Insanity

New Orleans

"I can't believe Bonnie made it out." Kai leaned against the door frame, watching as Damon began to rip off the chains from his mothers coffin, Jerome sat on the ground watching Bonnie's video from the prison world.

"She's plucky." Jerome tilted his head, his eyes glazed over as he remembered when they left Bonnie to die.

"Hey, do you need help? Oh, actually before you answer that, I'd rather not. I just keep experiencing these pangs of guilt watching you."

"Aw I thought when you got Jo's magic it would fix you and you would go back to not caring. This sucks." Jerome groaned.

"Feelings are hard." Kai nodded, agreeing with the red head.

"So is the end of this crowbar." Damon growled frustrated at the company around him.

"Is that a threat? I actually can't tell. If it is, then you wound me Day-Day, I thought you'd use better threats on us. " Jerome frowned at the raven haired vampire.

"I'm just saying, digging up mommys grave? It's dark, even for me." Kai walked up to Damon as he finished breaking the chains around the coffin.

"Do you make it a habit or digging up your parents graves? Maybe you should see a shrink cause that's, well, insane." Jerome jumped up and peered over Damons shoulder to see what was inside when Damon opened the coffins lid.

"It's totally unnecessary. Damon, Bonnie saw her alive in a 1903 prison world. It's on camera. You wanna watch it again?"

Damon grunted, snatching the camera from Jerome, "my mother died of consumption in 1858. We did not go through the trouble of moving this thing to the family crypt only to find out she's not even in here."

"Oh, so you just called us here because you needed a friend?"

"I'm touched, we're truly besties." Jerome threw his arm around Damons shoulders, giggling when Damon shoved it off angrily.

"You wanted to know if she could exist in another prison world, to which I responded yes, to which you responded with denial." Kai continued, trying to ignore the pang of jealously he felt when Jerome threw his arm around Damon.

"Whatever or whoever is on that tape, it's not her."

"Then who is it?"

"I dunno. A ghost? Maybe she has an evil Gemini twin."

"That would be hilarious!" Jerome grinned at Damon's mocking suggestion.

"If my mother was imprisoned in 1903, she'd be in her 70's."

"Not if she were like you." Kai muttered, rolling his eyes at Damon's blatant denial.

"I know my mother! She's not a vampire. She is not in a prison world. She died of consumption in 1858." Damon spun around, snarling out his words.

Sighing in annoyance, Jerome pushed past Damon and yanked the lid of the coffin, his tone filled with boredom, "then where's her body D?"

Damon glanced into the coffin, dread filled his eyes ad he looked like he as about to be sick.

"Congratulations. Everything you know about your mom is wrong." Kai patted Damon on the back, dragging a smirking Jerome out of the crypt with him.

"Ring me when you need me, I gotta go talk to someone." Jerome started to skip into the woods, pausing as Kai frowned and grabbed his arm gently.

"Talk to who? You've been dead for months, who could you possibly have to talk to?" Kai refused to admit it, but he didn't want Jerome to leave his side, having grown accustomed to having him around.

"Cult followers, blah, blah, blah."

"What? Jerome?" Kai stepped forward confused but Jerome just giggled and skipped off.

Huffing annoyed, Kai walked away, leaving Jerome to whatever he had to do.

"Brucey? Oh Brucey, you here?" Peeking his head into run down tents, Jerome's rough voice carried through the dead silence in the empty circus grounds.

"Y-Yes, sir?" Bruce slipped out of one of the tent, his shoulders hunched as he waited to for Jerome to speak, flinching slightly when Jerome giddily ran up to him.

"You found anyone cool?"

"I f-found some followers, they're in a nightclub called Gotham, it's part of the New Orleans underworld , sir. What do you want me to do next?"

"New Orleans? Hmm...never been. Isn't that where Elijah is? Oo haven't seen him in awhile...ah he thinks I'm dead. Shame. I'll have to pay a trip there once I've completed the deal with Kai." Jerome looked into the distance, as if remembering something before Bruce pulled him out of it.

"What deal, sir?"

"Doesn't matter. Go to the nightclub, let my oh so beloved followers know their leader has returned and keep an eye on one Elijah Mikaelson for me. Go on." Lazily waving his hand, he started to skip off, his mood brightening at the mention of an old friend.

Before he could reunite with anyone, he needed to help Kai eliminate the entire Gemini coven and then his sister. This was going to be fun.

A/N - I've started to plan the sequel to this book, as you might have guessed, it will take part in the originals. If you have any name suggestions feel free to comment.  I won't say how just yet, but Kai will definitely be in the sequel. I am going slightly off canon for the ending.  Not many chapters left.