Cold Hearted | Damon Salvatore

seven

07. Masquerade

"Here" Damon said, handing Caroline a glass of blood, which she gladly took.

"I'm still shaking" Caroline confessed.

"Care" Aria said, running into the Salvatore's living room with Stefan right behind her.

Aria knew she shouldn't be here, but after Caroline called her, scared out of her mind, Aria had to come and see her, she planned to comfort her best friend while at the same time avoiding a certain Salvatore.

"Aria" Caroline said, getting up and hugging her best friend, "Oh, I'm so glad your here".

"What happened?" Stefan asked.

Caroline broke the hug and sighed, "Go ahead, tell them, you guys are gonna love this" Damon said, his eyes landing on the young Connor witch, who was doing everything in her power to not look towards him, despite how much she wanted to.

"I saw Katherine today" Caroline revealed, shocking both Stefan and Aria.

"What" Aria said shocked.

"Where?" Stefan asked.

"At the Grill, I just stopped by to just gawk and quasi stalk Matt" Caroline explained.

"Skip the teen drama, get to it" Damon snapped.

"Matt saw me so I had to lie and pretend to use the bathroom, even though I didn't really have to go, because I'm a doofus" Caroline said, "That's when Katherine came over to me, saying she had a message".

"What message?" Aria asked.

"She wants the moonstone" Caroline revealed, "And if she doesn't get it, she's going to go on a killing spree".

"Great" Aria whispered, really getting tired of Katherine's threats.

"Tell them the rest of it" Damon encouraged.

"She wants it tonight, at the masquerade ball" Caroline explained.

"She wants to do it public" Stefan realised, "Killing Mason threw her off guard".

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

"Underestimating her will make us an idiot" Aria said, "We already did that once, look where that landed us".

"Aria's right, we have to play this smarter then her" Stefan said.

"Can't we just give her the moonstone so she'll leave?" Caroline asked.

"Absolutely not" Aria replied.

"Yeah, Katherine's not getting dick, I've had it" Damon snapped, still very angry at Katherine for causing him and Aria to break up, "I'm gonna go to the masquerade ball, and I'm gonna kill her, tonight".

"I'm coming with you" Aria said, Damon went to speak but Aria interrupted him, "Don't try to talk me out of this Damon, I'm killing Katherine, she killed my parents, she tried to kill Jenna, you're delusional if you think I'm going to let her live".