It's morning and in Alaric's apartment, Brie walks up the stairs carrying breakfast for Alaric. She knocks on his door and Damon answers it
"Morning sunshine" Damon smiles as he leans against the doorframe.
"Hey, how's Alaric?" Brie moves to enter the apartment, but Damon closes the door slightly to block her way.
"Indecent, but fine"
"So then, does that mean there were no issues last night?"
"Nope. Slept like a baby, woke up Alaric. No head minds about dead Council members"
"Then why do I feel like you're hiding something from me?" Brie questions as she raises her eyebrows at Damon.
"Well, maybe because you're being all paranoid and control freaky" Damon looks down at the bag "What'd you bring me?" Damon asks as he takes the bag from her and sniffs it. "Ooo, chocolate muffins. You know what they say; a way to a psycho killer's heart is through his stomach"
Brie takes the bag back from him. "They're not for you"
Damon puts his hands up "Fine, keep convincing yourself you're still mad at me but sadly, Ric's going to have to miss Brie time today. You know lockdown and all"
"Just take it and give it to him and tell him that Elena forgives him for what he did last night, she knows it's not his fault, okay?" Brie hands Damon the bag of muffins.
Damon starts to shut the door on her. "Have a great day, thanks for coming by"
"Dam..." Damon closes the door and walks over to Ric and Stefan who are standing by a miter saw with the Wickery Bridge sign. He listens to Brie leaving. Brie leaves Ric's apartment and meets up with Caroline who wanted to talk. Caroline and Brie are walking through the woods.
"Alaric Saltzman killed my father?" Caroline asked in disbelief as she couldn't get her head around Ric's actions.
"I can't expect you to be okay with this but at least these herbs that Bonnie's giving him, they're healing him and they're keeping the dark side buried."
"Yeah, and that's supposed to make everything okay? Brie grabs Caroline's arm and Caroline faces her. Caroline is teary eyed.
"No, Caroline, it's not okay. It's horrible and I feel horrible about it, but he's a victim of something supernatural, he didn't ask for this, it just happened to him. Just like Bonnie's mom, I mean, she didn't ask to become a vampire and neither did Stefan or Tyler."
"Or me" Caroline said as she pointed out that she didn't become a vampire by choice.
Brie nodded "Or you none of you asked for this, but who would I be if I just turned my back on any of you? "
Caroline moves to Brie's side and wraps her arm around her shoulders. They start to walk off. "Oh, Brianna Colace, savior of the cursed and the damned"
Matt appears out of the trees and walks up to them "Hey, what's with the cryptic secret meeting text?"
"I don't know. Stefan just said to meet here"
Stefan and Damon show up. "Where's Bonnie and Elena?"
Caroline and Brie turn around. "I texted them too"
Caroline and Brie exchanged looks "Um, Bonnie's mom bailed on her again. So, I think we should leave her out of this one and Elena is at home recovering from her brutal attack from Ric"
"What are we doing here?" Matt asked as he looked at Stefan then at Damon waiting for them to tell them why they wanted to meet in the woods.
"We found some more white oak. Long story, wait for the movie"
Brie turned around to Damon "Hang on. White oak? You have a weapon that can kill Klaus?"
"Nope we all have a weapon" Stefan throws down a duffel bag with white oak stakes in it. "Klaus has always been one step ahead of us, but now we have the advantage. We're all armed and they are all linked, meaning we only need to kill one of them. We need to seize the best opportunity, which means we need to prepare for every opportunity"
"Scenario number one" Damon grabs Caroline and moves her over "You get to play Klaus"
Caroline scrunches up her nose "Okay"
"Rebekah is our target so we distract her and catch her off guard. To do that we need to keep Klaus separate and occupied" Damon looks at Brie "Brianna"
Stefan looked at Damon as if that wasn't the plan they discussed, he didn't want Brie to be anywhere near Klaus as he knew what Klaus thought of Brianna "Damon that wasn't the plan"
Brie's eye widened, why was she the one who had to be involved with anything that includes Klaus "Why do I always have to be Klaus bait?"
"Because he's obsessed with you" Damon says ignoring his process, he didn't want Brie to be Klaus bait either but he knew Klaus took a liking to the brunette so if she was to keep the original busy, the faster he could be out the picture. Damon walks over to Brie. "But for right now we need you to play Rebekah. We use the quarterback to distract her. Just keep her talking"
"How?" Matt asks as he didn't know how to distract the blonde original.
Damon shrugged his shoulders and thought of a few things to help Matt "Act interested, she's lonely, desperate"
Caroline snorted "Clearly. She slept with you" Brie looks down and suppresses a grin.
"Hm. Beefcake holds bombshell. I come up from behind her" Damon gets behind Caroline, grabs her arms, and put them behind her back. "Grab her arms like this"
"Ow!" Caroline yelled as Damon pulled her arms back with force Stefan comes up with the stake in his hand, imitating stabbing Caroline.
"Gives me time for one shot" Damon lets go of Caroline. "Got it? Good. So we all have one stake, we keep it hidden and we look out for any opportunity we have"
"No last-minute attacks of pity for any of them" Damon looks at Brie.
Brie notices that Damon was on about her "Don't worry about me, not after what happened to Bonnie's mom"
Damon looks at Brie then turns his attention to Caroline "Barbie?"
"Oh, I'm ready anything that will free Tyler from his sire bond to Klaus"
Damon turns his attention to Matt "Busboy?"
"Do I have a choice?"
"Good point"
"We have 12 stakes, 12 shots at killing one Original we can do this. Alright, let's try another scenario. Brie grab a crossbow" Stefan hands Brie the crossbow "Matt, you play Klaus" Brie aims the crossbow and Matt gulped as he knew how good Brie was with a crossbow.
After training in the Salvatore House, Damon places his white oak stake underneath a pile of firewood as Alaric walks into the room "I mean, did you learn nothing from the moonstone in the soap dish?"
"Why? Where'd you put yours?" They hear a noise from downstairs. Damon gets up "What the hell was that?" Damon leaves the room and walks down the stairs. Suddenly, he sees Alaric get thrown down the stairs and falls to the floor. "Ric?" Damon looks up the stairs, turns around and is stabbed in the stomach with a knife by Rebekah.
"Hello lover" Rebekah smirked.
In the Town Square, Brie is on her phone, leaving a message for Bonnie. "Bonnie, we're starting to worry about you. Call me back or call Caroline. Just call someone, please" Brie hangs up and walks up to Caroline and Matt. "Is it weird that Bonnie's not returning my calls?"
"Is it weird that Klaus' brother is in the middle of town square?" Matt pointed out as they all look over and see Finn with Sage.
"That's Finn. I thought he left town" Caroline pushes back her hair and listens in on Sage and Finn's conversation. As Caroline listens in Brie decides to update Stefan. Stefan enters the house when phone rings and Brie is on the other end.
"Hey"
"Hey. Where are you?" Brie said on the other end as she kept a close eye on Sage and Finn.
"I just got home. Why?" Stefan asked worried in case something happened.
"Klaus' brother, Finn is in the town square and he's with some ex-girlfriend or something"
Stefan raised an eyebrow "Ex-girlfriend? Guy's been in a coffin for the last 900 years." He pauses as he thinks he knows who she's on about "Sage, it's got to be Sage"
"We have an opportunity. So how do we do this?" Brie asked Stefan as she wanted to know what he wanted her to do.
Stefan began to pace around the room "Listen to me, Brie, do not do anything, okay? Sage is very old and very strong. You don't stand a chance against her"
"Then get Damon and get down here" Stefan sees Alaric on the staircase and that he is injured.
Stefan slowly moved the phone from his ear but Brie could still hear what was said "What the hell happened to you?"
Brie heard Stefan worry "Stefan?"
"Rebekah happened"
Stefan raises the phone to his ear "I think we have a problem" Brie and Elena walks up to Stefan who is standing outside looking at his phone. "Hey. How is he?"
Stefan put his phone in his back pocket "Hey, he's just banged up, Caroline's gonna stay with him and make sure Alaric stays Alaric. Matt texted me and said Finn is still in the Grill. We need to plan our next move."
"Wait, Rebekah has Damon; our next move should be finding him" Brie said as she didn't know why Stefan didn't want to save Damon, yeah she had to admit he was a dick but he was still Stefan's brother.
Stefan shakes his head "No, we need to stay on point. See an Original, kill an Original. That's the plan"
Elena shakes her head, as she couldn't believe what was coming out of Stefan's mouth" Yeah, that was the plan before Damon's life was hanging in the balance"
"Look, Elena, I understand that you're concerned about my brother's life, but if he even knew, for one second, that we were talking about missing a chance to kill these people he would lose his mind"
"Yeah, and if the roles were reversed he would stop everything to save you" Elena said as Brie looked in between the two like it was a tennis match.
"I know what my brother would want"
"What he would want and what we should do are two different things"
"You gonna help me with this or not? Elena stares at Stefan, scornfully. "Okay, I'll figure it out myself" Stefan leaves.
Elena turns around to Brie "We need to help Damon"
Brie nods "I know, you go find Damon and I'll help Stefan, he'll need some back up" Brie said as she walked off finding Stefan as Elena made her way to the originals mansion. Damon is weak and still in the trap. He hears someone approaching him. He sees a person enter the room as they get closer, he sees it's Brie.
"What are you doing here? Rebekah will kill you"
"Then hurry up and - and tell me what to do" Damon looks up at his wrists, trapped in the bear traps.
"Open them, carefully" Brie opens one of the traps and grabs Damon, holding him up while she opens up the second one. Damon is too weak to move on his own, so Brie has to hold him up. They walk out of the room and down the hall. Damon starts to fall over and Brie urges him on.
"Damon. Come on, come on, we have to keep going. Damon" They make it to the parlor and Damon collapses on the floor, Brie falls down next to him. "No. Look at me, look at me" she grabs his face in her hands.
"Don't be an idiot, Brie"
"I am not going to leave you. Damon? No." Brie holds her wrist to his mouth "Hey, hey. Drink. Damon bites her wrist and starts to feed. After a while he stops and looks at Brie. He moves in toward her and their foreheads touch. The whole thing was just a daydream. Damon is still stuck in the trap. He hears footsteps approaching.
"Uh, you bitch"
"It's not fun when someone messes with your thoughts, is it?"
Damon smirked faintly "Actually, I was having a pretty good time in there"
"Mmm, well I hope you were nicer to Brianna than you were to me"
"Oh, come on, I couldn't have hurt you that bad. You didn't really think I had a thing for you, did you?" Rebekah looks hurt." I get it. If Klaus bossed me around for a thousand years, I'd probably be pretty desperate for attention too" Rebekah stabs Damon in the stomach and he screams. Finn and Sage are sitting at a table together in the Mystic Falls Grill.
"How many people have you turned?" Finn asked taking a sip of his tequila.
Sage shrugged her shoulders, she didn't know the exact number she lost count over the years "I don't know, a lot don't judge me, Finn, you turned me"
"Exactly Sage, I turned you. My passion overtook my morals"
"My passions overtake my morals on a daily basis. It's called living life to the fullest" Stefan and Brie were at the bar looking over at the couple. Stefan pushes a tiny bottle of vervain to his side, which Matt grabs along with a coffee cup. The waitress places two tequila shots on Finn and Sage's table. Stefan and Brie gets up from the bar and leaves.
"Oh, thanks" Sage raises her shot glass. "To living life to the fullest"
Finn raises his shot glass and clinks it against hers. "To living life"
Sage laughs and they drink their shots. Suddenly, they spit them back up and start choking "Oh, what the hell?"
Finn smells the glass "Vervain" Finn turns his head and he and Sage see Stefan leaving. Stefan stops and stares at them, then walks out the door. Sage and Finn get up and go after him. Outside the Grill, Stefan hides around the corner. Finn and Sage exit the Grill. Stefan goes to stab Finn, but Sage grabs him and throws him down on the ground. The stake falls down the stairs.
"Finn, the stake!" Sage shouts as Finn runs down the stairs to grab the stake.
Finn is about to grab the stake, when Brie and Matt burst out a back door. Brie shoots Finn in the stomach with the crossbow and Matt comes in and stabs him with another stake, directly in the heart.
"No!" Sage rushes down the stairs to Finn's side. Matt and Brie go back in the building and close the door. Sage cries as she watches Finn die and strokes his face. Stefan looks down from the top of the stairs and then leaves. "Finn, no" Finn's body catches fire and Sage backs up to the wall and continues to sob. After they leave Sage sobbing over her loved one, Stefan and Brie enter the library where Caroline was sat reading a magazine "Hey. How's Alaric?"
Caroline got out her seat and sat the magazine down on the chair "He'll be okay. I gave him a bottle of Bonnie's herbs and he went home. Oh, did you guys kill Finn, did it work?"
Stefan shakes his head "Nothing worked until I see Klaus's dead body myself."
Brie's phone rings. She answers it. It's Bonnie "Bonnie. Where have you been?"
"Klaus has Damon"
Brie looked confused as she thought by killing Finn, Klaus would die with him "Klaus should be dead. They should all be dead, we just killed Finn"
"No, Brie, he forced me to do a spell that unlinked all the siblings, he's still alive"
"It's bad, Elena, he threatened Jeremy. And my mom" Bonnie starts to choke up.
Brie could hear some sobs on the other end of the line "Bonnie are you okay?"
"I don't know. I'm sorry, I have to go, I just I have to go" She hangs up.
"No, Bonnie just..." Brie starts as Bonnie ends the call and slides down the side of her car outside the mansion and starts to cry. Stefan overhears the conversation and storms out as Stefan is leaving for Klaus and Brie follows him.
Stefan could feel Brie following him out the door but stops in his tracks and turns around "Stay with Caroline. I'll call you when it's over"
"Stefan, stop. Klaus is stronger than you, we need another plan"
"What we need is for Klaus to be dead" Stefan gets frustarted as he turns around to storm out the door.
Brie grabs Stefan and turns him around. "Stefan, stop it! You're acting on anger!"
Stefan gets in Brie's face which makes her step back in shock "Anger gets things done, Brie!"
Brie thought Stefan was insane did she really think he was that stupid "Or it'll get you killed! It'll get Damon killed along with you"
"Klaus does not get to survive this. Not after everything he took from me" Stefan walks out and slams the door. Brie flinches as Caroline enters the front hall.
"I miss well-adjusted Stefan" Suddenly, the door flies open and Stefan is thrown through it. Sage enters the house.
"Ding dong" Caroline goes to attack her, but Sage throws her to the ground. "I'm not here for you. I'm here for him"
Brie runs to the front door, but Troy blocks her path. "I don't think so"
Sage approaches Stefan. "I had to kill him, Sage"
"Oh, you remember me" She kicks Stefan and he flies into a chair. "Good. Then you know I like to go all ten rounds" She starts to cough and her nose starts to bleed. Stefan looks up at her. Stefan gets to his feet. Sage throws a punch at Stefan, but Stefan grabs her fist and throws her to the ground. She starts coughing up blood.
"Troy, help me!" Troy releases Brie and rushes over to Sage. He bends over and coughs up blood as well. "What is happening to me?" Sage said before her and Troy's lifeless body hit the ground.
Brie widened her eyes and moved closer to the bodies "She just died!"
"So, Sage and this Troy guy die within an hour of Finn"
Brie looked at Caroline and questioned "But why? Were they bitten by a hybrid or..?"
Caroline shook her head "Hybrid bites don't look like that. Maybe Sage was so in love with Finn she just died of sadness"
"No, that doesn't explain Troy"
"It's the blood. The bloodline, it has to be, think about it: Finn turned Sage, Sage turned Troy, they're all part of the same vampire bloodline that originated with Finn"
Caroline catches on "Wait, so when an Original dies every vampire turned from their bloodline dies along with them? Because that would mean..."
"If the Originals die, so do all of you. The entire vampire species would...it'd just be dead"