Tina woke up in the middle of the night. She was in the boarding house. She was an adult and could spend the night at her boyfriend's house if she wanted to. She got up out of Damon's bed and put her dress on. She began to walk around, looking for some water. She wound up in the basement, where she heard some sounds. She continued to walk and heard more noises. She then found what appeared to be a cell and for some reason Stefan was inside.
"What are you doing in there?" Tina asked. She didn't really know Stefan that well.
"You need to get away." Stefan told her.
"Why?" Tina replied as she reached for the door. Suddenly, Damon had grabbed her hand. She didn't even hear him coming. "How did you get down here so fast? Why is your brother locked up in there?"
"I think you need to drop it." Damon tried to compel.
"How can I just drop it? I don't understand. Is there something that you're not telling me, Damon?" She questioned.
"You're still on vervain…perfect." Damon muttered.
"Damon, what's vervain?" Tina asked. "I am so confused Damon and I want some answers."
"I feel that if you knew, you'd run away." Damon admitted.
"I think I want to run away now." Tina admitted. "You might as well tell me, or I'll walk out that door and you'll never see me again."
"Let me see, did your family ever tell you about the old legends of this town?" Damon asked. "Around the Civil War?"
"When my sisters and I were kids, our uncle Logan used to tell us about vampires that roamed the woods." Tina replied. "But I don't see what that has to do with your brother being locked up in there."
"Tina, I know thinking isn't your strong point, but could try a little harder?" Damon requested.
"Are you saying that Stefan's a vampire and if you're brothers…that would make you…oh my god!" Tina replied as she backed up. She began to run, not caring that she wasn't wearing shoes. Damon appeared in front of the door. "Let me go, Damon!"
"I'm not going to hurt you." Damon told her.
"Just let me go!" Tina begged.
"If I let you go, will you promise not to tell anyone?" Damon asked.
"Why wouldn't I tell anyone? You're a vampire. You kill people." Tina replied.
"It's been a few months since I've killed anyone." Damon admitted. "I think that you need to talk to Jessie and come back here in a few days. I have some things that I need to work out with Stefan."
"How long have you been a vampire?" The blonde asked.
"I'll tell you everything the next time we meet." Damon promised. "Just don't tell anyone for now."
Tina began to walk home. She made it there and opened the door. Jessie heard the noise and walked downstairs to where she saw her sister walk in. She couldn't help but notice that she looked a little freaked out.
"Are you okay?" Jessie asked. "Why are you home so early in the morning?"
"Damon told me something." Tina replied. "He also told me that I should talk to you about it."
"Let me grab my purse and we'll go outside." Jessie responded. "And you should probably put some shoes on."
After coming back down the stairs, the pageant winner and her sister went outside. The sun was about to come up.
"Why couldn't you tell me inside?" Tina asked.
"Because I didn't want anyone else to know." Jessie admitted. "I have a feeling that Damon told you that he's a vampire."
"You knew?" Tina asked in shock as Jessie reached into her purse. "What are you getting?"
Jessie held the blood bag that she had gotten from Stefan. Tina looked a little shocked. She grabbed the straw-like opening and began to drink from it, guzzling the contents quickly.
"When did this happen?" Tina asked in shock.
"When I met Anna." Jessie explained. "I've been like this for a few months now. I hope you don't hate me for this."
"Jessie, you're my little sister." Tina told her. "I could never hate you, but isn't sunlight supposed to kill vampires?"
"I have this ring. It protects me from sunlight." Jessie explained. "How about I skip school and you take off work today and we can spend the day together? It can help you to understand me better."
"Okay." Her sister agreed as she noticed Jessie had her phone out. "Who are you texting?"
"Anna." Jessie answered. "I'm telling her that I'm not coming and to talk to Jeremy."
"If she did this to you, why are you friends with her?" Tina asked in confusion as they began to walk into the woods. "Where are we going anyway?"
"Anna is really the only friend that I've had since 9th grade." Jessie answered. "We're almost there."
At the school, Anna walked up to Jeremy.
"So you're talking to me on your own now?" He asked. "I still don't understand why you come here."
"Think about it." Anna told him.
"So are you really just here to see me?" Jeremy questioned.
"Well you and Jessie, who's not going to be here today." Anna answered.
"You're really suffering through this just to hang out with me and her." Jeremy replied as he looked in the eye. "That's…"
"Stupid, pathetic, stalkerish?" Anna interrupted.
"Awesome." Jeremy told her with a smile. She smiled back at him and she began to remember what she had liked about him. She decided to go with what Jessie had told her and kissed him. It felt good, just not as good.
Jessie and Tina wound up in front of the ruins of Fell's Church.
"Here we are." The younger sister remarked.
"What are we doing here and since when was there these steps down here?" Tina inquired.
"This is where the vampires were sent back in 1864 to be burned. Only a witch saved them by creating a tomb underneath it. That's where the stairs go." Jessie explained
"A witch? So you're telling me that they're real too?" Tina replied. "What are next, werewolves?"
"I've never met any." Jessie admitted as she began to walk down the stairs. Tina followed her and walked into the tomb.
"There's no vampires in here." The blonde pointed out.
"That's because it's been opened." Jessie told her. "Anna's mother was in here. That's why we let her out. There were others helping us, but they're dead now. It's just me and her, which kind of increases our bond."
"So do you know why Damon has Stefan locked in his basement?" The older girl asked.
"I can't be certain, but if I had to guess, it would have to do with him attacking Amber." Jessie responded. "Anna told me that he trouble with human blood. It's like he's addicted to it. The more that he drinks, the worse it gets."
"So what's Damon going to do?" Tina queried.
"I don't know." Jessie told her. "How about we go and do something fun? Do you wanna go see a movie or something? We could watch one of those chick flicks that you love."
"You know that you love them too." Tina said with a smile.
After school was over, Anna and Jeremy sat in the latter's room.
"So you mom loved Jonathan Gilbert and he betrayed her?" Jeremy asked.
"Yup." Anna replied.
"And now my uncle wants this invention that your mom stole from him that she gave to Damon." He continued as she nodded.
"That's pretty much it." She explained. "So can we stop talking about this? Your uncle John wants me and my mother and every other vampire in this town dead. Doesn't that concern you?"
"Yes, but I don't know what I'm supposed to do about it." Jeremy admitted.
"He's a hater Jeremy." Anna admitted as the two of them began to cuddle. It then turned into something more and the two of them began to undress. She began to feel uncomfortable. "I don't think that I can do this."
"Are you sure?" Jeremy asked.
"Jeremy, I'm trying my best to love you, but I'm pretty sure that someone else stole my heart as soon as we broke up." Anna explained.
"Who?" Jeremy asked. He wasn't even aware that she had met any more guys."
"Jessie." Anna replied. "It started out as something simple and just grew from there. I'm sorry, but I think that I love her."
"So are you?" Jeremy asked, not knowing how to say it.
"I like boys and girls." Anna explained. "Relationships just happen for me, like anyone else, except for me it can happen with anyone. But I still do want to be your friend."
"Do you know if Jessie feels the same way?" Jeremy asked curiously.
"I think Jessie does feel something for me, but she's just scared to be with me." Anna admitted. "I know she's what I want."
Jessie and Tina a seat at the Grill. They couldn't help but notice that John Gilbert and Pearl.
"That's Anna's mom." Jessie whispered. "She really doesn't like the idea of me and Anna hanging out."
"Why are we whispering?" Tina whispered back.
"Because she can hear us." The vampire answered as she pulled Tina into the bathroom.
"So Pearl also doesn't like the fact that Anna has feelings for me." Jessie added. "We're kind of, in a way, sort of…dating."
"So wait, at the party when you were dancing together…was that?" Tina asked before Jessie interrupted her."
"That was our first date." Jessie answered. "But I don't really know how I feel and I really think that she should be with Jeremy because I know that he loves her and I don't know. This is hard for me. I've never liked a girl before. I've pretty much been wanting to hook up with my teacher since I met him, but ever since Anna kissed me, everything's changed."
Anna walked into her house. She couldn't reach Jessie and suspected that she might still be out with Tina. She began to look for her mom and found her in the living room.
"Hey." She greeted.
"Pack your bags. We're leaving." Pearl told her.
"What? No." Anna asked in shock. She still needed to tell Jessie that she loved her.
"I was wrong to think that we could make a home here." Pearl explained as she began to pack things up. "It's time for us to move on."
"But I don't want to move on ." Anna replied. "I wanna stay."
"We can't stay." Pearl argued. "There's too many people here that know the truth, too much history."
"So you're just going to give up, pack us up, and move us out?" Anna asked as she put her bag down.
"It's not safe here. You know that." Her mother informed her.
"Please?" Anna begged.
"You can't stay behind just because of some girl." Pearl replied.
"It's about me finally being able to build a life for myself, to have somewhere that I feel that I belong." Anna remarked. "But I love Jessie and I'm going to leave her even if she doesn't love me back. Please, Mama."
"You gave me my life back. I am just trying to protect yours." Pearl explained. "I won't force you to go, but I'd like if you did. In the end, it's your decision."
Anna walked to the Grill to find that not only John was gone, but that Jessie and Tina were still there. She walked over to their table. She kind of wanted to tell Jessie in private, but she did want to be with her.
"Can I sit with the two of you?" Anna asked. She couldn't help but notice that Tina looked tense.
"It's okay. She's not going to hurt you." Jessie remarked. "Yes, you can sit with us."
"So I take you it you know now." Anna said, looking at the blonde.
"I know everything and I'm doing my best to try to understand." Tina admitted. "So how old are you?"
"17." Anna answered before she gave Tina a piece of paper that said 623 on it. Sheriff Forbes had just walked in. "My mom wants me to leave."
"What?" Jessie asked. She didn't think that she could stand potentially losing her again.
"I don't want to go." Anna replied. "You know, your parents will probably be expecting you home soon."
The two sisters went home. Their parents were already asleep and so was Blair. The first thing that Tina did was hug her little sister.
"You're really not that much different." She admitted. "Other than needing blood, and being kind of bi-curious, you're still the same."
"I did kill one person." Jessie admitted. "I really did need to do it. I was in a house full of vampires and I needed them to think that I was like them, but I don't want to kill people unless I have to."
"Well I can't complain about this, especially knowing how many people Damon killed, but I'll see you for who you are and as my sister, not some monster. Maybe Mom and Dad and Blair will too."
"I don't know about Blair, but I know Mom and Dad are on the Council that kills vampires. I don't know how they'd feel if they found out their daughter was the very thing that they hate."
Anna walked back home, only to find Harper with a stake in his heart…and next to him was Pearl. She ran over in horror, trying to wake her mom up. She pulled the stake out, but she was dead. She cried and cried, eventually she just cried herself to sleep in a hotel outside of town.
So since one of the main themes of the episode was Stefan's relationship with Damon, I decided that I would focus on Jessie's relationship with Tina. Don't worry. I do plan on developing Blair in later chapters. You know how Anna feels about Jessie, but how does Jessie feel about Anna. Jeremy will get a story arc in Season 2, but definitely not with Bonnie. So, don't forget to review.