Day One

Morning - Gilbert House - Emma/Elena's room

There was a bright white light and the sounds of church bells ringing, sirens, and yard work going on could be heard.

Suddenly, Elena gasped for air and woke up.

Isabella sat next to her, putting her hands on her friends shoulders to calm her down.

Stefan and Damon were sitting nearby, watching them.

Elena seemed confused about what is going on around her. "Isabella?"

"Hey." Isabella told her, slowly, reluctantly pulling her hands away. "I'm right here. You've been in and out for hours."

"Wha-what happened?" Elena asked.

Isabella hesitated, looking over her shoulder to look at Damon.

Damon was numb and angry.

Isabella sighed, looking at Elena. "You were in an accident."

"Oh, my God." Elena told them. "Matt, is he-?"

"Alive?" Damon finished. Stefan, Elena and Morgana looked at him. "Ask Stefan, the guy who pulled Matt out of the lake. Or Emma, who is right downstairs, who gave him CPR until he came back to life. The heroes."

Elena looked at Stefan. "Thank you. I-I should thank Emma, too. I thought that I..." She looked up. "How did you-?"

"Save you?" Damon finished. "He didn't."

"When Jeremy and Isabella brought you to the hospital before all this happened, your injuries were worse than anyone knew." Stefan told her. "Meredith Fell made a choice, she used Damon's blood to heal you."

"And when Rebekah ran Matt's truck off the road, you had vampire blood in your system, Elena." Damon finished.

Elena started to panic as she came to the realization of the truth. "Oh, my God. Does-does that mean that I... Am I dead?" Isabella looked down. Elena shook her head, tears in her eyes. "No, no, no, no! That wasn't supposed to happen!"

"Maybe it doesn't have to." Stefan told her. "I talked to Bonnie. She says she's stronger than ever. There might be something that she can do to help you."

"No, the only thing that's going to help is for you to feed and complete the transition." Damon told her.

Stefan looked over his shoulder to look at him. "We have all day before she has to feed, Damon. That's a day to exhaust every possible way out of this."

"There is no way out of it." Damon told them. "We all know the drill. You feed or you die. There is no door number three."

"I was ready to die." Elena told them, crying. "I was supposed to die. I don't-–I don't want to be-I can't be a vampire. If there's something that Bonnie can do, we have to try."

"We will." Stefan told her. "We'll try everything."

Damon scoffed, rolling his eyes. "Your choice, Elena. As always."

Damon stood, walking away.

Stefan stood, following him.

Isabella looked at Elena.

Elena was still crying.

...

Gilbert House - Kitchen

Elizabeth and Emma were standing together at the kitchen island counter, across from each other.

"You saved a man's life, Emma." Elizabeth told her. "Can't say that I'm surprised, but I can say that I'm impressed." She turned around, opening a cupboard, pulling out four glasses. "Especially after having to struggle against a tumor on the carotid just to stay alive." She turned around, grabbing a bottle of bourbon, looking up, pointing at Nicola. "You know, that is why nobody should underestimate a Petrova, human or vampire."

Elizabeth poured bourbon within the four glasses.

Emma propped herself against the counter, looking at her. "You don't have to pretend to be okay, Elizabeth. Not around me. You know I wouldn't judge you."

"Yeah, because you have no room to judge." Elizabeth told her, holding a glass toward her. "Here. Drink." Damon walked in. Elizabeth handed him one of the glasses. Stefan walked in. Elizabeth looked at him. "Way to get her hopes up for something that's never happened in the history of vampirism."

"You know what?" Stefan asked. "None of you were there the day Elena looked me in the eye and told me she absolutely never wanted this."

Damon drank the whole glass in one sip. "Then you shouldn't have let her die."

"He never meant for her to die." Emma told him. "She asked him to help Matt first, and he did, asking me to save his life because he was so close to being dead himself."

"And now the world has one more quarterback." Damon told her. "Bravo, Emma."

Emma rolled her eyes, turning away from him, taking a sip of her drink.

"I made a choice that I will regret for the rest of my life." Stefan told them. "Now let me try to fix it."

"Let me know when you two stop being dicks." Elizabeth told them. "I'll be at home."

Elizabeth finished her drink, walking toward the door.

Stefan turned after her. "Wait. Elizabeth." Elizabeth turned to look at him. "I'm sorry about..."

"You guys wanted him dead and out of our lives for good." Elizabeth told them. "Don't pretend you're not gloating inside."

Elizabeth walked out, leaving.

Stefan sighed, walking into the living room.

Damon looked in the direction Elizabeth had walked away. "That psycho sure did get under her skin." Emma scoffed, shaking her head, turning away from him, walking toward the door. "What?"

Emma didn't answer, walking out, leaving.

...

Emma/Elena's room

Elena stood, looking into the mirror on her vanity, checking her gums, holding her head.

The light bulb in the lamp was short-circuiting, flickering.

Elena turned toward the door. "I need to see Matt. Or thank Nicola for saving Matt. Or see if Kacie and Caroline are okay. Or all of the above."

Isabella stood in her way of the door. "You can after things get better. Okay. Jer, stop lurking in the doorways and help me, please."

Jeremy was standing in the doorway to the hall.

Elena looked at them in relief. "Jer." Jeremy walked into the room. Jeremy wrapped his arms around Isabella and Elena. Elena wrapped her arms around Jeremy and Isabella. Elena pulled away, stepping closer to Isabella, putting either of her hands on her shoulders, crying happily. "How is Elizabeth alive? I thought she died."

"Yeah, I thought she was gonna die." Isabella told her, chuckling nervously, holding her wrists.

The light bulb in the lamp was still flickering.

Elena looked toward it, hearing the short-curciting.

Jeremy noticed. "Are you okay? I watched Vicki go through this. She was a mess."

"And I actually had to go through it." Isabella told her. "My emotions were all over the place. All these old memories came flooding back."

Elena looked from the light bulb to her siblings. "I'm fine. I'm not Vicki."

"No, you're not." Jeremy agreed. "You're you. You act like everything's okay so no one worries about you but you need help."

Elena kept glancing at the light bulb.

"Yeah, and now we lost Ric and Tyler." Isabella told her.

"I said I'm fine, okay?" Elena asked snappily. Isabella tilted her head as if to tell her, told you so. "I-I'm sorry, I... Have you talked to Bonnie or Sally?"

"Yeah." Jeremy answered. "They said when I was shot, Bonnie made some plea to the witch spirits to bring me back, and they listened."

"Yeah, but the consequences were horrible." Elena told him.

"And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire?" Jeremy asked. "You won't be able to handle the transition as well as Isabella did."

Isabella raised her eyebrows. "I handled the transition well? Who lied to you? Bonnie and Sally said that they'll look into this, yes. But Sally's worried about Bonnie tapping into dark magic."

"We're gonna find a way out of this." Elena told them. "Everything's gonna be okay."

"I hope so." Jeremy told her, walking out, leaving.

Elena glared at the flickering light, walking closer, pulling off the lamp shade, squeezing the bulb until it shattered.

Isabella raised her eyebrows. "Feel better?"

Elena sighed, nodding. "Yeah, I do."

...

Lockwood Cellar

Klaus' desiccated body was lying in a coffin.

Sally and Bonnie were staring at it.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Tyler/Klaus asked.

Sally and Bonnie turned around to see Klaus in Tyler's body entering the cellar.

"What is that doing here, Klaus?" Sally asked. "The deal we made with Tyler was that you'd leave his body and jump into someone else's the first chance you got."

"Yes, when I assumed I'd be a pile of ash." Tyler/Klaus told them. "But apparently, fate and oxygen intervened and there I am." He walked toward the coffin. "Put me back."

"We can't right now." Bonnie told him.

"Your history teacher outed Tyler, Kacie and Caroline to the Council." Tyler/Klaus told them. "They're on a war path, and this body's vulnerable."

"We have to help Elena before she has to feed." Bonnie told him.

Tyler/Klaus shook his head. "Elena's dead and no longer my concern."

"You're forgetting who just saved your life." Bonnie told him.

Tyler/Klaus grabbed Bonnie by the throat. "And you're forgetting that I could rip your tongue out. Now put me back."

"If we can keep Elena human, you'll still have an endless blood supply to make your hybrids." Sally told him. "Isn't that what you really want?"

Tyler/Klaus released Bonnie.

Sally and Bonnie walked toward the exit.

Tyler/Klaus rushed in front of them to stop them. "Same rules apply. No one knows. No one. Do you understand me?"

...

Mystic Falls Hospital - Hallway

Meredith was walking down the hallway.

A man and some deputies approached her.

Meredith looked at the man. "Pastor Young! To what do we owe the honor? And don't tell me it's your blood pressure again."

"Honestly, Dr. Fell, I wish it were." Pastor Young told her. He turned to the deputies behind him. "Blood bank's in the basement. One of you sweep the rooms."

The deputies walked away.

"What are you doing?" Meredith asked.

"Adding a few security measures." Pastor Young answered. "The blood in this place has a habit of flying off the shelves."

"Who gave you that authority?" Meredith asked.

"The Council." Pastor Young answered. "They've entrusted me to secure the town and unlike some of our Founding Families, I don't have conflicting interests."

"What is that supposed to mean?" Meredith asked.

"Alaric Saltzman told us everything, Meredith." Pastor Young told her. "Probably time to start looking for a new job."

Pastor Young walked away, leaving Meredith in shock.

...

Matt's Hospital Room

Matt and Rosie were in the room together.

Matt had been discharged from the hospital, getting ready to leave. "Elena doesn't want to be a vampire."

"She doesn't want to be dead and now she's not." Rosie told him. "This isn't your fault, Matt."

"It's all my fault." Matt told her. "I was driving. I was saved. She's a vampire because of me."

Rosie looked around. "Shh! Cool it on the V word, and don't you even think about saying the W word. I'm a fugitive, remember? I'm supposed to be halfway to Florida by now."

"If the Council is after you, then why are you here?" Matt asked.

"Because I don't know where to go." Rosie answered sadly, tears in her eyes. "Tyler's dead and everything's different now. My cousin's dead, and I..." She started to cry. Matt wrapped his arms around her. Rosie cried into his shoulder, taking a deep breath to calm down, looking up. "And I just needed to see that you were okay."

"I'm okay." Matt told her. "But you're not."

Rosie sniffed. "I will be."

Rosie seemed to hear something, pulling away, looking over her shoulder to look at the door.

An officer opened the door, seeing Matt standing alone. Rosie had disappeared.

"Can I help you?" Matt asked.

"Sorry." The officer told him, pulling out his dispatch radio. "All good here."

The officer stepped out of the room, closing the door.

Matt breathed a sigh of relief.

...

Lockwood Mansion - Living Room

An officer was handcuffing Carol.

Pastor Young was standing nearby.

"What's going on?" Carol asked.

The officer started to lead Carol out of her house.

"We just need to ask you a few questions about your children." Pastor Young told her.

"You can't arrest me." Carol told him. "I'm the Mayor of this town!"

Pastor Young watched her go. "Not anymore, you're not."

...

Town Square

Liz and Liam were walking and talking together in the parking lot of the police station.

"So you really believe that Caroline is really alive?" Liv asked.

Liam nodded. "I just talked to her, Mom. She said she was going to the hospital to make sure Matt and Rosie were okay."

Liz nodded toward her police car. "Then we're going to the hospital."

Pastor Young and several deputies surrounded Liam and Liz.

Pastor Young looked at Liz. "Sorry, Liz, you're not going to work today."

"What are you talking about?" Liz asked.

Liam looked around at the deputies surrounding them. "What's going on?"

"They're taking your mother's badge." Pastor Young answered. "She's not fit to protect us anymore."

Liam scoffed softly, shaking his head. "You have no idea what you're up against."

"On the contrary, Liam, I've already taken her deputies." Pastor Young told him. "We've got the entire town's supply of vervain. Our next stop is the Salvatore house. We're making our move." Liam looked around. "Now, why don't you tell us where you're sister is? If anyone knows, you do."

Liam shook his head. "I have no idea."

Pastor Young nodded. "We'll find her, with or without your cooperation."

"What makes you so sure I'd even know?" Liam asked, raising his eyebrows. "Last I heard, she, Tyler and Rosie Lockwood were on the run because of you. She's probably halfway to Washington by now."

Liz looked at Liam with approval, as if she was proud her son didn't break under the pressure.

Pastor Young smirked.

Liam merely looked at him, not saying a word.

...

Forbes House - Foyer

Caroline walked toward the front door. Her phone was ringing. She answered. "Liam. Hey."

"Caroline, where are you?" Liam asked. "And tell me it's far away."

"Where am I?" Caroline asked. "Uh... Good question. Uh... there's just a whole lot of boring highways. Why, is everything okay?"

...

Outside

Caroline walked out of the house. She went to lock the front door.

An officer came up from behind Caroline, stabbing a shot of vervain into her neck.

Caroline dropped her phone

Liam heard the commotion. "Care, what's going on?"

...

Salvatore Boarding House - Library

Elizabeth walked into the library, pouring herself a drink, looking forward in numb motionless, looking like a thousand thoughts were passing through her head at once, as if she was trying to convince herself not feel anything about Klaus' death. She placed her drink down on the table without taking a sip, not a moment later.

...

Outside

Emma was walking toward then house when she heard something behind her. She turned around to look around, but no one was there. She turned forward.

Deputies stood in front of her, aiming guns at her.

Emma jumped. "Jesus. Not this again." Pastor Young walked closer. "Pastor Young? What the hell is going on here?"

"Well, I'm looking for your ancestor, Emma." Pastor Young answered. "I have men going to the Gilbert house, and looking all over town for Stefan, Isabella, Elizabeth and Damon. If we can't find them, we know a decent way to get to them."

"You really want to go up against them?" Emma asked. "If you hurt anyone that they care about, they will find you."

"Well, that's what we're hoping for." Pastor Young told her.

"And then they will kill you." Emma finished.

"Are you sure about that?" Pastor Young asked. "Now, I know that you just survived the very thing that nearly killed you, and I applaud you for it, and I knew your father, and I'm sorry, but you're going to have to come with us."

"I'm guessing that the absence of the word 'willingly' is intentional." Emma stated. No one answered. Emma exhaled in annoyance. "Great." The deputies walked toward the house. Emma tried to run toward the house. "Elizabeth!"

The deputies held Emma back.

...

Inside - Library

Elizabeth heard Emma's yell in the distance, turning her head in the direction it had come from. "Emma? Whoever's there, leave Emma alone and get the hell out of here. I'm not in the mood. If you piss me off, you're dead." An arrow soared toward her back. Elizabeth rushed to turn around, catching the arrow before it shot into her heart, looking at the Deputy who had shot it. "You're dead."

Elizabeth tossed the arrow aside, rushing toward the deputy, snapping his neck, letting the dead body fall.

An arrow soared toward her head.

Elizabeth caught it, turning around, using vampire speed and strength to throw it through the shooter's skull, watching the dead body fall.

An arrow shot into her leg.

Elizabeth groaned, lowering to her knees, pulling the arrow out of her leg.

A deputy appeared behind her, stabbing her in the neck with a vervain syringe, injecting her.

Elizabeth barely clung to conscious, falling.

The deputies caught her, pulling her toward the door as she seeped into unconsciousness.

...

Gilbert House - Kitchen

Elena and Stefan were sitting at the island.

Elena took a bite of a sandwich and chewed.

"It's disgusting." Stefan told her.

"No, it's, um..." Elena trailed off, her mouth full.

"It's disgusting." Stefan repeated.

"Yeah, I'm gonna puke." Elena told him, spitting out the sandwich into a napkin. "I never thought I'd be saying this, but I can't stop thinking about blood."

"I should have saved you first." Stefan told her. "You shouldn't be going through this right now."

"No." Elena told him. "If you had saved me, then Matt would be dead. What do you think I'd be going through then?" Stefan poured himself a drink, taking a sip. Elena stood, walking over to him. "Stefan, listen to me. You did the right thing. You did what you always do. You respected my choice."

"And what am I supposed to do if Bonnie and Sally can't figure out a way to help you, huh?" Stefan asked. "Because then you have another choice to make. Either let yourself die or be a vampire."

"Well, then, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it." Elena told him. She paused, laughing. "Oh, my God, did-did I just say 'cross that bridge'?"

Elena started to laugh maniacally.

"You're laughing." Stefan told her. "I'm pretty sure you don't actually think that's funny."

Elena was still laughing, shaking her head. "I-I can't stop, though."

"Your emotions are a bit heightened today." Stefan told her. "A lot heightened." Elena continued to laugh until she started to cry. Stefan wrapped his arms around her. "Hey. Shh, shh. It's okay. It's okay."

"I'm sorry." Elena told him. "I..."

Stefan pulled away, placing a hand on either of her cheeks. "Listen to me. No matter what happens, I'm here for you. I can help you." Elena looked out the window, narrowing her eyes due to the brightness of the sunlight. "Why don't you go back upstairs where it's dark? I'll clean up."

Elena started to walk away, shielding her eyes from the sun.

...

Emma/Elena's Room

(Song:) Twice - Little Dragon

Elena walked in, walking toward her bed, laying down. She started to remember the first time she really met Damon.

...

Flashback - 3.22 "The Departed"

Night - Road

Damon appeared in front of Elena. "Katherine."

"No, um, I..." Elena trailed off, looking behind her to make sure he wasn't talking to someone else. She looked at Damon. "I'm Elena."

...

Now

Day - Gilbert House - Emma/Elena's Room

Elena continued to lay down, closing her eyes, remembering. She rolled over onto her side.

...

Flashback - 3.22 "The Departed"

Night - Road

Damon and Elena were talking.

"You just really remind me of someone." Damon told her. "I'm Damon."

"Not to be rude or anything, Damon, but it's kind of creepy that you're out here in the middle of nowhere." Elena told him.

"You're one to talk." Damon told her. "You're out here all by yourself."

"It's Mystic Falls." Elena told him. "Nothing bad ever happens here."

...

Now

Day - Gilbert House - Emma/Elena's Room

Elena was still laying in bed. She scoffed at what she had said in the memory because of all the bad things that had happened since.

...

Flashback - 3.22 "The Departed"

Night - Road

Damon and Elena were talking.

"You want what everybody wants." Damon told her.

"So, Damon, tell me." Elena told him. "What is it that I want?"

Damon walked closer to her. "You want a love that consumes you. You want passion, an adventure, and even a little danger." He compelled Elena. "I want you to get everything that you're looking for, but right now I want you to forget that this happened. Can't have people knowing that I'm in town yet. Goodnight, Elena."

Elena blinked.

...

Now

Day - Gilbert House - Emma/Elena's Room

Elena pulled herself out of the memory, looking touched and in awe. She relaxed back into bed, hoping to get some rest.

(Song Ends)

...

Klaus' Mansion - Painting Room

Rebekah and Morgana stood in the mansion, alone.

Rebekah walked slowly around the room, looking around sadly, tears in her eyes.

Morgana looked at the drawings Klaus had drawn, picking one up, looking as if she was going to cry and scream over his death again, throwing it down, pushing all the rest of the pictures onto the floor in a fit of rage, yelling in frustration, turning away from the desk.

Rebekah walked toward Morgana. "Gana..."

Morgana turned to face her. "I was let out of a box for this?"

Rebekah stood in front of Morgana, looking as if she didn't know what to do. She looked behind her as Damon approached them. "You should know better than to sneak up on ladies."

"Good advice." Damon told her. "Have you seen any?"

Morgana turned to face Damon. "Tragic about Elena. Not to make a gray cloud grayer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?"

Morgana turned away from Damon, walking past Rebekah.

Rebekah sighed, turning to face her.

Damon tried to stake Rebekah with the indestructible white oak stake. Rebekah turned around, catching his wrist, preventing him from killing her.

Morgana rushed toward Damon, standing behind him, snapping his neck, letting him fall.

Someone started to shoot from outside with wooden bullets, stakes and arrows.

Morgana was shot through the back, into the heart, desiccating, temporarily dying.

Rebekah turned to face her. "Morgana!"

Morgana fell to the floor.

Rebekah turned toward the window.

An arrow shot into her chest. Rebekah started to desiccate, temporarily dying, falling to the floor.

...

Gilbert House - Kitchen

Stefan and Isabella were standing together, talking across the island.

"She's not gonna make it through the transition if she keeps saying, 'I can't be a vampire'." Isabella told him. "Everyone in her life is a vampire. Caroline, Evelyn, Elizabeth, Damon, you, me... If we can't find a way out of it for her, then she's gonna have to get used to it."

...

Foyer

Isabella was walking downstairs, turning toward the kitchen. She stopped when the door opened, turning to face it.

Pastor Young stood on the porch.

"Pastor Young?" Isabella asked. "What are you doing here?"

"Surround her." Pastor Young called.

Deputies walked into the open door, raising their guns toward Evelyn.

Isabella looked around at all of the guns pointed at her, still being circled.

Stefan walked out of the kitchen, toward them.

"What's going..." Stefan trailed off, looking around. Stefan slowed to a stop when he saw what was happening. "On?"

Elena walked downstairs, the first one she saw being Isabella. "Isabella?"

"Elena, don't move." Isabella told her.

Elena slowed to a stop, looking around.

...

Lockwood Cellar

Tyler/Klaus was sitting on the coffin containing his body, calling someone.

On the road, Rosie was in her car, driving, when her phone rang. She pressed a button on the radio to answer, hearing the conversation through the speakers of the car. "Yeah? On the run of my life here. Who's calling?"

Tyler/Klaus smirked. "Who do you think?"

Rosie's breath caught in surprise. "Ty?"

"Who else would it be?" Tyler/Klaus asked.

"Oh, my God." Rosie told him in relief. "I thought you were dead."

Tyler/Klaus shrugged. "I'm not easy to kill. Hey, where are you?"

"On the road." Rosie answered. "You and Caroline were supposed to be with me."

"Well, I need to see you." Tyler/Klaus told her, looking at the blood bags in his hand, containing the last of Elena's human blood. "How far out there are you?"

"A few hours, give or take." Rosie answered.

"Good." Tyler/Klaus told her. "Turn around. You'll make it back after dark, but then we could figure out to do then."

"Of course, Ty." Rosie told him, making a U-turn, driving back in the other direction. "I'm just so glad you're alive."

Tyler/Klaus smirked. "I'll see you soon, Rosie."

Tyler/Klaus hung up.

In her car, Rosie smiled in relief, thinking she had been talking to her cousin and not being led into a trap.

In the cellar, his phone started to ring. Tyler/Klaus looked at it. Caller I.D.: Mom.

"You incessant woman." Tyler/Klaus told her in annoyance, answering the phone, sounding like Tyler when he spoke. "Hey, Mom. What's up?"

Carol was in the Lockwood Mansion. "Tyler, thank God. Are-are you okay? Is Rosie okay?"

"Fine." Tyler/Klaus told her. "I just talked to her. She's okay. Why? What's going on?"

Carol poured herself a drink. "Pastor Young had me arrested this morning. The Council grilled me on your and Rosie's whereabouts. Tyler, don't tell me where you are, the less I know the better."

Tyler/Klaus looked annoyed. "Mom, we're okay. Relax."

"You didn't answer your phone, honey." Carol told him. "I was so scared that you were with Caroline."

"Why?" Tyler/Klaus asked. "What happened to Caroline?"

"The Council took her." Carol answered. "Just like they took Emma Gilbert and Elizabeth Pierce."

Tyler/Klaus grew angry. "What do you mean, they took them?"

...

On the Road

A black van was being escorted by two police cars, one in front and one in back.

...

Van

Caroline, Elizabeth, Rebekah and Morgana were restrained to the walls, hearing the police sirens outside.

Elizabeth and Caroline were already awake.

Elizabeth looked around. "Em? Emma? Where the hell's Emma?"

"I don't know." Caroline told her.

"Oh, I swear to God, if they screw up her recovery and she dies, I will kill every last one of them." Elizabeth told her.

Caroline nodded nervously. "Let's hope and pray that they don't."

Morgana woke, trying to struggle free.

Elizabeth looked around Rebekah to look at Morgana. "Vervain ropes. Looks like Alaric outed us all to the Council."

"The Council?" Morgana repeated. Rebekah woke. "What exactly do they think they can do to us?" Rebekah took in her surroundings, trying to pull free. "Don't bother."

The tires suddenly screeched.

The van flipped over the road over and over again. The force of the accident was enough to do more than just jostle them.

The van landed on its side, with the girls lying down now, fine, but in shock.

"What the hell happened?" Rebekah asked.

The door was ripped off by Tyler/Klaus.

Caroline looked at him in shock. "Tyler?"

"I thought you were dead." Elizabeth told him.

"I'm harder to kill than you think." Tyler/Klaus told her, ripping the vervain ropes off of Elizabeth, freeing her.

Caroline began to cry in relief. "You're alive. How are you alive?"

Elizabeth sat up quickly, turning to Caroline, tearing the ropes away, helping her up. "No time. Come on, we've got to go."

Caroline and Elizabeth climbed out of the van, out of sight.

Tyler/Klaus started to follow them.

"Wait, what about us?" Rebekah asked.

Tyler/Klaus looked in the direction Caroline and Elizabeth had left to make sure they weren't listening. He looked at Morgana and Rebekah. "Keep them busy, little sisters."

Tyler/Klaus walked out, leaving.

Morgana watched him go in shock. "No. That's not possible!"

Morgana and Rebekah struggled to free themselves, but unable to, they gave up.

...

Outside

One of the police cars had been completely destroyed and another silver SUV was seen with its front end smashed in.

The other police car that had been escorting the van, which was further up the road, turning around, starting to drive back toward the van.

Caroline and Elizabeth stood in the street, looking at the destruction caused.

"Oh... my... God." Caroline told her.

Tyler/Klaus stepped outside the van.

A cop escort car drove toward them, sirens blaring.

The deputy driving was the one who shot an arrow into Elizabeth's leg and who vervained her.

Tyler/Klaus grabbed Elizabeth by the arm. "Elisaveta. I know what you're thinking, and now is not the time for revenge fantasies."

Elizabeth looked over her shoulder to look at Tyler/Klaus, defiant and determined. "They have Emma. I'm not leaving until I know exactly where she is."

Caroline grabbed Tyler/Klaus, rushing away into the woods.

The deputy pulled over to a stop, looking around in confusion, pulling out his gun. He looked toward the overturned van. No one was there. He looked toward the other damaged escort cars. No one was there.

Elizabeth appeared next to the door, ripping it off, pulling him out, gripping him by his collar.

The deputy tried to shoot her.

Elizabeth kicked the gun out of his hands. "Where the hell is Emma Gilbert?" The deputy didn't answer. Elizabeth pulled him forcefully toward the front of the car, pushing him face-first onto the hood of the car, kneeling to pick up the gun, keeping him restrained, standing, aiming the gun into his back. "We're gonna play a little game. You tell me where she is, or I will blow off your kneecaps. You're not gonna be much of a vampire hunter without those."

"Go to hell." the Deputy told her.

Elizabeth aimed the gun at the back of his knee, shooting, making him scream in pain. "Wrong answer." She looked at the blood, transforming briefly, looking at the Deputy. "Need you know, I haven't fed in days. And you just smell so damn good. I don't smell a drop of vervain in you." She pressed the gun to his head. "So tell me where she is!"

The Deputy didn't answer.

Elizabeth was annoyed and angry, shooting the Deputy in the back.

The deputy screamed. "Please!"

"Then tell me where Emma is, and I'll make the pain go away." Elizabeth told him.

"All I know is that there's a barn where they're keeping the vampires." the Deputy told her. "I don't know where your step sibling is. I swear."

Elizabeth pulled the Deputy to his feet, looking at him, smiling a small smile. "Thank you. That zeros it down to almost nowhere." She started to transform, shaking her head. "I'm sorry, but I'm really hungry." She ravaged his neck, feeding, making him scream. The Deputy stopped fighting, stopped screaming, dead. Kaylin let his dead body fall to the ground, wiping the blood away. "You don't want to pick a fight with me."

Elizabeth rushed away.

...

Gilbert House - Foyer

Jeremy was picking up stuff from the floor.

Liz, Liam and Damon stood with Jeremy.

Evelyn walked in.

"They're gone." Jeremy told them. "Whoever nailed Morgana and Rebekah, whoever kidnapped Elizabeth and Emma, took them too." He looked at Liz. "Please tell me you have something. Anything."

Meredith walked out of the kitchen, walking toward them.

"I can't." Liz told him. "The Council locked Carol and me out of our offices. Files, computers, everything."

"So, the Mayor and the Sheriff never contemplated a backup plan, Liz?" Damon asked, stalking closer.

Liz gave him a look.

"Damon, relax." Meredith told him. She looked at Liam. "When Caroline called to say she got away, did she know where they were planning to take her?"

Liam shook his head. "No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she and Elizabeth managed to escape."

"Perfect." Evelyn told them sarcastically. "We've narrowed it down to nowhere."

Matt knocked on the open front door, walking in. "Hey, is Elena here?"

Damon turned around, rushing toward Matt, grabbing his throat, pushing him against the wall. "In what world are you the one that gets to live?"

Jeremy tried to pull Damon away from Matt. "Damon, stop. It wasn't his fault."

"Let him go, Damon!" Liam told him. "Now!"

Matt tried to pry Damon's hands off his throat.

Evelyn pulled Damon away from Matt forcefully, turning to face him. "You need to calm down."

Matt breathed heavily.

Damon narrowed his eyes at Evelyn.

...

Pastor Young's House - Kitchen

Emma was sitting at a table.

There was a deputy standing behind her.

Pastor Young sat across from her at the table.

"I'm surprised you don't want me locked up in the farm with Morgana and Rebekah." Emma told him half-sarcastically.

"Well, most of us do." Pastor Young told her. "Then there are people like me, who are more lenient."

"Lenient?" Emma repeated. "You brought me here against my will."

"You've harbored, aided and abetted vampires." Pastor Young replied.

"I've also killed them." Emma told him. "The Originals are the ones you should be worrying about. Not any of the others."

"We're worried about all of them." Pastor Young told her, standing, walking toward the stove. "You know, your... what do you call her? Step sister? Elizabeth? She killed one of my men."

"Told you." Emma told him. "Once they know where we are, they we find us, and they will kill you."

A deputy opened the front door, leading Elena inside. "Got another one, Pastor."

Emma stood in shock. "Elena?"

The deputy behind Emma pushed her back into her chair.

"Emma?" Elena asked. Deputy 2 led her to the chair next to Emma, turning around, walking out, leaving the house. Elena looked at Emma. "Are you okay?"

"Never better." Emma told her sarcastically.

Elena looked around nervously, looking at her, whispering. "What are we doing here?"

"Bait." Emma answered.

Elena processed that information, sitting back, starting to chew on her fingernails.

Pastor Young turned the fire on the stove on. "You still want to be a writer? I remember how you'd read your short stories to my daughter when you'd babysit. She still loves writing because of you."

"Why did you bring us here?" Emma asked.

"My deputies can watch out for us here." Pastor Young told them. "No vampires have been invited in. Look, Elena, I know it sounds crazy, but years ago, it was your parents who were advocating having an emergency plan like this. I never thought we'd actually have to use it."

Elena was panicking silently, looking at the ticking clock, able to hear it clearly, loudly.

"Elena?" Emma asked. "Elena, are you okay?"

Emma followed her gaze to the ticking clock.

Elena collected herself, nodding, looking at Pastor Young. "Where's Stefan and Isabella?"

Emma looked from Elena to Pastor Young in surprise.

"Where they can't hurt either of you." Pastor Young told them.

"None of them would never hurt either of us." Emma told him. "You have no idea what you're talking about."

"Well, I know that wherever either of you go, vampires seem to follow." Pastor Young told them. "You hungry?"

"No." Emma answered.

Pastor Young pulled out a tray from the fridge. "So, we'll hold Stefan and Isabella until Damon, Elizabeth and Evelyn come searching for you all. We'll use Rebekah and Morgana to lure their siblings back into town." He looked at Emma. "You'll give us the white oak stake and then we will exterminate the entire vampire race for good." Emma scoffed, looking away. Pastor Young placed a giant steak in front of Elena and Emma. Elena looked at it, starting to breathe heavily. "Is something wrong? Elena, are you okay?"

Elena looked at Emma's neck. "Yeah." She heard the ticking clock, the steaming tea kettle and the heartbeats of the humans that made her want to feed. She started to panic. "No, I've got to get out of here."

Elena stood, running toward the door.

"Elena, wait!" Emma told her, standing, trying to go after her. The deputy behind her held her back. Emma struggled, fighting to get him to let go. "Let go of me!"

...

Outside

Elena ran across the yard, shielding her eyes from the sunlight.

Pastor Young followed Elena out of the house, staying on the porch. "Get her!"

Elena continued to run but was blinded by the sunlight.

A man hit her in the face with a wooden object, making her unconscious.

...

Woods

(Song:) Whirring - The Joy Formidable

Caroline rushed Tyler/Klaus into a tree, kissing him. "I never thought I'd see you again. I don't get it. How are you alive?"

"This is going to sound incredible, but I-" Tyler/Klaus started. Caroline silenced him with a kiss. "But..." Caroline tried to kiss him. Tyler/Klaus held her out by arms' length. "Easy, love. Wrong time. Wrong place. Wrong equipment."

"But you're miraculously alive." Caroline told him. "We're fugitives on the run. All signs point to hot hybrid vampire sex."

They heard Elizabeth's voice. "You know that's not your boyfriend, right?" Caroline and Tyler/Klaus looked toward her. Elizabeth was leaning against a tree. "You know, before you go and do something you regret more than kissing Klaus."

"What?" Caroline asked breathlessly. She looked at Tyler/Klaus, pushing him into the tree. "What the hell did you do to Tyler?"

Tyler/Klaus looked at Elizabeth. "That's what I enjoy about you. So much more than a pretty face. And you seem to be relieved that I'm alive when you thought that you saw me die."

Elizabeth didn't answer.

(Song Ends)

Caroline took her hands away in disgust. "You're disgusting!"

"And you're a glorious kisser." Tyler/Klaus told her. He looked at Elizabeth. "Not nearly as good as I remember you being."

Caroline punched Tyler/Klaus in the face.

Elizabeth smirked in amusement, looking away.

Caroline backed away to stand next to Elizabeth, looking at her. "How did you know?"

"The damage he caused on the road, the fact he freed me before you, he called me Elisaveta instead of Elizabeth and I heard what he said to Rebekah and Morgana." Elizabeth answered.

Tyler/Klaus looked at them. "Listen, I didn't have to risk exposure to come save you two."

"Oh, you do one semi-decent thing, and now you're my hero?" Elizabeth asked.

"And don't pretend you give a damn about me." Caroline told him. "You only came to save Elizabeth. Oh, I need to go sanitize my mouth."

"Your mouth was all over me." Tyler/Klaus told her. "I was an innocent victim."

Caroline pointed at him. "Put Tyler back."

"Gladly." Tyler/Klaus told her. He looked at Elizabeth. "Then maybe you could consider the offer of hot hybrid sex." He walked closer, using his finger to trail across Elizabeth's shoulder. "I can guarantee it'll be better than our time in the '20s or when you where human."

Tyler/Klaus smirked, walking away.

Caroline turned to look at Elizabeth with exasperation.

Elizabeth smiled awkwardly, nodding once. "Good luck with him. I'm gonna go find Emma."

Elizabeth rushed away.

...

Old Witch House - Basement

Bonnie and Sally sat together on the floor, legs crossed, holding hands, chanting. "Victus phesmatis ex eleto. Revertas phesmatis ut victus. Victus phesmatis ex eleto. Revertas phesmatis ut victus."

They stopped chanting, opening their eyes.

"The spirits aren't listening." Sally told her.

"There's something else we could try." Bonnie told her.

"What?" Sally asked.

Bonnie stood with the a grimoire. "If the witches won't help me save Elena, then maybe I can go to the Other Side and bring her back myself."

Sally stood in confusion. "The Other Side? The Other Side is for dead people."

"She's still in transition." Bonnie told her. "Not fully dead, not fully alive. What if her spirit still exists on both sides?"

"Even if it does, how can you get there?" Sally asked. "You're not dead." Bonnie said nothing. Sally realized what she was going to do and walked toward her. "No. No, Bonnie."

"We were able to stop Jeremy's heart to stop Klaus'." Bonnie told her. "I need you to do the same thing to me. Witches have free reign on the Other Side. I will find Elena and I will bring her back with me. I just need you to anchor me so that I can wake up. I'm stronger now. I found a new source of power."

"A new source of power?" Sally repeated. "What kind of power is going to let you kill yourself and bring someone back with you from the dead? It's too dangerous."

"If you don't help me, I'll do it myself." Bonnie told her. "Let's see if I wake up then."

Sally considered this.

...

Gilbert House - Family Room

Evelyn, Damon, Liz, Meredith, Liam, Jeremy and Matt were still talking.

"With your vervain and Alaric's weapons, they could be anywhere." Liz told them.

"Come on, guys, think." Evelyn told them. "It takes a lot to hold a vampire. Reinforced steel, iron doors."

A noise was heard from the door.

Everyone looked toward Elizabeth.

Elizabeth tilted her head, walking closer. "No need to get quiet on my account. Just might have a clue to as where they are."

"Where?" Matt asked.

"I found out the vampires were being held in a barn, but I didn't find out where." Elizabeth told them.

"How did you find that out?" Liam asked.

"Liam , you're too pure-hearted to know the answer to that." Elizabeth told him. "Let's not ruin that innocence yet strength in a town full of monsters."

Liam thought for a moment, looking up in realization. "The Pastor has a cattle ranch." Everyone looked at him. "His daughter and I used to be best friends before she was shipped off to boarding school. We used to play in the barn right outside. Those pens could easily be modified."

"It's remote, it's secluded." Jeremy agreed.

Damon looked at Liam. "You finally prove useful." Liam gave him a sarcastic smile. Damon looked at Matt. "And guess what? Looks like you get a chance to prove how sorry you really are." He looked at Liam. "You're coming, too. Let's go."

"Why should he ?" Jeremy asked.

"Because of the little factoid he just revealed about being the Pastor's daughter's best friend." Damon answered.

Evelyn looked at Jeremy. "Look, Jeremy, if you wanna come to protect your friend, come on. Let's get going."

Elizabeth led the way toward the door with determination and an edge of fierce. "Because we've got friends to save and enemies to kill."

The boys and Eliza followed her, leaving the house.

Liam sighed, closing the door behind them.

...

Pastor Young's House - Barn

The vampires were locked into cages, coughing. Vervain was being ventilated throughout each cage.

Isabella, Morgana and Rebekah were in three separate cells, next to each other. Elena was across from Rebekah. Stefan was across from Morgana. Morgana was across from Isabella. Each cage had a wall dividing them. They were unable to see the people next to them.

Elena slowly woke up, sitting up, holding her head.

"I thought I killed you." Rebekah told her.

"Where am I?" Elena asked.

"They thought you were a vampire, so they stuck you in here with us." Rebekah told her.

"Where's Stefan?" Elena asked. "Or our sisters?"

"Elena, we're right here." Isabella told her. "Are you okay?"

Elena tried to pull herself up, but was too weak to do so. "I didn't feed."

Stefan instantly looked worried.

Isabella sat weakly on the floor, leaning back into the wall sadly.

Morgana smirked. "Ah, I see what's going on here. You died with vampire blood in your system, and you didn't feed, and now you're locked up in here without a drop of human blood in sight. That is a problem."

"Just ignore them." Stefan told them.

"Has anybody done the math, or shall I?" Rebekah asked. "I'd say you've got less than three hours to feed before I get to watch you die all over again." Elena tried to break through the bars. "My day just got a whole lot better." Elena glared at her, no longer trying to break free. Rebekah spoke to Isabella. "Though it might be worse for you. You may not see your friend, but you can hear her die."

Isabella glared at her. "Go to hell."

"Can't if I can't be killed." Rebekah told her.

"There's always a way for a vampire to die, including an Original." Isabella told her, coughing. "And we just so happen to have that thing. Keep pissing me off, it'll be used on you."

...

Old Witch House - Basement

Bonnie was lying on the floor.

Sally was kneeling next to her, holding her hands over Bonnie's chest.

They both had their eyes closed, chanting. "Phesmatos tribam, mihan veras ractas, mas anima mal vita caturam hors. Suus phesmatos oproctum, e tiamis mihan ractas, somus suster gana."

Bonnie soon became too weak to chant on.

Sally continued the spell on her own. "Phesmatos tribam, mihan veras ractas, mas anima mal vita, caturam hors. Somos suster gana, phesmatos tribam, mihan veras ractas." Black veins began to creep up Bonnie's arms. Bonnie's nose began to bleed. Wind started to blow through the room around them, whipping through Lindsey's hair. "Mas anima mal vita, caturam hors. Revertas phasmatis ut victas, revertas phasmatis ut victas, phesmatos tribum, mihan veras ractas. Mas anima mal vita, caturam hors." Bonnie started to hyperventilate, dying in front of her. Sally opened her eyes, worried, taking deep breaths. "Okay. Just bring her back. Sally, just bring her back." The wind continued to blow around them. Sally held her hands over Bonnie's body, closing her eyes, chanting. "Phesmatos tribam, mihan veras ractas, mas anima mal vita caturam hors. Suus phesmatos oproctum, e tiamis mihan ractas, somus suster gana."

...

Pastor Young's Home - Barn

Bonnie was in the cage, seeing Elena sitting on the floor with her eyes closed. She walked toward her. "Elena." She knelt down next to Elena, taking her arms in her hands. "Come back. Come back."

Elena opened her eyes.

Bonnie pulled her up.

Elena couldn't see Bonnie, seemingly alone, and was unsure of what was happening. "Stefan. Isabella, something's happening."

Isabella leaned forward against her bars from across the way and two to the left, trying to see what was happening.

Stefan looked at the wall dividing him from Elena.

Bonnie looked at Elena. "We're going home."

...

Old Witch House - Basement

Wind was still blowing through Sally's hair.

Sally still held her hands above Bonnie, having her eyes closed in concentration, chanting. "Phesmatos tribam, mihan veras ractas, mas anima mal vita, caturam hors. Somos suster gana, phesmatos tribam, mihan veras ractas."

...

Barn

Grams appeared behind the bars of Elena's cage. "No!"

Bonnie let go of Elena.

Elena backed into the bars behind her, sliding to the floor, too weak to stand on her own.

Bonnie looked at Grams in confusion. "Grams? What are you doing?"

"You can't be in here." Grams told her. "You stay away from this sort of darkness."

"Elena needs me." Bonnie told her.

Grams was suddenly standing right in front of Bonnie. "She is not your problem to solve. Now, go! Before they try to keep you here."

"Grams, please." Bonnie told her.

"This magic is dark, Bonnie." Grams told her. "It is not Nature's plan. Tell Sally to never use it again, and you shouldn't either. Touch it again, and the spirits will unleash their anger in ways that will make you suffer. Stay away. Go!"

...

Old Witch House - Basement

The wind was still whipping Sally's hair around.

Sally felt the effects of dark magic, tempted by it. "Mas anima mal vita, caturam hors. Revertas phasmatis ut victas, revertas phasmatis ut victas, phesmatos tribum, mihan veras ractas. Mas anima mal vita, caturam hors."

Veins trailed from Bonnie's hands into Sally's, trailing up her entire body to finish the spell.

Sally breathed heavily, opening her eyes.

Bonnie woke up. "Sally?"

Sally looked at Bonnie in relief, helping her sit up. "You're awake. You're alive."

Sally embraced Bonnie.

"I couldn't do it." Bonnie told her. "It didn't work."

...

Night - Pastor Young's Home - Barn

The vampires were still locked up.

"What happened?" Stefan asked.

"I'm out of time." Elena told them. "I need blood. I'm dying."

Elena breathed heavily.

Isabella used the bars to pull herself up, yelling for someone outside to hear her. "Hey! Anyone! Hey!"

"Will you shut up?" Morgana complained.

Isabella ignored her. "You think we're afraid of you?"

An officer walked inside, standing in front of Isabella. "You want more vervain? Keep it down."

"Listen to me." Isabella told him, gesturing to herself, pointing toward Elena's cell. "My friends gonna die if you don't let her out."

The officer looked from Elena to Isabella. "Sorry. Not my problem."

"She's innocent." Isabella told him. "Let her out." The officer started to walk away. Isabella rushed to the other side of the cage toward him. "Let her out!"

The officer shot Isabella in the stomach repeatedly.

"I said, let her out!" Isabella told him.

The officer shot Isabella in her leg, making her fall, walking out, leaving the barn.

Both Morgana and Rebekah seemed to be effected by the lengths Isabella would go through to protect her friends.

...

House - Kitchen

Emma heard the echos of the gunshots, standing in worry. "Stefan?"

The deputy behind Emma pushed her down into her chair, taking a pair of handcuffs, cuffing one of her wrists to the table. "Sit down!"

Emma pulled at the handcuffs in annoyance. "Are these really necessary?" She didn't get an answer from either Pastor Young or the deputy. "Hello? Are you brain-dead?"

Still no answer.

Emma sighed, sitting back in her chair.

...

Old Witch House - Basement

Tyler/Klaus and Caroline had come to the house to see Bonnie and Sally about getting Klaus out of Tyler's body.

"We said we're not strong enough." Sally told him, unafraid.

"You were strong enough to put me in here." Tyler/Klaus told them. "Surely, you're strong enough to get me out."

"We upset the spirits trying to save Elena." Bonnie told him. "We can't use that kind of magic again. It's too dangerous."

"Witches, do the bloody spell." Tyler/Klaus told them.

"They said they can't, okay?" Caroline asked. Tyler/Klaus turned around, glaring at Caroline. "We'll just wait a few days until you're strong enough to do it with traditional magic, right, guys?" Tyler/Klaus ripped open his shirt, taking a deep breath, extending his claws on his right hand. He punctured his chest with his claws, grabbing Tyler's heart, beginning to rip it out. "What are you doing?"

"Ripping Tyler's heart out." Tyler/Klaus answered. "I'll jump into someone else." He turned to Sally. "Maybe you."

Tyler/Klaus continued to tear out Tyler's heart.

"Oh, my God." Bonnie told them.

"You're hurting him!" Caroline told him. "Stop! Stop!"

"He's bluffing." Sally told them. "He needs a witch to do that."

Tyler/Klaus looked at Sally. "What makes you think I don't have one, Lindsey? Or ten? Pick! You and Bonnie, or Tyler!"

Tyler/Klaus had almost successfully torn open his chest.

"Stop, please!" Caroline told him. "You're killing him!"

"Fine, we'll do it!" Bonnie told him. "Just stop."

Everyone looked at Sally, waiting for her answer.

Sally nodded.

Tyler/Klaus took his hand out from his chest. "Good. Let's begin."

...

Pastor Young's Home - Barn

The vampires were still locked up.

Morgana dragged herself to the wall dividing her and Stefan.

"Elena?" Isabella asked. "You still with me?"

Elena leaned against the wall weakly, pale, breathing heavily, nearly dead. "Yeah. Yeah, I'm here. I'm okay."

"No, you're not." Isabella told her. "I can hear your breathing. Damon was right. You should have fed this morning. I'm so sorry."

"Don't be." Elena told her. "You all had hope. That's all I ever wanted you to have and you had it."

"I love you so much." Stefan told her.

"I love you." Elena told them. Stefan had tears in his eyes. Elena placed her hand against the wall dividing them. "God. It sucks that I can't see you right now."

"I'm smiling." Stefan told her.

"Me, too," Elena told him. "Isabella-"

"Don't say it." Isabella told her.

"I have to." Elena told her. "I can't just leave Jeremy to fight through this alone. He'll have no one."

"And how can we get out?" Isabella asked.

"It doesn't matter, Isabella." Elena told her. "You stay strong. Stay with Jer. No matter what. Isabella, you have to take care of them."

Isabella cried silent tears, nodding. "I will, Elena. I will."

Rebekah watched them sympathetically.

Elena took her hand away from the wall, closing her eyes.

Morgana watched them pensively.

...

Outside

Matt, Damon, Jeremy, Evelyn, Liam and Isabella were walking toward the house, stopping on the lawn.

"So, what, we just storm the place with zero weapons?" Matt asked.

"Nah, we don't need weapons." Elizabeth told them. "Just bait."

Damon rushed toward Matt, transforming, trying to bite him.

Evelyn pulled Damon away. "Damon! You said you wouldn't kill him."

Damon sighed, returning to normal. "How did I know you'd stop me?"

"If you get that close to killing him, I know you'll kill him." Jeremy told him. "Don't do it. Don't you think Emma and Elena will hate you?"

Damon sighed, pushing Matt to the ground, turning toward them, looking at Liam. "Fine. But we still need bait." Liam didn't move, knowing what he meant. "If it's any consolation, I probably won't kill you, and you're best for causing distractions, so make it believable."

"Just do it already." Liam told him.

Damon smirked, biting Liam on the neck, drinking only enough to make it believable.

Liam screamed like he was terrified and dying.

...

Inside - Kitchen

Emma was handcuffed to the table. She looked toward the door. "I know that scream."

Pastor Young walked toward the door.

...

Outside

Damon let Liam go.

Liam fell to his knees, holding his neck.

Jeremy knelt next to hi,. "Liam!"

"That was good." Evelyn told him, impressed.

Damon licked the blood staining his lips. "And who knew how good you taste."

Liam sighed, rolling his eyes.

Elizabeth looked toward the door. "Yoo-hoo! Anybody home? Big, bad vampires out here."

Pastor Young opened the front door, seeing Liam on the ground, bleeding. "Let him go. The boy's innocent."

"And let me guess, your daughter's best friend?" Damon asked. "Well, that's the point. Give me Stefan, Emma, Isabella, Elena, and Morgana, he's all yours." He pulled Liam up by the back of his shirt, holding him out to his side so he could look at Pastor Young. "Come on, Pastor. You know I'll kill her."

Jeremy stood, taking a step toward them.

Evelyn held him back.

Elizabeth held Matt back.

Liam held his neck, acting as if he was terrified.

Damon smirked.

"Go away!" Pastor Young told them. "You are not invited in, and I'm not coming out."

"Shame." Damon told him. "He had a nice, long life ahead of him."

Damon bit Liam, drinking until he was weak, having to keep him standing, letting him fall.

"No!" Jeremy told him, struggling.

Liam landed on his side, his eyes closed, as if dead.

Elizabeth and Evelyn exchanged a look, getting Matt and Jeremy to duck to the ground, rushing away, disappearing.

Damon was suddenly shot in the chest.

...

Inside - Kitchen

Emma was handcuffed to the table. She heard the gunshots, struggling. "Damon! Elizabeth!"

"Give it up." The deputy told her. "You're not gonna get out."

Emma looked up in annoyance, and with one of her hands still cuffed to the table, standing, turning around, using her free arm to prop herself against the table so she wouldn't fall, kicking his head hard enough to make him fall unconscious. "What was that, again?"

Emma knelt to the floor, using her foot to kick his pockets, making the handcuff keys fall to the floor. She smirked, trying to reach toward it with her free hand. She couldn't reach. She groaned, reaching further, her fingers barely grazing the keys. She reached further, just able to slide them closer so she could pick them up.

...

Old Witch House - Basement

Bonnie and Sally were on either side of Tyler/Klaus, performing the spell to get Klaus out of Tyler's body and back into his. Sally, standing in front of Tyler, had her hands on either side of hid head. Bonnie, standing behind Tyler, had her hands over Sally's. They chanted together. "Phesmatos tribum, nas ex veras, raverus en phesmatos ex sonos. Resistamus et veram vatus. Raverus phesmatos ex sonos."

Caroline looked worried.

Tyler opened his eyes, looking up. "Caroline?"

Caroline stepped closer. "Tyler?"

Tyler smiled. "Yeah. Hey."

Sally and Bonnie continued to chant. "Phesmatos tribum, nas ex veras, raverus en phesmatos ex sonos. Resistamus et veram vatus. Raverus phesmatos ex sonos."

Tyler tried to stand, but weak, fell to the floor.

Caroline rushed to his side. "Tyler?"

Bonnie and Sally were holding each other's hands, still chanting. "Phesmatos tribum, nas ex veras, raverus en phesmatos ex sonos. Resistamus et veram vatus. Raverus phesmatos ex sonos."

"Guys, what are you doing?" Caroline asked.

Bonnie stopped chanting, opening her eyes to look at Sally, but instead, she saw her Grams.

"I warned you, child." Grams told her. "I warned you to stay away."

Sally still had her eyes closed, chanting. "Phesmatos tribum, nas ex veras, raverus en phesmatos ex sonos. Resistamus et veram vatus. Raverus phesmatos ex sonos."

"Sally, it worked." Caroline told her. "Stop."

Bonnie and Sally were still holding hands.

Sally opened her eyes to look at Bonnie, but instead, she saw Sabrina Davidsons, looking at her in shock and weakness. "Mom?"

"You should have listened, Sally." Sabrina told her.

"What's happening?" Sally asked. "Let me go."

"I can't." Sabrina told her.

Bonnie saw Grams instead of Sally. "Let me go!"

"Guys, what's happening?" Caroline asked.

Dark veins started creeping down Bonnie's arm toward her Grams', trailing up her arms.

Dark veins started creeping down Sally's arm toward Sabrina's, trailing up her arms.

Bonnie looked up to the spirits. "Okay, let her go!"

"You made your choice." Grams told her. "Now they're taking it out on us."

The veins crept up Grams' face, making her scream in pain.

The veins crept up Sabrina's face, making her scream in pain.

Sally saw Sabrina standing in front of her instead of Bonnie, crying. "I'm sorry, Mom. They can't do this to you. Please, don't do this to her!"

"Guys, stop!" Caroline told them.

"No!" Bonnie cried. "Grams! Oh, my God." Grams disappeared. Bonnie fell down on her knees, crying. Sabrina disappeared. Sally fell down on her knees in front of Bonnie, crying. "What have we done? What did we do?"

Sally breathed heavily. "What did we do?"

Bonnie and Sally were still holding hands, but everything seemed completely normal.

...

Pastor Young's Home - Barn

The vampires were still locked up.

The officers walked in, carrying more vervain.

"I got this." The officer from earlier told the others. "Bring the others in."

The two other officer walked toward the exit.

Evelyn rushed in, grabbing Officer 1, throwing him toward a wall, making him fall, unconscious. He grabbed Officer 2, throwing him into a wall, making him fall, unconscious.

Elizabeth rushed in, taking Officer 3, throwing them into the ventilation system to break it.

No more vervain was being spread.

The officer who shot Isabella tried to shoot Elizabeth.

Evelyn rushed up to the officer, standing next to him, grabbing his head, slamming it against Elena's cage bars, making him bleed, killing him, letting his body fall in front of Elena's cage, breaking the bars for her to get out. "Elena, drink."

Elena opened her eyes. The blood slowly spread across the floor toward her. Elena pulled herself toward it, reaching her hand into the puddle of the blood with her finger tips, putting her hand to her mouth, licking her fingers, closing her eyes, letting a tear fall. Color returned in her face.

Evelyn turned to Isabella's cage.

Isabella looked at him in relief. "Evelyn."

"You didn't think I'd let you die in here, did you?" Evelyn asked, breaking her bars.

Isabella smiled, pulling herself toward the bars, crawling out.

Elizabeth looked around. "Em? Emma?" She looked at Stefan. "Where is she? Emma?"

...

House

Emma had gotten herself free, rubbing her sore, cut wrist, standing, shaking it out to get rid of the numb feeling.

Pastor Young walked in. "You're more clever than Alaric gave you credit for. People have a bad habit of underestimating you."

"Damn right." Emma told him, taking the chair she had been sitting in, hitting Pastor Young hard enough to make him unconscious, making him fall and the chair break, some of the pieces falling around him.

Emma dropped the pieces in her hands onto him.

...

Outside

Jeremy crawled toward Liam on the ground. "Liam? Liam!" Liam barely opened his er eyes. "Are you okay?" Liam exhaled, nodding. Jeremy pulled Liam up into a sitting position, ripping a piece of his shirt off, pressing it against his neck. "Never volunteer yourself for something like that again."

"I did it to save Matt." Liam told him.

"I know you did." Jeremy told him.

Damon was lying in the grass. Two officers came around the corner of the house with their guns out. They approached Damon's body. Officer 1 gently nudged Damon with his foot. Damon didn't move.

Damon rushed to stand, grabbing the guns out of the officers hands. He snapped Officer 1's neck. He stabbed Officer 2 with his own gun, killing him, letting both bodies fall to the ground.

Damon walked toward Matt, glaring at him.

Matt slid away. "Go ahead and kill me. You can't possibly hate me more than I hate myself."

"Oh, yes, I can." Damon told him, kicking Matt hard, making him fall, placing his foot on his throat, beginning to push down, making him gasp for breath. Matt's throat started to bleed. "It should have been you."

"Damon..." Jeremy trailed off in warning. Damon crushed Matt's throat harder. Jeremy raised his voice to a yell. "Damon!"

"No!" Liam told him.

Elena rushed toward Damon, pushing him off of Matt, kneeling over him. She was transformed, angry. "Leave him alone!"

...

Old Lockwood Cellar

Rosie walked down the stairs to the cellar, on her phone. "You told me to meet you at the cellar hours ago, Ty, where are you?"

Rosie pushed open the door, running into the darkness.

Klaus' coffin was open, and Klaus wasn't inside.

Rosie sensed that something was wrong, lowering her phone to her side, hanging up.

Klaus appeared behind Rosie. "Hello... Rosie."

Klaus bit his wrist, putting it to Rosie's lips, making her drink his blood.

Rosie fought, struggling uselessly against Klaus' hold, her yelling and screaming muffled by his wrist.

Klaus took his wrist away when he was satisfied she had gotten enough, disappearing.

Rosie's lips were drenched in blood. She was breathing heavily, turning, rushing toward the door.

Klaus was there.

Klaus let her eyes glow gold in anger and fear. "No. Klaus, don't-"

Klaus put one hand on either side of Rosie's head, twisting, breaking her neck, killing her, letting her go.

Rosie drifted into a fall, her head turned to the side, a tear falling from the corner of one eye, the glow fading from her eyes, becoming lifeless.

...

Pastor's House - Barn

Matt stumbled into the barn, falling to the ground, holding his bleeding neck.

Stefan ran over to him and fed him his blood.

Matt pushed his arm away, sitting up. "Just stop! Stop saving me."

Stefan stood straight. "What the hell is your problem?"

"What do you want me to say?" Matt asked. "'Thank you'? 'Cause honestly, I wish you'd have just let me drown."

"What, you think you were my first choice?" Stefan asked.

"Elena's a vampire, because of me." Matt told him. "I have to live with that every day for the rest of my life."

"No, no, no, you don't have to live with that." Stefan told him. "You get to live with that. Because Elena put your life before her own. Because Emma risked screwing over her recovery that first night and dying to safe your life." He held a hand toward the door that led outside. "Because Liam just risked his life against Damon and tried to save you. So every morning you get out of bed, you sure as hell better earn it."

Morgana walked closer, putting a hand on Stefan's shoulder. "All right, ease back on the throttle here, biker boy. Can you go make sure Liam gets healed and gets home?" Stefan nodded, walking out of the barn. Morgana turned to Matt, biting her wrist, holding it out to Matt. "If you want to heal, then take it. If you don't, let yourself bleed out."

Matt hesitantly took Morgana's wrist, drinking her blood to heal.

...

Outside

Elizabeth walked up the porch steps to the house.

The door opened.

Elizabeth braced herself for a fight.

Emma stepped outside.

Elizabeth tilted her head, impressed. "Emma, you continue to impress even me."

Emma smiled a small smile, rolling her eyes, walking closer.

Elizabeth smiled, turning around.

Emma and Elizabeth away from the house together.

...

Driveway

Elena and Damon walked toward his car.

"You were gonna kill him." Elena told him.

"Yep." Damon answered. "Guy just won't die."

"It was my choice to save him." Elena told him. "Why aren't you seeing that?"

"It's a little hard to keep track of all your choices lately, Elena." Damon told her, starting to walk away.

"I remember everything." Elena told him. Damon stopped. "One of the highlights of my transition, remembering everything that you compelled me to forget." Damon walked closer . "Like how you and I met first. You were a stranger that told me you wanted me to get everything I wanted from life. Damon, why didn't you tell me?"

"Would it have made a difference?" Damon asked. Elena didn't answer. "I didn't think so."

"You asked me to make a choice, Damon." Elena told him. "So I did. If you're gonna be mad, then take it out on me. Not on Stefan or Matt or anyone else. Me. But you still care about Emma. So maybe you're the one who needs to choose."

"Are we done here?" Damon asked.

"If it had been you at the bridge last night and not Stefan and I begged you to save Matt-" Elena started.

"I would have saved you." Damon told her. "In a heartbeat, no question."

"That's what I thought." Elena said. "And then Matt would be dead, because you couldn't let go. Matt would be dead."

"But you wouldn't be." Damon told her. "And you would have gotten to grow up and had the life that you wanted. The life that you deserved. And I know that I didn't use to get that, but I do now and I wanted that for you, Elena, and I would have gladly have given it to you and let Matt die. Because I am that selfish. But you knew that already."

Elena didn't answer.

Damon gave her a look, turning around, walking away.

...

Klaus' Mansion - Living Room

Rosie's body laid on a leather chair, lifeless.

Klaus watched her, turning to the briefcases on the table with Elena's blood bags inside. He took a large needle, putting it into the tube, withdrawing enough to fill the vial with Elena's blood, putting it into his jacket pocket.

Rebekah and Morgana walked inside.

Klaus placed the last three blood bags of Elena's blood into an ice box.

Rebekah was in tears.

Morgana was angry.

"How dare you save Caroline and Elisaveta over us?" Rebekah asked.

Klaus mimicked them. "'Hello, brother. Thought you were dead. So pleased you're not.'"

"You left us." Rebekah told him.

"I only had time to save two of you, and the two of you can't be killed." Klaus told them. "Rest assured, I had a worse day than you. I think it's time we move on, find more werewolves."

"So you can create your hybrid family?" Morgana asked. "You don't know anything about family."

"Well, I know how easily they can be silenced by a dagger." Klaus replied. Morgana grabbed a blood bag, throwing it against the wall in anger, making it splatter. "No! Morgana!"

Klaus turned to Morgana.

Morgana turned around, walking out, leaving.

Rebekah grabbed the remaining two blood bags.

"Drop them." Klaus told her.

"We mourned you." Rebekah told him. "Morgana watched a stake being drove through your heart. My heart broke the second she told me, thinking I'd never see you again."

"Put the blood down, Rebekah." Klaus told her. "There's a good girl."

"It's always been us." Rebekah told him. "Not Finn, not Elijah, not Kol. Morgana and me! We loved you through everything, and you don't even care."

"Drop it!" Klaus told her.

"You want your family?" Rebekah asked. "Here's your family!"

Rebekah squeezed the blood bags, puncturing them, spilling the contents.

Klaus rushed toward Rebekah, grabbing her throat in anger. "You know something, Rebekah, you're right. I don't care. From this moment on, you're not my family, you're not my sister. You are nothing."

Klaus broke Rebekah's neck, letting her fall to the floor.

Rosie came back to life, gasping.

Klaus walked toward her.

Rosie groaned, reaching to her head, obviously confused as to where she was or what happened to her. She looked at Rebekah's temporarily dead body. "What the hell?"

Klaus pulled out the vial of Elena's blood. "You're lucky I had expected their temper tantrum."

"Where the hell am I?" Rosie asked incredulously.

Klaus knelt in front of her, holding the vial toward her, smirking. "Wrong question, sweetheart. The right one would be what I have done to you."

It took a minute for Rosie to remember what happened.

Rosie slid away from Klaus as far as she could on the chair. "You killed me."

"Yes, and if you don't drink the very last drop of Elena's blood, then you won't turn into a hybrid, you'll be dead dead, so, on with it." Klaus told her.

Rosie shook her head, breathing heavily, glaring at him. "I don't wanna be a hybrid."

"You don't wanna be dead, now, do you?" Klaus replied. "Now, drink."

Rosie looked at the vial as if she wanted the blood, but she slowly shook her head. "No."

"Your cousin's alive, Rosie." Klaus told her, tilting his head a little. "Would you really leave him alone like this after everything? Your friends? Your mother?"

Rosie glared at him, his words affecting her.

Klaus smiled as if he had already won.

...

Evelyn's House - Evelyn's Room

(Song:) Waiting For the Morning - Amy Stroup

Evelyn walked into her room, walking toward her bed. "Thanks for making sure I got home."

Jeremy followed her inside. "No problem." There was a long moment of silence. Liam sat down on her bed. "Evelyn... what you did out there..."

"I did it to save everyone." Evelyn told him. "All I wanted to do was save everyone." She smiled a small smile. "And I did."

"How did you know Damon wouldn't have killed Liam?" Jeremy asked.

"Other than Elizabeth and I standing right there for a little insurance..." Evelyn trailed off, chuckling as if to make a joke, turning serious. "I didn't."

Jeremy sighed, sitting next to her. "Evelyn, this is the main reason why people love you. You'll literally do anything to keep the people you love safe. Including daggering Originals." They both laughed. "I'm just surprised you're talking to me after everything that happened."

Evelyn shook her head. "Totally over it."

Jeremy looked at her. "I'm not. I hurt you, and I'm sorry."

Evelyn smiled a small smile. "You're forgiven."

Jeremy looked at Evelyn, smiling a small smile.

Evelyn smiled.

...

Salvatore Boarding House - Outside

Damon got out of his car, walking up to the house. He stopped, sensing someone behind him. "What?"

Emma walked closer. "Don't channel whatever you're feeling about Elena to me. She might have not chosen you, and I might not have be with you anymore."

"Is there a point to this?" Damon asked.

Emma looked to the side, a little hurt. "I guess I know who you really care about now."

Damon turned to face Emma , pointing at her. "Don't play that with me. Because you know-"

"That you care about both of us?" Emma asked. "You love both of us? Well, I'm sorry, but I don't wanna be someone's back up. You care about Elena. Maybe you're the one who needs to choose. I think we both have fallen in love with other people."

Damon was affected, looking down.

Emma turned around, walking away, leaving Damon alone.

...

Roof

Stefan and Elena had been watching the entire time, watching Alex walk away from Damon.

Elena sighed. "It needed to be done. Damon needs to choose as much as we do. Emma seems to have chosen."

Stefan nodded. "Yep."

There was a beat of silence.

"The whole Council knows who we are now." Elena told him. "Everything's about to change."

"Yeah, I'm sure Damon or Elizabeth has a revenge plan cooked up." Stefan told her. Damon walked inside. "We'll figure out a way to deal with that."

"You don't have to convince me that everything is gonna be okay." Elena told him.

"I know." Stefan told her. "Wish I could, though. Wish I could just tell you that you'll never feel pain, that you'll never crave blood. But you will. It'll be the worst thing that you've ever lived through."

"But I'll get to live." Elena told him, wrapping an arm around Stefan's shoulders. "I'll be a sister and a friend and I'll be with you. Forever, if I want." They kissed sweetly. "I'm gonna get through this. Just like we get through everything; one day at a time. We should get inside before sunrise."

"Elizabeth made this for you yesterday." Stefan told her, pulling out a daylight ring. "Just in case."

"Daylight ring?" Elena asked.

Stefan slid the ring on her finger. "One day at a time, right?"

Stefan smiled.

Elena nodded, smiling, kissing him, placing her forehead against his. She rested her head against his shoulder, watching the skyline, waiting for the sun to rise.

(Song Ends)

...

Day Two

Morning - Pastor Young's House - Kitchen

Pastor Young released the gas hose from the back of his stove.

The Council was in the house with him.

"Folks, by now, you know that the vampires have escaped." Pastor Young told them. There was vervain lying on the table. The Council members were passing it around to each other. "And it won't be long before they retaliate against us. But fear not." Pastor Young locked the front door. "For I have been chosen to lead us in a movement."

"What are you talking about?" A woman asked.

"Hear me, loved ones." Pastor Young told them. "Soon you'll be free to pass through the gates." He pulled a lighter out of his pocket. "And we'll all reunite in eternity."

"Seriously, Pastor, what's going on here?" A man asked.

"Friends..." Pastor Young trailed off. "We are the beginning."

Pastor Young lit the lighter.

The Council members scream with fear.

The kitchen was set ablaze.