Chapter 18

"I made some coffee. It was the only think I could found in your kitchen." Mason tells me as I stare at him only wearing his pants as I had his shirt.

"I need to get some food." I say as I accept the coffee and drank it. "So this is our awkward morning after?"

"Why does it need to be awkward?" He asks me pulling me to him.

"I don't know you tell me?"

"Well, you still meeting me and Tyler for some running?"

"Of course, so I can show him how to kick his uncle ass."

"You very confident you're going to win, aren't you?" He says with a smile.

"I know I am going. I told you, I was the best in tracks at my school."

"Let's see it them." He says as the bell rings. "You're expecting someone?"

"No." I say walking to the door as I open it to see Stefan.

"Oh I didn't know, I saw D."

"Stefan."I call his name as I see Mason coming into the living room/entrance and Stefan finally put it together.

"I didn't knew you had company. I should have called." He says but I knew it must have been important for him to be here.

"Well. I was living anyway." Mason says but then I remembered I am wearing his shirt.

"Stefan, meet me for breakfast at the grill?"

"Of course." He says leaving as I turn to Mason with a smile.

"Probably wants me to help him with my sister."

"Teenagers." He says holding me by his skirt. "I think I'm going to need this one back."

"Well, take it." I say with a flirtation look.

"Sorry about this morning." I say as I sit next to Stefan.

"It's ok. I didn't know you had company." He says and I could still see he was a bit uncomfortable but at that moment I see the waitress coming.

"What can I get you?"

"I will have two slices of toast with raspberry jam, an natural orange juice and a yogurt, simple please." I say as the waitress writes it down and then looks at Stefan.

"Coffee." He says as she leaves.

"Stefan you don't need to be embarrassed because you saw me with a guy."

"Sorry."

"Look, if it is because you saw me with Damon before, it was just sex. We never had been in a relationship or anything."

"Actually this is about Damon."

"Great that did he do?"

"We came to talk to Elena last night about… hum… they."

"Stefan. I know he kissed Katherine thinking it was Elena. I told you. I'm a big girl. I know the differences between sex and dating."

"Right. So the conversation didn't end up well and he snapped Jeremy's neck."

"He did what?"I scream and I was glad no one I knew was in the grill and it was almost empty.

"Your brother had the Gilbert ring." He says as I sit down again taking a deep breath at the same moment the waitress came in and gave us our orders with a strange look probably because my outburst.

"That is no excuse and I will kick Damon's ass the next time I see him, probably even stake him"

"I know you will do that." He says trying to hide his smile but then turn seriously again. "But I also come to talk about Jeremy." He says and I nod for him to keep talking. "I was thinking giving him verbain and explain to him things, like I did with you and Elena."

"I think that's a great idea Stefan. He needs to be informed and if came from you, he can also realize he can trust you that you mean no harm to him."

"That is actually very smart actually." He says and I look at my clock.

"Well I should finish eating, I have to meet two Lockwood's for some running." I say with a smile.

"You're investigating what happen with the Mayor aren't you?"

"You should know by now I'm an incredible investigator. I should be a detective." I say playfully

"I hope you know Damon is also trying to find the truth." He tells me as I get up.

"Wanna see who finds it first?" I ask winking at him.

"Be careful Sofia."

I see Tyler and Mason stopping as I approach them in the woods.

"Already tired boys."

"Hi Sofia."

"Tyler." I say with a smile.

"We are taking a break. What about you ready to start?"

"Baby, I came running from my apartment." I say as we were the three in the florets closer to the Lockwood mansion. "Did your uncle tell you I came to kick his ass?"

"I actually came because of that." Tyler says amused.

"Let's go them."

"When was that? Like seven?" Tyler asks as the three of us get to his entrance all tired.

"Six. I don't count the last one. You crawled it."

"What?"

"You did Tyler." I say to him playing with him but I was actually impressed they were pretty good competition and that coming from me its saying something.

"I think Grandma Lockwood actually passed you, in her walker."

"Yeah, okay. Shoes off. Mud, my mom."

"Yeah, yeah." Mason says as he sits removing his shoes as I do the same when I feel him pulling me to his lap.

"You sweating."

"So are you."

"So Sofia, where did you learn to run like this?" Tyler asks and I knew he was curios not with some secret agenda but I needed to be careful with Mason because coming from him I don't know.

"My father, well my adopted father, he was in the army trained me almost like a soldier and sports helps getting out of troubles."

"You were in troubles?" Tyler asks as Mason and I look at each other and he brings it up.

"So all this anger and aggression you're talking about, you notice a difference when you exercise?"

"Dude."

"You're uncle and I were talking last night and that came into the table. Don't worry you're not the only one with aggression excuses. Told you, that's why I work out this much."

"I play 3 varsity sports. I work out 4 times a week and run 3, I'm gonna say no."

"Do you have episodes? What happens exactly?"

"Starts out normal, I get angry typically over nothing. I'm an angry guy. I know it just amplifies and I just go off."

"You black out?" I ask surprise there was something off that's for sure.

"Yeah, it's like I go blind with rage."

"Is there a pattern? Like once a month, only at night?"

"All I know is I lose myself, you know? For that time I become something else and I hate it." Very interesting actually. I needed to get to the bottom line of this.

"Well I'm getting a shower see you guys at the Carnival." Tyler says leaving.

"So what is the professional opinion?" Mason says giving me a bottle of water which I accept and drank it all in once.

"Hormones. And I am not a professional, the stupid doctors I went to apparently were."

"What did they all tell you?"

"The usual, any person deals with grief differently or it's was because I was younger. Bottom line, I accumulate too much. What about you?"

"Perfect family, not so perfect son." He says as I see the door opening.

"Sofia." Carol says obviously surprised as she looked at Mason and I followed by Damon. Damon, so he was here to investigate too, damn that means he heard that. Great.

"Hello Carol, I hope I'm not disturbing. Mason told me he was planning running with Tyler this morning and asked me."

"No, it's ok, at least I know the boys have someone to kept them about out of trouble." She says and I didn't need to read Mason and Damon's mind to think they were disagreeing, I was too. "Well Damon I will take you out."

"Actually, I'm going too." I say as I look at Mason. "Thank you." I say with a smile that showed I wasn't talking about just running.

"Want me to pick you up?"

"I will meet you there don't worry." I say as I open the door to me and I walk and I see him and Damon shaking hands and you could almost feel the tension. Men.

"Seriously, Mason Lockwood?" Damon asks me as soon we are out of sight but I don't give him time because I hit his head and turn him around getting a piece of wood staking him in the back as he howl in pain falling on his knees "I take that you already know."

"Stefan told me." I say as I push a little deeper making in howl even more as I lean on his ear. "I hope you know that this stake is right between your 7th and 8th ribs just millimeters from where your heart ends. The next time you even try to snap Jeremy's neck I won't stake you from the back it will be in the front right between your 4th and 5th and we both know what it is in there." I say walking away from him.

"Seriously you guys can't be more predictable." I say to Mason as I see a bunch of people surround a table where Tyler is arm wrestling.

"Never had this in your high school?"

"You have no idea." I say him as he pulls his arms around me.

"Let me guess you beat some guys' asses a couple of times."

"A couple of times? Mason, don't insult me." I say as I see Tyler beating another guy. "Do you think it's fair? With his strength is going to beat everyone."

"Not everyone." He says winking at me. "I bet I could beat you." He says walking to Tyler and once again, my plan is working and at that moment I see Stefan and Damon.

"Okay, he's the champ." He says as I get to Mason and he gives me confident smile.

"Here you go champ." I say kissing him on the lips.

"Who wants to go next?" Tyler asks and I give Damon as changeling look.

"Stefan wants to go." Of course Stefan, not him. Well at least I know Mason will not leave injured.

"Yeah, sure, I'll...give it a shot." He says sitting in front of Mason.

"Get him Steff."

"My brother over there thinks I can beat you."

"Your brother's wrong."

"Stefan if you win I hope you know there is no change in hell I'm going to kiss you." I say as he just laughs preparing his arm as I see the strength Stefan pulls in even if he let Mason win. So it's more than human. I knew it.

"Don't I get another kiss?" He asks me and I roll my eyes giving him another kiss, playing my role.

"If you keep beating everyone you might get tired of my kisses. Where is Tyler?"

As soon as he found him is starting to fight with someone

"Hey Tyler! Tyler! What the hell man?" Mason runs to the guy as I observe him struggles with him but the other guys punches him in the face making and I see Tyler getting ready for a fight but I stop him.

"Don't."

"Mason." He says as I see Mason pushing the guys against a car. Mason makes some moves that were not human at all landing in front of us as I see his eyes changing for some kind of glowing yellow.

"Your eyes."

"We need to get out of here." I say pulling my arm around his waist. "What the hell was over that guy's head." I comment but I knew very well what got into his head, or better who.

"Sofia." Stefan calls my name was we enter the high school again and I see his worry face.

"I will meet you latter. Troubles in paradise." I say winking at Mason as he nod and gave me a short kiss. "What is it Stefan?"

"Caroline."

"How did this happen?" I demanded as soon as Stefan, Elena, Damon and I were in the classroom.

"Well, I fed her blood and Katherine obviously killed her and A plus B equals..."

"But why?"

"Because Katherine is a manipulative nasty little slut."

"And she said "game on"? What is that even mean?" Stefan asks next.

"It means she's playing dirty." Damon says and I roll my eyes as I see the confusion on Elena's face.

"She wants us to know it was her. It's a way so show she's not afraid of us." I explain to her.

"But why Caroline?"

"I don't know."

There was to be some motive she would just pick her for nothing. Katherine can be very things but she's calculative. Woman like her always gave a plan, at least.

"Caroline must be completely out of her mind, she doesn't even know what's happening to her."

"Oh I think she does. All of my compulsion from the past started wearing off the minute she was in transition."

"We have to find her."

"Yep and kill her."

"You're not gonna kill Caroline." I tell him not leaving a change for arguing. The blonde girl was not going too died. She was Elena's friend and poor Matt finally liked a girl. Besides Liz was my friend and one of the few people who accept me easily, she didn't deserved her daughter dying. Even if she got into my nerves when I first meet her there is no way she is going for the long list of people I know that ended up death.

"She knows who we are. She's officially a liability, and we've got to get rid of her."

"Damon, absolutely not."

"Need I remind you of a tragic little story of a girl named Vicki Donovan? Caroline, of all people, will not make it as a vampire. Her mother is a vampire hunter. Guys come on, we all know how this story's gonna end, just flip to the last chapter and..."

"It's not an option Damon." This time is Elena saying it. Might as well her opinion do something.

"No? Your silence is deafening, Stefan. Wait, wasn't there a school carnival the night you staked Vicki? Talk about a town where story repeats herself. You know I'm right."

"We're not gonna kill her."

"It's the only way."He says to Stefan and Elena as they left. "So anything in our favorite secret family?" He says but I choose to ignore him. "Oh come on you still angry about Jeremy. I thought that you staking me had made a point."

"Any killing that happens tonight is on you. I don't care if it's Stefan, Caroline, Mason our even me killing someone, it will be on you."

"You sure know how to intimidate people."

"Last school carnival I told you, you don't want to meet the not so nice side of me."

"That girl also said my charm wouldn't affect her." He says and I hold him by the neck making sure my nailsscratch his skin.

"That side will have no problem putting a stake in your heart if necessary, no matter if I slept or not with you. I can even kill you while you're in bed with me, kept that in mind." I say letting my hands from his neck as I see him touching it

"If you wanted to scratch me all you need to do is ask." He says and at that moment I turn to him and in two movements manages to get in on the floor.

"You always like to be on top." He says playfully but then with his vampire speed gets himself on top holding my arms very tightly on top of my head. "But don't forget who the vampire is in here." He says getting up as I take that opportunity to jump on his back making us fall so and get a chair at hit his head with it before we fall on the floor as I did as I fall on the ground perfectly getting up making Damon look at me surprised.

"What are you know a gymnastic?"

"No Damon. I was a gymnastic, now I'm a very well trained hand to hand combat woman." I say leaving him on the floor stunned. "Not everyone needs to be a vampire to fight."

"Any lead in here Caroline must be?" I say as soon as I meet Elena and Stefan.

"No, nothing. You're ok?" Elena asks me.

"Yeah, but that classroom probably isn't."

"What?"

"Forget it Elena." I say but I see her determinate look "It was just, Damon and I had an argument." I say as I see Stefan looking at me also worry. "I'm fine, he not so much. Let's find Caroline." We walk a bit more until Stefan stopped

"What is it? Do you hear her? What's going on Stefan, what is it?"

"Blood, I can smell blood."

"Caroline probably attack someone, we need to get to her, now." I say to them as we run after Stefan.

As we found her Stefan got Damon out of Caroline's before he killed her and I was about to get the stake when I hear Caroline.

"Get away from me! You killed me!"

"No, no, no, no Caroline! That wasn't me. You know that! That was Katherine."

"No! Then why did she look like you?! And why, why did she do this to me?"

"Stefan, we've got to get her inside." I tell him as I see the vampire walk to Caroline side.

"It's okay Caroline, come with me."

"She'll die, it's only a matter of time."

"Yeah, maybe so, but it's not gonna happen tonight."

"Oh yeah it is." Damon says and I realize what he's about to do so I put myself between her and Damon as he is able to stop before the stake hits me skin as everyone looked shocked but I maintain my blank face.

"Damon, she's her friend." I say referring to Elena as I knew very well he understood but I see him hesitate. "If you do it, you are going to get to me first. So go head." I say showing him I would not leave the scared blonde and at that moment he drops his arm.

"Whatever happens, it's on you now." He says and I nod.

"Caroline?" I hear Bonnie's voice.

"It's okay, come on." Stefan says taking Caroline

"No, you're not; you can't be." She says but as soon she touched Caroline she knew the blonde was a vampire.

"Bonnie?"

"Oh god!" The witch says shocked.

"Bonnie..."

"Stefan, take her out of here." I say to him as he nods and take Caroline inside.

"I can't believe this is happening." Bonnie says completely crushed.

"Come on, don't pout about it, I've got a body to bury. Wanna help." He tells as I gave him a hate look. I couldn't deal with him right now. "I thought you were calling the shots, no? It sucks to be you, buddy."

Before I realize it Damon is on the floor with a headache and water is falling on the floor

"I told you what would happen if anyone else got hurt."

"I didn't do this."

"Bonnie, it wasn't his fault."

"Everything that happens is his fault Elena." She says and looks at me. "You're the only who can physical stop me. It's your call." She says as I look at Damon and the death body, and then I remember out conversation and what he did to Jeremy.

"Bonnie, what are you doing?" Elena screams as I see the water turning into fire that went toward Damon.

"Bonnie stop it!" Elena screams as I look at Damon burning and flashes from another burning body come to mind interfering with reality.

"Bonnie, Bonnie, stop it! You're going to kill him! Bonnie! Sofia do something, she's going to kill him." Elena speaks as I jump over the fire catching the witch arm making the fire vanquish

"Why did you stop me?!"

"Because this isn't you Bonnie, once you got it there is no turning back. Once you kill him that will be in your memory forever. It will haunt you. Go with Elena, I take care of it. I will take care of him." I tell her as she nods and Elena holds her getting inside just like Stefan and Caroline did minutes ago.

"You stopped her." Damon says getting up still not fully recover for what happen.

"That doesn't mean anything." I say with almost despise in my voice as I get to the death body at the same time I see Stefan coming in. There was no point in asking how Caroline was. The new vampire had a lot going on to be far from ok. "Stefan, we're fine, you can go."

"The body."

"What was his name?" I ask referring to the death guy.

"Connor. I think."

"Well, I take care of Connor, go see Elena, she needs you." I say but I see him looking between Damon and me.

"You sure?"

"She saw too much tonight she needs to be reminder of good of laugh. Something to take her mind of all of this because it's only getting worst." He nods and leaves as I hold the man body.

"You truly are going to bury him alone?"

"I had enough of you for the rest of the night, so yes I will bury him myself."

I hear the door knock as I open and I see Mason there.

"Sorry I left the party earlier."

"It's ok. I understand after what happen with Tyler." I say as he gets inside.

"I didn't realize you were working out."

"I needed to get something out of my mind. By the way, how are you? That guy hurt you?" I ask him getting to him. I knew it didn't hurt him but I needed to show concern besides I couldn't bring up his eyes or anything because I needed to gain his trust.

"I'm ok but you seem off, something going on?"

"Remember when I told you my anger problems came because of my father's death?" I ask and he nods. "He was burned alive."

"I'm so sorry Sofia." He says hugging me and I knew he was truly concern and it's felt nice to have that. As I look at him again I felt his lips softly touching mines. "Come on, you need a relaxed warm bath and some sleep."

I was already in bed relaxing on Mason toned cheat as I felt his hand on my hair and back.

"I know you saw the eyes."

"Mason." I whisper at him.

"You didn't ask anything or bring it up."

"You will tell me when you're ready." I say ready to close my eyes.

"I know you might not believe but I'm a werewolf." He says as I close my eyes pretending to be asleep because I knew it was much true and I couldn't face it. What was I going to do? Tell Stefan and Damon. Damon would kill Mason as soon as he could. And the guy was actually nice; he didn't needed to die just because he was different, right? "Sofia." He whispers but I remain pretending to be sleeping. "Perfect timing Mason." He says to himself as I believe he closed his eyes also. What the hell am I going to do now?