A few days passing, Elijah and Brie started getting closer and had casual meet ups from time to time, when she had time that was. Her life was hectic at the moment, with trying to figure out her feelings for Elijah and trying to get closer to the cure. While that was happening Jeremy killed more hunters to reveal the mark, the map to the cure.
*Flashback*
Jeremy starts screaming. Jeremy rips off his shirt, and the mark is growing. "It's happening"
Elena is shocked because she can see the mark "Oh, my god.."
"You can see it?" Jeremy asks as Elena nods as they watch the mark grow up his arm and across his chest.
"Here we go"
Back to present day, Shane stands on the beach, looking on at the island as the others unload from the boats on the shore. It's morning. Shane, Stefan, Damon, Jeremy, Brie, Bonnie, Rebekah, and Elena form the group.
Prof. Shane: [to himself] Congratulations. We made it.
The others continue to unload, each with varying expressions of uncertainty and curiosity on their faces as they take in their new surroundings.
Damon is sharpening a knife on the beach when Shane approaches him "Couldn't they have hidden this cure in Hawaii? Where the hell did you take us?"
"Two hundred miles off the Nova Scotia mainland. If you recall, the whole point was to hide the cure on the world's most obscure, desolate island"
"Oh yeah? I thought the whole point was that no one found Silas, the oldest, deadliest freak in the world"
"Yeah, that too" Shane holds up sunscreen and offers it to Damon "Sunscreen?"
Damon raises his eyebrow and gives him a you serious look "Is that a joke?" Brie overhears and rolls her eyes. Her phone starts bleeping. It was a message from Elijah 'Be careful out there, don't want you getting hurt' Brie smiles at her phone and then locks her phone and walks over to Stefan who is tying a knot with some rope, while Rebekah is standing there glaring at Elena as she walks past.
"Eh Stefan let me ask you a quick question" Brie says kneeling down beside him and looks up at Rebekah who's still glaring at Elena "Why is Rebekah here?"
Stefan looks up at Rebekah and then back at Brie "She handed over the headstone. I mean, she wants to find this cure more than any of us"
Brie wasn't believing him, something was going on because she hasn't been seen Stefan the past few days since he has been 'hanging out' with Rebekah "Why would you possibly think that we could trust her?"
Damon listens into the conversation and walks over to the two and crotches down next to Brie "Let me guess, she pledged her allegiance to you while you were naked in the sack?"
Brie looks gobsmacked "And that's why I haven't seen you these last few days" she says raising her eyebrow. The more she thought about it, the more she wanted to throw up.
Stefan give Damon a dirty look "I bet you were just dying to get that out, weren't you, Damon?"
"Oh, was that supposed to be a secret? Maybe you should have made that a little clear while you were bleeding me dry in our cellar"
"Okay stop it, no fighting, not today" Brie said trying to settle the two brothers. Damon glares at Stefan before walking over to Elena. Brie sighs and looks at Rebekah who is still staring at Elena. Brie stands up and moves towards her "You know giving Elena the evil eye, it's not really helping"
Rebekah still kept her attention towards Elena "She killed my brother, tried to get you to put a dagger in my back. She's lucky all she's getting is the evil eye" Rebekah says loud enough for everyone to hear.
Elena turns around and storms towards Rebekah "You know I can hear you, right?"
"You know I don't care, right?" Elena stops walking, and vamp speeds towards Rebekah, grabbing her neck and pointing the white oak stake at her chest. Rebekah flips her over and pushes her to the ground.
"Go ahead, try and kill me. But then you'd have to face your real problems. Like the fact that Stefan invited me here, himself. I guess he likes me again" Rebekah walks off, Stefan offers to help Elena up, but she ignores him and walks away looking irritated. Elena shoves the white oak stake into her bag and Brie joins her.
"Looks like someone forgot her team-building exercises" Brie jokes as Elena goes in a huff.
"I'm not apologising for not wanting her here"
Damon walks over to them and tries to stir things "You know Stefan just brought her here to make it seem like he's moving on. He wants you to think that he's over you, and he wants me to think that I can't get under his skin"
"Damon your really not helping things" Brie said, why does he always have to stick his foot in things. He always makes things worse than what they should be.
Elena shakes her head "You know, you're right. With any luck, I'll only have to tolerate her for a few more days, and then we'll find the cure and I'll never have to deal with her again"
"Human Rebekah...I can't imagine her without fangs" Damon wondered.
Shane comes up behind them "Come on, we better get going" They all begin to hike through the woods. Shane gets out his phone but it beeps like it has no service. "Satellite phone lost its signal"
"Is anyone else a little creeped out?" Elena says starting to shiver.
Rebekah rolls her eyes, she really couldn't stand Elena in general never mind a moany Elena "So then leave. Out of everyone, your presence is the least necessary"
"Please don't start" Brie yells down the line as she was in from with Shane, overhearing them all bickering.
"I'm merely stating the facts. Jeremy has the spell on his body. Bonnie is the witch that unseals the cure. Shane is the human compass. Brie I actually don't know what shes doing here, being supportive maybe" Brie rolled her eyes at Rebekah's comment, trying not to get involved as she was just getting a headache alone from all the others constant bicker "You and I have the tombstone, which does god knows what. And Elena has no point"
"What about me?" Damon asks, waiting for Rebekah's answer.
"You have a nice behind" Damon smirks.
Hours later, it's night-time. The group is still hiking through the woods using flashlights. Shane is using a headlamp "Centuries after Qetsiyah died, there were these miners who were excavating a well on the island. Suddenly went mad. They bled themselves dry. No apparent reason. So, the legend spread that these miners, in exchange for a drop of their blood, saw visions of their lost loved ones in the well they were digging. The word traveled and explorers sought out the well to see if the legend was true. You know, some people believe the voices of lost souls were just a wind vortex whipping through the caves, and visions were caused by inhaling the island's poisonous plant life"
"And what do you believe?" Brie said walking side by side with Shane.
"I believe in magic. My wife and my son died within months of each other. And so...I decided to try the well out for myself"
"Yeah, got it. Don't eat the poisonous flowers" Damon said, walking in their tracks. He continues walking and the others follow.
"Wait. Stop. Stop! Stop" Everyone stop "Is everybody paying attention?" He picks up a large rock "Our first lesson in survival" He throws the rock and it triggers a net trap that swings up into the trees. "Stay together. Keep your eyes open"
Everyone continues walking again.
In the middle of the night, Elena realises that Jeremy is not in his tent and has gone missing and has everyone up searching for him. Elena is with Stefan and Rebekah, god knows how that's working out, Bonnie was the first to leave to try and find Jeremy and Damon was with Shane. Damon is interrogating Shane in the shed "Where's the cure?"
"Does it matter? I think we both know you'd rather just torture me. Torture gives you a sense of control, especially with your relevance slipping away" Damon calmly breaks a metal rod in half "And look at you. Here you are, hours from Elena breaking her sire bond. You're starting to freak out a little bit. Listen, you want my advice? Leave. Go. Don't put yourself through this" Damon whacks Shane with the halves of the metal rod. "Agh! Fine. Okay. Let's say her feelings for you are real. How does that end? She's human. You're a vampire"
Damon strikes him across the face with the rod; Shane groans in pain. "It's doomed, Damon. See, you're not torturing me, man. You're torturing yourself by helping them find the cure"
"I could kill you. Then no one would find it"
"We've established that you can't kill me without sending Bonnie off the deep end. You can leave the island. Have a modicum of self-respect. Don't stay here and watch Elena walk away from you"
"Right. Because if I'm not here, then I can't get in between you and whatever you're planning with Silas. Well, I'm not that easily manipulated, professor. And there is one flaw in your logic" He bends down to talk in Shane's ear " I don't give a crap about Bonnie Bennett" Damon grabs Shane's head like he's about to snap it, but suddenly Brie vamp-runs in and pushes him away from Shane.
Brie appears to look angry "What is wrong with you?" Damon walks out of the shed without answering. She turns to Shane "What did you say to him?"
"Damon's a maniac, Brianna"
"Oh don't I know" rolling her eyes and then she starts tearing off the ropes binding him to the chair "Stop messing with my friends"
She leaves the shed. Shane holds up his hand, flexing it, and smiles.
Brie follows Damon outside "Shane is the only thing that's keeping Bonnie safe, and you try to kill him? And you wonder why Bonnie hates you"
"I don't wonder, Brie, because I don't care. I don't care about her. I don't care about some lame-ass cure for vampires, either"
"How can you say that right now?"
"Because I don't want Elena to be cured"
"I'm not fighting with you about this. But it would be the best for her and for you"
Damon raises his eyebrow "Want to explain it in a bit more detail, will you?"
Brie sighs and moves closer to him "Everyone can see your having second thoughts because of this whole sired thing but trust me, if she became human again will it not be better finding out her true feelings for you without the sired bond forcing her to be in love with you?" Damon turns around and starts walking away.
Brie goes back to the camp after Damon leaves her stranded herself. "Bonnie?" She called out as she started looking in the tents. There's no response; she runs out to the shed, which is likewise empty. She walks out to find Stefan, Elena and Rebekah have returned "Where is everyone?"
"What are you talking about? Where's Damon?" Elena asked as she looked about for Damon.
"Well, Bonnie's not here and Shane's stuff is all gone and Damon god knows, he just walked off"
"Im going to find him" Elena says walking off.
"Elena I don't think that's a good idea, I think we should stay together" Brie says trying to make Elena stay with the group.
Elena stops in her track, "I just cant leave him out there on his own. Im going to find him whether you come or not" she says storming off.
"Well that's, that then" Brie said shrugging and sits herself down on a log and Stefan sits next to her while Rebekah realises something.
"Oh my god" Rebekah vamp-runs over to her bags "The tombstone's gone"
Rebekah is rifling through bags inside Brie's tent, breathing heavily with a panicked look in her eyes. Brie enters behind her "What are you doing in my tent?"
Rebekah vamp speeds over to her and grabs her by the throat "Where's the tombstone? What have you done with it?"
Brie was oblivious to everything that was going on "What are you talking about?"
"Like it's not bloody obvious? All you people ever do is betray me and here you go again!"
Stefan enters tent "Let her go. She didn't take it"
Rebekah releases Brie. Rebekah and Brie stare at one another for a moment. Finally, Brie bends down and lifts up some material, and withdraws the white oak stake from under it "I didn't take it, but her" she extends the stake toward Rebekah "Consider this a peace offering"
"Don't you get it, Brie? There is no peace. We're all screwed"
"Exactly, Rebekah. We're screwed. Bonnie's gone. Shane's got the tombstone. Jeremy's missing. Who knows if Damon and Elena are coming back. So, us three, right here, this is all we've got. So we're either in this together...or it's over. For all of us" She holds out the stake to Rebekah again and she takes it.
Cut to Damon walking through the woods. Suddenly an arrow shoots through the trees and lands in Damon's arm. He groans in pain and pulls it out "You gotta be kidding me"
A man jumps him and throws him to the ground. They both get back up and go at each other. Damon manages to pin the man down, straddles his back and pulls at his head. He notices the man's hand on the ground has the hunter's mark on it "You're one of the Five!" The man gets free of Damon's choke-hold, flips him over and snaps his neck. He stands over Damon's body.
Brie, Stefan, and Rebekah are on the beach. Brie is on the phone with Caroline "Tell me you're not serious" Caroline said over the phone.
"I wish I weren't" Caroline was in the Gilbert house on the phone while Klaus remains trapped in the living room "When we got back from looking for Jeremy, Shane and Bonnie were gone too. Shane needs Bonnie to cast a spell on Jeremy's tattoo in order to find the cure, and he managed to sneak them both out from under our noses"
"Well, where's Damon in all this?"
"He just stormed off and then when Elena found out he was gone she went away to look for him so god knows where she is I thought he was just taking a walk, but then when we went to the beach, we saw signs of a struggle"
"Do you think Shane took him?"
Brie shakes her head "No, I mean, he's not strong enough to take Damon on, even with the element of surprise. He must have someone, or at least a few someones helping him"
"I'm so sorry. I wish I was there to help" Caroline says, feeling helpless in this situation.
"Well, maybe there's something you can do from home. So Shane's looking for the cure. We think we can find him. We have pictures of Jeremy's tattoo, but we just can't translate the map"
"Unless you get the Hunter's Sword from Klaus"
Rebekah shakes her head "He will never give up the sword, he's terrified we'll use the cure against him to make him mortal, and even if he wasn't, he wouldn't want any of us to derive a moment's worth of happiness from being human"
Stefan has an idea "Well, maybe he doesn't have to give it up. I mean, Klaus is stuck in Elena's house by Bonnie's spell. He can't go anywhere. There's only so many places you can hide a three-foot piece of metal"
"lI'll find it, don't worry. Just e-mail me photos of Jeremy's tattoo. I'll find the sword, and I'll call you back"
"Thank you, Caroline" she hangs up.
Caroline and Tyler walk into the house. Caroline has a laptop in her hands while Tyler has the sword wrapped in a blanket. Klaus is sitting on the coffee table. "Well, if it isn't little orphan Lockwood. Come to show how laughably impotent you are against me?"
"I'm just trying to help my friends find the cure" Caroline sits on the couch, and Tyler reveals the sword from the blanket "Found this in your attic."
"And you think finding the sword brings you closer to the cure?"
"You tell me. I was playing around with the handle on the ride over, and I found this" Tyler unwraps the leather on the top of the sword, revealing some sort of turning device. Klaus gets up and walks over to Tyler.
Klaus: And what do you think 'this' is?
Caroline gets up "It's called a cryptex" Tyler looks at her. "I've seen The da Vinci Code. You turn the different sides to the different symbols to get the translation on the other side" turning to the table "And with the magic of the internet, Brie sent over these" She holds up print-outs of Jeremy's tattoo "So now all we have to do is cryptex away" She sits down again "If you happened to want to help, we wouldn't stop you"
"Right. Well, might I suggest using the magic of the internet to purchase an Aramaic-to-English dictionary from your nearest retailer" Klaus smirks.
Tyler turns to Caroline "What's Aramaic?"
"It's a dead language. It hasn't been used since, like, biblical times"
" Qetsiyah's native tongue, I'm guessing. You know, even if you had the best dictionary in the world, it could take days to translate" Klaus sits down "Perhaps weeks. "In bas so-teen-too ara-ma-eet."
"What does that mean?"
Klaus starts grinning"If only you spoke Aramaic."
On the beach, Rebekah is raising her cellphone in the air but gets only a busy signal and gives up. Brie and Stefan are sitting and talking "And once again, everyone's life is in danger looking for this cure because poor Elena can't deal with being a vampire. Stefan, why didn't you tell me that you wanted the cure for yourself?"
"I mean, why wouldn't I want to take it? I've seen every side of vampirism there is. The power...the misery, the guilt. In the long run, even the good parts kind of suck, too"
Caroline has the pictures of Jeremy's tattoo and index cards of the Aramaic symbols lying on the table. She has her computer open and is sitting with Tyler "Okay, this is it. We've translated all the symbols on the tattoo" she reads the translation "Passage inside...requires a young senator, and a pretty flower." She becomes irritated "Okay, none of this makes sense!"
Klaus starts speaks Aramaic, then the English translation "Requires a powerful witch and a hunter in full bloom."
"What are you doing?" Tyler questions.
"I don't need to tell you my reasons. Caroline. Bring my sword over here"Caroline has brought the sword close enough for Klaus to read the cryptex. "Silas rests on the far side, the means of his destruction at hand." He glances at the pictures of Jeremy's tattoo on the computer screen "Turn the cryptex to the right" Caroline obliges "Stop. The top of the hilt reveals a key to a nautical map. "Turn it to the left" she turns it "Now turn the other piece" she does "There's something else"
"What does it mean?" Klaus smiles at her "Klaus, what does it mean?"
In the cave, Bonnie is lowering herself down into the lower chamber of the cave in a harness attached to a rope. Suddenly she loses her grip and falls the rest of the way down, landing painfully on her hand. Jeremy, already down, rushes over to her. "You okay?"
"Yeah, I just slipped" She lifts her hand and groans; her glove is torn and bloody. Jeremy rips off a strip of his T-shirt and helps Bonnie pull off her glove. Her hand is bleeding profusely. He uses the fabric to make a quick tourniquet for her hand. "Thanks" She chuckles as Jeremy helps her up; she unhooks the rope for her harness.
Prof. Shane: [from above the hole's opening] Hey, guys, I'm coming down.
"Hey, Bon. What do you think's gonna happen once you cast a spell on my tattoo and there's nothing in between Shane and Silas?"
Bonnie: Do you trust me?
Jeremy: Yeah, of course.
"Then trust me when I promise I won't let Shane raise Silas"
Jeremy looks up briefly as they hear noises from above, lowers his voice even further "Just don't do anything stupid. If your Expression gets out of hand, Shane is the only one that could help you keep it in control"
"Don't worry about me. I'm fine. But if Shane tries to lift a finger on his hand to hurt either one of us...I'll kill him myself" They prepare to keep moving. The camera zooms in on the spot where Bonnie landed, where her blood has soaked the floor of the cave. It seeps through a crack in the floor, dripping down to a chamber below, into the mouth of a figure that resembles a sarcophogus.
Rebekah is still on the beach when her phone rings. "Hello?"
"Hey, it's Caroline. We have the translation of the tattoo. We're emailing you pictures of the map and instructions right now"
Rebekah checks her phone and receives the email
"Got it. Thanks"
In the cave, Shane joins Bonnie and Jeremy in the new chamber, all of them holding flashlights "It's just amazing, isn't it? Once we raise Silas, all of our sacrifices will have been worthwhile; we'll all have what we want"
"Or he'll kill us all!"
"Listen, you're going to see I'm right. Just so you don't get any ideas, remember, anything happens to me, something a lot worse will happen to you"
"All right, where is this stupid magic passage she needs to open?"
"Just look for anything that looks out of place, all right? Anything not occurring in nature like a - like a drawing or an inscription or a...geometrically perfect circle!" Shane crouches to the ground and brushes away dirt and debris to reveal a circle carved into the ground. Shane slaps the ground "This is it! This is the spot" Jeremy and Bonnie share a look.
Meanwhile Rebekah, Brie, and Stefan are walking across the island "What did Caroline say?"
Rebekah lies "I don't know. We lost the signal. Come on, this way" They come to the edge of a cliff and stop. Rebekah holds her phone up "We need to get down and across. Advantage, vampires: all we have to do is jump"
Brie starts having second thought, she forgot she had a fear of heights "Wait, wait. Um...maybe you should leave the map behind. In case you fall, you don't want anything to happen to the phone"
"Are we doing this again? I thought we were a team?"
"Guys, we don't have time for this. Brie. you go first. We'll be right behind you"Brie hesitates before she takes a running leap off the edge. After falling a huge distance, she lands on her feet, stumbling only slightly. She looks back up the cliff. Stefan is about to jump when Rebekah throws out her arm and stops him.
"There's something you should know about the cure"
In the cave, Bonnie looks at Jeremy before closing her eyes again. Rocks begin to rain down around them as the ground shakes. Shane runs off, ducking for cover.
At the base of the cliff, Brie is still waiting for Stefan and Rebekah to jump down.
Stefan: So you're sure that there's only one dose of the cure?" Rebekah gently nods "Well, I guess that's what happens when you're dumb enough to hold out hope"
"There's still hope for one of us. But even if I felt pity for you, if I wanted to ease your pain so I gave you the cure to take for yourself, you'd give it to Elena, wouldn't you?"
Stefan doesn't reply, tacitly revealing his answer "That's what I thought. Well, I'm sorry that it couldn't work out the way that we all wanted it to" Stefan looks confused, and Rebekah snaps his neck and his body falls to the ground. Brie watches in horror from the bottom of the cliff.
In the cave, Jeremy gets up as dust and debris continue to fall "Bonnie! Bonnie!"
Bonnie appears from behind a roc "I'm fine" she smiles "I'm here. Look! It worked!"
They look over to see that a new passage has been revealed. "We did it"
Jeremy puts on his shirt and they move to continue on when Shane grunts in pain. "Hey, guys, I need a hand. My leg's broken" Shane says breathlessly.
"Best to stay off it, then"
"Bonnie. Wait, wait. Don't- Come on. Bonnie! Help me! Come on, please! Help me!"Jeremy and Bonnie ignore his pleas as they head into the tunnel.
Outside, Brie has rejoined Stefan at the top of the cliff. He's lying down drinking a blood bag while Brie sits next to him "There's only one cure?" Stefan nods "You still wanting it for Elena?" Stefan nods again "What about you? What about what you want? Stefan you need to put yourself first for a change, your always putting Elena before you"
"I do need to let go don't i?" Stefan says looking at Brie as she nods her head. He tucks a piece of hair behind her ear and caresses her check. She leans her check on his hand as she looks in his eyes "Even though Ive been too busy concentrating on Elena, I do still mean what i said a while back. I do still really like you"
Brie smiles "one women at a time Stefan" Brie giggles as Stefan laughs along with her.
"Yeah I guess I need to get rid of all my feelings for Elena first before I pursue you" Brie blushes at his comment but suddenly started feeling guilty as she had been spending a lot of time with Elijah recently and they both have taking a liking to each other. Brie sighs. "Whats wrong?"
Brie shakes her head "It's nothing"
"You sure?"
"Positive" Brie smiles a little.