Author's Note: I have finally had time to write! Life has been so busy but I hope to finish the story this week, fingers crossed. Thanks for reviews, favourites and alerts, I hope you all enjoy this chapter.
"Bonnie!" Caroline cried in joy, squeezing her friend in a hug. It was so good to see that Bonnie was safe it made all of this better. "Umm... Caroline, I can't breathe!" Bonnie said, she was glad to see Caroline but she did like being able to breathe. "Sorry, it's just so good to see you and know that you're safe," Carol Lockwood just stood up and went to hug her son, not really sure of what to do now that she knows everything but she knows that no matter what she loves her son. "Tyler, it's true isn't it? Am I really the only human in this room?" Carol never used to be an emotional person, heck she fully admits that she is a bitch most of the time but losing her husband had changed her. "Oh mum," Tyler was shocked but also saddened that his mother has found out what he now is, she wasn't meant to know and if she did find out he wanted it to come from him not anyone else. "Yes." He kissed her on the forehead not knowing what else to do, unsure of what she now thinks of him. "Tyler, I still love you, it doesn't matter that you're a werewolf, I will always love you." Carol said squeezing her son harder.
"I think we all need a drink," Carol said before leaving the room to go downstairs. Bonnie decided that she better let Caroline and Tyler talk, "I'll help you," she called after Carol and followed her. Tyler and Caroline looked at one another neither really sure of what to say. "I'm sorry, Tyler, I... just couldn't let her tell my mother," Caroline sobbed, collapsing on to the bed. It had been a long day for her so far, filled with so much emotion that she was exhausted and getting staked didn't help. Caroline felt the bed shift and she knew without looking that Tyler was sitting next to her. "It's alright, she was going to find out eventually. This wasn't exactly how I expected it to happened though," Tyler said, as he gently rubbed his hand on Caroline's back. Caroline's reaction surprised Tyler, a small laugh before she explained, "Nothing every goes as we expect these days, seriously last year my biggest problem was working out a new cheer rountine but now I swear I have stepped onto the set of As Mystic Falls Turns." "We haven't quite reached soap opera levels yet," Tyler joked before turning his tone serious, "have we?" Caroline looked at him in a 'are you serious?' way, Tyler tried to keep a straight face but ended up laughing almost immediately. "I thought so," Caroline said joining in with the infectious laughter. It can't be too bad if we can still laugh like this, Caroline thought to herself. "We better go downstairs," Tyler suggested as he stood up.
"You were there when he ... transformed?" Carol asked taking a sip of her drink, she needed as much as possible to begin to come to terms with all the new revelations. "Yes, no one deserves to go through it." Bonnie shuddered as she remembered Tyler's scream of agony as his body twisted in ways that it never should. "Can you help him with your magic?" The idea that Tyler had to go through a transformation every full moon for the rest of his life was painful. "I tried but I don't know if it helped. I'm going to look in my grimoire to see if I can find a spell," I just hope I'll be powerful enough to perform it. Her eyes found Tyler's chocolate eyes as soon as he enter the room, Caroline followed closely behind almost as if she was hiding behind Tyler afraid of facing the people in the room which was quite ironic considering she was the probably the most dangerous of them all. "Tyler, Caroline, I'll pour you each a drink," Carol said as she grabbed the bottle and poured two more glasses. Tyler sat down next to Bonnie on the loveseat, his hand finding hers almost immediately. His fingers found the cuts on her hands, and remembered that he couldn't take all the injuries away from her but at least she will have the cool story of jumping out of the window from the second storey without the majority of the pain, which Tyler had already healed from. Caroline looked at her best friend and it was obvious that her and Tyler were right for each other. Bonnie seemed to bring out the other side of Tyler, the one that few ever see, the only reason Caroline had seen it was because she was there when he triggered the curse. They talked for awhile and Carol was beginning to come to terms with all that has been going on right under her nose. The fact that she was on the council meant that she was already prepared to accept that there could be more to this supernatural world than she first thought. No one mentioned Tyler's father though and questions about his death began to surface in her mind but she didn't feel comfortable raising them with Caroline and Bonnie there. "I better get home," Caroline said as she stood up, "Thank you, Mrs Lockwood for this. I'll see you two soon,"
Bonnie felt like she should go as well but she felt too tired to move, she just wanted to fall asleep in Tyler's lap and it's not like her father would be home to notice her. "You want to know about your husband don't you?" Bonnie asked gently, she didn't need witchy instincts to guess that. Carol looked up at Bonnie greatful that she had brought it up rather than making her eventually having to introduce that topic. "Yes, I knew that he wasn't a vampire but the device affected him and he was tossed in with the rest of the vampires." Carol continued quietly as almost to herself, "I told them he wasn't but they still took him away..." To his death but Carol couldn't bear to say it, it was still too raw of emotion. After a deep breath, she was ready to continue seeking answers, "Was he a werewolf? Was that why the device affected him?" Bonnie didn't know for sure but to the best of her knowledge Mayor Lockwood never triggered the curse. "Dad never even knew about the curse, he didn't trigger it," Tyler paused. "He died as a human," Carol didn't know what to make of this, on one hand it gives a reason why he never told her anything about werewolves because he had known nothing of it himself but on the other hand this has left both her and her son rather clueless in the matter. Another part of her thought that if he had been a werewolf he probably would have survived, what she has so far seen of her son's healing abilities prove that but is it really right to wish he had killed someone just so that he would still be here today. At least in the case of Tyler it had been an accident, some unforeseen event. "The device affected both Tyler and his father because of their werewolf genes, it didn't matter that they had not triggered the curse," Bonnie explained. It was all beginning to make sense, at first it was like seeing small clips of a movie in random order but now she was learning about the plot and meeting some of the main charaters, she just hoped there wasn't going to be some big twist in the end. "And that's why Tyler crashed," Carol stated. Bonnie couldn't help finding it strange how she was now having a similar conversation with Tyler's mother that she had with Tyler what seemed like a year ago but it would have only been what two months ago if that. The world is certainly an interesting place, next thing we know Matt or Jenna will be finding out about the supernatural world that surrounds them.