WE ARE GONNA HAPPEN
(Tyler/Caroline AU fic)
Chapter 1
I. Want. Her.
The thought kept pounding all day through Tyler's mind as he went about his daily routine at school. It seemed almost ridiculous that he would have a need for a perky, complicated, blonde in his life, there WERE plenty of perfectly easy girls around that he could have fun with. His jock status gave him access to almost every girl in the school, yet there he was pathetically drooling over Caroline Forbes. The one girl that didn't give a damn if he was a mayor's son or star quarterback of the football team. She was a QUEEN bitch in her own little world and hell have mercy on the guy that tried to break through the Ice Queen's wall barriers to try to melt her heart.
Tyler's father had warned him that his first transformation should be coming up. Tyler had laughed it off, saying that his 18th birthday wasn't for a few weeks, yet Mr. Lockwood knew better than to shrug off the events that would lead up to the transformation. "You're going to need a mate before you turn," he'd warned Tyler.
(flashback)
"A mate?" Tyler had laughed off his comment. "Dad, do you really think I want to be like Matt? He never lets Elena out of his sight. They're apparently getting serious now, she seems to have decided that THEY DON'T LIKE the color red and Matt hasn't worn it since. Pretty soon they're going to be a happy little werewolf family and..."
"Make fun of this all you want Tyler Lockwood," the mayor scoffed. " Right now you think this is all crazy talk, but you don't know what this responsibility of being a werewolf, of protecting our community from vampires entails. You'll know when you've found your mate and then you'll want some answers to your questions. Maybe...I won't be around to answer them."
"Yeah because you just KNOW when someone is meant for you," Tyler rolled his eyes at his father and walked out of the room.
(end of flashback)
"Hey," Matt tapped Tyler on the shoulder to grab his attention. "Have you gotten any news about your dad yet?"
"Huh?" Tyler seemed startled to have Matt at his side. They were out on the football field now and he'd been really busy checking out Caroline as she tried to get to the top of the cheer pyramid to get catch any of the words that his friend had just said.
"That look!" Matt pointed an accusing finger into Tyler's chest. "That's the LOVEY DOVEY dumbass look you teased me about when Elena was around." Matt got quiet for a bit as he started to process what had just happened. "You've found her! You've found your mate!"
"Could you be any more obvious?" Tyler groaned. "Shut up before the others find out."
"Why? Is she that horrible?" Matt tried to be sympathetic of his friend. Maybe karma had come back to bite Tyler in the butt after he'd teased a lot of the pack members about the appearance of their mates.
"I don't want them looking at her," Tyler said possesively. "She's mine!"
"Ok, so what are you going to do then. Just go up to her and tell her and hope that she is as understanding as Elena was about all of the 'werewolf' stuff."
"Yeah, right." Tyler tried to get his mind back to football as the coach started rallying up teams for the scrimage game. "But...I am going to have a few words with her. Possibly today after practice. "
After practice.- Tyler thought to himself.-Caroline Forbes is going to know that she's mine after practice.
a/n: sorry for the shortness of this chapter. i didnt' want to give too much away in case none of you liked where this story is going. first of all this is a little bit AU, the Lockwoods are open about the whole werewolf thing. (Mayor Lockwood is missing, but idk, do you guys think he should be dead or alive?)Matt is also a werewolf, he's a few months older than Tyler, so he's gone through his first transformation and has chosen Elena as his mate. (I'm tired of all the Matt/Tyler/Caroline love triangle, so I thought I'd switch things up a bit.) Next chapter Tyler is going to start making moves on Caroline. I figure he should be direct and this fic should get straight to the point, none of these hidden secrets of does he like me or not? Caroline will know that Tyler likes her, it's just a matter of whether she's going to react well to the whole thing. Please review! I really would appreciate any comments/questions/suggestions you might have.