Alaric drove to meet the witch. He wanted to get down to business and ease Damon's pain. Though he had told himself again that he wasn't worried about Damon, per se, but about the effect of his death on Stefan and Elena, he knew deep down that it wasn't true.

Bonnie had given him the directions. He was surprised that her directions led to the Mystic Falls neighborhood park. He expected an evil witch to want to meet in a secluded place, not a public place where her hocus pocus could be witnessed. He hoped that the witch would not try anything. In case of anything, Alaric brought the equipment Bonnie told him would be help him stall the witch.

As he pulled up to a parking space, he looked around and noticed that it was now sunny. The sunny weather wouldn't have been weird, if it were not raining just seconds ago. That was when Alaric was certain that Bonnie's locator spell had worked and that he was in the right place.

He got out of the car and slammed the door shut. Before he left the parking lot, he made sure to lock the door. He didn't want any magic to mess with his car too.

As he walked, the wind picked up the leaves that were previously strewn over the ground. The leaves danced around him, in a circular fashion. As he kept getting closer to the witch, he noticed that that the wind got heavier.

"I wondered when I'd be seeing you, Alaric." Upon first glance, Jane Day appeared to look like an average person out for a walk in the park. However, on closer inspection, one would note that she was anything but normal.

Though she had the body of a young woman, she didn't look young. She looked like she had a couple of hundred years on Alaric. Her eyes, though they shone brightly, looked old. They had seen a lot of things during her lifetime and contained a lot of wisdom. She knew that she would be not be fooled by this man and smirked to herself as she thought of him trying and failing to do that.

"Yeah, well I couldn't wait to find you so that I could finally kill you." He said and curled his hands into fists.

"You're going to kill me? I'd like to see you try." And with that, all of the equipment Alaric had kept in his bags vanished into thin air.

"Don't be so confident." Alaric said and tried to get a weapon out that should've helped him repel the witch. He was surprised to see see that the bag was empty.

"You'll find the weapons where they respectively belong; at your witch's house. Now, let's talk business." She said and crossed her arms.

"You cursed Damon." Alaric simply stated and gave her an accusing look.

"That I did." Jane said. She wondered when this conversation would be over. Humans and their need to stretch out all of their thoughts; just say everything at once.

"So you can change him back?" He asked.

"Of course I can. But that's not the question you wanted to ask me, was it?" He shook his head.

"Now ask me what you really wanted to know." She said and out of thin air, a cigarette appeared out of nowhere and she lit it up with an invisible lighter.

Witches, go figure.

"Are you going to change him back?" He asked impatiently.

"No." She said and took a drag.

"Why not?" He asked. He wanted to help Stefan and Elena with Damon's problem, but more than that, he wanted to know why this witch had done this to him.

"That disgusting excuse of what used to be a good man deserves it." She said.

"You seem very annoyed by Damon; almost as if this is personal. " He pressed her for answers.

"He broke my sister's heart." She said and looked around the park.

"He breaks a lot of people's hearts." Including mine.

"Yes, well at least he didn't tell them lies to get them in bed and eventually kill them." It did sound like Damon. Getting his victims into his bed had finally caught up to him when he got to a witch.

"So she died and this is your revenge?" He asked.

"No, she didn't die. She told me about that piece of scum and this is our revenge." She said.

"How is it your revenge?"

"Because my sisters and I are tired of the vampire species always one-stepping us. We are tired of them manipulating our kind and not getting what they deserve."

"But how is this revenge going to work on other vampires?"

"It will show what could happen when they try to mess with witches." For a few minutes, Alaric thought about what she had told him.

"Listen Alaric, though I despise Damon and do not very much like you, I feel like you are genuinely concerned about him and really want to help so I am going to help you." She said and with the snap of her fingers, the cigarette disappeared.

"So you'll stop the curse?" He asked hopefully. He couldn't lie to himself anymore; he wanted Damon to get better and to seem him up and about. He wanted to see Damon smiling.

"Of course not." She said.

"But you just said-" He didn't finish his sentence because she interrupted him by placing a thin piece of paper into his hands.. The wind picked up again and Alaric closed his eyes but held the paper tightly. When he opened his eyes, Jane Day was no longer there.

Here's your hint, Alaric Saltzman: Bad deeds, not forgotten but forgiven. The note said.

Alaric kept thinking about the note as he drove back to the boarding house.