High School
Bonnie, Margaret, and Elena get out of the car.
"I'm not saying don't date the guy. I'm just saying take it slow." Bonnie said
"You were the one who said to go for it." Elena said
"Now I'm saying take it slow." Bonnie said
"I think that we should trust him." Margaret said
"Why the about-face?" Elena asked Bonnie
"It's not about-face. You're single for the first time in your entire high school career. It's the perfect time to play the field." Bonnie said
"Oh, because she's so that girl." Margaret said
"Seriously, what are you not saying?" Elena asked again
"It's stupid." Bonnie said
"Bonnie? Spit it out." Elena said
"I accidentally touched Stefan. And I got a really bad feeling." Bonnie said
"Is that it? Bonnie." Elena said
"It was bad bad!" Bonnie said
"Is this the whole witch mojo thing again?" Margaret asked Bonnie
"I'm just concerned. This is me expressing concern about my best friend's new boyfriend." Bonnie said
"And I love you for it, I do. But I feel good." Elena said
Stefan joins them.
"Good morning, Elena. Good morning, Margaret. Good morning, Bonnie." Stefan said
"Hey, um, I gotta find Caroline. She's not answering her phone. So I'll see you guys later." Bonnie said
Bonnie leaves.
"Bonnie, wait..." Margaret said
"She doesn't like me very much." Stefan said
"She doesn't know you. She's our friend. She looks out for me. But when she does, she will love you." Elena said
"I thought of something." Margaret said
"What?" Elena asked her sister
"How about dinner at our house. 8:00. If you don't have plans tonight." Margaret said
"I don't have any plans." Stefan said
"Great idea. You and Bonnie will spend some quality time and she'll get to see what a great guy you are." Elena said
Tyler throws the ball at Stefan, who has his back towards him. Stefan quickly turns around, catches the ball, and throws it back to Tyler. Tyler and Matt are shocked. Elena laughs.
"Awesome." Margaret said
In history class.
Tanner teaching the class.
"World war II ended in...Anyone got anything? Miss Juan? (Margaret raised her hand.) Margaret?" Tanner asked Margaret
"1945." Margaret said
"Correct. (Tanner looked at Elena.) Elena?" Tanner asked Elena
"Hmm?" Elena said
"Pearl Harbor?" Tanner asked Elena
"Um..." Elena trying to figure out the answer
"December 7, 1941." Stefan said
"Thank you, Miss Gilbert." Tanner said
Everyone in the classroom laughed.
"Anytime." Stefan said
"Very well. The fall of the Berlin wall." Tanner said
"1989. I'm good with dates, sir." Stefan said
"Are you? How good? Keep it to the year. Civil Rights Act." Tanner said
"1964." Stefan said
"John F. Kennedy assassination." Tanner said
"1963." Stefan said
"Martin Luther King." Tanner said
"68." Stefan said
"Lincoln." Tanner said
"1865." Stefan said
"Roe vs. Wade." Tanner said
"1973." Stefan said
"Brown vs. Board." Tanner said
"1954." Stefan said
"The battle of Gettysburg." Tanner said
"1863." Stefan said
"Korean war." Tanner said
"1950 to 1953." Stefan said
"Ha! It ended in '52." Tanner said
"Uh, actually, sir, it was '53." Stefan said
"Look it up, somebody. (Everyone get out their phones. Start looking for the right answer.) Quickly." Tanner said
"It was 19...53." Margaret said
The students cheered for him.
Football field.
The team is practicing. The cheerleaders are warming up.
"You're coming to dinner tonight." Margaret said
"I am?" Bonnie asked both Elena and Margaret
"Mm-hmm. You, us, and Stefan. (Bonnie sighs.) You have to give him a chance." Elena said
"Tonight's no good. (Bonnie changes the subject.) Have you guys seen Caroline? I texted her like a hundred times." Bonnie asked again
"Don't change the subject, Bonnie Bennett! You're going to be there." Elena said
"Fine. I'll go." Bonnie said
"Good." Margaret said
"Seriously, where is Caroline?" Bonnie asked again
"I don't know. It's not like her." Margaret said
Caroline arrives in Damon's car. She kisses him.
"Uh..." Elena said
"Oh, my God. That must be the mystery guy from the grill." Bonnie said
"That's not a mystery guy. That's Damon Salvatore." Margaret said
"Salvatore, as in Stefan?!" Bonnie said
"Yep." Both Elena and Margaret said
"I got Damon first. Hope you don't mind. (Caroline told Margaret.) Sorry I'm late, girls. I, uh, was busy. All right, let's start with the double pike herkey hurdler, what do you say?" Caroline asked the cheerleaders
Damon stared at Margaret as he smiles. Then he drove off.
Cheerleaders practicing their routine.
"5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. (Elena and Margaret didn't stay focus.) Elena and Margaret, why don't you both just observe today? Ok?" Caroline said
Margaret walked away and Elena and Bonnie chased after her.
"Where are you going?" Elena asked her sister
"I just need a break. I'll wait at the car." Margaret said
Salvatore Boarding House
Stefan enters his bedroom, His brother is in there, reading Stefan's diary.
"How were tryouts? Did you make the team? Very Emerson, the way you reveal your soul with so many...adjectives." Damon said
Stefan rips the diary out of his hands.
"What are you doing here?" Stefan asked his brother
"I've come to apologize. I've been doing some thinking, some soul searching, and...I want us to start over. We need to put the past behind us. You're my little brother, and if you want to live a normal, happy human life, then I want that for you. Maybe I can do it, too. That I can learn to be a non-living living person. Maybe there's hope for both of us." Damon said
Damon tries to keep a straight face but can't do it.
"You know, it doesn't have to be this way, Damon." Stefan said
"Of course it doesn't. Margaret today, BTW. That means "by the way." Margaret got that whole scary spice in her. So perky. You can keep Elena. I'll try to stay away from Margaret. I've got my own cheerleader now. Ooh, that reminds me...I gotta run. I have a date. Sweaty palms. Wish me luck." Damon said
Gilbert Residence
Margaret, Elena, and Bonnie are preparing dinner in the kitchen.
"You explain it. Last night, I'm watching Nine-o, a commercial breaks come on and I'm like, I bet it's that phone commercial. And sure enough, it's that guy and the girl with the bench, he flies to Paris and he flies back. They take a picture." Bonnie said
"Oh, come on. That commercial's on a constant loop." Elena said
"Fine. Well, how about this? Today I'm obsessed with numbers. 3 numbers. I keep seeing 8, 14, and 22. How weird is that?" Bonnie asked both Elena and Margaret
"Maybe we should play the lottery. Have you talked to your Grams?" Margaret asked Bonnie
"She's just gonna say it's because I'm a witch. I don't want to be a witch. Do you guys want to be witches?" Bonnie asked again
"I don't want to be a witch." Elena said
"Me neither." Margaret said
Elena pours the to-go food into a bowl. Margaret shaking the salad.
"Putting it in a nice bowl and shaking the salad isn't fooling anybody." Bonnie said
The doorbell rings.
"Ok, he's here. Don't be nervous. Just be your normal loving self." Elena said
The Dining Room.
Margaret, Elena, Stefan, and Bonnie are eating together.
"Did Tanner give you a hard time today?" Elena asked Stefan
"Well, he let me on the team, so I must have done something right." Stefan said
"You should have seen Stefan today. He was incredible. Tyler threw a ball right at him, and..." Margaret said as Bonnie interrupt her sentence
"Yeah, I heard." Bonnie said
"Why don't you tell Stefan about your family?" Elena asked Bonnie
"Um, divorced. No mom. Live with my dad." Bonnie said
"No, about the witches. Bonnie's family has a lineage of witches. It's really cool." Elena said
"Cool isn't the word I'd use." Bonnie said
"Well, it's certainly interesting. I'm not too versed, but I do know that there's a history of Celtic druids that migrated here in the 1800s." Stefan said
"My family came by way of Salem." Bonnie said
"Really? Salem witches?" Stefan asked Bonnie
"Yeah." Bonnie said
"I would say that's pretty cool." Stefan said
"Really? Why?" Bonnie asked Stefan
"Salem witches are heroic examples of individualism and nonconformity." Stefan said
The doorbell rings again.
"I'll get it." Margaret said
Margaret opens the door. Both Caroline and Damon are outside.
"Surprise! Bonnie said you were doing dinner, so we brought dessert." Caroline said
"Oh." Margaret said
"Hope you don't mind." Damon said
"No." Margaret said
Both Stefan and Elena approaches to them.
"What are you doing here?" Stefan asked his brother
"Waiting for Margaret to invite me in." Damon said
"Oh, yeah, you can..." Margaret said as Stefan cuts her off
"No, no, no. He can't, uh...he can't stay. Can you, Damon?" Stefan asked again
"We have extra food on the table. Just come on in." Margaret said
"You Gilbert's have a beautiful home." Damon said
"Thanks." Margaret thanking Damon
The Living Room.
"I cannot believe that Mr. Tanner let you on the team. Tyler must be seething. But good for you. Go for it." Caroline said
"That's what I always tell him. You have to engage. You can't just sit there and wait for life to come to you. You have to go get it." Damon said
"Yeah, Elena and Margaret wasn't so lucky today. It's only because you two missed summer camp. God, I don't know how the both of you ever going to learn the routines." Caroline said
"I'll work with them. They'll get it." Bonnie said
"I guess we can put them in the back." Caroline said
"You know what? I quit." Margaret said
"Are you serious?" Caroline asked Margaret
"You heard me. You've know idea what we've been through. And yet you rub it in our faces. So yeah. I quit." Margaret said
Margaret walks away.
The kitchen.
"One more." Damon said
"Oh, thank you. (Damon hands Margaret a glass, but drops it and quickly catches it.) Nice catch." Margaret said
"I knew you were going to quit cheerleading. I saw you at practice today. You looked miserable cause you told me about your birth parents and your adopted parents." Damon said
"I quit being Vicki's friend back in middle school. Plus I don't think cheerleading is where I belong." Margaret said
"Then do something different." Damon said
"Like what?" Margaret asked Damon
"Different club. Or get a job. Just to keep you occupy." Damon said
Both Bonnie and Elena enters.
"Hey. Need some help?" Elena asked both her sister and Damon
"Yeah." Margaret said
Margaret's bedroom.
Damon walks in.
"What are you doing here?" Margaret asked Damon
Damon shuts the door. He interrupt Margaret as he kisses her. They both dropped on her bed. They start making out. She helps him take off his shirt. She wakes up, it was a nightmare.
Next day.
Elena's room.
"You're quitting cheerleading too?" Margaret asked her sister
"Yep. Doesn't feel right anymore." Elena said
"I didn't mean to lash out at everyone." Margaret said
"We're not the same anymore." Elena said
"Guess not." Margaret said
It's night.
High school.
Outside of the football field.
People are tailgating and cheering for the team.
"Wait, wait, wait, Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait. Let's be honest here. In the past, we used to let other teams come into our town and roll right over us! (Boos from the crowd.) But that is about to change. (Everyone cheering.) We've got some great new talent tonight starting on the offense, and I'm gonna tell you right now, it has been a long time since I have seen a kid like this with hands like these. Let's give it up for Stefan Salvatore! That have been waiting for us to put a check in the win column, I have only one thing to say to you...Your Timberwolves are hungry." Tanner said
Everyone hears a fight. Jeremy strikes Tyler. The two boys begin to fight. But Tyler beating the crap out of Jeremy. Margaret forces Tyler off of her brother and punches him in the face. Jeremy grabs a broken glass bottle and strikes at Tyler.
"Jeremy, no!" Margaret said
Tyler moves out of the way and Jeremy cuts Stefan's hand instead.
"Tyler, knock it off! Stop!" Matt said
"What the hell, Jeremy?" Elena said
"Put your head up, you're bleeding." Margaret said
"I'm fine!" Jeremy said
"No you're not." Margaret said
"Just stop, ok?" Jeremy said
"Oh, my God, your hand." Elena said
Stefan closes his palm and puts his hand behind his back.
"I think you should have that checked out." Margaret said
"It's fine." Stefan said
"Is it deep? How bad is it?" Elena asked Stefan
Elena grabs his hand and opens his palm, but both her and Margaret sees the scar is completely gone.
"He missed. It's not my blood. See? I'm fine." Stefan said
"That's impossible." Margaret said
"We saw it. The glass cut your hand." Elena said
"I'm ok. It's almost kick-off time, all right?" Stefan said
Both Margaret and Elena approaches to Bonnie.
"Hey! Where you guys been?" Bonnie asked both Margaret and Elena
"Can I ask you a question and you give us a really serious no-joke response?" Elena asked Bonnie
"Of course. What is it?" Bonnie asked Elena
"The bad mojo. When you touched Stefan and you had that reaction..." Elena said as Bonnie cuts her off
"Forget I said that. The dinner party plot totally won me over." Bonnie said
"Seriously, Bonnie. Did you see something?" Margaret asked Bonnie
"It wasn't clear like a picture. Like today, I keep seeing those same numbers. Remember? 8, 14, 22." Bonnie said
"Yeah?" Margaret said
"When I touched Stefan, it was a feeling. And it vibrated through me, and it was cold, and it..." Bonnie said as Elena interrupts her sentence
"And what?" Elena asked again
"It was death. It's what I imagine death to be like." Bonnie said
Margaret goes to her car. She opens the door and gets her jacket and puts it on. She closes the door, turns around, and Damon was there.
"What are you doing here?" Margaret asked Damon
"I'm hiding from Caroline." Damon whispers
"And why is that?" Margaret whispers
"I needed a break. She talks more than I can listen." Damon said
"That could be a sign." Margaret said
"Well, she's awfully young." Damon said
"Not much younger than you are." Margaret said
"I don't see it going anywhere in the bigger picture. I think she'd drive me crazy." Damon said
"She makes everyone crazy. She have some really annoying traits. Her and Elena been friends since the first grade and that means something to me." Margaret said
"Duly noted. I'm sorry if I make you uncomfortable. That's not my intention." Damon said
"Yes, it is. Otherwise you wouldn't put an alternate meaning behind everything you say." Margaret said
"You're right. I do have other intentions, but so do you." Damon said
"What's my intentions?" Margaret asked again
"You want me." Damon said
"I don't know what you are talking about." Margaret said
"I get to you. You find yourself drawn to me. You think about me even when you don't want to think about me. I bet you even dreamed about me." Damon said
Damon was about to lean in for a kiss. But Margaret slaps him.
"What the hell is wrong with you? I don't know what game you're trying to play with Stefan or my sister, but I don't want to be part of it." Margaret said as she leaves
The police arrived. Bonnie looks at the scene. She looks at the license plate "BLDG 8", the immatriculation's car is "FHT 14" and on the ground, the number 22. Margaret hugs her.
Donovan Residence.
Margaret knocks on the door and Vicki opens it.
"Can I come in?" Margaret asked Vicki
"Sure." Vicki said
Margaret comes in.
"I want my best friend back." Margaret said
"It's to late for that." Vicki said
"Jeremy is worried about you. I worried about you. Hell, your own brother is worried about you. Drugs isn't the way to go. (Vicki looks down.) At least think about what I said." Margaret said as she leaves.