Elena rubs her arms from the cold and walks out of the living room. She looks out of the open front door, searching for Stefan
" Are you growing the trees out there?" Elena shouts out but gets no response. She glances around and slowly inches towards to the door, anxiously
" Stefan?" Elena tries again. She looks out the door, not knowing that Brady is hiding against the wall next to the door. Elena quietly gets a knife from the counter and slowly walks to the door and steps out onto the porch
" Stefan, what are you doing out there?" Elena asks nervously, sensing something terribly wrong. Swiftly, Brady comes up behind Elena. Elena gasps and turns around, stabbing him in the belly with a knife. Brady drops to her knees in pain. Elena runs back into the home and shuts the front door, making sure to lock it. Outside, Brady rips the blade from his stomach. Elena rushes up the stairs as Brady easily kicks the front door open. Elena runs into the closest room and Brady walks into the house and closes his eyes
" I can smell you." Brady calls out
Elena, thinking quickly, takes her sweater off and puts it on the bed. She silently switches rooms, shutting the new rooms door behind her softly and placing her hand over her mouth to quiet her breathing. Brady walks up the staircase, knife in hand and walks into Elena's first room and sees her sweater on the bed. He walks over to the bed and picks it up and smells it. Elena opens the door to her room and tiptoes down the stairs. When she reaches the bottom of the staircase, she looks up the stairs and places her hands on the front door and slams it shut, trying to trick Brady into thinking she went outside. Brady hears the loud noise and turns his head. Elena rushes into her parents room. Brady descends the stairs and glares around the room. He enters Elena's parents room and searches for her, eventually opening up the door to the hidden room. Suddenly, Elena comes up from behind him and stabs him in the shoulder with a wooden stake. Brady falls to the floor, again, and writhes in pain. Elena grabs the bloody knife and rushes out of the room. Brady removes the stake from his back and stands up. Elena runs out the front door with Brady close behind her. As Brady makes it out the front door, Stefan intercepts and plunges his hand into Brady's chest. Elena looks back in shock. Stefan rips his heart out and tosses it to the ground. Elena drops the knife and rushes towards Stefan.
" It's OK. It's OK. You're OK. You're OK." Stefan sooths. Elena runs over to Stefan and they share a loving embrace
"You're all right. It's OK." Stefan continues. Tyler walks out from around the corner and Elena looks up from Stefan's shoulder and sees him
" Tyler?" Elena questions
" I didn't know what they were gonna do to you. I didn't. I just... I don't want to be like this anymore." Tyler responds. Elena lets Stefan go and walks over to Tyler. They look at each other for a moment before Elena hugs him and Tyler wraps his arms around her
" I'm sorry, Elena." Tyler tells her
" It's okay." She reassures. They continue hugging whilst Stefan looks on and sighs with relief
SALVATORE BOARDING HOUSE
Damon and Aalleeyah are still chained to the chairs and Jules is leaning against the shotgun while she talks to Damon, as Aalleeyah is still dead.
" You know what the great thing about buckshot is? It scatters through the body, maximum damage." Jules informs. Damon looks at her with fake intrigue. Jules pulls the shotgun up and points it at him
" Where's the moonstone?" Jules demands
" Get over it, honey. You're never gonna get it." Damon says
"You looking for this?" Elijah's voice rings through the room. Elijah is leaning against the banister, twirling the moonstone in his hand. All people in the room turn to look at him. Elijah walks down the steps and puts the moonstone down on the nearby end table and backs away from it
" Go ahead. Take it." Elijah suggests. One werewolf takes a chance and uses her super speed to rush to the moonstone. Before he makes it there though, Elijah thrusts his hand into his chest and pulls his heart back out causing the now dead werewolf to drop to the couch. Another two werewolves try to attack Elijah but he easily rips both their hearts out too. Jules senses that she might die so she super speeds out of the house before it can be down. Elijah walks over to Stevie, the only remaining werewolf, and pulls him up from the ground
" What about you, sweetheart, hmm? You want to take a shot? Yes? No? Yes? Where's the girl?" Elijah asks
" I don't know." Damon says after taking a look around
"It doesn't really matter." Elijah states and then punches Stevie hard in the face. Stevie drops to the ground and Elijah removes the chains strapping Damon to the chair. He then does the same to Aalleeyah and picks her lifeless body up bridal style and places her on the couch with no dead bodies.
" So you realize this is the third time I've saved your life now?" Elijah tells and Damon doesn't answer. Elijah grabs the moonstone again and walks out of the house.
Damon gets to work on repositioning everything back in its original place. He's talking on the phone with Bonnie as well
" So Aalleeyah's planning on getting herself killed." Damon sums up
" Not exactly. I mean, I don't know how she's going to pull it off." Bonnie says
"Got it loud and clear." Damon growls and hangs up the phone. Alaric gasps and sits up abruptly, coming back to life
" Finally. You missed all the fun." Damon comments as Alaric attempts to awaken properly.
"Come on, help me get Aalleeyah up. She and I need to talk." Damon bitterly commands. Damon walks into the kitchen and grabs a bucket. He fills it with water and walks back to the parlour.
"What are you doing?" Alaric asks. Damon ignores him and dumps the bucket of water on Aalleeyah's head. She gasps and sits up quickly, just like Alaric did.
"What the fuck?!" Aalleeyah screams at Damon as she wipes the water from her face.. Damon puts the bucket down and crosses his arms over his chest.
"Why didn't you tell me about your suicide plan?" Damon snarls
"What suicide plan?" Aalleeyah asks confused
"The plan you had in mind to save Elena from the sacrifice. Ring a bell?"
"Oh please, that's not suicide" Aalleeyah defends standing up and matching Damon's arm position.
"It is!" Damon yells
"No it isn't!"
"Yes it is!" Damon shouts. Alaric is just standing there awkwardly
"I'm going just go" Alaric awkwardly coughs out before exiting the house
"How is it suicide?!" Aalleeyah asks
"What if something goes wrong?! How do you know your magic will work?! I asked Bonnie Aalleeyah and she said she couldn't think of any possible way for you to fool an Original into thinking you're your human sister!"
"I can do this!"
"Well I don't care because you're not doing it!" Damon screams
"You don't own me Damon! You can't tell me what to do!"
"You're not doing it Aalleeyah and that's final" Damon growls lowly. Aalleeyah resists the urge to punch him in the face and walks past him, hitting his shoulder with hers. She races up the stairs to their- no Damon's room and grabs an overnight bag and starts stuffing it with clothes. She grabs her makeup bag and brush and puts them in the bag too before walking back down the stairs. She sees Damon downing a glass of bourbon in the parlour as she walks by him, on her way to the front door. As she starts to open the door, it's abruptly closed by another hand that she supposes is Damon's.
"Where do you think you're going?" He asks
"None of your business" She replies coldly and tries to open the door again, only for it to be closed by Damon again
"You're not leaving" Damon says
"For the last time Damon, you don't own me, I can do whatever the hell I want"
"Aalleeyah do not leave this house" Damon sneers
"If you don't move out of my way and let me leave this house then I swear to god that in the next 10 minutes you'll be single with a broken jawbone" Aalleeyah warns. Damon thinks about it for a moment before reluctantly removing his hand from the door. Aalleeyah rips the door open and storms out of the house and hops in her car before speeding off. Damon slams the door shut behind her and kicks a nearby wall, causing a hole to form.
GILBERT HOUSE
Jenna's at the Gilbert House writing a paper at the dining room table when her phone starts to rings.
" There you are. Are you OK?" Jenna asks as she answers the phone
" Yeah, sorry. I… I… I've just been grading papers. Honestly, uh... I fell asleep. I'm sorry. Jenna, I'm a jerk." Alaric lies
" No. It's fine. I'm just glad you're OK."
"Sorry. Tomorrow I'm all yours, OK?"
"Sure. Sounds great."
" All right. Good night, Jenna."
" Good night." Jenna replies and they both hang up, Jenna looking at the phone sceptically
FORBES HOUSE
Jeremy and Bonnie walk out of the Forbe's living room
" So will Luka remember anything?" Jeremy asks
" No. He'll know he lost consciousness, that's all." Bonnie explains
" Should we wait for Caroline"
" She was just gonna drop Luka back at the Grill. Said to lock the door on our way out."
" Yeah. Well, I hope she drops him hard." Jeremy jokes seriously. He walks to the front door but Bonnie doesn't follow
" Wait. You're Elena's little brother, I've known you forever. You're that punk kid. I remember your awkward phase, and then your emo phase, your druggie phase. And overnight, you turned into this hot guy who's really sweet and…" Bonnie trails off
" You think I'm hot?" Jeremy questions as he walks closer to Bonnie
" With everything that's going on, you know, curses and sacrifice..."
" Enough already." Jeremy cuts off . They both lean in and share a very passionate first kiss. After an intense moment they pull away and Bonnie looks up at him
" Wow. " Bonnie breathes. Jeremy smiles happily and pushes a strand of hair away from her face and leans again and kisses her
LOCKWOOD MANSION
Carol Lockwood walks up the stairs of her house and turns the lights on. As she walks up the stairs, she hears a floorboard from down the stairs creak. She turns around to inspect the noise
"Hello?" Carol calls out and walks back down the stairs
"Hello?" She tries again. She looks at the giant vase of flowers on the nearby table and sees a letter form Tyler leaning against it. She walks over and picks the letter up and looks around for her son
MYSTIC GRILL
Tyler walks into the Grill and looks around for Matt. He finds him putting some used dishes into a bin so Tyler walks over to him.
" Matt." Tyler greets
" I'm not in the mood, man." Matt responds without facing him
" I need to say something."
" All right. Say it." Matt sighs and finally looks at him
" I've been going through a rough time, something I can't really talk about, and Caroline's been helping me through it. She's been there for me more than anyone's ever been there in my entire life, and I kind of fell for her. I don't know how anyone wouldn't, because she's pretty incredible. But she loves you, and she needs you, and to be honest, she deserves someone like you. So you be good to her, OK?"
" Yeah, man. Of course."
" See you around, Matt."
" Yeah." Matt slightly smiles and Tyler walks out as Matt watches him leave, confused.
FORBES' HOUSE
Caroline's on her bed, flicking through a magazine when she hears a noise. She pulls her head up and slowly gets up and walks into the hallway
" Mom?" Caroline calls. She creeps over to the door and looks out of the window but sees nothing. She locks the door and goes back to the bedroom. From the shadows, Tyler sighs as he watches Caroline and walks off of the porch and to the street, bag in hand. He walks to the car stopped there and hops in the passenger seat. Jules looks at him from her position in the drivers seat
" I'm sorry about Brady and your friends, but if I'm gonna go with you, no more lies. " Tyler demands
" No more lies. You're doing the right thing." Jules nods
" I can't stay here, not like this." Tyler sighs. Jules puts the car in drive and they drive off, out of Mystic Falls
As Tyler's car drives off, Aalleeyah's car pulls up. She turns her car off and grabs her bag before walking up to the door. She knocks on the door but Caroline doesn't respond.
"Caroline? It's Aalleeyah!" She shouts out. She hears movement in the house and Caroline finally answers the door.
"Hey, what's up?" Caroline asks
"Um, can I stay the night?" Aalleeyah asks desperately.
"Uh yeah sure" Caroline moves aside from the entrance, confused. Aalleeyah walks in and goes to her room with Caroline following
"What happened?" Caroline asks
"Damon and I had a fight. And there was no way I was going back home with John and Jenna there." Aalleeyah sighs and plops down on the bed
"I'm sorry. I'm sure everything will work out" Caroline sympathises
"I don't think so Care."
"No. I know it will. You know why? Because you and Damon love each other. I have never seen you or Damon so in love. Before Damon, you were always making fun of people and lying and now you don't do that…. As much. And before you, Damon was a sexist, self-absorbed asshole that used girls for sex whenever he wanted. You guys make each other better in every way. Aalleeyah, don't give up your relationship with Damon because you guys have the best relationship I've ever witnessed." Caroline finishes her speech as Aalleeyah looks up to her in amazement
"Thanks Care, I needed that, but I think I'm going to just avoid Damon for a couple days and let the situation cool down. Cover for me?" Aalleeyah begs
"Yeah sure of course. Lets go to bed. It's been a long day" Caroline sighs and they both get in bed, falling asleep almost instantly.
AN: I need you guys to help me :) Okay so you know how the kids in the Gilbert family have a creative talent? Like how Elena's good at writing and Jeremy's can draw? Well Aalleeyah needs a talent so feel like helping? I'll love you forever! 3 Review! Review! Review! Pretty please? Come on, I asked nicely :)