The truth was that Stefan didn't know, and he couldn't keep lying to Elena, he had to get Jeremy back, and he had to find out why Katherine was back, so many things to do without Elena knowing, this would be hard, he thought. By this time the sun had set and Elena was still sleeping so he decided to let her sleep there and run his errands. He kissed her on the head and left. On the way out he walked past the library where Damon was, Katherine was no where to be seen.
"I'm going out, can u watch over Elena?"
"Sure, little brother" he replied, his eyes were on his laptop screen.
"Can I trust you?"
"Of course, when have I ever done anything to Elena?"
"Um when you took her to Atlanta"
"I rescued her"
"Ok fine, I trust you, but I don't trust Katherine" he looked around to see if she was around, she didn't show.
"Katherine won't hurt Elena, not over my undead body"
"Thank you, if anything happens to her I'll kill the person responsible" and with that Stefan left.
As soon as Stefan was gone, Damon went up to Stefan's room to sit with Elena, who looked like a porcelain doll, but a sweet, blood filled… no he would not think about that now, he had made a promise to protect his brother's love and that's what he would do. He decided to take the most of the opportunity of being alone in Stefan's room to read his journal, he picked up Stefan's leather bound journal which came from their time, and flipped it open to the most recent page and read, and what he saw infuriated him, how could Stefan accuse Katherine of having an ulterior motive? Speaking of which, he thought, where is Katherine?
Katherine walked into the hospital and past the nurse's station, a voice stopped her,
"Excuse me, Miss Gilbert right? Elena?"
Katherine stopped and looked at the nurse.
"That's right, I'm here to see Uncle John" she said with an almost mocking smile, she couldn't believe Elena called him her uncle when he was really her father, the man disgusted her, he had to die!
The nurse let Katherine pass and once again she walked into John Gilbert's room with the intention of murder.
"Third times a charm" she mumbled to herself as she took a clean syringe from the nurse's cart and inserted it into John's Intravenous tube for the second time.
Jeremy opened the motel door and stepped inside with paper bags, Anna was sitting on the bed watching TV.
"Hey I'm back, I got dinner"
"Yum" she replied with a smile and then turned back to the TV. Jeremy sat the bags on the bed and opened them to reveal bottles of blood.
"Where did you get those?"
"I raided the blood bank and the morgue, Stefan's right, I can't drain people all the time, unless I ask Damon how he does it"
"No, you can't"
"Why not?"
"We have to remain concealed; otherwise we will be killed, just like my mother"
"But Uncle John's the one who did that, he's in hospital he can't"
"He will finish the job"
"Ok fine" he added finally, and opened a bottle of blood and drank from it. Anna took one as well.
"You have to tell your Aunt that you're ok"
That was something he was least expecting out of Anna's mouth.
"What?"
"Listen Jeremy, Family is the most important thing in the world, don't let them go"
"Ok fine I'll go home, if you'll come with me, you're alone without me"
She smiled at him
"Sure"
Stefan came back about an hour later to find Elena awake and talking with Damon happily, he relaxed and smiled.
"Hey you're back" Elena said as she noticed him.
"Yeah, do you feel better?"
"I just fainted, I'm fine" she smiled at Damon, he smiled back at her but not at his brother, he stood up furious.
"How dare you accuse Katherine of having ulterior motives!"
"Well how are we supposed to know why she's here Damon?"
"Isn't it obvious? She's here to see me"
Stefan rolled his eyes
"Get over yourself Damon" he told him, then Damon left in a huff. Stefan turned to Elena.
"Im sorry, I couldn't find Jeremy, they weren't at the hotel"
"No its ok, he's fine, Aunt Jenna called me, he came home" she told him happily.