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Only reviewer: Now is the beginning of the end for Mason, and I'd say it goes back and forth on who's the bad cop – or rather who's the worst bad cop. And definitely at lot of Satherine (Sarah/Katherine (Another great pairing name you've provided for the story!)) tensions coming up. Of course I have to priorities that before Sarena! My apologises for being so cruel to you. ;)

Gonna open this one up with some bad news I'm afraid. As I have a lot of college deadlines next week, I might be pushing back the next update to the following week. I might try and push it out as soon as I can, but with the work load me and my classmates have, I'm not convinced I'll be able to do so. Sorry in advance. Unless by some miracle I do upload in time, in which case this is nulenvoid so enjoy!

Anyway, we're approaching the endgame (Yes it was deliberate, yes I've seen it, and yes I loved it!) of the first arc in Season 2! Basically until I hit the Rose episode, it's all go from here on in, and I love it! Though this one is mostly built up as usual, sorry. A lot of small, but significant moments for Sarah in this chapter and Scarlett's about to be placed in more hot water. Enjoy!

And thanks for the favourites, follows and reviews since last time! As always, it's appreciated!

Chapter 12: We All Need Our Friends

"Will you stop it!" shrieked Sarah as the sheet around her came to life. Then out popped Ronnie's head, grinning away as the rest of him remained on top of Sarah, tucked beneath the sheets. "I need to get some sleep," Sarah said, trying to sound serious but her giggling made it impossible to take her seriously.

"Well then, you shouldn't have accused me of being a bad boyfriend," Ronnie shot back before planting a series of kissing along her bare stomach. Sarah giggled once again, running her hands through his hair as he looked up, smiling at the sound of her voice. Both were naked, bar the underwear the had been pull on and off all night, which according to Ronnie was Sarah's fault.

"Back to boyfriend status are we?" Sarah said teasingly, her 'boyfriend' now emerging from beneath the sheets. His shoulders holding the blanket up like a shallow tent with his arms on either side of her.

"I should think so after all the cooking I've been doing around here," Ronnie shot back with a grin.

"That was part of your rent agreement," Sarah reminded him with a raised eyebrow.

"Like hell it was," Ronnie chuckled.

"Guess I'll just have to kick you out then, unless you've got some other way of paying me back for my hospitality?"

Ronnie's brow rose and his smile turned to a smirk. "I might have a few ideas." He vanished back beneath the sheets. "How about you tell me which you like best." A moment later Sarah shrieked even louder than before and jumped back onto her elbows. "You still like that one I see," chuckled Ronnie from beneath the sheets.

"You asshole, I'm going to get you for that," Sarah declared with a grin as she reached under the sheets to grab her boyfriend. From there it quickly turned into a power struggle, the sheets wrapping around the two as they struggled back and forth playfully beneath the bed. When the two finally emerged from beneath the sheets once more, laughing away like they were just another ordinary couple, Sarah was lying on Ronnie's chest with the younger vampire on his back. Both unable to take their smiling eyes off one another.

Their laughter slowly began to die, the two captivated by each others eyes, starting to get lost in their own thoughts, just like they had so many times before. It was moments like this that made Sarah realise what she'd forgotten about Ronnie. Something she'd never had with anyone else in any of her relationships across her life time. It was that complex thing that even vampires struggled to find across all their life times. Love.

That's why Sarah couldn't help herself in that moment from saying, "I love you." Three simple words that both of them had said before. But every time they got back together, they had to work back up to that stage, and neither knew who would say it first, only that whenever one said it, the other always agreed. Sarah wasn't entirely sure now was the right time, what with everything going on. But maybe it was because of everything going on that she needed to say it, to let him know just in case the worse did happen.

Ronnie smiled back, running his oddly soft knuckles against her cheek. "I love you too," he said softly. Sarah had never doubted he would say it back, because it was the truth. No matter what happened between them, they always worked it out and got back to this stage.

Leaning forward, Sarah planted a gentle kiss to Ronnie's lips, closing her eyes as she added it to all the other perfect memories of him and her. Then she pulled back, finding those gentle caring blue eyes having been lit up like the sun beyond the closed curtains. Sarah realised there was little point in trying to go back to sleep now, if the sun was up, she'd only get an hour or two at most. And why should she waste time sleeping, when she could spend it with Ronnie.

"Don't think that's going to get you off the hook though," Sarah warned with a grin and lowered brow that made her like extremely mischievous. "I'm going to get you back for what you just did."

"I thought you liked it?"

"Oh, I loved it," Sarah flirtatiously before yanking the covers up and over them at vamp speed before they returned to what they'd been doing all night long.

Being back in the Salvatore house felt like coming home again, though Scarlett wasn't about to admit that to anybody. She didn't want any of them, especially Damon, finding out how much she liked living here. To Stefan and Damon, she was only there because Sarah had brought her in and wanted to help her through life…or something. Sarah had said that she was family now, and Damon inviting her back did make that statement feel more honest. That said, she wasn't about to start acting like she owned the place and had quickly fallen back into her old routines around the house which seemed to suit everybody just fine.

She walked into the kitchen prepared to make her own breakfast like always and instead found Sarah and Ronnie making out by the stove where Ronnie was making breakfast. A surprised, "Oh my God," had put a stop to all that. Sarah had apologised and then properly introduced Scarlett and Ronnie to one another. Scarlett had to admit, he gave off a good first impression, and his cooking only helped improve her opinion of him. Werewolf hungry didn't seem nearly as much of a curse when you got to eat food like that.

After breakfast, Ronnie retreated into the house, obviously not wanting to over expose himself to Scarlett after they'd only just met. They both needed time to get used to one another and while breakfast had been a great start, the man knew when to take a break. Coincidently, Sarah then left to meet Stefan at the Lockwood house, apparently they were helping them get ready for some party or whatever. Not Scarlett's problem, not her concern. Though she did notice she hadn't seen Stefan all morning.

Feeling the need to stretch her legs after mouthing down half of everything Ronnie had cooked, Scarlett got changed into some old cloths and made her way for the front door. Damon might have made his peace or whatever with her being a werewolf but she was pretty sure he didn't want her wondering around the house on all fours. So she'd been doing her runs outside, around the property and most importantly, out of sight.

But her run was quickly put on hold when she opened the door to find Jeremy about to knock on the other side. "Scarlett, hey," he greeted her, startled that she'd opened the door right as he'd been about to knock. She smiled back at him, knowing what he was thinking. That she'd either heard him coming or smelt him. It was neither, just one of those happy coincidences.

"Jeremy," Scarlett greeted back. "What brings you to my territory?"

"Actually I came by to see if there was anything I could do to help, what with everything that's going on," Jeremy explained, looking rather proud of himself. Scarlett's smile faltered at that. She was grateful for his support and loved him, but she wasn't exactly enthusiastic about him getting his hands dirty in the supernatural world. Even with his magic ring, he could still get seriously hurt, and that ring was easy enough to take off. Katherine had proven that by cutting off John Gilbert's fingers. That said she didn't want to be overbearing, and frankly she didn't have the right considering what she'd done. Another reason to keep him away from the supernatural. It lowered the chances of him finding out what she'd shamefully done.

But before she could even reply, or he could notice her lack of support, Damon walked up to her side from out of nowhere. Scarlett turned her head slightly and looked up at the eldest vampire in the house, with his patronising smile. "We're not interested, goodbye now," Damon said before giving Jeremy a push, enough to make him stumble out the door, before then closing it in his face.

Then he turned to Scarlett, the smile turning to a teasing glare. "Just because I'm okay with you moving back in, doesn't mean you can have your boy toy over whenever you feel like."

"Back off, Twilight," Scarlett replied with a glare of her own before pushing him back from the door and opening it up for Jeremy. "Sorry about him, he just forgets some times that I can kill him with a single bite," Scarlett said to Jeremy, and not so subtly over her shoulder at Damon with a snarl.

"And you, Scrappy, seem to forget dogs belong in kennels," Damon shot back before he started to walk away.

"Actually I need to speak to you," Jeremy said as he made his way into the house closing the door behind him. Scarlett frowned at her boyfriend, turning around so she could see both him and Damon who continued to walk away, not even bother to glancing back at Jeremy.

"And I don't need to speak to you," Damon replied in any uninterested tone.

"I have information you don't," Jeremy shot out desperately. That pinched Damon's interest enough to make him stop and turn around.

"Like what?" Damon prompted, showing as little interest as possible while being open minded enough to consider Jeremy might have something he didn't. It was unlikely, seeing as he'd agreed to let Scarlett back on team Salvatore, and by extension knew everything she did. But it was some form of personal growth, or at least Scarlett thought so. She and Jeremy had also gotten over the whole murdering him thing. It didn't seem beneficial to anyone, and since he was extending an olive branch by letting her come home there seemed to be little point in rocking the boat, at least for now.

"I know Tyler Lockwood has to kill someone to activate his werewolf curse, which he hasn't done. Which also means Mason has killed somebody. And the only reason he's in town is because he's looking for a moonstone, this rock that's connected to the werewolf legend." Jeremy fired out everything so fast, Scarlett had to replay what he'd said in her head, just to make sure she'd heard it all correctly. Damon however, plastered on an impressed smile.

"Not bad." Hearing Damon's praise made Jeremy smile, unfortunately, Scarlett saw what was coming next. Having lived with Damon for several months, much like his siblings, she could tell when his smiles where genuine and when they were completely mocking, like now. "But I already got all that from OI' blue eyes over there," Damon said with a nod to Scarlett, his smile showing its true intention now, through mockery. "Thanks for the reminder though, you might make a secretary out of him yet, Scrappy," Damon teased as he turned to walk away once more.

"Look, I just want to help," Jeremy pleaded as he followed Damon with Scarlett trailing behind him. Watching her boyfriend grovel for Damon's approval and allowance to help, wasn't exactly her idea of fun. But she could hardly abandon him and leave him at the mercy of Damon all on his own. At least by his side she could back him up and throw in the odd empty threat if Damon picked on him too much.

"And I don't want your help, so goodbye," Damon called back over his shoulder as he turned, heading towards the study, leaving Jeremy and Scarlett standing in the hallway.

"You know he's just going to keep bothering you until you let him help, right?" Scarlett called after Damon, her arms folded.

Swinging around so he was now walking backwards, Damon lowered his brow mockingly as his blue eyes connected with Scarlett's. "You mean kinda like how he got you to be his girlfriend?" Damon asked sarcastically, still heading for the study.

Scarlett shrugged, smirk forming. "It worked didn't it." Surprisingly enough, Damon grinned back at that before vanishing around the corner that lead him towards the study. With him gone Scarlett turned to find Jeremy frowning at her.

"That's not really why you went out with me, right?" Jeremy asked.

"Of course not," Scarlett said sweetly, before turning his chin so she could kiss his cheek. "Now come on, I'll show you around." She then quickly made her way towards the stairs, dashing up them while Jeremy frowned to himself, trying to work out if his girlfriend had been patronising him or not. "Jeremy!" Scarlett called down the stairs and he quickly came up to join her.

Sarah really needed to start putting her foot down on all this town community work. First the park now this, it was becoming a bad habit for her. She had good reasons for attending these pre-events though. She'd gone to the park to warn Mason, and they all knew how that had ended, but she'd been asked to help by Jenna, who'd been tasked with assembling a group of volunteers. So Sarah didn't feel she could refuse, and yet somehow Jenna's own nephew had gotten out of it and his girlfriend had been skilful enough to avoid her calls, almost like she'd been warned.

In any case, she was here now and might as well help out, even if she was half-arsing it. Stefan on the other hand was doing his best to keep busy and keep his eyes away from Elena. Obviously all the teasing from her and Damon had knocked some sense into his brain, making both him and Elena realise they were going to have to up their game and actually avoid one another. It wasn't fair, Sarah knew and appreciated that, but if all they had to do was play break to give them an advantage over Katherine, then Sarah was all for it.

The charity work though, she was less keen on that, and frankly couldn't see how it was going to help stop Katherine. That's why she was casually clearing the dinning table – or rather picking up what was on it before passing it over to someone else so they could take it away – while Stefan moved the dinning chairs into another room. Every time Stefan came back into the fancy dinning room, he'd give Sarah a critical look and she'd just smile back before pointedly handing off a single plate or fork to someone passing by who happily took it. Who needed compulsion when you had mindless townsfolk looking to get in good with the founding families.

"Sarah, hey!" Sarah turned and her smile grew at the sight of Jenna who came up to her side.

"Hey, Jenna," Sarah greeted back as Stefan returned to the room. He'd been about to move more chairs but stop at the sight of Jenna, standing on the opposite side of the table from his sister.

"Jenna," Stefan greeted catching both Sarah and Jenna's attention.

"Oh, good, Stefan, you're here too." Sarah placed a hand on the table, leaning on it while the other landed on her hip, eyeing Jenna who obviously had something to say to the pair. "I'm cooking dinner tonight. Ric will be there and you two should come," Jenna said hopefully as she looked between the two.

"And by cooking you mean…?" Sarah trailed off, waving her hand for Jenna to finish.

"Cooking," Jenna answered obviously.

"You cook?" Sarah asked with a teasing tilt of the head.

"Shut up," Jenna snapped playfully as she hit Sarah on the arm.

"I'm just saying," Sarah began with a grin. "I don't think I've seen anything other than takeout containers in your fridge."

"You know I'm starting to take this personally now," Jenna said with sarcastic attitude making both women start to laugh. It quickly died out however when Jenna noticed that Stefan wasn't laughing along, instead he was standing on the other side of the table awkwardly with his hands in his pockets. Playing the ex boyfriend character a lot better than before, Sarah had to admit, especially since Jenna didn't apparently know yet.

"So you're definitely coming," Jenna said pointing to Sarah, cutting off the awkward silence. "Just so that I can prove to you I know how to cook."

"Deal," Sarah agreed.

"Stefan?" Jenna asked, turning to her niece's boyfriend.

"Eh…yeah…em…" Stefan managed to get out in the typical awkward encounter speech. Sarah threw in a grimace to help him out as Jenna looked to her, trying to work out what was going on before Stefan found his voice. "Me and Elena…we're kind of taking a…pause," Stefan explained.

"Really?" Jenna asked, sounding somewhat skeptical.

"Yeah," Stefan said with a solemn nod.

"Because that's not what it sounded like this morning," Jenna said knowingly. Stefan's brow shot up questioningly, desperately playing the innocent and confused high schooler while Sarah stifled a laugh, her own brow rising as he lips tightened against each other. "Light sleeper," Jenna whispered teasingly, fighting her own laughter.

"Can I just say, this, makes up for whatever you make tonight," Sarah said with a grin which Jenna returned before both woman turned their gaze to a nervous Stefan. "Anything you'd like to add, Brother?" Stefan opened his mouth but couldn't find words to go along with it, so he just stuck to his confused facial expression that wasn't fooling anybody.

"You know what? I heard nothing," Jenna said with a grin to Stefan who nodded in appreciation.

"What? No, don't let him off the hook, I was enjoying this," protested Sarah teasingly.

Jenna just smirked at her friend before parting from the two Salvatores. "I'll see you tonight," Jenna said back to Sarah as she walked off.

"Let me know if you want me to pick up the takeout food on my way over," Sarah called after Jenna, sharing a playful grin with Stefan who just shook his head.

After finishing up their tour of the house, Scarlett and Jeremy returned to the living room. They sat on the couch and chatted for a bit, mostly catching up on what had been going on since Scarlett had moved out of the Gilbert house. To her it hadn't been that big a deal but it was the opposite for Jeremy. He'd obviously enjoyed living together and maybe had even been hoping it would be long term. For Scarlett however, it had never been more than short term. Not that she knew she'd end up back at the Salvatores', but living with her boyfriend wasn't exactly something she wanted to do at fifteen, even if had been a fun couple of weeks.

Their chatting had quickly descended into making out on the couch, to which Damon started complaining when he walked in, drink in hand. Scarlett pointedly look at him and then went back to kissing Jeremy, more to piss him off than anything else. It might have had something to do with territory marking, but she preferred the pissing off Damon idea. He'd grumbled something until there was a knock at the door and he shouted for whoever it was to come in.

"Ric!" Damon declared in greeting as Scarlett and Jeremy sat up on the couch, untangling themselves as Ric walked in, cardboard box under one arm. He took one look at the teenage couple and stopped, looking to Damon as he sat the box down on an empty chair.

"What are they doing here?" he asked un approvingly.

"Well," Damon began to explain with his usual smugness. "She lives here now," he pointed to Scarlett. "And he's an annoying brat that won't leave her, and more importantly me, alone."

"And you're letting them get involved in this?" Alaric asked, clearly unhappy.

"He's not responsible for us," Scarlett pointed out with a frown at Alaric, as he looked over to the couple.

"Yeah, and we can look after ourselves," Jeremy added.

"One of you can look after Herself," Damon inserted smugly. "You, have a magic ring that will save your life if anything magical kills you."

"Wait, how can Scarlett look after herself?" asked Alric with a confused frown.

"Oh, you haven't heard. Yeah, my sister's pet girl, is actually her pet dog," Damon explained with a grin, glad that he wasn't the last to find out about Scarlett in their little group. Though he was still a little mad about finding out about Scarlett after Caroline, the newest member of their supernatural gang.

"What?" Alaric exclaimed in shock.

"I'm a werewolf," Scarlett clarified with a grin as Alaric stared back at her.

"But not just any werewolf. She's a super-dooper Scooby-Doo powered werewolf," Damon explained in sarcastic dramatics.

"By which he means I can control my changes. I can turn into a wolf whenever I want, thanks to this necklace," Scarlett explained as she held up her necklace, elaborating since Damon's metaphors were hardly easy for Alaric to follow.

"Right," Alaric said slowly as he nodded, taking in the new information as casually as he could.

"What's going on in here?" all eyes turned to the door as Ronnie walked in looking from face to face with a his confusion carefully hidden behind an emotionless mask.

"Who the hell's this guy?" Alaric asked with a thumb towards Ronnie, looking to Damon for answers since he was supposed to be keeping him up to date on all this stuff. Obviously he hadn't been doing a good job, but that was hardly surprising when it came to Damon. The man had his own unique way of priorities things.

"That's Ronnie," Damon said as he gestured with his drink to the younger vampire.

"Hi," Ronnie lifted a hand in greeting to Alaric who raised one back.

"He's sleeping with my little sister," Damon stage whispered.

Ignoring Damon, Alaric stepped towards Ronnie and held out his hand. Ronnie slapped his own hand into Alaric and they shook. "I'm Alaric, nice to meet you."

"Ronnie."

"I'm Jeremy," said the teenager as he stood up, making his way towards Ronnie.

"You still here?" Damon grumbled, stopping Jeremy from proceeding any further towards Ronnie. Scarlett shot Damon a glare but he turned away from her, attention going to the box Alaric had brought in. "So what's in the mystery box, Ric?"

"This is Isobel's research from Duke. Her assistant sent it to me," Alaric explained as the group gathered around the box of random junk, though it apparently meant something to Alaric.

"Vanessa the hottie?" Damon asked with bouncing eyebrows as he pulled an old book from the box.

Alaric snatched it back, sending Damon a glare. "Vanessa, yes. Now, do you remember the old Aztec curse she told us about?" Alaric said as he looked between Damon and Scarlett, both who nodded.

"Is that the one you told me about?" Jeremy muttered to Scarlett.

"Yeah," she answered before Alaric shot her look.

"You've been telling him about all this?"

"He's my boyfriend," Scarlett said simply with a shrug, as if that was all the excuse she needed.

"Sorry to interrupt, but what Aztec curse?" Ronnie asked politely.

"Supposedly vampires and werewolves used to roam freely until a shaman put a curse on them to limit their power. Since then, werewolves can only turn on a full moon and vampires are weakened by the sun," Alaric explained for Ronnie who nodded along as he took in the information.

"Save us lucky few have one of these," Damon said smugly as he waved his daylight ring finger.

"Or one of these," Scarlett added, holding up her necklace.

"Yeah, I've been meaning to ask, what's that thing called?" Ronnie asked with a confused look and gesture to the necklace around Scarlett's neck.

"It's just my necklace, I haven't heard of any supernatural name for it," Scarlett answered.

"Well, if vampire's have daylight rings, then maybe werewolves have moonlight necklaces?" Jeremy suggested.

"I don't think it's a common thing," Scarlett said with a shake of the head. "Mason seemed completely unaware of how I could do it."

"And we should aim to keep it that way," agreed Alaric sternly, "So let's keep the phrase, 'moonlight necklace' on the down low for now. No sense in letting the world know Scarlett's weak point."

"He's more interested in the moonstone anyway, at least that what Tyler said," explained Jeremy.

"Did this, Vanessa, happen to give you anything on that?" Ronnie asked, looking to Alaric.

"Yeah, she did. According to the legend she found, the werewolf part of the curse is sealed with the moonstone." As he explained, Alaric pulled out a sheet of old paper and unraveled it to show an ancient set of drawings apparently depicting the story of the Sun and the Moon curse.

"What do you mean sealed?" Jeremy asked as he glanced at the sheet of paper Alaric was holding for them all to see.

"It's a witch thing. Whatever seals the curse is usually the key to unsealing the curse," Damon explained as if it was all basic stuff.

"So he's going to use the moonstone to undo the curse then, so any werewolf can change at will?" asked Scarlett, not sure how she felt about that idea. It would mean she'd never be powerless, even without her necklace, but if the werewolf bite legend was true, it would put the Slavatores and every other vampire in extreme danger for the rest of their lives. It wasn't exactly easy for Scarlett to see the wolves point of view. For starters she didn't know any other than Mason, and she was far from a fan of his. Plus she was already able to change at will, thanks to her necklace. She'd never experience the other side. She transformed between human and wolf so much, the changes had become almost painless. Sure they still hurt like hell, but it was faster now and she'd gotten used to it and moved on quickly. The change was always a choice for her, she'd only not had that choice once, when she first turned. And that time she was so confused and shocked by everything going on around her that she hadn't been able to memorise the experience or prepare for it. Ever since, she'd been in control, one-hundred precent of the time.

"Maybe, but if all this is true then it won't be an easy thing to do. It won't be a simple case of breaking the moonstone. He'll need the right spells, conditions and so on," Ronnie elaborated as his eyes carefully scanned the sheet in Alaric's hands.

"Who has the stone now?" Damon asked the two teens.

"Tyler," Jeremy answered on the spot.

"Can you get it?"

Scarlett and Jeremy shared a look before Jeremy answered for them, "Yeah." It was fortunate for him that Scarlett agreed with that answer.

"Great, guess who just became useful for a change," Damon said as he raised his hands in the air.

"So you believe all this werewolf vampire curse stuff then?" Ronnie asked, sounding a little skeptical about the whole thing.

"Well considering it's from the same legend that says a werewolf bite can kill a vampire, I'm going to humour it, at least until I know the fatal bit isn't real," Damon explained to Ronnie before downing the last of his drink. He then put down the glass and made his way for the front door, patting Scarlett on the back as he passed her. "Come on, Scrappy, let's go. And don't forget your sidekick." Jeremy scowled after Damon before looking to Scarlett who shrugged apologetically, only to then follow the vampire out the house, with Jeremy on her heels.

Having finished clearing out the dinning room, Sarah and Stefan had been tasked with decorating said dinning room, moving more furniture around the house into temporary storage, and unloading boxes of supplies for the party. None of which was fun in the slightest. Even Jenna was too busy to have some fun, and Stefan had to remain miserable for his breakup. But things took a turn for the better when Sarah and Stefan spotted Mason, and more importantly, he spotted them while they unboxed glasses.

"Hey, guys," Mason said with a startled smile. Sarah, nor even Stefan, could help but grin at that.

"Hey, Mason," Stefan said gleefully.

"Looking good," Sarah added teasingly, as the werewolf sat down the box he was carrying. He only turned away for a second but Sarah could see the confusion on his face before he forced a nervous smile back on for the two vampires.

"Wasn't expecting either of you here…or anywhere," Mason said nervously.

"Yeah, we had a little accident, but we're fine now," Stefan said, grinning all the while.

Looking around him to make sure there were plenty of witnesses but no praying ears, Mason stepped towards the table Stefan and Sarah were working behind. "What did you do to Sheriff Forbes?"

"Oh, she's getting the five star Salvatore treatment," Sarah said with a mischievous grin as she leaned over towards Mason. "Luxury room, beautiful view of the grounds and free room service twenty-four-seven." Her eyes then darkened as her brow lowered further and the grin from her lips dropped. Hatred corrupting the once playful nature of her green eyes. "You however…" Sarah trailed off. At that Mason pulled back straightening while Sarah's gaze remained locked on her target.

"I'd start running if I were you, Mason," Stefan said with a grin as the werewolf backed away, only to turn and bump into Bonnie of all people. He quickly apologised, looking back to make sure neither vampire was following him and then took off at a brisk pace back towards the house. Frowning after him Bonnie slowly approached the table before turning to the Salvatores.

"What's the matter? Are you okay?" Stefan asked Bonnie, noticing her confused frown.

Her eyes darted between them both before she answered, "When I touched him, I saw something."

"What do you mean?" Sarah asked with a frown as she folded her arms.

"You mean like a vision?" Stefan added, narrowing it down to help Bonnie think.

"I saw Elena," Bonnie answered, still just as confused as she had been when she first approached them.

"You saw Elena?" Stefan said in disbelief.

"He was kissing her," Bonnie said uncomfortably.

"No, Bonnie, Elena wouldn't kiss…" Stefan began to protest with the utmost confidence before it clicked together in his head. It was about the same time it all clicked together for Sarah too.

"That crafty bitch," Sarah said in slow realisation as she looked over in the direction Mason had walked off in.

"You didn't see Elena," Stefan began to explain to Bonnie.

"You saw Katherine," Sarah finished, her fists clenching. This whole time, Sarah had thought she'd had two enemies in Katherine and Mason, but as it turned out, Mason had been working for Katherine this whole time. Her web was stretching further than Sarah had realised, and that only made things worse. Now she was beginning to feel boxed in, this whole time Katherine had them thinking she was playing some simple little game, when really she'd been acting out some diabolic master plan, and none of them had seen it coming. It made Sarah wonder just how far Katherine had infected the world and people around them without any of them noticing. How much did they really know about their enemy, who knew everything about them.

Walking through the Lockwood house after Damon, Scarlett couldn't help but feel on edge. This was after all the last place she wanted to be, especially now, when Mason could come around any corner and ruin everything for her. It wasn't helping that Jeremy kept asking if she was okay and she kept snapping at him, only to then throw out an apology. He didn't seem to bothered by it and kept reassuring her everything was fine and that she ought to relax. But she couldn't do it, not with her deep dark secret now so close to the light. She just had to keep her hand over Jeremy's eyes for a little bit though, just long enough to get the moonstone from Tyler and then get as far away from Mason Lockwood as possible.

Unfortunately, Damon didn't get the memo on Scarlett wanting to be in and out as quickly as possible. As they walked, Damon mingled and Scarlett uncomfortably folded her arms, rubbing her hands on them as if she were cold. She was in fact not cold, which is why she refused Jeremy's jacket when he offered it to her. Maybe she could kill Mason before he said anything. The whole town would find out what she was and probably kill her, but at least Jeremy would never know what she did.

Then it was Jeremy's turn to tense up as Damon approached Elena who was looking out a window. Scarlett stood by his side across the room while Damon conversed with Elena. Things were still tense between the two and Jeremy knew exactly how his sister would react to his involvement. She'd get worried and nag him, like Scarlett would if she ever stopped holding her tongue. But she refused to be controlling, especially when she had no moral leg to stand on. If Jeremy wanted to be involved in all this, then she'd support him. Hopefully that would make it easier to steer him away from anything that might reveal her secret to him.

"You okay?" she asked quietly, taking his hand as they watched Elena and Damon from a distance.

"Yeah. I just… I know how she's going to react," Jeremy groaned.

Scarlett ran her thumb across his hand, keeping a hold and offering him a sympathetic smile. "Don't worry. She'll come around. She just needs a little bit of time," Scarlett reassured him. He turned to her and smiled, only for his eyes to widened when he turned back to his sister and found Damon walking out the door. Not wanting to lose the vampire and risk missing out on the action, Jeremy quickly began to follow with Scarlett on his heels. But Damon had set him up and Elena easily spotted him as he made his way towards the door.

"Jeremy, what is he making you do?" Elena asked as Jeremy stopped to face his sister.

"He's not making me do anything, Damon and I–" Jeremy began to explain casually before Elena cut in, and rightfully so thought Scarlett. Still, she preferred Elena to voice her concerns, over her doing it herself.

"Uh, no. No way. No, no, no, no. There is no 'Damon and you'. There's Damon and whoever Damon is using, and those people, they end up dead. Whatever is going on Jeremy, I want you to stay out of it," Elena explained sternly.

"But you're okay with Scarlett being involved," Jeremy said accusingly as he gestured to his girlfriend who waved awkwardly to Elena in greeting.

"Scarlett can look after herself," Elena pointed out.

"Yeah, well, so can I," Jeremy said determinedly, which Scarlett had to admit, she found a little attractive.

"Jeremy–" Elena continued.

"I don't care what you want, Elena. It's because of you that I'm in this mess in the first place, so I'm sorry, but you really don't get to tell me what I'm gonna do," Jeremy replied before marching out after Damon, leaving Elena with both a hurt and worried look.

"I'll keep an eye on him," Scarlett promised as she stepped out to follow Jeremy, catching Elena's grateful look before she stepped through the door. She ended up not having to walk far, stoping along with Damon and Jeremy at the front of the Lockwood house as they all spotted Tyler working with Matt and several other volunteers to get the huge tent outside ready for the party.

"There's your distant relative, fluffy," Damon said with a grin to Scarlett who glared back at him.

"Seriously?" Scarlett asked with a look that repeated the question of Damon's choice of nickname.

"I'm trying out something new. I bought a book on dog names the other day, sort of a 'welcome home present' from me to you," Damon said smugly, blue eyes a light with mirth.

"I'm touched," Scarlett drawled out sarcastically.

"Yeah well, be sentimental on your own time. We need that moonstone, so get to work Scooby Doo and take Shaggy with you," Damon instructed. Rolling her eyes, Scarlett proceeded to make her way over to the tent where Tyler was, more so to get away from Damon and his irritating nicknames than to actually retrieve the moonstone. On her way however she spotted Sarah and Stefan, walking towards Damon.

As her eyes connected with Sarah's she heard her parental figure ask, "What's going on?" A benefit to the supernatural hearing they all shared. They could talk across distances like this as if they were stood right next to each other.

"Damon's got me and Jer–"

"Zip it, Goofy," Damon cut in from behind. "I'll catch my brother and sister up on everything, you two go and play fetch."

Groaning to herself as she continued walking, Jeremy at her side – though mildly confused by the fact his girlfriend was talking to herself – Scarlett continued on towards the tent and Tyler. However, once she looked back to confirm Damon wasn't listen, and in fact was leading his siblings off somewhere privet so they could talk, she turned to Jeremy and said, "When this is all over, remind me to burn that book of dog names."

Jeremy chuckled at that, making Scarlett smile at little before they both focused on what they had to do. Which was to get the moonstone from Tyler without causing too much of a scene. Although since he hadn't triggered his curse yet, that meant he could be compelled, once they confirmed he had the moonstone, providing Mason or anybody else hadn't been slipping him vervain that is. Worse case scenario though, they knock him out and steal the thing when he's not looking. Which was looking easier by the minute as Matt was leaving when Scarlett and Jeremy arrived.

"Hey man," Jeremy greeted Tyler as he and Scarlett approached him.

"Hey," Tyler said happily enough as he started fiddling with one of the lanterns he and Matt had been in the middle of putting up.

"I was just wondering, could I see that stone you showed me the other day again?" Jeremy asked in a low voice as he stepped towards Tyler so that no one around them could hear.

"What? Why?" Tyler asked turning around and looking a bit alarmed at the topic. The near manslaughter of the Sara girl had obviously left some mental scars on Tyler, making him jumpy at anything to do with the word werewolf.

"He's been obsessing," groaned Scarlett, plan quickly forming which Jeremy caught onto soon enough. Simple, but an effective act for Tyler. "Ever since you showed him that damn thing he's been researching it and talking about it none stop."

"Yeah," Jeremy chuckled in fake sheepishness, scratching the back of his neck. "I tend to obsess over stuff like this."

"That's an understatement," Scarlett declared with a pointed look and folded arms. She then turned to Tyler as she continued to explain, "He's been scouring the internet for a stone just like that, but can't find one anywhere." She then switched gears, from the moaning girlfriend, to the pleading friend. "Could you please show him yours again. At the very least it might shut him up for a few hours."

"Or better yet you could let me borrow it," Jeremy suggested. That was pushing it, Scarlett thought, but they were here now and might as well try. After all Tyler had been more than happy to hand it over to them the other day, maybe he'd have the same carefree attitude to letting them borrow it over night.

"Nope. I gave it to my uncle," Tyler explained carelessly.

"Why did you do that?" Jeremy asked, trying his best to not sound alarm. He did a decent enough job to fool Tyler but Scarlett gave him a sharp nudge with her elbow all the same, subtly telling him to calm down.

"Because I'm done with all this supernatural crap. I don't want anything to do with it, or that stupid stone," Tyler explained as he went back to fiddle with the lantern.

Seeing as it was a dead end, Scarlett quickly worked to get her way out of the conversation. No sense wasting time on Tyler when he couldn't get them the moonstone now. "That's what I keep telling him," Scarlett sighed dramatically with a nod to Jeremy. "At least now that you've said it it might penetrate his thick skull."

"Yeah, well," Tyler said with chuckle. "I'm done, so if you don't mind…" he trailed off as he returned to hanging the lanterns.

"Oh, yeah, we'll leave you alone," Jeremy said as he and Scarlett began to back away.

"Catch you later," Scarlett said with a wave before the two walked off.

Once out of ear shot from Tyler, Jeremy leaned over to Scarlett and muttered in offence, "Thick skull?"

"I'll make it up to you, promise," Scarlett said with an 'I'm sorry' smile. He returned it with an accepting smile off his own.

After Damon explained what he, Scarlett and apparently Jeremy where up too, Stefan and Sarah had let him know about Katherine and Mason's team up. They all came to the same conclusion, which was she was using him and he was stupid enough to fall for her lies like Damon had before he realised what a monster she was. But they didn't have time to open Mason's eyes, he was a threat to them all and even if they did have the time, odds were he'd rather keep his head in the sand than risk ruining his perfect image of Katherine. Other than that though, they were still no closer to finding out what Katherine was up to.

They returned to the front of the house after that, catching the ending of Scarlett and Jeremy's chat with Tyler. The ending was all they needed to hear though. Tyler didn't have the stone any longer and had handed it over to Mason who was more than likely going to hand it over to Katherine some time soon if he hadn't already. That made things a little more complicated, but still manageable for the time being. They just needed to find out what he'd done with the moonstone which would only require a little bit of persuasion. Something Sarah and Damon happened to be well versed in. Still, it couldn't hurt to get a second opinion from a witch that could potentially save them a lot of time. Someone like Bonnie for example, who just happened to be passing by. Sarah was already to turn on the old Salvatore family charm, but Damon wasn't. He simply grabbed Bonnie's arm, declared they needed to talk and began dragging her off with Sarah and Stefan in tow.

As they walked, Stefan's phone buzzed. He checked it, then quickly composed a reply before pocketing the phone again. Sarah didn't bother to ask who it was, she had a pretty good idea. Besides, having a go at Stefan about how a break up was supposed to work wasn't going to solve the current problem with Mason and the moonstone. She'd wait until later to refresh his memory.

"Okay, this is as far as I go," Bonnie said, planting her foot on the ground and refusing to take another step. Obviously she still wasn't too keen on spending any time with them, which didn't bode well for what they were about to ask of her.

"Fine," Damon grumbled, releasing Bonnie as he stood along side his brother and sister.

"What do you want?" Bonnie asked, glaring at the three vampires, but mainly at Damon for obvious reasons.

"A favour," Damon answered.

"Like that's gonna happen," scoffed Bonnie, folding her arms.

"So predictable," Damon said with a forced chuckle. "That's why brought him and her," Damon said with a gesture to Stefan and Sarah.

"I know how you feel about helping us out, but since you're the one that linked Mason with Katherine, we finally have an opportunity to get an upper hand on both of them so, just hear us out," Stefan asked nicely, ignoring the buzzing of his phone. Sarah waited for him to answer, but he didn't keeping his focus on Bonnie and convincing her to help them.

"Pretty please," Damon added with his usual irritating charm.

"Alright, I'm listening," Bonnie said slowly, making sure not to commit to anything yet. Unfortunately that was the exact moment Stefan's phone began to ring. Bitting his lip he pulled the phone from his pocket only to close his eyes at the name on the screen. Sarah was now seriously considering writing the rules of a break up down on both Stefan's and Elena's hands. How they'd managed to fool Katherine this long was beyond her.

"I have to fill Elena in on what's going on," Stefan explained as he started to back up. He pointed to Damon, "You, play nice." Then he pointed at Sarah and said, "Keep him from doing anything stupid, please." Sarah was getting flashbacks to when she had to babysit Damon a few months back, after her found out Katherine wasn't in the tomb and never came looking for him. She nodded though and turned back to Bonnie, along with Damon, while Stefan went off to take Elena's phone call.

"So what exactly is it you want me to do?" Bonnie asked, a lot more on edge now that Stefan had left. Not surprising seeing as he was the nice and friendly one of their trio. Damon was the evil one and Sarah had torn Bonnie a new one when it came to Caroline being a vampire so she wasn't that found of her either. But this time she'd try the nice approach, since she was a friend of Caroline and Elena's and had come through for them and several occasions.

"All we want is for you to touch Mason Lockwood again, so that you can see if he gave Katherine the moonstone already," Sarah explained in as friendly a tone as she could muster up.

"My visions don't work like that. I don't get to ask questions," Bonnie explained.

"How inconvenient," Damon growled before another idea came to him. "Although, let's talk about that little witchy juju thing you do with me. You know, the fun one where my brain bursts into flames? What is that?" Sarah had heard from Damon about Bonnie's growth in her witch powers but was yet to be on the receiving end of one of her attacks. Although, from what Damon had said about it, it did not sound pleasant.

"That's me giving you an aneurysm. Your blood vessels go pop, but you heal quickly, so I do it over and over again," Bonnie explained with a merciless grin at Damon.

"Is it vampire specific?" Damon asked. Sarah could see he was working on a plan in his head.

"It'd work on anyone with supernatural healing ability," Bonnie answered.

"Such as Mason," Sarah suggested, a mischievous look falling over her face.

"No," Bonnie said firmly, her gaze shifting between the two vampires. "I'm not helping you hurt him or anyone else."

"Okay, fine," Sarah said holding her hands up. "Instead we'll just let Katherine do whatever it is she came here to do, which more than likely involves killing Elena. But, we'll do it your way Bonnie, we won't hurt or kill anyone because that's morally wrong."

"You'd better stop using my friends to manipulate me into doing what you want," Bonnie snarled.

"Manipulate," Sarah snapped back angrily. The friendly approach was out the window now. "If it wasn't for me pulling that over sized stick out your ass, Caroline would still be locked inside away from the sun. In fact, she'd probably have killed a couple dozen people by now to, so don't you talk to me about manipulation, when your the one that needs a shove to help out her supposed best friends."

"I'm not helping anyone hurt or kill anyone else, got it," Bonnie snapped back, eyes flashing with fire.

"Well that's just great Bonnie, I guess I'll just go over to Mason and offer him a cherry in exchange for the moonstone," Sarah shouted back, anger flaring also. "And tell me, what should I do when he and Katherine try and kill Elena, or Caroline again? Should I just ask them to stop? Or should I offer you up as an alternative?"

Bonnie stepped up to her, all but ready to give her a taste of her power. Sarah was ready for her. The second she felt her blood so much as itch, she was going to rip this girl's throat out. What right did she have to go around calling herself a friend of Elena and Caroline, when she wouldn't lift a finger to help them because it was morally wrong. In their world, morality didn't come into it, you stood by your friends and family and that was it. Everyone else be damned.

"That's enough," Stefan said sternly as he returned, pushing Sarah back while keeping a hand on Bonnie, keeping her from advancing any further towards his sister. He the looked to Damon who had been enjoying the show, and still was by the grin on his face. "Why didn't you stop this?"

"I'm sorry, I thought Sarah was supposed to be watching me, not the other way round," Damon said condescendingly to his brother. Stefan glared at him for a moment but then broke it off, turning back to Bonnie.

"Look, Bonnie. The fact is we need your help. With you we can find the moonstone faster and avoid dragging things out with Mason. Isn't that what you want?" Stefan pleaded, putting his hands together. Sarah folded her arms and rolled her eyes. They didn't need Bonnie's help. It was a time saving issue was all, and it wasn't even a guarantee. For all they knew, this could be an ever bigger waste of time. In her opinion they were better off torturing the information out of Mason. It had been far too long since she tortured someone anyway.

Seeing Bonnie still needed swaying, Stefan added, "Please, Bonnie."

The witch's eyes darted to the Sarah, the two glaring at one another for a moment before Sarah's gaze softened. For Caroline and Elena. After all, they were her friends too. "Alright, what do you want me to do?" asked Bonnie, finally ready to help.

They quickly conceived a plan and waited out by Mason's car with Bonnie standing by an open truck, waiting for her mark. When she spotted Mason, she started the scene they'd planned out. Struggling to unload a table on her own, Mason came over to her rescue. As he did that, Bonnie check the coast was clear and then began casting her spell. Mason dropped onto the ground, hands going to his head as he groaned in pain, his head exploding over and over again from the inside. With the werewolf disabled, the Salvatores moved in.

First Damon took Mason out with a knee to the face. With the werewolf unconscious now, he moved to open the passenger side door, nodding for Bonnie to get in. Grudgingly she did while Stefan grabbed Mason's keys from his pocket and threw them to Damon who caught them and then got into the driver's seat. Sarah and Stefan then loaded Mason into the trunk of the car before Sarah climbed in along with Damon and Bonnie. Once she confirmed they were ready to go, Damon drove off and Stefan retreated back into the Lockwood house unnoticed.

They brought Mason to their home where it was then pointed out by Bonnie, after hearing Damon and Sarah catch her up on everything that day, that they had left Scarlett and Jeremy behind. Sarah was out the car first, leaving Damon to deal with the unconscious Mason while she called Scarlett, telling her and Jeremy that they could come home if they liked and have look through the box Alaric had left if they wanted to help some more. She didn't force Scarlett to do it, as a matter of fact she was actively trying to deter the girl with boring research work. She'd much rather give Scarlett a day away from all this and give her the chance to tell Jeremy the truth. But they'd been on speaker phone and Jeremy had jumped at the opportunity before Scarlett could refuse. Sarah made sure to mention Mason was at their home, just so Scarlett wouldn't be shocked when she got home. Another chance for her to spend the day away from all this and talk to Jeremy. She didn't take it and hung up.

Sarah wasn't so sure it was the best of ideas to have Scarlett, Jeremy and Mason around one another until the young wolf had told Jeremy the truth about what happened the night of the full moon. Especially if Mason was being tortured. He'd be looking to inflict some pain of his own in return, and Scarlett was the perfect target as long as Jeremy was within hearing distance. But it had become clear to Sarah, Scarlett was doing all she could to avoid telling Jeremy. She'd even said it to the girl herself, but Scarlett denied it, stating she just needed more time. The assumption was that the 'time' was so she could get over it and move on without ever telling Jeremy. She didn't want to see Scarlett suffer, but she wasn't exactly happy with her keeping this secret, and neither was Elena. They'd mentioned doing something about it, but they'd been caught up in other things, and now if Elena went to Jeremy she'd lose him all over again for keeping secrets. So Sarah was going to stay out of it unless told so otherwise and leave it up to Scarlett. If she wanted to risk bringing Jeremy to Mason, were he might spill the beans, then so be it.

After ending the call, Sarah headed into the study, setting up the room for torture before Damon arrived with Mason slung over his back. The set up wasn't exactly extravagant. Just a blanket under a chair as to catch any of the dripping blood that would be appearing soon. She hadn't even had time to pull the blanket out when Damon came in, follow by Bonnie who was struggling with a heavy bag.

"Here's his bag," Bonnie groaned in effort as she hefted the bag onto a nearby chair. While she flexed her wrists and fingers, Damon dropped the still unconscious Mason into the chair by the fireplace.

"Okay, grab that corner," he ordered Bonnie, while he attended to the other and Sarah took care of the other side.

"Why are we doing this?" Bonnie asked as she pulled the blanket out with Damon, spreading it across the floor.

"Because I don't want to stain the carpet," Damon answered.

"I knew you were gonna say something like that," grumbled Bonnie as she stood back up.

"You're doing the judgy thing again," Sarah muttered. Bonnie shot her a look but left it at that as Damon made his way over to Mason's bag.

"He's not going to be out for much longer," Bonnie pointed out as she stepped in front of Mason, staring down at his unconscious body. Sarah was stood by her side, but both then looked over when they heard the jangling of chains over by Damon. Sarah's eyes then widened slightly when she saw the heavy detailed chains Damon was holding in his hand that then vanished into the bag.

"Looks like this guy's used to being tied up," Damon pointed out smugly as he tossed half the chains to Sarah who caught them before the pair set to work tying Mason down. While they were doing that, Bonnie took ahold of Mason's head in her hands and closed her eyes. "What are you doing?" Damon asked, looking up as he tied the chains around Mason's legs.

"You're looking for a moonstone. I'm trying to help you find it," Bonnie explained calmly as she tried to focus.

"Oh, good, yeah. Find out if he gave it to Katherine," Damon ordered.

"And find out where she is," Sarah added, fully intent on going there and killing her once this was all dealt with.

"And find out what they're gonna do with the moonstone once they get it," Damon added as the two vampires finished strapping Mason down. They then stood around Mason, watching Bonnie do her witchy thing, searching through his mind or getting visions or whatever it was she was doing to help.

"It's somewhere small…dark… There's water," Bonnie murmured.

"Like a sewer?" Damon asked.

"Well we know Katherine's never going to go near it then. Wouldn't want to get her designer shoes covered in muck," Sarah pointed out clinically as Damon smirked along with her.

"No. It's more like…like a well," Bonnie said slowly as a picture began to form in her head.

"Why would it be in a well?" Damon asked with a frown.

Bonnie's eyes opened then, hand dropping from Mason's head. "I told you, I only get what I get," Bonnie explained yet again. She was all but ready to walk away when suddenly Mason's hand grabbed onto Bonnie's wrist. Bonnie tried to pull away in a panic but Mason's grip was too strong for her. Sarah quickly reacted before any harm could come to Bonnie, grabbing Mason's wrist and squeezing until he released Bonnie. Once his hand let go, Bonnie backed up, allowing Sarah and Damon to tighten Mason's restraints, just to be safe.

"That's it. That's all I got," Bonnie said as she made for the exit. It sounded convincing, but Sarah wasn't listening to Bonnie's words. She'd been listening to Mason's heart, making sure he wasn't fully conscious, and happened to hear Bonnie's heart too.

"Bonnie," Sarah called after the witch before she could leave.

She turned back to the two vampires, and then Damon said, "Thank you." Oddly enough, Bonnie smiled before then exiting. Once she was out the room, Damon turned to his sister, knowing look on his face.

"I'll follow her, you got this?" Sarah asked.

"Of course. Don't worry, I'll get Ronnie to fill in for you," Damon said with a grin which Sarah returned before heading out after Bonnie. The sound of Damon punching Mason echoed behind her as she vamp speeded through the house to cut Bonnie off. The witch certainly looked like she was on a mission but came to a stop when she rounded the corner and found Sarah waiting for her.

"You know which well the moonstone is in don't you," Sarah said accusingly.

"I have an idea," Bonnie said slowly.

"Well, don't keep in suspense, Sabrina. Where is it?" Sarah asked as she advanced towards Bonnie.

She squirmed at that, unconsciously taking a small step back. "I think it's this one me, Caroline and Elena used to play around when we were kids," Bonnie explained, uncertain clear in her voice.

Sarah pushed regardless, willing to follow any lead until they got something better. "Alright, let's go then," Sarah said with a nod towards the door.

"The problem is, I can't remember where it is," Bonnie explained, feeling a tad embarrassed.

"Well it's a good thing there's someone here who does," Sarah said pointedly. Bonnie frowned at her for a moment before then seeing Sarah's gaze was on something else. She turned and jumped, unintentionally, when she saw Caroline at the other end of the hall. Hurt flashed across Caroline's face but she quickly got it under control, hands coming together as her fingers idly played with themselves.

Lowering her gaze to her hands, Caroline spoke up with a soft and tender voice. "It was on the edge of the old Lockwood property."

"Thanks, Caroline," Sarah said with a grateful smile to the uncharacteristically shy blonde. She smiled a timid smile back, lowering her gaze once more when it threatened to connect with Bonnie's. "How's your mom doing?"

"Good," Caroline said slowly, head nodding ever so slightly. It sounded like things were going well between them. At least they were talking again from what Sarah had over heard when she walked in. They were still keeping Liz in the basement, but Caroline had declared she was taking over care for her mother for the final day of her stay before the vervain left her system. Damon had played it off as uncaring, but knew what it meant to Caroline, even if he denied it like ever other good deed he ever did. Bonnie had of course heard about all this, but still hadn't been by to see Caroline. In fact, Sarah was pretty sure the two hadn't even spoken since Bonnie made Caroline her daylight ring.

She watched the two awkwardly look at each other, without making contact. While she was hardly Bonnie's biggest fan, she'd seen that these two had been close once. She'd even heard about it from Elena and Caroline who both obviously missed her. But Caroline was still adjusting, learning about her new life and was scared of how Bonnie saw her. Bonnie still saw her friend, but was more concerned with the monster lurking behind the mask than Caroline herself. So it had to be Bonnie to make the first move. To prove to Caroline she still saw her friend and not just the monster, as Caroline feared. Unfortunately, Bonnie was stubborn, but she clearly needed her best friends back and they needed her. So Sarah settled on her nice act for the day.

"Bonnie," Sarah began as both girls' gazes shot to her. "Don't you have something you would like to ask Caroline?" Bonnie glared at her, confused as to what she was getting at. "I mean, unless you'd rather go into the woods with just me. But I think we'd both get along much better with Caroline's company." Bonnie's confusion dropped then and she turned back to Caroline, their eyes finally connecting as hope filled Caroline's young timid eyes.

Bonnie smiled, then said, "Sure," and Caroline beamed back.

"Okay," Caroline said eagerly. "I'll just, get my coat," she said before running out the hallway at normal speed for Bonnie's sake. Waiting a few seconds after she was gone, hoping she wouldn't overhear, Bonnie turned around to Sarah with a soft smile.

"Thank you," she said quietly.

Sarah offered her a friendly smile in return. Maybe they could get along, provided they were never left alone together or with Damon. "I know we're never going to be particularly close, Bonnie. But I do care about Caroline and Elena too. And I know they've both missed you." A little shame passed through Bonnie's eyes then. "So for them, I'll push you, until you don't need me to anymore." They shared another smile, understanding each other a little better now, before Caroline returned and they seat out to collect the moonstone. On the way, Bonnie texted Stefan, letting him know what they were up too. And since they were closer, he and Elena would hopefully have the moonstone by the time they arrived.