Jessie and Anna sat in the former's bed. The repairs were almost done and they would be moving back in soon.

"So did you find anything about that person that could help against Katherine?" Jessie asked.

"No, I probably should have befriended more witches in my time on this planet." Anna explained. "It would definitely make things easier. Then I wouldn't even have needed to kidnap Bonnie in the first place. I would have still needed the grimoire to break the spell on the tomb, but I guess I was too blinded in trying to get my mom out to make any friends."

"So what did you in all those years?" Jessie replied. "Why did you wait 145 years anyway?"

"Well most of my plan involved waiting for Damon to do his stuff and he was waiting for the comet which took 145 years. As for what I did, I've lived in a lot of cities across the country. I've tried a lot of different looks over the years, but my favorite was the 80s Goth look as you may have guessed."

"I never would have guessed that if hadn't told me." Jessie stated with a laugh. "So I have to help out with this park building project today. You're welcome to come if you want."

"I've think about it." Anna replied. "That's sponsored by the Founder's Council isn't it?"

"Yes." Jessie replied. "Well I'm going to go downstairs and talk to Tina. You can use the shower if you want."

Jessie went downstairs and saw both of her sisters were at the table. They were eating breakfast.

"So I want to apologize for last night." Jessie admitted to Tina. "That was out of line for me to say and I didn't mean for it to come out like it did."

"Well I did overreact a little." Tina stated. "I guess I should be glad that I'm human. I would like to point out that it is that time of month that I guess neither of you have any more."

"Trust me. I would gladly take PMS over what I have to deal with now." Blair declared. She then turned to Jessie. "So does that not bother you?"

"I've learned to deal with the smell if menstrual blood." Jessie explained. "It's not as easy with regular blood. That reminds me, I need to get some. I will be right back."

Jessie went and got a bag of blood from her fridge. They were a few left after she grabbed it. She took it downstairs and began to drink it as her father came down.

"Jessie, what did I tell you about blood at the table?" Hank questioned.

"Come on, Dad, I'm not going to spill it." Jessie argued. "So why do we have to do this at the park?"

"Because our family paid for this park." Hank explained. "What if would it look like if we weren't there?

Elsewhere in town, Caroline was preparing to go to the park. As she opened the door, she noticed Jeremy on the other side.

"Jeremy what are you doing here?" Caroline asked in surprise.

"I was wondering you wanted to ditch the park cleanup with me." Jeremy replied.

"I promised my mom that I would help." Caroline stated.

"Well maybe I could take you out on a date some time." Jeremy replied. "It's not like you can kill me."

"Jeremy, I don't know if that's such a good idea." Caroline told him. "Let me point out that the most likely place we would go is the place that Matt works, and I don't know if I'm ready to date yet."

"Well I'll be over at Tyler's house if you change your mind." Jeremy told her.

A little while later, Jessie was at the park. She wore a grey tank top and black pants. Anna decided not to come because she didn't want to get involved in Founder's Council business. Tina was glad to notice that Damon was still alive. Mayor Lockwood gave a speech thanking them and people clapped for them. It felt nice to be recognized even though she hadn't actually done anything.

After all of that was over, Jessie went over to talk to Damon who unloading some boxes.

"So, I see that you and Damon are both still in one piece." Jessie remarked.

"Yeah, but he really wasn't interested in the olive branch." Mason replied. "Now he has ignited something."

"Look Damon may be an idiot, but you don't need to take it out on all of us." She told him.

"I'm still going to uphold our deal." Mason replied. "I believe in honor and I can see that you still have it. I can't say the same for Damon."

"Look Damon is just very stupid. You don't need to start a war with him because that will only end with one or both of you dead." Jessie explained. "Maybe I can apologize on his behalf."

"Yeah, I'm not interested." Mason answered. "You should stick to bottled drinks."

Jessie went to find Caroline. She was glad that they had become friends after Caroline had been turned. It wasn't the traditional way that a friendship started, but she didn't care. She couldn't help but notice that Mason was talking to the sheriff about something, but for once decided to not to listen.

She found that Caroline and Elena were finishing some wood. The blonde was rambling about her mother as they carried buckets of water. She didn't go over because she didn't want to help.

"So your brother asked me out." Caroline remarked.

"What did you say?" Elena questioned.

"I told him no because I'm not ready to date yet." Caroline stated. Jessie thought she and Jeremy might make a good couple.

"I don't know if I'd want you to date him anyway." Elena replied. "I think Jeremy's been with enough vampires in his lifetime, no offense."

"Maybe you're right, but he does have his ring." Caroline pointed out. A little girl then came up to Jessie with a cup of lemonade.

"Would you like some lemonade?" She asked.

"No thank you." She replied, remembering what Mason had told her. There could have been vervain in it. "I'm not really thirsty right now."

Pretty much at the same time, she noticed Damon drinking some and he spit it out. There was definitely vervain in it.

She went over by the river where Elena and Caroline were sitting.

"What's up?" She asked.

"Elena and Stefan are fighting." Caroline explained.

"About what?" Jessie questioned.

"Katherine." Elena answered. "Stefan thinks that we shouldn't be together because Katherine might hurt me. Apparently she's in love with him."

"Well I don't think that you or any of us are really equipped to fight her." Jessie pointed out.

Caroline then noticed her mom on the phone. The blonde walked over to her mother and apparently she had some work to do.

"I don't know if I like the sound of that." Jessie replied.

"We should follow her." Caroline stated.

They found a good spot to listen and Jessie and Caroline used their vampire hearing and heard the sounds of gunshots and Damon and Stefan grunting in pain.

"We need to hurry." Jessie replied.

While this was happening, Blair and Tina were helping their dad plant some bushes.

"I should probably see Mason to see if I can find the right kind of chains." Blair remarked.

"Well I was going to put in a stronger door." Hank replied. "But I do think some chains that won't break would be pretty good too."

"Well it's good thing that you only went out the door. It would have really sucked if you had destroyed my room." Tina remarked. Both Blair and her father glared at her. "Okay I guess that wasn't funny."

The teenagers walked through the woods as they tried to find where the sheriff had taken Stefan and Damon.

"I need being here." Caroline stated as she noticed some leaves with dried blood on them. She then recognized it as Matt's blood. It must have been where they had made out and she had accidentally injured and fed on him.

"What are you three doing out here?" Mason asked. The three girls looked up at him.

"Have you seen Stefan?" Elena asked.

"Yeah, Elena, I've seen Stefan." Mason replied sinisterly as he began to walk toward them. "I've seen Damon too."

"Where are they?" Elena replied.

"Why don't you ask your friends?" He asked. He then looked at Caroline specifically. "Does your mother know what you are?"

"Mason, stop this." Jessie ordered.

"If you attack me our deal will be off." Mason replied as he grabbed the doppelganger by the throat. Jessie and Caroline both got ready to attack. Mason tightened his hold. "Careful, necks snap easily."

"I can take you." Caroline replied.

"Deal's off." Jessie added.

"Hit me with your best shot." Mason challenged.

Caroline rushed over and pushed Mason off. Jessie took Elena. Caroline kicked Mason in the groin and then kicked him in her decision. Jessie then raised her leg and kicked him hard into a tree, almost knocking it down. Jessie wanted to throw up her arms like a soccer player who just scored a goal.

"Let's go." Caroline replied as the two brunettes followed her.

Jessie heard another gunshot and knew that they were getting close. They stopped in front of some kind of cellar.

"What is that?" Elena asked.

Jessie and Caroline both listened to what was happening inside.

"He's not going to talk." Liz said from down below. "Let's kill them both."

"It's my mom." Caroline remarked.

Elena began to run down there and Caroline grabbed her arm.

"Elena, no." Caroline told her.

"We have to stop her." Elena argued.

"This is going to get messy." Jessie remarked.

"I can't." Caroline argued. "I don't want my mom to know this about me."

Jessie meanwhile was wondering if she should really go into a possible deathtrap.

Elena ran down immediately after Caroline let her go.

"Let's do this." Liz ordered. "Each with a stake in the heart, then burn them both."

"It sounds like there are three of them down there." Jessie remarked. "We have to do something now that Elena's down there. We don't know that they won't to kill her."

Elena opened the gate and one of the deputies grabbed her and threw her in, pointing a gun at her.

"Okay we go in on three." Caroline stated.

"3!" Jessie shouted as they rushed down the stairs. They sped around as the two of them rushed over to and each of them bit into a deputy, sucking them to point of death. Liz raised her gun, only to look and see that one of the vampires was her daughter. She immediately dropped it.

"Hi Mom." Caroline remarked with blood covering her mouth.

Elena and Jessie were in charge of removing the wooden bullets from Damon and Stefan. That wasn't exactly something that Jessie had signed up. After Jessie had cleaned out Damon, he began to drink from one of the bodies. Stefan was more reluctant to do so. Jessie took out her phone, knowing that she would have to call her dad.

"What's up?" Hank asked.

"Sheriff Forbes tried to kill Stefan and Damon after Mason told her they were vampires." Jessie explained. "She's fine, but the two deputies that were with aren't. They're kind of dead. I had to do it, Dad. It wasn't right to do it like this. I mean if either of them had attacked someone, that's one thing, but this was basically a hate crime."

"What are you going to do with her?" Hank asked, taking everything in.

"I can't talk anymore, Dad." Jessie replied as Damon got up.

"This is a most unfortunate situation." He commented. "Two deputies dead and you: what are we going to do with you?"

"You won't tell anyone, will you?" Caroline requested, only to get no answer. "Mom? Mom, please? Look, I know that we don't get along, and that you hate me, but I'm your daughter and you'll do this for me, right? He will kill you."

"Then kill me." Liz stated. "I don't want to live in a world where my daughter is a monster. Kill me now."

Damon walked closer and looked like he might break the sheriff's neck. He grabbed her.

"Damon, don't." Elena told him.

"Relax, no one's killing anybody." Damon remarked. He then whispered into her ear. "You're my friend."

They all looked around at the mess that Jessie had predicted before they went in.

"We've gotta clean this up." Damon said.

Jessie decided to let them take care of everything and she realized that she needed to get back to her family. She also needed to wash the blood off of her face.

She made her way home and Anna was downstairs.

"Where is everyone?" Jessie asked.

"They're in the kitchen." Anna explained. "Looks like you had an interesting day. I'm sort of glad that I didn't go."

Jessie went to the bathroom and cleaned her face off before she walked into the kitchen to face her father. He didn't look happy.

"Dad, I hope you're not mad at me." She replied.

"Well I am trying to understand this." Hank admitted. "Did you really kill somebody?"

"Yes." Jessie admitted. "I didn't have a choice. They had guns. We needed to act fast and that was the quickest solution."

"Where's Liz now?" Hank inquired.

"Damon was going to keep at the boarding house until the vervain left her system and then compel her to forget." Jessie explained. "They probably would have tried to kill us if we didn't kill them. One of them pointed a gun at Elena. I wish it didn't have to go down like this. I saw the way that she looked at Caroline. She was terrified of her. Please don't tell me that you feel that way about me."

Hank walked over and gave Jessie a hug.

"I don't think that we can trust Mason anymore." He then said. "Blair, I'm sorry, but we'll have to find some other way."

Jessie went upstairs and there was Anna.

"I need to shower." She remarked.

"I could join you." Anna offered.

"As tempting as that may be, I don't think it's a good idea." Jessie admitted. "Today was a long day. I wish just that we could have a week where nobody tries to kill anyone else: no more torture, no more attempted murders, no more anything."

"I don't think that's likely as long as Katherine's around." Anna admitted. "How about a day?"

"A normal day would be good." Jessie replied before she entered the bathroom.

I know Anna is doing as much right now, but she will be appearing more in the next chapter and of course she'll be Jessie's date to the masquerade. What do you guys think about the Caroline and Jeremy stuff that's developing? Do you like it? Please don't forget to review.