Same Night

Night - Woods

Matt was frantically running for his life, stopping, hiding behind a tree. He looked behind the tree, turning back forward, starting to run.

Rosie stood in front of him. "I told you to get the hell out of here!"

Rosie started to transform, letting her eyes gold and vampire veins crawl underneath.

"Rosie, fight through it." Matt told her.

"I can't!" Rosie told him, stalking toward him.

Matt held his hands on her shoulders to keep her back. "Listen to me. Rosie!"

Rosie struggled as long as she could, tears in her eyes, angry and upset. She couldn't resist, biting his neck, feeding. She opened her eyes, pulling away, rushing backwards into the tree behind her, a branch stabbing through her back and out of her stomach to keep her against the tree, Matt's blood running down her chin. "Go."

"Rose-" Matt started.

Rosie's has voice was a yell, nearly a scream. "Go!"

...

Flashback

Earlier That Night - Bar

(Song:) They Told Me - Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside

The vampires were finishing the transition by drinking blood from the workers.

"No way." Jeremy told them. "I'm not doing this."

"What makes you think you have a choice?" Klaus asked.

Damon looked at Jeremy. "You have to kill vampires to complete the Hunter's Mark. Mark equals Cure. You're in a bar full of almost vampires, so get your hunt on."

"Screw you." Isabella told him, walking closer to Damon, staring him down. "I said he wouldn't have to kill any innocent people."

"Isabella, they're not people." Damon told her.

"Enough!" Klaus told them. "Have at it, or else."

"Ooh." Rosie whispered at the lame threat.

"I don't take orders from you, dick." Jeremy told him, dropping the stake in his hand. "Hunters can't be compelled."

Klaus laughed, walking closer. "You're right. I can't compel you. But if your conscience is getting in the way, then allow me to make this easy for you. Because, I can compel them." He gestured around to the vampires. He looked at Rosie. "And she does take orders from me whether she likes it or not." Rosie looked away. "I'm gonna give you a two-minute head start. Then I'm gonna send every vampire in here after you. You kill them, or Rosie kills your friend... Matt."

"Wait a second." Matt told him, looking at Rosie.

"What?" Rosie asked incredulously, incredibly worried and angry. "No! You can't do this!"

"But, ah, yes, I can." Klaus told her, walking closer to Kacie, standing in front of her.

"No, no." Damon told him. "You turn them, he kills them. That was the deal, Klaus."

"I'm taking artistic license." Klaus told them.

"You know he can't take them all on at the same time." Isabella told him.

"With you and Damon as his coaches, he'll be fine." Klaus told her. He smirked, looking at Rosie. "It's Matt I'm worried about."

"I'm not killing him." Rosie told him, stressing the words through her teeth.

"Yes, you are." Klaus told her.

"Ah..." Isabella trailed off. "Jeremy, go get the weapons out of the car. We'll be right behind you."

Jeremy ran out of the bar.

Rosie looked at Matt. "Both of you. Get the hell out of here."

Matt ran out of the bar.

"If I hear an engine start, I'll kill Matt myself." Klaus told them.

Damon walked closer to Rosie. "You know, I could make this all easier on us. Kill Rosie so she doesn't kill Matt."

"If you do, I'll see to it you die along with her." Klaus told him. He looked at Rosie. "If Damon tries to kill you, bite him. If Isabella tries to stop you from killing Matt, bite her." Rosie exhaled, hating Klaus and hating herself. Klaus smirked, looking at Damon. "Or, if you'd rather leave Jeremy Gilbert, there's always an alternative. I'll offer up a vampire for Emma Gilbert to kill." Damon gave him an incredulous glare. "It's either Jeremy or Emma. I think I know who you'll choose."

(Song Ends)

...

Now

Night - Woods

Rosie still had the branch impaling her through her back and stomach to keep her pinned to the tree. She still had blood on her lips and chin, looking at Matt. "I told you to go."

"I need a second." Matt told her.

"You don't have a second." Rosie told him, pulling herself toward the end of the branch. "They can smell your blood. Then it won't just be me coming after you, it's gonna be all of us. You need to go."

"Rosie-" Matt started.

"Matt, if you don't go now, I'm going to kill you!" Rosie told him, pulling herself the rest of the way off of the branch, falling to the ground.

"You can fight through it." Matt told her.

"What about the two dozen starving vampires?" Rosie asked. She looked up, letting her eyes glow, rushing toward him. An arrow shot into Rosie's chest to stop her. She fell, looking at Jeremy. Jeremy walked closer with his crossbow. "Thank God. Get him the hell out of here. Now."

Jeremy nodded, starting to lead Matt away until he heard someone behind him, turning around, holding up his crossbow.

Damon pushed the bow down. "Don't hesitate! You're lucky it was me. Otherwise you two'd be dead."

"You set us up." Jeremy told him.

Rosie pulled the arrow out of her chest, waiting to heal.

"I was trying to get this thing over with." Damon told them. "You're the one that pissed off Klaus. Now you have to fight your way out of it."

"All right, where are the other vampires?" Matt asked.

Rosie looked at Matt, bloodthirsty, letting her eyes glow gold and her veins crawl underneath her skin.

"They're newbies." Damon told them. "They're still trying to figure out how to track, which means you have two seconds to get ready to fight."

Rosie rushed toward Matt.

Damon rushed toward Rosie, keeping her back, punching into her chest, gripping her heart.

"Don't!" Matt told him.

"She's sired to kill you, you moron." Damon told him.

Jeremy aimed the crossbow at Damon. "Don't do it."

Rosie breathed heavily, looking at Damon. "Do it."

"No!" Matt told him.

"Shh!" Damon told him.

Rosie put her hands on Damon's shoulders, starting to push herself away from Damon with his hand still in her chest, still gripping her heart, trying to finish the job herself.

Damon looked at her in shock.

"Rosie!" Matt told her. "No! Don't!"

Isabella rushed closer, standing behind Rosie, holding her shoulders, making her stop.

Damon pulled his hand out of her chest.

Isabella snapped Rosie's neck, letting her body fall. She looked at Damon, stepping toward him angrily. "I swear to God I'm gonna kill you."

"Not before the vampires kill quarterback." Damon replied.

Jeremy turned to Matt. "The lake house is this way. If we can get there, they won't be able to get inside."

"Wait, you want to run?" Damon asked.

"You said it yourself, Damon." Isabella told him. "They're going to kill Matt."

Damon gave Isabella a look, hesitating. "Fine." He looked at Matt and Jeremy. "Get out of here. We'll slow them down."

Jeremy helped Matt to his feet, leading the way, running to the lake house.

Two vampires rushed toward them.

Damon snapped one's neck, letting the body fall.

Isabella ripped out the heart of the other, letting the body fall. She looked at the heart in her bloodstained hand, still angry.

Matt followed Jeremy, running through the darkness. "Jeremy! Where are you?"

"Keep going." Jeremy told him. "We're almost there."

A vampire tripped Matt. Matt fell to the ground. The vampire looked at Matt hungrily, dragging Matt closer to him by Matt's feet. Matt struggled. The vampire was about to bite Matt.

Elena showed up out of nowhere, standing behind the vampire, snapping his neck, turning around, throwing him away. She looked Matt. "Are you okay?" Elena helped Matt to his feet. Jeremy ran toward them. Elena looked at Rosie's bite on Matt's neck. "Oh, my God..."

"Get to the house!" Jeremy told them. "Hurry!"

The three ran to the house.

Matt ran inside.

Jeremy and Elena stopped on the porch.

"Jeremy, what's going on?" Elena asked.

"They're coming." Jeremy told her, walking inside.

Elena turned toward the night.

A massive group of vampires advanced on the house.

Elena backed away inside, closing the door.

...

Day Two

Morning - Gilbert Lake House - Living Room

Matt sat on the couch. Elena was bandaging his neck.

Jeremy was setting up his crossbow.

Isabella and Evelyn walked into the house.

"Sun's up." Isabella told them. "They're long gone. Anyone who stayed behind, we killed them."

Damon walked in.

Evelyn turned to face Damon. "What the hell were you thinking? All we asked you to do was to teach him how to fight."

"He's not the best student in the world." Damon told her.

"Wait." Jeremy told him. "Now this my fault?"

"Stop talking." Damon told them. "Look, I know you're angry, but my way was the easiest, fastest and safest way to complete his Mark to get your sister the Cure."

"Safest?" Evelyn repeated. "What way in hell was any of this safe?"

"Evelyn." Elena chastised. She looked at Damon. "I don't care about the Cure, Damon. Not if it means putting the people that I love in danger."

"Hey, there would have been no danger if he hadn't gone all bleeding heart." Damon told them.

"He killed someone." Isabella stressed. "These were innocent people."

"The Mark grew, didn't it?" Damon replied.

Isabella stood in front of him, still angry. "We agreed that we wouldn't do it this way."

"Yes, that was before Klaus and Rosie showed up to ruin everything." Damon told him.

Matt looked at Damon. "In what way is this Rosie's fault?"

"She tried to kill you, dumbass." Damon told him.

"Yes, sired to do so by Klaus." Isabella told him. "Which never would have happened if you hadn't went behind our backs and set us up."

Isabella and Damon stared each other down.

Elena sighed, stepping in between Isabella and Damon, separating them. "Guys, stop it. Both of you. Okay. Look, we need a plan. There's a group of compelled vampires out there, and as soon as the sun goes down, they're gonna come after Matt, and so is Rosie, so we have to find a way to protect him."

"We don't have to worry about Rosie." Isabella told them. "We buried her. She can get out, but by the time this is over, it'll be too late, and she won't want to kill him anymore."

"Yes, I know." Damon told him, walking over to Jeremy, putting an arm around his shoulder. "Because there will be no problem when big Jer and I here go on a hunting expedition." Elena didn't look agreeable. "Elena, I know, it's tragic. I get it. But we also agree that he had to kill them. Now, we have added incentive. So you take the least most valuable player home. Jeremy and I will finish this."

"I'm sorry, are you saying we should leave him here with you?" Evelyn asked.

"Trust me." Damon told her. "I will keep him safe. Okay?"

Evelyn shook her head, crossing her arms over her chest. "No. I don't trust you."

Damon looked at Elena. "Elena. Do you trust me?"

Elena nodded.

Evelyn exhaled in annoyance and frustration, looking away.

Isabella stood in front of Evelyn. "I'll go with them and I will make sure nothing happens to Jeremy. Okay?"

Evelyn sighed, nodding, giving Damon a significant look. "You, I trust."

...

Salvatore Boarding House - Stefan's Room

(Song:) Sleep Alone - Two Door Cinema Club

Stefan walked into his room, coming out of the shower. He sensed that someone was there, turning to face his bed.

Morgana was laying in Stefan's bed, reading his diary.

"What are you doing?" Stefan asked.

"Checking for anymore secrets." Morgana answered. "Last time you and I were paired together to keep secrets from everybody, you even kept some secrets from me, like, I don't know, daggering my sister. I'm just making sure you don't have a devious plan that will get you killed."

"So you're just looking out for me?" Stefan asked, pulling a shirt over his head.

"More or less." Morgana answered, closing the diary, standing. "And making sure I stay in the loop. Look, we're at a bit of a disadvantage in this whole race for the Cure, since we both agreed that we weren't going to let Emma kill a vampire to activate her Huntress side. Team Klaus has Jeremy the Hunter, Team Esmeralda has Shane and Lonnally the witches."

"Lonnally?" Stefan repeated.

"Sally, Elizabeth and Bonnie, the three badass witches that are so awesome that they needed a nickname." Morgana explained. "Which all reside with Shane on Team Esmeralda, because she is a mind control freak of nature that wants to ruin everybody's lives every chance she gets."

"If you're here to remind me of our last place status, I'm very well aware." Stefan told her.

"Actually, I have a plan." Morgana told him. "The Cure is buried with Silas, the ancient evil guy Kol is afraid of. Shane was so eager to prove his existence that he gave away that he has one of the keys to resurrecting him. His headstone."

"I see." Stefan told her. "Finally, your talent of eavesdropping has some use." Morgana smiled. "You wanna steal it."

"Yes." Morgana answered. "And then Team Shane will have to join Team Stagana, and Team Klaus will be left out in the cold where he belongs."

"You do realize your brother Jeremy and your friend Rosie are apart of Team Klaus, right?" Stefan asked.

"They're being forced into Team Klaus." Morgana corrected. "And I didn't say their names, did I?"

Stefan smirked, looking down. He looked up in amused curiousness. "Team Stagana?"

Morgana smiled, nearly laughing.

(Song Ends)

...

Whitmore College - Shane's Office

Two candles were lit on the table.

Bonnie and Elizabeth were sitting on the couch, behind the candles.

Shane sat across from them.

Bonnie seemed rather stressed, her eyes closed, breathing deeply.

Elizabeth seemed annoyed and agitated, on the verge of being angry, her eyes closed.

"You know, Elizabeth, just because your eyes are closed doesn't mean you're meditating." Shane told her. Elizabeth opened her eyes. "Come on, use your breath. Use your breath to calm down."

"Great." Elizabeth told him sarcastically. "So now, I can't even meditate right? What else can I fail?"

"Guys, you didn't fail." Shane told them.

"We did an Expression spell that almost killed April." Bonnie told him.

"Exactly." Shane told them. "Almost. Failing would have been actually killing her. You got like a... D Minus."

"It's not funny." Bonnie told him.

Elizabeth leaned forward, still angry. The flame in the candle in front of her burned higher and brighter. "We have all this power now, and I'm worried we won't be able to control it."

The candle in front of Bonnie burned higher and brighter, as if Elizabeth's magic had effected hers.

Bonnie looked at it worriedly. "What is happening to us?"

"It's the link." Shane explained. "It gives each of you more power, but it also means that your magic is literally bound together, just like the three of you. Whatever happens to one happens to all."

Elizabeth grew more irritated. "What does that mean?"

Shane's tea cup shattered in his hands.

Elizabeth looked overwhelmed.

"Guys?" Shane asked, putting the pieces down onto the table. "Look at me." He took each of their hands, hypnotizing them. "I'm here with you. You don't have anything to worry about. You are strong; you are focused. You are in complete control."

"You're here with us." Bonnie agreed. "We're in complete control."

The candles' flames went out.

Elizabeth seemed calmer now. "Now what does it mean?"

"It means that if one of you get hurt, the others do, too." Shane answered. "Since your magic is bound together, if one lashes out with magic, the others do, too."

"Does that mean it'll be harder to control?" Bonnie asked.

Shane hesitated.

Elizabeth closed her eyes, shaking her head. "Do not lie to us."

Shane exhaled. "Yes. It'll be harder to control. All of you need to learn how to control it. Which is why Sally should be here. Where is she?"

"I don't know." Elizabeth told him.

The door opened.

They looked at it.

Liz and a Deputy walked in.

"Sheriff?" Bonnie asked.

"Bonnie, Elizabeth, I'm gonna need you to go." Liz told them.

"What the hell are you doing?" Shane asked.

"We need to ask you a few questions." Liz told him.

Her deputy took Shane and handcuffed him.

Shane laughed without humor. "Are you serious? I'm sure I can answer without the handcuffs. Come on, this isn't even your jurisdiction."

"Then, I guess we better get you to Mystic Falls ASAP." Liz told him.

The deputy took Shane out of his office.

Bonnie, worried and confused, and Tory, angry and confused, stood.

"Wait." Elizabeth told them.

Bonnie looked at Liz. "Why are you doing this?"

"That's something you should ask your dad." Liz told her, following the others.

Bonnie and Elizabeth exchanged a look.

...

Klaus' Mansion - Living Room

Klaus was standing at the fireplace, looking into the flames pensively.

Esmeralda walked in, chuckling. "Hello, Nik."

Klaus turned to face her, looking at her in confusion. "Rosie?"

"Not exactly." Esmeralda answered. "But I am the originator of our Doppelganger line, so I think you can call that a close answer."

Klaus glared at her in realization. "Esmeralda. Rather foolish to come back to Mystic Falls after you are the reason that my brother Finn died, isn't it?"

Klaus rushed toward Esmeralda.

Esmeralda easily used mind control to make Klaus stop, making him back away from her, smirking smugly. "Not when I can control you before you can even lay a hand on me."

Klaus glared at her in annoyance. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to tell you of some of my plans." Esmeralda answered. "But you won't remember them, and you won't remember that I'm here. You'll just know that what I want you to do is not what you want to do."

"What do you want, Esmeralda?" Klaus asked angrily.

"I want you to go after the Potential." Rosalita answered. "Emma Gilbert. I've already mind controlled your brother Kol to go after Jeremy Gilbert, and you won't remember any of what I'm telling you, but if Kol does succeed in killing Jeremy, I need you to activate Emma."

"And why did you send Kol after my Hunter?" Klaus asked angrily.

"Because I want the people of Mystic Falls to be desperate enough to kill him." Esmeralda answered. "And if they do, you'll be angry, yes, and you'll want to kill them, yes. But after the moment of his death, you'll remember this conversation, and you'll realize that it was because of me, and only me. And you won't kill anyone in retribution. Neither will Morgana or Rebekah." She looked at Klaus in amusement, reading his mind, laughing. "Oh. You're worried that if you actually do go after Emma, and make her turn into a Hunter that will be desperate to kill her family, that you'll lose Elisaveta forever. That is so adorably sweet, Klaus. But you'll still go after little descendent Emma, and you'll compel a vampire to go after her. Some part of Elizabeth will think that you're doing this because you want to punish her for watching you walk into a trap that led you into a fight with your hybrids, but there's another part of her that will know that this is because of me. Now, forget that I am telling you to do this. And even if you do what Elisaveta asks you to, because you want to give her what she wants, I also want you to hurt her. Do you understand me, Klaus?"

...

Road

Damon, Isabella and Jeremy got out of Damon's car, going around to the trunk to get the weapons.

"Do you really think they went back to the bar?" Jeremy asked.

Isabella opened the trunk. "Where else are they gonna go? It's all cabins and vacation homes. They can't get in anywhere." He handed Jeremy a gun. Jeremy put it behind his back. Isabella handed him the compound bow. "All right. There you go."

"Fine." Jeremy told them. "Let's get this over with."

Jeremy pulled back the compound bow.

"Listen, just go one at a time, only shoot for the heart, don't hesitate, and don't miss." Damon told him, handing Jeremy an arrow.

"Save the teaching moment." Jeremy told him. "Elena's not here. You don't have to pretend like you give a damn about me."

Damon closed the trunk. "I'm trying to keep you alive, dumbass." He handed more arrows to Jeremy. "Come on."

...

Bar

(Song:) Bay, I Call Hell - Deap Vally

Damon, Isabella and Jeremy walked into the bar.

Jeremy held up the crossbow, aiming around the bar.

A giant blood smear was on the floor.

Isabella walked around it cautiously. "Something's not right."

(Song Ends)

...

Storage Room

They followed the trail of blood into the back storage room.

A giant pile of the vampire corpses were in the corner.

"Looks like we're gonna have to find some new vampires." Damon told them. "What a waste."

"What the hell happened?" Jeremy asked.

They heard Kol's voice behind them. "I confess." They turned around. Jeremy aimed the crossbow at Kol. Kol walked in with a bottle of bourbon. "I did it."

"Kol?" Jeremy asked.

"Jeremy, good to see you, mate." Kol told him. "Sorry about the mess. Ugh, it was a little crowded when I arrived, and I prefer more intimate gatherings. We four need to have a little chat."

...

Kol took a sip of bourbon. "Care for a drink?"

"Jeremy's underage, when Damon gets drunk, he kills people, and I don't like you, so let's just cut to it." Isabella told him.

"You know, my brother bragged about his plan to complete Jeremy's Hunter's Mark." Kol told them. "It was easy enough to track this lot down. They were all hiding in the shadows." He looked at Damon and Isabella. "Now, killing young vampires is easy."

"Why?" Damon asked. "What's it to you either way?"

"Because, you fools, in your zeal to find the Cure, you risk waking someone very dangerous." Kol answered.

"Oh..." Isabella trailed off. "You must be talking about Silas."

"What do you know of him?" Kol asked.

"Nothing." Isabella answered. "Don't want to. Not our problem."

"Isn't it?" Kol asked.

"Uh-uh." Isabella answered.

"A few hundred years back, I came across a girl who knew Silas very well." Kol told them. "She knew everything about him. Perhaps it's because she is his sister."

"You mean the one who buried her own brother alive with the Cure." Isabella told him.

Kol pointed at Isabella with the bottle, nodding. "Exactly. Strong, beautiful, could have anything she ever wanted. She trusted me with her secrets. She told me that he would rise again, and when he did, he would trigger the end of all time. You know, being an immortal, you can see why I'm opposed to time's ending. So, she told me to never, ever let it happen. She told me to kill whoever stood in the way. And now, here you are, willing to risk raising him in your search for the Cure. I can't exactly sit back and let that happen, can I?"

"We're not going to back off the Cure 'cause you were told one too many scary bedtime stories by some girl you had the hots for, you idiot." Damon told him.

Kol pushed Damon. "This wasn't just some girl, and you know of her. Esmeralda. Ring any bells? She should, as she mind controlled the lot of you to kill my brother Finn."

"Is she mind controlling you to do all this, too?" Isabella asked.

Kol didn't answer due to the fact that he couldn't remember because of Esmeralda's mind control, pointing at Jeremy with the bottle. "Jeremy, we were mates in Colorado. You're a smart lad. Why don't you call off this imbecilic treasure hunt?"

Jeremy aimed the crossbow at Kol. "I'm not calling anything off, mate."

Kol took a step back. "Well, I could kill you. But then, I'd have to deal with the Hunter's Curse. And I don't particularly feel like being haunted." He looked at Damon. "But, then, I could, because all I would have to do is make your niece kill a vampire so that his ghost would leave me at peace."

Damon glared at him.

Kol rushed toward Jeremy.

Damon rushed toward Kol, pushing him against the wall. "Cristian, get him outta here!"

Isabella grabbed Jeremy, rushing them away into safety.

Damon continued to hit Kol. Kol caught Damon's hand, putting him in a headlock.

...

Whitmore College - Shane's Office

Stefan and Morgana were in Shane's office, looking for the tombstone, rummaging through drawers.

"Well, headstone's not here." Stefan told her.

"Don't ripper out on me." Morgana told him. "We'll find it." She paced thoughtfully, rolling her eyes teasingly. "Oh, my God, you're all bottled up. You need a release. I need a release. Maybe we can find a voodoo doll or something." She opened a drawer, moving a bottle. She moved a stack of papers to find Shane's herbs, the same kind Bonnie had had at the party, and the same she had given to Rosie. "Ah, this should do the trick. Exactly what we need." She walked closer to Stefan. "Shane's stash of herbs. I've tried these. Bonnie brought some at the party Elena threw for girls' night. And she gave some to Rosie for just a few hours of freedom. They work very well to take the edge of. Trust me."

"Not interested." Stefan told her.

"Oh, really?" Morgana asked skeptically. "After the past few days, you can't tell me that you don't want just to lie down, kick back and forget everything that's happened with those names that shall not be named." Stefan smirked. Morgana looked at the bag in her hand. "I know I do." She looked at Stefan. "Don't you?"

"Yeah, I do." Stefan answered.

"Then come on." Morgana told him, on the verge of pleading him. Stefan hesitated. "Don't worry about Shane. He won't be back anytime soon. I made sure of that."

"And how did you do that?" Stefan asked.

"By telling the truth." Morgana answered. "Lie down, kick back and forget everything that's happened with those names that shall not be named with me."

Stefan smiled, sighing taking the bag. "Fine."

Morgana raised her arms in the air, twirling around slowly in a mock gesture of victory, smiling. "Yes!"

Stefan smiled, looking at her.

...

Police Station - Interrogation Room

Shane and Liz were sitting at a table.

"You're accusing me of orchestrating a mass murder?" Shane asked. "Do you know how ridiculous that sounds?"

"It's Mystic Falls." Liz told him. "It's actually one of the least ridiculous things I've heard."

...

Behind the Mirror

Bonnie, Sally and Rudy stood in front of the mirror, watching them.

"He already explained this, Dad." Bonnie told him. "Pastor Young came to him for help. He was crazy."

"No, he was grief-stricken and Shane took advantage of it." Rudy corrected.

"And somehow talked him into killing a house full of people?" Sally asked. "It doesn't make any sense."

"We don't think that he convinced the pastor into killing the Council." Rudy told her. "We think that he's working with the woman who did. Esmeralda." Bonnie and Sally looked at him in surprise. "Yes, she's in town. And she's been pulling strings for a while now. Shane is working with her. I've met people like Esmeralda. They're fast-talking, they're charismatic, they're manipulators. They prey on the weak-minded. That's exactly what Esmeralda is doing to Shane."

"Yeah, or she's mind controlling him." Bonnie told him.

"Shane is too well aware of this entire situation to be completely mind controlled." Rudy told them. "Some part of him must want to work with her willingly. April Young told us what he did, working with Esmeralda. Morgana Mikealson confirmed it. She heard him confess to her siblings."

Bonnie walked toward the door. "I'm going in there."

"Bonnie, no, you're not." Rudy told her. "Not alone."

"Then I'll go in there with her." Sally told him. "If he's gonna tell anyone what he did, it's us. Unless, of course, you think we're too weak-minded."

Sally walked toward Bonnie and the door.

...

Interrogation Room

Bonnie opened the door, leading the way in. Sally followed.

"Girls, now is not the time." Liz told them.

Rudy walked in behind Sally. "Let them talk."

Liz stood, following Rudy out of the room, closing the door behind them.

Shane looked at Bonnie. "I think your dad's confused about the format of the parent-teacher conference."

"I'm so sorry." Bonnie told him. "Morgana told them you confessed to working with Esmeralda. Maybe this her revenge to Rebekah."

Shane leaned forward and spoke in a low voice. "You know, the truth is, she isn't."

Bonnie and Sally looked unsurprised and confused.

...

Gilbert House - Foyer

The front door opened.

Elena and Evelyn walked inside.

Elena looked at Evelyn. "I'm so sorry. Listen. When I asked you to not fight against me on this plan, I never thought-"

"What did you expect, Elena?" Evelyn asked. "It's Damon."

"I never wanted anyone to get hurt." Elena told her.

"Well, then you shouldn't have left him in charge." Evelyn told her. "Look, I'm sorry. I know you didn't have a choice. Sire bond and all."

"Sire bond doesn't work like that." Elena told her.

"All I know, Elena, is that the old you would have never left Jeremy with Damon, especially after what happened last night." Evelyn told her. "The old you would never have gone this far with Damon to completely and utterly destroy Stefan and Emma."

"I thought you said that you weren't gonna pick sides." Elena told her.

"I'm not trying to, but you don't exactly make it easy for me." Evelyn told her. "You're just lucky that Isabella is big enough to do this without turning and killing innocent people, and would never work with Klaus willingly. She told Damon no, and Damon went behind her back. He tried to kill Rosie, Elena. If Isabella hadn't been there, he would have. Think about that the next time you see him." Elena took her words seriously. Evelyn's phone rang. She answered. "Speak of the devil, Izzy."

Isabella's voice was on the other line. "Evelyn, we're in trouble."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down." Evelyn told him. "What happened?"

"Listen to me." Evelyn told her. "Kol attacked us. I managed to get Jeremy out, but he has Damon. I went back to the place we left, but they were gone."

...

Salvatore Boarding House - Living Room

Emma walked down the stairs, walking into the living room.

There was a noise from behind her.

Emma turned around suspiciously.

Nothing was there.

Emma shook off her paranoia, walking toward the table, pouring herself a drink, turning around, looking ahead of her, startled.

The front door was left wide open.

Emma cautiously placed her drink on the table, slowly walking toward the door.

A girl appeared behind Emma, slitting her skin with a knife, feeding from her.

Emma gasped, backing away, turning around, grabbing the sword off of the wall.

The girl was in the middle of completing her transition into a vampire.

Emma turned around, raising the sword to point at whoever was behind her. "What the hell are you doing here? What kind of game are you playing?"

Klaus was standing at the front door, walking in, holding the Hunter's Sword in his hand. "Damon and Isabella were supposed to have Jeremy kill the vampires I had turned. They didn't deliver. I told them..." He looked up with a cold look. "It was either Jeremy... Or you. So, I killed that girl there, and compelled her to go after you. She wasn't a vampire yet, so she could walk inside without an invitation needed."

Emma backed away slowly, cautiously. "You mean, activate my Hunter side?"

Klaus looked at the sword Emma was still carrying, using his own sword to point at her. "Can't say that I hate your choice of weaponry. Come on, love." The vampire walked closer. Emma looked at her in suspicion. "Now you have her to deal with."

Klaus tossed the Hunter's Sword toward the vampire.

The vampire caught it, swinging toward Emma.

Emma swung up her own sword to retaliate the blow, her demand directed toward Klaus. "What the hell is wrong with you?"

"I need a new Hunter if Jeremy can't cooperate." Klaus told her.

The vampire swung her sword twice toward Emma.

Emma backed away, swinging her own sword twice to block the moves. "Oh, and you think I'm gonna listen to a damn thing you say?"

The vampire raised the sword above her head, stabbing toward Emma's head. Emma raised the sword over her head horizontally to keep the blade from slashing into her own skull, turning hers to push the other blade away from her, pulling the sword back at her side, stabbing the vampire in the stomach.

"Just kill her, would you?" Klaus asked impatiently.

Emma pulled the sword out of the vampire's stomach, letting her fall to the floor. "And become a psychotic vampire Hunter when I'm living with three vampires who are the only things that I have left to care about? You can file that request under 'No chance in Hell.'"

Klaus smirked. "Aw. Very poetic. Again."

The vampire picked up the Hunter's Sword, standing, slashing toward Emma. Emma raised the sword above her head to stop the blow, kicking the vampire in her stomach, making her back away from her. The vampire rushed toward her. Emma spun, swinging the sword toward her neck. The vampire raised her sword with vampire speed to stop the blow, backing away.

Emma punched into her stomach, ejecting two stakes into her stomach, making her fall. "Stop this."

"Enough of the defense." Klaus told her. "Play offense. Kill her before she kills you."

Emma barely spared Klaus a glance. "Screw. You."

"Maybe she can't bring herself to do the kill." The vampire told him.

Emma turned toward her incredulously. "Bitch, please."

The vampire rushed to stand behind Emma, pulling her head to the side, trying to bite her. Emma raised her arm to the side, turning the sword to point behind her, stabbing it under her arm pit and into the vampire's stomach, making her stop. Emma head butted her, making her let go, stepping away, turning to face her, pointing the tip of the sword at her to keep her back. The vampire raised the Hunter's Sword above her head, trying to stab Emma's skull. Emma raised her own sword above her head horizontally to stop the deadly blow, using all of her strength to keep it away from her head, to stay alive. The vampire pressed her blade down with more strength, closer to Emma's head. Emma pushed her blade up with more strength, further away from her head.

Elizabeth ran up to the house, pushing Klaus out of the way of the door angrily, rushing inside, standing behind the vampire, grabbing the sword, turning the vampire toward her while taking the sword from her, swinging through at her neck, decapitating it.

Klaus looked annoyed yet amused.

Emma lowered her sword to her side, breathing heavily.

Elizabeth looked at Klaus angrily, rushing toward him, pushing him against the wall, placing a bloodstained blade of the sword against his throat. "What the hell is wrong with you?"

"Odd." Klaus told her. "I figured you'd be angrier."

"You haven't seen me angry." Elizabeth told him, pushing the blade against his throat. "Why are you doing this?"

"Damon and Isabella were supposed to have Jeremy kill my vampires." Klaus told her. "They killed them instead."

"How idiotic are you?" Elizabeth asked. Klaus raised his eyebrows. "It wasn't them who killed your vampires, Klaus. It was your brother. If you make Emma into a killer, I swear to God, I'll-"

"You'll what?" Klaus asked. "No, really, go on. I'd love to hear this. What outrageous stunt will Elisaveta Petrova pull this time?"

"Every vampire you send after her, every staged attack that you arrange, I will be there to ruin it." Elizabeth told him. "Doesn't matter who I have to kill or how much you hate me for thwarting your plans of making her a Hunter."

"Even if it means you die yourself?" Klaus asked.

"I will gladly die protecting her." Elizabeth told him.

Emma looked slightly surprised, placing her sword down.

Elizabeth breathed deeply to calm herself.

Klaus looked at her, resting his hand on hers that held the blade to his throat.

Emma grew annoyed, rolling her eyes. "Are we done yet? Can we get to the part that's really important right now?"

Elizabeth barely turned her head toward her, lowering the Hunter's Sword, backing away from Klaus.

Klaus pushed away from the wall, holding his hand toward Elizabeth.

Elizabeth set the sword hilt in his hand.

"What's really important?" Klaus asked.

"Kol has Damon." Emma told him. "We don't know where they are."

"You know how much it kills me to say this, but we need your help." Elizabeth told him. "You think you could talk some sense into your brother and get him to release my best friend before he kills him?"

"What was it you said before?" Klaus asked.

Elizabeth shook her head. "I'm not saying it again." Klaus smirked, crossing his arms over his chest. Elizabeth gave him a look, slowly stepping closer, saying the words slowly. "I. Need. Your. Help."

"A bit ironic, you coming to me for help." Klaus told her. "Weren't you and your friends just trying to bury me into a cement tomb? Elisaveta, did you or did you not stand there, watching them lead me to my potential demise?"

"You're the one who compelled a vampire to go after Emma until she killed her." Elizabeth replied. "Luckily, I got here just in time to stop the damage. And is that why you're really doing this? Because I hurt you, made you angry, and you know that hurting Emma will be more punishment than you could ever do to me?"

Klaus looked at Elizabeth, not giving an answer, seemingly amused yet effected by her words.

"This is your fault." Emma told him. "You started this when you forced Jeremy to kill those vampires."

"And now my little brat of a brother has gone and made things worse." Klaus told them. "Well, he never did like Damon. I suppose I should do something, shouldn't I?"

"Call him off." Emma told him.

Klaus smirked in amusement. "You are in no position to make demands, love. Whilst I'd like to cure Elena to make more hybrids, I do have other reasons for finding the Cure, not the least of which is destroying it so you lot can't us it against me, or for Morgana to take it and make me human along with her."

"He's my best friend, Klaus." Elizabeth told him. "Please."

Klaus looked at Elizabeth in slight surprise, because she had said 'Please'.

Elizabeth looked at him seriously, no longer angry or sarcastic, just worried about Damon.

Klaus was clearly affected by the look she was giving him, sighing in amusement, giving in, smirking, pulling out his phone, calling Kol. "Little brother. Just two days home, and I'm told you've already gone and made a mess."

Kol was somewhere dark, the wall behind him made of stone. "Come on, Nik. I was only having some fun."

"Those vampires were for my Hunter." Klaus told him.

"I'll make some more." Kol told him. "There's no shortage of people."

Klaus looked from Emma to Elizabeth. "Where's Damon Salvatore?"

"I gave him a good and proper beating, just for old time's sake." Kol told him.

"Yes." Klaus told him. "Well, you've had your fun. Now let him go and come home. Avoid any more trouble, or you'll find yourself back in a box."

"Hey." Kol complained. "No need to be nasty about it."

"On the contrary, I find nastiness to be essential whenever my siblings try to sabotage me." Klaus told him. "Listen closely, Kol. Stay away from the Gilbert boy. You understand?"

"Fine." Kol told him. "I won't touch him. You have my word."

They hung up.

Klaus looked at Elizabeth, raising his eyebrows, raising his arms in the air in a shrug. "Well? Happy?"

"Ecstatic." Elizabeth told him sarcastically.

"You can leave now." Emma told him.

Klaus smirked, turning to leave.

Elizabeth turned toward him, no sarcasm at all in her look or expression. "Thank you, Klaus." Klaus smiled a small smile, walking away, leaving. Elizabeth walked toward Emma. "You okay?"

Emma nodded, breathing a sigh. "Now I am."

"Hey, at least we know you can definitely take care of yourself." Elizabeth told her.

Emma smirked.

Elizabeth wrapped her arms around Emma. Emma returned the embrace.

...

Lockwood Cellar

Damon was holding a stake in his stomach, chained to the wall.

Kol stood in front of him. "Very good, darling. Now stab yourself a little bit further."

Kol compelled Damon to obey.

Damon pushed the stake into himself, groaning in pain. "If you're gonna kill me, do it like a man."

"I don't want to kill you." Kol told him. "I just wanted to make sure you could be compelled."

"I'm gonna rip out your spleen." Damon told him.

"You ought to be thanking me." Kol told him. "I mean, you don't really want the Cure found. You fancy Elena. I mean, even more now that she's a vampire. Admit it. The last vestige of her humanity is her annoying little brother Jeremy and little sister Emma, and deep, deep down, I bet you want at least one of them dead, don't you?"

"Nope." Damon answered.

Kol laughed. "You're lying. I bet you'd love to rip Jeremy's head right off... And I'm gonna give you your wish." He crouched down in front of Damon and compelled him. "You're not gonna remember what I say, but you're going to find Jeremy Gilbert, and when you do, you're going to kill him."

...

Night - Gilbert House - Kitchen

Evelyn, Jeremy and Isabella were standing at the table.

Jeremy clicked a magazine into a gun.

Elena walked toward them.

"Jeremy, it's over." Evelyn told him. "You can put all this away."

"Klaus still wants me to finish the Mark." Jeremy told them.

"And if you don't, he'll force Emma to do it." Elena told them. "I just got off the phone with her. He's not gonna stop. Well, Damon's gonna be back soon and then we can figure something out."

"Seriously?" Isabella asked. "You still trust Damon?"

"He saved Jeremy's life, Isabella." Elena told her.

"He saved the map to the Cure." Evelyn corrected. "He couldn't care less about Jer." She put a hand on Jeremy's shoulder. "And it was Isabella who got him out, not Damon."

Jeremy pushed Evelyn's hand away. "Don't. Whatever's inside of me that makes me want to hunt, right now it's on overdrive."

Isabella looked down cautiously. "Jeremy."

Jeremy followed her gaze down to the stake in his hand, startled, putting it down. "I'm sorry." He looked up. "I know what I have to do. I really want to get that Cure for you, all of you, but... I just... I don't know how I'm gonna do this."

They nodded understandingly.

...

Whitmore College - Shane's Office

(Song:) Missing - The XX

The office was low-lit. There was smoke over the desk.

Morgana sighed, walking around. "So much random crap here."

"Crap?" Stefan asked. "Maybe. Random? No. Looks like Shane has a bit of an after life fetish. Hopi prayer feathers, the Han dynasty soul vase." Alex picked up a knife. "And that is a Polynesian sacrificial knife. Brutal way to die, but at least you appease the gods."

"Since when did you become such an artifact expert?" Morgana asked.

"I enjoy other cultures, Morgana." Stefan told her.

"Uh-huh." Morgana told him sarcastically, pointing the knife down on the desk, twirling it around.

"What?" Stefan asked innocently, standing, walking toward her.

"To enjoy other cultures, you have to care." Morgana told him. "I'm tired of caring. Caring leads to love. I'm tired of love causing pain, misery and heartbreak. Be it loved ones dying or someone stabbing you in the back, literally and figuratively speaking."

"Hmm." Stefan hummed, stepping closer. "That's awfully bleak."

"It's liberating, actually." Morgana told him, turning to face him, leaning against the desk behind her. Stefan tilted his head in confusion. "Because even while I'm tired of caring, love causing pain, misery and heartbreak... I also know that it's the only things that keep my world spinning. But it destroys it at the same time." She ran the knife along his throat. "As if a cut to the throat."

Stefan caught her wrist. "If you're tired of caring... Then stop caring."

"I will if you will." Morgana told him, laughing quietly. She dropped the knife. Stefan still held her wrist. They were close to each other, dangerously close to kissing. Stefan drifted closer, hesitantly kissing her. Morgana kissed back for a moment, pulling away. "I understand why I don't care about hurting those who shall not be named, but do you?"

"No." Stefan answered.

Morgana smiled a small, surprised smile, looking over every inch of him. She finally kissed him passionately. Stefan placed a hand on her cheek, kissing her more deeply. Morgana slid onto the desk behind her. Stefan put either of his arms on either side of her, propping himself against the desk, kissing her again.

(Song Ends)

The door opened.

A man walked in.

Stefan and Morgana had disappeared.

The man looked over the shelves, moving books, knocking on the wood. Finding the hidden door, he took it off, revealing the Silas tombstone.

Morgana appeared next to him. "Good. You found it." She grabbed him by his throat. "Question is, who are you?"

...

Gilbert House - Porch

Elena opened the front door to see that Damon was standing on the porch. "What happened? Are you okay?"

Elena put her hands on his shoulders.

"Kol happened." Damon answered.

"Thank God you all got away." Elena told him. "If Kol had taken Jeremy—"

"Is he here?" Damon asked. "'Cause I just want to talk to him really fast."

"He's at the Grill." Elena told him. "He wanted to check on Matt."

"Well, I should go apologize to him." Damon told her. "I was-I was pretty tough on him today."

...

Police Station - Interrogation Room

Shane and Sally were sitting at the table.

Bonnie opened the door from behind Shane, walking inside. "Told my dad to give us a minute." She walked over to the camera. It beeped, the light fading. "Camera's off. You can talk."

Shane pointed at a camera mounted at the corner of the ceiling. "Are you sure about that?"

"Yeah." Bonnie answered. "We don't lie. We're not you."

"Look, I was always gonna tell all of you the truth." Shane told them. "I just kept putting it off because I was worried how you'd react."

Sally nodded. "Bad. That's how a sane person reacts to murder."

"I'm not a killer, Sally." Shane told her. "Esmeralda is behind all of-"

Sally nodded. "We know the kind of person Esmeralda is." She set her elbow on the table, leaning her head against her fist. "Skip to the part where you explain to us why you would help a psychotic Doppelganger immortal massacre 12 people and 12 hybrids, Tyler and Rosie Lockwood's mother/aunt, and Derek Jackson."

"They weren't massacres." Shane told them. "They were rituals. It was something necessary to raise Silas and get the Cure that your friends so desperately want."

Bonnie stood next to Sally, propping herself against the table, looking at Shane. "If they knew people had to die—"

"It doesn't matter if they die." Shane told them. "Silas will bring them back."

Sally gave him a look. "You're crazy."

"I'm not crazy." Shane told them. "I'm just passionate."

Bonnie walked toward the door.

Sally stood, shaking her head, whispering her words sarcastically. "You're full on crazy."

Bonnie opened the door.

Sally walked toward her.

Shane turned toward them. "Do you remember our first session?" Bonnie paused at the door, making Sally stop behind her. Shane looked at Bonnie. "It was about your Grams, right? And Sally's mother, Sabrina? You thought every time you did magic you were causing them pain." He looked at them both . "Aren't you curious what's happening to them now? Wouldn't you like to see them again?"

Bonnie gaped at him in disbelief, but finally decided to stay and closed the door.

...

Mystic Grill

(Song:) 16 Years - Phantogram

Matt was clearing a table.

Damon approached him, followed by Elena. "Don't you ever take a night off?"

"I took two days off to help you out at the lake house, remember?" Matt asked. "I almost got killed."

"By your friend, Rosie Lockwood." Damon told him.

"Damon." Elena chastised.

Damon sighed. "Where's Jeremy?"

"He's in the back, I think." Matt answered.

"Hmm." Damon hummed, walking past Matt, toward the back room.

Elena looked at Matt. "Are you doing okay?"

"Yeah." Matt answered. "All things considered."

Damon spotted Jeremy across the restaurant. They made eye contact.

(Song Ends)

Damon's eyes started to turn red. He began crossing the restaurant toward Jeremy.

Jeremy looked alarmed.

"Damon." Elena told him. Damon turned to face her, a strange look on his face. "Are you all right? What's going on?"

Damon turned away to see a door close.

Jeremy was gone.

...

Backroom

Jeremy looked around, withdrawing his gun, cocking it, standing, aiming it at the door. He looked down at the metal panel on the wall, covering the entrance to underground tunnels.

...

Main Room

Damon still looked slightly odd. He looked at Elena. He turned, walking into the back room.

...

Backroom

Damon walked in.

Elena followed him. "Damon, what is wrong with you?"

"It was Kol." Damon told her. "He must have compelled me. If I find Jeremy... I'm gonna kill him."

Damon rushed down into the tunnel.

Elena looked down through the entrance, bewildered.

...

Tunnels

Jeremy hurried through the tunnels, aiming his gun and flashlight ahead of him, walking along.

He heard Damon's voice in the distance. "Jeremy! Get out of here! Do you hear me? Don't stop. Kol compelled me. There's nothing I can do!" Damon was walking through another tunnel. "You can't hide in here, Jer. If I find you, you're dead." Jeremy looked around. He heard Damon's voice in the distance. "Jeremy, are you listening to me? You better run! I am coming to kill you. You need to go now!"

Damon rushed down a passage.

...

Whitmore College - Shane's Office

The man was restrained to a chair now.

Morgana sliced the knife down his leg. "All you have to do to make it stop is tell me who sent you." The man didn't answer, groaning. Morgana tasted the blood on the knife, her tongue sizzling, but she had gotten used to vervain, so it didn't hurt as bad. "You're full of vervain, so I know you haven't been compelled."

"Or maybe somebody compelled him before he ingested it." Stefan told her. He seemed to be thinking. "Or it's not compulsion, but mind control."

"He was after the headstone." Morgana told him. "We need to know who sent him."

"Okay." Stefan told her. "Fine. So we take him home, wait till the vervain is out of his system, and then compel him and get whatever information we want."

Morgana tilted her head. "That's not a bad idea."

The man groaned, blood spilling out of his mouth.

Stefan grabbed his face, looking in his mouth. "He just bit of his own tongue." The man grabbed the knife from Morgana's hand, stabbing it in his neck. Stefan took it out, too late. The guy was dead. "I guess he was mind controlled or compelled."

"Was it Bastard Klaus or Bastard Damon?" Morgana asked.

"Maybe it's option number three." Stefan told her. "The another team in the race."

"Esmeralda." Morgana realized.

Stefan stood straight, sighing, nodding. "Yeah."

...

Witch House - Basement

Elizabeth's jacket was on the couch.

Elizabeth was alone in the dark, unlit basement. She walked around slowly, raising her arms slightly in the air, using magic to light every candle in the room.

The spirits were whispering around her, sensing that she wasn't using their magic.

"You don't want me using Expression?" Elizabeth asked. "You shouldn't have done what you did to Sally and Bonnie. Using Sally's mom, her Grams against them. It's your fault." The spirits' whispers became louder, as if her words angered them. "You didn't save my life, for this? For the pain? The grief? The anger?" Elizabeth was close to breaking, angry, sad tears in her eyes, raising her voice. "Why?"

The flames on the candles burned higher and brighter.

Elizabeth held her head, screaming in pain, falling to her knees.

...

Police Station - Interrogation Room

Bonnie and Sally held their heads in pain, screaming.

...

Witch House - Basement

Elizabeth was still kneeling to the floor. Her magic lashed out to the spirits, breaking every thing glass inside the room. The vases, the windows. The glass scattered through the air, falling everywhere, including over her, the glass slashing into her skin, making her bleed.

...

Police Station - Interrogating Room

Bonnie and Sally's magic lashed out like Elizabeth's had, breaking everything glass in the room. The camera lenses. The double-sided mirror. The glass fell to the floor.

Even though none of the glass touched them, cuts just like Elizabeth's appeared over Bonnie and Sally's arms, bleeding.

Shane watched in confused awe.

...

Witch House - Basement

Elizabeth breathed heavily, calmer now. She lowered her arms to her sides, looking around.

The candles were unlit once more, leaving her in darkness.

Elizabeth inhaled, pulling her necklace, for healing, out of her pocket, looking at the cut, bleeding wounds on her arms. She clutched the pendant in her hands, closing her eyes in concentration. "Heal."

The blood seeped back into the wounds in her arms. The cuts healed.

Elizabeth opened her eyes, looking up in front of her numbly.

...

Police Station - Interrogation Room

Bonnie and Sally watched in incredulous confusion as the blood seeped back into the wounds in their arms. The cuts healed.

Rudy walked in, alarmed. "What the hell was that?"

"That, my friend, was the work of the link the three of them forged." Shane answered. "The link that they need to complete the spell."

"You're saying if we complete this spell and help you raise Silas you can bring our families back?" Bonnie asked. "My Grams, Vicki, Sabrina, even Derek? Don't play on our guilt, Shane."

"I'm not playing on anything." Shane told them. "This is the truth. You told me what happened. Your reckless use of magic is the reason-"

"Don't." Sally told him.

"Is the reason those spirits are torturing your Grams on the Other Side." Shane told her.

"Don't." Sally repeated angrily.

"If you hadn't helped, then Derek would still be alive-" Shane started.

Sally stood angrily, making the chair fall to the floor. "I said don't!"

Shane groaned in pain, raising his hand. "My hand!" He looked at Sally. "You can't stop, can you? All this power that you're feeling, you actually like it, don't you?" Sally smiled evilly, using magic to cause him pain, making Shane scream. Bonnie smiled. Shane looked at her. "And because of it, Bonnie is being pulled into the darkness. Just like Elizabeth is pulling both of you into it. The darkness, the power, if one of you uses it too much, it pulls the others in. That's how the link works."

"I don't care." Sally told him.

"Look at yourself, Sally." Shane told her. He looked at Bonnie's evil grin. "Look at yourself, Bonnie."

Rudy looked from Sally to Bonnie. "What are you doing?"

"Get-" Bonnie started, throwing water from a mug onto the floor, using magic to turn it into fire. "Out of here."

...

Witch House - Basement

The entire basement went up in flames, surrounding Elizabeth.

Elizabeth was too lost in the magic. She couldn't do anything. She stood there, unalarmed, unafraid as the fire burned high and bright around her.

The spirits were whispering as loud as the flames were burning.

...

Police Station - Interrogation Room

Sally was still using magic to cause Shane pain.

Bonnie was still using magic to keep the fire burning between Rudy and them.

"Bonnie, stop!" Rudy told her.

"You can't reason with them, Mayor." Shane told him. "They've lost control."

"Girls." Rudy told them. Bonnie inhaled deeply without a sound, too lost in the magic. "Please." Rudy looked at Shane. "Do something!"

"Sally..." Shane trailed off. Sally looked at his throat, using magic to strangle him. Shane gasped for breath. Realizing her couldn't get through to Sally, Shane looked at Bonnie. "Bonnie, look at me! Now take a deep breath. I'm right here with you. You both are in complete control." Their expressions were returning to normal. "That's it."

Bonnie looked at the flames, using magic to extinguish them.

...

With House - Basement

The flames surrounding Elizabeth extinguished themselves, leaving a trace of smoke, but left everything the way it was, as if it had never even happened.

Elizabeth was brought of her reverie, taking a deep breath. She strode toward the couch, grabbing her jacket, walking quickly out of the basement.

...

Outside

Elizabeth walked outside, pulling on her jacket, running across the grounds, never stopping again and never looking back, just as she had done the day she left Klaus.

...

Police Station - Interrogation Room

Sally looked at Shane's hand and throat, taking a step back, no longer causing him pain, no longer trying to kill him.

Shane held a hand to his throat, looking at Sally in wonder.

Bonnie was horrified by what had just happened, letting a tear fall.

Sally looked numb and angry, walking quickly out of the room, pushing past Rudy to walk out, leaving.

Bonnie hesitantly followed her, walking out, leaving.

"Your daughter and her friends are prodigies." Shane told him. "With my guidance... they could be the most powerful witches in the world... But without it... they're time bombs."

...

Gilbert House - Kitchen

Evelyn and Isabella were standing alone at the table, looking over the weapons.

Evelyn was putting them away.

"You sure that we won't need these?" Isabella asked.

"Not for tonight." Evelyn answered. Isabella hesitated, looking down. Evelyn looked at her. "Hey." Isabella looked up. "I know you're worried about Jeremy. I'm worried about him, too."

"You worry about everyone." Isabella told him. "You take it seriously, like it's your job, even though it's not."

"I'm 500 years old, the strongest non-Original vampire in this town." Evelyn told her. "Of course it's my job." Isabella's phone was lying on the table, the screen waking as it started to ring. Isabella looked at the Caller ID to see that Elena was calling, hesitating. Evelyn gave her a knowing look, nodding. "Go ahead."

Isabella sighed, picking her phone up, answering. "I'm not in the mood to talk right now."

Elena was on the other line, walking through the tunnels. "Then you can listen. I know you're frustrated with me right now, Isabella, but Kol compelled Damon to kill Jeremy." Evelyn and Isabella exchanged a look in shock and alarm. "They're somewhere in the tunnels and... it's one giant maze down here, and I can't find them, so maybe you can help."

"Why didn't you call Morgana?" Isabella asked.

"She hates me right now." Elena told her. "And my pride's too high at the moment. So I called you. I was hoping that Evelyn was with you so that we can stop Damon."

Isabella looked up defiantly and furiously.

...

Tunnels

Jeremy was still in the tunnels.

He heard Damon's voice from a distance. "Did you miss the part where I said I'm compelled? Don't stop!" Jeremy withdrew a knife, using it to cut his hand. In another tunnel, Damon was annoyed. "Seriously? You're being hunted by a vampire, and now you're bleeding?" He rushed to where Jeremy left his jacket on the ground, picking it up. Jeremy ran toward Damon, putting him in a headlock. Damon bit his arm. Jeremy yelled in pain. Damon pushed him down to the ground, transformed. "Dumb move, Jer. You can't fight me in closed quarters."

"It was worth a shot." Jeremy told him, shooting Damon in the abdomen.

Damon groaned in pain, falling to his knees. "You're gonna have to shoot me, Jeremy, in the heart. I'm not gonna be able to stop myself." Jeremy didn't answer, and he didn't move. "Jeremy, you are a Hunter. You know you want to. Do it." Jeremy stood still with gun aimed at Damon, but didn't shoot. "Do it!"

Damon stood, transforming, failing to resist the compulsion, rushing toward him.

Jeremy fired the gun.

...

Damon was lying on the ground, waking up.

Jeremy was gone.

"Ow." Damon complained. "Ugh." He sat up, groaning, pulling a bullet out of his forehead. "He shot me in the head." He threw the bullet on the ground angrily. "Stupid, idiot, borderline brain-dead moron." He stood. "That was dumb, Jeremy. You should've killed me when you had the chance."

Damon saw Jeremy's blood on the ground, transforming, walking down another tunnel.

...

Klaus' Mansion - Foyer

Kol walked into the foyer, walking toward the door.

Rebekah walked in from the other side, blocking his way. "Going somewhere? I would if I were you. If Damon kills the Hunter, Nik will not be pleased."

Kol smiled. "I told Nik I wouldn't touch the kid. I didn't."

"Oh, well, that was clever." Rebekah told him sarcastically. "I'm sure he'll really appreciate it."

Kol pushed past her, walking toward the door.

Rebekah turned toward Kol, grabbing his shoulder with one hand, pointing a dagger in his back with another.

"You'd really dagger me?" Kol asked.

"If I do, Damon's compulsion ends, and this is all over." Rebekah told him.

"And then you're no better than Niklaus, Rebekah." Kol told her. "Daggering siblings when you disagree with them. Look at what this family has become. I mean, Elijah won't even show his face, he's so disgusted by our bickering. This Cure has ruined us, and it hasn't even been found yet. Just imagine what would happen if it is."

"This family was ruined long before we knew about the Cure." Rebekah told him. Kol rushed to turn to face Rebekah, pointing the white oak stake at her heart. Rebekah caught his wrist, in shock. "Kol!"

"I won't let you raise Silas." Kol told her.

Morgana rushed into the room, pushing them away from each other. "Enough of this foolishness. Put it down, Kol."

Kol rushed out of the house, slamming the door behind him.

Rebekah looked at Morgana. "He was going to kill me."

Klaus stood in the doorway, looking at both of his sisters. "Well, then, I think you need a lesson on how to properly dagger a sibling."

"Burn in hell." Morgana told him.

Morgana and Rebekah turned around, walking out, leaving.

...

Woods

Jeremy was running. In pain, he stopped, leaning against a tree, sliding to the ground. His injured hand was haphazardly bandaged, but still extremely bloody.

Behind Jeremy, some distance away, Damon was walking through the woods, in the pursuit of Jeremy.

Elena appeared behind him. "Damon, stop!" Damon stopped. "Please. I know that you don't want to hurt Jeremy, so please stop."

Damon turned around to look at her, pain in his eyes. "I can't."

"Yes, you can." Elena told him. "You're strong enough to resist the compulsion. I know that you are."

"Why, because Stefan did?" Damon asked.

"Because I love you." Elena told him. "Because you love me. You'd do anything for me, so please... do this for me."

Damon seemed entranced by Elena's words.

Jeremy's blood dripped from a tree.

They both heard it. They could hear Jeremy gasping for breath and smell all the blood he had lost.

"I'm sorry, Elena." Damon told her, transforming, rushing away.

"Damon!" Elena told him, rushing to follow him.

Jeremy cocked his gun.

Damon appeared behind him. "Jeremy." Jeremy turned to face Damon, aiming his gun at him, propping himself up against the tree, trying to stand. "Shoot now."

Damon stalked closer.

Jeremy fired the gun.

Evelyn rushed toward Damon, grabbing him, pushing him against a tree. "Hey, Damon." Elena and Isabella rushed closer to them from either direction. Evelyn looked at Isabella. "Do want the honors, or shall I do it?"

"Let me." Isabella told her. Evelyn turned Damon to Isabella. Isabella looked at Damon, shaking her head. "You have absolutely no idea how long I've been waiting to do this." She snapped Damon's neck, letting his body fall. Elena looked at her her incredulously. Isabella looked at Elena, smirking. "You're welcome."

...

Salvatore Boarding House - Basement Cell

(Song:) Skin - Zola Jesus

Elizabeth was standing in the door way, leaning against it, arms crossed over her chest.

Emma was leaning against the dirt mound, handling a wooden stake.

Damon stirred on the ground, groaning as he woke.

"Easy there." Emma told him. "You lost a lot of blood."

Damon groaned. "So you bled me out?"

"Yeah." Emma answered. "Well, it wasn't my idea to. It was Stefan's. He told me to. We didn't really have much of a choice. Kol's compulsion is still in effect, so you need to stay locked up. We don't have any vervain, so... this was the only way we could weaken you."

"You sound real torn up about it." Damon told her sarcastically. Next time he spoke, it was to complain. "Stefan's here?"

"And Morgana." Elizabeth added. "You just tried to kill her friend. Elena didn't have the guts to call her, so Evelyn did." She looked at Emma. "I think you just became my most favorite Gilbert out of them all."

Emma smirked.

"She broke my neck." Damon told them.

"Because you tried to kill her friend and played both of her friends, severely hurting one of them." Elizabeth told him.

"I don't know why you're complaining." Emma told him. "You'll heal."

"Shouldn't we be going after Kol?" Damon asked. "Make him decompel me?"

"Yeah, yeah, sure." Elizabeth told him sarcastically. "That sounds easy enough, Damon. We'll get right on that."

Damon coughed, failing to sit up. "At least let me see Elena."

"Come on." Elizabeth told him. "You know you can't do that. With the sire bond, all you have to do is tell her to let you out of here. It's too risky. It's better for Elena if you stay in here for now, at least until we find the Cure, and then once she's no longer sired and you're no longer compelled, you can all do whatever the hell you want."

Damon looked at the stake in Emma's hands. "Why don't you put that down before you do something you regret?"

"I'm not a Hunter, Damon, so there's no urge to kill you." Emma told him. "Unless you piss me off."

"But why do you think that you're a Potential?" Damon asked weakly. "Because you've killed vampires. I don't know how on Earth Jeremy Gilbert became a supernatural vampire Hunter before you did, just to be honest."

"Doesn't really matter, does it?" Emma asked. "I don't want to be a Hunter, and I never will be. Simple as that."

"You don't really believe that, do you, Emma?" Damon asked.

"Do you know something that we don't?" Elizabeth asked.

"I know that if something happens to Jeremy before we find the Cure, Klaus wants Emma to be activated so we can still go on." Damon told them. He looked at Emma. "He calls you his backup plan." Elizabeth and Emma exchanged a look. Damon noticed. "Something already happened, didn't it?" Neither answered. "Klaus already tried to activate you."

Emma nodded. "Yeah. But no worries. Elizabeth came sweeping in the save the day. While Stefan was off busy chasing off a lead to the Cure and you were busy chasing off to kill Jeremy. Well, you can tell Klaus to go to hell. I'm not helping him with a damn thing."

"Where's Stefan?" Damon asked. "I need to talk to him."

"Don't worry." Emma told him. "He's just pissed because of you and Elena. But he's been gone with Morgana all day, so maybe he's over it. We, however, will be glad to give you some company."

"Oh, you're welcome, by the way." Elizabeth told him. "If I hadn't gotten Klaus to call Kol, then Kol would have killed you right away instead."

"Thanks, Lizzie." Damon told her weakly.

Elizabeth smiled, nodding, looking from Damon to Emma. "So, what are we gonna do to pass the time? Charades?"

...

Upstairs - Hallway

Stefan and Morgana were standing next to the basement door.

"You know, I just want to give him a little hell." Morgana told him.

"And in return, you might accidentally kill him." Stefan told her.

"Elisaveta and Emma are down there." Morgana told him. "They'll make sure nothing happens."

Morgana started to open the door.

Stefan stood behind Morgana, putting his arm out on the door to stop it from opening.

Morgana smiled a small smile, turning toward him, both merely inches from each other.

Stefan rested his hand on Morgana's waist, smiling a small smile.

They were dangerously close to kissing.

Elena walked down the hall toward them, looking at them in complete shock. "Stefan? Morgana?"

Stefan let Morgana go in annoyance, turning away awkwardly.

Morgana leaned against the door behind her, just as annoyed and awkward. "Going to see Damon?"

"I need to talk to him." Elena told them.

"Well, you can't." Stefan told her. "Neither of you can. He'll just ask you to let him out."

"I won't let him out." Elena told them.

"You won't have a choice." Stefan told her. "You're sired to him." Elena shifted uncomfortably, not answering. "That all?"

Elena looked between them. "What you two doing with each other?"

"What are you and Damon doing with each other?" Morgana replied.

"Are you trying to punish me?" Elena asked. "I don't know how many times I can apologize."

"We never asked you to." Stefan told her.

"You can do whatever you want, Elena." Morgana told her. "I really don't care."

"You're hurt." Elena told them. "You're hurt and you're acting out. Stefan, Morgana, this isn't you."

"Sure it is." Stefan told her. "You've just never seen either of us like this. You don't know what Morgana looks like when she's doesn't care about what will hurt you, and you don't know what I look like when I'm not in love with you." Elena looked shocked. Stefan smirked. "I'll let Damon know you stopped by."

Elena was hurt, shocked and embarrassed, nodding, walking away, leaving.

Morgana looked at Stefan, smirking, turning around, walking away, leaving.

(Song Ends)

...

Mystic Grill

Bonnie and her father were sitting at a table.

"I owe you an apology." Bonnie told him.

"You don't owe me anything." Rudy told her. "I'm not happy to be right. I'm gonna get you and your friends some help."

"Help?" Bonnie repeated. "Dad, we're okay."

"Are you kidding me?" Rudy asked.

"We got angry, I admit, but we knew what we were doing." Bonnie told him.

"You and Sally lost control." Rudy told her. "And Shane said, with the link between the two of you and Elizabeth, it'll only get worse from here."

"Didn't we just establish that we couldn't trust him?" Bonnie asked. "He trying to get under your skin."

"The only thing that got under my skin is what I saw, which is my daughter using dangerous magic." Rudy told her. "And the fact that you don't think you need help means you need it even more."

Bonnie, looking slightly abashed, didn't respond.

The shot panned from Bonnie and Rudy sitting together to Matt and Sally standing at the bar together.

"I swear, if Damon so much as puts your life in danger again, I'll-" Sally started, angry.

"Sally." Matt told her to stop her. "Mayor Hopkins told me about what happened at the police station."

"I'm sure he did." Sally told him.

"Sal, you could've killed Shane." Matt told her. "The anger you have, the lost of control of your magic... We talked about it, and he said that he would get help."

"Shane's help wasn't enough." Sally told him.

Matt looked at her in confusion. "What are you talking about?"

"At the station, when he tried to hypnotize my way out of it..." Sally trailed off. "He didn't get inside my head like he could before. He got inside Bonnie's, and when her magic stopped, so did mine. Shane was right about that part. Our magic is bound."

"But..." Matt trailed off.

"But, the feeling I was getting, I was stronger than ever." Sally told him. "I was too strong for him to get inside my head again. If Shane can't get inside my head, then who the hell is strong enough to help me now?"

Matt didn't have an answer, looking extremely worried and concerned for his friends.

...

Gilbert House - Outside

Esmeralda walked up to porch steps, across the porch to the door, ringing the doorbell.

Elena opened the door. Jeremy stood behind her.

"Good evening, Gilbert clan." Rosalita told them. "I seem to find one of you missing."

"What do you want, Rosie?" Elena asked.

Esmeralda smiled, keeping up the pretenses to allow them to believe that she was Rosie. "I just need to talk to you all. Kol's become a liability. And he'll stop at nothing to get what he wants. Because it's what I want. And I always get what I want."

"What are you talking about?" Jeremy asked.

Esmeralda dropped the act, mind controlling them. "I'm not Rosie. I'm Esmeralda. And I've once mind controlled you all to go after all the Mikaelsons and kill Finn. Now, I'm gonna do that again, but I need you to kill another Original brother, I've even going to have Morgana help you."

"We've killed enough people for you immortals." Jeremy told her.

"Well, you might want to add Kol to the list." Esmeralda told them. "He will burn your nice little home to the ground."

"So you're saying that this is never gonna end?" Jeremy asked.

"If Kol doesn't kill Jeremy first, then Klaus is gonna force him to kill more innocent people, or he's gonna force Emma to do it for him." Esmeralda told them. "And not because of their own free will, but because of what I want them to do. You are gonna kill for me, Jeremy."

"How many is it gonna take?" Jeremy asked. "10? 100?"

Esmeralda smirked. "If you kill one Original vampire, their entire sire line will die with them. That's thousands, maybe tens of thousands of vampires. Now, Jeremy, I mind controlled Kol to go after you, and to compel Damon to kill you. You're gonna kill Kol instead." Elena and Jeremy looked at Esmeralda in shock. Esmeralda nodded. "You won't remember me telling you this until the moment Kol dies. Do you understand me?"

Jeremy and Elena exchanged a look.

Elena nodded.

...

Lockwood Mansion - Morgana's Guest Bedroom

(Song:) Angels - The XX

The room was lit with candles.

Morgana stood at the vanity dresser, drinking bourbon.

Stefan walked in.

"Sure." Morgana told him sarcastically. "Just barge right in."

"Oh, I thought not knocking was our thing." Stefan told her. "You've been not doing it for... how long?"

"Yeah, yeah." Morgana told him, removing her earrings. She looked at Stefan. "How'd you know which room was temporarily mine?"

"The furthest one away from the east side of the house, which is the direction my house and Elena's house is." Stefan answered. Morgana smirked. "That's right. I know you better than you think. So where'd you put it?"

Morgana walked toward the dresser, kneeling to the floor.

Stefan watched her curiously.

Morgana took a piece of the wood out of the floor, revealing a safe built into the floor beneath it. She turned the combination, opening the safe door to reveal the Silas headstone. "Richard Lockwood had many crazy hiding places in this house."

"Probably a safe place to put it?" Stefan told her.

"Mm-hmm." Morgana hummed, closing the door, putting the wooden over the safe to keep it hidden. She stood, nearly stumbling. Stefan caught her arms. Morgana laughed. "Whoa."

"For a vampire, you're a lot less coordinated than I remember." Stefan told her. "How much did you drink?"

Morgana held up both of her arms, holding her palms flat and facing each other, showing a big distance away. "A lot. The woman that let me stay here is dead, killed by my brother. My best friends hybrids are spiraling. My friend and your ex are backstabbers. My best friend friend witch is losing control of her powers. And Jeremy was almost killed. I deserved to get drunk."

"You deserve a lot more than just to get drunk." Stefan told her.

Stefan was still holding her arms. They were merely inches apart. They looked at each other, breathing deeply.

"You know, we never got to finish what we started earlier." Morgana told him.

"And what's that?" Stefan asked.

Morgana looked up at him with a smile, her voice soft. "I'll show you."

Morgana kissed Stefan passionately. Stefan kissed her back. She took her arms away from Stefan's, wrapping them around his neck. Stefan deepened the kiss, laying her back on the bed, taking her jacket off. Morgana took his jacket off, grabbing his shirt, pulling him closer. She looked up at him, smiling, kissing him. Stefan pulled away long enough to pull his shirt above his head, pushing it aside, kneeling over her. Morgana roamed her hand over his chest, sitting up, kissing him. Stefan took the end of her shirt, pulling it over her head, laying her down again. Morgana rolled Stefan onto the bed, laying over him, kissing down his chest. Stefan pulled her back up to him, kissing her more passionately than before. He took her hand in his, rolling over her, kissing her neck. Their hands were intertwined over their heads.

Stefan could actually smile.

They both looked the happiest and most content they had been in a long time.

(Song Ends)