[2x01; The Return]
Lucy spent a full minute knocking on Jeremy's door with no response before she just let herself in. Jeremy wasn't at his computer like he normally was at this time of night; instead, he was in his bed sleeping. It unnerved Lucy—Jeremy was normally a light sleep and would have answered his door when she knocked the first or second time.
"Jeremy?" she called, slowly walking further into his room. There was no response; he didn't move a muscle. "Jeremy!"
Lucy ran over to Jeremy's bed and took a hold of his shoulders, shaking them urgently. "Jeremy, wake up!" she pleaded, tears springing to her eyes. "Jeremy, please!"
"Jeremy? Lucy?" she heard Elena call from downstairs.
"Elena!" Lucy shouted back, still trying to wake Jeremy up. "Help!"
"Lucy! Jeremy!"
Lucy could hear Elena running up the stairs and when she looked over, Elena was entering the room with a large, bloody knife in her hand. She could ask her sister about the knife later, Jeremy was more important.
"He won't wake up," she told Elena before turning back to Jeremy's unconscious form. "Jeremy, wake up!"
Elena rushed to Jeremy's other side and began shaking him, too. "Jeremy, please!"
Jeremy gasped loudly as his eyes opened; he sat up, brushing his sisters' off of him, and looked around.
"Jeremy, are you okay?" Lucy asked cautiously; what the hell just happened? Did they need to bring him to the hospital?
"Am I a vampire?" Jeremy asked tiredly, his eyes drooping as he looked at his arms.
Elena stiffened. "What do you mean, Jeremy?"
"Why would you think you're a vampire?" Lucy added suspiciously.
"Anna gave me her blood and I took some pills," Jeremy admitted.
Lucy gasped, completely shocked that Jeremy would commit suicide and willingly become a vampire. "You did what?"
Elena shook her head, looking worried. "I'm gonna call Stefan and Joel. An ambulance is coming for John and—"
"What's wrong with John?" Lucy interrupted Elena, looking at her curiously. "Is that why you had a bloody knife? Did you stab him?"
"I didn't stab him, some tomb vampire must have," Elena glared at Lucy. She got off of Jeremy's bed and pulled her phone from her jeans. "Just stay here and I'll call Stefan."
When Elena left the room, Lucy turned to Jeremy. "Why do you want to be a vampire, Jere?"
"Anna's dead," Jeremy said heavily. "And—and Damon told me that vampires have a switch they can flip…they don't have to feel anything."
Lucy was quiet for a moment as she tried to understand everything that Jeremy said. She was sad that Anna was dead, as Jeremy really liked her, and she was irritated that Damon would tell Jeremy about a vampire's humanity switch. Mostly she was concerned with Jeremy and how he was feeling.
"Jeremy, I'm sorry about Anna," she grabbed one of his hands and squeezed it gently. "But if you need help, I will help you, okay? You don't need to be a vampire to feel better."
Jeremy frowned and ripped his hand away from Lucy; he didn't want to feel better, he didn't want to feel anything.
Lucy heard the sirens of the ambulance as it got closer and then Elena greeting the paramedics. It was ten minutes after Elena left to call Stefan and Joel that she and Stefan walked into Jeremy's room.
"What happened?" Stefan asked, taking in the situation. John was stabbed and something was wrong with Jeremy? This night couldn't get any worse.
"He said that Anna gave him her blood and then he took these pills—" Lucy handed Stefan the bottle that she found in the bathroom while Elena was downstairs. "and now…I mean, he looks fine but so do you."
Stefan threw the pill bottle to the floor and crouched down in front of Jeremy, taking his face in his hands. "Come here," he ordered Jeremy, trying to look at his eyes. "Look at me."
"I'm fine, okay?" Jeremy tried to pull away from Stefan but the vampire gripped his chin to hold him in place. "I feel exactly the same."
"Should I call a paramedic up here?" Elena asked anxiously. "What should I do?"
"No," Stefan carefully studied Jeremy's face for any indicators that he was in transition. "He's fine."
As Stefan stood up and stepped away from Jeremy, Jeremy sighed in disappointment. "You mean I'm not a vampire?" Stefan shook his head. "Damn it!"
Jeremy's disappointment caught Elena's attention through her relief. She looked first and saw that she didn't look surprised at Jeremy's proclamation and then she looked at Jeremy, bewildered.
"Don't say that," she scolded him. "Jeremy, why would you want that?"
Jeremy glared at her and stood up, Lucy cautiously doing the same in case she needed to intervene. "Did you hear about Anna, what happened to her tonight? She's dead."
"Jeremy, come here. Sit down," Stefan forced Jeremy to sit back down and forced the youngest Gilbert to look at him, despite his struggle to get away. "I am very sorry about Anna but it's very important that you listen to me right now. With every passing moment, Anna's blood is leaving your system. If you try to kill yourself right now, you could really die."
Seeing that Jeremy wasn't paying attention to his warnings, Stefan slapped his left cheek to get him to pay attention. Jeremy flinched and looked back at him. "Hey, do you understand me?"
"Stefan!" Lucy hissed, not liking that he hit her brother.
"Yeah, I understand," Jeremy said slowly, irritation filling his expression.
"Good," Stefan nodded and let go of Jeremy.
"What about the pills he took?" Elena wondered.
"He didn't take enough to die, so Anna's blood actually healed him of that," Stefan explained, putting his hands on his hips as he kept a close eye on Jeremy.
"Where's Joel?" Lucy spoke up; if her brother knew what was going on, why wasn't he here?
"He had been taking care of the insurance report with Jenna but he was at the hospital when I called him," Elena told her.
"Hospital?" Lucy furrowed her eyebrows; John was jus taken to the hospital.
"Tyler, Matt, and Caroline were in an accident," Stefan said, looking at Lucy with sympathetic eyes.
"What?"
Were they okay? What kind of accident were they in? What happened? Was anyone hurt? Was Caroline okay?
All these questions kept bubbling up in her head and she couldn't focus on any one of them. All she knew that she had to do was get to the hospital and see what was going on.
"I'm going to the hospital," she declared and turned to leave the room before stopping in surprise when a deputy walked up to the doorway.
"Miss Gilbert?" he called, asking for Elena.
"I'll be right there," Elena assured the man.
"You should go with Lucy to the hospital," Stefan suggested to Elena. "I'll stay here with Jeremy."
"No, I don't need a babysitter," Jeremy protested.
"Yes, you do," Elena told him firmly. She looked to Lucy and added, "Let's go."
Lucy ran through the hospital hallways, leaving Elena behind as her sister wanted to take her sweet time at a slow walking pace. Lucy didn't have the patience to go that pace, she needed to find Caroline and Matt.
The hospital was crowded for the time of night, but Lucy paid no mind to the various nurses and doctors spread out around her as she turned down another hall. She inhaled deeply, relieved to see Matt standing with Bonnie.
"Matt!" she called, running up to them. "Matt, how's Caroline? Are you okay?"
"She's not good, Lucy," Matt shook his head sadly.
"What happened?" Bonnie asked, her eyes wide with worry that matched Lucy's.
"We were driving and Tyler heard this noise and he got—"
"A noise?" Bonnie interjected, making Lucy look at her with an expression of realization.
"—he got this migraine or something and he lost control of the car," Matt continued. "and I thought that Caroline was fine and then—and then she wasn't, so…"
As tears welled up in Lucy's eyes, she pulled Matt into a comforting hug. They were all so worried about Caroline; what would happen if she didn't make it?
Lucy couldn't live without Caroline—the blonde was her closest friend in the world and Lucy considered her as a sister. She loved her so much and she couldn't lose her like she lost her parents.
She tightened her grip on Matt for a second before pulling away from him and wiping her eyes.
"I'm gonna go ask the nurse about Caroline's condition," she told Matt and turned to Bonnie. "You wanna come?"
Bonnie hesitantly nodded. "Sure."
Lucy and Bonnie left Matt and quietly walked down the hallway to the nurses' station.
Bonnie finally broke the silence. "I know you hate me for not reversing the spell—"
"I don't hate you, Bon," Lucy shook her head, setting the record straight. "I understand that you wanted some sort of revenge for Grams but my brother was almost caught."
"I'm sorry," Bonnie said honestly. "I never meant for Joel to get caught in the crossfire…and now Caroline's in bad shape because Tyler heard the device and this is all my fault!"
"It's not your fault," Lucy consoled Bonnie, pulling her into a hug. "How were you even supposed to know that the device would effect Tyler? He's not a vampire."
Bonnie sniffed and let go of Lucy, asking, "So why did Tyler hear it?"
Lucy shook her head. "I don't know. Come on, let's ask about Caroline."
The two of them went up to the nurses' station and asked one of the nurses about Caroline. According to Caroline's chart, she had internal bleeding and was currently in surgery. Her condition was looking bleak, though, so the nurse warned Lucy and Bonnie not to get their hopes up.
Lucy felt like she couldn't breathe, her chest ached so badly.
"Bonnie, Lucy!" Elena called, walking up to them with Joel at her side.
Joel immediately pulled Lucy into his side, trying to comfort her. "How's Caroline?"
"They said her condition's bleak," Bonnie told Elena in a small voice, bringing her into a hug.
"They don't know if she's going to make it," Lucy added, choked up.
Elena gasped softly. "What?" she looked at Bonnie hopefully. "Is there something that you can do? Like, a spell or something?"
"She doesn't know how," Damon proclaimed, sauntering over to their group. He smirked at Bonnie. "Do you?"
"No, I don't," Bonnie admitted.
"No, you don't, because it took Emily years to learn a spell like that," Damon taunted her.
"Well, I can take down a vampire," Bonnie retorted. "That spell was easy to learn."
"Guys," Lucy sighed, not wanting to hear their argument when Caroline was possibly dying. "Please…"
Damon rolled his eyes and turned to Elena. "I can give Caroline some blood."
"No, no way," Elena shook her head immediately.
"No, no, just enough to heal her," Damon explained. "She will be safe in the hospital and it will be out of her system in a day. She'll be better, Elena."
"It's too risky," Elena disagreed. "I can't agree to that."
"It's not just up to you," Joel spoke up. He looked at Lucy and Bonnie. "Girls?"
Lucy didn't hesitate. "Give her blood."
"Yeah, do it," Bonnie agreed. At Elena's shocked look, she said, "This is Caroline. We can't let her die."
"If I do this, me and you—" Damon pointed at himself and then at Bonnie. "—call a truce?"
"No," Bonnie denied. "Because I want Joel to do it."
The surprise was clear on Joel's face, but he nodded in agreement. "As soon as she's out of surgery…"
"Good," Lucy sighed in relief. As long as Caroline made it through the surgery, she'd ingest Joel's blood and heal up. She'd be fine. "Let's go find Liz."
Half an hour later, Lucy and Joel were walking into the house with Damon on their trail. Damon insisted on coming with them to the house for some reason that he decided not to share and unfortunately, Elena allowed him to come.
Lucy didn't expect to walk in on Stefan laying on the ground, fixing what looked like a broken arm.
What the hell was going on?
"Stefan?" Elena narrowed her eyes in confusion.
Stefan stood up, looking at Elena in shock.
"What happened?" Joel wondered, looking around the room; picture frames were knocked off the wall and the couches were out of place.
"Katherine happened," Damon growled before Stefan could answer.
Lucy, Elena, and Joel shared their disbelief at the fact that Katherine had apparently showed up and acted like Elena. They couldn't believe that she had just came out of nowhere.
"It's true," Stefan confirmed. "Katherine attacked me."
"Wait, wait," Lucy shook her head, trying to organize her thoughts. "I ran into Elena when I heard shouting downstairs. She told me to check on Jeremy…that was Katherine?"
"It wasn't me," Elena told her, horrified.
"That's not good," Stefan said worriedly. At the same time, he was confused. Why did Katherine not antagonize Lucy?
As Joel assumed that Katherine was the one who attacked John and not a tomb vampire, Lucy found herself distracted.
She had no idea what the vision she had was, but she knew that she had it when she ran into Katherine. The younger girl—Lucia—was running after what Lucy now realized was Katherine. Was that an actual memory of Katherine's? And if so, why was Lucy seeing it?
Elena went upstairs to tell Jeremy what was going on about Katherine and Lucy, Joel, and the Salvatore brothers migrated to the kitchen where John's blood was mopped up and everything smelled like bleach.
"Did she say what she wanted?" Damon asked Stefan as he paced the length of the island.
"No."
Damon scoffed. "The woman certainly knows how to make an entrance."
Stefan looked at him thoughtfully. "She said she fooled one of us at least," he recalled his confrontation with Katherine. "What does that—what does that mean?"
"She pretended to be Elena, too, when I showed up earlier tonight," Damon explained.
Lucy's attention shifted when Elena walked into the room. "Did you tell Jeremy?" she asked her sister.
"Yeah," Elena sighed, taking a seat at the dining table. "I can't lie to him anymore."
"Are you all right?" Stefan asked Elena, walking over to her.
"No, I'm not all right," Elena groaned. "I thought that with all the tomb vampires gone, things were going to get better."
"I know," Stefan agreed softly. "We all did."
Lucy sighed and looked around the room, seeing that Damon was staring at the couple in jealousy and Joel was looking uncomfortable. She needed to change the subject and get the group's focus back on the problem; Katherine.
"Katherine was in this house, that means she's been invited in," she reminded everyone. "What should we do?"
"Move," Damon said simply.
Elena frowned at him. "Very helpful, Damon," she said sarcastically. "Thank you."
"If Katherine wants you dead, there's zero you can do about it. You would be dead," Damon shrugged. "But you're not, so clearly, she had other plans."
"Yeah and we need to find out what those other plans are," Joel spoke up.
"And try not to provoke her in the process," Stefan added. He narrowed his eyes at Damon. "What happened tonight when you thought she was Elena?"
Damon winced, knowing what his brother's reaction was going to be. "…to risk another frown line encroaching on a very crowded forehead…" he paused. "…we kissed."
Lucy raised her eyebrows and exchanged a surprised look with Joel, who shook his head.
"And you thought it was me?" Elena asked, shocked.
Stefan clenched his jaw. "What do you mean you kissed?"
"Well, you know, when two lips pucker and then—" Damon acted out a kiss, pursing his lips together.
Stefan wasn't amused—he sped over to Damon in a blur but Damon ran, ending up right next to Elena.
"Don't be obvious, Stefan," Damon scolded him mockingly.
Stefan stomped over to his brother but Elena stood up, getting between him and Damon. "Stefan, wait," she said pleadingly. "He kissed Katherine, not me," she looked at Damon. "I wouldn't do that."
"All right, guys," Lucy rolled her eyes, becoming annoyed. They needed to focus on Katherine. "We don't have time to listen to your love-triangle drama," she ignored Elena's furious look and continued, "Hello? Remember Katherine?"
Stefan glared at Damon and promised, "Later."
"John must know something," Joel theorized. "There has to be a reason why Katherine tried to kill him."
"She's Katherine," Damon scoffed. "She loves to play games and you're fooling yourself if you think you're going to find out what she's up to before she wants you to know."
"No, actually, Joel's right," Stefan interjected. "John could know something through Isobel," he looked at Elena. "Your mother, she was in touch with Katherine, so maybe we can go to the hospital and talk to John."
"I've got a better idea," Damon said cockily.
Elena looked at him, annoyed. "What's that?"
"I'm just gonna ignore the bitch," Damon said casually; he left his place by the wall and started to head out. "See ya."
"Is that smart?"
"If Katherine thinks she's being ignored, it will lure her out," Damon answered Elena. "She'll make a move."
Stefan rolled his eyes. "Yeah, and then what?"
Damon shrugged. "Stake her, rip her head off, something poetic. We'll see…"
The next day, while Elena and Stefan were interrogating John, Lucy and Joel went to the hospital to see how Caroline was doing. Joel stopped by the hospital late the night before after Caroline was out of surgery and fed her some blood, so Lucy expected that she was doing better.
After visiting Caroline, they would be going to the Lockwood Estate to give their respects to Tyler and Mrs. Lockwood. Mayor Lockwood was affected by the Gilbert device just like Tyler was, only he wasn't so lucky. The deputies working with John thought he was a vampire, so they vervained him and brought him to the clinic. Damon said that the vervain didn't work on him but one of the tomb vampires snapped his neck when they realized he was a member of a Founding Family.
"Hey, Matty," Lucy greeted the blond, handing him a soda and some food from the Grill. "How are you doing?"
"Good. Thanks for this, by the way," Matt grinned at Lucy and then at Joel. "Thanks for stopping by last night, man."
"No problem," Joel smiled politely. "How's Caroline?"
"Come see," Matt gestured for the siblings to follow him to Caroline's room. "Bonnie came by already but I think Care's still watching Project Runway or Jersey Shore. I can't remember which one."
"I'm on Project Runway now," Caroline told him as they walked into the room, having heard him from outside. She smiled at Lucy and Joel. "Hey!"
"Care," Lucy sighed in relief, almost pushing Matt out of the way so she could hug Caroline. She placed a kiss on the crown of her head, and squeezed her, so happy that she was okay. "I'm so glad you're all right."
"Careful," Caroline squeaked, making Lucy pull away immediately. "I'm still sore."
"Oh, my God, I'm so sorry," Lucy rambled. "Are you okay? Do you need me to call a nurse?"
"No, Luce," Caroline giggled. "I'm okay. The doctor said I'm healing quickly."
Lucy smiled at her best friend; she couldn't even describe the relief that Caroline was okay. She was so happy that she had to keep her tears at bay.
"Never scare me like that again," Lucy scolded her lightly. "I love you, Care. I don't know what'd I do without you."
"Aw," Caroline grinned happily. "I love you, too, Luce."
Lucy and Joel spent an hour with Caroline and Matt before they had to get going to Mayor Lockwood's wake. Mrs. Lockwood had really taken Lucy under her wing after her parents died and Lucy wanted to show her the support she gave her.
Lucy gave Mrs. Lockwood and Tyler her respects and promised Mrs. Lockwood that if she needed anything, Lucy would be there to help. While Mayor Lockwood was a dick most of the time, Lucy knew that Mrs. Lockwood truly loved him and was concerned with how Tyler was going to handle only having her to turn to. Lucy tried to assure her that he'd be okay but she wasn't that sure herself.
Lucy and Tyler weren't close friends and she knew that Tyler didn't like his dad very much, but losing a parent hurt you deep inside, no matter the relationship you had with them. Lucy knew that first hand.
After taking her leave from Mrs. Lockwood, Lucy and Joel said their goodbyes for the meantime. Joel had to head back to school and he had already missed a few days because of everything that had happened lately. Once Joel was gone, she began to look for Elena, Bonnie, or Stefan, knowing that Jenna and Jeremy were already on their way home.
Luckily, she found Elena out on the front porch.
"There you are," Lucy sighed in relief, walking over to her sister. "I'm heading home. You want a ride?"
Elena smirked at her. "I'm not Elena, but I'd love a ride, Lucy."
Lucy stumbled back from Katherine, scolding herself for not knowing that this wasn't her sister. Katherine's hair was styled in curls and she dressed drastically differently than Elena.
"Katherine."
"Am I doing this correctly, Katerina?" Lucia asked her older sister, holding up the scarf she was sewing. "Mama told me to ask you. She said you were almost better than her!"
Katherine twisted slightly, looking down at the messy work that Lucia was creating. However, she couldn't hurt her sister's feelings. "It's wonderful," she smiled. "Just make certain that the stich there is looped with the one there."
Lucia beamed. "I will."
The sisters worked in silence for a couple of moments before Lucia spoke again.
"Kit," she swallowed nervously. "I did it again."
"Did what?" Katherine asked absentmindedly, focusing on the dress she was patching up.
"I took magic from one of Papa's friends," Lucia whispered, wide-eyed. "I did not mean to, I swear it."
Katherine stiffened and turned to Lucia, concerned with their father's reaction. "Did Papa see you?"
"Yes," Lucia admitted, her eyes starting to water. "A-And he asked his friend not to speak of what happened. Then he brought me to my room and he—"
Katherine inhaled deeply, upset that her sister was being punished for something she had no control over. She knew how horrible their father's beatings could be—there was no way that twelve-year-old Lucia wasn't in pain.
"I am sorry, Lou," Katherine clasped Lucia's hands with her own. "I will ask Mama to teach you control. Please do not touch Papa's friends again. Promise me."
"I promise, Katerina."
"Hello? Earth to Lucy," Katherine waved her hand in front of Lucy's face.
Lucy looked at her with wide eyes; Katherine looked older now that in the vision she just had, but it still had to be her.
"What did you do to me?" she asked her sister's look-alike. Katherine cocked her head, curious. "I saw something…you were there and you were talking to someone. Her name was Lucia."
Katherine's eyes glinted knowingly. "Lucia was my sister—well, is my sister," she corrected herself. "I came here to see her. She lives in Mystic Falls."
Lucy shook her head; she would know if a girl named Lucia lived in Mystic Falls. "I've never met her."
"Of course, you have, Lucy," Katherine smiled and to Lucy she looked genuine. "because you are Lucia."
Katherine didn't have the decency to explain to Lucy what she meant; she disappeared without another word. She left Lucy in a daze of confusion that had her head reeling.
Katherine said that she was Lucia but that was impossible. She had just turned sixteen, she wasn't however old Katherine was. She was born at the end of 1993, not centuries ago. And her name was Lucy not Lucia, though she had to admit they were basically the same names.
It was impossible that she was Katherine's sister but why was she having these visions. They were like memories and if what Katherine said was true, they were…And didn't Isobel say something about something coming for Lucy? Was that something Katherine?
What the hell was happening?
Lucy didn't know how she got to her house because the last she remembered was talking to Katherine at the Lockwood Estate. She must have been so deep in her thoughts that she didn't even realize she was driving home, which was dangerous.
She glanced back at her car and was relieved to see it all in one piece, parked at the curb in front of her house. She opened the door and went straight upstairs, her mind still occupied.
Until she heard loud sobbing come from Elena's room.
Lucy ran into Elena's room and let out a scream when she saw Jeremy's body on the floor, Elena crying over him.
"What the fuck happened?" she practically shouted at Elena, running over to her little brother. Sobs ripped through her as she grabbed Jeremy's face and felt his neck for a pulse.
There was no heartbeat at all and his neck was severely twisted, obviously broken.
"Elena, what happened?" she sobbed, looking at her sister's blurry figure.
"Damon—he—he—" Elena couldn't finish because she was crying so heavily but Lucy got the gist. Damon killed her brother.
She swallowed down her rage and focused on Jeremy; she could deal with Damon later. Right now, Jeremy deserved all her attention.
"We should move him, right?" Lucy whispered. She wanted him to be comfortable until she could call Joel and then Jenna and then John. She had to call the sheriff and the funeral home that held their parents' funeral and then the cemetery so he could be buried on the Gilbert plot…
"Lucy," Elena gently grabbed her shoulders, snatching Lucy out of her grief-driven planning. "Jeremy…he has a ring on."
"What?" Lucy looked at Jeremy's left hand and saw a ring that was identical to Alaric's adorning one of Jeremy's fingers. "A Gilbert ring. Did John…?" she looked at Elena, not finishing her question.
"I guess."
"So, he's gonna wake up, right?" Lucy asked her sister, almost desperately.
Elena nodded, relieved tears slipping down her face. "Yeah, he is."
Lucy felt her heart clench as she let out another sob, this time in relief. Jeremy would come back. He would.
Lucy slumped into Elena's embrace and situated Jeremy so his head would rest on her lap. She allowed herself to draw comfort from her sister, closing her eyes and feeling better knowing that Elena was there for her.
Lucy didn't want to open her eyes until Jeremy woke up but when Stefan arrived, she had to see him. He stood at the door of Elena's room, shocked to silence as he looked at Jeremy's body. He couldn't believe what his brother had done.
"He saw the ring," Stefan said eventually. "That's why he did it. He knew."
Elena shook her head, blood boiling at the thought of Damon, and rubbed Lucy's back when she stiffened. "He didn't see the ring."
"It's Katherine," Stefan sighed, anger bubbling at the thought of the older vampire and what she caused. "She got under his skin. She undid everything that was good about him."
"There's nothing good about him, Stefan," Elena's voice was sharp and certain. "Not anymore."
Lucy looked away from Stefan and brushed the hair out of Jeremy's face, disappointed that Stefan was defending Damon even now.
"He's decided what he wants," Elena continued shakily. "He doesn't want to feel, he wants to be hated. It's just easier that way…he got his wish. I hate him, Stefan."
"I know," Stefan said consolingly. He crouched down behind Elena and Lucy, bringing them into a comforting hug.
Lucy shifted away from him; this was Stefan and normally she'd take his comfort but he was just defending Damon, who snapped her brother's neck. Stefan looked at her, hurt, but didn't push her.
Jeremy died and was expected to come back to life—it was a lot for anyone and he knew she'd need time to adjust.
Jeremy jolted in Lucy's lap and gasped loudly, his eyes flying open. He panted for breath as he looked around, frightened.
"Jere!" Lucy breathed, happy that he was awake.
Stefan gently grabbed Jeremy's face and looked for signs that he was all right; he knew that Anna's blood was most likely out of his system but he needed to make sure.
"Stefan, is he okay?" Elena asked urgently.
"He's okay," Stefan confirmed, backing away so Lucy and Elena could embrace Jeremy.
"He killed me," Jeremy panicked, shaking in his sisters' arms. "Damon killed me."
"It's okay, you're okay," Lucy chanted into his hair, holding onto her siblings tightly. "You're all right. You're okay."
Any thought of what Katherine revealed was gone from her mind.