WOAH, hi. I'm back without an explanation as to why I went away. It's amazing how much time is taken up by laziness.

I have been blown away by the recent episodes! This show is just getting better and betterbut I'm already suffering from TVD withdrawal and I can't believe we have to wait until January 27! What is this fuckery?

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Caroline walked into the Lockwood mansion with Ronnie, making sure to keep an eye out for Katherine.
"We should go find some of the others." She told Ronnie.
"Why? Do we need them to enjoy our time here?" The other girl questioned. Caroline stared at her, not knowing what to say. It wasn't like she could tell her about the plan to corner and kill Katherine. She would get too involved and could get hurt, and then they'd have a very cranky Damon on their hands.

"Well, you want to spend time with your new friends right? Like, we could go find Tyler and Bonnie. I'm sure they'd wanna see how you're doing." She smiled, hoping she'd convinced the stubborn girl.
Veronica seemed to think about it for a second, before a passerby caught her eye.
"Oh, I know that boy." She said, pointing him out to Caroline, who was surprised to see that the object of her friend's attention was none other than Matt Donovan.
"Oh, you mean Matt? How do you know him?"
"He served me at the restaurant in town?" Caroline finally understood the connection as she sadly watched her ex make his way to Tyler and two other girls with a drink in his hand. She supposed she should be happy for him, after all she had been the one to break it off and he deserved to move on and forget her. She was only trouble.

She was shaken out of her reverie as Jeremy and Bonnie approached.
"Hey," Bonnie greeted Ronnie, "How you doing? Are you adjusting? I'm sorry I haven't been around as much as I should have." Ronnie just smiled.
"No, that's alright. Caroline has been keeping me entertained."
"Yeah, Tyler thought that coming here tonight would be a welcome distraction."
"From what?" asked Jeremy. Caroline inwardly smiled; no matter how hard Jeremy tired to integrate himself into the tight and secretive circle, there were still a lot of things that he was kept in the dark about.
"Just some stuff with Damon." Bonnie clarified. "Isn't it always him?" she joked, trying to change the subject. Jeremy just smiled at her, and Caroline didn't miss the look he gave Bonnie when she wasn't looking. "Speak of the devil." Bonnie said, looking over Caroline's shoulder at an approaching Damon Salvatore.

"Oh good, you're here. I was wondering if you'd actually show up." He said to Caroline before noticing that Veronica was there too.

Damon was honestly speechless when he saw her. If he had thought she looked amazing in her nineteenth century wear, she looked even better in modern clothing, particularly in that deep purple cocktail dress she was wearing and the jewelled mask that adorned her face.

"You look amazing." He said to her as he boldly kissed her hand, as he used to at such soirees. Veronica herself didn't know how to react. Every logical part of her was saying that she should still be angry at him and therefore she should be cold, but her emotional self, which proved stronger and more stubborn, smiled and gave a slight curtsy, much to the amusement and awe of passersby.

"Oh, how lovely!" Exclaimed Mrs. Lockwood as she had the photographer snap a picture of their moment. "That is what these events are all about. For men to be adoring gentleman and for the women to be the elegant ladies. Everybody should take a good look at you too." She smiled before something in the distance soured her expression. "Particularly my son, excuse me." With that she walked over to where Tyler was whispering in a girl's ear as she swayed unsteadily on her feet, already drunk by the looks of things.

Damon took a moment to compose himself before he turned back to Jeremy and Bonnie and motioned for them to follow him before nodding at Caroline and giving Veronica one last, adoring look.

When those three had disappeared, Veronica turned to Caroline, who had resumed watching out for Katherine.
"Perhaps, when you have all gone through with whatever plan you're involved in, you would care to tell me exactly what it is you are all so secretive about."
"It's not just you." Caroline blurted. "Elena's at home right now without any idea of what's happening."
"Then I suppose this has something to do with Katherine? Why else would you leave us, the seemingly fragile, weak humans in the dark?"
"It's not because of that, it's because-"
"It's because we don't possess any kind of supernatural abilities or immunities. It's classic Salvatore thinking Caroline, don't worry yourself. There is always a damsel in distress that has to be rescued or otherwise kept completely from harm."

Caroline was shocked at how quickly this girl had figured everything out. She had underestimated her intelligence by a whole lot.
"Just...don't tell Damon that you know about this. He'd kill me if he thought I was involving you, or Elena."
"Don't worry; I won't say anything but I doubt that Elena is stupid enough to fall for your ploy. She'll figure it out."
With that, Veronica walked into the crowd of people towards Tyler and Matt. Caroline had to admit that she was right; Elena wouldn't stay clueless for long, which meant that they would have to act fast.

Especially since Katherine had just entered the Lockwood house, dressed exactly like Elena.

Tyler smiled as Veronica approached him.
"I have to hand it to Caroline; she knows what she's doing." He said as he admired her.
"Yes, we had an excellent time this afternoon. Thank you for both your compliments and your contribution."
"It's no problem, I mean I gotta look out for you right? What with all this stuff going on..." He trailed off before he turned towards Matt. "Let me introduce you two. Veronica this is-"
"Matt, yes we've met." Matt smiled and nodded at her.
"Yeah she came to the Grille earlier today. Thought I was a waiter."
"Again, I apologise. I'm afraid I'm still not used to this...town."

Matt thought it was a bit odd for her not to know the difference between a busboy and a waiter, but he simply wrote it off as a big city trait.
"We'll work on that." Tyler told her reassuringly and gently squeezed her arm.
"Oh hey you guys, Elena just walked in. I'll catch you in a bit Tyler. Nice seeing you again." He smiled at Veronica before going towards Elena.
"So, what's with all the secret eye contact that's going on between the Salvatore's and Caroline? They planning something big?" Tyler asked.
"Yes, something to do with Katherine, but they won't tell me what."
"They're probably trying to keep you safe. They care about you, we all do." At this, she turns to him with a strange look in her eye.
"You've known me for less than twenty four hours. From my experience it takes a lot longer than that to become attached to someone." Tyler chuckled before he replied,
"Yeah, but there's something about you. Look how you've brought all of us together. Now all the supernatural creatures of this town can be one big happy family." She laughed at this.
"You want that? To be part of such a family."
"I want to be part of a group of people that understand what it means to be tied to this, this curse."
"Curse?" she asked, now curious about what he meant.
"You don't know?" He had thought Bonnie would have filled her in but she simply shook her head.
"My family," he started but hesitated, debating over whether or not this was something she needed to know. Then again, she was surrounded by this even before she died. "The Lockwood family is cursed with the werewolf gene." He finished quietly, making sure to check that nobody was eavesdropping.
"You mean one that enables you to turn into a wolf at the full moon?"
"Well yeah. Except that it needs to be triggered by me," he paused again "killing somebody. I'm pretty sure I have no intention of doing that anytime soon so, I think we're safe from me wolfing out."

He laughed a little at his own pun but saw that she didn't understand his reference. 'Of course not, you idiot. She's not from around here and she's never seen The Incredible Hulk." Shaking his head at his own stupidity he spotted Matt approaching with Amy and Sarah and what appeared to be a bottle of booze. "Oh hey, there's Matt looks like he's bringing friends to."
Veronica, who had still not fully reacted to his news simply smiled at the approaching teenagers before looking back at Tyler.
"We'll talk later. I'd like to go mingle now, see how much Mystic Falls and its residents have really changed." She nodded to the others and walked away.
"What did she mean by that?" Matt asked. Next to him, Amy shook her head.
"Creepy much? She talks like she's from the eighteenth century or something."
"Nineteenth." Tyler mentally slapped himself for his slip-up.
"What?" Amy replied. Tyler just smiled at her and decided to change the subject.
"So, who brought the booze?" Matt held the bottle up triumphantly as the girls giggled and they all decided that it would be best to drink it away from the adults.
"Oh, one second you guys I'll meet you there I wanna say hi to some people first." Amy said as she hurried outside where the couples where dancing, leaving the others to walk into the Lockwood study for the rest of the night.

Stefan knew that they would have to hurry their plan up when Katherine publicly murdered that poor girl from school named Amy and carelessly tossed her corpse into his arms whilst the rest of the guests danced happily around them.
He didn't want to believe Damon when he said that there would be casualties, but he had to admit that his brother had an uncanny ability to speak the truth most of the time.
So, after he quickly hid Amy's body in the trunk of Damon's car he sent a message to Jeremy signalling him to do his part.

It was time to bring that bitch down.

Caroline couldn't believe that she had done it. She had fooled Katherine and gotten her right where they wanted her; trapped inside a room with the Salvatore brothers and a lot of pointy wooden things.

Later on in the night she would scold herself for celebrating the night's achievements so soon, especially since, in the middle of her solo celebration she heard the telltale signs of two boys fighting in the Lockwood study.

Running in to see Matt and Tyler doing exactly that, she wrenched them apart and made sure to knock Matt out in one swift motion.
"What the hell happened?" She asked Tyler, who looked just as confused as she felt.
"I don't know he was drunk and he was insulting my dad and smashing pictures and then he was on me...what could I do Caroline?" Neither of them noticed Sarah moving mechanically behind Tyler until it was too late. As she went to stab the unsuspecting boy in the back Caroline spotted her and yelled out to him.
"Tyler, watch out!" But Sarah had already stabbed him with the letter opener, and Tyler had already accidentally shoved her neck-first into the desk.

Caroline wished she hadn't heard the girl's neck snap and she wished she could still feel a pulse. But as she looked at Tyler, hunched over on the floor she wished for nothing more than to be able to take away his anguish. She knew what this meant, and she knew that he would go through something similar to what she went through.

Tyler looked up at Caroline, his eyes morphing as his curse kicked in and Veronica chose that moment to come into the study and to see what all the noise was about.

"Oh my God! What happened? Tyler?"
"Stay back!" Caroline warned. "Give him some space and whatever you do don't say anything to alert anyone until I get the story straight." With that she ran to go find Mrs. Lockwood, as Veronica stood there looking between the anguished Tyler, the unconscious Matt and the very dead girl that had accompanied them before.

"I couldn't find neither Damon or Stefan. I have reason to suspect that the woman that came in today dressed as Elena wasn't Elena." She told Tyler, whilst still keeping her distance. He took a few breaths, but welcomed the change of subject, even though it did nothing to distract him from what he was going through at that very moment.

"Why do you say that? You think it's Katherine?"
"Because I just saw Elena, in different clothing outside and she had no idea what is going on. Not to mention her body began acquiring severe injuries almost randomly. I suspect magic. Bonnie is with her right now."
Tyler almost laughed. "This is one fucked up night, huh?" She frowned slightly at his cursing, but only nodded as Tyler's mother and Caroline came through the door.

Katherine groaned as she regained consciousness and felt the moonstone in her hand. At least she had that. But as she took in her surroundings she realised that she was in the one place that she had traded the moonstone in to escape in the first place.

The tomb under the church.

Hoisting herself off the ground Katherine ran to the entrance only to encounter a magical barrier, no doubt put there by Bonnie, and Damon who was clutching the stone door and smirking at her.
"Why not just kill me?" she asked, although she already knew the answer already.
"That would be too easy and too much of an escape for you. No, you deserve to be stuck down here, as you should have been for over a century. Rot in hell, bitch." As he began to close the door on her forever Katherine made a last effort to appeal to him.
"No, please WAIT. Elena, she's in danger! Why do you think I haven't killed her yet she's the doppelganger she has to be protected!"
"Who's after her? And don't worry, I'll protect her." He started to close the door again.
"VERONICA!" At this Damon halted altogether and a growl emitted from deep down his throat.
"You don't get to say her name. Not after what you did to her."
"She's in danger too. It won't be long until someone besides us finds out that someone's been brought back from the dead and is here. Her blood is very valuable Damon and every vampire will be after her!"
"Well then if we ever need more advice or information, we'll know where to find you." He smirked again and ignored her cries as he sealed her inside the tomb forever.

I'm sorry once again that that took so long. Really, it all comes down to laziness and wanting to think of a captivating story for you guys!

Stay tuned for next chapter: Alaric, Damon and Veronica go on a fact-finding mission to see if Katherine's claims about Veronica's blood are true; Caroline helps Tyler prepare for his first full moon whilst trying to keep a suspicious Matt away from their secret and Elena finds herself in a spot of trouble when she is taken captive by two vampires on a mission.

You can already guess what some of it's going to involve from the episodes but it also should be a massive FACT episode due to the mystery behind Veronica's blood!

I really wanted this chapter to focus more on Tyler and Caroline than Veronica or Damon or anybody else, since they're just as important. But not to worry, you find out more about our OC next!

Much love,

Xoxo.