Disclaimer: I don't own The Vampire Diaries! If I did it would be hell of lot more gay.
Elena danced around her bedroom to Hollaback Girl as she got dressed for the day. Today she had chosen to wear red skinny jeans, sneakers and a tank top with one of Jeremy's flannel shirts over it. She danced her way into the bathroom where Jeremy was brushing his teeth.
"Having fun?" Jeremy asked after he rinsed his mouth.
"Of course." Elena beamed at him.
"I can't believe Tyler is a werewolf." Jeremy hummed.
"We're not sure about that yet. The only thing we know for certain is that Mason is one." Elena told him and then she smirked deviously. "And since when is he 'Tyler'?"
"Well, we've been hanging out." Jeremy rubbed the back of his neck.
"Mhmm." Elena kept smirking.
"Oh, shut up." Jeremy pushed her gently.
"How'd it go with Anna?" Elena asked gently as they walked into the kitchen fifteen minutes later.
"You were right, she appreciated me telling her the truth instead of lying or pretending." Jeremy said slowly. "But she was also very sad and even though she said we could still be friends, she decided to travel with her mom and Harper for a while."
"And how do you feel?" Elena looked at him. "And what about her mother's store?"
"I feel really bad about making her so sad but at the same time it feels like I'm lighter and it's easier to breath, you know?" Jeremy tried his best to explain. "And Pearl is going to travel so she can buy the stuff she needs, I guess. But they did reassure me that we could call them if we needed help."
"I know what you mean." Elena reassured him. "I love you, little brother."
"I love you too, sister dear." Jeremy hugged her.
"Let's go to the Volunteer Day thing." Elena said as she pulled back. "You're driving."
When they arrived at the public park Carol Lockwood was holding a speech, which they only caught the end of, "…everyone who has shown up today to lend a helping hand. Thanks."
"Hey Mason, Stefan." Elena dragged Jeremy over to the two men.
"Hello Elena." Mason smiled.
"Elena, Jeremy." Stefan nodded at them.
"Mason, this is my little brother Jeremy, Jeremy this our new puppy Mason." Elena smirked.
"Kinky." Jeremy laughed. "Does he beg prettily?"
"I don't know yet." Elena shrugged with a giggle at the blush on Mason's face.
"Why are you blushing?" Damon walked up to them.
"Elena and Jeremy are making innuendoes, sort of." Stefan chuckled as he explained.
"Have anyone seen Tyler?" Jeremy asked as he looked around.
"He went to the grill earlier." Mason told him.
"I'll go there then." Jeremy smiled and kissed Elena on the cheek. "See ya later, alligator."
"In a while, crocodile." Elena called after him. Then she turned back to the men around her. "One of you are going to have to drive me home later, Jeremy took the car."
"Sure." Damon, Stefan and Mason chorused.
"You three are so sweet." Elena smiled at them. "I'm going to go talk to my blond sister, see ya later ma dudes."
"Elena." Caroline smiled as Elena just walked up to her and hugged her.
"Care-Bare." Elena beamed back. "How have you been?"
"I've been good." Caroline pulled back and together they started to walk towards where people were painting a veranda. "I broke up with Matt and I feel good about being single for a while."
"As long as you're happy, I'm happy for you." Elena smiled. "But there is something that's making sad and/or annoyed, so spill."
"Is it that obvious?" Caroline asked and when Elena just tilted her head to the side with a raised eyebrow she continued. "It's my mom. You know how she hasn't really been around a lot in the past but now that I'm actively trying to avoid her, she's suddenly in the running for Mother of the Year."
"If she starts asking to many questions just tell her you're thinking about experimenting with girls or something." Elena offered with a smirk and a shrug. "That might make her feel uncomfortable enough to back off."
"You are a genius." Caroline laughed. "And if that doesn't work, I'll just make out with you in front of her or something."
"Sound like fun." Elena smirked. "I love scandalizing people and making them uncomfortable when they have to witness PDA."
"So, what's going on with you?" Caroline asked as they picked up a can of paint and brushes to help paint the veranda.
"Well, I want to go on a killing spree, I feel like have forgotten something important and I have a doppelgänger that is trying to destroy my life." Elena shrugged. "You know, the usual."
"Elena, Caroline, could you both help me with this?" Carol Lockwood gestured towards a couple of boxes filled with empty paint cans.
"Absolutely, Mrs. Lockwood." Caroline smiled and dragged Elena over to her.
"Can you carry these to the truck over there?" Carol pointed to a truck on the other side of the park.
"We'll get it done." Elena nodded and picked up one off the boxes while Caroline took the other.
On the way back they see Liz leaving the park while she's on the phone.
"Is she leaving?" Caroline asked, shocked. "Where is my mom going?"
"How should I know?" Elena muttered but Caroline ignored her and walked up to Liz.
"What's wrong?" Caroline looked at her mom.
"Nothing." Liz said quickly. "I just have something…"
"You mean work?" Caroline sighed sadly. "You surprised me, you actually lasted longer than five minutes."
"It's important." Liz tried to explain herself.
"It always is." Caroline murmured.
"I'm sorry." Liz turned to leave with tears in her eyes.
Caroline just stared sadly after her mom as Elena did her best to be there as silent support.
"Elena!" Mason came running up to them around ten minutes later.
"Mason?" Elena looked at him. "What's wrong?"
"Someone, I assume Kathrine, put vervain in the lemonade and the sheriff saw Damon drink it." Mason explained quickly. "I tried to get both Damon and Stefan out of here but Liz found us and she thought I was helping the council and her deputes shot them both with wooden bullets and then they took them away."
"Do you know where they're going?" Elena asked desperately. 'So, this was what she was forgetting about,' she thought, feeling angry with herself.
"The old Lockwood estate ruins, I think." Mason told her.
"Okay, me and Caroline will go rescue them, do you want to help?" Elena looked at him.
"Yeah, I think me and Damon are actually becoming friends." Mason smiled slightly and the three of them ran towards the old Lockwood estate.
When they arrived at the ruins, Caroline froze with a quiet gasp.
"What is it?" Elena asked softly.
"My mom." Caroline sniffled. "She's killing them."
"You stay here Caroline so your mother doesn't find out about you." Elena smiled reassuringly at her and then she ran into the ruins.
Elena rushed in and when a depute went to check out the noise she made, she hit him with an iron pipe, not caring if he got a broken bone or not.
"Elena?!" Liz asked as she pointed her gun at her. "What are you doing?"
"Saving my friends!" Elena glared and walked forward.
The depute she had hit with the iron pipe grabbed her from behind, restraining her arms so she couldn't interfere.
"Let go of me!" Elena snarled as she did her best to get loos.
Suddenly the door closed by itself and Liz turned towards Elena. "Who else is with you?"
Elena didn't answer, instead she leaned her head back and bit into the deputy's neck as hard as she could. When she felt the blood fill her mouth, she wrenched her head away, effectively ripping the man's throat out.
The man screamed in pain and let go of Elena who in turn grabbed him and forced him down besides Damon. Damon used what little strength he had to latch on to the deputy's neck and started to drink.
"You okay Stefan?" Damon asked after he had drained the man.
"Not really, but I'm healing." Stefan murmured quietly from where he was being supported by Mason.
"You want the other one?" Damon looked at Stefan as he pointed at the last deputy.
"No thanks." Stefan tried to give a reassuring smile but it came out more as a grimace. "I'll be fine."
"More for me." Damon said to lighten the mood and quickly drained the man.
"I gotta admit that seeing you literally rip someones throat out with your teeth was kinda epic." Mason chuckled as he looked at Elena.
"Fucker wouldn't let go off me." Elena smirked, blood covering her mouth, chin and down her neck. "And well, spending time with vampires seems to have rubbed off on me."
"This is a most unfortunate situation." Damon hummed as he carelessly dropped the dead body to the floor and turned to Liz. "Two deputies dead and you. What am I going to do with you?"
"You won't tell anyone, will you? Mom?" Caroline looked desperately at her mother. "Mom? Please? Look, I know we don't get along and that you hate me but I'm your daughter and you'll do this for me, right?"
"And if I don't?" Liz asked defiantly.
"I like you Sheriff Liz, despite you caring more about your job than Caroline." Elena walked over to Liz. "But the moment you become a threat to those I care about? Well, you saw what happened to your deputy. The only reason that I haven't already killed you for shooting my friends and planning on killing them is that you are Caroline's mother and she loves you."
"I can't take this." Liz looked at Damon. "Kill me now."
"But you were going to drag in out so painfully." Damon bent down to look Liz in the eys.
"No, please Damon, don't kill her!" Caroline pleaded.
"Calm down, blondie, no one is killing anybody." Damon looked seriously at Liz. "You're my friend."
"So… how are we cleaning this up?" Mason asked as he looked around at the dead bodies.
XOXOXOX
A few hours later Elena opened the door for Caroline as she brought a suitcase of her mom's things.
"I didn't know how much mom would need or how long she would be staying." Caroline murmured as she walked in.
"Damon said it would take around three days for the vervain to leave her system." Elena explained kindly.
"Hey Caroline, how are you feeling?" Stefan came up to them.
"I'm good." Caroline said bit it didn't sound very convincing. "I see you got some bunny in you."
"Deer actually." Stefan chuckled.
"Oh dear." Elena smirked and started to walk towards the basement.
"You're not as funny as you think you are." Stefan told her.
"Shows what you know." Elena giggled.
Elena, Stefan and Caroline stopped outside the cell that Liz is in and listened in to what Liz and Damon were saying.
"Can you keep Caroline far away from me please?" Liz said. "I don't wanna see her."
"She's your daughter Liz." Damon reminded her.
"Not anymore she's not. My daughter is gone." Liz sounded sad but certain.
"You have no idea how wrong you are about that." Damon informed her and left.
"Whoa!" Damon caught a pissed off Elena around the waist before she could rush into the cell and hurt the sheriff. "Calm down, spitfire."
"She doesn't know what she's talking about and she hurt Caroline." Elena growled but stopped trying to get away from Damon.
"I'm going to let you go now, okay?" Damon looked at her.
"I'm fine, Damon." Elena smiled slightly at him. "I won't try and hurt Liz."
"Good." Damon let her go and walked up the stairs.
Elena was about to follow when she caught a glimpse of Stefan. She walked over to the room and saw Stefan standing in front of a fridge filled with blood bags, holding a bag in his hand and looking at it in contemplation.
"Stefan, you okay?" Elena asked softly.
"Kathrine took a little vervain every day and built up a tolerance to it." Stefan explained lowly. "I could do the same with blood, I could learn to control myself on it."
"If that is something you want to do then I'll support you 100%" Elena smiled at him.
"I almost died tonight, Elena." Stefan sounded scared. "Because I was too weak."
"Then let's do this." Elena declared.
"I'm going to ask Damon keep an eye on me just in case." Stefan closed the fridge and together with Elena, walked up to join Damon in the parlor.
"Of course, I'll keep an eye on you." Damon told Stefan as him and Elena walked in. "I'll even keep two eyes on you if that would make you feel better."
"Thank you, Damon." Stefan sighed in relief.
"Anytime, little brother, anytime." Damon raised his glass toward Stefan with a smirk.
"Want me to take you home?" Elena asked as she sat down beside Caroline on the couch.
"I can't go home." Caroline shook her head.
"Why not?" Elena asked gently.
"Because I'm scared." Caroline admitted.
"Of what?" Elena placed a hand on Carolines.
"Kathrine's going to be there and she's going to want me to tell her everything that happened today." Caroline squeezed Elenas hand. "She told me to spy on you and report back to her."
"You already told me that and I'm not mad or anything." Elena looked at her.
"I know, but I'm so scared of her." Caroline said wetly.
"As you should be, we all should be." Elena said then smirked as she tried to lighten the mood in the room. "I'm just too much of an idiot to actually be scared."
"You really are." Caroline gave a wet laugh.
"Thank you." Elena beamed at her friend as she heard Stefan and Damon laughing in the background.
"Why is she doing this?" Caroline asked. "What does she want?"
"There is a very simple answer to that question." Elena nodded seriously. "She's a raging bitch."
"Elena!" Caroline snorted.
"She was probably turned when she was on her period and that just made her stuck in constant PMS and mood swings." Elena continued.
"That wouldn't fucking surprise me." Damon called out.
"Right?!" Elena looked at him. "Oh, bourbon!"
Elena quickly got up and walked over to where Damon was standing. She grabbed a glass and filled it with bourbon and hummed as she sipped it. "Want some Care?"
"No thanks." Caroline yawned. "I just want to sleep."
"I'll show you to a guest room." Stefan smiled and led Caroline out of the parlor.
Elena poured bourbon in another glass and turned towards Damon. "Vamp face."
"What?" Damon asked.
"Show me your vampire face." Elena told him.
"Why?" Damon looked adorably confused.
"I need something sharp to cut my finger on and your fangs are the closest." Elena smirked.
"Okay." Damon let his vampiric nature come to the front and stood still as Elena cut her left index finger on one of his fangs.
"Thank you." Elena smiled and squeezed some blood into the glass and mixed it with the bourbon.
"And why did you do that?" Damon asked her slowly.
"To help Stefan with the whole 'getting used to human blood' thing." Elena explained and held out the glass to Stefan who walked back in.
"What did you do?" Stefan asked as he took the glass.
"I mixed some of my blood with the bourbon for you." Elena hummed and stretched.
"Thank you." Stefan said gratefully as he quickly downed the bourbon. His face changed but he after a few seconds he got it under control.
"Nicely done, little brother." Damon raised his own glass in a toast.
"We'll just keep doing this every day while upping the blood every time." Elena said with a small gentle smile.
XOXOXOX
Elea sat at the grill waiting for Bonnie, she had called Elena and asked if they could talk and Elena decided to give Bonnie another chance. She liked Bonnie when she wasn't such a judgmental bitch and she wanted her friend back.
"Elena." Bonnie walked up to her table and sat down opposite her. "Thank you for meeting with me."
"You are my friend, Bonnie." Elena smiled slightly. "I ordered you your favorite, it should be done soon."
"Thanks." Bonnie smiled back. "I have done a lot of soul searching the last couple of days."
"Find anything interesting in your search?" Elena asked with a chuckle.
"Here's your food." A male waiter walked up and placed the food in front of them.
"Thank you." Bonnie and Elena chorused.
"I found out that you're right." Bonnie admitted quietly after a while.
"About what?" Elena looked at her.
"About vampires." Bonnie whispered.
"What made you realize that?" Elena wanted to know.
"I was at the mall and there were this group of guys that heckled me, called me names and judged me because I was black." Bonnie started to explain. "And I remembered what you said at the carnival about that and I just knew in that moment that you were right about everything."
"I'm proud of you Bon." Elena smiled at her.
"I have decided that I need to apologize to both Stefan and Damon, mostly Damon, for my actions and I hoped that you would go with me?" Bonnie looked pleadingly at Elena.
"Of course, I'll come with you." Elena smiled. "Want to go after we're done here?"
"Yeah, that works." Bonnie nodded. "I hope I'm not being an inconvenience to you."
"I was going over to the boarding house anyway." Elena smiled as she shrugged. "I have to give Stefan his daily dose of Gilbert blood."
"What?" Bonnie spluttered as she almost choked on her coffee.
Elena smiled and then proceeded to tell her everything that had been going on while Bonnie was getting her head straight or whatever she had been doing.
An hour later Elena led Bonnie in to the boarding house, both of them laughing at one of Elenas stupid vampire jokes.
"Elena." Damon greeted with a smile from the couch in the parlor where he was sitting and reading a book with a glass of bourbon in his hand.
"Damon." Elena smiled back and went to fill up a glass with bourbon.
"Witch." Damon glared slightly at Bonnie.
Bonnie shifted awkwardly and nodded at him.
"Fang." Elena said as she walked up to Damon.
"You could just use a knife or even a needle, you know?" Damon chuckled and brought out his fangs.
"What's the fun in that?" Elena laughed as she cut her hand slightly on his fang. Then she raised her voice and called out with a sing song tone, "Oh Stefan, breakfast is ready."
Bonnie started to giggle and she relaxed when she saw and actually accepted how human and normal Damon was even if he was a vampire.
"Hello Elena, Bonnie." Stefan smiled as he walked in, pulling a clean shirt over his head.
"Hey." Bonnie blushed as she looked at Stefan's ripped torso.
"Thanks, Elena." Stefan took the glass and downed it.
"I wanted to talk to the both of you, if that's alright?" Bonnie asked as she looked between Stefan and Damon.
"More judging or are you just going to try and light me on fire again?" Damon sneered.
"I deserved that." Bonnie admitted. "I actually wanted to apologize for how I have been behaving and how I've treated you both. It was wrong of me to try and dictate how you should behave and be even though you are not human. I hope you can forgive me but I'm not expecting you to."
Elena looked proud of her while Damon and Stefan shared a long look and then they turned towards Bonnie.
"I forgive you, but I won't forget and I refuse to trust you until you have proven that you actually mean what you said." Damon said seriously.
"I agree with my brother." Stefan nodded but then he glared at Bonnie. "But if you ever try and hurt my brother again without just cause, I will show you why I'm famous in some circles."
"That's fair." Bonnie agreed, feeling a little scared.
"I'll get it." Stefan said as there was a knock on the door.
"Hey, puppy." Elena called out as Stefan came back into the parlor with Mason.
"You are not letting that go, are you?" Mason chuckled.
"Not on your life." Elena smirked. "Anyway, Bonnie this is Mason, the group puppy. Mason this is Bonnie, the group hag."
"Nice to meet you." Mason laughed and held out his hand towards Bonnie. "To clarify, I'm a werewolf."
"Witch." Bonnie shook his hand then she turned towards Elena. "Hag? Really?"
"What?" Elena smirked. "You're the group hag, Mason the puppy, Stefan and Damon are the leeches and I am the crazy mascot."
"And we love our crazy mascot!" Damon picked her up and ran around the room with her over his shoulder.
Even as she laughed, she heard Stefan ask Bonnie, "Do you know what happened to her to make her feel like she is unlovable?"
Damon put a giggling Elena down as Bonnie shook her head slowly.
"So, what can we help you with?" Elena looked at Mason with bright eyes.
"We need to talk and it is not a happy talk but you guys are my friends and I feel like I can trust you." Mason told them slowly.
"Do I need bourbon for this talk?" Elena asked. "Eh, never mind, I'm having bourbon."
"You drink a lot of bourbon?" Bonnie wondered as she looked at Elena.
"It makes my tummy feel all warm and tingly." Elena beamed back.
"What is the talk about?" Stefan asked Mason as the five of them sat down in front of the fire place.
"I've been sort of working with Kathrine Pierce." Mason mumbled but everyone heard him.
"What?!" Damon was up on his feet and glaring at Mason.
"Damon, calm down and let him talk." Elena grabbed his arm to pull him back down. "As I've told Stefan, we are not judging our friends without having the whole story."
"Thank you, Elena." Mason sighed. "It started when I accidentally triggered my werewolf gene. She was there and she explained and helped me through it."
"Accidentally?" Bonnie asked.
"It was close to a full moon and my temper was high." Mason told them slowly. "And my best friend just starting attacking me and accusing me and we got into a fight and then he was dead."
"And Kathrine was there and just knew what had happened?" Elena asked looking at Mason.
"She was kind to me and helped me." Mason mumbled but he sounded hesitant.
"I'm sorry to say but I think she's the reason your friend attacked you." Elena walked over and put a hand on his shoulder, knowing what had actually happened. "She must want something from you or something."
"The moonstone." Mason muttered.
"What?" Damon asked.
"She wants the moonstone." Mason said so everybody could hear. "It has something to do with The Sun and The Moon curse."
"What curse is that?" Bonnie asked intrigued.
"Well, legends goes that it's the curse to stop vampires from walking in the sun and force werewolves to turn on the full moon." Elena quickly explained.
"Kathrine said that if a vampire breaks the curse, they would be able to walk in the sun unhindered but if a werewolf broke the curse, they would be able to turn into a wolf at will and without pain." Mason told them.
"Wait a minute." Elena muttered and turned towards Bonnie. "Magic doesn't work like that right? I mean you can't negate another witch's curse by magicking something else, right?"
"That's right." Bonnie nodded. "Especially if you have tied the curse to something powerful."
"What are you thinking?" Stefan asked as he looked at Elena.
"I think that Kathrine lied about what the moonstone is used for." Elena said thoughtfully, knowing what the moonstone was actually for but she couldn't just say that.
"How did you come to that conclusion?" Damon offered her a refill of her bourbon.
"Because if vampires not being able to walk in the sun was actually a curse than the daylight rings wouldn't work." Elena explained her thoughts.
"She's right!" Bonnie exclaimed when she got what Elena was talking about. "The magic on the rings wouldn't be able to negate the sun and the moon curse!"
"You Miss. Gilbert." Damon picked her up and spun her around. "Are a freaking genius!"
"I have my moments." Elena giggled and flipped her hair over her shoulder as Damon put her back down. "Wait…."
Elena turned to look at Mason, studying him closely.
"What?" Mason queried.
"Did you sleep with Kathrine?" Elena asked slowly.
"Well… ehm…I…" Mason stuttered out as he rubbed the back of his neck.
"Has everyone in this town basically seen me naked?!" Elena threw her hands up in the air.
"What?" Mason gasped. "I haven't seen you naked!"
"Technically you have." Stefan snorted into his glass.
"Kathrine and Elena are doppelgängers, that means that they are identical." Damon both smirked and glared at Mason at the same time. "So, if you have seen Kathrine naked, you have also, sort of anyway, seen Elena naked."
"Oh god." Mason looked up at Elena then he looked away with a blush.
"Now you are imagining me naked, aren't you?" Elena smirked deviously.
"I'm sorry!" Mason burrowed his face in his hands.
"Eh, it's okay." Elena laughed. "Everyone in this room has technically seen me naked, so you're not alone. Bonnie is the only one who has seen me, as in Elena, naked though."
"True." Bonnie giggled.
"Oh ho, you learn something new every day." Damon wiggled his eyebrows suggestively at Elena and Bonnie.
"Communal showers after cheerleading, you perv." Bonnie threw a pillow at him.
"Nope, I prefer my version." Damon smirked.
"Can we focus back on the whole Kathrine debacle and what we should do about it?" Stefan asked even as he laughed. "Instead of the very pleasant mental picture of Elena and Bonnie?"
"I have a question." Damon said as he sat back down. "Why are you telling us if you are in a relationship with Kathrine?"
"I have never really trusted her and that mistrust as become worse in resent week because the only thing she talks about is the moonstone." Mason said. "And…"
"And?" Elena coaxed when Mason became quiet.
"You guys have become pack." Mason admitted quietly.
"Really?" Elena asked delighted.
"How does that even work?" Stefan wondered. "I mean, we are not werewolves."
"I don't know how it works I only know that since the barbeque at Jenna's place you, Damon and Elena have started to feel like pack." Mason shrugged.
"Who's alpha?" Damon asked with a smirk, looking cocky. "It's me, isn't it?"
"Elena actually." Mason looked at Elena and shrugged.
"Me?" Elena looked around the room wide eyed.
"Werewolves aren't like regular wolf even though they sort of are." Mason tried to explain.
"That clears it up." Damon muttered.
"Werewolves have a hierarchy like a regular wolfpack but the lines between 'Alpha' and the rest of the pack isn't as clear." Mason continued. "Everyone is more equal but there is one in a werewolf pack that is considered 'Alpha' and that is the person everyone in the pack trusts and looks up to and in this case that's Elena."
"I am not someone who should be put in charge of anything!" Elena looked at all of them.
"We trust you to do the right thing Elena." Stefan smiled at her. "And we'll all be here to help."
"Does that make us an official pack?" Damon smiled.
"I don't care if it's official or not." Mason shrugged. "You guys are my pack, my family."
"Aww, that's so sweet!" Elena bounced over and hugged Mason.
Mason hugged back and at the same time he nuzzled his face into her neck and breathed in her sent.
"What are you doing?" Elena giggled. "That tickles."
"Sorry." Mason pulled back, embarrassed. "I was sent marking, it's an instinct I've been fighting for a few days."
"Does that mean you want to nuzzle our necks to?" Damon smirked at him.
"Nah, just a simple touch works most of the time." Mason chuckled.
"Is it different with Elena because she's 'alpha'?" Bonnie asked softly, looking curious.
"Yea, and her sent is also something that will calm me down around the full moon." Mason shifted awkwardly.
"Not to dampen the mood or anything but how are we going to protect Mason from Kathrine when she finds out he's not hers anymore." Stefan asked hesitantly.
"We fake his death and then he can go back to Florida and tie up loose ends until we have dealt with Kathrine." Elena hummed as she downed the last of her bourbon.
"How are we going to do that?" Damon looked at Elena.
"Mason, did you tell Kathrine about your friendship with us?" Elena turned to Mason.
"No, I just told her that you had figured out that I was a werewolf but not why I was in town." Mason informed her.
"Good." Elena smirked. "Then this is what we'll do; we all go to the Lockwood mansion to help with the whole decorating thing, then, to make it believable, Damon and Stefan are going to knock you out and "kidnap" you…or I guess "wolfnap" but I digress."
"I assume you want us to bring him back here?" Stefan asked with a smirk.
"Yup and then when Kathrine calls Damon is going to answer and basically tell her that Mason is dead." Elena told them. "How you tell her is completely up to you though."
"This is going to be so much fun." Damon laughed with shining eyes.
XOXOXOX
Elena, Bonnie and Stefan had arrived at the Lockwood mansion together but had been split up to do different tasks. Elena was sent to sort through some masks when Damon and Jeremy walked up to her.
"Damon?" Elena playing at being shocked. "I thought you said that you weren't going to help today."
"I did but then baby Gilbert came to talk to me about Mason being after the moonstone which he found out from Tyler Lockwood." Damon smirked.
"And then Damon told me that Mason had already told you all everything and I feel like an idiot." Jeremy looked embarrassed.
"I actually think it's quite impressive that you found out all that on your own." Elena looked proudly at her brother.
"I want to help more." Jeremy admitted. "I know that you kept me out of it to protect me but I really want to help, Lena."
"Lena?" Damon murmured.
"Nick name from when we were kids and a sign of affection." Jeremy shrugged.
"Yeah, it's ten times better then NaNa." Elena chuckled, remembering the home video she had watched when she first woke up in this world. "When Jeremy was very little, he couldn't say Elena so I became NaNa."
"That changed when I was around 5, I think." Jeremy laughed. "That's when 'Lena' came into play.
"That is adorable." Damon mock gushed. "But now I need a nickname for Elena."
"Why?" Elena asked with her head tilted to the side.
"Because I said so." Damon smirked.
"So, what are you gonna call me?" Elena looked at him.
"I don't know yet." Damon shrugged. "I'll get back to you on that."
"Aren't you and Stefan going to commence the wolfnapping?" Elena hummed softly.
"Of course, we are just setting the scene." Damon walked off with a chuckle.
Around an hour later Elena had been joined by Matt in sorting through mask and costumes.
"So, where's Caroline?" Matt asked while trying to sound casual. "This is like her thing, I can't believe she's not here."
"She had something else to do." Elena shrugged.
"Is she avoiding me since she broke up with me?" Matt turned towards Elena seriously.
"No, she's not avoiding you." Elena told him. "She just had something to do."
Elena almost sighed in relief when Stefan walked into the room with a box filled with more masks. If Matt had kept asking questions, she would have either screamed at him or punched him and knowing herself option two was the most likely.
"Has anyone seen Mason?" Tyler walked in behind Stefan.
"I saw him take a call and then he took off." Stefan lied expertly.
"So weird." Tyler shook his head and walked off.
Stefan suddenly pulled his phone out and then he gestured for Elena to follow him. As Stefan drove them to the old Lockwood property, he explained about the plan Stefan and Mason had come up with.
"We need the moonstone to fool Kathrine into thinking that Mason is really dead." Stefan stopped the car. "But Mason said that the well he hid it in is filled with vervain, so you'll have to go down and get it."
"But how are we going to fool the world into thinking that Mason is really dead?" Elena asked as they walked towards the well on the old Lockwood property.
"Bonnie actually come up with a plan." Stefan smiled. "She is creating a pendant that contains a glamor."
"What will this glamor do?" Elena looked at Stefan from the corner of her eye.
"It will basically make him look like someone else to everyone not keyed into the pendant." Stefan explained. "And before you ask, to get keyed into the pendant you have to place a drop of blood on it."
"That is quite genius." Elena nodded and bent over to look into the well when they arrived. "How are we doing this?"
"We'll use this to lower you down and then I'll pull you up when you give the signal." Stefan picked up an old rusted chain from the ground.
"Sounds good." Elena smiled and took of her jacket. At Stefans look she shrugged, "I don't want to ruin it, Jeremy got it for me."
Elena had wrapped the chain around herself and hooked it into one of the links. She nodded at Stefan and he started to slowly lower her into the well. When she was around halfway down there was an ominous creaking sound and then the chain snapped.
Elena screamed as she fell the rest of the way down and then the end of the chain came down and hit her over her left shoulder and her back. The pain was white hot and Elena tried to call out but the sound force in her throat.
"Elena!" Stefan called and looked down at her.
"I'm…" Elena had to lean against the wall of the well. "I'm okay, sort of."
"What do you mean 'sort of'?" Stefan demanded to know.
"It's nothing." Elena called back not wanting to make him worry. "How am I getting out of here after I find the moonstone?"
"You search for the moonstone and I'll call Caroline and have her come here with a very sturdy, long rope." Stefan called back to her.
Elena started to look for the stone but the water was murky which made it harder. The pain from the chain hitting her were making her dizzy and unsteady, her vision becoming double every few seconds.
"I found it!" Elena shouted as she finally after several minutes of searching found the box with the moonstone. Then she swayed and fell into the wall, making flames of pain race through her body.
"Stefan!" Elena called out weakly as she started to cough up blood. "Somethings wrong."
"Elena! Just hold on, Caroline is almost here!" Stefan sounded worried.
After that Elena started to lose time, one minute she was standing in the well, the next she was sinking down with her back against the well wall as everything started to go black.
XOXOXOX
Elena woke up in a weird place and she does mean weird. The sky above her was filled with different planets and galaxies and she was walking on something that reflected the sky making it seem like she was surrounded by several galaxies.
"Where am I?" Elenas voice echoed around her.
"You are everywhere and nowhere." A voice said from behind her.
"It's you." Elena breathed out as she saw the dark being standing there like it was completely normal.
"Hello, dear one, I have wanted to meet you for a long, long time." The Being said as its black formless appearance started to morph. "I'm sorry for snapping the chain but it was the only way for us to be able to talk."
"Why not talk to me when you visited my room." Elena wondered.
"It would have taken up too much time." The being sounded like it smiled. "Here we could talk for years while mere seconds pass in your world."
Elena gasped as The Beings form finally settled on an appearance and she finally figured out what and who The Being was.
"You're Death." Elena said with certainty.
"Indeed, I am, dear one, indeed I am." Death smiled gently at her. Then it conjured a mirror to look at itself. "So, this is how you see Death."
"How I see death?" Elena asked confused.
"This image is merely a reflection on how you see me." Death explained patiently as he/it admired themselves in the mirror. "I do not technically have a shape or form; I take the shape or form of what the people I meet think and expects me to look like. But I must admit that I do like this one."
"Oh?" Elena hummed.
"Most just see me as a skeleton in a dark robe with a big scythe, but not you." Death smiled at her.
"Guess I've watched too much Supernatural." Elena shrugged with an embarrassed smile. And it must be true if Death actually took the form of death from Supernatural as her…default?
"Delightful show." Death agreed.
"Why am I here and why did you want to talk to me?" Elena decided to ask.
"I have watched you for a long time, as I said." Death turned towards her. "Your whole life as Alex and you impressed me. You are the sort of person who sees people instead of labels but also doesn't fear me or try to prevent me from getting my souls."
"You should always greet Death as an old friend." Elena said quietly.
"And that is one of the reasons I gave you a second chance at life when your life as Alexandra ended." Death smiled at her.
"But what happened to Elena? The real Elena?" Elena asked softly. "Did I just erase her from exitance?"
"No, dear one, you did not 'erase her from exitance' as you say." Death chuckled. "She was already dead and her soul had left her body which is how I was able to place you in her body. Because no matter what the Harry Potter books tell you, there can't be more than on soul in a vessel at a time and if two should somehow end up in the same vessel the stronger soul destroys the weaker one."
"It's freaking awesome that you read Harry Potter." Elena laughed then she sobered up. "So, what happened?"
"The car crash that killed Elena Gilbert's parents weakened on of the blood vessels in her brain and one day the pressure on the vessel got to much and it broke, resulting in Elena Gilbert dying in her sleep."
"You said me feeling like you should always greet Death…. you as an old friend was ONE of the reasons you gave me a second chance." Elena looked at Death. "What are the others?"
"This world, the one I sent you to, was going down a very dark path." Death explained calmy. "And if it had kept going the way it was it would have been destroyed. You being there has already changed things for the better and the future already looks brighter."
"No pressure huh?" Elena asked sarcastically.
"As you have noticed some things has to happen and that's why you feel a pull to do something or say something at some points or why you forget important 'plot points'." Death smiled.
"What about the tattoos between my breasts, what are those?" Elena wanted to know.
"To be able to move you from your world to this one, certain changes had to be made." Death looked both sad and happy which was a weird combination. "I had to claim you as my chosen and I have never done that before. Those 'tattoos' are what binds you to me and to that body, so to speak"
"What does that entail?" Elena asked slowly, worried for the answer.
"You are the closest I will ever get to having a child of my own, you are my daughter." Death looked at her with love. "This also makes you immortal in some ways."
"Immortal how?" Elena demanded to know.
"I am not certain, as I said you are my daughter. I have never done this before so I do not know how it will affect you, my dear." Death told her. "But my theory is that while your body will be mortal your soul will be truly immortal and will never enter the afterlife."
"If my soul can't enter the after life what will happen when I die?" Elena asked softly.
"You will join me wherever I am and you could spend some time with me or I could send you to be reborn in another world of your choosing." Death said gently. "And the 'tattoos' will always appear on your body but not always in the same place."
"What happens if I get turned into a vampire?" Elena wondered softly.
"Then you'll be a vampire but you might be stronger and faster than just a regular vampire being the daughter of Death." Death smiled at her. "Vampires are part of my domain after all. Gaia, mother nature, and I created vampires for a reason that you have already figured out."
"Population control." Elena smiled. It was nice to know her theory about vampires were right.
"Precisely, my dear." Death nodded.
Elena stood there for a long while, just thinking about everything that has been said. She didn't know if she wanted to be immortal but… she had no clue what to think. She was grateful to have a second chance at life and she absolutely loved her friend and family in her new life, so she decided to be thankful and just roll with the punches so to speak.
Elena walked up to Death slowly and hugged him, "Thank you."
Death stood stiffly in Elenas arms for a while, like he had never been hugged before, then he slowly relaxed and hugged her back with very careful and gentle movements. "You are welcome, dear one."
After they pulled back Death explained to her that after she got back, she would start noticing that some animals would be drawn to her, like crows, ravens and other animals associated with death. That didn't bother Elena at all, she loved most animals as long as it wasn't like spiders or creepy crawlies with lots of legs, but she didn't really count insects as animals anyway.
Elena stretched several hours later when Death had told her everything she wanted to know, "Thank you for explaining to me."
"Anytime, dear one." Death smiled. "Are you ready to go back?"
"I can't tell anyone about this, can I?" Elena asked sadly.
"I'm afraid not." Death acknowledged with a nod. "But no one will be able to compel it out of you either."
"Am I going to be immune to compulsion? And will I be able to talk to you if I want to?" Elena liked talking to Death and from what she could see Death liked having someone to talk to too, someone that wasn't dead at least.
"With time you might build a resistance towards compulsion and to talk to me you'll have to meditate and be calm and I'll be able talk to you in your mind." Death smiled gently at her.
"Well then, let's get this show on the road!" Elena chuckled and just as Death touched her forehead she smiled and said. "I'll see you around dad."
XOXOXOX
Elena sat up with a gasp. The gasp had alerted the others in the room and they rushed over to where she was sitting on a bed.
"What happened?" Elena asked as she looked around. Damon, Stefan, Jeremy, Caroline, Bonnie and Mason were standing around her bed with relived expressions on their faces.
"What do you remember?" Stefan asked slowly.
"We were going to get the moonstone from a well full of vervain, the chain broke and hit me and then you had to call Caroline." Elena told them. "I found the moonstone and then…"
"You stumbled into the well wall and the three ribs that broke when the chain hit you were pushed into your lung." Stefan explained what had happened. "You were drowning in your own blood."
"But I didn't." Elena gestured to herself. "Obviously."
"But it was a close call." Caroline told her. "If I hadn't arrived when I did and Stefan hadn't had me lower him into the well to get you up you wouldn't be here."
"But I feel fine." Elena looked earnestly at them.
"Only because Stefan, Caroline and me gave you our blood." Damon stated as he gently grabbed her hand.
"You almost died, Lena!" Jeremy actually sobbed as he hugged her close.
"Your heart stopped for ten seconds." Stefan took a gasping breath.
"I'm am so, so, so sorry!" Mason mumbled. "It's all my fault."
"Okay, that's it, pity party over!" Elena stood up, absentmindedly noting that she was wearing Stefans sweatpants and Damons shirt, and looked at her friends and family seriously. "I am fine and my injury is nobody's fault but the rusty chain that decided to give up on its own life. We clear?!"
"Yes ma'am!" The others chorused and everyone started to laugh.
After they had calmed down Elena turned towards Stefan and Caroline, "Are you two okay? I know I was covered in vervain when you pulled me up from the well."
"We're fine, all healed." Caroline smiled.
"How did it go with the glamor pendant thingy?" Elena turned towards Bonnie and Mason.
"It's done but we haven't tried it yet." Bonnie smiled and held out a silver necklace that looked like an arrow head with a red stone in the middle. "Mason, I need you to put this one, okay? I have already keyed me, Jeremy and Damon to it so we can see if it works."
"I like it." Mason said as he inspected it before putting it on.
"Whoa." Caroline hummed. "That is really cool."
"So, it works?" Mason asked.
"Yeah, I would say so." Elena laughed. "Even your voice sound slightly different."
"He looks and sound the same to me." Damon said and Jeremy nodded in agreement.
"To me he looks like a blond surfer, he sort of reminds me of Deeks from NCIS: Los Angeles." Elena told them.
"That's where I recognize him from." Stefan chuckled.
"Seriously good job, Bonnie!" Elena hugged her friend proudly.
"Now we just need to key the rest of you to the pendant." Bonnie smiled. "Need all of you to prick your finger and smear a drop of your blood on the red stone while I chant, okay?"
"Let's do this shiz." Elena took the needle from Bonnie and pricked her finger.
Two hours later Jeremy and Elena walked into the Gilbert house to find Alaric cooking in their kitchen.
"Need any help?" Elena asked as they joined Ric.
"If you could set the table, that would be helpful." Alaric smiled.
"Why does it smell like fireball in here?" Elena sniffed the air.
Jeremy took a whiff and turned to Elena with a smirk. "It's cinnamon you fucking alcoholic!"
"Oh, right." Elena gave a bright smile as Alaric almost broke down in laughter but managed to keep standing.
"Where's aunt Jenna?" Jeremy asked.
Alaric nodded to were Jenna was talking on the phone.
"Who is she talking to?" Elena wondered.
"No idea." Alaric shrugged. "Everything go okay today?"
"Yeah, we did have a few hiccups but it solved itself." Elena smiled.
"You almost dying isn't a hiccup, Lena!" Jeremy glared.
"You what?" Alaric dropped the wooden spoon he was using to stir with,
"I'm fine." Elena reassured as Jenna walked back into the kitchen.
"Elena it's for you." Jenna held out the phone with a tiny smirk and mischief in her eyes.
"Hello?" Elena hummed.
"Hello, Elena." Kathrine greeted from the other end.
"Kathrine." Elena said back, sounding bored.
"Do you know how easy it was to get inside your house?" Kathrine had a smirk in her voice. "To replace aunt Jenna's vervain perfume, to convince her to stop drinking her special tea?"
"What's your point?" Elena asked with a bored sigh.
"What will it take for you to realize that I'm always one step ahead?" Kathrine asked mockingly. "I hope me compelling Jenna to stab herself with a knife will make you get the message."
"Oh, you are so, so, so slow." Elena chuckled. "You really think I wouldn't protect my family against you or vampires in general?"
"Say good bye to your aunt." Kathrine growled.
"Hey Jenna?" Elena called out. "Are you going to stab yourself with a knife or something?"
"God no, why would I do that?" Jenna laughed.
"Something you should know about me, Kathrine, is that I will always protect my family and friends." Elena informed her doppelgänger darkly. "And if I can't protect them, I'm sure as hell going to avenge them!"
Elena hung up the phone with a smirk. She had just quoted Tony Stark from The Avengers two years before the movie even premiered and no one knew. It was a good line tho.
And Jenna was protected thanks to the information Pearl and Anna had given them about Kathrine. Kathrine made a big mistake in forsaking Pearl to rot in a tomb for 145 years because Pearl could be vicious when she was mad.
"Well, it seems like the vervain anklet was a good idea." Jenna smiled.
"What?" Elena asked perplexed.
"I went to the jewelers and asked them to first put some vervain in one of the hearts on the anklet and then soak the anklet in vervain for twenty-four hours." Jenna told them. "I said it was for a religious reason and they accepted that."
"Awesome!" Elena did a happy dance around the kitchen.
As they sat down to eat Elena heard a distant chuckled in her head and smiled. She was going to protect her family against everyone and anyone who wanted to harm them, she wouldn't fail, how could she with Death on her side?
A/N: A chapter, yay!
Paring tally at the moment:
Damon/Jeremy: 4
Damon/Rose: 8
Damon/Enzo: 18
Damon/Enzo/Jeremy: 1
Damon/Kol: 3
Damon/Rebekah: 1
Damon/Mason: 3
Damon/Jeremy/Kol: 1
Jeremy/Tyler: 3
Jeremy/Kol: 16
Jeremy/Davina: 3
Jeremy/Kol/Davina: 2
Jeremy/Rebekah: 1
Jeremy/Caroline: 1
Stefan/Rebekah: 2
Until next time
XOXO
Nyxi