Josette Laughlin

**Josette "Jo" Laughlin** (born **Parker**) was a character who first appeared in the first episode of the sixth season in *The Vampire Diaries*. She was a witch of the Gemini Coven, daughter of Joshua Parker, twin sister to Kai and elder sister to Joey, Liv and Luke. She relinquished her magic into a knife to prevent Kai from merging with her, and, as a non-practicing witch, became a doctor at Whitmore Hospital.

Jo regained her powers after being given incentive by Kai, who escaped the 1994 Prison World that she had helped trap him in; however, Luke merged with him instead, resulting in Luke's death. Although she loathed Kai for destroying her family, she agreed to help him with his post-merge sickness by transferring her magic to him, considering the whole coven would die if he did. She later learned that she was pregnant with Alaric Saltzman's children, and the two immediately decided to wed. However, Jo was killed by Kai at their wedding.

Florence was unwittingly placed in Jo's body by Bonnie Bennett in a fruitless attempt to use the Phoenix Stone to resurrect Jo. However, in *I Was Feeling Epic*, it is revealed that Jo had found peace, and watched over Alaric and her daughters, Josie and Lizzie, who had been placed in Caroline Forbes' womb by her coven to save them.

In *I Was Feeling Epic*, as an afterlife spirit, Jo is seen watching Alaric and their twin daughters grow up at the Salvatore Boarding School for the Young & Gifted with a smile on her face.

**Jo** was a member of the **Parker Family**, and also a member of the **Gemini Coven**.

## Early History

Jo was born in 1972 as the eldest daughter of Joshua Parker, leader of the Gemini Coven, and twin sister of Kai, a siphoner. She was presumably taught magic from a young age as her younger siblings Liv and Luke would later be.

As twins of the Gemini Coven, Jo and Kai were expected to merge. However, Joshua knew that Kai would win the merge given his powers, and knew that Kai could not lead the coven. Due to this, Joshua and his wife kept having children until another pair of twins was born.

At the age of twenty-two, Kai became aware of their parents' reasoning behind having so many children and decided to kill his siblings and merge with Jo. He stabbed Jo with a hunting knife to get her out of the way as he went after their siblings, but Jo managed to cloak the twins to protect them, promising to merge with him so long as Liv and Luke could live.

## Throughout The Vampire Diaries Series

### Season Six

In *I'll Remember*, Jo is seen teaching some college students, among them are Elena and Liam. Jo asks the class a question and Liam raises his hand instantly but Jo picks on Elena, who answers it confidently, although going off topic. Later on in the episode, she is seen at a college party; she walks up to Alaric who has a flask of blood in his hand. She says to him "Ah, finally someone over 20" and introduces herself as Jo. She then notices the flask in his hand and asks if she could have a drink, to which Alaric answers with "Actually I'm a germaphobe", knowing that there is blood in the flask. Alaric then leaves to make a phone call to Elena.

In *Black Hole Sun*, she meets Alaric in the hospital when he brings in a hungover Jeremy. After putting Jeremy on a saline drip, Alaric asks her for some advice and she flirts with him.

In *The World Has Turned and Left Me Here*, Elena invites her to a homecoming party in the cornfield in an attempt to set her up with Alaric. She gets snuck up on and frightened by a student and mentions to Alaric that she thinks that anything supernatural is 'not cool'. After Tyler causes the accident in the cornfield, she tends to several injured patients even though she herself had injured her arm. Later at the hospital she tells Alaric that she thinks they were meant to meet. Alaric compels her to not to kiss him because the evening was a disaster, he is an alcoholic, and boring. Yet she kisses him for the first time; this proved that Jo can't be compelled.

In *The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get*, Alaric asks Elena to find out why Jo can't be compelled. Elena checks her coffee and her bracelet for vervain but Jo figures out what she is doing and tells her that she already knows that Elena and Alaric are vampires because he tried to compel her, she has terrible luck in her love life and has noticed the missing blood bags. Elena asks her if she is a witch but she doesn't comment. She confronts Alaric just as he is leaving for the Mystic falls border and they aren't able to talk so she follows him. He gets thrown into the anti-magic border and she rushes to help him and is able to treat his death wound so he becomes human. Later, he is admitted into hospital and thanks her for giving him his life back.

In *Do You Remember the First Time?*, she discharges Alaric from the hospital to be her date for the Whitmore medical fundraiser where she is being honored for patenting a battlefield medical clamp. Damon accuses her for having an advantage because she is a witch but she says that she works hard and doesn't practice magic, and later mentions that she relinquished hers for safe keeping to separate herself from a 'tragically dysfunctional' family. She and Alaric go back to her apartment after the fundraiser and he spots a scar on her abdomen when she is changing her clothes, her asks her if she was in a car accident but she says that she lost her spleen when her brother tried to gut her with a hunting knife.

In *Fade Into You*, Jo goes to Friendsgiving and runs into Liv, and doesn't recognize her. Elena asks her if she switched the Lady Whitmore actress's medical chart and she did. Luke plays a video of the twin's birthday and Jo discovers they are younger siblings who she hasn't seen in 18 years. After that, Jo reveals that they all share the same family friend--Sheila Bennett. She also says that Sheila also helped put Kai away and that Kai is her twin brother. Jo also reveals that Kai killed 4 of their brothers and sisters, but was really targeting Liv and Luke. She says that since twins are in line to be leader, Kai wouldn't stand a chance unless Liv and Luke were alive. She then tells the story of Kai and how he is the way he is. Jo and Ric are talking and since her father believes they want to let Kai out, he retaliates by trying to kill Jo so Kai wouldn't be able to merge with her. She also says the Ascendant is with her and before she can say anything else, she collapses due to Joshua casting a spell to kill her. She tells Stefan to find an old tree stump that's in front of the house and there's knife in it. She tells him it can help dissipate the cloaking spell on the house and it does after Stefan throws it. After she convulses, Elena saves her by giving her blood.

In *I Alone*, Jo and Alaric have a romantic moment, but unbeknownst to her, Damon compelled Alaric to get the truth about the Ascendant out of her since she's not saying much about it. He jokes about how her dad gave Alaric his blessing since he didn't kill him and gets to the subject about the Ascendant. She says she used to sleep with it under her bed, but it's now in her underwear drawer next to her pot. Jo soon finds out that the Ascendant is gone and asks Alaric where it is, but figures out Damon compelled him. Jo drives him across the Mystic Falls border and it is revealed Damon did compel him, but he didn't want to believe his own friend would compel him.

In *Christmas Through Your Eyes*, Jo tells Alaric she'll be late and sees the patient until the other doctor she's with collapses. Jo asks her what happened to her until Kai injects her with a sedative. Kai meets Liv and Luke, and Jo is seen unconscious and tied up. Liv tells her that she should merge and Kai stabs her with the knife she put her magic into, but it doesn't work. Since she put her magic in by choice, so it would be her choice to take it back, unless she bleeds to death. Kai tells Liv to figure out how to put the magic back into her while he gets a bandage. While Kai is gone, Liv and Jo talk about how she's had 18 years and she owes it to the coven and them to defeat Kai so he won't be in charge. Liv starts to hand the knife back to Jo, but Kai siphons some magic off of her and he gives her pain, causing her nose to bleed. Jo picks up the knife and starts absorbing her magic back into her and breaks the chains she was tied up in. Alaric puts a gun to Kai's head an is about to kill him until Jo tells him it isn't fair to Liv and Luke to merge. She tells them she's going to beat Kai and Alaric knocks Kai out with the gun instead. Jo and Alaric say they'll lock Kai up until the eclipse and they kiss.

In *Woke Up With a Monster*, Jo is seen practicing magic in the Salvatore Boarding House with Liv's help and is having trouble with it. Damon tries to have Liv help him rescue Elena who was kidnapped by Kai, but Luke takes her away. Jo decides to help and goes to the high school with Damon. After Kai walks by without seeing them, they realize Jo's invisibility spell worked. After they find Elena, Jo's nose starts to bleed, but doesn't show it to them. Damon notices Jo's nose bleeding and realizes cloaking three people is hard to her, then Kai sees them. She then runs away as she wouldn't be able to beat the way she is right now. Kai then catches up to her and he is shot in the shoulder by Jeremy with a crossbow and Alaric hugs her. Jo offers to help Elena get the blood out and Damon tells Alaric that she's not strong enough, but Alaric says they'll wait until Kai's stolen magic goes away and she'll beat him.

In *Prayer For the Dying*, Jo tries to revive a withered plant, but it doesn't and throws it into the trash. She has Duke transfer Colin's medical records over to the center and since the vampire blood didn't heal the cancer, it has spread and made into a stage 10, which Jo says doesn't even exist. Jo decides to give Liz a human blood transfusion which might stabilize her condition, but Damon gives her another option—Kai, who can siphon magic and also Kai has a price to saving Liz, which is that he wants to merge with Jo. After Damon tells her that he plans on having Luke and Liv merge instead, Kai magic snaps his neck and Jo tells him she doesn't want to run from him anymore and goes with him. They arrive at the park and start the merge, cutting their hands and chanting, until Jo passes out. Luke arrives and tells Kai that instead of him and Jo, Kai and Luke are going to merge instead. Kai tells him they're not twins, but since Kai was in the prison world and didn't age pass 22, they are technically the same age and they share the same bloodline. Kai tries to leave, but Luke magically pulls him and they start. Jo then wakes up and tells Luke to stop as they merging continues. Both of them fall to the ground and Jo runs to Luke, cradling his head in her lap, telling him to wake up. Jo tells him whoever wakes up is the winner and Luke takes a breath and opens his eyes, but realizes he is now dead. Kai comes out victorious and then disappears, leaving Jo grieving for Luke.

In *Let Her Go*, Jo is seen vomiting in the bathroom, Alaric is watching and insist on helping, Jo tells him that they are not far enough into the relationship for him to see her in the condition she is in. She tells Alaric that the Thai food they ate the night before does not agree with her, she feels like she is dying. There is a knock at the door and when Alaric answers it, it is Kai. Jo tells him that she has food poisoning but he begins to vomit blood before telling her she does not have food poisoning, she is vomiting because he is. He asks her to save him. At the hospital, Jo checks Kai's vitals and tells him there is nothing medically wrong with him, he states that is because he has a

'magical disease'. Kai begins to vomit blood again and grabs Jo's arm, beginning to absorb her magic, Alaric pulls him off and threatens to break seven bones in his hand. Kai retaliates saying if he dies, she dies, he apologizes for taking her magic but says that he is feeling better and she needs to give him her magic if he is to survive. After consulting Alaric, he tells her that he will love her with or without her magic, he made a joke telling her he is ninety-two percent certain. Jo agrees to give Kai her magic, in order to save the coven and the two prison worlds, Kai jokes that he assumes the other prison world is full of psychos like him. They begin the spell and when it is finished, Kai leaves, whispering something to Jo and telling her to have a nice life. When he is gone, Alaric asks what he whispered, she reveals that he told her she is pregnant and that is why she vomited that morning. Alaric asks her to marry him, and after explaining that she will not accept a pity proposal, she agrees.

In *A Bird in a Gilded Cage*, Jo is seeing how Sarah is doing and tells her she's at the medical center and that she lost a lot of fluids. Jo tells Alaric she's not okay turning the center into a supernatural holding cell, but he wants to make sure Elena's blood is out of her system first so there isn't another Salvatore vampire. Jo mentions Sarah goes to Duke and says it would be a nice name, which alarms Alaric as he hasn't really been thinking of names. Jo then calls Alaric and he says he has a few names and she jokes to him that someone with the name like "Alaric" shouldn't name kids. After Alaric wakes from being knocked out earlier from a vervain bomb, Jo checks his eyes with a pen light and tells him she's marrying an idiot since he could've died. She tells him she needs him alive at least 18 years to help her raise the baby, then after it's of age, he can run around and attack vampires.

In *I Never Could Love Like That*, Jo is seen helping cover up Caroline and Stefan's murder spree with Elena. Elena finally tells her about the fact that Kai is again trapped in a prison world. Jo seems overjoyed by this news but soon changes her face when she quickly responds with where's the ascendant, and that it needs to be destroyed because she didn't want her father getting his hands on it. Elena realizes that Jo is pregnant and they both have a heart to heart talk about what it is like to be human. At the end of the episode, Jo reveals that the companions that were traveling with Lily were siphoners and were turned into vampires, however they retained the ability to siphon magic and that they have an unlimited supply of magic to use as they can just siphon themselves. But with the ability to use magic, and the bloodlust, they are described as extremely deadly. She wants to destroy the ascendant because if Kai does get turned into a vampire, he mustn't be allowed to escape. He will be unstoppable.

In *Because*, she and Alaric are on watch duty at the Bed & Breakfast where Stefan and Caroline are at. She and Alaric are talking about the wedding cake and the wedding itself being a few weeks away, and they start kissing until Elena shows up. After Caroline turns her humanity back on, Jo goes in to see how she is and tells Stefan he should see how she is.

In *I'd Leave My Happy Home For You*, Elena and Bonnie surprise her with a male stripper for her bachelorette party during her last shift at work. Later, they all go to a bar, which Elena compelled everyone to go home so that it was just them. Bonnie brings up the fact of being human to Elena and they all have a heart to hear convocation about being human. Elena had to go, but Bonnie and Jo still partied on. Lily showed up looking for Bonnie, Bonnie attempted to stop her with her magic, however, didn't work well as she got stabbed in the neck. Lily pounces on Jo with her super speed and is about to feed on her when she shouts that she is pregnant. Lily then stops, and listens to the heartbeat of the baby, revealing that there was not just one heartbeat, there was two. Jo was shocked as Lily left. She then shows Alaric an ultrasound of the babies and he tells her that they're going to leave and hide from the coven so they won't get a hold of the twins.

In *I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime*, it is the big day for her and Alaric, and she expresses wedding jitters. Later, she collapses and ends up in the hospital. She insists that Elena should not tell Alaric about the incident, although Elena already told him. As she is getting ready for the wedding, her father shows up in the room and asks her if he could walk her down the isle. During the wedding, Jo is about to tearfully say her wedding vows to Alaric, but suddenly pauses and it is discovered that she is being stabbed. She falls into Alaric's arms and her brother Kai emerges out of a cloaking spell with a bloody dagger. Jo then dies during all of the chaos going on.

In *I'm Thinking Of You All The While*, her lifeless body is being held in a devastated Alaric's arms. Shortly afterwards, Alaric carries a body bag out to his car. Jo is the one in the body bag, and Alaric sadly zips the bag up. This is the last we see of Jo.

### Season Seven

In *I Carry Your Heart With Me*, her soulless body is on an autopsy table and she is resurrected by Bonnie using the Phoenix Stone. She opens her eyes and moves them, looking at Alaric, after this the episode ends.

In *Live Through This*, it was revealed that the soul that was placed into Jo's body was not her, that it was an old vampire soul trapped within the Phoenix stone.

### Season Eight

In *I Was Feeling Epic*, her spirit watches over Alaric and her girls, and she finds peace.

Secretly, Jo had relinquished her magic into a knife which she hid in a knife in their front yard. When Kai attempted to merge with her, he was unable to given her lack of magic, and the coven used a spell to trap Kai in a Prison World with help from family friend Sheila Bennett. Following this, Jo left the coven and attended medical school, becoming a doctor and joining the army as a medic. Eventually she left to teach at Whitmore College.

## Throughout Legacies Series

### Season One

In *Mombie Dearest*, Josette is *yanked awake* from the afterlife and finds herself at the Salvatore Boarding School for the Young & Gifted, still wearing the blood-stained wedding gown she died in. Walking its halls, she finds Alaric speaking with Caroline over the phone and, calling out to him, she gains his startled attention. Alarmed at the sight of his dead fiancée, he calls out to Dorian and, grabbing his crossbow, he demands who, or what, she is. Jo doesn't understand what is going on and asks him to put the crossbow down. While Alaric wishes to kill his dead, now resurrected fiancée, Dorian offers to interrogate her as, if she's the next "monster" then she may know more than the dryad about Malivore.

Emma Tig is called to Alaric's office and she implements a basic boundary spell to contain Jo. Questioning Jo, Emma finds that she cannot do magic as she had previously given it up when she was alive. Jo's offended that she's being talked about as if she wasn't even present in the same room and tells Alaric that **she** has a lot of questions. Alaric beings questioning her, starting with who she was and what she wanted. She tells him that she's Josette Laughlin, almost Saltzman. Alaric reiterates that Jo is dead. She's aware, telling him that it's not everyday that you get murdered at your own wedding. She continues to tell him that she remembers morning sickness, her wedding dress, their vows and her psychopath twin brother with a very large knife; beyond that, nothing. Assessing him, she wonders just how long it's been, that he looks a little seasoned. Jo is shocked as Alaric reveals that it has been 16 years since her death. Alaric still believes it to be an act, but she assures him that it's not; it's Mystic Falls and she's not the first person that has been brought back from the dead.

Unfortunately for Alaric, Lizzie and Josie interrupt his interrogation. Alaric covers Jo's mouth and attempts to persuade their girls to leave; however, they refuse and siphon Emma's spell. Revealing Jo, who immediately makes the connection that they are both sixteen and twins, possibly her twin daughters. Josie, however, recognizes her from a photo from Alaric's shelf. Jo believes it to be impossible, that she wasn't even showing at their wedding, but Alaric informs her that her coven magically implanted them into Caroline when she was murdered by Kai. Caroline was their surrogate and the the one who gave birth to them. Lizzie introduces herself, named after *her* mother's mom. Josie does the same, revealing that she's named after herself.

With Josie and Lizzie joining, Alaric continues Jo's interrogation, evening using the truth sphere to validate Jo's responses. She tells him her name is Josette Laughlin and that she's a doctor, at least she was, both prove to be the truth. Alaric has her to restate "I'm here to harm you", which indicates the statement is false. Josie interrupts and asks how she met her dad. Ignoring Alaric, she recalls the story: She walked up to him at a college party, the only guy over 20. She admits it wasn't love at first sight, not quite, however, she flirted with him. Lizzie, however, isn't impressed and wants to prepare for her party. Josie hopes that she will still be around after. Alaric tells his daughters that his office is off limits as he continues to assess Jo's resurrection with Emma and Dorian.

Jo wanders around Alaric's office and, finding Alaric's photo album, she looks through it until Josie breaks the boundary spell that contains her. She wants to bond with Jo and asks if she knows how to braid. Jo begins to braid Josie's hair and wonders if she'll be late to her own party. Josie shrugs it off. Jo, again, wonders if there's someone special. She attempts to shrug it off again, but Jo pushes for more information, to humor her. Josie briefly elaborates that there was a girl, but she dumped her, and now there is a boy, but Lizzie has dibs. Jo assures her that having a strong twin sister isn't a catwalk, but anybody who spent five minutes with her would know just how special she was. Josie implies that she's only saying that because she's her biological mother, but she tells her that it's okay that Caroline is her mom. Josie confides in her that Lizzie is exactly like her, that you'd never know that she's not biologically Caroline's daughter. Jo, proudly, comes to the conclusion that she takes after herself. Josie smiles and tells her that she's happy she's here, that she honestly thinks that Alaric is really lonely. Jo attempts to persuade her to leave for her party, but Josie asks if she wants to come with her, to spend more time together.

As Jo and Josie walk the grounds, chatting about who loves whom, Jo collapses on the ground and taken over by an unknown presence. Her eyes turn white and her skin changes, bearing the resemblance of decomposition. The presences that overtakes her rushes Josie and attacks her. Gaining consciousness again, she runs through the grounds, yelling for Alaric. She finds him, indicating that something's wrong, that she was with her one minute, and then, she lost time. Scared, and her hands covered in dirt, she believes she's done something to Josie. Taken over by the same presence again, a voice not completely her own speaks to Alaric. It wants the supernatural knife in his possession and that he has about an hour before Josie runs out of air.

The presence eventually releases Jo again. She's taken to Alaric's office, though overtaken with grief, he tells her that Josie's okay, that she was rescued. Alaric knows that it wasn't her, but the *thing* that takes over. Jo tells him that it's wrong and it's not safe for any of them. In order to get this thing out of her, she wants the girls to siphon it's magic from her. Alaric reasons that the magic is likely the only thing keeping her alive. He understands what she's asking of him, but doesn't say it aloud; tears well up in his eyes. Jo restates Josie's sentiment, that she thinks he's lonely, and asks if he's happy. He tells her that he is, right in the arms of his demon-possessed baby mama. He answers again, more seriously, that he will be once the girls are grown. Jo promptly asks if they know what happens when they turn 22 years old. Alaric truthfully tells her that they don't and will only know until they've exhausted all options. That is also the reason behind Caroline's absence, that she's following some lead. Jo tells Alaric to be sure to tell Caroline "thank you" for being her girls' mom. She kisses him on the cheek and they embrace in another hug, both crying over what's to come.

Later that night, Jo and Alaric aks for Lizzie and Josie's help. Lizzie clarifies what they're being asked to do — to siphon the magic from her until she's dead again. Josie can't bare Lizzie's words, but Jo tells her it's okay, that she's already dead. Jo comforts her daughters, reiterating that like them, she's a witch and they believe in the natural order of thing and she shouldn't be here. She loves the opportunity she's had, but it's a lie and she needs their help to make things right. Tearfully, she tells them that the more time she spends with them, the more she remembers where she came from. She used to watch over them, all of them, like in a dream where everything is warm and happy; she was at peace. She believes that's where she'll be again, waiting for them. Lizzie apologies to Jo for being awful. Jo tells her that she has such a big heart and it's okay to let other in to see it. She gives her daughters one final piece of advice, to be good to each other and to fight for each other, that when they're older, they'll understand. She holds out her hands to her girl, but Josie can't do what she's asking of. Jo tells her it's the right thing to do and it's the only thing to do for them. she tells them all she loves them so much. Lizzie and Josie proceeds to siphon the magic that sustains her resurrection and she fades from existence, finding peace once again.

## Personality

Jo was described as a tough and accomplished doctor at the university hospital. She demands excellence from her students and has learned the hard way that there's no room for error in her profession.

## Physical Appearance

Physically, Jo was a very beautiful young woman, with long jet black hair and piercing blue eyes. She stood about 5'10" and has slim and athletic figure.

## Powers and Abilities

Jo possessed all the standard abilities of a human/witch.

After regaining her magic, she struggled with control and casting spells every time (in comparison to other witches shown) most likely due to fact that she had not practiced for a very long time.

She later relinquished her magic a second time, making her a powerless witch yet again.

## Weaknesses

Jo had the typical weaknesses of a witch.

Also being one of the Parker Twins in the Gemini Coven (destined to perform the Merge at age 22) she potentially would have lost to her twin brother Kai, as it was said that the stronger Twin would defeat the weaker Twin and Kai was believed to be stronger than her, thus rendering her dead.

## Relationships

### Alaric Saltzman

Alaric and Jo first met in *I'll Remember*. They had their first kiss in *The World Has Turned and Left Me Here*. In *The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get*, Jo finds out that Alaric is a vampire. Later, she saves Alaric from dying at the right time by medical treatment while he was in Mystic Falls and after magic stripped away his vampirism. In *Do You Remember the First Time?*, it is confirmed that they are dating and they share their second kiss. She soon starts to fall in love with him, and finds out from Kai that she is pregnant with his child. He proposes to her and they become happily engaged, up until their wedding where she is stabbed to death by Kai. This devastates Alaric. In Season Seven, it is revealed that he has been paying a morgue to keep her body preserved. Alaric attempts to resurrect Jo (with Bonnie's assistance) using the Phoenix Stone. However, it only placed the soul of a formerly-trapped vampire in Jo's body. Although Alaric didn't get to see his almost-wife again, he got to say 'good-bye' to Jo in his own way and Florence (the vampire possessing Jo's body) felt honored to do this for him. In *I Was Feeling Epic*, from Jo's afterlife, she watches Alaric and her biological children grow with a smile on her face, unbeknownst to Alaric and the others.

### Malachai Parker

*Main article: Jo and Kai*
Jo and Kai are twins and were the oldest children in their family. In 1994 when they were 22 years old, Kai , killed four of their six siblings and tried to gut her with a hunting knife. Since then, Jo has a large scar on her stomach. While trying to protect their younger siblings, Luke and Liv, from being killed by Kai (Since he was angry that he couldn't become the Gemini Coven's new leader until the other set of twins in the family are dead). Jo tricked him into thinking she would merge her powers with his and let him become the leader of their coven but actually ended up helping their father to imprison him in his hell. In *I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime*, Kai stabs Jo to death during her wedding ceremony, almost killing her unborn twin babies.

### Elena Gilbert

*Main article: Elena and Jo*
Elena is Jo's new medical student. She seems impressed by Elena's intelligence and Elena originally wanted to set Alaric up with Jo. She knows that Elena is a vampire. Jo helps Elena hiding her true identity from Liam by changing the medical report of Lady Whitmore. In *Fade Into You*, Elena saves Jo by giving her blood when Jo was almost killed by her father. After Elena loses her daylight ring to Kai in *Woke Up With a Monster*, Jo makes her a new one. For Alaric and Jo's wedding, Jo makes Elena the maid of honor. Unfortunately, they are permanently separated when Jo is murdered by Kai and spells Elena into a magical coma.

### Other Relationships

* Jo and Liv (Sisters/Former Allies)
* Jo and Caroline (Former Allies)
* Jo and Luke (Brother/Sister/Former Allies)
* Jo and Joey (Brother/Sister/Former Allies)
* Jo and Stefan (Former Allies)
* Jo and Liam Former Student/Teacher)
* Jo and Joshua (Father and Daughter/Former Allies)
* Jo and Damon (Frenemies/Former Allies)
* Jo and Bonnie (Friends/Former Allies

## Appearances

### The Vampire Diaries

* *Black Hole Sun*
* *The World Has Turned and Left Me Here*
* *The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get*
* *Do You Remember the First Time?*
* *Fade Into You*
* *I Alone*
* *Christmas Through Your Eyes*
* *Woke Up With a Monster*
* *Prayer For the Dying*
* *Let Her Go*
* *A Bird in a Gilded Cage*
* *I Never Could Love Like That*
* *Because*
* *I'd Leave My Happy Home For You*
* *I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime* (Death)
* *I'm Thinking Of You All The While* (Corpse)
* *Never Let Me Go* (Mentioned/Photo)
* *Age of Innocence* (Mentioned/Corpse)
* *I Carry Your Heart With Me* (Corpse/Resurrected Body/Possessed by Florence)
* *Live Through This* (Body possessed by Florence)
* *Best Served Cold* (Body possessed by Florence/Wedding Tape/Corpse)
* *Things We Lost in the Fire* (Mentioned)
* *This Woman's Work* (Mentioned)
* *Moonlight on the Bayou* (Mentioned)
* *I Went to the Woods* (Mentioned)
* *One Way or Another* (Mentioned)
* *The Lies Will Catch Up To You* (Mentioned)
* *It's Been a Hell of a Ride* (Mentioned)
* *I Was Feeling Epic* (Spirit)

### Legaciesedit | edit source

* *Malivore* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *Mombie Dearest* (Resurrected/Spirit)
* *I'll Tell You a Story* (Indirectly Mentioned)
* *You Can't Save Them All* (Mentioned)
* *Facing Darkness is Kinda My Thing* (Indirectly Mentioned)

## Name

* **Josette** is a French girl name. The meaning of the name is `**God Will Increase**`.
* **Laughlin** is of Irish origin; reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Lochlainn 'descendant of Lochlann', a personal **name meaning** 'stranger', originally a term denoting Scandinavia (a compound of loch 'lake', 'fjord' + lann 'land').
* **Parker** is a family name of English origin and means "keeper of the park" from Old French.

## Trivia

* She is the second female doctor introduced in the series, after Meredith Fell and is also a lot like Meredith, both were love interests of Alaric.
* Jo is one of only ten recurring characters that appeared in more than 10 episodes in their inaugural season. The other eight are Annabelle, who appeared in 11 episodes during Season One; Elijah Mikaelson, who appeared in 12 episodes during Season Two; Rebekah Mikaelson, who appeared in 17 episodes during Season Three; Atticus Shane who appeared in 11 episodes during Season Four; Nadia Petrova, Wes Maxfield and Enzo who appeared in 12 episodes each in Season Five; Kai who appeared in 16 episodes in Season Six and Rayna Cruz who appeared in 13 episodes in Season Seven.
* She is a vegetarian and doesn't eat red meat as being a doctor, she's surrounded by blood all day.
* Despite having relinquished her magic, she could not be compelled as she was a witch, and was the first witch in the series to show this. This has lead some fans to believe the immunity witches have against Compulsion is rather a biological one, than a Magical one, but this is not certain.
* In *The World Has Turned and Left Me Here*, she mentioned that she joined the US Army after medical school because of family problems. She later helped patients at a battlefield medical camp.
* Kai revealed that he spared Jo because she was his "favorite sister."
	+ However, this may be due to the fact that Jo was needed to complete the ritual for becoming the Gemini Coven's new leader.
* Jo was revealed to be Kai's twin sister and the long-lost sister of Luke and Liv.
* She stored her magic in the knife that Kai stabbed her with and hid it in a stump in front of her house.
* Elena saves her life by healing her with her blood after her father tried to kill her so if Kai escaped he wouldn't become the new leader of the coven.
* In *Fade Into You*, Jo reveals that she knew Bonnie's Grams, Sheila Bennett, and that she's the one who helped her father trap Kai in a 1994 purgatory universe.
* Jo's father Joshua tells Damon that he's proud of her just before he tries to kill her to prevent Kai from merging with her and becoming the new leader of the Gemini Coven.
* She regained her magic in *Christmas Through Your Eyes*.
* She makes a new daylight ring for Elena after her original ring was melted by her brother Kai in *Woke Up With a Monster*.
* She has doubts about her magic when she fails to bring a dead plant back to life, however Elena tells her she didn't burst into flames walking across campus to the Whitmore Hospital with her new daylight ring that Jo made for her.
* Jo gave her magic to Kai in order to keep him alive, this means she currently has no magic.
* Although she originally thought she had food poisoning from eating Thai Food, Jo later found out she was actually pregnant with Alaric's child (from her brother Kai).
	+ It is revealed in *I'd Leave My Happy Home For You* by Lily that she is pregnant with twins.
* Jo was the second character to become pregnant on TVD, but the first to remain on the show after finding out of her pregnancy in *Let Her Go*.
	+ The first character being Hayley Marshall, although Hayley went to the spin-off The Originals.
* Jo was the second, also female, character to make an episode count of 17 in a single season, following Rebekah in Season Three.
* Jo is the third of Alaric's love interests to die.
	+ The first two were Isobel, who died from exposure to sunlight, and Jenna, who was staked by Klaus.
* Jo was the fourth pregnant woman to be seen on The Vampire Diaries. The first was Hayley Marshall-Kenner, mother of Hope Mikaelson; seen in The Originals, Katerina Petrova, mother of Nadia Petrova; seen in a flashback in *500 Years of Solitude*, and Gail, mother of Sarah Nelson; seen in a flashback in *Black Hole Sun*.
	+ Jo, like Hayley, is the only one to be seen pregnant in present time, unlike the other two mothers whose pregnancies were shown in the past.
	+ Jo, like Gail, was killed while still pregnant. Fortunately, the three babies all survived their mothers' deaths, as Sarah was saved by the doctors at the hospital and Lizzie and Josie were transferred to Caroline Forbes' womb.
		- This also makes her the second pregnant woman in the TVD/TO universe to not make it to term due to death.
* Jo is the first character to find peace and later be resurrected.

## Quotes

Jo (to Alaric) : *"I don't eat red meat. I look at blood all day. (beat) Because I work at the medical center. Not because I'm a serial killer or anything. I'm Jo."*

Alaric: *"I teach occult studies here."*
Jo (to Alaric) : *"I didn't know that was an actual thing."*

Jo (to Alaric) : *"A germaphobe. So, you're like the vegetarian of cool people."*
-- *I'll Remember (VD)*

Jo (to Alaric) : *"Oh, yeah. You mean, the ones we reserve for professional athletes and starving children in third-world countries? Yeah. I think we'll start with a full workup...Physical, blood, toxicology..."*
Jo (to Alaric) : *"Okay, one more piece of professional advice: when a successful, sexy, only moderately insecure doctor is flirting with you? Give her your undivided attention."*
-- *Black Hole Sun (VD)*

Jo (to Alaric) : *"Oh, Professor Bourbon. Perfect timing."*
Jo (to Alaric) : *"Everything I see there is natural. Gross, but natural. Zombies, ghosts, the undead... not cool."*
Jo (to Tyler) : *"Just try and keep him comfortable... Won't be long now."*
Jo (to Alaric) : *"I think you're great. You're brave, funny, not to mention maybe the most attractive man I've ever seen, and I feel completely comfortable telling you this because I'm old enough to know what I want. And call me crazy, but I think I was meant to know you."*
Jo (to Alaric) : *"This is the part where you say something, or kiss me, or run for the hills."*
Jo (to Alaric) : *"You're right, tonight was a literal disaster, and you're definitely an alcoholic...But you're far from boring, Ric."*
-- *The World Has Turned and Left Me Here (VD)*

Jo (to Kai) : *"Are you pregnant?"*
-- *Let Her Go (VD)*