Jeremy's jaw ached and his gums burned inside of his mouth, he was in agony, and he was hungry, starving, he'd never felt so hungry in his life… and then he smelt it, the most alluring and delicious scent he had ever smelt, and it was coming from the Kindergarten.

"No, this is wrong, this is so wrong!" He told himself over and over again, but the desire wouldn't go away, more than anything at that moment, he craved the blood of the children inside the building in front of him. He swung open the rusty gate and entered the school grounds.

It was overcast today, but not raining, so the children were still playing outside, they screamed and laughed and ran around chasing each other. A few of the children noticed Jeremy there but didn't seem alarmed.

"They should be alarmed" He said quietly to himself.

Then he spotted a small boy, only about three years old, sitting by himself in the sandpit. He walked over to the boy and bent down, man he smells so good, Jeremy thought. The boy offered Jeremy his toy dump truck but he didn't take it, instead he bent closer and touched his lips to the boy's neck, he was just about to bare his teeth…

In a flash, Stefan was in there and out again, he grabbed Jeremy and at vampire speed, ran him out of the school grounds and into the woods. It all happened so fast that Jeremy didn't know what had hit him. One minute he was in the Kindergarten playground, and the next, he was standing in the middle of the darkest part of the woods.

"What the hell?" Jeremy twirled around to face his attacker and saw Stefan standing there

"It's for your own safety and that of those kids; you could have killed that boy!" He told Jeremy.

"I know, but he smelt so good, I couldn't help myself, it was like an instinct and I couldn't turn it off"

"I know, you're turning into a vampire Jeremy. Did you drink Anna's blood?"

Jeremy hesitated and then replied, "Yes"

"Why did you do it Jeremy? Didn't you think about Elena or Jenna?"

"Not at the time, I just found out that Anna had died, all the people I love die around me, I'm cursed!"

"That's not true"

"Yes it is, don't tell me that I'm not, you don't know what you're talking about"

"I know exactly what I'm talking about Jeremy, I was human once, and then I died with vampire blood in my system so I had to go through the same change that you're experiencing now"

"What's that got to do with loved ones dying?"

"I killed my father, drained him of his blood to become a vampire"

Jeremy thought about that and then continued,

"You still don't know what I'm going through" and ran off into the darkness of the trees.

Damon ran into the hospital and straight into John Gilbert's room; Elena was sitting beside the bed waiting.

"Where's Katherine?" he asked, Elena pointed to the bathroom door across the room. Damon walked over and opened it; Katherine was slumped up against the toilet unconscious.

"Katherine?" He spoke to her softly and stroked her hair, "What did she do to you?" He whispered.

Elena wondered what was taking so long, "Damon, what are you doing?" She came over and saw how he was being so loving and gentle with Katherine, he really cared about her. It was good that Damon actually cared for someone other than himself, she thought, but she just wanted Katherine out of there.

Damon sensed Elena behind him and looked up from Katherine, "Hi, um… I was just taking her out" he picked Katherine up in his arms and walked out of the hospital room.

Stefan ran after Jeremy, he was fast, even for a transitioning vampire, he hadn't even fed yet. After a few minutes of running Stefan realised that he had lost Jeremy's scent and stopped, he realised he was hungry, starving in fact, he hadn't fed in a while, so he decided to track a squirrel.

When he was satisfied Stefan tried to track Jeremy again, he didn't want to tell Elena that he had failed, he had to find Jeremy, Elena's little brother, or cousin, or whatever he was now, and bring him home. And more importantly he had to teach Jeremy how to become a good vampire, not kill humans whenever he felt like it; he needed to teach Jeremy how to keep his humanity in tact.