The trees swayed slightly as the breeze cut through the warm late June afternoon. Laughter echoed through the air as children played amongst each other and chatter could be over heard by the adults catching up. It was a rare moment where everything seemed to be in harmony, in peace.

The grass flattened as two bodies lay upon it, enjoying the day as much as the humans did. It was just the two of them as it has been since a week after she was turned and neither one would have it any other way.

"You sure learn to love the simplicity of things when you are not surrounded by overbearing siblings." The original vampire flashed his best friend a wide smile as she rolled her eyes.

"They are not as terrible as you make them out to be. They are quite lovely actually."

He scoffed lightly, immediately disagreeing, "you have not spent as much time with them as I have, love. Believe me, they will find a way to get under your skin."

"I do not think I could think ill of the people who not only saved me but whom I have come to love eternally. You are my true family and I will forever be grateful."

He turned his head to look at her and admired how calm she looked with the sun's rays beaming against her face. It was not a shock when he so readily volunteered to help her adjust with the new lifestyle and wanted to do it alone. He took her towards the east, avoiding his siblings as they followed the Normans who were conquering the south.

The girl had been a vital key to keeping his siblings from tearing each other apart. She was someone who extinguished the anger between them all and he never wanted to lose her. For if she left or was taken from him, he was sure he would make the heavens scream.

"We cannot keep hiding out here, not with what's going on. Believe me I enjoy these moments I get alone with you, but you cannot run away from your problems. Have I not taught you otherwise?"

She beamed at him, a playful eye roll given before she raised herself onto her elbows to look at him better, "oh, I apologize sincerely for disappointing you, oh great one."

"Laugh all you want, but you cannot say that anyone else has actually taught you something worth remembering."

Children ran passed them, laughter echoing behind them and in this moment they could both forget they were vampires and just be. Where they could forget about their problems and live carelessly. No worries about who they were angering and who was hunting them down.

Just simply be who they were; Kol Mikaelson and Jasmine Saunders.

Jasmine cast her stare to the grass as she picked at it, "I wish we could stay here forever."

Kol tucked a loose hair strand behind her ear and smiled gently, "I would give anything to spend forever by you."

Before she could respond, the sky suddenly darkened as rain clouds swarmed the top of the town. Rain immediately poured and as the thought of running in the rain was appealing, it seemed as if the rain thought otherwise.

Kol let out a yell as the rain drenched his body, steam rising from the contact. Jasmine helplessly tried to shield them as the rain poured even harder, willing them to leave.

"Vervain!"

Jasmine grabbed his hand and attempted to speed both of them under shelter but they were both too weak. They collapsed on the floor and tried to feebly crawl to the nearest tree for cover.

"How is that even possible?"

"You have to wake up!"

Jasmine stared at him confused. Wake up? But she wasn't sleeping, she was sure of that. They were talking, relaxing after a long week of 'vampire training.'

"What are you—"

"WAKE UP!"

Jasmine lifted off the bed with a loud gasp. She coughed roughly as she clenched her chest, feeling as if an entire barrel of vervain was poured down her throat. Dazed from the dream she had, Jasmine grew even more confused as she saw the room littered with limbs and blood splattered almost everywhere.

"What the hell?"

"Seems like you had a rather... eventful night."

Jasmine looked towards the voice and rose an eyebrow as she saw Katherine Pierce lounging on an arm chair across from her.

"What are you doing here, Katerina?"

"You texted me last night. Which was very surprising considering you had almost killed me then stalked murderously into the hospital half an hour before. You said there was going to be a 'bitchin party' here, but before I could have any fun, you decided to eat the guests."

Katherine kicked an arm away from her as she made her way over to sit next to Jasmine, who was looking around the room and trying to process what Katherine had said.

"I went into the hospital?"

The younger vampire looked at her as if repeating herself was the last thing she wanted to do, "yes, right after you let me go."

"I... Katerina, I don't have time for games. What are you doing here and what actually happened last night?"

"Wait, you seriously don't remember?"

"I wouldn't be asking if I did." Jasmine snapped as she got out of bed. She didn't recognize her surroundings so she knew she wasn't in her current living accommodations.

When Jasmine couldn't figure things out immediately, she usually began to grow frustrated and tried to take back what little control she had. The missing memories seemed to provoked that as she began speeding around the room cleaning vigorously.

She remembered seeing Katherine and speaking to her, but she couldn't remember what happened after Katherine had confessed her plan—it was just... gone. And that terrified her.

"There's obviously something wrong if you can't remember what happened, especially after your little episode last night."

Jasmine didn't pay her any attention as she continued to clean herself up. She scrubbed the blood off her face and hands, not daring to look into the bathroom mirror. She walked into the bedroom's closet and fortunately, found something decent to wear. Ripping the blood stained clothes off her body, she quickly replaced it with the hopefully cleaner clothes.

Once she didn't see a speck of blood or a hint of a crease on her, she felt ready to figure out what was going on.

"Hello, earth to Jasmine. I've been sitting here talking to myself while you cleaned like a psychopath."

Jasmine's eyes narrowed and she tilted her head to the side before rushing to grab Katherine by the throat.

"You haven't given me any clue to what happened besides that I apparently walked into a hospital and then threw a party. So, tell me, with that little information what exactly makes you any more useful to me than the corpses I threw into the trash bin outside?"

It was true that Katherine withheld information because she thought it would help to keep her alive another day, but if she remembered Jasmine correctly, the heretic loathed vague answers and preferred immediate intel.

"Fine. You want to know what happened?" Jasmine released her with an eye roll and motioned for her to continue. "I don't know the specifics about your episode outside the hospital. All I know about that is that you kept muttering to yourself while clutching your head before you went all killer mode and almost killed me.

For some reason, you let me go and believe me, I didn't waste a second getting out of there. Half an hour later, you text me—how you got my number is beyond me—saying to come here for an apology drink."

Katherine stood up from the floor and leaned against the bed post, looking at the floor as if she was still visualizing the bodies on the floor.

"There was about two dozen people when I got here. You said they were people you met leaving the hospital, all of them visiting from out of town to see their sick loved ones. All of them were compelled to do what you said and well, I was lucky enough to not be able to be compelled."

Flashes of light blurred past Katherine's mind. A very coherent Jasmine dancing among the people she lured there, beckoning Katherine to join in.

"There was lots of dancing and drinking, mainly you drinking from the humans. I thought it was all going smoothly, hell, I even joined in, but then you stopped the music. I thought you were going to make some cliche speech, but instead you lifted your hands up and cast two spells."

Katherine remembered the confusion she could feel from the people and she certainly felt the terror after what happened next.

"No one could leave the house and no one would be able to hear their screams."

Jasmine rested her head against the window glass on the back of the room where she had thought was best to listen to the story. She had no idea if Katherine was just spinning lies, but something inside of her was telling her that Katherine was telling the truth.

"You compelled them to scream, to run, to be terrified as you hunted them all down one by one."

Katherine could also recall her own fear as she hid away, not wanting to get in the middle of Jasmine's rampage. She had never felt as frightened as she did in that moment. Not knowing if she would survive the night.

"I needed to save myself, so I hid underneath a pile of bodies you had already killed. Jasmine, whatever is going on... you need to find a way to stop it."

A dark chuckle filled the room as Jasmine lifted her head, "I never knew mass murder would frighten the girl who had her own friends killed."

"I had no choice! My only way out of Mystic Falls was exchanging their names for a carriage. Klaus knew where I was! I needed to go into hiding again."

"I could have helped you, Katerina. Nobody had to die."

Katherine spent years building up her walls, to mask her emotions from everyone, but what she did will always haunt her. One of the reasons she didn't turn off her humanity switch was because it was a way of punishing herself, to face everything she did while she was herself not some emotionless robot. She wanted to feel guilt, remorse, anger, and sadness because it reminded her that she was still connected to her humanity. And in her eyes, her humanity is what kept her from completely turning into creatures like Klaus Mikaelson and Jasmine Saunders, who used fear to make people follow them. That was what she was aiming for, to live this life without becoming a ruthless monster like Jasmine.

"Do you really think I didn't know that you were the one who outed me to Giuseppe? People may think you're the epitome of sunshine and rainbows, but they don't know you like I do. You're just like him. A monster."

Jasmine simply smirked as Katherine began walking towards the door, eager to leave the heretic behind. Of course, Jasmine wasn't going to let her have the last word.

"Then it shouldn't come as a shocker when I tell you that it was also me who told Niklaus about your whereabouts." Katherine stopped in her tracks and turned to look at Jasmine with an expression full of disbelief, "yes, Katerina, you could have had the life you wanted so desperately, but you just had to interfere with the Salvatore brothers, didn't you?"

Satisfied with her retort, Jasmine lifted her hand and slammed the door in Katherine's face.