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Their parents died.
That's when everything began to change.
Aunt Jenna, their mother's sister, moved in to take care of them.
Elena broke up with Matt. Jeremy stopped drawing and began to use drugs. And Jamie... he tried to hold on, to be strong for his twin sister and his little brother, but his latest girlfriend had just moved to the other side of the country, and his best friends – Matt and Tyler – kind of avoided him when Elena broke up with the blond.
He didn't want to show it, but he felt so alone. So he buried himself in books. He spent his days reading, learning more or less useful things, and training, while he tried to be a good brother.
It wasn't easy, but that was their life now.
Until Stefan Salvatore arrived in town.
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Vampires existed.
Stefan and his brother, Damon, were vampires.
Just like Jamie's world had changed with his parents' deaths, it was turned upside down again with that discovery.
Stefan was in love with his sister, and Damon was... hot. And funny. And an asshole.
When they came back to Mystic Falls, they brought death with them. Well, Damon followed Stefan, and Death followed him.
Changes kept happening.
Bonnie Bennett, Jamie's childhood friend, and Elena's best friend since... forever, was a witch.
Caroline was dating Damon.
Damon kidnapped Jamie to use him to steal a piece of information that was supposed to help him save his first love when he found out the oldest Gilbert sibling had a photographic memory.
Vicky, Matt's older sister, died – thanks to Damon...
Caroline started dating Matt, then she became a vampire, then Damon tried to kill her when she killed someone... all of that because of Katherine, his sister's doppelganger.
But worst of all... the council of the town, which their parents belonged to, knew about vampires. Always did. How could they not tell them? And even worse , Elena was now persuaded that they trained him, the firstborn, to be a vampire hunter. That would explain why they made him learn boxing and aikido and every other combat sports he learned in his life, as well as Latin and history and... that just made no sense to Jamie. He loved these things and that was why his parents made him take all these classes. Right?
Then Alaric, their new history teacher and Jenna's love interest, and John, real vampire hunters, started to hunt every vampire they crossed paths with.
Oh, and of course, how could he not mention the fact that he and Elena were adopted, and that Alaric's dead wife – who wasn’t that dead – and their uncle John were their biological parents?
An uncle who confirmed Elena's theory about him being raised to become a hunter. Wonderful, wasn't it?
How did his life become so... messy? Complicated? And, well... if he was being honest with himself, also... exciting?
Good news... Caroline made an incredible vampire and wasn't as superficial anymore.
At least something positive came out of all this mess, right?
Now, after finally getting rid of the old and crazy vampires, werewolves arrived in town.
What next?