In the morning, Jessie woke up to Bonnie at her door. She had texted the witch the night before about the emergency ring situation. She was happy that Bonnie had done it, no questions asked.
"Thank you." She said. "She's very scared right now."
"This kind of spell is easy for me now." Bonnie explained. "Just promise me you'll do your best to control her.
It was then that Anna came out of the shower. Bonnie decided to make her exit.
"So I have to go to help Valerie." Jessie told her girlfriend while she got dressed. "You'll have to go to school alone today."
Anna nodded before Jessie went out the door with a bag of blood in her purse. She had already had her breakfast, but she was pretty sure that her aunt would be hungry. It was a good thing she had her car.
She found Valerie in her room.
"What are you doing here?" The blonde asked.
"I'm here to take you to school." Jessie explained.
"But I can't go out into the sun." Val asked.
"Yes, you can." Jessie said as she presented the younger aunt the ring. "Put this on and you'll be able to walk in the day."
"Are you sure?" Valerie asked.
"Positive because I have one just like it." Jessie declared as Valerie slipped it on and Jessie opened the blinds. Valerie tried to hide before noticing nothing was wrong. "Now get dressed. We don't want to be late."
Once in her car, she handed the bag of blood to her.
"These will help with the cravings." She explained. "It's not as a good as it is fresh, but it's a lot safer."
Valerie was about to bite into it before Jessie snatched and showed her the tip. She sipped it to demonstrate.
"It's a lot less messy that way." She explained.
"So can I go to the 60s dance tonight?" The younger Fell asked.
"Can you?" Jessie repeated. "Do you feel like you can handle it? There will be a lot of people there. Are any of your friends going?"
"I think so, but I don't know." Valerie explained.
"How about you just stick close to me?" Jessie suggested. "I'll tell you what Anna told me. Willpower is a strong thing. Let believe that you don't need to bite anyone. Things are going to be okay. Once you get used to it, you'll probably like it."
"I still don't know what to do if my dad finds out." Valerie admitted.
"Well if nothing else, I can guarantee your brother will still love you." Jessie stated as they arrived in the parking lot. "And I'll love you too."
Valerie smiled as she walked into the school. She hoped that was a good thing.
Jessie walked into Alaric's class just as he was.
"Hello, class." The teacher greeted them. "What are we learning today?"
"With the decade dance tonight, we've been covering the 60s all week." A girl reminded him. Jessie wondered why he didn't remember that.
"Right…the 60s." Alaric stated. He then stared at Elena for a few seconds. "The 60s…wish there was something good I can say. Actually they kind of sucked, except for the Beatles of course. They made it bearable. What else was there? The Cuban Missile thing…we walked on the moon….Watergate."
"Watergate was the 70s, Ric." Elena interrupted. Everyone stared at her. "I mean Mr. Saltzman."
"Right." Alaric corrected. Jessie began to wonder why he was acting so strange. He seemed wrong in the head. "It kind of mushes together up here. The 60s, 70, but thank you."
At lunch, Jessie began to talk to Anna.
"So have you decided what you're going to wear to the dance?" She asked her girlfriend. "I'm pretty sure that Goth didn't exist in the 60s."
"I was a hippie in the 60s. It was a good cover." Anna explained. "I'll probably be a hippie again. What are you going to wear?"
"I have this white dress. It's very Sound of Music." Jessie answered.
"Are you going to sing?" Anna questioned hopefully.
"No!" Jessie responded. "You don't wanna hear me sing. I sound like a drunk cat vomiting. It's not pretty."
"What does a drunk cat vomiting sound like?" The Goth inquired as they took seats at a table with Elena and Bonnie.
Before either of them could say anything, the same girl from class, Jessie was pretty sure her name was Dana came up to them.
"Hey Elena. Okay so this is gonna sound freaky, but this totally hot guy just asked me to ask you if you were going to the dance tonight." Dana remarked.
"Tell him she has a boyfriend." Jessie replied. "Doesn't everyone know about Stefan?"
"You could at least meet him." Dana suggested. "He'll be at the dance tonight. His name is Klaus."
"I'm sorry what did you just say?" Elena asked.
"His name's Klaus." Dana declared. "I know the name's stupid, but I swear he's hot."
"Where is he? Is he here?" Bonnie asked.
"I don't know." Dana replied.
"She's been compelled." Anna whispered to Elena.
"But he wants to know if you'll save him the last dance." Dana stated. "How cute is that?"
That led to them going to the boarding house after school. Jessie and Anna tried to enter, but couldn't get in. She was confused to say the least. Anna wished that they had told her about the deed transferring.
"Both of you may come in." Elena declared. She then told the brothers what had happened.
"So we go to the dance and find him." Damon suggested.
"Do you remember what he looks like?" Jessie asked Anna.
"I might if I can get a close enough view." Anna declared. "I've only seen him from a distance, though."
"Well something tells me he's not going to be sixteen and pimply." Damon responded.
"He could be anywhere at any time." Stefan pointed out. "He compelled somebody at school. This is not as safe as you guys thought."
At that time, Alaric entered the house.
"There you are." Damon said to him.
"I'm sorry I'm late." The teacher apologized.
"Hey, I need you to put me down as a chaperone for the dance tonight. Klaus made his first move." Damon explained.
"Okay so we find him and then what?" Elena asked. "What's our plan of attack?"
"We attack." Damon declared.
"That's a good way to get us all killed." Jessie quipped.
"I'm the plan of attack." Bonnie stated. "He has no idea how much power I can channel. If you can find him, I can kill him."
"It's not going to be that easy." Alaric laughed. Jessie didn't understand what was funny. "He is the biggest baddest vampire around."
"Alaric has a point." Damon replied. "What if he…"
He charged at Bonnie and she effortlessly magically threw him into a table.
"Well I was impressed." Stefan commented.
"It doesn't matter if he's an Original." Bonnie boasted as she paced the floor. "I can take down anyone who comes at me. I can kill him Elena. I know I can."
After she got home, Jessie decided it was a good idea to call Valerie to tell her not to come.
"What do you mean I shouldn't come?" Valerie asked in confusion.
"There is going to be this Original vampire who can compel other vampires there." Jessie explained. "You don't want to drink vervain to prevent compulsion. It tastes like poison."
"I really wanted to go to this." Valerie whined.
"And I really want to keep you alive." Jessie argued. "I'll need to bring you up to speed, but I'll do that tomorrow. Just promise you'll stay home tonight."
"I promise." Valerie vowed before she hung up. It was then that Jessie noticed her dad in the doorway.
"You look nice." Hank commented. She was in a long white dress with short sleeves and a low neckline. She wore a black sash across her waist and her hair was in an intricate bun. "But you know The Sound of Music was set in the 40s, don't you?"
"The movie was in the 60s." Jessie argued. "I just got off the phone with Valerie."
"How's she taking it?" Hank asked feeling concerned for his sister.
"It's hard. I just told her that she can't come to the dance because Klaus is supposed to be there." Jessie explained. "I need to tell her about that soon."
"I don't know if I want you to go if Klaus is going to be there." Hank admitted.
"Daddy, I am still drinking the vervain, even though it tastes awful." Jessie argued. "And Bonnie should be able to kill him. I'll be careful. I have to help if I can."
It was then that Anna walked in, dressed in bright hippie colors.
"Ah, it burns my eyes." Jessie joked.
"Shut up, Liesl." Anna responded playfully. "So are you ready to go?"
"Yeah." Jessie replied as she took Anna's hand and took her to her car. "You know I love being able to drive again."
As they walked in, they were hit with the sounds of The Supremes.
"Motown…oh joy." Anna commented.
"I thought you liked 60s music." Jessie reminded her.
"I do, but not this." Anna remarked as she playfully covered her ears. "The British invasion, Grateful Dead, even Elvis, but not this."
Anna dragged Jessie out to the parking lot and there was everyone else, except Caroline who was with Matt.
"There you guys are." Jessie remarked. "I'm glad I came as someone other than a hippie."
"Let's do this." Stefan declared.
Upon, reentering the gym, a slower song was playing.
"Thanks for being here, everybody." Dana declared over the microphone. "We have a special shout-out tonight. This is for Elena-from Klaus."
"That was lame." Jessie remarked. She looked at Anna. "Do you see him?"
"No." Anna remarked.
"I know everyone here." Elena declared.
"Maybe he's not here and just wants us to believe he is." Stefan opined as he looked around.
"We should let him come to us." Damon suggested. That meant everybody but Damon was Damon because his girlfriend wasn't there. Jessie didn't want to put her in harm's way either.
"So are we really going to lay everything on the line with Bonnie?" Jessie asked Anna.
"What are you suggesting?" Anna responded.
"I just think that we should have some sort of backup plan." Jessie replied. "I mean Klaus is really old and really strong. I don't think we should take him lightly no matter what Bonnie says.
"Well we can't kill him." Anna pointed out. "I think trusting Bonnie may be our only option right now."
"I'm going to go get a drink." Jessie announced. She didn't feel like punch, so she headed to the water fountain. It was then that she heard what appeared to the noises of people fighting. She knew it wasn't her business, but then she noticed that one of the guys sounded like Jeremy. Three guys had ganged up on him. She grabbed the Gilbert and looked to one of the guys.
"I want the three of you to fight each other. See each other as Jeremy Gilbert." She compelled them.
While this was going on, Alaric took Elena and Bonnie to another room.
"What's going on?" Elena asked.
"Okay, I'll give you a hint. I am not Alaric." The teacher replied. It was then they realized he was Klaus.
"Klaus." Elena remarked.
"Surprise!" The Original in human guise declared.
"No, it's not possible." Elena denied.
"Just relax, Elena. I'm not here to hurt you." Klaus said. "The sacrifice won't be for a few more days. I am here for someone else in this hallway."
He walked towards Bonnie and she threw him back.
"Did I mention that I know a witch?" Klaus asked. "You're going to have to hit me a lot harder than that."
The two of them began to run and they eventual came across Jessie and Anna in the hall.
"Klaus compelled some guys to attack Jeremy." Jessie explained.
"He's in Alaric's body." Elena explained. "He is in Alaric's body."
"Find Stefan." Damon suggested to Elena. She ran off.
"I think we should get out of here." Anna suggested to her girlfriend. "There is nothing that we can do right now and we have to hope that Bonnie can take care of herself."
Bonnie was fighting off Klaus as it seemed to wear her down. She didn't want anyone to know that she had a plan that she had made with Damon. They didn't plan on killing Alaric. It was all a setup.
Outside in the parking lot, Jessie sat in her car with Anna.
"So I guess we're on the other side for this dance." Jessie commented.
"Well we were never the bad guys." Anna reminded her. "We just had a different agenda than them."
"I think we need to explore some other options." Jessie offered. "I think you should probably talk to your dad to see if he knows any way that we can kill Klaus. Plus, he's a shaman, so he might know how to prevent Klaus from breaking the Curse of the Sun and the Moon."
"What are you going to do?" Anna asked.
"I know that I need to tell Valerie everything. I might want to tell my grandpa and Meredith too." Jessie stated. "I think, when it comes to beating Klaus, we're going to need all the help that we can get."
"You know Klaus isn't alone in this either." Anna replied. "I wouldn't be surprised if he compelled Isobel to turn someone and that someone just happened to be Valerie."
"Well if that's the case, I definitely want to kill him. He needs to learn that nobody messes with my family." Jessie stated.
Inside the boarding house, Damon got done explaining to Elena that Bonnie wasn't actually dead, but had cast a spell so that Klaus would think that she was dead.
"So you know that the real Klaus will probably be here soon now that he thinks that Bonnie is dead." Damon stated. "She's the only one that can kill him."
"We'll have to find another way." Elena proposed. "I'm not letting Bonnie kill herself to kill him."
After Damon walked away, Elena decided to go down into the cellar. She knew that she needed another option and she had one. She pulled the dagger from Elijah's body and waited.
Things are get closer. There are only four chapters left of this story. Is everything going to go as planned or will Klaus succeed? Please don't forget to review.