Boarding House October 21st 2010

Damon has Mason in the parlor chained down to a chair. Mason is slowly regaining consciousness as Damon is heating up an iron poker in the fireplace. Mason fully comes to and starts to struggle to get out of the chair. Damon hears and looks at him.

Damon: "Wolf boy finally wakes up... hmm, someone's feisty."

Mason continues to struggle and thrusts the chair backwards, falling onto the floor. Damon walks over to him.

Mason: "What?!"

Damon sticks the iron poker he's been heating into Mason's chest and Mason lets out an agonizing scream but Damon's face remain impassive,

Damon: "You can hurt - good to know. I was afraid you were gonna be some beast mass with no affinity for pain."

Damon pulls Mason's collar down and looks at his wound that has already started to heal.

Damon: "Oh, but you heal quickly. Not good. Guess I'll just have to keep applying pain."

Damon grabs Mason and pulls him back up with the chair. He walks back over to the fireplace and heats up the poker again.

Damon: "So...Katherine. How do you know her? What is she up to?"

Mason spits on the floor but says nothing.

Damon: "I have all day."

He thrusts the white hot iron poker into Mason's stomach. Mason grits his teeth and screams.

Damon: "When did you two meet? Did she seduce you, tell you she loved you? You're supernatural so she can't compel you. I'm sure she used her other charms. Katherine's good that way."

Jeremy walks in the room with a box. He sets it down on a table.

Damon: "I thought I told you to leave."

Jeremy: "I found something in Ric's box of stuff."

Damon: "Ooh. What is it?"

Damon walks over to him. Jeremy takes out a plant.

Jeremy: "I did a search on my phone. It's a plant. Aconitum Vulparia. It grows in the mountainous areas of the northern hemisphere. Commonly known as aconite, blue rocket, and wolfsbane."

Damon opens the cloth and looks at the wolfsbane.

Damon: "What else did you read?"

As he talks, Jeremy shows Damon his phone.

Jeremy: "Well, every source says something different. One myth says it causes lycanthropy, which sounds bogus. Another one says that it protects people and another one says, well, it's toxic."

Mason groans and Damon looks over at him.

Damon: "I'm guessing toxic."

He takes the plant and goes toward Mason making him squirm,

Damon: "What's Katherine doing in Mystic Falls?"

Mason doesn't answer. Damon brushes the end of the wolfsbane across Mason's cheek. It begins to burn and Mason screams. Jeremy looks uncomfortable by this method of torture. Damon pulls the wolfsbane away.

Damon: "Why is she here?"

Mason: "She's here with me. Why do you ask, you jealous?"

Damon: "How rude of me. You know, I just realized, I didn't offer you anything to eat."

Damon shoves the wolfsbane into Mason's mouth. Mason grunts and groans in pain.

Damon: "Yummy!"

Mason spits up the wolfsbane and coughs up blood.

Damon: "Why do you want the moonstone?"

Mason: "Screw you!" He screams still spitting out bits of his lungs the wolfsbane burned.

Damon: "Ahhh! Wrong answer!"

Jeremy: "If he was gonna say anything, he would have already!" Jeremy says trying to intervene.

Damon: "I'm taking your eyes now."

Mason: "The well! You can find it there."

Damon threateningly holds the wolfsbane up to Mason.

Damon: "I know where it is. I want to know what it does and why you want it."

**bang bang**

Jeremy's eyes widen and he sees blood coming from Damon's head. Damon collapses onto the ground revealing his shooter behind him...

Elora.

Jeremy: "LO?!"

Elora: "Untie him," She instructs Jeremy with her gun still raised, but her brother seems to shocked to move, "NOW!" she shouts getting through to him and he moves behind Mason to unlock some of the chains.

Elora can't quite believe she just shot someone in the head... she keeps looking down at Damon, seeing the blood coming from his head.

Mason: "Hey, hey... don't look. Look at me, alright, just focus on me."

Once Mason is free he goes to Elora and takes the gun out of her hand.

Mason: "Everything is going to be alright, I promise."

Lo nods her head and chooses to believe him.

The pair start to leave but Jeremy stops them.

Jeremy: "Where are you going? Lo wait, don't go with him, stay here I can explain... we were just trying to protect Elena."

Elora: "I didn't see anyone being protected, I saw a man with no way to defend himself being tortured and you... just standing by. I may not understand everything thats happening here but I know I trust Mason a lot more than any of you... including Elena."