Coping with grief is hard enough without having heightened emotions. Still, life can't be even that simple. There's an army coming, and the threat of Jay losing more than she already has is very real.
She can't run away to a new town now; she's goin...
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"What the hell are we even doing out here?" Marie chuckles as she and Jay wander through the woods.
"With any luck, making Ric mad because I'm out past curfew."
"I thought he was out of town."
"So?" Jay smirks as she stumbles over tree roots. "My mom will tell him that I didn't make it home when I was supposed to be back, and he'll be mad."
"It's adorable how you annoy Papa Ric." Her best friend muses, but then they hear a noise that makes them both stop in their tracks. "What was that?"
"Not a growl." She shakes her head, but then they hear it again.
The two teenage girls immediately take off running, and Jay trips over a large tree root, causing her to land on her hands and knees in the dirt. She was already having a hard time walking because she was drinking at the party by the swimming hole, and her fear is only making the current situation that much worse.
The brunette looks around and realizes that she lost her friend, but then she hears yelling not too far away. It sounds like Matt, so she pushes herself up and runs in the direction that it came from. When she finds him, she sees that Caroline has him pinned against a tree and she's biting his neck.
"M-Matt?" Jay watches them, confused as she tries to make out what's happening through the haze in her mind. "Care?"
There's a blur of motion, and then Stefan's holding the blonde back as he yells at her to stop fighting him. Matt collapses, his back sliding down the tree, and then Jay runs over to see if he's okay.
"What the hell?" The brunette puts her hand over his bloody neck, then she turns to look at the two behind her. "Were you... Did you bite him?" She questions, seeing the blood on Caroline's remorse-filled face.
The wooded area morphs into a school parking lot, and then Jay and her older sister run out of a building looking rather panicked.
"Vicki, no!" Elena yells as she and Jay look at the older girl with Jeremy.
Vicki turns to them, pushing Jeremy to the ground, and then she attacks Elena. She throws her into a broken pallet after Elena tries to hit her with a large piece of wood.
"Ele— Oh my God." Jay's eyes widen when she sees the veins under Vicki's eyes, then she backs up toward Jeremy as he inches closer to them. She sees the blood on him and knows that it's his blood on the older girl's mouth.
