"This is a very, very bad idea, Jer." Anna said as he knocked on the door to the Boarding House.
"Well, someone has to tell them."
"If he finds out, he will try to kill the Lockwood family, don't you get that?" Anna asked.
"Well, they deserve to know." Jeremy pointed out. "Besides, you'd do the same if you were in my position." Damon opened the door. "I need to talk to you."
"And why I need to talk to you?"
"Told you this was a bad idea, Jeremy." Anna said. She pulled on his arm to go, but he remained where he was.
"Tyler Lockwood has to kill someone to activate his curse. He's not a werewolf yet." Jeremy said.
"Whoa, fascinating. Not enough."
"But Mason Lockwood is and he's looking for a moonstone, a special rock related to the werewolves legend. That's why is here." Jeremy added.
"A moonstone?" Damon guessed.
"And I know where it is."
"And you're bringing me this why?"
"Do I need a reason? Look, I just want to help, okay?" Jeremy said.
"Don't mind me." Anna said. "I only showed up to try and stop him."
"What your sister say about this little discovery?" Damon asked Jeremy. He stayed silent.
"Oh, you haven't told her, have you?"
"Well, Elena doesn't want me getting involved in all this." Jeremy told him.
"And that's why I'm here." Anna said. "To make sure he doesn't do anything that'll put him in danger."
"And you're a Gilbert, you just can't help yourself. Whoa, your search for life's purpose is as obvious as it is tragic."
"You're gonna let me in or not?" Jeremy asked. He went inside. Anna reluctantly followed.
A few hours later, the three of them went to the Lockwood's to pretend to help set up for some Masquerade ball they were having. "Rick!" Damon called as they walked over to him.
"What are you doing here?" Alaric asked Jeremy.
"Helping Damon. I'm the one who found out about the moonstone." Jeremy said.
"Excuse me?" Anna said. "I helped, I'm the one who connected it to the legend."
"Does Elena know you're here?" Alaric asked.
"Not exactly." Jeremy said.
"What have you got?" Damon asked.
"This is Isobel research's from Duke. Her assistant sent it to me." Alaric said.
"Vanessa, the hottie."
"Who knew that girl would actually come in handy." Anna said.
"Vanessa yes. Do you remember the old Aztecs curse she told us about?" Alaric asked.
"Yeah, Sun and the Moon."
"an Aztec curse? Cool." Jeremy said.
"It's anything but cool, Jer." Anna said.
"Yeah, supposedly vampires and werewolves used to run freely until a shaman put a curse on them, limiting their power." Alaric explained. "Since then, werewolves can only turn on a full moon and vampires are weakened by the sun."
"Most of them anyway." Damon said, pointing out his ring. "Hey, did you…
"Emily gave me a necklace." Anna said. "Though it won't do any good now that I'm really dead."
"According to the legend, the werewolf part of the curse is sealed with a moonstone." Alaric said.
"What do you mean sealed?" Jeremy asked.
"It's a witch thing, whatever seals the curse is usually the key onto unsealing the curse." Damon explained.
"He's right." Anna said. "I believe the moonstone is holding some kind of magic binding that keeps the curse intact." Jeremy nodded, understanding.
"Maybe Mason Lockwood believes he can use the moonstone to break the curse." Alaric said.
"If we start believing in some supernatural witchy mojo legend from a picture book, we're idiots. Where is the stone now?" Damon asked.
"Tyler." Jeremy and Anna said at the same time. Jeremy looked at her.
"Sorry."
"Can you get it?" Damon asked.
"Yeah." Jeremy said at the same time Anna said "No."
"Jer, this could be dangerous."
"Look, Tyler's my friend, okay?" Jeremy said. "He won't hurt me."
"I'm still coming with you."
"You see, now your life has a purpose."
"Stop it, Damon." Anna said. "I thought you don't believe in this stuff."
"So you do believe it?" Jeremy asked, hearing Anna's comment.
"This is the same book that says the werewolf bite kills a vampire. Ignoring it make me an even bigger idiot. Let's go." Damon said.
Elena was working, when she noticed Damon. "What are you doing here?" She asked.
"Looking for my baby bro. Speaking of… you should tell yours to stop following me around."
"What's going on?" Elena asked.
"I told him this was a bad idea, but he kept insisting it'd be fine." Anna told her. Jeremy came over to the group then.
"Jeremy, what is he making you do?" Elena asked.
"He's not making me do anything, Damon and I…"
"No way, no, no, no, no. There is no "Damon and you". There's Damon and whoever Damon is using, and those people, they end up dead." Elena told him. "Whatever is going on Jeremy, I want you to stay out of it."
"I don't really care what you want, Elena. It's because of you that I'm in this mess in the first place so I'm sorry, you don't really get to tell me what I'm gonna do." He walked away from her.
"Sorry. He's just been really into getting more involved with the supernatural happenings." Anna told her.
"Please, just help him out." Elena told her. "I don't want my brother to end up dead."
"That's why I'm going with him." Anna said. She went to catch up with Jeremy before she lost track of him. As she headed by, she overheard the guys talking. "She's got to be using him. It has to be."
"Using him for what?" Stefan asked. Anna headed over to them.
"What's going on?"
"I think Mason's working with Katherine." Stefan told her.
"What?"
"Apparently the witch had a vision and saw them together." Damon said. "Anyway, Mason's looking for a moonstone that can allegedly break the full moon werewolf curse. Maybe Katherine wants it as well."
"Why?"
"Well… no idea. This is the beauty of Katherine, she's always up to something."
"Sure you aren't just jealous?" Anna asked. He looked at her. "Right. I'll go now." She started to walk away.
"So how are we gonna find this moonstone?"
"Jeremy is gonna get it from Tyler."
"Correction, Jeremy and I are going to get it from Tyler." Anna told them.
"Why would you involve Jeremy?"
"He's playing Indiana Jones, he involved himself."
"There he is." Anna said. "I'll meet you in a few minutes."
She headed over to Jeremy as he was talking to Tyler. "Well, it turns out that it's part of this Aztec legend but I want to make sure it's the same kind of stone. You think I could check it out again?"
"No. I gave it to my uncle." Tyler said.
"Why did you do that?" Jeremy asked.
"Because I'm done with legends and curses. I don't want anything to do with it, okay?" Tyler said.
"Yeah, yeah sure. It's probably…"
"Well, that was a bust." Anna said. Jeremy walked away and she went with him. "So he gave it to Mason? That's not good."
"What's wrong?" Jeremy asked.
"According to the guys, Mason's working with…"
"Katherine? How's that possible?" Elena asked.
"Hey, I only just found out myself." Anna told her. They were over near the masks. "I should go back to the guys. They probably already know about the plan with Jer backfiring, but anyway…"
By the time she found them, Damon was arguing with Bonnie. "Damon, I'm not gonna help you hurt him."
"Mason Lockwood's a werewolf, Katherine's evil." Damon told her. "They're the bad guys. Really? You're gonna play morality police with me right now? Let me explain it to you another way: they're a threat to Elena. You witch, are gonna get over yourself and help us."
"Whoa, time out! What's going on?"
"He wants me to hurt Mason with a spell." Bonnie said.
"Well, I think you should do it." Anna said. "Look, after what he nearly did to them and Care the other day, he's kinda got it coming to him."
"Please tell me you're not taking Damon's side with this." Stefan said.
"No, but we need to take those two down." Anna said. "Do you have any better ideas?"
"Okay, I'll help, but I'm going to need a hand." Bonnie told them.
A few hours later, Anna found herself at the hospital. She wondered why she was there. She had used up a lot of her energy helping the group earlier, though she blanked after what happened with Bonnie. "What am I doing here?" She wondered. Then she saw Elena and Jeremy.
"Is she okay?" Jeremy asked Elena.
"The doctors told Alaric that she got lucky. She's gonna be okay." Elena told him. She sounded shaken.
"Did she remember what happened?"
"No, nothing. It's all part of Katherine's mind compulsion."
"Why would Katherine hurt Aunt Jenna?" Anna looked surprised.
"She what?"
"She compelled Jenna to stab herself." Jeremy whispered, obviously trying not to upset Elena any more than she was.
"Because she's trying to send a message, that she could get to anybody." Elena said.
"Hey, hey, come here." Jeremy held Elena. "It's gonna be okay."
"No it's not." Elena cried into his shoulder.
"She's gonna pay Elena. I don't know how but she's gonna pay." Jeremy said. Anna was shocked. This was a new low, even for Katherine. Threatening to kill a member of someone's family was a new one to her.
"She needs to be stopped before someone else gets hurt." Anna said.
"I know." Jeremy told her. She hadn't realized she'd spoken out loud until then.
"Hey, be careful." Anna told them. "I'll meet you tomorrow, but if she tries anything else, call immediately." With that, she disappeared from view.