Twisted Love
Season Two
Masquerade
DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Vampire Diaries, I only own Grace :)
Caroline was sitting on the couch at the Salvatore Boarding House when Damon walked in handing her a glass of thick crimson blood to calm her nerves.
"Here." He looked at her slightly concerned.
"I'm still shaking." She brought the glass up carefully to her lips taking small sips of the liquid.
"What happened?" Stefan walked in, he had just got the message the blonde had arrived with news.
"Go ahead, tell him." Damon looked at the blonde "You're gonna love this." He wiggled his eye brows.
"I saw Katherine and Fayth today." Caroline whimpered thinking back to the memory.
"Where?" Stefan's eyes were wide.
"At the Grill." Caroline replied her bright eyes were still wide from the encounter "I just stopped by to gawk and… quasi-stalk Matt." She admitted shamefully spinning into a flash back.
Earlier that day Caroline smiled sweetly as she walked into the Mystic Grill. Matt was doing his job of busting tables when he caught her silvery gaze from across the room.
"Do you need a table?" He finally asked breaking the awkward silence between the two.
"No, I'm not staying." She quickly told him "I just needed to use the little girls' room." She lied.
"Skip the teen drama and get to it." Damon told her firmly, he'd had enough drama with Grace over the past couple of days he honestly didn't want to deal with other peoples problems.
"Then I had to pretend to use the bathroom." Caroline continued flashing a deathly look at Damon "Even though I didn't really have to because I'm a doofus." She moaned.
Caroline walked into the bathroom at the Grill and sighed heavily looking into the mirror at herself, she hated what her and Matt had become, suddenly she saw Grace and Elena walking in behind her, but this time she knew it wasn't them, but she would play along.
"Elena? Grace?" Caroline turned to them.
"Hey, I saw you with Matt, are you ok?" Katherine asked giving off faux concern.
"Yeah, you know… whatever." She mumbled, attempting to flash past them at supernatural speed, but Fayth caught her hair pulling her back to them.
"You're good." Fayth smirked "What gave us away? Is it the hair?" She looked at her own tight curls "Or was it the clothes?"
"I know Elena and Grace are at home." Caroline replied.
"I need you to deliver a message." Katherine told her.
"Tell Damon and Stefan that we want the moonstone or we will rip this town apart until it rains blood." Fayth growled "Tonight, at the masquerade ball."
"She wants to do it in public." Stefan mused from where he sat opposite the blonde "Killing Mason threw her off guard." He glanced at Damon.
"She's running scared." Damon tried to cover his choices of killing Mason "What she did to Jenna was desperate. She's out of tricks."
"What about what she did to Grace's house? How long before she tries that with Caroline's or ours?" Stefan spat.
"That won't happen again." Damon growled.
"Wait. What?" Caroline looked up at them.
"It was Fayth that burnt down Grace's house, with the help of Mason. She wanted Grace to be inside of it… but thankfully she wasn't." Damon muttered.
"Can we just give her the moonstone so she'll leave?" Caroline asked.
"No, Fayth and Katherine are not getting dick." Damon growled "I have it. I'm gonna go to the masquerade ball and I'm gonna kill her, tonight." the older brother smirked.
"You're not gonna kill Katherine." Stefan shook his head.
"Don't give me that goody-goody crap." Damon growled.
"You're not gonna kill her." He repeated.
"Really?" Damon scoffed.
"Because I am." The younger brother finished with a smirk.
Back at the Gilbert House Grace and Matt were helping Jenna limp into the house from where she had been in the hospital she was still seriously injured, whilst Elena held her bag for her and Jeremy grabbed the door.
"Hey, stop fussing, I'm fine." Jenna winced.
"The doctors said that you have to take it easy." Elena told her concerned.
"Yeah, you don't want to rip your stitches, haemorrhage and die, alright?" Jeremy smirked.
"The only thing I'm gonna die from is embarrassment." Jenna whined.
"No." Grace laughed.
"I walked into a knife." Jenna stated and Grace felt a wave of guilt run over her "How does somebody do that."
"It was a freak accident." Elena lied.
"It happens." Jeremy agreed.
"Yeah, I mean I've done it like 20 times at the Grill." Matt informed her trying to be nice, Jenna laughed but winced at the pain that came with it "Ok, I'm being nice." he admitted.
Carefully Matt and Grace lay her back on the couch being sure to lay her back slowly not ripping any of her stitches, smiling Matt gave the Gilbert Aunt a bag sitting down with her. Grace, Jeremy and Elena walk into the kitchen to have a private conversation.
"Here." Jeremy passed Grace a bag.
"What is it?" She inspected the bag carefully.
"Damon stopped by early this morning, he must have known you were staying here." Jeremy told her and Grace sniffled a little "He said it's essentials."
"Thanks, Jer." A small smile was formed on Grace's lips.
"So what are we gonna do?" Jeremy questioned turning to Elena.
"Make lunch." Elena replied casually.
Jeremy snorted "No, about Fayth and Katherine."
"Plunge a stake straight into her heart." Grace growled crunching on a shiny red apple.
"No." Elena gave her a look "We're not going to do anything." She gave them both a look
"She tried to kill Jenna. We can't let her get away with that." Jeremy stated and Grace nodded in agreement.
"Yes we can. If it keeps us safe then we can." Elena replied.
"And what if she tries something else?" Jeremy looked at her exasperated
"She won't. Fayth and Katherine hurt Jenna because I didn't do what she said. Well I'm doing it now, me and Stefan are over." She glanced across at Grace.
"They won." Grace muttered looking down at her hands "Game over."
"You are being naïve and you know it." Jeremy told her.
"I am not, Damon." Grace hissed thinking that it was Damon calling her naïve again before she could stop herself her eyes widening as she left the room with her bag in hand.
"What?" Jeremy looked at Elena "Did she just call me Damon?"
"I'm not sure, I should go check on her." Elena noted.
"Alright, I'll be back later-"
"Where are you going?" She eyed him suspiciously.
"Out. I'll be back." Jeremy nodded as he left.
Katherine and Fayth walked into their little bed and breakfast holding many shopping bags, they were followed by an older woman who had shopping bags up an down her arms carrying more than she could handle.
"Where should I put these?" The older woman asked.
"Right there." Fayth pointed to her bed.
"Thank you, Mrs. Flowers. You've been such a wonderful help." Katherine purred.
"Oh, it's my pleasure dear. Let my know if there's anything else I can do." Mrs. Flowers smiled as she left the room.
"You are getting soft, Katerina." Fayth told her sister as she pulled a pair of pumps from her bag.
"Maybe I'm just in character." Katherine tried to reason "Trying to act like Elena does for tonight, I mean-"
"It only takes a second." Fayth moved in a blur to be holding a stake at her heart and clasping her hand around her throat "Let your guard down and that could be the end."
"Fay, stop." Katherine rasped.
"girls, girls." A olive skinned woman stepped out from where she was hiding in the bathroom "No need to fight."
"Lucy." Fayth smiled at her letting her twin go.
"It's good to see you." Lucy smiled at the two as she hugs them both.
"I'm glad you could make it." Katherine looked at her.
"You called, I came." Lucy glanced over at Fayth who was inspecting her beautiful navy blue dress for tonight.
"Like you had a choice." Fayth purred menacingly.
"Don't get all boss lady on me-" She was cut off by a growl that erupted from deep within Fayth's throat, even Katherine looked surprised "You know I love you." she pulled back a silver masquerade mask "Now, where does one where this?"
"To a masquerade ball. Tonight. You want to be my date." Fayth smirked.
At the Salvatore House Bonnie stood out the front as she knocked the door, quickly Caroline opened it smiling at her. The witch has done as Stefan said, she brought Emily's grimoire with her.
"Hey, come in." She moved aside from her to walk in.
"I got Stefan's message." Bonnie informed her as Stefan came around the corner from where he had been standing in the parlour room.
"Hey, you brought the grimoire, thank you." Stefan smiled at her.
Peaking around Stefan's broad shoulders Bonnie saw Damon and Alaric talking next to a table full of weapons, loading them, checking they still worked, the young witches eyes widened.
"What's going on?" Bonnie questioned.
"We're gonna kill Katherine." Jeremy informed here from where he stood.
"I can explain." Stefan started holding up both of his hands defensively.
"Please." Bonnie looked up at him waiting for his explanation.
He hesitated "We're gonna kill Katherine."
Alaric was explained to everyone how his weapons work "This works with compressed air. The trigger mechanism is up here. I have two of these in a different size." He informed everyone before picking up a slip on sleeve with two wooden stakes attached to it "For you I recommend this. It fits nicely under the jacket sleeve. You use the trigger when you're ready." He made the stake release into his hand seeing the look on Damon's face "You wanted me to show you how to kill a vampire." Both Stefan and Damon nodded.
Back to the Pierce sisters across town Fayth was sitting at her vanity table straightening her hair to make sure it looked like Grace and Katherine was using the full size mirror to assure the same thing whilst Lucy picked out dresses.
"What's with the hair?" The witch questioned
"We're impersonating our dull-as-dishwater doppelgänger's Elena and Grace." Fayth informed her "They have the worst taste."
"Except in men." Lucy replied snidely catching Katherine's look in the mirror "Isn't it a risk pretending to be her in front of the entire town?"
"We've gotten quite good at it actually and everyone's gonna be in masks. It's for some feed the something charity. It's for a good cause, Lucy." Fayth smirked.
"Hmm, ok. Well, have you both actually seen the moonstone before? I always thought it was some made up legend." Lucy looked at both of them.
"We have seen it." Katherine informed her.
Fayth nodded "We just need you to help us get it back."
"Oh yeah? What are you gonna do with it?" Lucy quirked an eye brow catching the uncomfortable look on both of their faces "You want me to break the curse."
"Let's just get it first." Katherine suggested.
"All we really need from you is backup. I can't imagine that Damon and Stefan are just gonna hand it over without putting up a fight." Fayth added.
Bonnie was walking through one of the halls of the Salvatore Boarding House contemplating what she was about to do, Stefan was following her.
"I know you love Elena and you want to be with her, but it's risky. Too many people could get hurt." Bonnie told him concerned.
"Look, I want Elena back, yes but it's more than that. What they did to Jenna crossed the line, and Fayth told Grace that she was the reason her house burned down. I feel as if I've failed her. Failed them both. They have to be stopped before it happens again."
"I don't know, Stefan." Bonnie shook her head.
"Katherine knows me, right? She knows that I'm not gonna try something in a crowd full of innocent people so that gives me an edge." He reasoned "I could catch her by surprise."
Bonnie hesitated "What about Fayth? She seem to be the bigger threat here."
"Damon has got her covered." Stefan replied.
Bonnie sighed "I could do a spell to trap them, like the tomb spell." she suggested.
"Right. We can isolate them, away from the others. Please Bonnie." The younger Salvatore brother begged.
"Ok." Bonnie nodded.
"Hey." Elena walked in her room to see Grace looking at a pretty black dress on her bed, it has sequins on waist, it had been hidden in the bottom of the small box of things that the firemen had salvaged form her house "You're not thinking of going tonight are you?"
"No." Grace shook her head speaking softly, running her finger tips over the delicate material "It's just… this was my favourite party of the year, I always felt so mysterious and sexy, I always wanted to show Damon that side of me… and now I don't get a chance because he goes and pisses off his ex."
"Hey." Elena sat next to her "It'll all be ok, you and Damon will work it out."
"Will we? I'm not sure I can trust me, he never listens to me. His emotions just get the better of him and he goes out and does something stupid." Grace took a sip from the blood bag Damon has sent her. "What about you and Stefan? Will you two-"
Elena shrugged "I'm not sure, it's different to you and Damon, you're both ... vampires. Stefan and I are from two different worlds." Elena sighed
"Sorry." Grace looked at her apologetically
Elena nodding smiling sweetly as she walked from the room downstairs to see that Matt was just about to leave, she caught up with him.
"You're welcome to hang out tonight. Alaric's coming over. It's gonna be pizza and bad TV." She joked.
"I'd love to, but I'm going to the masquerade party at the Lockwoods, aren't you?" Matt questioned.
"Uh, no… not with what's going on with me and Stefan." She shrugged.
"I've got to go, there's something I got to do." Matt explained.
"What?" Elena eyed him suspiciously.
"Just something, I can't talk about it but I've got to go." Matt turned.
"Ok. Well, have fun." Elena called.
"Yeah." He scoffed "Me and a suit."
"You look good in a suit." She smiled.
"You and Stefan will work it out." Matt assured her.
"I don't think so, Matt." She sighed heavily "There's so much about me and Stefan that'll never work."
"You know I'm here for you always." He told her lovingly as he pulled her into a hug.
Back at the Salvatore Boarding House Damon was on his phone looking at Grace's name contemplating whether to send her a message or not.
"I wouldn't." Stefan came up behind him sitting in the same room as everyone else.
"Are you sure you guys don't want me there tonight?" Alaric asked from where he was setting up is weapons ready for use.
"No, I need you to stay with Elena and Grace. I don't want them to know about this." Stefan told him.
"Ok. Well, I'll make sure they doesn't leave my sight." Alaric nodded.
"Alright, if anybody wants to back out, I'll understand." Stefan nodded looking around at everyone who was involved Damon, Caroline, Bonnie, Jeremy.
"Yeah. Cold feet speak now. I don't want this going wrong if someone chicken's out." Damon slid his phone into his pocket "Caroline."
"I won't." She nodded confidently "Look, she killed me. Fair's fair. As long as there's no werewolves running around."
"Oh, I took care of Mason." Damon smirked thinking back to that was the reason why Grace wasn't with him here now.
"As long as Tyler doesn't kill anyone, he won't turn." Jeremy explained.
"Bonnie? Are you with us?" Stefan looked across at the witch there was a long pause.
She nodded once giving in "But no one gets hurt."
"Except Fayth and Katherine." Damon chirped "Tonight they get a stake through their hearts."
Day soon turned to night and everyone was at the masquerade ball dressed to impress in beautiful dresses and masks. There were fire jugglers entertaining the guests along with other forms of entertainment.
Carol walks into her late-husbands office to see her son Tyler in there sorting out his tie in the small mirror.
"It's already packed out there." Carol smiled "You know, we need to keep that door shut. Your father would be very unhappy if I let guests in here." Tyler nodded as he turned around to face his mother "Oh, look at you! So handsome." She brushed his shoulders.
"Thanks." Tyler smirked "You look pretty good too, mom."
"Oh, a compliment. I think I'll fall over." She teased.
"Listen, I'm sorry I've been a dick lately-" He saw the look on his mothers face "A jerk lately. It's just … have you heard from Mason?" He asked hopeful
"No and I don't think we're going to. He's coming, he's going, it's just his way." She explained "He's the exact opposite of your father."
"We should have cancelled this party." Tyler hissed.
"This whole masquerade theme was his idea. I don't know what it has to do with helping the homeless but once he made up his mind, he could really be a dick …" She giggled as she saw the surprised look on her sons face "a jerk. But I loved him and I know you did too. It's natural to feel abandoned. I just don't want you to feel alone."
"Come one." Tyler smiled at his loving mother "Put your mask on. Let's just go out there and pretend to have some fun."
"I think I need a cocktail first." She laughed.
Katherine, Fayth and Lucy all arrive looking glorious yet deadly, Lucy departs from the girls and they walk towards Matt who looks surprised to see them both there.
"Elena? Grace?" He smiled at them.
"Matt? You look dashing." Katherine played with his bow tie.
"I thought you said you weren't coming." Matt smiled at her.
"I couldn't miss it." Katherine shrugged "You really are hot in a suit." She purred "I would love to just-"
"Elena." Fayth played along giving her a look.
"Ok, here's the deal." Katherine leaned in beginning to compel him "Do you know what you have to do?"
"I'm gonna get Tyler Lockwood really drunk. I'm going to start a fight with him and I'm gonna beat him until is snaps." Matt repeated like a record player.
"And then?" Katherine asked.
"I won't stop until he kills me." Matt muttered.
"God, you're hot. Now go away." Fayth hissed making him leave.
Damon and Stefan were standing up at the top of the stairs looking over the Lockwood grounds at the party people.
"Do you see them?" Damon asked.
"Nope. You're sure you can do this?" Stefan looked at him.
"Who are you talking to?" Damon scoffed.
"Oh, I had a chance to kill Katherine and I hesitated." Stefan told him.
"Well that is a fork in the road between you and me, my friend. I don't hesitate." Damon growled.
"You spent 145 years loving Katherine, it could happen." Stefan reasoned.
"I won't hesitate." Damon growled getting riled up.
"Ok." Stefan nodded.
Matt and Tyler were in his father's office with Aimee and Sarah. The girls were dancing together to the low thump of music they could hear from outside. The boys were drinking Tyler's father's secret stash.
"We're really not supposed to be in here." Tyler informed him.
"Yeah, I know but we really need to turn this party up. Another shot?" He handed him a shot glass full of vodka.
"Hey, I want a shot." Aimee walked over to the desk they were sitting at.
"Me too and then we have to dance." Sarah followed.
"Yes." Aimee agreed.
"You know, usually it's me corrupting you. I like this." Tyler smirked as he touched his shot glass to Matt's and they all left the room.
"Lets go party!" Aimee hollered.
Jeremy walks into the Lockwood mansion he was carrying a bag. Following behind him was Bonnie they both travel upstairs. They enter an empty room checking it for stray party guests.
"I thought this room could work." Jeremy looked at the witch.
"It's perfect." Bonnie nodded.
Jeremy takes a weapon from the bag inspecting it greatly, getting it ready for use incase he has to use it before checking the rest of Alaric's weapons before putting them back in the bag. Bonnie sits down on a small couch and takes out the grimoire fingering through the book looking for the seal spell.
"Is that the spell book I read about in my family's old journal?" Jeremy looked over his shoulder at her.
"it's my ancestor, Emily's. The spell I'm doing here is similar to the one that sealed the vampires into the tomb." She explained stopping on the right page.
Jeremy places the bag that he was holding into a closet, shutting it after it was in there waiting for Stefan and Damon to use them.
"Can you do all the stuff that's in there?" Jeremy questioned curiously.
"I mean it takes practice. I've worked on some small spells. Spells that only do good. I don't want to know too much. I don't particularly enjoy any of this, in case you haven't noticed." She told him.
"Yeah but you're 100% witch, that is so cool." He took a seat next to her.
"It's anything but cool. Did your family journals tell you what happened to Emily? Or what about my Grams? It never ends well for people like me." She referred to the overuse of her powers she will be drained of power completely and die.
"If you feel that way, why help?" Jeremy looked at her confused.
"Because I don't want anyone else getting hurt and I don't know how to stay out of it." She sighed.
"I feel like an invalid." Jenna whined reaching for her drink.
"That's because you are an invalid." Elena smirked passing her the drink she was trying to reach.
Grace smiles as she lays the pizza box on the table, checking her phone she still had no messages from anyone, looking over her shoulder she saw Alaric in the kitchen texting.
"Excuse me." Grace stood up walking into the kitchen "What's going on, Alaric?"
"What do you mean?" Alaric creased his eye brows putting his phone back in his pocket quickly.
"I haven't heard from anyone all day. It's like everyone's been avoiding me." Grace stated.
"Jeremy went to the masquerade ball." Elena stepped in the room "Somethings up."
"I don't know what to tell you." He admitted.
His phone began to ring, Grace zipped around and attempted to steal it, but Alaric moved away from her giving her a look.
"So then you'll be ok if me and Grace just head to that party? Meet up with everyone?" Elena asked coyly as her and her twin turned to leave.
"Wait, wait, wait." Alaric called.
"What are you hiding, Ric?" Grace spat.
"Stefan asked me to keep an eye on you two, just in case Katherine or Fayth showed up while he was at the party." Alaric lied.
"So Stefan's at the party too?" Elena looked at him "He would never go to the party by himself; he did that stuff for me."
"Just let this one go." Alaric begged.
Back at the party Bonnie and Jeremy were just leaving the spare room rejoining the party outside, everyone was dancing and drink, it looked like a fun time if you didn't have two crazy vampires trying to kill you.
"We need to let Stefan and Damon know the room's ready." Bonnie told Jeremy but she suddenly came to a halt "Do you feel that?"
"What's the matter?" Jeremy questioned "Are you cold?"
"No." Bonnie shook her head as she looked across the crowd at Lucy who was stirring her vodka tonic casually, the younger witch stalked towards her "Excuse me, do I know you?"
"No, I'm a plus one, I know no one, but it's a great party though." Lucy smiled as she walked away from the Bennett witch.
"Are you ok?" Jeremy looked down at Bonnie.
"I just got a weird vibe. Let's find Stefan." Bonnie told him.
Damon walks down the steps onto the main field/ dance floor of the Lockwood Mansion grounds, looking around he saw Fayth across the yard from him, stepping forward towards her she was gone, turning back around to walk away she was right there next to him.
"Dance with me." She smiled flirtatiously at him.
"No." Damon turned away from her.
"Fine then, tell me who I should kill." She looked at a random man whilst picking up at strawberry from a waiter "him? Mmm, she looks delicious." she took a bite from it acting seductive.
Offering his arm to her she took it and they both walked onto the dance floor, he tried to stay as far away from her as possible, but she kept moving closer.
"It's a beautiful night." She mused.
"Why the charade?" Damon asked.
"How's Jenna? I certainly didn't expect her to survive that. Lucky girl." Fayth's eyes flared with amusement "Clumsy. How does one stab oneself?"
"Fayth." Damon warned
"How is little Gracie?" Fayth asked and Damon growled lowly "Losing all her things in the tragic fire, losing you, poor girl."
"Stop." Damon growled "I don't want anyone hurt tonight." he changed the subject clearly lying.
"Ok. Then give me the moonstone and nobody will have to." Fayth growled.
"Well, you see, I don't have the moonstone on me. So, you and I will have to go get it together." He smirked.
"Hmm. I have a better plan. You go fetch it and I will try not to kill anyone in the meantime." Fayth replied acting casual.
"My way or you don't get it." Damon growled.
Aimee walked over as she was trying to find Matt, she noticed Grace and grinned as she arrived next to them a shocked look on her face at Grace's style in clothing.
"Oh my God Grace! You look so pretty!" Aimee gushed "I love that dress. You look gorge!" She stated and Fayth smiled smugly.
"Really? I think she looks like a slut." Damon added and Fayth flashed him a deathly look "But that's just my opinion."
"Anyway … I was just wonder if you have both seen Matt." Aimee asked, she could sense the tension coming off of them.
"No, I haven't." Fayth pouted "But I love your necklace."
"Oh, thanks." Aimee blushed.
"Oh, it's twisted." Fayth lied walking around the back of her pretending to fix her necklace when she really snaps her spine "Paralysed from the waist down." Fayth finished her off "and dead." She pushed Aimee's limp lifeless into Damon's hands as she turned away "The moonstone, Damon. Tick tock."
"Hey guys, I'm gonna go to bed. You good over there?" Elena called from the stairs.
"Good night." Jenna and Alaric smiled.
"Night, 'Lena." Grace called looking over her shoulders.
"I'm going to the party, meet me outside in 5." Elena said in her head giving her a look, Grace creased her eye brows but nodded once.
Tip toeing back down the stairs only Grace could hear her subtle movements as she grabbed her keys and snuck out the door undetected.
"Well … I'm gonna go get ready for bed too, I think." Grace yawned.
"Really? But the movies just about to start." Jenna complained.
"It's alright, I just need to go take a shower." Grace shrugged.
"Alright, then." Jenna grumbled.
Quickly getting up from where she was sitting next to Alaric, she put her hand on the door handle, twisting it slowly to open it and zip out closing the door silently behind her.
"Ready." Grace smiled.
Stefan was pacing around an empty room as Damon sat casually against a table nursing a glass of scotch in his hand.
"I put the body in the trunk for now." Stefan informed him referring to Aimee Bradley, the innocent girl that Fayth had killed in front of Damon as a threat.
"We'll dump her when we get back." Damon replied with a small shrug.
"This is exactly what I didn't want, Damon." Stefan growled at him.
"Stefan, it's collateral damage." The older brother shrugged.
"Right, which is why we need to call it off." Stefan bailed out.
"What? Who's hesitating now?" Damon growled walking towards him placing his hands on his shoulders "Hey! Don't do this to me! These women ruined out lives, they destroyed us! Tonight it ends. We can do it together. I got your back. Alright." He confirmed to him.
"Alright." Stefan sighed.
Bonnie and Jeremy were waiting for the signal from Stefan and Damon whilst standing outside in the fresh, crisp air.
"So can you do like a hocus pocus to ace a test?" Jeremy asked curiously.
"I don't know that spell." Bonnie joked.
"It'd be like the first one I'd learn or maybe like a sex spell or something... I don't know." He chuckled and Bonnie giggled "Do you want to dance or something while we're waiting?"
"No!" She laughed at him unintentionally "I mean, no thank you."
Jeremy's phone began to vibrate, he got it out and how a next from Damon with one simple word on it 'now.' He got up and left Bonnie sitting there alone.
Lucy joined Fayth and Katherine as they wandered through the yard scanning the crowd for any threats or danger.
"You didn't tell me there was another witch here." Lucy announced.
"Didn't I?" Fayth played dumb.
"No, you didn't." Lucy growled "No one is supposed to know I'm involved. This changes things, Fayth-"
"This changes nothing." Fayth spat "You're here because you owe your dear friends a favour. You wouldn't want to lose my friendship now, would you?" She gave her a look as Jeremy joined the two.
"Elena." He smiled "Grace." he removed his mask as he looked at Lucy "Hey sorry, could I just talk with these two?" Lucy nodded as she left.
"What is it Jeremy?" Katherine asked.
"I have a message from Stefan." He announced.
"oh?" Katherine looked surprised.
"He and Damon want you both to meet them at the edge of the lake by the woods. They brought the moonstone." He informed them.
"And why are you their little messenger?" Fayth asked.
"Because they know I'm not afraid of you." Jeremy growled Fayth laughed a little.
"Hmm, you Gilbert men, so courageous. How's John by the way?" Katherine taunted "Were they able to sew his fingers back on?" She asked before both twins leaving him standing there.
As Jeremy was texting Damon he walked away from the crowd into a quieter part of the party a hand caught his arm, he turned to look into a deadly set of chocolate brown eyes "What the hell is going on?" Grace hissed.
Inside of the mansion Caroline was standing watching Matt from across the room, he was still hanging around with Tyler and Sarah. He stops and looks at her for a split second before he left with the two.
Her phone buzzed in her purse she got it out and read the text it was from Jeremy saying 'your turn' she let out a small sigh as she walked into the empty part of the mansion about to walk through a door when Fayth and Katherine arrive.
Fayth grabs the blondes arm and twists it shoving her violently against a wall, dazing her momentarily as her head rebounded hard off of the wall.
"What are Stefan and Damon up to?" Katherine asked.
"What do you mean?" Caroline asked, her voice was meek.
"I've got Jeremy Gilbert luring us out to a lake. What's going on?" Fayth growled.
"I don't know nothing." Caroline replied as Fayth moved her around so that her back was against the wall and clasping her hand tightly around her neck, only slightly lifting her from the ground.
"Don't lie to me, Caroline. They're up to something, what is it?" Fayth hissed.
"I-" She began to straggle her harder "Wait, no, no no!" She rasped trying to pry her hand off, Fayth released a little "They are trying to kill you!"
"I figured as much." Fayth sighed "Where is the moonstone?"
"Bonnie has it." Caroline's voice was hoarse.
"And where is Bonnie right now?" Katherine asked.
"I don't know." Caroline replied as Fayth tightened her grip "She's upstairs!"
"You guys are trying to kill them here?" Elena shook her head.
"We saw an opportunity and we knew we had to take it." Jeremy explained.
"Ok! You're all being stupid. You're going to get yourself killed." Grace looked at them frustrated.
"We know what we're doing." Bonnie told her confidently.
"And how am we supposed to feel if one of you guys gets hurt because of us?" Elena asked and Grace nodded.
"It's not just you anymore. She's messed with all of us, she has to be stopped." Jeremy replied.
Katherine was dragging Caroline upstairs whilst Fayth lead in front, they arrive outside of the room that Caroline had told them about and Fayth burst through the door walking into the room Katherine following quickly.
"Where is she?" Fayth looked around as Caroline began to laugh.
"I did it." The blonde looked overly excited "I really didn't think I'd be able to fool you, both of you, but I did it!"
Fayth zipped towards the door but was stopped by a barrier "What the …?" She turned around to see the younger Salvatore brother standing there.
"Stefan." Katherine growled.
"Hello, girls." Stefan smiled.
"Goodbye, Fayth and Katherine." Caroline gushed as she ran through the house.
"You don't really think you can kill us both with that now, do you?" Fayth pouted.
"No, but he can help." Stefan looked behind her
Damon stepped out from the closet and fires a stake at her from the compressed air weapon Alaric had developed, it hits Fayth square in the back, she stumbled forward the stake deep in her back.
"Ah!" Grace stumbled forward feeling a stabbing sensation piercing her back, blood streamed down her back and Jeremy caught her before she hit the floor, Bonnie and Elena look at her surprised.
"Grace!" Elena gasped.
"What the-"
Stefan rushed over to Katherine and plunges the stake into her arm missing her chest, Damon ran over to Fayth and pulled the stake from her back trying to plunge it directly into his chest.
This time Elena let out a scream as she clasped her arm in pain, blood oozed through her fingers, looking over at Grace she was pale and pasty as Jeremy held her trying to keep her awake.
"Jeremy, it's Fayth and Katherine." Bonnie breathed figuring it out "They're linked to them! Get them to stop! Now!"
Just as Damon was about to pushed the stake directly into Fayth's heart, Katherine threw Stefan across the room jumping on Damon's back he shrugged her off and ran for the bitch that broke his heart.
"Stop!" Jeremy stood the other side of the barrier "You're hurting Grace and Elena!" Both brothers stopped immediately "Everything you're doing to them is hurting Grace and Elena."
Fayth smirked at Damon "You think you two are the only ones with a witch on your side? Wrong and something tells me that my witch is better than your witch." She snatched the stake from Damon's hand.
"Jeremy, go check on the girls. Make sure they're ok. Go!" Stefan told him and Jeremy ran off.
"Let's make sure poor Grace and Elena are ok." Fayth sobbed pushing the stake into her sisters hand "Just a little bit more pressure." A thick cut opened up, Stefan quickly slapped the stake away from her sisters hand.
"Ah!" Grace yelled as her hand split open blood pouring over the side, Grace quickly turned away ignoring the temptation, her throat ran dry when the metallic smell filled her nostrils.
"Bonnie, it hurts." Elena sobbed.
"I can't break the spell, Elena." Bonnie was weak "I'm sorry, but I can try and take some of the pain away. Ok?" Elena nodded and the witch began to chant a spell.
"This is really going to hurt." Fayth held the stake just in front of her stomach.
"Wait!" Damon yelled concerned for the pain that Grace would have to go through, Fayth saw this in his eyes and grinned.
Both sisters sat down onto the couch smiling smugly at both brothers "Ok. So, how about that moonstone?" Fayth asked casually.
Bonnie was attempting to take Elena's pain away whilst Grace was cracking her back, the fact that she was a vampire meant that the pain wasn't as great as Elena's was.
"Are you ok?" Jeremy suddenly arrived.
"Are they?" Grace asked concerned.
"They're stuck in there with her." He replied looking at Bonnie "You were right; Katherine and Fayth had a witch link Elena to her."
"The girl I saw, the one I spoke to!" Bonnie remembered Lucy "Stay with her, keep pressure on her shoulder!"
"Where are you going?" Jeremy asked.
"There's another witch here, I'm gonna find her!" Bonnie ran off.
Jeremy pulled off his magic ring and gave it to Elena, whilst Grace was keeping the pressure of Elena's arm.
"No." Elena pushed his hand away.
"Take it." Jeremy insisted.
"No, Jeremy-"
"Elena listen to me: you need this more than I do." Jeremy told her.
"No Jeremy. What I need is for you to be safe." She growled.
"The four of us together just like old times." Fayth mused as she sat on the couch casually "The couple that loved too much and the ones that didn't love at all, well one did." Fayth smirked referring to her and Damon.
"And the evil slut vampire who only loved herself." Damon growled.
"What happened to you Damon?" Fayth pouted "You used to be so sweet and polite."
"Oh that Damon died a long time ago." The raven haired vampire smirked.
"Good. He was a bore." Fayth teased.
"Oh, why don't you two stop antagonising each other." Stefan growled.
"Where is the moonstone?" Katherine finally asked.
"What do you want with it?" Stefan crossed his arms over his chest looking at her.
"Does Grace enjoy having you worship at her alter?" Fayth turned to Damon looking directly at him "I mean, it is obvious that you love, but you're too scared to tell her because you're scared she won't feel the same way and run … but she must enjoy all the attention you give her."
"That was really desperate, Fayth." Stefan informed her from across the room "Don't you think we can see right through you?"
"So it doesn't bother you that I made you scared to show your true feelings for another woman?" She laughed.
"Stop." Damon growled at her.
"Damon, ignore her." Stefan warned.
"Or what?" Fayth teased "You'll hurt me." she rose from her seat, Katherine was following her every move "C'mon, Stefan. Everything I feel, Grace feels, so go ahead." She then turned to the older brother "Or better yet, kiss me Damon. She'll feel that too. You can be reunited with you lover once more."
"You know, this whole Mason thing has me a bit confused." Stefan spoke up "Why a werewolf? The moonstone can break a curse that would help them destroy all vampires so what's in it for you?"
"Sorry about you pet wolf." Damon's voice was husky with anger "Probably should have kept him on a tight leash."
"Probably should have kept that canister of gasoline out of his hands … oh no, wait. That way my idea." Fayth chirped "Still, I'll have to remember that for next time. He's not the only wolf in town."
Sarah, Tyler and Matt were in the Richard's office, sitting drinking and partying even though they had completely lost Aimee.
"So, what happened to Aimee?" Sarah slurred.
"I don't know, she disappeared." Matt shrugged.
"She's probably drunk somewhere." Tyler suggested.
"Like me." Matt smirked as he tipped his bottle of alcohol spilling it onto the floor, Tyler watched him horror, his mom said they wouldn't be allowed in there in the first place and now he was ruining the place.
"Whoa, don't do that." Tyler told him.
Matt laughed again "What man? It's a party." he shrugged grabbing a framed picture from Richard's desk, it was of Carol and Richard in a loving embrace "Right dad? You know, looks like your dad wants to drink." He began to pour alcohol over the picture.
"Hey, that's not cool. What's wrong with you?" Tyler growled at his drunk, infuriating friend.
"Come on, the guy was a dick." Matt spat.
"Come on, you're being mean. His dad's dead." Sarah tried to cool them both down.
"Give me the picture!" Tyler held his hand out, but Matt wouldn't give it up, the raven haired boy then tried to snatch it from his hands, but he wasn't going to let go any time soon.
"Remember how your dad used to slap you around?" Matt smirked as he slapped Tyler around the head.
"Are you kidding?" Tyler hissed.
"I'm just having fun." Matt held his hands up.
"Put the picture down now man." Tyler warned him.
Nodding once Matt throws the picture on the ground making sure it broke into many shattered pieces, Sarah gasped and Tyler looked at him with anger in his eyes.
"Okay, you need to calm your drunk ass down right now!" The black haired teen's voice grew louder.
"Do something about it!" Matt provoked.
"I'm not gonna fight you." Tyler went to turn away, but Matt ran towards him and threw him to the ground with so much strength, before punching him in the pace initiating the fight.
Just across the hall Caroline could hear grunts and bones cracking, she creased her eye brows and zipped towards the room to see Tyler and Matt fighting.
"What is going on? Stop!" Caroline screamed as she put herself between the two, when she wouldn't stop going for each other she shoved Matt on the floor.
As quickly as he went down Matt got up and rushed over Tyler but Caroline stops him, holding him firmly in place.
"I can't! Let me go, I have to finish!" Matt growled.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Tyler hissed.
"Let me go!" Matt struggled against the blonde.
Caroline looks at him seeing that this wasn't him, this was someone else doing. Pushing him and elbows him hard in the face Matt falls on the floor, unconscious. She goes toward Matt scared that he wasn't ok.
"Matt?" She asked bending down.
Sarah secretly takes a sharp paper knife on the desk and looks directly at Tyler with determination in her eyes.
"How did you-" His question was cut off when Sarah spoke from behind him.
"Matt failed. If Matt fails, I can't." Sarah's voice was monotone and emotionless.
"Tyler, look out!" Caroline called as Sarah ran towards him and shoved the knife into his chest.
Acting quickly Tyler pushed the weaker girl away from him, she stumbled back and slipped smacking her head against the side of the desk, falling to the floor lifelessly.
"No, no, no!" Tyler yelled as he ran towards her "Come on, wake up! Sarah, open your eyes, wake up! This can't happen, oh no, this can't happen. This can't be happening! Sarah! Sarah, get up! Sarah! Open your eyes! This can't be happening!"
Suddenly a pain ripped through Tyler like he had never felt before, Caroline's eyes widened as he let out a yell holding his head between his hands falling onto his hands and knees on the floor.
"Tyler? Tyler? Tyler, what's happening?" Caroline rushed over.
"Get away!" Tyler warned her.
"What's happening?" Caroline asked when she saw the most frightening pair of amber eyes looking at her when Tyler lifted his head.
"Damn it." Damon growled as he paced the room "Where is that witch?"
"We could play charades." Fayth smirked.
"You bargained the moonstone." Stefan finally realised looking at Katherine.
"What are you mumbling about over there." Damon glanced over his shoulder to look his shoulder at his younger brother.
"When you struck a deal with George Lockwood, to help you fake your death, you told me that you gave George something that he needed. It was the moonstone, wasn't it?" Stefan announced, Katherine's mouth was a straight line whereas Fayth's mouth was turned up into a grin.
"Good for you, Stefan. 2+2 … And it would have worked except that people found out that I wasn't in the tomb." Fayth looked over at Damon "Thanks to you, by the way. Have I mentioned how inconvenient your obsession with me has been?"
"You and me both, honey." Damon growled.
"Why do you need it back?" Stefan looked at Katherine, knowing if he could get a straight answer from anyone it would be her.
"I love you in a suit, so dashing." Katherine purred.
"What were you doing with it in the first place?" Stefan looked down at her.
"You're wasting your breath, Stefan." Damon shook his head.
"Unless it wasn't yours to begin with. In 1864 you faked your own deaths. Who were you running from?" Stefan asked
"In 1986 you were in Chicago, at a concert of all places with that wench, Lexi. Come on Stefan, don't look so surprised. Of course I checked in on you over the years. You were standing in the front row, dancing all night. You were watching Bon Jovi and I was watching you." Katherine informed him changing the subject.
"Who were you running from?" Stefan repeated before she mouthed 'I love you' to him.
Bonnie was searching the house looking Lucy, she saw her from across the room, they both locked eyes for a minute before the older witch walked into the empty dinning room, quickly Bonnie followed her.
"You lookin for me?" Lucy asked casually.
"Who are you?" Bonnie hissed.
"Lucy." She replied.
"What are you doing here?" Bonnie questioned.
"I should have know i'd run into a Bennett." Lucy sighed.
"How do you know me?" Bonnie asked surprised she knew her last name.
"You figure it out." Lucy shrugged "Look, I have no interest in fighting you."
"Then stop the spell you put on my friends." Bonnie replied sharply.
"Give Fayth the moonstone and I will." Lucy looked at her.
"Why are you helping them? Don't you know what they are?" Bonnie looked at her frustrated.
"Tell you friends to hand over the moonstone and all will be groovy." Lucy replied ignoring her previous statement going to leave the room, but Bonnie stepped out in front of her.
"You're not leaving this room until you stop the spell." Bonnie ordered.
"Look, I don't want to hurt you." Lucy informed her.
"I don't want to hurt you." Bonnie narrowed her eyes.
"Look, I don't have a choice. The bitch saved my life and now I owe her. I have to pay up." Lucy sighed about to leave when Bonnie caught her wrist stopping her "You have the moonstone. I can sense it on you." Lucy place both of her hands on Bonnie's forearms and the room began to shake making the lights flicker "Do you feel that? You can trust me. Give it to me, it's ok."
Damon was pouring himself a glass of scotch, getting sick of being locks in that room with the so-in-love Katherine, bitch Fayth and his younger brother.
"We're missing the party." Fayth looked out the window longingly before seeing Damon's glass of scotch "I'll have one of those."
"Right away Ms. Katherine." He mimicked the voice a servant boy giving her a glass as she walked past him.
"Thank you." She purred sipping the scotch tenderly.
Damon caught her wrist and shoved her back against the wall holding her there a stake pushed to her chest threatening to push further in and finish her.
"No, no!" Stefan ran towards him "Damon, don't!"
""Yes, Damon, Yes." Fayth's eyes lit up.
"The second the spell is lifted, I'm gonna drive a stake through your heart." Damon growled at her.
"God, you're hot." Fayth grinned "When did you get so hot?"
Lucy arrived on the other side of the door, moonstone in hand, Fayth broke from her grip and walked towards her as Lucy stepped in the room.
"The spell on the room has been broke, you're free to leave." Lucy told the twins.
"Thank God." Katherine breathed.
"When I hand this over my debt to you is over." Lucy looked at Fayth.
"Done." Fayth agreed.
"I owe you nothing." Lucy looked at them both and Katherine nodded.
"I said done. Give it." Fayth held her hand out greedily.
"I wouldn't go that." Damon warned.
Lucy held the stone in front of her and Fayth quickly took it inspecting before she saw her sister fall to the floor struggling to breath, pain wracking through her body.
"What have you done?" She turned to Lucy before falling to the floor too rasping for breath.
"You should have told me another witch was involved. She's a Bennett witch, Katherine, but I'm sure you knew that." Lucy growled.
"Wait. Elena? Grace?" Stefan looked at Lucy.
"They're fine." Lucy replied and both the boys let out a sigh of relief "The spell is broke. She'll heal quickly, Bonnie's with her." She looks down at the girls on the floor "I apologise for my involvement." She nodded before leaving the room.
Caroline was explaining to Carol Lockwood what happened to Sarah, but she had to twist the truth to make sure she didn't find out it was her son that had killed the teen.
"Matt and I were fighting, we broke up you know, and Sarah was drunk and dancing and she just tripped. And then she wasn't breathing." Caroline lied smoothly.
"Okay, your mom's on her way and we called Sarah's parents. It was an accident. It was a terrible, tragic accident." Carol agreed.
"Mom, the sheriff's here." Tyler walked back in the room rubbing his eyes softly.
"I'll go prepare her, just don't leave. Just stay here okay? She's going to want to hear the story from you." The older woman leaves the room, leaving Caroline is alone with Tyler.
"Matt's in the car, sleeping it off. I'll deal with him; I don't want him involved in any of this." Caroline told him firmly.
"What are you doing?" Tyler asked suspicious of her involvement.
Caroline rolled her eyes "I'm fixing a very bad situation."
"Why? I did this. I killed her." Tyler stated.
"No, you didn't mean to and I think it's best for everyone-"
"But she's dead! You don't know what that means." Tyler vented referring to his new situation of him becoming a werewolf.
"Actually, Tyler, I think I do." Caroline nodded.
"No, you don't, Caroline." Tyler hissed.
"Has your wound healed?" Caroline questioned concerned.
He pulls the front of his shirt forward to see that there was no would, only a small scar from where it had heal, he creased his eye brows and looked at her.
"How did you...?" Tyler's eyes were wide.
Lucy was leaving the party when suddenly Bonnie noticed her, running towards her the younger witch caught up.
"Please, wait." She begged.
"Hey, I'm sorry about that spell. Damn Vampires, the pull you into the middle of it every time." Lucy shook her head and Bonnie knew the feeling.
"How do I know you? When I gave you the moonstone, how did I know I could trust you?" Bonnie asked confused.
"That feeling you got, you ever felt it before?" Lucy questioned knowingly.
"Being around family." Bonnie nodded "My Grams."
"My mother is Johanna, first cousin twice removed from Pauline, niece of Sheila a.k.a-"
"Grams." Bonnie gasped "we are related?"
Lucy smiled "Yeah, we a kind of are. It's nice to meet you Bonnie. Seeing you tonight was a wake-up call for me. I got to stop letting vampires control me. So thank you for that." She left.
"Please, don't leave!" Bonnie cried running after her "I have so many questions. I don't want to be in the middle either. I hate it. How do you stay out of it?" Bonnie asked frantically.
"Unlike me, you're one of the good ones, Bonnie. The middle of it is exactly where you need to be. You take care, Cous. Don't worry, you'll see me again." She winked as she left.
"Hey, Iw as gonna head home, can I offer you a ride?" Jeremy came up behind her seeing the tears fall from her bright eyes "Are you ok?"
"When did you get your driver's license?" Bonnie laughed drying her tears.
"I'm not a kid anymore, Bonnie." Jeremy joked.
"I'd love a ride home." Bonnie smiled.
Stefan saw Grace and Elena sitting there inspecting their wounds, Grace looked between the two smiling to herself.
"Are you ok?" Stefan walked over.
"Fine." Grace smiled "I'm gonna go grab a sweater from my car." she walked away.
"I'm ok." Elena nodded "Bonnie took away the pain and I think I'm healing." Elena explained watching her twin walk away.
"I still think you should see a Doctor." Stefan told her concerned.
"I will." Elena nodded "I heard about Fayth and Katherine, is it true? Are they gone?"
"Yeah, I was so worried about you." He walked towards her but she stopped him "Stefan… I…"
"Katherine being gone doesn't change anything for you, does it?" Stefan looked at her.
"I want to be with you, Stefan. You know that but first, I need to wake up and know that the people that I love are safe. I need to feel safe. Do you understand?" Elena looked at him for acceptance.
"Yeah, I understand." Stefan nodded.
"Ready to go, 'Lena?" Jeremy walked over to her.
Fayth opens her eyes to be on her back on a cold dusty floor. She glanced around her to see Katherine on the ground too, eyes still closed, unconscious.
"Hello, Fayth." Damon purred standing just outside the tomb with Stefan stood beside him.
"Where am I?" Fayth moaned.
"Where you should have been all along. I thought you'd had learned your lesson by now, messing with a Bennett witch." He smirked.
"You should have killed me." She stumbled to be standing pressing herself against the barrier.
"Death would have been too kind." Damon growled.
Stefan and Damon both pick up the large stone door moving to closer it, sealing them inside there forever.
"No, don't!" Fayth screamed "Damon, don't! You need me! Elena's in danger."
"From who?" Stefan asked.
"Don't listen, to her, she's a liar." Damon growled "She always lies."
Fayth let out a shaky breath "Grace wasn't supposed to die! She's my doppelgänger I was supposed to protect her, what happened to Grace was an accident-"
"Then why did you burn down her house!" Damon yelled.
"Because I was angry! But Elena, we have to protect her-"
"Then we will protect whilst you rot in hell." Stefan hissed as they close the door.
"no! No! No, Damon! I'll do anything! Please. Damon! You need me!" Fayth screamed on the other side of the door waking her twin up.
Grace walked into the parking lot to see she had a message from Damon telling her to meet him as his house, walking towards her car her heart fluttered as she opened the door.
Suddenly she was taken by surprise when someone grabbed her from behind covering her mouth, he was too strong, he began to drag her away.
A/N
Oh dear! Grace has been kidnapped, Elijah is joining the story next, Ah! Can't wait to write the Originals in! Gonna be good!
Anyway, tell me what you think :) Review, alert, fav :D Tell me how you think of how Damon is going to react to Grace missing ;) And Fayth and Katherine finally being locked away in the tomb
Graciiee xx