The next few days were quiet, the gang went to school and did normal human things for a change, it seemed that all the vampires had been killed, and Alexandra was fine with that, she just needed the moonstone now. So she started visiting Tyler, he had begun dating a cheerleader so she had been there to listen to his exploits. After her seventh visit she found the moonstone and was quick to pocket it, a smirk on her face.
The rest of the month passed slow, Caroline and Matt continued to be cute together, Bonnie continued training with her grams, Tyler kept being Tyler, and Elena continued to date Stefan. Alexandra was extremely happy when Caroline won Miss Mystic Falls. She ran to her friend and hugged her, almost tipping off the crown off the blonde's head, the two hugged and screamed and jumped holding onto one another while the rest of the gang watched amused. With the help of Bonnie, her Grams and Emily's amulet they had managed to burn all twenty six tomb vampires.
Then the Founder's Day Parade came upon them and Alexandra found herself on a float in an old dress and her hair curled, Tyler next to her. Of course the day ended up going to hell since Alexandra had forgotten about the vampire compass, she had saved Damon from the fire and then had threatened John Gilbert. Her night had ended with her in the hospital with Matt and Tyler crying over Caroline's accident. Damon had taken a look at her and felt bad about everything that had happened and agreed to feed Caroline his blood once she was out of surgery.
Alexandra had looked at him, tears in her eyes before she hugged him tightly. Damon was reminded that despite her aloof attitude, she was still a teenager and felt slightly bad about killing Zach for the first time since he had killed the man. He took his niece out of the hospital after saying his goodbyes and took her out for ice cream.
"You don't have to do this, Uncle Damon," she said softly, Damon smiled at her.
"I want to, trust me," he said with a smile, Alexandra returned the smile and rested her head on his shoulder, "I am really sorry about killing Zach."
Alexandra was surprised by his admission, but nodded at him, "I forgive you," she said.
Damon pulled her into a one armed hug and she cuddled up to him.
"Uncle Damon, Katerina is back," she murmured.
Damon's eyes widened as he looked at her, "Are you sure about this?"
"Yeah, she's trying to murder John Gilbert, right now."
"Should we help him?"
"Nah, he tried to kill you and Uncle Stef," she said with a smile.
"Let's go home kiddo," he said standing and offering his hand to Alexandra, she smiled at him and took it.
Next morning Damon and Alexandra's first stop was at the hospital, Damon fed Caroline his blood and then went with Alexandra to the Lockwood home, Alexandra was quick to walk in and pull Tyler into a hug. Everyone in the gang had been alerted that Katerina was back so they were vigilant. Alexandra spent the remainder of the day with Tyler and texting Caroline. She also met Mason Lockwood and tried to keep Tyler as far from him as she could. She also texted Damon informing him that she was going to tell Tyler about the supernatural.
Tyler had been angry at first and then confused, she had pulled him into a hug and promised that she would help him through whatever happened, because he was like a brother to her, he of course had to ruin the moment joking about the kisses between them and she punched him. Damon picked her up at nighttime and she hugged Tyler once more and pressed a kiss to his cheek before leaving.
She woke up in the middle of the night, remembering one nifty detail. She got out of her room screaming for both Damon and Stefan.
"Katerina killed Care, she's in transition," she told the brothers who groaned before they left to make sure that Caroline would be okay.
The brothers returned home with Caroline in tow and a couple of blood bags. Alexandra invited Caroline into the house and sat nearby while the brothers explained vampirism to Caroline, Alexandra then apologized to Caroline for everything and promised to get her a daylight ring. They had hugged and made up, since it was what bestfriends did, although Damon didn't allow them to sleep in the same room citing that Caroline was a newbie vampire that could lose control.
"This is weird," Caroline said in the morning while they ate breakfast in the guest room.
"It will get better, I promise, I'll go talk to Bonnie and Sheila about the ring," Alexandra assured her.
"Do you think they'll do it?" Caroline asked fearful, Alexandra nodded at her and pulled the blonde into a hug.
"Of course they will, and if not I'll make them, you're still the same Care Bear that we all know and love, you've just been upgraded to immortal," Alexandra said with a smile as she let go of Caroline.
"Your mom's been updated of the situation, she knows that you're here and is glad that you are feeling good," Damon informed the two girls.
"Great, where's Uncle Stef?" Alexandra asked.
"With Elena, something about keeping her safe, I called the school and told the principal you were feeling unwell, so please feel welcome to stay in," he told her seriously.
"Any chance Stef can convince Elena to dye her hair blonde?" she asked, Caroline snorted next to her.
"If wishes were fishes, Alex," Damon said, "But do stay inside, Katherine likes human Salvatores, there's blood in the fridge for your friend, don't do anything stupid."
"You too, don't go picking fights with Mason, werewolf bites are fatal to vampires and up to this day there's no cure available," she said with a smile.
Damon sighed, but nodded at her before leaving.
Alexandra and Caroline spent the remainder of their day indoors, they discovered that microwaving blood bags for thirty seconds turned the blood as warm as if it was from the source, they counted it as a win. After school hours ended, Matt and Tyler appeared at the Salvatore Boarding house and Alexandra explained to them what was happening around town so they would be safe.
"So you're saying that Care is now a vampire because of your uncle's psychotic ex who is dating Tyler's uncle now?" Matt asked, Alexandra nodded at him.
"But Care's been doing great, I just need to get her a daylight ring, she already picked one from an old box that Uncle Damon and Uncle Stef had around, I just need a witch to spell it," she explained to them.
"And you know a witch?" Tyler asked, Alexandra nodded, "What is even our lives?"
"Well, weird as fuck, the only one normal here is Mattie and that's debatable since Vicky joined a convent, do you have any desire to convert to priesthood?" Alexandra asked with a smile.
"Don't ask him that," Caroline said as she hugged Matt to herself, Matt seemed surprised.
"She won't eat you, Mattie, relax, Care is still the same neurotic freak that we know and love," Alexandra said as she patted his leg.
"And what about me?" Tyler asked, Alexandra shrugged.
"As long as you don't cause someone's death you're good, Mason likes you, so he will try to tell you about being a werewolf, but do remember that he's being played by Katherine, also do remember, tomorrow's a full moon," she said.
Alexandra managed to cook lunch for them, and the boys stayed until night, they left and Caroline called Liz to ask if she could stay over at Alexandra's for a couple of days since she didn't want to be alone, Liz agreed and appeared at night carrying a bag for Caroline. Alexandra thanked her and Caroline gave her mom a heartfelt hug. Alexandra had also convinced Caroline to get on the vervain diet.
The next day was thankfully saturday, so Alexandra had her whole day to work through Caroline's problems, Damon had been relegated to guard duty because Katherine was around again. Matt and Tyler had arrived after noon carrying food and their bags and announced a slumber party.
"This is the safest place here in Mystic Falls tonight," Matt had explained, and it was true, it was one of the places that Katerina hadn't been invited in.
In the afternoon, Alexandra and Tyler visited Sheila Bennett and asked the with to make a ring. The witch had tried to tell them that she didn't know the spell but Alexandra handed her a copy of it. Sheila had not been happy, but she knew that she owed the Salvatores, so she enchanted the ring for Caroline. Tyler and Alexandra left triumphant and returned to the boarding house.
Caroline took the ring a slid it on her finger and Matt opened the curtain a bit, when Caroline was not burnt, they all sighed a breath of relief. Nearing the evening the doorbell rang, Alexandra looked between her friends and stood to get the door. She smiled as she saw Katerina trying to pass as Elena.
"Zavdrei, Katerina," Alexandra greeted the smirking woman.
Katerina was quick to lose her smirk, "Who are you?"
"A friend, that just alerted Niklaus that you're here," Alexandra said with a smirk of her own.
Katerina's eyes widened and she didn't notice Tyler and Matt coming behind her and staking her and gagging her with vervain. Alexandra got a big cooking syringe filled with vervain and stick it on Katerina's neck.
"We've got to be quick, she's pretty immune to it," Alexandra warned, and the guys were quick to spring into action.
At the end it was Alexandra and Matt that ended up dragging Katerina inside the cursed tomb, Caroline removing the stone while Tyler looked out for Mason who was probably a werewolf at the time.
Katerina opened her eyes slowly and realized that she had been played by the girl, she looked around and realized that she had been dropped in the tomb, she tried to escape only to be met by the spell and a smirking girl.
"Hello again, Katerina," Alexandra said, her arms crossed.
"You," Katerina hissed.
"Yeah, me, you've been a real bad girl lately, impersonating Elena, trying to play Damon and Stefan, triggering Mason's curse, looking for the moonstone, did you really think that it would work?" Alexandra asked.
"Why does it matter to you?" Katerina asked, Alexandra grinned.
"Because you have been playing with my family and there are things I don't tolerate, so when Niklaus comes here I will hand you over in a silver platter and perhaps he'll torture you for eternity and you'll have to live with the fact that a teenager beat you," Alexandra explained, "And just so you know, the name's Salvatore, Alexandra Salvatore, dovizhdane Katerina. "
Alexandra walked away from the tomb and Caroline placed the rock back in place, high fiving the raven haired girl as they jumped out, the four teens sneaked back to the car and returned to the Boarding House were a very angry Damon was waiting for them.
"I hope you four have a good excuse to be wandering around at night on a full moon," Damon said, arms crossed.
"We were dropping Katerina in the tomb," Alexandra said softly, Damon raised an eyebrow at them.
"You were dropping Katherine inside a tomb, you four took on Katherine and won?" he asked skeptical.
"There was a shitload of vervain involved," Tyler piped in, Damon pinched the bridge of his nose.
"And how did you dragged her in?" he asked.
"Matt and I did," Alexandra answered, "Since we're human, we didn't know if Tyler would be stuck inside, we didn't want to take the risk."
"And now Katherine's trapped," Damon said, Alexandra nodded.
"Only a really strong witch could break that spell, or a Bennett, but I doubt this is over, I'd like to talk to Mason before he goes and does something stupid," Alexandra said.
"Not tonight," Damon said.
"I don't wish to become kibble, don't worry," she said, Damon sighed.
"Don't ruin the living room," he told them before leaving.
The quarted shared a look and smirked before heading inside. They played poker, uno, twister and then went upstairs to play with Alexandra's wii. When Damon returned to the house he found the four teens sleeping in Alexandra's room. Caroline and Alexandra sprawled on the bed, while Tyler and Matt had fallen asleep on some cushions on the floor.
"They truly managed to play Katherine?" Stefan asked as he stood next to Damon.
"They are useful, and Alexandra is very much against hiding information from her friends," Damon said, Stefan frowned.
"Elena thinks that ignorance protects them," Stefan said, Damon scoffed.
"Ignorance makes them easy prey, I heard Alaric is staying with them?"
"Yeah, he and Jenna seem to be in a relationship," Stefan answered as they walked away from Alexandra's room, "she reminds me of you."
"Huh?"
"Alexandra, she reminds me of how you were before all of this," Stefan clarified for his brother, Damon smiled at him.
"Well she's a Salvatore," Damon said.
"Fatherhood looks good on you," Stefan said as he clasped Damon's shoulder before he retired to his room.
Damon blinked several times before he smiled and went to his room.
The next day the Salvatores met with Mason and Tyler and explained to Mason what was happening, at first he refused to believe them until Alexandra had told him a few secrets, of course Mason ended up being stupid and telling the Sheriff about Damon and Stefan which ended up with Caroline revealing herself as a vampire to her mom, Tyler ended up angry at Mason for putting his friends in danger so Mason ended up in the Salvatore dungeons along with Liz.
"Hello," Alexandra said as she joined them, Tyler with her.
"Tyler, why did you do this?" Mason asked him.
"Because I saw Katerina, Alexandra, Matt, Caroline and I stopped her we tried to tell you, Damon is pissed off with you and wants to kill you, we were handling it," Tyler said angrily.
Alexandra placed a hand on his arm and he nodded at her, taking a deep breath.
"So you're siding with vampires against your own family?" Mason asked, Tyler huffed.
"I'm siding with my best friend, now her uncles happen to be vampires, just like mine happens to be a werewolf, I'm not picky," Tyler said.
Liz looked at Mason, fear in her eyes and took a step back from him.
"Besides it was Katerina who killed Care, you think we would just leave it like that?" Alexandra added.
"Caroline died?" Liz asked, Alexandra nodded.
"Sort of, she's good now, the same Care we all know and love, being a vampire doesn't really change who you are as a person unless you let it, Uncle Damon and Uncle Stef brought her here so she'd be safe and we've been helping her, I wouldn't let my best friend become a monster, Liz, I love Care too much for that," Alexandra said softly.
Liz seemed to consider her options, "Is she truly okay?"
"Yeah, so are Uncle Damon and Uncle Stef, Uncle Damon respects you, Sheriff Liz, he is your friend and you know that it's better to ally yourself with the devil you know," Alexandra said.
"What will happen to Mason?" Liz asked.
"He'll stay in time out until he learns that Katerina is a dirty liar who lies," Alexandra said with a smile, Liz nodded.
Alexandra and Tyler took Liz out of her cell and led her to where Caroline was with Elena and Matt. The two Forbes made up and Liz left promising the Salvatores that their secret was safe, Damon spoke to her before she left and apologized for deceiving her, she accepted his apology but warned him about keeping secrets.
Alexandra for her part warned Damon that Elena needed to start a blood bank, Damon had looked at her weirded out but promised to talk to Stefan about it. The Salvatores ended up conditioning a small room as Elena's Blood Storage room. Alexandra had explained that the blood would be used to barter with Klaus once the time was right. Stefan was hesitant and first but Damon had reminded him that their priority was Alexandra's safety and that Elena wouldn't die if she donated blood regularly. The blood was safely frozen and stored.
Alexandra was happy to see that Damon hadn't taken an interest in Elena, as most of his focus had been on her, her friends and keeping the town vampire free, it was pleasing to see the looks that Elena threw Damon's way and the way he ignored them completely.
Mason had been kept five days in containment. Tyler and Alexandra visited everyday with a new Katerina fact, he slowly realized that he had been stupid and realized that Tyler had been right about a few things, he offered to help the town and Alexandra told him that the best way to help would be to get Brody to be sacrificed, Mason was hesitant at first, but Alexandra told him that the sacrifice was happening regardless and that if there wasn't another werewolf then Klaus would surely use him or Tyler.
It was then when Mason finally realized that Katerina had been trying to set him up to be sacrificed for her own gain. After that realization he seemed like a new man and often joined Damon and Alaric at the grill, it had been a strange friendship.
Alexandra also took her time to sneak into the Lockwood tunnels and did her best to erase the Mikaelson Carvings on the wall. It took her a couple of nights to ruin most of the drawings and she only hoped the Lockwoods wouldn't notice.
