Howlin' For You

Chapter 3 - The Surprise

When Rhiannon woke up the next morning, her head was pounding from everything that she learned the night before. She still wasn't sure she believed it all but even she had to admit that Damon baring his fangs at her was pretty convincing. There was a knock on the door.

"Hey, are you okay? How're you dealing with everything?" Elena said entering Rhiannon's room.

"Well it was a lot to take in, I tell you that," she murmured rubbing her eyes. "I just don't understand why this Katherine would do this to me. She doesn't even know me."

"I know, but she really is diabolical and Damon killing Mason yesterday made her retaliate by hurting people I care about," Elena explained.

"But how did she know I'm a werewolf? I had no idea until yesterday! And none of my relatives is a werewolf, at least none that I know of."

"I have no idea, but she's old and resourceful, I guess she had somebody spying on us all for months," Elena reasoned. "Or maybe she didn't know and she just wanted to hurt you."

"That's comforting," Rhiannon murmured. "So what happened with you and Stefan last night? Damon said something about an ongoing break-up scene."

"Well, we broke-up. At least until we deal with this whole Katherine thing and I just don't know if we're ever gonna make it. There's just so much about us that will never work."

"I don't know, Elena, you two are really great together and the way he's looking at you... I can tell he really loves you and in the end, love conquers all."

"Thank you for that," Elena said hugging her tightly. "Anyways, we're going to hospital to pick up Jenna."

"Right, I'm so glad she's gonna be okay," Rhiannon said really relieved. "Does she know about any of this?"

"No, and I really want it to stay that way as long as possible," Elena retorted. "Okay, we'll be back soon."

Since apparently nobody was going to go the masquerade, Rhiannon spent the rest of the day cooking her famous parmesan chicken and taking care of Jenna with Elena and Rick. Nobody from the gang of supernaturals, as she named them, showed up that day which made Elena convinced that something was up. Her suspicion proved to be right when Rick was shady about where everybody was.

"I don't like it," Elena whispered to Rhiannon. "There's clearly something going on. Jeremy and Stefan going to the masquerade party? They hate stuff like that."

"Well then we need to go find out what's going on, now don't we?" Rhiannon suggested with a mischievous smile plastered on her face. Five minutes later they were in Elena's car and headed for the Lockwood mansion.

The night got so much more eventful than Rhiannon would ever anticipate. It turned out that the gang was on a crazy assassin mission trying to kill Katherine. It also turned out that Katherine was a crafty little bitch and had herself linked to Elena. In the end it all miraculously worked out and Katherine ended up stuck in the freaky tomb along with the moonstone and Rhiannon with Elena were on their way to her car.

"So next time there's a party, how about we just go and have some vampire-free fun?" Rhiannon chuckled opening the passenger's side door. "Are you sure you don't want me to drive?"

"Nah, I'm feeling better already," Elena said pulling out the keys when some freak in a mask grabbed her. Rhiannon jumped out of the car to go help her tugging at his arm but he freed it from her grip easily enough smacking her full force across the face. She lost her balance and hit her head on the hood of the car and blacked out.