Twisted Love
Season Two
Plan B
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace :)
Grace was sleeping face down in Damon's bed whilst he sat on his side raised on his elbow touching her exposed pale back gently.
"You're staring." Grace mumbled.
"I'm gazing." Damon replied rolling his bright blue orbs.
"It's creepy." The brunette joked.
"It's romantic." He retorted turning her over so she was face up and he manoeuvred himself so he was between her legs, Grace gasped.
"Oh, this is bad." Damon muttered against her neck.
"Yeah. It is." Grace agreed looking up into his eyes "What about my house? Where will I go?"
"Do you even need to ask?" Damon kissed her passionately.
Across town Mason and Fayth were laying in bed kissing two, only this time Fayth was on top of Mason, she raked her hands through his hand.
"Shh, Ms. Flowers will think I'm a floozy if I have a man up here." Fayth purred against his lips.
"Why are you staying here?" Mason looked around the bed and breakfast confused with her choice to stay there.
"Because I like this little bed and breakfast, don't you?" Fayth brushed her lips against his jugular vein.
"I love it." Mason grinned as he leaned in and kissed her passionately again rolling her over onto the bed.
"Ok. Ok." Grace pulled back from his lips panting a little adjusting her bra "I need to be in the shower."
"Love it." Damon's eyes lit up with excitement "Let's go!"
"No, no, no." Grace giggled watching her man settle between her legs again "I'm late. I'm decorating at the Lockwood charity thing."
"Shame." Damon whispered against her neck "We could have spent the whole day together, in this bed."
A small giggle fell from Grace's lips "Excuse me." She rolled out from under Damon and he groaned as he saw her walking towards the shower.
"Where is the moonstone?" Fayth asked detaching herself from Mason's taut lips.
"Somewhere safe." Mason promised.
"Don't you trust me?" Fayth pouted.
"I don't trust anyone." Mason smirked.
Grace was in the shower the steam was fogging around her effectively helping covering herself from Damon who was sitting on the counter just outside of the walk in shower with a glass barrier.
"You know I think it's a good idea if you stay away from the Lockwood place today. Mason did just try to kill you and your brother." Grace told him.
"I don't trust Mason Lockwood at all." Damon growled "He killed you, he tried to kill me … and he burnt down your house."
"We don't know that for sure." Grace muttered remembering the burnt remains of her once beautiful house "It could have been anyone."
"Please." Damon scoffed walking towards the shower "You're being naïve again." he stuck his head around and tried to get a good look.
"Damon!" She shrieked.
"Aww." Damon smirked walking away again to sit down "Want a glass of blood?"
Elena and Stefan were sitting on her bed at the Gilbert house, Stefan pulled back from a passionate kiss they were sharing.
"I don't trust Mason. I want to be there today to keep an eye on him." Stefan replied as they were talking about being at the Lockwood place just after Mason had tried to kill him "Damon asked me to, seen as he can't be there to watch over Grace."
"Alright." Elena sighed "But we can't touch or talk and no lingering stares."
"No, none of that." He smirked.
"What do you think will happen if Katherine finds out that we are fake fighting?" Elena asked nervously.
"Scared I'm going to kill you?" Fayth looked directly into his eyes.
"No, you won't." Mason replied and she placed small kisses on his neck before biting into his skin deeply "Ow! Fay, easy!" He pulled away from her.
"Did I hurt you? Sorry." She smiled knowingly.
Elena grabbed a needle off the side and pricked it onto the skin on her index finger making sure a droplet of blood poured over the open wound.
"Ow." She whispered her face scrunched up with pain for only a fraction of a second.
"Did it hurt?" Stefan asked concerned.
"It's ok. A little bit every day to make you stronger, right?" Elena replied and he drunk the blood from her finger.
"What happens once I give you the moonstone?" Mason asked suspiciously.
"We'll live happily ever after. I promise." Fayth nibbled his ear lobe.
"I'll bring it tonight, I promise." Mason confirmed.
"I promise, we're gonna get through this." Stefan whispered against her lips.
"I love you, Stefan." Elena kissed him with as much force as she could.
"You know I love you." Fayth purred at the werewolf.
"I love you, too." Mason grinned as they lean into kiss passionately.
Back at the Salvatore House Damon was chasing Grace through the house, she screamed as she heard the door knock, running towards it she stopped.
"Time out. Time out." Grace panted pressing herself against the wall watching her boyfriend come flying around the corner "No, no, no! The door."
"Don't use that excuse." Damon stalked towards her and pounced on her, kissing her passionately against the wall he pulled back for a split second "I win."
"You always win." She whimpered.
"Anyone home?" Jeremy walked through the door to see the two.
"What's up." Grace quickly righted herself.
"I need to speak to Damon." Jeremy replied.
"Alright, I'll go then." Grace leaned up and kissed Damon softly "Behave."
"Don't I always." He called as she walked through the door.
"Tyler Lockwood has to kill someone to activate his curse. He's not a werewolf yet." Jeremy informed Damon.
"Wow, fascinating. Not enough." Damon replied sarcastically.
"But Mason Lockwood is and he's looking for a moonstone, a special rock connected to the werewolf legend. That's he's here." Jeremy replied and Damon narrowed his eyes.
"A moonstone." Damon mused.
"And I know where it is." Jeremy smiled smugly.
"You're bringing me this why?" Damon growled
"Do I need a reason?" Jeremy looked at him dumbfounded "Look, I just want to help, ok?" He tried to walk past him further into the house, but Damon stopped him.
"What's your sister saying about this little discovery?" Damon questioned knowingly "I mean, by the way you made Grace leave I assumes she doesn't know."
"Well, Elena doesn't want me to get involved in all this, and Grace will tell Elena …" Jeremy replied.
"And you're a Gilbert, you just can't help yourself. Wow, your search for life's purpose is as obvious as it is tragic." Damon growled.
"You gonna let me help or not?" Jeremy asked and Damon nodded once letting him walk further into the house.
Across town at the Lockwood Mason everyone was help set up for the annual masquerade ball. Jenna was talking with Carol inside of the Mansion.
"Jenna, thanks for helping wrangle the volunteers." Carol smiled.
"Of course, it's for a good cause. Plus, I have always been a sucker for the masquerade ball." Jenna admitted.
"So was Richard." Carol smiled "This was always his favourite party of the year." she remembered as Tyler and Mason walked in holding a table, they almost dropped it "Boys! Be careful with that! It's from the eighteen hundreds. Excuse me. Tyler!" She walked over to the two Lockwood boys.
"Mom, we got it." Tyler complained.
Jenna saw Stefan setting up some things around the house, walking over she though she would invite Stefan around to dinner.
"Stefan, hey!" Jenna smiled at him.
"Hey." Stefan smiled too.
"I'm cooking dinner tonight. Ric will be there, you should come." Jenna smiled "I need to do something nice for Grace, her house just burnt to the ground. Faulty wiring."
"Are you serious?" Stefan asked and Jenna nodded "Is she ok?"
"She's fine, staying at your place. Damon told me she would be sleeping on the couch …" Jenna caught Stefan's expression "She slept in his bed, didn't she?" Stefan nodded "Anyway, dinner?"
"You know, Elena and I, we're kind of taking a pause." he explained awkwardly.
"Really? That's not what it sounded like this morning." She smirked "Bad sleeper. You know what? I heard nothing." She smiled as she walked away.
"Hey. Grace." Bonnie walked over to the vampire "I heard about your house." Even though she hated what Grace was a Vampire and she hated what she was, she did feel bad about what had happened to Grace's place.
"Yeah." Grace nodded "Everything is gone, they could only save a couple of things."
"So where are you staying?" Bonnie questioned.
"With Damon." Grace replied and saw the look the witch was giving her "Hey, he's ok, he's treating me really well-"
"Bonnie." Elena smiled at her "You're here."
"I'm here." Bonnie shrugged and was looking around her.
"Caroline's not coming. I told you." Elena reminded her.
"You're avoiding Caroline?" Grace questioned "Because of what she is … I'm the same thing."
Bonnie's eyes widened "Grace, it-"
"Don't." Grace hissed as she walked away from the two.
"You know, eventually, you're gonna have to talk to her." Elena told her.
"Could you make it a little less obvious you're on their side?" Bonnie narrowed her eyes.
"There are no sides, Bonnie." Elena replied cooly.
"C'mon! Since Caroline and Grace became vampires, we barely see each other. Losing them both was bad enough; I didn't think I'd lose you too."
"Come with me." Elena told her.
"Where?" Bonnie questioned.
"Not here. Some place quiet. We have to talk." Elena informed her as she took Bonnie's hand and lead her away.
In the basement of the Salvatore Boarding House, Liz was sitting in her cell alone when her daughter arrives on the other side of the door.
"You didn't eat much." Caroline noted looking at her still full plate of food "Good news: Dr. 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." Caroline smiled but Liz didn't answer her "Are you really just gonna pretend like I don't exist?"
"Yes." Liz answered simply "So please go."
"As usual, you don't care. Go it. Just like before I was a vampire. It's not like I died or anything." Caroline shook her head.
"Are you … are you really dead?" Liz whispered.
"Yes, I am now." The blonde nodded.
"How is it possible?" Liz whispered.
Upstairs the door was knocked and Alaric walked in holding a box to see Jeremy and Damon sitting in the parlour room.
"Ric." Damon smiled.
"What are you doing here?" Alaric looked at Jeremy.
"Helping Damon." Jeremy answered "I'm the one who found out about the moonstone."
"Does Elena know you're here? Does Grace?" Alaric looked at Damon.
"One little secret won't hurt." Damon shrugged "What you got?"
"This is Isobel's research from Duke. Her assistant sent it to me." The teacher explained.
"Vanessa, the hottie." Damon questioned.
"Vanessa, yes." Alaric confirmed "Do you remember the old Aztec curse she told us about?" Alaric asked.
"Sun and the moon, blah blah blah." Damon rolled his eyes.
"An Aztec curse? Cool." Jeremy grinned.
"Yeah, supposedly vampires and werewolves used to run freely until a Shaman put a curse on them, limiting their power. Since then, werewolves can only turn on a full moon and vampires are weakened by the sun." Alaric explained.
"Most of them anyway." Damon wiggled his fingers to show the ring.
"according to the legend, the werewolf part of the curse is sealed with the moonstone." Alaric informed them both.
"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 explained.
"Maybe Mason Lockwood believes he can use the moonstone to break the curse." Alaric suggested.
"If we start believing in some supernatural witchy mojo legend from a picture book, we're idiots. Where is the stone now?" Damon looked at Jeremy.
"Tyler."
"That Tyler kid seems to be coming up everywhere." Damon muttered "Can you get it?"
"Yeah." Jeremy nodded confidently.
"You see, now your life has a purpose." Damon replied.
"So you do believe it?" Jeremy questioned curiously.
"This is the same book that says a werewolf bit kills a vampire. Ignoring it would make me an even bigger idiot. Go." Damon shooed the boy.
"I need to tell you this." Elena sighed "Katherine and Fayth are threatening Caroline so Stefan and I are fake fighting to make her feel as if they are winning."
"Katherine's doing everything that she can to drive me and Stefan apart and Caroline just got trapped in the middle." Elena mused.
"It's not that you and Stefan are pretending to fight, it's that I didn't even know you guys were fighting at all." Bonnie whispered
"I know, I'm sorry." Elena looked at Bonnie "But it's clear where you stand on the whole vampire front."
"So that makes me the odd man out?" Bonnie asked.
"No, Bonnie, of course not." Elena shook her head.
"I know where you stand and I know where I stand, but where does that leave us?" She looked at Elena.
"You're my best friend Bonnie. I didn't mean to let everything get in the way, but they both need you too. Caroline and Grace need you right now."
"Not yet. I just … they're vampires. I can't. I think we should get back." Bonnie stood up.
Grace was laying candles out on a table when Stefan scanned the room looking for her, seeing her he walked over.
"Hey, Grace." Stefan stood next to her "I heard about what happened with you house. Are you ok?"
"I'm fine. I hadn't been able to get into my house at the time so when Jenna rang me to tell me what happened I could even save my things." Grace nodded "It's just a surprise, you know? I don't even know who did it. They say it was faulty wiring, but you know how much this town loves to cover things up."
"I know. How much of your stuff got ruined?" Stefan asked.
"Almost all of it. I have a box of things to my name, most of which are singed and smoke stained." Grace replied "Damon offered to get my knew stuff, but it isn't the same … I want my things, but I can't and I just have to get over that." Grace mused.
"Stefan?" A deep voice came from behind them.
"Mason." Stefan turned to see the werewolf standing there looking some what surprised to see him "I wasn't expecting to see you here or anything."
"Yeah, I had this little accident, but I'm fine now." Stefan smiled gently.
"What did you do to Sheriff Forbes?" Mason lowered his voice.
"Oh, she's fine too, but from now on you'll have to do you own dirty work." Stefan spat.
"Not a problem." Mason smirked as he walked away accidentally bumping into Bonnie, she stared up at him when she felt an unusual feeling rack through and an image of Mason kissing Grace popped into her head "Excuse me."
Stefan and Grace look at each other for a second before both walking over to Bonnie to check that she is ok.
"What's the matter? Are you ok?" Stefan asked.
"When I touched him, I saw something?" Bonnie whispered.
"What do you mean?" Grace asked "Like a vision?"
"I saw you." Bonnie looked up at the newborn.
"Me?" Grace asked.
"You were kissing him." Bonnie mused.
"No." Grace shook her head "I wouldn't kiss Mason-"
"You didn't see Grace." Stefan growled "You saw Fayth."
Elena saw Stefan and Grace both talking to Bonnie, Damon was looking around to find Grace and Stefan when he saw Elena.
"Damon. What are you doing here?" Elena asked.
"Looking for my baby bro and girl. Speaking of … you should tell you little bro to stop following me around." Damon told her.
"What's going on?" Elena asked.
"Ask him." Damon teased walking away as Jeremy arrived.
"Jeremy, what is he making you do?" Elena asked.
"He's not making me do anything, Damon and I-"
"No way, 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 Whatever is going on Jeremy, I want you to stay out of it."
"I don't really care what you want, Elena. It's because of you that I'm in this mess in the first place so I'm sorry, you don't really get to tell me what I'm gonna do." He sneered as he left.
"Fayth is with Mason Lockwood." Damon scoffed as he stood with Grace and Stefan.
"We missed it. He got into town right after she did, it makes perfect sense." Stefan nodded.
"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?" Grace asked.
"Mason Lockwood's looking for a moonstone that allegedly can break the full moon werewolf curse. Maybe Katherine and Fayth want it as well..." Damon suggested.
"Why?" Grace creased her eye brows.
"Well..." Damon couldn't think of a reason "No idea. That's the beauty of those two; they're always up to something."
"So how are we gonna find the moonstone?" Grace asked.
"Jeremy is gonna get it from Tyler." Damon shrugged.
"Why would you involve Jeremy?" Grace eye's flared.
"He's playing Indiana Jones, he involved himself." Damon scoffed.
Matt and Tyler were helping decorate the inside of the Lockwood home, they were talking about Caroline and her mood swings.
"She's this amazing girl one minute and then this raging jealous freak the next." Matt explained.
"Look, you know what I think about Caroline Forbes. She's an insecure neurotic bitchy little twig." Tyler replied.
"Hey!" Matt shoved him.
"But the girl's got heart, she means well." Tyler added "You just gotta take the good with the bad sometimes."
"Yeah. I'm gonna get an extra extension cord. I'll be right back." Matt told him as he walked away.
Jeremy joined Tyler "Hey man."
"Hey." Tyler smiled.
"Hey, so I did a little research on that stone you showed me." Jeremy informed him.
"What? Why?" Tyler looked at him suspiciously.
"I don't know. Curiosity, boredom." Jeremy shrugged lying.
"What did it say?" Tyler questioned curiously.
"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 questioned coyly.
"Nope." Tyler shook his head "I have it to my uncle."
"Why did you do that?" Jeremy asked.
"Because I'm done with the legends and curses. I don't want anything to do with it, ok?" Tyler looked at him.
"Yeah, yeah sure. It's probably just stupid folklore anyway." Jeremy smirked looking over at Grace, Stefan and Damon who overheard the conversation.
Elena was texting Stefan as Grace arrived she smiled gently at her and took a masquerade mask putting it to her face.
"Nice." Elena joked.
"Thanks, I think it's a great new look for me." she joked putting it down "Wanna tell me what's really going on between you and Stefan? Because I'm a little confused that you just sent him a text..."
"How did you-"
"C'mon, Elena. I'm a vampire doesn't mean I haven't lost my ability to read minds." Grace scoffed.
"You can still?"
"Of course." Grace smiled "Not a lot of people know, they can actually believe they can start to think in their heads around me now, because the assumed as a vampire I lost a superhuman ability. I can hear that you think about him every second of every day. I can hear what you were tying in your head."
"Shh." Elena covered her mouth "I'll explain in my head and you just listen."
"Ok. This is as far as I go." Bonnie backed away from the two as they stood in the parking lot.
"Ok." Damon nodded.
"What do you want?" Bonnie asked.
"A favour." Damon replied.
"That's no gonna happen." Bonnie growled.
"So predictable." Damon rolled his eyes looking over 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 and Fayth, we finally have an opportunity to get an upper hand on both of them so just hear us out."
"Pretty please." Damon smirked.
"I'm listening." Bonnie crossed her arms over her chest as Stefan's phone began to ring.
"I have to fill Elena in on what's going on …" Stefan noted looking at Damon "Can you place nice please?" He asked as he walked away "Hey, what are you doing? You shouldn't be calling me."
"I told Grace." Elena informed him quickly.
"Alright." Stefan nodded "But we really shouldn't be speaking-"
"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 with Grace sorting out stupid masquerade mask for Mrs Lockwood." Elena complained.
"Alright, it's ok. Hold on." Stefan replied.
"All you have to do is touch Mason Lockwood again to see if he gave Fayth the moonstone." Damon shrugged.
"My visions don't work like that; I don't get to ask questions." Bonnie replied.
"How inconvenient. Although, let's talk about that witchy mojo you do with me. You know the fun one, when my brain burst into flames? What is that?" Damon questioned.
"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 smiled evilly.
"Is it vampire specific?" Damon quizzed.
"It'd work on anyone with a supernatural healing ability." Bonnie shrugged.
"Good. Good, good." Damon grinned.
"Damon, I'm not gonna help you hurt him." Bonnie replied.
"Mason Lockwood's a werewolf, Katherine and Fayth are evil. They're the bad guys. Really? You're gonna play morality police with me right now? Let me put it to you another way: they're a threat to Elena. Mason killed Grace and burnt down her house. You witch, are gonna get over yourself and help us." Damon growled.
"Yeah, he meant that as a question with a "please" on the end." Stefan walked back over to the two.
"Absolutely." Damon nodded rolling his bright blue orbs.
Bonnie was pretending to struggle with getting a large round table out of the back of a van, like a true gentleman Mason ran over to help.
"Hey, how did get stuck doing that by yourself?" Mason chuckled.
"All the guys bailed." She laughed "Something about draft pix, I don't know, I don't speak that language." Bonnie smiled.
"Here, let me give you a hand." Mason reached up and grabbed the table, taking a step back Bonnie began her mind spell on the werewolf creating aneurysms inside of his head, letting the table go he fell to his knees in a huge amount of pain.
"Sorry." Bonnie whispered as Damon walked over and kneed him in the face effectively knocking him unconscious, Damon motioned Bonnie to get into Mason's car as Damon and Stefan move Mason into the trunk, after the older Salvatore brother climbs into the drivers seat and begins to drive off with Bonnie.
At the Salvatore Boarding House Caroline was sat in a cell with her mother explaining to her about where she gets her blood.
"So I mainly drink from blood bags. 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." Caroline explained.
"So you steal the blood from the hospital?" Liz questioned.
"Damon does." Caroline quickly stated "I've been pilfering his supply." She informed her.
"as long as you have blood, you don't need to kill?" Liz asked hopeful.
"I want to. It's my basic nature now 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." She tried to joke, but Stefan did have a serious problem.
"I don't want this for you." Liz admitted to her daughter.
"I know but when life gives you lemons..." She sighed listening out "Damon's home."
Damon and Bonnie walk into the Library, Damon dropped Mason down into a dark wood chair, he was still knocked out, Bonnie placed Mason's bag on the floor.
"Here's his bag, as requested." Bonnie rolled her eyes.
"Ok, grab a corner." Damon told her as he pulled a thin sheet out that was placed around Mason.
"Why are we doing this?" Bonnie asked as she pulled the other half of the sheet out.
"Because I don't want to stain the carpet." Damon replied with a smirk.
"I knew you were gonna say something like that." Bonnie muttered.
"You're judging again." Damon let go of the thin blanket to give her a look.
"He's not gonna be out much longer." Bonnie informed the older vampire.
Damon reached into Mason's gym bag and pulled out chains and ropes "Looks like this guy's used to being tied up." He wiggled his eye brows as Bonnie took Mason's head putting the tips of her fingers on Mason's temples "What are you doing?"
"You're looking for a moonstone and I'm trying to help you find it." Bonnie replied closing her eyes.
"Ok, good. Find out if he gave it to Fayth and find out where she is and find out what they're gonna do with it." Damon grinned as he began to tie Mason down.
"Somewhere small, dark, there's water." Bonnie saw the images flash into her mind.
"Like a sewer." Damon asked.
"No. Like a well? That can't be right." She shook her head, but a well was all she could see "Yeah. It's in a well."
"Why would it be in a well?" Damon questioned.
"I told you, I only get what I get." Bonnie replied as she felt a hand catch her wrist, Mason was waking up, Damon pried her wrist from his hands.
"That's it." Bonnie stepped back "That's all I got." she went to walk from the room.
"Hey judgy!" Damon called "Thank you." after an exchange of looks Bonnie leaves the room, Damon looked down at the wolf with pure hatred in his eyes "Come on. Wake up wolf boy." He punched him around the face and Mason opened his eyes.
Bonnie was just about to leave the Salvatore house when Caroline ran up the stairs to see her about to leave.
"Bonnie." The blonde called.
"Hi. How's your mom? Elena filled me in one everything." Bonnie explained.
"I'm gonna take her home tonight." Caroline replied.
"Caroline..." Bonnie hesitated "Never mind, I've got to go."
"Did you find the moonstone thing?" Caroline attempted to make conversation.
"Not yet. Hey, do you remember that old well where we used to play with when we were kids?"
"The one Grace almost fell down that one time." Caroline snorted in remembrance and even Bonnie laughed "And Tyler and Matt had to try and pull her out, after Mrs Lockwood got a grate put over the top to make sure it didn't happen again."
"Do you remember where it was?" Bonnie asked dying down from her laughter.
"On the edge of the old Lockwood property. Why?" Caroline questioned.
Bonnie grabbed her phone beginning to text Grace "I think that's where Mason is keeping the moonstone. I got to go."
"Well, I can come with you."
"No it's ok-" She saw the disappointed look at Caroline's face "Sure."
"Ok." Caroline grinned.
"So where's Caroline? This is like her thing. I can't believe she's not here." Matt asked Elena as they stood together.
"She had something else to do." Elena replied casually.
"Is she seeing someone?" Matt questioned preparing himself.
"Matt, come on. No, she's not." Elena shook her head wildly Stefan and Grace arrives. Elena looks at him. Tyler arrives too.
"Anyone seen Mason?" Tyler questioned the four.
Everyone shrugged except Stefan "He took off. He said he wasn't sure when he'd be back."
"So weird." Tyler muttered as he left.
Grace receives a text from Bonnie and she shows it to Stefan. The witch was telling them to look in the well, next to the old Lockwood property. Stefan looks at Elena. She went toward him but he tells her no with his head. She felt a wave of despair wash over her as she looked at at Matt.
"I'm not even gonna ask." Matt shook his head.
"I'll be right back." Elena told him.
Mason is chained to the same chair he was earlier screaming this time trying to get out of the chains that held him down, Damon was holding an iron bar over the open fireplace heating it up, glancing over his shoulder he saw that Mason was fully awake.
"Someone's feisty." Damon noted walking towards him, Mason quickly tries to move again but he tips back on the chair.
"What?" he growled at the vampire.
Pushing the iron bar into Mason's chest missing his heart, Mason screamed aloud and Damon kept it there a little bit longer before pulling it out.
"You can hurt, good to know." Damon nodded "I was afraid you'd gonna be some beast master with no affinity for pain." He opened the wolves shirt to see that the wound was already healing "Oh, you heal quickly. Not good. I guess I'll just have to keep applying pain." He announced as he pulled the wolves chair upright for him before walking back to the fire heating up the iron bar "So... Fayth. How do you know her? What is she up to?" Mason didn't answer "I have all day." Damon noted as he walked over shoving the bar into his toned abs "My girlfriend Grace, who you killed by the way, then said had a tight little body isn't here to stop me from doing anything stupid and when I'm angry I do some really stupid things."
Grace and Stefan arrive at the well where Bonnie had told them to go, Grace peers over the side trying to peak through the grate.
"I almost fell down here once." Grace informed him "Matt and Tyler had to save me."
"Really?" Stefan chuckled "Was you ok? Did they save you?"
"Yeah." Grace nodded "We were like 12 at the time, it was really funny when I think back to it, not so much at the time." The younger vampire stopped herself from talking when she heard footsteps approaching.
"What's going on?" Elena stepped out.
"You shouldn't be here" Stefan told her.
"I know, but I am." Elena smiled "What's going on?"
"Bonnie thinks the moonstone is down here." Stefan informed her as he breaks the lock off the well and removes the grate throwing it to the ground.
"I can go down if you want." Grace offered.
"No, it's ok." Stefan nodded.
"Be careful." Elena whispered.
"I'll only be down there for a minute." He dropped down with a flashlight in his hand, but was surprised when he saw Vervain in the water, he yelled out as he skin began to blister and burn.
"Elena!" Stefan called.
"Stefan!" Both the twins called at the same time.
"Elena!" Stefan called again.
"I have to go down." Grace jumped up onto the wall.
"Vervain!" Stefan rasped and Elena pulled her twin down quickly both of them landing on the floor hard "ow." As she pulled herself up grabbing some chains, but they were too heavy for her to pick up.
"Ugh." Grace pulled herself up.
"Elena?" Caroline arrived.
"Caroline, Stefan is down there and the chain is-" As Elena was explaining Caroline went to jump in but Grace knocked her down.
"It's filled with vervain." She told her friend.
"we have to get him out." Elena told the two as they went to protest "now!" Grace grabbed the chain like it was a feather from the floor.
"When did you two meet?" Damon asked casually heating up the iron bar over the fire again "Did she seduce you and tell you she loved you? You're supernatural so she can't compel you. I'm sure she used her other charms. Fayth's good that way." He spat as Jeremy walked in the room "I thought I told you to leave."
"I found something in Ric's box of stuff." Jeremy explained walking towards him revealing a bunch of yellow herbs to him.
"What is it?" Damon ran his hands over the herb.
"I did a search on my phone, it's a plant: Aconitum Vulparia." Jeremy replied "Grows in the mountainous ranges of the northern hemisphere, communally know as 'Aconite', 'blue rocker' and 'Wolfsbane'." Jeremy added.
"What else did you read?" Damon asked suddenly interested.
"well, every source says something different. One myth says it causes Lycanthropy, which sounds bogus. Another one says that it protects people and another one says, well it's toxic." Jeremy replied as Mason whimpered in the chair he was sat in Damon smirked.
"I'm guessing toxic." Damon mused as he took a piece of the plant and walked towards the doomed werewolf "What is Fayth doing in Mystic Falls?" Mason didn't answer and Damon ran the plant down his cheek, a sizzling sound was heard as he skin began to burn "Why is she here."
"She's here with me!" Mason suddenly answered "Why are you asking? You jealous!"
"How rude of me. I just realised I didn't offer you anything to eat." Damon growled as he shoved the wolfsbane down his front, Mason began to choke and spit up a thick looking liquid "Yummy."
Back in the woods Elena was tying the chain around herself whilst Grace held the end of the chain firmly.
"I got you ok." Caroline smiled at her friend when Bonnie arrived looking frantic.
"What's going on? You took off in a blur." The witch noted.
"I heard Elena screaming. We need to help her." Caroline informed her.
"Are you ready?" Grace asked.
"Yeah." Elena nodded dropping down into the well, Grace begins to reel her down slowly, suddenly Grace lost her grip and Elena went hurdling to the bottom, but Grace managed to stop.
"Sorry!" Grace called.
"it's ok, keep going." Elena replied as Grace continued to lower her into the water, as Elena got in she untied herself and found Stefan, he was unconscious from the pain and covered in blisters and cuts.
"Oh my God." Elena whispered as she put the chain around Stefan securing him on.
"Elena, what's going on?" Caroline asked.
"Pull him up!" Elena called and Grace began to pull Stefan back up, it was heavily this time, but nothing she couldn't handle.
"Elena! Ready for you!" Caroline called as the chain came back down.
"Hold on! I need to find the stone." Elena shouted looking around "Found it!" She grabbed a wooden box from the water, but it was being protected by many snakes slithering up her arm, she screamed loudly and climbed into the chain almost dropping the box but managing to successfully hold onto the box and the chain whilst Grace pulled her up.
As she reached the top she fell from the chain to be by a burnt, unconscious Stefan's side, cutting herself with a rock both Caroline and Grace turn away tempted by her blood.
"I've got the stone, Stefan." Elena fed him her blood "Stefan, it's gonna be ok, everything's gonna be ok."
"Why do you want the moonstone?" Damon questioned.
"screw you!" Mason spat.
Damon made a buzzer sound from a game show "Wrong answer!"
"If he was gonna say anything, he would have already!" Jeremy told the vampire concerned for the wolf.
"I'm taking your eyes now." Damon threatened moving towards him with Wolfsbane.
"The well! You'll find it there!" Mason told him hoping he would go and jump in the water.
"I know where it is. I want to know what it does and why you want it." Damon growled.
"I'm getting it for Fayth and Katherine." Mason replied.
"Why?" Damon asked.
"Fayth. She's gonna use it to lift my curse." Mason explained.
"Of the moon? Now, why would a vampire help a werewolf break a curse that keeps them from turning whenever they want?" Damon asked narrowing his eyes.
"So I wouldn't have to turn anymore." Mason replied quickly.
"Why?" Damon lowered his voice.
"Because she loves me!" Mason quickly stated and Damon began to laugh.
"Now I get it." Damon laughed harder "You're just stupid. Fayth doesn't love you, she's using you, you moron!"
"I'm done talking." Mason gave up.
"Yes you are." Damon nodded looking at Jeremy "it's time to take a walk, Jeremy."
"I'm staying." Jeremy stood strong.
"No, you should go." Damon hissed.
"I'm staying, Damon. He's had enough." Jeremy shook his head and Mason looked up at the teen teary eyed knowing he was near his end.
"Just help Tyler. Don't let this happen to him." Mason begged looking up at the teen.
"Damon..." Jeremy breathed and Damon caught him by his throat holding him against the wall.
"You want to be part of this? Well, here it is! Kill or be killed! The guy is a werewolf; he killed Grace turning her into a vampire; he killed me the first chance he got so you suck it up or leave!" Damon growled before realising him "He wants me to kill him anyway, don't you Mason?" He walked across the room to the wolf, his voice flat with no emotion "Really is a curse, isn't it?"
Mason put his head down and sighed, Jeremy just left the room quickly, Damon paused looking at the wolf for a second "You know, I look at you and I see myself, a less dashing, less intelligent version." Damon put together the fact that they were only toys to Fayth.
"I love her." Mason's voice broke.
"Oh, I know! I've been where you are, but Fayth will only rip your heart out. Let me do it for her." Damon reached into his chest and pulled his heart from it dropping it to the floor.
At the Gilbert house Jenna and Alaric were in the kitchen, cooking dinner. Alaric was cutting on a chopping board and Jenna was sipping tentatively at her wine.
"You're pretty handy with that thing." She admired.
"Yeah, uh, it's a skill." He joked as he leaned in and kissed her "Where is the sea salt?"
"Table." She replied.
They kiss again, but pulling back Alaric lays the table. Elena and Grace arrive looking tired and worn down. Alaric look at them and ask if secretively if they are okay. Both girls nods and goes upstairs avoiding talking.
"So Grace and 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 really think it's progress, you know? I just… what? I'm freaking you out." Caroline looked at her mom as they continued to sit in the cell below the Salvatore Boarding house.
"It's just that you've become this person…" Liz mused.
"Don't… I… just starting to get along." Caroline shook her head upset.
"This strong, this confident person." Liz continued and her daughter looks up surprised.
"Oh. Thank you." The blonde 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." The Sheriff promised her eyes beginning to water.
"We never talk like this? Ever. And today meant so much to me." Caroline admitted.
"Me too." Liz nodded.
"I know I can trust you but you're never going to trust them." She referred to Damon, Stefan and Grace as she began to cry and compel her mother "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." Caroline continued
Damon was wrapping Mason's very much dead body in the blanket patting his chest gently as Stefan arrives and shows the moonstone to Damon.
"All this for that?" Damon muttered.
"Yep." Stefan nodded as he threw him the moonstone "I see you've exercised your usual restraint." He announced sarcastically seeing the make shift body bag on the floor.
"Had to be done." Damon shrugged bending down to pick up his wallet, keys and phone. Unlocking the wolves phone he sent text Carol on behalf of Mason "Carol, big opportunity in Florida, I'm gonna be gone for a long time. You'll send for my things once I get settled. Much love, Mason."
"Let's get rid of the body." Stefan knelt down.
"Oh, last number dialled. I wonder who that can possibly be?" Damon's eyes flared.
"No, no, no! Don't provoke her!" Stefan tried to catch him, but Damon had already dialled and Fayth was on the other line thinking it was Mason.
"Mason, you should have been here an hour ago." Fayth complained.
"Wrong boy toy." Damon smirked.
"Damon, for once you surprised me. I assume Mason is with you." She rolled her eyes.
"He's right beside me although his heart's across the room." Damon shrugged.
"You shouldn't have." the doppelgänger growled narrowing her eyes.
"I've had a very busy day today. I killed a werewolf, found the moonstone. Hey, did you know that he hid the moonstone at the bottom of a well full of vervain? I guess he didn't trust you very much but he did love you. Poor guy. Hey, where are you? Because I could bring him over. Last goodbyes and all that." Damon smirked teasing her.
"You have no idea what you've just done." Fayth hissed.
"Aww, did I put a kink in your master plan? I'm so sorry." Damon pouted before smirking again.
"Do you honestly believe that I don't have a plan B? And if that fails a plan C, then a plan D and… you know how the alphabet works, don't you? Send my love to Gracie. Or maybe I will." She hangs up. Damon looks at Stefan slightly worried instantly pulling out his phone trying to her hold of Grace.
Grace walks down into the kitchen followed by Elena. Alaric and Jenna were still in there preparing a romantic dinner for the two of them.
"Where is Jeremy?" Elena questioned.
"Oh, he went straight up to his room. He said he wasn't hungry." Alaric shrugged.
"Who is she talking to?" Grace asked seeing Jenna on the phone.
"I don't know. Everything go okay today?" Alaric asked.
"There were a few hiccups but yeah." Elena nodded.
"Of course, I understand. Grace, it's for you." Jenna passed Grace the phone who inspected it carefully "Who is it? Hello?"
"Hello Grace." Fayth purred.
"Fayth." Grace growled and Elena's eyes went wide.
"Katherine wanted me to ask you to ask Elena did she enjoy your little rendezvous with Stefan this morning?" Hearing the hitch in Grace's breathing she smirked "We will always know, Grace. We will 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 the Gilbert house? To replace Aunt Jenna vervain perfume, to convince her to stop drinking her special tea?" She smirked.
"No." Grace whispered.
"Jenna's been my little spy for days now. Unlike you, Jenna actually listens to me so when I suggested that the world would be a much better place if she was just…" Grace looked around to see Jenna is holding a knife pointed at her stomach "You should really tell Damon to be more careful with who's heart her rips out next. Oh and how is your house, I told Mason to make sure that you were inside before he set it alight... shame you weren't."
"Jenna, no!" Grace screamed dropping the phone making it clatter to the floor.
"Jenna! Jenna!" Alaric yells.
Jenna stabs herself in the abdomen and Alaric, Grace and Elena rush toward her trying to stop the blood but not moving the knife.
"Well, you get the idea." Fayth grinned as she hung up.
At Mystic Falls hospital Grace and Elena as sitting there absolutely in bits, Grace was crying and Elena was just plain torn.
"Is she ok?" Jeremy walks in the room.
"The doctors t-told Alaric that she got lucky." Grace hiccuped standing up as Elena couldn't bring herself to start talking "She's gonna make it. She's gonna be ok."
"Did she remember what happened?" Jeremy asked.
"No, nothing." Grace shook her head "It's all part of Fayth mind compulsion."
"Why would Fayth and Katherine hurt Jenna?" Jeremy questioned.
"Because she's trying to send a message, that she could get to anybody." Grace began to cry again.
"hey, hey. Come here." Jeremy pulled her into a tight embrace "It's gonna be ok."
"No it's not." Grace sobbed.
"She's gonna pay, Grace. Both of them are. I don't know how, but she's gonna pay." Jeremy growled.
"It looks good." Tyler told his mother as he walked in the house.
"Thanks. It was nice to see Matt today. He hasn't been around for a while." His mother replied.
"We've both been busy I guess." He replied "Have you seen Mason? The guy's been awol all day."
"Actually Tyler, Mason headed back to Florida." Carol explained.
"What?" Tyler looked at her surprised.
"I'm sorry, honey. I know how much you two hit it off." Carol sympathised.
"So he just left?" Tyler questioned skeptically.
"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." She smiled comfortingly.
Grace and Elena walked into the Salvatore Boarding house exchanging glances before walking separate ways into the house. Elena walked into the library to see Stefan standing there, his eyes were wet from where he had been crying, this set Elena off too.
"I'm so sorry." His voice cracked.
"We were stupid. Sneaking around, thinking that we weren't gonna get caught." Elena mused.
"I know." Stefan nodded.
"we did this. Stefan, Jenna's in the hospital, Grace is getting death threats, Jeremy could be next. All because we didn't listen to her, because we're together. Stefan …"
"I know what you're gonna say." Stefan whispered feeling his heart begin to break.
"Then let me say it." She walked towards him "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-" She cut him off as they began to both cry harder.
"No, Stefan. It has to be." Elena kissed him and began to leave.
Grace watched her twin walked towards the front door of the Salvatore Boarding House, about to run after her Damon quickly grabbed her wrist giving her a pain-struck look.
"Grace, I riled Fayth up. I wasn't thinking. I didn't think!" He told her taking all the blame.
"Why didn't you listen to me." Grace hissed tears staining her cheeks "I told you! I told you that you didn't need to go after him, you didn't need to do that, Damon. I was here, but you didn't listen and now Jenna is in the hospital and Fayth told me that it was her idea to burn down my house, she said it was a shame I wasn't inside it." more tears came and Damon held her tightly, but she pushed him away.
"I'm sorry." Damon quickly tried to apologise for his ways.
"That's not going to cut it." Grace whispered "It's too dangerous, how long before Fayth goes after Elena, or Jeremy? Or anyone I'm close to? It's too risky."
"But-"
"Damon." She whispered closing her eyes looking down before looking back up at him "I want to be with you so bad, I want to always be with you-"
Damon grabbed her arms "So be with me."
"No. I can't." She rasped out her voice was hoarse from the crying "It would be selfish of us." Grace whispered "It's too dangerous."
She walked away from him glancing over her shoulder at him before turning to see Stefan standing there with a guilty look on his face, tears pouring from his eyes as he exchanged looks with his distort brother.
"I'm so sorry, Grace." Stefan hiccuped.
"We both are." Damon walked towards her crying one last attempted at winning her back.
"Don't." She breathed "They've won. Fayth and Katherine won at their own game." Tears streams as she ran from the house.
Damon turned quickly with such an intense fury burning inside of him, grabbing the closest thing to him which was a priceless vase smashing it against the wall screaming loudly as Stefan walked around the corner tears still running from his eyes.
Damon growled "We didn't protect her, we said we would, we go on about it, but when it came to it we were dealing with our own problems leaving them both exposed."
"I know." Stefan sighed.
Katherine was pacing around her room, whilst Fayth lounged casually on the bed inspecting her freshly manicured nails.
"I apologize if I seem rattled." Katherine nodded "The circumstances have changed suddenly and we had to adjust. Mind control is a necessary evil. You see, we need a werewolf and Fayth lost the one that I had. Now tell me what you're going to do to help me get a new one." Katherine looked deep into Matt's bright blue eyes.
"I'm going to go after Tyler Lockwood." His voice was flat and calm.
"And you're not going to stop." She began to compel him again.
"And I'm not going to stop." Matt repeated.
"Until?" Katherine edged him on.
"Until he kills me." Matt spoke.
A/N
Oh, wow. Stefan and Elena broke up, Grace and Damon broke up :'( No! Damn Fayth and Katherine! (Mostly Fayth!)
I want to say a special thank you to grapejuice101 who is incredibly helpful in helping me get these out and giving me ideas and opinions! So thank you!
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