Twisted Love

Season Two

Kill or Be Killed

DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace :)

"Wake up." A already clothed Damon purred against Grace's slender neck, she squirmed as she lay flat on her stomach still sleeping "Grace. Wake up." He shook her a little.

"Damon." She whined "Just 5 more minutes."

"There's a Founder's Picnic today, we need to get ready for it." Damon slid the sheets off of her exposed body slowly, she was still only wearing her panties, with no bra placing delicate kisses on her spine "c'mon, get up."

"No. I don't feel like going. I'm sick." She lied pressing her face into the pillow.

"Vampires don't get sick." Damon smirked sinking his teeth into her hip feeling her sweet blood pool in his mouth.

"Ow." She sat up on her elbows looking over her shoulder.

"That didn't hurt." He licked at her wound gently before moving to her shoulder sinking his teeth in again leaving another mark making her hiss "Go shower, I'll run to your place and get you some clothes."

"I'm covered in bites." She noted feeling the blood drip down her back soaking into the sheets beneath her.

"Go wash the blood off." He shooed her with a smile.

A year ago Mason was down in the Emerald Coast, Florida. It was a humid evening and the human was just leaving a bar when he walked over to his car someone shoved him.

"Mason!" The man growled.

"Hey Jimmy." Mason laughed turning to the blond, tempered man "Easy. Let's get you home."

"Screw you." Jimmy growled as he shoved him yet again "I know about you and Marla."

"What are you talking about?" Mason shook his head "You've had too much to drink." Jimmy lunged for him beginning to strangle him, but Mason pushed him away "Dude! What's up! It's me, Mason! I'm not messing with Marla. You know that!" as Mason finished his sentence Jimmy swung out and his fist collided with Mason's jaw "You don't want to do this, buddy." His temper was wearing thin for the blondes attitude.

"I'll kill you." Jimmy hollered as he ran for him managing to shove him to the ground, booting him in the stomach a couple of times and adding a few hits around the face for good measure.

Acting quick Mason picked up Jimmy and with all of his force slammed the violently man against the pavement, Jimmy's head flung back and he smacked hard against the ground and his entire body went still.

"Jimmy?" Mason shook his head gently trying to get him to respond, but his eyes were not moving the soon to be werewolf for blood pour from his head in a thick puddle of blood, staining Jimmy's blonde hair "Jimmy?" His voice shook as people surrounded them.

"Wait, the guy died? You killed him?" Tyler asked his Uncle in the present day.

"He kept coming at me. He got it in his head that I was sleeping with his girlfriend." Mason shrugged.

"Were you?" Tyler cocked an eye brow suspicious of his uncle.

"No. No. I wouldn't do that, he was my friend." Mason denied "He was drunk and he attacked me. It was self-defence."

"And it triggered the curse?" Tyler asked.

"On every full moon, I lose control. If I don't sedate myself and chain myself down, I'll kill anything in my path. You have to be careful. All it takes is an accident, a car wreck..." Mason explained and Tyler's mind flashed back to the car accident where Caroline almost died "Any death at your hands and you'll have a lifetime of this. You don't want it Tyler, trust me." Mason told him concerned for his nephew "Alright. Where is the moonstone? A deal os a deal. I answered your questions."

"Um, yeah, I'm not sure, but I'm guessing it's in here." He walked towards his fathers safe that was hidden under the rug "My dad, he was very kooky with his hiding spots, but I figured most of them out over the years." He bends down and opens the safe for Mason "it's all yours." Tyler already knew the moonstone wasn't going to be in there, but would let his Uncle look anyway.

"Are you going to tell me what's so important about this rock or what?" Tyler asked as an annoyed Mason stopped searching the safe.

"I told you, it's just something I want. Sentimental value." Mason shrugged.

"Yeah, I'm not really buying that... Why do you want it?" Tyler's voice was low and demanding.

"Do you know where it is or not?" Mason narrowed his eyes.

"No, I figured it would be in here, man." Tyler held his hands up lying smoothly.

Elena was in the bathroom brushing her hair getting ready to go out, Jeremy was in there too standing in the doorway to his bedroom.

"I can't believe Tyler Lockwood is a werewolf." Jeremy mused.

"We're not sure about that yet. The only thing we know for sure is that Mason Lockwood is."

"How do you know Damon didn't kill Grace? He killed me." Jeremy looked at her "Do you really trust him?"

"Jer, the night Grace was killed Damon was with me in Duke Academy... Mason killed Grace, Stefan witnessed it." Elena shook her head "Mason must be a werewolf."

"It should be easy enough for us to figure out." Jeremy nodded.

"There is no us." Elena gave him a look "I said that I wouldn't keep things from you anymore. That doesn't meant hat I want you involved in it."

"By definition of being in this family, I'm involved." Jeremy stood there stubbornly.

"This is dangerous, Jeremy. You have to stay out of it, ok?" Elena gave him a look.

"Alright. Just saying." Jeremy walked from the room.

Elena rolled her eyes as she walked back into her bedroom opening her closet to look inside reaching in grabbing a few things, as she closed it again Stefan was standing there, she jolted accordingly.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." Stefan apologised closing the bathroom door for her so Jeremy wouldn't see, she quickly stood on her tiptoes to greet him with a kiss.

"Hi." She giggled.

"Hey." Stefan grinned as they embraced each other "Are you ready for today?" He kissed the top of her head.

"No. I hate fighting with you, even if it's fake." Elena pouted snuggling into his warm chest.

"I know but of Katherine things that we are fighting, then she will think that her and Fayth are winning and it keeps her from following through with her threats." Stefan replied.

"Yeah. But it doesn't make it any easier. Neither does knowing that Caroline will be there, reporting everything back to them." Elena shivered.

"Hey, everything's going to be ok. Yes, we have to keep up this ruse for a little while but its the best way to keep Katherine and Fayth from hurting anybody, from hurting you." Stefan looked down at her deep into her chocolate brown eyes.

"Just promise me that she won't get her way with us. We can fake a fight, we can pretend that her treats are tearing us apart, but none of it is's real, ok?" Elena looked at him searching.

"Ok, how about this? Today, when we're fighting, if i say 'I can't do this anymore, Elena', what I'll really mean is that I love you." Stefan smiled.

"And when I say, 'Fine Stefan, whatever', well that means I love you too." She giggled as they kissed again.

Grace pulled on her clothes, she had changed her underwear away from Damon, but had put her real clothes on in front of him.

Damon sat across from her nursing a glass of blood, she had already finished hers. His icy blue eyes ran up and down her body taking mental picture of every detail; every outline; every curve and Grace turned away blushing making a wall with her long hair.

"What?" Damon smirked as he zipped towards her standing in front of her feeling the heat radiating from her cheeks "why are you embarrassed?"

"The looks your giving me." She whispered covering her face.

"Have you never been naked naked in front of someone before?" He played with the waistband of her short shorts pushing his thumb into them.

"No." Grace turned her head away from him removing his hands her eyes watering from the embarrassment.

"Don't be embarrassed." Damon leaned his head down looking directly into her eyes whilst rubbing small circles on her bony hip raising her shirt gently "And I take it from that you've never had sex before..."

"No." She whispered avoiding eye contact with her blue eyed boyfriend "Damon, can we stop this is just so embarrassing." She whined turning away.

"No." he took her wrist turing her back into his body "I want you to be open and honest with me, I want you to feel as if you can tell me anything." He pressed soft kisses against her collar bone making Grace's eyes flutter shut "Before me have you ever kissed anyone?"

"Tyler." Grace replied "We were drunk at a party at his house and it moved upstairs to a bedroom, we were gonna..." She trailed off when she saw the deathly look in his eyes.

"That werewolf touched you." Damon growled "You let him touch you, aside from being a werewolf, he's will have anything with a pulse."

"And let's be honest you'll have anything with or without a pulse." Grace pulled her hands back giving him a look "You wanted me to be honest, well I'm being honest... if you're gonna get like this I won't tell you things in the future." She crossed her arms over her chest "Plus, we don't know that Ty is a werewolf..."

"Ty?" Damon shook his head.

"Whatever, Damon." Grace walked away from him "He is a good friend of mine and I'm not about to start accusing him of something he's not... I'll see you at the picnic-"

"Wait." He growled turing around to face her "I don't know what to say..." he blanked

"Sorry would be a good place to start, I thought I could be open and honest with you? You just made a little bit of me die on the inside." She pressed her hand to her chest being dramatic.

"You're already dead." Damon smirked as he walked towards her "You can be honest with me, but I'm still going to be jealous when you tell me you almost done it with another guy, the same guy who is the nephew to the guy that killed you."

"I understand." Grace nodded.

"I'm sorry." He purred against her neck and she giggled.

"Apology accepted." she moaned "We'd better get a move on." She told him.

At Caroline's house Liz was carrying some boxes outside to her open car boot when Caroline walked in.

"Are you off today?" Caroline asked surprised.

"The historical society volunteer picnic is today. You're the one who signed me up." She reminded her young daughter.

"I know. I just assumed you'd bale." Caroline replied.

"No. I'm going to spend the whole day with my daughter." Liz smiled gently.

"You're going to pretend to be a mother?" Caroline gasped sarcastically.

"I'll bring my gun if it gets rough." Liz joked "Come on, give me one day. I've been buried in work mode, I've barely seen you."

"well be warned, I'm I a mood." Her eyes narrowed unintentionally.

"Goody for me." Liz rolled her eyes "What was Elena and Grace doing here last night?"

"Elena wasn't … yes um … Grace and Elena were here. They just needed to talk. Have some girl time. Grace and Damon have just got together and Stefan and Elena are going through a rough patch." Caroline shrugged, it was really Katherine and Fayth that had turned up at Caroline's house to get the details on Elena and Stefan for Katherine.

"Is everything ok with you?" Liz looked at her attentively.

"I'm fine." Caroline shrugged.

"It's just lately you seem different." Liz noted.

"I'm not different, I'm fine." The blonde replied.

"I know you don't notice these things but I do. What's going on with you?" Liz asked.

"You know there's pretending to be a mother and then there's reality. Let's not push our luck, ok?" Caroline rolled her eyes as she walked into her house.

At Mystic Falls Public Park, the historical society were throwing their annual picnic volunteer day, Carol Lockwood was up doing a speech.

"This all part of the historical society, continuing efforts to give back to the community. Thanks to the generous donation of the Fell family. We are now standing on the sight of our newest public park. Thank you to everyone who has shown up today to lend a helping hand. Thanks." The new mayor spoke into a microphone.

Mason was moving some boxes from the back of his jeep when Grace walked over to him, Stefan quickly caught up with her catching her arm.

"Are you sure it's a good idea to go over to him?" Stefan asked.

"Yes. I need to speak to him." Grace replied "Damon tried to kill him last night." she hissed lowering her voice making sure no one heard her, Mason turned and looked at them both suspiciously.

"Stefan right? The other Salvatore." He noted "And I met you yesterday. Grace."

"Yep." Grace nodded "Stefan is the nicer brother."

"But you're dating Damon, how can you say that he is nicer?" Mason looked at her.

"I may be dating Damon, but that doesn't change him as a person." Grace replied linking it to her next subject "Speaking of Damon being mean, I'm here to offer an apology."

"Not interested." he went to walk past her, but Stefan stood in his way.

"Look, Damon acted impulsively-"

"You think." Mason growled at her.

"If you and Damon keep at each other throats, somebody innocent is going to get hurt, last time it was me... I don't want it to happen again. You have family here so I can imagine you'd want that either. So what do you say we just quit the whole alpha male fighting thing and call a truce?" Grace lowered her voice staring him down.

"I made that same offer to your boyfriend. He turned it down with a knife. For you." Mason replied shortly.

"He acted irresponsibly, I can't excuse him for being protective of me and I wouldn't want to, it's who he is. It was a mistake" Grace replied "I'm just here to make sure that neither of you makes another one."

"Tell you boyfriend to watch his back." Mason growled about to walk away, but Grace caught his arm, Stefan was about to step in if something got out of hand.

"Well, I'm guessing that he only has to worry about that during a full moon. Otherwise you're not as strong, am I right? Or you would have killed Damon by now. There's one of you. Two of us. I think you're the one that needs to watch his back..." Grace spat.

"If he comes at me..." Mason finally saw sense.

"He wont." Grace replied assuringly.

Mason nodded at Grace and shook Stefan hand before walking away. The younger Salvatore brother then turned to the newborn.

"Are you crazy? You can't go around threatening people like that." Stefan told her "and what is Damon-"

"What are you doing?" Damon asked coyly suddenly next to her.

"I'll give you two some privacy." Stefan walked away from the couple rolling his eyes.

"Negotiating peace on your behalf." Grace smiled looking up into his captivating bright blue eyes.

"I don't want peace." He moaned playfully and Grace giggled.

"Consider it opposite day." Grace replied with a smug smiled.

"Grace, please don't tell me that you are naïve enough to actually believe that a head nod and a hand shake just solved our problems." Damon growled leaning close to her lips.

"No." Grace shook her head effectively making their lips brush together "Actually I think that the first chance Mason Lockwood gets, he's going to drive a stake through your heart then through mine, all because you took it upon yourself to try and kill him because he killed me, but I'm here now and you need to remember that before you act out. You haven't lost me, I'm with you."

Across town in a calm Mystic Grill, Jeremy was sat up at a table when he looked over at Tyler. Sarah and Aimee Bradley as they stood at a pool table giggling, Sarah looked over at Jeremy.

"When did Jeremy Gilbert get so cute?" Sarah asked tucking a dark strand of her brunette hair behind her ear.

"Oh no, stay away, that guy is damaged goods." Aimee replied.

Jeremy gets up from where he was sitting in a booth to join Tyler where he was sitting away from him.

"Hey man, how have you been?" Jeremy asked taking a seat.

"Since when?" Tyler replied.

"I don't know, I haven't seen you much since your father's funeral. I just figured maybe you'd want-"

"I'm fine, Gilbert." Tyler cut him off.

"Yeah, ok." Jeremy stood up about to leave.

"Wait, hold up." Tyler stopped him "I'm sorry. Bad day, bad month. Listen, you were cool that day, at the wake. Thanks for that." Tyler nodded "I felt like kind of a freak show."

"Yeah, I know the feeling well. What are you doing here?" Jeremy questioned.

"Distracting myself." Tyler replied as Aimee and Sarah walked over joining them.

"Hey, thanks for the text. Where too?" Aimee giggled flirtatiously.

"My place." Tyler replied "My mom is gone all day. Empty house, fully stocked bar..."

"Margaritas?" Aimee asked hopeful.

"Sure." Tyler shrugged looking at Jeremy "You in?"

"Yeah. Yeah, I'm in." Jeremy nodded.

"Let's do it." Aimee giggled and they all left.

Back at the park Mason was helping Liz, he wanted to tell her about the Salvatore's and Grace being vampires.

"Oh thanks Mason." Liz smiled at him.

"Hey Sheriff, you got a second?" Mason asked hopeful.

"I'm out of uniform. Let's go with Liz." She replied with a small laugh.

"Alright, Liz. I was hoping to talk to you about the council." He replied.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Liz brushed him off.

"I know you and the other founding families have a secret council." Mason told her.

"If that were true you'd know it's a secret and isn't discussed with non-council members." Liz growled.

"I know I rejected all that but it's only because I wanted a life outside of this town, not because I was a non-believer." Mason lowered his voice "Look, I know vampires exist and you have... two of them right under your nose." Mason decided to leave Grace out.

"Really?" Liz cocked an eye brow.

"Yeah." Mason nodded.

"Who would they be?" Liz asked skeptically.

"Damon and Stefan Salvatore." Mason replied.

"That's impossible." Liz's eyes were mad with fury "I know Damon Salvatore. Do you know what he's done for this town?"

"I know it's a lot to digest." Mason nodded.

"no. I watched him kill Vampires. He's an ally; he's part of the council." Liz spat protective of her friend.

"Think about it. When did the vampire attacks begin? When Damon and Stefan Salvatore moved to town?" Mason reminded her.

"They walk in the sun, Mason." Liz shook her head.

"They're evolved. It's not 1864. They figured it out, Liz." Mason told her.

"No. Damon Salvatore is my friend." Liz nodded.

"What if I can prove it to you?" Mason asked hopeful as they both looked over at Stefan and Damon.

Elena and Caroline were painting a veranda whilst talking casually, Elena kept catching glances from her boyfriend.

"Here." Grace brought over some more paint cans "More paint for you."

"Thanks." Caroline nodded continuing her story "So suddenly, she's in the running for mother of the year just when I'm trying to avoid her the most..." She saw the Grace and Elena were not listening "I'm babbling, you don't want to hear all this."

"Oh, no, sorry." Elena shook her head "Then what happened?"

"Well, I was a bitch which is part of the course with us... So, how are things with you and Stefan? Anything?" Caroline asked coyly.

"No, not since the fight."

"I can't believe you two had a fight, you were both so perfect for each other." Grace looked at her hurt, Elena sighed, she hated lying to her.

"He's been pushing me away because he thinks that Katherine might get jealous enough to hurt me. I just don't know how to change his mind." Elena looked down at her feet.

"You said that Katherine's dangerous. Maybe he's got a point." Caroline was trying to push Elena away from Katherine too.

"Yeah, I know she's dangerous and I know that he's just trying to protect me but it feels like giving up and I just..." Elena sighed heavily.

"Just what?" Caroline's eyes widened.

"I just thought that we were stronger than that." Elena shrugged.

Damon saw Liz standing by the lemonade stand, he walked over smiling at her, but she just watched him warily.

"Hey, I saw you with Mason earlier. What's that about?" Damon questioned.

"I just asked him to help with the cleanup in the woods." Liz shrugged lying.

"That's what I'm here for, put me to work. I should help him." Damon put a different meaning behind helping Mason cleanup, alone in the woods.

"Oh no." Liz shook her head "You know, he's... I'm sure he's fine." she added.

"Are you ok, Liz? You seem really upset." Damon noted.

"It's Caroline." Liz partially lied "We had a moment."

"Is there anything I can do?" Damon looked at her kindly.

"No, Damon. Thank you. It's just horrible parental skills paying off in spades." Liz shrugged.

Elena was painting a wall every now and then looking over a her shoulder to look at Stefan, she saw Grace walked towards him.

"Oh, oh." Caroline muttered "Longing looks are being exchanged."

"What's Grace doing?" Elena asked as she put her paintbrush down "I need to go over."

Grace walked over to Stefan as he was sanding down some wood, he smiled gently at her, but her face was dead serious.

"What is your problem?" Grace asked.

"I'm sorry?" Stefan looked at her surprised.

"You and Elena, you're stronger than letting Katherine come between you both, aren't you?" Grace looked at him angrily.

"Grace, you don't understand-" Stefan shook his head, but was cut off.

"What is this really about Stefan?" Grace growled.

"Grace." Elena arrived next to her "I think you should go and find Damon."

"No, Elena. You and Stefan aren't meant to be this way." Grace hissed.

"Grace." Elena gave her and look, a small sigh fell from the vampires lips as she walked back to Caroline who was talking to Damon.

"Why are you being such a bitch to your mom?" Damon questioned and Grace hit his arm lightly.

"Hey. Be nice." Grace hissed.

"Don't worry about it." Caroline muttered to Damon.

"Do you still care about Katherine?" Elena crossed her arms over her chest.

"Don't do this." Stefan shook his head "Please don't turn this into something that it's not."

"So this is not for discussion. That's why you're saying?" Elena looked at him coyly.

Across the park Caroline, Grace and Damon were listening to the conversation, but pretending not to.

"No, I'm saying that this isn't up for discussion right now because we have eats on us." He looked over at the three vampires.

"Ok, when?" Elena asked.

"I don't know." Stefan shrugged.

"I saw her Stefan. It's like we are the same person. How could you hate her and be in love with me?" Elena spat.

"You're reaching. I'm not … I'm not Damon."

"Speaking of Damon, how do we know that he isn't treating Grace as if she was Fayth?" Elena asked and Grace looked up at Damon a little hurt.

"Don't bring them into this." Stefan replied "You know, I can't … I can't do this anymore, Elena." he replied secretly meaning 'I love you'

"Fine, Stefan. Whatever." Elena walked away secretly meaning 'I love you, too'

Caroline's eye brows rose as the conversation ended, Grace bit her bottom lip looking down and Damon's face grew hard.

"Erm … I'm going to find Elena." Grace whispered as she went to walk away.

"Grace." Damon caught her arm wanting to talk to her.

"Not now." Grace shook her head gently.

"But, Grace-"

"Damon." Grace growled "I need to find Elena." She told him and he released her from his grip.

"Wow. She's mad at you already. Doesn't really surprise me. I better go find Grace make sure she's ok" Caroline smirked as she walked away from him.

Aimee and Sarah are dancing to some upbeat music whilst Tyler and Jeremy were drinking. Aimee rejoins Tyler with a flirtatious smile.

"Where is mine?" Aimee pouted.

"Have at it." Tyler nodded as he walked over to the bar.

"Thanks for having us over. I think Sarah's got a thing for Jeremy." Aimee told Tyler in secret.

"Well, good for Sarah." The black haired teen replied sarcastically.

"Look, I'm really embarrassed about slutting it up with you that day at the swimming hole. I'm really not like that, I promise you." She replied.

"You don't need to apologize." Tyler shook his head.

"Friends?" Aimee asked hopeful.

"Yeah, sure." Tyler nodded and they both took a swig of their drinks.

Sarah takes Jeremy's notebook from where it was laying on the table "Can I see?" she asked.

"No, no. No way." Jeremy shook his head trying to take it away from her.

"I want to see." Aimee skipped towards the two followed by Tyler.

"Yeah, let's see. What's Van Gogh got going on?" he teased the younger boy.

"Okay, yeah. Check it out." Jeremy shrugged.

"Scary demon wolf thing." Sarah took one picture out, it was a werewolf looking creature Tyler seems uncomfortable with the drawing and Jeremy could feel the awkwardness pouring off him.

"What's this about?" Tyler grabbed the sketch book and looked through the many drawings of wolf looking creatures mix with a human look.

"Just some sketches." Jeremy shrugged casually "You still draw, Tyler?"

"A little, but not much. You know, I've got something I'm actually working on. Come on, I'll show you" Tyler lead only Jeremy back into his fathers office "It's on the desk." The boy pointed.

Jeremy walked over and looked on the desk but there's nothing there for him to look at. Tyler closes the door behind him as he walked further into the room.

"I don't really see anything." Jeremy pushed papers around.

Tyler rushes over to the younger boy and pushed him against the wall beginning to strangles him.

"What were those pictures about?" Tyler demanded.

"I can't breathe." Jeremy rasped.

"Answer me! Why? Why wolf pictures?" Tyler glared tightening his grip on Jeremy's throat.

"Because… because I know." Jeremy replied.

"You know what? You know what Jeremy?" Tyler demanded.

"I know what you are." Jeremy rasped again.

Back at Mystic Falls public park Mason was drinking lemonade when Damon walked over to him with a fake smile plastered on his face.

"Hello, Mason. Working hard?" Damon questioned.

"Doing my part." Mason nodded.

"I heard you talked to Grace." Damon nodded.

"Yeah I did. She said that you're real protective over her." Mason nodded "She's such a pretty girl don't you think? Nice personality, sweet, kind. Tight little body, too." The wolf teased knowing he was one step from getting Damon to attack him.

A growl came from deep within Damon's throat "Yeah, Grace is really nice and sweet. Unlike me."

"Then again, sweet can be overrated." Mason's eyes narrowed.

"That's what I think." Damon agreed.

"You have a good day, Damon." Mason nodded before walking away.

"Tell me you were just bonding." Stefan was standing behind Damon arms crossed.

Damon rolled his eyes "So what's up with this faux drama in your relationship?" He changed the subject.

"What are you talking about?" Stefan creased his eye brows.

"Oh come on, Stefan. You and Elena don't fight..." Damon shook his head "Plus you made Grace mad at me, thanks."

"Just drop it, Damon." Stefan lowered his voice.

"With pleasure." The older brother rolled his eyes.

"Would you like some lemonade?" A little girl standing at the lemonade stand asked.

"Thank you, sweetie." Damon took it and sipped it casually before he felt a burning sensation lighting up his throat, he spat it out and began coughing. Liz was watching him from across the way and she shook her head gently.

"What's wrong?" Stefan asked.

"Vervain." He rasped "Vervain."

Elena was sitting alone when Grace walked over to her holding some cake, sitting down opposite her she slid it to her.

"Wanna split it?" Grace asked casually Elena smirked as she took a bite of the cake on a fork "Are you ok?"

"Hey." Caroline walked over "Mmm, cake."

"No, I'm not ok." Elena sighed.

"You know, maybe it's for the best." Caroline told her with a mouth full of cake.

"It's not for the best, Caroline." Elena narrowed her eyes "None of this is for the best." She saw the hurt expression on her face "I'm sorry, ok? I … I don't mean to take it out on you. You're just being a good friend."

"No. I'm not being a good friend at all." She saw her mom across the field towards her car "Is she leaving?" Elena and Grace looked "Where is my mom going."

"Look, I can't talk here. Just get Jesse and meet me down the hill at the entrance. And bring a … yes we need it." Liz spoke on the phone to her deputies.

"What's wrong?" Caroline asked standing behind her.

"Nothing. I just have something..."

"You mean work? You've surprised me. You last longer than 5 minutes." Caroline told her sarcastically.

"It's important." Liz tried to reason.

"It always is." Caroline hissed.

"I'm sorry-" Liz attempted to apologise but Caroline was already making her way back over to Grace and Elena.

"What's going on?" Elena asked.

"I don't know. Something's up."

Damon was gulping down water trying to get rid of the burning taste in his mouth and throat, Stefan watch and the anger radiated off him.

"I'm going to kill him." Damon spat as he rose from his seat.

"Listen to me. Sit! Sit!" Stefan tried to find reason in his brother but it wouldn't work "What about Grace. Do this for her."

"I'm not listening to anymore of this 'give peace a chance' crap you two are talking about! We need to put him down." He spoke about Mason as if he were a real dog "What if I told you he was talking about Grace earlier... He's lucky I didn't rip his head off there and then." Stefan growled lightly as Damon mentioned her "Alright. Let's do this." he saw Mason walk into the woods on his own "Woods. Trash duty. Come on."

Grace, Caroline and Elena all walked into the woods following Caroline's mother. Elena gave a cautious look to Grace who just shrugged.

"Where are you going? What's going on?" Elena asked.

"I need to be able to hear better." Caroline replied.

"Hear what?" Grace questioned.

"Something's wrong, Grace." Caroline turned to her "Don't you feel it?"

"Caroline-"

"Shh." Caroline ordered "Listen."

Mason was walking through the woods when Stefan and Damon arrive behind him, Mason turned with a angry look on his face.

"Don't look so surprised. You know this was inevitable. Go ahead, run. I'll give you a head start." Damon smiled sadistically.

Mason suddenly bent down to the floor and Damon and Stefan were both shot simultaneously, then more shots were fired mostly into Stefan, they hit the ground hard.

"Oh God." Grace whispered as she heard everything "Damon." She breathed.

"What's is it?" Elena looked at her.

"Damon and Stefan." Grace whispered.

"What?" Elena looked at her more frantically.

Stefan and Damon were both lying on the floor out cold when Liz and her deputies both step out from the trees where they had shot the two.

"Thank you, Mason." Liz thanked him as both the brothers were being injected with Vervain.

Back at the Lockwood Mansion Tyler and Jeremy were still sat in his late fathers office talking about Tyler being a werewolf.

"How do you know about this?" Tyler questioned.

"My uncle John left this old diary lying around. It was written by a crazy Gilbert ancestor who wrote about this curse that ran in your family." Jeremy replied.

"A curse about what?" Tyler asked coyly.

"Werewolves. It's crazy, right? But then, Matt was attacked by a wolf under a full moon and your uncle had just gotten back to town. It's was too weird. Is it true?" Jeremy asked, leaving out the part of Grace being killed by Mason and then her being reanimated into a vampire.

"About my uncle? Yeah." Tyler confirmed.

"But you … you're not-" Jeremy was cut off.

"A wolf? I'm sorry, werewolf? No. I mean, not yet. Just saying that out loud, I sound insane." Tyler muttered shaking his head gently.

"I don't think so, but then again, I always did believe in the crazy stuff." Jeremy smirked gently.

"According to my Uncle, you have to trigger the curse. Somebody has to die at your hands, like a murder or an accident. I basically have to cause a death and then boom: next full moon I'm howling on all fours." Tyler swigged at his scotch.

"Is that why he came back? To tell you all this?" Jeremy asked curiously.

"Yeah, right." Tyler scoffed "He had to tell me. I caught him. He's not here for me." Tyler replied as he took the moonstone from his pant pocket showing it to the younger boy "He's here for this."

In the silent woods Liz, Mason and the deputies were moving an unconscious Damon and Stefan down towards the old Lockwood estate ruins.

"It's down the stairs to the left." Mason explained.

"Careful." Liz replied "The wooden bullets and Vervain won't keep them down for long. What is this place?" Liz questioned as she walked in with Mason at her side.

"Old slave quarters from the original Lockwood house." Mason replied using a flash light to look around.

"Thank you, Mason. I appreciate all you've done. We got it from here." Liz told him confidently.

"You're gonna kill them, right?" Mason asked, if Damon and Stefan were to escape they would kill him, he was pretty sure that Grace could try, but even as a Vampire she was young and weak, he could easily take her.

"Yes." Liz confirmed "That's why you should go. Here it's the council, not the law. You can't be party to this. It's for your own protection." Liz replied.

"Liz, I don't care about-"

"I do and I'm not asking. Goodbye Mason." She replied sharply.

"Don't take any chances." Mason added before leaving.

Grace and Caroline were trying to keep an eye out for anything that would lead them to the brothers, Elena was trailing behind keeping up with the two as Grace suddenly stopped.

"What is it?" Elena asked.

"They've been here." Grace whispered crouching down to see there was blood on a plant.

"What?" Elena asked stepping forward Caroline close behind.

"What are you three doing here?" Mason's eyes stopped on a sieving Grace.

"Have you seen Damon?" Grace asked.

"Yeah Grace, I've seen him. Seen Stefan too." He looked at Elena.

"Where are they?" Elena lowered her voice.

"You don't need me for that. I'll let your friends here sniff them out." Mason smirked looking at Grace and Caroline.

"Does your mother know what you are? I'm happy to tell her." Mason smiled, Caroline went to advance on him but he quickly grabbed Elena holding her in his arms "Don't be stupid, necks break easily around here."

"Caroline." Grace stopped her.

"I can take him." Caroline nodded.

"Wanna bet?" Mason smirked.

"Yeah. I do." Caroline growled before zipping towards him catching him and pushing him against a tree, he groaned loudly as she kneed him in his privates falling to the floor at her feet Caroline kicked him across so that he hit another tree.

"Told ya." Caroline grinned "C'mon." She told the two running.

Damon opens his eyes and looks over at his brother, Stefan had been shot three times in the chest and Damon only once. Suddenly pain shot through his body as a gun trigger was pulled and a wooden bullet pushed into his knee, he called out.

"This is how it's gonna work. Answer me and you don't get shot, understand? How many of you are there?" Liz asked pointing the gun at his other knee.

"Liz, please." Damon begged but she shot him again and he screamed in pain

"How did you fool us? How do you walk in the sun?" She asked and again he didn't answer, this time Liz shot Stefan in the chest and he remained unmoving "I will drag this out painfully."

"But you're my friend." Damon reminded her.

"Our friendship was a lie. Answer me and I'll kill you fast." She promised.

Elena, Grace and Caroline arrive outside of the Lockwood ruins and both the vampires stop hearing what was going on down there, they heard Liz telling the deputies to kill both brothers.

"Damon." Grace breathed.

"What's going on?" Elena asked.

"My mom." Caroline whispered.

"She's killing them." Grace's voice shook.

"What! We have to stop her!" Elena went to run in, but Caroline stopped her, Grace was already at the bottom of the stairs.

"No, I can't. Elena, she's gonna find out about me." Elena broke from her grip and ran down the stairs to join Grace.

"Let's do this." Liz told the three men mournfully "Each with a stake in the heart, then burn them both." They heard a creak from behind them all "Check it out."

One of the deputies walked out with a flashlight, the last thing he saw was a set of intense brown eyes before Grace moved in a fluid movement to snap his neck, running in with Elena at her side.

"Grace." Damon growled.

"Grace! Elena! What are you doing?" Liz looked at the fangs coming down from Grace's mouth "Let them go or I'll kill you all." Grace growled at her and Liz pointed her gun at the Vampire.

"Don't make me shoot you, Grace." Liz threatened.

"Grace. Don't." Damon growled at her.

"Grace." Elena whispered taking her wrist but the vampire stood strong.

Caroline ran in not stopping making the three disorientated, Grace ran towards one and tore into his neck with her teeth her blood covering her mouth running down her neck as the deputy fell to the floor, dead. The blonde took care of the other one ripping into his neck making sure to kill him too.

"Hi mom." Caroline looked sheepishly at her mother.

Grace touched her mouth to where the warm blood had poured in watching Damon drain one of the deputies complete, he stood up and looked down at her angrily.

"Do you know how stupid it was coming here today?" Damon told her.

"I came here for you." Grace reminded him "If it wasn't for me and Caroline you'd both be dead right now."

"Grace, you could have been killed." Damon told her gripping her arms.

"So could you." Grace spat "Wait, you almost were before I stepped in and killed two people." she shrugged him off walking to sit next to Caroline.

Damon growled before looking down at his weak brother who was awake "You need to drink some deputy blood."

"No. I'm fine. It's just gonna take a little bit longer..." Stefan refused.

"Damon's right. You know, if there's ever a time to break you died-"

"He said he didn't want it, ok?" Elena told her friend firmly.

"This is a most unfortunate situation, Two deputies dead and you." He looked at Liz who was sat in the corner still surprised to find out about the new vampires in Mystic Falls "What am I gonna do with you?" Damon mused.

"You won't tell anyone, will you?" Caroline asked and her mother didn't reply "Mom? Mom? Please. Look, I know that we don't get along and that you hate me but I'm your daughter and you'll do this for me, right? Mom, please. He will kill you." Caroline told her fearfully and Damon nodded.

"Then kill me." Liz spat.

"No!" Caroline looked at her wide eyed.

"I can't take this. Kill me now." Liz breathed.

"But you were gonna drag it out so painfully." Damon growled as he caught the Sheriff in his arms.

"No!" Caroline screamed.

"Damon." Grace called from where she jumped up.

"Damon, no!" Stefan growled.

"Relax. No one is killing anybody." Damon looked down at the blonde in his arms "You're my friend..." he looked around the room at the mess "We've got to clean this up."

Jeremy looked at the moonstone whilst he continued to sit in Tyler's father's office with him.

"What is it?" Jeremy questioned.

"It's a moonstone. I looked it up online. It's a natural rock but there supposed to have all sorts of supernatural legends attached to them." Tyler explained.

"Why didn't you give it to him?" Jeremy looked at the older boy.

"Because he wants it. I'm a dick that way. It's important to him for some reason but I don't trust the guy so I'm not just gonna hand it to him." Tyler replied.

Aimee and Sarah arrive holding drinks in theirs hand, it was obvious they had had too much to drink as they were stumbling around and slurring their sentences.

"Found you!" Sarah grinned.

"Hey, you guys are missing all the drinking." Aimee announced "Oh, I'm sorry. Were you two having a moment?"

"No, we're good." Tyler shook his head.

"Hey, hey, what is that?" Sarah looked at the moonstone in Jeremy's hand.

"It's... whoa, hey." he looked at her as Aimee grabbed the stone from Jeremy's hands.

"Pretty." She smiled.

"Okay, let's not play with the rock." Tyler growled as he advanced on her.

"Well, come and get it." She teased.

"Look, I'll play along for a little bit but seriously, give it back." Tyler told her.

"Lookie here." Sarah wiggled the moonstone in front of him "Snooze, you lose." She teased as she ran, he goes after her, she quickly runs to the top of the stairs.

"You're lucky. You're cute when you're drunk." Tyler told her.

"I want Jeremy to come get it." Sarah complained.

"Give me a break." Tyler scoffed as he ran up the stairs too.

"Sarah, don't be a bad drunk." Aimee complained from the bottom of the stairs where she stood with Jeremy.

"Jeremy, come upstairs with me. See how a bad drunk I can be." Sarah growled flirtatiously.

"I'm good, thanks." Jeremy brushed her off.

Tyler goes on the stairs and tries to takes the moonstone from Sarah's hands. He takes it and she falls and hits her head on the floor, Jeremy and Sarah run over to her and Tyler begins to run down the stairs.

"Sarah!" Jeremy shook her.

"Sarah, oh my god!" Aimee took her hand.

"She fell!" He quickly stated covering himself.

"She's not moving. Oh my god." Aimee was almost in tears.

Sarah opens her eyes and laughs "I fooled you." She purred.

"Oh my god." Aimee whined.

"You pushed me down the stairs!" Sarah looked at Tyler as Aimee pulled her up.

"Look, he didn't mean it okay? You got her?" Jeremy asked Aimee and she nodded leading he drunk girl from the room, Tyler and Jeremy exchanged relieved looks.

Mason stood in front of Grace's home, he had some gasoline in one hand and a set of matches in the other, sighing heavily he walked towards the building kicking the door open and walking inside.

Caroline arrived at the front door of the Salvatore house with her mothers luggage in one hand, she was greeted kindly by Elena and Stefan.

"Hey, sorry that took forever. I just didn't know how long my mom was gonna be here." She explained walking into the house.

"Damon says it'll take 3 days' tops for the Vervain to leave her system. Maybe even sooner." Elena replied as Stefan joined them.

"Hey, you get some bunny in you?" Caroline asked him.

"Yeah, I'm feeling my better, thank you."

Damon stood in the basement whilst Liz was on the phone to one of her deputies telling him that she wouldn't been in.

"A stomach bug." She lied "Yeah, it came on fast. I'll definitely be out tomorrow." She heard a tut before behind her "Or longer. I'll text you. Yeah. Good night." She hung up and gave Damon her phone.

'Thank you. It's not exactly the Ritz, but it's secure. I brought a good thread count and once the Vervain is worked out of your system, I will compel you, you will forget everything and you will be a free woman." Damon informed her of the plan as Caroline, Stefan and Elena arrive outside of the door.

"Can you keep Caroline away from me please?" Liz asked not knowing her daughter was there "I don't want to see her."

"She's your daughter, Liz." Damon replied seeing the upset blonde.

"Not anymore. My daughter's gone." Liz's voice was full of scorn.

"You have no idea how wrong you are about that." Damon told her exchanging looks with the upset vampire as she walked away from the door Elena following her, Stefan wlaks to the end of the hall to see Grace draining a blood pouch.

"Hey." Grace smiled.

"Hi." Stefan took a blood pouch out too running his fingers over the plastic.

"Hard to resist, huh?" Grace looked at him.

"Yeah." Stefan mused as Elena walked back.

"Stefan, I think we should-" The brunette saw him holding the blood "What are you doing?"

Grace felt awkward standing there she quickly walked from the room, Stefan sighed heavily and looked at his girlfriend.

"Katherine and Fayth took a little Vervain everyday and built up a tolerance to it … I could do the same with blood. I could learn to control myself on it." Stefan told her so sure of himself.

"But you can't, Stefan. You don't have to-"

"I almost died tonight, Elena. Because I was too weak." he reminded her.

"But the last time that you drank human blood-"

"I told you I'll find a way to stop Katherine, didn't I? Well this is it, this is the only way because she's stronger than me. And unless I change this, I can't protect you." Stefan's voice was sharp.

"Can we talk about this later?" Elena voice was hushed.

"They can hear us wherever we are, because they drink this!" Stefan showed her the blood "This is the only thing that can help me!"

"Are you serious? Are you pretending to fight? Because I can't tell if-"

"No, this is real. No more pretend." Stefan told her, she watched him carefully before leaving quickly leaving him pondering.

Elena walked up into the living room to see Caroline sitting alone Elena scanned the room for Grace but she was no where to be seen.

"Where's Grace?" Elena questioned.

"Outside taking a phone call." Caroline replied.

"You want me to take you home? Grace probably wants me to pick her up some clothes anyway." Elena shrugged.

"I can't go home." Tears stung her eyes.

"Why not?" Elena walked towards her.

"Because I'm scared." Caroline shuddered.

"Why are you scared? Caroline, you can talk to me." Elena assured her sitting down.

"Katherine and Fayth are gonna be there and they are gonna want me to tell them everything that happened today. They told me I had to spy on you and report back to them." Caroline admitted.

"I know." Elena sighed "And I've been so mad at you. But then, I tried to put myself in your position so that I could understand why you would do this to me and to Stefan because he's been such a friend to you. Who did they threaten?" Elena asked knowingly.

"Matt." Caroline sobbed "They threatened Matt and I"m so scared of them Elena! I am so scared."

"and you should be." Elena nodded "Caroline, we all should be."

"Why are they going this? What do they want?" Caroline asked.

"That's the million dollar question." Elena sighed as she embraced her blonde friend.

Mason walked into the Lockwood Mansion shaking his head as he dusted himself down sliding the matches back in his pocket, he grabbed his phone and dialled the Sheriff's number.

"Hey Sheriff, it's Mason Lockwood. I just want to make sure everything went ok today. I didn't see you later and … give me a call will you?" He asked before hanging up and his Nephew walked in the room "Hey."

"I almost killed a girl today." Tyler told him casually.

"What?" Mason's eyes were wide.

"It was an accident. I was being stupid. She's ok though but there I was just for a moment, for a split second, I hoped she would die. Look, whatever this is inside me, I don't want any part of it. I don't ever want to feel that way again, I won't, I can't." Tyler shook his head frantically.

"I know." Mason patted his shoulder, Tyler reached into his pocket and pulled out the moonstone handing it to him "Thank you."

"Yeah."

"Caroline is sleeping on the couch." Elena explained as Damon walked in.

"Where is Grace?" He looked around his the vampire.

"Last I heard outside." Elena replied "You're not going to hurt her are you? You do really care about her?"

"I would never hurt her." Damon confirmed "I care for her very much, you do not need to worry about my intensions for your sister, Elena. Oh, and Stefan didn't drink the human blood... if you were curious, but he needs to deep down and you know that." A smile creeped onto his lips as he walked outside to see Grace wasn't there, pulling out his phone he called her.

"Damon, it's gone." Grace sobbed.

"What? Where are you?" Damon asked.

"My place. My home. It's gone. Someone burnt it to the ground." Her voice was weak and raspy.

"I'll be right there, don't move." Damon told her hanging up his phone moving at supernatural speed to be standing next to his sobbing girlfriend "How did this happen?"

"I don't know." Grace watched the fireman walked from her house, one of them handed a box of these they could salvage from the house, there was a picture on top that Damon picked up it was of Elena, Grace, Tyler and Matt all joking around and laughing "Who would do this?" Grace whispered.

"I think I have a pretty good idea." Damon growled as he looked at Tyler.

"Everything I own is gone. All my clothes. All my books. My personal items. Everything." Grace whispered "I can't believe it."

"Come here." Damon pulled her into a tight hug "It's going to be ok, I'll get you new things."

"I don't want new things!" Grace screamed as she pushed away from him, but he just caught her again holding her tight "I just want my home back, I want to be able to go in there and sit down... I want my clothes and my bed..." She sobbed into his chest "I want to go home."

Stefan was sitting in the Salvatore's library pinning over his decision not to drink the blood. Elena joins him in there not saying a word to him.

"You can come in." Stefan told her cooly.

"Do you really think that you can control it?" Elena asked.

"I don't know but if I don't try…" Stefan shook his head.

"So a little bit every day?" Elena asked.

"Yeah, just a few drops of blood in my system. I think it's worth trying." Stefan told her.

"So do I, but I don't want you to do it alone." She replied to him as she took a paper-knife off the table whilst talking towards him.

"What are you doing?" Stefan asked her carefully.

She cut into her hand making her breathing hitch the pain ran through her "It's you and me, Stefan. Always." She confirmed as she sat next to him holding her hand out he drinks her blood and after a little while he pulls back and his face changes. Quickly she kissed him. His face becomes normal again. They kiss again more passionately this time.

The woods Mason was walking towards a nice car waiting in the shadows for him, he climbed in and Fayth is in the car.

"I've been waiting." She purred.

One year ago at the Emerald Coast in Florida Mason had just killed Jimmy. his eyes are glowing a vicious yellow. As Fayth arrived.

"Mason? What happened?" Fayth pushed through the crowd.

"Jimmy attacked me." Mason told her scared.

"What? Why?" Fayth's eyes were wide with false surprise and shock.

"He said that I hit on Marla." Mason's voice shook with fear.

"Why would he think that?" Fayth whispered as she embraces him tightly and comfortingly.

"He's dead. I killed him." Mason's shook his head as Fayth peered over his shoulder at Jimmy's dead body a smile appearing on her blood red lips.

"Everything's gonna be okay." She assured him.

Back to the present day in the woods with Mason and Fayth, he leaned in and tried to kiss her but she pushed him away a little.

"What was that stunt today that you pulled with Damon and Stefan Salvatore?" Fayth questioned.

"I thought you would be happy about that." Mason looked at her confused.

"I told you to stay away from them." She reminded him her temper flaring.

"Why do you even care?" Mason replied.

"I don't want you to get distracted. I need you to find the moonstone." Fayth frowned but he just smiled "You got it?"

"I got it." He replied "Why did I need to burn down her house? It seemed … I didn't need to do it, Fay." he used her real name.

They kiss passionately "Yes, you did. She was boring me. It's just a shame she couldn't be inside." Fayth pouted but kissed him again.

A/N

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