Elementary school.
Margaret tutoring a 4th grader.
"What is 6x12? (The kid is thinking. Margaret put cubes together.) Try this." Margaret said
The 4 grader is counting the cubes.
"72." Heather said
"Correct. Good job, Heather." Margaret said
Gilbert Residence.
It was 5:30pm.
Margaret gets in. She sees Damon slicing a tomato and talking to Jenna, who is sitting on a counter with a glass of wine in hand.
"What are you doing here?" Margaret asked Damon
"Just getting to know the family." Damon said
"How was the tutoring?" Jenna asked her niece
"It went great. More credits to go." Margaret said
Margaret reads both Damon and her aunts minds.
"Can't count on anyone." Damon thinking
"He is so hot." Jenna thinking
Margaret stops listening to their thoughts.
"Hello Elena." Damon said
Elena enters the kitchen.
"Where have you been?" Jenna asked her other niece
"Is Stefan with you?" Damon asked Elena
"Um - he'll be here soon. (Margaret reading her sister's mind.) He's at the high school. Trying to find the journal." Elena thinking
Margaret stops reading her sister's mind. Damon has a distaste look on his face.
Damon places something at the dinner table and heads back to the kitchen. Margaret is stirring the pasta in pot. Elena is carrying plates towards the table and pass Damon as she places the plates at the table.
"Where is Stefan? He's missing family night, which I am enjoying immensely. (Elena walks back into the kitchen to gather more dinnerware. He changes the subject.) Is it real?" Damon asked Elena
"Is what real?" Elena asked Damon
"His renewed sense of brotherhood. (Margaret stop stirring the pot Margaret as she walks over to her sister to help her with the napkins. Damon takes the spoon out of the pot and tastes the sauce.) Can I trust him?" Damon asked again
"Yes, you can trust him." Elena said
Damon vamp-speeds over to them.
"Can I trust him?" Damon asked again
"I'm wearing vervain, Damon." Elena said
"I'm part angel. So none of that mind control isn't going to work." Margaret said
"I'm not compelling anybody." Damon said
"You can trust him." Elena said
"There was a time when I trusted him more than anyone." Damon said
"Trust breeds trust. You have to give it to get it." Elena said
"Are you lecturing me?" Damon asked Elena
"Do you need to be lectured?" Elena said
"I just want her back." Damon said
"Understand that you would do anything for love." Margaret said
Damon and Jeremy are sitting in the family room playing a video game. Margaret, Elena, and Jenna are in kitchen while they are taking.
"He's ridiculously hot!" Jenna whispers
"He's an ass." Margaret whispers
Elena continues going through things in a box.
"What are you doing with all this stuff?" Jenna asked her niece
"I thought there might be something about my birth parents." Elena said
"You got to tell Jeremy." Margaret said
"When the time is right. (Elena closes up the box. Margaret senses Stefan rings the doorbell.) That's Stefan." Elena said
Margaret and Elena walks over to the door. Elena opens the front door and is behind both of them.
Stefan, Damon, Elena, Margaret are outside on the front porch talking.
"Who took it?" Damon asked his brother
"I don' know." Stefan said
"You know what, it's that teacher. There's something really off about him. (Damon looked at Margaret.) Did you read his mind this week?" Damon asked Margaret
"He doesn't know anything. He's just a normal teacher." Margaret lied
"Somebody got to it right before me." Stefan said
"Who else knew it was there?" Damon asked again
Stefan looks through the window at Jeremy, but doesn't say anything. Damon looks at Jeremy also and begins to walk back into the house.
"No." Margaret said
"Damon, leave him out of it!" Elena said
"Why, what's the big deal?" Damon said
"Damon!" Margaret said
Damon walks into the house, Margaret, Elena, and Stefan right behind him. Damon sits on the arm of the sofa to speak with Jeremy.
"No..I heard you found a really cool journal from back in the day. Who else did you show it to?" Damon asked Jeremy
"Huh?" Jeremy asked in confusion
"Don't ask questions, just spill." Damon said
Jeremy chuckles.
"You're kidding me, right?" Jeremy asked in confusion
"Jer, did you tell anyone other than Mr. Saltzman about Johnathan Gilbert's journal?" Elena asked her brother
"Why is everybody so obsessed with that thing?" Jeremy asked them
"Who else did you tell?" Margaret asked her brother
"Just that girl Anna." Jeremy said
"The hot, weird one?" Damon asked again
"Wait, who is Anna?" Stefan asked Jeremy
"That's what I want to find out." Damon said
Elena's phone starts ringing. She goes off to answer it, leaving them. Margaret reads Stefan's mind.
"Did you really read the teacher's mind?" Stefan thinking
Stefan signals Margaret for her phone.
"No." Margaret text
Stefan looked at Margaret's text on his phone. Jeremy gets up from the couch and follows Damon out of the house. Both Stefan and Margaret go upstairs and enters Elena's room.
"Where's Damon?" Elena asked both Stefan and Margaret
"He left to track down Jeremy's friend Anna, see if there was anything there." Stefan said
"Aren't you going to go with him? If he gets to the journal before we do, then..." Elena said
Stefan pulls out a stack of papers.
"Doesn't matter." Stefan said
Elena looks at the papers in Stefan's hands.
"What is that?" Elena asked Stefan
"It's a copy of it." Stefan said
Margaret, Elena, and Stefan are looking through the copied pages of the journal in Elena's room.
"How are we going to find the grimoire in these pages?" Margaret asked Stefan
"Here's a reference that he wrote about Emily. (Elena reads from a page.) The Fell family believed it should be I, not them, who protected the witch's spell book. But I feared she would haunt me from the hereafter. They mocked my fear, but it was Giuseppe Salvatore who-" (She pauses.) Is that your father?" Elena asked Stefan
"Yeah. (Stefan takes the page from Elena and continues to read.) "It was Giuseppe Salvatore who removed my fear. He told me he would protect the secret of the spell book. He said he would carry it to his grave." Stefan said
"What?" Margaret asked again
Stefan figures it out.
"I know where it is." Stefan said
Old Cemetery
Elena holding a flashlight onto Giuseppe's tombstone. Margaret carrying her shovel. Stefan walks around the grave, setting up torches and taking out supplies.
"Why isn't your father buried in your family's tomb?" Elena asked Stefan
"It wasn't built until well after he died." Stefan said
"Are you sure the grimoire's in there with him?" Margaret asked Stefan
"As sure as I could be." Stefan said
"Great." Margaret said in sarcasm
"I know you two are trying to help and I appreciate that, but..." Stefan said as Margaret cuts him off
"Stefan, I just found out that I'm part angel 4 days ago." Margaret said
"And this town is our home. Our friends and family are here. You're here." Elena said
"We don't want that tomb opened any more than you do." Margaret said
Elena takes a shovel. Stefan exhales heavily and takes a moment to gather himself. They start shoveling up the dirt.
Stefan continues to shovel the dirt out of the grave. Both Elena and Margaret stands beside the deep hole. Elena beaming the flashlight down so Stefan can see what he is doing. His shovel hits something solid. He looks up at both of them with apprehension. He scraps the dirt off of the coffin with the shovel and tosses the shovel out of the grave. He kneels down on the coffin, wiping the dirt away with his hands. Elena kneels down to get a better look, holding the beam steady. He opens the lid of the coffin.
"Is that it?" Elena asked Stefan
Margaret senses a vampire. Stefan retrieves the grimoire. He shuts the lid of the coffin and tries to regain his composure. He stands up and places the grimoire on the dirt. Elena shining the beam on the grimoire and Stefan rips the cover off. He carefully turns the pages of the grimoire, looking for the spell. Margaret looks at Damon.
"Stefan!" Margaret said
Both Elena and Stefan, startled, turn around to see Damon.
"Well what do you know? (Damon's lip curls up in a snarl. Stefan gets out of the hole.) This is an interesting turn of events." Damon said
"I can't let you bring her back. I'm sorry." Stefan apologize
"So am I. For thinking for even a second that I could trust you." Damon said
"You're not capable of trust. The fact that you're here means that you read the journal and you were planning on doing this yourself." Stefan said
"Of course I was going to do it by myself, because the only one I can count on is me! You made sure of that many years ago, Stefan. But you two...(Damon looks back at both Margaret and Elena.) Both of you had me fooled. (He looks hurt. Elena looks ashamed and Margaret looked guilty.) So what are you going to do now? Because if you try and destroy that, I'll rip her heart out." Damon said
"You won't kill her." Stefan said
Damon vamp-speeds over to Elena and grabs her in a chokehold.
"Damon! Please don't hurt her!" Margaret begged
Damon bites his wrist and forces Elena to drink his blood. She struggles.
"Give me the book, Stefan, or I'm snapping her neck. And you and I will have a vampire girlfriend and Margaret and Jeremy can have a vampire sister." Damon said
"Let her go first." Stefan said
Margaret reads Damon's mind as he pulls his wrist away from Elena's mouth.
"Make him give me the book or I'm turning your sister." Damon thinking
Margaret stops reading Damon's mind.
"He'll have your word." Margaret said
"What?" Stefan asked in confusion
Margaret extended her hand.
"Trust me. (Stefan hands Margaret the grimoire. She walked towards Damon slowly in terror and puts the grimoire on the ground.) It's yours." Margaret said
Damon let go of Elena as she slowly walked towards her sister as she hugged her. Elena let go of her sister and walked towards Stefan as she hugged him. They looked at him and walked out of the woods.
Gilbert Residence
Margaret's room.
Margaret sensing another vampire in the house. She turns around and sees a female vampire.
"Who're you?" Margaret asked female vampire
"Sending a message to Stefan and making sure that he gets it." Female said
"What?" Margaret asked in confusion
Female vampire knocked Margaret out unconscious as she fell on the floor.