Chapter 17

"Sofia you need to meet me at home, something happen, John and Jeremy they, someone, cut."

"Elena you're making no sense." I say already preparing to leave and meet her.

"I already called 911 but, we need, I call Stefan."

"Elena call down, I will be there in 5." I say putting the phone down as I got my coat and went outside.

I see the ambulance about to close the doors with John inside but I 'convince' them to let me in before they leave as I get inside I see his sleeping so I touch his forehead.

"What?"

"John, what the hell happened?"

"Where are we?" He asks as we looks at the ambulance where his body is laying on sleeping.

"You're in your conscience. I didn't actually have the time or the will to create a nice place for us to have our conversation. What the hell happened?"

"Katherine." He simple says as my shoulders fall.

"Katherine is in town? Great, just freaking great." I say between my teeth. "Any idea why she's here?"

"Why don't you just ready my mind, you would get that very easily."

"Because I made a promise a long time ago that I already broke once and I am not going to break it again. Now is there anything I should know?"

"You're mother is missing." He tells me as I look at him shocked and at the same time I see the ambulance door being open so my focus ends as I see a paramedic looking at me strangely: time to act.

"They gave me authorization. I'm his niece, I was worry. I wanted to see him. I hope I didn't got myself into trouble." I say with an innocent expression with worry and some sadness in it so show I was just a young scared woman.

"It's ok miss, but we have to take him now." He tells me nicely as he gives me his hand to let me get out of the ambulance. "You don't need to worry, your uncle will be fine you'll see."

"I am sure he will. Thank you."

"It's our job miss." He says as I nicely smile and walk into the house.

I get to Jeremy's room at the same time a policemen does it also to call for my sister as I see her, Stefan and Jeremy talking.

"I'll be right there." She says and I knew she was worry about our brother.

"You need to be at the hospital."

"But..."

"Stefan and I will stay here with Jeremy."

"No, I don't need a babysitter."

"Yes, you do." We both say at the same time as I see the policeman leaving with my sister and I sat next to Jeremy.

"Stefan, can you leave us alone for some time."

"Of course."

"If you're here to pass me a lecture Elena already did that."

"You tried to kill yourself so you could turn into a vampire with blood that Anna gave to you, so you could both be together." I say walking around the bedroom.

"I'm still waiting." He says and I turn to him.

"For what?"

"An explosion, yelling. Something."

"You were welling to turn so you could be with someone you loved. We all did at one point do stupid things for love." I say sitting on the bed next to him. "Look I know I'm not Elena."

"Yes because she couldn't just understand." Funny because she does date a vampire but ok.

"I didn't mean that. You two grow up together. I just appear in your life two years ago."

"Yeah, it's ok. I get it. I admit the firsts times you came it was a bit intimidating. I mean you came in all black leather looking like a badass like in one of those action movies." He says as we crack a smile. "You were someone I didn't want to mess up with. But then you came live with us after they died and you proved to actually be very nice, well you still a badass most of the times and I still don't want to mess up with you but at least you aren't always in black. You're family."

"That is nice Jeremy."I say putting my hand on his shoulder. "And I know you still grieving over Anna, it's natural, she was a nice girl."

"Yeah, she told me what you did for her mother. That was cool."

"It was nothing and I'm sure they are together now."

"You believe there is something after this life?"

"After what has been happing, what I discover, I think life after death, can't be something that will shock me, but I'm not that eager to find out. Now about those pills."

"Look I'm not going to start consuming again."

"I know but if you need something just tell me ok." I tell him as I see him tired look. "Now go to sleep, I will be here."

I got to meet Stefan as I hear the noise of fighting coming from the living room so I ran to the stares.

"Stefan." I scream as I get and see Stefan getting up at the same time Damon and Elena walked to throw the door. "What happened?"

"Katherine happened." Damon answers me with a not happy look.

"How is Jeremy?" Elena asks me as we both got upstairs leaving the brothers downstairs as I stop in front of the bedroom door but I stop Elena from opening it.

"We need to tell Jeremy the truth. About John, Katherine, we need to tell him everything."

"What if he can't take it?"

"He will. He's stronger now. He has been through a lot and that changes people Elena. He needs to know the truth."

"So you're actually John's daughter."

"Yes." Elena says and I see she is concern and I realize what it about at the same time I see Jeremy noticing it.

"You're still my sister no matter what Elena." He says to her sister with a smile as he hugged her. "Come on Sofia join the brother-sisters hug." He says as I smile and join them.

"Well I'm going upstairs."

"I will meet you there." I tell her as she leaves giving us a smile but I could see most of it was forced.

"She's going to be fine right?"

"She will Jeremy, don't worry about it. Now sleep."

"I think I have too much in my head to sleep." He says as I get close to him as he lays.

"Close your eyes and try to clean you mind." He says as I touch his arm trying to call him mind down so he could have a peaceful sleep.

"What happened tonight when you thought she was Elena?" I hear Stefan asks probably to Damon as I walk in direction of the living room but stopped. What are they talking about?

"To risk another frown line encroaching on a very crowded forehead. We... kissed."

Wait what? Damon and Katherine kissed. Worst he thought it was Elena, great more aches for the fire. Ok maybe too soon to make fire jokes.

"And you thought it was me?"

"What do you mean you kissed?" Seriously Stefan, you need to ask?

"Well, you know, when two lips pucker and they go." He says as I hear the sound of fast movements.

"Don't be obvious, Stefan."

"Stefan wait, he kissed Katherine, not me. I wouldn't do that. We don't have time for these guys." Elena says and at that moment I make sound of walking so that they realized I was walking in their direction but making then not know I was actually here before.

"Later." Stefan says as I make my way to the kitchen and Elena start talking like nothing had happen.

"John must know something. There has to be a reason why Katherine tried to kill him."

"She's Katherine. She loves to play games and you're fooling yourself if you think you're going to find out what she's been up to before she wants you to know."

"No, actually Elena's right, John could know something through Isobel. Your mother, she was in touch with Katherine so maybe we can go to the hospital and get him to talk."

"I've got a better idea."

"What's that?" I ask as he looks at me with his typical smirk.

"I'm just gonna ignore the bitch. See you."

"Is that smart?"

"If Katherine thinks she's been ignored it will lure her out, she'll make a move."

"Yeah? And then what?" I say and I noticed I am being a little two question less action. Come on the kiss didn't actually affect you right? It's just sex.

"Stake her; rip her head off, something poetic. We'll see."

"What do you mean Caroline is in the hospital?" I ask Damon as he, Stefan and I left the Gilbert's house.

"She was in a car accident with Tyler and Matt." Stefan informs me. Car accident with Tyler, who happened to be the mayors son, who, like me, was not a vampire but was affected by the device, something is not right.

I change my path as I see both vampires looking at me strangely.

"What? Caroline is a friend of Elena and Liz is my friend, she might need something. I am going to check on them."

"Actually Bonnie ask to give Caroline some blood."

I find it impressive that two man over 150 who know what I am capable of doing (ok part of what I am capable of going) aren't able to know when I have an alter motive.

"So what are you waiting for?" I ask him as I start to walk again.

"Hi Matt." I say to the boy who is almost falling asleep as I see Damon and Stefan walking in her room. "Shouldn't you be home?"

"No, I want to be here with her." He says sadly as I sit next to him.

"I know this much be hard for you." I say remembering the last time we were both in a hospital this late and it was Elena there and people wonder why I hate hospitals.

"She will be fine right?" He asks me some time later.

"Of course she will." I tell him as I see Damon and Stefan leaving and waiting for me but I nod a no and they leave. "Do you think I can go see her?"

"Of course, she's asleep but be free to go." He tells me as I walk to the room where I see the blonde sleeping and her heartbeat being listened in a machine and I remember all the times I found myself in the same position as tonight. I sit on the chair next to her as I remember the conversation I had with John about reading people's mind. Well, you're just going to peak her pass not read her deepest thoughts. I think as I put my hand on her head. What are you kidding, you're invading her privacy, this is breaking you promise.

I pass get to her pre-conscious accessing her most fresh memories and of course it was the accident as I see the car crash and as I expect it was caused by effect of the device on Tyler but that was as far as I could get since she did pass out.

"There are you." Damon says as I walked into his bedroom. "It passes 5 in the morning you know that right?"

"I've been a little busy tonight you know. Uncle attacked by Katherine, Caroline in the hospital and the Lockwood problem." I say as I let my body fall in his bed.

"The Lockwood problem?" He asks coming closer to me.

"You know them being affected by the device."

"I thought the Mayor was the only one."

"Tyler was too, that was what caused the accident." I tell him as he looks at me surprised.

"And you found what exactly how?"

"I have my ways." I say winking at me. So he's not going to mention that he kissed his ex. girlfriend thinking it was my sister. Ok I can live with that.

"You read Caroline's mind."

"No I access her memories. That is different."

"What did you exactly saw?"

"Don't worry Damon, I only saw the accident." I say touching his shoulder playfully was he pushes my arm pulling me to him as he roll on top of me with a playful smirk as he started to kiss my neck and I noticed he was kissing the place where he bit me the last time.

"You know I could give you my blood and let that heal."

"Nothing make up won't hide." I tell him as he started to kiss my neckline as his hands traveling to all throw my body.

"Come on you don't have work today." Damon tells me as I clip the bra and get my skirt from the floor.

"No but I do have a funeral besides Liz and Carol what to speak with us."

"Probably about the lack of Mayor." He says as I try not to smile at him as I start to button my shirt.

"Don't forget to be very sad and surprised about the death of our dear Mayor." I tell him getting my jeans as I turn to him and wink.

"What about Katherine?"

"Well. Let the bitch come and we have can all share notes." I tell him buttoning my jeans. "30 minutes, Damon."

"Yes boss." He says mocking me.

"I want to know exactly who's responsible for killing my husband." Hum. His and John plan?

"I'm looking into it but you have to be straight with me."

"Is there any reason Richard was affected by the vampire device?" I ask her nicely as I try to make then think I just wanted to help them and I knew Liz would want to know.

"What are you implying? That he was one of them?"

"No, no. No one's implying that." Damon says immediately. Well no one of them but he could be like me.

"Of course, Richard was a good man. We just want to understand how something like this could have happen." I tell her and I see Damon and the sheriff agreeing with me.

"Your deputy screwed up, plain and simple which makes you responsible."

"Carol..." Damon says trying to kept the two of them from fighting in such a public place.

"Your husband is the one who helped John Gilbert execute his idiot plan in the first place."

"Liz..."

"Someone got my husband killed."

"We're all on edge here. You've suffered a great loss. The whole town has."

"We have to stick together, okay? Trust each other, we'll get through this." Damon finished as we both look at each other. Damn we got nothing. But the possibility of them being mutants didn't make a lot of sense, I can detect a mutant, I would have know in the first week.

I was drinking my champagne as someone interesting caught my eye.

"Who's the guy with Carol?" I ask Liz as Damon looks at the very good-looking guy.

"It's the mayor's younger brother, Mason Lockwood."

"Is he on the council? Like John Gilbert was when he rolled in?" Damon asks but I am more interested in other things.

"He's nothing like John. For one, he's not an ass. He's not a believer either. He wants nothing to do with the council. He's too preoccupied finding the perfect wave." A surfer. Interesting. What are you truly doing here? I look around and I see that the sheriff isn't with us anymore.

"Here is Liz?"

"She left but you were to occupy ogling the surfer."

"He's hot." I say getting a cheery as I see Carol living him alone. That is my window. I start to walk when I see Damon hand on my elbow to stop me. "What are you doing?" I whisper at him angrily and I noticed in the counter of my eye the new comer watching us. You are ruining my plan Damon.

"You realize we have a lot in our hands."

"Yes Damon I do." And your killing my plan.

"So stop making eyes at the guy." He whispers at me and I try to hide my smirk, maybe I can make other approach.

"Damon, you can do whatever you want, so can I."

"What does that mean?" He asks confused.

"You know exactly what it means." I say walking away from him and into Mason's direction as I take a glass of wine from the table next to where he was and I drank it all in.

"I thought the only people who drank like that at memorials are the ones in the family of the death person." He says and I turn to him showing I was confused. "Sorry, Mason Lockwood."

"Sofia McCullough." I say shaking his hand.

"I couldn't help but noticed that guy holding your elbow, was he hurting you?" He asks nicely but I knew better to not be fooled by that.

"He's my ex. We try to keep it as friends but he tends to be very jealous kind."

"He looked surprised at whatever you were saying in the end."

"I was telling me that he didn't have the right to say who I get to do since the moment he decides to screw my friend. Well formal friend."

"Well the guy is an idiot."

"Couldn't agree more." I say with a smile as he did the same. "But you aren't here to listening my boring and stupid stories, you said you name was Mason?"

"Lockwood."

"Oh my god." I say playing the surprised card. "I'm so sorry. Here I was talking about me when I should be saying my condolences."

"It's ok. I wasn't very close to my brother. What about you? Are you here a long time?"

"No, I moved in March, getting close to my father side of the family. Long story."

"Sounds like something I would like to hear." He says and at that moment I caught Bonnie talking with Elena and it took me two seconds too noticed. Black skinny jeans, black leather jacket, high heels boots that was not my sister.

"Well, I would love to tell you but if we started now, I'm afraid my family would kill me for ignoring everyone else."

"So it's good that I am staying in town for a while." Catch you. You came to stay.

"That great actually." I say with a smile as I show him a innocent but flirtation look. "It was nice to meet you Mason."

"You too Sofia." He says as I walk away but not before giving him another flirtation smile.

Ok at least I got one good thing today. I had to use manipulation but it was necessary and I was able to see that Mason isn't a mutant so now here is that little bitch that looks like my sister?

"We haven't officially met. I'm Katherine." Found you.

"I know who you are."

"Of course you do. You're the best friend right? I've been putting all the pieces of Elena's life together. Isobel told me it was a bit of a puzzle. I do know who Jenna and Jeremy are and I met that delicious ex-boyfriend Matt, who's sweet on Caroline, and then there's you, the vampire-hating Bennett witch. Did I do good?"

At that moment I see Bonnie trying to use her powers on Katherine but I knew very well they were going to fail as it proved right.

"I've been around a long time Bonnie; you're gonna have to do better than that."

"You sure are dramatic." I say as I made my presence noticed as I saw Katherine was ready to attack Bonnie.

"Oh! I forgot the nice, caring half-sister who came all the way from Westchester County to connect with her sister." She says and I knew very well she was just playing it and showing me that she knew more about me than most people with the Westchester County reference. She was good, I have her that but I was too and with her I sure didn't felt bad about using my manipulation.

"And you must be Katherine. I heard great thinks about you."

"I bet. Mostly from Damon I believe." She says living Bonnie and walking to me as I gave the witch as look that show she should leave.

"You know Damon; he always likes a good bedtime story."

"I have to give you points for that but I also heard great stories about you." She says walking close to me.

"I become aware of that. What to see a party trick" I say and at that moment the door opening as I just smirk at her.

"Nice." She says as I see Stefan getting inside.

"Katherine."

"Stefan. Sofia and I were just having a girls talk."

"Leave her alone."

"Okay." She says nicely winking at me as she left.

I get Jeremy home as we both saw John packing

"Jeremy. Sofia."

"What are you doing here?" My brother asks not understating.

"I'm packing, leaving."

"So, you figured you'd kill all your evil vampires and then you leave town?"

"Not all, but enough. For now." He says to me but then turns back to Jer. "Can you tell Elena I said goodbye?"

"Why don't you tell her yourself?"

"You know Jeremy, I was taught to hate them, the vampires. That's what I know; that's what your father knew." He says as I try not to roll my eyes.

"My father would have seen things differently."

"No, he may have done things differently but there's no other way to see it."

"That ring on your finger, the one's that supposed to protect you, that was my father's right?"

"Yeah."

"Then why didn't it protect him, why is he still dead?" Oh Jer, some things you can change.

"What happened to your parents wasn't supernatural, it was an accident." I tell him holding his shoulder felling sad for him.

"There's nothing that can save us from that." John ads but looking at me.

"I wonder what he'd think of all this, of me." He says and I look at John he might better gave him a good answer or I would be the one stabbing him now.

"He would think that you're still young. You're still finding yourself but you are a Gilbert and you've been exposed to this town's darkest secret and with that comes responsibility."

"I don't believe in that family legacy stuff." He says ready to leave.

"Sooner or later you'll have to." As my brother leaves he turns to me. "You must be really happy, seeing me gone."

"Please John we both know you hate me."

"I don't hate you for the contrary; I know you will protect them that is all I want." He says closing his bag. "Do they know? About you're mutation"

"So you call it mutants."

"It was the name I heard."

"It the right name and no they don't. I tried to tell Elena once but I was stopped. When time is right I will tell them and your right, I will protect them, no matter what." I say ready to leave but he called my name as I turn and he gave me a folder.

"That is what I was able to collect about your mother."

"I don't want it."

"I know you don't want it right now, but you will soon, so kept it." He says leaving me alone in the room.

"So I found you again." Mason tells me as I turn and see him wearing a hood and sport shorts.

"Seems like it." I say as I see him sitting next to me in a chair as he order a drink.

"Wanna tell me that story now?"

"Well I went to college…"

*2 hours later*

Mason pushed the door of my apartment as he kissed my neck and pull my legs around him with me guiding him to my bedroom.

"You sure about this?" Mason asks me.

I will protect my family no matter what and I sure meant it when I told John that. If having sex would give me what I wanted then I will have it. I pull Mason face to mine as I gave him a hungry kiss. Ok maybe it won't be that bad.

"Why are you smirking?" Mason asks me as I bit my lip innocently.

So what do you think about the all Mason/Sofia/Damon dynamic? And the chapter all together? I know Sofia isn't exactly being the hero right now but I don't want her to be the nice girl who get's what she want by being nice. I want her to be strong and fearless and in the next chapter she will confront Damon after she find out what happen with Jeremy so what do you think she will do? As usual your reviews mean everything.