Qetsiyah tried to get the knife next to her. She wiggled and squirmed trying to snake it up to her tied hands. Lexi was still unconscious and they were finally alone. She couldn't use her powers, and she feared what the mortal would do to them upon his return. Qetsiyah was finally able to grab hold of the knife and held it steady. She moved her arms up and down until the rope broke and her hands were free. She picked up the knife and cute at the rope around her tying her and Lexi to the beam in the middle of the room.

"Lexi," Qetsiyah called as she tried to wake her friend. Lexi had a wound on her side and she had no pulse, but she was breathing. "Come on," Qetsiyah said as she gently lifted Lexi and dragged her to the door. They were in some kind of barn in the middle of nowhere.

Once out Qetsiyah used a cloaking spell to hide them. She checked Lexi again. "Please wake up," she said as she took out her phone and called Katherine. She didn't really have any signal and the call dropped. She walked a little deeper in the woods and got two bars. She tired her call again and got through.

"Hey when you said meet you for lunch I assumed you meant that day, not the next day," Katherine frowned.

"I've been gone for a whole day?" she questioned.

"Are you okay," Katherine said starting to panic. "You're going in and out."

"Now you're worried."

"Don't act like you don't disappear on me all the time."

"It was twice and they were emergencies."

"It's always an emergency," Katherine grumbled.

"Well this is. I was going to meet you and I saw this guy take Lexi from the grille. He was dragging her to a van, and I tried to stop him, and everything just went black. I woke up in a barn and Lexi isn't waking up," she confessed.

"Do you know where you are?" she asked.

"No I've never been here. I barely have cell service so I don't know if my GPS will work."

"I'll get Shelia to do a locator spell," Kat said.

"Tell her to be careful they know I'm a witch and the place I was in was warded against magic," she added.

"Kay babe got it," Katherine said as she headed for the door. When she opened the door two men dressed in all black wearing mask were there. "Great," she said quickly closing the door and putting on the deadbolt. Kat ran to the fire escape of her apartment and there was a creepy black van by it. She ran up to the old lady on on the tenth floor's apartment. She always kept the window open for the cat.

"Katherine," the old woman said when Kat climbed into her kitchen.

"Hi I smelled the food and came right up. Do you have enough for two?" she asked.

"I always do for a nice girl like you," she said putting chilly into a bowl.

"Wonderful, do you mind if I use your bathroom?" Kat asked.

"Not at all honey go ahead."

Kat ran in the bathroom and locked the door. She called the only person that could possible help her. "Kat I'm in the middle of something."

"Well something bigger is happening it will have to wait."

"Split ends aren't the end of the world."

"They are if they happen when you're dead," she yelled.

"Are you okay?" Bonnie asked.

"No I'm not okay, creepy guys are trying to kidnap me and I'm stuck in the world's tackiest bathroom," she cried.

"What are you talking about?" Bonnie asked.

"Someone was trying to kidnap Lexi and when Qetsiyah tried to stop them they took her too. Now I'm next. You have to come get me," she cried. "I'm too beautiful and young to die." Bonnie laughed. "This isn't funny."

"Look Elena, Matt, Tyler, and my mom are here I have lot on my plate Kat," she said.

"I'm in mortal danger and so is your relative and best friend. You have got to save us," Katherine said.

"Fine, but there better be big dangerous guys or I'm going to kill you."

"Why would I make something so ridiculous up?" Kat groaned.

"You're a narcissistic, attention-seeker," she shrugged.

"Just get here!" Katherine yelled.


Bonnie called Caroline and the two agreed that they would go over to Katherine's together. Bonnie waited outside Caroline's in her Gram's SUV. She made a quick call to Stefan. "Hey sis what's up?"

"Have you heard from Lexi today?"

"Actually I've been looking for her myself. We hung out at the grille and then she went MIA," he confessed.

"Um, okay," Bonnie said.

"That doesn't sound like everything is okay," he informed her.

"Has Tyler's and Matt's flights come in yet?" Bonnie asked changing the subject.

"They land in 30 minutes is Lexi okay," he asked.

"Let me know when they get here," Bonnie sad and hung up the phone.

"Is everything okay?" Caroline asked as she got into the car.

"Stefan hadn't seen or heard from Lexi since they went to the grille," Bonnie said as she started the car and zoomed off.

"So Kat might be telling the truth and they are in mortal danger," Caroline said as she put her seatbelt on.

"Correct," Bonnie said. "Just when I thought I had a normal life."

"You're a witch how normal did you think your life would be?" Caroline said.

"You're right."


"Call her," Stefan urged Damon.

"If she won't answer you why would she answer me? Try Caroline," Damon offered.

"I did seven times and nothing," he said.

"Fine. If everything is okay I'm going to kill you." Damon called Bonnie and she answered. "Where are you?" he asked her.

"I'm at Qetsiyah and Katherine's apartment. Are you with Stefan?"

"Yeah"-

-"Don't let him know I asked," she said as she walked into the building.

"Sarah took a nap."

"Lexi and Qetsiyah were kidnapped, and there are men chasing Katherine. Caroline and I are going to get her out," she said.

"Why didn't you call me?" he asked.

"I don't know where Lexi and Qetsiyah are and I thought Kat was lying until I talked to Stefan. I have to get Kat. I'll call you."

"As soon as you get back in the car preferably," he said.

"I love you," she said.

"I'll always love you."

Stefan stared at his brother. "So?" he asked Damon.

"Lexi was feeling a little under the weather. Bon said she doesn't want you brooding all over her so that's it," Damon shrugged.

"You're lying," Stefan accused.

"If I am it's for your own good."

"What' going on?"

"The world is imploding," Damon said with a smile.


"Daddy?" Caroline called out when they entered Katherine's apartment building.

"I thought you were taking your mother to Shelia's?" he asked her.

"I did we're here to see Kat," Caroline smiled.

"I just saw her leave with Qetsiyah," Bill Forbes said.

The girls glanced at each other. "You sure I just talked to her she said she was about to jump in the shower," Bonnie said.

"Yep, I saw them leave," he reiterated.

"Somno," Bonnie said and Bill Forbes fell to the floor.

Caroline picked her father up and carried him to the elevator. "Thanks for not killing him," she said.

"Damon would have killed him. We don't know anything yet so we just wait," Bonnie said.

"I can't believe he just lied to us," Caroline said.

"Well you haven't been completely honest with him either. We need a plan. You carrying your father around isn't going to be easy to explain," Bonnie said.

"Well maybe you should do a cloaking spell," Caroline suggested.

"That will work until the old lady Katherine is with shows up," Bonnie reasoned.

"How about you cloak my dad, or just the two of us," she said.

"Okay," Bonnie said doing a simple cloaking spell. "This will last for half an hour."

"More time then we need."

"Yeah well try to remember that people can't see you, but they can hear you Care," Bonnie laughed.

"Right no"- Caroline was instantly quiet when she realized what she was doing.

"That a girl," Bonnie laughed as they walked to the girl's apartment.

Once they rounded the corner there was a group standing by their door. "Isn't that Pastor Young," Bonnie noted.

"And that's Connor Fell," Caroline noted.

"Ohmigod," Bonnie said. "They've revived the founder's council."

"That was always a thing remember."

"This aspect specializes in the supernatural predominantly vampires."

"Oh bad," Caroline mumbled.

"Correct," Bonnie said. "It looks like they're searching for something."

"What could they possible want in Katherine's apartment?"

"No," Bonnie yelled.

"What?" Caroline asked.

"Katherine wasn't what draw them here…"

"Qetsiyah… But what are they looking for?"

"I'm going to take the ward down off of you to veil only your dad. That way I can do a spell to cloak anything in there with magical properties," Bonnie said and after a few moments Caroline was visible again and the spell was complete.

"Let's get Katherine and get to my Grams," Bonnie suggested.

"You don't have to tell me twice," Caroline agreed.


Damon had been preparing himself for the worse. Bonnie still hadn't called him and his patience with Stefan's brooding was starting to waver. He should have left Stefan in the dark but the more the younger Salvatore probed the more the old caved. "To think I missed that broody little brow," Damon teased.

"It's hard to just sit around and…"-

-"Wait like a powerless pathetic human," Damon smiled.

"What you did was idiotic and selfish."

"But if I had to run off in to danger for any of you I could. Do you know the trouble Bonnie could and would get herself into to protect you guys? I had to do this to protect her," he yelled. "You see. I'm not as selfish as you make me out to be."

"I know that, I was just waiting for you to catch up," Stefan laughed. "Thanks for taking care of me, everyone."

"What are dysfunctional families for," he said with a wink before he embraced his brother.


"I know you're out here witch. You bring that girl back," the man that was holding them captive demanded. Qetsiyah tried to walk out to the edge of the forest with Lexi. Once the made it to the road were the thick canopy didn't cover Lexi let out a loud scream and her skin start to bubble.

"No," Qetsiyah said as she backed up.

"I'm gonna get you two," The man said running towards the sound of Lexi's scream.

"Lexi just sit here and try not to say and thing," she ordered the dazed girl.

"mutationes nubibus, Lavabis me lacrimis," Qetsiyah said causing the sky to darken and fat drops of ran to fall from the clouds. "Okay let try to make it to the road," she said helping Lexi up.

The pair walked to the road and saw two bright light approaching. Qetsiyah's stomach jumped knowing that this was her chance for freedom. They were finally going to be rescued.


"So you're saying that this world is in danger?" Katherine asked.

"No I'm saying that the balance is upset and we need to figure out how to fix it, before this world is in danger."

"So we send Tyler, Matt, and Elena back?" Caroline asked sounding disappointed.

"There's a version of them in this world too. We still don't know how all of this works. We can't just keep them all here Care," Bonnie stressed.

"And you too blondie," Katherine said.

"Kat," Bonnie protested.

"She didn't cross over by means of death. You, Damon, Lexi, and even Stefan made the journey over through death. That's why the balance is out of sorts."

"Do you think this is my fault?" Caroline asked.

"No I don't I think it hast to do with the multitude and way the others crossed over. Abby said they used a different spell."

"So we need to get to Abby and learn more about the spell, after we find Qetsiyah."

As Katherine opened her mouth, the sky opened, and it started to pour. "We're close to her. I can feel her magic," Katherine said.

"I feel it too," Bonnie said as she turned to headlights up and windshield wipers on.

"Stop," Katherine said as she opened the door.

"It took you long enough," Qetsiyah said.

"Ohmigod," Caroline said as she helped them get Lexi into the car.


"Are you guys okay?" Damon asked.

"We're fine," Bonnie reassured him.

"You're best friend's dad is unconscious in the backseat of your car," he reminded her. "You don't have to lie to me. We're past that Bennett."

Bonnie sighed. "I just thought we caught a break and found real happiness. I don't think I'll ever really know how it feels to be normal and have normal worries. I got closest with you."

"Bonnie you don't have to do this. We could pack up and get out of Mystic Falls. You could go on the road with you dad for a while if you want to get him out of here. We could have that."

"Damon it's not in our nature to run," she reminded him.

"You're right," he laughed. "But if you want the offer is always on the table."

"I'll be sure to remember that."

"Promise if it's too much you'll remember," he pressed.

"I promise to remember."

"I love you," he said.

"I'll always love you."


Stefan looked around the terminal for the guys. Tyler's and Matt's flight connected. He had to gather them so he could drive down the road to the next terminal where Elena would be arriving in less than five minutes. And there they were talking to a flight attendant. "Hey guys?" Stefan called over to them.

"Sorry we've got to go," Tyler said as they walked over to Stefan.

"It was nice meeting you," Matt called after him.

"We're running on a short clock I have to get you guys back to Shelia's," Stefan said as they rushed to the car.

"Like Bonnie's dead grandma Shelia?" Tyler asked.

"If you weren't aware everyone here is dead," Stefan reminded him.

"So she was?" Matt questioned.

"Hopefully not in a plan crash, that would be ironic," Stefan said.

The guys laughed lightly and they fell into a comfortable silence before Matt asked. "What happened to Bonnie?"

"Yeah she said she had something to tell us."

"Something came up and she had to look into it," Stefan said.

"So something magical is going on here?" Matt asked.

"In a way," Stefan said.

"Are you going to dance around the truth all day," Tyler asked sounding annoyed.

"The less you know the less Elena knows, the less she worries, the less we all worry," Stefan informed them. "Speaking of," Stefan said as he pulled up and saw Elena walk out of the terminal doors.

Elena smiled and waved at the all as she got into the car. "So where are Damon and Bonnie?" she asked.