The Tomb:
Stefan's gear only managed to protect his upper torso and head from getting a iron spike rammed through but his lower abdomen and upper thigh weren't so lucky.
Outside Damon was debating if he should go in after his idiot brother when his phone rang. He pulled up his text messages and saw Rose needed his help, apparently Elena tricked her into some suicide mission.
"Why is Rose texting you?"Clara asked from behind Damon, She didn't like seeing another woman's name come up on his phone.
Damon sighs, "Its Elena. Stay here with Stefan, I'll go take care of it."
"No you stay here with your bother." Clara grabs the phone out of Damon's hand "I'm gonna take care of this."
At Slater's:
Elena is gazing out a window. Suddenly, she sees Elijah's reflection walking towards her in the window. Elena gasps and turns around. She sees no one else in the room with her. Confused, she turns back and looks at the window and back into the room again.
Elena walks into the main room, sipping on a glass of water trying to calm her nerves from earlier. She looks over at Alice, then turns around and gasps because Clara has snuck up from behind her.
"What are you doing here?" Elena asks startled,
Clara narrows her eyes at her, "Think maybe you stole my question?"
Rose enters the room. Elena turns around and looks at her angrily, "You called her?"
Rose shakes her head, "No I texted Damon..."
Clara sets her eyes on Rose now, "Yeah about that," Clara suddenly has a gun pointed at Rose and shoots her full of vervain causing her to collapse.
Shocking the hell out of Elena, "What was that for?"
"For trying too hard and being too damn eager to try and bond with my husband, it was annoying me. Now are you going to come with me like a good girl or foolishly annoy me into reloading this thing with tranquilizers?" Clara asks intimidating Elena.
Elena gulps afraid of this side of Clara but still is determined to stand her ground as Alice walks into the room,
"Who are you, are you a vampire? OMG what happened to Rose?"
Clara rolls her eyes takes some tranq pellets out of her back pocket and quickly loads them before shooting Alice.
Elena huffs, "Can you please stop doing that?"
Clara tilts her head to he side, "Would you rather I got rid of her by snapping her neck?" Elena doesn't have anything to say to that.
"Come on. We're leaving."
"No." Elena says being stubborn.
"I said we're leaving!" Clara tells her getting angry.
"I'm not going with you!"
Clara points the gun at Elena, "You do not get to make decisions anymore."
That set Elena off, "When have I ever made a decision? You and Stefan and Damon do that for me! Now this, this is my decision."
Clara shakes her head, "Who's gonna save your life while you're out making decisions?" She asks.
"You're not listening to me, Clara. I don't want to be saved. Not if it means that Klaus is gonna kill every single person that I love."
Clara stalks towards Elena gun still drawn and backs her up against a wall, "No YOU are going to kill every single person you love if you continue to martyr yourself."
Elena looks confused, "What are you talking about?"
Clara rolls her eyes, "Let's play this out shall we, you have all so nobly sacrificed yourself to Klaus, do you really think that ends with the rest of us living happily ever after? NO it doesn't. It will only lead to more death pain and torment. Stefan will either kill himself out of self hatred for failing to protecting you or worse he will turn his switch off and go on to kill countless innocent people. And what about your brother? Going to have him bury another family member before he's even 18, what do you wanna bet he turns to drugs again and this time the hard stuff only his over protective pain in the ass big sister isn't there this time to pull him back. This sicko wants to make a human sacrifice to some ancient sun and moon thing that will ultimately give him more power... someone like that doesn't deserve more power... he doesn't get to win and you handing your self over is letting him win. I know how scary it is to decide to fight for something you think you have no chance of winning but if there ever was a time to draw a line in the sand it is now!"
Clara has to take a deep breath after her long winded speech/smack down, "Now, get your ass out the door before I throw you over my shoulder and carry you out myself."
Back in Mystic Falls:
Stefan finally got free of the pit and was able to toss the moonstone outside where Jeremy caught it.
Damon looked at his brother, "We'll find a way to get you out... I promise."
Stefan nods, "Just work with Bonnie on the moonstone figure out how to de-spell it, I'll be fine in here."
Damon smiles tightly signaling his annoyance, "You martyr yourself in a tomb and I get partnered with a semi-competent witch. Wonderful."
Slater's:
Clara has carried Alice and Rose over to the bed and laid them down. She opens a set of double doors and exits the bedroom ready to head back to Mystic Falls with Elena,
"Time to go. Alice is soundly sleeping... hopefully she won't remember much."
Suddenly, the front doors burst open and three men walk into the apartment. Clara turns his head to look at them as Elena stands up.
One steps forward, "We're here to meet the doppelgänger."
Clara nods, "Thank you for coming." She says stepping forward as if she's the doppelgänger,
But Elena can't let her do that, "No Clara, don't!"
Elena attempts to walk towards them, but Clara speeds over and pushes Elena behind her.
"I will break your arm." She tells her deadly serious.
She looks at the men, "There's nothing here for you."
The man in the back suddenly drops to the floor, dead. Elijah stands behind him. The other two vampires look back at Elijah. Elijah vamp-speeds towards them, looking from one to the other and then over at Elena and Clara.
"Who are you?" The man called Cody asks.
"I'm Elijah." Mr. hot as sin in a suite says, Clara's eyes widen recognizing the name.
"We were gonna bring her to you. For Klaus. She's the doppelgänger. I don't know how she exists, but she does. Klaus will want to see her."
Elijah nods, "Does anyone else know that you're here?" he asks,
Cody quickly tells him, "No."
Elijah relaxes some, "Well, then, you have been incredibly helpful."
Elijah plunges his arm's into the two vampires' chests. They grunt as Elijah rips their hearts out. The two vampires fall to the floor, dead, and Elijah lets their hearts drop from his hands. His eyes flash back to Clara's.
"I thought my husband killed you?"
"Only momentarily, You must be Mrs. Salvatore... pleasure." Elijah after wiping the blood off his hand with a handkerchief brings Clara's hand up and places a kiss on her knuckles.
Clara is a little thrown and has to take a moment to get her emotions and hormones under control again.
"Right, well sorry for any confusion but Elena no longer wishes to turn herself over to you... or anyone." She says looking past Elijah to the men on the floor.
Elijah is unbothered, "That is perfectly fine with me, I was only here to ensure Miss. Gilbert didn't do something ill advised and reckless."
Clara is confused, "Then why on earth did you commission her kidnapping, if you don't wish to see her sacrificed?"
"I apologize she was ever put in that position but I assure you Rose contacted me after the deed had been done, I never requested it... speaking of Rose she seems to be waking up in the other room. Perhaps it's best if we continue this conversation at a later date. Until then." He nods respectfully to both women and then in a flash he is gone.
"What the hell just happened?" Elena asks,
"Honestly, I haven't a fucking clue... let's just go before he changes his mind." Clara tells her.
"Shouldn't we wait for Rose?"
Clara sighs, "Fine, but I'm in Damon's car with no UV protection, so she's riding in the trunk again."
"Again?" Elena asks.