Stefan stands up in the woods as Klaus appears and rushes up behind him and grabs him in a chokehold.

"In what world do the words "tell no one" mean tell your brother and every teenage sycophant in town?" Stefan struggled against his hold.

"The secret's safe. No one who knows about the cure will endanger us. Trust me, you know I want to find it more than anyone else."

Klaus smirked sadistically "Well then, I suggest you find some more vampires for Jeremy to kill before I'm tempted to offer you up as a victim."

Klaus releases Stefan from his hold and Stefan steps away and turns to look at him. "And Valerie." Klaus gives him a questioning glance. "Why would she kill vampires?" Stefan sighed "because the same mark appeared on her hand yesterday."

Klaus nodded "Well I don't want her involved and try and keep this one to yourself, would you?"

Stefan went to question Klaus about Valerie but he flashed away before he could.

---

Matt, Valerie and Jeremy are taking out boxes from the back of Matt's pickup.

"So, your sister is making me be her date. Think I'll have to do that weird dance thing?" Jeremy chuckled "I'm pretty sure that's just for the contestants."

Valerie turned to Jeremy "I heard that you're April's escort. How'd that happen?"

"Well, she needed a date and apparently you were taken." Matt grins and laughs. He grabs one of the kegs in the back of his truck and tries to lift it up, but it's too heavy for him.

"Okay, let's just take these in and we'll come back for the kegs." Jeremy stops him "No, wait." He jumps up into the bed of the truck.

"You want to see something cool?"

Jeremy picks up one keg in each hand as if they weigh nothing, jumps down from the bed of the truck, and places the kegs on the ground. Matt looks at him with a mix of being impressed and worried.

"How did you just do that?" Jeremy shrugged "Ever since I was awoken as a Hunter, I've had all this energy, like all the time."

"Does that mean I can do that?" Jeremy nodded "probably."

"Jer, Valerie, I think you need to talk to someone about this. I mean, look what happened to Connor, okay. A byproduct of this energy is that you're gonna want to kill vampires and you happen to live with one."

Jeremy and Valerie looked towards him "Hey, I would never hurt my sister." Jeremy starts to walk away. "I'll be fine."

He grabs a cart and starts to push it towards the house. Matt watches him leave with a look of worry on his face. "And so will I." She pats Matts shoulder and follows Jeremy inside.

---

Valerie is standing by Caroline outside the house. Three girls walk towards her with flower arrangements.

"Woah, woah, woah, stop, stop!" The girls stop. "Those flowers go in the back as indicated by the floral chart that you guys had plenty of time to memorize."

The girls turn around and walk off "Yeah, thank you." Caroline looks down at her clipboard again as Valerie walked away with commands from Caroline.

"Now, how did I know I'd find you at the helm of the ship?" She looks at him. "Caroline's making me." Klaus nods "I was wondering what time I should pick you up tomorrow."

Valerie looks up again and over at him. "Why?" She looks away again. Klaus moves closer towards her. "I was promised a date in return for one of my hybrids."

"What and I got no say in this?"

Klaus shook his head "You were busy getting kidnapped." Valerie finally turns around and looks at him with her full attention.

"And I assume you don't want to go to Miss Mystic Falls alone?" Klaus looks up at her with puppy dog eyes. "Fine. If you insist on coming, meet me here. Two p.m." She starts to walk away.

"I'll see you tomorrow, Valerie."

---

Stefan hangs up on Damon. He looks at Jeremy who is examining his arm. The mark starts to spread and Stefan walks down towards him.

"How far did the mark grow?" Jeremy doesn't answer and Stefan pulls out the drawing of Connor's mark. "Show me on this drawing." Jeremy turns around and looks at him. "Sorry, Stefan, but I can't trust you."

Stefan glares at him "How far is it, Jeremy?"

Jeremy glares back "I said I can't."

"Answer me or I will make you answer me." Stefan grabs Jeremy "I'm not telling you anything." Stefan compels him "What does the mark look like?" Jeremy suddenly stakes Stefan in the stomach as Stefan yells in pain.

"I guess I can't be compelled anymore." Jeremy releases the stake from his grip and grabs the duffel bag. He walks out of the cellar whilst Stefan falls down on the ground and clutches at the stake still in his stomach.

---

"Hi, everyone, I'm Caroline Forbes." Elena and Valerie walk up the lawn to watch the introduction of the girls. Damon stands a few feet away from Elena as he looks over at her.

"As the reigning Miss Mystic Falls, it is my honor to introduce this year's Miss Mystic Court." Everyone claps for the girls, including Elena and Damon. They exchange looks and Elena takes a deep breath. Music starts playing for the introduction of the girls.

"We begin the procession with Lauren Fell accompanied by Dylan Clark." There is a round of applause for the girl as she walks down the stone steps.

"Next, we have Amber Wolvertine accompanied by Hector Lindsay." Another round of applause is given for Amber. Elena is clapping when Matt approaches her. "Have you seen Jeremy?"

Elena shakes her head "He's probably up there with the escorts." Another girl has been introduced and more applause are heard. She takes the arm of her escort and they walk off together. Valerie, Elena and Matt look over at the escorts and try to spot Jeremy.

"Yeah, Caroline told me to wrangle the escorts. He's not here." Elena begins to be slightly worried. "Did he tell you about his nightmares?" Valerie's eyes widened "What nightmares?" She looks over at Matt. "The ones where he kills Elena." She raises her eyebrows in surprise.

"Katherine Wilson accompanied by Eric Hanson." A round of applause is heard for Katherine. "I'll find him, but..." April starts to descend the stairs. Elena and Matt and Valerie look up at her. Valerie sighs.

"April's about to get abandoned." Matt shook his head "I got this." Elena nods "Okay."

Matt walks away.

"And finally, we have a last minute entry, April Young accompanied by Jeremy Gilbert."

April continues to walk down the steps but stops and looks around for Jeremy. Matt walks up to where the escorts were lined up and holds out his arm for April. Everyone applauds and April breathes a sigh of relief. She walks down the remainder of the stairs with a smile and takes Matt's arm.

"Jeremy's running late." April giggled "I guess you'll do." Caroline continues to look around, worried, but stops and smiles. April and Matt walk to the dance floor and face each other. "You lead."

"Hey, what's with the last minute escort change? Where is Jeremy?" Valerie shakes her head "I'm calling him right now." Damon walks up to them. "He's not picking up."

Damon sighs "Do the math. Emo teen, open bar, it's fine."

"Matt said that Jeremy's been having nightmares about killing vampires and he's been hiding it from me." Caroline looks surprised and worried. Damon shrugs it off. Valerie looks like she's hiding something.

"Relax, I'm sure he's fine." Elena looks down "I don't know. I have a bad feeling." Damon sighed "If I'm not worried, you shouldn't be worried. Let it go. I'll go look for him."

"Okay." Damon walks away. "Okay, you go home, I'm gonna start asking around here."

Elena shakes her head in disagreement "Maybe Damon's right. Maybe he grabbed a bottle from the bar and snuck off to the woods."

Caroline frowned at her "No, Damon is never right. Damon is sneaky and manipulative and rude, but he's never right. How can you not see that?"

Elena huffed "I don't know, but why do I think that you won't hesitate to tell me?"

Caroline huffed back "Fine, friend-tervention. I think your so-called "feelings" for Damon are really starting to cloud your judgment and I don't like it."

Klaus walks over to them and stands next to Valerie. "And the thought of you two together really makes me want to barf." Valerie rolled her eyes at Caroline. "Wow, Caroline, thank you for making this very difficult time so much easier."

Elena stormed off away from Caroline and Valerie walked in the opposite direction with Klaus trailing after her.

She rubs her hand where the mark is and still felt a slight itch. Klaus noticed this and looked at her. "Are you okay?" Valerie looked up in surprise. "Yeah I'm fine." She smiled at him to hide it.

"What's up with your arm?" Valerie put on an act. "My arm? What nothing." Klaus rolled his eyes and grabbed her arm pulling up her sleeve, it revealed nothing. "See, it's fine." Klaus nods still not believing her. He then realises something. "Isn't that your Hunters mark arm?"

Valerie's eyes widened and Klaus caught on. "Has your mark grown?" Valerie looked down and sighed. "Yes and I don't know why, I haven't killed any vampires."

Klaus frowned "is there anyway you're linked to Jeremy?" Valerie narrowed her eyes at him. "Is that where he is? Killing vampires?!" Klaus eyes widened realising his mistake. "Do you know what I don't care. I'm not getting involved with your stupid cure for Elena."

"You don't care about the cure?" She shook her head "I'd rather her a vampire than her a human blood bag for you."

"Harsh. So you don't feel any hatred for our kind?" She shook her head no. "Maybe it's because I don't hate any vampires?" Klaus smirked "so you don't hate me?"

Valerie glared playfully at him. "I said Vampires, you're a hybrid." Klaus chuckled slightly. "Still a Vampire, Love." Valerie smiled at him. "But no hatred for vampires."

She then sat on a blanket that was strangely placed on the grass outside. Klaus sat next to her. "Would you ever take it?" Klaus furrowed his eyebrows "Now, why would I want to cure myself of being the most powerful creature on the planet? Hm?"

"So there's not one single moment in your whole life that you wanted to be human?"

Klaus looks at her and avoids the question.

"Would you? If you were a vampire?" She nods "without hesitation. I mean, I might miss the speed you have but that's it." He chuckled slightly.

He then froze slightly when Valerie leaned her back on him. He then sighed in content. Valerie smiled at the affect she had on him. "You avoided the question." Klaus smiled at her. "There was one time I wanted to be human, yes. Once, I was on a trek in the Andies, and a hummingbird flew up to me. It just hovered there, staring at me, its tiny heart was pattering like a machine gun.

And I thought, what a thing, you know, to have to work that hard every day just to stay alive. To be constantly on the verge of death and how satisfying every day must be that it survived. And that was the only time I thought about being human."

"And now look at you." She layed down fully on the blanket and shut her eyes. "I hate to break it to you love but you can't sleep here." She groaned "but I'm so tired."

"Do you want me to take you home?" She nodded. Klaus then picked her up bridal style and walked out of the mansion and made sure no one was looking. He then flashed to the Gilbert house.

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