❪ 𝓢𝑰𝑿 𝓕𝑬𝑬𝑻 𝓤𝑵𝑫𝑬𝑹 ❫ ⚰️ ˖ ׁ ⁩ 𓂃
𝚃𝚅𝙳  ⸻  ✸ 🔮⭑.ᐟ
❝ 𝖬𝖤𝖲𝖲 𝖶𝖨𝖳𝖧 𝖳𝖧𝖤𝖬 ❞

✦ ╮ 𝟐𝟕. ❝ 𝖪𝖨𝖫𝖫𝖤𝖣 𝖮𝖱 𝖡𝖤 𝖪𝖨𝖫𝖫𝖤𝖣 ❞ ── .✦

          ❝ 𝗜 𝗖𝗔𝗡'𝗧 𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗩𝗘 Tyler Lockwood is a werewolf. ❞ Jeremy had his arms wrapped around Anastasia's shoulders as the two stood in the bathroom with Elena.

"He's not." Anastasia says.

Elena looks at her brother and his girlfriend throught the bathroom mirror as she dries her hands with a hand towel, "We're not sure about that yet. The only thing we know for sure is that Mason Lockwood is."

"Such a shame. the hot Lockwood just had to be a dog." Sighed Anastasia.

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

"Us?"

"There is no us?" Elena tells her little brother, "I said that I wouldn't keep things from you anymore. That doesn't mean that I want you involved in it."

"By definition of being in this family, I'm involved." Jeremy shows off his ring.

"This is dangerous, Jeremy. You have to stay out of it, okay?"

"Alright. Just saying." He looks down at his girlfriend, "Can I drove you car?"

"Seriously? She asked, following him out of the bathroom and down the stairs, "I think you're only with me because of my car."

Jeremy smirked, "Among other things."

"You're dirty!" Anastasia shoved him with a laugh, tossing her car keys in his direction.

"You love it."

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          "HI, MASON." ANASTASIA walked towards the Lockwood man as he unloaded boxes from the back of his car, Stefan following behind her.

Mason flashes the teen a smile that would make most women buckle at the knee, "Hi, Stacie. Stefan, right? The other, other, Salvatore."

"The nice one." Stefan tells him, 'The one offering an apology."

"Not interest." Says Mason.

"Look, my brother acted impulsively."

"You think?"

"If you and Damon keep at each other's throats, somebody innocent is going to get hurt and I don't want that." Stefan stated, "You have family here so I can imagine you wouldn't want that either. So what do you say we just quit the whole alpha male fighting and call it a truce?"

"I made the same offer to your brother." Mason pointed out, glancing between the two, not knowing that Damon was actually Anastasia's father, "He turned it down with a knife."

"He made a mistake." Anastasia says, "An impulsively stupid mistake at that." She mumbled the last part under hear breath, though she knew that both men had heard her.

"Stacie and I are here to make sure that neither one of you makes another one."

"Tell your brother to watch his back." Mason says, walking away.

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

"If he comes at me . . . ,"

"He won't." Anastasia tells him, watching as her uncle and Mason shake hand before letting the man walk away from the two of them.

Damon appears behind his brother and daughter, "What are the two of you doing?"

"Negotiating peace on your behalf." Stefan tells him.

"I don't want peace."

Anastasia rolled her eyes, "Consider it opposite day."

"Stefan, please tell me you don't seriously think a hand shake just solved our problems." Damon puts his hands on his brother's shoulder's.

"No, actually, we think that the first chance Mason Lockwood gets, he's gonna drive a stake through your heart and then through mine, and through your daughters, all because you took it upon yourself to try and kill him. So, thank you, because we don't have enough problems."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Anastasia says, causing both her uncle and father to stop and both of the brothers looked at her, 'What is all this "we" nonsense? Did you guys forget about the part where a werewolf bit kills you? I'm staying as far away from Mason Lockwood as possible. Even if he is extremely attractive. This is a you, as in the two of you, problem."

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          JEREMY SAT AT a table in the Grill after dropping Anastasia off with his sister and Caroline at the new park, promising not to scratch her car, and catching Tyler sitting by himself.

Aimee and her friend Sarah stood off at the pool table.

"When did Jeremy Gilbert get so cute?" Sarah asked, looking over at the Gilbert boy.

"Oh no, stay away, that guy's damaged goods." Aimee tells her, "Besides, he's dating that Anastasia chick. The one that's friends with Tyler and Matt."

Jeremy stands up and walks over to Tyler, "Hey man, how have you been?"

"Since when?" Tyler asked him.

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

"I'm fine, Gilbert."

"Yeah, okay." Jeremy goes to walk away.

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

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

"Distracting myself." Tyler tells him just as Amiee and Sarah walk over to them.

"Hey, thanks for the text." Amiee says, "Where too?"

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

"Margaritas?" Amiee asked.

"Sure." Tyler looks at Jeremy who kept trying to avoid Sarah's gaze. "You in?"

"Uh, I have Stacie's car. Have to pick her up after she's finished at the park with the girls."

"Come on." Tyler says, "Look, I'll text Ellie myself. I'm sure she wouldn't care."

Jeremy let out a sigh before nodding, "Alright. Yeah, I'm in."

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         "PLEASE TELL US that you were just bonding." Stefan says to his brother as he and Anastasia walk over to him as Mason walks away.

"So, what's up with the faux drama in your relationship?" Damon asked him.

"What are you talking about?"

"Oh, come on, Stefan. You and Elena don't fight, especially not over me." Damon tells him.

"Drop it, Damon."

"With pleasure."

A little girl walks over to the three, "Would you like some lemonade?"

"Thank you, sweetie." Damon takes the cup from her hands as she walks away, taking a drink but spits it out soon after.

"What's wrong?" Stefan asked as Anastasia rushed over to her father's side, patting his back and taking the cup from his hand.

Anastasia sniffs the cup, "Vervain."

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          DAMON GRABBED THE bottle of water from his daughter, rinsing his mouth out, "I'm gonna kill him."

"Listen to me! Sit! Sit!" Stefan tries to calm him down.

"I'm not listening to anymore of your "give me a chance" crap! He's dead!"

"Okay, I don't like it. He's making threats. He could expose us. We need to put him down." Stefan says.

"Here we go again with this "we" bullshit."

"Alright. Let's do it." Damon looks over and seems Mason in the woods, "The woods. Trash duty. Come one."

"Eloise, go find Caroline and Elena." Stefan tells her, "If she knows, then it'll be best to keep you away from them."

"Okay, yeah." Anastasia nodded, pulling her phone out of her jean shorts to call Caroline.

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          "WHERE ARE YOU going?" Elena asked, following her blonde friend into the woods, "What's going on?"

"I need to be able to hear better." Caroline tells her.

"Hear what?"

"Something's wrong, Elena."

"Caroline...,"

"Shh..,"

"Caroline, I need your help." Anastasia appeared next to them, "You're mom and Mason Lockwood, they're going after Uncle Stefan and Dad."

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          "DON'T LOOK SO surprised. You knew this as inevitable." Damon glares at Mason, an angry expression on his face, "Go ahead. Run. I'll give you a head start."

Mason looks between the two brothers before he drops down.

Shots ring out, hitting both Stefan and Damon, causing them to fall to the ground.

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          "OH GOD....," CAROLINE breaths out, both of the vampires having been able to hear what was going on.

"What is it?"

"Dad and Uncle Stefan."

"What?" Elena looked between the two of them.

彡☆

          LIZ AND TWO other police officers slowly walk up to the two vampires laying on the ground just as Mason stood up again, "Thank you, Mason."

She injects both of Stefan and Damon with vervain.

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          CAROLINE, ELENA, AND Anastasia ran through the woods, looking for any sign of Liz, Damon and Stefan.

Both vampires stop.

"What is it?" Elena asked them.

"They've been here."

"Anastasia bends down to look at a plant that has blood on it.

"What?"

"What are the three of you doing out here?" Mason walked out.

"Have you seen Stefan?" Elena asked.

"Yeah, Elena, I've seen him." Mason walked closer, "Seen Damon, too."

"Where are they?" Elena asked.

"You don't need me for that. I'll let your friends here sniff them out." Mason looked between Caroline and Anastasia, "Does your mother know what you are? I'm happy to tell her."

Caroline moves to go towards him, but he grabs Elena from behind and puts his arms around her neck.

"Don't be stupid! Necks snap easy around here." Mason says.

"I can take you." Caroline tells him.

"Wanna bet?"

"Yeah, I do." Anastasia speaks up, and suddenly Mason is on his knees, "Guess what, Mason? You might have your facts right abut vampires, but didn't anyone ever tell you not to mess with a hybrid? You see, I have an advantage here. While you can only shift during a full moon, I can do a hell of a lot more than just drain your blood from your body. Now, your nephew may be my best friend, but once you mess with one Salvatore, you mess with them all."

Anastasia brings her knee up, hitting Mason directly under the chin, sending him o the ground as she stops sending him an aneurysm.

Then she kicks him as hard as possible in the stomach, sending him flying towards a tree and then to the ground.

"Come on."

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         "WHAT IS IT?" Elena  asked as the three girls arrived at the ruins of the old Lockwood home.

"He's not going to tell us anything. Kill them both." Liz is heard by the vampires.

"Caroline. Anastasia. What is it?"

"My mom. She's killing them." Caroline tells her.

"What?!" She moved to go forward, but Caroline grabbed her arm.

"No, no, no, no!" Caroline protested, not wanting to go down to the cellar and have her mom see her for what she had now become.

"We have to stop her!"

"No, I can't. Elena, she's gonna find out about me." Caroline tells her, "Elena!"

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          "LET'S DO THIS. Each with a stake to the heart, then burn them both." Liz says, just before hearing a metallic creaking sound. She looks at one of her deputies, "Check it out."

Elena hits one of the deputies with a plank, running into the main cell.

"Elena! What are you doing here?" Liz points her gun toward the Gilbert girl.

"You can't kill them. I'm not gonna let you."

From behind the same deputy that Elena hit, pushes her forwards and points his gun.

They hear a noise again, hearing the door closing by itself.

"What was that?"

"Who else is with you?" Liz questioned Elena.

Caroline and Anastasia circle around at vampire speed, the blonde biting one of the deputies on the neck. The other deputy fires at her, but only ends up shooting the first deputy.

When he finishes shooting his gun, Anastasia comes up from behind him and attacks his neck, dropping him to the ground as she looks towards Liz.

Caroline steps out into the light, blood covering her mouth and chin, her fangs and veins on full display for her mother to see them, "Hi, Mom."

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          DAMON FEEDS ON one of the deputies as his daughter sits by his side, Elena sitting next to Stefan and the mother and daughter sitting quietly in different parts of the cell.

Anastasia sighs as she looks over at Caroline in pity.

"You need to drink some deputy blood." Damon crawls over to his brother.

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

"Damon's right, you know." Caroline speaks up, "If there's ever a time to break your diet....,"

"He said he didn't want it, okay?" Elena snapped.

Damon stands up with the help of his daughter, "This is the most unfortunate situation. Two deputies and you." He looks over at Liz, "What am I gonna do with you?"

"You won't tell anyone, will you? Mom? Mom?" Caroline's voice cracks, "Please. Look, I know that we don't get along and that you hate me but I'm your daughter and you'll do this for me, right? Mom, please. He will kill you."

"Then kill me." Liz broke her silence.

"No!

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

Damon bends down to look her in the eyes, "But you were gonna drag it out so painfully." He grabbed her.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no!"

"Damon, don't!" Stefan says.

"Damon, please!" Elena calls out.

"Relax. No one is killing anybody." Anastasia rolled her eyes.

"You're my friend," Damon tells Liz before he looks at the deputies, "We've got to clean this up."

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          ELENA OPENS THE door to the Boarding house, to reveal Caroline with a suitcase.

"Hey, sorry that took forever. I just didn't know how long my mom was gonna be here." Caroline says as she walks in.

"Damon says it'll take three days tops for the vervain to leave her system. Maybe even sooner." Elena tells her as Stefan and Anastasia join the two.

"Hey! You got some bunny in you?" Caroline asked Stefan.

"Yeah, I'm feeling much better." Stefan says, "Thank you."

The four arrive at the cell downstairs and go to walk in when Caroline stops at the door and listens, the others doing the same.

"Can you keep Caroline far away from me please? I don't wanna see her." Liz tells Damon.

"She's your daughter, Liz."

"Not anymore." She says, "My daughter's gone."

"You have no idea how wrong you are about that." Damon tells her. "You see, if our roles were reversed and I found out that Anastasia was a vampire, I would do anything and everything to protect her, to make sure that not one little hair on her head was harmed. You know why?"

"Because she's my daughter. We made vows from the moment they are born, from the moment that we hold them in our arms for the very first time and we vow that nothing will hurt them. We'll do anything to make sure that they're okay."

"Because we love them, and yeah, things happen and get in the way. But as parents, we have a job. A job to love them. I wouldn't let anything stand in the way of loving my daughter."

彡☆

          "TYLER ALMOST KILLED someone today." Jeremy mumbled as he ran his hands through Anastasia's hair, both of them laying in his bed.

"Caroline's mom almost killed Uncle Stefan and Dad." Anastasia tells him, moving her head to rest her chin on his chest so that they were looking at each other. "That's my biggest fear. That I'm going to lose one of them, or Matt or Tyler. Or you. I don't - I don't want any of you to die because I don't know what I would do if I did."

"Hey." Jeremy moves both of them so they're sitting on his bed instead of laying down, grabbing her face in his hands, "You're not going to lose anyone. You sure as hell aren't gonna lose me. Not now, not ever. I promise."