[Episode 33 - By the Light of the Moon - 1]

I concentrate on the candle on the table right beside the door of my house. 

"Incendia?" I mutter out, but nothing happens.

"Say it confidently, Incendia" Bonnie prompts, just saying the word.

"Okay...." I concentrate at the candle once again, "Incendia". The candle glows with a flame. I sigh in relief. I'm not totally powerless after all.

"Today's the full moon..." Bonnie starts.

"I know," I exhale.

"Maybe you should take some vervain huh? Stefan told me you get all your injuries back..."

"Can't," I study the incantation that Bonnie had written down, now in English (thank God) "I'm helping Tyler with Caroline tonight... Okay let's see"

"Phesmatos veras n-nos ex malom. Terra mora vantis quo incandis per vasa quo errum signos"

"You got it right" she cracks a small smile. She didn't have any help adapting to her magic, she's going to be there by her friend.

"Yeah?" I smile proudly. Keeping my hand on the door, I close my eyes as I chant "Phesmatos veras nos ex malom. Terra mora vantis quo incandis per vasa quo errum signos... Phasmatos veras nos ex malom. Terra mora vantis quo incandis per vasa quo errum signos..."

"And it's done..." Bonnie feels the magic at the threshold and we feel the strong buzz.

Just in time, Elena comes down with her car keys in hand 

"Where do you think you're going?" I suppress my smile and cross my arms with a mother-glare.

"Um, to see Stefan"

"You're lying" Bonnie calls her out with narrowed eyes. She's becoming too predictable. All martyrs are just that, predictable.

"No, I'm not" she tries to hobble past Jeremy, Bonnie and me.

"Really?" I scoff "Tell your face that..."

"Are you serious?" my twin rolls her eyes.

"She took the moonstone" Jeremy blurts out with a smirk fighting it's way up.

"We tested you, and you failed" Bonnie shrugs.

"Klaus killed Katherine's entire family" Elena murmurs "-just because she crossed him. I can't let that happen" 

"Fair enough" I shrug, Bonnie and I step aside from the door, with tilted heads. Elena's eyes widen with comical relief. 

She runs out, only to encounter an invisible wall stopping her going out and getting herself killed. She tries again, and fails again.

"What did you do?" she glares at Bonnie.

The witch shrugs, shrugging with a proud smirk "Nothing"

"But I," I speak up smugly "... on the other hand, just locked your ass in here"

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"You should really lock your door..." Damon Salvatore enters the Gilbert House with a smirk, only to see Elena glaring at him "Oh, come on, pouty. At least give her two points for ingenuity"

"Do you think this is funny?"

"Yes Elena" I roll my eyes while putting the wolfsbane carefully in a box "We all find hilarity in the lengths that I have to go to repeatedly save your life"

"What does Stefan say about this?" Elena gropes at her last chance. Maybe if Stefan was against this, she could have Kat break the spell.

"We had a good laugh" Damon shrugs, pulling me onto his lap on the couch, beside Elena.

"And what did he say about Elijah still being alive?" Elena pouts.

"Wait, you know that he's alive too?" I frown.

"Yeah, I didn't tell hi- wait, too?" he narrows his eyes at me "You knew and you didn't tell me?"

"Why not?" Elena asks a common question for both the situations.

"Well A" I kiss Damon's cheek "-these people can't do anything about it; and B-...what I just said"

Damon softly glares at me "Next time you get the witchy-woo vision, might as well save me a seat to the show"

"Not witchy woo Smoldy, it was a 'Back to the Future' experience" I roll my eyes "You'd rather not have a seat to this movie..." he kisses my ear, making Elena glare at the me.

Jeremy walks in "Where is Bonnie?" Damon asks.

"I thought she was meeting you"

"No, she's on moonstone duty and I'm on Elena patrol" Damon offers the younger twin a mocking smile.

"And who's on Tyler Lockwood and the full moon?" Jeremy asks.

I show him the boxed wolfsbane, getting up from the Salvatore's lap 

"Vampire Barbie asked me if she could handle it, and I said, why not?" Damon smirks "Figured if she screwed up, he'll bite her and then I'll be rid of two of my problems"

"And I'm helping them" I pout.

"Why though?" Damon frowns, almost whining. I just wave him off.

"Don't break any bones" he warns her. I'm my own person and unlike my sister, I'm just a little masochistic.

"Hold on a second..." Elena sits upright with wide eyes "Tonight's the full moon?"

"Yep," I strap my bag on "-but you were too absorbed with all your suicidal tendencies to notice"

Damon gets up when his phone rings and comes back a minute later

"Change of plans. You" he points to Jeremy "-babysit"

Jeremy shrugs, laying down on the couch, resting his head on a throw pillow in Elena's lap.

"Everything alright?" I ask Damon, who just shrugs "Just need to be the Welcome Party to another new prancer in town"

"'K" I shrug "Be careful. Don't be a dick" I kiss him, feeling Elena's glare all over her spine.

"Hey you know," I turns to my sister with a bright smile, getting back at her for yesterday "you should get out..."

"-enjoy the sun" Damon smiles brightly.

Both of us look at each other, showing mock-realisation "Oh wait - you can't!"

Elena throws a cushion at me, missing by several inches. Jeremy laughs. The caged Gilbert pushes our baby brother off her, making him roll onto the floor with a groaning thud.

Still laughing, I help Jeremy stand up, trying very hard to hold it in, but bursting out nonetheless.

Heightened emotions on a full moon, got to love 'em sometimes.

"Best of luck" I pat his back in forebodement.

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"Tell me you brought the instruction manual" I enter the underground Lockwood cave, suppressing her jitters from the thoughts of what would happen tonight.

"Tell me you brought the wolfsbane" Tyler's on the floor.

"Here" I hand him a small box "I'll start growing it, we'll have more later"

Caroline takes a bottle of water and mixes the small leaves.

I help fix the chains to the manacles as Tyler assures nervously "The guy at the hardware store said this set-up could hold up to 5,000 pounds"

"Is that more than a werewolf can pull?" Caroline puts the bottle gently down on the stone ground, inches from Tyler.

"I have no idea"

"Hey... Hey Tyler, how are you doing?" I frown, I know how it feels to have your bones broken, and far more, I know the pain of knowing your bones will break.

"Still human" he exhales forcefully and proceeds to take off his shirt. I've seen him without his shirt on before, after practice at school, so has Caroline.

But she gasps, turning behind "Oh my god, you're not gonna get naked, are you?"

I shake my head with amusement. What's so awkward for her, they've slept before. It can't be that awkward, can it?

"It's elastic" Tyler states "What should I wear? I don't think it's like The Hulk, where I get to keep my pants" he starts removing his pants too, making me turn about, joining Caroline.

I may not understand awkward, but I know where to draw the line.

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Caroline switches on another torch, placing it on the far end of the cave.

"What time is it?"

"It's....Eight"

"What time does the moon crest, or whatever?" Caroline sighs, tapping her foot minutely.

"Not for a while" I answer "-but Mason's journals said that the first turning can happen before the moon hits the apex..."

Tyler takes a deep shaky breath, kneeling down on his knees, only in his boxers. He fists the bottle of diluted wolfsbane in both his hands. Caroline kneels before him, "Are you sure you want to do that?"

"Yeah. Mason said it'll diminish my strength so I can't break free" He starts to drink, only to end up chocking and gasping a few gulps later "Tyler..."

"Shhh..." Caroline coos, almost in tears.

"Don't! Don't!" he tries to push her away, only to have me kneeling in front of him too. I place a focused hand on his knuckles, giving him some of my strength.

I'll help him go through this. He will.

As if to mock my resolve, Tyler falls onto his chest, screaming in pain, his body twisting left and right in different limbs.

"Hey. Tyler. Tyler..." Caroline tries to hold him from breaking open from his chains as I hold his forehead, trying to transfer the pain from him to me. 

"I'm burning up. It burns!" he screeches again, writhing becoming out of control. We swing with his vigorous movements.

"I know. Just breathe through this, okay?!" Caroline pleads.

"I'm trying to take the pain. You should go. You should leave Caroline!" I shout, feeling the burning through my veins.

"Not yet" she shakes her head, leaning closer to hold Tyler.

Another wave of burning passes from Tyler to me, making us both scream with the momentary death-burn.

The struggling Lockwood's bones start breaking with awful snapping and crunching sounds.

"Aaaah!" I screech, now holding Tyler's transforming hands. My power makes his and my bones mend, only to have them bones snap again.

The cave resounds with both of our screams. Caroline cries, probably wishing she could do something to take away both our pain, but right now, all she can do is stay with us.

"It hurts" I sob "It hurts" 

"I want to help but I don't know what to do" she cries.

"There's... nothing you can do" Tyler tries to get up just as the bones in his spine break. I groan as I fall, back arching with snaps. 

Once Tyler's bones are healed, I shut my jaw tight, hating the night.

"Get out!" Tyler growls

"No!"

"Get out! I don't want to hurt you" his knees bone crushes and heals, making me open my mouth in a silent scream.

"I'm not leaving Tyler!" Caroline holds me with crying arms. 

"I can't stop the transformation..." I grunt, head on the ground "He has to do it. Here" I hand her my charm with one hand, the other hand still on Tyler's back.

"What?"

"This directs my power, keep this safe" I jerk up onto my knees "Tyler, this is going to hurt, but I'll to take away as much pain as I can"

He breathes, the sound of another bone breaking making us both twist and grunt and scream.

I make the transformation speed up, Tyler's bone's jutting out. He growls more than he screams, but it's my screams that make Caroline step back with a pained look on her face.

"Leave!" Tyler growls.

But Caroline stands her ground, albeit standing a bit far off than before.

"Just go, please!" I scream again, twisting. I linked myself to Tyler, so everything he went through, passed on from him to me. No vampire should be in enclosure with an unstable werewolf and a struggling uncontrolled Guardian.

"Just go!" Tyler screams, amber eyes flashing up, claws and canines bared.

Changing into his wolf by the second, Tyler growls loud deep growls, fighting against the chains. He breaks free of one limb, making me hold him down just while shouting "Caroline go!"

The moment the shout leaves my mouth, my eyes cloud with burning amber, my bones start snapping and she growls, screeching the whole time.

An eternity later, I fall to the ground with a groan, my blurry eyes enclosing the form of a struggling werewolf, broken out of his chains, growling at me.