Mason was beginning to grow impatient waiting for his girlfriend to return back from the restroom that she had ventured to over ten minutes ago. He had this uneasy feeling in the pit of his stomach that something terrible had happened to her. He had felt like someone had been watching him ever since Payton left.

He wanted nothing more than to go check it out for himself and make sure she was actually safe.

They both knew what danger lurked behind closed doors in the supernatural world.

It was like his requests were answered when he saw Emma turn to look at him, with a confused expression, "What's up with your face? Can't stand to be away from Payton?"

"It's not that," Mason sighed, looking over to the restroom door and back on Payton's best friend, "I'm worried. She hasn't come back yet, don't you think she's been a little while?"

"She tried to tell me she wasn't going to do anything in there, but my bet is that she couldn't help herself." Emma replied, her dirty mind and teasing much like Payton's, getting the best of her.

Mason forced a small smile on his lips, a worried expression falling on his face, "Yeah maybe. Do you think you could just go check it out and see if she's alright?"

"You really want me to?" Emma asked with raised brows, really seeing how concerned Mason looked now.

"Really want you to what?" Another girl, called Amanda came into the conversation and spun her body round to face them properly after overhearing them talk about Payton.

"Mason want's me to go check out and see if Payton is ok, he say's she's been gone a while and he's worried," Emma explained, before a smirk fell on her lips, "but as I tried to tell him, she's probably cooling herself off."

Amanda tried to fight off a laugh, before she took a small sip from her drink and added her own views, "Emma's probably right. You have nothing to worry about, Mason. You know, Payton. She will be fine. She's a big girl."

"Seriously?" Mason could feel his anger growing, not liking how the two friend's of his girlfriend were not sharing the same concern he was, something just wasn't right, "If you neither one of you are going to go find her, then I will go look for her myself."

Mason quickly slammed his beer bottle down onto the table the group of them were surrounding, which instantly grabbed all their friend's attention to witness Mason's outburst of anger and instantly wondered what the hell was going on.

Emma felt her chest tighten when she saw Mason's irritation and she could feel that she really did have to take control, if not, god know's what could happen to him in his circumstances, that she was still trying to come to terms with like their other friend's about Mason being a wolf in his spare time.

Before Mason had the chance of taking off to look for Payton, Emma laid her hand in front of his chest and stopped him from going anywhere, "Fine. I'll go. Just relax. I'm sure she's fine."

Emma handed him her cocktail glass, whilst shining a reassuring smile his way and Mason nodded back at her in regards to going through with his idea, before Amanda made a suggestion, "I'll come with you. We'll go to the bathroom, then if we can't find her, we'll have a look around."

Giving them both a look in kind gesture, Mason watched the two girl's take off and once they were out of sight, going through the bar to the restroom to look for Payton, Mason spun round to face his other friend's clearly distressed.

"Hey, chill man," One of the guys, Jordan assured him, throwing his arm around his best friend's back, "the girl's are right, she'll turn up."

"Yeah for all you know, Payton's still in there probably trying to distract herself from thinking of sexual fantasies of what's going to happen between the two of you tonight." Another guy, Sean playfully joked, trying to lift Mason's spirits.

As much as he was grateful for the friend's he had and how they were just trying to ease him about Payton taking so long, he couldn't shake off the bad feeling he had about her getting into some sort of trouble.

"Exactly! So just relax," Jordan comforted him the best he could, before he grabbed a beer from their table, that no one had consumed yet, "Have another beer."

Taking the bottle from him, Mason snapped open the lid and began to down some of the liquid, trying to ease his nerves and the anger he felt.

"Yeah calm down, you don't want your big bad wolf side getting the better of you."One of their other friends, the type of friend's who sometimes took it a little far and when they were slightly intoxicated with alcohol always said the wrong things, this was Adam.

Everyone's eyes fell on to Adam, who was staring back at them unfazed and unaware that he had really made an enemy with an already frustrated Mason. By making a spiteful comment like that, whether it was intended to be offensive or more of a joke, Mason took it as the guy was taking the piss.

"What did you just say?" Mason questioned, his tone thick and heavy, like he was starting to lose it.

"I said..." Adam went to repeat, but Jordan stopped him.

"Don't, man."

"No, I want to hear him say it again," Mason demanded, stepping forward slightly toward's where Adam was sat down in the booth at the bar, "Say it again."

"Mason, man, c'mon, don't do this." Jordan tried to get Mason to calm down, fearful if Mason's wolf side came out and he did something he'd regret publically.

But Mason was having none of it. All he could see was red.

"Don't try help him, Jordan," Adam began to taunt again, slowly standing up from his seat and moving closer to Mason, whilst everyone else took a step back,"Not our problem if he can't control his anger and obsession toward's Payton, I mean look what happened to Jimmy."

Upon hearing his ex best friend's name and the flashbacks of what happened to him flooded through his mind, Mason lurched forward and was moments away from punching the bastard in the face, when the sound of Amanda's voice calling his name in distress stopped him.

"Mason!" Amanda came rushing toward's the group of them, Mason turning round to face her, his fist tightly clenched from where he was going to hit Adam, "Stop! We can't find, Payton and now I've lost Emma too."

Feeling his anger be replaced with sheer panic of what was happening to his girlfriend, Mason pushed past his group of friend's and began to sprint out of the bar, where he began to search the local area for any signs of where Payton had got to and now strangely, Emma was missing too.

After five minutes of running round the place, asking people if they had seen her or Emma, Mason came running down the back way behind the bar, where they kept the garbage and the odd homeless person would spend sometime there over night, when no one was about and they could avoid judgemental eyes.

A strange smell filled his nostrils, one that he couldn't help but be drawn too and made him feel curious as to what or whom the smell was coming from. As he trailed closer down the alley, he felt his heart sink when he saw a figure stood kneeling down on the ground, another body lying beside it and the sound's of quiet cries could be heard.

Jogging over toward's the scene, Mason could make out Payton's golden wavy hair and the red dress she had been wearing come into sight, as well as her scent, the smell from before and an awful smell of blood.

"Payton." Mason called, trying to grab her attention, but it was like the girl was unable to process what was going on around her, aside from the thing front in front of her that was causing her so much emotional pain.

Because it wasn't until Mason got closer that he saw why Payton was in such a state of shock.

"M-m-mason," Payton spoke out, turning her head to look up at him, Mason's stomach dropping when he saw the sight of blood around the girl's mouth and the tears streaming down her face, "I don't know what I did. I couldn't stop myself. I've killed her."

He slowly bent down toward's his girlfriend, laying a light comforting hand on her shoulder and moving his eyes over to the girl's body in front of the both of them, unsure of what to do or say, because deep down he really knew what had gone on here and what had happened to his girlfriend.

But it was more of a concern as to what he was going to do with the limp lifeless body in front of them.

The girl's dark brunette hair was brushed over one side of her face, whilst the other side was exposed and her head was titled to the side slightly, a bloody wound was oozing out from her neck and the traces of teeth marks were prominent in the skin, clearly signifying that Payton had been the one to bite the flesh and dig her teeth into the girl, very much similiar to what Katherine had done to herself back in the restroom, before she fed the blood to Payton.

The blood was dripping down onto the girl's arms and down onto her white sun dress she was wearing, staining the top of it and a few drops had splattered down onto the ground, while the girl continued to lie there lifeless and drained of blood.

"What the hell is wrong with me? Why did I do this to her? I'm a monster." Payton cried, staring between the dead and the wolf beside her, as well as the blood that was surrounding them.

"Hey, you're not a monster," Mason tried to reassure her, like the same way she had reassured him months back when he had admitted he was a wolf, if he knew from what he was witnessing and his minimal knowledge on the subject, he knew none of this was Payton's fault, "you're just very unfortunate to have be turned into something you had no control over."

"W-w-what the hell does that mean?"

"You'll see. Let's get you out of here and cleaned up. Then I'm going to take you somewhere where you will be safe." Mason explained to her, quickly rising to his feet and glancing around, making sure no one was about so that they could leave with no suspicions.

"What? We can't just leave her here! I killed someone Mason!" Payton began to freak out, the realisation hitting her hard and fast about what she had done.

"Hey, look at me," Mason bent down slightly, grabbing hold of her face in his hand's and getting her to look at him properly, like he always did when she freaked, "We don't have time to sit here and figure out what we're going to do with the body. We have to go. We have to go now, Payton."

Linking his hand's under her arms, he carefully pulled her trembling body up from the ground and began to drag her away from the scene, trying to ignore the cries and demands to take her back, knowing he had to do the right thing for her sake and get her away from the scene.

He couldn't have anyone knowing it was her who had done this. Not the public. Not their friend's. Not the police. No one could find out.

But it was a little too late for that.

A group of people were already approaching them, a group of people who happened to be their friend's and the people they really didn't want to hurt, but in the end they couldn't do anything to protect them from it.

Payton was a vampire now.

And that was the end of their friendship.

~ END OF FLASHBACK ~

Payton woke up with a startle. She could feel the sweat building on her forehead from the horrible dream she had just encountered. Her chest was tight. Her hand's were slightly shaking. A uncomfortable feeling took over her body.

Upon hearing and feeling Payton's body startle beside him, Mason slowly began to stir from his own slumber and rolled over to see her sat up in bed, confusion and worry instantly hitting him about what had happened.

"Hey," Mason said softly, slowly beginning to sit up himself and lay his hand down on her back, "You alright? What happened?"

"Bad dream." She informed him, looking over her shoulder at him with a small smile, but it didn't meet her eyes, he could see the hurt on her face.

"Not those dreams again?" He asked, already knowing the answer and feeling sorry for her.

Nodding back at him, she ran her hand over her face in distress and felt Mason's hand begin to move up and down on her back, trying his best to soothe and comfort her about the dream she had woken up from, feeling useless he couldn't do anything to stop them.

"Katherine also called last night." Payton admitted, fearing his reaction.

"What?" Mason asked, shocked and angry she had kept this from him, "Why didn't you say anything?"

"Because you came out of the shower, we small talked, cuddled and then we both crashed, I didn't want to ruin the good moment between us after thing's had already been tense," Payton explained to him, turning her body now to face him, "I'm sorry. But I just honour the good moments more now after everything that's happened. I don't want you to worry."

"I am worried about you, Payton."

"Well I'm fine. Plus Katherine visited the other night and I handled it just fine." She confessed again, realising how much they really did need to catch up.

"What do you mean she visited you?"

"She came by my Dad's apartment. Thankfully he was out. She told me about the barbecue, about Jenna being my Dad's new girlfriend, that I had to work with Caroline, the new vampire that Katherine turned, to stop Elena from going to see Stefan."

"But she did go over to see Stefan?" Mason asked confused.

"Exactly! That is why Katherine called. I failed her apparently," Payton sighed, "It's not my fault that Elena, who look's exactly like Katherine, can't resist going to see Stefan. I don't even know the girl, so why would she listen to me?"

"Yeah I will admit seeing Elena like that threw me too, I didn't know what was going on or how to act," Mason told her, "I just went with it, especially when you started acting the same way, I thought that perhaps this was another supernatural twist."

"Nope," Payton rubbed her lips together, "just a doppleganger situation."

Mason sighed, grabbing hold of her hand and giving it a small squeeze, "You better tell me about Katherine next time, Payton."

"I don't need you to fight my own battles for me, Mason." Payton tried to tell him.

"For as long as we are together, Payton, what battle is yours is also mine."

Smiling back at him in appreciation for his kindness and dedication towards her, she let go of his hand and slipped herself back under the covers, climbing on top of his body and sitting on him, feeling like now they had time together, they better make the most of it and she needed to release her anxious tension somehow.

"What are you doing up there?" Mason asked, a smirk forming on his face and his hand's instantly laid down on her thighs, where his t-shirt he had given her to wear to bed last night rode up a little.

Not even bothering to respond to him, she lowered her body down and pecked his lips a few times, teasing him with the anticipation to go a little further, before he grabbed hold of her face and deepened the kiss.

As the kiss and room began to heat up with arousal, the time apart even though it had been a few days was getting the better of them and they needed to be close to one another as quickly as possible.

Running his hand's up her thighs, Mason slowly came to the material of the t-shirt and began to pull it off her body, leaving her completely nude on top and a pair of lacy gray knickers on the bottom of her.

Smirking down at him, Mason stared at her face and her body, having missed being with her and properly experiencing making love to one another. Neither of them wanted to waste any more time.

When they reappeared from under the covers around half an hour later, Payton brushed her hair out of her face and rolled over to face Mason, both of them beaming from ear to ear about what had just happened, a playful laugh following shortly and the auroral still very much in the air even though they had been busy taking care of that.

"I could literally do that all day." Mason commented, linking his arm around her body and running his fingers over her back, tickling her skin soothingly.

Laying her head on his chest, she agreed with him, "Me too. Don't tempt me. Because I really would."

"That's not a problem with me."

Giggling helplessly at her boyfriend's sexual urges towards her, she slowly slipped herself out from under the covers and headed toward's the en-suite bathroom, bending down to retrieve her knickers that Mason had pulled off earlier.

"Let's go clean ourselves off." Payton suggested, leaning her body against the door frame of the en-suite, before she threw the knickers in Mason's direction, where he was still tucked up inside the double bed

Bringing his hand out from under the bed, he managed to catch them in his hand and Payton couldn't help but burst into a fit of laughter again, before Mason pulled himself out of the bed, chucking the knickers away from him and following her inside the other room, where he slammed her body up against the now closed door, kissing her and heading toward's the shower for another round of love.

Once they had made love for another half an hour, Payton and Mason came out of the guest bedroom Mason had been staying at since he first got to the Lockwood's all those days ago.

They were both feeling nervous about continuing on there day with the threats they were under high in the air. Mason with Tyler and Damon. Payton with Damon, Alaric and Katherine. There was a lot going on.

As much as they both enjoyed their morning off passion and trying to knock out the negative emotions they were feeling, as soon as they headed downstairs to grab a bite to eat before they departed ways again, they both couldn't get rid of the uneasy feeling they had about facing up to their problems.

Thankfully, Tyler's Mom and Mason's sister in law, Carol, was already up and out of the home that day, unaware that Mason had a visitor over last night, but it didn't stop Tyler from waiting in his father's study for the two to show their faces.

"Mason, do you think we could talk?" Tyler asked, rising from his spot on one of the leather couches and turning to look at him.

His Uncle had now just wondered through into the room, his hand tightly linked with Payton's and she kept her head slightly lowered, feeling awkward and tense to feel the conflict between the two family members.

"Uh," Mason glanced down at Payton, who gave him a small reassuring smile that it was the right thing to do, "Sure. Payton's welcome to help herself to food and that yeah?"

"Of course." Tyler nodded back, before Payton was shining a small his way instead and squeezed Mason hand.

Watching Payton leave the room and locate the kitchen, so she could grab some food and a drink, even though she was clearly deep down inside craving something a little stronger than typical breakfast food.

But she couldn't give into those cravings. Not now. Not never. She had to learn to fight it off.

Coming through into the kitchen, Payton wondered over to the fridge and took out the carton of orange juice, before she began to locate the cupboard with the glasses in, hoping that the conversation between Tyler and Mason would go down well.

She really didn't want to have to pull an angry Mason off Tyler again like last night.

Pouring herself some orange juice, she tucked her hair behind her ear, giving her more of an advantage to listen into their conversation through her vampire hearing, feeling somewhat rude that she was eavesdropping again, but it was better if she knew what was going down between them.

She found her heart sinking when she heard Mason begin to explain to Tyler the story of how he became a werewolf, how he triggered the curse and how much of a shock it was to him about what he had done, resulting in the consequences he was now faced in with his inner wolf.

His voice was laced with sadness and hurt. You could tell that it very much still affected him. Just as much as what happened with Payton affected her, even though her's was a few months back and Mason's was over a year ago.

Taking a sip out of her drink, she couldn't stand to listen to Mason's sadness any more and not be there for him whilst he was having to explain the story to Tyler. She wasn't around when it happened, but she wanted to make sure she was there now when he was going over the story again.

Instead, she put the carton of orange juice back in the fridge and made her way through into the study, the glass tucked up in her hand, coming to listen to the story that changed everything for Mason and left him more angry than usual in more ways than one.

Both Payton and Mason could relate in the sense that they both hurt the people they cared about. They both with the curse of the supernatural took away one of the people they cared so much about without any understanding as to why.

It just sadly happened. But it still hurt.

Mason killed his best friend Jimmy.

"Wait, the guy died?" Tyler choked out, after hearing Mason confess his story from where he was leant against the desk and Payton was now stood beside him, "you killed him?"

"He kept coming at me," Mason tried to defend himself, knowing that this didn't sound too good and it wasn't, but Mason had no control over his actions, "He got it in his head that I was sleeping his girlfriend."

"Were you?" Tyler asked intrigued, trying to make sense of all this from his spot on the arm chair.

"No, no," Mason shook his head, Payton keeping her eyes locked on her boyfriend, "I wouldn't do that. He was my friend. He was drunk and attacked me. It was self-defence."

"And it triggered the curse." Tyler presumed, as Mason lowered his head, thinking back to the moment he first felt the trigger run through him.

"On every full moon, I lose control," He explained, trying to ignore the memories in his head and focus on getting the message through to Tyler, "If I don't sedate myself and chain myself, I'll kill anything in my path. You have to be careful. All it takes is an accident, a car wreck. Any death at your hands and you'll have a lifetime of this," Tyler stared up at his Uncle concerned, "You don't want it, Tyler, trust me."

The teenager remained quiet, Payton laid her hand on Mason's shoulder and gave it a light squeeze, before Mason got up onto his feet and came to sit down on the coffee table, in front of Tyler and wanting to get rid of this awkwardness.

Tyler found out what he wanted. Now it was Mason's turn.

"Alright," Mason said breaking the silence, "Where is the moonstone? A deal is a deal. I answered your questions."

"Um, yeah, I'm not sure," Tyler began, his voice unsteady, both Payton and Mason not knowing whether it was from shock or that he was lying about knowing the location of the stone, "But I'm guessing it's in here."

Payton slowly leant up straight optimistic about this, just as Mason clambered up onto his feet as well, whilst Tyler went over to his fathers secret safe that was hid under one of the floor boards, that was covered by a rug and under another arm chair in the room.

"My Dad was very cookie about his hiding spots," Tyler told them, leaning down to the ground to open the safe, "but I figured most of them out over the years," he pulled open the safe, before backed away a little, Mason now bent down beside him "it's all yours."

Mason glanced up at Payton, who gave him a nod to press him to go forward and find the stone they so desperately needed right now, before he dug his hand into the safe and a wave of frustration came over him when he found nothing.

"Are you gonna tell me what's so important about this rock or what?" Tyler questioned the both of them, looking between the two.

Payton glanced down at Mason worriedly, not wanting to bring herself into this too much, thankfully her boyfriend chose to spoke up on behalf of them, "I told you, it's just something I want. Sentimental value."

"I'm not really buying that," Tyler admitted, wanting the whole truth from Mason now he knew the real identity of his Uncle, everything just felt like a lie to him, "Why do you really want it?"

Mason looked back at Tyler pissed, "You know where it is or not?"

Payton felt herself fighting off the urge to sigh at how badly Mason was getting wound up by his nephews games. She really hoped he held it together. They couldn't afford to create more drama.

"No, I figured it would be in here, man." Tyler responded, before Mason glanced up at Payton, before he rose back to his feet and stormed out of the room, not buying his nephews crap.

Exhaling loudly, Payton laid her glass down on the coffee table, before following her boyfriend toward's the front door and out of the house, wanting him to just calm down and not do something he was going to regret with this rage he was experiencing.

Bringing his keys out of his pocket, Mason unlocked his car and jumped into the drivers seat, leaving Payton to climb in beside him.

She turned to look at him, his firsts were clenched tightly around the steering wheel and he was staring off into the distance, Payton felt so helpless within this situation and she knew she had to try think of ways to help Mason out.

"Do you want me to compel it out of him or what?" Payton suggested, rubbing her lips together like she always did when she was nervous.

"No, no," Mason shook his head angrily, taking his hands of the wheel and running them over his denim clad thighs, "Don't. Just leave it to me."

"We're running out of time, Mason," Payton sighed, feeling horrible to have to bring this all up, but it was so true, they really were against it now, they had no idea it would be this hard, "This morning we could pretend like everything was ok, but Damon and Katherine are breaking in on us and god knows if my Dad even know's about us yet,"

She pulled her phone out from her pocket, Mason's eyes rolling down to look at the device, as his girlfriend continued on her rant, "I haven't even had the guts to turn my phone on and look."

Looking over at her, he could see the worry in her eyes and hear it within her voice, he hated seeing her like this, now he felt like the hopeless one, "Relax. We're going to get through this."

"You really think so?" Payton asked, looking back at him with hopeful eyes.

Nodding slowly, he exhaled out the tension he had felt from his angry out burst with Tyler and spoke to her in a reassuring tone, "Turn it on."

"I can't..."

Taking the phone from her, he switched it on and the both of them watched on in anticipation. It wasn't long before the device switched on, no new messages, calls or voice mails, nothing appeared on the screen and Payton could feel herself breathe a sigh of relief beside Mason.

Now she just had to face her Dad.

Author note: Two parts in nearly a week?! I am really spoiling you lot haha! I've been writing A LOT recently, so I thought whilst I was so into writing, I would upload another part for you guys to enjoy, which I hope you have anyway!

Things are getting more and more tense as you can probably tell. A lot more drama is around the corner. It's going to get hard and tough.

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