I picked up some crates from the shipping truck for the huge picnic that was going to happen soon. Mystic Falls was getting a brand new park and the entire town was helping to put it together, then later we'd celebrate with a huge picnic.
"Need any help with those?" I craned my neck around to see Damon standing behind me.
"I got it. I'm stronger than I look." I assured him and picked up the two crates with ease, "But you can grab the last three crates in there." He simply nodded and grabbed the rest of the crates and followed me to one of the food stations.
"Hey Liz, these are the last of the crates." I announced as I set them on the table.
"Thanks Allye." She said nodding, something seemed off.
"Everything alright?" Damon asked truly concerned.
"It's Caroline we kinda got into a disagreement this morning." Liz said sighing.
"Do you want me to talk to her?" I offered, feeling bad for her.
"No, it's just…I have bad parenting skills apparently." Liz walked away from the food stand. I shook my head and started to walk off and Damon quickly caught up to me.
"Going to find Caroline?" He guessed.
"Yep, coming with?" I asked him.
"You can't get away from me that easily." He answered smirking.
We found Caroline just as Elena left to talk with Stefan, "What's her problem?" Damon asked standing next to Caroline.
"Don't worry about it." Caroline said sighing.
"Why do you have to be such a bitch to your mom?" Damon asked this time.
"Don't worry about it." Caroline repeated and walked away from Damon.
"Do you still like Katherine?" I turned my attention hearing Elena talking to Stefan.
"You guys are eavesdropping." I scolded folding my arms and giving a shocked look to Damon and Caroline. They looked away innocently like they weren't listening.
"No I mean not now, we have ears listening." Elena looked at us and simultaneously we all turned away.
"I just can't take it anymore, Elena." I heard Stefan tell her.
"Fine, Stefan…whatever." I turned around to see Elena walk off.
"Relationships are all about communication." Damon noted. I furrowed my eyebrows and gave a look to Damon as Caroline followed Elena.
"Since when did you suddenly become the relationship know it all?" I asked with a teasing tone in my voice.
"Maybe I've been one but you just don't know it?" Damon flirted wiggling his eyebrows. This made me chuckle and shake my head.
"I'm going to go find Liz and see if she needs anything else." I placed my hand on his shoulder as a goodbye then walked off to find Liz.
I walked over to one of the tables seeing Liz sitting there, "Hey, I finally found you. You need anything else done?" I asked sitting across from her.
"Allye, can you keep a secret?" Liz suddenly asked.
"Um yea, I can keep a secret." I told her nodding.
"Mason came up to me today and told me something interesting." She started.
"Uh oh if it deals with Mason I know it's going to be bad." I joked but she gave me look saying it was serious, "What did he say?" I said getting serious.
"He said that Damon and Stefan Salvatore were Vampires." My eyes widen and my heart skipped a beat. I looked where Liz was looking and I saw Damon and Stefan by the lemonade. I guess my heart beat caught the attention of Damon because he was looking directly at me. I waved at him and he waved back with a little smirk.
"Mason has to be lying." I reassured her.
"Well we're about to find out." She hinted and I looked at her confused, "The lemonade is spiked with Vervain." My head snapped over back over to the lemonade stand and Damon had already grabbed a cup. I wish I could have shouted at him to stop but I couldn't and it was too late. He took a sip then quickly spat it back out and started a coughing fit.
"Looks like Mason was right, sorry Allye but I have to leave. I need to take care of this right away." With that Liz got up and walked away and pulled out her cell phone.
I saw Damon and Stefan start to follow Mason into the woods and a red flag went up in my mind.
"Damon, Stefan stop!" I yelled but my voice was drowned out by a power saw that just started beside me.
"Really?!" I yelled at the guy working the power saw then ran to follow Damon and Stefan. Just as I hit the border line of the forest I heard gun shots go off.
"No." I stopped and muttered to myself and broke out into a full sprint. I saw Liz and two deputies come into view and Mason beside them.
"Liz!" Her head went up seeing me running to them.
"Allye it's alright, we're fine." She assured, she thought I was worried about herself and the others and not Damon and Stefan. I looked at the unconscious Damon and Stefan lying on the ground and I shook my head not believing it.
"I know it's hard to admit Allye, but you saw what happened when Damon drank that lemonade. I'm sorry but we have kill them." Liz tried to sooth me.
"Follow me, I'll show you where to go."Mason said leading them. As they left I glowered at Mason's retreating back and my anger started to escalate and so did my heart beat.
"Allye!" I turned around to see Caroline and Elena running over to me.
"What happened?" Elena asked looking at me frantically.
"Caroline you heard that right?" I asked and she nodded.
"What happened?!" Elena asked again with a stronger tone this time.
"Damon and Stefan got shot, Liz found out from Mason." Elena's eyes widen and had pure horror on her face.
"What are you guys doing here?" I turned my head and glared daggers at Mason standing in front of us and he returned a grin to me.
That's all it took, my anger boiled over and a menacing growl escaped my throat. I punched the ground then I flexed my hand and dug my claws into the ground. I pulled my head up to show that I shifted, my emerald green eyes where now glowing crimson red and my ears grew up into a point. I let out a snarl and bared my teeth showing four razor sharp canine teeth. I let out a roar and Mason tensed and his eyes glowed yellow.
"Caroline take Elena out of here, I have some business to take care." I said in a rough voice. I heard Caroline and Elena take off and Mason's eyes followed them as they ran then turn his attention back to me.
"I'd never thought I'd see the day when a Werewolf would try and save a couple of Vampires." Mason commented.
"Those Vampires happen to be my friends and they're not traitors like somebody else I know!" I yelled at him my anger still surging through me.
"I'm the traitor? You're the traitor for falling for that Vampire!" Mason argued clenching his jaw, "You didn't think I notice during the barbeque then today at the picnic? You're falling in love with Damon and trust me he's the wrong guy to fall in love with." That tears it! I lunged at him growling and pinned him to a tree and dug my claws into his neck. He hissed in pain feeling my claws pierce his skin.
"Too bad I can't trust you. You lost that trust the day you tried to kill me!" I sneered at him.
"It was the full moon and I was out of control!" Mason elbowed me hard in the gut making me lose my grip.
He then tried to grab my neck to try and break it but I was faster. Just when his hand got near my throat, I opened my mouth and bit down on his hand, hard. Mason screamed in pain as I felt and heard my teeth break bones in his hand. I then turned around and grabbed his shirt with both hands and threw him against a tree and the tree snapped from the sudden pressure and groaned as it crashed down to the ground. I heard him groan and grovel in pain on the ground. I shifted back and started to go where I heard Caroline and Elena.
I found the underground cellar and started to walk down it. I soon reached the cellar door and I saw they were all down there and Damon and Stefan were alive.
"Allye!" Caroline called standing up and I could tell she killed the deputies from the blood all over her mouth. The others looked over at my direction hearing my name.
"Allye you have blood on you." Caroline pointed out my face, fingers, and shirt that were splattered in Mason's blood. That gained Damon's attention and he walked over and opened the iron gate that separated me from the others.
"I'm fine. It's not my blood, its Mason's." I stated as Damon inspected me for open wounds.
"Is he?" I heard Liz stutter out.
"He's alive but he'll be in pain for a couple of days. I made sure of it." I informed her.
"Come on, let's go back outside." Damon ushered putting a hand on my back and gesturing me up the steps. Once we made it back outside I felt Damon grab my shoulders and turn me around.
"Look at me, are you sure you're alright?" He asked looking into my eyes in a concerned way.
"I'm fine. I swear this is all Mason's blood on me." I promised him.
"What happened?" He asked, his icy blue eyes searching my emerald green ones.
"Mason told Liz about you and Stefan and they spiked the lemonade with Vervain. I found out when I talked to Liz earlier and it was too late to warn you and when you two went after Mason I tried to call both of you but you didn't hear me. When I saw Mason all the anger came out at once and I shifted into an extremely pissed off Werewolf who wanted to tear Mason apart limb from limb." I summarized and let out an angry sigh.
"I wish I could've seen it. I've yet to see you shift." Damon stated smirking.
"Oh I went feral on him alright, stabbed his neck with my claws, bit his hand-"
"You bit him? Atta girl." I rolled my eyes at Damon's encouragement of me biting Mason's hand.
"Then threw him against a tree and snapped the tree off its trunk." Damon's eyes widen then a huge smirk was planted on his face.
"I was angry okay? Werewolves get vicious when they're pissed off." I said defensively, "But what about you? Are you okay?" I asked.
"Sore from all the wooden bullets but I'll be fine." Damon answered sighing that's when I noticed all the bullet holes in his shirt and jeans.
"Yeah they got you good." I said seething through my teeth just imagining the pain, "So what's going to happen to Liz?" I asked suddenly.
"Before you came, she agreed on me compelling her so she'll forget all this. She will be staying at the Salvatore boarding house until the Vervain in her system flushes out." Damon informed me and I nodded in understanding.
"Well I better get home and change before anyone at the picnic sees me with blood on me." I said taking a deep breath then letting it out. He nodded and I turned around headed towards the parking lot.
"And Allye," I stopped and turned back around, "…I'm glad you're okay." A small smile formed on my face.
"Thanks and same here." He nodded and gave me a light smirk/smile. With that I continued my way to the parking lot while trying to avoid being seen.
I sat on my bed leaning against the headboard with my knees up to my chest and my arms folded on top of them, and my forehead rested against my forearm. Today's fight with Mason brought back memories of when I first met him last year and how he tried to kill me on his first full moon.
Flashback…
"Mason, stop!" I yelled seeing a gray wolf hover over a man's dead body. The wolf turned its head towards me and snarled and bared its fangs at me. Blood soaked the muzzle of the Werewolf.
"I thought you said you wanted to learn to control it! You have to fight against the beast inside of you!" I tried to reach out to him.
Mason growled and ran at me at top speed and knocked me down from the impact. I held my held my hands against his throat as his teeth snapped, trying to bite me.
"Come on Mason, fight for control! I don't want to hurt you!" I warned him as I kept him off me.
He suddenly got this strength and went passed my arms. My eyes widen seeing the sharp teeth going for my throat. I suddenly heard a roar and Mason was tackled off of me, I sat up and noticed Derek and Laura surrounding Mason and protecting me from him.
End of Flashback…
I gasped when I felt a hand on my shoulder, "Relax, it's me." I heard Damon say.
I let out a sigh and lifted my head seeing Damon sitting beside me, his legs dangled off the side of the bed and he had his hand on my shoulder in a comforting way.
"Sorry I spaced out, you just startled me." I answered covering my face with my hands.
"You want to talk about it?" Damon offered. Where was this side of Damon coming from?
I let out a shaky breath and nodded, "Today wasn't the first time I fought Mason, it's happened before. It brought back memories about that night…the night Mason almost killed me." I felt Damon's hand on my shoulder tense hearing me say that.
"He almost killed you?" He asked angrily.
"It happened last year after Mason became a Werewolf. He came to visit an old friend of his in New York which was my older brother. He came to us knowing we were born Werewolves and knew how to control our powers. So we started to teach him and that's when we learned that there were two different species of Werewolf. We thought he was ready for his first full moon but we were wrong. He lost control after the full moon came up and we lost him in Central Park. I was the first to find him and I found him standing over a dead body. I tried to reason with him but his Werewolf side was in complete control. Before I know it he had pinned me to the ground and snapping his jaws trying to get around my throat. I was a Beta at the time and not as strong as I am now. He managed to slip past my hands and got extremely close to my throat before Derek tackled him off me and Laura held him off. I wouldn't even be here today if it wasn't for Derek and Laura. Of course the next day Mason apologized but I've never trusted him since and today he proved that I still can't trust him." I groaned and fell sideways on my back and covered my face with my hands again. Now that my anger had completely vanished it felt like the end of an adrenalin rush so I was exhausted.
"Why do you keep hiding your face?" Damon asked as he pried my hands away from my face.
"Anger for Werewolves is like an adrenalin rush for a human, once it wears off you feel completely wiped out. It's a habit of mine to do that when I'm tired, I picked it up from my dad. He use to do it all the time after he came home from work." I smiled slightly remembering my dad when he was still alive.
"Daddy's little girl?" Damon guessed smirking.
"Big time," I answered chuckling and nodded, "You feeling any less sore yet?" I asked turning my head towards him.
"After I drank some blood I felt perfectly fine." I made a face and stuck my tongue out, "What?" He asked seeing my face.
"Sorry, I'm not use to hearing that. You and Stefan are the first Vampires I've ever met." I admitted to him.
"Shouldn't Werewolves be use to blood? Your kind use to eat people for a meal." Damon answered scoffing.
"Don't remind me, it was that stupid mistake in the first place that made the hunters start killing us. And it doesn't help that some Werewolves today still try to eat people!" I exclaimed and Damon chuckled at my outburst.
I gave him a look and he rolled his eyes, "What now?" He asked.
"Nothing, that's just the first I've heard you ever get close to a laugh. Come to think of it you're in a good mood and from what I've seen…that's rare." I admitted shrugging.
"I wouldn't say this is my good mood, but I can show you it." He flirted and wiggled his eye brows.
"And he's back." I sighed knowing it would be too good to be true.
"You're saying that like it's a bad thing." He stated kicking off his shoes and laid against the bed and propped his head up with a pillow.
"Are you going to do this every night?" I asked leaning myself up with my elbows.
"Do what?" He asked smugly.
"Sneak into my bedroom, start flirting with me then in the end I have to do something in order for you to leave so I can sleep. Did I miss anything?" I answered for him.
"You left out the part of me trying to get you to confess that you feel something for me." Damon pointed out and I rolled my eyes.
"Of course, how could I forget that part?" I said sarcastically, "So what's going to make you leave tonight so I can sleep in peace?" I was dreading the answer.
"Another goodnight kiss but this time no tricks, it has to be a full on kiss on the lips." I should have seen this one coming. There was no way I'd get out of this one.
"What if I say no?" I asked afraid of the answer.
"Then you're stuck with a bedmate tonight." He answered with a sly smirk on his face.
"I'll take my chances with the bedmate then." Damon dropped his smirk that was not the answer he was hoping for. I went to get up to turn off the light but Damon grabbed my wrist and yanked me back on the bed.
"On second thought I take that back, you have to do it either way." He said his smirk back on his face.
"You can't just change your mind like that!" I tried to argue.
"Well I can and I will and I'm not letting go until you do." He threaten, I looked down at my hand on the bed and Damon still had his hand wrapped around my wrist.
"Now who's the conniving one?" I commented and he just smirked in reply.
It was now or never, I started to lean in hesitantly and I mentally thanked Damon as he leaned the rest of the way. Once our lips met I felt the exact same spark run through my body as I felt when we had our accidental kiss. A small squeal left my mouth as I felt Damon suddenly flipped me underneath him all while never breaking the kiss. He pinned both of my hands on the bed with his own and then I jumped slightly when I felt something wet skim across my bottom lip. Now he was taking this a little too far.
"Damon…stop" I heard him let out a growl in resistance.
Instead of stopping he started to trail kisses from my mouth to the crook of my neck. His hands left mine and trailed down and when he got to my sides I jumped and a giggle escaped from my lips. Damon stopped and looked up to me with a smirk on his face.
"Are you ticklish?" Crap now he knew one of my greatest weak spots. He took my silence as a yes and once again poked my sides and I squirmed underneath him and another small giggle escaped my throat.
"Stop, I hate it when people do that!" I whined and gripped his hands and pried them away from my sides, "And I gave you a goodnight kiss so…" I trailed off.
"I hardly call that a goodnight kiss. We barely even got to the good part." Damon argued.
"Well it was good enough for me so if you wouldn't mind?" I said quickly.
"Why are you all jumpy all of a sudden? Don't tell me that was your first kiss." I avoided eye contact and tried to sink further into the mattress.
"You're kidding…" He looked genuinely shocked about that.
"Nope, never had a boyfriend in high school and never had a date." I told him shaking my head.
"I'm surprised boys weren't lining up to date you." Damon truly sounded like he was shocked…again!
"I had a couple of admirers here and there but I told myself I wouldn't date." I admitted.
"Why not?" My eyes narrowed as an image of Kate Argent appeared in my head.
"I didn't want to get close to anyone who could find out my secret of being a Werewolf." I stated coldly while my eyes were filled with hate.
"Now if you'll excuse me I want to go to sleep." I muttered out, I got up and turn off the light then got back into bed. Just as I closed my eyes I felt Damon wrap an arm around my waist and pulled me against his chest.
"What are you doing?" I chided turning my head, perfectly able to see him in the pitch black room thanks to my Werewolf sight.
"Just go to sleep. I'm not going to do anything." He was telling the truth so I decided to finally give into sleep, but not before I felt Damon kiss my temple and now wrapped both arms around my waist in a protective manner.
Mason was right after all, I was definitely falling in love for the eldest Salvatore brother. And again I felt that same magnetic pull towards him, what could that mean?
There we have it, chapter 4! We get some Werewolf fighting action with Mason against Allye, and we learn about their past together. It also looks like things are starting to heat up between Damon and Allye. Stay tune for chapter 5! :D