"Hey Caroline." Buffy says as she walks into Caroline's apartment where the blonde vampire was walking around in a towel.
Caroline smiles only for her eyes to widen in panic as Damon walks in "Buffy no! No Damon in my sacred apartment."
Damon rolls his eyes, they didn't have time for Caroline's dramatics, they needed to find Elena "Where's Elena?"
Caroline sighs as she clutches the towel to her body "I don't know. She probably went to the bonfire to get more intel on her weirdo professor, Xander's supposed to meet her there when he finishes work."
Buffy groans and runs her hands through her hair in panic as she turns to face Damon, this wasn't good "We need to find her."
"We will." Damon promises the panicking Buffy before turning to Caroline "Silas is here. He's with Elena, pretending to be Stefan."
Caroline's eyes widen in shock and horror, Silas was supposed to be rotting in the bottom of the Quarry, how the hell did this happen? "I thought that Stefan dropped his body in the quarry."
Buffy sighs before grabbing a dress off Caroline's bed and handing it to her "Put your face on Care we got to rebash Silas' face in. Dibs."
Caroline takes the dress but doesn't speak as she thinks about the past 4 months, every-time Elena had one of those crazy dreams "Oh, my god..." She breaths "Elena was right. All summer, she's had this pit in her stomach about Stefan. She thought it wasn't a banshee thing but maybe it is."
Buffy's eyes widen and she holds up her hand cutting Caroline off, what the hell was she talking about, Elena hadn't mentioned any of that during any of their phone conversations after she left Mystic Falls. Elena hadn't said a word about Stefan or Banshee type dreams.
"What?" Buffy breaths still in shock a little unsure of how to take this news "Why—why didn't she tell me?"
Caroline sighs and turns to Buffy sadly, what made it worse is Elena hadn't mentioned it to Buffy because they thought Stefan had changed his mind about loving the Slayer and had taken off without a word. Now...that may be wrong.
"After what happened, she knew you were hurt and heartbroken. She didn't want to bring it up. It didn't feel like a banshee dream. But maybe her powers are expanding, she's just said she had this weird feeling there was something wrong with him."
Buffy clenches her jaw and she and Damon glance at each other and without another word Buffy walks out of the house to go find her sister while Damon sighs, he was pissed at himself for not thinking that something was wrong with his brother, but Buffy...he was pretty sure she was confused as hell. At least when she thought he didn't care about her she could accept it and try and move on...but now, she had no idea what was going on or where her mind was at.
"Hey Buffster!" Xander yells as he spots his best friend walking out onto the main street.
Buffy forces a smile on her face and hugs her best friend "Hey Xander."
Xander smiles before he pauses and watches her for a moment, she was tense and slightly jumpy at the same time, something was really wrong.
Xander frowns in worry "Buffy what is it?"
Buffy sighs and runs a hand through her hair as she looks down the street "Do you know where Elena is?"
Xander frowns before glancing down at his watch, that made him worry slightly, Elena finished class an hour ago, she should been here by now the campus was only 10 minutes away "No. Buffy tell me..."
"Silas is back." She admits before groaning "Look Xander he can get into people's heads...he was with Elena. Now she's not answering..."
Xander clenches his jaw "What do you need me to do?"
Buffy sighs before handing Xander a vile out of her pocket, something she had gotten for emergencies, the second she found out Silas was back she had to make they had a backup plan "If he got in her head...you may need this."
Damon groans as he runs out towards the med school where the party had just started, he knew Buffy had gone this way but he must have lost her in the crowd.
Pausing he looks around only for his eyes to fill with anger as stood in the crowd glaring at him was Silas.
"Hello, brother."
Damon clenches his jaw before making his way towards the immortal who now smirks "But I suppose distant nephew is probably more accurate."
Damon ignores his humor and without a word he grabs Silas' by the throat only to suddenly have his favorite blonde appear behind Silas the axe of the scythe hidden in her jacket pressing against his back.
"Hey Silas. Long time no see. How you doing? Ready to be immortal on a stick?"
Damon smirks before turning to Silas "Where's Elena?"
Silas rolls his eyes before grabbing Damon's wrist "You'll find her soon enough. But first...I want you to fight Buffy...till she kills you."
Buffy's eyes widen in a panic she moves to stab Silas only to have Damon suddenly grabs her speeding her out into the woods throwing her up against a nearby tree.
"Oh dammit."
As she and Jessie get firewood for the Bonfire at the Med School party Jessica turns to the brunette banshee and smiles "You know there's this rumor that there's this secret society on campus."
At Jessie's words Elena frowns in confusion "What, like middle-aged men at an elk lodge?"
"I have no idea. All I know is that a few times a week they supposedly meet at Whitmore House, but you didn't hear that from me."
Elena chuckles at his words, however that laughter quickly ends and her eyes widen as Buffy appears behind Jessie and hits him across the back of the head knocking him unconscious.
Elena gasps in shock before her eyes widen as she takes in the state of the Slayer demon hybrid, she was covered in mud, there was blood on the stake end of the scythe, there were leaves in her hair and her silk red shirt had a large tear across the middle "What the hell happened to you?!"
Buffy groans before she shrugs "Damon tried to kill me...so we need to talk."
"Don't even think about it." Jeremy warns Katherine as he spots her eyeing up the shotgun by Matt's feet as they three of them sit around the camp fire at the old camp sight, he Buffy and Elena used to come to as kids before Buffy had moved to LA.
Katherine couldn't help but scoff as she continues shivering "Please. I wouldn't even know how to use it. I never shot a gun in my life. Didn't need to. I was much more deadly."
Jeremy smirks slightly as he bends down by a tree to get them some supplies from his bag "Key word—was."
As Katherine continues coughing and rubbing her frozen arms up and down Matt stands and turns to Jeremy "I'm gonna go get some wood for the fire. I'll be back."
Katherine sighs as he goes and continues to stare into the fire thinking back to all of the events that had gotten her to this low point in her life "I survived child birth. The death of my entire family, almost being burnt at the stake for being with a woman several times and 500 years of running from an immortal hybrid. You can understand why I'm a little upset that I'm on the verge of being defeated by a sinus infection."
As she begins sniffling slightly a rare display of emotion for Katherine Jeremy watches her for a moment almost feeling for her, sighing he stands and the goodness in him shows as despite everything she had done to him and so many people he cared for he wraps a blanket around her shivering body.
"Not a word out of you." Silas orders Matt as he finds the bartender walking through the forest with a torch, he couldn't have been more grateful for the fact that Banshee's mind barriers aren't too strong. Otherwise Elena never would have told him where to find Katherine Jeremy and Matt.
As Matt spins to face him Silas tilts his head at one of the only humans left in their little group "You can't talk, you can't scream."
Matt watches him for a moment before frowning, for some reason... Silas wasn't affecting him "Yeah...actually I can. Jeremy run!"
Silas frowns in confusion, Matt was human, Buffy was a demon hybrid not being able to get into her head made sense, hell it made sense that it was difficult to get into the Banshee's head...but Matt, this shouldn't be possible.
"Why can't I get inside your head?" He asks the quarterback in interest as he takes a step towards him before grabbing Matt's face digging through his thoughts and thats when he sees it and he couldn't help but groan in anger "I see why...someone's already in there. Why are you watching me, traveler? Odpovezete me!" And with that he snaps Matt's neck dropping him to the ground.
"You should have told me about your dreams Elena!" Buffy yells as she and Elena walk into the brunette's apartment where Damon was currently still dead on the couch with a snapped neck and blood covering his grey shirt, while Xander was walking out of the spare room after having to fix the windows Elena half shattered by screaming in her sleep a few nights ago.
Elena sighs "Buffy I know...but why didn't you tell me Silas was back?!'" Elena pauses in her yelling as her face suddenly goes flat and before Buffy could say a word Elena screamed and sent the blonde flying across the room straight through the front door "Oh come on!" Xander yells as the window beside him shatters before turning to spot Buffy on the floor with a large chunk of wood sticking through her gut "Buffy!"
Xander moves to run to the blonde but Elena drops to her knees and sweeps his legs out from under him before kicking her foot right into his head knocking him unconscious.
Buffy groans from her place on the floor as she tries to yank the wood out of her gut "What did Stefan tell you to do Lena? Cause you're not so big with pep right now."
"Get you and Damon alone, weaken you...kill him..." She says gesturing to her Damon "And then get you to call Rebekah. So I can kill your daughter."
"Call Rebekah Buffy." Elena tells the blonde as she circles angel dust and salt around Buffy who was chained to a chair by the fireplace with two burning pokers stuck through her legs.
Buffy clenches her jaw "Nope." She hisses before groaning and looking over at Damon who was sat in the chair opposite her Vervain ropes burning through his skin, luckily knocking him out early
had removed Silas' compulsion but now he Buffy and Xander were all stuck with Elena refusing to let them go.
Damon groans and he turns to Elena "Elena you're in some sort of Silas trance."
Elena shakes her head and grabs her hair before glancing down at her uncounsious boyfriend on the floor whose head was bleeding heavily. Her eyes widen, she had done that "Oh my god." She breaths "Why did I..."
Buffy's eyes widen, hurting Xander must have shaken her from Silas' trance enough to make her realize what she was doing "Elena, Silas..."
"Silas?" She questions as she paces back and forth in confusion "But I-" This made no sense, Silas was supposed to be in the bottom of the quarry and even if that was Silas, they had been in a crowd of people, how could he have made everyone see him as Stefan.
Damon groans "Before you ask, no. He's not in the quarry. It's a common misconception."
Buffy sighs and tries to move only to wince as the pokers in her legs dig further into her legs, Jesus this hurt "I'll break it down. Silas Stefan doppelgangers."
Elena's eyes widen as she realizes that she had been right this whole time "You mean my dreams..."
"Yep...banshee."
Elena inhales tightly before clenching her jaw and glaring at her sister making Buffy's eyes widen "Elena I don't like that look on you. Ages you slightly."
"You're making jokes right now!" Elena screams as she watches her sister cough as some of the angel dust on the floor move towards her entering her system due to Elena's scream.
Elena groans before her eyes land on Damon "All I want to do is kill him."
"Xander needs him!" Buffy yells through her coughs there was angel dust in the fire place and it was filling the room with this smoke that was making it harder for the blonde to breath "You kill Damon...he can't give Xander his blood. Think about Xander!"
"I'm trying!" She screams causing glasses to shake violently on the table, grabbing her hair she moves away from Damon before turning to her sister "How long have you known?"
Buffy sighs and coughs violently before glancing up at her sister "Silas appeared to me as Stefan he wanted Katherine..."
"What?!"
Buffy groans, this was a sucky ass conversation right now "Yeah we tried to get her away she crashed my mom's jeep, she almost killed me..."
"Oh my god." Elena breaths before she tries to think of something to get her mind of Silas' compulsion "Your dad knew Megan."
Buffy freezes and she looks up at Elena with wide eyes what the hell was she talking about "What?"
Elena sighs and as she looks over at Damon again she groans and grabs a knife off the table stabbing it through her own hand pinning her to the dinning room table. As she cries out in pain she turns to Buffy "I lied too...it wasn't just my dad in the photo with Megan it was Hank...I think he knew about the supernatural. I think he knew about you..."
After sending Katherine to the car to run Jeremy grunts as he faces off with Silas, he though he was stronger but Silas was stronger than expected. As he manages to get the immortal in a headlock he grunts in effort trying to keep ahold of him as he struggles.
Silas groans and grabs a broken tree branch "You may be stronger, but you're forgetting that I am immortal." With that he stabs himself in the chest causing the branch to go through him and straight into Jeremy's shoulder.
Jeremy's eyes widen and he cries out in agony as he drops to the ground blood dripping heavily from his wound. Looking up his eyes widen as Silas grabs the axe off the ground however before he could do anything a gunshot goes off.
Jeremy frowns in confusion and turns only for his eyes to widen as there stood holding the shotgun was Katherine, what the hell "I though you said you didn't know how to use that."
Katherine smirks as she re-clocks the gun "I figured it out."
Buffy coughs violently again as more angel dust burns filling the room with a toxic smoke making Damon panic "Elena, she won't last in this!" He screams at the banshee before he glances back at Buffy who could barely keep her head up "We don't know how bad this crap can affect her!"
Elena's eyes fills with panic and she turns to Buffy horror filling her as she spots Buffy's eyes now a dark red as blood filled her eyes and began dripping from her nose "I can't..." She gasps, as much as she wanted to stop she couldn't, she couldn't stop. They needed to be weak.
Elena groans and turns to Damon, she understood that Buffy was under a lot of stress with trying to find a way to get back to her daughter but him, he had spent his summer boozing around while his brother had been suffering "I get her not telling me but you are supposed to be my friend! Why didn't you call me when Bonnie's dad died! Or when you realized that Silas almost killed my brother and sister who you had playing white knight to Katherine!"
"You're getting angry..." Damon breaths too weak to speak properly "It's a trigger. Elena, you need to break Silas' compulsion..."
"I can't..." Suddenly Elena's eyes go wide and she inhales loudly before collapsing forward, Damon frowns in confusion before his eyes widen as he spots Xander his face still covered in blood stood behind his now unconscious girlfriend with a syringe in his hand "Buffy thought this might happen."
Damon sighs in relief "I kind of like you right now. Don't think it will last."
"Angel dust sucks." Buffy breaths as she coughs up a little more blood while she and Elena sit on the couch watching as Damon and Xander clean up the blood, angel dust and broken glass surrounding them.
Elena winces before looking at her sister guilty "I'm sorry..." She breaths before sighing "And I'm sorry I didn't tell you about your dad."
Buffy clenches her jaw slightly before gulping, she and her dad had a bad relationship before he died, and what sucked was that when he died she thought he had been trying to fix their relationship so he could get to know his grand-daughter but now she just had a feeling that he had come for a different reason "What if he did know about me? If that's the real reason he came to Mystic Falls, not because he cared about me or his grand-daughter, but about me being..." Sighing she runs a hand through her hair and tries to hold back her tears "I'm sorry about not telling about Bonnie's dad. Or what Silas did. I tried to call her and she's not answering and it's all so much...Joy's gone, my dad may never have actually cared about me, Bonnie's not around and Stefan..."
Elena's eyes widen and she quickly wraps her arms around her sister holding onto her tightly only to pull away as Buffy's phone rings. Buffy frowns and grabs her phone and sighs in relief as she spots Jeremy's name pop up on screen "Jer? Are you okay?"
"Yeah...we're fine. We got away...Katherine shot Silas. We're back on the road now...are you okay?"
Buffy sighs and glances over at her sister before nodding "Yeah. We're okay." She breaths before leaning her head down on Elena's lap as Elena strokes her younger sister's head comforting her. Today had just been a bad day all together.
"Call me the minute you hear from Bonnie, ok?" Caroline tells Buffy the next day as the blonde places the scythe in Damon's car boot before closing it and nodding "I will. She's got some explaining to do."
Caroline smiles before hugging the blonde tightly "You're gonna find him." She tells Buffy hugging her tightly "And then the two of you are gonna be all gross and happy."
Buffy chuckles softly into her best friend's arms before pulling back "We will see. I think it's more complicated then that."
Caroline shakes her head, she didn't believe that, she was still full on believing that Buffy and Stefan would continue their epic love story for a couple hundred years "He's your epic love. Go get him." And with that Caroline hugs her once more before heading off to work.
As she goes Buffy glances over at Elena who had just finished her last class of the day early so she could come home this weekend and help them look for Stefan.
As she walks over to Buffy Elena frowns as Doctor Maxfield walks over to the two of them "Doctor Maxfield..."
"I see you're off for the weekend."
Elena smiles awkwardly before pointing to Buffy "Buffy this is Doctor Maxfield."
Buffy frowns and turns to glance at the doctor "Ah the hard ass. Nice to meet you."
Wes chuckles softly as he watches Buffy in interest "She's the sister."
"Technically cousins." Elena says with a smile as she loops her arm through Buffy's while Doctor Maxfield watches them both before his eyes land on Elena "You're Grayson Gilbert's daughter, aren't you? Which makes you Hank Summers? Respect the guy not a lot of guys take their wife's names."
Buffy frowns in confusion as she watches the creepy professor "You knew them?"
"Knew of them. Their Legends around here. Grayson the medical marvel, Hank the lawyer who pushed all their research forward. The were a strong duo."
Elena watches the professor for a moment before arching a brow, there was something about him that sent her mind whirling "Does that mean he forged death certificates, too?"
Dr Maxfield scoffs slightly before glancing at the Slayer, despite the fact Elena was his student he seemed to be more fascinated with the blonde bombshell that was her sister "I take it your not big on medicine like your sister?"
Buffy smirks "I prefer different methods of learning." Hence beating up demons and vampires and learning new ways how, not that she was going to say that.
Dr Maxfield smiles before turning back to Elena "I have office hours Monday. Come by when you get back. We can chat."
And with that he goes off only for Elena to jump as Xander appears behind her and wraps his arms around her "Do you have to go?"
Elena smiles and turns in his arms to face her boyfriend "I'll be back on Sunday."
Buffy groans and glances over at Damon they both groan in disgust before they climb into the car waiting for Elena and Xander to finish making out and doing all that gross couple stuff.
"Aren't you curious about papa summers and the ceepster professor thing?" He asks the blonde.
Buffy arches a brow and looks over at Dr Maxfield who glances back at her "I'm more concerned by what my dad may have known. About me and who he told. But we have to find Stefan first."
Damon smiles before he reaches into his pocket and hands Buffy Stefan's daylight right "Is that...?"
Damon nods before smiling awkwardly "This may be hard for me...but I'm gonna make sure my brother treats you right. We're gonna find him."
Buffy smiles as she takes the ring gratefully, she hated that it hurt Damon that she had chosen Stefan but she was glad that he was secure enough in their friendship now to be moving past how he felt about her.
However before she could say another word Damon's phone rings "It's Liz."
"We didn't find anything in the quarry but a deputy found this a few miles away." Liz tells Buffy Damon and Elena as the four of them stand in the forest by the river where the safe that Stefan had been trapped in for four months was now out of the water and right in front of them.
As she leans down to begin unlocking it she continues "We didn't open it. If Stefan's been in here for four months chances are he's hungry."
Liz steps back behind Buffy and Damon who step forward in front of Liz and Elena making sure they were safe, Stefan was going to be starving he would jump at anything with blood right now.
Buffy and Damon glance at each other once more before Buffy nods and Damon pulls open the safe.
Buffy's eyes widen as laid inside the safe was not Stefan but a dead man his neck ripped open blood covering him, looking away from the body she turns and looks up at Damon both of them knowing this was not a good sign "Stefan's still gonna be hungry."
Damon groans "This isn't good. The ripper's back."
