Tribrid Salvatore

2x07 Masquerade

It's been a few days since Elena met Katherine and Luna mostly stayed with Alaric or Caroline. Damon and Stefan for once decided it was better to keep their niece out of trouble. Today though, they wanted to spend a day together. Just the three of them.

That plan was ruined when Caroline barged in, all panicky. Stefan immediately pushed her down onto one of the couches, while Damon went to fetch a glass of blood "Here," he murmured, passing it over.

"I'm still shaking," the blonde mumbled, taking a gulp of the blood.

"What happened?" Stefan questioned, cuddling Luna on his lap. He felt a bit guilty for spending so much time with Elena recently. Ever since the four-year-old came to live with them, she was mostly with Damon.

The older brother already knew from when Caroline called him earlier, so he just sighed and flopped down next to his brother "Go ahead, tell him. You're gonna love this."

"I saw Katherine today," the newly turned vampire said.

Stefan blinked "Where?"

"At the Grill," she murmured "I just stopped by to gawk and... quasi-stalk Matt." Caroline then went into detail about what happened at the Grill and what the older vampire wanted from them.

"She wants to do it in public," the younger of the two brothers pointed out "Killing Mason threw her off guard."

Damon nodded "She's running scared. What she did to Jenna was desperate. She's out of tricks."

"We can't underestimate her. We have to play this smarter than her," Stefan mused.

"Can we just give her the moonstone so she'll leave?" Caroline frowned.

"No," Damon snapped "Katherine's not getting dick. I've had it. I'm gonna go to the masquerade ball and I'm gonna kill her, tonight."

Stefan rolled his eyes "You're not gonna kill her."

"Don't give me that goody-goody crap," his older brother groaned.

"You're not gonna kill her," Stefan repeated.

Damon tilted his head "Really?"

"Because I am."

"Plan," Damon muttered after minutes of stunned silence "We need a plan. Go and text Bonnie, will you? I'll call Ric."

A while later, Luna was solving a puzzle on the floor by Damon's feet, while he was talking to Alaric, discussing the weapons in front of them.

"This works with compressed air," Alaric explained, turning to everyone "The trigger mechanism is up here. I have two of these in a different size. For you, I recommend this. It fits nicely under the jacket sleeve. You use the trigger when you're ready." He faked killing a vampire. The Salvatore brothers looked at each other and back again "You wanted me to show you how to kill a vampire."

"Thanks for that, Ric," Stefan spoke up "It's definitely going to be helpful."

Bonnie stared at the younger vampire "Stefan, can I talk to you for a sec. Alone?"

Damon bent down to pick Luna up into his arms, ignoring her protests "Ric, can you watch over Luna tonight? I don't want to leave her alone and..."

"And I can keep an eye on Elena as well," he finished the sentence "You know I'm always happy to look after the little one. Are you sure you don't want me there tonight though?"

"I need you to stay with Elena," Stefan who had just returned to the room told the hunter "I don't want her to know about this."

Alaric shrugged "Okay. Well, I'll make sure she doesn't leave my sight."

"Alright," Stefan clapped "If anybody wants to back out, I'll understand."

Damon smirked "Yeah. Cold feet speak now. I don't want this going wrong if someone chicken's out. Caroline."

"I won't," the cheerleader protested "Look, she killed me. Fair is fair. As long as there's no werewolf running around."

"Oh, I took care of Mason," Damon waved off.

Jeremy nodded "As long as Tyler doesn't kill anyone, he won't turn."

"Bonnie?" Stefan questioned "Are you with us?"

The witch paused for a long moment, studying everyone in the room "But no one gets hurt."

"Except Katherine," Damon corrected "Tonight Katherine gets a stake through her heart."

That evening, Luna was sitting on a chair next to the couch Jenna was resting on. The older woman was talking to the little girl. As little as she seemed to like Damon, his niece was simply too adorable to hate.

"I feel like an invalid," Jenna groaned out after a while.

Elena grinned "That's because you are an invalid. Where's Jeremy? Isn't he hungry?"

"He already left," the older woman pointed out "For the Lockwood party."

"He went to that?" the Doppelgänger blinked in surprise.

Jenna nodded "Yeah, I'm glad. He needs to have more fun. Lose some of that emo thing."

"I'm gonna get some napkins," Elena mumbled, heading to the kitchen where Alaric was.

Luna looked after her, nose twitching a little. Jenna smiled "She's not the most subtle person," she whispered conspiratorially.

"Where's the bathroom?" Luna mumbled suddenly, completely changing the subject.

"It's down the hall, sweetie. Are you alright to go on your own?"

The four-year-old nodded and stumbled over to where Jenna said the bathroom would be. Once she was finished, Elena was standing by the stairs "Hey guys, I'm gonna go to bed. You good over there?" she called, not seeing Luna watching her.

"Goodnight," Jenna called back.

Elena smirked lightly "Night." She grabbed her keys and was about to leave when the little girl stopped her.

"You aren't supposed to leave," Luna pointed out "I'm gonna tell Ric."

The Doppelgänger hissed and wrapped her hand around Luna's mouth, dragging her out of the house. She was sure that Stefan wouldn't mind her bringing Luna. There was no danger at the party anyway, so it shouldn't matter. Even if there was danger, maybe this was her chance to get rid of the little attention seeker. Elena shoved Luna into the back seat and sped off to the Lockwood Mansion. Once there, she frowned, seeing her friends run around panicked "You'll stay out of sight until I come back," she snapped at Luna, pressing her against the car door "Understood?"

"Yes," Luna whispered, sounding somewhat scared of the older girl. While she could defend herself, Dami and Steffi told her not to show anyone her other face. She watched as Elena grabbed her brother's arm, demanding to know what happened. She watched as they walked off to where she presumed Bonnie was waiting and then the little girl was alone. Luna tried to see if she could listen to Elena but she was too far away and now the only thing she could do was to stand here and wait. Of course, she could try to find one of her uncles but they were trying to kill the other one who looked like Elena. They wouldn't be pleased if she got in the way of their plan. Luna wasn't sure how much time passed until Elena returned, her phone pressed to her ear. She was tired though. Tired, hungry and kind of cold.

"Yeah Jeremy, I've got my car," Elena sighed "Tell Bonnie that whatever she did, I'm starting to feel better. Yeah, you can drive her home. I'm just gonna go straight to bed. Okay." She hung up and stalked over to Luna "Did anyone see you?" Luna shook her head silently "Great. That's great. Let's get you back before Stefan finds out you're missing."

Suddenly, a masked man came up behind Elena and covered her mouth with a cloth. Luna froze, staring at the stranger with wide eyes. Once the Doppelgänger was down, the man turned to her, before he knocked the four-year-old out as well, dragging them to his car.