Alyssa stands in the corner of Jeremy room literally and figuratively keeping an eye on him to prevent him from doing anything stupid while Elena is downstairs with the paramedic's attending to John.

Stefan enters the room with Elena after getting called by Elena to come over, "what happened?"

"He said that Anna gave him her blood and then he took these pills." Stefan take Jeremy face in his hands and examines his eyes. "He looks fine but then again so do you and Damon so we couldn't really be sure."

Jeremy averts his eyes and Stefan tightens his hold on his just a fraction and commands, "Look at me."

Jeremy jerks away. "I'm fine, okay? I feel exactly the same."

"We weren't sure whether or not call the paramedic's up here." Alyssa says still from her spot in the corner of Jeremy's room.

Stefan continues to examine Jeremy's eyes, "No, he's fine."

"You mean I'm not a vampire? Damn it!" He rises up from the bed with indignation over his plan having failed.

"Don't say that Jer!" Elena says with displeasure over him even having the thought of wanting to become one of them. "Why would you ever want that?"

"Did you hear about Anna, what happened to her tonight?" He asks with sadness before answering his own question. "She's dead."

"Jeremy, Jeremy. Come here, sit down." Stefan pushes Jeremy back down on the bed. He grabs his face in his hands and makes him look at him.

"I am very sorry about Anna but it's very important that you listen to me right now. With every passing moment, Anna's blood is leaving your system. If you try to kill yourself right now, you could really die."

Jeremy looks away.

"Hey!" Stefan slaps him. "Do you understand me?!"

"Stefan…" Elena calls out his name in shock.

"Yeah, I understand."

"Good." Stefan gets up and stands next to Elena"

"What about the pills that he took?" Alyssa ask just in case there was something that they needed to be concerned about.

His answer pleases her. "He didn't take enough to die so Anna's blood actually healed him of that."

A policeman knocks on the door frame of Jeremy's room and they all turn to look at him.

"Miss Gilbert?" He calls and she knows it because she's in need.

"I'll be right there." She assures him and he waits in the hallway.

"You need to be at the hospital." Stefan knew she needed to be with Caroline.

"But…" She didn't want to leave Jeremy unattended in case he hadn't heard the warning Stefan had gave him.

"You go." Alyssa says even though she wants to be there for Matt, she knew her brother needed her more. "I'll stay."

Jeremy is annoyed that he's being treated like a child as says, "I don't need a babysitter."

Alyssa looks at him with a pointed look. "Yes, you do."

She leaves the room with Stefan and Elena but keeps the door cracked.

"Was John really attacked by a tomb vampire?" She asks when they were standing outside of Jeremy's door. She hadn't gotten all the details yet being so worried about Jeremy. "I thought the ones that weren't taken out by the device left town."

Elena eyes Stefan, "so did we. Which is why I want Stefan to stay here with you and Jer."

"So now I need a babysitter?" She thought she has proven more than capable of protecting herself and she could be trusted to look out for both her and Jeremy.

"It's just a precaution." What happened to John made Elena realize that they were still other vampires out there that wanted revenge on the founding families beyond the ones that were taken out by Jonathan Gilbert's invention. "Stefan will you stay with them?"

Alyssa looks to Stefan to say no but in hindsight knew he wouldn't have because it was Elena asking for the welfare of her family and he wasn't going to say no to that.

"Sure," he answers and with a smile.

Alyssa rolls her eyes and walks back inside of Jeremy's room.

Stefan walks in after Elena's gone and they both take turns keeping a physical eye on him long after he's asleep.

"How long is it going to take before the blood his out of his system?" She asks from the chair Jeremy use to spend hours in listening to his music after their parents died.

Stefan stands by the bed with his arms crossed watching him, "24 hours."

"So what you said about the blood passing out of his system with every minute?"

"Was true, but it'll be in his system for a few more hours."

"So there's still a chance?" She could see both the good and bad in that kind of quality of life. Though it'd never be something she considered for herself, she didn't think Jeremy becoming a vampire wasn't necessarily the worse thing in the world. For starters, she wouldn't have constantly worried about someone trying to kill him.

"I got attacked by a vampire on the tonight," she didn't know why she was telling him that. Maybe because she had came face to face with her own morality tonight, "on the way to my car. He bleed into my mouth, tried to turn me. If it wasn't for Bonnie not deactivated the device like we thought she had, he would have."

She could feel Stefan eyes on her even as she stares at her brother. "And even after almost getting killed by a vampire my first thought when I saw him go down was not for myself it was for Damon. After know who he is and everything that he's done my first thought wasn't for myself it was for him." She looks at Stefan for the answer to her question, "how does that even happen?"

As confuse as she was about the answer for Stefan it was clear. He could see it coming for a while. "You're in love with him."

She shakes of her head though she was sure he wasn't going to hold that her against her. "There is something really wrong with me."

"You see the good in him."

"Like you," she had a epiphany in that moment that she and Stefan shared a lot more in common than any of them realized. Besides doing whatever they could protect Elena, they were both always going to be destined to see the good in Damon, and always try to save them, even when saving him meant that they'd get dragged down along with him. "Even when we know we should give up on him can't."

She watch him turn his head towards the door as if he heard someone coming in. "Stay here." He goes and check and she takes his position by her brother with her focus on the door in case there was an intruder in the house.

The next person she sees to walk through the door is Elena. Alyssa inquires about what's been going on and and Elena decided that it's best if Jeremy knows as well. She just didn't feel right keeping anything from him anymore and even though Alyssa would have liked nothing more than to keep Jeremy out of it, she knew that another stunt like the one tonight was the direct cause just that.

Alyssa also believed that it was best to be transparent with Jeremy on everything. So Elena told them about Katherine and how she had been the one who tried to kill John though they had yet to know why. Katherine's return has always been a concern for Alyssa because of the exact reason that she could use her resemblance to Elena to impose on her friends and family and for no one to be the wiser. Well except for apparently Stefan who was the only person who could so far tell the difference between them when even she couldn't.

She would have to ask him how he did that but first they had to figure out how to handle this latest situation, starting with the most obvious. Katherine's being invited into the house.

"She can pass freely through the house whenever she likes." And Alyssa, finds that a bit disconcerting. "What are we going to do?"

"Move," was Damon answer but no one found that helpful.

"If Katherine wants you dead;" he continues from his leaning position over the counter as he looks at Elena sitting at the dining room table while Stefan stands next to her, "there's zero you can do about it; you would be dead but you're not. So clearly she has other plans."

"And our best bet is to find out what that plan is,"She looks at Damon directly, "without provoking." She already saw what she was capable of visa what happened with John and she didn't want a repeat on anyone else. "You talked to," back when she thought it was Elena too, "what happened when you thought she was Elena?"

"To risk another frown line encroaching on Stefan's already very crowded forehead." He shrugs. "We...kissed."

"And you thought it was me?" Elena asks from her seat next to Stefan.

"What do you mean you kissed?"

"Well, you know, when two lips pucker and they go." He puckers his lips and makes kissing noises. She knows where it's going to lead to and so Damon who moves out of the way as he rushes towards him moving behind Elena.

"Don't be obvious, Stefan." He taunts and Stefan starts towards Damon again but Alyssa reacts by stepping in front of him and puts her hand in front of Stefan.

"Stefan wait, he kissed Katherine, not Elena. We both know she wouldn't do that. We also don't have time for this."

He considers what she saying and promises, "Later."

She gets them back to consider, "John must know something," while keeping them on point. She looks between the two boys. "There has to be a reason why Katherine tried to kill him."

"She's Katherine." Damon says otherwise cause he also thinks it. "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."

"She actually might be right" Stefan says, which surprises her. Damon is usually the one to agree."John could know something through Isobel. 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." Damon offers but Alyssa wasn't sure how "better" it would be.

"Yeah, what's that?" Alyssa asks.

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

Elena turns to him. "Is that smart?" She knew enough about Katherine to know that wasn't always wise.

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

"Yeah? And then what?" Stefan posses.

"Stake her, rip her head off, something poetic. We'll see." He left out of the kitchen and Alyssa follows.

The looks she got from Stefan told her that she was suppose to follow him though she wasn't sure what she would be able to do she knew it's what Stefan would have asked her to keep an eye on him especially after their talk. She didn't have to ask and he didn't need to say it to know they were both concern about what Katherine being back was going to do to him.

"Damon," she caught him outside as just as he slips out. He stops and she shuts the door behind her. She walks over to him settling him with the most concern face she can muster. "How are you?"

"Why? Worried that Katherine coming back is going to send me off the rails? Stefan sends you out here to make sure that doesn't happen. Or to keep me away from Elena?"

"Is it that hard for you to believe that I came out here on my own and that I'm actually the one who's worried about you and not because I'm afraid of what you're going to do but I'm concerned for you as an actual human?"

From the way he looks at her, she could see he was having trouble believing that though could see he wanted to.

"Look despite what you've done in the past and that list is considerable long in the negative column, I care about you Damon. I wouldn't want to see you make the mistake of allowing Katherine back in when she clearly doesn't deserve it or you." She couldn't tell whether or not what she was saying was getting through but at least there was some seeds of doubt planted, "thought I'd give you something to think about." She walked pass him and get to the car.

"Sheriff Forbes," she stops in front of her to offer up her acknowledgements at what she's going through and tell her that she's praying for her family. "I just wanted to stop by to say that I'm praying for you and your family." She thought It seemed like the right thing to do in that situation and thought it would be impolite not to say anything while she was going to check on Matt.

She also offers to bring her a cup of coffee or anything that she needed from to cafeteria while she waited with Matt. Again, she thought it was the polite thing to do, and it would have been something she would want anyone to do for her if the situation was reversed, as it has been.

"If you need anything." She made it known that she was going to be around. She wanted to be there for Matt and intended to stay with him as long as she could.

She was surprised that as she was leaving out she ran into Damon until he told her why he was there. He wanted to look like the hero to Elena.

She left him to play hero and returned home to get a four glimpses of sleep before she they were going over to the mayor's house for the gathering that was to pay respects to the mayor.

She was in the process of dressing for it when Elena returned for her trip to the hospital to see John but there wasn't any time to ask questions before they were ushered out the front door by Jenna.

She used the short trip to the car to get information which to both their dismay was much not that she was surprised. John was stubborn as his hate for vampires was great and they really shouldn't have expected anything else of the man.

She was just happy to hear that Stefan found a way to "convince" him to leave town. It meant one less thing they had to worry about.

The Lockwood mansion was filled with people by the time the arrive and Jenna verbally noted out loud. She also let it be known that they were only stopping by to pay their respects as they did when her sister and brother in law passed.

Jeremy was all for it responding, "In and out? sounds like a plan."

Elena sees Damon standing on the porch as they walk up and stops, "You guys go ahead, I'll be right there, okay?"

She didn't need to stick around to find out what that conversation was about. She already knew they were going to be discussing what he that was a kiss between him and Elena which ended up being about Katherine and there was already one too many love triangles happening.

She had far more important things on her agenda. She found it in a study drinking alone.

"Bathroom is down the hall." Tyler calls without turning around.

"I'm not looking for the bathroom." He turns around when he hears who he guess. "I came to bring you a gift that I thought would bring you real comfort," she takes out a miniature bottle of vodka to show him as she walks around to the front of the couch, "but I see you're covered."

"I found it in my dad's desk. If you came to say you're sorry about my dad keep it. Today's been full of sorry's from people who really don't give a crap."

"I remember what that feels like" she says as she sits beside him. "When my parents died, I had a house full of strangers telling me what a great guy my dad was was."

"The difference is in your case it was true. My dad was a dick."

"Yeah, he kind of was. Anyway I just meant that I know how hard all of this must be." She reaches out and grab his hand for support, "if you ever need to talk."

He leans in and tries to kiss her and she leans back. "Tyler, That's not what I meant."

"Trying to cash on your sympathy...kinda a dick move huh."

"Yeah a little bit."

He puts some space in between them. "Sorry."

"I'll let it slip this time because I know your grieving," she says as she stands, even if your dad was a dick." She places his 'comfort gift' on the table and leaves looking out for Bonnie.

She wanted to know if she heard anything about the Gilbert device affecting both Tyler and Mayor Lockwood and if there was any way that she could find out from Emily's spell book how it was possible for a weapon that targeted vampires happened to affect them too.

But as she passed through the back door, she saw Stefan walking back to the house looking a little disgruntled and she went to meet with him. She saw a red stain on his shirt. "Is that blood?" She met his eyes and knew something was wrong. "Now what?"

She and Stefan were outside discussing the Katherine's impromptu visit.

"He's trying so hard to pretend that he's not affected by her that I think he's actually convinced himself it's true. Like he hasn't been in love with her for over 145 years and to find out that she wasn't imprisoned in a tomb rotting away like he thought but free all this time and at any point could have found him or at the least send a smoke signal."

"I'm ranting aren't are I."

"It's okay."

"No. No more Damon talk. There are other things that we need to worry about."

"How about we don't talk anymore about Katherine?"

"I was actually talking about the Lockwood's and their secret but that's a good rule too. Both Tyler and their dad were hurt by a device made for vampires. We know they're not vampires so they have to be something else."

"I've live with Damon long enough to know that look," he made a circular motion with his finger pointed at her face. "You're up to something."

"Tyler's uncle in town. If anyone has a clue about the Lockwood secret he would."

"And your plan is to just walk up and ask how a device designed to kill vampires affected his brother and nephew?"

"Don't be ridiculous Stefan, I'm not an idiot. But he is a guy and he isn't half that bad to look at. So, I'm sure I'll think of something." She gives him half smiles and walks away.

"Give my best to Caroline, and let I know I'm thinking about her and I'm glad she's doing okay." Alyssa comes to a stop at the Salvatore's door after leaving the Lockwood mansion.

She wanted to make sure she paid her respect to both Carol and Mason whom she hadn't found in with yet but it was only a matter of time.

She steps inside of the boarding house. "I'll stop by tomorrow to check on her." She could see the flames going on in the fireplace and walked towards it hanging up. The room was empty but there was signs that someone was there besides the lit fire place there was an empty glass sitting on the table.

The floorboards squeaked from above her and she turned to head for the stairs when she came face to face with at first appearance looked to be Elena but she had a feeling that wasn't the case.

"Hi, we haven't been formally introduced. I'm Katherine."