The carnival is underway. Students are milling around and laughing, having the time of their lives. While Kurt is talking with Mercedes at the ring toss.
"The ring toss is out of Bart and Homer dolls and Team Jacob T's," says Mercedes.
"Okay, I can grab some from the science club. Also, we lost a speaker in the karaoke room," replies Kurt in a stressed-out voice.
"Hey, take a beat, look around. This is a huge success."
"You mean I can do more than just reek vampire havoc?"
"Go figure."
They laugh.
Kurt turns and sees a man who is repairing one of the stands. "Hey, Anthony Rashad, right? You're with the carnival."
"That'll be me," says Anthony. He's tall, dark, and handsome with smooth cocoa skin and a bright, white smile.
"Okay, great," says Kurt.
He looks at Mercedes. "Wow, uh, what do you need beautiful?"
"What do you know about karaoke speakers?" asks Mercedes.
"Why don't you show me the problem?"
Kurt motions encouragingly with his eyes. "Yeah 'Cedes, show him the problem."
"Okay, come on," says Mercedes with a smile on her face.
They leave and Kurt smiles after them.
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At the Abrams estate, Mason is in his brother's office, looking for something. He searches the bookcase and then the drawers of the desk when Artie arrives and sees what he's doing.
"What are you doing?" asks Artie.
"Nothing, just killing time, waiting for you," replies Mason.
"You looking for something?"
"Yeah, actually. You know where I can find any family artifact stuff? Heirlooms?"
Artie laughs. "You drained your trust fund already?"
"I did that when I was 22. No, I'm just looking for this old piece of my mom's. My dad gave it to her when they got married. It's a sentimental value. Probably passed down to your dad. Could still be in the house here somewhere."
"What's it look like?"
"It's a moonstone, about the size of a hockey puck. Old, ugly, minimal monetary value."
"Hey man, whatever. Ask my mom I guess."
"Yeah, cool, I'll do that. You're ready?"
"Yeah."
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Finn is buying popcorn at the carnival.
Puck arrives and sees Finn, goes over to him, and claps him on the back. "Finn, it's so good to see you alive," says Puck.
Finn rolls his eyes. "Aren't you a little old for a high school carnival?"
"Some 150 years too old." He takes some of Finn's popcorn.
"You're pretty funny cracking jokes when I could I don't know…blow the whole lid off this thing by telling someone what you really are."
Puck grabs him roughly by the arm and takes him away from the crowd. "Tell me that that is not a threat."
"Maybe it is, asshole." He shows him the ring.
Puck chokes him from behind with an arm under his chin. "This is what we're not gonna do: we're not gonna walk around like we are invincible when it's this easy for me to kill you." He releases Finn. "If you want to tell people what I really am go ahead and try." He holds up Finn's ring. "I will shove this ring so far up your ass, you'll really have something to choke on." He flicks the ring at Finn's face and leaves while Finn holds his face where the ring hit him in pain before looking down and recovering the ring.
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Back at the hospital, Quinn is dressed and on the phone. "The doctor said I'm good as new. He signed me out. He said that I didn't have to wait 'til morning, so call me when you get this." She hangs up. The nurse is sitting on Quinn's bed. She has a bandage on the wound on her neck. "It's dark, thank God. I'm so sorry about that." She looks at the bandage. "Okay, now what's the story?"
"My husband likes to get kinky," replies the nurse under compulsion.
"Yes, good. Okay, so I'm gonna take off. I'm the committee chair for the carnival and I'm worried it's a complete disaster. I mean God bless Kurt, but he does not understand the word fabulous." She takes her bag. "Once again, I'm so sorry about that and if you could just forget that I bit you that would be great because I'm going to."
"Forget what?" asks the nurse under compulsion again.
Quinn laughs. "I don't know how that works, but it's brilliant." And she leaves.
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Puck is looking at Artie who's in an arm wrestling competition.
Blaine comes up to him. "Wow. You're lurking."
"I'm watching," replies Puck.
"More like obsessing."
Artie wins.
"He's got strength."
"He's a triple letter varsity athlete, of course he has strength. You're reaching."
Mason arrives to arm wrestle against Artie. "I bet I can take you."
"Bring it on Surfer Boy," replies Artie.
"Enter the uncle," says Puck.
Blaine rolls his eyes. "This is ridiculous."
Mason beats him.
"Okay, he's the champ, who wants to go next?" asks Artie.
"Blaine wants to go," says Puck with a smirk on his face.
"Yeah, sure, I'll…give it a shot." Blaine joins Mason.
"Get him Blainey!" yells Puck embarrassingly.
"My brother over there thinks I can beat you," says Blaine to Mason.
Mason scoffs. "Your brother's wrong."
They start the wrestling, both putting in hard pressure. It looks like Blaine is working up a sweat. Mason beats him. Blaine rejoins Puck.
"You didn't put in any effort at all," says Puck, angrily.
"Yeah, I did," replies Blaine.
"Come with me.
Mason defeats the next contestant. Blaine and Puck go into a hallway in the school.
"Is he…?" asks Puck.
"No, no, it wasn't that kind of strength, but it was more than human, if that makes any sense."
"What is up with that family? They're not vampires, what the hell are they?"
"Ooh, ah, maybe they're, um, ninja turtles!" says Blaine jokingly.
"You're not funny."
"Or no, zombies. Werewolves."
"No comedic timing at all." Puck turns his head and sees Anthony repairing something.
Blaine turns his head to see Anthony as well. "What? What are you up to?"
"This is reality and there's no such thing as werewolves or…combat turtles."
"I said ninja turtles, actually."
Puck goes toward Anthony. "Hey you!"
Anthony scoffs. "I have a name."
"Yeah, I don't care." Puck grabs his shoulders and compels him. "I need you to pick a fight with someone, a kid named Artie Abrams."
"Puck, don't do this."
He motions Blaine away with his hand. "It's just an experiment. Get him mad, don't back down no matter what he does, okay?"
"I won't back down," says Anthony under compulsion.
"I know you won't." Puck releases him and pats him on the back as Anthony leaves.
"You do realize someone is going to get hurt, right?" asks Blaine.
"No, someone is going to get mad, as in rage."
"What's that going to accomplish?"
"That Artie kid is incapable of walking away from a fight. Let's see who intervenes; maybe it's the ambiguous, supernatural mystery uncle."
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Puck is walking alone in the hallway when Quinn arrives. He senses her, stops, and turns around to face her. "Hey Blondie, they let you out?"
"I remember."
"What do you remember?"
"I remember how you manipulated me, you pushed me around, abused me, erased my memories, fed on me."
Puck scoffs. "You're crazy."
"Memories have been coming back, in pieces."
"You can't remember. It's impossible, I mean unless you're becoming a…"
She smiles. "I have a message from Kristian, he said 'Game on'." She starts to walk away.
"Whoa. Wait up, Blondie."
She turns around pushes him with her newfound strength, he's thrown backwards and slides on the floor.
"You're an asshole." She leaves.
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Kurt is talking with a volunteer classmate out at the carnival when Puck comes up to him.
"Kurt," says Puck.
Kurt sighs. "What do you want, Puck?"
"I know I'm the last person you want to see right now, but I need you to come with me."
"Whatever it is I'm not interested."
"Yeah, I need you to come with me right now, Kurt."
He reluctantly stops what he's doing and follows Puck.
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Artie is rolling through the carnival and enters the parking lot while texting on his cell phone. Blaine follows him and hides himself to observe the scene. Anthony is walking in the opposite direction and intentionally runs into Artie as he passes.
"Hey! Watch where you're going," says Artie.
"You got a problem?" asks Anthony getting in Artie's face.
"Yeah, you walked right into me."
"What are you going to do about it?"
"You're kidding, right?" Anthony pushes him backwards. "You better back off." Anthony pushes him again. "You hit me again, I swear to God…"
Anthony punches him in the face. They fight, Mason arrives. Mason pushes Anthony away and stands in between the two to separate them.
"Hey Artie! Artie! What the hell man?" asks Mason.
Mason struggles with Anthony, but Anthony punches him in the face twice and pushes him against a car. Mason somersaults back over the car, jumps over Anthony and crouches on landing. His eyes are glowing yellow.
Artie sees his eyes. "Your eyes!" Surprised and scared to see eyes glow like that.
Mason hits Anthony; he falls on the grounds. Mason and Artie leave, Blaine arrives to help Anthony.
"You alright man?" asks Blaine.
"Why did I just do that?"
"You were just in the wrong place at the wrong time."
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Quinn joins Sam at the ring toss.
"Hey! What are you doing here?" asks Sam as he hugs her.
"They discharged me. All better!"
"How do you feel?"
"I feel pretty good."
"Yeah, 'cause earlier you were…"
"I'm all better." She kisses him quickly. "All better!"
He laughs. "Okay, um, you want to give it a shot?"
"Yeah!"
He gives her one of the rings. She throws it at a bottle, and she breaks three bottles.
"Whoa, hey, nice shot, killer!"
"They must already have already been broken."
He hugs her again. She looks at his neck, sensing his pulse.
"Oh no."
"What's wrong?"
"Um, I got to go." She leaves and he follows her.
"Wait Quinn, are you okay, I mean…"
"Just leave me alone!" She leaves.
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Kurt, Blaine and Puck are in a classroom discussing Quinn's "condition".
"How did this happen?" asks Blaine.
"Well, I fed her blood and Kristian obviously killed her and A plus B equals…" replies Puck.
"But why?" asks Kurt.
"Because Kristian is a manipulative, nasty, little slut," replies Puck.
"And he said, 'game on'? I mean, what does that even mean?" asks Blaine.
"It means he's playing dirty. He wants us to know," replies Puck.
"But why Quinn?" asks Kurt.
Puck shrugs. "I don't know."
Blaine runs his hands through his hair. "Quinn must be completely out of her mind, she doesn't even know what's happening to her."
"Oh, I think she does. All my compulsion from the past started wearing off the minute she was in transition," says Puck.
"We have to find her," says Blaine.
"Yep, and kill her," says Puck simply.
Kurt shakes his head. "You're not gonna kill Quinn."
"She knows who we are. She's officially a liability, and we've got to get rid of her," says Puck.
"Puck, absolutely not," says Blaine.
"Need I remind you of a tragic little story of a girl named Rachel Berry? Quinn, of all people, will not make it as a vampire. Her mother is a vampire hunter. Guys come on, we all know how this story's gonna end, just flip to the last chapter and…"
"It's not an option Puck," says Kurt.
"No? Your silence is deafening, Blaine. Wait, wasn't there a school carnival the night you staked Rachel? I never had a town where history repeats itself. You know I'm right."
Blaine shakes his head. "We're not gonna kill her."
Blaine leaves and Kurt follows him.
Puck looks at Kurt. "It's the only way."
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Quinn is alone, crying, when she sees Anthony who's wiping his bloodied nose after his fight. She feels the power his blood has over her and she wants it. But she fights her temptation.
Anthony notices her. "Hey, is everything okay?"
"I'm so sorry."
"What?"
She rushes over behind him and bites him twice. She throws him back, sits on his chest and ravenously drinks again.
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Elsewhere, Sam is talking with Mercedes.
"She's obviously pissed at me for something, but for what, no clue," says Sam.
"What happened?" asks Mercedes.
"She freaked out and she's been like that all day. Cool one minute and crazy and neurotic the next."
She shrugs. "She almost died, it's bound to mess with her head. Plus, she's Quinn."
"Yeah, I'm used to the insecurities and all that. It's who she is, love it or hate it, but this seemed…I don't know…different…more." He shakes his head. "I can't explain it."
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Puck is looking for Quinn. He notices a wooden tent peg in the ground. He walks over and takes it. Elsewhere, Kurt and Blaine are looking for her too.
"You agree with Puck, don't you? Blaine?
Blaine punches the side of a trailer.
Kurt tries to comfort him. "Blaine. Hey."
"Puck's right, not about what we should do, but about what's gonna happen. Kristian already signed Quinn's death sentence."
"Well we can't let it end that way. He's doing this to me, isn't he?
"Actually, he's doing it to me."
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Mason and Artie are entering the Abrams estate.
"All right, we're home," says Mason.
"Safe territory, enough with the silence," replies Artie.
"Told you to leave it alone."
"What was that move you pulled?"
"Brazilian martial art. I took some classes a while back."
"Don't lie to me!"
"I'm not lying."
"I saw something!"
"You didn't see anything."
"I saw your eyes, they glowed."
"Reflection of a car headlight maybe, that's all."
"Reflection of a car headlight…"
"Yes."
"You really expect me to believe that?"
"Artie! You want to know what you saw? You saw me get pissed off that I had to pull your delinquent ass out of a fight!"
Artie rolls away to his room, completely pissed off at his uncle.
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Blaine and Kurt are still looking for Quinn. Blaine notices something different in the air.
"Where could she be?" asks Kurt. He looks at Blaine. "What is it? Do you hear her? What's going on Blaine, what is it?"
"Blood. I can smell blood."
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Quinn is crying next to Anthony's body with his blood all over her face. Puck finds her.
"He's dead. I killed him. What's wrong with me?" She cries.
"Hey, hey it's okay. I can help you," replies Puck comfortingly.
"You can?"
"Yeah, I have to."
"What are you gonna do?"
"The only thing I can do. I'm gonna kill you."
She starts freaking out. "Please don't! I don't want to die!"
"Yeah, but you are already dead, Blondie."
"No! I'm not. Don't say that, okay? Just help me!"
"Okay."
"Okay? Just help me please! Please, please!"
"Okay, okay. It's the only way." He embraces her and behind her back raises the stake, ready to kill her, but Blaine arrives and rushes over and pulls his hand away. The stake falls to the ground. "Goddammit Blaine!"
Kurt is standing with Quinn.
"Get away from me! You killed me!" yells Quinn, thinking Kurt is Kristian.
"No, no, no, no Quinn! That wasn't me. You know that! That was Kristian!"
"No! Then why did he look like you?! And why, why did he do this to me?" sobs Quinn.
"Blaine, we've got to get her inside," says Kurt.
"It's okay Quinn, come with me," says Blaine as he grabs Quinn's hand.
"She will die, it's only a matter of time," says Puck.
"Yeah, maybe so, but it's not gonna happen tonight."
"Oh, yeah it is." Puck picks up the stake and rushes over to them, but Kurt puts himself in front of Quinn.
He starts to cry. "Puck, she's my friend."
Puck hesitates, staring at Kurt who refuses to move. Then he drops his arm. "Whatever happens, it's on you."
Mercedes arrives. "Quinn?"
"It's okay, come on," says Blaine.
Mercedes sees the blood on Quinn's face. "No, you're not; you can't be." She touches her and is horrified by the truth.
A tear falls down Quinn's face. "Mercy?"
Mercedes sees Anthony's body. "Oh god!"
More starts to fall. "Mercy?"
Blaine takes Quinn inside to the bathroom. He takes some tissues to wipe the blood off her face. Quinn starts washing away the blood too.
"She hates me! Mercedes hates me."
"No, no, she's just in shock, we all are."
"And what about Sam?" She cries even harder.
"Shh. Shh. One thing at one time, let's get this blood off, come on."
"I'm a murderer. I'm a monster!"
"Look at me, your emotions are heightened right now. It's part of the transformation. It's completely normal. I promise you. Okay?"
Quinn sees her face changing in the mirror and starts to panic. "Why does this keeping happening to my face?!"
He grabs her face. "Look at me, look at me, look at me! Quinn, Quinn! Look at me! Look at my face, look at my face!" His face has changed too. "You see that? When you feel the blood rushing, you tell yourself that you're going to get through it, that you're strong enough. Yes, yes, no matter how good it feels to give yourself over to it, you fight it off, you bury it. Watch me, watch me." His face is normal again. "It's the only way you're gonna survive this thing. Try." She takes a few breaths; her face returns to normal. "That's good."
"Why did Kristian do this to me?"
"I don't know, I wish I did. Hey, hey, I promise you I will not let anything happen to you. Come here. Come here." He hugs her.
Outside, Kurt is still with Mercedes.
"I can't believe this is happening," says Mercedes, still shocked at what happened to Quinn.
Puck arrives with a shovel in his hands. "Come on, don't pout about it. I got a body to bury." He looks at Kurt. "I thought you were calling the shots. No?" He looks at the body. "Hmm, it sucks to be you, buddy."
Mercedes looks at him and gives him a headache. He falls to the ground clutching his head and curls up. She opens a faucet with her powers and water starts coming out a hose. "I told you what would happen if anyone else got hurt."
"I didn't do this!"
"Mercy, it wasn't his fault."
"Everything that happens is his fault Kurt."
"Mercy, what are you doing?"
Mercedes creates a fire; the fire goes toward Puck.
"Mercy stop it!"
Puck starts burning and screams in agony.
"Mercy, Mercy, stop it! You're going to kill him!"
Puck is still burning.
"Mercy!" He jumps over the fire line and shakes Mercedes by her shoulders. The fire goes out as Mercedes' concentration is broken.
"Why did you stop me?!"
"Because this isn't us. Mercy, this can't be us."
Kurt looks at Puck and puts his arm around Mercedes. They leave, leaving Puck to heal from the fire.
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Later, Kurt is at his locker.
Blaine joins him. "Hey. Quinn is okay for now. I'm gonna check in on her later."
"What about the guy that she…"
"It's taken care of."
"Puck's right, isn't he? It won't end well for her."
"No, I'm gonna make sure that he's wrong."
Kurt shakes his head. "I just can't believe what this day has turned into."
"Not your normal day, huh?"
"I was stupid to think that it could be. I mean, nothing about my life is normal. My best friend is a witch, my friend is a vampire and I have a doppelgänger who's hell-bent on destroying all of us."
"I'm so sorry."
"No, it's not your fault, Blaine. It's no one's fault you know? It is what it is." Blaine touches his face. "I'm fine, I'm fine. It's just that…you know what? I'm fine. Okay, I'm gonna to call you tomorrow, okay? Good night Blaine." He leaves.
"Good night." He looks after Kurt.
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At the estate, Mason is talking with Nancy.
"I think it's good for Artie to have you in the house," says Nancy as she's dressed for bed and holding her tea.
"I appreciate that Nancy," replies Mason.
"Oh, and I can see If I can dig up that stone you're looking for. It's bound to be tucked away in one of Richard's nooks and crannies." She goes up the stairs.
Artie arrives.
"Hey man, you heading up?"
"In a minute. Good night mom."
"Good night Artie." She leaves.
"Hey, I'm sorry about earlier, we're all good?" asks Mason.
"Yeah, we're good."
"All right." He pats Artie's arm then leaves.
Artie goes into his father's office, closes the door and opens his father's safe hiding under a wooden panel under a corner of the carpet. He takes a box from inside and opens it. The moonstone Mason is looking for is inside. He takes it from the box and puts it in his pocket.
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At the boarding house, Puck is pouring himself a glass of whiskey. Finn is there behind him.
Puck senses him. "What the fuck are you doing here?"
"You don't lock your front door," replies Finn.
"Yeah." Puck goes to take a drink.
"No I wouldn't…I laced it with vervain."
Puck laughs sardonically. "Why would you do that?"
Finn has a stake in his hands. "So, I could stake you…with this." He throws the stake on the floor.
Puck picks it up. "You came here to kill me?
"It's only fair. You killed me first."
"What made you wise up, kid?"
"Burt hated vampires, my step-uncle too. They were absolute. They knew exactly what they stood for and I figure maybe I should too. I mean, stand for something. But killing you, what's that gonna do?"
"Look, I don't do the big brother thing very well. Sorry, I don't have any milk and cookies to offer you."
Finn shakes his head. "Asshole." He gets up and starts leaving.
"Wait. My father hated vampires too."
"He did?"
"For the same reasons your dad did. Only it was 1864. People knew how to whittle." He shows him the roughly-whittled stake. Finn chuckles. "Did you do this?"
"Yeah, I tried. It's a lot harder than it looks."
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Quinn is laying on her bed. The clock reads, 1:09. Someone opens the window. She goes next to the window with her super speed and presses herself against the wall.
"What are you doing here?" asks Quinn.
"I came to see if today's basket case period has expired," answers Sam trying to climb through the window with a broken arm.
"You know you should just go 'cause my mom is gonna be home soon."
"No, look, you've been dodging me all day. I mean, I'm more insecure than you are now." Sam's finally through the window.
"What do you mean?"
"It means that…you almost died and it really freaked me out and it got me thinking you know 'cause…I'm not in a position where I can lose someone else right now. I realized, even though today I wanted to throttle you, I'm pretty sure that I'm in love with you and now it seems like you don't feel the same way."
She kisses him and they hug each other. Her face starts to change so she takes a few breaths, just like Blaine taught her, and her face becomes normal again.
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At the Hummel house, Kurt is sleeping when Blaine enters the room by the window. He kisses Kurt on his forehead and he wakes up.
"Hi. What time is it?" asks Kurt.
"It's almost dawn. Come with me," replies Blaine.
He drove Kurt back to the high school, at the carnival. It's empty.
They get out of the car. "Blaine what are we doing here? We could get caught."
"Well, I compelled the guard to on break so I could kiss my boyfriend on top of the Ferris wheel."
The Ferris wheel lights suddenly turn on.
"Blaine…"
"We have to take these moments, Kurt. What Kristian did to Quinn could just be the beginning and there are things with Artie's family that we don't even understand yet and there's always the 'P' word, but I came back to this town to start a life with you. We can't forget to live it."
"But Blaine, how are we gonna get to the top?"
Blaine shrugs. "I guess you'll just have to hold on tight."
Kurt holds on to Blaine and Blaine jumps to the top of the Ferris wheel and they sit down.
Kurt laughs, then stops, looking at Blaine with confusion. "What?"
He touches Kurt's face. "It's just so nice to see you laugh."
They kiss passionately for a few moments, finally getting the high school experience they were hoping for.
They pull apart.
"It's not going to get any easier, is it?" asks Kurt.
Blaine shakes his head. "No, it's not."