Chapter 3:
Luckily by the time Pizza arrived so had Caroline and Tyler. Which meant that Ric had at some point excused himself from the room, with the reasoning of grading papers. Leaving the three of them alone, Caroline was laying on the couch her heard on Tyler's lap. Jeremy sitting on the floor with his back resting against the couch. Him and Tyler were trying to beat Matt's high school on some shooting game, that Elijah had bought them.
Even while playing games and trying to enjoy hanging out his mind was still thinking about how to apologize to Kol about their earlier conversation, not that he had seen the vampire sense. And he was only freaking out a little about the fact that his other two boyfriends had yet to call and check in. He knew they hadn't reached New Orleans yet and that they wouldn't until the next day but he was still unhappy that they hadn't called yet.
Needless to say, Tyler was kicking his ass in the game.
When a break game in the game, he reached down and pulled his phone out of his pocket.
He sent a quick, 'How's the drive.' to both Elijah and Klaus's phones.
Then one to Kol, 'Where are you?'
He waited a few moments but no one responded and Tyler had started up the game again, so he put his phone down and went back to the game.
They played for a while longer before Caroline got bored and left the room. They only played one more game before Matt showed up. Jeremy must have missed some sort of exchange because Matt silently took Tyler's controller and the hybrid disappeared up the stairs. Matt sat down next to him on the floor. The blonde didn't even start up the game, instead he took Jeremy's controller and set both on the nearby table.
"What's up?" Matt asked.
And Jeremy sighed, "Nothing." He said, knowing it was pointless. Matt wasn't like Ric or Tyler who would let it go. He would just keep talking until Jeremy broke and told him whatever it was that was bothering.
"Yeah, right." Matt said, " I have texts from several different people asking me to talk to you."
The blonde looked at him, "What's wrong, Jer?"
"Can we not?" He asked quietly.
"No." Matt said, "If it's bothering you enough that everyone is worried, then you should talk about it."
Annoyed, he met Matt's gaze, "Who's worried?"
"Jer," Matt said lowly, like he knew he was close to scaring him off. "Two of your boyfriends just left to what could be a potentially dangerous situation and the third has been mysteriously missing all day.
Matt took a breath, "Which means you are probably freaking out about Elijah and Klaus and I'm thinking Kol is too, but he's not here. You guys are fighting, right? Come on, man talk to me."
Jeremy sighed, "I said something earlier. It was supposed to be a joke. But it upset him and he took off."
"What was it?" Matt asked.
"I told him to be nice to Elena. which is dumb because he has been trying so hard to not kill her. I know that. But she's my sister and I still get stupidly protective over her even when I shouldn't." He leaned to the side resting his head on Matt's shoulder, "And I can't apologize because he isn't here and he won't text me back. And Yes, I'm freaking out about Elijah and Klaus. It's stupid they took off alone. And I'm mad Elijah sent you guys here to keep us here. If we want to chase after them, we should be allowed to. We aren't children, weak, left behind to be protected." The last bit came loud as he raised his voice in anger.
"For what it's worth, Kol will come back. And I don't think they left you behind because they think you are weak. I think they did it because they care, not just about Kol but you. Jeremy they are immortals. Damn near unkillable and they love you. They are scared of something happening to you. They are used to only caring about their family, who's biggest threat is themselves. You confuse them, because you can take care of yourself but you not indestructible like them. I think they left you here, as they way of being cautious and, " His friend took a breath," And i think they left Kol, so he didn't go around killing everyone." Matt chuckled and despite his mood so did Jeremy.
"I'm still pissed at them." He said, "I can take care of myself. I thought I proved that with the witches."
"But you also proved you were human," Caroline's voice said from the doorway, "First you got hurt by Bonnie." She said, "Jeremy, you forgot them. Think about how scared that made them. And then you got hurt by the witches, you would have died if Finn hadn't shown up." He took his head off Matt and turned to look at her, "Give them time, Jer, soon they will realize that just because you are human doesn't mean you are fragile in need of careful handling."
He knew she was right. He sighed, "You're right." He mumbled.
He looked out the window, the set was still up but he could tell it would be setting soon, to early for him to go to bed. At least normally but he felt tired. So he stood up, " I think I'm going to lay down." He didn't look at them as he left the room, but he was sure they watched him go. Then he went upstairs and into Elijah's room. He slipped off his shirt and pants, then he crawled into bed, snagging the vampire's pillow and laying his head on it. He took a deep breath, taken in the vampire's scent. He silently prayed the two of them were okay, then he closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep.