. How did she know?
"Are you a witch?" He asks becoming slightly hostile, prepared to bare his fangs if necessary.
She snorts and shakes her head almost fondly which confuses him "I wish, I'd be totally copying Harry Potter spells and trying to steal Justus from Naruto, it'd be so much fun, I probably wouldn't be able to stand Damon and Stefan though," (both boys look put out at that.) "I'd probably absolutely hate Elena too." (Now her brother looks put out, but like he understands why).
Marcel just feels more confused now.
"So, what are you?" He asks curiously.
"Human." She says simply, almost if bored. Huh.
"I didn't tell you my name." He states feeling suspicious.
"Nope, you didn't." She says starting to sound excited, his eye twitches.
"How did you know it?" He asks taking a step forward even though he knows he'd have to go through Damon first.
She just shrugs, as if this happens all the time. Maybe it does. "Just do" She says, then she leans towards Damon and brings her mouth towards his ear, maybe they're together?
Then she whispers quietly, "You don't need to protect me Damon."
"Yes I do, you're reckless." He states firmly.
She has a small smile on her face and shakes her head and says softly, "I do not fear death Damon, real or dream, I am not afraid." All three vampires and the human boy stand up straighter, as if they must protect something precious. The girl notices and narrows her eyes at them.
Damon feeling even more protective of her practically snarls angrily "That's what worries me. You have literally no care for your own life."
She just shrugs, "Eh, I do too, I just don't fear death." She says without a care, as if death was just expected, which isn't exactly wrong, but for a human is ODD.
"If you're going to be in my city I expect you to behave." Marcel says sternly.
Then the Girl named Elena bursts into laughter and says "Nah Darling, we aren't your men and we certainly aren't under your payroll, if we follow the rules it'll be because they're just and right, not because some asshole with a superiority complex says so." The other vampires suck in a breath, she didn't just say that.
Jeremy is shaking his head with a little smile on his face then facepalms a few times "Jesus Elena , let's test out death now then, psycho sister."
"He's being an ass Jere and I'm not bowing down to anybody, lest of all oppressive assholes with a god complex. We'll have to deal with enough of those." She states with a matter-of-fact tone. All three of her Vamp friends snap their heads towards her, eyes wide.
Marcel doesn't know if he wants to snap her neck or laugh, she's feisty, he likes them feisty.
The other vampires look uncomfortable now.
Stefan makes a decision "We'll be going now." He looks pointedly at Damon then gestures to Elena.
Elena speaks up as Damon grabs her arm, she tries to shake him off, her voice sounding kind of sad "But Stefan, I haven't gotten to make him participate in a Blanket Fort Party yet, it's how we build great friendships. Besides we just got done arguing and that's the first step."
Marcel can't help but blink and then say exasperated "You were trying to become my friend" okay so he feels really confused by this girl right now.
"Of course" she says excitedly. "But friends are honest, so I had to be honest, besides the blanket fort party is the best part, regardless you're really going to need friends. By friends I mean people who don't give you full control over their lives like you're hitler group that's trying to irradiate a few select groups of people, really, how rude. Then again SOME of those witches here are kind of bitches."
She stops speaking, then she blinks, then she looks him in the eyes and says "WOW, I just remembered how fucked up New Orleans is, fun sometimes, possibly, but fucked up nonetheless."
"You act as if you've been here" Marcel says glaring at her.
She has a small smile on her face now, "No, I haven't actually."
"Then how would you know anything?" He snaps at her.
Her smile though gets slightly bigger, he can almost taste her enjoyment of this confrontation and it confuses him. "I know a lot of things Mr. Marcel, however only friends I very much somewhat trust, or good family are allowed to know,"
Her smile grows even more, it's almost full blown now, "since you can't decide if you'd like to become friendly and somewhat trusted, or if you'd prefer to be an enemy,"
Now her smile is full blown, her excitement is tangible in the air, almost like Klaus or Kol's bloodlust "I can't tell you can I?" Her heart is beating fast, not in fear but with bits or arousal and excitement
She pauses for a second and chuckles a little then says "They'll come back you know, it'd be in your best interest to get along with them instead of fighting them, friendships are important, trust is sacred. Unfortunately, you're all kind of idiots." She finishes with a big smile and a laugh.
"Come on, Day, Jere, Stef, Le, lets go now. I was hoping if he was here he'd have been more reasonable but alas, he's currently not, they don't even have good dancing music on right now. ." Her brother breaks into laughter as the three vampires flash out with the Humans.
Marcel's vampires are to surprised by the confrontation to react. They all watch him curiously to see what he'll do.
Marcel is frozen in shock, his mouth agape.
She couldn't know the originals, she couldn't, she couldn't know what's going to happen or what has, or of his plans, it's not possible, she's not even a witch. . . .
Fuck. . . If what she's saying is true she could be useful to him. .
He speeds off without saying anything. He flashes to the hotels around the area, searching for the girl and her group, he wants answers.
By the time he finds the correct hotel they've already checked out.
Left in one room for him was a note from the girl Elena it read . . .
Mr. Marcel,
Keep Davina safe and happy.
It was a pleasure meeting you, very fun, we'll meet up to do it again sometime yes?
Maybe next time we'll get together and have a fort party, no eating the guests though, that's just rude. . .
You're maybe, sort of, kind of friend,
Elena
And he can't help but feel very uncomfortable now. How much does she know?
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On The Road to Mystic Falls
"WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT ELENA?" Damon shouts at her. His vamp face on display, he is really really pissed I guess.
"Fun" I reply simply, really it was, it was exhilarating. I don't understand why he's so pissed, shouldn't he be begging to be getting Katherine out around now?
"Elena" Stefan practically growls, his vamp face is threatening to come out. "Why would you be so reckless?" He scowled at me.
"What? I wasn't, I was having fun. You guys could have vamped out with Jeremy at anytime." I say with a wave of my hand. Really, what's their problem.
Lexi just looks perplexed. Stefan and Damon look more pissed and Jeremy won't let go of my hand for some reason.
I take a deep breath and ask hesitantly "Jeremy, are you ok?"
He stiffly nods. "I wouldn't let anything happen to you Jeremy." I say, I wouldn't, I'd come back just to kick ass if someone hurt him.
His body freezes then, but his grip on my hand tightens, "I wasn't worried for me Elena," (he pauses and he looks heart broken) "I was worried about you, what if you were killed?"
I frown as I see him holding back tears "Then I'd be killed Jere. You'd still be my brother."
"We don't want you dead Elena." Damon snaps at me.
I frown again, then I raise an eyebrow, "I'm not going to cower before anyone Damon. Not you, not him, not anyone."
"Oh? And when you're body freezes because they're to close to you? Then what?" He snaps at me furious.
"Then I'll cope and fight it, depending on the situation I probably won't even notice it. I've done it before, I'm not afraid Damon and you can't make me be." He snarls at me his fangs out at he stares at me through the mirror, considering he's driving he can't exactly try to 'Prove his point'.
"We're not going to let you get hurt." Stefan says softly grabbing one of my hands.
I really want to bang my head on something, I can't hold back my eye-roll. Jeremy is still squeezing my hand.
"I want to protect you Lena." Jeremy whispers to me.
I sigh "Jeremy, I understand you want to. But sometimes it's best you don't. I'm old enough to make my own decisions. If I decide to put my life on the line for something then that is my choice and you hold no responsibilities or blames for it."
"But,"
"NO Jeremy" I snap at him. I'm doing the damn sacrifice, I know that's what he's referring to, he's the only one I trust completely. "I trust you completely Jeremy, no reservations, no white lies, but completely, don't make it be misplaced, you're my brother, my only brother here, I'd hate to have to leave. But I will if you prove I can't trust you either."
I see the brothers and Lexi looking worried, they'll probably be keeping an eye on me now, worried I'll do something they seem 'Stupid'.
Jeremy nods and takes a deep breath. "Okay, okay."
Even if only Jeremy knows about it right now, the Salvatore's can be to protective and idiotic to trust with this knowledge. I wouldn't be surprised if they deemed it fit to kidnapped me and put me in a guarded tower if they found out about it.
Everyone except me and Jeremy are tense right now. Ugghh, god maybe I should've became a hermit or ran off with Jeremy and Jenna. . .
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Mystic Falls
We arrived in town late at night, we said goodbye to Lexi and she agreed to come visit again.
Both Stefan and Damon are a wee bit mad at me though, or more mad at my lack of whatever, whatever, I stopped listening after awhile.
Either way it seems they may be considering the tower locking already, which is sad.
We might be good friends and want to protect each other but, they seem to have both become over protective again or maybe it's just Katherine's face that they're over protective of? It's Probably because of her face on my face.
Me and Damon discussed his 'releasing Katherine who is already released' tomb thing so we'll be going to visit both Bree and the Bennett's to get that figured out.
Then me and Jeremy arrived home and we gave Aunty Jenna a big hug and we had a big family night in the living room, laying in our blankets and watching movies and being goofy like children until we feel asleep.
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Mystic falls
Lockwood Residence
3rd POV
Sheriff Forbes, Mr. Lockwood and Mrs Lockwood are in Mr. Lockwood's Study room.
Sheriff Forbes is standing off to the side with her arms crossed.
Mr. Lockwood is sitting on his desk and Mrs. Lockwood is sitting on the chair in front of the desk.
The door is open slightly on the left, barely enough to be noticed.
Mr. Lockwood eyes Sheriff Forbes, "Have you found Logan yet?"
Sheriff Forbes shakes her head "No, we found some blood where we assume he was, but not his body."
Mrs. Lockwood looks thoughtful, "Do you think he's in hiding?"
Mr. Lockwood shakes his head and sighs out "No, I think he may have been turned. What's your opinion sheriff?"
"I think if he was then him having the Gilbert Device is a very bad thing." Sheriff Forbes says strongly, god hopefully he doesn't have it.
"So we have two vampires in town then?" Mrs. Lockwood asks.
"Possibly, but who could it be?" Mr. Lockwood says.
"Aside from Logan? Most likely someone who only comes out at night time." Sheriff Forbes says.
"We don't know for sure that Logan is turned." Mrs. Lockwood says, hopeful that he's alright.
Sheriff Forbes raises an eyebrow "One of my officers were sucked dry where Logan's body was supposed to be Mrs. Lockwood."
"We'll keep an eye out for anyone suspicious." Mr. Lockwood says.
None of them notice Tyler listening in from behind the doorway, trying to piece together what he saw when he was pretty sure he was to drunk to have seen anything correctly.
But now? Now he wasn't so sure that it was because he was drunk, somethings just aren't adding up and the ones that are? Well they make him a bit worried for the girl he may or may not have a thing for.
Vampires huh? Fuck that girl is full of trouble isn't she? But even so, he can't help but smile when thinking about her.
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Yes they went to New Orleans and she sort of antagonized Marcel and she may or may not have kind of subtlety demanded that he is now her maybe friend regardless of if he likes the idea or not.
Not that it'd make a difference really, she's odd that way.
Yes Damon and Stefan were pissed that she stood up against Marcel the way she did.
No Lexi does NOT die.
No she hasn't told the brothers about her going to be a sacrifice. Honestly, they probably would lock her up.
She has told Jeremy EVERYTHING that she knows.
Because she trusts him completely and he trusts her. I am going to have them have a very strong sibling relationship.
He doesn't like her being reckless, but he also understands that she has family she hopes she'll see or be with again if she does die.
This will be AU and possibly become so au that the original story plot is different.
