"Hello Jeremy" Anna said with a smile.
"Anna, Oh My God!" he hugged her tight. "You're alive?"
"I won't be much longer if you keep hugging me like that" she chuckled, kind of breathless. Jeremy stepped back but didn't remove his hands from her.
"Sorry. I can't believe you're alive, I thought you burned up in that old building?"
"The flames didn't reach me so I was able to get the stake out"
"Someone staked you?" shocked, Jeremy now noticed a bloody edged hole in her shirt, and underneath, fully healed skin.
"Yes John Gilbert did"
"I'm going to kill him!" Jeremy said in rage, and suddenly his fangs came out, Anna gasped.
"You drank my blood" was all she said. Jeremy realised what had just happened and relaxed, his fangs went back into his gums.
"Yeah, sorry, I missed you Anna"
"Don't apologise" and she kissed him passionately.
Stefan and Elena drove around town on the lookout for Jeremy, Stefan wanted to resume search at night alone, but Elena insisted on coming with him, she wanted to do something helpful. She stared out the window while Stefan drove her car, she sighed.
"We'll find him I'm sure of it, there's not many places he can go, I know that he's going to stay in town" he reached over and put his hand over hers, she squeezed his hand back.
"So where are we going to go Anna?" Jeremy asked as they walked through the woods, they didn't want to be spotted; the town thought both of them were dead, literally.
"I'll get us a hotel room" she told him, looking at his worried face, "And some blood" she added with a smile. Jeremy smiled back at her and immediately calmed down, he was glad he had Anna again. He spoke his thoughts out loud.
"I'm glad you're ok" he told her, holding her hand, "I thought I was going to be alone in this life" meaning his vampire second life.
"You'll never be alone Jeremy, I didn't plan on leaving you…but I knew someone was after me, they already killed my Mother, so I had to be prepared"
"That's ok I don't blame you, just… thank you for giving me your blood"
"No problem, it was the only way we could be together forever" she told him, they had stopped walking and were facing each other holding hands, Jeremy leaned down and kissed his vampire love passionately.
At that moment Elena's car came around the corner of the dirt road, Anna and Jeremy should have been more concealed, deeper into the forest than they were, but they weren't thinking about that because they were in love. Stefan spotted them and pulled to the side of the road, Elena jumped out, ignoring Stefan's protests to stay in the car.
"Jeremy!" she called her brother/cousin's name and he looked her way, immediately changing his stance to protective when he saw Elena and Stefan, to protect Anna.
"Jeremy, Anna, relax, we just want to talk" Stefan told them calmly
"We just want to be together, in peace"
"I know, I just need to know that you're ok, do u know how heart broken aunt Jenna is? Can I tell her you're alive?" Elena told him.
"And what, tell her I'm a vampire? Let her know that things like us exist?" he gestured to include himself, Anna and Stefan.
"Well I'll leave out that little detail, but please come home Jer, we miss you" Elena begged him, trying to hold onto the thin line of hope she had left, but then it snapped.
"I'm sorry Elena" and Jeremy and Anna ran off deeper into the forest.