1864
Blaine is approaching his house. He stops at the door of the study when he hears Jonathan and his father talking.
"May I offer you a drink, Mr. Hummel?" asks Giuseppe.
"Thank you, Mr. Anderson," replies Jonathan.
Giuseppe himself and Jonathan a drink. "This won't take much longer."
Jonathan grabs the drink from Giuseppe and sits down in a chair. "I want to make sure the Founders' archives are accurate."
Giuseppe sits down in his chair. "Be sure you document the loss of civilian life in the church."
"They were hardly civilians, Mr. Anderson."
"As far as anyone needs to know, they were. As the record keeper for the Council, what you write will be passed down through generations. Certain details should be kept only between you and me."
"For example?"
"My sons. They will be remembered as the innocent victims of the Battle of Willow Creek, not for their shame."
"Certainly, Mr. Anderson."
2009
Kurt walks back down to the cellar.
"You know, Puck hasn't fed me vervain in awhile. I could be at those bars in a flash, and you'd be dead," says Blaine, trying to get rid of Kurt.
"Yeah, you could. But you won't," Kurt replies nonchalantly.
"Please just go away. I don't want you here." Kurt enters the cellar. "What are you doing? Get out of here."
"No."
"You're taking a stupid risk. I could hurt you."
"Then I'm stupid." Kurt presents the blood bottle to Blaine. "You need to drink this."
"Kurt, get out of here, or you'll regret it."
"Drink."
"I said get out!" He knocks the bottle of blood from Kurt's hand. His face transformed.
Kurt stands his ground. "No."
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Puck and Will talk with Henry at the apartment.
"So, how do you know Cooter Hummel?" asks Henry.
"Well, I've known him for years. He's a good friend. How do you know him?" asks Puck.
"I met him right after I got out of the tomb. He's been helping me out."
"Helping you out how?" asks Will.
"Adapting. It's a whole new world. Cars, computers, . There's so much to learn. He helped me get this place."
"So, do you live here alone or is there someone else here?"
"That's my friend's very passive-aggressive way of asking, uh, do you know a woman named Terri?" asks Puck.
"Uh, no. No, I don't know a Terri. I know Cooter. He's my only real friend. He really showed me the ropes. How to use a microwave, separate my whites," answers Henry.
"What else do you do for him?" asks Will.
"I help keep an eye on things…you know, with the others," answers Henry.
"The others?" questions Puck.
"From the tomb. They're still pissed at the founding families for trying to burn them alive. I'm cool, but those tomb boys, they want revenge."
"What does Cooter want with them?" asks Will.
"He's just keeping an eye on them, you know? Trying to make sure they stay out of trouble."
"Well, that's Cooter. Heh. He's such a do-gooder," says Puck awkwardly.
Henry receives a call. "Heh. That's Cooter now."
"Oh. Hey, let me talk to him," says Puck.
"All right. Yeah. Are you gonna answer that?" asks Henry.
"Am I gonna…answer that?"
Will shakes his head.
"What's going on?" Henry senses a trap and runs at Will. Puck grabs him. Will stabs him with a stake.
"'Let's not kill anyone tonight.' Your words. Just pointing that out," says Puck.
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Cooter returns to the table with the drinks. "My apologies."
"No apologies necessary. So, tell me, Mr. Hummel, why should I let you have the device?" asks Pearl.
"Because I can help you. I'm connected around here. The Town Council's eating out of my hand. They do whatever I say. And I know that you just want to live your life. Complete with a white picket fence, and I can help you do that."
"But the device doesn't work. Why would you even want it?"
"It's a family heirloom. Call me sentimental."
"Jonathan was ahead of his time."
"I read his journals. They're very extensive. He wrote about you. You were his one regret. He loved you, and he hated himself for what he did to you."
"You're lying."
"No. On his last days, he wrote how sorry he was. You were the only woman he ever loved." A smile slowly stretches across Pearl's face. Cooter laughs at her. "Good God. You vampires…you're so emotional. Jonathan Hummel hated you. His only regret was that he didn't drive a stake through your heart himself."
Pearl sighs. "I gave it to Puck."
"What?"
"I gave your device to Puck. Why don't you ask him for it yourself? I'm sure he'd be delighted to give it to you. And then, Mr. Hummel, may you rot in hell." Pearl leaves the restaurant.
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Kurt is sitting in the cellar with Blaine.
"Talk to me, Blaine. Why are you doing this?" asks Kurt.
"I'm making the decision I should have made years ago."
"What are you talking about?"
"You have to feed to complete the transition."
"I know that."
"It was a choice I shouldn't have made."
1864
Blaine enters his father's office.
Giuseppe looks up from his desk and stands up in surprise. "Dear God!"
"Even in our death, you only feel shame?"
"You're one of them now."
"No. Father, I came to say goodbye."
"I watched you die."
"You were there when we were shot?"
"I pulled the trigger myself."
"You killed your own sons?"
"You were both dead to me the moment you sided with the vampires. I only thank God that your mother isn't alive to see the disgrace you've become."
"I haven't turned yet. I don't want to. I'm going to let myself die, Father. Please."
"Yes, you are." Giuseppe gets out at wooden rod, breaks it in two, and attempts to stab Blaine. Blaine throws him against the wall. The stake has impaled his father. "AH!"
Blaine rushes to his father. "Father, I didn't mean to!"
"Get away from me!"
"No, let me help you. Please!" Blaine removes the stake from his father's chest. He sees the blood on the stake and his fingers. He licks his fingers. He touches his father's wound and licks more blood from his fingers. His eyes start to transform.
Giuseppe gasps. "Ohh. Ohh."
"Uhh. Uhh! Oh, God. What's happening to me?" Blaine feels the fangs that have grown in his mouth.
2009
"How can you even look at me right now?" asks Blaine.
"We need to be able to talk about these things, Blaine. I need to hear them. Come upstairs. We can talk about it more, and we'll keep talking as long as you need," replies Kurt.
"You're so sure I'm ready?"
Kurt pulls out Blaine's ring and places it next to him. "And when you feel the same way, I'll be upstairs."
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Puck empties the blood bags found in the fridge. "Find anything yet?"
"No, I looked everywhere. The place is…the place is clean," answers Will.
"Well, I found this. Behind the blood in the fridge." Puck hands him a beer.
Will takes the beer and sits at the table. "Oh, man, this was a real dead-end."
"I wouldn't beat myself up over it, man. What did you think you were gonna find, huh? Terri with a cigar and slippers?"
"Oh, man. I…I gotta stop this. I can't…I can't keep searching for her."
"Really? After only two years? That's actually moderately healthy."
"What are you going on? 146?"
"Well, I figure the 200 mark is probably a good stopping point."
"Ahh. I mean, no answer is enough. I keep thinking I wanna know why, when, you know, the precise moment. When my wife decided life with me wasn't enough."
"She charmed me, Terri. She talked a good game, man. She was smart. She had this excitement in her eyes. I probably should have known there was something different about her, some tie to Kristian. There had to be some reason I didn't kill her."
"That's enough, Puck. I don't wanna hear anymore. I just don't want to waste any more of my life. Searching for answers that I really don't want. I'm through with Terri. I…I'm done with all of this."
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Anna enters Miss Gibbons' house and sees her mom and Harper packing. "Hey. What's the matter?"
"I need you to pack your things. We're leaving," replies Pearl.
"What? No."
"I was wrong to think that we could make a home here. It's time for us to move on."
"But I don't want to move on. I want to stay."
"We can't stay. There's too many people here who know the truth. Too much history."
"So, what, you're just gonna give up, pack us up, and move us out?"
"It's not safe here. You know that."
"Please."
"Is this about Finn?"
"No. It's about me finally getting to build a life for myself. Please, Mama."
"You gave me my life back. I am just trying to protect yours. I can't force you. It's your decision."
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Kurt is writing in his diary in the living room. Puck enters the room.
"Ugh. God. You're still here?" asks Puck.
"Were you expecting anything else?" asks Kurt.
"No. Ahh." Puck picks up Kurt's legs and sits down on the couch. He places Kurt's legs over his lap.
"So, how was the 'errand'?"
"Dead end. Although, I think I witnessed the teacher having an existential crisis. Has Blaine eaten yet?"
"I thought you didn't care."
"Chalk it up to morbid curiosity."
"I think he's getting there. But he's got a lot of guilt that he has to deal with. And it doesn't help that you've spent the last 145 years punishing him for Kristian getting caught."
"This is my fault now?"
"No, it's no one's fault, Puck. I'm just…saying you're not exactly innocent. You've made it your life's mission to make him miserable."
Puck gets up from the couch and goes to make a drink. "Let me ask you a question. In all this important soul-searching and cleansing of the demons of Blaine's past, did you ever manage to get the rest of the story?"
"He said there was more."
"Yeah. That's a fucking understatement."
Kurt gets up and goes towards Puck. "Puck. Tell me."
1864
Blaine returns to the quarry with a girl.
"What are you doing? Who is that?" asks Noah.
"I brought her for you. She's a gift." He turns to the girl. "Have a seat, please."
"What have you done, Blaine?"
"Noah, I've been to see father. He came at me. I didn't know my own strength. There was blood everywhere. He was dying, and the blood was too strong. I needed it. I had to have it."
"You fed."
"Yes. And it's incredible. My body is exploding with power, Noah."
"No."
"I can hear things from far away. I can see through the darkness. I can move, like it's magic. And the guilt, the pain…Noah, I can turn it off. Like a switch. Kristian was right. It's a whole nother world out there, Noah."
Noah starts to walk away. "Kristian is dead, Blaine. There's no world without him."
Blaine grabs by the throat. "No. You can turn that off, too. You don't have to feel that pain anymore."
"I don't want it."
"You're weak. You'll be dead soon. You need this."
"No."
"You'll die!"
"No. I can't!"
"Please. I won't let you die!"
"No. I can't."
"Don't fight it. We can do this…together." Blaine bites the neck of the girl for Noah.
Noah looks at the blood for some time, deciding whether he should. The need for blood is too much and he drinks the blood of the girl.
2009
"From the moment Blaine had his first taste of human blood, he was a different person. I suppose I should thank him. It's been a hell of a ride. Heh," says Puck.
"Oh, my God. He said he wanted to die. That's why he won't feed. Now I understand why, but…" says Kurt, feeling sad for Blaine.
"His choice. If he's stupid enough to make it, so be it."
"Don't do that. Okay? Don't pretend like you don't care." Kurt leaves the room to go back downstairs.
"Where are you going?"
Kurt goes down into the cellar. Blaine is gone, but his ring is still on the cot. Kurt picks it up and runs out of the cell.
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Finn is asleep in his bed, Anna joins him.
"Hey," greets Finn.
"It's getting impossible to sneak up on you," notices Anna.
Finn smiles. "Nice try, though."
"Sorry I woke you."
"That's okay."
"So, listen. I…" She starts to run her finger through his hair.
"That feels good," Finn replies sleepily.
She kisses him. "Good-bye."
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Blaine is at the quarry where Puck turned.
1864
Blaine and Noah are both vampires now.
"How do you feel?" asks Blaine.
"You were right. It is a whole new world," replies Noah.
"We can explore it together."
"You got what you wanted. You and me for all eternity. But hear this, brother. I will make it an eternity of misery for you."
"Noah!"
Noah leaves. Blaine, in the present, is looking weak. In the past, Emily finds Blaine.
"You've transitioned," states Emily.
"You'd have rather found me dead?"
"Kristian was my best friend. He needed my help. That doesn't mean I'd wish his curse on anyone."
Blaine laughs. "It feels more like a gift."
"That will change."
"Why is that?"
"Because even in death, your heart is pure, Blaine. I sense that about you. That will be your curse." She leaves.
"Emily, wait!"
2009
Blaine is still at the quarry. Kurt approaches him.
"Puck told me the rest of the story. I thought I might find you here," says Kurt.
"I should have died that night, just like I had chosen. I should have let Puck die, too."
"But you didn't. And if you die now, it's not gonna change what happened."
"Every single person that's been hurt…every single life that's been lost, it's because of me."
Kurt breathes deeply. "The night that my parents died…I blew off family night so that I could go to some party. I ended up getting stranded, and they had to come pick me up. That's why we ended up in the car at Wickery Bridge. And that's why they died. Our actions are what set things in motion. But we have to live with that."
"I made a choice, Kurt. Because of that choice, a lot of people were hurt."
"You also made a choice to stop, to reject the person that the blood made you. You made a choice to be good, Blaine."
"No. Please don't do that."
"That's the person who jumped in the water to save the family whose car had driven off the bridge."
"Please. Don't make this all okay."
"That's the person who saved my life."
"You don't understand, Kurt."
"Then explain it to me."
"It hurts me. It hurts me, knowing what I've done, and that pain…that pain is with me all the time. And every day, I think that if I just...if I just give myself over to the blood, I can make that pain stop. It would be that easy, and every day, I fight that. And I am so terrified that one day, I'm not gonna want to fight that anymore, Kurt. And the next time I hurt somebody…it could be you."
"There will be no next time."
"You don't know that."
"Maybe I don't. But what I do know. Is that you can take this, throw it in the quarry, and let the sun rise. Or you could take this ring and put it on and keep fighting." Kurt gives Blaine his ring and kisses him. "It's your choice." Kurt starts to walk away.
"Kurt." Blaine puts on his ring and runs to Kurt and kisses him passionately.
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Harper prepares the luggage for Pearl.
"Thank you, Harper," thanks Pearl.
"You're welcome."
"Annabelle should be back in a minute. You know, you don't have to come with us if you don't want to."
"This was never my home, Miss Pearl. I was just a soldier who was left to die. You saved me. I'm coming with you."
"Let me help you with these." Pearl opens the front door and receives a stake in the heart. Harper catches her as she falls.
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Kurt and Blaine walk into the library. Puck is sitting there.
"Little boy lost," says Puck.
"I'll be upstairs, okay?" says Kurt.
"Okay," replies Blaine.
"Good night, Puck." Kurt goes upstairs.
"Thank you," says Blaine.
"No, Blaine, thank you. You're back on Bambi blood, and I'm the big badass brother again. All is right in the world."
"I mean it. Thank you. For…helping him take care of me."
"You brood too much. Everything on this planet is not your fault. My actions, what I do, it's not your fault. I own them. They belong to me. You are not allowed to feel my guilt."
"Do you feel guilty?"
"If I wanted to, it's there. Emily waited till after I turned to tell me she'd been successful in protecting Kristian with her spell. She didn't want me to know about the tomb. She thought it would impact my decision."
"She didn't want either one of us to turn. She said it was a curse."
"Emily…judgy little thing."
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"'Cause I didn't want you to know. 'Cause I hated you and I still do."
"I know."
"But not because you forced me to turn."
"Then why?"
"Because he turned you. It was just supposed to be me, Blaine. Just me."
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Anna enters Miss Gibbons house and discovers her mother and Harper, staked in the heart.
"Oh! Mom! Mama!" She grabs the stake out of her mother's heart. "Uhh! Please don't leave me again. No. Please wake up. You have to wake up. No!"
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Cooter puts some stakes in the trunk of his car and calls Sheriff Fabray. "Sheriff Fabray, it's Cooter Hummel. Sorry to call so late. I have an update about the vampires."
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Will, sits at the bar, drinking alone. A woman approaches him.
"Hello, Will."
Will slowly faces the woman. "Terri."