Title: She's Not Katherine

Category: Vampire Diaries

Characters: Caroline, Tyler, Jenna and Mason

Summary: He knows that he should just be happy that Tyler's happy and has somebody to love him, but Mason just can't see past the fact he got burned by Katherine. He doesn't want the same thing to happen to Tyler, but Caroline is nothing like his ex.

Status: Complete

AN: I own nothing. This is for Forwood13 you gave me the idea hope you enjoy.

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Chapter 2

"Where have you been?" Mason asked when Tyler walked into his room after the sun had come up. "I can smell her all over you," he had tried to find him the night before, but it had been difficult because he'd gotten confused with all the scents. He knew that Tyler had done it on purpose too.

Tyler tossed his bag down on the bed before he even acknowledged Mason, "So," he was glad that Mason hadn't found them the night before. After a few more rounds of sex Caroline and he had fallen asleep. He knew that Mason wasn't his dad, but he just couldn't stop the other side of him. He knew Mason was trying to keep him safe, but Caroline was the safest place for him. "If I want to be with her I will,"

"Tyler, she's a vampire," Mason was trying his best to see it from Tyler's side, but all he saw was what happened to him. He wasn't going to let Caroline do to him what Katherine had.

Tyler tried not to get upset he really did, but he was in front of Mason in a second and punched him so hard that he knocked him off of the bed. "Tell me that when you crawl out from between Katherine's legs," he knew it was low, but damn if he cared right now. Mason didn't know where Katherine was and he hadn't been having sex with her lately, but it didn't matter. He also thought that Mason was dating Jenna now, but he was too pissed to care.

"You asked for my help so I'm giving it, furthermore I'm not with her anymore," Mason rubbed the side of his face feeling the bruise that would never show, he healed fast after all. He got off the floor sitting back down on the foot of the bed. "Stop seeing her,"

"You can teach me how to be a werewolf, you can show me how to deal with this curse, but you won't tell me who to see, who I can be with or mention to my mom about Caroline," Tyler was trying not to lose his temper completely, but it was so close to happening.

Tyler took a breath before he started on another list of things. He made it clear as he could that Mason wasn't going to run his life, "I might need you and you are better than my dad ever was to me, but I'll be damned if I follow the fucking rules," Katherine had stabbed Mason in the back, but it wasn't his fault.

He knew that besides Caroline they got along just fine. Mason was still a friend to him, but until he learned that Caroline and he weren't going to stop seeing each other he couldn't do anything else. It was like he was talking to a wall when it came to his heart as if it didn't matter. Caroline saved his life every single day that she was in it.

"I'm trying to protect you," Mason said, he wished that he could see it from Tyler's point of view again. He'd loved Katherine, but she had almost gotten his heart ripped out. "I don't want you to end up like me," he saw himself in Tyler and not just being with a vampire. They were so much a like it was scary.

"I'm already like you, Mason," how could Mason not realize that they were so much alike. "I fell in love with Caroline, her not the vampire, her," Tyler knew that his Uncle had loved the bitch that caused him pain. It was the whole reason behind him hating Caroline. It might also be because she had handed his ass to him as well. "And it served you right when she beat your ass, you tried to kill our friend," he had found out about it from Caroline after he'd given Mason the moonstone.

"Damon, will kill you if he finds out so just stop, you have too..." Mason started, but he stopped seeing the look in Tyler's eyes. It was the same one that he'd had when he first walked in and punched him. He didn't want to end up on his ass again because it did hurt.

Tyler was tired of listening to him so he just left again after grabbing a change of clothes. He needed a shower, but he could take it at Caroline's. He would not listen anymore to this crap. He wished that Mason would just get over the damn heart break already. It had already been a month any longer and he was just going to sleep at Caroline's.

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Caroline knew it was risky, but she walked up to Mason in the backyard. The moment he turned around she punched him as hard as she could, which sent him to the ground. "I am in love with Tyler, he loves me, get over your damn problem with us," she had her fangs bared getting in his face after she easily lifted him back off the ground. "I am grateful to you for helping him, but you'll never get him to hate me,"

"I know you do," he looked at her not scared of her. She could easily kill him, but he knew something about Caroline, she hated herself at least the need for blood. He groaned because his back was digging into the handle on the garage door. He also knew that her staying with Tyler on the full moon proved her love and loyalty to him. "Katherine would never have stayed," it was what upset him the most really.

He'd never had the love they had so he'd been given them hell. Jenna had already told him more than once just to lay off. He just didn't know how to stop when he'd been doing it for the last month. It had already been three days since Tyler had walked out of his bedroom and he hadn't seen him. Every time he called him he hit ignore or let it go to voicemail. He had taken a risk and asked Jenna out the day before. She was his best friend and he had always loved her.

"You think I'm stupid, I know you're jealous of our relationship," Caroline let him go and her fangs disappeared, "I'm sorry that she hurt you, but you have to be the bigger person here," did she really have to spell it out to him. He was so close to Tyler just giving up on trying and she knew how much Tyler wanted to know about what he was. They had only touched on a few things during the last month because it was always leading to a fight between them. "I am not Katherine," she walked away going to her car and driving off, Tyler thought she went to pick up food at the Grill. She was going there now, but she had to deal with the problem growing between Mason and Tyler.

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Jenna handed Mason a beer sitting down beside him, "You need to stop giving him a hard time," she said giving him a look. She knew all about the world they lived in with vampires, werewolves and witches. Mason was the reason that she knew all of this too, they hadn't believed in it when they were teens, but they did now. She had been surprised when he had shown up the day before an asked her out. He'd come back today after his run in with Caroline.

"I want him to be happy, but I don't want him to end up like me, Jen," he sighed before taking a swig of the beer. He wondered why he couldn't have just ended up with Jenna and never got entangled with Katherine to start with. He just didn't know he'd been talking out loud until Jenna started laughing.

"You know why we haven't dated until now?" She asked waiting for him to put it together, "Your brother told you to get the fuck out of his town and you left," she could have gone with him, he'd asked her to go, drop everything and take off with him. She hadn't gone with him though and she wished everyday now that she had taken the chance. "This isn't his town anymore, Mason; he's gone, ashes to ashes, dust to dust forever,"

"He did burn to death in that basement," Mason had to laugh because it seemed like irony his brother had cut him out of his life and now he was permanently out of his life. "I just don't know how to get through to Tyler,"

"You are going to stop telling him what not to do and help him, Mason," Jenna said giving him another look. Caroline could have her moments, but what she'd seen lately the girl had changed just like Tyler had. "Tyler knows who to trust and he reminds me of you," she had caught him a few times drinking and it always took her back to the days she would catch Mason. They had the same look when they were caught doing something they shouldn't be doing.

She had been doing her best to look out for his nephew like he'd asked her to do. It was hard at times because she wasn't always there herself. She'd bolted after the last time that Logan Scumfell had cheated on her. She had come back to take care of her niece and nephew though this past year.

"He does have a way with the ladies I've heard," Mason emptied the rest of the bottle before he stood up. "Do you really think that Caroline is good for him?"

"Yes I do, Mason," Jenna said before she told him that he needed to go and apologize for all the hell he'd been giving both Caroline and Tyler. "Start with Tyler though, I have heard Caroline tends to punch you," she laughed knowing good and well that the bruise he'd had when he had shown up had been from Caroline.

"Okay and Tyler has a nice right hook too," Mason said before he kissed her, "Thanks, Jen," he was glad that he had come back to town because he had found his best friend knew what to say when he needed to hear it she wouldn't hold back.

"Any time, just duck if one of them takes a swing this time," Jenna laughed kissing him back.

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Tyler opened the door to Caroline's house ready to go for a run. He needed to clear his head of all the stuff in it. He had his phone turned onto the music he had stored with headphones on, but he stopped noticing that Mason was standing there. "Whatever it is I'm not interested," he had spent half the night listening to Caroline telling him to go and talk to Mason. He hadn't left though instead he'd put his headphones on because he didn't want to hear it anymore. He had heard it of course, super hearing after all and he found her to be really cute.

"Just listen okay," Mason had thought about it since Caroline had punched him the day before. Jenna had also told him to stop being a dick because he was close to losing the only family he had left. He had never gotten along with his brother and he was at risk of losing Tyler too. "I loved Katherine, but I never trusted her," it was the honest truth too. "I see the way that you trust Caroline and it scares me,"

"She's never given me a reason not to trust her, she's been there for me like nobody else ever has," Tyler said, she had helped chained him up and stayed with him when he could have easily killed her. She risked her life to keep him safe and he would never turn his back on her. "Your ex drank from people, Caroline she hunts animals and drinks from bags," he'd been hunting with Caroline before and every time she killed an animal she felt guilty. He also left out the fact they shared blood more than that one time. "She thinks about the animal's family not having them anymore," she'd stopped feeding on little animals not wanting to kill anymore in last few weeks. Instead she went after the larger ones like deer and mountain lions.

"I know they're different, I just didn't want you to end up like me, you're the only family I got left," Carol was married into the family, Tyler was his blood. "I don't want us to end up like my relationship with your dad either," it was the other reason he had finally given into his stubbornness. "I can help you, if we can get passed our differences and I promise that I'll stop being a hypocrite,"

Tyler knew that he could take or leave the deal that Mason was offering him. He could turn his back on his Uncle or let him help him like Caroline was. "I'm going for a run, I guess I can use some company," he put the headphones in his pocket before closing the door behind him. It seemed like ages since they had did that first run together. All the other runs they'd been on had ended with a shouting match.

Caroline looked out her window with a smile glad that Mason had decided to make peace. She was also happy that Tyler had listened. She wanted him to have somebody to talk to that was going through his same hell. Mason had been doing it for a year and some change now, Tyler only one time. She was going to have to think Jenna for getting through to Mason. She knew that Jenna had played a bigger part in this than anything that Tyler or her had said.

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