The campus is crawling with students and parents moving in while Caroline, Brie and Elena make their own way to their dorm.
"You're dreaming about Stefan?" Caroline questions Brie.
Brie shakes her head "They're not dreams, it's more of a feeling. Maybe you should call him"
"He'll call you when he's ready" Caroline says trying to assure her.
Brie sighs "Yeah I guess he will. But I just haven't seen him this full summer. Where is he?"
Elena rests her hand on Brie's shoulder to try comfort her "We all haven't but I am sure he's fine. Maybe he's just taking a break"
"We're in college, guys" Caroline says with a huge smile on her face.
"We actually made it. We're here!" They smile together as Bonnie, unseen, smiles with them.
"We're all here together"
Elena, Brie and Caroline unpack their stuff in their new dorm. "You brought a panini press?" Elena questioned as she watched Caroline unpack a few random things.
"Small appliances, by the fridge" Brie looks at her friend with a weird look as Liz carries a box into the room.
"Okay, that's the last one. All right, give me a goodbye hug before I change my mind and drag you home with me" Caroline hugs her mother. "You can call as much as you want, you know?" Liz says tearfully.
"Mom, we'll be fine"
Liz laughs and steps back. She looks at Brie and Elena "Come here" They hug.
Liz looks at Elena "This is where your dad fell in love with medicine, you know? He would be really proud to see you here"
"Thank you" Elena says smiling as Liz lingers for a long moment while they all look at each other, and the girls laugh.
"Okay, go! Before I change my mind and make you stay." Caroline says trying to push her mum out the room.
"I'm going, I'm going! I love you. Bye, girls" Liz leaves and closes the door behind her. The girls turn to each other excitedly.
"So? Roomies, I think we should drink to something"
"Well, I couldn't agree more...roomie" Caroline opens her suitcase and pulls out two blood bags; she tosses one to Elena and Brie.
Brie raises her glass and toasts"To us, and college, and being functional vampires."
"To the next chapter in our lives" They "clink" their bags in a mock toast when there's a knock at the door. With vampire speed, they stash their blood bags and turn to face whoever the visitor is.
The door opens and an unfamiliar girl walks in, carrying a load of stuff. "Hey"
The girls look at each other "Uh, who are you?"
"Oh, I'm Megan. Your roommate" Elena, Brie and Caroline look at each other, shocked and confused.
Brie puts on earrings while watching herself in the mirror, seeming lost in thought until Caroline loudly shuts a drawer and Brie snaps out of it. The shower can be heard running in the background "Did you notice how Megan's juicer takes up all the small appliance space? She has an entire drawer dedicated to organic linen"
"What happened to privacy?" Brie said turning around.
"Maybe if she didn't take such long showers, I wouldn't have time to go through her stuff. How are you okay with a forth roommate?"
"Because we're trying to be functional, and being functional means we need friends"
"We also need personal space. I mean, what if we suddenly get a craving, and I want to eat her? Or our blood bags go bad because we can't store them in the mini-fridge? Ugh, and what the hell is protein water?" Caroline pulls out the bottle in question, and Elena and Brie shrug "You know what, maybe if I drink it all, she'll wanna move out"
Caroline opens the bottle and takes a sip "Caroline, no" Suddenly Caroline coughs up the water as it sizzles in her mouth, collapsing to the floor. "Vervain"
The door to the bathroom opens and Megan appears, wrapped in a towel "What's going on? Are you okay?"
Caroline straightens up as Megan walks over with a clean towel to give her.
"Yeah, she's, uh, she's fine"
"Water just went down the wrong pipe. I'm okay, really. I shouldn't have touched your stuff, I'm really sorry" Caroline said haltingly.
"It's fine. It just sounded like someone was dying out here. Well, I'm glad you're okay!" Megan returns to the bathroom, shutting the door.
"She knows who we are – she drinks vervain water!" She yells softly so Megan couldn't hear.
Elena shakes her head "That doesn't mean she knows about us"
"Seriously? We share a bathroom with this girl! What if she's a hunter, and she stakes us when we're in the shower? Or she steals our daylight rings while we're asleep and then we burst into flames when the sun comes up?!"
Brie rolls her eyes at Caroline over reacting "Don't you think that, if she was a hunter, we'd be dead by now?"
"I think we should lock her up. You know, let the vervain get out of her system, and then we compel her to forget about us"
Brie intervenes "Caroline, I'm not kidnapping our roommate! The best way to convince her that we're normal, is to act normal. And do normal, human, freshman-y stuff"
"Such as?" A grin spreads across Brie face and she moves her shoulders like she's dancing.
The party is well underway when Jesse, the flyer guy, approaches Caroline, Brie and Elena.
"I'm Elena, this is Caroline and Brie" Elena says introducing them to Jesse.
Jesse smiles at both of them "Nice to meet you"
"Hi" Brie smiles and turns away without another word. Elena looks at Jesse apologetically and follows Brie. They stop suddenly at the entrance to the house, unable to go any further. "What the hell?"
Elena mumbles to Brie "Someone must own this place. We have to be invited in"
Megan comes out to the entrance "Hey! I was wondering if you guys were gonna make it"
Brie, Elena and Caroline stand awkwardly in the doorway when Jesse catches up with them. "You guys going in, or...?"
"Go ahead" Elena smiles as Jesse walks around them into the house.
"Why are you guys just standing there?"
"We were just.." Elena started thinking of an excuse.
Brie could see Elena was struggling for an excuse "Waiting for someone. She's late"
"Right. Well, I'm gonna go hang" Megan goes back into the house, and Brie, Elena and Caroline drop their too-bright smiles.
"Like I said, she knows" Caroline slyly says to the other two and watches Megan dancing from outside the house. Brie sighs and walks a few inches away from Caroline and Elena and she feels someone pushing her along. Before she could turn around someone grabbed her and vamp speeded out of the grounds.
"Well what do we do now?" Caroline says as she turns around to look at Brie who wasn't standing behind her "Brie?" Caroline called out as Elena turned around as well. "Phone her" Caroline said looking at Elena.
"She left her phone in the dorm" Elena said as Caroline sighed wondering where Brie had gone to.
Brie and Klaus are sitting at a table across from each other. Brie pulling her foot up onto her chair, takes a sip of wine while Klaus talks to her.
"Why did you kidnap me?" Brie says crossing her arms.
"Wouldn't say it was kidnapping love"
"Really? I was at a party trying to enjoy myself and you came and took me away from my friends. Id call that kidnapping"
"Call it what you want love. You know something that I don't"
"And that is?" Brie says as she was trying to work out what he was talking about"
"Give you a clue in the name. Katherine Petrova"
Brie rolls her eyes at the mention of the name "I'm lost. What do you want to know what I apparently know?"
"Talk in the town you were the last person to be seen with her. So where is she?"
"Yeah and I haven't seen her since. And ill be so happy if I don't see her again. She has made my friends life hell and I put her in her place"
"And what would that be love?" Klaus said eagerly to know.
"Ive said too much" Brie said taking the last sip.
Elena and Caroline hover on the edge of the party outside while Elena leaves a voicemail.
"Hey, Megan, it's Elena. Just calling to let you know why we left, so call me when you get this. Bye"
"Okay, it's settled. When she leaves, we grab her"
"Or we could just let her know you weren't feeling well"
"Elena, she saw us stuck at the threshold, we might as well have flashed her our fangs"
"There's no way that out of the thousands of freshmen, we were randomly paired with someone who knows about vampires"
"Maybe it wasn't random"
Elena's phone rings "Megan's calling" she says to Caroline and then picks up the phone "Hey, Megan"
"Elena! You have to help me! He's chasing me!" Alarmed at the panic in Megan's voice, Elena puts the phone on speaker as Caroline leans closer.
"Megan, who's chasing you?
"Help me! Oh, my god!"They look up at the upper storey of the house, but don't see anything unusual.
"We can't come inside – the line's too long. If you come out – where are you?"
"Elena, please help me!"
Caroline takes the phone as Megan starts screaming over the phone "Megan, can you hear me? Get outside and we can help you"
Suddenly something falls to the ground beside them, and they whirl around toward it.
"Oh my god!" It's Megan. Elena crouches down beside her. Her neck is ripped open.
Caroline stays standing "Who did this to her?" Caroline looked around to see if anything suspicious was going on.
Elena examined Megans neck "This was a vampire"
Back in the Mikaelson Mansion, Brie walks into another room with a drink in her hand, Klaus following behind her and stopping in the doorway. She approaches an area where Klaus's paintings lay on tables or stand propped up on the ground. Brie points "Hate that" she says while flipping through larger ones standing upright "Too much. I don't get that"
Klaus walks further into the room, looking like he's about to say something but instead smiles and says nothing. Brie starts picking up smaller paintings and gives her opinions "Hmm...I don't care" She tosses it away "Hmm. This one"
She picks up a painting of a dark figure silhouetted by a fading sky, standing near a bare tree.
Brie smiling, looking over her shoulder at Klaus "It doesn't make me wanna puke" Klaus smiles back, looking down. Brie puts it back down "Why'd you paint it?"
"Painting is a metaphor for control. Every choice is mine; the canvas, the colour" He begins to walk slowly closer to her. "As a child, I had neither a sense of the world nor my place in it, but art taught me that one's vision can be achieved with sheer force of will. The same is true of life, provided one refuses to let anything stand in one's way"
Brie snorts slightly, smiling. She looks up at Klaus through hooded eyes, and as she talks leans in to speak near his ear as she passes him "So this is your thing- show a girl a few mediocre paintings, whine about your childhood, and I swoon and spill all my dirty secrets?"
"I felt I had many charms, but, uh, regardless, I'm enjoying myself"
"And you do whatever you enjoy" changing her tone "Up to and including hunting my friend Tyler for the next century"
"Oh, surely not the next century. Only until I kill him" Klaus walks over to a table to pour himself a drink.
Brie starts laughing "You talk a good game but the truth is you let him go. My guess: you know if you kill him, Caroline will hate you forever"
Klaus faces her "If I simply killed Tyler, my revenge would be over in a moment. Sentencing him to a lifetime of paranoia and fear, that's Tyler's true punishment. But come now" walking towards her "You never really thought there was a future for them two, did you?"
Brie shrugs "I don't know. He might've of still been with Caroline if you hadn't chase him out of town"
Klaus starts laughing "You know, if Tyler has even half your resolve, he may actually make it through the year"
Brie sips her drink and shaking her head "It doesn't take resolve. It takes allies, a network of people willing to do anything for you, including chase down loose ends to their death. That's how Katherine escaped you all this time"
Klaus walks even closer to her "Perhaps you know Katerina's whereabouts?"
"I don't know where she is like I've said before but lets just say I made her very vulnerable now" She knocks back the rest of her drink as Klaus smiles.
Klaus is hanging up his cell phone while Brie stands with a drink watching the fireplace.
"Your free to go if you aren't going to tell me about Katerina or you can stay and tell me"
Brie pauses for a moment "I could be persuaded to stay maybe I could drum up a few of Katherine's secrets and you could do something for me"
"Oh, I'm sorry, love, but you'll never convince me to let Tyler go free"
"Well, then, I guess you'll never know what I've done to Katherine then. It would definitely help in your favour and it could leave Katherine fate in your hands" Klaus looks torn and turns and walks away. "Do you wanna know why I like that painting?"
Klaus turns back "Well, perhaps it was because it allowed you to see into my deep, wounded soul"
Brie walks towards him "I saw how twisted it really is" She bites her lip "And maybe I can relate"
"So what's it gonna be? Going? Or staying?"
"You like to be in control. You tell me" Brie says in the moment. Klaus brushes his hand against Brie cheek before grabbing her to him and she grins. They start kissing and Brie pulls Klaus's shirt over his head. Klaus vamp-speeds her up onto the table and she tears her own shirt over her head. Klaus pushes her down flat onto the table, then mounts her and kisses her neck while she gasps and moans underneath him.
Officials surround Megan's body and cover it up while Elena and Caroline observe from a short distance away. "What is happening? Our roommate is dead, there was a vampire at the party"
"We don't know what she knew or who she told. We should get out of here"
"Caroline, I left that message in her voicemail!" Elena says realising her at left a message.
"Don't worry, I took her phone"
"What?"
A policewoman approaches them "Hey, girls? I'm Dianne Freeman, I'm head of Campus Security. Are you okay? I understand Megan was your roommate. I'm so sorry you had to find her like this."
Caroline crosses her arms "Do they know what happened?"
"We found a note. Apparently she was struggling with severe depression"
"Wait, what do you mean you found a note?"
"Your roommate took her own life"
Caroline raises an eyebrow "You think this was a suicide?"
"We're convinced it was a suicide, but we can't seem to find her cell phone. Have you seen it?"
Caroline looks at Elena, nervously "No"
"Okay. If it turns up, let us know?" They nod, and the officer walks away.
"What is going on?"
They headed back to the dorm so Caroline listens to Elena's voicemail on Megan's phone. "Delete" She hits the necessary button. She and Elena arrive at the door to their room, which is ajar.
Elena cautiously pushes the door open "Someone's been in here. Megan's tablet's gone. Along with her so-called suicide note. Can I see the phone for a second?"
Caroline hands it over and Elena looks through the photos in it "It just doesn't make any sense. First, the roommate we're not supposed to have might know about vampires, and then happens to be killed by a vampire, and now the school's covering it up? Seriously, who is this girl?"
"Whatever's going on, it's not just about our roommate. It's about me" She holds up the phone to show Caroline a photo. "That's Megan – with my dad"
Caroline is in bed listening to a voicemail from Tyler "Hey, Caroline. I've put a lot of thought into this, and decided to defer school for now. This werewolf pack I'm helping...they need me. I know it's lame to do this over the phone, but I figure this way it's harder for you to kill me. I'm really, really sorry, Care...but this is important" The message ends and Caroline hangs up. Elena is lying in her bed awake and hears Caroline start to cry.
Elena hears Caroline crying and turns around "You okay?"
"Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine" Caroline said wiping her tears.
Elena turns in bed to face Caroline. "I'm sorry, Caroline"
Caroline turns toward Elena. "I'm really glad that you're here"
"I'm really glad you're here, too" They each turn back to go back to sleep, though Elena looks pensive.
In the Quarry, Stefan hallucinates that he is lying on a blanket near the quarry with Brie
"We could be doing anything right now, Stefan. Be anywhere. Why here? Why this?"
"These are the good moments...the simple ones, the ones that matter. These are the moments that keep me from falling apart
Brie smiles, and leans down to kiss Stefan "This can't last forever. You're just distracting yourself" Suddenly Brie starts choking and spitting up water. In real life, Stefan starts drowning again.