A/N: Alina imagine Alissa Milano

Buffy groans as she pulls into the small town of Willoughby, they had been searching for days and still hadn't found Katherine and Mary. This was getting annoying, she just wanted to find this damn cure shove it down Rebekah's throat so it couldn't be used on her then she could go get her daughter and get the hell away from Mystic Falls and everyone there.

Pulling over near a bar she turns to Rebekah "Drink?" She asks as she climbs out the car her pink leather trousers making a small noise, but she didn't care. The trousers matched her hair so perfectly,

Rebekah huffs in annoyance, she didn't want to stop she wanted to find the cure before Damon caught up with them "Seriously?" She groans climbing out of the car "Buffy we need to get to the next town."
"And we will." Buffy promises "But I need a damn drink. Or I'm going to shove your head into the wheel and drive really past till it pops off. Come on Rebekah one drink some food. I don't live on blood."

Rebekah groans in annoyance, but to be fair she was frustrated and annoyed, maybe a drink was a good idea before they kept moving.

As she nods Buffy smirks before heading into the bar and straight over to the bartender "Two fruity strong things please." She asks politely before smiling as two colorful cocktails were placed in front of them.
"Feel better cranky pants?" Buffy smirks over as she glances at Rebekah who shakes her head in amusement "Maybe."

Buffy chuckles before they clink their glasses together, as she sips on her drink Buffy turns smiling at the cute bartender before she frowns.

Along the back bar were photos of what seemed to be customers lined up along the wall, she scans it before her eyes widen and she slaps Rebekah's hand "Bloody hell Buffy." Rebekah exclaims as her drink spills not even bothering the vampire slayer who was still grabbing her arm like a wild person "Are you having a bleeding seizure?!"

"No!" Buffy hisses before jumping over the bar when the bartender tries to come up to her she glares at him "I'm allowed to do whatever I what."

"You're allowed to do whatever you want." He repeats before walking back over to another customer. As Rebekah complains Buffy ignores her before taking the photo off the wall before jumping back over the counter "Look."

Rebekah rolls her eyes before taking the photo however quickly her eyes widen as there smiling at the camera as they held glasses of red wine in their hands was Katherine and Mary.

"They were here."

At Rebekah's words, Buffy nods before whistling over the bartender "Hey cutie. Question, the photos on the wall, when are they put up?"
The bartender frowns "The wall is updated every week. It was redone yesterday."

Buffy and Rebekah glance at each other, this means that Katherine and Mary were probably still here, walking out of the bar the two glance around the town before Buffy grabs the wrist of a redheaded woman currently putting bags in her car.

"Where's Katherine?" She hisses compelling the girl while shoving the photo in the woman's face.
The woman frowns in confusion "Whose' Katherine?"

Buffy groans in annoyance before looking down and there it was, a fresh bandage, pulling back the bandage Buffy's eyes widen as she spots the bite.
Huffing she walks over to Rebekah "They don't remember her unless she's here." She realizes making Rebekah scoff in amazement "Conniving little bitch compelled the whole town."

Buffy frowns before tilting her head and turning back to the woman "Do you know Mary?"
The woman frowns before she glances at Rebekah "You're her sister right? Mary showed me a photo of all of her siblings when she told me to keep her secret."

Rebekah couldn't help but let out an amused breath, while Katherine had compelled away her existence, Mary didn't. Thinking she was too powerful.
Buffy frowns "What secret..."

The woman pauses before shaking her head in confusion "I—I don't know."
Buffy rolls her eyes before turning to Rebekah "Let's go get Katherine."

"Buffy is a terrible driver Stefan!" Damon exclaims as they walk over to where Buffy and Rebekah had abandoned his car in the middle of some highway 'If she so much as scratched the paint on my car."

Stefan rolls his eyes as they grab the gas out of the car they had driven here in before sighing like Damon could do anything, Buffy was a Slayer/Demon hybrid Original and Rebekah was a 1000-year-old Original. If anything the fact that Buffy had only snapped his neck was freaking lucky.

"Why don't you just be grateful that the Sheriff was able to track down the car after you let them, uh...you know steal it from you."

Damon rolls his eyes at his brother's words before they head over to his car "Remind me to send her some mini-muffins. Do we really need 10 gallons of gas or are you making me just lug this around as punishment?"

Stefan sighs, he was not in the mood to fight for his brother the second he found out exactly how Buffy had been manipulating him in New York, let's just say the argument between them wasn't pretty. But now he just needed to focus on finding Buffy and the cure so they could protect Joy "Well, they ditched your car after it ran out of fuel."

"Typical." Damon hisses in annoyance "Why can she never remember to fill up the tank."

"Probably to mess with you more." When Damon merely rolls his eyes Stefan shakes his head in amusement, okay maybe he was enjoying this "We got a hundred miles before we get to Willoughby."
Damon frowns in confusion "Yeah well I don't remember that name from the list of places I got in New York."

"Oh, the list." Stefan says sarcastically "You mean the list they stole from right under your nose after you let your guard down? They'll be there. Sheriff Forbes tracked down the car they stole after yours before she went to help watch Joy with Caroline and Bonnie."

Now not only had Liz agreed to help make sure the blonde and the witch didn't get baby Joy killed but she had also just saved their buts "Screw the muffins I'll get her champagne." As he begins filling the car with gas he stands glancing over at his brother "If Buffy is wherever it may be."

"Willoughby." Stefan reminds him "The creamed corn capital of Pennsylvania. They'll be there. Let's just hope we get to them before they get to the cure."

Damon sighs before a quick idea pops to his head, one he liked very much "Ooh, silver lining. If Rebekah takes the cure, then she's mortal. And then we can just kill her right then and there."

Stefan couldn't help but sigh, his brother really needed to keep his mind focused longer than 5 seconds at a time "Ooh dark cloud. Buffy stays an all-powerful demon slayer hybrid forever and never turns on her emotions. Look why don't you just table the revenge fantasies for now. And just keep your eye on the prize. Find Katherine get the cure, get out before you get your neck snapped again. Or you know Buffy just kills us instead."

Damon merely clenches his jaw while he hadn't said anything he was pissed, Buffy had played with him and destroyed him and he was furious, he had never been so mad at the blonde but he knew one thing, this wasn't his best friend they were dealing with this was an all-powerful crazy person "Believe me, I learned my lesson. Buffy without humanity is a crazy-ass bitch who cares about nothing but causing pain. And I won't trust her until we get the old Buffy back."

Klaus groans in agony as he tries for the hundredth time to try and rip the piece of white oak that Silas had left inside of him out. But he could feel himself weakening as the stake moved closer to his heart.

Grabbing onto his shoulder he yanks on it dislocating it in hopes of trying to reach further into his back but he did nothing but scream.

"Hey, baby daddy." A voice yells causing Klaus to turn and in walks Buffy her long blonde hair coming down to her shoulders.
Pausing Buffy's eyes widen and she runs over to Klaus placing her hands on his face "Oh my god, Nik what happened?"

Klaus groans agony and falls into her arms and the blonde catches him and moves to kneel in front of him "Nik. Come on get with the explainy."

"Silas." Klaus grunts out "He attacked me. He—he wanted Joy, but I wouldn't let him have her and he stabbed me with the White Oak Stake. A piece of it is still inside of me."

Buffy's eyes widen and she helps him over to the couch sitting him down trying to soothe him "Shh. It's okay." She whispers stroking his face "I'm not gonna let you die." Pausing she squeezing his face tighter before smirking "At least not until you find me the cure."

Klaus' eyes widen and he pushes her away scrambling away "Silas!"
Silas chuckles softly "That's right. Last night I looked like Shane. Now I look like Buffy. Tomorrow. Who knows."

"Your brother is a pest." Buffy groans in annoyance as she ignores yet another call from Klaus before putting her phone into her back pocket.

"Well, he is in love with you."

"That's his damage." The blonde sasses as the two of them head into the postal office, as they step inside Buffy freezes as a shiver goes up her spine, Katherine was here. She could feel it, "She was here."
Rebekah frowns in confusion, what the hell kind of powers were being awoken by her turning off her emotions first? "What?"
Buffy groans in annoyance "I can smell Katherine's trashy perfume. She can't have been gone more then a couple of minutes. I'll search outside."

Rebekah nods before heading further into the office while Buffy heads outside, heading into the parking lot the blonde, pink-haired Slayer glances around curiously before she spots a brunette with curly hair.

Watching her for a moment the pink-haired Slayer huffs as the woman turns around...not Katherine, great maybe she was gone, suddenly though the Slayer finds herself pinned up against a truck and her eyes widen as she spots Katherine in all of her glory glaring up at her as she held her hand around her throat "I'm impressed. I never thought you'd find me here."

Buffy merely chuckles before grabbing Katherine's hand and the brunette's eyes widen as Buffy yanks her hand off her "You really should have run Kitkat." Shattering Katherine's wrist she then punches her across the floor sending her crashing to the ground.

Katherine's eyes widen and she clutches her broken wrist before her eyes widen as Rebekah walks over and stands by Buffy, the two blonde bombshells standing side by side as they glared down at the doppelganger.

Buffy smirks "Aw honey, you've missed a lot."

Buffy groans as her Rebekah and Katherine sit in a cafe, where they had been questioning the vampire for hours "Where is the cure?" Buffy hisses as she smirks over while playing with a pink strand of her hair "Oh come on. You tell me now. I kill you quick. You take longer. I call Klaus and we throw a Katherine torture party."

Katherine's eyes widen in fear honestly the two people who hated her and wanted her dead the most she was now being held captive by.
Taking a shaky breath she tilts her head "What no, I'm here to avenge my annoying little brother speech?"
Buffy rolls her eyes before smiling "Aw honey, Elena and Jeremy are dead. Once the life insurance shows up no biggy."
"What about your precious little girl?"

"Safe with Klaus." Buffy says flatly before she downs her drink and shatters the glass on Katherine's hand causing the vampire to cry out in pain as several shards of glass dig into her hand causing blood to drip over the table, Buffy smirks before leaning forward resting her chin on her palm "So wanna keep up with the 20 questions or do you wanna keep all of your fingers."

Katherine frowns as she plucks the glass out of her hand before looking at the pink-haired hybrid carefully, there was something different about her, something more careless...it was liked someone yanked the save the world stick out of her hero ass "You turned off your humanity switch." She realizes smiling in amusement "So sad for the boys, though. Their special savor princess...gone."

"Aw I was gone the second I slept with Klaus." Buffy says with a shrug before smirking "Though it was fun."
Rebekah groans "Gross."
Katherine chuckles in amusement before moving to stand "Well if we're going to be here a while I'm gonna go grab some menus."

Rebekah who was sat next to Katherine grabs a fork stabbing it right into Katherine's hand making Buffy smile in amusement "Ouch. Looks like your stuck with us."
Rebekah smiles at Buffy before smirking over at Katherine "You're not going anywhere."

Katherine clenches her jaw in agony before glaring over at Rebekah "I forgot how charming you were."
Rebekah couldn't help but glare "I'm surprised you remember me at all, seeing as though you were so busy manipulating my sister into being your little protector."

Suddenly the waitress comes over her eyes widening in horror at the sight of Katherine's hand pinned to the table with a fork "Oh, my god. What happened?"

Glancing over at Katherine Buffy raises a knife and twirls it in her hands before pointing it at Katherine's eye who quickly panics and turns to the waitress "I'm fine. Jolene. You didn't see anything." She compels causing the waitress to smile before walking away.

Buffy sighs, she was getting fed up right now "Now. I get it you two hate each other. And because of you Miss 500-year-old tramp are the reason Rebekah now hates Mary. Whatever. Bla bla you're both bitter. Rebekah, we are here for a reason."

Rebekah clenches her jaw but Buffy was right, they were here for a reason and they didn't have long before Stefan and Damon tracked them down and tried to get the cure before they could. Grabbing Katherine by the jaw she yanks her face over "Where's the cure?"
Katherine merely smirks "I'm sorry. I'm on Vervain."
"Oh I get to torture it out of you. Fun."

Buffy couldn't help but pout at her "I wanted to torture her."
Rebekah smirks "Her demon side loves to torture. It's so much fun."

Katherine's eyes fill with panic slightly, she remembered the spell that Mary had told her she had performed. It meant that Buffy would finally reach her full power. Which meant now without her humanity she had full access to her demon side.

"Why do you two want it?" She asks trying to keep them busy enough so she could figure a way out of here and to get to Mary.
Rebekah merely frowns "The question is why do you want it? Let me guess to kill Niklaus."
Buffy clenches her jaw at that, she needed Klaus around so someone was with Joy "Be careful with your answer."

Katherine merely scoffs in annoyance, this wasn't exactly how she wanted to spend the day "I've spent the last 500 years running from your big brother. I have no intention of being within sniffing distance of him. But since it can be used against him, I'm sure he's just itching to get his hands on it. I give him the cure, he gives me my freedom."

Buffy merely smirks at that, she would make sure Katherine never had any ounce of freedom for the rest of her life "Aw honey. I'll make sure he doesn't. Giving birth to his child helps with the him owing me."
Katherine's eyes widen at that, okay maybe she hadn't thought about how Buffy and Klaus being so on and off would affect her "I'm a changed girl Buffy. I deserve a chance right."
Buffy merely smirks "Sure." She says sarcastically "Hey if you're really changed why don't I rip you open and check. See if your insides are still ice."

Rebekah suddenly grabs on Katherine and as she struggles Rebekah grabs her phone before tossing it to Buffy.
Katherine's eyes widen with panic as she spots Buffy going through her phone, this wasn't good "Meet MVS at 2pm" Buffy reads before turning to Rebekah "What was Mary's real name?"

Rebekah smirks slightly "Marianna von Swartzschild."
Buffy smiles brightly before turning to the waitress as she walks past "Go get me a brunette wig. Whatever looks like her bad perm." She compels gesturing to Katherine before she smirks "Looks like me and Mary are gonna have a reunion."

"I totally pull off brunette." Buffy says with a smirk as she walks out of the bathroom and over to their table now wearing the brunette wig as well as some black jeans and a tight silver vest.
"You look nothing like me." Katherine hisses.
Rebekah chuckles "Well yeah she doesn't look a raggedly tramp."
Buffy smirks before turning to Katherine, "I don't have to look like you. I just have to make her come up behind me. Then bomb night-night Mary."

"Mary is a witch Buffy."

Buffy merely smirks since her demon side woke up, hell the second Joy was born it was like her power had skyrocketed, the second the witches couldn't send her flying when her Damon and Klaus went to save Joy she knew something was different "And I'm a hybrid. We'll see who lasts longer."

Pausing Buffy looks Katherine up and down "Bracelet watch, earrings. Now."

When Katherine goes to smirk Buffy leans forward and grabs her tongue "One snarky remark and I cut it out. Understand kitty?"

Katherine nods before growling in frustration and throwing her bracelets across the table before tossing her earrings over. She could barely stand normal save the world Buffy, want to torture and maim everyone Buffy was 20 times worse though.

Buffy smirks before placing on the Jewellery, she was so keeping these. They were totally cute. Pausing she spots the other bracelet on Katherine's wrist "That one too."

"It's my daylight bracelet."

Buffy merely shrugs "And you're looking a little pale so hand it over." When Katherine still hesitates Buffy rolls her eyes, they couldn't have her burning to a crisp while the sun was out.

Pausing she smirks at the black leather jacket Katherine was wearing "Jacket. You can't pull off leather anyway. It ages you."

Katherine clenches her jaw refusing to move only to have Rebekah grab her causing her to cry out in pain "All right. Fine, fine, fine." She exclaims before pulling off her jacket "This will never work you know. The bad wig over the worse haircut. Even if you don't turn to face Mary...she's known me 500 years. She won't fall for it." She hisses before tossing the jacket over.

Buffy smirks "Oh honey you're not that special. Or that memorable. I forget you exist the minute you're out of my line of sight." Pausing the blonde adjusts the wig before grabbing her sunglasses off the table, something felt wrong though.

Smirking she looks under the table and she spots Katherine's amazing shoes, shoes she needed to have "Shoes. Now. Or you turn into a doll with no feet."

Buffy groans as she spots an incoming face-time call coming from Klaus, he had called her 18 times now in the past hour, this was getting ridiculous "What the hell is wrong with you?" She hisses answering the phone as steps into a phone box and pulls off her wig glaring at him.

"Is it really you?"

Buffy rolls her eyes "Why wouldn't it be dummy. We done with your mid-life crisis now?"

Klaus seemingly sighs in relief before moving to position the phone over a disgusting looking wound "Nik what the hell!"

"There is a part of the white oak stake still inside of me. Silas attached me. Threatened Joy if I didn't get the cure for him."
Buffy's eyes widen at his words "He threatened Joy?"

Klaus nods before gasping in agony again "I can feel the splinters moving towards my heart."

"What am I supposed to do?" Buffy yells in annoyance she was over a 100 miles away and she couldn't get to him "Call someone else!"
"You are all I have!" He yells "Just tell me where the pieces are and I'll get them."

Buffy clenches her jaw, she was pissed, not at Silas but at him "How could you do this!" She screams her emotions slipping through "Joy needs you, you idiot! And you go ahead and what have a pissing contest with Silas. Cause what you're scared someone is more powerful than you!?"

Klaus' eyes fill with anger "Do not blame me for the fact that you are not here!"

"I trusted you with her!" Buffy screams back "You are supposed to put your ego aside and be there for our daughter Klaus!"

Buffy grabs onto her hair in frustration and scoffs as she glares at the hybrid, honestly she had no reason to be so pissed, but she couldn't control the anger she was letting slip out "God I should have listened to everyone! I should have left with Joy the minute I found out I was pregnant I should have turned my back on you a long time ago!"

Suddenly Klaus goes deafly silent and he stares at Buffy with wide eyes "It's gone."

"Huh?" She asks in confusion as she tries to switch her emotions back off before it all came back she couldn't do this yet, she wasn't ready for it yet.

"The pain is gone." He explains his voice almost a whisper "Oh see it was never there. He got in my head Silas. Got inside my head. You took my mind off it. Thinking about you and Joy. You brought me back...Buffy..."

And with that the blonde hangs up and leans against the wall clenching her eyes shut forcing her emotions back down.

Rebekah moans in enjoyment as she takes a bite of the pie in front of her before she glances over at the miserable Katherine "Mm. You know, it' funny. I've always been a little envious of the legend that is Katherine Pierce, the way you could wrap men around your little finger. Yet you chose to mess with my sister. Mari hated Klaus yes but she betrayed all of us for you. The way the Salvatore brothers stumbled head over heels for you...no wait that was Mari. I take it back. I envy my sister more. Because here we are all these years later in a town that you've had to compel into liking you."

Rebekah laughs softly as she continues to pick at the pie before she laughs again "I'm sorry. I shouldn't laugh. It's really more sad than funny."
Katherine rolls her eyes before glancing over at Rebekah curiously "You know you can't split the cure with Buffy, right?"

Rebekah merely smirks Katherine didn't understand "Buffy may be emotionless right now. But even in this state the only thing she cares about is Joy. She didn't want it before. And she doesn't want it now...because her being all-powerful means she can protect Joy."

Katherine watches Rebekah for a moment before tilting her head, it made sense why Buffy didn't want it, but why the hell would Rebekah "But you do. You want to take it? Are you really that dumb or naturally blonde?"
"I want a normal life again." Rebekah hisses glaring at the brunette vampire, Katherine could never understand, she was a heartless bitch.

"You mean you want a do-over. Well, guess what...you can't have it. The cure only takes away your immortality. Everything else you hate about yourself will still be there in the morning. And you won't even be able to compel yourself a friend."

Rebekah's anger begins to stir as the image of ripping off Katherine's head fills her brain, when Katherine goes to grab some of the pie Rebekah grabs her arm and begins shattering every bone in it only for them to be disturbed.

"Ladies...playing nice?" Stefan asks as him and Damon walk over to the dance before taking a seat in their booth.
Katherine couldn't help but groan in annoyance "There goes the neighborhood."

Damon smirks and glances over at the blonde original "I see you got Katherine already. You're losing your touch evil one."
Stefan sighs before turning to Rebekah "Where's Buffy?"

Buffy shoves her phone back into her back pocket before huffing, where the hell was Mary "Hiding from me?"

At the sound of Mary's voice Buffy groans, she so did not want to deal with Mary right now "You're late." She whispers putting on her best Katherine voice refusing to turn around. She couldn't turn till Mary was closer.

Hearing the witch comes up behind her she turns around only for her eyes to widen as Mary kisses her passionately. What the damn hell?! Like seriously what the damn hell! Since when were Katherine and Mary a thing!

Like a thing thing!

What the hell was going on?!

She wasn't going to lie though Mary was a good kisser.

Grabbing Mary by the throat Mary's eyes widen as Buffy pulls off her sunglasses and yanks off the wig "Looks like you and Katherine are a lot closer than we all thought."

Mary's eyes widen "Where is she?!" She hisses as she places her hand on Buffy's head only for her eyes to widen as Buffy merely winces slightly before tightening her hold.

This wasn't possible. Buffy couldn't possibly be this powerful. Unless...she had turned off her humanity, which meant her demon side was at full power.

As she gulps slightly in fear Buffy merely smirks "Things are a bit different honey...demon side is kicking magic...not a big issue anymore. Now you and I need to have a little chat."

"So let me get this straight..." Rebekah starts as she stares at the Salvatore brothers in disbelief, if they really thought this was going to happen they were gonna have an issue here and quick "...I tell you where Buffy is, you shove the cure down her throat. And then I end up in a box, right? I don't think so."

Damon rolls his eyes before his focus lands on Katherine who was happily smiling in her little corner "What about you over there smily? Do you know where she is?"

"I can give you a hint." Katherine says happily her smile never leaving her face "Start by looking at the town morgue. Pretty sure baby summers is an orphan right now." When everyone just stares at her she couldn't help but roll her eyes "Mary is the most powerful witch on the planet. Has been using Expression for hundreds of years. If you think Buffy can take her you're wrong. Mary's smart she'll come get me soon enough and kill all of you."

Stefan couldn't help but scoff "Mary can't be that smart if she's still friends with you."

Katherine smiles before looking in-between the three "Oh that's right you don't know. It has been on and off for the past 500 years give or take. But it's on again. She's not just a friend...she's a friend."

As her annunciation of the word Damon's eyes widen as fantasies begin to fill his head, okay that was not what he had expected but hell yeah he liked the images in his head right now.

"Mary and you?" Rebekah hisses groaning in disgust, she and her sister may not get along anymore, but she thought Mary had more taste than that "I'm going to be sick."

Katherine chuckles before smirking "Mary and I have been together 500 years. You think one Slayer in a bad wig will fool her? Buffy's head is probably in a dumpster right now."

Stefan groans as panic fills him, Mary was the most powerful witch on the planet Buffy might be able to hold her own in a fight but all Mary had to do was wave her hand once "All right, where are they?"

"They're meeting at the Gazebo by the park." Rebekah says instantly making everyone frown, she couldn't help but scoff "Buffy is my friend. Her daughter is my niece. I wouldn't let anything happen to her."

Stefan nods "Alright I'll go talk to Mary."
"You deal with Marianna." Rebekah tells him before turning to Damon "Katherine will take us to the cure."
Katherine couldn't help but scoff "No, she won't. The cure's my one chance to win my freedom back from Klaus."
Damon couldn't help but scoff "You do realize Klaus hates Mary, she won't broker a deal for you. If anyone could get you a deal its Buffy...you know mother of his child. Love of his crazy ass mind. So you're screwed no matter what. So take us to the cure before Buffy comes back and you know torture maims whatever she likes to do."

Katherine groans in annoyance before huffing "Fine."

Buffy smirks over at Mary who currently had two daggers sticking through her hands pinning her up against the stone wall by the small tunnel near the park leading out to the lake.

Spotting the raven-haired witch's phone ringing she sighs "You do magic I rip your girlfriend's head off." She warns before answering "Wicked Witch's phone. How may I help?"
"Buffy?"
Buffy groans "Oh it's you." She moans at the sound of Stefan's voice "You're so not who I was hoping to talk to."
"Where's Mary?"

"Currently pinned to a wall with daggers in her hands. Now if you excuse me I need to continue torturing the location of the cure out of her. Kay? Bye!"
"Wait Buf—"

And with that Buffy hangs up and turns to Mary who chuckles.
"Stefan and Damon?" She chuckles "Katherine will be just fine."

"Really? I'm not sure your big sister would agree."

Mary's eyes widen in horror, Rebekah was here, this was bad very bad "Do you understand how much Rebekah despises Katherine!" She exclaims "She will kill Katherine the second she is longer a use."
"Remind me why I am supposed to care?" Buffy asks crossing her arms as she watches the witch for a long moment. Slowly she chuckles in amusement "I will say though you and Katherine. Never saw that coming. You really are an idiot."

Mary sighs before turning to face the pink-haired Slayer "Look it's been on and off. You spent 500 years with someone and things change between you. I was visiting Elijah in New Orleans when Kat learned about the cure. So I came back and things picked up again."

Buffy couldn't help but scoff, Mary had been the one to manipulate Stefan and Damon yet now the queen of manipulation was being played by the woman she had taught "She played you like an idiot."
"You underestimate me, Buffy." Mary hisses as she forces her hands out of the blades before glaring at the blonde "I know Kat. I know what she's done."
Buffy couldn't help but roll her eyes, Mary used to be smart "She's playing you. She lied to you."

"She didn't lie to me about your pregnancy." Pausing Mary scoffs "I take it Baby Mikelson was born a tad early. How is my niece?" Pausing Mary steps over to Buffy watching her carefully "Demon you though means emotionless so I take it the baby is home with my brother or probably your idiot siblings."

Buffy merely scoffs "My brother is dead. And my sister is vegetable in a current state of unmoving consciousness." At her words Mary steps back taken aback at her words, okay maybe she didn't know as much as she thought "Your girlfriend killed my brother and then my sister broke down and basically killed herself. So your girlfriend is responsible for this." Pausing Buffy watches Mary for a moment before it clicks, Mary was finally realizing exactly how much Katherine hadn't told her, the student had surpassed the master "You didn't know? Wow the student really has become the Master."

As Rebekah searches upstairs of Katherine's granny house for the cure Damon smirks over at Katherine "So if I was a paranoid, distrustful sociopath, where would I keep my most prized possession."
Katherine chuckles in amusement as she crosses her arms "This should be fun."

Damon merely continues as he walks around the living room in search of where she could have hidden it "Because I'd want it to be close, but not on me. Accessible but not obvious. I'd want to keep it safe, but not so safe that it'd be too difficult to grab and run."

Pausing Damon's eyes land on the fishball in the middle of the room where a small treasure chest was resting at the bottom "Well that is a fancy little treasure chest in a tank with no fish." He exclaims at her stupidity before he pulls back his sleeve "I think I'm gonna have to check that out." Placing a finger inside he gasps in agony "Ah!" He screams as his hand burns "Vervain water. Looks like we have a winner."

Suddenly Katherine speeds up behind him and shoves his head into the tank causing the vampire to scream in agony before she tosses him to the ground and grabs the cure.

However, before she could escape Rebekah appears at the doorway blocking her path "Give it to me or you're dead."

Katherine panics before opening the chest "You're gonna kill me anyway, so what's more important to you. Killing me or getting the cure?"

Holding the cure out in front of her Katherine throws it behind her and as Rebekah runs to catch it Katherine legs it out the door.
Damon groans from his place on the floor his face still healing from all the Vervain "Look, Rebekah...don't even think about it."

Rebekah merely stands staring at the cure in her hands, here it was everything she had ever wanted just in the palm of her hand.

"Let's talk about this." Damon says gasping through the pain of his burns "Like the two rational vampires that we are. Rebekah?"

"Oh give it a rest." Rebekah huffs in annoyance before glaring at him "Me taking this cure is the best thing that'll ever happen to you."
"Rebekah!"
Rebekah huffs in annoyance at his denial "Admit it!" She yells at him "You don't want just the Slayer Buffy running back to Stefan whilst you're left out in the cold again. Go on Damon, tell me why you want Buffy to have the cure."

And in that moment he froze because while he wanted her emotions back, he didn't want her human, didn't want her killable. He was selfish at this moment because he couldn't answer and merely shook his head.

Rebekah smirks "That's what I thought." She yells before yanking off the lid and downing the cure just as Stefan runs into the house "No!" He screams but it was too late Rebekah groans and falls to the ground dropping the now empty vile of cure to the floor. It was over.

"Did you even try to stop her!" Stefan screams at his brother as he stands over Rebekah's still unconscious body.
"You forgot the part where I was bobbing for boxes in Vervain water." Damon yells back as he wipes his face with a towel.
Stefan scoffs in anger "All you had to do was stall her, Damon!"

"Sorry. It's Rebekah. I didn't have a pony to distract her Stefan."

Stefan shakes his head before glancing at the human Rebekah as it clicks in his brain, turning back to his brother he clenches his jaw "You let her take it didn't you? You were never on my side. Now Buffy will be a hybrid for the rest of her life just like you wanted."

As the two glare at each other Stefan is distracted as suddenly Rebekah gasps, she was awake.

"Why do you care so much?" Buffy asks curiously as she watches Mary pacing back and forth, the witch could have got to save Katherine yet here she was.

Mary sighs before turning to face Buffy "I had a brother and a sister...before I came to the New World. When my parents died...they died too. And I was lucky enough to be welcomed into a new family. While I hate most of my siblings I already lost my first brother and sister. Now Finn is dead and Kol. And if anything were to happen to Elijah and Rebekah..."

As she trails off Buffy watches her "The girl you fell in love with is gone."
Mary sighs and runs a hand through her short raven hair "I have loved Katherine for five hundred years, I thought I knew her."

"Yeah well..." Pausing Buffy spins around and catches Katherine by the throat before she could snap her neck "Nice try sweet cheeks. Now...where's the cure..."
Katherine groans in agony before coughing violently "Rebekah took it."

At her words Buffy smiles "Good." She hisses before snapping Katherine's neck "Have fun with your girlfriend Marianna." Buffy says with a smirk before stepping over Katherine's body and leaving Mary alone with her lover's dead body. Knowing for a fact. That Katherine had yet again told another lie.

"I feel alive." Rebekah breaths having never felt so happy in her entire life, she was human, everything she had ever wanted, a family, a life...it was all ahead of her now.

Damon who was currently playing with a letter opener glances up "Slight problem with being alive—I can kill you now."
Throwing the blade all three of them gasp in shock as Rebekah catches the blade in her hand, and that's when it clicks, Katherine had tricked them all again "I'm still a vampire."

Katherine groans as she finally wakes before glancing over at Mary, smiling she stands and steps towards the woman she loved only for Mary to raise her hand and watch her with big eyes "You killed Jeremy Gilbert."

Katherine clenches her jaw, just great Buffy really did love to stick her nose into things that were none of her business "Yes. May...I killed Jeremy Gilbert, a bombshell Miss Goody toe shoes couldn't wait to drop on you. Ironically since she doesn't care about anything."

Mary ignores Katherine's words as she shakes her head "Did you know because he died, Elena lost control of her powers and put herself in a coma she will never wake from. Leaving her brain dead?"
"Why do you care?"

Marianna scoffs, honestly a long time ago she wouldn't but after reuniting and reforming a good relationship with her brother...she understood why Buffy was the way she was "Because I do! She is a mother! A new mother like I was like you were! And now she has nothing! I lost Eliza and Amos, watched them die right in front of me. And this girl...you took away the last of her family just as mine and yours were taken from us!"

Katherine's eyes widen and she takes Mary's hand trying to make her listen "May why are you looking at me like I enjoyed it. Jeremy was collateral damage. Elena wasn't my fault. I was doing what I needed to do to survive."
Mary watches her for a moment before shaking her head "500 years I have protected you. Am I just a means of survival?"

Katherine couldn't help but clench her jaw, she had a really bad feeling right now, she couldn't lose Marianna, after 500 years Mary was all she knew "Don't let Buffy get to you. She hates me. She wants you to turn against me and convinced you that I can be trusted. 500 years May! You are not a means of survival you never were." Pausing Katherine steps forward cupping Mary's face in her hands "500 years we have stood by each other. No matter what. I love you Marianna."

Pausing Mary takes a shaky breath and steps back making Katherine's eyes widen "You don't believe me."

"I want to." Mary whispers watching Katherine carefully "I always want to. I have stood by you always. Maybe 500 years is too much." Pausing she kisses Katherine one last time before stepping back only to have Katherine grab her wrist "Wait...you promised you would make a deal with Klaus. I—I can't make a deal without you."

Mary takes a shaky breath and clenches her eyes shut water dripping from her eyes "Goodbye, Katarina." And with that Mary turns and for the first time in 500 years she walks away from Katherine Pierce.

Mary was on her way to her car only to sigh at the sight of Katherine walking towards her "Wait." Katherine begs causing the immortal witch to against her better judgment stop and turn to face the vampire.

Mary sighs before tucking a strand of hair behind her ear "What?"

"You were right." Katherine admits watching Mary carefully "I've spent so much time running and lying just to survive that even though you were with me...I'm starting to believe my own lies. I don't even remember who I was when we first met. And I want to find out." Pausing the brunette reaches into her bag and Mary sighs, there in Katherine's palm was the cure "The cure."

"Yeah." Katherine sighs "And I can shove this down Klaus' throat and try to kill him. But even if I manage to do it...I'd lose you. I don't want that to happen."
Mary sighs and runs a hand through her hair before watching Katherine closely "I taught you to lie really well. How do I know you're not still lying?"

"Because..." Katherine starts grabbing Mary's hand and placing the cure in her hands "I mean what I said about my feelings for you. And I'd like to think...that you feel something for me, too."

Pausing Mary looks into Katherine's eyes listening as she speaks hoping she could trust her "I need you to trust me. I want you to trust me. Like you did. Like I'm trusting you. You don't owe me anything." And with that Katherine steps back and watches Mary with teary eyes "I'm going to let you decide where we go from here."

And with that Katherine walks away and Mary takes a shaky breath before looking down at the cure in her hands and finally for the first time in a thousand years she moves away from Katherine.

And approaches her sister.

"You and Katherine." Rebekah huffs in amusement "I thought you were smart, little sister."
"Turns out I'm not." Mary says chuckling softly "I let her push me away from my family. From you."
Rebekah sighs before staring down at the cure in Mary's hands "Why don't you just give me the cure So I can judge you silently elsewhere?"
Mary frowns as she watches Rebekah wondering why on earth she would want the cure when it clicks "You want to be human again."

"Yes Mari. I want to be human, sister. Even after all of this time...you will always be my sister and I will always love you...but I want to live and die as I choose. Please, Mari..."

After the two of them had received a call from Buffy asking them to meet her at the dinner in the middle of town the two brothers walk side by side as they walked down the street.

As they walk Damon sighs, he was sick of this silence "All right. You're right." He finally admits "I let Rebekah take the cure." Sighing he turns to face his brother "I thought for a second...I mean, literally just a second—if Rebekah takes this, then all my problems go away. And I couldn't think of one good reason to give it to Buffy. And then Rebekah took it. And the only thing that I could think was Joy."

At his words Stefan frowns in confusion, okay that wasn't what he was expecting, Damon sighs and explains "She's my best friend's kid..so I care. I admit it. And when Rebekah took it all that filled my mind was the fact that because of me Joy may never get her mom back."

Stefan clenches his jaw because honestly, he had the same thought, he had thought of Joy and of Buffy the second he saw Rebekah drinking the cure "What's your point?"

"My point is I'm sorry ok?" Damon exclaims before groaning searching for the right words "I had a moment of weakness, Stefan. It's my thing. It's like you and I falling for the same girl. It's our thing."
Stefan couldn't help but scoff "Was our thing." He couldn't keep doing this forever fighting with his brother over a woman. This had to be it. No matter which one of them ended up with her "Look, we've been making the same mistakes for 150 years. We can judge Katherine all we want but we keep repeating our own history. Just like she did. Nothing ever changes. It has to stop, Damon."

Damon frowns in confusion, what was his brother getting at here "What are you talking about?"

Stefan groans in frustration, they had been having the same conversation for over 150 years "I'm done. I can't keep reliving my life like this. Buffy has a daughter now Damon. Things are different now. Everything in her life will always be about Joy. So once she takes the cure...if she picks one of us that's it, it's done. If she doesn't pick me then I'm getting a life of my own."

Damon's eyes widen and he stares at his brother in shock, this was crazy, he couldn't believe this was happening, he didn't want his brother to just take off out of his life again "Ok. Ok. Let's just get the cure, and then we'll talk about you riding off into the sunset all by your lonesome."

"You still wanna get the cure? Even if it means she might stop trying to jump your bones?" Pausing at Damon's amused breath he sighs "You'll lose her, your best friend. Not now but one day."
Damon clenches his jaw before nodding, while the idea of her dying and not getting to rock around and have adventures with her for centuries killed him...she needed this.
Groaning he nods "I have to."

Stefan smiles "Well I guess now we just have to convince her." And with that the two brothers head into the nearly empty diner where only Buffy was sat, there were a few people at the counter drinking coffee and the waitress who was cleaning tables who turns to them "Sit anywhere you'd like."

The two nod before heading over to Buffy was staring at her glass "Buffy." She hears in her head making her groan in annoyance and clench her eyes shut "Buffy please..."

As the boys sit across from her Buffy ignores the voice in her head, honestly, it was weird because it wasn't her damn voice and this wasn't the first time she had heard it.
"You're on time." She says with a smile looking in-between the two brothers.

"So why are we here Buffster?" Damon asks curiously as he and his brother watch the pink and blonde demon hybrid play with her cup of coffee.

Sighing at his question "So here's sitch. I'm not taking the cure. I'm stronger then both of you and I will remove both of your heads and place them on sticks Game of Thrones style. Understand?"
Stefan couldn't help but stare at her, it was insane how sweet she could sound while being terrifying as hell at the same time.
Damon glances at his brother equally as disturbed before turning to Buffy "I quite like my head on my perfect body. How about you take the cure any way?"

Stefan sighs before turning to the blonde "Buffy, this isn't you."

"I'm half demon Stefan. This was inside of me. It has been since the second I came back. I'm gonna say this simply for both of you old grandpas to understand, the only thing I care about is my daughter. You force the cure on me, I will take my daughter and on our way out of town, I will slaughter everyone in Mystic Falls. Maybe we can re-name the town Mystic-Grave. One big graveyard dud of a town. Understand?"

When the brothers clearly not taking her seriously glance at each other Buffy sighs in annoyance as Stefan tries to relate to her again "Listen I was in the exact same situation that you're in right now. My emotions were off. I wasn't me. And you refuse to accept that. Buffy, you sacrificed everything to save me from going, full Ripper. You knew I would overcome anything and that's why you let Klaus wipe your memory. I'm not gonna give up on you. Buffy this isn't you."

Buffy arches a brow in amusement as she watches him for a moment "You know what I am Stefan...Five by five." And with that Stefan and Damon freeze as Buffy speeds out of her chair and suddenly the three men sat out the counter were missing their heads.

Buffy walks over now covered in blood and throws the heads at them before she grabs the screaming waitress and shoves her hand into the girl's spine "I told you. Slaughter." Digging her hand all the way through the waitress's back as she screams Stefan and Damon stare in horror as Buffy's blood-covered hand comes ripping out of the girl's stomach before Buffy snaps her neck and tosses her to the floor.

Grabbing the cloth off the waitress's uniform the blonde smiles at the brothers as she begins wiping the blood from her hands "I'm the Slayer boys. I was made to kill. I've killed a lot of bad guys. I think my karma's good for now. Remember this I don't care. You test me again. And Then more people die. I've saved thousands. I'm sure the world can live without a couple idiots. Test me again...and I kill the both of you. Slowly, painfully all while doing my nails at the same time." And with that the blonde smirks over at the boys and with the click of her heels she exits the dinner leaving the two brothers in shock and horror, she was more far-gone then they thought.

MYSTIC FALLS – HEALTH AND MEDICAL LONG TERM FACILITY

In the middle of her room, Elena Gilbert lay her eyes still wide open staring at the ceiling, and that was all she had seen since that day. She could hear everything but she couldn't see what was going on around her.
But she could see other things.

Like her sister turning off her emotions. Her sister killing four people in a bar. And yet here she was helpless, unable to stop her sister.

To help her.

As she stares at the ceiling she feels yet another needle enter her skin as the nurse takes another vile of blood. Same time every day. For god knows how many days. She was pretty sure it had been almost a month or two, but she couldn't be sure.

"Elena..." A voice whispers in her head the brunette wanted to frown but she couldn't but suddenly her mind filled with an image. Of her sat in a small room opposite a mirror.

Standing she looks around the room in search of a door but there was nothing, she was trapped in this room like she was trapped in her own mind. Pressing against the mirror she groans she tries kicking and punching but it was unbreakable.

"Elena."

Elena gasps and spins around her eyes widening as she spots a brunette woman opposite her, she had dark brown hair, a pretty face, dark brown eyes and was about Buffy's height "Who—who are you?" Elena gasps staring at the unknown woman.

The woman smiles "My name is Alina Petrova...or Harper...but technically like you...I'm a Petrova" Alina tells her "In the 1800's I learned to control my gift. Your gift."

"Wait..." Elena gasps as she stares at her ancestor, she must be going crazy but right now she was desperate "Can you get me out here? Wake me up again?"

Alina smile "Yes. But we need to use your scream to do so. To save your sister. My scream was like a bomb destroyed everything in its path but yours...it needs to be like a bullet. And we're running out of time."