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A New Threat

"What are you doing?" Stefan asked, finding his brother standing alone during the mayor's wake.

"Shhh," Damon shook his head, listening intently to Jade and Mason's conversation in the next room. Once she had caught a glimpse of Mason in Richard's office with Tyler, she took off in that direction. He knew she was going crazy trying to figure out what was going on with her, he was curious as well. The device was meant to effect vampires, so why did it hurt her, Richard, and Tyler? How were they connected?

"What are people like us?" Jade was asking Mason now.

"You really wanna know?" Mason asked back. "Because, when I tell you-"

"Just tell me," Jade interrupted. Damon smiled. That was his girl, not waiting around to get what she wanted.

"You're a werewolf," Mason said now.

"What the hell?" Stefan asked his brother, hearing everything as well. Damon shrugged, straining to hear more but neither of them were saying anything. He could only imagine the shock on Jade's face, feeling it himself. He had been around for decades and never saw a werewolf once, thinking they were extinct. Apparently though, he had been dating one this whole time.

"Ok, so you've lost it," Jade scoffed at him. Damon could hear her walking towards the door.

"Says the girl sleeping with a vampire," Mason told her and she stopped. "When you think about vampires, it's not that crazy of an idea."

"How does he know?" Stefan asked Damon in concern and Damon waved him off to continue listening.

"If I'm a werewolf, then how am I not...changing on a full moon or whatever you call it?" Jade asked him.

"You haven't triggered it yet," Mason explained.

"How do you-"

"Can we not do this at my brother's wake?" Mason interrupted her and she sighed, knowing it wasn't appropriate but she was dying for answers. "What if I came over tonight?"

"I'm working night shift tonight," Jade shook her head.

"Then, I'll come by the hospital," Mason offered and she still didn't seem ok. "Trust me, you are fine Jade. I'll come by and answer any question you want. Ok?"

"Yeah," Jade sighed. "Fine."

With that, Jade left the office with Mason, both of them splitting off in different directions. Jade spotted Elena out back with Bonnie, wondering if Matt was with her. That was when Damon caught her arm and brought her to the side and Stefan came with them.

"So, I'm assuming you heard all that," Jade muttered to herself and Damon nodded.

"Look, he said it's ok," Damon said. He didn't know Mason, but from how close he guessed Mason and Jade's friendship used to be, he felt like he could trust him. "What do you want to do?" he asked her now. "Do you wanna stick around here, or do you want me to take you home?"

"I just wanna go home," Jade nodded now. She should at least try to sleep before her shift tonight, right? Between the events at the celebration the other night and what she just found out from Mason, she felt like she probably wouldn't get much rest, her mind already racing.

"Hey," Elena greeted them, coming over to join Stefan; she looked at them all in confusion. "What's going on, everything ok?" Jade was the one that looked confused now.

"Weren't you just out back, talking to Bonnie?" Jade asked curiously and Elena's face scrunched in confusion. "And did you change your shirt?"

"...no," Elena said, silently wondering if Jade started drinking again.

"Oh God," Damon threw his head back with a groan, realizing what was going on.

"I'll go," Stefan nodded at the doorway. "Get them out of here, all right?"

"Where's he going?" Elena asked with worry as Damon shuffled them outside, hoping too many people didn't notice Elena leaving.

"Katherine's here," Damon answered, getting them both into his car.

"Katherine, your ex?" Jade asked as he started the car and he didn't answer. "Oh, well this is good," she said cynically, though it clearly wasn't anyone's fault.

Since they had gotten back together, Elena had discovered more about her past and how she was related to Damon and Stefan's ex-girlfriend, the one that had turned them into vampires. She wasn't just related to Katherine though, she looked exactly like her. Sure, Jade thought it was weird, but she was too busy with Vicki to really care that much. It seemed that Katherine wasn't one that would let herself be uncared about.

"Just more stuff blowing up in our faces," Jade muttered.

"We're not telling Matt," Jade was arguing with everyone later. After Stefan's brief encounter with Katherine at the Lockwoods, he came over to the Donovan house with nothing but bad news. She was seemingly there to do nothing but stir up trouble for Elena, which lead to trouble for everyone around her. Right now, it was the Salvatore brothers, Elena, Vicki, and Jade at the house and they were all discussing what to do about their current situation.

"What if he invites her in here, thinking she's Elena?" Damon reasoned gently. He knew that talking to Matt about the truth was a touchy subject, especially now since Jade found out what she was. "Even if she's still crazed about Stefan, she's still not going to be too happy I've moved on either. I don't want her to hurt you."

"Aren't vampires supposed to be scared of werewolves?" Jade asked sarcastically, sitting down on the couch with her sister now while the other three continued to stand.

"That's just a full moon," Stefan said and she gave him a look.

"Look, I'd rather know more about what's going on with me before we start spilling an secrets to Matty," Jade reasoned now. "Does that sound ok?" She said, directing it mostly at Damon. Vicki wasn't too sure yet about telling Matt about her either, and Elena was still busy keeping secrets from everyone else so she couldn't say much.

"Whatever you want Jade," Elena nodded, knowing what it was like to keep all those secrets, to want to keep someone safe. She left with Stefan and Vicki left soon after to find Jeremy. Damon offered to stay with Jade for awhile and she accepted, with him following her up to her room so she could sleep before work. With thoughts of vampires, werewolves, and one crazy doppelganger though, she was hardly doing much sleeping.

"It'll be fine," Damon said, moving so he could turn on his side to face her.

"You say that like you've dealt with this before," Jade commented casually.

"I've dealt with Katherine before," Damon shrugged. "She's no picnic, but we'll do what we have to." He took her hand now. "I'll keep you safe." Jade half smiled, still thinking about what Mason had said.

"What about what's wrong with me?" she asked now.

"For the last time Jade Donovan," he said, a teasing tone in his voice. "There is nothing wrong with you." He kissed her forehead. "If there's something wrong with you, then there's something wrong with all of us."

"Yeah?"

"None of us are normal," Damon shrugged. "You're talking to a decades old vampire here."

"I guess so," Jade bit her lip to keep from laughing; he smiled, seeing her smile.

"Do you want me to come tonight?" Damon offered and she shook her head.

"I think Mason wants to talk just us," Jade explained and he smirked at her.

"Should I be jealous?" he joked.

"Extremely," she rolled her eyes, then made a face. "Do you think I'm a Lockwood?"

"Mason says no," Damon shrugged. "Have you ever had that wolf sense he was talking about?"

"I don't know," Jade sighed. "I mostly just had a huge crush on him in high school..."

"Ah, so I should be jealous," Damon said, grabbing her around her waist.

"Damon!" she giggled, trying to get away as he tickled her.

Jade got to the hospital once visiting hours were well over and the other nurses were preparing to leave. On her floor, there was only one nurse over night. The floor was quiet as she peaked into the rooms to check on everyone. She stopped to check on Caroline last. After trying to wake her without success, Jade gave up and figured she was out for the night, turning to go back to the desk. When she saw Mason standing behind her, she jumped.

"Jeez!" she complained, shoving him as he laughed at her. "People have to stop doing that to me," she grumbled to herself, with Mason following her over to the nurse's station.

"Sorry," he chuckled, sitting down with her and she immediately got serious.

"So...what you said before..."

"About you, being a werewolf?" Mason asked and she made a face.

"You just know that about me?" she asked curiously and he nodded.

"Just kind of an instinct," he nodded, but she could tell that there was something else.

"You're positive I'm not a Lockwood?" she asked; he nodded again.

"My brother triple checked," he assured her. "I guess him and your mom did use to have a thing, but she wasn't living in Mystic Falls when you would have been conceived. Plus, there's DNA-"

"I get it," she interrupted him and he gave her a curious look.

"You seem disappointed," Mason said, then he smirked at her. "It would certainly make you having a thing for me less weird."

"Ok, one," Jade laughed. "I didn't know you knew about that." He laughed now too. "And, two..." She trailed off as he looked at her expectantly. "Never mind."

"What?" Mason insisted. "You can tell me."

"It's stupid," Jade waved it off. "It's just...I wanted to have a face for my dad, you know? I mean, Matt and Vicki's dad was a dick but they at least know what he looks like. They'd know him if they saw him on the street."

"Well, he's missing out on knowing you," Mason told her and she smiled appreciatively.

"Ok, off from the dad issues," she shook her head with a small laugh. "Onto the...werewolf issues."

"You have no issue," Mason promised. "As long as you don't trigger it, you'll never have to worry about turning."

"You've turned?" Jade asked and he nodded. "Does it hurt?"

"Like hell," Mason admitted.

"How do you trigger it?" Jade asked curiously.

"You really wanna know?"

"It's why I asked," she shrugged. "Not much else is going to surprise me at this point," she added.

"You have to kill someone," Mason told her and she did look surprised.

"You killed someone?"

"It was an accident," he said. "A fight that got out of hand."

"How do you deal with it?" she asked now.

"Lock myself away, so I don't hurt anyone," he answered. "Once you turn, there isn't much control."

"Well, how..." Jade started, but stopped when she saw Caroline coming out of her room. "Caroline, what are you doing?"

"Where's my mom?" Caroline asked curiously.

"Um," Jade said, checking the visitor's log. "She left after dinner with Matt, then Elena came to visit you."

"I thought that was a dream," Caroline murmured. "She said her name was Katherine or something..."

"Must be on the good stuff, huh Forbes?" Mason said of her medication, not catching Jade's alarmed look.

"Guess so," Caroline shrugged. "Anyway, I'm starving."

"We won't have anything till breakfast," Jade told her.

"I'm hungry," Caroline told her, seeming angry.

"I'll go downstairs," Mason told them both. "I saw a vending machine. Are chips ok?"

"Anything, I'm starved," Caroline said.

"Thanks," Jade said to Mason before turning back, but Caroline had disappeared. "Wait."

"What?" he asked in confusion.

"Something's wrong," Jade said, going down the hall and he followed. She noticed one of the doors was open and went in, seeing Caroline staring at the patient's blood transfusion. "Caroline."

"What?" Caroline snapped, turning to look at the two of them.

"What are you doing?"

"I...I don't know," she shook her head, seeming confused now.

"C'mon," Mason nodded. "You should be in bed." Mason and Jade lead Caroline back to her hospital room, closing the door once she was in her bed. "That was weird," Mason commented as Jade listened at the door. "What are you..." Jade opened the door again and Caroline was sitting on the floor, drinking out of the blood transfusion bag.

"Oh my God," Jade gasped.

"I'm sorry!" Caroline said, dropping it. "I...I don't know what's wrong with me..."

"She's a vampire?" Mason asked.

"Vampire?" Caroline started to panic.

"As of last night, no," Jade said, going to kneel next to Caroline.

"What should I..." Mason started off.

"Just call Damon," Jade tossed her phone at Mason. As he left for the hall, Jade turned back to Caroline.

"What...what's going on with me...why was I..."

"Caroline, it's ok," Jade soothed, trying to keep her calm. "Do you trust me?"

"Uh huh," Caroline nodded, though her voice was shaky.

"Ok, well we'll get Damon and Stefan here," Jade assured her. "They'll know what to do." And how to explain, she silently thought.

Damon was sound asleep at the boarding house after a long debate with Stefan about how to deal with Katherine. He said that they should ignore her, but Stefan was afraid would make her react. Damon actually hoped for that because that would draw her out; he'd kill her before anything happened to Jade, or her siblings for that matter. Hearing his phone, he woke up and saw that it was Jade, smiling as he answered.

"Miss me?" Damon asked, yawning.

"Dearly," Mason said sarcastically and Damon sat up.

"Is Jade all right?" Damon asked quickly.

"Well, I just left her with Sheriff Forbes' newly turned vampire daughter," Mason told him, standing out in the hall and staring at Caroline's door, hearing Jade trying to calm her. "So, you tell me."

"Caroline?" Damon asked in confusion; that was when he remembered that he gave her his blood to heal her. But when did she die. "Katherine," Damon grumbled.

"What?" Mason asked, not hearing him.

"Nothing," Damon got out of bed now. "Just tell Jade I'll be right there."

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