It's daytime. Outside the dorm building, students lay flowers at a memorial for Megan. Elena enters her dorm room to find Caroline rifling through the contents of a cardboard box. "Megan's memorial outside is growing by the minute"
Caroline rolls her eyes "Ugh, college kids are so dramatic. She was on campus for, like, one day. She couldn't have made that many friends"
"Caroline, she's dead. You can stop competing with her"
Caroline sighs " Sorry, I'm in a mood"
Elena sits next to her "You talked to Tyler?"
"He's deferring from enrolling and deferring from returning my phone calls, so I'm deferring from having sex with him ever again"
"How's the snooping going? Any explanation why our vervain-laced" She looks back to check for eavesdroppers "vampire-slaughtered roommate had a picture of my dad on her phone?"
Caroline shakes her head as Elena suddenly remembers something, and hands a folder to Caroline "Oh, um, I went by the hospital this morning, Megan's death certificate. It says she died of suicide. No mention of the gaping vampire-bites on her neck. So, whoever signed off on the cause of death was part of the cover-up, just like the Founders Council back home"
"Dr. Wesley Maxfield"
Elena nods "A.K.A., our Applied Microbiology professor. I switched our classes around, so that we could—"
"Applied — what, what? Uh, Elena, we are supposed to be taking Intro to Communication. What happened to getting drunk and making bad decisions about boys? What happened to our fun freshman year at college? I am supposed to be a drama major!"
"You're not going to be an Anything major if we get exposed as vampires!" Elena stops, realising her voice had been rising. Both she and Caroline take a deep breath, and Elena smiles. "We are still gonna have our fun year, Caroline, but we have to protect ourselves. The way Damon kept his secret in Mystic Falls was because he infiltrated the Founders Council. So, bust out those alleged acting skills, and let's get on it, okay?" Elena smiles at her, and finally Caroline relaxes and smiles back. They hear the door opening and closing and they turn around to see Brie. Elena looks at her up and down to see her clothes were all ruffled "Who's the lucky guy" she says with a big smile on her face.
"Nobody. A mistake. A big mistake" Brie said as she grabbed fresh clothes from her drawer.
"Enough about that. Where have you been?" Caroline said standing up with her arms crossed.
Brie sighs "If I tell you, promise you wont judge or tell anyone about what Im about to tell you"
Elena and Caroline look at each other and then look at Brie "Promise" they say in unison.
"I slept with Klaus"
"You what!" Elena and Caroline yelled.
"Shush" Brie said trying to quiet them "Not so loud. And I know. He kidnapped me last night if you were wondering where I had gone to. And he wanted to know about where Katherine was and one thing led to another. I blame drink. Im not drinking again" Brie said taking her top off, revealing her bra to them.
"Everyone says that" Caroline rolls her eyes "I cant believe you had sex with Klaus. I thought you were shacking up with the older one. Elijah"
"Caroline. I am not shacking up with anyone. Me and Elijah have just been seeing each other and that's all" Brie said as she started to feel really guilty. "Oh my god Elijah" Brie sighs as she flops onto her bed "Im a bad person. A really bad person. This is going to kill him" she says sitting up with her head in her hands.
Elena sits down next to her and put her hand on Bries back. "Brie you haven't done anything wrong. But what you need to do is tell Elijah. Before Klaus does"
Brie looks up "I know" she sighs "He's going to hate me"
Caroline sits on the other side of Brie "Maybe he will. But at least you told the truth. Could be worse. Could have a boyfriend who your probably never gonna see again"
"That bad huh?" Brie asks "Any update?"
Caroline nods "I was just saying to Elena that he has deferred from enrolling and deferred from returning my phone calls"
Brie puts her hand on Caroline thigh "Im sorry Care. Hope your okay"
Caroline nods again "I will" she smiles "Especially since I have you girls by my side"
"I did try to convince Klaus to let Tyler come back Mystic Falls before that happened"
Caroline chuckles "Ive learned to deal with it. Klaus wont let Tyler back into Mystic Falls. Not even sex with you Brianna could convince him" Caroline jokes as she receives a soft slap on the arm by Brie. Elena laughs as she watches Caroline and Brie laugh at each other.
An hour later, Brie Caroline and Elena enter the lecture hall for Dr. Maxfield's class. They pass by Jesse on their way to their seats. Jesse looks at Caroline "Hey, Blow-Off Girl. Aren't you a freshman? How are you in this class?"
"What? I love" She stutters, looking at the blackboard "Applied Microbiology...It's, like, my favourite biology. You know, little things are just so...cute"
"Are you going to the bonfire tonight? Or are you just gonna get really close and then turn around and leave again?"
"She'll be there" Brie intervenes and gives Caroline a playful wink.
"Sweet. We'll hang" Brie gives him a thumbs up and Caroline pushes her away to a few rows back. Caroline gives Brie a look.
"What? You said you wanted to make bad decisions about boys. He's cute, he's interested, and most importantly, unlike Tyler, he's here" Caroline narrows her eyes at Brie, but doesn't respond.
Just then, Dr. Maxfield walks into the lecture hall
"Morning, everyone. I'm Dr. Maxfield. First name is Wes, but call me Dr. Maxfield. One day, when you're out of med school, you'll understand. So, you're all going to this bonfire tonight, right? Well, here's a quick history lesson for you. Whitmore was founded as a hospital during the Civil War. Deadliest war in American history — over 600,000 casualties. Disease was so prevalent that once a week, they had to gather all the dead, rotting bodies, put them in a pile, and light the whole thing on fire. So tonight, when you're getting drunk and partying, stop for a second, close your eyes, and imagine the rancid smell of a hundred rotting corpses"
"Creep-y" Caroline sings quietly.
Dr. Maxfield continues "Which brings us to microbiology..."
Brie mumbles her response "But hott-ie" Elena rolls her eyes and giggles at her friends.
"Because that rancid smell comes from a very specific bacteria. Isn't that right, chatty girls in the back?" Brie, Elena and Caroline, still smiling from laughing quietly together, turn to face Dr. Maxfield, their smiles fading. "And what is that bacteria?"
Elena stutters as she was asked a question off guard "Uh, that's the, um...um...I don't know"
"Maybe because you're freshmen, who shouldn't be in this class. How do I know? I'm observant — a skill you'll learn in Bio 101, down the hall" Dr. Maxfield points to the door, while Brie, Caroline and Elena shift uncomfortably in their seats.
A few days later; Elena had to go back home as Damon had figured out Silas was back and was pretending to be Stefan. Damon and Elena found the real Stefan brainwashed by a witch who was Silas former lover. Elena talks to Brie on the phone. The scene alternates between Elena at the Salvatore boarding house and Brie at Whitmore college. "Please tell me I wasn't out of my mind leaving Damon in charge of Vampire Amnesia 101"
"What did he say exactly?"
Elena looks at the message Damon sent to her and she read it out to Brie "One text – "So far, so good." Which, in Damon speak.."
"Means that they probably devoured a troop of Girls Scouts by now"
"Brianna"
"I'm kidding...kind of. Although it's not uncommon for patients with retrograde amnesia or other traumatic brain injuries to turn volatile"
"Okay, Dr. Colace. Since when do you know so much about amnesia?"
"It's possible I studied up on my chem, biochem, applied microbio, molecular bio, and Grey's Anatomy—the real one and the television show"
"You did all that for Stefan?"
"Of course I did. I'm also trying to impress Dr. Maxfield. I figured if I could get closer to him, i.e. into his biology class, maybe I could figure out why he covered up our roommate's murder by vampire, and it's also possible that I have a study buddy"
Brie enters Dr. Maxfield's lab. Inside there are Dr. Maxfield, Jess and Caroline. "Hi, Dr. Maxfield. Are you ready to go study, Jesse? Caroline?"
Elena was still on the phone "Jesse? Dr. Maxfield's incredibly hot, funny, and miraculously single lab assistant?"
"I'm dragging him to our hometown graveyard bell-ringing ceremony"
"As in creepy first date?"
Caroline overhears the conversation and intervenes and yells down the phone"As in a study date" While I'm there, I might as well ring a bell for Tyler and me considering our relationship is on its death bed"
"Will I see you there? You could bring Stefan. I mean, it is ironically called "Remembrance Day"
Elena nods her head even though they cant see her "I hope so, I really do. It just depends on how Stefan's handling the whole download of his dark and stormy past"
Brie whispers to Jess "Hi" and goes back to talking to Elena "All right. Well, I'll talk to you later"
In the Mystic Falls Cemetery; People are sitting around, picnic style, ringing bells for the dead and drinking alcohol. Some put fresh flowers on graves. Caroline is lying on a blanket, Jesse is sitting on a chair with a textbook. Brie watches on as they both question each other on microbiology.
"Red Queen Theory. Go" Jesse questioned Caroline.
"A theory often used to explain the contradictory relationship between predator and prey"
Jesse looks up from the text book "And why does the supposedly weaker species always stay one step ahead?"
"Fear of extinction" She sits up and looks at Jesse "The rabbit is faster than the fox because the fox is chasing its dinner. The rabbit's running for its life"
Jesse looked impressed "Damn. If Maxfield doesn't let you in, you can have my spot"
She chuckles. "Well, whenever anyone tells me I can't do something, I prove them wrong"
Brie watches on as she see's Caroline smile. Caroline smiling, made Brie smile as she hadn't seen Caroline smile in a very long time. And she needed someone to put a smile on her face other than her friends.
"Brianna" her thoughts were interrupted when someone called out her name. Brie looks in the direction where she heard the voice call out her name. She seen Klaus standing behind her smiling. She didn't look too happy to see him and turned around not even acknowledging him. "Cmon on love don't be like that. You weren't like that last night" He smirked at his comment which didn't leave Brianna too pleased with him.
"What do you want Klaus?" Brie said crossing her arms still not looking at him.
He walks closer to her "You" he flirted as she moved hair away from her neck and started kissing down her neck.
She moved away from him "Don't. Touch. Me"
"Whats wrong love? Not what you were saying last night when I was doing that" She really wanted to slap him.
"Klaus, lets get one thing straight okay. Last night was a mistake. Was never meant to happen. If you had just left me with my friends we wouldn't be having this conversation"
"Have you told Elijah? I am sure he would love to know what you have done behind his back"
"Klaus please don't tell Elijah. Let me. Okay he deserves to know from me. Promise me Klaus you will let me tell him" she pretty much begged.
He was enjoying the sight of her begging in front of him "Okay love. You have my word. But one condition"
"Anything" she said, standing waiting for his offer.
"One more time" he said, licking his lips.
Brie looked at him is disgust "Never going to happen" she laughed sarcastically.
"Well then I guess I cant promise not telling Elijah"
"You're an evil man Klaus. You cant just blackmail me to get what you want"
Klaus moves closer "Sweetheart I can do anything I want. And I can have whoever I want" Brie looks at him up and down. She slaps him before storming off back to her dorm. Leaving Klaus smiling as he held his face. She had to tell Elijah sooner rather than later.
Stefan is walking around among the people. He grabs a bottle of alcohol from a basket and keeps walking as he starts drinking. Brie notices him "Stefan?"
"Brianna Colace, my best friend"
Brie looked shocked as he recognised her "What, you recognise me?"
"Well, I've studied pictures. You're much hotter in person" He drinks some more. "Sorry. I'm a little drunk"
"Yeah. Yeah. I can see that. Are you okay?"
"Well, if by "okay" you mean heavily spiralling into Ripper oblivion, then yes, I'm dandy"
"Keg-stand guy passed out, so I stole these" Jesse says as he appears with two cups.
Brie looks at Jesse "Hey. Thought you were with Caroline?"
Jesse nods "Yeah I was but she told me to find you"
"Do you mind just giving us a couple minutes?" Brie asked, polity.
"Yeah. It's probably a good idea because I can sense from here that you have a paper cut on the palm of your left hand, and I want to rip your entire arm off"
"Stefan!" Brie yells at him and walks up to Jesse, compelling him "Go away, hide. I'll find you" Jesse leaves Brie turns around to face Stefan "Look. I know that you're hungry, but you don't do people, okay? It just doesn't end well"
"What about blood bags? Do you have any blood bags?"
"Yes. In the car. Come with me" Brie turns around and starts walking to her car but Stefan speed-runs out of there.
Jess was in his hiding place and he went on the phone "Hey, Brie. It's Jesse. I don't know what's going on, but for some reason, I'm in a crypt in the cemetery, and I have no idea why"
Stefan suddenly appears behind Jesse. He vamps out and bites Jesse on the neck. Stefan lets go of Jesse "There. That wasn't so bad, was it? I did it. I stopped"
"I don't know what you are man, but"
"Oh, I'm a Ripper. You know what that means? That means I literally can't stop feeding until I rip someone's head off. But look at us. We're working it out"
"Let me out of here, please!" Jesse said trying to beg Stefan to let him go.
Stefan nods "I know I should let you out. I'm good, right? I'm compassionate. I live with this burning hunger inside of me that allows me to stay in control, but what do I have to show for it, huh?"
Jesse looks scared " I don't know you, man"
"I have no memories because my brain was fried. My brother, who's been my brother for a hundred and sixty-some-odd years, stole my girlfriend, and my girlfriend let him, so you tell me" Stefan sheds a tear "what's the point of being good?" Stefan vamps out again and bites Jesse.
Stefan is furiously feeding on Jesse "Hey! Stefan, stop!" Brie pulls Stefan away from Jesse. Jesse lies on the floor "This isn't you, okay? You might not remember, but I do. You are better than this. You are not this person"
"I have to go.I have to leave."
"Stefan" Stefan leaves. Brie turns back to look at Jesse. He's bleeding profusely. "Oh, my God" She bites her wrist and offers it to Jesse. "Jesse, Jesse, drink this. You'll be okay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I got you into this, I'm just sorry"
It's the next day Brie got a phone call from Elena. Everyone found out Bonnie has been dead for the last few weeks. She died trying to put the veil back up. She sacrificed herself for bringing Jeremy back from the dead and saving everyone else from the dead who were out for a vengeance.
It was daytime and Stefan is standing in the crypt. Brie walks in. "Hey. How you feeling?"
Stefan looks behind him "Hmm. I'm feeling better, which in my world means I haven't committed a homicide since I last saw you. I've been doing a lot of thinking today, a lot of wandering around, and this seemed like the most appropriate place to come" He looks at Brie. "What's wrong?"
Brie looks upset "It's Bonnie. My friend, our friend. She's dead"
Stefan stands there awkwardly as he doesn't know what to say as he couldn't remember who Bonnie was "Uh. What happened?"
"Please don't ask because then I'm going to have to try to come up with an answer, which means I'm gonna have to actually think about it, and then I'll start crying, and I'm afraid that I might not ever be able to stop"
Brie sits on a stone bench. Stefan sits beside her "I'm sorry. I wish that I could remember her"
"I don't know. Part of me just wishes that I could trade places with you because without all the memories, maybe it wouldn't hurt so damn much"
Stefan tried to comfort her "It's okay"
"It's not. I'm never gonna see her again, and I just got so used to her being there all the time, and now what? I'm supposed to just learn to move on without her? How do I do that when all I have is this sadness and this anger and" she tears up.
Stefan interrupts her "Me. You have me. Look. You were there for me last night. Sounds like you're always there for me" He places his hand on hers "So let me be there for you, okay?"
Damon, Elena, Brie, Caroline and Matt, dressed in funeral attire, walk towards a stump of a tree, where Jeremy, wearing a black suit, places a picture frame on top. Caroline approaches the stump and places black and red cheerleading pom poms on top. Matt, who's wearing a bandage around his cut hand, then places a his lifeguard whistle on the stump. Elena scatters white feathers over the stump and all the other items, then she backs out crying and Caroline hugs her. Brie places Bonnie's grimoire on the stump.
Bonnie appears behind Jeremy and talks to him "It's okay. They need this. I need this"
Jeremy grabs a bell that was sitting on the stump "We ring this bell in honour of Bonnie, in remembrance for her" He rings the bell and places it back on the stump. "I'm not sure what else to say"
"Say that I'm not going anywhere, say that even though they couldn't see me I've been there the whole time"
"She says that she's not going anywhere, that she has been here all along. Bonnie has watched you have the summer of your life" Bonnie walks through her friends, talking and Jeremy repeats her words to Elena.
"And I saw you happy, and I know you think now that you can't have a normal life, that you have to be there for everyone, but you don't. Everyone will find their way, so you are gonna repack your things, you're gonna go back to college, and you're gonna live it up"
Bonnie walks up to Matt and stands in front of him even though he cant see her "You didn't do anything wrong, Matt. You know I would have sent you three hundred e-mails back if I could. I miss you"
Bonnie walks up to Brie "Brie, I know your in a tricky situation the now. But you will get through it. You tell Elijah what you need to tell him. He will forgive you in time. You just need to be patient" Brie was in tears but was in shock that Bonnie had obviously seen what has been going on.
"Caroline...I watched you decorate that dorm room like your life depended on it" They laugh. "And I know that college isn't everything you expected and that you feel like something's missing, but...Tyler" Tyler appears behind everyone, walking and holding a single white rose. Caroline runs to hug him. Tyler places the rose among the other items.
Bonnie stands next to Jeremy "This is good. This is all I wanted. I'll be okay. We'll all be okay" Bonnie and Jeremy hold hands. Damon holds Elena. Tyler holds Caroline.
Dr. Maxfield is looking at his computer screen. Jesse is sitting on a gurney "Your vitals are normal"
"Don't sound so disappointed" Jesse said sarcastically.
Dr. Maxfield turned away from his computer and looked at Jess "Tell me about your night"
"Caroline Forbes took me to a party in Mystic Falls, and then...it's kind of a big blank. I must have been really drunk"
"What's causing your memory loss didn't come in a red cup. It appears you have vampire blood in your system, Jesse, which means you were either injured to the point of needing to be healed, or someone wants to turn you into a vampire. I'm guessing the former, and then I'm guessing you were compelled to forget"
Jesse didn't understand what he was saying "I'm sorry. What?"
"It's nothing to worry about. The good news about having vampire blood in your system is that's step one to creating a new vampire" He pulls out a hypodermic syringe. "This is step two" Dr. Maxfield injects Jesse with the contents of the syringe. His heart monitor's beeping starts accelerating and then flat-lines. Jesse lies dead on the gurney.