Chapter 16
When Cassie and Mason had finished their run they stopped at the Grill for a bite.
"So tell me" Mason said "what happened during dinner?"
Cassie smiled and told him, finishing it with how she stabbed Klaus and left.
"So your telling me you mocked the original hybrid then staked him, and your still walking around?" he asked laughing.
"I know, its weird, when he saw me next he said as long as I kept Jeremy in check we would ok." Cassie told him.
"Do you think he knows?" Mason asked.
"I honestly don't, but I know I'm not offering up that kind of information just yet." She replied "but I have a few questions."
"Shoot" Mason said.
"Damon knows. Can we trust him?" Cassie asked.
"I don't think anyone can fully trust Damon" Mason said. "But I would want him on our team rather than against."
Cassie nodded thinking, "what about Alaric, the history teacher?"
"We can trust him" Mason said.
"So how in love with Elena is Damon?" Cassie asked.
"Why are you asking?" Mason said teasing her.
"No reason" she deflected "just curious"
Mason laughed knowing that Cassie was just more then curious about Damon.
The two sat in silence eating, that was one of the things Cassie loved about Mason, they didn't need to have a conversation all the time, they could just sit and be.
"I'm going to go home, and shower before we head back up here to meet Kol" she finally told him after they had finished their meal.
Mason nodded standing up "I got this" he said gesturing to the meal "do you want a ride tonight?"
Cassie nodded and she headed to the Gilbert house.
Damon was sitting in Alaric's apartment with him.
"How much do you know about Cassie?" Damon asked
"From what I could gather she was the perfect kid, looked at her records, the were clean, its like Caroline said, she was everything head cheerleader, Miss Mystic Falls, valedictorian, etcetera. Dated Mason Lockwood the entire time they were in high school, which includes the year, she was a senior and he was a freshman in college. Left right after graduation and started college early." He told Damon.
"Is that it?" Damon asked
"Went to Yale and studied history, went from full time student to part time after a year and a half, made it one semester half time then fully dropped out, leaving 7 months were we don't know what she was doing." He said finishing.
"Is she still dating Mason?" Damon asked.
"Nope, but they are still close" Alaric said.
He paused, "why?" he asked looking up at Damon.
Damon shrugged his shoulders "curious" he brushed off.
Alaric rolled his eyes and turned around to turn the water on. Looking back at Damon "do you know that she is like Jeremy" he whispered carful to make sure that nobody else could hear.
"Yep" he said popping the p "and we need to make sure that we are the only two who know"
"Matt and Jeremy know" Alaric told him
"Cassie took care of that," he said
"How do you know?" Alaric asked
"She told me last night," Damon said smirking.
Alaric turned off the water. "Seriously Damon what were you doing with her last night?!"
"I happened to have had dinner with her and Jeremy last night" Damon told him.
"What you can't have Elena so you're going with the other Gilbert?" Alaric asked.
"No" Damon said "and Elena hasn't chosen yet and why does it matter to you"
"Because from what Elena has told me, Cassie has a tendency to fall in love a lot." Alaric said.
Damon rolled his eyes and stood up. "I'm going to go get a bite," he said clearly deflecting what Alaric said.
"Damon!" Alaric called as Damon walked out of the apartment.
Cassie got out of the shower and walked over to her dresser, she pulled out her favorite lace navy blue bra and boy cut panties and put them on. She decided to wear jeans and a white tank with a blue button up shirt over it. She traded her black heels for blue ballet flats. She turned to the mirror and tried to decide what to do with her mess of hair when she heard something at her door.
"We built this part of the house on," she informed whoever was behind her. "You have to be invited in" she turned around and saw none other then Damon.
Damon was leaning against the railing of the door "can I come in?" he asked.
"Nope" she said turning back to the mirror. She decided that she was just going to brush it and let it be. She put on her make up and finished her look by putting her necklace on.
"Is there a reason you haven't left yet?" she asked.
"What are you doing tonight?" he asked ignoring her question.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" she asked right back
"Why don't you tell me?" he asked.
Cassie grabbed her bag and walked past Damon.
"Why do you want to know?" she asked back walking down the steps.
"Are you going to answer any of my questions?" he asked following her.
Cassie opened the front door and saw Mason's car. She turned back to Damon and smirked. "What do you think?" and she left hopping into the car as Damon watched her leave.
Damon huffed and left the Gilbert house to go back home when he saw Elena in the living room.
"How was school?" he asked.
Elena turned to him "it was fine"
Damon was upset that she answered the question; didn't she know she was suppose to answer with another question like Cassie did?
Damon walked up to Elena, he cupped her face with his hands
"Have you decided what you are going to do about Cassie?" he asked, his fingers trailing her jaw line.
Elena looked into Damon's eyes "I'm going to talk to her" she whispered to preoccupied with Damon to think about the answer.
"Mmm" was all he replied as hid hands traveled down to her arms? He started to pepper her neck with kisses.
Elena melted, she loved Stefan but sometimes Damon just came in like this and she didn't know anymore.
"Damon" she whispered.
"Hmm" he said not stopping what he was doing.
"Damon" she whispered. He looked her in the eyes.
He frowned slightly they were chocolate brown, not the whiskey brown like Cassie had.
Stop thinking about her. His mind yelled at him. Don't think about Elena's hair is just one color instead of Cassie where it has several shaded of brown tinted with red in it. Or how much you think you have in common with her! You're finally with Elena who you love. He kept telling himself.
Damon shook his head and took a step back.
"What's wrong?" she asked
"Nothing" he said walking over to pour himself a drink.
Elena looked at him. "Why are you lying to me?" she asked
"I'm not lying Elena, nothing is wrong" he said draining his drink in one gulp.
"Whatever" she said and walked up the steps.
Mason and Cassie arrived at the grill to see that Kol was already there with Rebecca?
"Hey" Cassie said sitting down with them. "How was school?" she asked Rebecca.
Mason motioned for the bartender and ordered drinks for him and Cassie.
"High school is very drama filled" Rebecca said.
Cassie laughed as her drink came. "I couldn't agree more," she told her.
The four of them really hit it off, talking, drinking, and laughing.
Kol looked at his watch almost two hours had flown by.
"So who is up for a game of pool?" Mason asked.
"I'm in" Kol said "what do you say ladies, battle of the sexes."
Rebecca looked at Cassie in honestly she was afraid that the elder Gilbert was going to say no, but to her surprise Cassie agreed and the four of them moved the party to the pool table.
"Rebecca you can break" Cassie taking a drink.
Rebecca nodded and racked the pool balls up. She hit them causing one ball to go into the pocket. "I guess we are solids," she said and just like that she hit the next one in. however she missed the third one.
Now it was Mason's turn. He barely got one in and completely missed the second one. He laughed at that one claiming it was the drinks as he continued to drink.
Cassie stood up and knocked two in at the same time. Hitting a third one and missing the fourth.
The game continued like this until all that was left was the eight ball.
It was Kol's turn.
Cassie leaned to Rebecca "can you hit that shot?" she asked.
Rebecca looked at the shot and nodded.
"Distract him" she said and slipped away.
"Where did Cassie go?" Kol asked
"She said she wanted to get one more shot for all of us before we tried going after the eight ball" she lied.
Kol and Mason laughed "she can try to get us drunk but its not going to work, the men are going to win this game."
Cassie came back and the waitress came after her and the four of them took their shot.
Kol finished his shot and focused on the game. He started his shot when he heard the waitress call his name. He looked up and saw the waitress was flashing him. He was so distracted he completely missed the shot. "Hey!" he yelled.
The waitress looked at Cassie who pulled out a twenty and walked away.
"Looks like the men aren't going to win this" Cassie said smugly as Rebecca walked over and sunk the eight ball into the pocket.
The two girls high fived at their victory.
Kol was pouting and Mason was laughing.
Cassie looked at the time on her phone and sighed.
"As much fun as I am having I have to bail on you guys." She said grabbing her bag
Mason grabbed his stuff and they left the bar.
Kol and Rebecca watched as the two of them left.
"That was fun," Rebecca said.
"You sound surprised baby sister" Kol told her
"I am" she said and walked out of the bar.
Kol laughed and paid the bill before leaving the Grill knowing that they needed to do this again.
Caroline, Bonnie, and Matt watched as the four them played pool.
"They look like they are having fun," Matt said.
Bonnie nodded "ya for once the originals don't look so."
"Terrible" Caroline finished for her
Bonnie nodded.
"Elena isn't going to be happy when she hears about this" matt said.
"Well Elena cant control everybody" bonnie said bitterly "especially not Cassie"
Caroline laughed. "My god could you see her try?" the three friends laughed at the thought of Elena trying to control what her older sister did.
AN: ch 16! i just want to thank everybody for letting me know what you think, keep it up!