Tyler is talking on the phone with Hayley, while Elena is walking beside him, looking at her phone. "I get it, Hayley. I'll find them and I'll get them in line" Tyler hangs up on her.

"Bonnie says no luck with the locater spell"

"They've gotta be here. They're not dumb enough to risk getting caught by Klaus in town"

"Well, what do they want with Brie?" Elena stops walking and Tyler turns to face her.

"Kim is trying to prove that she's the Alpha. If I can make her submit, the pack will fall in line and we can finally get them free of Klaus. You'd think they'd play along with how much they hate him"

"But Adrian doesn't, does he? I mean he's still sired to Klaus"

"Being sired doesn't mean you feel differently about someone. I hated Klaus but I still did everything he said. The bond affects how you act, not how you feel"

Suddenly, they hear Brie scream. They run towards from where the screams came.

Brie's hands are tied up in shackles. Kimberley presses down on the chains and Brie shouts in pain "Arghh. Why are you doing this?"

"To show Tyler who's in charge" Kimberley cracks Brie's wrists and Brie again screams in pain. Tyler and Elena rush into the barn and towards them.

"Stop! Stop it, Kim. Brie's with us. All right? We're all on the same team"

"She's on your team, not mine" Behind Tyler and Elena, the other hybrids enter the barn. The hybrids restrain Elena and Tyler while Kimberley continues to torture a screaming Brie. Tyler attempts to free himself from the grasp of the two hybrids holding him back"

"Stop it! Stop!" Elena exclaimed, nearly crying.

"Ease up, Kim. Klaus won't like this"

Kimberly smirks "That's a very good point. Do you think he'll like this?" Kimberley picks up a stake and shows it to Tyler and the rest of the hybrids.

"Kim! Don't do it. I swear to God!" Kimberley lowers the stakes towards Brie's heart.

"No, wait, wait, wait, wait. If you really want to hit Klaus where it hurts, then torture me instead. He's fixated on keeping me alive. You want real revenge or not?" Kimberley hesitates for a moment but lowers the stake. She gets up and moves toward Elena. She grabs Elena by the throat and is ready to kill her when Tyler manages to get himself loose from the hybrids holding him back. He grabs Kimberley and sticks his hand in her chest and grabs her heart. Kimberley gasps in pain. The other hybrids move towards her.

"Stay back! I'll rip her heart out right now!" Tyler shouted angrily. The hybrids don't make any more moves towards the pair of them. Tyler looks Kimberley dead in the eye "Kim put you all at risk today but I'm not gonna hurt her. I'm not Klaus. I don't kill and torture my own friends to get what I want. Now, we broke the sire bond, but if you want to be free we have to work together. No one can step out of line. Now, you're either with me or you're against me. Submit. Submit or you die"

Kimberley falls down on her knees and Tyler kneels down with her, keeping his hand in her chest and his grasp around her heart.

" I'm...I'm sorry" Kim said, struggling for breath. Tyler removes his hand from her chest. Kimberley gasps and catches her breath. Tyler stands up and looks down at Kimberley. He looks around at the other hybrids. One by one, all of the other hybrids get down on their knees, submitting to Tyler and showing him that he is the Alpha.

Elena walks down the stairs towards the door as Brie enters the house. They look at each other for a moment and then Brie hugs Elena tightly "I'm sorry!" There is a moment of silence between them as Brie holds on to Elena "Okay, if you don't start hugging me back this is gonna get really awkward really fast.

"You've got my hands pinned down" Elena said awkwardly as her arms are against her sides.

"Oh"Brie says awkwardly as she takes her arms away from around Elena for a second, then wraps them around her again. Elena wraps her arms around Brie as well and they embrace "I'm a jerk. I promise to never again judge ever"

"Just please don't tell Stefan about me and Damon" Elena begged. They stop hugging each other and look at each other "I promise that I'll tell him. I just need to figure out some stuff first"

Brie nods "Of course" Brie rubs Elena's arm. Caroline walks in from behind Elena

" You guys friends again?" Caroline ask as both Elena and Brie nod "Thank God"

Brie turns to Caroline "Well, she saved my life. In spite of me being the nasty, bitch"

"And so was I, Elena I am sorry. I hate when we are on bad terms. And I am really for all the Damon bashing. I really am"

Elena nods "I understand why you did it. You are only trying to look over for me"

"I was, but I done it in the harshest way possible and I am sorry" Caroline said as she walks closer to Elena to give her a hug. They embrace. Brie joins in and shouts 'group hug' and they all laugh.

Brie is sitting in a chair in the living room while Stefan is talking to her.

"So you spoke to Damon?" Brie asked as she sat on the porch.

Stefan sighed "Yeah I did"

"You feel sorry for him?" Brie asked as she put her head against her shoulder.

"There's no other way to break a vampire sire bond. As much as you and I both hate it, Damon does love Elena. Now he has to completely let her go. Ever imagine having to do that?"

"I'm sorry I told her. Okay, I kind of didn't have a choice. All I know is he better do what he's supposed to do"

Stefan sits down "He'll do it. He's not as bad as he wants you to think. He'll do what he needs to do, he told me he would"

"Is that all he told you?"

Stefan looks at her "What do you mean?"

"Nothing. It's just" she sighs. "It's just, how can you trust him?"

"Because I think he loves her as much as I do. He can't be selfish with her. Not anymore" Brie nods understandingly.

In the town square, the Winter Wonderland charity event is in full swing, complete with fake snow. Caroline and Tyler and standing in the middle of the square "You're going to do what?!"

"Hayley found a witch strong enough to do the body jump spell. You know, the Klaus specialty"

"So, you're going to put him in someone else's body and then what?"

"We'll encase the body in concrete then bury it"

"Why not just desiccate him like Bonnie did?"

Tyler: Because to do that spell, you have to stop a human heart. I was a little short of volunteers.

"Well, who was dumb enough to volunteer their body to be a Klaus sublet?" Tyler sighs but doesn't respond. Caroline's face falls as she realises that Tyler is the volunteer.

"Okay, don't freak out"

"Freak out! Freak out?! I'm about to haemorrhage! You volunteered?!"

"It's not forever. Just long enough for the hybrids to be able to completely disappear"

"Well, I can think of better ways for us to spend our senior year then you buried in concrete, Tyler" Caroline has grown increasingly angry, but Tyler's face remains calm. He gently grabs Caroline by the shoulders and looks directly at her.

"This started with me. This has to end with me."

Caroline can't seem to bear looking Tyler in the eyes. She continues to look down at the ground.

"I need your support" Caroline finally looks up at him with sad eyes.

Stefan is sitting on a couch in the library, reading through some old papers. His phone goes off and he answers it. "Hey, sorry, I know I'm late"

Brie is on the other end, walking across the town square through the Winter Wonderland. "If I'm gonna be a friend in your time of need, then you to need to work on your punctuality. I'm in a crisis. Where are you?"

Stefan: I'm at my house. Why? What's wrong?

"Why are you at your house? Aren't you trying to keep your distance from Elena?"

"Well, she's not here anymore. Damon took Jeremy to the Gilbert lake house with Bonnie so I guess her house is safe for her again. Hey, listen, I got Klaus to tell me a little bit more about this Hunter's sword. You know that map in Jeremy's tattoo? The sword decodes it. It's literally the key to finding the cure"

"Klaus told you this?"

Stefan: Yeah, why?

"And did he happen to hand over the sword for safekeeping?"

"Uh, what do you think" Brie sighs.

Stefan knew something was wrong "What's wrong?"

"We need to get our hands on that sword. Like today. Tyler and his hybrids are taking out Klaus tonight"

Outside in the Town Square, children are running around in the fake snow and starting snowball fights. Inside the Grill, Brie is admiring the postmodern snowflake Klaus painted. She seems to notice she is being watched and turns to see Klaus looking at her. He smiles at her and she turns to face him. "Here to steal Tiny Tim's crutches?"

"Dickens was a dark man. You would have liked him" Klaus walks around the table towards her, but Brie makes her way to the other side of the table so that they are still apart.

"Nice snowflake, by the way" Brie commented.

"Is my work really that literal?"

"I'm serious. There's something, lonely about it"

"I'm gonna take that as a compliment. Can I offer you some champagne?" Brie turns around and starts to walk away. Klaus pursues her.

"Can't. Too many adult prying eyes" Brie turns around to face Klaus who has closed the gap between them. "Don't want to be a high school cautionary tale at the next town meeting"

"Well, then it's a good thing the high school part is nearly over" They stare at each other for a brief moment.

"If we're going to be nice to each other, then I will need that glass of champagne" Klaus smiles, he could care less about Elijah's warning and walks closer towards her.

"Is that our thing" Klaus smirks.

Brie scoffs and rolls her eyes "We don't have a "thing."

"Allow me" Klaus smiles at her again and walks away to get them some champagne. Brie watches him walk away. When she is positive that he can't see her any longer, she takes out her phone and texts Stefan "He's here. Go."

In the Mikaelson Mansion, Stefan rips off the handle from the vault and places it down. He opens up the vault and sees that the sword is no longer there. He seems frustrated.

Stefan has apparently called Damon, who is still at the lake house, and they banter with each other over the phone "Well, he's not walking around with it. Check the rest of the house"

"I am. I haven't found anything"

"Try the sock drawer. People leave the sketchiest stuff in sock drawers"

"I'm gonna need real ideas, Damon" Stefan decides to continue his search and starts by opening up an old trunk.

"Here's two: Kill Tyler before he goes to Klaus or, since Klaus has suddenly become MVP in our relay race for the cure, tell him about the hybrids and he'll kill Tyler"

Stefan picks up a handwritten letter reading "Mon Amour, Les jours passent trop long si loin de toi.", French for "My Love, The days pass too long so far from you."

"Nobody's killing Tyler" Stefan picks up a long handwritten letter addressed to "My Love" from "Alphonso" and becomes silent as he reads it.

"Hello? Stefan?" Stefan finally puts the letter down and talks to Damon again.

"Look, I know it's a touchy subject, but do you know where Elena is today?"

Damon looks incredibly guilty on the other end of the line "I think she's running around...trying to figure out how to deprogram Jeremy"

"How'd she take it last night? You telling her to stay away from you?"

Once again, Damon looks like he is feeling guilty, especially since Stefan appears to be very sympathetic towards him. "Not well"

"You okay?"

"Peachy" There's a moment of silence between them which Damon breaks quickly. "Gotta go. Bonnie has enlisted Dr. Evil in her plan and I have to thwart him" Damon quickly hangs up his phone.

Stefan is leaning against the wall in the alleyway outside the Grill. Brie approaches him and he stands up to face her "Hey. Did you find the sword?"

"Nope"

"What are we gonna do now?"

"Klaus is the only shot we have at finding the cure. We need him. Tyler has to call it off"

"Well, that's not gonna happen" Stefan turns around and looks at Tyler who has appeared on the stairway. Tyler looks at Brie.

"You told him?" Tyler walks down the remaining steps towards Brie and Stefan.

"She never told me, Caroline did. She has been worried about you" Stefan said trying to intervene.

"I've had twelve hybrids sworn to secrecy for a month. I have Hayley and a witch risking their lives and you and Caroline blabbing my plan to him?"

Stefan steps forward, closing the gap between him and Tyler "Look, all I'm asking you for is a little bit of time, okay?"

Tyler: How long? An hour? A day? Because every minute that goes by that we don't do this, they're at risk. You and Klaus already served one of them up for Jeremy to kill" Tyler looks over Stefan's shoulder at Brie, who looks down shamefully. He looks back at Stefan. "I don't owe you anything"

Tyler turns around and starts to walk away." I'm taking him out"

Stefan uses his super speed and moves in front of Tyler, frightening him.

Stefan moves closer "I'm sorry, but I can't let you do that"

Brie looks up at the stairs "Stefan"

Stefan looks at Brie "I'm sorry but I can't"

"Stefan!" Brie is looking over Stefan's shoulder. Stefan turns around and sees a half dozen of the hybrids standing on the stairs behind him. Brie turns around and sees the remaining hybrids in the alleyway, blocking any means of escape.

"Sorry man, but you don't have a choice"

Tyler takes a chain from on top of a box."Keep them down here until we're ready to bring Klaus in" He drops the chains in front of Kim. "Use these if you have to"

Stefan walks closer to Tyler "Come on, Tyler, this is bigger than you. It's about more than revenge for us"

Tyler closes the gap between them "I know what it's about for you, Stefan. It's about the cure. You know what happens to a hybrid when he's cured of being a vampire? We go back to being werewolves; turning on every full moon. We could give a rat's ass about the cure"

Tyler walks past Stefan. Brie steps forward towards Tyler "Tyler, come on"

"I needed you on my side, Brie. That's all I wanted" The hybrids are still keeping Brie and Stefan prisoner in the cellar.

"Ugh, this is ridiculous. We are not hostages!" Brie exclaimed.

"Sure you are, sweetie" Brie glares at her and super speeds to stand right in front of her. Brie and Kim stare each other down. Stefan's phone starts to ring. The other hybrids start to advance on him "Relax" They all stop in their tracks "It's my brother" He answers the phone. "What's up?"

"Don't ask how or why or who, but I just found the answer to your Tyler problem" Stefan listens to the rest of what Damon has to say which is not heard by anyone.

"You're kidding" Stefan hangs up his phone and looks at Brie "We don't need the sword" Brie subtly raises her eyebrows at this revealing information.

Brie walks into the bathroom with Tyler and Hayley following her in. Brie turns and looks at them. "How the hell did you even get out?" Tyler questioned.

Brie crossed her arms "I got out because even your idiot hybrids recognise the stupidity of your Alpha hybrid murder plan"

"I'm not going to fight with you anymore, Brie"

Brie laughs sarcastically "Oh, we're going to do plenty of fighting, the second that you shove Klaus into someone else's body and I am sure Caroline will have something to say about it"

"We've been through this; I don't have anyone else's body"

"Yeah, well I do" Hayley says as Brie looks at her.

"What? Who?"

"Klaus' sister, Rebekah" Brie and Tyler look at her curiously

"How the hell did you do that?" Brie said looking a little shocked.

"She's got a dagger in her. Adrian's been hiding her coffin in the tunnels. We dump Klaus into her body, bury her, we just killed two Original birds with one stone"

Tyler continues to stare at Brie and starts to smile at her brilliant idea. Tyler turns back and faces Brie "Call Bonnie, make sure it will work"

"Tyler!" Tyler turns around and looks at Brie "It's a brilliant plan, Hayley"

Brie turns around and pulls out her phone. She sends a text to Brie saying "We have a problem" and another one saying "The plan is falling apart."

" I gotta go find my mom. Let her know I might actually graduate" Tyler exits the bathroom.

Bonnie's phone starts to ring and she picks it up "Brie, hey"

"Bonnie, I need you to think fast. I know that the daggers don't work on Klaus but what if we put his essence into Rebekah? Please say it will work"

Bonnie gets up and walks off so she can hear Brie better. "Slow down, slow down, what's happening?"

"Just, come on, Bonnie. Will it work?" Hayley looks down at her phone and reads the text Shane has just sent her.

"Yeah, I don't see why not"

Brie smiles "Uh, Bonnie Bennett, I love you!"

"Do you need my help? I can leave Elena here with Jeremy"Bonnie says as she see's Elena and Jeremy talking.

"Elena? She's there too?" Brie asked, trying to heat right.

"Yeah, she came with Damon. Who's being slightly less horrible than usual"

Brie is clearly angered by the fact that Elena and Damon are still with each other "You know what? I can't deal with this right now" Brie hangs up on Bonnie. She turns and sees Hayley in front of the door. "She said it would work"

"I gathered. Congratulations"

"Thank you" Brie walks towards the door and Hayley steps aside. Before Brie can open the door, Hayley grabs her from behind and snaps her neck, temporarily killing Brie. Brie falls to the floor.

"My pleasure" Hayley smirks.

April enters the restroom and tries to open up the stall door, but it is jammed "Oh, sorry" April then seems to worry that something might be wrong in the stall and knocks gently "Oh, hello, are you okay? Um.." April opens the door of the stall and Brie's body falls to the ground. April backs away in shock "Oh my gosh!" April kneels down next to her body and shakes her by the shoulders. "Brie!" April places her fingers on her neck, trying to find a pulse, but can't seem to find one. She starts to panic. "Somebody help! Help!" April quickly gets up and frantically tries to leave the bathroom, but Brie finally awakens from the dead and uses her super speed to get in front of the door before April can leave.

"Have you seen Hayley" April turns around and looks down where Brie used to be, clearly confused. Brie acts very nonchalant about the whole thing and takes out her phone to call Stefan. April looks back at Brie.

"You didn't have a pulse. You were dead" Brie glances at her but does not help April calm down by any means. In fact, she was probably about to make it worse.

"Stefan, it's me. That little werewolf slut has lost her mind. Go to the Lockwood Cellar and make sure that Rebekah's body is still there. I'm gonna find Tyler. Hayley is trying to screw this up" Brie hangs up her phone and looks at April with a smile. She walks over to her and gently grabs her shoulders. April looks at her, completely horrified. Brie starts to compel her.

April quickly walks out of the restroom, not looking at Brie as she leaves. Brie breathes a sigh of relief. When Brie walks out of the restroom, Matt intercepts her "There you are. Stefan's been looking for you. Adrian's leading Klaus to the Cellar"

"How come the only time April Young isn't following you around like a lost puppy is when I'm lying dead with a broken neck?" Brie pulls her phone out and looks down at it.

"April saw you?"

"Yeah, it's okay, I compelled her"

"No, she's wearing Jeremy's vervain bracelet" Brie looks up at him, horrified "She can't be compelled"

Tyler is on the phone and leaving a voice message for his mom "Hey mom, I don't see you. Things have changed, it's gonna be fine" Tyler sees Hayley walking through the crowd. "I'll be back later. I'll pick you up" He hangs up and walks over to Hayley. "What are you doing here? You're supposed to be taking the witch to the Cellar"

"There is no witch, Tyler. I made it up. I don't know how to explain it, but I made a deal with someone who can help me find my family"

"What are you talking about? What kind of deal?"

"There needed to be twelve for the sacrifice, Tyler"

"Hayley, what did you do?"

"If you run now, you might make it out alive"

Tyler looks at her with a mixture of horror and shock. Tyler continues to stare at Hayley while he backs away. He turns around and dashes through the crowd.

Kim and the other hybrids are waiting in the woods "Where the hell is the witch? Adrian should be here any minute"

There is a rushing noise that all the hybrids hear. They turn around and see Adrian "Kim"

Suddenly, Adrian's heart is torn from his body "No!"

"I never intended for you to put Klaus down. I needed him for the sacrifice"

Adrian falls down on his knees. Klaus stands behind him holding out his bloody heart in his hand. He drops it on the ground. His face shows nothing but pure rage. He has the Hunter's sword in his hand and begins to rush at the hybrids, slashing at them with the sword.

Klaus has slashed at one of the hybrids who falls to the ground, dead. Another hybrid jumps at him, ready to attack him, but Klaus slices her head off with the sword. Klaus slashes at another hybrid's throat with the sword. Klaus throws the sword at another hybrid and pinning him to a tree. Klaus rips the heart out of the hybrid that is pinned to the tree. Klaus takes the sword out of the now dead hybrid's chest and slashes the throat of another one of his hybrids. Klaus stands in the midst of all the dead hybrids. He breathes heavily and has blood splashed across the front of his shirt. He hears Kim crying and hiding down in the Lockwood Cellar. He proceeds to follow her. Kim trips down the remaining stairs and looks up from the floor as Klaus walks down towards her. She attempts to back away from him. She gets up and grabs the bars of the Cellar, trying to find a way out as she continues to sob. She turns and looks at Klaus.

"Where is Tyler Lockwood?"

Kim continues to cry, but does not answer. Klaus points the sword at her throat and moves closer towards her "You'd do well to answer me, love"

Klaus places the blade against her throat and screams in her face. "Where is he?!"

"I don't know"

"Wrong answer"Klaus pushes the blade into her throat. Kim gasps for air, but Klaus successfully presses the blade through her neck and chops her head off. He turns around and starts to walk off. His face is not full of rage anymore but seemingly full of sadness and loneliness. He breathes out a sigh.

Tyler walks into the small clearing where all of the dead hybrids lie. He looks around at all of his dead friends with sadness. Down in the cellar, Tyler sees Kim's dead body. He walks out of the cellar, clearly in anguish. He does not notice that April is hiding behind the wall. She is in tears and looks very frightened. She hears Tyler leave and walks out from behind the wall. She approaches the coffin lying in the middle of the cellar and opens it. She sees Rebekah daggered in the coffin and April starts to gasp for air.