-Stefan's POV, The Next Morning-
We're talking about how the Lockwood family have characteristics of Supernatural abilities but what would they be. Damon tells Alaric all about the things that have been happening recently. Then we get on the topic of werewolves.
"Why do you suspect the Lockwood?" Alaric asked still puzzled at all of this information.
"Because vervain didn't affect the mayor on Founder's Day but the Gilbert device did, and it affected his kids Tyler and Maya, not to mention I can't compel Maya" Damon was a little salty about the last part
"And at the school carnival his uncle Mason exhibited inhuman behavior when he fought on elf the carnival workers," I took a pause "This suggest that they are of some sort of supernatural entity."
"We were hoping we could search Isabelle's research for some information" Elena asked
"all her things are still at Duke, I mean her office is still there considering that she is technically still missing" Alaric answered
"So can we get access to it?" Damon asked. Alaric looked a little unsure swaying his head a little
"Ric we need to know what we're dealing with, If this wolf man thing is true, I've seen enough movies to know it's not good." Damon paused this time. " It means that Mason Lockwood is a real life Lon Chaney and that little Tyler punk may just very well be Lon Chaney Jr. Which means Bela Lugosi--meaning me--is totally screwed. " Damon finished off his rant with a deadpanned look.
-Tyler's POV-
I was going a run and saw Mason so I start to follow him only to see him going into the chambers deep in the woods. I follow him and wait for him to come out before I go in to check it out next. There are chains and scratches on the walls that don't look even mildly humane. I just head back home. To find Maya and my mom sitting in one of the offices. My doing work and Maya on her phone.
"Have you guys even been down to the old ruins in the woods?" I asked
"There are ruins in the woods? Cool." Maya said smiling a little bit
"Don't get any ideas Maya" Her smile dropped a little
"The old Lockwood estate?" Mom replied
"Yeah. What do you know about it?"
"It was the original plantation house, beautiful antebellum architecture. And if it hadn't been burnt to the ground we probably be living in it."
"Hmm, what's the deal with the freaky underground cellar." That's what made mom look up from the papers
"We don't talk about those kind of rooms" her voice held a little bit of sorrow
'Why not"
"Well, this is the South, honey. But, no one Ikes to reminisce about the old slave days" That when Mason walks in probably getting back from his run judging by his clothes
"Hey, what you guys talking about?"
We're just talking about the old Lockwood property" I say making it out to be nothing. "Thinking about having some friends over to the swim hole."
"Well be careful, If anything happens of the property the family is liable." My mom said in retort to my unasked question
"Of course" I said ending the conversation and walking away
-Maya's POV-
As soon as the news of the Swim hole party got out, I got a call from Amelia
"hey you're going to the party right?
"Of course getting ready now, meet you there"
"Duh, see you later"
"See ya" With that we hang up and I go to get ready form the party. I usually suck with outfits but it's a swimming party all I have to wear is a bikini and some cover up shorts, maybe bring a shirt. Once that's all packed I head to the swim hole to see a lot of people already here. I was in the bed of the Matt's truck waiting for Amelia to get here. Once sh's here I call her over and we chat for a little in the back of the truck. Matt comes over to get something and Tyler follows.
"Is it me or did Amy Bradley's butt get hot" First thing that comes out of Tyler's mouth when walks up.
"Ew Ty" Says Lia and me, Matt says, "All Class" with a little chuckle.
"Where's Forbes?" Tyler questioned
"I wish I knew"
"You guys on the outs already" Tyler did not look impressed
"No. We're fine. I'm fine" Matt says lying horribly. "Just not sure what she is" Then a truck pulls up and the 4 of us look over to who it belongs to.
"What's your uncle doing here?" Matt questioned Ty and I confused. Tyler walks over to deal with it while Amelia and I keep chatting about random things until we get to the topic of relationships.
"Amelia is supposedly really into this guy a year ahead of us, then she asks about Jeremy and I.
"Well at the carnival the vibe was so nice. We even went on the Farris wheel and-" I stop myself, I couldn't continue without the big smile taking over my face.
"OMG, you guys kissed" She said a little to loud causing Matt to look over at us still confused. I've never seen Matt look so confused for so long in my life, it's kinda funny.
"Shhhh, yeah we did it was awkward at first mostly because of me but after it was romantic and sweet." I start having a far away look on my face like I was day-dreaming with a huge Goofy smile on my face.
"And we have a date on tomorrow" The smile on my face is enormous now taking over my whole face
"Oh girl you got it bad."
"Yeah, I actually really like him" I said looking down.
"Well that's good because I was gonna ask if you wanted to go take a swim with me" My eyes go wide and I turn around to see Jeremy there. I turn and look back at Amelia. I was so caught up in my thoughts I didn't even notice that Matt and Tyler were still there and they were watching with a smirk on their face. They're 100% gonna tease me about this later. Amelia shoves me a little and give me a look that screams 'stop looking around stupidly and answer the guy'
"Um, yeah I would love to" He helps me hop out of the trunk and we go over to the water to go for a dip. We swim for a little while until it gets cold and we hear people start saying we need to move the party and the Tyler wants us to leave so we do that.
- Stefan's POV-
I tell Caroline to go sort things out with Matt and talk to him when I get a call from Elena. She tells me all about what they learned, the most important part is, werewolves are real and their bite is lethal to vampires. At that information I start looking around for Caroline, a.k.a. the newbie vamp who is the most at risk right now. And, she's not where she I just saw her. Time to go on a search I guess
"Um listen, I need to go but I'll see you when you get home ok."
"Ok" and with that we hang up and I go looking for Caroline.
I call Caroline's phone just for it to be in the bag she left int he bed of Matt's truck.
-Mason's POV-
I'm chaining myself up as the moon and is getting closer and closer to its apex. Just to hear Tyler and a girl coming closer to the chambers. I thought I told him to move the party by dark. I hear them coming closer so I run all the way through the woods shirtless with the chains thrown over my shoulder. I run back to my truck and hurriedly try to chain myself to the try next to it. The moon is getting closer and closer to its apex and I feel the shift in my bones start. Its so painful I can't help but to start screaming as I'm setting up the chains. I can't get chained up in time so I drag myself to my car and turn in there. Once the turn is complete my vision is blacked out.
-Stefan's POV-
I'm walking through the woods trying to find Caroline when I hear a distant growling. I follow the sound to a truck parked din the middle of the woods, no sign of life around besides the growling noises. As I get closer I notice the scratch marks on the ground. Then I hear something move inside the truck which brings my attention the the back window. As I move to go around towards the side of the truck my foot hits chains of some sort. My attention is brought back to the truck when I hear the noise again. I look into the back window of the truck only to see yellow eyes staring right back with a growl the echos into he surrounding areas of woods. In a flash of an eye a wolf jumps out of the back window pushing me to the ground, just to run off all in the matter of a second. I vamp speed back onto my feet almost scared out of my mind remembering what Elena had just told me a few minutes ago. I need to find Caroline and we need to leave, fast.
-Caroiline's POV-
Matt and I are in the woods, making out when there is a growl making him pull away and look around.
"Did you hear that?" He said. I just pulls him back and started kissing again. I push Matt against the tree and he accidentally slices his wrist on the bark.
"I'm a klutz" I can't help myself, the smell is too strong. I lick the blood off of his wrist
"Wh-what are you doing? Caroline!" He says trying to get my attention but it doesn't work. The metallic taste is just to much for me, I vamp out and bite his wrist.
"Ahh. Caroline. Caroline! Caroline!" Matt says trying to get me to stop but I can't. I pull away once I realize what I ddi.
"What the hell, your face" Matt is totally freaked out now. The blood lust is too much for me I take one look at Matt's neck and bite into it. hard. That is until Stefan comes and pulls me away, I try to fight him until I look and see Matt laying on the floor groaning in pain.
"Omg" I say as I try to go to Matt.
"No, no, no, stop listen to me, we need to get out of these woods now." Stefan tries to convince me
I hear the growling noise now, "What was that?" I start looking around
"Matt, stay down, do not move" Stefan stresses to Matt who is still laying on the ground. The growling noises just get louder.
"You and me, we're gonna run. It's gonna follow us we need to get it away from Matt. So you need to run as fast as you can. Do you understand me?" Stefan asks but all I can focus on is Matt and the growling. I nod and wipe my fast. Stefan rushes me "Go. Go!" We both run all through the woods until I can't take being in the dark anymore so I stop.
"Wait! What is it?!" I stopped Stefan
"It's a werewolf, it will try and kill us and it can."
"Hey!" I hear behind me. I turn around to see Tyler. "What you two doing?" He comes out of the underground staircase that leads to god knows where.
"What are you doing" Stefan asks right as I get jumped by a wolf and start screaming. Stefan tackles the wolf off of me and stands at a far distance. Tyler looks so shocked right now, but as the wolf tries to go after Stefan and I again Tyler shouts.
"No!" This gets the wolf's attention on him. The wolf growls for a little bit until it just runs away. We all sit and look at each other shell shocked at the events that just happened. I go back to Matt and compel him to forget about what happened tonight.
"You're not going to remember what I did to you, or what you saw me become" I compel
"We were just making out in the woods" Matt replies in a monotone voice
"And then an animal attacked you and bit your neck."
"It's weird, it just came out of nowhere." With that I turn and walk away, letting out a breathe that I didn't know I was holding.
"What are we going to do about Tyler" I ask Stefan.
"I took care of it, and uh, I'll get Matt on vervain. It'll keep you from being able to compel him, but it will also keep you from being able to drinking his blood."
"I can't believe I hurt him." I say shaking my head in disbelief "I mean he is the one person on this entire planet that I never wanted to hurt"
"It's not going to get stay easier. You're just going to have to work that much harder. " Stefan says. And I start thinking about all the dangers
"I shouldn't be with him, should I?"
"I'm the last person to make that kind of decision for you. If I followed my own advice I would have walked away from Elena a long time ago."
"You ever think you should've?" He scoffs at that
"I know I should've" He grinned a little with those words. "I just can't"
-Tyler's POV-
I'm walking trough the woods after the encounters that I just had and find Mason's truck with a smashed back window. I reach into the broken window and pull out a pair of pants.
"Wanna throw me those" I hear behind me I turn to see Mason covers din dirt from head to toe. I throw him the pants and he puts them on. I look from him to the ground, confused on what happened to him and comparing everything to last night, how he looks now, what I know about our family history. Anything to get this to match up, I finally connect the dots.
"It was you" he nods in response. I have never been more confused in my life. What does this mean for me, Maya? Was my dad one too? Does mom know?
-Caroline's POV-
I walk into the Grill to see Amy sitting down with Matt asking him if he's okay and stuff but she's doing it with a lovesick expression on her face. I try to hold back but I can't so I walk over there.
"Seriously Amy?" I said
"We were just talking." She said looking up at me
"Oh is that what you call it" I said
" Are you kidding me" Matt says, I know I promised him no more drama but I just can't help it.
"No,I'm not, Matt. She's into you, and anyone can see it"
"Look I'm sorry, I didn't mean to--I'm just gonna go" I stand in front of her and stare her down.
"Knock it off" Matt says standing up. Amy walks out of the restaurant
"What are you doing" Matt says
"This isn't my fault Matt. Ok. She after you. And I shouldn't have to put up with that" I retort trying to get him to understand
"I thought you said no more drama" He still doesn't get it
"Well, I lied"
"Just forget it. Just forget all of it" He said looking into my eyes, slightly shaking his head and then walking off.
"So what, are you like, breaking with me?" I asks kinda aggressively
After a second of thinking he says "Yeah. Yeah, I guess that what I'm doing" I try to fight back tears as he turns and walks away from me. I sit in the chair and just think. I go home and go to sleep as I was up the next morning I turn and see someone there.
"Elena"
"Nope try again"
"Katherine" she goes to sit down on my bed and I scoot away from her.
"Don't be frightened"
"We're going to have so much fun together." She said with a sadistic smile other face.