Sam walked openly into the store carrying a dead on his shoulder and demanded a woodchipper to dispose of it. Of course, the police came and apprehended him in minutes, and that was how Sam ended up in the Mystic Falls County jail on a murder charge.

This is stupid, thought Sam. It was already the afternoon and they were still not letting him leave his cell. The police asked him a series of questions and then locked him in a cell at the police station for the rest of the day.

Liz promised I'll be out soon, he thought, as he commanded his cell door to unlock with his mind, I'll go ask again! The moment he stepped out, an officer came running and ordered him to get back in the cell before slamming the door shut. That's the fifth time, he thought.

A few hours passed. A guard brought him a tray of food, which tasted disgusting. He was beginning to think maybe admitting that he had attacked Alaric and redecorated the school was not a good idea. I'll give them three more hours, he told himself, then, I'm leaving, and if anyone tries to put me back, I'll make them cease to exist. Except for Sheriff Forbes, she's nice.

For those three hours, Sam tried to do whatever he could to keep himself entertained. He tried scratching his name into the walls, stealing items from the guards, and even singing at the top of his lungs. The guards hated it, which meant he started doing it just to anger them.

Suddenly, a figure blurred to a stop outside his cell.

"Anna!" Sam said in surprise. "Can you ask them to let me go? I'm bored."

"You are so sad," Anna with a sigh, "how did they even capture you?!"

Sam let out an embarrassed little laugh. "With metal handcuffs," he answered.

"What did they charge you with exactly?"

"First-degree murder, illegal destruction of government records, and grand theft." He had tried to leave with the wood chipper without paying.

"What did you expect when you walked into a store holding a bloody corpse and asking for a wood chipper?"

"I expected them to show me where they kept the wood chippers, and teach me how to use it safely."

Anna just rolled her eyes at him.

"Hey, I didn't know that they would call the cops on me. I killed her because she was trying to kill me, and from what I heard in the past few days, killing in self-defense is legal." Sam tried to explain his intentions, "and I told them that too! When I first walked into the store, I made sure to announce that 'she tried to kill me with my ring and I had to rip her heart out to save myself."

"You can't just walk in holding a corpse!" complained Anna, "they don't know that you killed her in self-defense, and they're going to ask questions."

"They do!" retorted Sam, "I told them very clearly, 'I killed her because she was trying to kill me'. I think I made my point very clear. Also, they already asked the questions but they're still not letting me go. I answered them all correctly."

Sam tried his best not to be too awkward this time around but found it to be nearly impossible. Luckily, Anna also seemed to take an interest in him and accepted him for his terrible social skills. She even laughed when he replied 'come in' to a 'knock knock' joke.

"How about you keep your mouth shut for the time being and I get us out of here?" sighed Anna, "I'll convince them that you're innocent."

"You will?" Sam was relieved. He was getting worried that he would have to spend another millennium imprisoned.

"Yes." Anna grabbed the bars on the door and tore them off with her bare hands to let him walk free.

Immediately, a blaring alarm echoed through the hall, alerting several guards.

With a snap of his fingers, he confiscated the guns from the guards. The guards stared at him in shock and quickly turned and ran for the door. Anna beat them there using her vampire speed.

She grabbed the two guards by their ties and forced them to look her in the eye before she ordered, "you will let Sam go without any charges, and you will forget I was here."

Then she let them go.

"It's compulsion," she told Sam as she repeated the process to the other three policemen on duty, "all vampires have it. Since your body is a vampire, you should probably have it too. I'll teach you at some point." Then she grabbed Sam's hand and used her vampire speed to zoom them away.

When they finally stopped, Sam realized they were in front of a restaurant called the Mystic Grill.