Flashback - 1977
New York, New York City
Night - Street
A man and woman were walking arm in arm down a city street during the night.
"You were right." The woman told him.
"I told you." The man told her.
"It was really good." The woman told him.
"Yeah?" The man asked. "I'm glad you liked it."
"Yeah, thanks for inviting me." The woman told him.
"Do it again next week?" The man asked.
"If you're lucky." The woman told her. They stopped when they saw a body lying face down on the sidewalk, arms at odd angles. "Oh, God. Is he... Do you think he's dead?"
"I don't know." The man told her, hesitantly approaching the body. He looked at the woman. "Stay there." He turned to face the body, but the body was no longer there. Behind him, the woman screamed. He turned around, running to her body on the ground. "Oh, my God." The woman's neck was bitten and bloodstained. Suddenly, there was sound of objects falling behind the man, but when he turned around, nothing was there. Hearing footsteps approaching behind him, he turned around again, facing the attacker. "You're that serial killer, aren't you? The Son of Sam?"
Damon walked into view, blood running down his chin, nodding. "Son of Giuseppe, but close enough."
(Song:) Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
Damon rushed toward the man, ravaging his neck, feeding, killing him, letting him fall, walking away from the bodies nonchalantly, leaving the bodies there on the sidewalk.
(Song Ends)
...
Now
Day One
New York, New York City
Morning - Streets
(Song:) Psycho Killer - Harper Blynn
Morgana, Elena, and Damon walked down the crowded sidewalk with passing people pushing around each other.
"You dragged us all the way to New York because you were feeling nostalgic?" Morgana asked.
"No, I dragged you two to New York because in a matter of three days, you all managed to piss off everyone in Mystic Falls." Damon answered. "A little more difficult to do in a city of millions."
"We were hungry." Elena told him.
"You were reckless." Damon told them.
"Emotionless." Elena corrected. "There's a difference."
"Look, all that matter is that when I lived here, I fed like crazy and I had a blast and went undetected for years." Damon told them.
"So..." Morgana trailed off. "We're just here to have fun?" She stopped walking. Elena and Damon turned to face her. "What's the catch?"
"There's no catch." Damon told them. "Look, you two wanted out, I got both of you out. You wanted to feed, I brought you to a city-sized, all-you-can-eat buffet."
"That's the beauty of New York." Morgana told them. "There's so much life that a little death goes unnoticed." Elena nodded, smiling. Morgana looked at Elena, smirking, but she was still suspicious of Damon. "Come on, let's go get some lunch."
(Song Ends)
...
Later
Stefan and Emma were talking to Damon on the phone over speak phone, at the Salvatore Boarding House, in the library.
"Hey, what do you mean you took them to New York?" Stefan asked.
"And that tone is the reason I didn't pick up the phone the first twenty times you called." Damon told him.
"Where are they now?" Emma asked.
"Out exploring." Damon answered. "Maybe they're eating a hot dog... vendor."
"So I take it your search for Katherine is off?" Emma asked.
"Relax, Em." Damon told her. "This little joyride is actually a Cure hunt. The vampire that Esmeralda sent after Hayley and Elizabeth was a friend of mine. He lived in the city. Will got vampires fake identities, and I'm sure that Katherine was one of his clients."
"And Morgana and Elena are okay with this little field trip?" Emma asked skeptically. "Just yesterday, they were living the vampire high life. Morgana doesn't want the Cure."
"That's why I didn't tell her." Damon told them. "Morgana will take the Cure, and it will turn Klaus human with her, and it will solve all of our problems. Evelyn should be here soon and Elena along so they can have a good time. Maybe enough to convince them to turn it back on."
"Damon, if Morgana finds out you're still looking for the Cure, she'll bolt." Stefan told him.
"I'm aware of that, Stefan." Damon told him. "What I'm hoping is that she's gonna be so wasted on booze and blood that she won't even think about it."
"Don't underestimate her." Stefan told him.
"If we can handle you and Elizabeth when you flipped your switch, we can handle Morgana and Elena." Emma told him. "Trust me."
"Listen to me." Stefan told them. "They're ruthless without their humanity. Morgana taking the Cure is the fastest way to get her back. Then we'll have to see about what we can do about Elena."
Damon saw Elena walking toward him, her hair cut into a new wavy hairstyle with a red streak. "Just be a good brother and friend and keep Mystic Falls afloat for me and let me do my thing. You've got an immortal named Silas to deal with, remember?"
Damon hung up, still looking at Elena.
Elena smiled, tilting her head and flipping a piece of her hair back to show off her new style. "You like?"
"I love." Damon answered. "Where's your sister and partner in crime?"
Elena smirked.
...
Alleyway
Morgana was feeding, leaning the guy against the building. Her hair was cut shorter.
Elena walked closer. "When you said, 'Let's feed', I think you meant somewhere darker than broad daylight, but okay."
Damon walked closer.
"Ease up." Damon told her. Morgana continued feeding, raising one arm behind her to flip him off. Damon looked taken back. "Well, okay, that deserves another grounding. But I'm not Stefan. I'm the fun brother." He grabbed Morgana's hand, pulling her away from the man, turning her to face him. The man's body fell to the ground. Damon handed Morgana her jacket. "Nice hair cut. Wipe the blood off your face. We're going to a club."
Morgana smiled, taking the jacket.
...
Salvatore Boarding House - Living Room
Elizabeth was in the room, collecting trash from around the house from the party last night. Finding a cup that still had alcohol in it, she drank the last sip, tossing it in the bin.
Klaus walked in. "Desperate times for boredom, I take it?"
Elizabeth didn't look at him. "What are you doing here?"
"Not judging you, for starters." Klaus told her. "Although if you are determined to get drunk, then perhaps I might recommend something a little more sanitary?" Elizabeth turned toward him, maintaining eye contact, draining another cup, throwing it defiantly into the bin. Klaus smirked in amusement. "Well, then. You showed me."
Elizabeth returned to cleaning. "Shouldn't you be out chasing Scott and Tyler to the ends of the Earth, or maybe bite someone to use as leverage or to teach a lesson? Or are there still some hopes and dreams you wanna crush around here?"
"I see that Esmeralda's mind control is back to affecting you as much as it's affecting me." Klaus told her. "I take it you're still angry with me. You were more than pleased yesterday. If I do remember correctly."
Elizabeth blushed turning toward him, putting the bin on the table next to her. "Damn right I'm back to being angry at you. You bit me just to get to Scott, Tyler, Em, Stefan and Damon, and you didn't even know if you were going to let me die or not. Or maybe you were just doing it because you were hurt and upset with me because of what happened with the hybrids, but don't make it out to be my fault. If you hadn't treated them like you treat your real friends, none of this would have ever happened." Klaus seemed to be affected by her words. "You can go away now."
Klaus and Elizabeth looked at each other for a moment.
Stefan and Emma walked into the room.
Stefan looked at Elizabeth. "Actually, I asked him to be here." Elizabeth looked at him in confusion. "We need his help."
Emma looked at Klaus. "We think Silas is in Mystic Falls."
...
Bennett House - Living Room
Silas, still in Shane's form, Sally and Bonnie were sitting across from each other.
"Okay." Shane/Silas told them. "Come on. Take a deep breath." He inhaled deeply. "And five, four-"
"I can't do this." Sally told them.
"Sally, relax, okay?" Shane/Silas asked. "Trust me."
"How can we trust you if you won't show us your real face?" Sally asked. "Don't you think it's a little creepy that you're appearing as our dead professor?"
"I told you that I'm Silas, I told you Shane died on the island." Shane/Silas told them. "I'm trying to earn your trust." Sally sighed, sitting back. Bonnie wouldn't look at him. "All right. Look. Bonnie, you invited me into your home, right? Why? Why'd you both lie to your friends and tell them everything was fine? Bonnie, why did you convince your dad that you both needed Professor Shane's help to control your magic? What am I doing here?"
Bonnie stood, flustered. "You're in our heads. You're making us see things and do things."
Shane/Silas stood, putting a hand on her arm. "Hey, now. See? Look. I'm strong, but you're both witches, and I can't force you to do anything that you don't already want to do. You care about Jeremy, right?" He looked at Sally. "And you love Scott."
Sally nodded sadly. "I do."
"Yeah." Shane/Silas told her. "You were with him, and you promised to protect him, but you failed. And now, in order to bring all of them back..."
"We need to get rid of the Other Side." Bonnie finished.
"Bonnie, you are descended from Qetsiyah, and Sally , you are descended from Octavia, and Rosie is descended from Esmeralda, three of the most powerful witches of all time." Shane/Silas told them. "Only the three of you can complete the Triangle and cast the spell."
"Completing the Triangle means killing 12 people." Bonnie told him, turning away from him.
"Twelve people you can bring back." Shane/Silas told them. They both looked at him. "You can do this. For those you love and you've lost."
...
Salvatore Boarding House - Living Room
Klaus was pouring himself a drink, looking at Stefan and Elizabeth. "So some blood went missing from a few hospitals. What about Morgana or Elena? Or Rosie? Don't vampires with their humanity off tend to overindulge in human blood, or were you two the exceptions?"
"It's not them." Stefan told him.
"Well, let's say for a moment that it was Silas." Klaus told them. "I'm struggling to see how this affects me."
"Look, Silas wants to die and be reunited with his one true love, but he's supernatural, so if he takes the Cure and dies, he gets stuck on the Other Side." Emma told him.
"How Shakespearean." Klaus told them.
"But if he destroys the Other Side altogether, he can take the Cure, die and pass on, but in destroying it, every dead supernatural being will return to our side." Stefan told him.
"That means every werewolf, every witch, every vampire." Elizabeth told him. "I wonder how many of those you personally killed. Care yet?"
Klaus smiled. "My interest is piqued. How do we stop him?"
"Bonnie, Rosie and Sally said Silas needs to complete three massacres to do this spell." Stefan told them. "Esmeralda mind controlled the Pastor to blow up the Council. Next, she had you kill your hybrids, and now they only need one more massacre, so if Silas is here, that's what he's doing. We need to find him."
...
New York, New York City
Billy's
(Song:) Bite Your Lip - New Cassettes
Evelyn, Elena, Damon and Morgana walked into a bar called Billy's. It was dimly lit.
"Looks about right." Damon told them.
Morgana sighed. "We were promised hedonism."
"Well, it's early." Damon told them. "Hedonism isn't a big fan of the sunlight."
Elena made a face, looking around. "Or soap."
"Easy, judgies." Damon told them. "Not everybody got a new hair cut today." Morgana and Elena smiled. "Give it a couple of hours. This place will be crawling with more punked-out nihilists than you can eat in a decade, trust me."
"How do you know?" Evelyn asked.
"Because I spent most of the '70s here." Damon answered. "The Factory was too clean, CBGB's was too high-profile, but Billy's... Billy's was the underground of the underground."
(Song Ends)
...
Flashback - 1977
Night - Billy's
(Song:) Loudmouth - Cary Brothers
A punk-rock band was playing and everybody was dancing wildly.
Damon and Will were talking at the bar.
Damon threw down the two ID's from the man and woman he had killed. "There you go."
"Two for one." Will told him, pleased. "Rock 'n' roll."
"That's the third 5'7" brunette I've gotten for you, Billy boy." Damon told him. "Is that the same client?"
"She's a runner." Will told him. "Some vampires need more identities than others." Damon saw a few people getting into a fight, drawing blood, transforming hungrily. Will followed his gaze, looking back at him. "Hey. Be discreet."
"I kill people and give you their ID's, you let me feed in your club" Damon told him. "Discretion was never part of the deal."
Damon smiled.
Will stood, walking away toward a door with a sign reading, PRIVATE - STAFF ONLY, walking through.
Damon stood, making his way through the crowd toward the fight, grabbing one, transforming, preparing to bite him.
Lexi stopped him, pulling him back. "Hey."
"Lexi." Damon told her.
"You're gonna feed on him right here?" Lexi asked. "You're getting sloppy, Damon."
Damon still looked like he couldn't believe Lexi was there.
(Song Ends)
...
Now
Day - Billy's
Damon, Elena, Morgana and Evelyn were talking.
"You got Lexied?" Morgana asked, amused.
Rosie rushed closer, slamming Damon's head against the table, startling Evelyn and making Morgana and Elena jump. "Following a lead without me? Poor form, Damon."
Evelyn, Morgana and Elena looked at Rosie in confusion.
Rosie smiled.
...
(Song:) Shut Up and Dance - Rookie
Rosie looked at Damon. "I have to say I'm a little hurt, Damon." She let him go. "I thought we made a good team. Not without its fireworks, but what classic pairing isn't?"
"Wait." Morgana told her. "What the hell are you talking about?"
Rebekah walked closer.
"Damon's following a lead to the Cure." Rosie answered. "Rebekah's following him. Rebekah said that if I help her find the Cure, she will give me my freedom back from Klaus."
Rebekah didn't deny it, standing next to Rosie.
Elena looked at Damon. "You're doing what?"
Damon looked at Rebekah and Rosie with forced nonchalance, clearly lying. "How does it feel to be wrong all the time? I brought Evelyn, Morgana and Elena here to feed. I mean, Mystic Falls isn't exactly Vamp Xanadu right now."
"Right." Rebekah told him sarcastically. "So you drove seven hours to New York City?"
"Yes," Damon told them. "And as I was explaining to Evelyn, Morgana and Elena..." He looked at Rosie. "Before we were so rudely interrupted..." Rosie smiled. "That my history in this city has a particular resonance to their current situation." Damon looked at Evelyn, Morgana and Elena. "When I had my humanity off."
(Song Ends)
...
Flashback - 1977
Night - Billy's - Outside
Damon walked out of the back down into the alley.
Lexi followed him. "That explains it. Your switch is flipped."
"Ugh." Damon complained. "Would you mind? I can't even hear my prey over your constant babbling."
"You're not even covering your tracks." Lexi told him. "We heard about you back in Mystic Falls."
"So, Stefan sent you?" Damon asked. "Hmm. I thought we were on the 'off' part of our endless on-again, off-again, eternity-of-misery cycle."
"Lucky for you, he cared just enough to send me." Lexi told him. "So why'd you flip it? What traumatic event was too much for Damon Salvatore to handle?"
"'Leave it to Beaver'." Damon told her. "The '50s bored me."
Damon turned around, starting to walk away.
Lexi grabbed his arm to stop him. "Well, it's the '70s now, and keeping it off is gonna get you caught and killed."
"I'll take my chances." Damon told her.
"I won't." Lexi told him. "I promised Stefan that I would-"
"Look." Damon cut her off. "You and Stefan have a thing. I get it. He falls off the wagon, you pick him up. He asks you to help our big sis Isabella, you help Isabella. They get redeemed, you get your Florence Nightingale jollies. Well, I'm not them, and I don't want or need you."
Lexi smirked. "Too bad, because you got me."
...
Now
Day - Billy's
Damon, Evelyn, Morgana, Elena, Rosie and Rebekah were talking.
"Well, she sounds dreadful." Rebekah told them.
"She had a Mother Teresa complex." Damon told her.
"So let me guess." Evelyn told him. "After many dark nights with Lexi, she convinced you to turn your emotions back on."
"And that's exactly what you plan to do with me and Elena." Morgana told him, starting to walk away.
Damon looked from Evelyn to Morgana. "You guys read the last page of the book, too? I'm gonna get a drink. Many drinks."
Damon walked toward the bar.
Morgana looked at all the paraphernalia on the walls.
Rebekah looked from Rosie and Morgana to Evelyn and Elena. "So you really buy all this?"
"Not one bit." Morgana answered. "I know he's after the Cure. I'm not stupid."
"Well, let's not say things we don't mean." Rebekah told her.
Morgana laughed slightly.
"Damon's like a dog with a bone." Elena told them. "Stefan, too. They won't give up until they find the Cure, and then make Morgana take it while they try to convince me to turn it back on."
"So I guess we're gonna have to find it first." Morgana told them.
Rosie smiled. "You're playing him."
"No, he's playing us." Morgana told them. "We're just returning the favor."
...
Mystic Falls, Virginia
Night - Whitmore College - Shane's Office
Stefan, Klaus, Elizabeth and Emma walked in, starting to look through his stuff.
"What are we even looking for?" Emma asked.
"Well, Shane was working with Esmeralda, so chances are, he was helping her plan her next move." Stefan told them.
"Where, on her evil villain to-do list?" Elizabeth asked. "'Steal blood, perform three massacres, pick up dry cleaning'?"
"Actually, not to nit-pick, but we evil villains usually use minions to pick up our dry cleaning, that sort of thing." Klaus told her. "You wouldn't know that because I never asked you to do it."
Elizabeth looked at Stefan in annoyance. "Why is he necessary again?"
"Well, we don't know what Silas can do, so if we do have to go head to head with him, an Original hybrid who can't die might come in handy." Stefan told her.
Emma looked from Klaus to Elizabeth. "I know that you two are mind controlled to be angry at each other, but I think the only way to stop that is to actually have you two, I don't know, work it out?"
"Besides, you, Stefan and I work well together, or at least we did in the '20s." Klaus told her.
"Well, granted, I was hiding from you." Elizabeth told him, knowing that it would hurt him.
Klaus tilted his head, affected. "You were far from hiding, Elisaveta." Elizabeth looked annoyed yet resigned. "But you were just as fun then as you are now, just as Damon is probably relishing in Morgana and Elena's emotionless company in New York."
"Our brother knows what he's doing." Stefan told him.
"Does he?" Klaus asked. "Don't underestimate the allure of darkness, Stefan." He looked toward Elizabeth. "Even the purest hearts are drawn to it, so much that it can change them completely and forever." Elizabeth looked up, affected by his words. Emma laughed him off. "Still, I'm sure it'll all be fine."
Elizabeth shook the moment off. "I think I found something." She carried a large book over to them at the desk. "'Symbolic Figures in the Dark Arts'. Didn't Sally, Elizabeth and Bonnie talk about Expression Triangles? Here."
Elizabeth pointed at a large intricate drawing of a triangle.
Stefan read from the opposite page. "'In some schools of magic, such as Expression, human sacrifice can be used as a focus for power. It is rumored that the addition of two supernatural sacrifices compounds the mystical energy, creating an Expression Triangle'."
Emma pointed at a symbol in the drawing. "Humans. That was the Council fire." She pointed at another symbol. "Demons. Klaus' hybrid failure."
"Well, I wouldn't exactly call it a failure." Klaus told her. "What's the third?"
Elizabeth, Stefan and Emma exchanged a look, looking at the book again.
...
Bennett House - Living Room
Bonnie, Sally and Shane/Silas were talking in front of the fire.
"You want us to kill witches?" Sally asked incredulously.
"We've been over this." Shane/Silas told them. "It's temporary. They'll come back."
"Wait, don't we need Rosie or Elizabeth to complete the third sacrifice?" Bonnie asked.
"The first two sacrifices were dealt without the four of you." Shane/Silas told them. "You don't have to be involved with the last one either, but I am asking for your help. The only thing that we need all four of you for is the spell that you need to cast to lift the Veil between us and the Other Side. Let Elizabeth find out what Esmeralda has planned for her."
"Or she's too strong for you to get inside her head and manipulate her." Sally told him.
"Sally, I am not manipulating any of you." Shane/Silas told her.
"What if we're not strong enough without her?" Bonnie asked.
"You are strong enough." Shane/Silas told them. "Your magic is like the three of you, linked as one. Which is why when one of you gets hurt, so do the others. When one of your powers lashes out, the others' magic is effected. Even if she's not here with us, her magic is. Look, it won't be easy. Once they realize how strong you are, they'll channel each other one by one using spirit magic till they can strip all of you of Expression. You have to endure them until all twelve are linked as one, just like the three of you." A door opened and closed. Shane/Silas looked at Bonnie. "Listen, your dad's here. We have to convince him."
Shane/Silas stood.
Rudy entered the room. "Hey. How was the session?"
"To be honest, not that great." Shane/Silas told him. "The meditation isn't really working. Their magic's too strong."
"You told me you could help them." Rudy told him.
"Dad, it's-it's not his fault." Bonnie told him.
"Not his fault?" Rudy repeated. "He's the one who taught you this magic, the one who tricked the three of you into completing the link, and now he can't control it?"
"Listen, we have an idea." Shane/Silas told him.
"I'm done listening to your ideas." Rudy told him. "I want you to get out of my house."
"Dad!" Bonnie told him.
"If we just call on the spirits-" Shane/Silas started.
"I want you out of my house!" Rudy told him.
"Wait!" Sally told them.
Sally's anger flared and her magic caused the glass in the windows to explode into the room in shattered pieces over her and Bonnie. Rudy and Shane/Silas ducked.
...
New York City, New York
Billy's
Rosie was sitting on the bar, looking at her phone, waiting for a text.
Her magic was effected, causing most of the bottles of alcohol on the bar to explode, the contents splashing along the surface of the table top.
Rosie jumped off the bar in shock and confusion, turning to face the bar.
Everyone fell quiet, looking toward the bar and Rosie.
Rebekah, Damon, Evelyn, Morgana and Elena looked toward her, all of them standing around a table.
Rosie seemed nervous yet calm.
...
Mystic Falls, Virginia
Bennett House - Living Room
Bonnie's magic was effected, causing the flames in the fire place to flare up uncontrollably, burning higher and brighter, causing everyone in the room to cover their eyes from the heat and the brightness.
...
New York City, New York
Billy's
Once again, Rosie's magic was effected, causing the alcohol on the bar to turn into flames, the fire spreading.
There was a nervous clamor from the crowd.
Rosie seemed overwhelmed.
...
Mystic Falls, Virginia
Bennett House - Living Room
With glass in their hair, Bonnie and Sally breathed deeply, closing their eyes in concentration, using their magic to extinguish the flames.
...
New York, Virginia
Billy's
Rosie breathed deeply, closing her eyes in concentration, using her magic to extinguish the flames.
There was nothing but silence for a few moments.
Then the crowd erupted into cheers and applause, thinking that the whole thing had just been a show.
Rosie exhaled in relief.
...
Mystic Falls, Virginia
Bennett House - Living Room
Bonnie and Sally were overwhelmed.
Rudy looked at Shane/Silas. "What the hell is happening to them?"
"This happened to my wife." Shane/Silas told him. "Expression consumed her. She had no control."
Bonnie looked at Rudy. "I need you to call Mom. We need witches. A lot of them."
...
New York City, New York
Billy's
(Song:) Ask the Angels - The Distillers
The band was playing.
Rosie still stood next to the bar, breathing deeply, relaxing.
Rebekah walked up to her. "You okay?"
"Yeah." Rosie answered. She looked at Rebekah. "Can I just get that packet on my secret back and get out of here before people start asking questions?"
"I'm pretty sure that they all think it was just for show." Rebekah told her. "Or, at least, we can compel them all into thinking that. I mean, there are vampires here, and two of them care whether or not you get burned at the stake."
"Gee, Rebekah, that makes me feel so much better." Rosie told her sarcastically.
Rebekah smiled, letting the smile fade. "Anyway, didn't you say that you were waiting for a tour guide so that you didn't get lost in the city?"
"I was, but I don't think they're gonna show." Rosie told her.
"Well, why don't you wait a little longer and give Scott Jackson more time to reply to your text?" Rebekah asked. Rosie looked at her with guarded surprise as to why she would know that. Rebekah smirked, reaching behind the bar to grab bottles of alcohol and shot glasses, putting them onto a tray. "Don't worry. Your secret's safe with me."
Rebekah turned around, carrying the tray back over to their table.
Rosie smirked, following her, standing between her and Morgana.
"Quite the show, Roe-Roe." Morgana told her.
"Like you could do any better." Rosie replied, starting to pour the drinks.
Morgana pointed at the drinks, looking at Damon. "Is this allowed? What would Lexi say?"
"Lexi thought the only way I would turn my emotions back on was if I started enjoying my life again." Damon told them.
"Do not tell me she took you to Bon Jovi concerts, too." Rebekah told him.
They clinked their classes together for a toast.
"No." Damon answered. "Wrong decade." He took his shot. "Lexi was not allowed to feed with Stefan. But Isabella didn't have that problem. Neither did I." He looked at Elena and Morgana, smiling. "And neither do either of you." He glanced at Evelyn. "You, either."
Damon held out either of his hands for Elena and Morgana to take. They both took them, heading to the dance floor.
Evelyn followed them.
Rebekah took out the packet on Rusty Andrews and his adoptive daughter Lucy, showing it to Rosie. "It'll be right here when he contacts you."
"Why do you care so much?" Rosie asked.
"Believe it or not, Rosie, I look out for girls like me." Rebekah told her. "Us girls have to stick together."
Evelyn turned to look at them. "Would you two stop your yapping and have fun?"
Rosie and Rebekah smiled, going out to the dance floor.
...
Now
Night - Billy's
Elena was dancing, enjoying herself.
Morgana smiled, taking off her jacket, looking at Damon, handing her jacket to him. "I'm hungry."
"Pick." Damon told her.
Morgana looked around, seeing a girl listening to the music alone. She danced her way through the crowd, toward her, standing in front of her, turning to face her, compelling her. "Don't scream."
Morgana snarled, transforming, biting her, feeding.
Damon watching Morgana.
Rosie and Evelyn were dancing in the crowd, separately.
Rosie turned her back to the guy she was dancing with, raising her arms above her head, turning her head from side to side, closing her eyes, having a good time.
Damon stood next to Morgana, behind the girl, feeding on the other side of her neck.
...
Flashback - 1977
Night - Billy's
Damon and Lexi were sharing a victim on the dancefloor. They came up for air.
Damon wiped a little blood off Lexi's lower lip.
Lexi caught his wrist, shaking her head, smiling a small smile.
They both started to feed again.
...
Now
Night - Billy's
Morgana and Damon were feeding on the girl.
Damon came up for air, gesturing to Elena. "Your turn." He gestured to Rebekah and Evelyn. "You, too."
Morgana continued feeding.
Elena walked closer, standing in the place Damon had been, transforming, biting the girl, feeding.
Evelyn stood to the side of the girl next to Morgana, taking her wrist, baring her fangs and biting her wrist, feeding. Rebekah stood to the side of the girl next to Elena, taking her wrist, baring her fangs and biting her wrist, feeding.
Damon was sneaking off through the crowd.
Rosie's phone vibrated. She looked at the text from Scott.
Meet me outside
Rosie smiled. She turned around, walking toward the table, grabbing her jacket, swinging it over her shoulder, grabbing the packet off of the table, walking toward the exit.
(Song Ends)
...
Upstairs
Damon opened a door, seeing that the room he entered was quite cluttered. "Ugh. Pack rat. Thanks, Will."
Damon closed the door behind him.
...
Outside
Rosie walked outside, letting the door swing closed.
Scott was leaning against a dark, navy blue convertible, smirking. "Hey, Rose."
Rosie smiled, wrapping her arms around him. After a moment, she pulled away, hitting him in the chest. "Ass. I thought you were standing me up."
"You're lucky I even came." Scott replied. "Remember, on the run from Klaus?"
"So what made you come?" Morgana asked.
"Well, word on the street is that an Expressionate witch Doppelganger is trying to find out why she is as strong as she is." Scott told her. "And, since he had an aunt who lived in New York, that she needed a certain hybrid to lead her to her daughter she gave up."
"I know that you didn't get all that from a rumor." Rosie told him. "You've been watching us."
"Hmm, yes, and seeing you dance like that was worth the wait." Scott told her.
Rosie pushed him, smiling slightly. "You're a dick."
Rosie let her smile fade.
"What?" Scott asked.
"I was just thinking that all of this wouldn't be happening if I didn't have a child at 16." Rosie answered.
Scott wrapped his arms around her. "I'm sorry about Lucy."
Rosie sniffed, staring straight ahead, numb. "Me, too."
...
Mystic Falls, Virginia
Woods
Bonnie and Sally approached a woman standing in the moonlight.
"Is it just you?" Sally asked.
The woman turned to face them. "This place wasn't easy to find."
"Figured you wouldn't want to draw attention." Bonnie told her.
"It'll work." The woman told them. "I'm Aja."
"You friends with my mom?" Bonnie asked.
Aja smiled. "I was." Her smile faded. "After she became a vampire, we didn't have a whole lot in common."
"So she's not coming?" Sally asked.
"This is witch business." Aja told them. "Look, I know you're scared, but I've dealt with Expression before. I know the hold it can have on you."
"It's not that." Sally told her. "We're just-we're strong. We're in a link that's stronger than we are. You won't be able to do this alone."
"Oh, honey, who said anything about being alone?" Aja asked. Other witches surrounded them in a circle, emerging from the forest into the clearing. "There's almost nothing as strong as a full coven, so I brought 11 of my closest friends. Won't be fun, but we're gonna cleanse all of you. There's three, right?"
Bonnie and Sally nodded.
"She can't be here right now." Sally explained.
"Doesn't matter, if you're linked." Aja told them. "We have four times the number you have. You ready?"
Bonnie looked at Sally, nodding. "Let's do this."
Bonnie and Sally looked at Aja.
...
New York City, New York
Billy's
(Song:) Lemon Scent - Dead Sara
The girls were still feeding, coming to a stop.
Morgana compelled the girl. "Leave."
Evelyn handed Morgana her jacket. "Looks like Damon and Rosie gave us the slip."
Morgana put on her jacket. "Good. Hopefully he'll find whatever he's looking for, and then we can take it so he can't find Katherine and the Cure first. And then, for Rosie , hopefully she'll find what she's looking for and she'll do the locator spell to find Katherine before Damon gets the chance to get in the way."
Evelyn walked over to the bar. Morgana, Elena and Rebekah followed.
"And what if you can't?" Rebekah asked. "I mean, Damon is stronger than you, and Rosie can easily change her mind if she doesn't find what she's hoping to find."
"Damon may be stronger than Elena, but he's not stronger than me." Evelyn told them. "I can take care of him, easily."
"And can you take care of Rosie that easily, or will she happily put you down again?" Rebekah asked.
Evelyn gave her a sarcastic look.
"You know, we could help you." Rebekah told them. "You want the Cure off the table, I wanna take it, Rosie wants her freedom, and if she helps me get the Cure, she can have it back. We could work together."
"Work together?" Morgana repeated. "Don't you hate us?"
"I hated the moral, self-righteous version of both of you, but these ones are not so bad." Rebekah told her. "And maybe, with you, it's your new haircuts."
"Do you remember what it's like to be human?" Elena asked. "Weak, fragile? Why would you wanna go back to that?"
"Because someday, I want a family of my own." Rebekah answered.
"And that's exactly why we don't want your help." Morgana told her, taking a drink. "The best part of having no emotions is that we can think rationally. We'll do whatever it takes to get this done."
Evelyn looked at Rebekah. "You're the opposite, a pile of neuroses and insecurities, hopes and dreams. You're basically one big emotional variable that we just don't really need. We don't really need that unrealistic dream getting in the way either."
Rebekah hesitated. "You just made me miss the old Evelyn."
Rebekah walked away.
Evelyn shrugged, looking at Morgana and Elena.
Elena looked at them curiously.
Morgana smiled, raising her hand to hail the bartender.
(Song Ends)
...
Apartment Building - Hallway
Scott led Rosie through the hall toward the door marked with the number of 660.
"Just add six and it'd be the devil." Scott told her tauntingly.
Rosie chuckled, rolling her eyes, smiling and stopped at the door labeled 660 in black on a brown door. She knocked on it.
The man from the photos in the packet opened the door.
Rosie cleared her throat. "Rusty Andrews?"
"Who the hell is asking?" Rusty replied gruffly.
Scott couldn't help but almost smile, looking at Rosie knowingly.
Rosie looked at Rusty with the same amount of attitude. "Maybe it's the biological mother of the daughter you adopted."
"You're Lucy's mother?" Rusty asked.
"Well, at least you didn't change her name." Rosie told him. "I wanted some answers, and I wondered if you had them."
After a hesitation, Rusty stepped out of the way of the door. "Come on in." He looked at Scott. "Even your vampire friend."
Scott and Rosie exchanged looks.
"So, you obviously know about vampires." Scott told him. "Except, I'm not one."
"I know." Rusty told him. "You're a mutt."
Scott gave him a look, opening his mouth.
Rosie cut him off, looking at Rusty. "So you know why I'm here, then."
Rusty looked away from Scott and Rosie. "I can only guess."
...
Rusty's Apartment
Phil led Scott and Rosie inside, looking at Rosie. "And it's that you found out that you're witches."
Scott closed the door.
"I'd thought I'd give Lucy a heads up and see how's she doing." Rosie said.
Rusty sat down in a green chair.
Rosie and Scott sat on the couch across from him.
"Clearly." Rusty told them. He gave Rosie a weird look. "Lucy looks like you. She's at a friends house right now."
Rosie hesitated a moment, her gaze icing over. "I think, uh, I saw her before coming here."
Rusty leaned back in his chair in understanding. "How?"
Rosie took a deep breath. "Bumped into her on the stairs." Rusty inhaled. Scott looked between them. "I had thought she looked familiar, but remembering that..."
"Well, I'm sorry you had to see her that way." Rusty told her.
Rosie nodded, looking away. "Yeah."
Scott looked at her, showing no noticeable reaction.
...
Mystic Falls, Virginia
Whitmore College - Shane's Office
Elizabeth and Klaus were alone in the office, looking over a map of Mystic Falls.
'There's been two massacres." Elizabeth told him. "Pastor Young's farm is here." She used a ruler and a red pen to draw a line evenly. "And the old Lockwood Cellar, where you spitefully slaughtered 12 of your own hybrids because of Esmeralda's mind control, is here." She drew another line connecting the two locations. "According to the book, the Expression Triangle is equilateral, putting it here."
Elizabeth drew another two lines, forming a triangle on the map.
"I know you haven't had the proper geometry lessons taught to you back in the 1860's, but somebody obviously hasn't been paying attention in class when I told her to keep an eye on Emma and Elena earlier this year." Klaus told her. Elizabeth gave him a sarcastic look. Klaus took the ruler and pen. "There are actually two places where the third massacre could be."
Klaus drew two more lines, forming another triangle opposite of hers.
Elizabeth couldn't help a smile. "Well, you didn't let me finish." Klaus smiled. Elizabeth and Klaus looked at each other across the desk. The door suddenly opened. Elizabeth turned toward Stefan and Emma. "Hey. What's going on? Did you find Sally and Bonnie?"
"No, but we talked to Bonnie's dad." Emma told them. "I think we found Silas."
...
New York, Virginia
Rusty's Apartment
Scott was looking around the witch craft objects around the room.
Rusty walked into the room with a tray of three tea glasses.
"I'm gonna call you Rus, all right, father?" Scott asked sarcastically.
"You can call me whatever the hell you want, Yeller." Philip replied.
"Awesome." Scott told him sarcastically.
"All right, how about we just move on here, okay?" Rosie asked.
"So, since you know all of this, why are you here?" Rusty asked.
Rosie leaned forward, resting her elbows on her knees. "Because I'm having problems with my powers. During a spell to help someone heal, to keep them from dying, my three other witch friends accidentally linked and. Now one them passed it on to me."
Rusty frowned. "What three other witch friends?"
"A Davidsons, Pierce and a Bennett." Rosie answered.
Rusty scoffed. "Three of the biggest witch families linked together?" He gave Rosie a weird look. "It's that Sabrina Davidsons' daughter, isn't it? That Shelia Bennett's granddaughter?" Rosie and Scott exchanged a look. Rosie looked at Rusty, nodding. "That type of link with the power the three of you have in nearly impossible to break." Rusty sighed. "Link with the three of you, the fact that you're a Doppelganger..."
"How do you seem to know everything?" Scott asked.
"I keep tabs on this, wolf boy." Rusty told him. "I know of everything that they need to do the spell of the century."
"Right, but, other than the other girls in the link, I've been having the most trouble with my powers, and I'm stronger than they are, even though they've been practicing longer than I have been." Rosie told him. "Is it because I'm also a Doppelganger?"
Rusty nodded. "Part of it, at least."
"What do you mean, part of it?" Scott asked.
Rusty looked at Rosie. "After I adopted Lucy, I never lost contact. Your mom would always tell me about you. Even who she had her first child with. Or, should I say, which family the guy was from."
Rosie leaned forward. "You know my dad?"
Rusty nodded. "She never told me his first name, but she told me the last, that whole family line born and raised in Mystic Falls since 1864."
"He was a Founding Family member." Rosie sighed.
Rusty nodded. "I remember being disgusted because of what he was."
"What?" Scott asked. "A thief? Murderer? How bad can it be?"
"No, smart ass." Rusty told him. He looked at Rosie. "He is-or was-a werewolf."
"You're insane." Scott told him. "You can't be a werewolf, a witch and a Doppelganger all at once."
"No." Rusty disagreed. "You can't be a witch and vampire at once. It used to be that you could be a werewolf and vampire at once, but they figured a way around that. Werewolf, witch and Doppelganger genes are what you're born with-"
Rosie finished the saying with Rusty. "Not turned into."
"Exactly." Rusty told them.
Rosie took a moment to process, inhaling deeply. "Is that why I'm stronger than they are? Is it why it's harder to control my magic?"
Rusty nodded. "Mm-hmm."
"It would certainly explain you're raging anger issues." Scott told her.
Rosie gave Scott a look, tilting her head. "I didn't ask you."
Rusty smirked, chuckling. "I like you already."
Rusty took a drink of his tea.
Rosie forced a smile, taking a drink of hers.
...
Mystic Falls, Virginia
Clearing
Sally and Bonnie were lying on their backs in the center of the circle of witches, their legs pointing to each other across the circle. Another witch knelt behind Lindsey's head. Aja knelt behind Bonnie's head. The circle of torches and witches was symmetrical.
"Call out to the spirits, girls." Aja told them, placing her hands on either side of Bonnie's head. "Let them in."
The other witch placed her hands on either side of Sally's head.
Sally and Bonnie took a deep breath, beginning to chant. "Phesmatos tribum-"
Their bodies jerked painfully.
"I can't." Sally told them. "It's hurting."
"It hurts!" Bonnie told them.
"It's because you've rejected the spirits." Aja told them. Bonnie whimpered. "The Expression's consumed the four of you."
The other witch and Aja exchanged a look, nodding, beginning to chant. "Phesmatos tribum nas ex viras..."
"I changed my mind." Bonnie told them, her voice a small whisper.
The other witch and Aja continued. "Purgal animum sous..."
"I don't wanna do this anymore!" Bonnie told them.
The other witch and Aja continued. "Obscarus!"
"Let me go!" Sally told them.
Aja spoke to the other witches. "They're fighting. We need help. Link with us. Lend us your power."
The others knelt to the ground, joining the other witch and Aja in the chant. "Phesmatos repallus tantian..."
Sally and Bonnie screamed in pain.
...
New York City, New York
Rusty's Apartment
Rosie felt their pain, holding her head, screaming.
Rusty stood in surprised confusion, in suspicion, backing away.
Scott walked toward Rosie. "Rosie?" Rosie screamed. "Rose!" Scott sat next to her, holding her. "What's happening?"
"The link!" Rosie told him.
The three glasses on the table shattered.
...
Mystic Falls, Virginia
Clearing
The torches forming a circle around the witches flared brightly.
The twelve witches continued to chant. "Maltuscanum anium par vas."
Bonnie opened her eyes. They were completely white.
"We need more strength!" Aja told them.
Everyone chanted. "Phesmatos repallus tantian maltuscanum anium par vas."
Sally opened her eyes. They were completely white.
...
New York City, New York
Rusty's Apartment
Rosie opened her eyes. They were completely white.
Scott watched in astonished confusion. "What the..."
Rusty seemed to realize what was going on.
Rosie continued to scream in pain.
...
Mystic Falls, Virginia
Clearing
Sally and Bonnie continued to scream in pain.
...
New York City, New York
Billy's - Upstairs
Damon was still in Will's office, talking on the phone, searching the office. "So, Silas is appearing as Professor Shane. Wouldn't be my first choice."
In Mystic Falls, in the woods Stefan had his phone on speaker as he and Emma talked to Damon.
"Well, it would be if you needed to brainwash Sally and Bonnie into committing a massacre." Emma told him.
"You guys need me to come home?" Damon asked.
"No, we got it." Emma told him. "How's the Cure search going?"
"Eh, not great." Damon admitted. "I mean, it's no massacre in the making, but Rebekah and Rosie trailed us here. Something about Rosie's family, and in exchange for information, she is willing to do a locator spell to find Katherine. I just have to find her first. Then in addition to my buddy being a brilliant identity thief, he's also a hoarder."
"What are you trying to find?" Stefan asked.
"Will had a repeat customer." Damon told them. "5'7", brunette. Said she was a runner."
"Katherine." Emma realized.
"Turns out I was helping her run from me." Damon told them. "Ironic. Problem is I'm pretty sure that this filing system goes by birth date, but I can't for the life of me remember Katherine's."
"June 5, 1473." Stefan told him.
"And that, brother, is why you are the better boyfriend." Damon told him, pulling out Katherine's file. "Well, will you look at that? It's all her former addresses, including a couple from the last two moths. They're mostly PO boxes, but hey, it narrows the search."
"Well, you're welcome." Stefan told him. "So you head back now?"
"Yeah, tomorrow morning." Damon answered. "Gotta keep up the ruse for the Satanic vampires outside, pretend like I'm having a good time."
"And you're not?" Emma asked.
Elena walked into the room.
Damon directed his comment to Emma. "I'll tell you tomorrow." He hung up. "Sorry, had to get some quiet. Couldn't hear Stefan and Em over The Runaways 2.0."
"Let me guess." Elena told him. "They're worried."
"Emma , doesn't care." Damon told her. "Stefan, jealous mainly. He's having acid flashbacks of me and Lexi in the seventies in New York. I'll tell you about it over a drink. Come on."
Elena still looked suspicious but they walked out of the room together.
...
Flashback - 1977
Night - Billy's
(Song:) In the Search of An Audience - The Godz
Will walked through the empty club toward the bar.
Damon was laying on the bar with a bottle of bourbon.
Lexi was standing next to him.
Damon: (voice over) "Lexi stuck with me for months. She was partying with me, showing me a good time, but every night, she'd torture me in the worst possible way."
"Tell me about her." Lexi told him.
"No." Damon told her.
"What did she look like, what did she sound like?" Lexi asked. "Tell me everything you remember about her."
"Every night." Damon told her.
"And that's my cue." Will told them. "You have a nice fight. Try not to break anything."
"Mm." Lexi hummed sarcastically.
Will walked away, leaving.
"Every night." Damon repeated, sitting up. "Every night, we get wasted, and the second I bottom out, you have to bring up Katherine."
"Because you loved her, and love is the most powerful emotion." Lexi told him. "If I can just get you to remember the way you felt about her..."
(Song Ends)
"I don't wanna remember." Damon told her. "I mean, why do you care so much?"
"Do you remember how we first met?" Lexi asked. "It was 1864. Isabella had just left you and Stefan for who knew how long. Stefan had just killed your father, and he was killing his way through Mystic Falls. You hated him. Rightfully so, but before you left, you asked me to help him, because no matter what happened, he was still your brother, and you cared about him. Now you need help, and he cares about you. We both do. Let me help you. Tell me about Katherine."
"Talking about Katherine's not gonna help me." Damon told her, jumping down from the bar.
Lexi stood in his way. "Why not?"
"Because she's not the person I care about." Damon told her, gazing at Lexi.
(Song:) Let's Dance - Ramones
Lexi looked at him in surprise. "It flipped. The switch. Why didn't you tell me?"
"Because I barely felt it at first, but every night, it's gotten stronger." Damon told her. "It worked." He placed either of his hands on either of her cheeks. "You worked."
Lexi smiled.
Finally, Damon kissed Lexi, rushing her back into the wall next to the bar, still making out.
...
Now
Night - Billy's
Evelyn, Morgana, Elena and Damon sat at the bar.
"You and Lexi?" Morgana asked. "Here, on the bar?"
Morgana took her arm off of the bar in disgust.
"On the bar, on the stage, on the roof." Damon answered. "It was a very long night."
Evelyn made a face. "Yeah."
Elena smiled, leaning over the bar, grabbing a bottle, shaking it at Damon, standing, walking away.
"Where are you going?" Damon asked.
Elena turned around. "To the roof. I wanna hear the rest of the story."
"Okay." Damon told her hesitantly. He stood, starting to follow her. He looked at Morgana. "You coming?"
"Nah." Morgana answered. "You guys go ahead."
Damon nodded, walking ahead of Elena, leading the way.
Elena looked at Morgana with a significant look, raising her bottle, following Damon.
A guy walked up to Evelyn and Morgana.
Evelyn looked at Morgana, smirking.
Morgana smiled.
The guy bumped into Morgana while trying to get a drink.
Morgana took the guy by his head, slamming it against the bar, making his head bleed, making him unconscious. "Excuse you."
Evelyn laughed.
Rebekah saw them, smirking.
(Song Ends)
...
Evelyn's Apartment
Rosie was still screaming, her eyes still completely white.
Scott was kneeling next to her, holding her.
"Those aren't the only reasons her powers are messing up." Rusty told them. "She and the other two are practicing Expression."
Rusty raised his arm toward Rosie, causing her a migraine, trying to kill her.
Rosie screamed loudly.
...
Mystic Falls, Virginia
Clearing
Sally and Bonnie felt the pain, screaming loudly.
The witches stopped chanting.
"Something's wrong." The other witch told them.
"Keep going." Aja told them.
They continued to chant.
Sally and Bonnie screamed.
...
New York City, New York
Rusty's Apartment
Scott glared angrily at Rusty, rushing toward him.
Rusty raised his arm toward Scott, causing him the same pain.
Scott held his head, groaning. "Stop!"
"This line isn't supposed to be practicing Expression." Rusty told them. "None of them. Especially the Artemis Doppelganger. She's needed to awake Silas and lift the Veil."
"How... do you know... about Silas?" Scott managed to ask through the screams from Rosie and the pain. "And-" Another long, eardrum breaking scream of Rosie's cut him off. "How is she needed to lift the Veil and to the Other Side?"
"She's the Doppelganger of this line." Rusty told them. "Doppelgangers die to lift or to create curses. The Other Side is Silas' curse. If she dies after the spell is complete, every supernatural being is back with a vengeance."
"So, she has to die to lift the Veil?" Scott asked.
"I can't let that happen." Rusty told them. "If she dies before the spell is complete, then nothing happens. So do the other two. This would be all over, the ending of each line. But it's worth the price of staying alive."
Blood started to trail from Rosie's ear, nose and lips.
...
Mystic Falls, Virginia
Woods
Klaus and Elizabeth walking through the dark woods.
Klaus had his phone out.
"I just want to see where we are." Elizabeth told him.
"You know, when we split up, you did have the option of going with Stefan and Emma." Klaus told her.
"Yeah?" Elizabeth asked. "And leave Sally, Bonnie and Rosie's lives in your hands? Fat chance. Those girl have been through enough hell because of vampires, and let's just say I'm trying to make up for turning Bonnie's mother into one,, and for you killing Sally's boyfriend brother." She looked at Klaus. "Do you even know how to read a map?"
"Yes." Klaus answered. "And do you know who taught me? My friend Magellan."
"Wow, you had a friend." Elizabeth told him sarcastically. "Was he drawn to your darkness, too?"
"Actually, I was referring to Damon and Elena when I said that, but clearly it struck a chord with you. Oh wait Of course it did why else would you have slept with me." Klaus told her.
"It's because it's not true." Elizabeth told him. "There is no allure to darkness. And even if there was, there wouldn't 'so much that it can change them completely and forever'."
Klaus turned to face Elizabeth , making her stop. "Really? So you've never felt the attraction that comes when someone who's capable of doing terrible things for some reason cares only about you? You don't think that it would have changed you in the slightest? You don't think that it could have made you just as dark as he was?"
"Is that supposed to be a trick question?" Elizabeth asked.
"You tell me." Klaus told her.
After a moment of hesitation, Elizabeth looked at Klaus' phone. "We're here, although judging by the lack of witches, here is not the correct location."
Klaus barely smirked, noticing she hadn't answered.
Elizabeth turned around, walking in the direction they had come to get to the other point.
...
New York City, New York
Rusty's Apartment
Rusty was still trying to kill Rosie.
Rosie's eyes were bloodshot yet completely white, blood trailing from her nose, ears and lips. She looked up, anger clear in her expression as much as the pain, using her magic to fight back.
Rusty's magic stopped. He couldn't breathe. He held his throat, choking.
"Rosie." Scott told her, no longer in pain. "Rosie... you're killing him."
"I don't care." Rosie told him coldly. "He tried to kill us."
Rusty lowered to his knees, gasping for breath, blood sprouting from his lungs.
Rosie didn't seem to hear anything. She didn't seem like she could stop.
Scott rushed toward Rusty, snapping his neck, letting him fall.
All of the magic seemed to stop.
Scott stepped closer to Rosie, kneeling in front of her. "It's over."
"Why did you do that?" Rosie asked.
"Because you don't need that pain." Scott answered, holding her.
Scott and Rosie looked at each other in relief.
Rosie had tears in her eyes.
There was a moment of silence.
Suddenly, feeling the pain through the link, Rosie screamed in agony.
...
Mystic Falls, Virginia
Clearing
Torches burned bright around the witches' circle.
Sally and Bonnie were lying on the ground, struggling against the other witch and Aja, their eyes completely white, their noses, ears and lips bleeding, both of them screaming.
"Yield to the spirits." Aja told them. "You can't fight us."
Stefan and Emma ran into the circle.
"Stop!" Emma told them. "It's not what you think."
Aja looked at Stefan angrily. "This is no place for a vampire."
"They're working for Silas." Stefan told them.
"Silas?" Aja repeated.
"He brainwashed them to kill you." Stefan told them.
Bonnie whimpered from the ground.
Aja pulled out a dagger.
"Wait." Emma told her. "What are you doing?"
"If Silas has them, they're lost." Aja told them. "We can't save them."
"Wait." Emma told her.
Stefan tried to step toward Aja.
Aja held out her arm, using a spell to weaken Stefan.
Stefan grabbed at his head, staggering backward to his knees.
"Stop!" Emma told her, trying to take a step forward.
Aja used magic to cause Emma pain.
Emma stopped walking, groaning a scream, lowering to her knees.
Aja raised the dagger above Bonnie's heart.
Emma started to stand.
Aja raised her arm toward Emma , using magic to cause her pain, making her sink back down.
Gasping in pain, Emma still tried to stand.
Aja pushed her hand forward.
The pain increased, making Emma scream, blood trailing from her nose.
"We have the power of 12 witches." Aja told them. "You don't stand a chance."
Stefan stood, grabbing Emma's arm, rushing them away from the circle, backing into a tree, groaning in pain.
The witches resumed chanting.
Klaus and Elizabeth appeared.
"They're linked." Emma told them. "Sally and Bonnie are gonna kill them."
"Not if the witches kill them first." Klaus told her, pushing Stefan against a tree.
"Klaus, we need to save them." Elizabeth told him.
"How?" Klaus asked. "The only way to stop the witches is to kill them, and then Silas gets what he wants."
"Spirits, take their souls." Aja called. "Free their from darkness."
Aja held the dagger over Bonnie.
Sally and Bonnie screamed in pain.
In anger and defiance, Elizabeth rushed into the circle, pulling the dagger into Aja's chest, killing her.
"No!" Klaus told her.
Elizabeth looked toward Klaus, not showing a reaction but her eyes glowed Werewolf yellow, letting Aja's body fall.
The other witch's body fell.
Elizabeth watched as the witches forming the circle began to drop dead, like a chain reaction.
The torches' flames burned out.
Elizabeth looked around, approaching Sally and Bonnie. "Sally. Sally? Bonnie!"
Sally and Bonnie opened their eyes, which were still completely white, smiling eerily. "The circle is complete."
...
New York City, New York
Rusty's Apartment
Rosie, no longer in pain, opened her eyes, which were still completely white, smiling eerily. "The circle is complete."
Scott watched her in confusion.
...
Billy's - Roof
Damon and Elena were on the roof of Billy's talking.
"It's beautiful up here." Elena told him. "I could do this, you know. The Lexi method. Hang with you, party with you. It wouldn't be the worst way to turn my emotions back on."
"I thought you hated emotions." Damon told her.
"I do." Elena told him. "Maybe I'm just looking for an excuse to... spend more time with you." She walked closer, taking a sip from the bottle, smiling. "I've never done it on a rooftop before."
Elena started to lean closer.
Damon, hesitant, made a face. "You're not missing much."
Elena rolled her eyes. "You don't have to take the high road, Damon. I'm not sired to you anymore." She held his neck. "I want this. You want this." Damon gave in. They started kissing. Elena snaked her hand around to Damon's back pocket. Damon slapped her hand away. They broke apart. "What?"
Damon pulled out the paper from his pocket. "Looking for that? Did you really think that was gonna work, the sex, the temptation, the booze, having a friend out there waiting in the wings in case anything went wrong?" Morgana stepped into view. Damon looked between them. "What, are you kidding me? I invented that trick."
Damon took a swig of bourbon.
...
Flashback - 1977
Day - Billy's Rooftop
Damon and Lexi were sleeping on the rooftop.
The sun started to rise.
Lexi's skin started to sizzle. She woke, rushing out of Damon's arms, rushing into a shaded doorway. She tried to open the door.
It was locked. It didn't budge.
She heard Damon's voice. "Good luck. Spent all night reinforcing it. It was tough." He stood, walking toward Lexi. "Had to be really quiet not to wake you up."
Lexi laughed nervously. "What is this?"
Damon stood across from her in the sunlight. "Payment."
"For what?" Lexi asked.
"Oh, for the last six months of my life." Damon answered. "For the nagging, for the self-righteous platitudes. I'm paying you back for six months of you."
"Your humanity's not back on, is it?" Lexi asked.
"Never was." Damon told her.
"So this was all just-" Lexi started.
"A joke." Damon told her. "A big fat lie." He smiled. "Best part is, you believed it. You thought I was like Stefan, a wounded little bird that you could nurse back to health." He caressed Lexi's cheek. Lexi grabbed his hand angrily. "But he's a victim. I'm like Isabella, except I'm worse. I choose to be this way, and I don't want to change." Damon pulled Lexi's hand out into the sunlight, making her skin burn and sizzle. Lexi screamed in pain, pulling her hand back into the shade, gasping. "Enjoy the day. I hear it's gonna be a scorcher."
Damon smiled nastily, vanishing.
Lexi slammed against the door angrily, trapped.
...
Now
Night - Billy's - Roof
Damon, Morgana and Elena were talking.
"So, you pretended to have feelings for her just to get her off your back?" Morgana asked.
"I was willing to do whatever it took." Damon told them. "Sound familiar?"
Elena smiled. "Aw. I hurt your feelings."
"Not my feelings." Damon told her. "I'm looking out for you because one day, you will flip that switch back on, and all the bad stuff that you did is gonna come rushing back, and it is going to suck."
"So you're saying that you felt bad for Lexi?" Morgana asked.
"She became a walking, talking reminder of all the awful things I'd done." Damon told them. "And I managed to avoid her for decades, and then she just shows up in Mystic Falls to wish my baby bro a happy birthday, and boom. Rush of memories, rush of guilt."
"So you kill her?" Morgana asked.
"Out of sight, out of mind." Damon answered. "Every day that you're like this is the day that you might do the one thing that you can't take back."
"Here's what I don't get." Morgana told him. "You spent six months trying to get her to fall in love with you just so that you could hurt her. You were spiteful, malicious, borderline evil, and you say that you had your emotions turned off, but those all sound like emotions to me."
"Maybe they were." Damon told her. "Maybe hatred was the first one I got back. All the more reason to cure you. That way, we get the normal Morgana back without all the ugly stages in between that we'll have to go through with Evelyn and Elena."
"I'm not taking the Cure, Damon." Morgana stressed, starting to walk away.
Damon rushed in front of Morgana to stop her. "Yes, you are, even if I have to break your neck or tie you up in chains until we find it."
They stared each other down.
Rebekah rushed up from behind Damon, snapping his neck, letting him fall.
Elena jumped in surprise.
Morgana looked at Rebekah, impressed.
Rebekah tilted her head. "What was that you guys said about handling things yourselves?"
Rebekah, Morgana and Elena all smiled.
...
Mystic Falls, Virginia
Bennett House - Bonnie's Room
(Song:) Arms and Enemies - The Quiet Kind
Emma was sitting on the edge of Bonnie's bed while she slept.
Sally was sleeping in a chair.
They started to wake.
Emma turned to face them. "Hey. How you guys feeling?"
"What are you doing here?" Bonnie asked, sitting up. "How'd I get here?"
"What do you mean?" Emma asked. "I-I brought you guys here. The witches almost killed you."
"What witches?" Sally asked.
Emma looked at them in confusion. "You don't remember?" Sally raised her eyebrows. Bonnie looked just as confused. Emma nodded. "Whatever the witches did must have messed with your memories. The link, it must have messed with Rosie's, too."
"How did we get off the island?" Bonnie asked.
Emma looked at between them in severe confusion, readjusting herself on the bed. "Wait. Guys... What's the last thing you can remember?"
"I guess I remember being in that cave, and Jeremy was trying to pry the Cure out of Silas' hands." Sally answered. "Please tell me he got it." Emma looked down. "We didn't get it, did we?"
Emma sighed, looking up. "Bonnie, Sally, there's something you need to know about Jeremy."
...
New York City, New York
Street
Rosie and Scott were walking together.
"Okay, so you explained why I'm in New York, and you explained the deal that I made with Rebekah to find my daughter and to find Katherine Pierce, but why does my head feel like it's been set on fire?" Rosie asked.
"You really don't remember anything since the island?" Scott asked.
Rosie shook her head. "No." She looked at Scott. "I don't get it. What happened on the island? Why are you on the run from Klaus? Where's Bonnie or Sally? And what did my daughters adopted father tell us? I don't remember, and it's driving me crazy."
"Listen, when you find Katherine, I'll meet up with you, okay?" Scott asked. "I'll tell you everything."
Rosie sighed, nodding. "Okay."
Scott looked at Billy's in front of them. "Here we are. This is where I met you."
Rosie shook her head. "I don't recognize it."
"Well, you don't have to." Luke told her. "Oh, one important thing you forgot. Liam's 18 now."
"Really?" Rosie asked.
"Yep." Scott answered. "So you're ken's a legal adult." He turned to face Rosie. "Be safe with the two emotionless vampires and the Originals."
"Right." Rosie told him sarcastically.
The door opened.
Evelyn, Rebekah, Morgana and Elena walked outside.
Scott and Rosie looked toward them.
Evelyn, Rebekah, Morgana and Elena looked toward them.
"Hey, Roe head, did you get the information you wanted?" Morgana asked.
Rosie looked in front of her.
Scott had disappeared without a trace before they had gotten caught.
Rosie looked at the others. "I did, but then I lost it."
"What do you mean?" Rebekah asked.
"Meaning something happened to Bonnie and Sally's memory that effected mine." Rosie explained. "But I might be able to get the memories back."
"Great, so on with the locator spell." Evelyn told her. "We need to find Katherine."
"What about Damon?" Rosie asked.
Morgana pulled out the piece of paper. "If we get a move on, it shouldn't be a problem."
The girls smirked at each other.
Evelyn chuckled.
...
Mystic Falls, Virginia
Dawn - Woods
Klaus and Elizabeth had buried each and every one of the witches by the time that the sun had rose.
Elizabeth was sitting on the ground.
Klaus shoved a shovel into the ground. "There. Twelve graves for twelve witches. Like it never happened." He rolled down his sleeves. "Only it did happen, and now Silas has everything he needs to open the gates to Hell on Earth."
"You were just gonna let Bonnie, Sally and Rosie die." Elizabeth told him.
Klaus walked closer to Elizabeth, angry. "I know arithmetic isn't your strong point, but three is still less than twelve. I told you that we couldn't let that happen."
Elizabeth stood, walking toward him, standing in front of him, just as angry. "And I told you that I wouldn't let them die because of what I did to Abby, or Derek or Sabrina. I saved their lives. I paid for turning Bonnie's mother into a vampire. I paid for what you did to Sally's boyfriend brother."
"And to do so, you just killed twelve people." Klaus told her.
"I killed twelve people for a good reason." Elizabeth told him. "You killed countless lives just because they pissed you off."
"I've killed countless because each and every one has crossed me at one point or another." Klaus told her.
"You tell yourself whatever you need to so you can sleep at night." Elizabeth told him.
Klaus looked at Elizabeth , barely moving.
Elizabeth gave him a cold look, turning around, walking away, leaving him alone in the clearing.
Klaus watched her go in regret. He turned toward where he placed the shovel.
(Song Ends)
Klaus sensed someone behind him. With foreboding, he turned around to see Esmeralda.
Esmeralda smiled. "Oh, I am so glad that my mind control is still making you angry at each other. But I did give you your miracle."
Klaus smiled sarcastically, ruefully. "Esmeralda. I really can't stand the sight of your face now more than ever."
"Well, lucky for me, I don't care what you want." Esmeralda told him. "I just care about what I want. And you're gonna help me get it. Whether you like it or not."
Klaus glared at her.
Esmeralda smiled.
...
New York , Virginia
Billy's - Roof
(Song:) Heartbeat - Kopecky Family Band
Damon was getting up, having recovered from his neck-snap. He called Elena.
Elena was on a street with Evelyn and the girls in two cars, looking at a map, answering her phone. "Morning, Damon."
"Where are you?" Damon asked.
Morgana was looking at a piece of paper. "The better question would be, where are we going?"
"Wiloughby." Rosie answered.
"Sorry, Damon, I think I broke your radio." Rebekah called from behind her.
"And I might have broken the rest of the car with magic from the locator spell." Rosie called.
"You're in my car?" Damon asked incredulously.
Evelyn laughed, getting into the backseat. "We weren't gonna take the bus." Morgana got into the driver's seat. Elena got into the passenger seat. Rebekah got into her car. Rosie got into the backseat. "I wish could have gone differently, I really do, but we'll give Katherine your best."
Elena hung up with a smirk.
Morgana looked from Elena to Evelyn with a smile, starting the engine, driving into traffic.
Rebekah followed with Rosie in her car.
Rosie smirked, looking at her phone as she texted Scott.
Wiloughby.
Rosie smiled, looking up.
(Song Ends)
...
Mystic Falls, Virginia
Salvatore Boarding House - Living Room
Stefan was on the phone. "Damon, what did you do?"
Damon's voice was on the other line, on the roof of Billy's. "Let's just say it involves two 5' 7" brunettes, and their, blonde accomplices."
"Please don't tell me this is going where I think it is." Stefan told him.
"Wrong fantasy, brother." Damon told him. "Unless you're into betrayal and snapped necks. The lead I had on Katherine, they stole so we couldn't get there first." Stefan didn't say anything. "If you're searching for the words to tell me how badly I screwed up, save your breath."
"I didn't stop the massacre." Stefan told him.
Damon hesitated for a moment, shocked. "Guess Silas has everything he needs."
Stefan hesitated. "Everything but the Cure."
...
Woods
Klaus and Esmeralda were talking.
"I'm sorry, Esmeralda ." Klaus told her sarcastically. "Even if I had the Cure, it would be to use it against you and kill you for getting my brothers Finn and Kol killed. So that I'll be free of your mind control, and Elisaveta will be as well, along with everyone else."
Esmeralda smiled. "You don't know where the Cure is, but you know who does. And you know that I would never let you use the Cure on me, and that if you tried to, that I would make you take it instead."
"You don't scare me... Esmeralda." Klaus told her angrily.
"But I know what does." Esmeralda told him, pulling out the white oak stake, placing the tip of it onto her hand, twirling the stake around.
"Now, where did you get that?" Klaus asked.
Esmeralda continued to twirl the stake, looking up slyly, smirking smugly. "Well, let's just say Rebekah's mind is a little easier to read than yours. But all of you are so easy to control. If you're afraid of my brother, then you should definitely be afraid of me."
"And why is that?" Klaus asked.
"Because I haven't spent the last 2,000 years in a tomb." Esmeralda answered. "I have spent two millennium as the reigning champion of blood, death, carnage, torture, and everything you can imagine. I've done some of my greatest hits to you and your family and your friends. So sure that you don't want to join Finn and Kol on the Other Side?" Klaus glared at Esmeralda in fury, rushing toward her. Esmeralda disappeared. Klaus stopped, looking around. Esmeralda attached Klaus from behind, stabbing him with the white oak stake. Klaus screamed in pain. Esmeralda made him fall to his knees with his back to her, smiling. "I missed by an inch, but don't worry. I'm not trying to kill you. Not just yet." She broke off the white oak stake, leaving the broken tip stuck in Klaus' back. "Just a little something to remember me by. My brother can appear to anyone as anything he wants. So can I. The next time you see me, I might not look like me, but someone else entirely." She patted Klaus on the shoulder, walking away. "I'll be in touch."
Klaus remained kneeling on the ground, groaning in pain.
