Buffy climbs out of her jeep and as she heads towards the campus she is quickly caught by Caroline Bonnie and Matt.
"Buffy hey!" Caroline exclaims as she runs over to the Slayer "Hey I got valedictorian. You can help me write my speech."

Buffy merely rolls her eyes at that, she didn't even show up to her own high school graduation like hell was so going to do more for this one "Yeah like that's gonna happen."
"Oh come on." Caroline moans "We're graduating college this is big. We have to go join the world now."

"She's right." Another voice says causing Buffy to turn only to spot her sister running over to them "Elena." She says flatly watching her sister for a moment before she laughs loudly.

They almost had her there, it was almost believable, laughing loudly she looks up at the sky "Nice try boys! Mind tricks won't work...next test?"

"You're beginning to frustrate the hell out of me." Damon says as he appears on the bench across from her while she merely smirked at him "I'm sorry if you're not as evil as you like to play."

"Oh, I'm evil." Damon argues before standing before moving over towards the pink-haired slayer "Come on Buff. Don't you want to be with your friends, graduation parties, caps, gowns? You know the drill."

Buffy merely arches a brow "I think you're mixing up your blondes Damon. How many more mind tricks we gonna do? This is starting to get pathetic. Bringing me to college bad idea, I hated when I had emotions. So oops you fail."

As she laughs at him again before turning her back on him he groans in annoyance before closing his eyes. This was not working. She was too smart. She could spot one thing and know exactly what was going on. She was really starting to piss him off.

"You still have her locked in the safe?" Stefan asks as he walks over to Damon who finally opens his eyes "You've been in her head for an hour. What, still nothing?"

Damon nods and groans "She keeps figuring it out. Since when is Buffy smart, wasn't she failing every class in high school?" He asks huffing in annoyance before banging on the safe "How you doing in there?" He asks before pulling open the safe where Buffy was sat and smirking brightly at him "I'll give that one a 4 out 10...at least it was a new location."

Damon groans, he was really hating this, why couldn't they just sew her freaking mouth shut, because the issue was she wasn't miserable...she was taunting them, playing games with them, which meant they weren't even close to getting the old her back out.
Slamming her back in the safe he huffs and turns to his brother in frustration before leaning against the safe "We can do this the nice way, or we can do it the other way, but either way, we're not stopping until you turn your humanity back on."

Damon pauses before he groans as he hears laughter coming from the safe, how was she finding this so entertaining "Damon you're like Harmony. When you try and be nice you suck. When you try and be evil and scary...you really suck. Maybe you should get some minions."

As she starts laughing again Damon groans before leaving the cellar "I'm gonna kill her."

"Where is she?" Caroline demands as she storms into the Salvatore living room, Stefan who was sat watching some annoying cartoon with Joy who was giggling like crazy frowns, picking up the little girl he places her on his hip and quickly goes after Caroline.

"I want to see her." Caroline tells him before smiling at Joy who buries her head into Stefan's neck making Caroline's eyes widen "Does she not like me?"

Stefan smiles slightly before sighing and turning to Caroline "We're not letting anyone see her. That's the whole point. Isolation leads to misery, leads to emotion."
Caroline huffs in frustration as she continues to head into the study "She's been here for two weeks. She hasn't improved at all?"
Stefan frowns for a moment "She's improved at making Damon pull his own hair out." He says making Joy giggle, even though the kid had no idea what he meant. Stefan smiles and tickles the little girl's stomach who laughs again before smiling as he hands her Mr. Gordon.

Caroline arches a brow as she watches Stefan and Joy, Joy adored him, literally when she was with Stefan she wouldn't scream or cry...she was just so happy. It was annoying. Any time she looked after Joy all she did was cry and yank on her hair. She swore that kid was kicking into her werewolf/vampire/slayer strength way too young.

Stefan turns away from the little girl and focuses back on Caroline "Look. She's doesn't want to Caroline, not yet, all right? She's devastated. She lost her dad, her brother, and her sister. All in one week. She attacked her friends, she played with Damon's emotions, she tortured cheerleaders, she killed five innocent people."

Caroline sighs, she just wanted her best friend back already "You said that you knew how to help her."
"I did say that. We are."
"How, by torturing her?!"

Stefan sighs before kissing Joy's head as he places her onto her stomach in her playpen where she quickly started attempting to roll over again only to get distracted by the shiny unicorn toy which again like everything else she shoved into her mouth.

Once Stefan was sure she was okay he turns to Caroline trying to make her understand "It's not torture. It's an intervention. The only chance we have with her is to provoke her, to trigger something—fear, anger, self-pity, anything."

Caroline listens to his words carefully and while it made sense she still didn't like it "Let me talk to her, before anymore interventioning. If she's weak, she can't hurt me. Please just let me try."

Buffy smirks as she spots Stefan walking over to the cellar door, she shakes her head in amusement before continuing with her pull-ups now that she wasn't in the safe anymore.

"Ooh, the prisoner has a new visitor." She sings before jumping off the pipe a little shaky she still hadn't eaten or drunk anything and with the boys continuing to drain her of blood every day she was a little dizzy.

Standing she tries to move forward but the chains around her legs kept her close to the wall "As the least the boys know my legs are really dangerous." She says with a chuckle before hopping onto the cot just as Stefan locks the cellar door again. Leaving Buffy alone with Caroline.

Buffy scans the vampire carefully looking for anything that she could use to get out of here when she spots it, the earrings. Ooh, this was going to be fun.

"So blondie the vampire, how may I direct your call?"

Caroline sighs at Buffy's sarcasm, she talked just like the old Buffy did, she knew how to play the part perfectly, she was smarter then the boys realized. But she knew Buffy, she knew she could get through to her.

Caroline checks behind her to make sure Stefan was gone before she pulls the chocolate bar out of her back pocket, maybe not the healthiest option but it was all she could get past Stefan "I brought you something. It doesn't have any of the angel dust/salt stuff on it. I swear."
Buffy arches a brow as she stares at the chocolate bar before she nods "You shall pass."

Caroline smiles slightly before slowly approaching the pink-haired slayer, she was chained up so it wasn't like she could do much "I just figured a little food might help you think straight."

Buffy nods before taking the bar and eating it quickly moaning at the sensation of the chocolaty taste "If I could marry chocolate I so would."

Caroline giggles slightly before looking down at her best friend sadly "For the record I don't agree with what they're doing. I mean I agree that you need to turn your humanity back on..." She says as she crouches down in front of the demon/slayer hybrid "...but I don't think that making you suffer is the way to do it. That's not who you are?"

Buffy chuckles softly before she looks at Caroline curiously "Who am I then? Please tell me oh enlightened one."

At her sass, Caroline clenches her jaw slightly but offers her a soft smile "Buffy, you're kind and smart, and you're a hero."

"Gag." The pink-haired slayer moans "We're done here. This is kind of a bore. I'll make you a deal...I'll be nice and then you can go get a brain."
Caroline winces at the words before leaning forward, the first mistake "I am not going to give up on you."

Buffy pauses for a moment and looks at Caroline before offering her a small smile "Really?" She whispers faking as much emotion as she could bear.
Caroline lets out a small breath and nods "Of course...you're my bes—"

Second mistake. Caroline let her guard down. And the second she did Buffy made her move, wrapping her chained leg around Caroline's neck and holds her tightly quickly cutting off her circulation.

"Buffy!" She cries as Buffy slowly suffocates her not noticing the blonde removing her earrings.

Buffy merely smirks and twists her legs around Caroline's neck-snapping her neck and hides the earrings just as Stefan runs back into the cellar "Caroline!"

Buffy smirks up at her ex-boyfriend "Let me see my daughter...or this intervention is going to go a bit more bloody."

After Buffy has strangled her and snapped her neck Caroline had called Bonnie, hoping that having another friend here would be useful. But Bonnie was not up for it. She had no interest in forgiving Buffy yet for trying to kill her yet. And as she sat in the dinner listening to Caroline over the phone she couldn't help but sigh "Buffy tried to kill me. I'm not quite ready to forgive and forget. I'm gonna call you later. Ok?" Pausing as she hears the dinner bell go off she looks up and sighs "I gotta go."

Katherine smirks as she takes a seat opposite the Bennett witch "Lying, scheming, and a secret rendezvous with Moi? Not very Bonnie Bennetty. Especially when Buffy needs her favorite witch."

Bonnie merely stares flatly at the vampire "This has nothing to do with them. This is between you and me."

Katherine shrugs before placing down the menu in her hand, what the hell, she was out a witch so what was the harm in having another owe her a favor "All right. Well, luckily for you, I've got some spare time on my hands. You said you had an offer that I can't refuse. Well, by all means, what do you have in mind?"

After managing to loosen the lock enough on her ankle chains the blonde allows the boys to chain her hands behind her back to the chair in the attic, while she plays with the earrings trying to pick the lock quietly. The best thing about her having dated a bad boy in Hemery was that one of their dates had literally been him teaching her how to pick a lock.

"So what's the what brothers?"

Damon smirks as he pulls out the flamethrower from the closest "Well we just thought the cellar was getting a little cold. And since you're a California girl...thought we could heat you up a bit." He says with a shrug as he tosses over the flamethrower to Stefan who aims it at the blonde.

Buffy smirks slightly "Thank god. It was a little chilly downstairs."

Damon arches a brow at the blonde, it was kind of hard to threaten her if she was a vampire this would be so much easier. But at least thanks to Giles they had some help. Pulling some of the powder Giles had told them about out of his back pocket he turns to Buffy "Now...you know that bad girls...tend to have to be punished."

"Ooh, more magic-powder from Geeves. Save me now." She mumbles sarcastically before sighing "So which one of wants to take me to see my daughter now."
"No." Damon whistles "Bad mothers have their children taken away."
Buffy rolls her eyes before turning to Stefan "So you gonna light me on fire already? You know I love torture in the morning."

As Stefan switches on the flame thrower and moves towards the pink-haired slayer she couldn't help but giggle "Sorry...it's just...you're like a bunny. Not too scary. Now if we had Angelus here I'm sure he could teach you both something about torture."

Stefan clenches his jaw at the mention of Buffy's ex-boyfriend's name before glaring down at her "You should be scared...and you will be. And when you are, focus on that fear. It's the key to getting your humanity back."

Buffy merely bites her lip she had to admit this was kind of fun, watching them act all threatening when they all knew the truth...they would never really hurt her. Maybe burn her a little but they couldn't hurt her.
"Then light me up. Stef...I'm waiting. Just remember though...if you ruin my hair and say I do turn it back on...I'll kill both of you anyway."

"There's always wigs." Damon says with a shrug before nodding at his brother who moves forward holding the flame on the blonde arm causing her to scream in agony as her flesh begins to burn away as the flames catch onto her arms.

After a long moment, Damon pulls out the fire extinguisher and blasts her with it making her cry out, even more, the bastard had filled it with the salt and angel dust.
Buffy groans as she stares at her now healing hand before looking down her hair shielding her face.

"That feels better, huh?" Damon asks her "How about a little gratitude or any human emotion whatsoever? And we can stop this?"
As the boys approach her they finally hear it...she was laughing, you had got to be kidding, how could she be enjoying this so much.

Buffy laughs and leans her head back before smirking over at Damon "That all you got? Damon, I was electrocuted in a mystical bubble that killed me. Do you think being burned a little hurts? The screaming that was for you. You guys are just trying so hard."

Damon's eyes widen and he groans in frustration, she was like a brick freaking wall, they just couldn't get through.
Stefan sighs and crouches down beside Buffy "Buffy, look at me. We don't want to do this, ok? You can stop this right now, it's your choice."
Buffy merely smiles "But I'm having a good time. My demon side loves torture...wanna try some?" She asks just as she manages to undo her chains leaping up she kicks Stefan across the face before picking up the chair and smashing it across Damon's face.

Smirking she rips the last of the chains off her before picking up the flamethrower and turning to the brothers "I'm immortal you idiots! You can do whatever you want to me, but I can't be killed! Even if you could kill me we all know neither of you has the balls to do it. You both love me and when it comes to love it all comes out in moron. SO understanding this quick. I'm gonna win. And while I'm moon-walking out of here you won't be able to stop me from slaughtering this town." And with that, she turns on the flamethrower setting Damon on fire before she picks up Stefan and launches him across the room.

As Damon screams in agony Buffy smirks "It's me or your brother's life." And with that, she was gone.

Buffy speeds downstairs and quickly out the front door, when she spots Caroline playing with Joy in the garden she growls in anger and speeds to head to her only to groan as she hits something.
Frowning she looks up, there was nothing there, looking around in confusion she couldn't help but groan in annoyance, across the floor was white power...which she was quickly realizing was angel dust and salt. They had trapped her so even if she got past them she couldn't leave the house.

"Oh shi—"

The pink-haired Slayer is cut off as Stefan appears behind her and snaps her neck before glancing over at Damon whose burns were still healing.

Sighing Stefan throws Buffy over his shoulder before heading back into the house "We need a new plan."

Caroline stares in disbelief as she holds a fussing Joy in her arms while she and Matt stare in shock at Rebekah who had shown up with food as some sort of peace offering, like what the hell.
"Burgers?" Rebekah asks smiling brightly.
Matt smiles before heading over "Thanks."

Caroline sighs before huffing as Joy yanks on her hair again before crying "Joy seriously..." Joy merely yells again before she looks over at Rebekah and reaches for her.
Rebekah smiles and speeds over to her niece "Come to your auntie Beks." She says sweetly as she takes Joy who quickly calms making Caroline's eyes widen "Why doesn't she like me?!"

Rebekah holds her tongue before sighing "I'm going to stay. I would like some time with my niece plus Matt mentioned that he was failing classes and needed a study buddy."

Matt quickly glares at Rebekah while Caroline's eyes widen in horror, how did she not know this "You're failing!"

"Try again Elena!" Alina exclaims in frustration as they continue to work on controlling Elena's scream so she could get the hell out of this freaking coma and go save the world...from well her sister. Who if she wasn't stopped soon, was going to reign down on a hell of a lot of people.

Elena groans in frustration, this was impossible, they had been at this for weeks and she still couldn't break down the barrier in her mind keeping her trapped in the coma.

Sighing she runs a hand through her hair and slams her hand against the glass window "I can't!"

"We are Petrovas!" Alina yells at her grabbing her turning the Gilbert girl to face her "We are fighters. Elena. Your sister is relying on you. You've done this before when you faced Kol. You just need to remember how. How did you turn your scream into a bullet!?"

Elena groans in frustration and thinks back to that day trying not to cry at the memory of her now-dead brother. She had been in the basement bleeding heavily, a still broken arm which had been hurting like hell. Yet somehow she had gotten up those stares and blasted the door open sending a sonic wave from her palms.

She had controlled the direction of her scream, she just didn't know-how.
"I don't know." She huffs before leaning against the wall.

Alina sighs before turning to the 23-year-old trying to think of how to help her, they had tried so much to break the barrier in her brain without any luck.

"Elena..." Alina says softly "My scream was a bomb. Yours was at first but you adapted. For your family. For the man you love. Think about them. The anger of the idea of someone hurting them." When Elena merely shakes her head Alina grabs her shoulders "Fine...use anger! Think about Katherine. How she killed your brother! How she is pretty much the reason Buffy was taken away. She is the reason Buffy has no emotions. She is the reason Jenna is dead. Think about Katherine Elena!"

Elena's eyes widen and that's when she feels it, power, standing she turns to face the mirror and for the hundredth time she screams but this time...the glass cracks. They were getting closer.

She could do this. She could escape this.

Damon growls in frustration as he downs the bottle of Bourbon in his hands, his brother following him as he storms outside onto the front lawn.

"So that went well." Stefan comments sarcastically.

Damon scoffs in annoyance "Every other vampire turns it on, no problem. You kill. You feed. You do all the awful things that a vampire does. And then when you're done, you turn it back on. Why is she being so stubborn?!" He yells before launching the now empty bottle one of the many windows in the massive boarding house.

As Damon growls Stefan thinks, maybe this was the problem, they kept forgetting what Buffy was, they were treating her like they would an emotionless vampire but...she's not a vampire "Maybe we are doing this wrong. Buffy's not a vampire. She's a demon. Her demon side is running things while her slayer side is letting it. Because she has nothing to come back to. She's let enough in to care about Joy but not enough to get hurt by the fact that her home's gone. Her family's gone. She alienated her friends. She destroyed her relationships."

Damon shakes his head no agreeing he knew Buffy, he knew her and this wasn't her, his Buffy wanted to escape this shell "No. She wants to come back. Scaring the hell out of her should have worked. But she can't be killed! And her demon side gets off on it!"

Stefan pauses for a moment before an idea hits her, they needed someone her human side would be affected by "When Buffy first turned off her emotions she tried to kill Elena. Elena was the key. It's not about physical torture. She likes it. It won't do anything but make her torture us. But emotional torture...Elena is the key...and we have someone who looks exactly like her..."
As Stefan trails off Damon's eyes widen in horror, he couldn't actually be serious, they couldn't really bring Katherine into this, it was insane "Katherine?"

Stefan nods "Think about it. She's the reason Jeremy's dead, right? She's the reason Elena's never gonna wake up...and she is Elena's doppelganger. It would be throwing not only her brother's killer in her face, but it's also shoving the image of her sister there too. So if anybody's gonna provoke an emotion, it's her."
Damon couldn't help but scoff, while the idea what crazy it may just work, but Katherine was a manipulate selfish bitch it wasn't like she was actually going to help them out of the evilness of her heart "So we call her and then what? Beg her to help us out of the kindness of her own heart? You kidding me?"

"Katherine was just abandoned by Mary. They have been together every day for 500 years! She has nothing. She has no one. We invite her into our house to come torture Buffy. There's no way she's going to turn that down."

As Matt and Rebekah actually manage to have a moment while Joy sleeps Rebekah's eyes widen as Katherine strolls into the Salvatore home like she owned the place. Stepping in front of her niece's bassinet she glares up at the vampire ready to rip her damn head off.

"Seriously?" Damon asks as he strolls into the room "You can't knock?"

Katherine who had straightened her hair in excitement for torturing little Miss Goody two shoes shrugs "Sorry. I didn't realize we were standing on formalities."
Rebekah who was still protecting her niece glares at the vampire who was the whole reason she had lost her sister for 500 years "What the hell are you doing here?"

Katherine smirks brightly "You didn't get the memo. I'm here to talk some sense into poor emotionless Buffy. Hence the bad hairdo." She says playing with her newly straightened hair.

Matt's eyes widen and he jumps up from his seat and stares at Damon is disbelief, they couldn't do this! "Are you out of your mind?" As Matt yells at him Damon sighs "You got a better idea, prom king? Unless you want me to lock you up in there with her, I suggest you shut up and let the vampires handle this."

Matt's eyes widen he couldn't let this happen there was no way in hell he was going to let this happen, grabbing his jacket he goes to storm out only for Rebekah to call after him in confusion "Where are you doing?"

"I'm calling Caroline. There's no way we're letting that psycho in there with Buffy!"

Buffy groans from her place in the safe as she hears someone unlocking it, but this time was different, there was no chatter from outside. They had sent someone knew to play.

"Oh honey, you look awful." Katherine says as she yanks open the door and catches sight of the demon slayer hybrid.

Buffy's eyes widen as she spots her sister...no...she realizes after a long moment as she stumbles out of the safe "Katherine." She realizes before laughing, the boys were really going for desperate measures now.
Looking up her eyes widen as she spots the straight hair "Ooh honey at least my hair doesn't look like yours."

Katherine shrugs before kicking Buffy across the face sending the slayer to the floor "Oh honey, you have high spirits for someone in your state right now." Pausing the vampire walks over and crouches down in front of the pink-haired slayer "Your boyfriends invited me."

"Wow they must be getting desperate." Buffy snarks before chuckling "Show me what you go KitKat?"

Suddenly Buffy finds herself pinned up against the wall Katherine's hand in her chest, the blonde cries out in agony before spitting blood at Katherine's face and laughing again.
Katherine frowns, this wasn't fun for her, it was like the slayer was enjoying it "Your the happiest emotionless bitch I've ever met." She hisses before yanking her hand out of Buffy's gut.

Stepping back she smirks over at the blonde "Before I torture you satisfy my curiosity." She says as she moves to grab a cloth to clean her now blood-covered hand "What did you tell Mary back in Willoughby?"

Buffy chuckles softly as she steps forwards her hands and feet now re-chained, the boys hadn't been expecting her little escape and were probably gonna be a lot more careful this time "Aw let me guess the big bad witch finally got a brain and left you. Is that why you're here. Because you fell in love with her when she looked like me. Well sorry, you're not my type."

Katherine's eyes fill with anger and she takes a threatening step towards the blonde "Tell me what you said to turn her against me or I will feed you your own eyeballs." As Katherine grabs her eyes the blonde laughs again before shoving Katherine off her and crossing her arms, well the best she could anyway "I can't undo 500 years of love in 10 minutes. You did that all on your own. She just finally decided she would rather have her family then...well you."

Katherine's anger only grows as she watches Buffy laugh in her face, huffing she clenches her jaw as she glares at Slayer "Yeah, I've done some pretty horrible things to survive. But unlike you..." She hisses grabbing Buffy by the throat and forcing her up against the wall "...miss hero. I don't turn it off I deal with it." Pausing slowly it clicks in Katherine's mind exactly what to do with little miss goodie "We're going back to the beginning missy. Get ready for another dig out." And with that, she snaps Buffy's neck.

Looking down at the blonde she watches her for a moment before picking her up and throwing her over her shoulder.

Speeding her out of the cellar she heads for the back door and quickly pushes the angel dust and salt out of the way breaking the binding spell before she speeds out of the Salvatore boarding house heading straight for the graveyard. Looking for one specific grave.
After a few minutes of searching she finally found it hidden away off a beaten path tossing Buffy's chained body on the ground she grabs a shovel from nearby and begins digging up the grave of Buffy Anne Summers, ready to send her right back into the ground.

Hidden away in one of the many guarded rooms of the Mystic Falls Long Care mental Health Facility Elena Gilbert lay, her eyes still as wide open as the day she was brought in.
She laid there unmoving in her hospital gown the only movement was the slight rise and fall of her chest. She was kept in a secure facility, with guards and doctors.

And right now she could hear the doctor beside her as he injects her with the needle, her body didn't react she was still motionless.

The doctor sighs as he pulls out the needle "Sorry about that Elena I couldn't find a vein. I'll try again."

And with that he enters the needle again and finally begins drawing her blood watching her intently as he does. Slowly his hand works it's way up to her face however the second his hand touches her cheek she sits up screaming causing every light in the room to shatter and overpower while he goes flying backward.

Quickly Elena jumps out of her bed and gets out of her room heading straight into the hall, when she spots the barred doors at the end of the hall her eyes fill with panic as she spots one of the guards appears. Looking around that's when it clicks. Silas. He had her moved, told them to lock her up in the most secure place, where they kept psychos and murderers who had gone crazy. Okay this was going to be a little harder then she thought.

Turning she moves to head to the other exit only to groan as another guard enters the hall, but one good thing...he left the door open behind him.

Glancing behind her she groans as she spots the other guard opening the door, she had to get out of here.

Turning she ran at the second guard punching him in the throat she swings her leg out getting him right in the stomach and as he crouches she swings her other leg around wrapping it around his neck before twisting both legs around him causing him to go flying to the ground while she landed in a crouch on the ground.

Looking up through her messy hair she quickly stands as she spots the other guard running at her, raising her hands she screams sending a sonic wave at him causing him to go flying with the lights above them shattered.

Not waiting a second she runs out the exit as fast as she can till finally, she makes it outside, heading into the garden she quickly spots the fence, that was the final leg. Then she would be free. However things were never that easy.

Clenching her jaw in annoyance as she spots four more guards appear two with tasers she sighs, kicking her leg out she screams sending another sonic wave sending two guards flying backward before she ducks as one of the guards with the tasers reaches for her.

Grabbing his wrist she twists it around her before aiming it at the other guard, as he shakes violently and screams she quickly shatters the guard's arm she was holding before elbowing him in the face and then sending another sonic wave at them sending them both flying.

And with that she runs, climbing over the fence she runs as fast as she can, she had to get to the Boarding house. And quick.

After burning Buffy alive in her own grave which she had already clawed her way out of once Katherine walks back into the boarding house and pours herself a drink smiling over at Damon as she does "All that pain and torture really worked up quite a thirst."

Damon watches her carefully before arching a brow "It couldn't have anything to do with that fact Buffy called you out on your recent girl trouble, could it?" He asks curiously, luckily for her though he hadn't been eavesdropping the entire time. Which meant they still thought Buffy was safely locked away. And she was...sort of.

Katherine clenches her jaw as she grabs her drink before turning to the vampire "Did you ever think Buffy would have been better off if she'd never met you?"
"You're trying to get a rise out of me? Because my emotions are fine. I love Buffy. I despise you."

Katherine chuckles as she taunts him "Mm, so romantic. So doomed to fail." Pausing she leans on the couch so she could look at him properly as she speaks "You know, as soon as she goes back to her old self, she'll go back to friend-zoning you. Like's she done every day for 6 years. That's the tragedy of you."

"She's gone!" Stefan yells as he runs into the room before speeding over to Katherine grabbing her by the throat "Someone broke the binding spell at the back exit. Where is she?!"

Katherine smirks slightly before shrugging "Where she belongs, You want her to suffer what will make her suffer more than where she got her best beauty rest..."

As she trails off Damon's eyes widen, she didn't...actually this was Katherine of course she did "You buried her in her old grave."

Stefan groans and as both brothers move to exit their hear a cry from upstairs "Joy." He whispers in a panic before both of them run upstairs and to their horror the window in Joy's room was open...and Joy...she was gone.

"Someone took her."

"Joy!" Stefan yells before running to the window, but there was no sign of anyone, this couldn't be happening, she was gone. What if Silas had finally come for her?

As he begins to panic however he freezes as he spots something on the floor, frowning he crouches down on the floor and that's when the smell hits him. Blood.

His eyes widen and he grabs his brother "We need to get Buffy now."

Buffy groans as she finally starts to wake again, creaking her neck she groans, "Oh man. I'm gonna kill that old grandma." She huffs before attempting to move...however she couldn't.

Shuffling around in her chains the blonde opens her eyes only for panic to fill her, no, no, this couldn't be happening again. As she begins to hyperventilate she pulls at her chains trying to get them off she could get out of her, this was her worse nightmare. She had spent months trying to get over this, and now here she was again. Buried alive.

"No!" She screams as she struggles, pulling at her chains as hard as she could but it was useless she still wasn't at full strength.

And for the first time since she turned off her emotions...she was terrified. "Help!" She screams as she struggles before taking a shaky breath she was running out of oxygen she really could not spend the next few hours dying over and over again in this damn coffin.

Pulling at her chains again she huffs this wasn't working. Clenching her jaw she grabs her wrists and bites her lip, this was gonna hurt.

After a brief hesitation, she yanks on her arm completely dislocating her shoulder, and finally she breaths in relief as she is able to shimmy out of her chains. The second she was free she begins punching the top of her coffin and again before just like the first time dirt starts to pile in quickly and she is able to pull herself into the hole.

"You gonna explain to me what is happening!" Damon yells as they run through the graveyard trying to get to Buffy's old grave.
Stefan sighs he couldn't, if he was right and Buffy overheard them, it could ruin everything, this may be there only chance to get her back, he couldn't risk it.

"Later!" He yells just as the stop at her grave.

And at that moment it was just like that day almost two years ago, the two of them stood side by side at her grave as her fast-pace heartbeat quickened as she clawed her way to the surface.
Running forward Stefan begins digging before finally he spots her hand grabbing it he quickly pulls her up and Buffy gasps for breath as she falls on top of him.

She couldn't help but gasp she had spent ages digging with no air, taking a shaky breath she rests for a moment completely exhausted before she realizes exactly whose chest she was lying on "You son of a bitch!" She hisses shoving him away from her before she quickly resets her shoulder only to go right back to glaring at the brothers "You buried me alive!" She hisses at both of them "I was fine with the flame thrower, the stupid acid dust...but this...you're gonna die for. Then Katherine. Then the rest of this town."

Speeding over to Stefan she grabs him by the throat but she still wasn't at her full strength and Damon manages to yank her off his brother wrapping his arms around her stomach pulling her back while she struggled.

Buffy screams loudly, she was done playing nice, nice Buffy was gone, these two were going to die tonight. Smashing her head back into Damon's she then lifts her legs slamming them into Stefan's chest and as he stumbles she throws Damon over her shoulder.

Speeding over to a nearby tree branch she throws it at Stefan and he drops to his knees as the stake buries itself in his gut, Buffy smirks as she strolls over before kicking him in the face "You can watch your brother die first." She says cheerfully before walking back over to Damon who was stood now "You're not gonna kill me Buffy."

Buffy chuckles before arching a brow at him "Wanna bet?" She asks before she swings her leg at him, he blocks the blow only to grunt as she leaps up and wraps her leg around his neck before stabbing a stake into his neck.

Damon screams in agony before dropping to his knees, Buffy smiles "That was almost too easy." She says sweetly before kicking him across the face sending him to the floor.

Watching him for a moment she then grabs him by the throat and holds him up before shoving her hand into his chest reaching for his heart "End of the line Dame."
"Buffy stop!" Stefan yells as he yanks out the stake in his stomach before turning to her desperately "Someone took Joy!"

At that the blonde freezes, her whole body going still as she turns to him with wide eyes "What?" She breaths in a whisper as panic fills her, this couldn't be happening, someone had taken her baby. Again.

"No." She breaths only to grab Damon's heart tighter as Stefan steps towards her "Back off Stefan!" She warns as Damon groans in agony Buffy's hand now fully wrapped around his heart she could end him with one movement. He just never thought it would be Buffy who would kill him. They had lost, there was no getting her back now.

Just as the thought enters his mind all three of them freeze as they hear it, a branch snapping nearby. Buffy turns her head only to gasp in shock, letting go of Damon she drops him to the ground before turning fully to face the figure. This wasn't possible. She was supposed to be dead.

But at that moment the figure steps into the moonlight and Buffy's eyes widen as there standing in the moonlighting holding a sleeping Joy was...Elena.

She was barefoot, her hair was a mess and there was blood dripping from where she had probably cut her arms running through the forest or when she had taken Joy...but...she was here.

Buffy's lip quivers as she stares at her sister and she stumbles backward, she felt like someone had just hit her with a truck, this wasn't possible, the doctors had said she was practically brain dead...she couldn't be... "This is a trick..." She hisses as she steps back, right there in front of her were the two keys to her humanity, her sister and her daughter...she felt like she couldn't breath "No..."

Elena steps forward into the moonlight closer to Buffy and looks down at her sister tears dripping from her eyes "Buffy...it's ok. I know...I know I left you...but I'm back now...it's okay...it's all gonna be okay."

Buffy gasps loudly and she stumbles slightly as it all came back and she couldn't do anything but cry. She sobs loudly before running over to her sister and her daughter throwing her arms over Elena and Joy as the two sisters sob in each other's arms.

It was official Buffy was back. She had her humanity back again.

As the two sisters clutch onto each other Buffy pulls back as everything that had happened starts to fill her head, everything she had done. And the guilt, the horror, the grief. It was all rushing back it was too much. She couldn't do this.

"Buffy?" Elena whispers, but Damon shakes his head at Elena and quickly grabs Buffy, Buffy wasn't safe right now there was too much going on in her head "You're gonna be ok." Damon assures the sobbing blonde who merely shakes her head, Damon sighs stepping in front of her "Look at me."

Buffy shakes her head and shoves Damon away from her as images of all the things she had done to innocent people, to her friends, filled her mind. She was a monster. How could she have done all of those things "NO, no, no. It's not okay."

As Buffy begins going into full-on panic mood Stefan turns to Elena "Take my car. Go back to the house. We have her."
Elena shakes her head, she had just spent weeks fighting to get out of her state she wasn't leaving. Not now "No."

Stefan sighs before turning to Buffy who was talking to herself, well more like yelling at her self "What did I do..." She whispers as images of torturing those cheerleaders fill her mind, burying Caroline alive, playing with Stefan and Damon's emotions. Abandoning Joy. Killing all those people in the dinner. Trying to kill Bonnie. God, it was all too much.

Buffy grabs onto her hair as panic fills her "I-I almost killed you!" She yells turning to Damon as tears streamed down her face she couldn't control this it was too much she felt everything "And...Caroline, Bonnie... and Elena...I tried to kill my sister!" She whispers shoving Damon away as he tries to grab her shoulders but she couldn't. She couldn't be touched right now "Those cheerleaders...I mean, those people in the dinner. I killed everyone in there...I tortured them..." Buffy gasps as anger and self-hatred hits her, swinging her leg out she kicks her gravestone sending it flying.

Damon grabs the blonde unsure of what to do but they had to keep her from destroying the entire graveyard and forest "No!" She screams as Stefan runs over and while Damon holds her he grabs her arms forcing her to look at Stefan "Buffy, look at me. Look at me. I know this stage ok. Your emotions are overwhelming you. You just have to focus on one thing."

Buffy shakes her head sobbing loudly, it was all too much, Jeremy and her dad... they were both dead! She had tried to kill her friends, she had killed and tortured people like it was game! Nothing would ever be okay again "No..." She sobs out tears streaming down her face "I can't. I can't..."

Stefan takes her hand in his forcing her to look at him trying whatever he could to get through to her "You just find that one thing inside of you. That makes you strong. It's in there. Just latch on to it. Channel everything you're feeling into that one emotion. Find the thing inside of you that makes you want to live." Buffy gasps again and as she sobs she looks over at Elena and her daughter, her little girl was why she had done everything.

Stefan watches her for a moment before nodding "Good think about Joy. Think about your little girl and how much you love her. How much you want to protect her and Buffy let it in. Let it in."

As he whispers at her Buffy turns back to him and nods before finally she does as he says, she lets it all in. And for a moment it was good.

Stefan nods at her and while Damon steps back forced to watch them Stefan keeps his focus on Buffy holding her eyes contact "Just breath it in. Blow everything else out. That's good." Buffy listens to his words carefully blowing up her air through her mouth before she couldn't hold it in anymore and she sobs loudly grabbing onto her head, it hurt so much. Clutching onto her head she takes a shaky breath before finally it settles.

"You okay?" Damon asks her but the blonde shakes her head "No." She breaths before backing away from her brothers and taking her daughter from her sister. She may not be okay...but maybe she would be. She just would never forgive herself for all the horrors she had caused.

"I'm perfectly aware that tombstone isn't just a hunk of rock." Katherine tells Bonnie as she sits down opposite her in the booth at the small diner near the edge of town.
"No kidding." Bonnie says flatly.
Katherine merely smirks "And it got me thinking, all big spells require a source of power, a recurring element like a full moon, a comet. But that tombstone is filled with blood of your ancient relative Katsooyay or whatever."
Bonnie couldn't help but roll her eyes, she was regretting asking for Katherine's help but the vampire had the tombstone and she needed it to do what she had planned. "Qetsiyah."

Katherine rolls her eyes, she really did not care less "She was powerful enough to create the other side. So maybe if you have her blood, you don't need a full moon to drop the veil. Maybe you can do it whatever you want. I spent a lot of centuries with a witch. I paid attention. But even then I can't figure out why do you want to drop the veil at all?"

Bonnie merely stares flatly at the vampire "I have my reasons." She tells her vaguely, she wasn't risking Katherine knowing anything more then she needed to know.
Katherine smirks slightly at her words "So again I ask. What's in it for me?"

"You'll get the one thing you want most in the world—freedom, survival. Never to run from anyone again. Once I drop the veil I can speak to Qetsiyah. She created the spell that made Silas truly immortal. Even Buffy can be killed but Silas...he can't be. You'd like that for yourself, wouldn't you? I can give it to you?"

Katherine stares at Bonnie in shock before slowly a smirk makes it way onto her face, she could so deal with being immortal, unkillable, no one would ever be able to touch her again "Bonnie Bennet you have a deal."

As Elena slept upstairs Buffy was too wired she merely sat in the rocking chair the boys had gotten from Klaus' when he left town, they had gotten all of Joy's stuff and turned the room next to hers upstairs into a nursery. This made her feel worse, they had done everything to make her daughter comfortable and she hadn't cared.

But she couldn't focus on all of that, she had channeled everything into protecting her daughter and being there for her. So here she sat holding her daughter rocking her to sleep like she should have been doing for the past 3 months. But she hadn't, she felt like a terrible mother. She had abandoned her child, left her and she had to make up for it.

"Hey..." Damon says with a small smile as he walks into the room and hands her Mr. Gordo "She can't sleep without it. And if she wakes up and it's not there. None of us will sleep."
Buffy nods "Thanks." She whispers taking the pig before stroking her daughter's head, the girl somehow slept like a rock, she was like her mother that way.
"How you feeling?" Damon asks as he moves to sit opposite the blonde.

Buffy sighs as she continues rocking, what was she supposed to say here? It wasn't exactly an easy question to answer "The pain's still there." She says simply before glancing at her beautiful little girl "But she...holding her...makes it bearable. The grief. The shame. The guilt." She couldn't help but exhale softly as she looks over at Stefan who was stood by the bar "I...I betrayed everything I am when I turned it off. Everything I was taught, by my mom, by Giles. I let people die...I acted like Faith, thinking I was above the law. Above humanity."

Stefan smiles at her sadly before walking over and carefully he takes Joy and hands Buffy a drink, she looked like she needed one, placing Joy in the bassinet he then turns to face the pink-haired Slayer "What do you want to do?"

Buffy sighs and takes a sip of the whiskey in her hands before running a hand through her hair, she had to admit she did love the hair, it was maybe the only thing she liked that her bad self had left behind "I want to protect my daughter. That's all I can think about right now. I don't know how to think about anything else."

Downing the rest of her drink she sighs and leans back trying to focus on Joy and nothing else, if she thought about anything else she was going to crumble. However, suddenly Elena walks into the room now finally clothed and showered and rested. She looked better.

Elena looks over at her sister and smiles before walking over and sitting next to her, Buffy smiles and squeezes her sister's hand before turning to her curiously "Lena, how did you...the doctors said..."
Elena sighs thinking back to the sessions in her mind "Alina Petrova. She's my ancestor. She was the banshee from the 1800s. She helped me, I had to turn my scream into a bullet. It was the only way to break the wall in my mind that was keeping me in that state. But I had to focus on something. And there was only one thing that worked."

Pausing she stands and faces the three they needed to know exactly why she had come back what had brought her back "And now I know there's something I need to do about that."
Buffy frowns and turns to her sister in confusion "Elena you've been in a coma for three months. You need to rest."

"So do you." Stefan reminds the blonde handing her drink before turning to Elena "Both of you need a couple of days. Maybe a few months."
Elena shakes her head they didn't understand, this was the only reasons she had been able to come back "No I'm done resting. I've been comatose for almost 4 months. No more resting I have to get ready. There's so much that I have to do."

Buffy frowns and turns to her sister, glancing at the boys she sighs, they had no idea what she was talking about either "Elena..."

"No Buffy, you don't get it. There was one thing that kept me going. Go back far enough there's one person who brought us to this...who ruined our lives, Buffy she is the reason you turned off your emotions. She is the reason I lost you for a year. She turned Caroline into a vampire, she killed our brother, and left Joy without a family. I didn't come back for any reason. I came back for this. Alina said I had to focus on something and I did. Hate. I am back to kill her. Katherine needs to die and I'm gonna kill her."