Jessie was awoken in the middle of night by a phone call. She wanted to wait until it stopped but finally answered it.
"What?" She asked.
"Isobel just showed up at the Gilbert house in front of Jenna." Stefan replied. "This is a big problem."
"Is it a big enough problem and that it couldn't wait until morning?" Jessie questioned.
"Yes." Stefan responded.
"Well I don't know what you want me to do." Jessie stated. "I have my grandpa's birthday party tomorrow and I can't get involved."
Jessie hung up the phone. She would have to spend the whole day at the historical society meeting at the Lockwoods'. The Grill was catering the event.
In the morning, she woke up and found out from Anna that Caroline told Matt that she was a vampire and he was freaking out about it.
"Chalk one thing up to our list of problems." Jessie muttered. "I have enough on my own plate to deal with. I don't want to have to deal with everyone else's problems."
"I'm sorry that you're involved in all of this." Anna apologized. "Sometimes I wish that I hadn't turned you and you would still have a normal life."
"I'm not saying that I want a normal life." Jessie argued. "I don't have any regrets, but this is a bit out of control. Do you think you can help with crisis management while I'm at work?"
"I'll try." Anna promised before she gave Jessie a kiss.
That led her to the boarding house where in addition to Katherine there was another uninvited guest. Elena was also there.
"You really need to do something to keep vampires from getting in." Anna commented.
"Isobel and I have some news that we need to share with you." Katherine declared. Why was she not surprised those two bitches were working together?
"I've been trying to find Klaus ever since I left." Isobel stated. "I wanted to find him before he could find you."
"I think it would be the best way to keep Elena alive." Katherine added.
"I have too many people trying to protect me." Elena stated. "Does anyone have an actual plan of how to kill Klaus?"
"That seems like it would be the most important thing. Maybe we should see if there are any more of those daggers." Anna recommended. "I could try to find my dad to see if he can help."
"Were you able to find Klaus?" Stefan asked outright.
"No, nobody knows where he is." Isobel answered.
"Then you being here is a complete waste of time." Damon commented. "You can go now."
"But there are these rumors flying around that a doppelganger exists." Isobel continued.
"So any vampire that wants to get in favor with Klaus will be lining up to capture you." Katherine explained.
"Why should I believe anything that either of you say?" Elena asked. She looked at Isobel specifically. "Last time you were here, you made it clear that you didn't give a damn about me, now I'm supposed to believe that all of a sudden you wanna help?"
"Isobel's been helping me since she was turned." Katherine pointed out. "He's been obsessed with finding me since I ran away from him. All it would take was one of those tomb vampires to say I was still alive and it would have led them here."
"So you had John kill my mother because you didn't think she could keep your secret?" Anna asked angrily. "Not to mention that you almost killed me, Stefan, Damon, and Caroline and did kill Mayor Lockwood and Jessie's mom."
"I have a safe house that I can take you to." Isobel offered. "The deed is in your name. No vampires can get in, including me. Let me help you."
"You wanna help?" Elena responded. "Then stay the hell away from me."
After Isobel was gone, the three vampires and Elena sat in the living room.
"Should we believe them?" Elena asked.
"Why don't we go with Little Miss Darkness's idea and transfer the deed into your name?" Damon suggested Anna glared at him. "That way we can keep an eye on you. Klaus won't be able to get in."
"So, is that the plan? Neither of you let me out of your sight again?" Elena asked sardonically. "Well one of you bodyguards needs to come with me to the Lockwood house today then."
"I will." Stefan declared.
"I have to hang out with Bonnie today." Damon responded.
At the Lockwood house, Jessie was listening in on the mayor and the sheriff talking when Caroline arrived.
"Where's Matt?" The blonde asked.
"He bailed." Jessie explained. "Which makes my workload a whole lot harder."
"Looks like Stefan and Elena are here." Caroline declared as she walked over to them. Jessie decided to keep working and just listen.
"Any luck finding Matt?" Stefan asked.
"None." Caroline answered before whispering. "What if he tells somebody? What if he tells everybody?"
"We have to find him and make sure that doesn't happen." Stefan explained. He turned to Elena "Do you any idea where he would be."
"I wish I did but he wasn't really one to run." Elena replied.
"This wasn't how it was supposed to happen." Caroline remarked. "I was supposed to tell him at the right moment in the right way and he was supposed to be okay with it because he loves me."
"We'll help you find him." Elena promised. "I just have this thing for Jenna."
"Well call me when you're done and I'll be out looking for him." Caroline stared as she left.
Inside the Salvatore house, Katherine decided to do some snooping. After looking a little, she managed to find the moonstone in the soap dish.
Elsewhere in town Alaric met up with Isobel. She pretended to apologize but really she was just distracting him so one of Klaus's witches, Maddox could cast a spell and capture. She walked wondering where her deal with the devil would lead.
Back in the mayoral mansion, the mayor was giving a speech while Jessie changed out the coffee in the back.
"And here to accept the donation for the Miranda Somers-Gilbert Scholarship Fund is Elena Gilbert." She stated. Everyone in the room, including Jessie clapped as Elena went to accept the money.
"The Historical Society was my mom's baby." Elena replied. "She considered all of you family and would be honored and touched by all of this. I would all like to give a round of applause for all of the work that Mr. Fell has done for it and wish him happy birthday."
Jessie thought that was sweet of her. Suddenly there was the sound of someone falling door the stairs. Everyone but Elena left the room. Jessie couldn't help but wonder if it was a distraction and noticed the bite-marks which caused her to back up. She noticed that Elena seemed to fine. Something seemed off, but she couldn't leave. She didn't know that it was really Katherine and Elena had been kidnapped by Isobel. She then realized that everyone was leaving so it was okay for her to as well. She saw Stefan and Elena and noticing something was missing from Elena's neck.
"I think you need to step away from her, Stefan." Jessie instructed.
"What are you going to do, attack me in broad daylight?" Katherine taunted. "You'd be more likely to expose yourself than you would me."
Katherine then stabbed Stefan with a vervain needle and threw him in the bushes. Jessie wanted to follow him, but heard her grandpa calling her.
"Jessie." He said as she walked over. She gave him a hug. "Your father called me and said that he can't pick up the cake. I was wondering if you would since I can't get my own cake."
Jessie really wished that she could follow Katherine, but knew that she had to.
"Okay." Jessie replied. "Grandpa, there's something that I want to say to you. I know that you may not approve, but I have a girlfriend and I am bringing her to your party."
"Jessie, I don't think that you should assume that just because I'm a senior that I'd have a problem with that." Tobias told her. "I'm happy as long as you're happy."
"I'll make sure that to bring the cake over when I arrive at six." Jessie told him. "I have to go home and change out of this uniform. You'll love the dress that I'm wearing tonight."
As she was heading to her car, she noticed Matt talking to Sheriff Forbes. He also accused her of covering up Vicki's death. She knew she wouldn't get a chance to talk to or yell at him for missing his shift. She did however text Caroline that she saw him.
A little later, Caroline went inside of her house and found Matt was sitting there.
"You're here." She stated.
"Your mom brought me here." He explained. That frightened her a little. Had Matt told her?
"My mom?" Caroline asked.
"I accused her of covering up Vicki's death and she threatened to arrest me." Matt replied.
"Did you tell her anything else?" She questioned.
"Nothing about you." He responded. She breathed a sigh of relief. "I got the feeling she wasn't going to believe anything I said so I shut up. She brought me here to cool down and she got called away."
"Matt." She started, moving toward him before he backed up. She was still confused by everything he was doing. "Why'd you stick around if you were still scared of me?"
"Because I need to know more." Matt answered. "About Vicki, about you."
"I'll tell you anything you wanna know." She promised.
Stefan and Damon arrived at the foreclosure where Isobel was staying and began to look for her and Elena, but all they found was Anna.
"Isobel's not here." Anna told them. "Jessie told me about how Elena had been kidnapped."
It turned that Isobel took Elena to Grove Hill Cemetery where her tombstone was.
"So were you compelled to betray Katherine?" Elena asked.
"If I was, I wouldn't remember it, but it was probably Klaus that did it." Isobel explained.
"That means that you found him and he knows where I am." Elena deduced. "Are you taking me to him?"
They stopped in front of said tombstone.
"What is this?" Elena asked.
"My parents: your grandparents put it here when it became clear the police weren't going to find my body." Isobel explained. "They visit every week and they bring flowers, even though there's no one buried here. The Isobel they knew is dead so I guess it's a fitting metaphor. You know I used to dream about the day that I'd meet you and get to know you. I'm sorry that I failed you."
It was then that she got a call saying that she was done and she took off her necklace and burned to death in the sunlight.
In Caroline's house, she was explaining things to Matt.
"So after I hurt you in the woods, I made you forget." She explained. "And I promised myself I would stay away from you, but I couldn't. I love you. I do. I love you, Matt. So much that it hurts. I'm so sorry about what happened to Vicki and I really wish that you would say something."
"I'm all alone." Matt remarked.
"No, you're not." Caroline argued.
"My mom doesn't care. My sister's dead and all of my friends are liars." He continued. "And you're a…"
"I'm still me." She interrupted. "I'm still me."
She tried to get close to him, but he wasn't having it. He wouldn't let her touch him.
"This is too much. All of this is just too much." Matt declared, standing up. "I don't wanna know this."
"Tell me what I can do." She instructed. She was on the verge of years. "Tell me what I can do. I wanna help you."
"You can make me forget." He said. "You've done it to me before."
Jessie was in her room as she and Anna were finishing preparing for the party. She was wearing a white dress with silver flowers on it with silver heels. Her hair was in an updo. Anna had just recapped her on what all had happened. In addition to Isobel's compelled suicide, Bonnie and Jeremy had found the witch death house and Bonnie was able to channel the power of the dead witches. She still didn't know how effective that would be against Klaus but they had their weapon now.
"It seems like everyone else had a more exciting day than me." Jessie commented.
"The day's not over yet." Anna reminded her. "Something crazy could still happen."
"Let's hope not." Jessie stated before the two of them walked out the door.
They arrived at Tobias's house shortly after. Everyone was there except for Valerie, who was strangely absent.
"Where's Val?" Jessie asked.
"She's in her room." Tobias stated. "She's really upset about something, but I don't know what."
"I'll go talk to her to see if I can get her to come down." Jessie volunteered. "By the way, this is Anna."
Jessie walked upstairs to Valerie's room. She noticed the door was open and Valerie was indeed crying.
"Hey." Jessie greeted her aunt. "Grandpa tells me that you're upset. Is there anything that I can do about it?"
"I can't go down there." Valerie cried. "There are too many people. Too much blood pumping through veins."
Jessie gasped.
"This woman named Isobel found me last night." Val continued. "She fed me her blood and snapped my neck. You were right. I didn't want this. But it's my only choice. I can't tell my dad or my sister. I don't wanna die, Jessie."
Jessie could only hug her. She wished that Isobel hadn't committed suicide because she wanted to kill her herself.
Meanwhile in Alaric's apartment, Katherine woke up on the floor. It was there that she saw Maddox casting a spell on the history teacher. She had no idea what he was doing. She inspected her person and realized that the moonstone was gone. After about a minute, Maddox finished the incantation. Alaric got up and united himself before he walked over to where the vampire was. Katherine tried to run out, but found that she couldn't escape. Maddox had spelled her to stay in.
"Hello Katerina." Alaric said to her. It was then she realized what Maddox had done. "I have missed you."
"Klaus." She stated.
So Valerie learned to be careful what she wished for. How will Jessie deal with her being a vampire. Also Klaus is in Alaric's body and Isobel died but you already knew those things would happen. Next chapter has a trip to the sixties, at least the 60s dance. Please don't forget to review.