A/N Booklover457, I will explain Beth's story about how she got turned, however it won't be for a while. It's actually a big part of season two!

My phone ringing woke me up. I moaned and rolled over in bed. I picked my phone up to see who it was. Stefan.

"What? I'm mad at you."

"Anna took Elena."

"And?"

"You too? I already had this talk with Damon, but I expected you to be a little more concerned!" I was already getting out of bed.

"I meant 'and' as in what else do you know, not as in I wasn't concerned! Don't throw me under the blame bus so quickly, Stefan! What do you know?"

"Just that Anna took her. I've been searching the streets all night but I don't know anything else."

"Fine… Where are you?" I asked, shoving my feet into my boots.

"Downstairs."

"Seriously?" I asked. He was calling me on a phone when he was one floor down? I slipped my arms into my leather jacket.

"According to Damon you have a nasty habit of attacking people you're pissed at if you wake them up." He told me. I hung up and darted downstairs. Stefan gave me a forced smile as he saw me. His phone rang and he looked down. I could see Elena's number on the screen. He pressed a button and put it to his ear.

"Elena? Are you okay?" I brushed my hair aside and listened in on the other line.

"She's fine. For now. Tell me you have the grimoire and she'll stay fine." Anna. Damon walked into the room and leaned against the doorframe. Stefan glanced at him.

"I can get it!" He said quickly.

"Which means your brother has it. And I have the witch. So one of you had better meet me in the very public town square in thirty minutes so we can safely discuss how fun it's going to be to work together." With that said, Anna hung up on Stefan. We both looked over at Damon.

"Go ahead. Grovel again. Oh wait, no… I don't care!" Damon left the room again with a smirk.

"I'll go to the town square. You need to get that grimoire." I told Stefan once Damon was gone. He gave me a questioningly look.

"Beth… This vampire is older than you and that means she's strong-."

"She's older than you too and despite my looks, I'm as tough as you. I'm done being told what to do by my annoying big brothers." I told him.

"But-."

"Bye." I walked out the front door. I darted half the way, to the edge of town, and then walked human pace; I did have twenty-five minutes to burn. I got there early anyway and saw Anna with Jeremy. I bit back a growl, sat down on a bench and listened in.

"So you're finally ready to go out with me?" Anna was asking.

"It's been a while since I've been to a party and I kinda want to get back out there. And not be such a… loner. And I like you-." I tuned him out, growling quietly. So Anna came here and is going to take over the town and take Jeremy Gilbert from me? Then Anna came over to me and sat down next to me.

"Got a hot date or are you just planning on nabbing the entire Gilbert family?" I asked as if I hadn't heard what had happened.

"A party in the old cemetery. Isn't that nice of them? Lots of warm bodies for starving vampires." Anna said too cheerfully.

"If one human dies from a vampire, Annabelle, I will kill every vampire that I'm not related to." I threatened.

"Hmm…"

"Stefan will come after you, Anna, you know that. For messing with Elena." We both stood up and folded our arms across our chests.

"Then he won't be happy if I kill her when I don't get what I want." She hissed at me. She turned just as Damon darted in front of her. She took a step back, almost bumping into me.

"When do you want to do this?" Damon asked.

"God, it's like 1864 all over again. You Salvatore boys are truly pathetic when it comes to women… Tonight. After sundown. Meet at the church." Anna left and Damon looked over at me.

"I thought you worked alone?" I asked.

"I do. But this is for Elena and Katherine. Will you help me?" He asked. I raised an eyebrow. He knew from that one motion what I meant.

"I don't trust Anna as far as I can throw that little girl. You, however, I trust with my life. If she screws us over, I want you to be there so we can take her down together." Damon told me.

"Fine… I'll work with you just for tonight." I told him. I turned to leave, but he caught my arm and spun me around to face him.

"When did I become the enemy?" He demanded.

"I think we all turned against each other the second we became vampires, Damon… Blame your lover girl for that one!" I pulled my arm back. He walked off, gritting his teeth at me. I turned and almost ran into Jeremy.

"Your brother giving you trouble?" He asked. I shook my head.

"Just a little argument. Nothing I can't handle. Why the sudden concern?" I snapped. He looked taken back by that.

"What did I do recently?" He asked.

"Ask Anna. You seem to have found your dream girlfriend." I growled.

"Whoa! I asked her out, but it's not like we're going serious!" He said, suddenly defensive, as he should have been. My phone buzzed in my pocket.

"Gotta go." I told Jeremy as I grabbed my phone. I looked at the number as I walked away. Stefan. I picked it up.

"What?"

"I found Elena and Bonnie and I figured you could use this vampire to get out some of your recent anger." He told me quickly.

"Where are you?"

"At the motels at the edge of town." I darted over there and found him beside one of the last rooms. We both hung up our phones.

"You ready?"

"Well, kissing vampires' feet isn't what my lipsticks' for." I told him. He kicked in the door and we both darted in. The vampire screamed as the sunlight burned him. Elena and Bonnie ran over to Stefan.

"Go." I shot at him. He, Bonnie and Elena hurried out as the vampire curled up in between the two beds to avoid the sunlight. I threw open the curtains to let even more sunlight into the room. I walked over to the vampire.

"When the sun goes down, you'd better leave town. If I ever see you again, I'll kill you." I told him. He was halfway under the bed.

"Are you that Salvatore girl Anna warned me about?" He asked. I smirked.

"Honey, I am worse than anyone tells you. If you don't believe me, stay here after tonight and I'll show you how bad I can be!" With that said, I darted out after Stefan, Bonnie and Elena. They headed for Bonnie's grandmother's house while I went back to the boarding house.

"You still gonna work with me, little sis?" Damon asked without turning around as I walked into the living room.

"Unlike some people, I don't fool people."

"You fooled me last night."

"That was Stefan and I was not involved in him getting dad's journal!" I protested. He nodded slowly, finally turning around to look at me.

"Sure, I believe you." He said sarcastically.

"There was once a time where I would tell you something and you would really believe me." I reminded him.

"Oh, I'm sorry, let's go back and be BFF's!" He said in a high pitched voice I assumed he thought I sounded like.

"This is why you don't have a family anymore, Damon!" I turned on my heel and headed for the stairs.

"Where are you going?" He asked.

"My bedroom. Leave me alone. I have to get into an outfit that says 'I'll be in a tomb tonight' rather than one that says 'small town girl on a mission'." I yelled over my shoulder. I heard an annoyed sigh behind me from my brother. I smirked and went into my bedroom.

That night I made a wide circle around the party to get to the tomb unseen. Stefan, Bonnie and her grandmother were already there, waiting.

"What is that?" Bonnie asked, motioning towards the gasoline cans.

"Everything we need to destroy them." I answered for Stefan. She jumped, not realizing I had walked up. Her grandmother didn't. She simply looked over at me.

"Beth Salvatore." I said, sticking out a hand to her.

"I know who you are." She looked at my hand for a moment before taking it. "And I know you're trustworthy as far as you Salvatore vampires go... Sheila Bennett." She shook my hand.

"Are you sure that your brother will come?" She directed this question at Stefan instead of me. We heard a whistle behind us and we all turned towards Damon.

"Siblings. Witches." He greeted everyone. He walked past us, waving the grimoire in the air so we could all see it. Elena trudged along behind him and stopped by me. Damon descended into the tomb.

"Everything okay?" I asked Elena.

"I just want to get this over with. Are we ready?" She asked Bonnie. Bonnie looked over at her grandmother and then back at us.

"I guess so…" We all went into the tomb. Damon, Stefan, Elena and I stopped at the bottom of the stairs while Bonnie and her grandmother went onto the room below. I saw what I assumed was the doorway to the tomb itself. Damon and I stepped back from everyone else as he took a blood bag from his pocket.

"What's that?" I asked, eying the bag.

"It's for Katherine. Gotta have something to get her going…" He whispered. He looked over at Elena. "Unless you're offering a vein to tap!" He said louder. She shot him a look, not amused. He turned back to me and dropped his voice into a whisper again.

"Admit it, even you, my loyal, darkly beautiful-." He picked up a strand of my black hair, twirled it around his finger and then let it drop again it. "-little sister can't wait to get rid of me."

"Stefan can't wait to get rid of you. You know what I want?" He raised an eyebrow, curious.

"For Katherine to be dead and for you to stay here with me, like we were actually siblings and not minions you manipulate when you have some dirty work for them to do!" I hissed.

"We're ready." Bonnie interrupted us. We both stepped back down, Damon standing near Stefan and me right next to Elena. Sheila and Bonnie both started chanting something I couldn't understand.

"What are they saying?" Damon asked.

"Sounds Latin." Stefan replied.

"I don't think its Latin." I disagreed. We all looked at each other and shrugged it off. Elena gave me an oddly pleased look. I assumed she was happy we were acting like siblings for five seconds. The torches flared up suddenly and Elena reached across me to grab Stefan's arm. I rolled my eyes and moved over to stand by Damon so she could cling to Stefan. The door to the tomb creaked open.

"It worked!" Bonnie cried.

"Of course it worked!" Sheila snapped as if she was offended Bonnie had thought it wouldn't.

"We have some fires to build." Damon whispered to Stefan and me.

"I'm gonna get the gasoline. I'll be right back." He hurried out of the tomb and I followed.

"Last chance to just kill Katherine." I reminded him.

"Beth…" He gave me a warning look and I shut up.

"Dark down there?" A voice asked as Stefan went to the cans of gasoline. We both turned. The vampire I'd threatened earlier stood a few yards behind us, grinning like an idiot. An unconscious Jeremy was at his feet. I started forward, fangs out, but Stefan grabbed my arm to hold me back.

"I thought I told you to leave!" I growled.

"I considered it. Then I thought: screw you!" Stefan grabbed my other arm and I tried to get forward again.

"Hey, hero." Stefan turned. I recognized Anna's voice, but I didn't turn to look at her. The other vampire gave me a smirk.

"I'm going down there to get my mother!" Anna said from behind me.

"I can't let you do that." Stefan told her.

"Well, Ben's about to make a main course out of Elena's little brother. You guys can stop him, or me. Your choice…" 'Ben' picked up Jeremy and let his fangs extend. I ignored the fact that Anna was in the tomb and sped towards Ben. I knocked him down to the ground.

"You guys don't feed on humans! You're not strong enough." He spat at me. I easily pinned him to the ground.

"But I'm a lot older than you and very pissed off. That kind of makes the difference." I told him.

"Beth!" I knew what Stefan wanted just by my name. I threw Ben towards him and then ran over to Jeremy as Stefan lit Ben on fire. I checked Jeremy's pulse. It was still there and I could see he was breathing.

"Come on!" Stefan called to me. I got up from the ground and we ran into the tomb again.

"Where's Elena?" Stefan asked at once, looking around.

"Damon took her inside." Bonnie answered. Stefan ran towards the entrance to the tomb, but Sheila grabbed his arm.

"Stefan, if you go in there. You won't come out." Sheila told him.

"What did you do?" I demanded, stepping forward.

"Some seals are to keep vampires from entering. This one is to keep them from coming out."

"Elena's human. She can come out. Anna can't… Katherine can't… Stefan! Damon can't!" I cried.

"I told you. I protect my own. Elena can get out. That's all that matters." Sheila said calmly. Then we heard Elena screaming from inside the tomb. Stefan shot into the tomb. I made to follow, but Sheila caught my arm like she had with Stefan.

"You can't come out once you go in there." She warned.

"But my brothers are in there! Let go!" She dropped my arm and I sprinted into the tomb after them. It was dark and I stumbled around, trying to get my bearings. Suddenly someone hit me dead on. I let my fangs extend.

"Beth?" Elena.

"Come on. I'm right behind you." Stefan's voice said. My eyes had adjusted enough for me to see the shapes of Elena and my brother. We went back to the exit and I pushed Elena out before an invisible wall blocked me.

"I'm going after Damon… Tell him what happened." I whispered to Stefan. I darted off, making my way through the tunnels trying to find Damon, leaving Bonnie and Stefan to explain to Elena why we couldn't get out.

"Damon! Damon!" I called, running through the dark tunnels. Finally, I found him, in the last tunnel of the tomb.

"She's not here."

"What?" I asked, not sure if I had heard him right. Not here?

"She's not here!" He threw the blood bag he was holding against the wall and the blood splattered against it. Katherine wasn't in the tomb? Then… she'd been alive all these years? Was that what really happened?

"Damon, we have to go!" I told him. I reached out and grabbed his arm. He ignored me; like I wasn't even there.

"It doesn't make sense… They locked her inside." Damon whispered to himself. I tugged on his arm. He didn't move.

"If we don't leave now, we never will!" I told him.

"How could she not be in here?"

"It's not worth spending all of eternity down here! She's not worth it!" I cried, dropping his arm.

"NO!" Damon punched the rock wall beside my head and bits of rocks rained down to the floor. I had to wonder if he'd been aiming for me, but just missed.

"Damon!" We both turned as Elena and Stefan ran up. Damon looked at Elena and then looked around again. Then he grabbed my arm and pulled me along as we ran back towards the exit.

"Go." Damon pushed me out of the tomb, turning only to make sure that Stefan and Elena were right behind us before he followed. Just as we came out, the torches around Bonnie and her grandmother died out. The spell was back up. I ran out of the tomb and over to Jeremy.

"Is he okay?" Elena asked, running after me. We kneeled beside him. He groaned and turned his head but didn't wake up.

"He's fine." I assured her. Damon came out of the tomb behind us. Elena went over to him and hugged him, though he didn't hug her back.

"I'm sorry." She told him quietly. Once she released him, he darted off again. She looked towards me, a silent question in her eyes.

"He'll be fine… In time." I looked back at Jeremy. He was slowly waking up.

"I'll take him home." I told Elena. She nodded and smiled gratefully, though it was a little forced. I couldn't blame her.

Later at Jeremy's house, I handed him a cup of water and an Asprin.

"How's your head?" I asked, sitting down at the foot of the bed.

"Uh… okay… I just, I wish I knew how I passed out. I didn't drink that much, I swear!" He told me. Talk to Anna about that, I thought bitterly. But I smiled.

"I believe you. And you don't remember anything?" That I should compel out of you before you start running around screaming about vampires?

"No, the whole thing's pretty cloudy… I know how this looks. I'm sorry."

"You're explaining yourself and apologizing to me… why?"

"Well… I'm half afraid you'll tell my sister-."

"Already done." I admitted.

"Great."

"She knows it's not your fault. She won't be mad at you." I assured him.

"Okay, um thanks… And you are my best friend. Your opinion of me matters." He told me.

"I thought Anna was your best friend?" I said, getting to my feet.

"Oh, don't do that, Beth!" He complained.

"What?" I demanded.

"That jealous girl thing."

"I'm not jealous!"

"Yes you are! It shows! And you're my best friend and Anna is…a friend." He told me. I half smiled, seeing how sincere he was.

"Fine… I believe you. I'd better be getting home though. You need anything else?" I asked.

"Nah, I'm good."

"Kay, well, I heard your aunt come in, so she's here if you do need anything… And, I'll be going." I walked out of the bedroom and quietly went down the stairs. His aunt Jenna met me by the door.

"You are not good at sneaking out of boy's bedrooms."

"What? Whoa! No, not what it looks like!" I said quickly. She laughed, enjoying my look of shock.

"I know. I'm teasing you. Have a good night, Beth." I sighed in relief and returned the 'good night'. I headed out the door and walked down the sidewalk. Once I was sure no one was watching, I darted back to the boarding house. Stefan and Damon were sitting on the couch together, not talking but just staring blankly at the fire. I stripped off my jacket, boots and socks and sat down in between them, putting my head on Damon's shoulder.

"Last time that Anna saw Katherine was in nineteen eighty three… She knew where I was… She didn't care…" Damon muttered. I looked up at him.

"I'm sorry, Damon." That Katherine is a piece of a crap, I added silently in my head. He nodded and then the silence returned.