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Damon was beyond furious at the prospect of almost getting himself and his brother killed by the sheriff and her deputies. Mason the resident werewolf had spiked the lemonade juice with vervain at the park the previous day in an effort to to out them and in his arrogance to retaliate he unwittingly played into his hands.
Thanks to Caroline and Elena's timely arrival, they got to live another day.
Now he was back to his incessant plotting to one up the wolf boy as he sat in his armchair glaring into the fire place. A few moments later, his sensitive hearing picked up footsteps approaching the main entrance.
He rose up slowly from his seat and headed over to answer the door when the person knocked. Upon opening it, he expected to come face to face with Alaric only to be disappointed when he realized that it was Jeremy Gilbert.
"Tyler Lockwood has to kill someone to activate his curse." Jeremy spoke raising his hand to block the door from being closed by Damon. "He is not a werewolf yet."
He was bewildered at first at the news that he could not answer but when he noticed a tiny smirk on Jeremy's face of managing to surprise him he proceeded further to push the door. "Fascinating, but not good enough."
"...but Mason Lockwood is." Jeremy struggled to keep the door from further closing. "He is looking for a moonstone, a special rock connected to the werewolf legend. That's why he is here."
Finally, some crucial information. Damon pulled the door a little but didn't let Jeremy in. "A moonstone?"
"And i know were it is."
He could see that Jeremy wasn't going to further elaborate unless he was he included in the affairs. "Does your sister know that you are here?"
"Are you going to invite me or not?"
He glared at him for a moment before pulling the door open taking a few steps back. Jeremy entered and proceeded on to the spacious lounge room whilst he followed behind.
"So, how did you learn about the moonstone?"
Jeremy pulled the satchel bag he was carrying off of his shoulder before dropping on the leather couch. "He invited me to a party that he was hoisting at his eyes.."
Damon narrowed his eyes losing his patience. He wasn't interested in his entire play by play story.
"...Iris's brother…"
"Who?!" Damon's expression morphed slightly into confusion.
Jeremy paused and blinked a few times. "Harry Potter… Iris Potter's younger brother." He didn't like the tiny smirk that slowly made its way on the right side of his lip. "What's so important about them?"
Damon frowned. "Didn't Elena tell you that Iris is witch?"
"No." Jeremy replied.
"She is determined to not get herself involved with vampires but now that her brother has factored himself into the equation, perhaps now she might be willing to cooperate with us given the right motivation…."
"No Damon! Absolutely not!" Jeremy was back on his feet glaring darkly. "He is a cool guy, You cannot use him as leverage."
"You've met him for like five minutes Jeremy and suddenly you are now declaring to be his bff." He sneered not caring about his reasonings. He had a job to find out everything he could about uncle werewolf Mason and the moonstone before sending him to the afterlife and nothing was going to get in his way. Bonnie disliked his guts and so she was of no help.
…
Damon gave Stefan an incredulous look. "Katherine is with Mason Lockwood?"
"Yes. It totally makes sense…"
"I know, but Mason Lockwood?" Just mentioning his name brought a bad taste inside his mouth. He couldn't work out a reason why Katherine would be interested in the wolf which led him to come up with an obvious conclusion. "She is using him, she has to be."
"Using him for what?!" Stefan asked in bewilderment.
"Mason is looking for a moonstone that can allegedly break the full moon werewolf curse, perhaps Katherine wants it as well."
Stefan couldn't begin to understand why Katherine of all people would want to aid a werewolf into becoming even more lethal to vampires. "Why?"
"That's the beauty of Katherine, she is always up to something." Damon replied.
His brother frowned at the truth in that phrase and folded his arms across his chest. "So how are we getting this moonstone?"
"Jeremy is getting it from Tyler."
Stefan sighed in annoyance. "Why would you involve Jeremy?"
"He chose to involve..." Damon cut himself off from finishing that statement when he noticed the two witches carrying boxes as they walked on the Lockwood's massive lawn. The girl, Iris seemed to be chuckling at the annoyed expression plastered on her brother's face and decided to eavesdrop into their conversation.
"I'm sorry bro, it's just that the Patil twins were expecting a night of fun at the Yule Ball only to find themselves…"
"Ok. Ok. i was terrible date, i get it." Harry quickly responded looking embarrassed not wanting to continue with the conversation. "Can we please speak of something else?"
He felt a tight squeeze on his shoulder and turned to face his brother who was looking at him in irritation. "Eavesdropping? Seriously Damon?"
"I need to know what the witches are up to."
"...Damon, Iris made it pretty clear the last time that she wanted to take no part in anything vampire related…."
"Well i really don't care what she wants and doesn't want Stefan." Damon snapped and began to walk in the siblings direction. "Now that Katherine is involved we need all the help we can get."
"This is a bad idea Damon."
Stefan's uneasiness fell on deaf ears. Once Damon's mind was set on one thing it couldn't be swayed.
…
"So, did you get to enjoy the party yesterday?" Iris who was busy sorting masquerade masks on a table asked Harry who stood helping besides him.
"I would have if only Sarah had stopped hitting on me."
"At least she wasn't planning to dose you with love potion like Lavender."
Harry sighed in annoyance at the reminder of the girl that had become obsessed with him back at Hogwarts in his sixth year and failed to notice the amusement on Iris's face.
"So did you ask her to escort you as your date?"
"I already have a girlfriend Iris." Harry responded.
"You know, i always assumed that you would end up with Hermione seeing that you both compliment each other."
"Oh really, and how is that?"
Iris turned to face him. "Since the beginning, you had a strong relationship built on mutual trust and respect. Sure she might have annoyed you a lot by having your firebolt confiscated for example but she did it because she cared a lot about you. Most importantly, you were loyal to each other and she stuck with you from the beginning till the end. She never left your side when you endured strenuous circumstances that would break most men Harry. Now if those aren't reasons enough as to why you shouldn't have pursued her, i don't know what are?"
"I'm sure you are exaggerating a little."
They both turned to face the incomer who looked cocky.
"Mr Salvatore. To what do we owe the pleasure?"
So this was the vampire that Iris spoke about. The calm expression on Iris's face didn't fool Harry one bit given the tight hardening of her green orbs.
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Stefan who was eavesdropping in on Jeremy and Tyler's conversation pinched his nose in frustration when he learned that the moonstone was no longer in Tyler's possession. He needed to locate Bonnie and speak to her now more than ever.
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"What can i do for you Stefan?"
After giving her a narrow version of the story she asked unkindly were Damon was.
"I will take you to him, just follow me." Stefan pulled out his phone from his jean pocket that had started to buzz. Realizing that the caller i.d belonged to Elena he quickly switched it to silent.
"Aren't you going to answer that?" Bonnie who was walking besides him asked.
"I will, i just need to deal with Damon and Mason first." he responded before quickening his pace when he noticed Iris narrowing her eyes at what his brother probably said to antagonise her. Did he really need to piss everyone off.
"Slow down." Bonnie grumbled as jogged to match his long strides.
"We are almost there."
…
"Didn't we already have this conversation in the past Damon and as i recall my answer was no…"
"This isn't about dropping the barrier underneath Fell's church." Damon cut her off. "There is a new threat to Elena. You remember her don't you?"
"Then you will protect her Damon, you and your brother. Every time witches get themselves involved with vampires bad things happen. Bonnie's grandmother is a primary example. Despite your promise to destroy all the vampires in the tomb after rescuing the girl you were madly in love with that didn't happen and so she died for nothing." Iris said and narrowed her eyes when he noticed him giving his brother a quick calculated glance. He better not be thinking of using him to leverage her or very bad things would happen.
"Iris, it's good to see you again."
Three faces turned to face the chocolate skinned witch that spoke with such enthusiasm approaching them with Stefan alongside her.
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