Twice the Love: Twice the Trouble
2x06
Plan B
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Tori and Marie.
At the Gilbert House, Elena and Stefan are in Elena's bed. Stefan is sleeping. Elena lies next to him and watches him sleep.
"You're staring." Stefan said without opening his eyes.
"I'm gazing." Elena corrected.
"It's creepy."
"It's romantic." She corrected again.
He opens his eyes and glances at her. He proceeds to put a pillow over his face so she can't stare at him anymore. Elena laughs. "Hey!" She removes the pillow. Stefan rolls on top of her and kisses her with passion. "Oh, this is bad of us."
"Yes, it is." Stefan starts to kiss Elena's neck.
"If Katherine finds out-"
Stefan stops kissing her neck. "Katherine who?" He smiles and kisses her on the lips. Elena smiles too as she kisses him back.
Mason rolls Marie over on the bed. His hands explore her body and he starts to kiss down her neck and chest. She giggles.
"Shhh." She shushed him. Mason stops kissing her stomach and looks at her. Marie places her finger to his lips. "Ms. Flowers will think I'm a floozy if I have a man in here."
"Why are you staying here?" He asked.
"Because I like this little bed and breakfast, don't you?" She smiled.
"I love it." He grinned. Marie rolls on top of him and they kiss passionately.
Elena rolls herself on top of Stefan and they continue to kiss. Elena pulls away. "Okay, I, um, I need be in the shower."
"Love it, let's go!" He grinned.
"No, just me." She laughed. "I'm late. I'm decorating at the Lockwood charity thing."
"Well, what do you know. So am I."
"You think that's really a good idea to be at their house today?" She asked. "Mason Lockwood tried to kill you."
Marie pushes Mason down on the bed and kisses his chest. Mason laughs. Mari stops kissing him and looks down at him. "Where is the moonstone?" She questioned.
"Somewhere safe." Mason replied.
"Don't you trust me?" She asked.
"I don't trust anyone."
"I don't trust Mason." Stefan told her. "I want to be there today to keep an eye on him."
"Okay." She picks up a needle from her end table and sits up. "But then we can't touch or talk and no lingering stares."
"No, none of that." Stefan replied. He rubs his hand up and down Elena's arm.
"What do you think will happen if Katherine finds out that we were fake fighting?" She asked.
"You scared I'm gonna kill you?" Marie asked Mason.
"No, you won't."
She kisses his lips. She pushes his chin up and starts to kiss his neck. She bites his neck. Ow! Mar, easy!"
Marie looks at him. "Did I hurt you? Sorry."
Elena pricks her fingertip with the point of the needle. "Ow."
"Did it hurt?" He asked.
"It's okay." She assured him. "A little bit every day to make you stronger, right?"
He takes her finger and drinks her blood.
Marie licks the blood off of Mason's neck. "What happens once I give you the moonstone?" Mason asked her.
"We'll live happily ever after." She replied. "I promise."
"I'll bring it tonight, I promise." He promised.
"I promise you, we're gonna get through this." Stefan promised.
"I love you, Stefan." Elena kisses Stefan passionately.
"You know I love you." Marie told Mason.
"I love you too." He replied. Mason and Katherine kiss.
At the Salvatore's house, Damon hears someone knocking on the door, and he answers it. It's Jeremy. "I need to talk to you." Jeremy said.
"And why do I need to talk to you?" Damon asked. He tries to close the door on him. Jeremy pushes it back open.
"Tyler Lockwood has to kill someone to activate his curse. He's not a werewolf yet." Jeremy told him.
"Wow, fascinating. Not enough." Damon attempts to close the door again, but Jeremy pushes back.
"But Mason Lockwood is and he's looking for a moonstone, a special rock connected to the werewolf legend." Jeremy continued. "That's why he's here."
"A moonstone?" Damon asked
"And I know where it is."
"And you're bringing me this why?" Damon asked.
"Do I need a reason? Look, I just want to help, okay?" Jeremy replied.
"What's your sisters say about this little discovery?" He questioned. Jeremy doesn't answer. "Oh, you haven't told her, have you?"
"Well, Tori doesn't want me getting involved in all this." Jeremy told him. "And I don't think Elena does either." He tries to walk into the house. Damon pushes him out.
"And you're a Gilbert and you just can't help yourself. Wow. Your search for life's purpose is as obvious as it is tragic."
"You going to let me in or not?" He asked. Damon steps aside. Jeremy walks in and Damon closes the door.
Marie was in her room by herself, she was pacing back and forth with her phone pressed to her ear. "Pick up, pick up" She whispered biting her nail.
"Hello, sister" Katherine finally answered.
"I just saw your missed calls." Marie told her. "Sorry, I was a bit preoccupied."
"So...do you have the moonstone?"
"Nope" She replied. "But don't worry, Kat, I'm going to get it"
Katherine grinned. "Good luck, sister"
"I don't need luck. Speak to you later" Marie replied before hanging up the phone.
There are people everyone helping to set up for the Masquerade Ball. Inside, Jenna and Carol are talking. "Jenna, thanks for helping wrangle the volunteers." Carol thanked her.
"Of course, it's for a good cause." Jenna replied. "Plus, I have always been a sucker for the Masquerade Ball."
"So was Richard. This was always his favorite party of the year."
Matt and Tyler carry a table into the room and almost drop it. "Wait, wait, wait, Tyler!" Matt told him.
Carol looks over at them. "Boys! Be careful with that! It's from the 1800s." She looks back at Jenna. "Excuse me. Tyler!"
"Mom, we got it." Tyler assure her. Him and Matt continue to carefully move the table. Carol walks over to them.
Jenna walks into another room and sees Stefan. "Stefan, hey!"
"Hey." Stefan greeted.
"I'm cooking dinner tonight. Ric will be there, you should come." She told him.
"You know, Elena and I, we're kind of taking a - a pause." He explained.
"Really?" She asked.
"Yeah."
"Because that's not what it sounded like this morning." Jenna smirked. Stefan tries to muster a face of confusion, but fails to fool her. "Light sleeper. You know what? I heard nothing." She smiles and leaves.
Bonnie is outside, carrying a box. Tori and Elena sees her and walks over to her. "You're here." Elena annonced.
"I'm here." Bonnie smiled.
Tori takes some candles out of the box Bonnie us carrying. Bonnie glances around the yard. "In case your wondering, Caroline's not coming." Tori told her.
"Yeah, I told you she wasn't" Elena reminded her.
"Just making sure."
"You know, eventually, you're gonna have to talk to her." Tori looked at her.
"Could you make it a little less obvious you're on her side?" Bonnie asked.
Elena looked at disbelieved. "There are no sides, Bonnie."
"Come on! Since Caroline became a vampire, we barely see each other." Bonnie told them. "Losing Caroline was bad enough; I didn't think I'd lose you two as well."
"Come with us." Tori told her.
"Where?"
"Not here." Tori replied.
"Some place quiet. We have to talk." Elena told her. They hold their hands out. Bonnie takes them and they walk away.
At the Salvatore Boarding House, Liz is lying on her cot in the Salvatore basement. Caroline comes in. Liz sits up. Caroline walks over to her and looks down at her tray of food. "You didn't eat much."
There was awkward silence. "Good news: Doctor Damon said the vervain is almost out of your system. So with any luck, you'll be freshly compelled and back in your own bed by tonight."
Liz doesn't answer or look at Caroline. "Are you really just gonna pretend like I don't exist?" Caroline questioned.
"Yes. So please, go." Liz replied.
Caroline takes the tray and starts to walk away. "As usual, you don't care. Got it. Just like before I was a vampire. It's not like I died or anything." Caroline opens the door and is about to walk out.
"Are you...Are you really dead?" Liz asked.
"Yes and no."
"How is it possible?" Liz questioned. Caroline walks back into the room and shuts the door.
Back upstairs, Alaric arrives with a box of Isobel's research. "Ric!" Damon says.
Alaric sees Jeremy. "What are you doing here?" He asked.
"Helping Damon." Jeremy replied. "I'm the one who found out about the moonstone."
Alaric looks at Damon. Damon shrugs. He looks back at Jeremy. "Does your sisters know you're here?"
"Not exactly."
"What you got?" Damon asked. He starts to dig through the box and takes out a book.
"This is Isobel research's from Duke. Her assistant sent it to me." Alaric replied.
"Mmm, Vanessa. The hottie." Damon asked.
Alaric takes the book out of Damon's hands. "Vanessa, yes. Now, do you remember the old Aztec curse she told us about?" He asked.
"Sun and the moon, blah blah blah blah blah." Damon rolled his eyes.
Jeremy walks over to them. "An Aztec curse? Cool."
"Yeah, supposedly vampires and werewolves used to roam freely until a shaman put a curse on them to limit their power. Since then, werewolves can only turn on a full moon and vampires are weakened by the sun." Alaric explained.
Damon wiggles his fingers, showing his daylight ring. "Most of them, anyway."
"According to the legend, the werewolf part of the curse is sealed with the moonstone." Alaric shows him a map. Jeremy takes it and looks at it. It has pictures showing the story of the Sun and the Moon curse.
"What do you mean sealed?" Jeremy asked.
"It's a witch thing, whatever seals the curse is usually the key to unsealing the curse." Damon replied.
"Maybe Mason Lockwood believes he can use the moonstone to break the curse." Alaric said.
"If we start believing in some supernatural witchy-woo legend from a picture book, we're idiots. Who has the stone now?"
"Tyler." Jeremy answered
"Can you get it?" He asked.
"Yeah."
"See, now your life has purpose."
"So, you do believe it?" Jeremy asked.
"It's the same book that says a werewolf bite kills a vampire. Ignoring it would make me an even bigger idiot. Let's go." Damon finishes his drink and walks past Alaric and Jeremy.
Elena, Tori and Bonnie are walking across the yard. "I can't believe this." Bonnie announced.
"It's a lot, I know." Tori replied.
"Katherine's doing everything that she can to drive me and Stefan apart and Caroline just got trapped in the middle." Elena explained. They all sit down on a bench.
"It's not that you and Stefan are pretending to fight." Bonnie looked at Elena. "It's that I didn't even know you guys were fighting at all."
"I'm sorry, I don't want to keep things from you but you've made it pretty clear where you stand with the whole vampire thing." Elena replied.
"So that makes me the odd man out."
"No - no, Bonnie, of course not." Tori quickly shook her head. "I know this craziness with Caroline get in the way. But, she needs you too."
"Not yet, I just… she's a vampire, I can't. I think we should get back." Bonnie gets up and leaves. Elena and Tori sighs, looking at each other.
Mason is carrying a box. He sees Stefan, helping set up for the ball. "Hey, Stefan."
"Hey, Mason." Stefan greeted.
Mason places the box down on a table. He is shocked to see Stefan alive. "Wasn't expecting you here. Or anywhere."
"Yeah, I had this little accident." Stefan replied. "But I'm fine now."
"What did you do to Sheriff Forbes?" Mason asked.
"Oh, she's fine too, but from now on, you'll have to do your own dirty work."
"Not a problem." He walks away and accidentally runs into Bonnie. "Excuse me."
Bonnie continues to watch Mason as he looks away. A strange look spreads across her face, which Stefan notices. Stefan walks over to her. "What's the matter? Are you okay?" He questioned.
"When I touched him, I saw something." Bonnie replied.
"What do you mean? Like a vision?" He asked.
"I saw Tori."
Stefan raised his eyebrow. "You saw Tori?"
"He was kissing her." She told him.
"No, Bonnie, Elena wouldn't kiss-" Stefan considers this for a minute, and his face changes from confused to understanding. "You didn't see Tori, you saw...Marie."
Elena and Tori sorting out masks. Elena sees Stefan and Bonnie talking. Damon walks over to them.
"Damon, what are you doing here?" Tori asked.
"Looking for my baby bro." Damon replied. "Speaking of, would you tell yours to stop following me around?"
"What's going on?" Elena asked.
"Ask eager beaver." Damon walks away as Jeremy arrives.
"Jeremy, what is he making you do?" Tori questioned.
Jeremy: He's not making me do anything, Damon and I…
"Uh, no. No way. No, no, no, no. There is no "Damon and you". There's Damon and whoever Damon is using, and those people, they end up dead." Elena told him, which made Tori frown. "Whatever is going on Jeremy, I want you to stay out of it."
"I don't really care what you want, Elena." Jeremy replied. "It's because of Tori and you that I'm in this mess in the first place, so I'm sorry, but you really don't get to tell me what I'm gonna do." He leaves.
Stefan is talking with Damon. "Marie's with Mason Lockwood?" Damon scoffed.
"We missed it." Stefan said. "He got into town right after she did. It makes perfect sense."
"I know, but Mason Lockwood?! Werewolf thing aside, the guy is a surfer. She's got to be using him. She has to be." Damon muttered.
"Using him for what?"
"Mason Lockwood's looking for a moonstone that allegedly can break the full moon werewolf curse." Damon replied. "Maybe Katherine and Marie wants it as well."
"Why?" Stefan asked.
"Well..." Damon trailed off but couldn't think of a reason. "no idea. That's the beauty of those; they're always up to something."
"So, how are we gonna find this moonstone?"
"Jeremy is getting it from Tyler." Damon replied.
"Why would you involve Jeremy?" Stefan walks past Damon and slaps him on the arm. He continues to walk away.
"He's playing Indiana Jones. He involved himself." Stefan looks back at him and shakes his head. Damon scoffs.
Matt is hanging up lanterns, outside. Tyler is standing next to him, holding the ladder. "She's this amazing girl one minute and then this raging, jealous freak the next." Matt explained about Caroline.
"Look, you know what I think of Caroline Forbes. She's an insecure, neurotic, bitchy little twit." Tyler admitted.
"Hey!"
"But the girl's got heart." Tyler added. "She means well. You just gotta take the good with the bad sometimes."
"Yeah. I'm gonna go get an extension cord. I'll be right back." He leaves. Jeremy walks over to Tyler.
"Hey man." Jeremy greeted.
"Hey!"
"Hey, so I did a little research on that stone you showed me." Jeremy told him.
"What? Why?" Tyler questioned.
"I don't know. Curiosity, boredom." He shrugged.
"What did it say?"
"Well, it turns out that it's part of this Aztec legend but I want to make sure it's the same kind of stone. You think I could check it out again?" Jeremy asked.
Tyler shook his head. "Nope. I gave it to my uncle."
"Why did you do that?"
"Because I'm done with legends and curses." Tyler replied. "I don't want anything to do with it, okay?"
"Yeah, yeah sure. It's probably… Just, uh, stupid folklore anyways. Forget it." Jeremy said.
Stefan and Damon have been listening to the entire conversation. They look at each other. Damon is pissed, but Stefan just shrugs it off. They walk away.
Elena walks down the stone steps at the Lockwood Manor. She sits down as she continues to text Stefan. She asks him if everything's okay. Stefan receives it and texts her back saying that he's with Damon and Bonnie and that he'll fill her in later.
Stefan is walking behind Damon, who has Bonnie's arm in his grasp. "Okay. This is as far as I go." Bonnie announced. They stop. Damon lets go of her.
"Okay." Damon said.
"What do you want?" Bonnie asked.
"A favor."
Bonnie scoffed. "Like that's gonna happen."
"So predictable." Damon looks at Stefan. "That's why I brought him."
"I know how you feel about helping us out, but since you're the one that linked Mason with Marie, we finally have an opportunity to get an upper hand on both of them so, just hear us out." Stefan told her.
"Pretty please." Damon begged.
"I'm listening."
Stefan's phone starts to ring. "I have to fill Elena in on what's going on." He looks at Damon. "Can you play nice, please?"
"I guess." Damon replied.
He answers his phone. "Hey, what are you doing? You shouldn't be calling me."
"I know, but I have no idea what's happening. Damon's got Jeremy into something and you've got Bonnie with you and I'm sorting stupid masquerade masks for Mrs Lockwood with Tori." Elena told him.
"Alright, it's okay. Hold on." He walks away.
Damon is talking to Bonnie. "All you have to do is touch Mason Lockwood again to see if he gave Marie the moonstone."
"My visions don't work like that. I don't get to ask questions." Bonnie replied.
"How inconvenient. Although, let's talk about that little witchy juju thing you do with me. You know, the fun one where my brain burst into flames? What is that?" Damon asked.
"That's me giving you an aneurysm. Your blood vessels go pop, but you heal quickly; so, I do it over and over again." She told him.
"Is it vampire specific?" He asked.
"It'd work on anyone with a supernatural healing ability."
"Good." Damon nodded. "Good, good."
Bonnie: Damon, I'm not gonna help you hurt him.
"Mason Lockwood's a werewolf, Marie's evil and so is her sister. They're the bad guys. Really? You're gonna play morality police with me right now?" Damon questioned. "Let me put it to you another way: they're a threat to Elena and Tori. So you, witch, are gonna get over yourself and help us."
Stefan walks back over to them. "Yeah, he meant that as a question with a "please" on the end."
"Absolutely."
Mason walks down the front steps and towards his jeep. "Hey, can you move your van? I'm blocked in." He called. He sees Bonnie trying to remove a table from the back of the truck and runs over to help her. "Hey, how did you get stuck doing that by yourself?"
"All the guys bailed. Something about draft picks." Bonnie replied. "I don't know, I don't speak that language."
"Here, let me give you a hand."
He grabs the table and starts to pull it out. Bonnie looks around and then at Mason. She uses her aneurysm spell on him. He grabs his head and yells in pain and falls down onto his knees
"I'm sorry."
Damon walks past Bonnie and knees Mason in the face. Mason falls to the ground, unconscious. Damon opens the passenger door and signals for Bonnie to get in. Stefan takes Mason's keys out of his pockets and throws them to Damon.
Bonnie gets in Mason's jeep. Damon and Stefan put Mason in the trunk of the jeep. Damon gets in and drives off with Bonnie in the passenger seat.
At the Salvatore's house, Caroline is in the basement cell, talking with her mother.
"So, I mainly drink from blood bags." Caroline told Liz. "It's not as good as the fresh stuff but it beats the animal blood that Stefan's been trying to get me to drink."
"So, you steal the blood from the hospital?" Liz asked.
"Damon does. I've been pilfering his supply, so-"
"And as long as you have blood, you don't need to kill?" Liz questioned.
"I want to. It's my basic nature now." Caroline replied. "But, on a healthy diet, I can control it. I'm getting better at it. I'm better than Stefan. He's a bit of a problem drinker. A blood-aholic."
"I don't want this for you."
"I know. But when life gives you lemons..." She giggles weakly and hears Damon enter the house. "Damon's home."
"You could hear that?"
Damon is carrying Mason over his shoulder. Bonnie drops his bag in a chair. Damon places Mason into a chair. "Here's his bag. As requested."
"Okay, grab that corner." Damon ordered her, guesturing to the sheet.
Bonnie started to spread the sheet. "Why are we doing this?"
"Because I don't want to stain the carpet." Damon replied.
Bonnie rolled her eyes. "I knew you were gonna say something like that."
"Judging again." They pull a blanket over the rug. Damon walks over to Mason's bag.
"He's not gonna be out much longer." Bonnie told him.
Damon takes chains from Mason's bag. "Woah. Looks like this guy's used to being tied up." Bonnie takes Mason's head in her hands. "What are you doing?" He asked.
"You're looking for a moonstone. I'm trying to help you find it."
"Oh, good, yeah. Find out if he gave it to Marie, and find out where she is. And find out what they're gonna do with it once they get it." Damon is tying Mason down into the chair.
Bonnie closes her eyes and concentrates while she touches Mason's head. "Somewhere small. dark. There's water."
"Like a sewer?" Damon asked.
"No. Like a well? That can't be right. Yeah. It's a well." Bonnie told him.
"Why would it be in a well?"
Bonnie lowers her hands and opens her eyes. "I told you, I only get what I get." Mason grunts and grabs Bonnie by the wrist. She gasps. Damon pulls Mason's hand off of her and Bonnie starts to walk away. "That's it. That's all I got."
"Hey, judgey!" Damon called. Bonnie turns around and looks at him. "Thank you." She walks out of the room, leaving Damon alone with Mason "Come on. Wake up, wolf boy." He punches him on the face.
Bonnie is quickly walking to the front door. Caroline comes up from the basement. "Hey!" Caroline called.
Bonnie stops and looks at her. "Hi." Bonnie greeted awkwardly. "How's your mom?" Caroline looked at her confused. "Elena and Tori filled me in on everything."
"I'm gonna take her home tonight." Caroline replied.
"Caroline..Uh... Never mind, I've got to go." Bonnie starts to leave again.
"Did you find the moonstone thing?" Caroline asked.
Bonnie shook her head. "Not yet. Hey, do you remember that old well where we used to play when we were kids?"
"Yeah."
"It's in the woods. Do you remember where?" Bonnie asked.
"On the edge of the old Lockwood property. Why?"
Bonnie pulls out her phone and texts Stefan. "I think that's where Mason is keeping the moonstone. I got to go."
"Well, I can come with you." Caroline offered.
"No, it's okay." She looks at Caroline who is hurt and disappointed. "Sure."
"Okay." Caroline smiles and they walk out of the house together.
At the Lockwood Mansion, Matt, Tori and Elena are inside the house, sorting through costumes and masks. "So, where's Caroline?" Matt asked. "This is like her thing. I can't believe she's not here."
"She had something else to do." Elena replied.
"Is she seeing someone?"
"Matt, come on." Tori spoke up. "No, she's not."
Stefan walks in with a box of masks. Elena looks at him. Tyler walks in the room. "Anyone seen Mason?" He asked.
"He, uh, he took off. He said he wasn't sure when he'd be back." Stefan answered.
"So weird." Tyler muttered. He walks out of the room.
Stefan's phone goes off, he received a text from Bonnie. She tells him to look in the well, next to the old Lockwood property for the moonstone. Stefan looks at Elena.
She walks towards him, but Stefan shakes his head and walks away. She sighs and goes back to sorting the costumes with a bit more furiousity. Matt looks at her.
"I'm not even gonna ask." Matt said.
"I'll be right back." Elena told them. She runs out of the house.
"I'm going with her" Tori told Matt.
Back at the Salvatore's house, Mason is chained down to the chair. Damon is heating up an iron poker in the fireplace. Mason struggles to get ouf of the chair.
Damon looks at him. "Someone's feisty." Damon gets up. Mason continues to struggle and thrusts the chair backwards, falling onto the floor. Damon walks over to him.
"What?!" Mason growled.
Damon sticks the iron poker into Mason's chest. Mason screams. "You can hurt, good to know. I was afraid you were gonna be some beast mass with no affinity for pain." He pulls Mason's collar down and looks at his wound.
"Oh, but you heal quickly." Damon muttered. "Not good. Guess I'll just have to keep applying pain." He grabs Mason and pulls him back up with the chair. He walks back over to the fireplace and heats up the poker again.
"So...Marie." He looked at Mason. "How do you know her? What is she up to?" Mason spits on the floor but says nothing. "I have all day." He thrusts the white hot iron poker into Mason's stomach. Mason grits his teeth and screams.
Stefan walks over to the well and looks down into it. Elena and Tori runs up behind him. "What's going on?" Elena asked.
"You guys shouldn't be here." Stefan told them.
"I know, but here we are." Tori said, "What's going on?"
"Bonnie thinks the moonstone is down here." He replied.
Stefan pulls the lock off the iron grating. He then takes the grating off the top of the well. He turns on the flashlight. They all look down the well. He sighs and looks at Elena. He jumps onto the edge of the well and Elena hands him the flashlight.
"Hey. Be careful." Elena told him.
"I'll only be down there for a minute." Stefan jumps into the well. Elena holds her breath, but when she hears Stefan safely splash at the bottom she breathes out.
Stefan looks down at his arm and sees vapor rising around where the water touched him, his hands and arms burning. He presses himself up against the stone wall and shouts in paint. "Elena!"
"Stefan?!" Elena called.
"Elena! Tori!"
"Stefan, what's happening?!" Tori called. Stefan attempts to climb out, but cannot. "What's going on in there?!"
"Vervain." Stefan manage to say, "Oh, God! Help!"
"Stefan!" Elena jumps off the from the edge of the well and tries to pick up the heavy chain on the ground even with Tori's help. They aren't strong enough.
"Stefan!" Tori called.
Caroline rushes over to them. "Elena! Tori!"
"Caroline, Stefan's down there and the chain is rusted." Tori explained.
Caroline starts to climb into the well, but Elena stops her. "No, no, no! You can't, it's filled with vervain. Caroline, we've got to get him out. Now!"
Caroline tries to process and grabs the chain from the ground while Elena climbs on the edge of the well.
"When did you two meet?" Damon continues to heat the poker in the fire. "Did she seduce you, tell you she loved you? You're supernatural so she can't compel you. I'm sure she used her other charms. Marie's good that way."
Jeremy walks in the room with a box. He sets it down on a table. "I thought I told you to leave." Damon said.
"I found something in Ric's box of stuff." Jeremy told him.
"Ooo. What is it?" Damon walks over to him.
Jeremy takes out a plant. "I did a search on my phone. It's a plant. Aconitum Vulparia. It grows in the mountainous areas of the northern hemisphere. Commonly known as aconite, blue rocket, and wolfsbane." He explained.
Damon opens the cloth and looks at the wolfsbane. "What else did you read?" He asked.
"Well, every source says something different." Jeremy replied. "One myth says it causes lycanthropy, which sounds bogus. Another one says that it protects people and another one says, well, it's toxic"
Mason groans. Damon looks over at him. "I'm guessing toxic." He takes the plant and goes toward Mason. "What's Marie doing in Mystic Falls?"
Mason doesn't answer. Damon brushes the end of the wolfsbane across Mason's cheek. It begins to burn and Mason screams. Jeremy looks uncomfortable by this method of torture. Damon pulls the wolfsbane away. "Why is she here?" Damon demanded.
"She's here with me. Why do you ask, you jealous?" Mason asked.
"How rude of me. You know, I just realized, I didn't offer you anything to eat." Damon shoves the wolfsbane into Mason's mouth. Mason grunts and groans in pain. "Yummy!" He stops. Mason spits up the wolfsbane and coughs.
Elena wraps the chain around herself and hooks it against one of the links. She looks at Caroline. "I got you, okay?" Caroline assured her.
"Me too" Tori told her.
Elena nods. "Yeah."
Bonnie runs up to them. "What's going on? You just took off in a blur."
"I heard Elena and Tori screaming." Caroline explained. "Help her, now!" Bonnie grabs Elena's hand and her and Tori helps lower her into the well. "Are you ready?"
"Yeah."
Elena is lowered into the well with the help of Caroline. Caroline slowly reels her down. Caroline loses hold of the chain for a second but grabs it just in time. "Sorry!" She called.
"Are you okay?!" Tori asked.
"Yeah, fine" Elena called. "It's okay, keep going. Come on!"
Caroline continues to lower Elena down into the well. Elena finds Stefan, he's unconscious. She unhooks the chain from around herself and puts it around Stefan. "Hey! Oh, Oh my God."
"Elena, what's going on down there?" Caroline questioned.
"Pull him up!"
Caroline starts to pull the chain up from the well. Bonnie unties Stefan and, with the help of Caroline, places him on the ground. Elena turns the flashlight on.
"Elena? Ready for you!"
"Hold on! I need to find the stone." Elena gropes around the cracks in the well for the stone.
"Hurry!" Tori called.
Elena continues searching in the vervain-filled water. She finds a wooden box and picks it up. "Hold on! I think I found it!"
Elena grabs the box and a snake inches towards her. It wraps onto her. Elena screams and throws the snake off of her. Another snake has crawled up her arm. She backs up against the wall and pulls the box out its hiding spot. She ties the chain around herself again.
"Elena! What's going on?!"
"I got it. Come on! Bring me up!" Elena yelled. Caroline reels Elena up. Bonnie helps Elena when she finally gets out of the well. Elena looks down at Stefan. She jumps off the well and down to him. "Oh, god! Stefan!"
She cradles his head under her arm. Tori, Bonnie and Caroline rush over to her.
"Stefan! Stefan." Elena sees a rock nearby and grabs it. She cuts her hand with it. Caroline turns away. Elena places her wrist to Stefan's mouth. He opens his eyes and drinks from her. "I've got the stone, Stefan. Stefan, it's gonna be okay, everything's gonna be okay."
"Why do you want the moonstone?" Damon asked.
"Screw you!" Mason spat.
"Ahhh!" Damon made a buzzer noise. "Wrong answer!"
"If he was gonna say anything, he would have already!" Jeremy spoke.
"I'm taking your eyes now."
"The well! You can find it there." Mason told him.
Damon threateningly holds the wolfsbane up to Mason. "I know where it is. I want to know what it does and why you want it."
"I'm getting it for Marie and Katherine." Mason replied.
"Why?"
"She's gonna use it to lift the curse."
"Of the moon? Now, why would a vampire help a werewolf break a curse that keeps them from turning whenever they want?" Damon questioned.
"So I wouldn't have to turn anymore." Mason said.
"Why?" Damon asked.
"Because she loves me." Mason replied.
Damon laughs. "Now - now I get it. You're just stupid. Marie doesn't love you. She's using you, you moron."
"I'm done talking."
"Yes, you are." Damon hands Jeremy the wolfsbane. Jeremy grabs it. "It's time to take a walk, Jeremy."
"I'm staying." Jeremy said.
"No, you should go."
"I'm staying, Damon. He's had enough." Jeremy said stubbornly.
Mason looks at Jeremy. "Just help Tyler. Don't let this happen to him."
"Damon-"
Damon superspeeds over to Jeremy and grabs him by the throat. "You wanted to be a part of this? Well, here it is! Kill or be killed! The guy is a werewolf; he'd kill me the first chance he got! So, you suck it up or leave."
Damon lets go of Jeremy. Jeremy coughs. "He wants me to kill him, anyway. Don't you, Mason? It really is a curse, isn't it?"
Jeremy gets up and leaves.
"You know, I look at you I see myself. A less dashing, less intelligent version." Damon said to Mason.
"I love her." Mason told him.
"Oh, I know! I've been where you are. But Marie will only rip your heart out. Let me do it for her." Damon thrusts his hand into Mason's chest. Mason groans. Damon removes his heart from his chest. Mason's eyes go lifeless and his head falls down to his chest.
Over at the Gilbert house, Jenna and Alaric are in the kitchen, cooking dinner together. Alaric is chopping up food with a knife.
"You're pretty handy with that thing." Jenna said.
"Yeah, well, it's a skill." Alaric laughs. "Here." He grabs a piece of food and feeds it to Jenna. He kisses her. "Where's the, um, where's the sea salt?"
"Table."
They kiss again. Alaric lays dinner plates down on the table. Tori Elena opens the front door and quietly closes it. Alaric looks at her and mouths "Are you okay?" to them. They both nod and walks up the stairs.
Caroline and Liz are sitting on the cot together, still in the cell. "So I pulled Stefan out of this well and he's all vervained and just rotted, but Bonnie wasn't mean to me once and I just - I really think it's progress, you know? I just...what? I'm freaking you out."
"It's just that you've become this person..." Liz trailed off.
"Don't. Don't. We...We're just starting to get along..."
"This strong, this confident person." Liz finished.
"Oh. Thank you." Caroline smiled.
"You don't have to take my memories away. I'll keep your secret. Look, if you're worried about them, just say you compelled me. I won't tell. I'll never do anything to hurt you." Liz told her.
"We never talk like this. Ever. And today meant so much to me." Caroline said.
"Me too."
"I know." Caroline grabs Liz's hands in her own. "I know I can trust you, but you're never going to trust them." She cries as she compels her. "I'm going to take you home. You're going to forget that I'm a vampire."
"I'm going to forget that you're a vampire." Liz repeated.
"You'll remember you got sick with the flu. You had a fever, chills and ickiness, but I made you soup and it was really salty. We bickered. You got better and then your selfish little daughter, who loves you no matter what, went right back to ignoring you and all is right in the world."
Damon rolls up Mason's body in a blanket. Stefan arrives and shows the moonstone to Damon. "All this for that?"
"Yep." Stefan tosses Damon the moonstone. "I see you've exercised your usual restraint."
"Had to be done." He takes Mason's phone and texts Carol on behalf of Mason. "Carol, big opportunity in Florida, I'm gonna be gone for a long time. Will send for my things once I get settled. Much love, Mason"
"Let's get rid of the body."
"Oh, last number dialed. I wonder who that could possibly be?" Damon pushes redial.
Stefan tries to stop him. "No, no, no! Don't provoke her!"
Marie answers her phone, thinking its Mason calling. "Mason, you should have been here an hour ago." She said annoyed.
Stefan continues to try to get Damon off the phone, but Damon pushes him back. Stefan slaps his hand and walks away in frustration.
"Wrong boy toy." Damon said.
"Damon." Marie whispered. "For once you've surprised me. I assume Mason is with you?"
"He's right beside me! Although, his heart's across the room." He shrugged.
"You shouldn't have." She growled.
"I've had a very busy day today. I killed a werewolf, found a moonstone. Hey, did you know that he hid the moonstone in the bottom of a well full of vervain? I guess he didn't trust you very much. Although, he did love you. Poor guy. Hey, where are you? Because, you know, I could bring him over. Last goodbyes and all that."
"You have no idea what you've just done."
"Aww, did I put a kink in your master plan?" Damon pouted. "I'm so sorry."
"Do you honestly believe that I don't have a plan B?" Marie asked. "And if that fails, a plan C, then a plan D, and… you know how the alphabet works, don't you? Send Katherine's love to Stefan." She hangs up. Damon looks up at Stefan.
Elena walks downstairs and into the kitchen followed by Tori. "Where is Jeremy?" Elena asked.
"Oh, he went straight up to his room." Alaric replied. "He said he wasn't hungry."
Tori helps lay out the plates and looks over at Jenna. Jenna is on the phone with someone. "Who is she talking to?"
Alaric shrugged. "I don't know. Everything go okay today?"
"There were a few hiccups, but yeah." Elena nodded.
Jenna on the phone. "Of course, I understand. Tori, it's for you." Jenna hands her the phone.
"Who is it?" She asked. Jenna shrugs but doesn't say anything. Tori takes the phone and places it to her ear. "Hello?"
"Hello, Tori." Marie greeted.
Tori looks at Elen and Ric. They look questioningly at her. She walks out of the room. "Marie" She breathed out.
"Did Elena and you enjoy your little rendezvous with Stefan this morning? We'll always know, Elena. We'll always be one step ahead of you. When are you gonna figure that out? Do you know how easy it was to get inside of your house?" Marie quizzed. "To replace Aunt Jenna's vervain perfume, to convince her to stop drinking her special tea?"
Tori looks over at Jenna. Elena wants to know what's going on, but Tori puts her hand up, gesturing to him to hold on. "No."
"Jenna's been my little spy for days now. But unlike you, Jenna actually listens to me. So when I suggested that the world would be a much better place if she were to just -"
Jenna holds a knife into the air. She points it at her stomach. Tori drops the phone. "Jenna, no!" Jenna stabs herself in the stomach and falls to the floor.
"Jenna! Jenna!"
Alaric, Tori and Elena rush over to her.
"Well, you get the idea." Marie smirked. She hangs up.
At Mystic Falls Hospital, Tori and Elena walks out into the waiting room. Jeremy gets up and walks towards them.
"Is she okay?" Jeremy asked.
"The doctors told Alaric that she got lucky." Tori replied. "She's gonna make it. She's gonna be okay."
"Does she remember what happened?" Jeremy questioned.
Tori shook her head. "No, nothing."
"It's all a part of Marie's mind compulsion." Elena told him.
"Why would Marie and Katherine hurt Jenna?"
"Because she's trying to send a message. That she could get to anybody." She starts to cry and turns away.
"Hey, hey, hey, come here." He embraces her. "It's gonna be okay."
"No, it's not."
"She's gonna pay, Tori. Both of them. I don't know how but they're gonna pay."
Tyler walks in the house. He sees his mom in the dining room and walks over to her. "It looks good."
"Thanks." Carol smiled. "It was nice to see Matt today. He hasn't been around for a while."
"We've both been busy, I guess. Have you seen Mason? The guy's been AWOL all day."
"Actually Tyler, Mason headed back to Florida." Carol told him.
"What?" Tyler asked.
"I'm sorry, honey. I know how much you two hit it off." Carol replied.
"So he just left?"
"I was hoping he'd stick around... I thought that with your dad gone… anyway, he's gone. So, I guess it's just you and me now." Carol pats his shoulder and walks out of the room.
Elena walks into the library. Stefan is standing by the fireplace. He turns to face Elena. He is in tears. "I'm so sorry." He apologized.
"We were stupid. Sneaking around, thinking that we weren't gonna get caught." Elena says.
Stefan nodded. "I know."
"We did this. Stefan, Jenna's in the hospital and Jeremy or Tori could be next. All because we didn't - we didn't listen to her. Because - because we're together. Stefan..."
"I know what you're gonna say to me." Stefan whispered.
Elena walks closer to him. "Then let me say it. I've been so selfish because I love you so much and I know how much you love me. But it's over. Stefan, it has to be."
"Elena, I-"
"Don't, Stefan." Elena cut him off. She grabs his face in her hands. She has tears in her eyes as well. "It has to be."
She hesitates, but finally gives him one last kiss goodbye. She pulls away. She looks at him for a second and walks out of the room before she can change her mind.
Tori was standing in front of the door in the Boarding house waiting for Elena. Elena walks in the living room, clutching her stomach and continuing to cry. She races out the door.
Tori was going to run after her but when he reached the front door and opens it, Damon grabs her arm. She turns around and looks at him.
"Tori. I riled Marie up. I - I wasn't thinking. I didn't think." He told her.
"It doesn't matter, Damon." She cried, tears streaming down her face. "Marie won. They both won."
Tori was surprised when Damon pulled her into a hug. She hesitated for a moment before returning his hug. She buried her head in the crook of his neck ad Damon tighten the hug.
After what seemed like forever, Tori pulled away. "I have to go." She told him. "Elena needs me" Damon placed a kissed on her forehead. "Goodbye, Damon" She smiled gently. She walks out and closes the door.
Katherine is pacing back and forth and talking to someone while Marie sitting on the bed.
"I apologize for my sister if she seem rattled." Marie apologized.
"Circumstances have changed suddenly, and I had to adjust." Katherine sits on the bed. "Mind control is a necessary evil. You see, I need a werewolf, and Marie lost the one that I had. Now, tell me what you're going to do to help me get a new one."
The person she is talking to Matt Donovan. "I'm going to go after Tyler Lockwood."
She compels him. "And you're not going to stop."
"And I'm not going to stop." Matt repeated.
"Until?"
"Until he kills me." Matt said.
A/N: So what do you think?
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