Jessie was at home on a Saturday morning. She was about to call Anna to discuss their plan to get the journal. Before she could make the call, her father Hank came by her door. He had brown hair like the rest of the family and a little bit of stubble. He was editor-in-chief of the local newspaper. Journalism was a long tradition in the Fell family.
"So what do you plan on doing today?" Hank asked her.
"I was going to go and hang out with Anna today." Jessie explained. She kind of wanted him to go so she could make her phone call.
"You know, you keep talking about this girl, but I keep wondering when your mother and I are going to meet her or her parents." Hank remarked.
"Well Blair's already met her, so I can assure you that she is real." Jessie told him.
"I believe that she's real, I just would like to meet her." He replied.
"Okay, let me call her and I'll have her come over before we leave." She responded as she closed her door. Immediately she took out her phone and called Anna. "So we have a bit of a problem."
"I hope it's not too big." Anna stated.
"No, it's nothing really." Jessie told her. "My dad just wants to meet you before we go out. I mean it's really no big deal. We can still get the journal from Alaric today and you've already been invited in."
"Fine, I'll come over." Anna replied. "But we better, get the journal today."
Anna was over within a few minutes. She knocked on the door and Jessie let her in. Hank and his wife, Carla, were in the kitchen, eating lunch. Blair was currently meeting with his advisor on campus and Tina was with some boy.
"Mom, Dad, this is my friend, Anna." Jessie introduced. "Anna, these are my parents."
"Pleased to meet you, Mr. and Mrs. Fell." Anna told them.
"So, Anna, how do you like living in Mystic Falls?" Hank asked.
"Oh, I actually moved here a few months ago. I'm homeschooled." Anna replied.
"Okay, so where did you and Jessie meet then?" Carla questioned.
"We met at the Grill." Jessie answered. "She was friends with the bartender and helped get the job."
"Would you like something to eat?" Carla then asked Anna. Jessie was a little annoyed by that.
"I think I'm gonna have to pass." Anna responded. "We have a lot to do today and we need to get going."
The two vampires exited the house and Jessie couldn't have been happier.
"I'm sorry about them." She apologized. "So, do you we should head to the school?"
"Well I guess it's our best bet since we can't exactly steal it from his house." Anna replied.
They went to the school and found that there was a car in the parking lot. They also found that the door was unlocked. Anna entered first and Jessie followed behind her.
"So what's the plan?' Jessie asked as she looked around.
"Well the first thing that we need to do is make sure that he has it." Anna explained. "Why don't we start by looking in his classroom?"
"You know, this place is kind of creepy when all of the lights are out." Jessie commented.
"Well we should leave them off because it's easier to move around in the dark." Anna told her. They came across his and noticed him reading the journal. They then went into the hallway away from the door.
"I have an idea." Anna whispered. "I want you to distract him. Find somewhere that you can go that will get him to come to you and I'll swoop into the room and grab the journal."
Jessie dashed over to the pool area. She threw her clothes off and jumped in and began to swim.
She heard the sounds of footsteps and then looked as he walked in. She swam to the edge, specifically so he would see her.
"Oh hey, Mr. Saltzman." She greeted him as she leaned on the concrete.
"Jessie, what are you doing here?" He asked, trying not to stare at her lack of clothing.
"Swimming." She answered.
"I mean what are you doing here at school on a Saturday?" He clarified.
"Well you I noticed that the school was unlocked and since the community pool doesn't open until summer, I thought I would come here and swim some laps."
"I really don't think that you should be here." He told her. "I won't tell anyone that I saw you if you leave now."
"Okay, but they really need to build an indoor pool that people can use over the weekend." Jessie remarked as she stepped out of the pool and put her clothes back on. She hoped that her diversion had given Anna enough time to take the book. She grabbed a towel and dried her hair before she walked off.
"I hope that you have a wonderful day." She told him. She went outside and found Anna in the parking lot, holding a book. "Is that it?"
"Yeah, this is the journal." Anna confirmed. "So why are you all wet?"
"I was in the pool and I managed to lure him down there." Jessie explained. "So I guess we should go somewhere and read it right now. Let's not go to my place."
"I know just the place." Anna stated.
The two of them ended up in Anna's hotel room. Ben was inside preparing for his date with Bonnie, but he couldn't go out because the sun hadn't set yet.
"We got it." She told him as she held out the journal. He reached for it, but she pulled it back. "You're not touching it."
"I wanna see it." Ben complained.
"While you two fight it out, I think I'm going to take a shower." Jessie announced as she headed toward the bathroom. "Let me know where we can find the grimoire when I get out."
After she showered, Jessie exited the bathroom to notice Anna throwing the book across the room in frustration. Ben had left.
"What's wrong?" She questioned.
"This book is nothing but a bunch of cryptic mumbo-jumbo." Anna pouted. "It doesn't tell us anything about how we can find the spell book."
"Okay, I have an idea this time." Jessie remarked. "I'll go over to the Gilbert House and see if I can find anything out from them. You stay here and read it a few more times to see if you can find any sort of hidden meaning in the book. I did so research on Jonathan Gilbert and I know that he was an inventor and a drunk, so the answer is probably there, it's just hidden pretty well."
"That's a good idea." Anna admitted. "And that is why you are so much more useful than Ben. By the way, if we figure all of this out, we're going to need Elena."
"What does Elena have to do with opening the tomb?" Jessie questioned.
"The reason that I want her is because Jonathan Gilbert put my mother in that tomb and it will be Gilbert blood that brings her back to life."
"Look, I don't know if I want to part of this if we have to kill Elena." Jessie admitted.
"I never said anything about killing her." Anna corrected. "But I do need to explain some things. When a vampire goes an extended period of time without blood, they mummify. They go into a state of suspended animation until they drink human blood again. I just need to give her enough to come back to life. As hard as it is to believe, I don't like killing people, but I will do whatever it takes to get my mom back."
Jessie then went to the Gilbert house and knocked on the door. It was answered by Elena's aunt, Jenna.
"Jessie?" She remarked in surprise.
"Hi, I was wondering if Elena was here." Jessie told the woman.
"She is, but we're going to be having dinner not that long from now." Jenna explained.
"Well maybe I could join you?" Jessie suggested. "Sure, come in as long as you don't bring your uncle with you."
"He's long gone." Jessie replied with a laugh as she stepped inside the house. "I don't think we'll be seeing him again anytime soon."
She walked into the kitchen and found that Elena was in the kitchen.
"Jessie, what are you doing here?" The Gilbert girl asked.
"Well, I figured that since you cancelled on our engagement last night that I would invite myself over for dinner." Jessie explained. "I hope that's okay."
"Damon, this is Jessie Fell, Logan's niece." Jenna introduced.
"I saw you talking to my sister, Tina at the dance last night." Jessie replied to him. She was pretty sure that he hadn't fed on her, because there were no noticeable bite marks on her body. Maybe Damon was too busy killing Noah to do that. She should probably try to protect Tina from him in the future.
"You know, I think I've met your parents on the Founder's Council." Damon remarked. "Your dad runs the newspaper, right?'
"Yes, he does." Jessie stated.
After dinner, Jessie was playing video games with Jeremy, while secretly listening to Damon and Elena as they put up dishes. She noticed that there was a lot of sexual tension between the two, but they weren't really saying anything of importance. Damon was just with her. She decided that it wouldn't hurt to keep listening though.
"Speaking of Stefan, where is he?" Damon asked. "He's missing family night…plus that Fell girl, which I am enjoying immensely."
Elena didn't say anything and took a bowl.
"Is it real?" Damon then asked.
"Is what real?" Elena countered.
"This renewed sense of brotherhood, can I trust him?" Damon questioned.
The information wasn't exactly relevant to her, but she began to think that Damon had a plan to open the tomb as well. She also managed to get the information Elena wore vervain.
"How's the game going?" Damon asked as he came over to the couch where she and Jeremy were sitting.
"I think she was lying when she said that she never played before." Jeremy remarked.
When Stefan arrived, Damon and Elena went outside. She didn't think that they knew about her eavesdropping, but she did send the information to Anna that she knew and that they were searching for the journal as well. Then they came back inside and went over to Jeremy, They were definitely asking about the journal. She knew some things had to be done. Damon took Jeremy to the Grill, as Jessie overheard that Stefan had a copy of the journal. One of them would lead them to the grimoire. She decided to let them do all of the dirty work until she heard from Anna.
At the Grill, Jeremy walked over to Anna.
"You just couldn't live without me." Anna remarked.
"Well I couldn't miss my daily dose of cute stalker chick." He quipped.
"Funny." She replied before they began to play pool.
Jessie went upstairs to eavesdrop on Stefan and Elena's conversation as they went over the journal.
"It was Giuseppe Salvatore that relieved my fear." Stefan said as he read a passage "He said that he would carry it to his grave."
Jessie now knew exactly where it was and where they were going. She knew that she needed to contact Anna about it. She took out her phone and called her.
"So, it turns out that Alaric made a copy of the book and gave it to Stefan." Jessie explained. "Apparently the book is buried with Giuseppe Salvatore."
"We need to definitely make sure that we grab Elena." Anna stated. "If they have the grimoire, if gives us leverage that we can use."
"So how are we going to open the tomb anyway?" Jessie inquired. "I don't we can do it with a witch."
"Which is why we're going to grab Bonnie too." Anna explained. "I've got everything planned. I actually that I may come over there myself, though. I should get my invitation into the house out of the way anyway."
After the call was over, Jessie went downstairs. There she came across Jenna.
"You're still here? Well that was rude of them." Jenna commented. "I'm sorry that they left you here. I thought you were gone."
"Well I think that I am going to go now." The teenager stated as she grabbed her things and put on her leather jacket. "My parents are probably expecting me soon."
She went home and found that her dad was still up. She did wonder if the town council did anything other than hunt for vampires.
"Hi, Daddy." She greeted him.
"How was your day?" Hank asked her.
"It was pretty good. I had dinner over at Elena Gilbert's house after Anna left." Jessie explained.
"I didn't know that you two really friends." Hank responded in surprise.
"Well, I've been trying to make more friends recently." Jessie lied. "So Daddy, do you think you could talk to the council about building an indoor pool? I mean all we have is the one at the school and you can't really go there on the weekends."
"I don't think that's really something that you can look forward to in the future." He told her. "Why are you interested in this anyway?"
"Because I don't have a car and I want somewhere that I can swim that is close enough for me to walk to." Jessie remarked. It was mainly a test more than anything else, but she did enjoy the minute that she got to swim and a place that was ruled by the swim team would also be nice.
"I think the council has more important things to worry about than building a swimming pool." Hank replied as she walked over to her. "But how about we tell the construction workers to put one in the new house."
Hank and Carla knew that Logan was dead and his will left all of his money to them, which meant that they were going to be building a mansion. It would be smaller than the Lockwood one, still pretty big.
"Well I think that I'm gonna head off to bed." Jessie announced. "Or maybe I'll watch TV in my room."
At that point, Jessie noticed a text from Anna.
"I've got the witch, I've got Elena. Get ready, because we open the tomb tomorrow night." It read. Jessie couldn't wait.
I bet you can't wait either. Hank is played by Matthew Settle and Carla is played by Nancy McKeon. You know if I didn't love Anna with Jeremy so much, I'd be turned tempted to put Jessie with her because they have a pretty good dynamic. Anyway, enough of my rambling. Please don't forget to review.