AN: This is my first chaptered Delena fic that I've ever written. This just is the prologue so we're only getting started, but I hope you like it!

Ships: Damon/Elena, Stefan/Katherine, Jenna/Alaric, Caroline/Tyler, Bonnie/Jeremy

Damon had suspected it for a while: Caroline had come home blushing and been friendly even to him. At the beginning he didn't really have a specific image on what was happening but the idea started to build up in his mind when he heard Katherine say something to Stefan after another weird entry.

"Blondie is getting some", Katherine had murmured to Stefan whose lap she was sitting.

Damon had tried to shut them out for hours now: Katherine's giggles and Stefan's low chuckles. But what can you do when you have a perfect vampire hearing?

Why was he even home? Elena would be gone for the whole weekend and Damon had promised to not to overprotect her. Bonnie the witch would keep her safe anyway. Caroline wasn't really up for company and there was no way he would spend time with his brother and his crazy-ass girlfriend.

They had met Katherine right after their transformation (around the middle of 19th century). She had charmed both of them, but nowadays Damon was able to admit that Stefan actually loved her. I mean, why would he ever stand her scamming, complaining and plain bitchyness if he wouldn't? Stefan himself was the total opposite of Katherine: he was reasonable, good (didn't kill people) and sensitive.

But back to Caroline: she was hiding something. And that something most definitely had something to do with one werewolf called Tyler Lockwood.

Damon was going find out what it was.

The ringing of his phone interrupted his thoughts. A name flashed to the screen: Bonnie. Why would the witch call him? They didn't really get along, him and Bonnie. As a witch she was created to hate vampires, even though one of them was the love of her best friend's life.

Damon pressed the answer button and lifted the phone to his ear. "What now?"

"Hey Damon", it was Elena.

"Oh hi, why are you calling from Bonnie's phone?" he asked.

"My battery died and I can't find the charger anywhere. I called so you wouldn't get worried if I don't pick up", Elena explained.

"Thank you", Damon couldn't help but to smile at himself: he always acted kind of foolishly around her.

"No problems", he could hear the smile from her voice. "I miss you. I'll see you on Sunday, okay?"

"Fine", Damon sighed. "Love you."

"Love you too", Elena said and hung up.

"You two are kinda disgusting", Katherine said bluntly.

"I wouldn't say anything if I were you: I've been forced to listen you two giggle for hours!" Damon snorted.

Katherine just shrugged and continued her way back. To Stefan. To giggle more. Nice.

Caroline was actually hiding something. She'd been seeing Tyler for a while now. They had started as friends: they understood and helped each other. Caroline was there for Tyler when he transformed at full moon and Tyler helped her with her neurotic habits that had just highlighted after her turning.

But their friendship had turned into something more due the recent events. Caroline had broken up with Matt who'd found out about her and started hating her.

It just happened one night when they were spending time together. At Caroline's door he had leaned closer just like that and crashed their lips together. First Caroline freaked: no one had come on to her like that after her change. After the shock wore off she realized they shouldn't be doing this and pushed Tyler off. She had just walked inside and slammed the door shut without a word. She was glad that neither Damon nor Katherine was anywhere close: their ragging was getting annoying at time to time.

She had flown to her room with inhumane speed and collapsed on her bed. Why had Tyler kissed her? They were just friends and it had been like that for years. Yeah, he was handsome – an understatement – and his body wasn't bad either – another huge understatement – but did Caroline think of him any other way. Okay, Tyler had changed for the better. He didn't hit everything that moved – with or without his fists. He was calmer even when all of this werewolf stuff was driving him crazy. He cared about Caroline…

The next morning she woke up with just one thought: she loved Tyler. She got dressed with inhumane speed, tamed her blonde locks and got to her car. Again, no one noticed that she left: Stefan and Katherine were on the couch but their thoughts were in a totally different place.

The drive to the Lockwood mansion took forever. Finally she made it to the end of their driveway. She was just about to ring the doorbell when Mrs. Lockwood stepped outside.

"Oh hey Caroline, are you looking for Tyler? He's in his room", Mrs. Lockwood said. "I got to go. My whole day is booked with meetings."

"Okay, thanks Mrs. Lockwood", Caroline rushed inside the house. She easily found her way to his room. She knocked on the door lightly.

"Mom, leave me alone already!" Tyler's voice was muffled.

"It's Caroline. Can I come in?"

When there was no answer she opened the door and stepped into his room. Tyler was sitting on his bed staring at her with his eyes wide. "Tyler, I –"

"Care, I'm so sorry! I should have not kissed you. I just couldn't help it –"

Caroline interrupted him by kissing him hard. Tyler pulled her into his lap and wrapped his arms around her. Caroline ran her hands through his dark hair and trailed her tongue across his lower lip. Tyler quickly parted his lips letting her to deepen the kiss and pulled her even closer to his body. He lifted her up and then lowered her on the bed.

"I love you", Tyler whispered very quietly.

"I love you too", Caroline stared him in the eyes before kissing him again.

"Elena, we are so having a birthday party for you!" Bonnie was jumping in her seat with excitement.

"First of all: focus on the road or you're gonna kill us and then Damon's gonna kill you again for killing me. Second: no, we're not having a party", Elena said.

"Yes we will when Caroline hears about this", Bonnie smirked.

"No Bonnie! No!" Elena whined. "I don't even talk to almost anyone at school anymore."

"Well, this is a good time to start again. Everybody knows Elena Gilbert! They'll all come. At least after they hear that the party is held at the Salvatore's", Bonnie already knew she had won.

"Fine. But I'm mad at you now", Elena sighed.

"Okay", Bonnie chirped.

They were only fifteen minutes away from the Salvatore boarding house. Elena was excited to get back. They were only gone for the weekend – a shopping trip with Bonnie as a birthday present – but she was exhausted. She just wanted to be with Damon for the rest of the day before Jenna would call and insist she'd come home. Bonnie would probably just drop her off and drive back to town and meet up with Jeremy somewhere. Elena couldn't blame her: she didn't really want to see Katherine either.

As she predicted, Bonnie left her at the end of the driveway. She was fine with walking anyway. It took about thirty seconds for Damon to appear in front of her. He pulled her into his arms.

"I'm glad you're back", he murmured into her hair. "I missed you."

Elena nuzzled his chest. "Me too."

All the sudden Damon lifted her into his arms and carried her to the house. As they walked through the hall, Katherine flew in front of them with her hands on her hips.

"So the doppelgänger has returned", she said dryly.

"Get off, Katherine", Damon sighed, his arm tightly around Elena's waist.

"You heard him, Kat", Stefan appeared on Katherine's side and grabbed her arm. "Let's go out."

Elena rolled her eyes as her vampire twin obeyed. No one else would get away with that nickname. Even though Katherine liked to boss everyone around, Stefan had at least some control over her.

"She's really…" Damon tried to find the right word.

"Irritating?"

"I was looking for bitchy but irritating will do", Damon chuckled. "So, how was your trip with Bonnie?"

"Oh it was great… but I missed everyone – especially you. But I did buy a lot of stuff", Elena told. "We got everything we were looking for."

"Good", Damon wrapped his arms around her. "Because I don't think I'll let you go anywhere for a while."

"Good", Elena agreed and rose to her toes to kiss him deeply.

He lifted her up again without breaking the kiss and carried her to his room. He lied her down on the bed and kept kissing her. She pulled away first. Damon just held her close and stared at her as she let her breathing catch up.

"So, how was your weekend?" Elena traced patterns on his arm.

"Boring, annoying because the Deadly Duo was here making out. And still somehow interesting, 'cause I'm on a mission again", Damon laughed.

"What? What mission?" Elena tilted her head.

"I think there's something going on between Blondie and the Pup."

"Caroline and Tyler? As in together? When did this happen? She would've told me. Right?" Elena asked.

"Maybe not, you know how we've been telling her not to see him. So she might think it's easier to try to hide it. There's a reason why we try to avoid interspecies relationships", Damon said.

"How's that working for you?" Elena raised her eyebrow.

"Quite well actually", Damon leaned in to kiss her.

Elena pulled away and grinned. "Do you want to see what I bought?"

"Okay", Damon sighed as she left the bed and walked to her bags.

She grabbed the shopping bags and left the room. After a while she came back with only a robe on. It was open and showed her brand new white lingerie set and a lot of skin. "So, what do you think?"

Damon was kissing her before she even noticed. She giggled as they fell on the bed.

"I really gotta go. They'll freak out if they find out", Caroline giggled as Tyler kissed her neck.

"Let them", Tyler smirked.

"Tyler", Caroline pulled away. "We have school tomorrow. We'll see each other there."

"No", Tyler whined and reached out for her.

Caroline let him grab her hand and pull her for one more kiss. Then she sifted away from his reach. "Seriously, they won't let me out of the house anymore if they find out."

"Okay", Tyler pouted. "I'll walk you downstairs."

She gave him a one last heated kiss at the door before leaving. It took her twenty minutes to get to the boarding house.

She saw the familiar figure already from the door. "Elena?"

"Hi Caroline!" Elena walked to her with a smile on her face. Caroline noticed that she was only wearing a robe.

"Am I interrupting something?" she asked awkwardly.

"No! No, not at all", Elena blushed. "I was just changing."

"Sure you were", Caroline smirked. "So I presume that the Deadly Duo isn't here?"

"Nope", Elena nodded. "They've been gone for hours now."

"Oh", Caroline glanced at her meaningfully.

"Caroline!"

"Fine, I'll go", Caroline raised her hands as a sign of surrender. She walked slowly – human speed – to the kitchen.