"So...what has it been, 8, 9 days?" Damon asks as he tosses Stefan the bottle for Joy who was screaming in the younger Salvatore's arms. Honestly, this really was not how he saw his life going a few years ago, him and his brother taking care of a baby girl while her father was currently trying to avoid being killed by an immortal creature...not exactly high up on his list of plans for eternity.

"I don't know." Stefan shrugs as he catches the bottle and holds it the Joy's mouth making her finally stop screaming, while she seemed to be a happy little baby she clearly missed her mom "I lost count after Joy woke me up for the 6th time last night." He says glaring at his brother who smirks, Damon slept like a rock and hadn't even heard the little girl screaming half the night.

Damon smirks slightly as he pours himself a drink "We lost count of the consecutive days in which Buffy Anne Summers has not killed or tortured anyone. I'd say that's progress brother."

Stefan sighs and stands holding Joy in his arms as he turns towards his brother "So what are we gonna do, babysit for another 150 years till Buffy gets her humanity back? You really wanna deal with another teenage Buffy."
Slowly both Damon and Stefan turn and look at the innocent little baby and both of them couldn't help but shiver in fear at the idea of Joy as a teenager, a mixture of Buffy and Klaus with hormones. Yikes.

Damon sighs and takes the little girl from Stefan holding up her above his head "You're gonna kill us both when you 16 aren't you?"

The little girl merely giggles making Damon roll his eyes "You can't have a conversation with her." He mumbles before putting the little girl on the floor in her playpen with her toys.

Leaning over the pen he tickles Joy's stomach "Your mommy doesn't want the cure does she?" Joy merely giggles and kicks her legs around wildly in excitement causing Damon to glance up at his brother "She's gonna start killing people if she finds out we're still trying to get it for her."

"All right." Stefan says as he begins cleaning up when Klaus had left her here to be protected he had also brought a lot of crap. Babies like a lot of crap apparently.
"We could always make her want it?"
Damon couldn't help but scoff "Yes because making Buffy Summer be happy to grow grey hair so easy."
Stefan sighs "Look...all we need to do is get her to flip her humanity switch."
"So what are we gonna do? Pull a Lexi, bombard her with emotions till one of them sticks?"

Stefan nods and he hands Joy back her stuffed pig before she could start to scream "Yeah and if that doesn't work. Then we go to plan B...I called Giles, he sent over a serum which might make her weak enough for us to lock her up. Something to do with the Slayer power stripper serum and this demon repellant he found. If it works then we have time to find Plan C."

Damon downs his drink before staring at his brother for a moment before sighing, they were missing one big thing, the second she turned her switch she was going to feel everything, the guilt, the grief, pain, love, "And what happens when she gets slammed with every emotion she's repressed since Jeremy and Elena died?"

Stefan pauses at that honestly he had no idea, if Elena was here then it would be fine, and yes Buffy and Damon were best friends, but he had always been on the path of fixing their relationship and becoming friends "We help her through it. And when it's over...if she has an answer for us..."

"You're just gonna get out of her life...what happened to both of us being there for Joy?" Damon mocks not believing a word of it, he was in a different position from Stefan, Stefan and Buffy had been in love first, becoming friends after that was a lot harder. Whereas he and Buffy had a strong friendship, enough to survive if she picked Stefan. He would rather just be her best friend than not in her life at all.

Pausing he picks up Joy and turns her to face Stefan and the little girl just giggles so unaware of what was happening "Do you think Uncle Stefan would really leave? Joycey?" When Joy merely kicks her legs Damon smirks "See she doesn't agree."

Stefan chuckles in amusement only for his eyes to widen as Buffy strolls into their parlor room her pink and blonde hair in loose waves around her face before coming to a stop at her strapless black corset top and leather jacket "Joy." She breaths speeding over and taking her daughter from Damon's arms shoving him onto the couch as she takes her daughter who giggles excitedly clearly so happy to see her mother.

"Look at you!" Buffy smiles holding her daughter up before placing her on her hip "You've gotten so big."
"What are you doing here?"

The blonde rolls her eyes at Stefan's question and all emotion quickly disappears from her face as she turns to look at the Salvatore "Me and Rebekah are going shopping and I wanted to spend some quality time with my child before she stays with her daddy tonight. Bonnie spelled the Mikelson home so she is staying there but I wanted to see her."

As Buffy smiles at her daughter Stefan's eyes widen as he spots it glancing at his brother he knew his brother could.

"Toodles." Buffy says simply before grabbing Joy's bag and the car seat in the corner before heading right back out the door. Once the door shuts behind her Stefan turns to her "Did you see it?"

Damon stands and nods still in shock "Oh yeah. Emotion."

"Marianna, being human means a fresh start. I can grow old and have a family and fill my days with meaning, knowing that each one matters." Rebekah says as she pleads her case to her sister who was sat in the corner listening carefully, having Rebekah beg her for something was something she would have enjoyed very much a few years ago, but now...it was hard.

Klaus, on the other hand, did not have this struggle "Well that was poetic." He scoffs.

Mary rolls her eyes "Well then why don't you tell me why you need the cure?"

Klaus sighs and leans across the table facing his youngest sister "Silas has already tried to take my daughter before she was even born. He will come for her unless I give him the cure."
Marianna sighs and runs a hand through her short wavy locks "I told you I can protect Joy. Bonnie has been playing with Expression, I invented it. I placed a spell on your daughter. Silas can't see her. She's safe."

"For now." Klaus argues, he was not going to leave the fate of his little girl in the hands of the sister he hated more than anything "But Silas can appear as anyone. He got inside my thoughts, convinced me I was dying. He will continue to torment me and my family until I give him the cure."

"And in doing so destroy the wall to the other side." Rebekah argues, Joy was safe! She had so many people protecting her Silas couldn't touch her and the best thing they could do was to keep the wall up and all of Klaus' and Buffy's enemies trapped there.
"So it doesn't trap him there when he dies." Klaus hisses glaring at Rebekah before turning to Mary who merely tilts her head as she plays with her nails, it was quite nice having all the power over these two "He wants to reunite with his lost soul mate. Mari you should applaud his devotion give that if you weren't a witch I'm sure you would have killed yourself to join James."

"Watch it Nik." Mary hisses before leaning her arms forward "This is about keeping Joy safe if we give Silas the cure then floodgates of your enemies of the Slayer's enemies will return. Joy will be in even more danger then ever." Sighing Mary leans her arms on the table "Rebekah's getting the cure."

Klaus's eyes widen while Rebekah's eyes fill with joy, Klaus leans forward practically growling at his sister "Tell me you're joking. Tell me you're not fating me to an eternity of torture separated from my daughter!"

Mary sighs and as Klaus storms out of the room Mary turns to her sister "Listen here big sister, you're a little messed up in the head. And you're not getting squat till I know you're serious. I give this to you and our niece has one less person to protect her. So I need to know you're not going to get bored. Today you are human, no powers what-nut. You pass you get the cure."

"So human for a day?" Buffy asks as she and Rebekah walk side by side down the street Buffy pushing along the buggy where Joy was sat happily drinking from her bottle.
Buffy smiles down at her daughter before turning Rebekah "What a drag? No nothing? No speed? Strength?"

"I can't even compel anyone." Rebekah moans in annoyance before she stops outside of a baby store "We should get her a dress." She says before moving in front of the buggy "Do you want your auntie beks to get you a fancy dress..."
"She's not coming to the party with us." Buffy says with a laugh "But next time we go shopping we need to fix her wardrobe. You can tell Stefan and Damon have been dressing her."

Rebekah shakes in horror at the idea before kissing Joy's nose and walking back over to Buffy as they continue down the street to the dress store "I thought you were bringing her. The three of us on our family girl day out."

"Crazy Bonnie is going to be there." Buffy huffs out in annoyance, she really did need to do something about that witch problem "She sacrificed 12 witches up like it was nothing. She's not being anywhere near Joy, she may hand her over with salt and pepper all ready."
Rebekah sighs wishing she could rid Bonnie herself but today she was human "Thank you for coming with me."
"You're basically my sister now." Buffy jokes before rolling her eyes in amusement "Whatever."

"Come on it will be fun." Rebekah says honestly she had never been a fan of Caroline's ideas but turning their last senior college party into a re-do of Prom was brilliant "Name me a more human experience than senior prom."

"This isn't a real prom. There will be booze. Hence why I'm going."

Rebekah shakes her head in amusement before glancing down at her niece "You're mommy has a drinking problem." As Joy giggles loudly Rebekah smirks knowing the baby agreed with her.
Buffy smiles down at her little girl before turning to Rebekah "Look don't worry I will be there to keep you all human-y."

"What kind of dreams?" Caroline asks Bonnie as she walks out of the dressing room in the prom dress store, walking over to the mirror Caroline admires her maroon dress and smiles.

Bonnie sighs at Caroline's question "Usually I'm at his grave, and...all of a sudden he appears to me."
Caroline looks at her best friend sadly "Well you never got to say good-bye, Bon. You're grieving it's normal."

Bonnie merely tilts her head, this wasn't exactly a normal situation "When I woke up the couch was on fire. I don't know if it's because I was emotional in my dreams or if Shane was right. Without his help, I'll lose control of my magic."
"No." Caroline sighs looking at her best friend, wishing Elena was here, she was always the best at these kinds of situations "It's because you need a night off from mourning. And I'm gonna make sure that you have it."

Bonnie smiles gratefully but like Caroline, she wished that Elena and Buffy were here, she wished things could go back to the way they were "Um, you look super hot by the way."
"Do you think?"
"Oh yeah."
Bonnie chuckles as Caroline grins and turns back to the mirror "Matt and I are gonna have the sexiest date there."

As Caroline giggles, she couldn't help but smile "You know what? I love friend prom, and it's exactly what prom should be friends. And memories. Yes, it sucks that my boyfriend can't be here, but the three of us are gonna have the night of our lives."

As they laugh Caroline suddenly goes deadly quiet as in steps Rebekah pushing an empty stroller while Buffy her hair now filled with pink highlights was holding Joy who had her mouth on top of her stuffed pig like it was a snack. Taking a shaky breath she stares at the pink-haired Slayer with wide eyes she hadn't seen Buffy since Buffy left her in a coffin six feet underground for 4 hours!

Walking to the side Rebekah tucks the stroller into the corner before smiling as Buffy hands her the little girl who begins playing with strands of her aunt's long blonde hair "Are you really so sad with your life to try and redo our senior prom?" Buffy asks Caroline as she Rebekah and Joy walk over to the witch and vampire "But then again you don't have anything to be happy about. You probably should have just stayed in that grave. Also, you do realize this dress makes you a bit..." Buffy winces before making a gesture causing Caroline's eyes to widen, Buffy was trying to say she looked Fat!

"You're the one that helped me pick it out months ago when we were friends before you tried to kill me and buried me alive." Caroline says forcing the words through her teeth as she tries to keep a smile on her face.

Buffy merely chuckles in amusement before taking Joy as the little girl continues reaching for her mother "Honey I wasn't trying to kill you. If I was you'd be dead. You fight like a girl." Pausing Buffy looks down at the dress "It's missing something...oh wait yeah...someone with a good complexion to show it off."
Caroline clenches her jaw and looks over at the shop owner "Can you press this for me. I'll pick it up later."

"Bye Joycey..." Caroline says smiling at the baby only to have Buffy's face fall, handing her daughter to Rebekah for a moment she then grabs Caroline's jaw squishing it before turning to Bonnie "Don't bother going juju on me crazy pants magic doesn't work on me." Smirking she then turns back to Caroline who was crying softly in agony as Buffy shattered her jaw to pieces with barely any effort "Don't talk to my daughter. Don't look at my daughter. You so much as look at her I will torture your mother in front of you before I rip off your head and have it stuffed." With that Buffy releases her before smiling slightly and taking her daughter back kissing her head softly before turning to Bonnie who was staring at her in horror "Same goes for you cray cray. I don't need Joy infected with crazy juju from magic lady and some insane desperate attempt to relieve her pathetic childhood." She says turning back to Caroline before her eyes widen as she spots Rebekah holding up a little dress "Buffy look."

Buffy's eyes widen and she walks over and as her and Rebekah laugh away and Joy merely giggles still having no idea what was going on, she was like 2 months old to be fair.

"Klaus?" Buffy calls as she walks into the mansion holding Joy who was fast asleep in her arms, placing the bag down by the door she heads into the parlor room and smiles at the sight of the hybrid staring at the fire "I come barring something joyful. Pun intended."

"I'm in no mood for company." He says before turning however his face softens at the sight of the little girl in her arms "Not even this one. Fine. She not cute enough? I mean I did rip my body apart bringing her to this world. But maybe we can take her back."

Klaus shakes his head in amusement before speeding over to his two girls and taking Joy into his arms smiling down at the sleeping little girl.

"So since I you know birthed your child...I need a favor..."

Klaus shakes his head in amusement before placing Joy in the small crib in the corner and turning to face the blonde "I like the hair."
"Well duh." Buffy snarks playing with her pink locks before smirking "So favor?"
Klaus arches a brow before nodding "What is it you desire?"
"I need a prom dress. And somehow you have better taste in big fancy dresses then I do. I was gonna steal Caroline's but I had a better idea."

Klaus watches her for a moment before just shakes his head and laughs unable to hold it in before smiling at the blonde "You, emotionless Slayer are unable to compel yourself a dress."

Buffy rolls her eyes before shrugging "Come on I know you have amazing gowns and crap from your travels. Fabulize me."
"Surely finding a dress is within your capabilities."
Buffy shakes her head "Come on Nik. One dress to make me look like royalty. But hot."

Niklaus smiling before watching in interest as she heads over to the crib where Joy was now crying, watching her for a moment he frowns as he spots it. It was all over her face, the second she looked at Joy or held her something changed "You're emotions are showing."

Buffy lets out a small breath before placing a finger to her lips and turning to him "Don't tell."

"You turned your switch?" He breaths out in shock only to frown as she shakes her head, it was more complicated than that. With her demon side she had more control over what emotions she allowed in and what she didn't for small periods of time "Just for her." She whispers walking over to Klaus with the now wide awake Joy in her arms who reaches for her father.

Klaus smiles and takes Joy in his arms before looking down at Buffy "Nothing else?"
"No." Buffy says with a smile as Joy clutches onto her finger before she taps her little girl's nose making the baby giggle.
Klaus smiles at the sight before smirking teasingly "Not even for me?"
Buffy lets out an amused breath and shakes her head "Keep dreaming."

"Oh, I do."

"How do I look?" Buffy asks as she walks out of Klaus' spare room now in the stunning pink sparkly gown that fitted her body perfectly, and the pink in her now old Hollywood style waves worked perfectly with the dress.

Klaus looks up from where he was sat on the floor watching as Joy tried to roll over for the first time. It was not going to well she keep getting distracted.

As he spots her Klaus' eyes widen and he merely stares at her for a moment...she looked amazing, beautiful and just... completely stunning that he was unsure of how to speak.

Buffy smiles slightly and looks down twirling slightly "I take it that the silence is good?"
Klaus clears his throat before picking up Joy and standing "Doesn't your mom look pretty?" He asks Joy who merely bites her toy making Buffy giggle softly before she looks up at Klaus who was smiling at her.
"You look stunning luv."
"It's the dress."

"No." He tells her staring at her before smiling again "It's you."

Buffy smiles and for a moment as she watched him holding their daughter she felt her switch let go slightly as some happiness bled through to make the smile on her face real. She knew she couldn't hold it for long, the longer she held the switch the more chance it would all come back but just in this moment...it was perfect.

After everything, here they were with their daughter, and it was perfect.

Taking the baby she kisses Joy's head before handing her back to her dad and looking up at Klaus once more, gulping slightly she watches him for a moment "Thank you."
"Anytime luv." Klaus says with a smile, and it was a promise, anything she needed, anytime.

Buffy smiles before smiling once more and leaning up and kissing him softly on the lips, Klaus kisses her back only pulling back when Joy slaps both of their faces making Klaus laugh while Joy merely bites back down onto her toy making Buffy shake her head in amusement.
Klaus turns back to Buffy and watches her for a moment "What was that for?"
"For letting me do this..." She gestures to herself but he knew what she meant this was about the whole turning off her humanity thing "For being there for her. For everything."

Klaus watches her again for a moment before stepping forward intent on kissing her again but when her phone buzzed he sighs "You should—"
"Yeah." Buffy whispers before closing her eyes and shutting it all back down again before heading out the door.

Walking out towards the car the blonde couldn't help but groan in annoyance as she spots Stefan climb out of the limo "Great. Listen Hero-hair...I have a date pretty blonde. So not you."

"I'm more of a bodyguard."

Buffy scoffs at his words and places her hands on her hips "Seriously? Let me guess you offer a good rate, I mean you have to keep up with the hair gel payments."
Stefan sighs before rolling his eyes "For everyone else. You see the last time I saw you before you took Joy you were slaughtering an entire diner."

Buffy rolls her eyes, was he seriously still hung up on this, "There were 4 people. Please that barely qualifies. Now if you excuse me I have places to be." She grabs his wrist and goes to send him flying when Damon appears "Come on Buffster. Have a heart. He did himself all up pretty for you." Sighing he holds out a corsage for her "May I?"

"No." Buffy says with a smirk before grabbing his wrist and shattering it before throwing the corsage away as he cries out in agony.

"Clashes with the dress." She says smirking down at him before she heads into the car "But wait to get you a load of Caroline's." She says with a smirk thinking back to exactly what she had done to Caroline's dress.

"Stop touching me." Buffy groans in annoyance as she walks side by side with the boys heading towards the dance but first they had to walk through this sick fest that Caroline has labeled pictures of you. Finding photos of everyone in the senior class back in their high school days and putting them on projectors.

"Where's the disco ball?" Damon asks curiously as they walk.
"Caroline's been working on this for a while." Stefan explains "It's a photo flashback for everyone in the senior class."

As they walk Stefan pulls them a stop "Isn't that photo from your sophomore year." Buffy frowns and turns her eyes widening at the photo of her Xander and Willow, Xander was laid on her lap while she and Willow giggled at the camera. Buffy pauses as she stares at the photo, she knew what the boys were doing but it wasn't going to work. "My mom took that. We were in the front lawn and Xander tripped me up." Pausing she clenches her jaw as a photo of her Jeremy and Elena appears on the scream, rolling her eyes she yanks off her shaw "As fun as this memory trip has been it's starting to feel like a bad acid trip." And with that, she walks off and heads into the dreams while the boys sigh. Their plan was not going well so far.

The best thing about being at this stupid prom was that they were all in college, which meant there was an endless supply of booze, grabbing herself a drink of whiskey she moves to down it only for it to be snatched out of her hand.

"I will remove your hand." Buffy warns as she turns to Damon glaring at him "Maybe it will turn into an Evil Dead thing. Your own hand can try to kill you."
"Whatever Trekkie." Damon says with a roll of his eyes before downing his drink and smirking "You died at 20. So technically you're underage."
"You're overage." Buffy snarks "Seriously you should start dying your hair. The grays are coming through."

Damon merely shrugs even if he did have gray hairs he would be able to pull it off he was basically the vampire Clooney, he just got better with age "Oh come on, what badass college senior doesn't have a prom date that's slightly too old for college."

"Slightly? Weren't you like 40 when you were turned?" She asks dead seriously before she goes to pour herself another drink glaring at Damon as he tries to grab it.

"Geez, you're so touchy tonight."

Buffy arches a brow at Damon before rolling her eyes only for Damon to grab her wrist, looking down at his hand she clicks her tongue "Don't touch me."
"You were letting me do more than lay a hand on you a few weeks ago." Damon says with a smirk stepping towards her but the blonde merely chuckles before laughing loudly "Oh honey. Get over it. I did. But I'll throw you a bone. Buffy Anne Summers, torturing and disappointing deadbeat vampire boyfriends since 1992."

As she pours herself another glass she tries to walk off only for him to speak up making her groan in annoyance "You're not gonna deny that you admitted you had feelings for me? You kissed me remember?"
The blonde turns to face him and couldn't help but huff in annoyance "Oh my god enjoy Wisteria land, you major drama queen. Wrap yourself in a towel and trip over a hedge on your way away from me."

Damon sighs, he was so not in the mood for her sarcastic comments he wanted the old Buffy back, he wanted his Buffy back "I'm not going anywhere."
"How about into my void. Then I never have to see you again bye-bye." Again the stunning blonde tries to move away from him but he circles around her trying to get her to listen to him for just one minute. God, she was so freaking stubborn.

"You could have killed me in New York you didn't. You didn't have to kiss me. You didn't have to tell me that now you were done hiding from your feelings for me."

Buffy watches him for a moment before looking up at him, her green eyes connecting with those blue orbs of his "I do have feelings for you...disgust...annoyance...the want to torture and kill you...need more?" When Damon clenches his jaw she smirks, she had hit a nerve and now she was going to destroy the nerve "I kissed you cause I was bored. I told you I felt for you because you're easy to manipulate. You were pudding in my hand. And most of all...breaking your heart... is much better enjoyment then half the crap on TV."

And with that Buffy taps him on the face before turning her back on him, Damon watches her go before grabbing the bottle of whiskey on the table in anger, only for his eyes to widen it was empty "Where did all the bourbon go?!"

Buffy who was still walking away calls back "To a happy place." She smirks only to groan, she had just escaped one annoying friend trying to get her emotions back on but now...in front of her were Bonnie and Matt.

"No Joy?" Matt asks curiously.
Buffy rolls her eyes "Yes because bringing my infant daughter to a college party would be smart and just great parenting."

As Matt clenches his jaw Bonnie offers Buffy a kind smile "Hey. I know we haven't really talked since...everything, but I just—I want to say that I miss you. And I'm gonna find a way to wake up Elena."
"Like the way you were gonna bring back Jeremy?" Buffy asks tilting her head at the witch before smirking "Elena's a vegetable let her rot."
Bonnie winces at that before sighing "I get it. They are both gone and it sucks but you still have friends who love you and your daughter."

At her words, Matt and Bonnie both frown as anger fills Buffy's eyes and she glares at Bonnie looking like she was about to rip the witch's throat out "My daughter right...who you would have sacrificed on an alter for your master. I mean you did get 12 witches killed so what's one little baby." And with that Buffy rolls her eyes and walks off leaving Bonnie stunned hurt filling her eyes as she stares after her best friend, maybe they were wrong.

Maybe Buffy really was gone.

Buffy was doing a shot with Rebekah, as both girls giggle Buffy groans as she suddenly finds herself being yanked onto the dance floor. Buffy groans at the sight of her ex-boyfriend "Nope." When she tries to pull away Stefan just pulls her closer making the blonde roll her eyes before huffing "You sooo like me too much for your own good." She says sarcastically as she smirks at him before reluctantly dancing with him.

"Eh well you know I never think too far ahead."

At his words, the blonde rolls her eyes before glancing at Rebekah who was chuckling in amusement at the miserable look on the Slayer's face.
Buffy sighs before turning back to Stefan "So what's with the danceathon. Do I win a shiny prize?"

Stefan chuckles softly as he continues to sway them back and fourth "Nope sorry. So you're just here to help Rebekah get the cure, right, on what happens to be the final party before you graduate college."
Buffy couldn't help but scoff, he was really reaching here "You know just when I think you're fun...the rain comes and your a giant stick in the mud again."

"Ooh denial a favorite Summers trait." Pausing he looks into her eyes watching her curiously looking any sign of emotion on her face, just a sign that she was still in there behind the attitude the hair and the need for torture, was his Buffy still in there "So this...us...you feel nothing?"
Buffy merely arches a brow in amusement "I have a daughter with another man was the whole I don't love you thing not clear?"

"I don't believe you." He tells her as he continues to move them both through the dance floor trying to trigger anything in her, anything left of who she was "So..." He starts whispering in her ear "You don't remember what it used to feel like when we danced?" He asks his hand moving down her back onto her waist "When my hand would touch your waist?"

Buffy scoffs "Actually from what I remember you spent more time standing stationary avoiding the dancing part."
Stefan ignores her words before entangling his fingers with hers "What about this...when our fingers would touch?"
"Are you done...I'll admit it's kind of sexy...but it's all coming out in moron."

Stefan groans in frustration before finally he dips her their faces so close he could feel her breath on his face as he spoke "Does your heart really refuse to remember?"

Slowly he pulls her back up and he leans his forehead against hers, the blonde watches him for a moment before slamming her head into his forehead causing him to drop to the floor and groan in agony "What heart Stefan?" She smirks before walking off to find her next victim to torture while Damon who had watched them the entire time glares at his brother before storming outside. He was so ready for tonight to be over.

"All right fine..." Buffy says sweetly as she walks over to Caroline "I take it back. The dress looks good on you."
Caroline frowns at the blonde before smiling "Thanks..." She hesitates before sighing "I love your dress."
"Yes baby daddy Klaus did good."

Caroline lets out an amused breath before shaking her head smiling slightly however it's then that she spots everyone staring at her, she knew she looked good but that was a lot of attention.

Frowning she looks behind her hoping it wasn't about her but when she turns back she spots Buffy playing with one of her pink strands of her hair as she giggles softly.

Caroline frowns just as the UV color lights hit her dress, looking down her eyes widen as written across the front of her dress in glow in the dark paint was the word 'Bitch'

"Oh my god..." She breaths brining her hands to her dress before she turns back to Buffy "You backstabbing Bit—" Pausing as she spots Stefan approaching she swallows her tongue before trying to tap off the paint.

Buffy merely smirks "You gotta say...it's unique." And with that the blonde walks off laughing while Caroline wraps her shaw around her chest in frustration, this whole killing her with kindness thing sucked.

Buffy watches as April who had volunteered to help Caroline run the dance refuses to help Rebekah, speeding over to the human she grabs her by the throat "Honey, you may not be able to be compelled but now you're being rude to my friend. How about I kill you and you can join dear old dad in the afterlife. I just won't make your death as quick as your dads." With that Buffy drops April and as the girl runs Buffy turns to Rebekah "Too much?"

"You think!" Rebekah exclaims before sighing "I just wanted to be prom queen."

Buffy rolls her eyes before shrugging "And if April is smart you will be." She says before walking over to Rebekah "You're gonna be human again. But the best way to do it is if you stay quiet."

"Where did you get that?" Klaus asks Marianna as he stares like daggers at the white oak stake in his sister's hand while his daughter sleep in her crib in her room.

"From our big/little sister." Mary says as she twirls it in the palm of her hand "I wonder if this would actually work on me." Shaking her head she sighs before turning to her adoptive brother "Once she's human...it's won't matter to her. Take it." She says handing it over to him.

Klaus doesn't even hesitate, this was the only thing on the planet that could kill him and the woman he loved, there was no way in hell he was letting it out of his sight ever again "Why would you give me this?" He asks curiously, he and Mary didn't exactly get along too well.
Mary sighs before watching her brother carefully "We are immortal apart from the stake. Now that it's yours. You have nothing to fear. Joy is protected with my magic which even BonBon can't touch."
"Silas will continue to torment me."

"And I care because..." Mary asks before chuckling "To be honest you could use a good kick in the arse."
Klaus chuckles before turning to face his younger sister, the two of them had despised each other for almost a thousand years. They had never seen eye to eye on anything in their entire lives.

Watching her for a moment he points the stake at her as he speaks "Without the cure what makes you think I'll spare your beloved Katerina? Or have you after 500 years finally figured out your just another spider in her web?"

Mary clenches her jaw as she watches her brother before looking up at him with begging eyes "You will spare her because I am asking you to spare her. As your family. As your youngest sister, as the woman currently protecting your child, I would ask that you provide me with this opportunity to feel, to care. To love again. I already lost James Nik...please... " As water fills her eyes Klaus sighs and walks up to his youngest sister "Sister...we may have our differences...but you are too good for her. Remember that because if I have to run for Silas...I will go after her."

Moving around the prom Buffy frowns as she spots a freaked out looking Bonnie run back into the building, when did she ever leave? Shrugging to herself not really carrying she re-focuses, what she did care about right now was the conversation the witch was currently having with Matt, Jeremy, Damon, and Stefan.

"It was like Jeremy was there I could talk to him, feel him." Bonnie says making Buffy's eyes widen, Silas...he was here.

Stefan merely tries to calm the currently freaking out witch "Bonnie's that's what Silas does. You can't let him get to you again."
Damon nods in agreement with his brother "Yeah, because you all crazy and brainwashed. It's not a good look."

Buffy clenches her jaw before downing the drink in her hand just as Rebekah walks over "Buffy, what's going on?"
Buffy sighs "Silas is appearing to Bonnie as my dead brother."
"So?"

Buffy sighs and turns to Rebekah "Silas wants Joy. He already convinced Bonnie to kill 12 witches...Rebekah..."

And at that moment Rebekah saw it, fear in Buffy's slightly red eyes, she was terrified not about her own life it was about losing her daughter. Joy was her niece and right now she was terrified too "What do we do?"

Buffy sighs "We need to do something, even if Silas stays by his agreement with Nik...the other side still breaks. Jeremy comes back Alaric...all the people who are gonna make my life a living hell and make taking off with Joy a lot harder."

Rebekah sighs herself trying to think of what they could do when suddenly April stands on the stage and begins speaking "Hey. Ok, the ballots have been tallied, which means it's time to announce the first-ever Whitmore University prom, King and Queen. All right your prom king and queen are Matt Donavon and Bonnie Bennet."

Rebekah's face falls and she looks down sadly "Bonnie bloody Bennett, of course."

As they watch Matt and Bonnie move to the stage an idea hits Buffy "I know a way to protect Joy from Silas."
Rebekah frowns and turns to Buffy curiously, however her eyes widen as she spots that look, all emotion as gone again, and her eyes...they were dark cruel, demon Buffy was back "Buffy?"

"I'm gonna kill Bonnie Bennett."

Damon stands outside staring at the projectors drinking his bottle of bourbon as he leans against the tree, as a picture comes up of Stefan and Buffy from the decade dance in her junior year he clenches his jaw and looks down. Now that felt like a convenient kick in the gut.

"You looking for Silas or you nostalgic about misspent youth?" Stefan asks as he walks over to his brother.
Damon looks over at his brother and clenches his jaw "You know she admitted how she felt to me. So what happened to you letting her make her own choice, being over it? No pushing her?"
"What do you mean?"

Damon scoffs slightly as he watches his brother act so clueless "Well, I mean, for a guy who's ready to move on with one word from her, a guy who wasn't there when she sobbed after coming back to life, a guy that wasn't there when she begged him to forgive her, a guy that wasn't there when the baby started kicking, and a guy that wasn't there driving her to the hospital when she went into labor. Yet you're the one that gets to be so convincing as a boyfriend on the dance floor?"

Stefan frowns as he listens to everything Damon was finally admitting before he sighs "I mean isn't that what we're doing, reminding Buffy of what she's lost?"
"Like her feelings for you?"
"Yeah." Stefan argues "Maybe. I mean...I don't mean to be a dick, Damon, but Buffy and I have a history. Memories, laughs, ups and downs. It was a real relationship. But you...she wouldn't even kiss you until she had no emotion and was manipulating you to get information." Pausing Damon runs at Stefan only to grunt in agony as he feels a dagger enter his stomach, Stefan chuckles "Your mind is a very dark and riveting place, Damon."

"Silas."

Buffy watches Bonnie head off the stage and into the back room before heading in after her smiling brightly "Crown looks great Bonnie. You really are born to be a drag queen."
"What do you want?" Bonnie hisses in no mood to do with the evil demon currently running Buffy's body.
Buffy merely tilts her head "For my daughter to be safe. Which means her God-mother needs to die."

Bonnie's eyes widen at that, she...she never knew that Buffy had chosen her, none of them did, but she didn't have time to be emotional as Buffy grabs her throat.
Bonnie's eyes widen and she glares at Buffy only for Bonnie to frown in panic, nothing was happening, lights were shattering around the room but it wasn't affecting Buffy.

Buffy merely smirks "Magic's not an issue Bon Bon."

Buffy smiles and moves to end the witch however before she could snap Bonnie's neck she grunts as she feels a dagger dig into her spine "Ah!" She screams releasing Bonnie before collapsing to the ground.
Bonnie gasps for breath before her eyes widen at the sight of Matt "She's not affected by my magic."
Matt's eyes widen Bonnie was losing control she couldn't stop, this was bad "Go now."

As Bonnie runs out the room April runs in, in a panic, the prom was turning into a disaster "What's going on?"

Buffy groans as she stands and yanks the dagger out of her back before turning to Matt and April "Your voice irritates me." She tells April before stabbing the blade into her neck before backhanding her sending her flying across the room "If you excuse me I have a wicked witch to drop a house on."

Buffy lifts up her dress as she heads out in search of a certain crazy-ass witch, turning out of the gym a smirk makes it way over to her face as she spots Bonnie screaming at nothing but air while the leaves on the floor moved wildly around her.

Speeding up so she was in front of the witch she grabs her by the throat yanking her off the feet, Bonnie suddenly screams as Buffy pulls out a dagger and jams it into her gut causing the witch to howl in agony.

Bonnie's eyes go dark and she focuses on the blonde who merely winces a little, it wasn't enough.
As her eyes fill with panic Buffy merely smirks and twists the knife again only to have Damon and Stefan to appear yanking her off the witch who drops the ground.

Buffy screams in fury "Get off me!" She yells before kicking Damon sending him flying onto a nearby car before she shoves her hand into Stefan's chest ready to rip his heart from his body and end him, she was done playing around now.

"Buffy..." Stefan gasps in agony as he looks at her with wide eyes "Stop..."
"I told you to stay out of my way!" She hisses before glaring down at the witch whose wound was healing itself...what the hell, okay not good.

Clenching her jaw she turns back to Stefan "I have to protect Joy! She already handed over 12 witches you think she won't give up my daughter to Silas?!" As his eyes widen spotting the fear in her eyes she rolls her eyes before shoving him to the ground and turning back to Bonnie.

"Say goodnight bitch."

Bonnie stands and turns to face Buffy and at that moment she lost complete control, using every inch of her power twisting her hand Buffy gasps as a large scratch appears across her gut, Buffy groans and glares at that witch "This is Prada. That's gonna cost you." Speeding over to Bonnie she grabs her again but Bonnie grabs the dagger Buffy had stabbed her with and sends in straight into Buffy's eyes causing the hybrid to drop and scream.

As Buffy, now slightly weakened kneels before her Bonnie's eyes fill with darkness and she begins snapping every bone in the Slayer's body with power causing the Slayer to howl in agony.

"Bonnie stop!" Stefan yells as he stands from his place still healing on the floor and over to the witch who was currently torching the original hybrid slayer.

"I know what I'm doing." Bonnie says simply as she continues to glare down at Buffy who was now laid on the floor in screaming in agony, the knife to the eye had thrown her, she had to focus to protect herself from magic and now she couldn't.

"Dammit Bonnie!" Damon yells in anger as he runs over after having to reset his shoulder which Buffy had very much destroyed when she kicked him 20 feet away.

Crouching down by the Slayer he helps her as she screams again in his arms, this was giving him flashbacks to the night Shane tried to kill Joy before she was born.

Stefan panics and turns to Bonnie trying to get her to stop he was going to kill her "That's the magic talking. This is your best friend. She's Joy's mother! Your God-child's mother!" He yells but none of it was working Bonnie was too focused on ending Buffy now.

Buffy who was still screaming in Damon's arms finally yanks the dagger from her eyes and turns to witch as emotion fills her, she was scared, she had done so much to stay alive, done so much to protect Joy, if she died Joy would be alone "Bonnie...please..." She begs before screaming again only for finally...it stopped. The pain was gone.

"Are you okay?" Stefan asks as he turns to Bonnie who faces him and scoffs in disbelief how could she be fine? "No I'm not ok. I'm almost died. The shell of my best friend almost killed me. None of this is ok!" She yells before storming off.

As she goes Buffy allows Damon to help her up before she scoffs "She still dies." She hisses going to shove Damon off her only to fall backwards into Stefan's arms who quickly injects the serum from Giles into her spine.

Buffy's eyes widen and she gasps "What...hell..." She breaths feeling herself start to get dizzy, this...this was possible "Oh dammit." She moans before she finally collapses completely in Stefan's arms.

Stefan sighs and looks down at the unconscious Slayer, looks like Plan A was a bust "Plan B."

"Hey big sister." Mary says as she looks up from her book and turns to her sister as she walks up to the porch steps still in her yellow prom dress "How was the dance? Did you eat the prom queen."
Rebekah smiles softly before shaking her head "No. I won't lie. There were complications. But I passed your test with flying colors."
Mary frowns before placing her book down and moving down the steps towards her sister walking the vampire carefully "Are you sure you want this? Being a human... kind of a drag."
"It's all I want."

Mary sighs before reaching into her back pocket and pulling out the small white box, handing over the cure to her sister "You better marry a good human."

Rebekah smiles before nodding "Thank May." With that Rebekah walks off and Marianna shakes her head in amusement, god knows why she wanted to be human again but Rebekah always was the weird one.

Sighing she moves to head inside it was time for her to get the hell out of this hick town however suddenly her phone rings. Pausing she grabs it only to frown as she spots Rebekah's name appear on the screen "Rebekah?"

"Marianna, I think Nik's up to something."
Mary's eyes widen, this couldn't be happen, this was bad, very bad, Nik wasn't the only one with enemies on the other side "Where did you go?" She asks spinning around hopping that her sister was still on the grounds.

"I'm still at the prom. Look, don't do anything with the cure until I see you. Something's not right. Mari do not take your eyes off the cure"

Mary's eyes widen, she had just royally f-ed up "Oh bloody hell."

Damon watches from the corner of the cellar as Stefan carefully places the still dead to the world Buffy on the cot before injecting her with another dose of the serum, thank god for Giles.

"She might not feel much, but she's gonna feel that in the morning." Damon comments as he watches his brother crouch down beside the blonde pink-haired hybrid.
Stefan watches her closely dreading what they were going to have to do, he didn't know if he could do this, but...they had no choice now "So what's the plan?"

Damon sighs from his place in the doorway "When she was beating the crap out of Bonnie, I could see it in her eyes. Buffy thought she was gonna lose Joy. And when Bonnie was wailing on her...it came back she thought she was gonna die...it wasn't about her...it was about Joy again. All she thinks about is protecting that little girl. And she's scared."

Stefan's eyes widen "Fear." He should have seen it a mother's fear for her child, her protective instinct...maybe it was stronger than any humanity switch. Because it was the only thing slipping through her cold exterior.

Damon nods as he looks down at the blonde "Last time I checked, one of those pesky human emotions."

"So plan C." Stefan realizes as he chains Buffy's ankles to the wall, they couldn't take any chances, that had to bleed her out but she was still stronger than both of them. Turning to his brother he finally realizes what they have to do "Take Joy away from her. Make her life a living hell." Which was gonna be hard given Buffy had literally been torn out of heaven and left in a coffin, how do you make someone's life hell when they had been through it all.

"You care to talk about our other problem? You know the one that can be anyone anywhere at any time."

Stefan nods and sighs "Silas still needs Bonnie and if tonight is any indication, she's no pushover. She's not gonna let him manipulate her. Plus Joy's her God-Daughter Buffy let that slip tonight. Bonnie won't let Silas anywhere near Joy."
Damon arches a brow, as nice as it was to belief Bonnie Bennet could handle all of their problems with Silas he wasn't buying it "I wouldn't underestimate his talents. He fooled the hell out of both of us." He reminds Stefan as they head out of the cellar locking it up behind them.

As Stefan does the bolt Damon turns to him curiously "What did he say to you anyway?"
Stefan sighs "He led me out to the woods, claimed he saw Silas and then he staked me. How did he get to you?"
Damon stammers for a moment before shrugging "Talked about his hair. I figured it had to be you."

"Funny." Stefan says with a chuckle before glancing back into the cellar where Buffy was finally waking up, god that stuff was good but she was burning it off easily.

Buffy groans and turns her head, spotting Stefan she smirks before laughing loudly, if they really thought they were in control here, they were nuts "This is gonna be fun boys."

Klaus smiles as he glances down at his sleeping daughter, she was laid on her stomach clutching onto that stupid pig of hers, covering her with her white and purple blanket he smiles once more at his beautiful daughter before moving downstairs. After finally handing off the cure to Silas...he knew she was safe, all that was left was to collect her and Buffy and get them both out of town before the other side was destroyed.

Moving to grab a drink he frowns as he spots a letter by the bourbon.

Opening it his eyes widen as he spots Katarina's handwriting "Klaus, I hear Marianna has refused you the cure and in return, you have refused me my freedom. Shame on you both. But while you and your sister sort out your problems I have one last thing to offer you. I've caught wind that the witch in New Orleans, Sophie has turned against you. They know about the birth of your daughter and are plotting a move against you and her. Trust me you will be so distracted protecting dear baby Joyce that chasing me will be the last of your concerns. It's been a fun five centuries Klaus, but I've worn down too many good heels running from you. Love and hate, Katarina."

Klaus clenches his jaw in anger he heads upstairs and back into Joy's room glancing down as his princess, so much for her being safe but he was beginning to believe she was never going to be safe. She was after all a Mikelson.

Stefan and Damon were sat having a drink on the couch trying to figure out exactly how to break Buffy Anne Summers when the doorbell goes, frowning Stefan stands and speeds over to the door.

Pulling it open his eyes widen as there stood at the door a look of misery on his face as he held a sleeping Joy in his arms was Klaus "Klaus?"
Klaus sighs before clenching his jaw, this was the hardest thing he was ever going to have to do, sighing he kisses his daughter's head "Always and Forever Joyce." He whispers before handing her to Stefan who frowns in confusion.

Klaus sighs before spotting Damon walk over handing him Joy's bag he takes a shaky breath and forces his gaze away from his daughter "I am leaving Mystic Falls. Tonight. I made a deal with Silas and Marianna spelled Joy so she is protected but there are forces in New Orleans plotting her demise. I am trusting you both here with the thing more precious to me, than anything. Because I know how much you both care for her mother. Protect my daughter."

Pausing Damon and Stefan glance over at each other before nodding while they both hated Klaus it was a different story about Joy. And right now they had never seen Klaus look so human, he was giving up his daughter to keep her safe and neither one of them could imagine how hard that was for him.

Pausing he looks at them both "Where is she?"
Stefan sighs "Downstairs...Klaus..."

Klaus merely nods "Don't fret I have played along with this game of hers long enough. Our daughter needs her mother back." He admits for the first time leaving him and the two brothers on the same page.

Sighing he walks past the brothers and heads down to the cellar, unlocking it he heads inside his eyes widening as he spots Buffy sat on the cot chained to the wall in her blood-covered dress.
Buffy frowns and looks up at him her eyes going wide "Nik?"

Klaus sighs and gulps slightly, in all these years he never imagined he would be leaving Mystic Falls for good...without her. Especially now that they had their daughter he just hadn't imagined a future where they would all be separated.

"I'm leaving Mystic Falls. Tonight."

Buffy's eyes widen and she stands, he couldn't be serious, this wasn't really happing right now, it couldn't be. Moving towards him she groans in annoyance as the chains yank her back "Nik...you can't...
Klaus sighs before stepping towards the blonde and pushing a strand of hair out her face, this was not the ending he had imagined for them "Luv, there us a threat in New Orleans and they want Joyce. I have to go. And you...you need to come back."

Buffy's eyes widen filling with slight anger, she couldn't protect her daughter if she was an emotional head-case, but what she didn't want to admit that right now sadness was slipping in, she didn't want him to go...she lo...she couldn't do this... "What no..."
Klaus sighs before cupping her face in his hands as a tear drops down his face "You don't realize it...but luv...your stronger with your emotions. And once your back...what is you said to me...we're stronger together. But you're not you. Not yet. And you need to be."

Klaus sighs before leaning forward and kissing her forehead before turning away, he moves towards the exit and stands there for a moment before groaning in frustration and turning back around moving back towards her and kissing her strongly.

Buffy's eyes widen before she melts into the kiss and places her hands on his face, and there they remained Klaus kissing the woman he loved with all of his cold heart for what he knew could very well be the last time. Holding onto her tightly he leans back and leans his forehead against hers "I love you...Buffy Anne Summers. Always and Forever." He whispers before he speeds out of the room leaving nothing but a gust of wind in his wake.

Buffy lets out a small breath and her hand hovers over her lips before she stares at the cellar door.

Klaus was gone.

And honestly, she had no idea if he would ever come back.