Bonnie's standing outside of the Gilbert house holding something that Alyssa recognizes as Elena's chanting with her eyes clothes. Alyssa soon realizes that she's casting a spell on the house.

Damon walks in from the kitchen and sees Alyssa standing near the door with a bag on her shoulder. "Where do you think your going?"

"To see Tyler." She adjusts her stance to a defensive one knowing that the mention of Tyler and a full moon in the same sentence would send him on the verbal attack. "He sent an S.O.S. Tonight's the first full moon since he triggered his curse. Why's Bonnie casting a boundary spell?"

Jeremy joins them. "To keep Elena from going on another suicide mission."

"Right," she nearly forgot about the whole role trip she took with Rose to contact Klaus so that she could hand herself over to him. "I can't exactly say that I disagree." She was met with instant looks of approval at her word choice and she decides to clarify what she means. "It's not because of my feelings towards her. I would do the same thing in her position if it meant protecting you and Jenna."

"We wouldn't want you risking your life to protect us."

"Hey, I already died once in the name of family. Speaking of which," she directs to Jeremy, "did you get what I asked for."

"Yeah," he handed the herb that she had asked for. "What you do you need it for?"

"Aconite flower works for werewolves the way vervain does for vampires. According to Mason, if Tyler ingests this before he turns it'll weaken him and hopefully keeps him from being able to break out of his chains."

"But you can't be sure right?"

"No, but it's not going to stop me from helping him."

"What is with this family. It's like you all have death wishes." Damon says irritated with the fact that she was willing to put her life on the line to help out Tyler. "Tyler is a werewolf. Your a vampire. Being around him is dangerous especially tonight."

"Being related to Elena is dangerous. So is being a Gilbert and in case you don't remember is also the reason I died. I'm not going to hide away and let you risk your lives for someone you care about and not be willing to do the same. Now unless you're planning on having Bonnie trap me in the house too, I got to go." She turns and leave.

Alyssa pulls up behind a truck that's parked outside of the Lockwoods. The licence plates says Florida which seats off alarm bells. A blonde woman steps out of the car and Alyssa does the same meeting her at the front door.

"Hi," she smiles friendly as she greets her.

"Hi," the woman's greeting was just a friendly. "Do you live here?"

"No, my friend Tyler does." She stares at him for a moment trying to see if she get sniff out whether she was a wolf but can't. "I'm sorry I'm being totally rude, I'm Alyssa." She holds out her hand for her to shake which she accepts.

"Jules." She releases her hand. "Maybe you can help me. I'm looking for my friend, Mason."

"Tyler's Uncle?" She feigns ignorant. "I thought he was back in Florida. At least that's what Tyler told me."

"No one seems to have seen him since he left to come here from his brother's funeral."

"Maybe Mrs. Lockwood knows something." She says walking in front of Jules and turning the knob on the Lockwoods door knowing it would be open.

"Tyler?" She calls out as she enter. Jules coming behind her. He comes to the door with a black duffle bag which she assumes has everything that he needs for tonight. Tyler looks over to Jules and Alyssa introduces her. "This is Jules." She says to him as Mrs. Lockwood walks into meet them. "She's here looking for Mason."

"Mason's back in Florida," Mrs. Lockwood says. "He has been for a while."

"She says he never made it."

"I was wondering if you had any other ideas where he could be?" Jules asks and Mrs. Lockwood shows her to the living room where they could sit down and talk to her.

Tyler starts to follow but Alyssa stops him. "You can't. I know you want to hear about Mason but you can't risk it." They didn't know how long the transformation was going to take and she didn't want to risk that they didn't make it in time before he changed he could hurt someone.

Tyler got was at stake too and left with her. She shoots Damon a text that simply said we have a problem one the way to the car and got in.

"I can't believe Mason's missing." He says when they were not two minutes into the drive.

Alyssa feels her phone vibrate in her pocket but doesn't want to risk Tyler seeing it or answering questions so she doesn't answer.

She looks at him briefly. "Maybe he just stopped to go surf somewhere. Isn't that Mason's whole thing?"

"Maybe. This girl just seemed to think he would have called."

"I'm sure he's okay. Your mom must have talked the sheriff by now. They're going to find him. The only thing you need to worry about is getting through the full moon. Afterwards, you can worry about Mason." She stops the car near the watering hole so they can walk the rest of the way to the cellar since her car wouldn't fit through.

As she steps out, her phone vibrates in her pocket continuously and she fishes it out seeing Damon name flashing on the screen. She turns to Tyler as he grabs his bag out of the car. "Aunt Jenna you got my message." She says stepping away from the car.

"Yeah, and it was pretty vague," Damon says playing along knowing that she was Tyler and if they were speaking in code then it meant that she couldn't talk openly.

"Sorry about leaving the house without saying anything. I had school stuff to do. Tyler and I have this project that we need to work on and it's a really big part of our grade." She turns to see Tyler with his bag on his shoulder. "Ah huh we'll be doing it most of the day at the library instead of at Tyler's."

He nods to the cellar to let her know that he was going to go sat up and she nods signaling that she'll only be a minute and he walks away. "Mrs. Lockwood had some company today. A friend of Mason's stopped by looking for him, apparently he's not in Florida." She watches Tyler walk away. "Mrs. Lockwood was on the phone with the sheriff when we left."

"Well that's not good."

When she was sure she wouldn't be overheard she faces the direction she was standing. "I know. Who would have know Mason puppy pals would have come looking for him."

"You think she's a werewolf?"

"Can't be sure, but she could cause a lot of problems for us."

"I'll take care of it."

"Be careful."

"Yeah. You too."

She hangs up and join Tyler in the cellar where he's preparing the chains.

"Everything okay?"

"Yeah." He nods to his bag. "Tell me you brought the instruction manual."

"Tell me you brought the wolfsbane."

She takes a bag out of her purse with the herb in it. "It wasn't easy to find."

He goes to take it, when he touches it, his skin burns, and he yelps and draws in his breath. "I have a water bottle in my bag, we can mix it in there."

She goes and takes the bottle out of the bag and mixes the wolfsbane in the water.

"The guy at the hardware store said this setup could hold up to 5,000 pounds."

She hands him the water bottle. "Let's hope it's strong enough to withstand how ever much weight a werewolf can pull."

He takes the water bottle setting it aside she walks away from Tyler as he begins to undress. She doesn't question why he chose to strip down. Her mind was somewhere else as she looks down at her phone anxiously awaiting to hear back from Damon.

Tyler notices that her mind is somewhere else and asks again is everything okay.

She turns to him cell phone still in hand.

"You seem distracted."

Not knowing how long they were going to be stuck in the cellar, Alyssa decides to tell him the truth, well parts of it to pass the time while they waited.

"I'm kind of am. See, I sort of poured my heart out to this guy and now I'm just waiting for a response...of any kind. It's pretty stupid I know. I'm standing here waiting for a guy that I've known my whole life to turn to a wolf and all I think about is whether or not today is the day he finally calls. Even though I know what he's going to say and it's not going to be something I should be waiting around to hear."

He hadn't expected her to confess something so personal especially to him and he didn't know how to respond so he simply says, "I'm sorry."

"It's my fault really." She goes on. "I should have known better, especially when the guy is in love with my sister. You don't have to say anything." She says when he struggles to find something to say. "There's not really an appropriate response to something like that. And before you ask," she walks back over to him knowing the next question that was on his mind. "It's not Matt. I've been sort of keeping my distance from him lately."

"He doesn't know?"

"That I'm dead?" She shakes her head when answering, "no. He's just going to ask a bunch of questions that I can't answer. I don't want to drag him into any of this. I didn't want to drag anybody into this So I just kind of been dealing with this on my own. It's why I'm here. I didn't want you to go through the same thing. Speaking of which, we should probably get you chained up."

She walks over to him. She wraps the chain around each wrist and ankle, as well as a chain looped around his neck, all attached to the walls of the underground cave. Tyler watches her the whole time. She gives it a firm tug to make sure it's in place. "I think that should do it." She turns to him when she sure it's secure. "Whatever you want to ask me Tyler just ask." She folds her arms.

Even though she gave him permission, he still hesitates. "This guy, the one you poured your heart out to. Is he what you wanted to forget?"

"That among other things, but he's the main reason, and considering my heightened emotional state, I could have done worse. So I thought it was better than the alternative."

"The guy you're hung up on, It's Damon right? Stefan's brother? I've seen the two of you together a few times."

"So you've been watching me?"

"It's kind of hard to miss. You often look like you're planning something."

"It's usually because we are. Damon and I we get each other. He accepts me for who I am and I don't try and change him. Of course most of the time he's like the devil on my shoulder encouraging me."

"So it's the mysterious bad boy thing he has going on that you're attracted to?"

"He's not really that much of a mystery. While I don't agree with his methods, the reason behind them I do. He wants what we all want, love and to keep the people we love safe. Again his methods are questionable but you can never question the reasons behind them."

"It's what Vicki use to say about you when I asked her why the two of you were friends. She said that you got her in way most people didn't. You didn't look at her like some trash from the wrong side of town. You actually saw who she was beneath all of that."

"I guess it's why I fell for Damon. He's sort of like the male version of Vicki. I think they actually would have gotten along. I can see it now the three of us raising a little hell together. Who knows maybe she would have even been standing here instead of me helping you through all of this. You know if you weren't such a huge dick to her."

"And here I thought girls like that sort of thing."

"Only girls with self-esteem issues which, I guess you can say I have extending from resentment issues that I may or may not still have but that I'm trying to change. It's just harder than it looks."

He was an only child so he couldn't say he had any knowledge in that department but he did know what it was like to feel like a disappointment to his father.

Him bringing up his father had made her ask something she had been wondering. "You think your dad knew about the curse?" She asks taking a seat. It was going to be a while and she thought she ought to get comfortable.

"I don't know." Tyler tries to do the same but the chains prohibit him. "I wonder how he would react if he was around to see."

"I thought the same about my parents in the beginning. I couldn't help but wonder what my parents would think of me if they were alive. If they knew what I turned out to be. Would they hate me or could they love me? But then I think I never felt their love for me before. Nor could they accept who I was, that I was different from the daughter they really loved. So I guess it's a good thing they aren't around to see me become the thing they hate the most."

"It wasn't your choice. Right?"

"It wasn't. But I have a choice in whether or not I stay this way, or whether or not to end it? Before, the choice seemed simple to make. I knew that there was somewhere better than this. I believed that there was a better place I'd go where I'd see my parents and we could be together again. It made dying a lot easier. Being turned into what I am, I can't say that I feel the same comfort that there's a place that exist like that anymore. I guess it's why I haven't choose the other path. It's the not knowing that keeps me from doing it."

"I wonder if I'll feel the same after it's over."

"I don't know. I think you'll still be the same old Tyler, just with super senses and the ability to change into a wolf every full moon."

"However long that takes?"

"Mason's journal said the first transformation can happen before the moon hits its apex. Whatever time that is. Did it say how long you'll actually be a wolf?"

"A few hours. Maybe more, maybe less." She could see the worry in his eyes and she wanted to take his mind of it. At least, for a little while.

"Did I tell you that I saw Mr. Saltzman naked?" She knew that it would be the one thing that would catch his attention and take his mind off his current situation. She explains the situation about him dating Jenna making sure to keep the conversation light and away from the situation.

But she wasn't able to keep it away from it too long.

"Are you sure you want to do that?" She asks before he starts to drink the wolfsbane.

"Yeah. Mason said it'll diminish my strength so I can't break free." He starts to drink.

"Tyler…" She wanted to warn him knowing that it would work in the same effect that vervain has that it was going to hurt like hell. But he drinks a few swallows before she could fully prepare him but he begins to choke and then starts to gag, vomiting on the ground. He falls to his knees as he coughs. She gets closer to him and touches his back.

"No."

"Shhh…"

"Don't!" He pushes her away and she keeps her distance sensing that the time was about to come.

He rises up to his knees scraping at the skin on the back of his neck.

"Tyler" She calls to let him know that she's there for him and also hoping to give him some comfort.

"I'm burning up." She gasps tugging at the chains around his neck. "It burns! "

She comes closer to him but still keeps her distance. She kneels on one knee beside him. "I know. Just breathe through this, okay?"

"I'm trying." He cries turning towards her on all fours. "You should go. You should leave."

"Not yet." She was going to stay there as long as she could.

He begins to writhe in pain on the floor and she steps back as his bones start to break. It starts with his arms twisting itself back and he begins to scream and cries.

"It hurts. It hurts."

His bones keep twisting itself until it stops and he's left lying flat on his stomach on the ground facing away from her.

She comes beside him helpless not knowing what to do. "I want to help but I don't know what to do.

"There's nothing you can do." He says slowly rising to his hands and knees.

He gets up. His bones and his spine are breaking. He screams. "Get out!"

"No!" She promised him that she was going to be there with him and she was going to keep that promise. It was the only thing she could do at the moment.

"Get out! I don't want to hurt you."

"No! No."

She says definitely coming closing to him. She embraces him stroking his hair as his bones continue to break.

"It's okay. You'll fight through it, okay?"

Tyler's limbs spasm, and more bones break. He screams in pain and Alyssa tries to soothe him.

"Leave!"

"No." There was still time for her to be there for him.

"Just go, please!"

"No, not yet."

"Just go!"

"I'm right here, and I'm not going anywhere.

Suddenly he screams. His bones continue breaking. His eyes are yellow and his fangs are out. She know it's time to leave so she gets up steppin behind the black gate. He gets up and looks everywhere around him. She gets to the gate just as he removes one of his chains and walks backwards up the stars as Tyler's transformation progresses. She continues to hear his bones breaking over the top of his screams as she makes it outside the cellar door. She shuts in sliding down to the ground.

Suddenly, his screams stop and she slowly rises up from the ground and turns towards the door. There's a loud bang as Tyler now in wolf form tries to break through the door. He puts cracks in the wood and she knows the door won't hold for long. She sees a piece of wood next to the door and props the wooden plank against it and vamp-runs into the woods.

She stays there until she feels that it's safe for her to return and careful goes back to the cellar, carefully. Damons warning ringing out loud and clear in her ear as she makes her way down the stairs of the cellar.

She wasn't sure what state he would be in once she found him and was still cautious and stayed on the other side of the door. "Tyler?"

"Alyssa."

"Tyler." She comes into the room and rushes over to him and puts a jacket over his shoulders seeing that he was naked. "You're okay. You made it. You didn't get out. You're okay."

He's cries out and she can hear the pain in his voice when he says, "no, I'm not."

She takes him home when he is well enough to move but she is reluctant to leave him after what he's been through. She could see that it still affected him. Along with the knowledge that he's going to have to go through it again.

He turns to her when they reach his front door and he begins to speak but she silences him with a kiss which surprises him. She pulls away from the kiss and reaches behind him to open the front door. She steps around him walking inside and looks back silently asking if he were coming. He steps inside standing in front of her and she turns the knob to the door slowly shutting it behind them.