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Both Iason, Jeremy and Matt visit the hospital to see Jenna when they get the news and Iason is quick to check her injuries and tells the teens that she will be fine. They both sigh in relief and Jeremy asks why it’s happened.

“Because Damon annoyed her by killing Mason and because she knows Elena and Stefan are still dating” 

“This is over them dating?” Jeremy seemed irritated and Iason is worried.

“Yes, Katherine has always been possessive over Stefan, to an unhealthy degree. She warned them about staying together but they thought they could trick her. I’m unsure if this is over them still being together or Mason being killed” 

“Did she like Mason?” Matt asks, Iason can hear him trying to push down his emotions but Iason knows that he will help them both later process everything.

“She was most likely only using Mason for her own gain” 

“Then all this is because she wanted to prove she’s in control and over Elena dating Stefan” Jeremy’s jaw hardens and Iason gathers the boys in his arms before taking them into the car. 

Due to what’s happened Iason decides to treat the boys to a nice meal in a nicer part of town. It does help make them a bit happier but there is a cloud of misery surrounding them. At the boarding house they both go straight to bed, Iason also made up a room for Jeremy as he doesn’t want to stay at his place. Sighing, Iason goes to bed as well as he gets the feeling stuff is going to get very chaotic and he’s going to need the sleep.

When morning comes Iason feels tempted to stay in bed because everything is happening and he just wants some peace but life always finds a way to muck it up. Or he should think that his brothers always find a way to muck it up. Getting up from bed Iason checks up on the boys and finds that they are both still asleep in their rooms so he takes this opportunity to go and give Lamia some of his blood. She seems a bit bored so Iason gives her a request so that she can go and find something - a green piece of sea glass. When he gave her his request she seemed to perk up and happily flew out the window. One thing done, Iason goes downstairs and decides to start cooking some breakfast. 

Looking at his ingredients Iason sees that shopping will be on the agenda next week but he has enough stuff for breakfast. Having an idea Iason checks the amount of eggs he’s got and sees that he has a lot. The one thing he always makes sure he has is a lot of eggs because so many recipes and breakfast items require eggs. 

With the amount of eggs he has Iason decides on making some crepes for breakfast. Grabbing the eggs and some flour as well as a pan Iason gets to work on making some crepes, he also makes sure to get the jars of blood so his lovely brothers can have some. Those will be cooked last though. 

By the time Iason has finished his breakfast and moved onto the boys crepes Damon has come down the stairs with Stefan in tow. They are as normal, whining and Iason decides to ignore them. He’s cracked the egg for another crepe when Matt stumbles into the kitchen rubbing his eyes.

“Morning” He grumbles whilst going to a seat at the kitchen island, Damon and Stefan stop talking to just look at Matt.

Damon grins at Matt and leans against the door frame, “Did you ever sleep when you were on your own?” Matt nods his head.

“Yeah, for a couple of hours” This causes Damon to frown but Stefan loses interest and goes off to somewhere else. This annoys Iason because it’s been awhile since they’ve had a meal together and it seems like Stefan is ignoring him since he’s accepted the boys into the family. 

“Well, a growing boy needs plenty of sleep to be big and strong” 

“Yeah well some people don’t have time for sleep, I have to do homework, go to school, go to work and feed myself whilst also trying to keep a relationship alive. Although now I guess I no longer have that err obligation” The last word is spoken with a bit of hesitation as Matt couldn’t find the right word.

“Right blonde broke up with you” Turning around with the finished crepe Iason hands it to Matt who smiles at him and Iason returns it but turns back to the stove as he has more crepes to cook.

“Actually I broke up with her” Damon hums and then stands behind Iason but he just ignores the presence because it’s not distracting. 

“What she too much?” 

“Something like that” Matt goes quiet and Iason can hear the sounds of a fork scrapping on a plate. 

“Hey Damon, can you wake Jeremy up for me?” Damon groans and throws his arm on his shoulder and puts a high amount of weight on him. 

“Ugh, why should I? Kid can wake himself up” Iason sees that the crepe is cooking well so looks over at Damon. 

“Well if you don’t then I might not cook you any breakfast” Damon lets out a sigh and then groans as he starts to slowly walk towards the door to get upstairs.

“Fine, but only for the sake of food” Iason hides a smile and finishes off Jeremy’s crepe and dishes it up onto a plate. Turning round he puts the plate next to where Matt is sitting.

“Is it alright?” Matt nods quickly.

“Yeah, it’s good” 

“Do you have any plans for today?” 

“I’ve got work at the grill today” Iason nods and goes back to the stove to start a blood crepe for Damon, starting with making a new mix.

“Have you been taking vervain?” 

Matt groans a little and speaks in a bored drawn out tone, “Yes, I’ve been drinking it in my drinks” His tone then goes back to normal, “Thanks for the vervain by the way”. Iason hums because the vervain was something that Matt needed and there’s no way he’s letting him go around with a glaring weakness, too many vampires have been around recently. Even though Jeremy is giving Matt the vervain, Jeremy gets it from him; it’s just easier for Jeremy to pass it over to Matt so the thank you can be also extended to Jeremy but knowing Matt he likely thanks Jeremy every time he gets a new batch. Oh! Iason should check up on the process for his house. After all he needs to get his own supply of vervain.

Iason hears some stumbling down the stairs and a bit of swearing as Jeremy makes his way down. He can also hear the light chuckling of Damon who is likely not helping Jeremy and instead making it slightly worse. Iason is about to put the blood crepe into the pan but decides to check the temperature of Jeremy’s crepe. He finds that it has gotten a bit cool so he quickly puts it back into the pan so that it can be warm. He has to keep a close eye on the crepe because he doesn’t want it to go bad but he also doesn’t want Jeremy to have a cold breakfast.

Luckily Jeremy walks into the kitchen soon after and Iason is able to give him the crepe without it burning. He then starts with the cooking of Damon’s blood crepe and when it’s finished he puts it in front of Damon. Sighing a little in relief that everyone is eating, Iason turns to clean up and thinks about what he should do for the day. Maybe go over some commissions and paperwork and then sort out the vervain. The greenhouse has been finished up in his house but he now needs to go over and plant some, he should also check on the supply in the basement as he wouldn’t want it dying. With a plan sorted Iason continues with washing up.

“Oh Jeremy, what’s your plan for the day?”

“Uhh” Iason turns and sees that Jeremy is just frozen and looking at him so he raises an eyebrow a little and he just gets a sheepish grin in return. “Might go for a jog?” 

“Sounds good” Iason turns back to continue washing up and ignores the teasing between Jeremy and Matt. 

It doesn’t take long for the boys to finish up their breakfast and add their plates to his washing up and they go back up stairs to get dressed. By the time they have finished getting dressed Iason has finished with the washing up and he watches them leave to go on about their day. 

With the boys gone and Damon walking about Iason goes down to the basement with a watering can filled with water - the watering can was inside a cabinet. Down in the basement Iason waters all the vervain plants and checks on their leaves and the flower buds. They all seemed to be healthy but a little dehydrated in the soil. The soil takes in the water and goes darker so he hopes that it’s enough because he doesn’t want to overwater or underwater. With the watering done Iason grabs the scissors that are located in a little section that has gardening tools near the vervain. With one hand holding the scissors Iason looks around at the plants and finds some shoots that have no flowers and with the scissors cut the shoot to four to six inches. 

He gets a couple of cuttings and with the cutting he then cuts off the shoot below the leaves so that moisture loss is lessened. With the cuttings sorted Iason grabs some plastic pots and some compost. Opening the compost Iason checks it over to see if it’s still usable, which it is. He quickly fills up a pot with compost and then uses some of the leftover water to water the compost. Using his finger Iason then makes a couple of holes in the compost that is decently deep and then puts in the cuttings, he’s able to fit in four cuttings because he wants them to have room to grow. 

However, Iason has more cuttings so he gets another pot and quickly fills it with compost, but he doesn’t have water for the compost. So he grabs the watering can and goes back upstairs to the kitchen and fills it with water. Whilst in the kitchen Iason also grabs some plastic bags which he’s also going to need. 

Going through the parlour as he hears some noise and he wants to know what’s going on in his house he sees that Caroline is sitting down and talking with Stefan and Damon. From what he hears she’s talking about a situation with Katherine which isn’t good, not one bit. 

“Can we just give her the moonstone so she'll leave?” Iason scoffs a little and it seems Damon is of the same sentiment, he hasn’t even heard what has been happening and he already can tell that the answer is no. Wait, giving Katherine the moonstone? He can understand why she would want to do that but also it wouldn’t go well in the end. In fact, no matter what happens it won’t end well. It would be better if the moonstone was never found.

“No, Katherine's not getting dick. I've had it. I'm gonna go to the masquerade ball and I'm gonna kill her, tonight”

“You're not gonna kill her” Iason is just standing there and watching as his brothers stand up to each other and he’s wondering how on earth vampires are dangerous because they never seem to know that someone is behind them. But that could be because his brothers aren’t that smart sometimes. 

“Don't give me that goody-goody crap”

“You're not gonna kill her” 

“Really?”

“Because I am” 

This is going to be fun … Not really because those two with Katherine is not going to go well. Not one bit. So now he has to think on if he should help … If they ask for his help then he might but at the same time he’s not very interested in getting involved. All this drama with some girls. 

“Well, just be safe” Seeing his brothers jump is quite funny but Caroline letting out a shrill noise was a bit irritating on his ears. Iason gives them all a flat look and continues on his way to the basement. 

Back inside the basement Iason walks to the compost and quickly waters it. With it watered he then uses his finger again to plant the cuttings and then make sure that they are safe and secure in the compost. As all the cuttings are secured in the pots Iason then puts a plastic bag on the pots and then grabs some twine that he then cuts off. Using the twine he ties it to the pot and makes sure that the plastic bag is attached to the pots. Then he lifts the top of the bag up a little so it’s got a good amount of height. 

And the cuttings are all done. In a couple of weeks he will need to check on them but for now he will have them secure in his bedroom. There’s no point keeping them in the basement when the point of the cuttings is to have them for back up. He also wants to get a bit into planting. It’s never been something he’s been all that into as it can be very difficult to get right but he does love a challenge. It has been a decade since his last failure on planting. 

Iason’s phone pings and he checks it and sees that Jeremy is taking Jenna home and that he wants him to join. He agrees and quickly goes to his bedroom to get some clean clothes as he got a bit of wet soil on his clothes and he doesn’t want to go out looking like a mess. Then he puts the cuttings in a place that doesn’t get a lot of sun because he doesn’t want the cuttings to burn. It doesn’t take long to get ready and Iason goes off towards his car.

“I’m going to help with Jenna, be back in a bit” He hears an affirmative from Damon but nothing from Stefan which is getting really annoying. Also what do they do in their free time? He’s been with them for years and he still doesn’t see them do anything, Damon drinks and reads a little whilst Stefan writes in his journal but other than that? Nothing. Seems like a boring afterlife.

The drive to the hospital wasn’t eventful and when he got there he saw that Matt, Jeremy and Jenna were all standing outside with Elena pouting beside them. He was going to find a parking spot but decides to stop near them and let them quickly get inside the car. It’s not like it will take them too long and he hopefully won’t get a ticket for stopping in front of a hospital. Seeing some people staring at his car Iason hopes for them to hurry up, although Jenna is injured so she has an excuse but Elena is being too slow.

Finally with everyone inside Iason starts the journey back and Jenna, who got the passenger seat, turns on some music. With the use of the mirror Iason can see that Elena is staring out of the window with her arms crossed and she seems upset whilst Matt and Jeremy were happily on their phones and talking to each other in low tones. 

“Is everything alright Elena?” He might not like her but it is decent courtesy but what does he get in response? A scowl. Jeremy huffs out a laugh and he can see that Matt is also entertained.

“She’s huffy because we said no to her offer on driving Jenna home” 

Ah, that would do it. 

“Well I don’t mind driving for you all but how come you said no to Elena driving?” Elena scowls more and Jeremy huffs out another little laugh.

“You kidding right? Elena's driving is often unsteady and she’s easily distracted with talking and singing. Jenna needs a calm and steady drive and you’re just a better driver” Iason nods, he is a good driver but that might be because of the many years of practice or because he likes to be cautious of anything dangerous. Just because they cannot die doesn't mean they can’t feel pain and Iason would rather spare the people he cares about being hurt. 

The journey is mostly calm with Jenna mumbling along to some of the songs and Jeremy talking about the fighting club he’s joined. It doesn’t take all that long to get back, which is lucky as they have just missed a big bit of traffic as people are driving to get ready for the masquerade ball. 

Once at the Gilbert residence Matt and Elena help Jenna walk towards the door whilst Jeremy unlocks the house and Iason follows slowly behind. Jenna is quite steady on her feet but is a little off balance but she doesn’t trip or stumble which is good. She also doesn’t seem to be in a high amount of pain but that could be because of the medication.

On the steps seem to cause the most issues for Jenna but Matt takes more of Jenna’s weight. “Easy. Grab the door Jer”. Jeremy nods and opens the door for them and then goes inside the house to keep a hold of it so it doesn’t close on them.

“Hey, stop fussing, I'm fine” Jenna protests but everyone ignores her and keeps helping her inside. 

“The doctors said that you have to take it easy”

“Yeah, you don't want to rip your stitches, hemorrhage and die, alright?” Jeremy jokes and Iason can tell that Jenna is both annoyed but entertained.

“Yeah, the only thing I'm gonna die from is embarrassment”

“No” Matt’s tone is very serious and Iason feels bad that teenagers have suffered through grief, some due to his brothers getting involved.

“I walked into a knife. How does somebody do that?” 

“It was a freak accident” Elena rushes to pacify and the boys are also quick to hop on the train. They are all now inside the house and Jeremy has shut the door and they are leading Jenna towards the living room.

“It happens”

“Yeah, I mean I’ve done it like twenty times at the Grill” Matt teases and Iason goes towards the couch and removes anything white, like the cushions which he replaces with the blue ones on the other chairs. Jenna probably wouldn’t like her white cushions to be stained with blood, even though women are quite skilled at getting blood out of stuff it still takes effort that she might not want to put in them. 

At the joke Jenna laughs a little but she quickly winces in pain and Iason can see the guilt on Matt’s face for causing her pain. However, he quickly masks his guilt and continues on to make Jenna feel more at ease and that stuff is normal, “Okay, I'm being nice”.

Jeremy takes over from Elena so that he can help Matt with getting Jenna onto the couch, “Careful”. They are slow with Jenna as they don’t want to cause her pain. 

“Easy, Easy” 

And they’ve done it. Jenna is safe on the couch and she looks to be comfortable. Matt turns to Elena and holds out a bag that Jeremy brought in with him and placed on the floor. “What should I do with this?” Elena walks over and takes the bag of food that they must have gotten before Iason picked them up.

“I got it”

With the bag Elena and Jeremy both go off into the kitchen whilst Matt stays with Jenna to make her more comfortable. She protests at first but gives up quickly, Iason stays and watches them.

“You don’t have to stare you know” 

“Sorry, just a bit worried for you that’s all” Jenna waves her hand loosely in the air.

“No need, I’m all good. The pains not too bad and the stitches are only going to be in for a bit” 

“Yes, but that’s only physical, what about your mental well being? There’s also the issue of finances that concerns me” Jenna groans and Matt throws him a small smile before taking a seat in a spare chair. 

“You speak too much like a doctor,” Iason smiles a little.

“Well thank you, I did go through the training”

“Mentally, only embarrassment. Finances, I’ll think something up” Now even more concerned Iason looks over at Matt who shrugs so Iason looks over at Jenna who’s staring at the ceiling as she’s laying down with a bowl resting against her side. 

“What do you mean? I thought you were all fine?” 

“We are, but the funerals took quite a bit of money and then the cars were also expensive. There’s plenty of money for bills and food but a medical bill? That’s going to cause some issues. I can see if there’s some part time jobs, maybe Elena could get one. No I can’t do that”

“Jenna if you’re struggling I can help” Jenna turns her head and glares at him.

“No. You’re already helped enough, you’re taking care of Jeremy and that makes it easier with money already but to pay for this? No” Iason finds it funny but understandable that Jenna thinks he was offering to pay for her medical bill without him actually offering to help with that. He was, but she just assumed; very dangerous.

“Looking after Jeremy isn’t too bad and I don’t do that much. He still lives with you most of the time, you still feed him breakfast. You’re still doing a lot for him. But Jenna if this is a concern for you then let me help you. And anyways I have plenty of money. Think of it as a rich person paying more in taxes” Iason grins at Jenna as she looks at him, highly considering his offer.

She points at him, “Fine, but you can’t take it back now. Eat the rich and whatever” With defeat she starts to feel for the remote and Iason looks over at Matt and grins whilst he just shakes his head. 

Soon a door being closed brings his attention to Jeremy who is storming out of the house, Jenna gives him a look and he just nods before following after Jeremy. Outside the house Jeremy is pacing a little and mumbling under his breath. Iason watches him pace and doesn’t disturb him, it’s clear he’s thinking about something and trying to come to a conclusion on an action he wants to take or a conclusion on what his thoughts mean. 

Jeremy stops pacing and is about to go off but Iason decides to talk now, “So what are you planning?”. Jeremy quickly turns and looks at him in surprise. Iason is also surprised because he wasn’t really that quiet, is no one keeping an eye on their surroundings? This is how people in the supernatural die. They sometimes forget to be paranoid. He wouldn’t want Jeremy to be overly paranoid but when someone is attacking his family, he should be a little paranoid. Although he is at his house where he should be able to relax, never mind, Iason might need to work more on announcing his presence.

"I’ll ask again Jeremy what are you planning? I can tell that you’ve reached a conclusion so what is your plan?” Jeremy bites his lip a bit and looks away into the distance before looking down at the ground and kicks his foot a little. 

After a few painfully boring seconds of Iason waiting Jeremy looks back up at him. “I want Katherine to pay, she’s gotten away with too much already a-and I want her dead”. Looking at the teenager he can see that pain in his eyes, the sorrow of everything that’s happened. 

Walking over to him Iason quickly brings him into a hug, one arm around his waist and the other resting against the back of his head. Jeremy is quick to hug him back. 

“I know you want her to pay but I would rather you stay away from her. She’s dangerous and wouldn’t hesitate to hurt you” Jeremy goes to speak but Iason shushes him. “No, let me finish first, please. Knowing my brothers they will probably also want her dead so you help them but I want you away from the action. Alright?” Jeremy goes slack against him and sighs a bit before nodding. 

“Yeah…” 

“Alright, let’s go over to them and you can talk about making a plan” 

“Thanks for letting me” Jeremy speaks quietly and Iason sorts out Jeremy’s hair at the front as it’s a bit messy.

“Of course, I know that you would do it anyways and I would rather you be safe whilst doing it” Iason guides Jeremy to the passenger seat and then walks over to the driver seat and starts to drive whilst Jeremy listens to his choice of music.

Iason doesn’t want Jeremy anywhere near Katherine however he and Elena often get themselves heavily involved, no matter how much they know they shouldn’t or people tell them they shouldn’t. Look at the situation with Tyler, Iason told Jeremy to stay away from him but he wanted to get involved and went after Tyler. Now he tells him that he wants to go after Katherine, yeah he’s learnt that Jeremy is too stubborn to not get involved. So if letting him get involved will help with keeping him safe then he’ll let him. However! He’s going to try and get Jeremy out of the need to help more. Maybe a punishment? But that might not help. Help with understanding how dangerous it could be? Maybe if he got Jeremy working with his company then he might not feel the need to get in these dangerous situations. 

The journey to the boarding house shouldn’t take long on a normal day however there is a high amount of traffic so now he’s stuck. But he takes this time to talk with Jeremy again.

“Jeremy” The teen turns and faces him, “This and I mean it, shouldn’t happen again. These situations are getting more and more dangerous and I don’t want you being in danger. There are people out there who are more dangerous than Katherine who might have their eyes on this town. So, as we spoke about it before I’m offering you a job to help with organising the supernatural funeral calls” Jeremy beams at him and Iason finds it a bit strange, he knows that he’s doing something that Jeremy has been asking for but a smile for being asked to help with funerals is a bit strange. He has seen it before as supernatural beings find it a great honour but a human? They don’t often smile when offered a job in the funeral department - unless they are seeking the job first.

“Really? I get to help more?” Iason nods

“Yes, you will be able to help and you will be more safe” 

“Thanks! When can I start?” 

“I will get my friend to call you and she will teach you how to take calls and basic procedures. Then I will get a worker to visit and they will help with teaching more of the company secrets. Oh! Also as a worker you will be warned there may be a chance that you will be asked to help with hiding the bodies of the supernatural if there are no body removers in the local vicinity” 

“Ugh, that was too official sounding” Jeremy gives him a disgusted look before changing the song and bopping his head. Iason looks back at the still traffic and frowns, this is a bit too much traffic for a small town. How many people are going to the masquerade? 

After a way too long journey, mostly being spent in traffic, Iason and Jeremy finally arrive back at the boarding house. Once there Jeremy talks to Damon about killing Katherine who is in agreement and Iason leaves them to quickly call Vera about Jeremy then do some emails. With that all done he goes downstairs where Damon and Jeremy are quite excited and Iason goes over to his crochet basket and sits down.

Caroline is walking about and touching a lot of stuff which keeps distracting Iason because he doesn’t like that she’s putting it back in the wrong place. 

“Oi! Stop moving those” Damon gets up and grabs a little statue out of Caroline’s hand and puts it back where it belongs. 

Caroline turns to give Damon a flat look, “I was not moving it but repositioning it to a better location” She gives him a cheery smile and Damon scowls at her.

“Well Missy, they’re fine where they are and don’t need moving and if you do move it, Iason will have a few words to speak with you” Damon points towards him and Caroline looks at him and gives him an easy smile. 

“Iason doesn’t mind, don’t you?” 

“Caroline all those objects are placed where the sun won’t damage them but still have decent lighting so the details are viewable. Moving them increases the risk of permanently damaging them so yes, I do mind that they’re being moved” Caroline’s smile fades and she looks at the floor repeatedly. 

“Sorry” Iason turns back to his crochet and Damon goes towards the door when there’s a knock and lets in Alaric. Again, somehow Iason and Alaric have not interacted all that much but thinking about it he doesn’t really want to. That’s Damon's friend and involving himself can be overstepping.

The clanking of his needles doesn’t drown out the sound of Alaric going through a box and putting the weapons on the table. Iason pauses his needles and looks at the weapons, those better not scruff the wood. And he goes back to his work. As he’s not always doing the crochet he’s gotten a few orders that he needs to work on. 

When Alaric stops putting weapons on the table Damon talks to his friend whilst Jeremy studies the weapons. Maybe Iason can get him some weapon training? Another knock is heard and this time Caroline goes to the door and greets Bonnie. Iason isn’t surprised by the presence of Bonnie because when there’s a witch who’s helped before the vampires will exploit. Bonnie and Caroline walk into the living room and Stefan, who’s been brooding against the wall approaches the pair. 

“Hey, you brought the grimoire, thank you” 

Iason looks over at Bonnie who is looking over at everyone and after nodding in greeting towards her Iason goes back to his needles. 

“What's going on?” 

Jeremy walks from wherever he wandered to and Bonnie seems to be a bit surprised to see him. “We're gonna kill Katherine”. Iason looks back at Bonnie and sees her looking at everyone with disbelief and Stefan walks a bit closer to everyone, finally joining in the circle. 

“I can explain”

“Please” Bonnie looks at Stefan expectantly.

“We're gonna kill Katherine” 

Iason lets out a small chuckle which Stefan smiles at. It’s always fun when Stefan is a bit more sassy or in general shows more of his personality and sense of humour. Alaric then gains the attention of the room as he lifts a weapon to show everyone but Iason loses interest quickly and goes back to his commission. Thinking on the idea of them killing Katherine makes Iason realise that he doesn’t feel much, no sense of close death or something big happening. The death of a vampire doppelgänger should trigger his senses but it’s not which makes Iason believe something is going to go wrong. Looking over the people in the living room, Iason relaxes when he doesn’t feel death looming over them. So they will be safe. 

“This works with compressed air. The trigger mechanism is up here. I have two of these in a different size. For you I recommend this. It fits nicely under the jacket sleeve. You use the trigger when you're ready” Alaric then demonstrates how the weapon works and Iason doesn’t need to lift his head up to know that Damon and Stefan are giving Alaric a look. “You wanted me to show you how to kill a vampire”

Bonnie still looks at people a bit sceptical and Stefan leads her away from the group to have a ‘private’ conversation with people able to listen in because of super hearing. People start getting ready to go to the masquerade ball and Iason gets a text from Matt talking about maybe going and if he can. Iason quickly informs Matt on what the group is planning and he quickly backs out of going as he doesn’t want to get caught in the cross fire as a human. So the pair makes a plan to have a nice day with some takeout pizza and watching some movies. Somehow no one has asked him to join in which is funny and so he won’t join in but he’s looking at Jeremy in worry. Jeremy is getting too involved and too close to the action. Although he is supposed to just be helping Bonnie with the magic, Iason doesn’t want him to get hurt as people often target the witches and those close to a witch. That could be Jeremy. 

Unfortunately Jeremy is too stubborn and won’t listen to his explanations, so Iason got a promise from Damon to try and keep Jeremy away from harm. Thankfully Damon agreed to that promise and Iason tries to force himself to relax whilst he waits for Matt to arrive. At least one of the boys is able to see how the world is dangerous and being away from it is more beneficial. Taking time to protect the humans causes distraction and that distraction can cause loss of lives or lose chances on removing threats. 

Soon Matt knocks on the door and Iason opens it up for him and the others take the arrival of Matt to leave and go off to the ball. Iason leads Matt over to the living room where Matt goes straight to a couch and groans.

“I’ve missed these beauties” Iason chuckles a little

“You missed the couch?” 

“Yeah, they’re good” Looking at the teen Iason goes over to the table which has been cleared of weapons and grabs the TV remote and puts it near Matt who turns the TV on. Iason doesn’t really care that much about what to watch. He goes over to a small plastic wallet that is hidden inside a cabinet and inside is a massive assortment of takeout locations in the town. Although some of them could be old and need to be binned. Whilst there he also looks over all the belongings on the shelf and makes sure they are all in their correct positions. 

With the plastic wallet Iason goes over to sit next to the now sitting straight Matt to go through the papers. Matt is looking over the movies on the channels but decides to look over physical dvd’s. Those were located in a small room that isn’t used much but the DVD’s are in a filled cabinet and used as sort of decoration. Thanks to Zach for the collection which he made for guests to have some entertainment. 

Whilst Matt is looking for a film Iason is going through the papers and putting the ones he knows has closed down. It’s only one that has closed down because the papers are quite in date, again thanks to Zach, so it makes Iason's life a bit easier. Matt comes back holding two dvd’s and puts one inside the DVD player and sits next to Iason who hands over the take out options. 

Matt is quick to go through them and picks out a pizza place that is a bit more expensive than the others. When Matt presents his chosen place he looks a bit uneasy but Iason guesses that must be because of the price. Matt likely doesn’t go to the place due to the price but has had it from his friends. Iason doesn’t make a big deal on the decision and quickly orders them a pizza each and fries to share and two sodas. Iason is having cheese and sweetcorn whilst Matt is having a meat feast. 

The movies that Matt has picked are Batman Begins and Batman The Dark Night Rises. Two movies that Iason hasn’t watched yet as he doesn’t watch a high amount of action as he quite enjoys musicals and documentaries. He doesn’t mind action movies but there’s so many of them that Iason cannot take the time to watch all of them. He enjoys the reading of the source material but at the same time he cannot look at comics because his brothers would be relentless which is a shame because he’s heard a lot of good stuff about the comics. 

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He has also collected a lot of the first editions when they came out. He can’t help it! When a new source of media came about Iason wanted to get involved and then he convinced himself that it’s an investment. The truth is he has them so that one day when he no longer has to look after his brothers and prevent their death, he can have a chance at reading more … ‘childish’ literature as his brothers call it. 

So to watch the films Iason is sort of excited to get his first taste at the so-called childish literature his brothers scorned. 

Eating pizza and watching movies to relax is a bit weird to Iason so he does also do some of his crochet work but makes sure that he doesn’t bother Matt and he does keep a good eye on the screen. What is good is that he knows the patterns and he can do it without mostly looking, he does go over and count to make sure it’s right but he can watch the movie. 

Through the second film Iason gets a message from Jeremy that explains how killing Katherine didn’t go too well due to a spell linking her to Elena but it’s all sorted. They are trapping Katherine and Jeremy is driving Bonnie home. Iason is quick to say that he needs to be back after dropping Bonnie off. 

Turning his phone off Iason looks back towards the TV and enjoys the rest of the movie.