Brie is leaning against a wall in a small alcove outside of the school when Matt approaches her. "Thank you for doing this. I can't keep anything else down"
Matt smiles at her "It's okay. I kind of owe you my life, remember?"
"Yeah, but I didn't make Stefan save your life so that I could turn you into a human blood bag"
"Brie please, just" He rolls up his sleeve and extends his arm towards her. "Let me do this for you" They stare at each other for a moment. Brie grabs his arm and bites into his wrist so she can feed on him. As soon as she begins to feel the bloodlust take over, she stops and lets go of him. Matt looks down at his wrist. "Was that enough?
Brie wipes the blood off her face "No. But, if I had anymore, I'm afraid I wouldn't stop. Here" Brie takes out a bandage from her purse and applies it to Matt's wrist. "Thank you." Matt nods at her. The bell rings. Brie jumps down onto a table and then to the ground. Matt jumps down beside her. They begin to walk across the school grounds.
"So, you really think school is the best place for you right now?"
The vampire hunter knows that Damon's a vampire and that I know Damon. Hiding at home would be more suspicious. Besides, I want to be here. It's my senior year. I survived this long, there's no way I'm bailing before graduation" Brie sees a pamphlet on the windshield of a car reading "Mandatory Curfew All Ages Commencing 10 PM Until Further Notice" which is issued by the Police Department and picks it up so she can read it.
"Town called for curfew?" Brie asked confused.
Matt nods "Tyler got shot in front of half the town. Everyone's a little freaked"
"If only they knew the real story" Brie and Stefan sit down in their desks. Stefan looks at Brie, who is staring at the front of the room, looking like she is about to cry. Stefan looks at the front as well, noticing the chalkboard with Alaric's handwritten notes on it. He sighs, realizing what she must be saddened by.
"It's the first time we've been back in Alaric's classroom.."
"First period, and I'm ready to bawl my eyes out"
Rebekah enters the classroom with flyers. "Morning, everyone"
Brie mutters to herself "Just like that, I'm no longer feeling sentimental"
"So, I'm throwing a little anti-curfew party at my new house. Starts at fifth period and goes 'til whenever. Spread the word" She hands out a couple of the flyers and turns to Brie. You're welcome to join, Brie, if you'd like to bury the hatchet"
She hands Brie a flyer and she takes it. "It's a pretty enormous hatchet"
Rebekah rolls her eyes "Well, I'm feeling generous of spirit"
Brie looks at the flyer "New house, huh? Did your brother finally kick you out?"
"He didn't kick me out, I left" Rebekah corrected her.
"So, you left the only person on earth that actually likes you?
Rebekah looks at Stefan. "Well, your boyfriend liked me once" Stefan looks up at her, clearly not happy to be dragged into it. "Actually, a lot more than once"
Rebekah smirks as Brie looks furious. "Why are you still in town, Rebekah? Don't you have anywhere else to go?"
"Well, history's my favorite class. Actually, where is Mr. Saltzman...?" She pauses dramatically. Brie's rage intensifies. Rebekah smiles"Oh, that's right, I killed him" Brie loses her temper and throws her pencil at Rebekah's face. Rebekah grabs it and throws it back at Brie, which impales her in the shoulder. They glare at each other. Brie removes the pencil from her chest and gets up before anyone else in class notices what just happened. Stefan and Brie walk out into the hallway. Brie is still visibly furious as Stefan gently holds her arm and tries to calm her down.
"Just breathe, just breathe. You haven't felt this kind of rage before"
"I hate her" Brie and Stefan stop walking and stand face-to-face. "I didn't think I was capable of hate, but I hate her, and I hate that I hate her" Brie looks over Stefan's shoulder. "That's the hunter"
Stefan turns around. Connor is in the hallway, talking to a woman. "What the hell is he doing here?" Connor starts to walk towards Jeremy, who is at his locker Brie begins to walk towards Jeremy. Stefan stops her " No, no, no. Hey, hey, let me get this" He shows her bloody hand to her "Okay? I got that" Stefan walks towards Jeremy and Connor. Brie walks into the restroom. She takes off her sweater before grabbing some tissues and rinsing her blood-soaked hands and shoulder with water. After a moment, a girl named Heather walks into the restroom behind Brie with her hand clamped over her neck.
"There you are. Rebekah sent me to see if you were okay" Brie throws away the tissues.
Brie become aggravated "I'm fine, Heather"
"I'm not" Brie turns around and looks at her, confused. She sees blood dripping from Heather's neck underneath her hand. Brie starts to breathe heavily as she tries to resist the girl's blood. Rebekah enters the restroom.
"What's wrong, Brianna? Getting hungry?" Heather removes her hand from her neck, making the blood easier to see and smell.
Brie starts to panic "No, get-get away from me"
Rebekah wipes at the blood from Heather's neck with her finger. "But she's so delicious"
She places her finger with blood on Brie's mouth. Brie slaps her hand away. "You shouldn't be here. This is my school. It's my life. And I'm not gonna let you ruin it!"
"It's my school now. My life. Maybe you're the one who shouldn't be here. And I couldn't help but overhear that there's a vampire hunter roaming the hallways" Rebekah rubs her hand over Heather's bloody neck wound. "How inconvenient for you." Rebekah rubs her bloody hand all over Brie's face. Brie vamps out and growls. "See you in gym. I think it's dodgeball day." Rebekah and Heather leave the bathroom.
Stefan and Caroline are sitting outside at a table while Brie paces back and forth in front of them.
"It was a valiant first day effort. No one will judge you if you want to go home" Caroline says as she watches Brie go back and forth.
"I don't want to go home. I want to take the white oak stake and kill her. That's how mad I am. She made me murderous!"
"How about we just leave the murdering to Damon?" Stefan gets up and walks towards Brie.
"And then do what? Ignore her to death?"
Stefan sighs "Look, she's trying to make herself feel better. She knows that everybody hates her, so she's trying to hate harder. Tell you what, let's just skip the rest of the day. Go have some fun. I feel like this day is severely lacking in fun"
Brie looks at Caroline. Caroline smiles, and Brie reluctantly nods in agreement. "Yeah. Okay, fine" Stefan smiles. "Then, we'll go to her party and show her that she can't intimidate me. I just have to go home and change first." She waves goodbye to Caroline and leaves. Stefan turns around and looks at Caroline.
"Does she seem a little off-balance to you?"
Stefan nods his head "Yeah, she's channeling all her emotions into rage. It makes her feel like she has purpose. I used to do that too when I was...you know. She needs to come to terms with it, confront it, let it in, before she can let it go"
Caroline nods "You're good at this, you know that? You saved my vampire life, now you're saving hers" They start to walk off together. Brie is searching through a set of drawers in Damon's room when Damon returns from being freed from Connor's trap.
"Hope you plan on cleaning this up"
Brie turns around, startled. "I need bourbon to get through Rebekah's party. Yours is better than Stefan's"
"Top drawer in the dresser" Simple as that she thought.
Brie looks confused "Thanks" Brie walks over to the drawer and opens it. Damon pulls out a silver flask from his pocket and swigs from it. Brie turns back around. "You keep alcohol in your underwear drawer?" She pulls out a pair of briefs and holds them up.
"No" Brie throws the briefs back into the drawer. "But, you weren't looking for alcohol, were you?" Brie looks at him guiltily "Do you think I'd actually leave the last remaining white oak stake where any vampire could just walk in and take it?" Damon unbuttons his shirt to get ready to change into clean clothes Brie sees blood from the healed wound caused by arrow in his shoulder.
"What happened to you?" Brie walks over to Damon "You know he was at my school today?"
"Yep. Jeremy told me"
"Why were you talking to Jeremy?"
"Don't worry about it" Damon begins to take his shirt off. Damon has removed his shirt and begins to undo the belt on his pants. Brie looks down awkwardly. "You staying for the show or...?" Damon unbuttons his pants. Brie snaps back to reality and walks out of the room.
Brie is determined to find this stake that Damon has hidden "I'm finding that stake" There are kids outside Rebekah's house, drinking from a keg and having a good time. Brie and Stefan make their way to the entrance of the house and step through the doorway.
"Wow, we didn't have to be invited in. I wonder who used to live here"
"Or who died here" Brie says sarcastically as they stop walking. Brie sees Rebekah and a look of rage spreads across her face.
Stefan see's Brie's rage "You're fixating"
"No, I'm just quietly hating" A boy walks past Stefan and Brie with a cup of beer in his hand. Stefan compels the boy"
"This is mine now" The boy hands Stefan his cup of beer. "Thank you" Stefan hands the drink to Brie "Why don't you have a drink? It'll help you let go"
Brie takes the cup from Stefan. She's about to take a sip when she sees April walking across the room. "April's here. I'm gonna go say hi"
"And I am going to find something a little stronger than beer"
Brie smiles "Okay" Brie and Stefan walk off in opposite directions. Brie walks into the kitchen to find April standing at the island in the center of the room, and walks over to greet her "Hey"
"Brie! Thank God, I know someone"
"I'm glad you came" Brie offers her a drink "Are you thirsty?"
April smiles at her as she takes the cup from Brie and takes a drink. "Mmm, if my dad could see me now"
"How are you doing with everything?" Brie asked with a concern look on her face.
"I'm trudging through my denial phase. Dreaming up conspiracy theories" Brie frowns sadly, and April blurts out her ideas. "My first weekend home from boarding school, my dad smelled cigarette smoke on my clothes before I even walked in the door. He would have noticed a gas leak in the house"
Rebekah walks in and joins them. "Like something wicked this way comes? I know, right? It's like this town's cursed or something"
Brie looked uncomfortable "Hey, April, why don't you go look around the house, and I'll find you in a little bit?"
April looked at her confused "Okay" April leaves the kitchen.
"Did I forget to uninvite you?" Rebekah said crossing her arms.
"Did you blow up her dad's house to get revenge on the Council?" Brie says as she crosses her arms as well.
Rebekah scoffs "I don't give a damn about some dodgy, middle-aged Council. You come into my house, throw around false accusations and then you have the nerve to drink my beer?" Rebekah takes the cup from Brie's hand and smirks as she takes a sip of the beer. Brie hears a sizzling noise and looks down at her hand to see that the sun is burning her. She then notices that her ring is missing.
"My ring!" Rebekah smiles. Brie super-speeds into a dark corner of the room as Rebekah holds up Brie's daylight ring. "Give it back!"
"Get it yourself" Rebekah throws the ring down the drain of the sink.
"No!" Brie moves out of the dark but is yet again burned by the sun. Rebekah turns on the garbage disposal and walks out of the room. Brie takes a deep breath and super-speeds towards the sink before sticking her hand down the drain. Her flesh is burning, but she manages to grab the ring out of the drain and put it back on her finger just in time. Brie is visibly furious and walks over to her bag on the counter top, where she takes out the white oak stake. She starts to leave the kitchen to follow Rebekah, but Stefan suddenly appears right in front of her.
"Damon give that to you?"
"Yes. Reluctantly" Stefan gives her a silent look "Stefan, she's not gonna stop. She's just going to keep pushing and pushing "
Stefan interrupts her "Well, if you want to kill her" Stefan steps aside and gestures towards the hallway "I'm not going to stop you. But see, here's what'll happen: it'll feel good for about ten seconds, and then after that, tens of thousands of vampires all over the world will start to die. Every vampire she ever turned will die. See, rage is a powerful feeling. But guilt? Take it from me, it'll destroy you. So, you can either go after her, or you can get on the back of my motorcycle and we can get the hell out of here" Stefan smiles and holds out his hand. Brie sighs reluctantly and hands him the stake before they both walk out of the house and down into the front yard. Rebekah is standing on the porch when they two pass her on their way out.
Rebekah fake-pouts "Leaving so soon?"
Brie stops and turns around to face Rebekah. "No. Not just yet" Brie looks at Stefan and hands him her bag. "I never got a drink" She looks at Rebekah, smirking, and walks over to the keg. She places her hands on the sides of the keg and does a handstand. Someone sticks the beer hose in her mouth and she starts to drink as everyone around her starts shouting, "Chug! Chug! Chug!" After a few moments, Brie eventually comes back to the ground and wipes beer from her mouth. Brie smiles "Now I'm ready to go" Stefan hands Brie her bag and they walk away together. Rebekah watches them leave, but her vision suddenly starts to blur, which worries her. She walks back into the house and looks in the mirror to see darkened veins start to pulse throughout her face.
Rebekah looks horrified "What the hell?" Stefan and Brie are on Stefan's motorcycle, riding through the country. Brie removes her arms from around Stefan's waist and puts them on his shoulders so she can stand up on the seat. Once her feet are balanced, she lets go of Stefan and spreads her arms out wide so she can revel in the feel of the breeze rushing past her.
In Stefan's bedroom, Brie pushes Stefan down onto his bed and straddles him. They start to kiss passionately. Brie sits back up and looks down at him. Stefan wants to sit up as well to start kissing Brie again, but Brie pushes him back down on the bed. Brie starts to vamp-out. Stefan looks like he's a little worried so he grabs her and vamp-speeds himself on top of her. They start kissing again. Stefan starts to kiss Brie's lips then one side of Brie's neck, then chest, then the other side of her neck. Suddenly, he stops and Brie looks up at him and smiles at him and gives him once last peck and the looks down at her arm and pulls up her sleeve. There are dark red and black marks creeping up her arm. "Stefan. What's wrong with me?" She pulls up her other sleeve. Stefan is worried.
Stefan looked horrified "Damon said the hunter had werewolf venom"
"Oh my God" Both Stefan and Brie look very worried. After a while Brie is lying in Stefan's bed, looking incredibly ill. Stefan is on his phone.
"Come on Klaus, where the hell are you?" Stefan hangs up his phone and sits on the bed, next to Brie. "Hey"
Brie smiles at him. She feels the werewolf venom running through her and shuts her eyes. When she opens them she sees Damon where Stefan once was and looks confused. Klaus enters the room. Stefan gets up and walks towards him.
Stefan looks at him relived "You came"
"I did. And for future reference, one voicemail is just as effective as nine"
Brie moans in discomfort. Klaus looks at her.
"What's wrong, love?" Klaus asks as he examines her.
"She has werewolf venom in her system. You know you're the only one that can heal her, Klaus. Please"
"And what would you have done if I were no longer here? Hm? If you and your friends had succeeded in ridding the world of me? Let's play that game for a moment, shall we?"
Stefan angrily steps forward. "Whatever you want from me.."
Klaus smiles at him "I don't want anything from you" Klaus walks over towards Brie and sits on the bed next to her. "Her, on the other hand" He pauses for a moment "If you had told me a few hours ago, I wouldn't have cared a lick about her dying. But, as it turns out" He bites into his wrist "You may be of use to me after all" Klaus places his wrist in her mouth and Brie drinks his blood. "Yes. There we go"