Jessie woke up on the cold, hard ground. Was she imagining it? She checked her throat and there was no visible cut on it. If it hadn't happened, why was she ground instead of in her bed? The girl, Anna, held out a bottle of red liquid in front of her face. It smelled so good to her.
"Come on, drink up or you'll die." Anna instructed her. Well that didn't sound good. She drank the liquid, before realizing that it was once again blood. Only this time, it tasted a lot better. After she had finished it, she looked at Anna accusingly.
"What did you do to me?" She questioned angrily.
"I turned you into a vampire." Anna explained. "I needed someone to help me get the Fell family journal after Logan failed spectacularly."
"Why do you want the journal?" Jessie inquired.
"A long time ago, I lived in Mystic Falls. The year was 1864 and the comet had just flown over the town. The Founder's Council discovered vampires living among them and took action. They rounded up twenty-six of them and planned to burn them alive in your family's church. My mother was one of them." Anna told her.
"I already know that but, I still don't get why you need the journal." Jessie replied.
"Because a witch named Emily Bennett cast a spell that created a tomb under the church. It preserved all of the vampires and protected them from the fire and that's where they are today." Anna responded. "I need your family's journal to see if it has any information about the location of the grimoire that Emily used so I can open it."
"So I just get you the journal and then what happens?" Jessie questioned. "I kind of still need that to work on a paper."
"I'll give it back when I'm done with it." The Asian girl said, before reaching into her coat pocket and pulling out a ring with a blue stone. "Plus I have something that will be very beneficial to you if you give it to me."
"What's that?" Jessie asked curiously as she reached for the ring.
"It's a daywalker ring." Anna explained. So that was what Logan wanted. "Give me the journal and I'll give you the ring."
"Why don't you come with me?" Jessie suggested. The two of them went back the Fell house and Jessie reached for her key.
"You need someone to invite you in." Anna reminded her. Jessie sighed and rang the doorbell. Blair answered the door.
"Jessie, where have you been? It's past your curfew." She declared. Jessie was kind of the distracted by the sound of Blair's beating heart, but she didn't want to bite her sister. "Who is this?"
"This is my…new friend Anna." Jessie introduced. "She needs a place to stay for the night, so can she come in with me?"
"If Mom and Dad were here, I would probably say no." Blair remarked. "But I'm going to say to yes: just for tonight. And you need to go straight to bed."
The two stepped into the house. They went to Jessie's room and Jessie handed her the journal.
"You know I don't need a place to stay." Anna told her as she began to look through it.
"Well it was the best way that I could think of to get her to invite you in." Jessie replied.
"You have used compulsion." The older vampire responded.
"What's compulsion?" Jessie questioned.
"You look the person in the eye and tell them what you want to do or think and as long as they're not on vervain, they'll do it." Anna informed her.
"And what's vervain?" The new vampire inquired.
"It's an herb that not only prevents compulsion, but also is poison to vampires. So much as touching it will burn you." Anna added as she finished looking through the book. "There's nothing in here about the book."
"So does that mean that you can't open the tomb?" Jessie questioned. "I still fulfilled my end of the bargain."
Anna threw the ring in the corner. "It means that we have to look elsewhere." She said. "I think Jonathan Gilbert might have known something about it."
"So we need see if we can get it from them?" Jessie asked after slipping the ring on her finger.
"I don't know if I need you for anything else." Anna replied. "I have some others helping me."
"So you're just going to abandon me?" Jessie asked angrily. "You did this to me and you don't even want to be around me?"
"Had I known that you were going to be so needy, I wouldn't have turned you." Anna muttered. "Fine, I'm going to try to talk to Jeremy Gilbert to see I can get the journal from him. How about you see about getting it from Elena? Also, I have a tip for you. If you want to not die of a stake in your chest, be careful who you feed from and killing them will only cause trouble. I would try to stay away from anyone from a founding family, because they'd be more likely to be on vervain."
"Okay, I'll go try to talk to Elena tomorrow." Jessie added as she looked at the clock which was well past midnight. "So do I still need to sleep or is it like those vampires from Twilight?"
"If you want to get on my good side, never say that word or any of the other titles in that wretched series." Anna replied. "And yes you can sleep."
The two soon went to bed. In the morning, Jessie couldn't help but notice that Anna was gone when she awoke. There was a note left for her.
Jessie,
I thought that you might want to know that Elena left town last night. Perhaps you should try to get in with her friends. Also if you need to control your thirst, just tell yourself that you don't want to kill the person you're drinking from. You'd be surprised how well that works. And most important don't tell anyone that you're a vampire.
Don't screw this up for me, Anna.
Well that was endearing, she felt. She showered and ate breakfast, as in food. Stephenie Meyer could not have got it more wrong. From there, she went to the Grill, which was the place that…pretty much everyone in town hung out. It was the only restaurant in town.
Once she was inside, she was approached by the bartender.
"I'm supposed to hire you as a waitress." The guy named Ben told her. "I don't know why we need you."
"You're kidding, right?" Jessie asked.
"Nope, I want to keep an eye on you to make sure that you don't go rogue." Ben told her. "If you're going to be part of this, you should really know your place."
Jessie couldn't help but notice that Ben didn't have a ring on his finger. She couldn't help but wonder if Anna held her in higher regard than him.
"Get dressed. You start right now." Ben told her as he tossed her a blue t-shirt. Did the place really need waitresses that bad?
She went to the bathroom and put the shirt on over her dress. She guessed the good news was that she managed to see Caroline Forbes, who was one of Elena's friends there and she apparently needed service. Apparently they really did need waitresses. She went over to the table.
"Hey Caroline." She greeted the blonde.
"Jessie Fell? I didn't know that you worked here." Caroline replied.
"Well they practically begged me to." Jessie responded cheekily. "So do you know where Elena is today?"
"I don't have any idea." Caroline admitted. "But I don't like being here all alone."
"Well I have to work, or else I'd sit with you." Jessie offered. "Maybe we could hang out sometime. I mean it would be nice if we hung out somewhere that wasn't at one of those founding families things."
"Are you sure that this isn't just some plan to get Miss Mystic Falls info for your sisters?" Caroline joked.
"Well Blair's already won so she doesn't need help and Tina's got a DUI, so she probably won't win." Jessie replied. "Anyway, can I get you someone to eat?"
"Yes I will take a hamburger and fries." Caroline answered without looking at the menu. Jessie then walked over to Ben to give them the orders.
"What were you doing over there for so long?" Ben asked.
"Anna told me to integrate myself into Elena's social circle." Jessie told him. "Just what are you here for?"
"I'm supposed to seduce the witch." Ben explained.
"Witch?" Jessie asked.
"Bonnie Bennett." Ben told her. Considering the witch was Emily Bennett, she probably should have seen that coming. "Just don't get too close. We can't have you forming relationships that could get in the way of the mission. We need to open the tomb first."
The next day at school, Jessie noticed Jeremy talking to Mr. Saltzman. She couldn't help but wonder if Anna had made her contact with him yet and she still had no idea where Elena was. Feeding herself wasn't exactly easy. She learned that drinking from homeless people wasn't a good idea. She decided to walk over to the scene to see if everything was okay.
"Is everything okay over here?" She asked them.
"Yeah." Mr. Saltzman answered. "You know, since you're here and I was just discussing Jeremy's paper, have you decided on what you're doing with yours yet?"
"I decided to go with your idea and do the destruction of Fell's Church." Jessie replied.
"Sounds violent." Jeremy commented.
"So anyway, I'll see you in class." Jessie responded as she walked away. She then picked up a conversation with her advanced hearing. She was still getting used to that. It was between Bonnie and Stefan.
"Bonnie." He said to get her attention.
"Stefan." She remarked as she kept walking.
"I haven't seen you lately." Stefan told her as he caught to her. "How are you doing with everything?"
"I'm fine." Bonnie answered weakly as they kept walking. "It's all fine."
"Good." Stefan responded. Jessie considered tuning out if it was just small talk, but decided to listen a little longer.
"Are you back in school?" The witch asked.
"No. I came here to see you." Stefan answered. "I was hoping that you could help me with a spell."
Now it was getting good.
"Stefan, I know that Elena is okay with all of this, and I'm grateful for your help but I'm not really ready to dive into all of this yet."
"I understand that." Stefan told her. "I need your help, though. It's Elena. She's with Damon. I want to use a tracking spell."
Jessie then lost interest. While knowing Elena's location would be nice, she wasn't going to go there or anything.
After school, at work, Jessie noticed that Anna had brought Jeremy there. They were playing foosball and talking about vampires, whom Jeremy seemed to think were fictional. If only he knew that he was right across from one. Jessie kind of had a habit of eavesdropping before she was turned and now could was even better at it. She noticed Anna walking out the door. At the same time, Jessie went to meet her in the bathroom.
"You didn't seem too interested in getting the journal from him." She commented.
"I was planting some seeds." Anna replied. "How are things going on your end?"
"Elena's not back yet." Jessie answered. "But I have spoken to her friend Caroline. You know, I didn't sign up for being forced to work so Ben can keep an eye on me. How many people do you have working on this?"
"Just you, Ben, and one other guy." Anna explained. "When you get to Elena, be careful. Jeremy may not know about the existence of vampires, but she does. She knows"
"So just what do you plan on doing with him?" Jessie asked.
"I'm not going to tell you my whole plan until I'm completely sure that I can trust you." Anna replied. "Get an in with Elena, find out what she knows and who she knows."
"There are other vampires in town." Jessie declared.
"I know. There was the dearly departed Vicki Donovan, who used to fill this very job that you have." Anna replied. "And then there are the brothers, Stefan and Damon Salvatore. Stefan is kind of a wimp, doesn't drink human blood. Damon, on the other hand, may be of some use to us. Most of the animal attacks that happened in this town, they were his doing, except for the people that your uncle killed. I should have come to you first."
"So, there is one thing that I don't get." Jessie replied as she washed her hands. "Why turn me at all? Why not just compel me to give the journal and send me on my way. It probably would've been easier than putting all of this effort into me."
"Let's see. I live in a hotel room with two boys who are both very into me that I don't care the slightest about. I want a friend, Jessie, and while I was spying on everyone in town, trying to get some Intel I noticed you: a lonely girl with two big sisters that got all of the attention. Tina got it for being bad and Blair got it for being good." Anna explained. "I've been the girl that no one pays attention to. Anyway, you should probably get back to work and I need to get out of here."
Jessie exited the bathroom and went back into the restaurant. Anna was gone in a flash. She then noticed that Stefan had walked in. She decided to help him to his table.
"Hi." She greeted him. "I know that you don't know me."
"You're right, I don't." Stefan replied.
"But our ancestors did." Jessie added. "I'm Jessie Fell. You know it sucks having to share a name with a town landmark. You know that they tried to name the town Fell's Church before deciding on Mystic Falls."
"I do." Stefan answered. He remembered that when the town was being settled.
"Sorry, I was rambling. I'm just trying to get to know you a little." Jessie answered. "I mean, I see you at school all the time and we've never really spoken."
"Look, Jessie, you seem like a real nice girl, but I have a girlfriend." Stefan told her.
"Okay, wow." Jessie replied. "Do you always do this? Do you assume that any girl that tries to be friendly to you likes you? You know what? Screw it. Somebody else can help you."
Here we meet Ben, who still is a huge asshole. I also want to know, should I also put my spin on Jeremy and Anna's story along with Jessie's if I promise Anna won't die. Jessie will meet Elena in the next chapter and things will begin to develop from there. Please don't forget to review