Flashback 2 - 1100 A.D.
Italy
Night - Woods
A circle of three witches, two dark-skinned and one with the hair color of fire were holding a cauldron of fire between them as they chanted, performing a spell in Latin.
Five men stood around them in a circle with their swords touching the ground.
The witches held the cauldron above their heads. The fire was struck by a lightning bolt. They lowered the cauldron to the ground and poured the fire out.
The fire spread toward the sword blades, sliding up the blades.
The five men had the Hunter's Mark spreading up their arms and across their chests.
One of the men raised his sword.
The symbol which Connor had carved into his stakes was seen on the blade.
...
Now
Day One
Morning - Salvatore Boarding House - Library
Emma was standing next to the table, observing the Hunter's Mark on a wooden stake.
Damon and Elizabeth walked into the room with some boxes on their shoulders.
"So, what is all this?" Emma asked.
"Some personal items that we snaked from the vampire Hunter's RV." Elizabeth answered. Stefan walked into the room from behind them. Elizabeth kissed her hand, shooing it into the air. "May he rest in peace. We're searching for a supernatural handbook."
"And you know for a fact that he was supernatural?" Stefan asked.
Damon's mood instantly turned bitter. "Definitely wasn't natural. The guy magically appeared just as someone blows up the entire Founder's Council. He's covered in a tattoo that only Jeremy Gilbert-of all people in the world-seems to be able to see."
"Klaus mentioned something about him being one of the Five." Isabella added. "Then he kamikazes himself with explosives. Sound natural to you?"
"What's the Five?" Emma asked.
"That's what I'm hoping is in the first chapter of the handbook." Elizabeth told them.
Emma nodded sarcastically.
Damon's phone rang. He answered. "Liz Forbes, my favorite Sheriff." He looked worried. "What? That's... concerning. Keep me posted."
Damon hung up.
"What?" Elizabeth asked. "You're not gonna tell me?"
"Can't tell you right now." Damon told her. "It's private. Stefan's here. If he wasn't here, I'd tell you. We're in a fight."
"You're in a fight." Stefan told him. "I'm not in a fight. I'm over it. I've been over it."
"Not still mad at me about Elena?" Damon asked.
"You let her feed on you." Stefan told him. "I'm always gonna be mad at you, but we're not in a fight."
"Just kiss and make up." Emma told them.
Damon and Stefan gave her a weird look.
Elizabeth smiled, laughing silently.
Emma shrugged.
"Very well, then." Damon told them awkwardly. "They didn't find any remains at the explosion site."
"So, Connor's still out there." Emma told them.
"Apparently so." Damon told them. "I'm gonna need you to get on this today. I have to take Elena to college."
Stefan looked surprised. "I'm sorry, you have to do what, exactly?"
"I'm teaching her how to feed." Damon told them. "She needs to learn snatch, eat, erase now more than ever. Don't worry. Isabella and Evelyn are coming with us."
Stefan opened his mouth to speak.
Elizabeth pointed one finger at Damon, one finger at Stefan. "Ah, ah, you're not in a fight, remember?"
Damon walked out of the room, leaving.
Emma looked at Stefan and Elizabeth, inhaling. "So, you guys talk to Klaus, and I'll look around here. Sound good?" Elizabeth opened her mouth to speak. Emma cut her off. "Good."
Emma walked away, leaving the room.
Stefan looked toward Elizabeth.
Elizabeth shrugged, starting to go through the boxes again.
"If you learned all of this stuff from Klaus, why don't you just go talk to him and ask him?" Stefan asked.
"Because I don't want to talk to him anymore than I have to." Elizabeth answered.
"Because you don't wanna talk to him, or you don't wanna get too close to him again?" Stefan asked. "That's why you hate it when we ask you to be what you call 'Klaus bait', right? Because each time you do that, you get closer to him, and it'll be like the '20s all over again."
Elizabeth gave Stefan a sarcastic look, though she didn't respond in words to what he had said, leaving the answer up to interpretation. "And, anyway, since when do you actually want me around Klaus when it's not involving distracting him?"
"What, you think I'm gonna judge you for being around him?" Stefan asked.
"You always do, Stefan." Elizabeth told him. "Damon always does. Just drop it. Besides, you two used to be the best of friends in the '20s. So, why don't you go talk to him?"
Stefan tilted his head. "Elizabeth-"
"Stefan." Elizabeth replied. "I'm not going. If you want answers from Klaus, you're gonna have to go get them yourself. I'm gonna help Emma with the research."
Elizabeth turned, grabbing a box, walking out, leaving.
...
Woods
Elena and Stefan were sparring.
Elena looked at Stefan. "I know it's crazy, but I almost killed Matt last night. Morgana had to rip me off of him and then compel him to forget. Call it 'Doppelganger curse' or whatever, but I can't drink animal blood. I can't drink from a blood bag. I can only drink from the vein."
Elena ducked, making the arrow that Stefan had shot her hit into the tree behind her.
"A little slow." Stefan told her. "I almost got you."
Elena pulled the arrow out of the tree, holding it up for Stefan to see. "That's why we're not using the wood ones for Hunter Defense Class."
Elena threw the arrow at Stefan.
Stefan leaned to the side, making the arrow miss.
Elena smiled.
Stefan stood. "What about Caroline? She's a genius at self control."
"She's too good." Elena told him. "She doesn't understand how hard it is and you... well, I know what being around too much blood does to you, so... I can't put you through that. Elizabeth hates me, or at the very least, she doesn't like what I'm doing to you and Damon, or to Emma. Morgana and I aren't in a very good place right now. The only reason why Isabella and Evelyn are coming is because of Sally."
Stefan rushed toward Elena, grabbing her from behind, pointing an arrow at her heart. "So, I guess that also leaves Damon, huh?"
Elena flipped Stefan over her. Stefan landed on the ground.
Elena straddled Stefan, placing the arrow against his neck. "Don't be jealous. You know I wish it could be you."
"Fine, you wish it could be me." Stefan told her, sitting up.
Elena wrapped her arms around his neck. "We're crashing Bonnie and Sally's trip to Whitmore College. The Professor Shane that took over Sheila's classes? He invited them. Listen to me. You are the one who's getting me through this, no matter who teaches me how to feed."
"Okay." Stefan told her, standing, rushing the two of them into a tree. "Just be careful, okay? The blood, the feed... It's easy to get caught up in it."
"I will." Elena told him. "I promise."
They placed their foreheads together.
...
Mystic Grill - Bar
(Song:) My Obsession - Mia Mojanic & Randall Brent
Matt was working, wiping the bar clean.
Rosie sat next to him, smiling.
Matt smiled. "What do you want, Rose?"
"Twenty bucks and a free meal, if that's the way it's gonna be." Rosie told him.
Morgana sat at the bar, recognizing Rosie's appearance, leaning forward in confusion.
Rosie and Matt chuckled.
Rebekah walked up to them, placing car keys on the counter top.
Rosie looked at her.
Rebekah's eyes widened when she saw her. "Esmeralda?"
"No." Rosie answered. "You're the third person to call me that. And I'm judging by you asking Esmeralda took off her spell that makes Everyone forget what she looks like when she's not around."
"Rosie, why don't you go talk to April and Liam?" Matt asked. Rosie reluctantly walked away. Morgana watched her walk away. Matt looked at Rebekah. "She's my friend, and you need to leave her alone."
Matt looked at the keys on the counter top. "What's that?"
"The key to your new truck." Rebekah answered. "It's parked outside, payed for, insured, everything but a big red bow."
"If that's your idea of an apology, you should probably give it to Elena." Matt told her. "She's the one that you killed."
Matt walked away.
Morgana smiled, looking down. "You're trying too hard."
"Like you could do any better." Rebekah told her.
Morgana stood, walking closer to her, facing the bar as she was. "Oh, I most certainly could."
"Great." Rebekah told her sarcastically. "But, uh, could you use someone else to prove your point? Leave him be."
"Why would I do that?" Morgana asked. She looked over her shoulder toward April, Liam and Rosie sitting together at a table. She looked at Rebekah. "So, the Doppelganger of our brother Henrik's one true love and the girl that mind controlled the friends of Mystic Falls to kill our brother Finn is your crush's cousin. What a small world it is."
Klaus stood behind them, lying a hand on either of their shoulders. "Ah, sisters, play nice." Morgana grabbed the hand Klaus had on her shoulder, turning toward him, twisting, breaking his arm, making him groan in pain. "Morgana!"
Morgana smirked.
Rebekah turned to face him, amused.
"Last I heard you were leaving town, forever." Morgana told him.
"Well, I was, but then I thought to myself how can I when my sisters..." Klaus trailed off, looking at Rebekah. "One, who is clearly so desperate for love and affection, is left here bribing the help?" He looked at Morgana. "And the other, who I would much rather have by my side, and put her talents to good use?"
"What do you want, Nik?" Rebekah asked. "I thought we were dead to you."
"Things change, Rebekah." Klaus told her. "I've stumbled upon something I think might be of interest to you."
"Doubt that." Morgana told him.
"No?" Klaus asked. "Well, what if I told you the Brotherhood of the Five still existed?"
Morgana raised her eyebrows. "What?"
"You see, and like that, bygones." Klaus told them. "Come on, loves, work to do."
"We don't have anything to do." Morgana told him. "There is no we. I don't care about the Five and I don't care about you."
"As you wish." Klaus told them, walking away, leaving.
Rebekah sighed, looking at Morgana.
"Don't look at me like that." Morgana told her. "Losing this lead will be the best thing that will ever happen to you."
Morgana looked at the shot on the bar in front of her, taking it, tossing it back.
(Song Ends)
...
Whitmore College - Outside
(Song:) Kill Your Heroes - Awolnation
Damon's Car and Isabella's Car pulled up.
Damon, Elena and Bonnie got out of Damon's car.
Isabella, Evelyn and Sally got out of Isabella's car.
Elena looked at Bonnie and Sally. "Are you sure that you're okay with this?"
"If I could spell you out of wanting blood, I would, but I can't, so better you learn this now than at freshmen orientation." Bonnie told her.
"Something tells me that college isn't in my future anymore." Elena told them.
"Oh, stop with the pity party." Damon told her. "If I can go to college, you can go to college."
Evelyn looked at him skeptically, smirking. "You went to college?"
"Sure, plenty of times." Damon answered. "I always had a thing for sorority girls."
Damon smirked.
"You're disgusting." Sally told him.
Damon smirked, whispering tauntingly. "I know."
Evelyn rolled her eyes, shaking her head, turning around, walking away. Elena, Bonnie and Sally followed her.
Isabella looked at Damon, smirking, rolling her eyes. "Do you ever get tired of pissing them off?"
"Not exactly." Damon answered.
Damon and Isabella followed the girls.
As a brunette girl walked past Damon, in the opposite direction, Damon turned his head to watch her go.
(Song Ends)
...
The Occult Classroom
The room was dark, a slideshow going on behind the Professor Shane's head.
Shane spoke to the rows of students. "When I say the word 'witch', what pops into your head?" Damon, Isabella, Elena, Evelyn, Bonnie and Sally walked into the classroom. Shane flipped to a picture of a girl with a witch hat and broom. "Halloween costume?" He flipped to a cartoon-character witch. "Villain of a fairy tale? Maybe an ex girlfriend? Well, whatever image it is it's probably not..." He flipped to another picture of a normal, dark-skinned girl. "Tanyell Soso of Montego, Cameroon."
Damon, Isabella, Elena, Evelyn, Bonnie and Sally sat down.
Elena, Isabella, Evelyn, Bonnie and Sally looked down at Shane.
"Is that him?" Evelyn asked.
"Yeah." Sally answered.
"He's kind of..." Elena trailed off.
"Hot?" Bonnie finished.
Elena smiled.
Damon rolled his eyes.
"Now, in reality, or in this reality at least, witches appear to cross every culture in history." Shane told them. "They're the architects of the supernatural; responsible for everything that goes bump in the night from ghosts to vampires to Doppelgangers."
"What is this guy, Witch-ipedia?" Isabella asked.
Evelyn chuckled.
"Now, if you're a skeptic, you'd call that a coincidence." Shane went on. "But, if you're a true believer, you know that there's really no such thing. It scares the crap out of us."
Elena looked at Damon, whispering. "What if I'm a Ripper?"
"You're not a Ripper." Damon told her.
"What if I am?" Elena asked.
"Well, then, pick someone and we'll find out." Damon told her. Elena looked at him. Damon raised his eyebrows. Elena started to look at the other people in the classroom. She looked at a guy in the front of the class, jittery. "Stoner guys are no good to grab. They're too paranoid and you don't want the extra buzz." They looked further down the row to a brunette girl with glasses. "Now, she is a fun size, a tutor. Geeky girls are inherently suspicious of anyone who is nice to them. What you want..." Damon placed his arm around Elena's shoulders, pointing at a blonde girl. "Is the little blonde, pretty girl. Self absorbed, easily flattered. You just have to separate her from the pack and make your move."
Shane looked at Damon and Elena. "Am I interrupting you guys?" Damon and Elena looked at him. "Or is it maybe the other way around?"
"Sorry." Elena told him.
"I was just saying how much I love witches." Damon told him.
"Yeah, you and me both, brother." Shane told him. "All right, listen, we should probably talk about the readings that none of you did."
Elena looked at Damon, smiling.
...
Klaus' Mansion - Parlor
Klaus opened the doors.
Connor was chained up to a piece of wood.
Klaus walked in, standing next to his hostage. "Looks like I'll have to beef up the hybrid security detail."
Morgana walked out of the shadows. "I was gonna take him, but I figured you went through such trouble to truss him up in your red room of pain."
"It's from the Inquisition." Klaus told her. "I thought it was a nice touch."
"What'd you get out of him?" Morgana asked.
"Not enough." Klaus answered. "He's mum about the Council fire, and he's not saying anything about this greater evil we're all supposed to be shivering over. What brings you snooping?"
"Well, I can't say it in front of him." Morgana told him. "As I'm sure you've figured out, our friend here can't be compelled."
Klaus looked at Connor. "You're full of mysteries, aren't you?"
"I told you, I don't know anything." Connor told them.
"Thankfully, we know plenty." Klaus told him, walking out of the room, gesturing for Morgana to follow. "Shall we?"
Morgana looked at Connor for a few seconds, turning, following Klaus.
...
Living Room
Klaus closed the door, turning to Morgana. "So, what's with the home invasion? Is it because you're looking for a release? Why don't you go to Stefan?"
"Klaus, don't give me relationship advice, seeing as you don't have one, and the only successful one you've ever had was with a girl who hates you now." Morgana told him.
Klaus smirked. "We'll see about that."
Morgana shook her head, changing the subject. "I heard you when you said Connor was apart of the Five, and Stefan said that you healed Elena of werewolf venom without asking for anything in return. So, what are you up to?"
"I was feeling benevolent." Klaus told her.
"You're never benevolent." Morgana told him. "Why are the Five reappearing now?"
"So many questions." Klaus told her.
Morgana shrugged nonchalantly, letting her arms swing lightly at her sides, turning around, stepping away from him. "It's a good thing I have nothing to do today, except get answers out of you."
Morgana fell back into a chair, propping her feet up on the table in front of her, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Fine." Klaus told her. "You might actually be useful in persuading Rebekah to cooperate." He walked closer. "Yu remember that The Brotherhood of the Five was a group of highly skilled Vampire Hunters. We crossed paths with them in the 12th century, Italy."
...
Flashback 2 - 1114
Italian Village
Everyone was gathered.
Klaus: (voice over) "We had followed the Normans as they conquered the South. Feeding, turning people as we went."
Klaus and Elijah walked into the Town's Square.
A man was on a stage with an audience surrounding him.
There were vampires people tied up to wooden poles and staked through the heart on the stage, dead, desiccated.
The man spoke to the crowd of people. "These demons live among you. Passing as human."
Klaus: (voice over) "But with the bloodshed came exposure."
Klaus and Elijah stopped in the middle of the square and watched what what going on.
The man approached a box on the stage. "So, witness with your own eyes."
The man unlocked the box.
A man stepped out of the box, starting to burn from the sunlight. The vampire was set ablaze.
The crowd screamed in fear as the vampire burned to death.
The man walked down from the stage, looking unabashed by this.
"He's putting on quite the show." Elijah mused.
"He is nothing." Klaus told him. "I could eat him for sport."
"Still, you should heed the warning." Elijah told him. "Between you here and Kol in the east, you have not been discreet. Stories of the Original vampires are spreading."
"I welcome such infamy." Klaus told him. Music started to play throughout the village. "But if you're worried about discretion, perhaps you should wrangle our sisters."
The man and Rebekah were standing together nearby. The man kissed her hand. Rebekah smiled. They walked away together, arm in arm.
Klaus and Elijah looked toward the sound of music.
Some of the villagers were dancing.
Morgana was one of them, smiling, spinning around in the dance. A man walked toward her, dancing with her. They circled around each other, raising their hands but without touching each other. The man lifted Morgana in a cradle, spinning around, both laughing and giggling. The man set her on her feet, holding her close, a hand on either of her cheeks, kissing her passionately. As he did, his hand slid down to the pouch she carried.
Morgana suddenly caught his wrist, pulling away, opening her eyes, smiling a small smile. "I don't think so."
"Sorry." The man told her. "Couldn't resist."
Klaus was still watching them.
...
Now
Day - Klaus' Mansion - Living Room
Klaus was still standing in front of where Morgana was sitting.
"So these Hunters have been around for nine hundred years?" Morgana asked.
"Apparently." Klaus answered. "Though our friend in the other room is the first I've seen since then. Kind of makes you wonder what they've been up to all these years."
"And if I recall Rebekah had a thing with one of them?" Morgana asked.
"Oh, she didn't just have a thing." Klaus told her. "She fell in love with him."
"I remember the guy." Morgana said.
"A man whom I killed before you fell in love with him." Klaus answered. Morgana gave him an incredulous look. "He was a thief, thief of money, jewels, hearts, lives. Morgana on the other hand... He told Rebekah all his secrets. Which I will gladly share with you provided you do one thing for me."
"And what's that?" Morgana asked.
"Get Rebekah over here." Klaus answered. "She's being stubborn and hateful. I need to make peace with them."
"Rebekah hate you." Morgana told him. "There's no way they'd just grant you a favor. They'll listen to Stefan way before they'll ever listen to me."
"Then ask for Stefan's assistance." Klaus told her. "And I'm sure, since it's you who's asking, he'll do it gladly." He started to pace. "I want them to give me some very important information about the Hunter which they won't do, unless they believe we've made up."
Morgana stood. "And what's in it for me?"
"Just have Stefan get them here and I'll tell you." Klaus told her. "Oh, and, Morgana, trust me when I say this. That Hunter in there holds the answer to all your prayers."
Morgana looked at him in annoyance.
...
Salvatore Boarding House - Foyer
Morgana opened the door, walking inside without knocking, looking around. "Stefan? Hello?" She slowed to a stop in the foyer, looking up, looking amused. "You're standing right behind me."
"Yep." Stefan answered.
Morgana turned to face Stefan, smiling a small smile. "Don't do that." She got back to business. "Klaus knows something about the Hunter, and he's not gonna tell me until I get Rebekah over to his house."
"So why are you telling me?" Stefan asked.
"Because I know Rebekah will listen to me." Morgana answered in a duh voice. Stefan smiled a small smile, looking down. "I don't wanna have to talk to forcefully take her, but I know that you don't really care about doing that... so..."
"So you're wanting me to talk to her for you." Stefan finished. "And, since she wouldn't listen to you anyway, but she might listen to me."
"Huh." Morgana told him absentmindedly. "Couldn't have put it better myself. Oh, and, I'm not spending a whole dinner with just my siblings there, so you're gonna be there, too. Klaus wants to fake a truce, and, well... just get her there. Oh, and Klaus said that only the five of us can know. So, don't tell anyone else, and if you do, make sure they forget."
...
Mystic Grill
(Song:) Sweat - Hard-Fi
April and Liam were sitting together, both laughing and smiling.
Matt walked up to them. "Hey, guys. Where's Rosie?"
"She said she was gonna go home." Liam answered. "She just felt like all of this was too much, so she wanted to get some space and a breather."
Matt nodded understandingly. "Can I get you guys some more water?"
"I'm good." April answered. She looked at Liam. "Oh, and, Liam, I hope you don't mind, but I think I can stop the mean girl war. I mean, my friend, she just..."
Rebekah walked toward them sitting next to Liam. "Sorry, family drama."
"You two are friends?" Liam asked.
"Is it so hard to believe I would have one?" Rebekah asked.
"Yeah, it is." Liam answered. "Are you...?"
Liam pointed from his eyes to Rebekah's, referencing compulsion.
"Why would you immediately assume that?" Rebekah asked.
"Have you met you?" Liam asked.
Matt looked between them. "All right, I'm just gonna go before something explodes." He pointed at Rebekah, backing away. "And I'm keeping the truck."
Matt walked away.
April, Rebekah and Liam watched him go.
Rebekah looked at April.
April was still watching Matt.
"Hey, off limits." Rebekah told her. "I have dibs."
Liam looked at Rebekah. "Why do you think you always have to take something from everyone?"
Rebekah smiled. "Aw." She looked at April. "He thinks I'm trying to steal his friend away." She looked at Liam. "Don't worry, Liam. I'm just helping her find out what really happened to her father."
"Why would you do that?" Liam asked.
"Because maybe I'm not as evil as you all think I am." Rebekah told her.
"Okay, good." April told them. "You guys are having a civil conversation. This is progress. At least you guys aren't hating each other right now."
Rebekah and Liam looked at her, Rebekah saying, "I don't hate him." the same time Liam said, "She hates Elena."
April nodded awkwardly, pressing her lips together, looking away.
Rebekah looked at April, compelling her. "Give me your wrist and remain quiet."
April gave Rebekah her wrist.
"Hey, no, what are you doing?" Liam asked. Rebekah took April's wrist, looking at Liam, smirking, transforming, leaning her head down to feed without being noticed. "Stop it! She's my friend."
Rebekah looked up, her eyes still red. "I don't care."
"Why are you doing this?" Liam asked.
"Isn't it obvious?" Rebekah asked. "To get to you, darling."
Rebekah continued to feed.
Rebekah pulled back from April's wrist, grabbing a napkin nonchalantly, wiping the blood away, returning to normal.
Stefan walked up to the table, standing at the end of the table next to Rebekah, looking at April, compelling her. "You won't remember any of this."
"Stefan!" Liam complained.
"I'm sorry, but I can't have either of you know this." Stefan told him, taking Liam's vervain bracelet off. He compelled him. "You won't remember any of this." He put Liam's vervain bracelet back on, sighing, looking to Rebekah. "Klaus wants Morgana and me to fake peace with you, so you'll talk about the Five."
"Yeah, I bet." Rebekah told him. "But don't help him, he'll just betray you. It's what he does."
"All right, well, forget him." Stefan told her. "Help us instead."
"Why?" Rebekah asked. "You hate me more than he does."
"Because we want to figure out what he's up to." Stefan answered. "Don't you?"
"My interest is peaked." Rebekah told him.
Stefan raised his eyebrows, looking at Rebekah. "And plus I can give you the one thing he won't."
"And what's that?" Rebekah asked.
"A clean slate." Stefan answered. "I'm not saying that I'm willing to forgive you for what you did to Elena, but I'm willing to set it aside and start over."
"Why would you do that?" Rebekah asked.
"Because, you are obviously not leaving town anytime soon and, I'm just looking for a way we can all get along." Stefan answered. He looked at Rebekah. "Plus, you can't be too happy wandering around school with no friends."
"Well, what if I don't care what you or anyone else thinks?" Rebekah asked.
"Well, I'm pretty sure that you care what Matt, over there, thinks." Stefan told her. "So, maybe I can talk to him about a clean slate too."
Rebekah looked from Matt several feet away to Stefan.
(Song Ends)
...
Whitmore College - Outside
Damon and Elena were following the young blonde girl from Professor Shane's class across campus.
"She's young and healthy, she'll heal up like a charm." Damon told her. "Just keep your eye on the ball. Okay?"
"It's not a game, Damon." Elena told him.
"Fine, it's not a game." Damon told her. "It's a high stakes dangerous maneuver. Now, just go, just like we practiced. That's all you have to do."
Elena walked up to the girl. "Hey!" The girl turned to face her. "You're in my Anthro class, right?"
"Uh, yeah, I guess so." The girl told her.
"I totally spaced and forgot to get the reading list." Elena told him. "Do you have it?"
"Sure." The girl told her. "Uh, let me check."
She looked at her phone.
Elena grabbed the girl's wrist, compelling her. "This isn't going to hurt. Please don't scream." She looked at the girl's phone. She saw a picture of her with a young girl. "Who's that?"
"It's my little sister." The girl answered.
"Get out of here." Elena told her. "Go back to class."
Damon sighed in frustration.
The girl walked away.
Elena looked disappointed in herself.
Damon walked up to her. "What the hell are you doing?"
"I just..." Elena trailed off. "I saw the picture and I-"
"Everybody is someone's uncle or father or camp counselor or bible study teacher." Damon told her. "Elena, you don't know these people. Why do you care?"
"I care because I'm still me." Elena told him. "I still have the same feelings, Damon. Sorry if that spoils your master plan to turn me into a super vampire."
Evelyn and Isabella walked closer.
"What's going on?" Isabella asked.
"Nothing." Damon told them. "Elena is educating me on the importance of feelings."
"Sally and Bonnie are talking to the professor." Evelyn explained. "He found some stuff of Bonnie's Grams and apparently some of Sabrina's stuff was in there with it, so he's gonna dig it up for them."
"Oh, and, uh, this." Isabella told them, pulling out a flyer, showing it to them.
They looked at the flyer fora fraternity murder house party.
"Oh, nice, the answer to all of our problems." Damon told them. "A frat party. Douche central." He rubbed his hands together. "Which is why, you'll be eating very well tonight." He smirked. "So, what should we go as? Victims or killers?"
...
Klaus' Mansion - Parlor
Klaus and Morgana stood next to Connor.
"Where are they?" Klaus asked.
"They'll be here." Morgana told him in annoyance. "Chill. I got Stefan to help." Klaus smirked. "What?"
"No, nothing." Klaus told her. "Not at all." Connor groaned in pain. Klaus looked at him. "You feeling alright, mate? Are the shackles too tight? Welcome home, sister."
Morgana turned around to face the door behind them.
Rebekah and Stefan walked in together.
"Is this a trick?" Morgana asked. Klaus turned to face them. "How do you know he's one of the Five? Where's his bloody tattoo?"
"Oh, the tattoos aren't visible on this lot like they were on the last." Klaus told them. "Let's eat."
Klaus walked past them to walk out of the room.
Rebekah turned around to follow.
...
Dining Room
Morgana, Rebekah, Stefan and Klaus were all sitting around a table.
A girl was serving the food.
"Thank you, my lovely." Klaus told her. The girl walked away. "I could kiss the Council for burning up all the vervain in town. They made my life so much easier. Rebekah, love, eat your veggies."
"I'm not eating until you apologize." Rebekah told him.
"For which indiscretion?" Klaus asked. "There have been so many."
"You broke my neck." Rebekah told him.
"You and Morgana threw away Elena's blood so I can't make any more hybrids." Klaus replied.
"Because you took us for granted." Rebekah told him.
"And you pissed us off." Morgana told him.
"That's what big brothers do, sweetheart." Klaus told her.
"Let me just name the million other people I'd rather be having dinner with right now." Stefan told them.
Morgana looked at Stefan, raising her glass of wine. "I second that notion."
Stefan and Morgana clinked their glasses together, smirking, looking at each other, both taking a drink.
"All right, fine." Klaus told them. "I'm sorry." He looked at Rebekah. "I often forget how delicate you are." He looked at Morgana. "And how easily angered you are with an impulsive control. Forgive me?"
"We'll take it under consideration." Morgana told him. Morgana nodded, placing her glass down. "Okay, good." She looked at Klaus. "Now, why don't we tell Stefan about Rebekah's Hunter?"
"Right, Alexander." Klaus told them. "Nice chap foregoing the obvious issues."
...
Flashback 3 - 1114
Day - Mikaelson Home - Dining Room
Alexander, Rebekah, Elijah and Morgana were gathered around a table, partaking in a feast.
Klaus: (voice over) "He was looking for creatures of the night which is why we felt quite safe around him wearing our daylight rings."
A maiden poured them wine.
"I am unaccustomed to such luxury." Alexander told them.
"Well, it's the least we could do to repay you for opening our eyes to the truth." Morgana told him, on the verge of taunting him, looking at Klaus.
Klaus smirked.
"We're curious to hear more about your order." Elijah told him. "Your crusade."
"We are but five men." Alexander told them. "Bound by fire in the last breath of three dying witches to a single cause. The destruction of all vampires."
"And how do you hope to achieve this?" Klaus asked.
"We have the ultimate weapon which no vampire can survive." Alexander answered.
Rebekah, Elijah, Klaus and Morgana exchanged a look.
...
Now
Day - Klaus' Mansion - Dining room
Morgana, Rebekah, Stefan and Klaus were sitting at the table.
"So, that's what this is about?" Stefan asked. "A weapon?"
"Not just any weapon." Rebekah told him.
"Rebekah, love, don't get ahead of the story." Klaus told her.
"How is a weapon the answer to all my prayers?" Stefan asked. Rebekah, Klaus and Morgana exchanged a look. "Okay. Why don't we just skip with the theatrics and get right to the point?"
"Not quite yet, because in order to find this weapon, we need to solve the puzzle." Klaus told him. "Which seems to have disappeared."
"What puzzle?" Stefan asked.
Klaus raised his eyebrows, looking at Morgana, waiting for her to understand.
"The tattoo." Morgana answers. "What is it?"
"A map." Klaus answered. "Leading us to its treasure."
"Fat lot of good a tattoo's gonna do, if we can't see it." Rebekah told them.
"We can't, but someone else can." Klaus told them, turning toward a girl. "Why don't you tell the newest hybrid to bring him in, love?" The girl walked out of the room. "You see, the Hunter was so eager to get to the bottom of his mystery tattoos that he mentioned there was only one other person that can see them." Rosie walked into the room with Jeremy in her grasp, looking torn up in her guilt. Morgana rushed out of her chair, toward Jeremy. Klaus rushed past Morgana, standing between her and Jeremy. "I wouldn't."
Morgana looked at Rosie anger and confusion. "Rosie, what the hell?"
"I'm sorry, Morgana." Rosie told her, her voice nearly a whisper. "I didn't have a choice."
"She's telling the truth." Klaus told her.
Morgana looked at Klaus in realization, anger and hate. "You son of a bitch. You turned her into a hybrid."
Morgana stepped angrily toward Klaus as if she would attack him.
Stefan held Morgana back, restraining her. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Calm down before you do something you'll regret."
"I'd listen to him, Morgana." Klaus told her.
"Why are you doing this?" Stefan asked.
"My revenge against Rosie's cousin Tyler." Klaus answered. "Whenever I have to deal with your group of friends or have to force something out of you, I will have Rosie do so to punish him, without a way to break her precious sire bond without someone dying. Which brings us to now, needing to know what the map looks like... Lucky for us, young Jeremy here, is a bit of an artist."
"I'm not helping you with anything." Jeremy told him.
Klaus looked at Rosie.
Rosie fought the urge to do something he had said for as long as she could, but with her will taken away, she rushed to grab Jeremy's hand, taking his ring off, tossing it to Klaus.
Klaus held it up for Jeremy to see. "Oh, I'm afraid you are."
Stefan and Morgana looked at Klaus angrily.
Stefan, Morgana and Jeremy looked at Rosie expressionlessly.
Rosie looked down sadly.
...
Night - Whitmore College - Fraternity House Party
(Song:) Glamour - Anders Manga
Isabella, Evelyn, Sally, Elena, Damon and Bonnie walked into the party together in costume.
Isabella was dressed as poison ivy. Evelyn was dressed as Harley Quinn.
Sally, Elena and Bonnie were wearing matching costumes with their throats "slit" and "blood" dripping down their necks, their hair done to match the costumes.
Damon was wearing a suit with a top hat.
They were greeted by a guy. "Hey. I'm Frankie, unassuming serial killer."
"I'm Jack." Damon told him. They each took a drink. Damon put his arms around Elena and Bonnie, nodding to Sall. "And these are the three lovely ladies I just... Rippered." He looked at Evelyn and Isabella. "Poison and Harley over there wanted to be their own serial killers."
"Welcome to the Murder House." Frankie told them. "Bloody Marys free until midnight. Enjoy yourselves."
Frankie walked away.
Isabella, Evelyn, Sally, Elena, Damon and Bonnie looked around.
"Well, hats off to these idiots." Evelyn told them. She saw Shane standing on the stairs. "Oh, look, Professor Creepy."
"His name is Professor Shane." Bonnie told them. "And he's not creepy." She made eye contact with Shane, handing her drink to Elena. "We're gonna go talk to him."
"You do that." Damon told them. Sally and Bonnie walked toward Shane. Evelyn and Isabella headed their separate ways. Damon and Elena started walking into the party, looking at people. "Inebriated sleezeballs all covered in blood. Come on. Pick one."
Sally and Bonnie walked up the stairs to Shane.
Elena started looking for her first victim. She found a guy who was slipping roofies into a girl's drink. "I think I found one."
"Roofie Guy?" Damon asked.
"Mm-hmm." Elena answered.
"Nice choice." Damon told her. "Go get him."
Elena walked over to the roofie guy, bumping him. "Oh.. I'm sorry... Drink?"
Elena handed him Bonnie's drink.
"Sure." Roofie Guy told her. Elena smiled, walking away. Roofie Guy looked at the girl he had roofied. "I'll be right back."
...
Hallway
The roofie guy followed Elena. "Great party, right?"
"Yeah." Elena answered, walking closer, pushing him into the wall, compelling him. "You're not gonna make a sound."
Elena transformed, biting his neck, feeding.
Damon walked in. "Now remember the idea is not to kill him." Elena kept drinking. "Elena." Elena still kept drinking. "Step away from the ledge." Damon whispered her name. "Elena!"
Elena finally stopped, her mouth dripping with blood. She compelled Roofie Guy. "Leave and forget about this."
Roofie Guy walked away, leaving.
Elena smiled.
"Nice touch." Damon told her. Elena turned to face him. "How do you feel?"
Elena wiped her mouth, laughing. "I feel good." She wrapped her arms around Damon. Damon smiled, holding her close. Elena whispered into his ear. "I want more."
(Song Ends)
...
Night - Klaus' Mansion - Parlor
Rosie stood in the doorway, looking inside, keeping an eye on Connor and Jeremy.
Jeremy sat in a chair, looking over his shoulder to look at Rosie with a look as if he was in shock but accepting the fact that Rosie was a hybrid and couldn't break the sire bond.
Rosie felt his gaze, looking over her shoulder to look at Jeremy.
Jeremy cleared his throat, turning his back on Rosie.
Rosie looked hurt by this simple gesture, leaning against the wall, looking away, turning her head forward, guilt tinging her hurt expression.
Jeremy returned to drawing out the tattoo on Connor's arm on a notepad.
Connor noticed the exchange between Rosie and Jeremy, but ignored it, looking at Jeremy. "You set me up at the hospital. Led me into a trap. Why?"
"You were trying to hurt people who are important to me." Jeremy answered.
"Important to you?" Connor repeated. "That vampire just threatened to kill you. I don't understand how you can see the tattoo if you're a sympathizer."
"And what exactly do you understand?" Jeremy asked. "Because a couple days ago, you seemed to have all the answers, and now you know jack. Where did this tattoo come from? Why am I the only one who can see it?"
"Years ago, I met someone with the Mark." Connor told him. "Claimed he had this intense desire to kill vampires, like it was ingrained in his DNA. He told me the same thing I told you. That if I could see the Mark, I was a Potential."
"Who was he?" Jeremy asked.
"Just a guy I served in Iraq with." Connor answered. "I lost track of him, and then one day, the tattoo just showed up on me. It started on my hand, but the more vampires I killed the more it spread like-like it was trying to tell me something. I just-I just don't know what."
Jeremy looked back down at the notepad, continuing to sketch his tattoo.
Rosie had been listening, but too lost in thought to pay much attention.
...
Dining Room
Morgana, Rebekah, Stefan and Klaus were all around the table again.
"So, tell us more about this tattoo." Stefan told them.
"My sister's suitor was unwilling to tell us anything." Morgana told them. "Rebekah, however, was more than willing to investigate. Isn't that right?"
Rebekah looked down, ashamed.
...
Flashback 4 - 1114
Night - Mikaelson Mansion - Rebekah's Room
Rebekah and Alexander were in bed together. Rebekah was straddling him, kissing him passionately. They pulled apart. Alexander smiled.
Rebekah ran her hand across the tattoo on his chest. "How do you read these symbols?"
"The map took my brothers and I years to translate." Alexander told her. He grabbed a sword leaning against the bed. "The sword is the key to reading it." He put the sword down. "Have you considered my offer? To come with me when I leave to follow the map."
"I have and I would like that very much." Rebekah told him. Alexander smiled. Rebekah kissed him. When they pulled apart, Rebekah glanced over at something on the cabinet next to the bed. "What is that?"
"Oh, that." Alexander told her, picking up a silver dagger. "That is a very special weapon. For a very special kind of vampire." He dipped the dagger into the white oak ash. "When my brotherhood has achieved its destiny, those monsters will cease to exist. Until then, we have the daggers."
"Do you really believe they're all so evil they must be put down?" Rebekah asked.
"Let us not talk of such evil." Alexander told her. "Let us do this." He kissed her. "And this." He kissed her. "And this." He kissed her neck. "And this."
Alexander stabbed Rebekah through the heart with the silver dagger, watching her desiccate as she died until the dagger was pulled out.
...
Now
Night - Klaus' Mansion - Dining room
Morgana, Rebekah, Stefan and Klaus were sitting around the table.
"My sister's boyfriend threw a slumber party that night." Morgana explained. "He and his brothers put us all down in our sleep. Elijah, Kol, Finn, Klaus and me."
Morgana looked at Rebekah.
"How was I supposed to know?" Rebekah asked.
Klaus raised his glass. "Cheers, to my sister's uncanny ability to choose men."
Stefan looked at Klaus. "I thought the daggers didn't work on you because of your werewolf side."
Klaus smirked. "They don't."
...
Flashback 5 - 1114
Night - Mikaelson Mansion - Rebekah's Room
Rebekah gasped, waking, sitting up from bed.
Klaus was standing at the foot of the bed, covered in blood.
The walls were smeared with blood as well.
"What happened?" Rebekah asked.
"Ask him." Klaus told her, stepping aside. Alexander was stabbed against the wall with his own sword. Rebekah started to cry. "Only, he cannot answer, because I have ripped out his tongue. Along with the rest of them."
"Nik, I had no idea." Rebekah told him.
"But you should have." Klaus told her. "Your only family was nearly wiped out, because of your stupidity. What did he promise you?"
"Nothing." Rebekah told him. "Nothing."
"He would not have made a move unless he knew you were vulnerable." Klaus told her. "You trusted him, over me! What did he promise you?"
Rebekah cried. "Nothing, Nik. I swear."
Klaus raised his voice. "What did he promise you?"
Rebekah's crying increased. "Nothing, Nik. Nothing."
Klaus grabbed her shoulders forcefully, pulling her up. "Tell me, Rebekah!"
...
Now
Night - Klaus' Mansion - Dining Room
Morgana, Rebekah, Stefan and Klaus were sitting around the table.
"Go ahead, Rebekah." Morgana told her. "Tell him." She gestured to Stefan. "Tell him what the Hunter told you the tattoo leads to. What is this great weapon that could bring about the end of the vampire species?"
"A Cure." Rebekah answered. "He said there was a Cure."
Stefan looked at them in confusion and shock.
...
Klaus stood, walking away.
Stefan followed him. "There is no Cure for vampirism."
Rebekah and Morgana followed.
"He's telling the truth, Stefan." Rebekah told him.
"Then why wouldn't you have searched for it, found it?" Stefan asked.
Klaus poured himself a drink. "Because when the Hunters drew their final breath that night, the Marks disappeared from their body. The map was gone, the Brotherhood of the Five extinct. For nine hundred years, there was not a whisper of another Hunter, until our friend in there showed up in town."
"Well, now that we have the map, what do we do next?" Rebekah asked.
"We don't do anything." Klaus told her. "You can't be trusted, little sister. You'll be blabbing this secret to the first boy who calls you pretty. I mean, it's pathetic, really, isn't it? How she continues to hand her heart to any man who shows her a hint of affection. You'd think she would have learned by now from the endless cycle of disappointment and deception."
"But, I haven't." Rebekah told him. "Instead, I stayed with you and let you leech every moment of happiness from my life."
Rebekah turned around, storming away.
Morgana looked at Klaus. "What you did to Alexander was no worse than what you did to Samuel, isn't that right, brother?"
Klaus didn't answer.
...
Flashback 6 - 1114
Night - Mikaelson Mansion - Hallways
The man who had kissed Morgana earlier, the one whom Klaus had described as a thief, Samuel, walked alone down the hallways, looking around. He found double doors, pushing them open, walking inside.
...
Study
Samuel rummaged through their things; drawers, shelves. He found a pair of jewels, putting them into his pocket quickly, looking around. He walked toward the doors.
...
Hallway
Samuel walked out of the study doors, closing them behind him, turning to the right, stopping suddenly.
Klaus stood there, covered in blood still, looking angry and numb. "Going somewhere?"
"Just looking for your sister." Samuel told him.
Klaus grabbed his throat. "Lies!"
Klaus pulled him angrily toward the balcony.
Morgana stood down the hallway, noticing them. "Nik!" Klaus ignored her. Morgana rushed toward him. "Niklaus!"
Klaus pushed Samuel over the railing onto the ground below outside, ignoring his screams.
Below, Samuel hadn't died, but was very weak. Canines growled as they ran toward him.
Up on the balcony, Morgana caught herself against the railing, looking over the edge in shock.
Samuel's screams could be heard as the dogs tore him apart.
Klaus turned toward Morgana. "I'm sorry. Did you love that man?"
Morgana rushed toward Klaus, pushing him against the wall angrily. "I could have learnt to if you let him live."
"But you didn't." Klaus told her. "Did you?"
"I guess I'll never know." Morgana told him, letting him go, backing away. "Just like how you'll never realize how monstrous you've become."
Morgana walked away, never looking back.
Klaus looked up, affected by her words.
...
Now
Night - Klaus' Mansion - Dining Room
Klaus, Morgana and Stefan were left talking.
"You let a thief into our home and allowed him to steal our belongings." Klaus told her. "And in return, I killed him."
"You've killed every single person Rebekah or I have grown close to enough the point of nearly falling in love, or nearly falling in love." Morgana told him angrily. "It doesn't matter if it's human, witch, vampire or werewolf."
"To protect you from yourselves." Klaus told her.
Morgana looked at Stefan. "You know, after you I stopped falling in love because he would kill the ones I cared for. But at least we fared better then Finn. Klaus left him daggered because he was tired of his judgment."
"No, Finn was a dullard." Klaus told her, pointing at Morgana, walking closer. "He was more interesting lying in a box."
"You want the Cure for Elena, don't you?" Morgana asked. "So you can go back to mass producing your hybrids. That's why you brought Stefan here, because you knew that they'd help you even though they hate the very ground ground you walk on. You know what? You can shove your Cure. I'd rather have it destroyed anyway."
Klaus turned to Stefan and Morgana.
"Well, I hope you got what you wanted out of them before you chased her off." Stefan told him.
"She would've never told me what I needed to know." Klaus told them. He looked at Stefan. "But they'll tell you."
Stefan hesitated. "What do you need me to find out?"
Morgana looked at him in confusion.
"The map is useless without the tool used to decipher it." Klaus told them.
"The sword." Morgana stated.
Klaus looked at Morgana, nodding. "She knows where it is." He looked at Stefan. "And you're gonna get her to tell you." Neither of them said anything. "You have a chance to save Elena from the very thing that's going to destroy her. You can call it a deal with the devil if you'd like. But you know you won't walk away from it."
A moment of silence passed.
"I will." Morgana told them as simply as possible, walking past Klaus. "I'm gonna get my friends brother out of here and home, and then I'm gonna help Rosie break her sire bond. Yes, you may have sired her to kill whoever tries to help her break the sire bond, but that command doesn't work for someone who can't be killed by anything except the white oak stake."
Morgana started to walk around a corner.
Klaus rushed in front of Morgana to stop her, putting a hand on her shoulder. "You can't tell anyone, Morgana. You will help me find this Cure, but I don't want anyone to know. Not Jeremy. Compel him, do whatever it is you have to do. Just make sure he doesn't remember."
Morgana crossed her arms over her chest. "And if I don't?"
"I'll rage a war against you and everyone you love." Klaus answered.
Klaus nodded, taking his hand away from her shoulder.
...
Whitmore College - Shane's office
Bonnie and Sally walked in.
Shane followed them in, closing the door behind them, walking toward the desk with a box. "I put your grandmother and mother's stuff around here somewhere. There were a couple of family photos and a first edition Stephen King." He looked at Sally . "Some of your mother's stuff is albums. Did you know she liked Cujo?"
Sally shook her head.
Bonnie was walking around the office, looking at the pictures and objects Shane had around.
Shane was digging up the belongings for Bonnie and Sally.
"This is amazing." Bonnie told him. "It's all stuff you picked up on your travels?"
"Yeah, I, uh, I do this thing." Shane told them. "It's like a one man traveling occult exhibit to small towns. It funds my crazy Indiana Jones adventures." He handed them book and photos. "Do you practice?" Bonnie and Sally looked up at him. "Like they did? I'm a true believer, just don't tell anyone."
"No, we-we don't practice." Sally answered. "Not anymore. We lost control of ourselves, and there were consequences."
"Yeah, witches love their consequences, don't they?" Shane asked. "You know, there are other ways to practice magic. If you're interested."
"Are you...?" Sally trailed off.
"No." Shane answered. "No, no, no. I'm just-uh-I'm just a guy with a very open mind who's seen a lot of things and I'm willing to pass some of them along. If you're up for it. And if you have any other witchy friends who need help, which is highly unlikely."
Bonnie looked thoughtful. "Actually, we might know two."
Sally looked at Bonnie, knowing that she was talking about Rosie and Elizabeth, and that Shane could help them teach Rosie how to use her magic.
Shane looked up.
Bonnie hesitantly smiled a small smile.
...
The Party
(Song:) Feel So Close - Calvin Harris
Damon and Elena were dancing with two girls.
Damon bit the neck of the girl he was dancing with, feeding from her.
Elena continued to dance with her girl, grabbing her by the shoulders, compelling her. "Don't scream. This isn't gonna hurt."
Elena tilted the girl's head over, biting her neck, feeding. When she pulled back, there was blood dripping down her chin. She let go of the girl, beginning to dance again, in a blood-induced high.
Damon saw her from across the room, making his way toward her.
Elena saw him, smiling. She wrapped her arms around his neck. They started to dance together. Elena ran her hand across Damon's neck and licked the blood from off her fingers.
Evelyn and Isabella were standing in the doorway, having seen most of what they had been doing.
Elena saw Evelyn, starting to come down from her blood high.
Evelyn looked shocked.
Elena stopped dancing. "Oh, my God. Oh, my God."
Damon tried to stroke her cheek.
Elena backing away, turning, walking toward Evelyn and Isabella.
Damon turned to watch her go.
Elena looked at Evelyn and Isabella as she walked past, without stopping. "I've got to get out of here."
Evelyn followed Elena out of the frat house.
Isabella looked at Damon.
Damon was still dancing.
(Song Ends)
...
Klaus' Mansion - Parlor
Jeremy was still sketching the tattoo.
Klaus walked in, looking at the drawing. "Nice lines. Now, if you could just hurry it up a little bit."
Jeremy stood, handing the sketchpad to Klaus. "I'm done."
Klaus looked at the sketch, walking closer toward Connor. "What is this?"
Rosie peeked around the corner of the wall to look toward them.
"It's the tattoo." Jeremy answered.
Klaus turned around, grabbing Jeremy by the throat. "I've seen the tattoo, you impertinent punk." Rosie walked in. "There's more to it."
"That's all of it." Jeremy told him.
"You're not telling me everything." Klaus told him. "Rosie, what isn't he telling me?"
"I'll tell you if you leave him alone." Rosie told him.
"I didn't say you had a choice, love." Klaus told her, tightening his grip around Jeremy's throat. "Tell me."
Rosie looked angry, exasperated yet resigned. "He says every time he kills a vampire it spreads."
"There." Klaus told her, pushing Jeremy into the chair, turning toward Rosie. "Wasn't so hard, was it?" Rosie glared at him. "Tell Morgana to take him home." Klaus turned toward Connor. "Nate!" Nate the hybrid walked in. Klaus pointed at Connor. "Keep this one alive at all costs."
Klaus walked out of the room.
Rosie sighed, turning to Jeremy, offering a hand to him to help him up.
Jeremy ignored it, standing, walking out of the room.
Rosie looked down sadly. She lowered her hand to her side.
Nate looked at Rosie.
Rosie felt his gaze, ignoring him, walking out of the room.
Connor watched her leave.
Nate walked out of the room.
Connor tried to pull free from the shackles.
Nate walked back in. "Looks like you've got too much leash." He reached up to tighten the shackles. "You're not going anywhere, so you might as well stop the racket." Connor looked at the earring in his ear, biting a chunk of his ear off. Nate pulled back, groaning. He punched Connor in the face. "You're lucky I can't kill you. Freak."
Nate walked out of the room, slamming the door shut.
Connor lightly pushed barbell earring from his mouth, looking at the shackles, clearly about to pick the locks with the barbell.
...
Whitmore College - Fraternity House - Outside
Elena walked across the lawn, wiping the blood off her mouth.
Evelyn was following her, close behind.
Elena turned to face Evelyn. "Who am I? Why am I acting like this?"
"Because you listened to Damon and Damon makes everything he wants sound like a good idea." Evelyn answered.
"I should be here with Stefan." Elena told her. "I shouldn't be here with him. I should be going through all this with Stefan."
"You shouldn't be doing this to Emma, either." Evelyn told her.
Elena realized that she was right, tears in her eyes, putting a hand to her mouth. "Oh, my God. What am I doing to Emma?"
Damon and Isabella walked out of the fraternity house from behind Evelyn.
Isabella cleared her throat.
Elena and Evelyn looked at them.
"Guessing we should hit the road." Isabella told them.
Evelyn strode over to Damon. "You were supposed to help her, and you let her get completely out of control."
"She's not out of control." Damon told them. "She was having fun."
"This isn't fun." Evelyn told him. "She's acting like a different person."
"She is a different person." Damon told her. "She's a vampire. We all are. We're a predatory species. We enjoy the hunt, the feed, and the kill. When the guilt gets too bad, we switch off our humanity and we revel in it. You might not be able to be like me, Evelyn, but your friends sure can be. Both of them."
Damon looked at Elena.
"Is that what you want?" Evelyn asked. "For her to be like you?"
"She already is like me." Damon told her. "And you know what makes me able to drink my fill and leave someone breathing and not rip their head off like my brother or Morgana? It's that I can revel in it. I can make it fun." He looked between Isabella and Evelyn. "And the two of you, always in the middle. You may feed on human blood, but you don't feed from the vein. You use little juice boxes so that you don't let yourselves get out of control, but it doesn't leave much in the way of fun. You're being uncharacteristically quiet, Isabella. Why don't you weigh in?"
"I don't approve." Isabella told him.
"That's a shock." Damon told her sarcastically.
"I just can't judge because of the way that I used to be." Isabella told him. "I'm not like our brother. I know what it's like to go dark, come back, and not judge everyone else for being the way that you used to be. But it doesn't mean that I have to like it."
"You wouldn't be you if you did." Damon told her. He looked at Evelyn. "And you wouldn't be you if you didn't contradict every move I make, because you do hate me that much."
"Maybe I hate you so much because you are the reason that my friends are being driven apart." Evelyn told him. "They've both told you to choose between them now, Damon. Why don't you finally make a choice and stop playing them?"
Damon looked hurt and irritated by Evelyn's words, pushing past her. He looked at Elena, walking away.
Elena looked traumatized.
...
Morgana's Mansion - Living Room
Rebekah was sitting on the couch, a drink in her hand.
Stefan walked in behind them.
Rebekah didn't have to look behind her to know he was there. "What are you doing here?"
"I wanted to apologize." Stefan told her. "I was hoping we could talk."
Rebekah poured him a drink. "By all means, talk." She handed him the glass. "I think we could all use one. I'm sorry" Rebekah told him. "I know you wanted our help. He just makes me so upset and makes Gana so angry."
"No one deserves to be treated that way." Stefan told her.
"I wanted it back then." Rebekah told him. "The Cure. I was willing to leave behind my family for it."
Rebekah looked at Stefan. "Would you take it if you had the chance? Or is it just for Elena?"
"A part of me wishes that she and I could have an eternity together." Stefan told them. "But Isabella's right. There's not a single vampire who hasn't killed a human. Elena will kill and then there will be the pain, the guilt, and then..."
"The humanity switch." Rebekah finished.
"But Elena, she's driven by love, by compassion." Stefan told them. "If she turns off her humanity, then I don't think we'll ever get her back. So, I'd do anything to save her."
"I envy that." Rebekah told him. "You and Elena. I envy the love you have. I really did believe Alexander when he said he loved me. He promised we'd be married. We even picked out a church. San Vittore in Brienno. I know you want my help, Stefan. But I just can't do anything that lets my brother get what he wants."
Rebekah took a sip of her drink.
"I never did answer your question," Stefan told her. "If it meant that I got to be with her, have children, grow old with her. If it meant that we'd die together, be buried together, then yes. I'd take the Cure."
"I buried him." Rebekah told him. "Even after everything. I laid him to rest in the place where we were to be married. What kind of hopeless fool does that? Rebekah stayed behind to help me bury him. Even if she's angry and impulsive, she's just as compassionate as Elena."
Rebekah realized what she said, pointing at Stefan. "Oh, but that's what you wanted to know, isn't it? Because we buried him with his sword."
Klaus walked into the room with his hands behind his back. "I'm sorry, Rebekah, but you're right." Rebekah turned to face him. Klaus took his hands from behind his back. A dagger was in one hand. The white oak ash was in the other. "You really are a hopeless fool."
Klaus dipped the daggers in the ash.
Rebekah tried to rush past Klaus.
Rosie rushed in her way to stop her. "Sorry, Rebekah."
Rebekah looked at Stefan. "Go right ahead. Laugh at the girl who loved too easily." She looked at Klaus. "But I would rather have lived my life than yours, Nik. No one will ever sit around a table telling stories about a man who couldn't love. Now you're going to dagger me again just because I will stop at nothing to keep you getting from what you want. Do it. Look me in the eye and do it, you coward." Klaus avoided her eyes. Rebekah stepped closer to him, yelling. "Do it!"
Klaus stabbed Rebekah with the dagger.
Rebekah started to desiccate, dying.
...
Rebekah's body was on the couch. Rosie covered her body with a blanket.
Klaus walked in the room. "I have a plane waiting. I'll get the sword." He looked at Rosie. "You tell my other hybrids to keep an eye on Connor and put Rebekah and Kassandra somewhere where no one will find them."
"I'll take care of it." Rosie told him.
"No one must know about the Cure, do you understand?" Klaus asked. "Not Damon. Not Elena. Not Elisaveta. Nor Isabella. Not Emma. Not Tyler. Nobody. If this gets out, it could mean all our deaths. So, if either of you tell anyone, I'll-"
Rosie rolled her eyes, nodding. "Wage a war on everyone we love. Didn't you already make that threat before?"
Klaus turned his head to look at her.
"We won't say anything." Stefan told him.
"It's just the two of you, Morgana and me in this." Klaus told them. "Some secrets are stronger than family."
...
Gilbert House - Living Room
(Song:) Happening - Olivia Broadfield
Jeremy and Morgana sat together on the couch.
Morgana shook her head. "I can't believe Rosie's a hybrid."
"Yeah, a sired hybrid that will kill anyone who tries to make her break her sire bond." Jeremy told her. "Morgana, the best thing to do is just let her go."
Morgana looked at him incredulously. "She's my friend. I'm not just gonna let her go. Jer?"
"Yes." Jeremy answered.
"And who do you think will never turn their backs on Rosie while everyone else will?" Morgana asked.
"You and Tyler." Jeremy answered. "Maybe Matt and Liam."
"Exactly." Morgana told him. She shook her head. "Rosie never gave up on us. I will never give up on her."
There was a long moment of silence.
"Do you think that Klaus' serious?" Jeremy asked. "That he'll wage a war if you don't listen to him?"
"Yeah." Morgana answered.
Jeremy looked at her. "Then do it." He took off his vervain bracelet, handing it to Morgana. Morgana looked at him in shock. "If finding that Cure means that the vampires have a shot at a human life, and it protects people, then compel me and do everything he says. Of course, give him a little hell by being stubborn." Morgana chuckled. "That should be easy enough, for you. But do it."
Morgana exhaled, nodding, turning to face him, compelling him. "You're not gonna remember anything about today. You went to the Grill and hung out with Matt, Liam and Tyler. You won't remember being at Klaus'." She exhaled sadly. "I'm sorry."
Morgana took Jeremy's wrist, slowly wrapping his vervain bracelet around his wrist, latching it. She sat back onto the couch, sighing.
...
Outside
Evelyn and Elena walked onto the front porch, in their normal clothes.
Evelyn walked toward the door.
Elena grabbed her by the arm to stop her from walking inside just yet. "Evelyn, I'm sorry. Things got a little heated at the party, and I shouldn't have let that happen. It's just that I-I feel like..."
"What do you feel, Elena?" Evelyn asked. "Do you really love Stefan? Do you love Damon? Do you feel remorse about going behind Stefan and Emma's backs to go there where you went with Damon?"
"Of course I do." Elena answered. "About all of it. It's just... when Damon tells me what a vampire should be, deep down, I believe him. I think that he's right, and I-I hate that feeling."
"You should." Evelyn told her. "You shouldn't be like him, Elena. And you shouldn't be doing this to Stefan and Emma."
Elena didn't say anything, knowing that she was right, sighing.
The front door opened, revealing Morgana inside.
Elena looked at Morgana. "Hey."
Morgana smiled sadly, awkwardly. "Hey. I was just hanging out with Jeremy."
Evelyn looked at Elena, as if she would tell Morgana about what happened at Whitmore.
Elena looked at Evelyn, shaking her head barely.
Evelyn gave Elena a look for keeping her quiet. She looked at Morgana. "Any news on the Hunter?"
Morgana shook her head. "No. No, nothing new."
"Well, then, today was a bust." Evelyn told her.
Morgana walked closer. "So, uh, what happened?"
Elena forced a smile. "I learned how to feed without hurting someone." She let her smile fade, shaking her head sadly. "It was awful. I got caught up in it."
"Ah, it'll get easier." Morgana told her.
"But I don't want it to get easier." Elena told her. "I can't live like this. Morgana, I'm feeling things that I don't-I don't want to feel and I'm becoming someone that I don't-I don't want to be. I don't think I'm gonna survive this."
"Hey, yes, you will." Morgana told her. "I promise."
Elena shook her head, starting to cry. "No."
Morgana stepped toward her. "Yes. Hey." She wrapped her arms around Elena. "You just have to hold on."
Elena closed her eyes, returning the embrace.
Evelyn looked numb, willing to tell Morgana what happened.
(Song Ends)
...
Klaus' Mansion - Parlor
Nate walked in with food and water. He was on the phone with Klaus. "Yeah, I got it. I'll keep him fat and happy. You should send two more for protection." He glanced at Connor. "Make that three."
Nate hung up the phone, placing the water on a table.
Connor came up from behind Nate, wrapping the shackles around his neck. He pulled hard on the shackles. Nate tried to pull himself free. Connor screamed, pulling the chains deeper into Nate's neck. He thrusted the chains forward three times until Nate's head fell off. Connor picked the head off the floor, holding it up. He saw the tattoo start to develop more and spread across his arm and shoulder. On his shoulder was a Triqetra mark.
...
Whitmore College - Shane's Office
The same mark Connor just got on his arm could be seen in picture form, hanging in a frame, on Shane's wall.
Shane was sitting at a desk, reading a book.
A man walked into the room, his face unseen.
Shane looked up at him. "Shouldn't you be in Mystic Falls killing vampires?"
Connor was the man revealed to be walking in. "Why the hell did you send me there?"
