The Vampire Diaries: Trinity

Chapter Twenty Five: Bad Moon Rising

Stefan lets Alaric into the boarding house. "Thanks for coming, Ric."

"I get you something to drink? Coffee, bourbon? Bourbon in your coffee?" Damon asks.

"Elena mentioned you needed my help."

"Yeah, we were hoping you could help shed some light on the Lockwood family." Stefan tells him.

Tyler watches Mason leave the house.

"Now, why would I know anything about the Lockwood's?"

"Well, you wouldn't. But your dead not dead vampire wife might." Damon says.

Elena looks at him. "Isobel's research from when you guys were at Duke together."

"You said that she had spent years researching this town." Stefan says.

"Isobel's research here in Mystic Falls rooted in folklores and legends but at the time I thought much of which was fiction."

"Like that amazing vampire story." Damon smiles.

"Aside from vampires, what else?" Elena asks Ric.

"The lycanthrope."

"Wait, like werewolves?"

Damon scoffs. "No way, impossible, way too Lon Chaney."

"Is it?" Stefan asks.

"I've been on this planet one hundred and sixty some odd years, never came across one. If werewolves exist, where the hell are they?"

"You also didn't know about shapeshifter's." Trinity says. "Compared to other vampire's, you are still young. So werewolves are either few in numbers or in hiding."

Mason is running in the woods, unaware of Tyler following him He goes into the ruins.

"Why do you suspect the Lockwood's?" Alaric asks him.

"Because vervain didn't affect the mayor at Founder's day but the Gilbert device did and it affected his son Tyler."

"And at the school carnival his uncle Mason exhibited inhuman behavior when he fought with one of the carnival's worker." Stefan says.

In the woods Mason walks out of the ruins. Tyler watches him leave and goes into them.

"It suggests it's some sort of a supernatural entity."

"We were hoping that Isobel's research could help us figure it out what it is." Elena tells him.

"Well, all her things are still at Duke. I mean her office is still there, she's technically still missing." He says.

"So can we get access to it?" Damon asks.

Tyler walks into the underground quarters of the ruins. He begins to take pictures.

"Ric, we need to know what we are dealing with. If this wolf men thing is true, I've seen enough movies to know it's not good. It means Mason Lockwood is a real life Lon Chaney and that little Tyler punk may just very well be Lon Chaney junior which means Bella Lugosi, meaning me, is totally screwed."

Matt is knocking on the door. Caroline is in the house but she can't answer because of the sunlight. "Caroline. Caroline!" He calls but receives no answer. He takes out is phone and calls her. She doesn't answer so he leaves a message. "Hey, I thought you said you were at home. Tyler is doing this whole thing at the swimming hole and I want us to spend the day together. Where are you? Call me." He hangs up and leaves.

Elena is packing for the trip to Duke. Stefan is with her. "Are you sure you want to do this?" He asks.

"Which part? Digging through my birth mother's life work or going to Duke with Damon?"