Once in their groups Holly and Jess voted for each other, Jess won from her group, Mel was in a different group and won from hers. They were up against a girl who wanted to know who had the most personal growth because of what had happened (the humans voted for Elena, Stefan and Damon stayed out of it) and a boy who wanted to know if Bonnie could use her magic for one thing, anything at all what would it be? (make Stefan human again).

The winners in each group were told to come on stage, Jess was third in line and stood next to Mel.

"Okay, you can only vote once so I need a display of hands for each person" Stefan called out.

He went along the line, asking people to vote. He knew everyones' name and people stuck their hands up in the air until he announced a tie between Jess and the boy called Dan, so he asked Dan what he'd use the money for, Dan said he wanted to put the money towards a new laptop as his old one was broken, he wasn't shy and told Stefan that the new laptop had more memory and it had Word on it as well so he could write as he wanted to be an author, although he wanted to write Sci-fi books.

Jess on the other hand was embarrassed about being up on stage, she felt as though she was having far too much attention from Stefan and Damon and if people found out they'd be upset and call her a cheat. "So Jess, if you won the money, what would you use it for?"

"A years' membership to The London Library, it will help with my history degree."

"For those people who have never heard of the London library and who might not understand why it would charge you to become a member, how would you describe it?"

"It's one of the worlds' greatest libraries. Ninety seven percent of the books in the library are available for loan, so if I wanted to borrow a book that was a rare first edition or five hundred years old I probably could. If I went to The British Library and wanted the same thing I'd have to stay there or they might not even let me view it"

The pair of them faced the audience and everyone else voted. It was clear that the audience liked Dans' question better, so Jess turned to him and offered her congratulations before she hurried off stage and back to her friends.

Then it was lunchtime and people were commiserating with her and congratulating Dan, the girls went straight upstairs to get their purses and headed out. They grabbed a takeaway and headed to the park where they sat on the grass in the sun.

"Damon fancies you" said Holly the minute they sat down.

"What?! How'd you work that one out?" Jess was getting tired and was starving hungry, she didn't see how Holly was connecting the dots.

"The whole seventeenth century thing. When you were on stage, one of the girls doing history declared that she was going to have to gem up on Charles the second."

"That doesn't mean he fancies me. It could just be that he actually likes that era, I mean it was a time of people wanting to be more sophisticated while telling dirty jokes on stage, or he's winding them up," Jess shrugged as she tucked into her fillet burger.

Holly was busy gnawing on a chicken thigh so Mel spoke up. "Don't you want to date Damon? If you don't I will!"

"I'd be willing to give it a go, see what happens."

The girls started trying to plan how to get her close to Damon, "you need to sit next to him in the group session and wear a killer dress tonight."

"I'm not wearing a dress tonight, I don't have a dress! I have a knee length skirt and a top that I can wear with boots. I don't usually dress up for informal farewells!"

She changed the subject and the group exchanged email addresses and telephone numbers in case they didn't get time later. Holly and Jess agreed to arrange to meet up again and to stay in touch with Mel.

Then it was time to return to the hotel and to go to the meeting rooms.

Holly and Mel went straight to Damon, Jess went to Bonnie first.

Bonnie was with Matt and they answered questions together, yes, they were an item, no, they weren't married yet. She wouldn't read anyones' palm or tell them their future, but she was able to tell a couple of people something no one else in the room knew.

"Okay, Cheryl. You went to Ibiza last year and your boyfriend pushed you in the pool with your clothes on and you were so mad at him that you pulled him in when he went to help you out."

"Oh my god! It was just the two of us, not even my parents know about that and we split up after we came back!" Cheryl was amazed and wanted more, but it was time to move on.

This time she went to Damons' room, he said nothing to her or implied anything. He regaled them with a couple of stories about how he had met Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in England and had become the Queen's champion in a small tournament, but having heard Henrys' thoughts he quickly fled the country, not wishing to get involved with that particular scandal.

Yes, he was still looking for his queen of darkness, no he still didn't care about humans. Jess took a deep breath and asked him if he posted in the message boards at all, a lazy smile spread slowly across his face.

"I am not allowed to post on message boards or forums, in case I give my identity away. It's part of the deal I have with the publishers for doing this. Does anyone have any other questions?"

"Can I ask one more question?"

"Please, do." Jess could tell he was enjoying this and that some people in the room didn't understand what was going on, it was a private conversation between the two of them and she was enjoying it.

"Are you a fan of Poe at all?" He laughed and she couldn't stop grinning the whole time.

"As a matter of fact, I am."