Howlin' For You

Chapter 7 - The Spat

"Rhiannon, I need to tell you something else," Elijah started after they finished the movie. "I feel like you should know that there are more werewolves in this town."

"I know," she interrupted him, and after she saw he was baffled by this, she continued: "Elena told me that another wolf broke into Salvatore boarding house and got Rose. That woman. Jules."

"Right," he said pensively. "Well there is another one."

"Who?" Rhiannon asked.

"Tyler Lockwood," Elijah said making Rhiannon jump from her bed. "Your friend Caroline was helping him last night. I crossed paths with her in the woods and I compelled her to tell me what she was doing there."

"So Caroline was helping Tyler Lockwood of all people and nobody bothered to tell me anything?!" she snarled at no one in particular. She was getting tired of constantly being left out of the loop. "I mean when did he even trigger the curse?"

"From what I gathered, it happened on the masquerade party the night you were taken. The reason why nobody told you is that they don't want Tyler to know too much of anything," Elijah said, trying to reason with her. "He only knows that Caroline's a vampire, he doesn't know about anyone else and they want to keep it that way."

"That's all very nice," she snapped plopping back on her bed with an angry huff. "They could've at least told me. I can keep a goddamn secret. They still don't trust me."

"Look I know it's not nice to be left out of things," Elijah started sitting on bed next to her. "But your friends just wanted to protect you and themselves."

"I know," she said playing with the sleeve of her hoodie. "It's just frustrating."

"Well, it would appear that you have an unexpected house guest," Elijah said not looking particularly pleased.

"What are you talking about? Who?" Rhiannon asked.

"Elena's uncle John," he explained. "I should be going anyway. It's getting late and you have school tomorrow."

"Gee, thanks dad," she murmured making him snort at her inelegantly.

"Good night Rhiannon," he said walking towards the window and sitting on the sill he added "Thank you for a wonderful evening."

"Wonderful evening?" she asked arching her left eyebrow. "We were just watching a movie."

"I know, but I don't remember the last time I did something so mundane and enjoyed every single minute of it," he retorted. "Perhaps it had something to do with the company."

She blinked rapidly in reaction to what he just said, but before she could say anything else, he was gone. She fell asleep with a smile on her face that night.

***

"We need to talk," Stefan said in a very serious tone of voice when Rhiannon answered her phone that morning. "Can you meet me at Caroline's?"

"Yea, I can be there in ten," she said sipping at her coffee before pouring it into a travel mug. She was happy she had a reason to leave the house earlier, actually. Earlier that morning she ran into Elena having a heated argument with her uncle / father - Jeremy filler her in on remaining parts of the story - before they were all interrupted by Jenna and Alaric. To say things were awkward would be an understatement.

***

She was parking before Caroline's when Stefan knocked at her window.