Elena sat at the grill waiting for Bonnie, she had called Elena and asked if they could talk and Elena decided to give Bonnie another chance. She liked Bonnie when she wasn't such a judgmental bitch and she wanted her friend back.

"Elena." Bonnie walked up to her table and sat down opposite her. "Thank you for meeting with me."

"You are my friend, Bonnie." Elena smiled slightly. "I ordered you your favorite, it should be done soon."

"Thanks." Bonnie smiled back. "I have done a lot of soul searching the last couple of days."

"Find anything interesting in your search?" Elena asked with a chuckle.

"Here's your food." A male waiter walked up and placed the food in front of them.

"Thank you." Bonnie and Elena chorused.

"I found out that you're right." Bonnie admitted quietly after a while.

"About what?" Elena looked at her.

"About vampires." Bonnie whispered.

"What made you realize that?" Elena wanted to know.

"I was at the mall and there were this group of guys that heckled me, called me names and judged me because I was black." Bonnie started to explain. "And I remembered what you said at the carnival about that and I just knew in that moment that you were right about everything."

"I'm proud of you Bon." Elena smiled at her.

"I have decided that I need to apologize to both Stefan and Damon, mostly Damon, for my actions and I hoped that you would go with me?" Bonnie looked pleadingly at Elena.

"Of course, I'll come with you." Elena smiled. "Want to go after we're done here?"

"Yeah, that works." Bonnie nodded. "I hope I'm not being an inconvenience to you."

"I was going over to the boarding house anyway." Elena smiled as she shrugged. "I have to give Stefan his daily dose of Gilbert blood."

"What?" Bonnie spluttered as she almost choked on her coffee.

Elena smiled and then proceeded to tell her everything that had been going on while Bonnie was getting her head straight or whatever she had been doing.

An hour later Elena led Bonnie in to the boarding house, both of them laughing at one of Elenas stupid vampire jokes.

"Elena." Damon greeted with a smile from the couch in the parlor where he was sitting and reading a book with a glass of bourbon in his hand.

"Damon." Elena smiled back and went to fill up a glass with bourbon.

"Witch." Damon glared slightly at Bonnie.

Bonnie shifted awkwardly and nodded at him.

"Fang." Elena said as she walked up to Damon.

"You could just use a knife or even a needle, you know?" Damon chuckled and brought out his fangs.

"What's the fun in that?" Elena laughed as she cut her hand slightly on his fang. Then she raised her voice and called out with a sing song tone, "Oh Stefan, breakfast is ready."

Bonnie started to giggle and she relaxed when she saw and actually accepted how human and normal Damon was even if he was a vampire.

"Hello Elena, Bonnie." Stefan smiled as he walked in, pulling a clean shirt over his head.

"Hey." Bonnie blushed as she looked at Stefan's ripped torso.

"Thanks, Elena." Stefan took the glass and downed it.

"I wanted to talk to the both of you, if that's alright?" Bonnie asked as she looked between Stefan and Damon.

"More judging or are you just going to try and light me on fire again?" Damon sneered.

"I deserved that." Bonnie admitted. "I actually wanted to apologize for how I have been behaving and how I've treated you both. It was wrong of me to try and dictate how you should behave and be even though you are not human. I hope you can forgive me but I'm not expecting you to."

Elena looked proud of her while Damon and Stefan shared a long look and then they turned towards Bonnie.

"I forgive you, but I won't forget and I refuse to trust you until you have proven that you actually mean what you said." Damon said seriously.

"I agree with my brother." Stefan nodded but then he glared at Bonnie. "But if you ever try and hurt my brother again without just cause, I will show you why I'm famous in some circles."

"That's fair." Bonnie agreed, feeling a little scared.

"I'll get it." Stefan said as there was a knock on the door.

"Hey, puppy." Elena called out as Stefan came back into the parlor with Mason.

"You are not letting that go, are you?" Mason chuckled.

"Not on your life." Elena smirked. "Anyway, Bonnie this is Mason, the group puppy. Mason this is Bonnie, the group hag."

"Nice to meet you." Mason laughed and held out his hand towards Bonnie. "To clarify, I'm a werewolf."

"Witch." Bonnie shook his hand then she turned towards Elena. "Hag? Really?"

"What?" Elena smirked. "You're the group hag, Mason the puppy, Stefan and Damon are the leeches and I am the crazy mascot."

"And we love our crazy mascot!" Damon picked her up and ran around the room with her over his shoulder.

Even as she laughed, she heard Stefan ask Bonnie, "Do you know what happened to her to make her feel like she is unlovable?"

Damon put a giggling Elena down as Bonnie shook her head slowly.

"So, what can we help you with?" Elena looked at Mason with bright eyes.

"We need to talk and it is not a happy talk but you guys are my friends and I feel like I can trust you." Mason told them slowly.

"Do I need bourbon for this talk?" Elena asked. "Eh, never mind, I'm having bourbon."

"You drink a lot of bourbon?" Bonnie wondered as she looked at Elena.

"It makes my tummy feel all warm and tingly." Elena beamed back.

"What is the talk about?" Stefan asked Mason as the five of them sat down in front of the fire place.

"I've been sort of working with Kathrine Pierce." Mason mumbled but everyone heard him.

"What?!" Damon was up on his feet and glaring at Mason.

"Damon, calm down and let him talk." Elena grabbed his arm to pull him back down. "As I've told Stefan, we are not judging our friends without having the whole story."

"Thank you, Elena." Mason sighed. "It started when I accidentally triggered my werewolf gene. She was there and she explained and helped me through it."

"Accidentally?" Bonnie asked.

"It was close to a full moon and my temper was high." Mason told them slowly. "And my best friend just starting attacking me and accusing me and we got into a fight and then he was dead."

"And Kathrine was there and just knew what had happened?" Elena asked looking at Mason.

"She was kind to me and helped me." Mason mumbled but he sounded hesitant.

"I'm sorry to say but I think she's the reason your friend attacked you." Elena walked over and put a hand on his shoulder, knowing what had actually happened. "She must want something from you or something."

"The moonstone." Mason muttered.

"What?" Damon asked.

"She wants the moonstone." Mason said so everybody could hear. "It has something to do with The Sun and The Moon curse."

"What curse is that?" Bonnie asked intrigued.

"Well, legends goes that it's the curse to stop vampires from walking in the sun and force werewolves to turn on the full moon." Elena quickly explained.

"Kathrine said that if a vampire breaks the curse, they would be able to walk in the sun unhindered but if a werewolf broke the curse, they would be able to turn into a wolf at will and without pain." Mason told them.

"Wait a minute." Elena muttered and turned towards Bonnie. "Magic doesn't work like that right? I mean you can't negate another witch's curse by magicking something else, right?"

"That's right." Bonnie nodded. "Especially if you have tied the curse to something powerful."

"What are you thinking?" Stefan asked as he looked at Elena.

"I think that Kathrine lied about what the moonstone is used for." Elena said thoughtfully, knowing what the moonstone was actually for but she couldn't just say that.

"How did you come to that conclusion?" Damon offered her a refill of her bourbon.

"Because if vampires not being able to walk in the sun was actually a curse than the daylight rings wouldn't work." Elena explained her thoughts.

"She's right!" Bonnie exclaimed when she got what Elena was talking about. "The magic on the rings wouldn't be able to negate the sun and the moon curse!"

"You Miss. Gilbert." Damon picked her up and spun her around. "Are a freaking genius!"

"I have my moments." Elena giggled and flipped her hair over her shoulder as Damon put her back down. "Wait...."

Elena turned to look at Mason, studying him closely.

"What?" Mason queried.

"Did you sleep with Kathrine?" Elena asked slowly.

"Well... ehm...I..." Mason stuttered out as he rubbed the back of his neck.

"Has everyone in this town basically seen me naked?!" Elena threw her hands up in the air.

"What?" Mason gasped. "I haven't seen you naked!"

"Technically you have." Stefan snorted into his glass.

"Kathrine and Elena are doppelgängers, that means that they are identical." Damon both smirked and glared at Mason at the same time. "So, if you have seen Kathrine naked, you have also, sort of anyway, seen Elena naked."

"Oh god." Mason looked up at Elena then he looked away with a blush.

"Now you are imagining me naked, aren't you?" Elena smirked deviously.

"I'm sorry!" Mason burrowed his face in his hands.

"Eh, it's okay." Elena laughed. "Everyone in this room has technically seen me naked, so you're not alone. Bonnie is the only one who has seen me, as in Elena, naked though."

"True." Bonnie giggled.

"Oh ho, you learn something new every day." Damon wiggled his eyebrows suggestively at Elena and Bonnie.

"Communal showers after cheerleading, you perv." Bonnie threw a pillow at him.

"Nope, I prefer my version." Damon smirked.

"Can we focus back on the whole Kathrine debacle and what we should do about it?" Stefan asked even as he laughed. "Instead of the very pleasant mental picture of Elena and Bonnie?"

"I have a question." Damon said as he sat back down. "Why are you telling us if you are in a relationship with Kathrine?"

"I have never really trusted her and that mistrust as become worse in resent week because the only thing she talks about is the moonstone." Mason said. "And..."

"And?" Elena coaxed when Mason became quiet.

"You guys have become pack." Mason admitted quietly.

"Really?" Elena asked delighted.

"How does that even work?" Stefan wondered. "I mean, we are not werewolves."

"I don't know how it works I only know that since the barbeque at Jenna's place you, Damon and Elena have started to feel like pack." Mason shrugged.

"Who's alpha?" Damon asked with a smirk, looking cocky. "It's me, isn't it?"

"Elena actually." Mason looked at Elena and shrugged.

"Me?" Elena looked around the room wide eyed.

"Werewolves aren't like regular wolf even though they sort of are." Mason tried to explain.

"That clears it up." Damon muttered.

"Werewolves have a hierarchy like a regular wolfpack but the lines between 'Alpha' and the rest of the pack isn't as clear." Mason continued. "Everyone is more equal but there is one in a werewolf pack that is considered 'Alpha' and that is the person everyone in the pack trusts and looks up to and in this case that's Elena."

"I am not someone who should be put in charge of anything!" Elena looked at all of them.

"We trust you to do the right thing Elena." Stefan smiled at her. "And we'll all be here to help."

"Does that make us an official pack?" Damon smiled.

"I don't care if it's official or not." Mason shrugged. "You guys are my pack, my family."

"Aww, that's so sweet!" Elena bounced over and hugged Mason.

Mason hugged back and at the same time he nuzzled his face into her neck and breathed in her sent.

"What are you doing?" Elena giggled. "That tickles."

"Sorry." Mason pulled back, embarrassed. "I was sent marking, it's an instinct I've been fighting for a few days."

"Does that mean you want to nuzzle our necks to?" Damon smirked at him.

"Nah, just a simple touch works most of the time." Mason chuckled.

"Is it different with Elena because she's 'alpha'?" Bonnie asked softly, looking curious.

"Yea, and her sent is also something that will calm me down around the full moon." Mason shifted awkwardly.

"Not to dampen the mood or anything but how are we going to protect Mason from Kathrine when she finds out he's not hers anymore." Stefan asked hesitantly.

"We fake his death and then he can go back to Florida and tie up loose ends until we have dealt with Kathrine." Elena hummed as she downed the last of her bourbon.

"How are we going to do that?" Damon looked at Elena.

"Mason, did you tell Kathrine about your friendship with us?" Elena turned to Mason.

"No, I just told her that you had figured out that I was a werewolf but not why I was in town." Mason informed her.

"Good." Elena smirked. "Then this is what we'll do; we all go to the Lockwood mansion to help with the whole decorating thing, then, to make it believable, Damon and Stefan are going to knock you out and "kidnap" you...or I guess "wolfnap" but I digress."

"I assume you want us to bring him back here?" Stefan asked with a smirk.

"Yup and then when Kathrine calls Damon is going to answer and basically tell her that Mason is dead." Elena told them. "How you tell her is completely up to you though."

"This is going to be so much fun." Damon laughed with shining eyes.