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Disclaimer: If I owned this Ian Somerhalder's contract would have a clause that it is mandatory for him to marry me. Or at least that we make babies. Or try to.

Bonnie rushed both Tyler and Veronica back to Tyler's truck. This wasn't how she had planned for them to notice each other. Damon was surely going to come after her now, at least to demand answers and she hadn't planned on dealing with him just yet.

She had wanted to play mind games with him. Take Veronica out into the town a couple of times a day, make sure he saw her for a moment but always ensure that she never saw him. Veronica had enough questions and issues at the moment and didn't need the sudden realization that not only was Damon, the man with whom she had been close to and was in love with, alive but he was a vampire too.

Bonnie was sure that Veronica had figured it out. She may be from the 19th Century but she was smart. As if on cue two dark blue eyes filled with confusion, sadness and anger stared at her as Tyler drove off as fast as he could towards his house, as per his instructions.

"It is clear to me now that you have an ulterior motive to resurrecting me. And don't be so silly as to think that you can pass yourself off as innocent in the matter. I know what you are witch. Vampires were not the only creatures we were taught to beware of in 1864." Bonnie expected this. Of course 19th Century Mystic Falls knew about witches. They just didn't know that they had one living right under their noses.

"I'm sorry for not being honest with you Veronica. I didn't plan on you seeing Damon this early-" she was cut off by Veronica, who looked ready to slap her at any moment. Tyler just kept silent.
"You have had my every move planned out have you? Well I must say, I'm confused as to whether or not I should thank you or throttle you for you plan to keep me from finding out that Damon, my Damon," she sobbed out those last couple of words "is a vampire and that, that harlot did that to him!" Veronica was now completely in tears as she stared ahead as the Lockwood Mansion came into view.

When they reached the front doors, Veronica ran inside straight away presumably back to Tyler's room.
"She's really upset. You think she's going to keep wailing and crying up there?" Bonnie was surprised at how easily Tyler had taken to this whole "vampires exist and the Salvatore brothers are said creatures" thing. It was probably no surprise to someone who had not only discovered that he was a werewolf at heart, but also had, only a few hours before, helped bring some girl back from the dead with his witch schoolmate.
"I think she's going to grieve."
"Grieve?"
"Think about it Tyler. The love of her life has become the very thing that killed her. To her, Damon Salvatore is dead."
"But he didn't kill her. Did he?"
"No, but I don't think it matters. Vampires are all the same to someone who had been taught nothing else but that all her life."
Tyler just gazed at the window where his room was situated. For some reason, he doubted that this girl completely hated the man she had loved her whole life. Vampire or not.

Veronica sat on Tyler's bed replaying her encounter with Damon on the street. She was a fool. She should have realized that Katherine would turn him, and probably Stefan too. She thought herself more of a fool for crying over this. But she couldn't avoid her pain.
Damon had died. Someone had killed Damon. Part of her knew that her grieving was illogical and silly, that of course Damon wasn't actually gone.
But the mere thought of someone firing a weapon on him, or gutting him with a sword of snapping his neck brought forth more tears.

After a while she rose and headed down the stairs. The Lockwood house was exactly as she remembered it, save for a few modern contraptions here and there. But it still retained much of its air of superiority. The Lockwood's had always been an overly proud family. But this boy, this Tyler ('What an odd name') was as kind and brave as he was proud. All the endearing qualities of a fine young man, her mother would say. She then wondered about her family, how they got through their grief, how they lived, how they died. Upon reaching the bottom of the steps she saw Tyler come out of the lounge.

"Oh hey." Their manner was so strange. She had yet to pick up any colloquial phrases.
"Hello." There was a pregnant pause as they stared at each other. So many questions lying unanswered between them.
"You...OK?"
"Much better, thank you. Where is Bonnie?"
"She went back into town for a little while. A little stressed out from today so she's getting some air." Veronica nodded her understanding as the front door opened unexpectedly and a rugged older man stepped in.

"Hey Tyler. Who's your friend?"
"Umm, Uncle Mason this is Veronica. Veronica this is my uncle Mason." Veronica smiled politely as she shook the man's outstretched hand and Tyler struggled to find an adequate back-story for her presence there. "Veronica...was born here and moved away a very long time ago but now she's back to...rediscover and see how it's change." Not a complete lie.
"Really? I used to live round here too. Maybe I knew your parents what was your last name?" Before Tyler can answer, Veronica beats him to it.
"Harington. I am Veronica Harington." Mason looked puzzled.
"Harington? I was sure that the Harington's were the only founding family that moved away from Mystic Falls." He took a moment to think about this. "Yeah, they moved to New York after their eldest daughter was brutally murdered or something. Quite tragic really."

Both Tyler and Veronica visibly stiffened at this. Tyler looked at Veronica who was processing this information about her family whilst being equally stunned at Mason's crude recounting of her death and the fact that it was some kind of common knowledge amongst the eldest of the founding families.
"Well, someone must have ventured back in secret sometime down the line." Tyler was thankful that Veronica covered her own tracks because he couldn't think of anything to tell his uncle at this point. Mason smiled at them both when someone called for him from outside.

"Mason, we're going to be late." As the voice got closer and the person came through the door, Tyler stood shocked for a moment. Not just because Elena Gilbert had just walked in demanding that his uncle hurry up for something, but because Veronica gasped loudly and backed forcefully into the antique wooden table against the wall, sending his mother's precious vases to the floor in a flurry of shattering clay and long stemmed flowers.

But what puzzled Tyler the most was Elena's smirk (her smirk) of acknowledgment.

Bonnie stood where she knew Damon would easily find her, exactly where he had spotted them earlier. She knew he would come looking and she knew she would have to answer his questions. Even if this didn't go as was originally planned, she knew that Veronica could still comfort Damon, somehow.

As if he heard her thoughts, Damon appeared beside her and grabbed her arm forcefully, being careful to make sure it didn't appear like he was hurting her, which he was.
"Why don't you begin with WHAT THE HELL you think you're doing messing with me like that, huh?" He whispered harshly in her ear. "You think some magical projection of a 'friend-from-the-past' is going to make me go soft? You think I'm stupid?" Bonnie was too stunned to speak for a few seconds.
"Wait, what? Magical projection? Damon, she's real. I brought her back I can prove it!"
"Yeah right. You know, I was willing to let everything you do to me like setting me on fire and blowing me brain up every time you see me slide because you're Elena's best bud but THIS, this is beyond my mercy." He smirked at her as he began to lead her away. Bonnie didn't struggle but continued to persuade him that he was wrong about what he saw.

"Couldn't you smell her? Hear her heart beating? I know you know it's her Damon. Don't act stupid because you can't face the truth." Damon stopped and turned her around, looking intently at her with those eyes of his. Even though he wasn't Bonnie's favourite person she had to admit, Damon Salvatore was ridiculously good looking.

"OK, maybe I know but that still doesn't give you a Get Out of Jail Free card. You brought her back and it was to torment me wasn't it?" When Bonnie didn't answer Damon's already vice-like grip tightened. "Wasn't it?" Bonnie nodded and was about to speak when her phone rang. Damon shook his head but Bonnie was one step ahead and began setting off the aneurisms in his brain that caused him such immense pain. He let go of her to clutch his head as she answered her phone.
"Tyler?"
"Yeah, Bonnie you gotta come home. Something weird is happening. Elena's just turned up with my uncle Mason and Veronica just smashed all my mom's expensive vases when she backed up against them in shock and fear. Do you know how much my mom will kill me when she sees those?"
Mrs. Lockwood's precious vases were the least of Bonnie's worries as Tyler's voice cut off when she hung up. She stopped her mental attack on Damon and went over to him.
"We have to go back to the Lockwood Mansion. Both of us."
"And why would I do that after you just fried my brain." Damon was still kind of recovering from his recent onslaught of aneurisms.
"Because Tyler just called and said Elena's at his house."
"So?"
"Elena's right over there." Bonnie pointed across the street where, sure enough, Elena had just come out of the Grille with Stefan and Caroline in tow. Damon figured out what she meant straight away and signalled for them to come over. Once the threesome reached them Damon went straight to his brother.
"Katherine's at the Lockwood's. We gotta go. Now." Before Stefan or either of the girls could protest Damon and Bonnie had started walking quickly to Damon's nearby parked car and the others, even Elena against Stefan's insistence that she stay, followed.

Veronica stared at Katherine intently. She'd know Katherine Pierce anywhere, even if Tyler had addressed her differently. So she was going under Elena now. It made no difference she was still the last face Veronica saw before she died, and that's a face one rarely forgets.

Mason stood rigid as he realized that this blonde girl had recognized Katherine. This would be dangerous for both of them. He couldn't even figure out where Katherine knew her from. Maybe she had attacked her or killed a friend? The list was endless, especially where Katherine Pierce was involved.
"Veronica are you OK?" his nephew moves to comfort the girl whose chest is heaving and whose eyes are stone cold with hatred. Katherine chuckles.
"Oh, Ronnie and I go way back. Don't we Ronnie?"
"Ronnie? You and Elena know each other?" Tyler asked her, though someone else answered.
"That's not Elena."

Katherine didn't have time to turn around before she was slammed into the far wall by Damon, who was clutching her throat. Mason made to lunge at him but Caroline appeared and effortlessly knocked him on his back and held him to the floor as Bonnie, Elena and Stefan hurried through the door.
"Tyler, get Veronica upstairs." Bonnie said as she moved to where Damon had Katherine pinned to the wall. Tyler went to do as he was told but pushed away from him and moved forward. Damon sensed her coming closer to him.
"Stefan." His brother didn't need to be told what to do as he gently grasped Veronica's hand and stopped her movements. She simply stared at the scene in front of her. "So is this your plan Katherine? Have you made the werewolf your whipping boy? Couldn't get my brother back so you settled for a dog to keep you company?" Katherine merely smirked as she used her superior strength to knock Damon into the far wall, sending many picture frames with him. Caroline moved from her spot above Mason and went for Katherine, getting in a few kicks before she too was thrown across the room. Stefan knew better than to move. Bonnie stepped forward.
"So the witch steps up to the plate." Katherine made to lunge for Bonnie but Bonnie had already begun setting off the aneurisms and Katherine doubled over in pain. Damon made his way over to her and laughed.
"You know, it's not so bad when you're doing it to someone else." He told Bonnie. Suddenly, with all the strength she could gather Katherine's hand shot out and pulled Bonnie to the ground. Damon, Caroline and Stefan moved to stand in front of her and the rest of the group as Mason and Katherine stood together. Katherine made to leave.
"Come on Mason, it's too early in the day for a massacre."
"You're just going to leave?"Caroline questioned.
"I do what I want. Besides, I'm not stupid enough to murder four humans in the Lockwood house in the middle of the day. But don't worry, I'll kill you all. One. By. One."With that she turned and walked out the door. Mason shot Tyler one last look and followed, closing the door behind him.

With Katherine and Mason gone, Damon turned back to Veronica and made to move to her side, but Stefan stopped him before turning to Bonnie.
"Bonnie, what have you done?"

WOO that's it for another LONG chapter. Kinda a filler chapter I think but I hope it's enough to satisfy your needs. Now that Stefan, Damon AND Katherine know that Ronnie is back things are gonna get messy.

Next: Damon and Ronnie finally get some time alone with each other. Tyler confronts Caroline about her being a vampire and the two form a bond, making Bonnie jealous. Elena asks Stefan about Veronica and Damon's past, but does she really want to know the inner details of such an intimate friendship?

So basically, next chapter is a lot of talking and connecting and LOVE TRIANGLES GALORE. Seriously, I love EVERY character in TVD (some more than others) so it's so easy to write for all of them.

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