Title: You Better Believe

Category: Vampire Diaries

Characters: Caroline, Tyler, Liz and Jules

Summary: Another take on how the events of The Decent could have gone at the end of the episode with Caroline telling Tyler the truth about Mason and the other vampires, before Jules can.

Status: In Progress

AN: I do not own anything, if did there would have been no Jules or her pack.

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Chapter 1

Tyler was kissing her and Caroline was kissing him back, there was no mistaken that. She whimpered bringing her arms up wrapping around his neck. Kissing him felt right and she didn't want to ever stop. She hadn't expected this when she'd walked up finding him on her porch. She would never have even thought of doing this a few weeks ago before he'd become this other guy. Ever since he triggered the curse he was like a totally different person. He wasn't the same Tyler that had about beaten the shit out of his best friend just three months ago.

He pulled away looking at her not wanting to talk, but he had to ask her something, "Go out with me? I'm the right guy for you, I know your secrets, and you don't have to hide," He hoped that she would say yes. He could treat her better than she'd been treated by Matt. He hadn't hurt her physically, but it was a kind of hurt. "I won't treat you as second best, you're my first choice," he added the part about he had no feelings, except friendship towards Elena. He watched Matt act like it wasn't a big deal still carrying a torture for his first love while dating Caroline.

Caroline bit down on her lip because she wanted to be his girl, ever since earlier that morning when Matt kissed her she knew that she couldn't be with him anymore. "Yes, I'll be your girl, I already talked to Matt at the school, I told him that I loved somebody else, this really good looking wolf that I know," she said smiling before she kissed him again. She didn't say wolf to Matt, she'd improvised there, but when it came to talking to Tyler she could say wolf. She kissed him because she thought it was really sweet what he'd just said to her. She wondered even now if she'd been second when it came to who Damon had wanted.

"You want to go to the Grill, get something to eat?" he asked not really wanting to go back to the school. He didn't want deal with whatever was going on there. Home wasn't an option either because his mom would just tell him something he didn't want to know. Lately he felt like being with Caroline was the only home for him to be. He loved his mom, but right now he didn't feel like he belonged anywhere, but with Caroline.

"How about I fix us something here?" she was a great cook and he already knew that, his wasn't bad either. "We gotta talk about some stuff too and I want you to know that I'm protecting you, I want let nobody hurt you," she said opening the door; she wanted to tell him the whole truth.

"Protecting me from what, nothing scary in this town besides your mom with all her guns," he laughed, but he was terrified of the sheriff coming after him. He was falling for her daughter and knew that it could mean being given the talk. However, he wasn't sure that they were that close for the Sheriff to be giving him some talk about dating her daughter.

Caroline knew that if they were together that she had to tell him the truth. She refused to lie to him the way she had to do to Matt. It was always getting her into trouble and it put a strain on her relationship. Tyler knew her secret about being a vampire though, which she was so happy about. She could be herself with him and not have to hide the fact she required a daily blood supply.

"I wish, but see I was told if I was your friend that I would be put out to pasture," she had always hated that line, but she was using it herself now. She didn't even think the line made sense because a cow was in the pasture and it was still alive, "but I really don't listen to anybody," well, she listened to him and she told him that too before he thought she was just ignoring anything he said to her about how he felt or how he was dealing with the werewolf problem, "so I didn't and thankfully by Elena protecting me, I have not been killed yet," she said turning the kitchen lights on. She had to bite down on the bullet and just get it all off of her chest. The other vampires, the fact there were witches in the world too.

"Who wants to kill you, I can protect myself, Care, whoever wants hurt you then I'll kick their asses," he said cupping her face, "You're my girlfriend now, I can protect you," he was not about to let anyone hurt her. He wasn't sure what he was capable of as with werewolf strength now, but he knew how to fight. He'd been fighting guys twice his size and taking on four or five at once since eighth grade at least.

"Tyler, he killed Mason, I won't risk you dying too, I couldn't let him kill you so I lied, I said I didn't know any other vampires because he promised to kill both of us if I ever told, I don't care though, I want to be with you, but I can't risk him killing you," Caroline ranted, hoping that he wouldn't freak out hearing the truth. She left out the who just saying he at the moment, but she'd eventually have to tell him

"Mason's dead? How long have you known he was dead?" he asked trying not to yell, he couldn't hurt her after he just promised he'd protect her. "Who killed him?"

"I didn't know for sure until that friend of his showed up, I thought he really had left, I thought that Damon let him go or he got away, please don't hate me, I swear to you I didn't know for sure, I just couldn't risk Damon killing you Tyler and he will, if you piss him off he'll kill you because Jules came to town because Mason lied about you, he said you weren't a werewolf and she bit Rose and Rose is dying now," she said getting it all out before looking down because she was too scared to meet his eyes.

She was scared that if she did look at him she'd see how angry he was with her or the light disappearing. There was always a light in his eyes when he was with her and she couldn't stand for that to go out. She wasn't sure what she would see, but she just couldn't look at him.

"Why would I hate you, you're the only person that's been here for me, Caroline," he said sitting down on one of the chairs in the kitchen, he just didn't know how to process what she'd told him. He was pissed off, he wanted to go and kick Damon's ass. No, scratch that, he wanted to kill him because he'd killed his Uncle. He might not have known Mason that well before he came to town, but he was his family.

"Does she know, Jules that is? She was at the school tonight, she wanted me to call her, but I tossed the number in the trash," he didn't want anything to do with the woman. He didn't know her and he barely knew Mason, he had no reason to trust a stranger, when it took him a little to trust Mason, who was his own family.

"No," Caroline said because as far as she knew Jules had no clue at all about Mason's death. It was probably best to keep it that way too, "If you want me to stay your undead girlfriend we need to never tell her because I don't want to die again," she sat down beside him glad that he'd taken it better than she'd thought he would. He could have started a fight with her, called her a back stabbing bitch, or done worse than that even.

Tyler knew she was right because he knew she didn't really lie, he trusted her, "Anything else I should know? I mean how many vampires are we talking about here?"

She had kept that part from him, but he couldn't put that on the level of a lie. Sometimes you did things to protect somebody and he'd done it before. He'd with held information from Mason; he wondered what had happened to the moonstone that he'd wanted so badly after he gave it to him. He also was holding back from telling his mom what he was, he saw no reason to unload this on her now. His dad had died a few months before, Mason was now probably dead, no need to let her worry more.

Caroline knew this would require alcohol and she sped off to her room getting the glasses and a bottle of whiskey. They had completely forgotten about the food she'd planned on fixing. "Okay, we got the Salvatore brothers, Katherine, who looks just like Elena, she's locked in the tomb though, she's responsible for getting Mason his death sentence,"

She handed him a glass before going on to tell him about Elijah, Rose, and this guy named Klaus they didn't know much about. It was a no holds bar now and within an hour he knew everything that she did. He asked and she was becoming an open book just hoping Damon never found out. He'd said not to be his friend; he didn't say anything about girlfriend.

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Caroline woke up in her bed finding Tyler still beside her. She was so relieved he hadn't left during the night to go and find Damon. She promised she wouldn't keep anything else from him, she'd tell him the truth and he was going to do the same. She hoped that staying here would be okay that it would keep him safe.

Elena had sent her a message after midnight that Rose was dead. Staying away from Damon right now was the best thing to do because if he knew that Tyler knew it wouldn't be good. She knew that Damon had liked Rose even thought he was in love with Elena. She had thought she loved him at one point herself. She had dated him for those months and he'd hurt her, abused her and everything under the sun. She'd been compelled by him so many times and she remembered all of it now.

"Hey, you know I wondered if you looked the same when you woke up and you do," Tyler said even though his eyes were barely open. Caroline giggled before kissing him not caring that their breath probably wasn't perfect right now.

She was glad that being a vampire came without the hangover side affects because they had drunk the entire bottle of whiskey the night before talking. Tyler told her that he had been the one that found the moonstone and given it to Mason. She had finally convinced him that Mason was not dead because of him. She was also so thankful that Tyler had given it to him because it could have been Tyler being killed, if he'd still had the moonstone. She couldn't imagine her life without Tyler in it.

"Well I knew you'd look good when you woke up," she said back not letting him know when she'd seen him when he first woke up before now. She heard a phone ringing and groaned before reaching over and grabbing his phone, "Oooh so you got some girl calling you at eight something in the morning," She was acting as if she was jealous, but she really had no reason to be because it was Tyler and he wasn't the old him with multiple girls hanging all around him, "I'm your booty call not them," she said before answering it, "Tyler Lockwood's phone, he can't come to it right now, he's to busy kissing his new girlfriend leave the message at the beep," she said before making a beeping sound and waiting while she tried to suppress giggles.

Tyler smiled before taking the phone from her, hoping it wasn't his mom calling, she had just gotten a new cell phone. However, when he heard who it was he wasn't sure to go or stay. Caroline had told him about Mason already, not like he didn't know now. He just couldn't believe that somebody thought Caroline was his new voicemail message.

He really thought the woman was nuts because a voicemail message didn't sound like a person he'd listened to plenty of them. He however, was hungry. It was no doubt that this Jules person knew nothing about him. He was going to strangle ever who had given her his number when he got a hold of them also. He didn't want her knowing his cell number so she could annoy the shit out of him.

"Get dressed we are going to get breakfast at the grill, I'm hungry and we never did eat last night," he said, he could go with Caroline and just be there already and pretend like he never got the message. He wasn't going to let the mood get ruined, he was with Caroline and that was all that mattered now. Caroline pouted watching him get up; she'd wanted to just lie in bed. It was too damn early at eight-forty in the morning to be getting up.

"Fine, if I must drag my ass out of bed you could at least make sure ever whose working gives me extra pancakes and two biscuits not one," Caroline said speeding around her room getting dressed. She laughed hearing Tyler's come back that she was the one who could compel a person not him. They hadn't had sex, but she had gotten him mostly undressed before they fell asleep. She yawned before heading to the kitchen finding her mom at the sink. "Mom, hi um…"

"Next time Tyler stays the night, make sure he at least lets his mom know, she called me three or four times last night and this morning," Liz said looking at her daughter. She had looked in on Caroline finding them sleeping on top of the covers when she'd gotten in just an hour before. She was dead tired and after last night's events she didn't even want to start a fight with Caroline about the no boys sleeping in the bed policy. It wasn't like Caroline listened much to her anyway.

Caroline was relieved she didn't get the no boys in your room lecture like when she was nine. That really had been the weirdest conversation with her mom, pre-vampire that was. She'd never given her the sex talk though which she was damn glad of. "Okay," she simply replied, "Did you find any news about Mason Lockwood?" she asked wanting to know if they'd found him.

It might be easier if they just found his body now so they could move on. She'd also told Tyler about what had happened with her mom and Mason holding Elena by the throat. She admitted to kicking his ass, but that was all she had to do with it. She had never once thought about killing Mason just taking him on and that one dream about doing him. However, she left that part out of the 'tell all' to Tyler.

"No, but I'm sure we will if he's not already…" Liz started before she stopped seeing Tyler walking in. She didn't want to give him the bad news that they were starting to think Mason might be dead. There were no signs of him for a good while not even credit cards had been used.

"Dead?" Tyler asked he knew that her mom was trying not to worry him or act as if there was no hope, "Yeah, I'm already thinking that," he said taking Caroline's hand. "Mason's not the type to just disappear for this long," he added, before he saying goodbye to her mom and they left.

He really didn't want get in a bad mood this morning and he was hoping not to see Damon today. He was going to do his damndest not to go off or try to pick a fight with him. He was still trying to wrap his head around the fact Mason was gone. He probably wouldn't until he saw a body or there was a funeral or something.

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