Matt walks out of the forest and onto the highway just in time to spot Katherine punch a woman unconscious only to cry out in agony as she grabs her hand, she had never punched anyone when she was human. She didn't realize how much it actually hurt.

"Hurt's doesn't it?!" He asks her as he clocks the shotgun in his hands causing the ex vampire to turn to face him "Not as much as this will."

Katherine groans in annoyance, not only did she have to deal with everyone in Mystic Falls searching for her, she now had to deal with Matt holding her against her will.

Her life officially sucked.


Stefan smiles as he lays on the blanket with Buffy's head resting on his chest as they soak in the sun by the river.

Buffy smiles into his chest before looking up at him "Not that this isn't great...but we could be anywhere and we're laid on the floor near a river. Why not Paris? Or Rome, all that typical romantic stuff?" She jokes as she sits up looking down at him making him smile brightly as he watches her.

"These are the good moments. The simple ones, the ones that matter." He tells her running his hand through her golden pink and blonde hair before turning back to those beautiful green eyes of hers "These are the moments that keep me from falling apart."

Buffy giggles softly before looking around and shrugging "Fine. I like it." She says amused with a roll of her eyes before leaning down and kissing him.
Stefan smiles into the kiss, while he knew he was hallucinating, still trapped in that safe at the bottom of the quarry he just wanted to pretend this was real. That he had made it to the harbor in time to tell her that he still loved her.

Buffy smiles as she pulls away before leaning her chin on his chest "At least it's a nice distraction. You get to be with little old crazy me."

"Yeah, you're not to be bad." He laughs before frowning as Buffy starts coughing "Buffy?" He whispers spitting up helping her as she starts coughing violently water spilling from her mouth what was happening "Buffy?!"

Suddenly he finds himself back in the safe again, it was him drowning all over again water filling his lungs, he tries to stay in the dream, he tries to stay with her but he couldn't. The water was too much.


"Let go of my ego." Xander warns as he and Buffy sit at the dining room table in the Harriss/Gilbert apartment having a stare off as they both try and get ahold of the last slice of French toast.

"You let go." Buffy glares refusing to let go "I'm being nice, I'm faster than you Xander so give it."
"You got the last slice of Bacon!"
Buffy smirks at his words before picking up the bacon on her plate and biting into it moaning in please over-extraditing as much as she can "Hmm. Bacon!"

"Elena!" Xander yells making Buffy rolls her eyes before she snatches the last piece of French toast off of him as he calls for his girlfriend.

Elena groans as she glances at the arguing Buffy and Xander before she turns to Caroline who was annoyed and frustrated, which normally meant boy problems "You talk to Tyler?"

Caroline sighs, "He failed last year and didn't graduate he was supposed to come back but he's deferring and deferring from answering my phone calls. So I'm deferring from having sex with him ever again."

Elena sighs before looking at more of the stuff that Caroline had gotten out of Megan's apartment "How's the snooping going?" Pausing she hears a yell and she and Caroline turn only to spot Buffy currently holding Xander in a headlock as he tried to get what she was assuming was the last jelly donut away from her.

"Buffy!" Elena yells before walking over and yanking her sister off her boyfriend "He's fragile."
"Hey!" Xander exclaims but when all three women who all had supernatural abilities and strength raise their eyebrows at him he sighs and readjusts his eye-patch "At least I have a battle scar!" He huffs before taking the donut and storming off into his and Elena's room only to yell suddenly "Oh come on!"

Buffy smirks as she reappears by Elena's side now with the donut in her hands "I love having super-powers."

Elena rolls her eyes before she and Buffy head back over to Caroline "So do you figure why vampire slaughter victim A knew Uncle Grayson."

Caroline glances over at Elena who shakes her head, Elena had only told Buffy part of it until she knew what Buffy's dad had to do with this it was probably best to leave it alone.

"No." Caroline sighs finally before Buffy sighs, "Well I called Willow. She did her hacker magic and poof. Megan's death certificate. Signed by one Dr. Wesley Maxfield."
Elena's eyes widen at that and she quickly grabs her schedule out of her bag before sighing "That's what I thought. He's the third-year resident that runs the Microbiology class I have today."

"The what when and huh?" Buffy asks in confusion, she unlike her sister was not a medical genius, violence genius yes, other kinds no.

Elena shakes her head in amusement before Damon pushes open the front door strolling inside and before any of the girls could say anything he grabs Buffy's wrist "No time to talk. Bye!" And with that, he drags Buffy out of her sister's apartment and towards his car "I can't be a taxi driver Buffy! Get a new car."

Buffy pouts as she climbs into the passenger seat "But I want my baby Jeep."


Liz sighs as she looks out at the large quarry where Buffy and Damon thought Stefan could possibly be.
"Guy, I know I said I'd help you find Stefan, but I can't dredge this entire quarry. It's enormous."

Buffy sighs as she sits down on the edge looking out at the miles of deepwater if Stefan was here... he had been drowning over and over again for four months, suffering practically in hell. And they hadn't even realized.

"I'm aware of that." Damon says with a huff "I mean, clearly that's why we wanted to dump, Silas' body here because it's big and deep and no one would find him. Now say I'm Silas and I want to take over my doppelganger's life, why wouldn't I dump him in a place that's big and deep where no one would find him?"

Buffy sighs before standing and turning to face Liz a desperate look on her face, she just couldn't stand the idea of Stefan being this close yet being tortured and not being able to help him "Is there not anything you can do?"

Liz sighs and runs a hand through her short hair before facing the 22 year old "Buffy I'm already hiding the Mayor's death, I can't devote those kind of resources to finding one person who may or not be down there."
Buffy groans "Fine." Pausing Damon's eyes widen as he spots Buffy pull her shirt off "Woah, Buffy."

Buffy ignores him as she stands in a sports bra "I'll find him myself." She says simply before diving into the quarry "Buffy!" Damon yells as she hits the water disappearing underneath, groaning he rubs his jaw "Dammit." Sighing he turns back to Liz "She's spent al summer thinking Stefan rejected her. Only to find out he's possibly been drowning over and over again. All summer."

Liz sighs before glancing down at the water just as Buffy reappears on the surface, as she watches the young woman try her hardest she couldn't help but groan "I'll get some deputies on it."
"Thanks Liz." Damon says with a smile watching as she heads back to her car, as she disappears Damon speeds down to the end of the quarry "Aqua woman get out the water!" He yells as Buffy huffs and climbs out of the water taking a towel off him as he shoves one into her arms. How he got it she didn't know, she wasn't sure she wanted to.

"Liz is going to get experts on it."
Buffy couldn't help but sigh in relief "Thank god what's this green stuff in my hair?"

Damon frowns before groaning in disgust, he had no idea but it smelt "Um..."
"Oh my god!"

Damon snorts as she begins freaking out only for his eyes to widen as he spots Jeremy's name appear on his phone "Please tell me you found her."
"I didn't but Matt did."
Buffy arches a brow as she hears that "Go Matty. I was always team Matt."

"Shut up you smell like a fish." Damon tells her before sighing and listening "She was mid catfight with some lady who maced her."

"Can I give that lady a bottle of champagne?" Buffy asks as pulls her shirt back on and continues to dab her wet hair with the towel.
Damon chuckles "Get in line."

"We think Silas might have mind-controlled himself some new friends."

Buffy frowns at that and she takes the phone from Damon "How'd you figure out? If you say there is another smart gene I didn't get I'll hurt you." She warns jokingly but what made her frown more is Jeremy goes quiet, as Damon taps her she rolls her eyes "Hide her. Take her somewhere safe. If the whole town is looking for her then Silas really wants her. So I want her more. She's my hostage he can go get his own. Be careful."
"Will do. Love you."
"You too."


Katherine groans as she watches Matt continue to tie a rope around her wrists "I get it. I'm the leverage. I'm that thing that everybody wants." At her own words she couldn't help but groan in annoyance "I'm the freaking moonstone."

Jeremy groans and glares at her as he walks over and shuts the door in her face leaving her tucked in the backseat "This sucks. I should have stayed dead."


As Elena walks into her classroom she heads to a seat only to hear a familiar voice "Elena, friend of blow-off girl."

The brunette banshee frowns and turns only to smile as she spots Jessie, taking the bag off his seat Elena smiles gratefully before sitting next to him.

Once she was seated with her laptop out Jessie turns to her curiously "Is your friend coming to the bonfire tonight, or are you guys just gonna get really close then turn around and leave again."
Elena laughs trying to hide her panic "My sister and I are dragging her."
Jessie smiles and Elena smirks slightly, Jessie was cute and unlike Tyler, he was here, he could be good for Caroline.

However, Elena's thoughts quickly change as Wes walks into the room "Morning, everyone. I'm Dr. Maxfield. First name is Wes, but call me Dr. Maxfield. One day in about 8 years after you graduate and are doing your residencies you'll understand. So you're all going to this bonfire tonight right? Well here's a little history for you. Whitmore was founded as a hospital during the civil war, deadliest war in American history, over 600,000 causalities."


"Whatever he knows I'm going to get it out of him." Elena tells Buffy as they speak over the phone, the blonde, after going home and showering like there was no tomorrow, was now back at the Quarry with Liz and Damon as they send divers out in search of Stefan.

"Do you want me to come back and compel him? I'll make it real quick...like a ghost. Boo."

Elena chuckles in amusement "I'm good. Chances are if he knows about vampires...or crazy Slayer-Demon hybrids, then he also knows about Vervain And maybe even angel dust."

Buffy shivers at the mention of Angel Dust, that stuff royally sucked, as she thinks back to Damon and Stefan torturing her she couldn't help but groan, if she never saw Angel dust again she would be one happy demon. Hell, she'd throw a damn parade.

"Has she used violence?" Damon asks as he walks over to the blonde and smirks "One little scream and he'll cry like a baby."
"No I didn't threaten him."
Damon rolls his eyes before turning to Buffy "Your sister is one of the weakest links. Cut her loose."

Buffy shakes her head before pushing Damon away from her so she could have her conversation with her sister, alone.
"Ignore the previous serial killer. And listen to your sister the ex-queen of torture."
Elena giggles slightly before thinking for a moment "What would my Slayer sister do?"

Buffy smirks that was a very simple question "Make Xander get donuts while Giles' reads books."


Elena smirks at her sister's words only to come to halt as she spots a certain Salvatore walking towards her, one of her best friends, who she hadn't seen in four months "Stefan?"
"Probably mope at him."
"Damon give me my phone-!
"I'm giving your sister perfect advice, stop jumping at me shortie! Buffy get off me! Do not break my wrist again!"

Elena ignores the arguing best friends before staring at Stefan in shock "No, Buffy...Stefan's here right now."
"What?!"
Stefan walks towards her and smiles "Turn off your phone."
Elena pauses for a moment and Silas frowns when she doesn't do as he says groaning he tries harder using more power to get past the Banshee's mind barriers "Hang up."

As Buffy and Damon yell Elena ignores them before hanging up the phone, sighing she tilts her head at Stefan "Long time no see. No goodbye."
"I know." Silas says trying his best to play the part "I just wanted to apologize in person."

Elena nods before leaning forward and hugging him tightly however she couldn't help but frown as the voices in her head start going crazy. Clearly something was up with them cause it was only Stefan.
"Never do that again, ok?" She asks as she pulls back "I thought something terrible happened to you."

Silas sighs "Something terrible did happen to me. The woman I love had a baby with another man. I just needed some space."
"Have you talked to Buffy?"
"Yeah. A few days ago."

Elena frowns, why wouldn't Buffy tell her that, she knew Buffy was hurt but it was weird for her not to even tell her that Stefan was back. She had this horrible feeling she was missing something here "She didn't mention it."

"Yeah." Silas says sadly "It's didn't go too well. Plus she's trying to convince Jeremy to go back to school. So we didn't get to talk properly about us you know."
Elena sighs, this was making more sense she knew Jeremy got kicked out but she was surprised Buffy hadn't convinced him to go back to Whitmore yet.

Silas looks at her worriedly "We were actually supposed to have dinner tonight, but um...Jeremy took off. Elena this is my chance to talk to Buffy and now she's panicking about Jeremy. I just wanna help her, do you have any idea where he is?"