Chapter 14: Down the Rabbit Hole
The day arrived as Damon was awake and tied to the tree, the hunter had caught himself a rabbit and was cooking it over the fire. Damon struggles in his restrains and the hunter looks up at him. "Is something bothering you?" the hunter asks him in a Scottish accent. "Could you blame me of I said mystics?" Damon asks him, "Aye. I would." the hunter said and bites on the rabbit meat, "So how does it feel when a relentless little thing is draining you of blood from your veins?" the hunter asks him, "Itchy." Damon answers and the hunter turns to him, "Your friends from Mystic falls think your funny Damon." the hunter tells him.
"You officially seem to know who I am, you've been spying on me?" Damon questions him. "Aye. I have." the hunter answers him then stood up. "You. Stefan, Elena, Samathea." the hunter answers him and Damon stiffens. "Your witch Bonnie that you need to cast the spell written on your pal Jeremy's hunter's mark." the hunter answers him and sat down on the rock. "The tattoo that looks exactly like this." he states and showed him his arm. "If you want to know something, just ask." Damon tells him as he wanted him to get to the point. "I've been killing vampires, my entire life, still this thing refused to reveal itself to me. That wasn't until three days ago when it was magically completed itself for no parent reason." the hunter states.
Damon just scoffs, "Come on man, does it look like I know anything about tattoos, look at my skin, its flawless." Damon jokes and the hunter laughs a little to himself with a poker in his head, "You're not taking me seriously." he states and stood up. "I don't blame ya. You don't know me." he states and points the poker at Damon's neck. "So let me introduce myself." he states and stabs the point right into Damon's neck and he groans in pain. Then the hunter steps closer "My name is Galen Von. And you better start taking."
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The four stood on the beach as Elena was on the phone, "Tell me you're not serious?" Caroline asks her as Elena informs her on everything. "I wish I weren't. But when we got back from looking for Jeremy, both Shane and Bonnie were gone too. He needs Bonnie to cast the spell on Jeremy's body and he manages to sneak them both right out from under our noses." Elena informs her
"Well, where's Damon in all of this?" Caroline asks her, Elena sighs and looks at Samathea. She walks up to her and took the phone, "Shane got to Damon and we had an argument, but ended on a good note and haven't seen him since, so I went to look for him and found signs of a struggle." Samathea informs her, "Meaning what?" Caroline asks her. "My guess would be that someone else besides us and Shane, possible islanders are here as well." Samathea informs her. "Do you think Shane took him?" Caroline asks her. Samathea shook her head, "Doubtful, Shane may be cunning, but he's not stupid enough to take Damon on, it possible it was another hunter, they're the only ones gutsy and stupid enough to pull that off." Samathea informs her. "Sorry, I wish I was there to help." Caroline states.
Then idea hits her, "Wait, there may be something you can do." she states, "Anything." Caroline answers her. "So Shane looking for Silas, but needs the hunter's mark for the spell to free him. We might be able to find him, we have pictures of tattoo, but it's in Aramaic and I can barely translate it." Samathea informs her. "Wait, you know Aramaic?" both Elena and Caroline asks her. "Vy budziecie zdziŭlieny na mnohich movach ja viedaju." she informs them. "Anyway, there's only know thing that can decryphor the tattoo." Samathea states. "Unless you get thehunter sword from Klaus." Caroline states.
"He won't give the sword." Rebekah states, "Yeah, but if anyone can make him give up the sword, it Serena." Stefan states. "She won't do it, you don't know her like I do." Rebekah informs her, "And Serena really cares about Caroline and if anyone can talk Serena into convincing Klaus, it's Caroline." Elena informs her. "Even she wouldn't did it, not even for Caroline, Klaus is terrified that we will use the cure to make him mortal and even if we weren't, he'll destroy it, so we can have a chance for happiness." Rebekah informs her, "Well, maybe they don't have to." Stefan states as Elena and Rebekah look at him, "Klaus is stuck in Elena and Samathea's living room he can't go anywhere, there's only so many places you can hide a peace of metal." Stefan states as Samathea looks over at them. "I'll find it, just email me peaces of Jeremy's tattoo, I'll find the sword and I'll call you back." Caroline informs them, "Thanks Caroline, I owe you big time." Samathea tells her and hung up the phone.
Caroline hung up as well as she gathers her things, "Need my help with anything, Love?" Klaus asks her, "Nope." she answers him as she walks out of the house, Klaus just chuckles and looks down at Serena who was sleeping peacefully.
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Solon lead Shane, Jeremy and Bonnie to the cave with Mas'tok behind them, "Come, come, don't dowel, we're burning daylight." Solon calls out as she walks up the rocks and into the cave.
They rest of the gang followed as she was standing by the well, looking down at it. Shane puts his pack down as Jeremy and Bonnie stood side by side and Mas'tok grips his tailsmen. "This is as far as I go." he tells them and Shane looks at him, "We're on the brink of monument moment in human history, we're going to raise the most powerful creature that ever was. Our task is not done yet." Shane tells him, "Mine is. You said get the kid and the witch and I did. I want to get paid now." he tells him, Shane sighs and unzips his bag and pulls out the tombstone.
The two watch him as he walks over to Mas'tok and handed him the stone, the witch looks at the two as Solon kept her eyes on the well. "I'll say prays for your souls." he tells them and walks away. Then Bonnie walks up to Shane, "That what the tombstone was for? To pay off a mercenary?" she questions him, "That tombstone is made up of Kesta's blood." he informs her. He just looks at him, "In some witch circles, that stone is more valuable then the hope." he states and stood next to Solon, looking down the well, "So." he states and looks at the three, "So who wants to go down first?" he asks them as Solon jumps down.
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Caroline and Tyler walk into the house and a laptop and the sword. "Well, if it isn't little orphan Lockwood. Come to show how lawfully impenitent you are against me?" Klaus jokes, Serena groans and turns away. Tyler sighs "I'm just trying to help my friends find the cure. Found this in your attic." Tyler answers as he pulls the sword out.
"And you think finding the sword brings you closer to the cure?" Klaus asks him as Serena rolls her eyes and sat up. "You tell me." Tyler states and looks down at the hilt of the sword, "I was playing around with the handle on the ride over and I found this." he said and removes the leather from the handle and showed symbols, both Klaus and Serena stood up and walk to him, looking down at the sword. "And what do you think this is?" Klaus him, then Caroline stood up, "It's called a Cyptext." she states and the boys look at her, "I've seen the De Vinci Code." she objects "You turn the different sides of the different symbols to get the translation on the other side." she informs him as Tyler turns the hilt.
Serena crosses her arms as she nods at Caroline, "And with the magic of the internet Elena sent over these." she state, showing them pictures of Jeremy's tattoo. "So now we have to do is crypt text away." she tells them and sat down. "If you happen to want to help, we wouldn't stop you." she tells the two. "Do you even know what language it's in?" Serena asks her, the two look at her as Klaus smirks "Well, you might want to use the magic of the internet to prepuce an Aramaic to English dictionary from your nearest retailer." Klaus informs them and the two look at them. "What's Aramaic?" Tyler asks. "It's a dead language, it hasn't been used since Biblical times." Caroline answers him. "Questia's native tongue I'm guessing." Klaus states as Serena rubs the back of her neck, "She sounds like a very smart witch, too smart." Serena mutters to herself. "Well, even if you had the best dictionary in the world, it could take days to translate, maybe even week." Klaus states as he turns away and sat down on the coffee table.
Serena crosses her arms and looks at him as he smirks. Then he spoke something in Aramaic, the two look at him, surprise he even knew the language. Then Serena response to him, making him chuckle. "What does that mean?" Caroline asks Klaus looks at her as Serena sat down next to him, "If only you spoke Aramaic."
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Rebekah held her cell at the sky and got no signal, she sighs and looks over at Stefan and Elena as they were sitting on a log. "And once again, everyone's life is in danger looking for this cure, because really, they can't deal with being a vampire." she states and throws the rock, "Nah, everyone here because they want to be," Stefan tells her.
She looks at him, "Not just for you, but themselves too." he informs her, "Stefan, why didn't you tell me that you want the cure for yourself?" she asks him. "I mean, why wouldn't I want to take it. I've seen every side of vampirisum there is. Power, misery, the guilt. Even in the long road the good parts kind suck too." he tells her, "I mean, I know why you would want to take it, but why wouldn't you tell me?" she asks him. "Because it had nothing to do with you. You know how much I wanted a human life with you, being human myself, being normal. That was something I wanted long before I met you and Samathea." he tells her. She smiles at him, "Well, I'm glad you told me now." she states and Stefan smirks, "Well it's a deep secret between friends." he tells her, "Between friends?" Elena asks him.
Then she smiles at him, "I like that." she states and places her hand on his, Rebekah stops as she looks down at their hands and she exhales. Then Samathea vamps back to them with torn cloth in her hand, "Alright, I'm back." she states as she walks to them, they look at her, "Where did you vanish off to?" Elena asks her, "I'll tell ya later." she answers and hands a cloth to Rebekah, "Here, tie this on your arm." she tells her, "Really? You expect me to wear this?" she questions her, "Trust me and do it, so I don't accidentally kill you or so to speak." Samathea tells her, Rebekah rolls her eyes and did so, "Here, for you and you." she handed them a peace of cloth as well. Elena smirks and ties it onto her wrist as Stefan did as well.
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Galen and Damon walk through the woods, "So where the hell are we going?" Damon asks him, "The wishing well, lies within is a crypt. And in that crypt lies Silas and with Silas lies the cure, which will allow me to kill Silas and bring the mission of brotherhood of the five. To an end." Galen answers him, "Your my leverage, Damon. I use you to get your witch friend to open the passage to Silas's crypt for me." he went on.
Damon slows down in his walking, "Wait, you're using me as bait to get to Bonnie Bennett?" he questions and slowed down. "Whoa, brother. You pick the wrong vampire." he states and Galen turns to him. "I guess we'll see about that." Galen states. "Here's the deal, Shrek. My witch friend will open the passage for you, no leverage necessary. We don't care about Silas. All we want is the cure, so you got to consider your share and we'll get out of your hair." Damon negotiates with him but Galen just smirks at him. "You really don't understand, do you?" he asks him, "No I don't understand, so what don't you explain it." Damon growls back at him as he was not in the mood for any riddles. "Silas is immortal, I have to cram the cure down his throat in order to kill him." Galen explains, Damon just glares at him. "Yeah, but what does that have to do with me and my friends?"
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Caroline and Tyler look over the pictures of Jeremy's tattoos as there were note cards of the translation. "Okay, this is it. We've translated all the symbols on the tattoo." Caroline states as she looks down at the cards, "Passage inside requires a young senator and a pretty flower." Caroline states and she scoffs, knowing that that translation was rubbish.
Serena smirks, "Okay, none of this makes sense." she snaps, throwing them back down onto the table. Klaus just smirks to himself. Then spoke in Aramaic, the two look over at him as Serena smirks "Requires a powerful witch and a hunter in full bloom." she translates for him. "What are you doing?" Tyler questions him. "I don't need to tell you my reasons." he informs her, then Serena stood up and walks over to the two, "Caroline, my I?" Serena asks, holding her hands to the sword and the teen looks at her.
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"I need to use the cure against Silas, your friends… they can't use it on themselves, now can they?" Galen states, "Then you use it one Silas and we'll use it for whoever wants to use it." Damon counter argues.
"You don't want to share it with us?" Damon questions him, Galen shrugs at him, "I couldn't even if I wanted to." he answers him, "Then why won't you?" Damon questions him again. "So it is written," Galen answers him.
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Serena walks back to Klaus with the sword and handed to him, he takes it and looks at the engraving on the hilt as he looks at it, "Silas rest on the far side in the means of his destruction is at hand." he translates as Caroline and Tyler exchanged looks at Klaus looks over at the screen of Jeremy's tattoo. "Turn the crypt text to the right," he states and Serena turns it to the right and stops. "At top of the hilt, reveals a key to a notional map," he states and Serena turns the top to the left then turns the other piece. "There's something else," he states. Serena then turns the text to her and reads over them.
She spoke in Aramaic. Then Klaus smirks as the two look over at the teenagers, "What does it mean?" Caroline asks them, Serena looks at Klaus, he nods at her, "Klaus, Serena. What does it mean?" she asks them again and Serena looks back at the two, "There's not enough for everyone."
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Galen leans in close to Damon as he was smirking at him, "There's only enough for one dose." he answers him and Damon looks at him in utter shock.
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Shane lowers Bonnie into the cave as Jeremy was looking around as Solon was pacing, then the Bonnie started to fall, Jeremy shot a look at her, but before she hit the ground. She stops in mid-air, she looks around and saw that Solon was keeping her from smacking onto the ground. Then Bonnie plops against the ground and Jeremy ran over to her, "You okay?" he asks her, she nods at him as she sat up, "Yeah, I'm OK." she answers as Solon then look away and crosses her arms. Then Jeremy helps her up as Solon was looking around, "Okay, guys. I'm coming down." Shane shouts at them. Bonnie walks from the light and looks around at the cave. Jeremy looks up at the top and then walks over to Bonnie. Solon just kept her eyes on the shadows as she was looking for the way to the crypt. "Hey Bonnie." he whispers, she turns to him, "What do you think going to happen once you cast the spell on my tattoo?" he asks her.
"And there's nothing between Shane and Silas, but this Solon person." he states, looking over at the sorceress as she was looking at the tunnels, "There's something there." he states, looking back at Bonnie "Do you trust me?" she asks him, "Of course," he answers her she looks over at Solon then back at Jeremy. "Then trust me when I say, I won't let help Shane raise Silas," she informs him. He looks up to where Shane was and back at Bonnie, "Just don't do anything stupid if your Expression gets out of hand, Shane is the only one that can help you kept it in control." he reminds her. "Don't worry about me, I'm fine. But if Shane tries to lift a finger on his hand to turn either one of us. I'll kill him myself." she tells him and walks away.
Jeremy turns and followed after her, Solon watches them leave and then kneel down beside the ground. She then pulls out a knife that she snags from Bonnie's group. She then looks around and saw that they were looking and she pressed the knife to her hand, slowly cutting it and then blood plops down onto the ground, she held her cut hand over it and lets her blood drain. It then travels through the cracks and to the crypt down below her. The blood then plops down onto the stone corpse below them as it enters the mouth of the immortal being.
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Rebekah pace back and forth then her phone rings and she answers her. "Hello?" she asks, "Hey, it's Caroline. We have the transition of the tattoo, we're emailing you pictures of the map and instructions right now." Caroline informs her. Her phone then dings and she exhale "Got it. Thanks." she said to her. "Actually it was me and Serena." Klaus informs her, "Nik, you helped?" she asks him, "You sound so surprised, little sister." he states "Shouldn't I be? You don't want me to be human, you don't want any of us to be human, why would you want to help us find the cure?" she questions him.
Samathea walks up to her and shrugs. 'Klaus.' she answers and Samathea listens in, "Maybe I finally realized that the longer I stand in the way of what you want, the longer you'll hate me. Perhaps I want my sister to finally know happiness." he answers her, Rebekah looks at Samathea and she shook her head. "Fool me once shame on you, fool me hundred times," she growls. "No more fooling. No more games. I hope you get to live and die as you wish." he tells her and Rebekah were silent. "So do I." she finally spoke. "There is one more thing. There is only one dose of the cure. You need to find it first and take it, it's the only way-" he was suddenly cut off. The two were in shock. "Nik. Nik!" Rebekah states and looks down at her phone as Samathea and Rebekah lock eyes.
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Galen and Damon walk through the woods then Galen shoves him, "Touch me again and-" Damon states. "And you'll what? Threaten me?" Galen questions and shoves him forward, "I'm sorry if you're upset about the cure, Damon, but we got a road to cover." Galen said to him. But Damon scoffs "I don't care about the cure. Frankly, I wonder why anyone wouldn't want to be a vampire. You know what, if I wasn't a vampire I wouldn't be about to do 9 of the things I'm going to do to you when I'm free." Damon informs him. Then Galen shoves him again. "Make that 10," Damon adds on. "Right." Galen laughs and Damon leans against a tree.
Then he exhales, "Alright, I admit, okay. My friends want the cure and I want them to have it. And I'll be very upset if I can't provide for my loved ones." Damon informs him and then smirks. Galen walks back to him "But tell me something, Von. If all you're worried about is Bonnie the teenage witch then why did you save Jeremy and Samathea yesterday?" Damon questions him. "Why would I go that?" Galen asks him, "Big guy white paint all over him, shot Samathea in the shoulder with an arrow. Stuck a hatchet in his spine." Damon describes the scene. "I don't remember doing such a thing." he answers and pulls on the rope, but Damon pulls on the rope as well making Galen looks back at him, "We're on a remote island, there's you, me, and a butch of unpleasant locals. You expect me to believe that someone else took out the monster truck of a human that almost took out Jeremy and Samathea." Damon went on as he got in his face. "I'm telling you, it wasn't me," Galen growls and pulls Damon forward.
Damon then exhales, but then stops and looks down at the bushes, Galen walks up and looks down as well, seeing a dead body of a local. Damon inhales. "Was that you?" he asks him, "No." Galen answers him then looks at the vampire, "You?" he asks, "No." Damon answers him and they look around at the woods. "Well, I reckon there is someone else on this island."
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Jeremy and Bonnie shine there lights as they look at the caves, "It's just amazing isn't it?" Shane states as Solon was kneeling on the ground and concentrate, the two kept there eyes on Shane, "Once we raise Silas, all of our sacrifices will have been worth while and we'll have what we want." he states and Solon opens her eyes. "Or he'll kill us all." Bonnie reminds him, Shane turns to her, "You'll see I'm right, just don't getting ideas, remember, if anything happens to me, something a lot worse will happen to you." he reminds her, Bonnie just glares at him as Solon exhales in annoyance. "As fun as this is, I'm getting annoyed by this, so can we please move along." she calls out. "Alright! So where is this stupid passage she has to open." Jeremy asks him as Solon walks up to them. "Just look for anything out of place, anything that's not incurring in nature, like a drawing or an inscription." Shane states then he looks down at his feet.
The others were looking around, "Or a geometry perfect circle." he states and looks down at the circle then brushed away the dirt and rocks, Bonnie just eyes him as he was looking down at the circle. "This is it." he states and the three look at him, "This is the spot," he said and Solon narrows her eyes.
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The three walk through the woods, "What did Caroline say?" Elena asks them, Rebekah and Samathea exchange looks, "No clue." Samathea answers. "We lost the signal. Come on, this way." Rebekah states as they followed the map and were at the quarry, they stop at the edge and Rebekah looks at her phone. "Samathea…" a voice calls out and Samathea looks around the area, Elena looks at her, "Sammy? You okay?" she asks her, Samathea looks back at her and nods, "Yeah, I'm fine. Though I heard something." she informs her. "We need to get down and across. Seeing how we're vampires. All we have to do is jump." Rebekah informs them. "Wait, wait. Umm…" Elena states as the three look at her, "Maybe you should leave the map behind, in case you fall, you don't want anything to happen to the phone." Elena informs her and Samathea arch her eyebrow at her. "Are we doing this again? I thought we were a team?" Rebekah questions her. Then Samathea steps in. "We can rip each other to shreds later. Rebekah keep that map on you, Stefan, you stay here. Elena and I will go first." she orders them as she removes her pack and shit Rebekah a glare, sending her a metal message. "Alright." Stefan agrees as Samathea kneels down and Elena climbs onto her back.
She then stood up as she held onto Elena's legs. "You hanging on tightly?" Samathea asks her, "Yeah." Elena answers, Samathea smirks then she ran forward and jumps. They both were falling a 90 story building height. Then Samathea makes a perfect landing as Elena plops on the ground behind her. Then two pant and sat on the ground, then they look at each other and started to laugh. "You good?" Samathea asks her as she stood up and offers Elena a hand. "Yeah, I'm okay." she answers and they dust themselves off. Elena and Samathea looks back up at the cliff then around at the quarry. Stefan went to follow, but Rebekah holds her arm out and stops him, he looks at her. "There's something you need to know about the cure."
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Bonnie held her hand to the tattoo on Jeremy's chest, Jeremy looks at her as Bonnie was trying to focus. "You're doing it, just breath. Focus on what you can do, not what you can't." Shane tells him as Solon just rolls her eyes. "Well, that's inspiring," she said in a dull tone, picking at her nails. "You can do this." Jeremy tells her and she looks up at him, "Just like how you taught me. you're in control." he tells her, she exhales and closes her eyes.
Then she focuses her magic on the tattoo and Jeremy inhales sharply, getting Solon's attention. "Yes, it's just like breathing," Shane tells him as the tattoo on Jeremy's body started to vanish from his skin into the center of her hand. She slowly opens her eyes as the magic was coursing through her. But then the cave started to rumble as the rocks were coming loose. Shane ran for cover as Solon pulls up a barrier around her.
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Von marches through the woods, pulling Damon along with him. Wait, did I was pulling, I meant dragging him forcibly behind him. But then stops as he pulls up his sleeve and saw that his tattoo was disappearing.
"Looks like your witch his casting her spell," he states at asks he marches faster. Damon groans as he was forcibly tugged after him.
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Elena was pacing as Samathea stood there with her arms crossed, but then Samathea turns her head as she heard something, whispers of something calling out to her. Elena looks at her, noticing the look on her face, "What's wrong?" she asks her, "Thought I heard something, the island must be messing with me." she answers her. Back up top, Rebekah explained everything about the cure. "Are you sure Klaus is telling the truth about the cure? There is only one dose of the cure?" Stefan asks her. She looks at him and nods. Stefan sighs, "Well, I guess that will happen when you're dumb enough to hold out hope." he states, as he lost his. "There's still hope for one of us." Rebekah states and looks at him as he looks at her, "And even if I felt pity for you, and even if I wanted to ease your pain and give you the cure to save yourself. You would give it to Samathea, to make Elena happy, wouldn't you?" Rebekah asks him as he looks away from her.
Rebekah smiles bitterly to herself and looks away, "That's what I thought." she states then exhales, "Well, I'm sorry it couldn't work out the way we wanted it to." he tells them, then grips his neck and snaps it. The two look up and saw Rebekah snap Stefan's neck and he collapsed. They gasped then Elena turns to Samathea, "Sammy, go. Get out of here." she tells her, Samathea looks at her and bites her lip. "Go!" she orders, Samathea exhales and vamps away
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Jeremy lifts his head up and saw the boulders were scattered all around him, "Bonnie!" he calls out and then stood up, "Bonnie!" he calls out again, "Quit your bitching." Solon calls out, he turns and saw Solon stand up and help Bonnie to her feet, "I'm okay, I'm here." Bonnie said with a smile as they dust themselves off. Then she hisses. Looking down at her hand and saw that she was bleeding. "Here." Solon said then tore off some of her shirt and wraps it around her hand, "That should stop the bleeding." she tells her and Bonnie looks at her, "Thanks." she said and Solon shrugs "Look. It work." Bonnie tells them as a passageway was opened to them, "You did it." Jeremy states, she stops and looks at him "We did it." she tells him as he pulls his shirt back on. "Um, guys." Shane calls out the three stop and look at him, "A little help, I think my leg's broken." he calls out to them. "Best to stay off it then." Bonnie answers him and he looks at her in shock.
Solon smirks to herself as he was looking pathetic in her eyes, "Wait come on, Bonnie. Bonnie!" he calls out to them as Jeremy and Bonnie entered the tunnel, Solon rolls her eyes and flicks her wrist and his leg snaps. Shane cries out in pain, gripping his leg. "You should be fine in an hour or two. Maybe three. But you're surely bleed out, most likely die. So have fun." Solon said with a smirk and followed after the two.
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Damon walks through the tunnel and was shoved inside the cave, "We're here. Well, someone beat us to the punch." Van states as Damon looks down into the hole. "That's a shame Damon. I have no use for you, hate to kill ya." Von said to him, Damon turns and looks at him, "Ditto. Without the pesky hunter's curse and all." he states and Von nods a little. "All right, how do you want to do this?" Damon asks him. "I'll make it quick and painless." Von answers and pulls on the rope that started to choke Damon and burn his skin, but the vampire grips the rope and stop the choking. "Wish I can make the same." Damon states and pulls on the rope. Then Von cuts them loose and pulls out his gun. Damon then grips the rope around his neck groans and he rips it right off, then he grunts in pain as he rips the rope right off his wrist and Von steps behind the beam. Damon peeks out as he glares at Von, "I'm going to kill you and then I'm going to get to the damn cure and I'm going to give it to the girl that I love." Damon promises him.
Von just smirks to himself as he kept the gun trained on Damon, "Your attachment to your friends will be the end of you." he tells him, Damon just glare at him then suddenly rocks hit the ground, echoing through the cave and alerted to the two. Damon smirks to himself, "You don't know my friends." he answers him. Then Rebekah steps out, "Or my enemies." he adds as Rebekah glares at the two.
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Elena sat next to Stefan as he was awake and feeding of a blood pack. "There's only one cure?" Elena asks him, he looks at her and nods. Elena shook her head. "Samathea wouldn't take the cure, not above everyone else that deserved it as much as I want me twin sister back." she states and Stefan hung his head. She then sighs and looks away. "It's over." she states, Stefan looks at her. "Don't be, I mean it's a blessing in disguise." she states as she brushed back her hair. "How so?" Stefan asks her. She exhales and looks at him, "Everything changed for Sam the moment she went off that bridge. I've seen that change in her and even if she wanted to be a sorceress. She won't the that same person from before." she states and Stefan nods a little. "And I know that she's accepted the person she is now and I have to accept that as well and figure out how I will life the rest of my life, knowing that I failed her as her older sister." she statesmen
Stefan nods a little as raised his eyebrows momentarily, "And the rest of her life, sired to Damon." he adds and she exhales. "Then we'll deal with that after we get home." she tells him, he nods and looks away then realization hits her, "Oh my god. Home. Klaus. Bonnie's spell isn't going to hold him." she informs him, "And after what we did to Kol, if we don't figure out a way pass Serena and ram that cure down his throat, he'll kill us all." he agrees with her. "Pity party over. We have to go." Elena tells him and they both stood up.
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Tyler walks out of the house running his hands through his hair as Caroline follows after him and closes the door behind her. "Everything I think I have it, the son of a bitch gets the upper hand." he informs him, "We won't let him hurt you. Stefan, Elena and Samathea will bring back the cure." she assures him. "If the get to it first and of the don't Klaus kills me. I need to get out of town and figure out how to stay alive." he reminds her as he panics. "Hey, wait, hang on, gosh!" Caroline grips his shoulder and makes him look right at her. "Before you get all doomsday, at least let me try and talk to Serena and see if she can convince him not to kill you." she tells him, "She is the last thing he got to lose Care. he's brother is dead, he's hybrids are gone, all he wants right now is blood, starting with mine." he reminds her.
She exhales and bites her lip, "I am not going to say good-bye to you again, do you understand me?" she orders, he looks at her as she grips his neck gently. "Let me fix this."
~8~8~8~
The three glared at each other as they were in a stand off, "Are we going to sit or are we going to play?" Damon asks them, "You know he can't hurt me Damon." Rebekah states as she walks forward, then Samathea walks into the room, they all look at her, "Oh shit." she mutters and stood next to Damon, "What took you so long?" he asks, Samathea shrugs, "Oh you know, same old same old." she mutters and looks at the hunter. "Who's this?" she asks, "Von, vampire hunter." Damon answers him. "Oh, does he have the white oak stake?" she asks him. "Oh he doesn't but he's got other toys." Von answers and he fired at Rebekah, he went to reload, but Rebekah vamps right at him, and then gasp as Von placed a stake bomb on her chest. She gasp and back away, then she looks at him as he smirks and held up the pin.
The bomb went off as the stakes impale into her chest. Rebekah went quiet as she collapsed onto the ground. Then Samathea vamps at him, gripping his wrists and headbutted him, throwing him off, but he pulls himself back and headbutted her right back, throwing her off and she stumbles back, then he pulls out his shotgun. "Samathea!" Damon calls as he vamps to her, throwing her to the side. And the vervein rope wraps around Damon's neck as he was pinned to the beam, Samathea gasp as she fell into the hole, "Damon!" Stefan calls out as he and Elena walk into the cave, then Von jumps into the hole and uses the rope to slow his ascension. The two watch him and looks at Damon. They quickly ran to him and Stefan works at the vervein rope around Damon's neck and he cries out in pain, Stefan finch in pain as he was struggling with the rope. "You're wasting time, just get the cure. Go." he tells them, "We're not gonna leave you." Elena tells him as she refuses to leave her friend behind. Stefan then looks over at him. "No we aren't you need to go ahead, we'll be right behind you." he tells her, she looks at him not sure what to do. "Go." he tells her, she exhales, walks over to the ropes and lowers herself down.
~8~8~8~
Bonnie, Jeremy, and Solon walk through the tunnel with Bonnie shining the light, "Look at us. A newbie hunter and a witch that needs adult supervision along with the first doppelganger to walk the earth. How are we the ones that made it this far?" Bonnie asks as Solon just smirks to herself. "I'm glad we're here together," Jeremy tells her and she stops and looks at him. Solon smirks as she stops as well and crossed her arms.
"Me too." Bonnie agrees and Jeremy shines his light, "Where is here exactly?" Jeremy ask as both Bonnie and Solon felt an energy pull at them. Then they look to the left. "This way." Bonnie tells him, "How do you know?" he asks and she smiles to herself. "I just know." she states as her grandmother was standing in front of her with a smile. "Hello Bonnie." she said as Solon smile at her. "Hi Grams." she said back and Jeremy shines the light and saw no one. "What are you doing here, Grams?" Bonnie asks her and Shelia walks forward. "This place always the living to talk with the dead." she answers her. "Bonnie what's going on?" Jeremy asks her. Solon leans close to him. "Bonnie's blood is allowing her to speak to the dead." she answers him, he looks at her as she smirks. "The price as been paid." she states and they both look at Bonnie. "I'm so sorry. For what happened." Bonnie tells her but Shelia just smiles at her, "It's okay, you're here now. You are this close to being me back to life, for good." she tells her and Bonnie looks at her. "How?" Bonnie asks her, "Silas can do it. All you have to do is reach him and feed him." Shelia answers as she pulls Bonnie forward. "And everything will go back to the way it was." Sheila tells her, but Jeremy didn't feel right, then charges forward as he drops the light, "Bonnie, stop!" Jeremy calls out to her, gripping her arm and pulls her away. "Hey, you're not seeing your grams, if she were here I would be able to see her and I can't. it's not her ghost, it's a hallucination." he tells her and cups her cheeks. "What you're seeing isn't real. You're Grams isn't here, I'm here. I'm real." he tells her.
Bonnie exhales as she was released from the spell and Solon rolls her eyes. "What happened?" she asks him, "Silas. He was in your head, he was trying to control you." Jeremy asks him. "And Shane, the visions of his wife and that's who Silas controls him." Bonnie states as Solon crosses her arms as she was annoyed, "You need to block him out of her mind. Close your eyes." he tells her and Bonnie did so. "Listen to my voice and mine alone." he tells her as she grips his hands, "I'm going to get us there." he promises her. He nods at him as he took the lead and lead her through the tunnel, Solon said nothing as she followed after them.
~8~8~8~
Klaus was sitting in the chair, quiet as a hummingbird. Then the door open as Serena walks in and up to him. He said nothing as he looks at her, "Are you sure you want to kill Tyler?" she asks him, he smirks at her, "I have to love, I have a reputation to uphold love and more over, I want to." he answers her with a smirk. "I am not asking you to forgive him, I won't. But all I am asking is that you let him go, somewhere far away from this town, never to return." she states and Klaus stood up from the seat. "So he can get to live a happy life after he turned all my hybrids against me? After he tried to kill me? After he made it his life mission to find the cure so he can use it against me?" Klaus questions her. "Maybe he does or maybe he does anymore, there's only one dose of it, it's not like Caroline can get it anytime soon." she reports to him, "And what about you?" he asks her, she was taken back by his questions. "What about me?" she asks, "If you could take the cure, would you? To have the life you always wanted? My child that was taken from you?" he asks her as she stiffens then scoffs at him, "Don't you dare try to manipulate me into helping you, I not that type of girl." she states and he nods, "No, you're not girl that likes being strong. In control, powerful, fearless." he states as she looks at him.
Then Klaus walks up to her as they were inches from each other, "You and I we're the same, Serena." he tells her as she stands her ground. "Then prove it to me." she states and he looks at her, "You know how much I adore Caroline and you how much I am terrified to lose her because I know how much she loves Tyler. If we're so similar, Nik. Then show me how compassionate you are, show Tyler the mercy that I would show him." she tells him as he just looks at her. "Mercy. For Tyler." he mutters as she stood tall. "Fine. Tell him to leave town immediately." he answers her and moves away. But then turns back to her, "But tell me to run and hide in a place I will never find him." he orders her and she nods at him. "Yes of course." she answers as her heart was relieved of so much stress. "Tell him that this is the mercy I extend for your sake." he went she nods again at him, "Tell him that will give him a head start before I kill him." he tells her, she lifts her head and looks at him, knowing that, that was all Klaus will ever give someone. She nods then vamps right at him, gripping his cheeks and press them roughly to hers. Klaus was surprise by this, but he growls, wrapping his arms around her pressed his lips tightly again hers into a heated kiss.
And after a full minute, Serena pulls back and looks at him, Klaus pants as she pressed his forehead against her and kept his arms wrapped around her. "I love you." Klaus said to her, she smiles and nods at him, "And I love you. Always and forever."
~8~8~8~
Damon cries out as Stefan finally break a strain the rope and Damon slides down and sat against the beam, "Come on, we need to catch up." Stefan tells him and tries to pull Damon to his feet. "No, no, no, no, I just need a minute. I'm only going to slow you down." Damon states and Stefan kneels down in front of him. "Go, she only needs one of us." Damon states and Stefan looks at him in dis-belief. "And what you don't care to be that one anymore? You finally decided that it was easier to walk away?" Stefan questions him.
"There's only one dose of the cure Stefan and she doesn't want to take it." Damon states and looks up at him. "You and Elena want her to take it. I don't. Just do the thing that makes her happy Stefan." Damon asks of him. "Things have change, it's not that easy anymore." Stefan informs him, "It is right now! Get your ass down the well and help Elena and Samathea get the damn thing." Damon tells him or more like order him. Stefan exhales then he stood up, walks over to the well and jumps down as Damon just sat there as he knew that he didn't want Samathea sired to him anymore.
~8~8~8~
Samathea ran through the tunnels as she was trying to find a way to Silas, "Samathea…" a voice calls out to her, she grunts and ignores it. "Samathea…" the voice calls out again, she stops and covers her ears, "Shut up. I am not going to obey you." she snaps, but then heard rocks being pushed. She snaps her head to the side as she pulls her hands away. "Hello? Stefan?" she calls out and there was an echo. She looks around the cave as the rocks were moved again. "Elena, is that you?" she calls out with the echo. "Samathea." a voice calls out and something vamps behind her, she turns and saw nothing was there.
But she knew that someone was in the cave with her, she then heard something vampire right behind her, making her freeze. She slowly turns around and saw the person that was right behind her and she growls. "Son of a-" she snaps and the person vamps right at her, but Samathea grips the person's shoulders and they vamp spin and Samathea grunts as she was slammed against the wall. But shaking off the blow and glares at the person, "Why won't you just leave us alone?!" she snaps, the smirks just gave her a sinister smirk, then grips Samathea neck and snaps it and Samathea collapsed onto the ground.
~8~8~8~
Caroline and Tyler sat on the bench outside as Serena as informs them of their situation, Caroline was heartbroken as Tyler knew this was going to happen. Serena was leaning against the wall. "How many times are we going to have to say good-bye?" Caroline asks him. "At least we have a minute this time to do it the right way," Tyler answers her as Caroline shook her head as her heart was breaking. "There isn't a right way." she cries and Tyler grips her hand tightly on his. Serena looks away as she knew how Caroline feels. "This isn't good-bye, this is… until we find a way," he assures her, but Caroline just sniffles as Serena wipes away the tear that almost escaped her eye. "We're immortal, remember?" he reminds her and she nods at him.
"We will find a way." he tells her as she nods at him. Then she looks at him, "What if we don't?" she asks and he just looks at her, "Tell me that you'll never think of me again, tell me that you'll forget about me, tell me that you're going to live a full and happy life without me?" she asks as her heart was breaking. He just looks at her as his tears were welling up. "I will never think about you again." he states and she nods at him, "I will forget all about you, and I will never ever think about you again." he tells her and she laughs bitterly to herself as Serena pushes away from the wall and leans against the rail. Then Tyler kisses her repeatedly. Then he pulls back and they look at each other, "Until we find a way?" she asks him, he nods at her then kisses her forehead. She cries as he then moves away and stood up from the bench and walks off the porch Serena watches him leave then walks over and sat next to Caroline. The young vampire said nothing as she leans against her shoulder and cries. Serena wraps her arm around her shoulders and comforts her.
~8~8~8~
Stefan walks through the tunnels then stops as he found Shane laying against the rock and was bleeding out, "Hey, don't suppose you can share a little vampire blood?" he asks him, "Where's Bonnie and Jeremy?" Stefan questions him. Shane scoffs. "I have no idea." he answers then Stefan marched to him, kneels down and grips his coat. "Stop lying!" Stefan orders him. "I'm not lying." he breathed and Stefan looks at him, seeing how weak he was. "But if you help me I will take you the rest of the way, I promise." he promises "Did you this whole time that there was only one cure?" Stefan questions him, "What?" Shane asks as it was news to him. "No. No I didn't, everything I said and did was bring back my family. I swear." he answers him. Stefan just looks at him and exhales. "Well then you know what it's like to have hope." he states.
Shane just exhales, "And now you know what it's like to loose it." he states and stood up, "What? Come on, come on!" Shane calls out to him as Stefan walks into the tunnel, leaving Shane by himself. He just panted to himself, but then Caitlin appears in front of him and Shane gasp with delight, "Caitlin, I'm sorry Caitlin, I failed you." he whimpers to her, but she shook her head and walks over to him. "No, you didn't," he answers her. "I'm sorry, I tried." he tells her and she kneels down in front of him and shushed him, "You did everything I ask you to, everything is going to be just fine," she assures him and Shane closes his eyes.
~8~8~8~
Bonnie, Jeremy and Solon walk into the cave where Silas was laying, Solon smiles and ran up to the corpse, "Silas, I'm here." she whispers and went to touch him. But her hand was shock and she shot it right back. She gasp and looks at her hand. Jeremy walks up and looks down at Silas as he was stoned and, wrapped in stone vines and down at the small glove box in his hand. "Is this it?" Jeremy questions as Solon moves over to the other side. "That's the cure? How is that suppose to cure every vampire in the world?" Jeremy questions him. Solon exhales "It's only meant for one." she answers and he looks at her, she shrugs at him, he then looks back at the cure, grips it and tries to moves it, but the box would not budge. "It's stuck, help me move it." Jeremy calls out.
Solon exhales as she leans against the stone and prop her chin onto her hand as Bonnie walks over and they both pulled in the box, but it still would not budge. "It's like fossilized in place. it's like trying to bend stone." Bonnie states, "Duh." Solon answers her with a roll of her eyes. Then they stop as it finally hits Bonnie. "Oh my God." she mutters and moves away from the stone. "What?" Jeremy asks her, then looks at her as she still did not answer her. "What Bonnie?" he asks again, "He's been frozen like a vampire statue for 2,000 years." she states, Solon nods as she looks at her nails. "There's only one way we're going to get the statue to unfreeze." she states as Jeremy looks away. "How's that?" he asks her, "We have to feed him our blood." she answers him and he looks at her in shock. "If we want to get the cure out of his hands, we have to wake him up." she went on "Ding, ding, ding and the prize goes to the witch." Solon states and they both look at her, "There is no other way."
~8~8~8~
Damon was laying next to Rebekah as he was pulling the stakes out of her back, one by one then got the last on out and rolls onto his back. Rebekah coughs and she rolls onto her back as well, brushing her hair out of her face and looks at him, "You're alive." she states, "Yeah." he mutters, "Why didn't you go with them?" she asks, Damon just pants as he props himself up on his elbow. "Who was going to save you?" he questions and pushes himself up, "You gave up didn't you?" she asks him as he pressed his back against the beam, "No, I didn't give up. I just realized that you can't control everything. No mater how hard you try." he states and then pants as he was weak. "Let's just say I made peace with that fact," he states.
Then Rebekah pushes herself up, "Peace?" Rebekah asks as she sat up and looks at him, "You love Samathea, you always will. If he becomes human, she may not feel the same way about you, you'll never know peace." she states and he shrugs at her, "Life sucks, get a helmet." he tells her and she smirks at him, "You did something selfless, Damon." she states and he looks away from her, "If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're becoming a half decent person." she tells him and he just looks at her.
~8~8~8~
Jeremy was slamming the rock right onto the arms as Solon knew that, that was not going to work. "Come on!" he shouts and slams the rock on the arm again. "It's not going to work," Solon tells him. "There's gotta be a way to do with this without raising him." Bonnie states, "There is no way, he has to feed on a person in order for you to get the damn cure." Solon reminds her. "Not helping!" Jeremy shouts and slams the rock onto the arm again. "We'll find a way-AHH!" Bonnie shouts and the two look at her as Solon shot up, then Bonnie collapsed onto the ground as Von stood up from behind her, "Bonnie!" Solon gasps and appeared next to her. "Don't listen to the witch, we have to raise Silas and we have to do it now," he tells him as Jeremy just glares at him.
Solon looks down at the wound then cast a healing spell on her, "Bonnie!" Jeremy cries out and ran to them as Von walks over to Silas, slipping his pack off his shoulder. "Is she…?" Jeremy asks her, "She's fine. I'm healing the wound, please I need to concentrate." she assures him and Jeremy looks back up at Von as he slits his palm. "What are you doing?" Jeremy questions him, "What you should of done already. I'm going to raise Silas and then I'm going to kill him." he answers and squeezed the blood from his hand, "Stop him! If he kill Silas, you can kiss that cure good-bye." Solon orders him and that was enough for Jeremy, he shot forward and rips Von away from Silas. Then he threw a kick that Von block, then punch that Von dodge, then jabs Jeremy hard in the side this throws Jeremy off. Then Von held him in a hold. "You might be a little confused here Mr. Gilbert, we're on the same side." Von assures him and then Jeremy elbows him in the gut, breaking out of the hold broke out of the hold then spins and place Von in the hold, "You stabbed my friend!" Jeremy argues with him. Then Von broke out of the hold and slams Jeremy onto the ground. "I don't mess around with witches." Von tells him and wipes his nose. Jeremy pants and looks up at him "You use the cure on Silas." Jeremy argues "It's what it's meant for!" Von argues with him. Then Jeremy shot up throwing a punch at him, then slams his head on his knee, but Von slams his head up and knocks Jeremy right off balance. Jeremy stumbles as he threw more punches at him, but Von dodges them and threw Jeremy's arm out of it's socket, he groans in pain and was slammed onto the ground. He coughs as Von looks down at him.
The old sorceress glares at him as she was still working on Bonnie's wound. "What were you going to use it for?" Von questions him as he steps over Jeremy and pulls up his knife and looks at the ceiling. "Your friends. Your sister." he states and stood over Jeremy and looks down at him. "Sorry, lad it was never meant for that." he states as he grips his dagger tightly and Jeremy squirms a little "Nothing personal." he and kneels down going to slit Jeremy's throat. But then Samathea vamps into the room, snarls as she grips Von, holding his head back and went to bite him, "The hunter's curse." Jeremy warns her, so Samathea just hisses as she pulls away from his neck and slams it against the altar and knocks him out. Then she offers her hand, he took it and she pulls him back to his feet. "You okay?" she asks and he exhales and looks at her.
~8~8~8~
Caroline sat on the porch by herself as Serena was sitting on the railing giving her space to think, but then the front door open and out steps Klaus, he closes the door and looks at them, Serena said nothing as she looks at him, then she looks at Caroline who was just brokenhearted. Klaus looks at her as well as Caroline looks at him, "How did you get out?" she asks him, "I fear something has befallen your friend Bonnie." he states as Caroline then stood up, Serena swung her legs over and stood on the porch, "Don't worry. You know I would never hurt Caroline." he assures Serena as the sorceress walks over to them, "You've done enough." Caroline reminds him. "I've done more than enough. I've shown kindness, forgiveness, pity. Because of Serena, Caroline, it was for her and because you matter so much to her I will do whatever Serena asks of me." he tells her.
She looks at him in surprise as Serena just felt her heart jump, then Klaus moves back and looks at Serena. Then he took her hand gently into his, she looks at her joined hands and let him lead her off the porch. She then looks back at Caroline as the young vampire did nothing but watches them leave.
~8~8~8~
Stefan shines the light as he looks through the tunnels, but then stops as he caught the sent of blood, he stops and shines his light right on the wall. Seeing fresh blood spots he then walks closer to them and press his hand against the stone wall.
Then removes his hand and looks at it was really was fresh blood, he then froze as he then heard groaning, he shines his light and found Samathea leaning against the wall has blood has stream down from her forehead and over the eye, pass her nose and over her lip, "Samathea." Stefan exclaims and ran over to her, Stefan kneels down and grips her shoulders. Then she gasps awake.
Samathea's hands grip onto his arms as she was shacking and looking around the room. "Are you okay?" he asks her and she locks her eyes onto him, "Where… where is she?" she asks him, "Who?" he asks her, but she then shook her head, "She's here. Stefan. She's on the Island."
~8~8~8~
'Samathea' eyes the cure as she rubs her fingers. Then she turns back to the three as Solon was almost done, "Hey, you're okay. Samathea's here now." he assures her, Bonnie just smiles at him. "We did it." she tells him, he smiles at her as 'Samathea' walks over to him and gently grips his shoulder "Come on we have to get you up," she tells him and Jeremy looks up at her. "The hunter stabs her, feeding her your blood will heal her faster," she tells him. "Okay, But I have to make sure you're okay first," she tells him, pulling him to his feet. "I'm fine, what's wrong with you?" he questions her. "The cure, Jeremy. After everything we've been through it's right there it's right there," she states as she sounded desperate.
He glares at her, "It will be there after we help Bonnie." he reminds her, then kneels back down next to Bonnie, then 'Samathea' frowns as she drops the act, "God, I forget how much of a brat you are." she states then Jeremy looks at her, but then Elena cries out as she jumps onto Katherine's back and throws her off. "Elena! What are you doing?!" he questions her, "Jeremy, run! She's Katherine!" she warns him, reaching past the scarf and rips the charm off. The disguise fell and Katherine threw Elena right off. They both stood back up and Katherine grips her throat, "You really are getting on my nerves." Katherine growls as Jeremy stood up. Then she shoves Elena back down and grips Jeremy, vamps over to Silas, bites Jeremy's wrist and feeds Silas as the stone started to move. Jeremy cries out as Elena shook off the shove. "Katherine." Jeremy groans. "It's been too long little Gilbert." she states as she watches the hands move, "Sorry, but Sammy won't be coming to save you this time." she tells him then pulls back and bits into his neck. He cries outt and Elena looks at them, "No!" she shouts as Katherine shoves Jeremy down and gave Silas full access to Jeremy's blood.
Elena stood up as she staggers a little, then a hand moves away from the box and grips Jeremy's head tightly. Giving Katherine a chance to grab the box, she then turns and saw that Elena was standing in front of her, she frowns at her then vamps forward and grips Elena's neck once more. "Bye-Bye Elena. it's been fun." she said and snaps Elena's neck and tosses her over by Jeremy as she laid limp on the ground. "No…" Jeremy cries out as Katherine was long gone from the cave, then Silas grips Jeremy's neck tightly, moving him away from the mouth, Jeremy chokes but in one swift moment, Jeremy's neck was snapped and the stone body started to move as Jeremy slums down next to Elena. Bonnie just pants as she looks down at Jeremy and Elena as they both laid dead, Jeremy was staring right at her with his dead eyes and Elena was laying next him, facing his way as her eyes were dead as well. "Stay with me, Bennett. I almost closed the wound." Solon assures her as Bonnie's vision blurred "Bennett witch? Bennett witch? Stay awake!" Solon shouts at her, but her voice so was far away. "BONNIE!"