V POV:

Matt and I were in the backyard playing with Honey... well I was playing with Honey Matt was passed out underneath a tree trying to sleep off his massive hangover.

I threw a ball and watched her little pudgy legs furiously attempt to catch up to it, once she found it and brought it back she laid on her back for her reward.

I crouched down giving her a belly scratch, "Did you catch the ball? Yes you did! You caught the ball," her left back leg was now doing that thumping thing from me finding just the right spot.

"Aw, you like that? Who's a good girl huh? Who's the good girl?!"

"Ever planning on telling her who the good girl is or are you just going to leave her in suspense?"

I turn around to find Damon watching us,

"I take it the reunion didn't go as planned?"

He squints his eyes at me, "what makes you say that?"

I push up from squatting and walk over to him, "well, for one thing, your here and not having a crazy vampire sex orgy."

"Orgy?"

I shrug, "I figure after 160 years your needing to do something to still keep it interesting,"

"Says the woman who is currently sleeping with me," Damon quips

"Fair enough, so seriously whats up?" I ask him hoping to get him to get the point.

"What do you know about a rock?" He asks

"Umm middle eastern country... has oil,"

he cuts me off, "not Iraq, a rock, you know round, kinda like the fatter sister of a pebble."

I shake my head "You know I can't tell you, Damon,"

"Can you at least tell me if it's something important or can I go back to day drinking?" he asks,

That's when I realize he actually cares about this town, or about not letting Katherine win but still... this was a big moment for him, I actually felt kind of proud of him.

He scrutinizes me for a moment, "what's with that weird smile on your face?"

I shrug, "you know it wasn't that long ago that I was bound to a chair in some crazy warlock's basement and you were banished to dry out... it's just nice to be in this moment with you."

Damon looks around, "what exactly is so nice about it?"

I shake my head, "nevermind, look I can't tell you about the moonstone, just trust your instincts but try not to escalate things too far," I warn him.

"Hmm can't tell me anything? Except you just told me what it's called, moonstone huh? Thanks for the tip sweet cheeks," and with that, he saunters off before I can say anything more, dammit.

Boarding House

3rd Person POV:

Damon walks in to find Stefan waiting for an update in the living room,

"Well?" Stefan asks

"I only managed to get the name of the rock out of her, turns out she was serious about being on the bench from here on out."

"That's really all she said," Stefan checks again,

Damon makes his way over to the bar and pours himself a drink,

"Well, she made an inquiry as to if me and Katherine had a crazy vampire sex orgy last night but yeah that was all the useful information I could gleam off her."

"Was she jealous?"

Damon swallows a mouthful of bourbon before turning back to Stefan, "jealous? Not a chance we don't have that kind of relationship,"

"You forget brother, I have supernatural hearing... seems thats exactly the type of the relationship you have." Stefan counters

"Okay this might be a foreign concept to you, you always need to be home to catch How I Met Your Mother and have re-read Pride & Prejudiced far too many times for a grown straight man, but occasionally a boy and a girl will agree to a no strings attached friends with dirty benefits arrangements."

Stefan rolls his eyes, "and your sure that's all she sees it as?"

"Relax Steffy, Vee and I both understand what this is, now can we get back to figuring out why our sire is here and has absconded with a moonstone, whatever that it."

"You're right," Stefan agrees, "we need to stay focused on Katherine, she was able to take Elena without any of us knowing, if she had been hurt-"

"Stefan, Elena is fine she wasn't harmed," Damon half-heartedly tries to reassure his brother.

"Not that I'm not grateful but isn't that all the stranger, since when is Katherine... benevolent?"

Damon squints his eyes digesting Stefan's point, he hadn't thought of that but his brother is right... damn what the hell is Katherine playing at and what the hell is so special about that bloody rock.