"Tonight is the full moon. We should assume that Klaus is prepared to break the curse." Elijah said, standing at the center of the library while Stefan, Emma, and Elena sat watching him.
Damon had closed himself off from everyone, staying up in his room as the rest of them formulated some sort of plan. It made Emma squirm at the thought of the encounter last night. She was happy she didn't have to deal with him.
"Emma said that the sun and moon curse is fake?" Stefan repeated. "That it's actually just a curse placed on Klaus."
"Klaus is a vampire born of a werewolf bloodline. The curse has kept his werewolf aspect from manifesting. But if he breaks it. . . he'll be a true hybrid." Elijah clarified.
"Then why are we letting him break the curse?" Damon said, entering the room. Emma tensed unconsciously at the sight of him. "We can kill him today. With Bonnie."
"Damon-" Stefan started, but Elena cut him off.
"No. Bonnie can't use that much power without dying." Elena denied.
Damon brushed her off. "I'll write her a great eulogy."
Emma let out a frustrated sigh. "It's not an option, Damon." she said, bringing herself to look at the vampire.
"All right, how do we break this curse?" Stefan brought up, sensing the tension between the two.
"Well, the ritual itself is relatively straightforward. The ingredients, so to speak, you already know." Elijah explained.
"The moonstone." Stefan listed.
Elijah nodded. "A witch will channel the power of the full moon to release the spell that's bound within the stone. After that, Klaus, being both werewolf and vampire, will sacrifice one of each."
"And where do I fit into fit?" Elena asked.
"The final part of the ritual." Elijah stated, picking up a miniature chest in his hands. "Klaus must drink the blood of the doppelganger to the point of your death."
That sent a feeling of uneasiness through everyone. Stefan reached out and held Elena's hands for comfort.
Emma fiddled with her fingers. "And what's your plan to stop that from happening?"
Elijah opened the chest, pulling out a glass vile. "This is an elixir that I acquired some 500 years ago for Katerina. It possesses mystical properties of resuscitation."
"So I'll be dead?" Elena asked.
"And then you won't." Elijah finished.
Damon was not satisfied. "That's your plan? A magical witch potion with no expiration date? You want to come back to life, what about John's ring?"
Emma shook her head. "It won't work. She's supernatural."
"I'll take those odds over the elixir." Damon said, gesturing to the bottle. "What if it doesn't work, Elena?"
"Then I guess I'll just be dead." she plainly said.
An awful pit in Emma's stomach formed, making her stand up. "Sorry, this is too much. I-I need some fresh air." she said, walking off.
Cutting through the kitchen, she went out the back door and into the backyard, walking out onto the finished landscape. Being outside really did help her, though she still felt a little overwhelmed. She had to admit, Damon was right. There was a possibility that it wouldn't work and Elena would stay dead. And as much as she wants to say 'let's come up with something else', it was their only solution. Time was almost up.
She rubbed her face, breathing in and out slowly. She heard footsteps behind her and she prayed it wasn't him, but sadly when she glanced behind her, Damon stood with a glass of bourbon. She groaned and moved to walk further away, but Damon caught onto her arm.
"Emma." he said, Emma looking up at him with a glare. "Listen, I-"
"What?" Emma interrupted. "You're sorry? Right, like I believe that. Look, I honestly don't care about your apology right now. I only care about saving Elena's life." she informed, yanking her arm back.
Damon glowered down at the girl. "So am I, but you guys are so bent on trusting Elijah that none of you are realizing the risk."
"You think I don't see the risk? Of course I do! I'm completely terrified that the potion won't work and Elena will be dead. But I trust Elijah and I trust Bonnie and I believe that if we try hard enough, we can stop Klaus and save my sister." Emma revealed, not even noticing her body begin to shake.
Damon's expression softened, a feeling of guilt hitting him. Emma backed away and headed for the house. As she walked, Stefan stepped out.
"Good luck." she muttered, stomping away. Entering the main hallway, she heard the front door slam shut and saw Jenna holding a crossbow. "Whoa, Jen-"
"Get out!" Jenna yelled, pointing the weapon at the intruder.
Emma walked over to Jenna to see Alaric or Klaus standing back with his hands up.
"Jenna, put the crossbow down, okay? It's me." he said.
"Prove it." Emma challenged as everyone else joined to see what the commotion was.
'Alaric' looked over at Jenna as he thought of what to say. "Okay, uh, first night you and I spent together, Jeremy walked in right when I was about to-"
"It's him." Jenna confirmed, lowering the crossbow.
Emma grimaced and shifted in her place uncomfortably. She did not want to know what Jenna and Alaric did in their free time, so she was relieved when Jenna stopped Alaric from talking.
"Why did he let you go?" Stefan asked, standing next to Elena.
Alaric let his hands rest at his side. "He wanted me to deliver a message. The sacrifice happens tonight."
At his words, everyone looked at each other uneasily. To continue the conversation, they all went into the living room.
Stefan crossed his arms and slowly paced around. "So you don't remember anything that happened?" he questioned Alaric, who sat on one of the couches by himself as everyone watched him.
"No. It's like I blacked out and woke up 3 days later." Alaric replied. "Katherine was there."
"She's under compulsion." Stefan said, pausing his walk by Emma. "Damon snuck her some vervain, but she can't leave until Klaus tells her she can."
"Where is Damon?" Elena asked from her seat.
Emma rolled her eyes. "Does it matter?"
Jenna lightly touched Emma's leg. "I saw him go upstairs." she told Elena. Elena got up and left everyone to go upstairs.
Alaric sighed. "So what else did I do?" he asked.
Emma took a moment to answer. "Well, I guess you could say you killed Bonnie," she began and when she saw Alaric's face shift to a horrified expression, she was quick to reassure him. "but you didn't! It's more like she killed herself but not really. Just know she's alive and kicking, don't worry." She looked up to Stefan giving her a 'really' look. "What? He said he wanted to know what happened while Klaus was controlling him."
All of a sudden, Stefan's head snapped up towards the ceiling, and he vamped upstairs. Emma knew that didn't mean anything good happened. She sprung up from the couch and ran, Alaric and Jenna behind her. There was a loud crash from Damon's room, so they headed there. Entering the room, they saw Elena kneeling on the floor next to Stefan, who was stabbed with the base of a lamp in his gut. Damon was not that far from the couple.
"What happened?!" Emma shouted, bewildered at the scene.
"Just get him out of here." Elena demanded, cradling Stefan in her arms.
Alaric circled around the couple and bent down to pick Damon up, but Damon shrugged him off and left the house himself. Emma knelt down next to Stefan and Emma as Alaric instructed Jenna to go grab a blood bag from the basement. Elena pulled the lamp base out of Stefan's gut, Stefan crying out in pain.
He panted, resting his head on Elena's lap. "I'm so sorry." he said, making Emma confused.
Elena caressed Stefan's face. "It's okay. It's okay." she whispered.
It was then when Emma noticed the blood on the corners of Elena's chin. "Elena." she said, but Elena shook her head, not wanting to get into it at the moment.
Alaric grabbed Stefan and carried him to his room while they waited for Jenna. Jenna finally came back with the blood bag and gave it to Stefan. Elena helped him open it and he drank the blood, his wound healing. When he finished the last drop, he groaned and tossed the bag on the floor.
"Thank you. Both of you." the vampire thanked, looking at Alaric and Jenna.
Alaric nodded. "Yeah, well, we'll be downstairs." he said, and the older couple left.
"What happened?" Emma asked, though she left like she already knew the answer.
Elena looked down, sitting down on Stefan's bed with the said vampire. "Damon fed me his blood. . . so that I come back as a vampire."
Emma's jaw tighten. "Of course he did. He just ruined everything. I'm so sorry, Elena." she said, angry tears forming.
Elena shook her head and faced Emma. "It's not your fault. I just-I just can't believe he would do that. Why?"
"Hey," Stefan said, placing his hand on Elena's cheek. "We've never talked about this. What this all means."
"It doesn't matter." Elena said.
"I want to take you somewhere." Stefan announced.
"I-I can't go."
Emma squeezed Elena's shoulder with her hand. "Elena, you should go."
Elena smiled at Emma and then nodded her head to Stefan. "Okay." she whispered.
The two left a few minutes later and that left Jenna and Emma alone in the boarding house. Alaric had gone to go check on Damon, knowing he'd head to The Grill for a drink. Emma had started to go to the kitchen with Jenna when she heard whispering coming from the basement. She stopped suddenly and faced the door, causing Jenna to stop as well and begin watching the girl, not sure what was happening.
"Emma? Are you alright?" she asked, but Emma ignored her, lost in the countless voices.
Emma walked up to the door, the voices getting louder and louder as she got closer. Opening the door, she was met with a different staircase that felt so familiar but she couldn't place her finger on it. She thought she heard Jenna speak behind her and when she turned around, she found herself in the woods, Jenna nowhere in sight. When she looked towards the staircase, she saw that it was the the entrance to the tomb.
She hesitantly went down the steps and came to the opening to the tomb, the same way it looked the last time she was here. She went further into the tomb, all the way to the back. She was surprised to see Caroline and Tyler chained to the walls knocked out. It clicked in her head, they were Klaus' sacrifices for the ritual.
Just then, she felt herself being shook, and the next time she blinked, she was in the cell where Elijah's body was and Jenna had her hands on Emma's shoulders.
"Emma!" she shouted, shaking Emma again.
Emma put her hands on top of Jenna, getting them off. "What? Jenna, stop."
Jenna scoffed, a bit pissed. "I'm sorry, but you're the one who suddenly came down here and stood still. I tried to talk to you and wave my hand in front of you to snap you out of it but you didn't respond and that really worried me becaus-"
"Jenna!" Emma interrupted. "It's fine. This happens to me sometimes."
Jenna's furrowed in confusion. "What do you mean, 'this happens to me sometimes'? I've known you for your whole life and you've never done this before."
Emma let out a nervous laugh. "I haven't told you this, but I can see the future, like a psychic. Oh! And now I can see the past, but that's new so, yeah."
Jenna slowly nodded. "O-okay. That, I wasn't expecting."
Emma shrugged. "Same here, but I need to go." she said, jogging up the basement stairs and heading towards the front door.
"Whoa, whoa. Where do you think you're going?" Jenna asked, running ahead of Emma and blocking her way.
"Listen, something bad is happening and I need to stop it." Emma tried explaining. She pushed past Jenna and went out the door, not listening to Jenna's calls. "While I'm gone, whatever you do, don't leave the house!" Emma shouted, beginning her run into the woods.
It was kind of hard for her to find her way in the woods. She got lucky last time, back when Anna kidnapped her. Luckily, when she pulled out her phone, she had just enough reception to find her way to the tomb. Just as she got there, well, I think you can guess who showed up as well.
"What are you doing here?" Damon asked, his eyebrows scrunched up in confusion.
"I could ask you the same thing. I'm here to save Caroline and Tyler." Emma stated.
"Ha, that's where you're wrong. I am going to save Caroline and the dog. You are turning your ass around and heading back to the boarding house where it's safe." Damon countered.
Emma went to argue with him more, but a strange man appeared before them.
"Did you really think Klaus would leave them unprotected?" he asked, causally walking around.
Damon shrugged. "Wishful thinking."
Damon vamped forward and tackled the guy, using his hand to choke the man. Emma wished she saw this in her vision to have been able to warn Damon. The guy brought his hand up and Damon was sent flying in the air, his back hitting the remains of a stone wall hard. The guy got up and advanced towards Emma when a shot rang through and the guy fell, a blood stain forming on his shirt. Emma turned in the direction of the noise to see Matt Donovan with a shot gun. Damon got up and snapped the guys neck before facing Matt.
"Matt, what are you doing here?" Emma asked.
Matt lowered the gun and stepped closer to Damon and Emma. "Where's Caroline?"
Damon sighed, hands on his hips. "Listen, man. Not a good time to play the hero."
Matt cocked the gun and pointed it at Damon. "Where is she and what did he do to her?" he asked again.
"Whoa! Matt, put the gun down!" Emma said, her body instinctively standing in front of Damon.
"Hey, I'm just here to rescue her, okay?" Damon said, holding his hands up in surrender. Damon used his vampire speed again and grabbed Matt's gun, slamming it on the poor guys head.
Emma narrowed her eyes at him. "You didn't have to do that." she said.
Damon uncocked the gun, placing the bullets in his jacket pocket. "Keep talking and you'll be next." he said, but Emma knew he was just bluffing. Or was he?
They both ran down the stairs to the opening of the tomb, the feeling of deja vu hitting Emma. Though, in a way, Emma had already done this. They went to the very back to find Caroline and Tyler chained to the walls, like in her vision.
"Damon? Emma?" Caroline said, looking up at the two from her spot.
"Your boyfriend's outside with a rifle loaded. With wooden bullets." Damon informed, kneeling down next to Caroline to unchain her. "You have some explaining to do."
"What, Matt?" Caroline asked, confusion laced in her words.
Emma went over to Tyler and checked out his chains when he asked, "Matt knows about you?"
Caroline seemed lost at words. "No, I-"
Damon shushed her. "Tomorrow's problem. Let me just get you out of here." He grabbed Caroline's arm and started to drag her out of the tomb.
"Wait, Damon." Emma called out, getting up from the floor. "We can't leave Tyler. Klaus is going to kill him."
"Yeah, I'm not leaving him." Caroline voiced.
Damon groaned, eyeing the werewolf. "It's getting dark soon. How fast can you get the hell away from here?"
"I need to get to my family's cellar." Tyler explained. "I can lock myself up."
"I'll help." Caroline volunteered.
Damon went around Emma and knelt in front of Tyler. "Don't make me regret this." he said, pulling the chain apart.
The full moon stone high above them as they walked went up the last step of the tomb. Matt seemed to have been waking up as he groaned from the ground.
"Hey, Matt!" Caroline ran over to Matt. "Hey, did you hit him?!" she asked Damon, a disapproving look on her face.
The older vampire glared at her. "Did you already forget the part about the gun with the wooden bullets?"
Tyler grunted and fell to his knees, clutching his chest.
"Tyler?" Emma said, looking worriedly at the werewolf.
Tyler looked up at the moon, realizing what was happening. "It's starting."
"Ugh. Grab boy wonder and let's go." Damon told Caroline, who helped Matt to his feet.
They were running through the forest towards the Lockwood cellar. Tyler had some difficulty walking, groaning from the pain of the transition.
"What's happening? Is he okay?" Matt asked.
Damon's phone rang and he pulled it out. "He better not wolf out on us." He pressed accept on his phone. "Bad time, little bro." he said.
Emma wished that she had the ability to hear what the conversation was about, considering it was Elena's last night. All she could do was guess what Stefan was saying.
"Saving the day. I figured you'd understand." Damon replied, keeping up the pace with everyone else. "Just tell Elena to stay put." A second went by and his eyes widened. "What?" Damon seemed conflicted at whatever Stefan said next. "I'll take care of it." he said, hanging up the phone.
"Damon, what happened?" Emma asked, though Damon didn't reply because Tyler fell down, groaning in pain.
"Oh, god!" Tyler cried, his bones crunching each time he moved. Damon and Emma shared cautious looks. "I don't know if I can hold it off. Get out of here." Tyler ordered.
Caroline stepped closer to him. "It'll be okay." She ignored Tyler's plea to leave. "You've got time. We're almost there, just-"
"It's happening faster." Tyler said, groaning as he tried to control the werewolf inside him.
Caroline advanced closer to Tyler to calm him but he growled, his eyes glowing yellow. Emma yelped and backed up when Tyler went to pounce onto Caroline but Damon jumped in front and was tackled instead. Damon used his strength to keep Tyler at arms length as the werewolf bore his teeth at him. They struggled for a little bit longer before Damon shoved Tyler off of him, sending him flying back.
"Damon-" Emma began.
"I'm fine." he said, getting up off the ground.
"Get out of here!" Tyler shouted, his teeth sticking out of his mouth.
"Get to the Lockwood cellar. If it held him in, it'll keep him out." Damon said to Caroline and Matt. He turned to Emma. "Go back to the house. Klaus has Elena." he informed.
Emma's eyes widened and she nodded already breaking away from the group. She ran as fast as she could to the boarding house, remembering the path she took before. She burst through the front door and saw Alaric, Elijah and Stefan together in the living room.
"Where's Jenna?" she asked, glancing around to find her aunt.
Alaric shook his head. "I don't know. I think she went back to you house."
"There's no time to worry about her, we need to focus on the ritual." Elijah said, walking past Emma to Alaric's car outside.
Alaric carried his bag full of vampire weapons, following Elijah out. Emma made the move to follow, but Stefan's hand on her shoulder stopped her.
"Hey," he said, and it was at this time she noticed she was shaking from fear. Stefan brought her in an embrace. "we'll get her back." he said, rubbing her back.
Emma nodded and broke away from Stefan, wiping away the stray tears on her cheeks. "Yeah, I know. Let's go."
