Danielle

I'm currently fixing the candle holders for tomorrow's Masquerade ball. I'm waiting for Bonnie to come back with the box of candles that she went to get.

"Here are the candles." Bonnie said as she placed it beside me.

"Thanks." I smiled at her.

"You're here." I turned to the source of the voice to see Elena. "Hey Danny."

"Hey."

"I'm here." Bonnie stated. Elena took some candles out of the box and started helping me put them in the candle holders. Then, Bonnie glanced around the yard.

"Caroline is not coming. I told you." Elena said.

"Just making sure." Bonnie answered.

"You know, eventually, you're going to have to talk to her." I told her.

"Could you make it a little less obvious that both of you are on her side?"

"There are no sides, Bonnie." Elena said.

"Come on! Since Caroline became a vampire, we barely see each other. Losing Caroline was bad enough; I didn't think I'd lose you two too."

"Come with me." Elena said as she glanced at me and I just nodded.

"Where?"

"Not here, some place quiet. We have to talk." She told her while she held her hand out. Bonnie took it and they walked away. I finished fixing the candles and went to do another task. While I was on my way, I was stopped by a person I didn't want to see at the moment.

"Danny!" Mason called but I didn't respond. I still had my back turned on him and I just continued walking. "Danny! Danny, wait!" He caught up to me and grabbed one of my arms.

"What?" I said coldly.

"You didn't meet me yesterday."

"How do you expect me to meet you after what you did? I was upset and mad at you and I was barely keeping myself from frying your brain." I stated annoyed as I started to walk away again.

"Please stop avoiding me and just hear me out." Mason caught my arm again and I roughly yanked my arm off of his grasp.

"What is there to talk about Mason? You threatened my friends' life and you blackmailed the other. I may not be mad anymore but I still can't forgive you for doing that, at least not now."

"I just did it that because I needed to protect myself from vampires."

"But that doesn't give you the right to threaten Elena's life. She had nothing to do with the Salvatore brothers' stupidity and for the record; those vampires you tried to kill were friends." I then walked away, now pissed and upset. I was finding my way to my next chore only to be stopped yet again by someone. I looked at the unfamiliar person and he was smiling flirtatiously at me. I wanted to roll my eyes at him but that would be rude.

"May I help you?" I asked trying to be nice despite my irritation.

"I haven't seen you much around here."

"I just moved here from London. Now, if you will excuse me, I have important things to do." I tried to move pass him several times but he would just keep blocking my way. I mentally groaned.

"I'm Jake by the way. May I know the pretty lady's name?" He said once more smiling flirtatiously.

"I'm sorry but I have to get back to work and I could see your girlfriend glaring daggers at me." I glanced at the blonde girl glowering at me from a distance.

"She is not my girlfriend; she just has this obsession with me. Would you like to have a few drinks with me?"

"Seriously, will you please stop flirting with me? I'm not interested in your annoying and outdated flirting and pick up lines. I have much better things to do, I'm leaving." I left the guy more irritated than I already am. I finally arrived my destination without being pestered. I found the glasses that I was supposed to sort and clean, I then went down to business.

"Hey, Danny." I looked up to see Stefan smiling at me.

"Oh hi, Stefan." I said returning the smile.

"Do you need any help?"

"Sure, could you help me sort and clean these?" I smiled at him and he nodded and started to help.

"Hey, Stefan, Danny." Mason said while coming our way carrying a box.

"Hey, Mason." Stefan replied however I just looked at him and then went back to my work. Before I returned to my work, I saw that he was a bit hurt of my actions and I could feel Stefan staring at me out of curiosity. Well, I still need my space and time away from him. I saw Mason place the box down on a table and could see that he is shocked to see Stefan alive.

"Wasn't expecting you here or anywhere."

"Yeah, I had this little accident but I'm fine now."

"What did you do to Sheriff Forbes?" Mason stated walking in front of us.

"Oh, she's fine too, but from now on, you'll have to do your own dirty work."

"Not a problem." He then glanced at me with sad eyes and walked away but accidentally ran into Bonnie. "Excuse me." Bonnie continued to watch Mason as he walked away. I noticed a strange look spread across her face. I looked over at Stefan as we shared a knowing glance.

"What's the matter? Are you okay?" Stefan said going near her.

"When I touched him, I saw something." She replied.

"You saw a vision about what?" I asked.

"I saw Elena."

"You saw Elena?" Stefan questioned with a dubious look.

"He was kissing her."

"Now that seems wrong, something is going on." I thought.

"No, Bonnie, Elena wouldn't kiss…" Stefan pondered upon this for a minute, and his face changed from confused to understanding. Then, it hit me.

"You didn't see Elena. You saw Katherine." I said.

"Did you see anything else besides that?" Stefan asked and Bonnie just shook her head no. "I need to tell Damon." Stefan then went to look for the other Salvatore and I was left with Bonnie.

"You know, you were wrong." I said as she looked at me perplexed. "You were wrong when you said you lost Caroline."

"Are we really going to talk about this again? She is a vampire. I thought you of all people can understand how I feel because you are like me. But I was wrong; I can clearly see that you don't." I lost my patience and looked at her frustrated because she can't get it through her thick skull the meaning of my message.

"What I meant is that we didn't lose Caroline, she is still the same peppy blonde that we know. The only thing that changed is that she is a vampire. You only think that you lost her because she became what you despise the most. You should even be thankful that she is alive and still breathing. She is our friend and will always be, no matter what she is or who she is."

"Danny..."

"I'm not done! Indeed, we are the same in some ways. You are witch just like me but I'm nothing like you. I don't just turn my back on a friend when she is in need. You came to loathe vampires because you lost a loved one due to Damon's selfish pursuits. But that does not justify, you giving Caroline a cold shoulder just because she became one of them. Did you even for once think that she didn't ask for this to happen to her or she felt guilty and terrified that she tainted her hands with an innocent's blood?" I angrily said to her as she looked at me shocked and sad.

"I lost everything that I cherished. After that, my last living relative was taken away from me by a selfish vampire so don't you even think for a second that I don't know how it feels because I do. Now, stop that charade of yours before you regret anything and lose another person close to you." I glared at her and I could see tears filling her eyes. I then walked away from her to cool myself down.

"Danny…" Bonnie called but I just ignored her and kept on walking. I was trying to look for an isolated place to cool down but Damon yet again stopped me and Stefan appeared beside him.

"What is wrong with people stopping me every single time? Can't I get some peace and quiet?" I mentally screamed.

"Move aside, Damon. I'm not in the mood to play one of your games." I told him menacingly. Damon didn't speak, both he and Stefan just looked at me shocked and I could see a bit of fear in their eyes.

"We just want to ask a favor." Stefan said.

"What kind of favor?"

"A favor to help us hunt the wolf and get answers from him." Damon stated. I didn't like the sound of that. If I helped them get to Mason, knowing Damon, he would torture him for answers or worse, kill him for what he did to them. Stefan would either do another task or just let his brother do his way.

"No, I'm not helping you."

"Come on, Danny. He is evil and needs to be stopped."

"Damon." Stefan warned him.

"Aren't you mad at him for doing what he did? This is your chance to get revenge."

"You see, that is exactly why I won't help you. I may be mad at him but he is still my friend and I won't put him in any harm due to something that petty. You are just convincing me to help you so that you could get your first chance to carry out your own revenge and kill him for what he did to you." They were about to say something but I didn't let them. "You know it was your own stupidity why he retaliated because you disregarded my warning. My answer is final and it is a no. If that is the only thing you want to ask of me, then I will take my leave." I said leaving no room for objections.

Damon

"Well, that was unexpected." I said as I looked at Danny's disappearing figure.

"No, I actually kind of expected that she would say no." Stefan told me and I just gave him a look that says to elaborate.

"Danny lost everything she had, Damon. Of course, she wouldn't want to lose another and she thinks helping us will threaten that."As much as I don't want her to be right, what she said was true. I will kill Mason the first chance I get.

"Well then, since Danny won't help us, let's go find my favorite Bennett witch." I told Stefan sarcastically, which he only rolled his eyes at. We found her helping in the preparation for the masquerade ball.

"We need to talk." Stefan said but I could see that she was about complain so I grabbed her arm and dragged her to a secluded place without paying attention to her complaints. From behind me, I could see my brother sending someone a message, probably Elena. She has been like that since this morning.

"Okay. This is as far as I go." Bonnie stayed as she roughly yanked off her arm from my grasp.

"Okay." I let go of her arm.

"What do you want?" She asked in somewhat an irritated tone.

"A favor." I answered.

"Like that's going to happen."

"So predictable." I looked at Stefan. "That's why I brought him."

"I know how you feel about helping us out, but since you're the one that linked Mason with Katherine, we finally have an opportunity to get an upper hand on both of them so, just hear us out."

"Pretty please." I added.

"I'm listening." Suddenly, Stefan's phone rang and I mentally sighed because Elena just don't know how to listen in times like this.

"I have to fill Elena in on what's going on." He looked at me. "Can you play nice, please?"

"I guess." He then answered his phone and walked away to make a distance from us.

"All you have to do is touch Mason Lockwood again to see if he gave Katherine the moonstone." I turned to Bonnie.

"My visions don't work like that. I don't get to ask questions."

"How inconvenient. Although, let's talk about that little witchy juju thing you do with me. You know, the fun one where my brain bursts into flames? What is that?"

"That's me giving you an aneurysm. Your blood vessels go pop, but you heal quickly; So, I do it over and over again."

"Is it vampire specific?"

"It would work on anyone with a supernatural healing ability."

"Good. Good, good." I said with glint in my eyes.

"Damon, I'm not going to help you hurt him." She stated that made me frown.

"Mason Lockwood's a werewolf, Katherine's evil. They're the bad guys. Really? You're going to play morality police with me right now? Let me put it to you another way: they're a threat to Elena. So you, witch, are going to get over yourself and help us." Stefan walked back over to us.

"Yeah, he meant that as a question with a 'please' on the end."

"Absolutely."After that, everything was in place and operation kill the Lockwood is on the go.

~~~~~X~~~~~

After my rendezvous this afternoon, I'm now currently rolling Mason's body in a blanket. Then, Stefan arrived and raised up the moonstone for me to see.

"All this for that?" I asked him.

"Yep."Stefan then tossed me the moonstone. "I see you've exercised your usual restraint."

"Had to be done." I took Mason's phone to send Carol a message on behalf of Mason. "Carol, big opportunity in Florida, I'm going to be gone for a long time. Will send for my things once I get settled. Much love, Mason." I said and sent the message.

"Let's get rid of the body." Stefan crouched down beside the body.

"Oh, last number dialed. I wonder who that could possibly be?" I smirked as clicked redial.

"No, no, no! Don't provoke her!" Stefan stood up and tried to stop me but I moved away. Katherine answered thinking it's Mason calling.

"Mason, you should have been here an hour ago." She said. Stefan continued to try to get me off the phone but I pushed him back.

"Wrong boy toy." I replied with a smirk. Stefan slapped my hand and walked away in frustration.

"Damon. For once you've surprised me. I assume Mason is with you?"

"He's right beside me! Although, his heart's across the room." I smirked.

"You shouldn't have." She said with anger in her voice.

"I've had a very busy day today. I killed a werewolf, found a moonstone. Hey, did you know that he hid the moonstone in the bottom of a well full of vervain? I guess he didn't trust you very much. Although, he did love you, poor guy. Hey, where are you? Because, you know, I could bring him over. Last goodbyes and all that." I looked at Stefan and he was shaking his head no.

"You have no idea what you've just done."

"Aww, did I put a kink in your master plan? I'm so sorry." I provoked her.

"Do you honestly believe that I don't have a plan B? And if that fails, a plan C, then a plan D, and… you know how the alphabet works, don't you? By the way, how is Danielle? I hope she's fine." My eyes widened after she said the last part.

"What the hell did you do to her?" I demanded in an angry voice.

"Send my love to Stefan." She said one last time and hung up. As if on cue, my phone rang. I checked who the caller was and it was Danny. I looked up at Stefan with wide eyes and he was mirroring my expression. I immediately answered the phone.

"So you decided to go out with me?" I said trying to lighten up the mood.

"Da-Damon, I need your help. This girl a-attacked me and I fought back. Da-Damon, she's dead." She replied with a trembling voice.

"Where are you?"I swiftly turned serious.

"At the grill."

"I'll be there." I hung up and immediately went to where Danny was.

Danielle

After my encounter with Stefan and Damon, I went to help prepare the masquerade ball. I was busy the rest of the day but I noticed that something was amiss. I didn't see any of my friends the whole afternoon. I couldn't go look for them because whenever I got a chance someone would just call me to do another task. It's already late; everything needed for the ball was already done so everyone is starting to go home. I decided to head straight home after I buy some food from the grill because I'm too tired.

"I'll just ask the others about where they were tomorrow." I got to the grill and I noticed Elena and the others aren't here too, they usually stay here to hangout. After I had my dinner, I made my way to where my car was parked in an isolated part of the parking lot. I was walking to my car and somehow I felt that someone was watching me. I turned around but I saw no one. I then hastened my pace and quickly grab my keys. But before I could open the door in the driver's seat, I felt a sharp object poking my back.

"Don't move or I will hurt you." A feminine voice said. "I hate you for coming back to town and stealing everything that I wanted."

"I don't know what you're talking about." I calmly said but I was actually panicking. I was then roughly turned around and pushed to the car. I looked at my attacker and I noticed that she was the one glaring daggers at me when the guy named Jake tried to flirt with me.

"Don't lie! I know you know. When you weren't here, I had to compete with Elena Gilbert just to get the attention that I wanted. Good thing the Salvatore came and my beloved gave up on that bitch. I finally had my Jake's attention but no. You came into the picture and you're stealing him from me."

"I'm not; I don't even know who the guy is." She pointed the knife nearer to me.

"You liar! I saw you flirting with him during the preparation. If I make you ugly, he will finally look at me. All I wanted was his attention because he didn't abandon me like my parents and relatives. He was my light." She went to stab me and I barely dodged it. It scraped my arm and there was a bit blood. She went to me again but I side stepped and caught her arm. I twisted her hand which knocked the knife out of her hand. She let out a small scream and I pushed her away from me.

"Enough!" I said but she paid no attention to me. She threw a punch at me put I dodged it. I was still trying to convince her but she wasn't listening. Her eyes darted off to the knife and she picked it up before I could. She proceeded to stab me again. I had no choice but kick the knife out of her hand and do a roundhouse kick. Due to the force, she was thrown backwards and hit the ground head first.

The adrenaline stopped and I snapped out of it. I was scared that something might have happened to her due to the impact. I was about to go to her when I suddenly felt my whole body hurt and my blood was boiling. I let out a small scream because of the horrendous headache I suddenly got. Then as fast as it came, it was gone.

"What the hell?" I immediately checked if she was still breathing after the impact in her head. Blood was coming out of her nose. My blood went cold when I checked for a pulse and there was none.

"I... I killed someone." I could feel tears coming out. I couldn't stay I need to do something with the body and there was only one person I know who could. I then got my phone and called the person. He immediately answered.

"So you decided to go out with me?" He said teasingly.

"Da-Damon, I need your help. This girl a-attacked me and I fought back. Da-Damon, she's dead." I cried out.

"Where are you?" He said as his voice immediately turned serious.

"At the grill."

"I'll be there." He hung up and within seconds he was here. He saw the body and turned to look at me. He pulled me into an embrace when he saw my frightened and guilty expression.

"Everything will be fine, Danny. I'm here." He soothingly said. "Go to the boarding house while I get rid of the body." I just nodded and didn't protest. I drove to the boarding house and arrived immediately. I knocked on the door and Stefan opened. He immediately let me in after seeing my state. He hugged me and I accepted it because I really need one right now. Damon came after awhile.

"Does she have any relative here?" Damon asked.

"No, she said she was abandoned." I answered still shaken.

"Come on; let's get you to the living room." When we arrived, I immediately saw what seemed like a body covered in a blanket.

"What is that?" I looked at the brothers only to see them pale. They didn't answer me and my stomach started to churn. I looked around the room and I could see torture devices and a bloody chair. Then, things began to sink in. "You didn't." I looked at them in terror but they were avoiding my eyes. I touched the chair and I saw it. I saw Mason's murder play like a recorded video clip. Tears were pouring again and I couldn't stop it. However, my tears were short-lived because my sadness turned into that of anger. I looked at them again and I could see them tense up.

"You killed Mason!" I yelled. The lights flickered and the ground shook due to my magic. They backed away with a cautious and shocked expression.

"Your eyes." Damon breathed out with a stunned expression. I looked over to Stefan and he wore the same look. My anger was then replaced with a perplexed expression. I looked at them strangely and I tried to look for anything that would show me my reflection. I then saw my reflection in the window and I was petrified.

"Why are my eyes golden yellow?" I turned to them still terrified. The ground began to shake again and the lights were flickering because I was frightened.

"Danny, you need to calm down." Stefan said in soft and soothing voice but I couldn't calm down. I was hyperventilating. The next thing I know, I was engulfed into an embrace. I knew who these arms were and somehow I felt kind of safe.

"No! This is not possible! I can't be!" I said frantically.

"Calm down, Danny. We're here for you." Damon said still embracing me as I began to calm down. When I stopped hyperventilating and finally calm, I gently pulled myself out of Damon's arms.

"I can't be here." I said and made my way door.

"Danny, you can stay here."Stefan uttered. I turned around and faced him.

"You can't expect me to stay here after finding out Mason's death and what happened just now." I turned my back on him and continued my way. I was about to go out but someone called me.

"Danny, wait!" Damon stated and I turned around to face him.

"I appreciate what did for me. I really do but please I need some time for myself. I need some time for me to be able to look at you again without seeing you killing my friend."

"I'm sorry. I only did it to protect us. He was working for Katherine."

"I know that's what you want but did you even think that I could have talked to him or I could have just made him forget about Katherine?" He didn't answer and just looked at me guiltily.

"I can forgive but I will never forget. I'm not one to hold a grudge Damon but I need some time before I can forgive you. What I need right now is to be alone." He didn't stop me and with that, I went home still having so many questions in mind. When I got home, I took a shower and I noticed that my cut was completely healed. I tried to get some sleep but I couldn't with so many questions plaguing my mind and with Mason's murder that kept on haunting me.

"How am I a wolf? Did one of my parents actually have werewolf gene or am I not their real daughter? Did grandma know about this? If she did, why did she keep it from me? Does this have anything to do with my necklace?" I couldn't take it anymore; I stood up and went to look for some answers. I got my family journals and books. I looked up to my family history but I got nothing. None of the things in the books and journals suggest that any of my ancestors have werewolf gene. I was about to give up but I saw the locked chest.

"Maybe the answers to my question lay on that chest." For the last couple of days, I haven't tried opening the chest since there were so many things happening around me. I tried to open it again but nothing happened. I tried some new spells that I learned but still nothing. I was getting tired fast due to the multiple spells that I have casted. However, I did not stop until my brain could barely function. My desire to unlock that box was yet again fueled. I made a promise to myself that I will find my answers and I will open that box no matter what it takes. After that, I went to bed and let sleep take over me.

Damon

I was saddened by what Danny told me. Danny is kind and strong on the outside but she is actually a small fragile girl in the inside. I just killed a friend of hers even when I knew this will affect her really bad. She already lost so much, she didn't deserve what I did to her but I had to do it for Elena. I just hope that one day she will forgive me because I cannot bear the fact that she loathes me. I don't know how but I have grown attached to her. There was something about Danny that when the first time I saw her, I wanted to know her. There was something in her smile that warms my heart and it made me want to protect her and her smile. I then went to drown myself with bourbon.

Katherine

I am pacing back and forth in my bedroom while talking to the person sitting on my bed. "I apologize if I seem rattled. Circumstances have changed suddenly, and I had to adjust." I sit down beside the person."Mind control is a necessary evil. You see, I need a werewolf, and I've lost the one that I had. Now, tell me what you're going to do to help me get a new one."

"I'm going to go after Tyler Lockwood." Matt answered in a dazed state.

"And you're not going to stop." I added.

"And I'm not going to stop."

"Until?"

"Until he kills me."He answered as I smirked evilly.

"Damon might have messed that part of my plan but I 'm still one step ahead. Now, everything is according to plan. My witch has finally awakened her dormant werewolf side. My chip to my freedom and safety is finally in my grasp."