The Vampire Diaries: Trinity

Chapter Thirty Six: Crying Wolf

In the woods, dead werewolves lie in a pile next to a bonfire. Brady carries another body of a dead friend over his shoulder and places him on the pile. He looks over at Jules, who is watching the fire burn the bodies; she looks up at him, sadly. Wordlessly, they walk over to Stevie, who is pacing in front of the trailer.

"Go ahead." Brady says. "Tell her."

Stevie turns to Jules. "Let me just preface this with a big disclaimer that screams, 'I should have known better.'"

"What is it, Stevie?" She asks.

"When Brady told me what that Tyler kid said about Mason being here for the moonstone, something clicked. There was this moment back in Florida when I suspected Mason was up to something because he was banging that hot, vampire chick Kathy and he didn't want anyone to know."

Jules looks agitated. "All right. Just get to the point, Stevie."

"That is the point, Jules. It's the sun and moon curse. Mason was asking me all kinds of questions about it, if it could be broken, and when that evil man-witch showed up last night, double-click. Witches, vampires, moonstone. They're putting everything in place to break the curse."

"We can't let them do that, even if we have to kill every last vampire in this town." Brady says.

At the Forbes house, Elena's cell phone goes off; waking up the trio of girls, Caroline promptly pushes her out of bed. "Go away!" She says.

"Ugh." Elena grunts as she lands on the floor. She shoots an angry look at Caroline and crawls across the floor towards her phone and takes it off the dresser. "Hello?"

Caroline and Bonnie look over at Elena from the bed, both incredibly annoyed with being awaken.

"Shhh." Bonnie glares through bleary eyes.

"Elena!" Caroline groans.

Elena drags herself out of Caroline's room and continues her conversation in the hallway.

"How was the slumber party?" Stefan asks.

"Good and much needed." She tells him before grinning. "When can you and I have one?"

"Mmm. That can be arranged."

"Okay. Now. Today. Take me far, far away."

"Even with everything that's going on?"

"Because of everything that's going on."

"And you're sure this has nothing to do with dodging your father who just got into town?"

"Uh, this has everything to do with that."

"Well, in that case, where would you like to go?"

Elena smiles as an idea comes to mind.

Trinity smiles as she gazes at Katherine's sleeping form before carefully moving away. She shifts into her puppy form and begins to quietly walk away when a voice stops her.

"Where do you think you're going?" Katherine asks, opening her eyes. Trinity turns and widens her eyes. Katherine shakes her head. "Don't give me the puppy dog eyes."

Trinity shifts back into her human form. "I didn't want to wake you."

"I was already awake. I just wanted to see how long you'd stare at me."

Trinity feigns an offended look. "I was not staring, I was gazing. It's totally different."

"You make a habit of watching girls sleep?"