The next morning, Anna appeared in Jeremy's room. "Hi."

"I thought I dreamed it." Jeremy said. "You're still a ghost, aren't you?"

"Pretty much." Anna said. She looked outside at the rainstorm. "I love watching rainstorms."

"How is it that you appear to be so normal?"

"Just something you pick up on when you're a ghost, I guess." Anna said. "One thing you should know about the supernatural, don't believe anything you read."

"What can you tell me?" Jeremy asked.

"Well, all you need to know is that I used to be a vampire. I was literally stabbed in the back."

"Okay…"

"Don't worry, I don't have any of my vampire powers." Anna told him. "I'm still trying to figure out how some of my current abilities work."

"That must be hard."

"It is. I'll meet you later." Anna said. She heard Elena's footsteps and didn't want her to know she was there. She faded away.

"Hey, you awake?" Elena asked.

"What's up?"

"We need help making sure the windows are closed."

"I'm on it." Jeremy said, getting out of bed.

A few hours later, he met with Anna at the Grill. "Hey, I'm meeting my mom here later."

"Does she know you're a…"

"No." Anna told him. "She has no idea I'm really dead. It's going to be hard to break the news to her that her only vampire daughter was staked from behind."

"You want me to be there when you tell her?"

"No!" Anna said. "No, it's just…she kinda has a grudge against your ancestor, Jonathan Gilbert."

"She won't have to know I'm descended from him."

"News travels fast in the vampire world, Jer." Anna said. "That's a nice bracelet."

"Thanks. My sister gave it to me."

"She doesn't know we're hanging out, does she?"

"No, but I don't see how it's a problem. You said I was the only human who could see you." Jeremy pointed out.

"I said you were one of the only people who could see me. There are others." Anna corrected him. "You should never take that thing off."

"Why not?"

"It's for protection." Anna explained.

"Are there any rouge spirits I need to worry about?"

"No, but don't forget vampires are out there, too." Anna reminded him.

"Are you telling me this because you like me or something?"

"What? Of course not. It's just, look, I don't have any friends on the other side, okay?" Anna admitted. "I'm mostly alone."

"I know how it feels." Jeremy said. "I'm a bit of a loner myself."

"Really? I kinda pegged you for more of the school nerd type." Anna told him.

"Yeah, but there are times where I wake up and feel like there's something missing." Jeremy explained. "Most people fit in, but I don't."

"Everyone goes through that, Jer. Even if their lives are already over." Anna said. She noticed her mother walk in. "I'll see you later." She got up and went over to Pearl.

"Hey, Mom."

"Did you get everything?" Pearl asked.

"Yeah, I went pretty fast." Anna told her. "I dropped off some of them at home before coming here."

"Who was that you were talking to?"

"Just a friend I met at the library." Anna told her. She walked past her. A few minutes later, Jeremy walked over to her.

"You sure you can't stay?"

"My mom's right there." Anna told him.

"Oh." Jeremy said. "I guess you're gonna have to tell her now, aren't you?"

"It appears so." Anna tried to walk out of the Grill, but Pearl stopped her.

"Jeremy Gilbert? That's what you've been up to?" Pearl asked.

"He's my only friend." Anna told her. "What's the big deal?"

"His family's the reason I was stuck in a tomb for over a century."

"That doesn't mean he's like them." Anna said.

"I want you to stop seeing him."

"I'm afraid that's not possible." Anna told her. "I've been on my own for a long time, mother. I can do whatever I want."

"As soon as Jeremy finds out what you really are, he'll turn on you." Pearl told her.

"He knows what I am, Mom. You're the only one who doesn't." Anna said.

"What does that mean?" Pearl gasped as Anna started to fade, then reappeared.

"I'm not a vampire anymore. And Jeremy's one of the only people who can see me." Anna told her.

"How did this happen?"

"Ben staked me in the back after one of our meetings." Anna said. "He was a rookie vampire, thought he could handle things on his own, disagreed with me a lot…so here I am."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"I didn't know how to." Anna told her. "But I didn't want to give up on getting you out of there."

"I think his ancestor could see them, too." Pearl told her. "But at the time I thought those were just stories."

"I'll meet you at the house. I'll explain everything later." Anna told her. Jeremy watched her fade away.

The minute she appeared at the house, she knew something was wrong. She went inside and saw most of the vampires fighting against Damon and some vampire hunter. "What are you doing?" Anna asked.

"He's the reason we were locked up in there." One of them said. Anna groaned. She decided to be more specific.

"Damon, why are you even here?"

"They kidnapped Stefan."

"Who are you talking to?" The vampire hunter asked. Then Anna recognized him as Jeremy's history teacher.

"Long story short, we have a ghostly friend." Damon told him. "Though mostly she's a little annoying."

"Hey!" Anna used her powers to make him fall back.

"And apparently cannot take a joke." Damon added. At that moment, Pearl arrived.

"Stop. What's going on here? What did you do?" She asked.

"Me? Your merry little band of vampires spent the day torturing my brother."

"He's telling the truth, Mother." Anna said. "I got here right in the middle of the fight."

"Trust me. The parties responsible for this will be dealt with."

"I can narrow it down to everyone in this house except for Harper." Anna told her. Damon turned to her questioningly. "He doesn't believe in all that revenge crap."

"This wasn't supposed to happen." Pearl sighed.

"Well, it did." Damon pointed out. "If I had a good side...Not a way to get on it." He and the hunter left the house.

That night, Jeremy was in his room. He was really depressed. Anna was already waiting for him. She noticed his expression. "What's wrong?"

"It's Vicki. She's dead." Jeremy told her.

"The one that you thought had turn…" Anna began.

"Yeah. It turns out she's been dead the whole time." He told her.

"I'm so sorry." Anna said. She couldn't believe her bad luck. First she let Damon down, and now Jeremy's friend was gone. "She meant a lot to you, didn't she?"

"Yeah, but we weren't really on good terms before she left." Jeremy told her. "I guess I wanted to apologize to her about it."

"Want to tell me about her?" Anna asked. The two of them talked all night and she never disappeared once.