Stefan's working on restoring Damon's Camaro. After a moment, he senses someone watching him. He turns around, but he can't find anyone "Hello?" He shrugs the feeling off and continues on with his repairs the car. A person enters the garage. Stefan turns around again, this time finding Ivy standing behind him. Her face is covered in blood. Stefan looks shocked "Ivy"

"Stefan, I don't feel so good. Your friend Enzo made me drink his blood, and now I'm so thirsty" Ivy's vampire-face comes out. Stefan is horrified

—

Stefan knocks on Brie's door, she's alone, in a towel, she opens it for him "Stefan? Where have you-?"

He pushes past her, carrying a black trunk "I need a favour" He drops it on the floor.

Brie closes the door and holds her towel up "What are you doing? And what is with this trunk?" She leans down to open it while Stefan closes the curtains Brie is still leaning down when Ivy popped out of the chest, Brie shrieks "Oh, my god!"

"Where am I?" Looking at Stefan. "What did you do?"

Stefan makes a face. "Ivy, how did this happen?"

"Uh, Enzo turned her" Stefan said replying for Ivy.

Brie leans her head to the side "Then Stefan broke my neck and I woke up in a trunk"

Stefan nods his head " Right. So, I need a little bit of help"

"No" she looks at Ivy. "No, no, no"

"Just watch her for a little while, while I get Luke to make her a daylight ring" Ivy stands and leaves the trunk. "Show her the ropes, teach her some control"

Brie shakes her head "No, no. This is not my mess" She points at him. "This is your mess"

"My mess that wouldn't have happened if you had just left me alone" Stefan said giving a dig at Brianna.

Ivy, plopping on Brie's bed "You know the real tragedy in all this? "He's just not that into you,"

Stefan and Brie both said in unison "Shut up!"

"If anybody can teach her, it's you"

"Yeah? Well, you don't have to flatter me because I already know that"

"All right? So just a couple of hours, and then you'll never have to deal with me again"

Brie looks at him " Is that what you think I want?"

Stefan shrugs his shoulder "I don't know, you tell me" Stefan leaves

Brie and Ivy in the dorm room "When do we eat" Brie slowly looks at her stupidly.

Brie is squatting in front of the mini fridge, but rises to her feet the second Ivy enters the room. Ivy twirls in her dress "What do you think?"

"I think you're wearing my dress. And you must be deaf because I already said. The. Party's. Not. Happening" She tosses a blood bag to Ivy, who catches it.

"So you'd rather be locked in a dorm room with a newbie vampire?"

Brie sits on the bed "No. I would rather be at the party but I don't want to cause I have a baby inside me and if something happens to this miracle baby then I'm doomed" Brie swings her head" Just like I'd rather have friends who didn't ignore me for months and then use me when they need help"

Ivy pulls the blood-bag free of her mouth "Whoa. Just realised why Stefan brought me here to learn control. Just do yourself a favour. Unwind. Just admit you have a thing for him" She brings the blood bag to her mouth again.

Brie sits up on the bed while jabbing a finger at Ivy "Excuse me?"

"I saw the way you looked at him that night you came over for dinner" Brie scoffs. "You practically cut his food for him!"

"Oh, you know, my relationship with Stefan is strictly...complicated. Okay, aren't you supposed to be practicing your vamping or something?"

Ivy uses vampire speed to stand in front of Brie "Done. See? I'm fine, you already put your number into my phone as my emergency vampire contact. I know I burn in the sun, we covered compulsion and snatch, eat, erase" She looks at the window "Look, it's getting dark. Let's go party. You can teach me how to eat someone without killing them"

"Stefan will be here very soon, and then you can do whatever you want... WITH HIM"

"Can we at least play a board game or do something non-vampire related"

"Finally, a good idea" Brie stands and heads for the cabinet "What kind of game do you want to play?"

Ivy shrugs "I don't know, Scrabble?"

Brie is oblivious to the fact that Ivy is standing right behind her "I have tournament, classic, and travel-sized"

Ivy's hands twine around Brie's neck and snaps it, Brie falls to the ground "Oops hope that doesn't harm your baby" Ivy speeds out of the dorm.

—

Brie wakes up in the dorm room, she looks around the room if she could see Ivy but she was long gone. She pressed her hand against her stomach to make sure the baby was okay. Once she knew the baby was okay she stood up and walked out the dorm to find Ivy. The sky is dark, Brie is outside, walking down a street with a phone to her ear "Stefan, hey. This is the third message alerting you that your psychotic little she-vamp has gone AWOL, and if you hadn't noticed, it's dark outside, so every dead sorority girl tonight is officially on you" She hangs up the phone.

Alaric is alone in the classroom, sitting in one of the students's seat as picks up a bottle of bourbon from beside him; he has a stack of papers on his lap. Alaric twists open the cap and takes a swig of bourbon.

When he's finished, he looks down and sees that Stefan is standing in the doorway " Grading on the curve, huh?"

Alaric doesn't smile, just closes the bourbon "You know this barely makes a dent" He's staring at the bourbon. Stefan looks down, pursing his lips "Can't fault me for trying, though. You want some?" He looks up at Stefan.

"No, I just... came here to get one of these from Luke" He holds up a daylight ring.

"Let me guess, you played the 'Damon is dead, and it's all your fault' card" Stefan takes a moment to look guilty "What do you want, Stefan?" Alaric is clearly angry with Stefan, who steps further more into the room

"Enzo turned a vampire when he and Brie found me."

"You mean your girlfriend, from Savannah" Alaric stands, walking over to Stefan "The one you falsely led me to believe was a witch who knew how to help Damon and Bonnie?"

"Her name is Ivy. I was hoping you can compel her to get a handle on things, get somewhere far away from me, live a good life"

"Are you asking me to help you with a break up?" Alaric raises an eyebrow.

"I'm just asking you to give her a fresh start"

"You mean give you a fresh start" Stefan is silent "Sorry, Stefan. It's not that easy"

"Well it was when you compelled Elena to forget about Damon"

"Well you forgot about him first, pal" Alaric turns away.

"He was my brother"

"Yeah, and he was my best friend! Why don't you get out of my face, before I compel you to be the guy I used to know instead?" And with that, Stefan slowly leaves, looking defeated.

A man is walking to his car, wearing a white T-shirt. He slips his key into the keyhole and he looks up at his reflection in the mirror, he sees Ivy, the man whirls "You scared me" But he's smiling.

"Really? That wasn't scary... But this is" Veins bloom from under her eyes, and she zips forward and bites him, with one booted foot on the car and the other on the ground. She releases him, hands still on his shoulders and smiles."I snatched, I ate, now... ERASE!" She's looking directly in his eyes.

"Erase what? What the hell are you doing to me?"

Ivy's smile fades "I don't think I did it right" She's breathing deeply. "And I'm still hungry. Oh my god, I am totally going to kill you, uh" She looks directly in his eyes "You should go. Run! SERIOUSLY!" The guy runs away "I suck at this"

Brie is walking down the street, and she finds a car covered in blood. Brie sighs. A light shines on her and she turns, Stefan's red car just parked onto the sidewalk and Stefan steps out. "THANK GOD!"

"You lost her?"

Brie scoffs "Oh, so you decide to listen to your messages a million hours later? No, I didn't lose her, she snapped my neck. What the hell took you so long?" She gasps "You were gonna leave weren't you?"

Stefan ignore the question " I slid Ivy's daylight right under your front door"

"No, I don't care about some stupid ring, Stefan! Were you seriously about to dump your vampire ex-girlfriend onto my lap, and then just skip town?" Stefan slightly nods. Brie's mouth widens, she's appalled, angry and shocked "God, who are you right now?!"

"I'm someone who's trying to start over, and then suddenly you and Enzo show up and now I have hunters on my trail and a brand new vampire who wants to kill me and everyone else in her path! And that's not how someone starts over, Brie!"

"You know what the worst part about all of this is? Is about a month ago, I wished that Damon would come back. Because I knew if that happened, that I'd get you back too. But right now, all I want is for you to just get back in your car, and go" Stefan looks hurt as he walks away from her, leaving Brie who shuts her eyes and licks her lips as she hears Stefan's car drive away and when he's gone her cellphone buzzes, she puts her phone to her ear. "Where are you?"

Ivy is standing in the road, with her cellphone. "I did a really bad thing"

"Oh, you mean, break my neck? Yeah, I noticed. And you better be glad my baby is fine"

"Okay, two bad things. Look, I'm sorry-"

Brie sighs "Tell me exactly where you are and stay put, I'll come get you" She leaves.

Ivy, wearing her bloody dress is standing in the road with her phone to her ear "Where are you? I have been standing here for a hundred years"

Brie rolls her eyes "Don't exaggerate, I'm almost there"

Ivy hangs up, and suddenly a car drives up, she waves her arms for a ride. It's Tripp "Need any help?" Ivy's smile fades and she turns away. Tripp gets out of the car "I heard about the, uh, big campus accident on my scanner. Sounds like some people got hurt or something"

Ivy tries to reassure him "I'm fine."

"Actually, you're bleeding, you might be in shock"

"Please. Just. Go" she pleaded.

"I don't think" Ivy turns, veins crawling underneath her eyes and zips forward to bite him but there are tranquilliser gunshots. She falls limp, and he drags her toward his car, he dumps her inside. Brie witnesses the whole scene, her eyes wide from her car.

—

Stefan opens the door and steps inside. His eyes are sad, he sighs and takes a swig of bourbon straight from the bottle. "Ahh" He laughs bitterly " is happening. I'm gonna talk out loud to a... a crypt filled with my dead family" His eyes search around the crypt "Everyone but you, Damon. Because wherever you are, it's not here" He takes a seat on a small bench. "I gotta say, I'm not doing so great without you. I keep trying to start over, but... I can't get anywhere. Because I'm lost, brother. I'm lost" He gets up angrily and tosses the bottle of Bourbon when suddenly, a hand catches the bottle. It's Damon. Stefan's eyes widen.

"So what? Gone a couple of months, you think it's okay to waste a perfectly good bottle of bourbon?" He takes a swig of the drink "Ahh" Stefan stares, shocked, not quite believing his eyes.

"Damon?"

"Yep. In the flesh" Damon smiles.

Stefan was still shell shocked "How am I seeing you right now?"

Damon's face becomes serious "Because I'm not dead, Stefan. I mean, this stuff's good, but it's not "I see dead people" good. Heh" He slowly walks toward Stefan. Face serious. Stefan is frozen, eyes wide and red, rimmed with tears "Heh. It's a hell of a long story, brother, but I'm back. I'm back" Stefan reaches out and touches Damon's shoulder. "Yeah" When Stefan's face scrunches up as if he is about to cry, he pulls Damon into a hug. A tight one, and Damon wraps his arms around Stefan "I'm back, Stefan" Stefan holds tight onto Damon, eyes scrunching shut in repressed emotion.