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Chapter 2

Jeremy sighed looking down at his dead body. He sighed, glancing back up at Damon. Damon, who was currently getting yelled at by Stefan, Elena was at the Gilbert house doing some girl thing with Bonnie and Caroline. You just had to take my ring off didn't you Damon? I sat down beside my body, thinking about what to say when I woke up. Just because he had 27 lives did not mean he wanted to die again.

He leaned against the wall waiting for the switch when he finally would get to go back into his body. I hope it doesn't take too long this time. He thought. He didn't really feel like digging himself out from under 6 feet of dirt. He started to tune into the conversation that Damon and Stefan were sort of yelling.

"How are you going to explain this to Elena?" Stefan yelled. "Not to mention you just killed someone! And why? What was your amazing explanation…hmmm? Oh ya! He pissed you off!" Jeremy scoffed. Of course that's what Stefan would be worried about. Elena. Honestly even though she was his sister. Well that's just it was. After she became a vampire she just wasn't the same anymore. But he still loved her.

"I know Stefan! I know. But…" Damon's eyes were draw to my body. When I glanced down I realized why. After I slammed through the coffee table I had sliced open my side and there was blood covering half the floor… which was now sucking itself back into my seemingly dead body.

"What the hell is going on…." Stefan said glancing at Damon. I felt a tingling feeling spread throughout my body. "Fantastic. Now of all times." Everything spun around me, I couldn't breathe. I closed my eyes until I felt the feeling come back to my body, limb by limb. I shuddered at the feeling of my side knitting itself back together.

I really did not want to open my eyes because I knew Stefan and Damon would start asking questions. And he's pretty sure it would be painful especially if Damon was involved. But he had to eventually… "Jeremy? Jeremy can you hear me?" He flinched inwardly what was he going to do….explain everything?

Ha! No. Not say anything and have them torture it out of him? Not the way he wanted to go but it would be better. He only had had one option then, play dumb.

He opened his eyes. Pretending the light was painful he lifted his arm to shield his eyes. "Stef…ste…Stefan? Wha…What happened?" Stefan glanced at Damon. Damon turned his gaze on him. "Jeremy what do you remember?" He asked him. "I don't…I don't know." He said moving to try and get up. Damon moved to help him up. "I wouldn't touch him if I were you." A snide voice said from doorway. "Katherine? What are you doing here?" Stefan asked.

"That doesn't matter right now. Damon put this on." She tossed him a mechanical looking belt. "What is this? And why should I put it on?" He asked. He didn't know what to do. So he stayed down "managing" to get up on his knees.

Nobody paid any attention to him. "Trust me Damon. Please! Look even I'm wearing one!" Damon glanced down at her midsection and sure enough there was the same one on her waist. "I would trust her Damon I'm the one who gave it to her." Elijah appeared. "Why? What do they do?" Stefan asked.

Damon reached down grabbing me by the arm and lifting me. My head rolled to the side. Stefan took me from him and put me on the couch. After Damon let go of me I suddenly felt really tired...weak. I closed my eyes. I suddenly felt this hot white pain run through me. My eyes shot open my back arched off the couch, a pain riddled cry ran through my lips.

"Jeremy? Jeremy what's wrong?" Stefan grabbed me trying to hold me down. Once his hands touched me the pain intensified. A full out scream rang throughout the room. I jerked away from him. "Don't touch me!" I screamed.

He came closer all eyes in the room were drawn to me. Stefan moved forward again. "Don't! Get away! Get away from me!" I yelled huddled at the bottom of the couch. "Well it looks like we found it." Elijah stepped towards me.

Something trickled down my face. I reached up to wipe it off. It was sweat…I was sweating. Why?

"Feeling okay Jeremy?" Katherine asked. "I've spent many years searching for another one of your kind." He muttered eyes never wavering as he made his way over to the couch.

"My kind?" I said my voice embarrassingly small. It trembled! I fight fucking monsters scarier than Elijah and yet. "Yes " he said hand reaching out to brush my forehead. I screamed, he smiled removing his hand.

I panted leaning against the arm of the couch. "Don't you want to know what's wrong with you?" My eyes fluttered. "Well maybe another time. I'll be here when you awaken." With my eyes closed.

Everybody POV

"Ok everyone is here now what is wrong with Jeremy?" Elena yelled.

Elijah still had his emotionless face on. "Jeremy is a different type of supernatural species. Right now, from what I can gather, your brother is having some after effects from his waking. Usually it can be avoided but since Damon grabbed him he will now be in quite large amounts of pain."

He finished, glancing around. "Ok, well how do we stop it?" Damon asked. Elijah looked to him before sighing. "From what little I know," "From what little? So can you help us figure this out at all?" Caroline spoke up.

"Possibly. I'm not quite sure yet. It depends on what you want to know. I may only be able to answer some." He answered. "Ok well as I said before, how do we stop him from the pain. Or try to lesson it?" Damon asked once again.

"He will require contact of some sort to the person who touched him when he first came to." Stefan turned to Damon. Who looked like he had seen Elena's dead body.

"When you say contact…" Damon said. "I mean you will have at least touch his hand or something every couple minutes." Damon nodded. When suddenly there was a sound coming from the couch.