Day One

Willoughby, Pennsylvania

Morning - Street

Morgana sped into a street parking space, parking, getting outside. Elena and Evelyn got out of the car after her.

Rebekah and Rosie got out of the car behind them.

Rebekah looked at Rosie, indignant. "You're sure this is the place?"

"Yes." Rosie answered in annoyance. "The locator spell led us here, didn't it?"

"Funny, coming from a witch who can't even remember why she was helping us without a little birdy whispering things in her ear." Morgana told her.

Rosie turned to face Morgana. "Do you have something to say, or are you just being a bitch?"

Morgana smirked.

"Have I mentioned I can't stand the sound of any of your voices?" Evelyn asked.

"Too bad." Rebekah told her. "We're not done. This is the town. We need to find Katherine."

Morgana looked at a redhead walking toward her car. "In a minute. I'm hungry."

"We're not here for a pub crawl, Gana." Rebekah told her. "I want the Cure. Katherine has it. We don't stop until we find her."

Morgana turned to face Rebekah. "I said in a minute."

"I'm hungry, too." Elena told her.

Elena and Morgana both exchanged a look.

The woman was putting stuff into the passenger seat of her car.

Morgana and Elena appeared next to her.

The woman jumped. "Oh, my God. You startled me."

"Did we?" Morgana asked.

Morgana transformed, snarling, leaning forward to bite her neck from behind.

Elena transformed, not making a sound, leaning forward to bite her neck from in front of her.

"Katherine, what are you doing?" The woman asked.

Morgana pulled back in confusion.

Rosie raised her eyebrows.

Morgana slowly walked around the girl.

"You know me?" Elena asked.

"Of course." The woman told them. "And I know most people around here prefer you to feed from the neck, but I asked you to drink from the wrist, remember?"

The woman pulled back her sleeve, revealing two puncture marks.

Evelyn chuckled. "The conniving little bitch compelled the whole town."

Rosie smirked. "I think we just found Katherine."

...

Street

The girls were questioning the woman.

"What's my full name?" Elena asked.

"Katherine Pierce." The woman answered. "I love the new 'do, by the way." She looked at Morgana. "And who's your friend?"

"My best friend." Elena told her.

"I never knew you had a best friend." The woman told her.

"Well, she does." Morgana told her.

"So how do you know Katherine?" Rosie asked.

The woman looked at Rosie. "How do I know who?"

"Me." Elena told her. "How do you know me?"

The woman looked at Elena. "Small town, everybody knows everybody."

"So everyone here knows Katherine?" Evelyn asked.

The woman looked at Evelyn. "I'm sorry, I don't know who you're talking about."

"So everyone here knows my friend?" Morgana asked.

The woman looked at Morgana and Elena. "Of course. And everyone here would love to get to know you, too."

Evelyn chuckled, talking to the other girls. "She compelled people to forget all about her unless she or someone close to her is talking to them herself. Clever girl."

Elena looked at the woman. "How long have we known each other?"

"It's been a while." The woman told her. "I can't remember."

"Where does she live?" Morgana asked. "Where does she work?"

"I don't know." The woman told them.

"Who do I spend time with?" Elena asked. "Do I have any friends?"

"Well, you said we could all be friends with you, as long as we kept your secret." The woman told her.

"What secret?" Rebekah asked.

"I-I don't know." The woman told them in confusion.

Evelyn, Rebekah, Rosie, Morgana and Elena exchanged a look.

...

Road

Stefan, Emma, Isabella and Damon were walking toward Damon's car.

Damon was carrying two large containers of gas. "If they so much as even scratched the paint on my car... They said that Rosie broke the car because the magic from the locator spell. If she did, I swear to God, I will kill her."

"Well, just be grateful Sheriff Forbes was able to track down the car after you let them, ah, you know, steal it from you." Emma told him.

"Remind me to send her some mini-muffins." Damon told her. "Do we really need 10 gallons of gas, or are you making me just lug this around as punishment?"

"Well, they ditched your car after it ran out of fuel." Stefan told him. "You gotta fill it up. Got a hundred miles before we get to Willoughby."

"Yeah, well, I don't remember that name from the list of places I got from New York." Damon told them.

"Oh, the list?" Isabella asked in amusement. "The list they stole from right under your nose, after you let your guard down? You probably don't remember it from the list probably because it wasn't on it, and then they only found that out because of the deal with the devil witch."

"They'll be there." Stefan told them. "Sheriff Forbes tracked down the car they stole after yours."

Damon filled his tank with the gas. "Screw the muffins. I'll get her champagne. If Morgana and Elena are wherever it may be."

Stefan smiled. "Willoughby. Creamed corn capital of Pennsylvania. They'll be there. Let's just hope we get to them before they get to the Cure."

"Ooh, silver lining." Damon told them. "If Rebekah takes the Cure, then she's mortal and we can just kill her right then and there."

"Ooh, dark cloud." Stefan told him. "Morgana, and Klaus, stay vampires forever. Look, why don't you just table the revenge fantasies for now, and just keep your eye on the prize. Find Katherine, get the Cure, get out before you get your neck snapped. Again."

"Believe me, I learned my lesson." Damon told them. "Morgana is completely different from the time when she had her switch on the dimmer low. Morgana and Elena actually without humanity are stone-cold, and I won't trust them until we get the old them back."

"Look at that." Isabella told them. "We're finally on the same page about something."

Damon tilted his head in acknowledgement. "Look at that. So, tell me again why Lizzie isn't here. I figured that she'd be the first to volunteer on snapping Morgana and Elena's necks. Again. And definitely be here to get her best friend back."

"Well, Klaus called." Emma told him. "Said that if she didn't help him, a lot of people would die."

Damon looked at Emma.

...

Mystic Falls, Virginia

Klaus' Mansion - Parlor

Klaus was feverishly trying to get the piece of white oak stake out of his back. He was scratching his own flesh off, leaving the would on his back a bloodstained mess.

Elizabeth walked in. "Klaus, we need to talk." Klaus was moaning in pain. "What happened to you?"

"Esmeralda." Klaus told her. "She attacked me. She stabbed me with the white oak stake. A piece of it is still inside me."

"Oh, my God." Elizabeth told him in concern, walking closer. "Klaus, that could kill you."

Klaus laughed humorlessly. "Well, I certainly feel like I'm dying."

Elizabeth put a hand on either of his cheeks, looking into his eyes. When she spoke, she didn't sound like Elizabeth. "Hey. As much as I would love to watch you die, I haven't yet had my fill of watching you suffer."

"Esmeralda!" Klaus realized, pushing Elizabeth/Esmeralda away, falling to the floor.

Elizabeth/Esmeralda smirked, turning away. "That's right. I told you that I could look like anyone I wanted you to see, just like my brother Silas can. Today I look like Elisaveta, and tomorrow... Who knows?"

"Why are you doing this?" Klaus asked angrily through his teeth.

"Because I know your family and the MFG want to use the Cure on either you or me." Elizabeth/Esmeralda answered. "If they use it on me, you can kill me, and I don't want to die yet. My time will come, but it's not going to be today." She turned to face Klaus, making the mirage of Elizabeth disappear, as she took on her own identity. She walked closer, menacingly, though she was still having fun. Klaus shuddered in fear. Esmeralda stood over him. "Resist me all you want, Klaus, but I will bring you nothing but misery. You, and Elisaveta, and your family. As long as you seek revenge, I will give you pain."

Esmeralda disappeared.

Klaus relaxed painfully.

...

Willoughby - Post Office - Parking Lot

Evelyn, Elena, Rebekah, Rosie and Morgana walked toward a postal worker.

"Hey, excuse me, um..." Elena trailed off. "Do I have any mail today?"

"What happened to your hair?" The man asked.

"I cut it." Elena told him.

"In the last two minutes?" The man asked.

"I was here two minutes ago?" Elena asked.

"Are you feeling okay, Miss Pierce?" The man asked.

"Yeah, I'm-I'm fine." Elena told him. "Um, thanks."

The man nodded, walking away, leaving.

Evelyn looked at the others. "She was here two minutes ago. That means she can't be that far." He looked at Rebekah. "Um, how about you check inside?" He looked at Morgana and Elena. "You guys will check the parking lot."

"Okay." Rebekah told them, starting to go inside.

Rosie started to walk away.

Rebekah turned after Rosie. "And what do you think you're doing?"

"I did my part." Rosie told them. "I did the locator spell. Now I have to go see a guy about getting my memories back. I'll catch up with you later."

Rosie walked away, leaving.

Rebekah lowered her arms to her side, watching her leave, going inside.

Evelyn walked away to search for Katherine.

Elena and Morgana walked toward the parking lot, looking on different sides.

Morgana saw a brunette getting out of her car, thinking it could've been Katherine, hiding behind the black car she was next to. She watched the girl, not Katherine, obviously, walk inside. She relaxed.

Elena walked closer, standing next to Morgana, looking around.

Katherine appeared, pushing Elena against a van wall behind her "I'm impressed. I never thought you'd find me here. Oh, well. It's a beautiful place to die."

Morgana, pulling Katherine off, pushing her down to the ground. "I couldn't agree more. You've chosen a beautiful place to die."

Katherine looked shocked and fearful. "Morgana."

Morgana smiled.

...

Restaurant - Round Booth

(Song:) Days Long Gone - Don Gallardo

Elena, Katherine, Morgana and Rebekah were sitting together in the round booth, plenty of room for all of them.

Evelyn was standing nearby.

"Where's the Cure?" Morgana asked.

"What?" Katherine asked. "No 'I'm going to avenge my annoying little brothers' speech?"

"People die." Elena told them. "We move on."

Elena took a sip of coffee, expressionless.

Morgana drummed her fingers against the table, emotionless.

Evelyn looked at Katherine without expression.

Katherine looked from Evelyn to Morgana and Elena in realization. "After turning off our humanity switch or in Evelyn's case dimmer switch." She looked at Morgana and Elena. "So sad for the boys, though. Their special snowflakes of human frailty... gone." She looked at Evelyn. "And is it ironic that I'm the reason that you turned your humanity off not once, but twice? So sorry about Little Gilbert." Evelyn looked at her expressionlessly, tilting her head, narrowing her eyes at her. Katherine looked nervous about what she would do. "Well, if we're gonna be while, I'm gonna go grab some menus."

Katherine tried to stand. Morgana stabbed her hand with a fork to keep her sitting at the table. Katherine groaned.

"You're not going anywhere." Morgana told her.

"I forgot how charming you were." Katherine told her sarcastically through her teeth.

"I'm surprised you remember me at all, seeing as though you were so busy wedging yourself between my brothers." Morgana told her.

"Kind of hard to forget someone who rescued Elizabeth and I." Katherine told her. "You sure do know how to help orphans."

"Kind of hard to forget someone who was the reason I had a dagger in my heart for years." Morgana replied.

The waitress stopped next to them. "Oh, my God. What happened?"

They looked up at her, no one saying anything.

Morgana kicked Katherine in the foot, looking up at the waitress, smiling.

Elena looked at Morgana, smiling.

Katherine sighed. "I'm fine, Jolene."

Evelyn compelled Jolene. "You didn't see anything." Jolene smiled, nodding, walking away. Evelyn looked between Morgana and Katherine. "Every minute you two waste with your yapping is another minute we give the Salvatores or Pierce to find us."

Morgana rushed to grab Katherine's chin, trying to compel her. "Where's the Cure?"

Katherine smiled. "I'm sorry, I'm on vervain."

"Oh, we get to torture it out of you." Morgana told her, letting go of her chin. "Fun."

"Why do you guys want it, anyway?" Katherine asked.

"The question is, why do you want it?" Rebekah asked. "Let me guess, to kill Niklaus? There's two ways you can go about that." She looked at Morgana. "Force feed Morgana the Cure and kill her, or force feed Nik the Cure and kill him. Which of those ways sound the most easiest?"

Katherine looked at Rebekah and Morgana. "I've spent the last 500 years running from your big brother. I have no intention of being within sniffing distance of him." She looked at Morgana. "But, since there it a fairly easy way of using it against him, I'm sure he's just itching to get his hands on it. I give him the Cure, he gives me my freedom."

Evelyn sighed loudly. "Oh, you poor victim. Where's the part of your plan where you screw us over and somebody dies?"

"I have no reason to screw you over." Katherine told them. Elena chuckled. "I know you don't believe me, but it's the truth. People change. I'm not the girl you think I am." Morgana laughed. Elena sighed. Rebekah aggressively searched Katherine's pocket's with vampire speed. "I don't have it on me."

Rebekah threw Katherine's phone to Evelyn. "I didn't think you did. But I'm sure there's something in that that can help us."

Katherine looked worried.

Evelyn searched through her phone, seeing an appointment set at 2:00 PM with em. "Who's 'em'?"

Katherine struggled to find the words. "A friend."

"It says here you're meeting Em at 2." Evelyn told her. Katherine looked worried, sighing. Evelyn looked at Morgana and Elena. "I guess you'll just have to meet 'em' yourselves."

Morgana and Elena smiled.

Evelyn smirked.

(Song Ends)

...

Mystic Falls, Virginia

Klaus' Mansion - Foyer

Elizabeth walked in. "I got you 50 bajillion messages! This better be life and death."

She heard Klaus' gruff voice. "Go away."

"Klaus?" Elizabeth called. "Where are you?"

...

Parlor

Elizabeth walked in, finding Klaus shirtless, sitting on the floor, walking into the room in confusion and skepticism. "What the hell happened to you?"

"Stop hounding me!" Klaus told her.

"I'm hounding you?" Elizabeth asked. "I'm supposed to be in Wiloughby trying to help Stefan, Isabella, Emma and Damon from getting killed right now, to get Morgana, Elena and Evelyn home and back in touch with their humanity, and you keep phone stalking me. Did you not get the memo that I am not compelled to be your slave anymore?"

"Elisaveta?" Klaus asked. "Is it really you?" Elizabeth looked at him in confusion and surprise. Klaus tried and failed to stand. "Prove it to me."

"Okay, I don't know if this is some new way of flirting or getting me in bed again, but you still suck, and I have more important things to do." Elizabeth told him, turning around, starting to walk away.

"Wait, please." Klaus told her. Elizabeth sighed, slowing to a stop, but she didn't look at him. "Esmeralda. She stabbed me with the white oak stake." Elizabeth turned to face him. "There's a-a piece of it stuck inside me."

"Why would Esmeralda attack you?" Kaylin asked.

"Well, I was in no position to ask questions." Klaus told her. "Suffice it to say, I'm hurt."

"Oh, no, wait, but I thought you didn't get hurt." Elizabeth told him.

"Right now is not the time for your usual level as sarcasm and attitude." Klaus told her. Elizabeth raised her eyebrows. "You can understand why I called you."

Elizabeth laughed. "You took my freedom, and everything from me, just to make me work to get all of it back, you've tried to kill me, and you think I'm the person to call for help?"

"If I die, you, your all of your friends die with me." Klaus told her.

Elizabeth considered, walking closer. "First, you need to say it."

"Say what?" Klaus asked.

"The same thing you made me say when I asked you to call off your brother." Elizabeth answered. "You know, right after you sent that vampire for Em to kill so she'd activate her Hunter side." Klaus gave her a look. "You know what."

Klaus spoke quietly. "I need your help."

Elizabeth stepped closer. "I'm sorry, I didn't catch that. Could you repeat it a little louder?"

Klaus took a deep breath, saying the words louder and slower. "I. Need. Your. Help."

"And cue the victory bells." Elizabeth told him. "What do you want me to do?"

"Well, it's quite simple, really." Klaus told her. "I need you to cut the stake out of me."

Klaus looked at a pair of bloodstained pliers.

Elizabeth looked at them, picking them up without hesitation, looking at Klaus. "This should be fun."

...

Willoughby, Pennsylvania

Street

Damon's car started to chug, smoke blowing from the hood.

"Oh, what the hell's wrong now?" Damon asked, pulling over to the side of the road, getting out.

Emma, Isabella and Stefan got out.

Emma walked around the car, opening the hood, smoke blowing up, making her cough.

Stefan walked toward her. "What do you know about cars? Oh, wait, let me guess. Something your mom taught you."

"Dad." Emma corrected. "He wanted me to be prepared."

"You're a jack of all trades, aren't you?" Isabella asked.

"Just give me some time and we'll be ready to go." Emma told them.

"I could just fix it." Stefan told her.

"No, you guys need to find the girls." Emma told them.

Damon looked around. "Something's not right. Katherine Pierce does not hole up in Hickstown, P.A."

Emma walked around the car to the trunk.

Stefan looked at the cars in front of them. "Well, these are definitely the cars they stole. We're in the right place."

Emma pulled the trunk lid open, pulling out the tool box.

"Points to them for their choice of vehicles." Isabella told them.

"So let me ask you something." Stefan told him. "What happens when we find them? How do we get them back to Mystic Falls? I mean, they're not exactly gonna go quietly, and they have an Original vampire, an Expression-practicing witch as their bodyguards."

Emma walked back to the front of the car, setting the tool box on the roof of the car.

"We do whatever we have to do." Damon told him. "I don't care if we have to throw Rebekah under a school bus, throw Rosie in a well, lock Evelyn up, and wrap Morgana and Elena up in burlap sacks. We do whatever we have to do."

"I'm serious." Stefan told him.

"I am, too." Damon told him. "I don't care what they want right now. They're this close to going off the rails for good and that ain't happening. They're a pain enough as it is."

Emma pulled her jean jacket off, tying it around her waist as she spoke. "So what happened to the guy who thought Elena should embrace being vampires, let the chips fall where they may?"

"That guy got his neck snapped in New York." Damon told her. "This guy is royally pissed off."

Damon started walking away with Isabella following.

Stefan looked at Emma. "Sure you got that?"

"Yes." Emma answered. "Go, already."

Stefan nodded, turning around, walking away.

Emma looked at the engine, getting to work.

...

Restaurant - Rounded Booth

(Song:) Forget Me Not - The Civil Wars

Katherine, Rebekah and Morgana were still sitting at the table.

Evelyn stood next to them.

Elena walked out of the bathroom closing the makeup compact, walking toward out table, throwing down the makeup bag, sitting down next to Morgana again, this time in front of Katherine. "What do you think?"

"Hmm, it's close." Morgana told her. "Not quite slutty enough. I think you need more eyeliner."

Katherine wasn't amused.

Elena laughed, looking at Katherine. "I'm gonna need your clothes."

"Yeah, that's gonna happen." Katherine told her sarcastically.

"Fine." Elena told her. "Your bracelet, watch, earrings. Hand them over." She pulled the fork out of Katherine's hand. Katherine took off her bracelet, her watch and earrings, putting them on the table. Elena looked at the other bracelet on her other wrist. "And your other bracelet."

"That's my daylight bracelet." Katherine told her. "It's daytime outside. I'm gonna need it. Besides, it's not gonna work on you."

"Fine." Elena told her. "I really am gonna need that jacket, though."

Katherine didn't move.

Rebekah looked at Morgana, nodding to Katherine.

Morgana grabbed Katherine.

"All right, fine." Katherine told them. "Fine, fine." Morgana let go of Katherine. Katherine and Elena took off their jackets at the same time. "This will never work, you know. The bad hair cut, the doe eyes. You'll never pass for me."

Katherine threw her jacket across the table to Elena.

Elena mimicked Katherine. "You'll never pass for me."

"Throatier, more manish." Morgana told her.

Elena mimicked Katherine more convincingly. "You'll never pass for me."

"You guys are pathetic." Katherine told them.

Elena mimicked Katherine. "You guys are pathetic."

"Oh, perfect." Morgana told them.

"Just the right level of contempt and hidden insecurity." Evelyn told them.

"Almost there." Elena told them. "Something's missing." She leaned over to look under the table. She sat straight, looking at Katherine with a smile. "I want your shoes."

Katherine looked at Elena indignantly.

(Song Ends)

...

Street

Emma was working on the car. She only stopped when she heard something behind her, turning around.

No one was there.

Emma heard something behind her, turning around.

No one was there.

Emma reached into the car, pulling out a stake, looking around cautiously. She heard something behind her, turning around, looking at the Original brother right in front of her in surprise. "Elijah."

"Hello, Emma." Elijah told her. He looked at the stake in her hand, slowly wrapping his hand around it, his fingers curling around hers. "I'm sure that's something that you don't need."

Emma's grip tightened on the stake defiantly, trying to pull it away.

Elijah was stronger, pulling it away from her, but was calm about it.

Emma looked up at him.

...

Hiking Trails

Rosie was sitting on a bench, looking at her phone, looking up when she heard someone starting to walk by.

The man walked away.

Obviously thinking it had been someone else, Rosie sighed, looking down, sighing in disappointment. After a moment, she decided to give up, standing, turning toward the right.

Scott appeared in front of her, smirking.

"About damn time." Rosie told him.

"I'm here, aren't I?" Scott asked.

Rosie couldn't help a smile, shaking her head, leading the way down the trail slowly. "You know, you piss me off, and you're a dick, but I-"

"Care about me?" Scott suggested smugly, maybe even a bit cocky.

Rosie looked at him. "That's not what I was going to say."

"It's not?" Scott asked tauntingly. "This is the second time you told me to meet you outside of Mystic Falls in 48 hours." He smiled. "Be careful. I think your losing a bit of the tough girl edge."

Rosie hit him on the chest, smiling. "I am not."

"Fine." Scott told her. "Then your heart's growing soft."

"Is not." Rosie denied. "And even if it was, it wouldn't be 'growing soft'. It'd be melting. Heart of ice, remember?"

Scott stopped walking, turning to face her, smiling a small smile. "I remember." Rosie turned to face him. Scott slowly let his smile fade. "Miss you, Rose. I... hate not being around Sally."

Scott and Rosie looked at each other for a long moment.

Rosie sighed, looking away. "You're hurting because of Derek."

Scott slowly nodded. "Yeah. That's a lot of it. Some of it stopped when I saw Sally."

There were several moments of silence.

Rosie looked down. "Scott..." She sighed, looking up. "I need you to tell me everything that happened since I was on that island. I don't remember anything, and I need to know. I need to know what happened. I need to know what we learned from my daughters adopted father. And I need to know why you're not at home, and what's going on at home."

"What do you want to know?" Scott asked.

Rosie exhaled quietly. "Everything."

...

Park - Gazebo

Elena could be shown wearing Katherine's high heels, pacing looking around.

Morgana was waiting in the park in hiding, sitting on a bench, checking the time on her phone, looking up, sighing, looking around. "Come on, Em."

...

Restaurant

(Song:) Get Started - Nick Nolan

Katherine, Rebekah and Evelyn were sitting at the table.

Evelyn was eating a muffin, looking at Katherine. "Mm, you know, it's funny. I've always been a little bit envious of the legend that is Katherine Pierce. The way you could wrap men around your little finger."

"The way Elijah betrayed Klaus for you." Rebekah agreed. "The way the Salvatore brothers stumbled head over heels for you."

"And yet, here we are, all these years later, in a town that you've had to compel into liking you." Evelyn told her.

Rebekah laughed. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't laugh. It's really more sad than funny."

"You know you can't split the Cure with Morgana, right?" Katherine asked.

"She doesn't want it." Rebekah told her.

"Oh, no?" Katherine asked. "But you do, you want to take it? Are you really that dumb, or just naturally blonde?"

Evelyn pressed her lips over a smile.

"I want a normal life again." Rebekah told her.

"You mean you want a do-over." Katherine told her. "Well, guess what? You can't have it. The Cure will only take away your immortality. Everything else you hate about yourself? You'll still wake up with that in the morning. And you won't even be able to compel yourself a friend."

Katherine reached for a muffin.

Rebekah grabbed her arm, crushing the bones.

Stefan, Isabella and Damon stopped next to their table.

"Ladies, playing nice?" Damon asked.

Damon fell back into the seat next to Evelyn, amused.

Stefan sat next to Isabella, Rebekah and Katherine.

"There goes the neighborhood." Evelyn told them.

"I see you found Katherine already." Damon told them. He looked at Katherine. "You're loosing your touch, evil one."

"Where's Morgana and Elena?" Stefan asked.

They didn't answer.

(Song Ends)

...

Gazebo

Elena was still waiting.

Elijah appeared. "Katerina."

Elena was surprised, trying to recover. "Elijah. You're a little late, aren't you?"

Morgana was watching from the bench across the park, surprised.

"You colored your hair." Elijah told her, stroking her hair. "I like it."

"Thank you." Elena told him. "It's actually gonna-"

Elijah silenced her with a kiss. Elena was caught off guard, but kissed back.

After a moment, Elijah pulled away. "I missed you."

"And I've missed you." Elena told him.

"This is an interesting little town you've chosen to settle down in." Elijah told her. "So do you have it with you?"

"Do I have what?" Elena asked.

"The Cure." Elijah answered, noticing her hesitance.

"It's in a safe place." Elena told him. Elijah looked at her wrist, seeing no daylight bracelet, but seeing a daylight ring. "Why don't I go get it and I'll bring it back?"

Elena started to walk away.

Elijah grabbed her arm to stop her. "Where's Katherine, Elena?"

Morgana stood.

...

Restaurant

Katherine, Isabella, Rebekah, Damon, Evelyn, and Stefan were sitting at the table.

Rebekah looked from Stefan, Isabella to Damon. "So let me get this straight. I tell you where Morgana and Elena are, you shove the Cure down Morgana's throat, you try to convince Evelyn and Elena to turn their emotions back on, and I end up in a box, right? I don't think so."

Katherine smiled, looking down at the table.

Damon looked at Katherine. "What about you over there, smiley? Do you know where they are?"

"I can give you a hint." Katherine told them. "Start by looking at the town morgue. They're probably dead. Well, Elena probably is, being that Morgana can't die by anything except the white oak stake." Everyone looked at her, waiting for her to explain what she was talking about. "They went to meet up with a friend of mine. You may know him. Original brother, impeccable taste."

Isabella looked at her in horror. "Elijah?"

"Elijah's here?" Evelyn complained.

"Well, you sort of have to question Elijah's 'impeccable taste' if he's friends with you." Isabella told her.

"Oh, when I say friend, I mean friend." Katherine told them. Rebekah, Damon and Isabella groaned in disgust. Evelyn and Stefan cleared their throats, looking down. "It probably took about 10 seconds for him to realize that Elena wasn't me, at which point he probably yanked her heart right out of her chest."

"All right, where are they?" Stefan asked. Katherine didn't answer, looking down, smiling. Stefan sighed, looking at Rebekah. "Rebekah, you do realize if anything should happen to Morgana and Elena, you have no chance of finding the Cure, right?"

"Fine." Rebekah told them. "They were supposed to meet at the gazebo in the park."

Stefan stood. "I'll go talk to Elijah."

"You go deal with Elijah." Isabella told him. "Katherine will take us to the Cure."

"No, she won't." Katherine told them. "The Cure is my one chance to win my freedom back from Klaus."

"You're gonna broker a deal with Klaus?" Damon asked skeptically.

Rebekah leaned forward in realization. "No. She's gonna get Elijah to broker the deal for her. That's why you need your little friend, isn't it? Some things never change, Katherine."

Evelyn shook his head. "Nope."

"Fine." Katherine told them. She looked at Evelyn. "Move. You have to follow me."

...

Hiking Trails

Rosie and Scott walked through the park toward a bench.

Rosie sat down, looking in shocked numb. "Jeremy Gilbert is dead. Jeremy's dead." Scott sat next to her. Rosie sniffed. "My Doppelganger bitch Esmeralda mind controlled us all to kill Kol Mikaelson like everyone else was mind controlled to kill Finn. Liam turned 17, and I made a deal with Rebekah Mikaelson to find Katherine Pierce and the Cure in exchange of her finding my daughter. We went to New York with to meet up with Morgana Mikaelson, Evelyn Zhu, Elena Gilbert and Damon Salvatore. My daughters adopted father told us that if my spirit ended up on the Other Side after we did the spell to bring the Veil down, that means that every supernatural creature over there is back on this side with a vengeance, right before he tried to kill us, and you killed him. And then the Expression Triangle completed by the hands of Elizabeth Pierce and Sally Davidsons and Bonnie Bennett, despite Klaus Mikaelson and Stefan and Emma Salvatore/Gilbert's trying to stop it..." Scott looked at her sadly. Rosie shook her head in absolute confusion, despair, overwhelmed. "How do I not remember any of this?"

"When the witches did the spell to try to strip you guys of Expression, it backfired." Scott told her. "Obviously."

"But..." Rosie trailed off. "One of my best friends are dead, and then the other is brainwashed by Silas, which apparently he can't do to me, because I'm too strong. Jeremy. Derek."

Scott shook his head. "No. Don't go there."

Rosie looked at him desperately. "Where am I supposed to go?"

"After all of this is over with Katherine and the Cure, I am going to take you home myself just to make sure you're all safe." Scott told her.

Rosie sighed.

Scott took her hands in his. "Listen to me. Rosie." Rosie looked at him. "None of this is your fault."

"That's not how it feels like." Rosie told him.

"That's how it really is." Scott told her. "Do you understand me?"

Rosie slowly nodded, tears in her eyes. Scott wrapped his arms around her. She leaned her head against his shoulder, mourning the deaths that she had forgotten.

...

Mystic Falls, Virginia

Klaus' Mansion - Parlor

Klaus was bracing himself against the piano.

Elizabeth used the pair of pliers to try dig out the piece of the white oak stake. "Oh, my God, you do have a heart." She clenched it, making him scream in pain through gritted teeth. "Oh, my bad. It's just a bloody rib."

"Well, I'm glad you're finding my misery so amusing." Klaus told her.

"I swear there's nothing in here." Elizabeth told him. "And if you think I'm having fun, you're insane."

"You killed 12 witches for your friends Sally, Rosie and Bonnie." Klaus told her. "You can't even get your hands a little dirty for me. Here I thought we were starting to become close again. And didn't you use to love the thrill of the torment you used to inflict on the innocents?"

"Key words: used to." Elizabeth told him, digging deeper into his back. Klaus yelled in pain, slamming his hand on the piano top. "I'm sorry!" Elizabeth scoffed, realizing that she wasn't. "You know what?" She pulled the pliers out of his back with more force than she had to, making him yell in pain. "I'm not sorry. You deserve to suffer for everything that you've done. So, today, we're gonna do things my way. You so happily reminded me that if I let you die, I let everyone I care about die, all of whom you have hurt in one way or another. Stefan, Damon, Emma, Evelyn, Morgana, Caroline, Elena, Isabella, Jeremy, Derek, Alaric, Jenna, Matt, Liam, Bonnie, Sally, Rosie, Scott, Tyler... All of my friends. You want my help? You let them live the lives that they want, and you don't take their freedom or their will for granted, you let them live, you do not hurt them. Including letting Scott and Tyler come back and not kill them."

"That's sure a long list of demands, love." Klaus told her.

Elizabeth shook her head, crossing her arms over her chest. "No. All I'm asking is that you leave them alone and let them be where they want without having to fear for their lives."

Klaus shuddered in pain, not answering.

...

Willoughby, Pennsylvania

Gazebo

Stefan stood next to the empty gazebo. He was trying to make a call, but he didn't get an answer, rushing away.

...

Street

Stefan rushed toward Damon's car.

The hood of the car was still open.

Emma was nowhere in sight.

Stefan exhaled, making another call.

Elijah was in an alleyway, answering the phone. "Katerina?"

"Hello, Elijah." Stefan told him.

"Where is Katherine?" Elijah asked.

"Where are Emma, Morgana and Elena?" Stefan replied.

"Safe." Elijah answered. "How long they remain so depends upon you."

"Well, I guess the same goes for Katherine." Stefan told him.

"Oh, Katherine can take care of herself against the two of you." Elijah told him,

"Oh, you mean the six of us," Stefan told him. "Rosie and Evelyn are with us, obviously, even when they don't want to be. But Rebekah decided to join Team Good Guys for the time being."

Elijah was clearly angry about this, but remained calm. "Put her on the phone."

"Well, she's not here right now." Stefan told him. "I left her with the others."

"Tell me where they are." Elijah told him.

"Relax." Stefan told him. "No one's gonna get hurt as long as Katherine hands over the Cure."

"Do you understand how much Rebekah despises Katherine?" Elijah asked. "I assure you she will end her the moment she ceases to be of use."

"Well, just tell me where you are, and we can talk this through." Stefan told him.

"You listen to me very carefully, Stefan." Elijah told him. "If anything whatsoever happens to Katherine, I will descend upon three of the girls you care about most."

Elijah hung up.

Emma sat on the alleyway's stairwell, looking at Morgana and Elena's unconscious body in front of her. "You're both idiots."

Emma stood, turning away.

"Excuse me?" Elijah asked.

Emma sighed loudly, turning to face him. "What happened to you, Elijah? I mean, you made yourself to be a man of honor, telling me all the family stories of trying to keep your family falling apart, telling me that I was dealing with the same thing in my own family, acting so surprised when I told you exactly how I felt about Stefan, Isabella, Evelyn, Elizabeth and Damon, the first person I'd actually told about that, and yet you've been hooking up with Katherine this entire time?"

"Well, I supposed this man of honor always shared a connection with Katherine." Elijah told her. "She contacted me when she learned about the Cure. We thought we could be of mutual use to one another."

"'Mutual use'?" Emma repeated in amused skepticism.

"Mm-hmm." Elijah answered.

Emma scoffed. "Please. You fell for her trap just like every other one of those idiots."

"You underestimate me, Emma." Elijah told her, turning to face her, walking past her. "I know who she is. I know what she's done."

Emma turned to face him. "And you think she's changed?" She looked away in exasperation, scoffing, shaking her head, letting her hands hit her thighs in a bored yet confused gesture. "God! You're an even bigger idiot than I thought." Elijah raised his eyebrows slightly in surprise, slight confusion and amusement. "She's playing you. She lied to you, Elijah."

"She didn't lie to me about your survival." Elijah told her. "When I left Mystic Falls after everyone learned of your sickness, the night I used your family, threatened Elena and Isabella... I thought that last time I would have seen you was the night of the ball. I thought you would die. I underestimated you." Neither of them spoke for a moment, looking at each other. Elijah looked away from her, looking at Elena. "She also didn't lie to me about Elena's transformation."

"Did she tell you that she killed Jeremy?" Emma asked. Elijah seemed shocked. "You didn't know?" Emma scoffed. "Of course you didn't."

"She lied." Elijah told her.

"I hate to say I told you so, but..." Emma trailed off. She looked up thoughtfully, tilting her head. "Actually, I'm gonna love saying this." She looked at Elijah. "Duh."

...

Katherine's House

Rosie, Rebekah, Isabella and Evelyn walked in.

Damon pushed Katherine inside. "No sudden moves from you. No tricks, either. No Katherine-ing." Katherine moved further into the house. Damon looked around. "Wow. A quilt and a fish tank. Who the hell are you?"

"A very old lady with dreadful taste." Rebekah told them.

Katherine moved things away from a shelf, revealing a hidden safe, opening it, reaching inside. "It's gone. The Cure, it was in the safe, but it's not there."

Rosie imitated a buzzer. "Not falling for it. Where is it, Auntie Katherine?"

"I swear it was in the safe." Katherine told her.

"Right, like Elijah is really your boyfriend and this is really your life?" Isabella asked. "For all we know, this isn't even your house."

"Yeah, it doesn't look like the Katherine I know." Damon agreed.

"Maybe you don't know Katherine at all." Katherine told them. "Did it ever occur to you that you have no idea who I really am?"

"Did it ever occur to you that you're not that deep?" Evelyn replied. "This whole small-town girl thing, we all know it's an act."

"Where is the Cure?" Rebekah asked.

Katherine looked at her with a hint of a smile.

Isabella rushed toward her.

Damon put his arm out to stop her. "Whoa, whoa. Hang on. We need her alive. The Cure's not here. You and Rebekah check upstairs. Rosie and I'll check down. We got this."

Katherine was smiling.

Rebekah and Isabella walked away to go upstairs.

Rosie looked around. "So if I was a paranoid, distrustful sociopath, where would I keep my most prized possession?"

Katherine chuckled. "This should be fun."

Rosie searched the room. "Because I'd want it to be close, but not on me. Accessible but not obvious. I'd want to keep it safe, but not so safe that it'd be too difficult to grab and run."

Evelyn stopped in front of the fish tank. "Well, that is a fancy little treasure chest. In a tank with no fish." Katherine didn't react. "I think I'm gonna have to check that out." Everyone stuck her hand into the water but immediately burned, groaning in pain. "Vervain water. Looks like we have a winner."

Evelyn picked up a large net to scoop out the chest.

Katherine rushed toward Evelyn , shoving her head into the vervain water, holding him there for several seconds, turning around, throwing him to the floor.

Evelyn writhed in pain.

Katherine pulled the chest out, opening the chest, taking out the Cure, rushing toward the door, trying to make an escape.

Rosie and Damon rushed in front of her.

"You try to leave, you're dead." Kacie told her.

"You're gonna kill me anyway." Katherine told her. "So what's more important to you, huh? Killing me or giving the Cure to Rebekah to get your freedom?"

Rebekah and Isabella rushed into the room.

Rosie looked from the small, pill-shaped Cure to Katherine and Rebekah and Isabella

Katherine threw the Cure over her head.

Rosie rushed forward to catch it.

Katherine snapped Damon's bones in his arms and legs, rushing out of the front door.

Isabella rushed forward to follow Katherine. Rosie got in the way accidentally. Isabella pushed past her.

...

Outside

Isabella rushed out of the house, following Katherine outside. She slowed to a stop, looking from one side of the street to the other.

Katherine was gone.

Isabella exhaled in anger, rushing forward, trying to find her.

...

Inside - Living Room

Evelyn was still on the floor, healing from being pushed into the vervain tank.

Rebekah looked at the Cure in Rosie's hands like she was finally getting everything she wished for.

Damon was still on the floor, healing. "Look. Rosie..." Rosie walked toward Rebekah. "Don't even think about it. Rosie. Rosie!"

Rosie handed the Cure to Rebekah.

Rebekah looked in awe that she finally had the Cure.

...

Evelyn and Damon were still healing.

"Let's just talk about this, like the four rational vampires that we are." Damon told them. "Rosie?"

"Oh, give it a rest." Rosie told him. "Rebekah taking this Cure is the best thing that'll ever happen to you."

"Don't do anything stupid." Damon told them. "Rosie..."

"Admit it." Rebekah told him. "You don't want human-Elena running back to Stefan, or human-Morgana disappearing from the face of Mystic Falls with Stefan. Go on, Damon. Tell me why you want one of them to have the Cure." Damon didn't answer. Rebekah smiled. "That's what I thought." She looked into Rosie's eyes, compelling her. "You held up your side of the deal. Now I'll hold up mine. As soon as we get back to Mystic Falls, you will do whatever it takes to break your sire bond from Klaus. Do you understand that?"

Rosie smiled a small smile. "Yes. I understand."

Rebekah opened the pill-like object, tossing it back, drinking.

Stefan appeared in the door. "No!"

Rebekah gasped for a few seconds, falling down onto the sofa.

Evelyn rested her head on the floor.

Stefan looked at Damon.

Damon looked hopeless.

Rosie smiled.

...

Mystic Falls, Virginia

Klaus' Mansion - Parlor

Elizabeth sat on the couch, looking at the text on her phone telling her that they had found them, and that Rebekah had taken the Cure.

Klaus leaned against the back of another couch, still reaching toward the wound in his back, moaning. "I can feel the splinters moving towards my heart. Help me!"

"Your word first." Elizabeth told him, unafraid, sounding utterly bored.

"And what makes you think I won't simply break my word?" Klaus asked.

Elizabeth looked up. "Because every time you've ever gave me your word, you always kept it."

"I wish I could say the same about you." Klaus told her.

"You wanna be friends or more?" Elizabeth asked. "Friendship, Stage One. Show me that I can trust you."

"I saved your life." Klaus told her angrily. "Three times."

"Because you put it in danger." Elizabeth told him just as angrily. "Three times. Actually, more than that. Why can't you just do something decent for once?"

"All of you have tried to kill me." Klaus told her.

Elizabeth stood. "And you've tried to kill most of us. And most of it was because of Esmeralda's mind control, just like us fighting right now is because she is still so deep in our heads. How do you think that you deserve my friendship or love when you've done nothing to earn it?"

Klaus stood, walking toward her. "I will not have my hand forced by you or anyone else."

"What is wrong with you?" Elizabeth asked. "I'm reaching out to you despite everything that you've done, and you still can't get out of your own way. God! I feel sorry for you. You think yourself as the one that everyone fears, when in reality, you're the one that everyone hates."

Elizabeth turned away, walking toward the door.

Klaus rushed in front of Elizabeth to stop her. "Don't turn your back on me!"

"I should have turned my back on you ages ago!" Elizabeth told him.

Remaining silent for a moment, they both breathed deeply, trying to calm down.

Klaus looked up in realization, completely calm. "It's gone."

Elizabeth exhaled. "What?"

"The pain." Klaus told her, reaching toward the wound. "The-the pain is gone. It was-it was never there. She got in my head. Esmeralda..." He pointed to his temple. "She got inside my head."

Elizabeth was breathless for a moment. "The anger... the rage... I can't feel it anymore."

"Neither can I." Klaus told her. He took her hands in his. "We came out of it. You brought me back, Elisaveta. Just as I brought you back."

Elizabeth exhaled in relief, looking toward the ceiling as if a weight had been lifted off of her because all of the anger between the both of them was gone. "Thank God." They were both exhausted from all of the mind control and the fighting and arguing that they had broken through, though they both managed to smile small smiles because they had gotten through it. "God..." She realized the gravity of everything that happened, horrified. "Oh, my God."

Klaus knew what was going through her head. "Elisaveta..."

Elizabeth looked up at him. "Esmeralda... What Esmeralda did... Finn and Kol, and us... Everything that happened... I'm sorry."

Klaus gazed off, no longer angry at Kaylin, but completely angry at Esmeralda, though he seemed to be too exhausted to be angry. "As am I."

...

Willoughby, Pennsylvania

Katherine's House - Living Room

Rebekah was lying on the couch, unconscious.

Stefan, Damon, Rosie and Evelyn stood nearby.

Isabella walked inside, looking at the others. "That elusive bitch got away. Again."

"Aw, someone didn't get a chance to fulfill their revenge fantasy." Evelyn told her.

Isabella looked at Rebekah's unconscious body on the sofa in confusion. "What the bloody hell happened?"

"Rebekah took the Cure." Rosie told her smugly, proud of herself. "I gave it to her myself. So she gave me what I wanted. She compelled me to break the sire bond as soon as we get back home."

Isabella raised her eyebrows. "I'm not gone for ten minutes, and everything changes."

Stefan was looking at the fish tank, talking to Damon. "Did you even try to stop them?"

"You forgot the part where Evelyn was bobbing for boxes in vervain water and that my limbs were being broken by a sociopath." Damon told him.

"All you had to do was stall them, Damon." Stefan told him.

"Sorry." Damon told him. "It's Rebekah and Rosie. I didn't have a pony to distract them, Stefan."

Rosie raised her eyebrows at him.

"You purposely let her take it, didn't you?" Stefan asked. "You were never on my side. Now Morgana will be a Original for the rest of eternity just like you wanted."

Rebekah gasped, sitting up, waking.

...

Alleyway

Morgana and Elena were still laying unconscious.

Elijah and Emma were nearby.

Emma was leaning against the wall.

Elijah was pacing. "She might have lied to me about your and Elena's brother, but she didn't lie to be about you being a step away from becoming what Jeremy had been, did she?" Emma didn't answer, crossing her arms over her chest. "Even if you had activated it, became a Hunter who's urges was to kill vampires so far that it transformed you into a different person, I'm sure you would have found your way back to yourself someday, just as Jeremy had."

Emma smiled ruefully, sarcastically. "Just like you hope Katherine will find her way back? You still think that innocent girl you save from Klaus ages ago is in there somewhere?"

"I'd like to think so, yes." Elijah answered.

"She's not." Emma told him. "She's a monster now, Elijah. The sweet peasant girl you fell in love with way back when is dead. And she's not coming back."

"I'm not a fool, Emma." Elijah told her. "Of course this has occurred to me, but what kind of man would I be if I didn't try to find my Katerina beneath this... Katherine facade?" He looked at Emma significantly. "You seem to have less fear now more than ever. You do realize that I could have killed you hours ago for the things you've said?"

"I don't care." Emma told him, holding up her hand, her thumb and forefinger held a small distance apart. "I've been this close to dying before, and it's not what it's cracked up to be. It's overrated. So, go ahead, kill me. It's not gonna change anything. By the way, I have had worst kidnapping situations. You're not treating me like a hostage. We're just talking. There's a reason that you're not hurting me, and it's because you can't, can you?"

Elijah didn't answer, smirking slightly in amusement. "That strength, that compassion you have for the things you believe in... It continues to impress me."

Emma scoffed silently, pushing away from the wall, turning to face him, quoting Elijah's letter to her. "'Your compassion and strength are gifts, Emma. Carry them with you. As I will carry my regret, as you will fight for your life. Always and forever.' I remember reading that in a letter once."

Elijah smiled a small smile, impressed that she had remembered. "Well, the writer sounds positively gifted. I'm sure he meant what he wrote."

"I'm sure he did." Emma told him. "And then I heard about what he had done just before, and I hated him." Elijah looked toward her knowingly. "And it felt good to hold that letter over and open flame and let it burn."

Elijah pushed away from the wall, walking toward Emma. "I can hear your heart beat, Emma." He stepped in front of her, looking down on her. "It rises when you're being dishonest. I heard it rise of the words, 'I hated him', and 'let it burn'." Emma lowered her gaze, but didn't respond. "So, tell me... How close did you come to letting that letter burn?" Emma didn't answer, raising her gaze to meet his. Elijah looked behind her, his expression turning darker. "You're free to go."

Emma turned her head to look over her shoulder, seeing Katherine standing behind her, several yards away, up the stairs of the alleyway.

Emma looked at Elijah, walking away without another word, walking toward Morgana and Elena.

...

Katherine's House

Rebekah sat up on the sofa, looking refreshed, her mouth open in wonder.

Stefan, Evelyn and Rosie were standing by the window.

Damon was standing near a bookshelf.

Isabella sat down on the coffee table opposite Rebekah. "How do you feel?"

Rebekah smiled. "I-I feel good. I... I feel great. I feel alive."

"Slight problem with being alive." Damon told her. "I can kill you now."

Damon threw a letter opener at Rebekah.

Rebekah caught it with vampire speed.

They watched the gash on her hand healing.

Stefan sighed of relief.

Isabella sighed, looking up.

Rebekah gasped in horror. "I'm still a vampire. The Cure didn't work."

"It worked just like she wanted it to." Evelyn told her. "The Cure was a fake. It must've been a concentrated shot of vervain or something."

Stefan smiled in admiration. "Katherine."

Everyone looked at Rebekah in confusion and awe.

Rosie rushed out, leaving.

Damon shook his head. "She really knows how to use an opportunity to her advantage."

...

Alleyway

Katherine and Elijah were talking in the alleyway, alone.

There was silence.

Katherine sighed, turning to face him. "Oh, come on. Enough of the silence treatment. What did Emma tell you?"

"You killed Jeremy Gilbert." Elijah answered.

Katherine exhaled in resignation. "Yes, Elijah, I killed Jeremy Gilbert, a bombshell I'm sure Emma just couldn't wait to drop on you. I don't know why she cares."

"Well, she does care, and so do I." Elijah told her, turning to face her. "Do you honestly feel nothing for Emma and Elena Gilbert, two girls fated to live the same life that you've endured? And now you've just taken away the last of their family, just as yours was taken away from you."

Katherine smiled defensively. "Uh, why are you looking at me like I enjoyed it?" Elijah started to walk away. Katherine followed him. "Jeremy was collateral damage. I was doing what I needed to do to survive."

"Is that what I am to you?" Elijah asked. "A means of survival?"

"Don't let little Doppelgänger Emma get to you." Katherine told him. "She hates me, and she clearly still cares about you, even though she pretends to hate you. She wants you to turn against me and convince you that I can't be trusted."

"I asked you a question." Elijah told her.

"No." Katherine told him. "Of course you're not a means of survival. You looked out for me when I had no one. You're giving me a second chance now when no one else will. I love you." She placed a hand on his cheek. "Elijah." Elijah pulled away. "You don't believe me."

"I want to." Elijah told her. "It's my disease. I just keep wanting to believe you, but how can I, when at every turn, you give me a reason to doubt you? I don't know you." He chuckled. "I don't know that I ever will."

Elijah turned, walking away.

Katherine followed him, grabbing his arm. "Wait. You gave me your word that you would talk to Klaus. I-I can't make a deal without you."

Elijah looked at her for a moment, this seeming to make up his mind. "Goodbye, Katherine."

Elijah walked away.

Katherine watched him go.

...

Night - An Unknown House - Porch

Katherine approached the front door, knocking.

The woman from the beginning opened the door. "Katherine, hey. What brings you by at this hour?"

"I came to retrieve my package." Katherine answered.

"Oh, of course." The woman told her. "Like I said, your secret would be safe here." She walked into the house, returning shortly with a small box, handing it to Katherine. Katherine opened it, revealing the real Cure. "Hey, um... All the secrecy. Can I ask, what is it?"

"It's my freedom." Katherine answered.

Katherine closed the box.

...

Street

Elijah was walking down a sidewalk.

Katherine approached him.

Elijah tried to pass her.

"Wait." Katherine told him.

Elijah stopped. "What do you want?"

"To tell you that you're right." Katherine answered. "I've spent so much time running and lying just to survive that I don't-I'm starting to believe my own lies. I don't even remember who I was when we first met. And I want to find out."

Katherine reached into her purse, pulling out the small box.

"You have the Cure." Elijah told her.

"Yeah." Katherine answered. "And I can shove this down Morgana's throat to make Klaus human, and then kill them both, but even if I manage to do it... I'd lose you. And I don't want that to happen."

"How do I know this isn't another lie?" Elijah asked. "Katherine Pierce deceiving yet another man."

Katherine took his hand, putting the box into it, holding her hands over it. "Because I meant what I said about my feelings for you. And I'd like to think that you feel something for me, too. I need you to trust me. I want you to trust me. Just like I'm trusting you. You don't owe me anything. I'm gonna let you decide where we go from here."

Katherine walked past him, walking away.

Elijah opened the box, looking at the Cure, closing the box.

Across the street, Rebekah walked toward her car.

Rebekah sat on the hood.

Katherine rushed away.

Rebekah looked at her brother, sighing an annoyed sigh. "Elijah."

"Leave her be." Elijah told her.

"You and Katherine?" Rebekah asked. "And I thought you were the smart brother. I kinda like you and Emma more"

"You don't have a smart brother." Elijah told her, following her toward the car with the box and the Cure Katherine had just gave him. "It turns out I'm just as stupid as the rest of you."

Rebekah slid off the car. "Why don't you just give me the Cure so I can judge you silently elsewhere?"

"And what could you possibly want with the Cure?" Elijah asked.

"Haven't you heard?" Rebekah asked. "I want to be human again."

Elijah looked at Rebekah. "How do you know that being human is the answer you're looking for? I mean, it's nothing but a romantic notion. The grass won't necessarily be greener, Rebekah."

"You're probably right." Rebekah told him. "But I don't care. I want to live a simple life as a normal person. And when it ends, it ends. We've had 20 lifetimes together, Elijah. Isn't that enough?"

"I just don't understand." Elijah admitted. "I mean, why must you always consider our family a burden? Always and forever. I mean, those words are as important to me today as they—as they ever were."

"You will always be my brother." Rebekah told him. "And I will never stop loving you. But now it's time for me to live and die the way that I choose, not the way you and Nik want me to. Please. Please just give me the Cure."

Rebekah's phone started ringing. She pulled it out, answering. "What do you want, Nik?"

Klaus was standing in the parlor of his mansion, clean and healthy, with a shirt on. "An update on our search for the elusive Cure. Rosie Lockwood won't answer her phone."

"Let's just say that things have gotten complicated." Rebekah told him, looking at Elijah. "In fact, why don't you speak to one of those complications? Here."

Rebekah handed the phone to Elijah, turning around, walking toward the driver's seat.

Elijah put the phone to his ear, walking to the passenger's seat. "Complication speaking."

Klaus was surprised to hear his voice, smiling. "Big brother. At last you join the fray."

"Somebody had to take charge." Elijah told him. Klaus narrowed his eyes. "And now that I have, I've got the Cure, and I'm bringing it back to Mystic Falls."

"With a long list of demands, I assume." Klaus told him.

"Not that long." Elijah told him.

"Come home, brother," Klaus told him. "We'll settle this like family."

Elijah hung up, getting into the car.

...

Mystic Falls, Virginia

Klaus' Mansion - Parlor

Klaus hung up.

Elizabeth walked into the room, drying her hands with a towel. "I used all your bleach."

Elizabeth started to walk past him.

Klaus grabbed Elizabeth by the arm to stop her. "Elisaveta." Elizabeth turned to face him. "Thank you for helping me."

"Yeah. Now I got to go help Hayley." Elizabeth told him, walking away.

Klaus smiled. "Friends, then?"

Elizabeth stopped, turning back to face him. "Did you think about what I asked?"

"I did." Klaus answered. "And the answer's yes."

"To all of it?" Elizabeth asked.

"To all of it." Klaus answered. Elizabeth smiled. "It actually sounds..."

"Reasonable?" Elizabeth finished. "Yeah, I know."

"I'm saying yes mostly to apologize for the way that I acted when we were both lost to Esmeralda's mind control." Klaus told her.

Elizabeth nodded in understanding, touched. "Yeah, well, consider yourself forgiven."

Elizabeth turned to leave.

Klaus caught her arm. "Did you mean what you said?" Elizabeth looked at him in confusion. "After I bit you..."

"Which time?" Elizabeth asked.

Klaus managed a small, sheepish, regretful smile. "In the Gilbert House. You said that you wished that you could forget all of the horrible things I've done. That you could remember all of the good things I did. Now, and the first time we met."

"I said all that while dying." Elizabeth told him. "You can't exactly hold it against me." Klaus raised his eyebrows slightly. "Except if you're... well, you. And we slept together." They chuckled. There was a moment of silence. Elizabeth and Klaus looked at each other, smiling slightly. "Well, my family will be back with my emotionless friends soon, and I have to help Hayley find our family. So, if you need anything else... don't call me."

"If you're worried about your friend Evelyn's humanity, you won't have to worry about it for much longer." Klaus told her.

"What do you mean?" Elizabeth asked.

"After a few hundred years, your humanity switch begins to fade." Klaus told her. "Around the 500 year mark, where her age lies now. It won't be long before her switch begins to fade and her humanity comes back... in pieces. I'm pretty sure you won't have much to do in the way of getting Evelyn Zhu turn it on. Once vampires reach her age and above, the option to turn it off will be gone forever. But that doesn't mean that people like Morgana or I can't pretend to have it all gone."

Elizabeth looked hopeful, smiling a small smile. "Why are you telling me this?"

"Because you're right." Klaus answered. "Justified or not, we've been cruel to one another, even with some sweet moments. And I think it's time for that to end."

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Elizabeth smiled. "Thank you."

Klaus smiled, nodding.

Elizabeth turned, walking out of the room, slowing to a stop. She smiled, rushing to kiss Klaus surprising him before, walking out of the house before Klaus could stop her.

...

Willoughby, Pennsylvania

Street

Damon, Isabella and Stefan were walking down a sidewalk.

"All right, you're right." Damon told him. "I let Rebekah take the Cure." He turned to face Stefan. "I thought for a second-I mean, literally just a second-if Rebekah takes this, then all my problems go away. And I couldn't think of one good reason to give it to Morgana. And then Rebekah took it. And I realized how badly I screwed up."

"So what's your point, Damon?" Isabella asked.

"My point is, I'm sorry, okay?" Damon asked. "I had a moment of weakness, Stefan. It's my thing. It's like you and I falling for the same girl. It's our thing."

"Was our thing." Stefan told him.

"Okay, let's just get the Cure, and then we'll talk about giving it to Morgana, and just how to do it." Damon told them.

"You still want to get the Cure, even if it means that we might lose her forever?" Stefan asked.

"It's a chance I'm willing to take, Stefan." Damon told him. "What about you?"

Stefan slowly nodded sadly. "Well, I guess all we have to do is, uh, convince her."

Stefan looked behind Damon in slight surprise and relief. "Emma."

"What?" Damon asked, turning around to follow his gaze. Emma was standing at Damon car, finishing the job she had started on the engine. Damon turned to look at Stefan and Isabella. They exchanged a look, walking toward Emma. "Well, look who's still alive and has nothing better to do than finish what she started."

"He was never gonna hurt me." Emma told them, closing the hood. "He didn't even act like I was a hostage. All we did was talk."

"You seriously didn't let him get to you, did you?" Isabella asked.

"No." Emma told them.

"That didn't sound too convincing." Damon told her. "Come on, Em. We already have to worry about Elizabeth falling for the Original hybrid. Don't make it to where we got to worry about you falling for the other brother."

"Tact, Damon." Emma told him in annoyance. "Look it up."

"Are you done?" Stefan asked.

"Start it up." Emma told them.

Damon walked around the car, opening the driver seat's door, getting in, twisting the keys, revving the car, completely fine. "Ah. That is music to my ears."

"Listen, we gotta go talk to Morgana and Elena." Stefan told her. "Come with?"

Emma shook her head. "You go ahead." Stefan tilted his head at her. "I'll be fine." Damon got out of his car, closing the door, looking at her seriously. "Oh, my God, just go already. I'm not going anywhere. Isabella will be with me."

Stefan and Damon reluctantly walked away toward the restaurant from earlier.

Emma leaned against the hood of the car, looking down numbly, seemingly still thinking about earlier, but so numb that she could barely think at all.

Isabella looked at Emma sympathetically.

...

Restaurant

Elena and Morgana sat together in the diner, waiting for Stefan and Damon.

Stefan and Damon walked in.

Jolene looked at them. "Sit anywhere you'd like."

Damon and Stefan slid into the booth and sit next to Elena and Alex.

"You all right?" Stefan asked.

Morgana and Elena merely looked at them.

"What's up with the silent treatment?" Damon asked. "You're the one that texted us and wanted to meet up."

"You know Morgana doesn't want the Cure." Elena told them. "You know that I don't want my humanity back. You need to know that we never will, and we're done talking about it. So... will you accept that and let us be who we are or not?"

Damon and Stefan exchanged looks.

Damon looked at them. "Yeah... no."

"Morgana, Elena, this isn't you." Stefan told them.

"It is now." Elena told them. "And you two really need to accept it. Because if you don't, there will be consequences."

Morgana took a drink of her coffee.

Damon and Stefan exchanged looks again.

Stefan looked at them. "Listen, I was in the exact same situation that you're both in right now. My emotions were off. I wasn't me. And both of you refused to accept that. You didn't give up on me. You didn't stop until you pulled me back."

Morgana set her coffee cup on the table.

(Song Ends)

Jolene came back. "Let me just top that off for you."

Morgana smiled. "Thanks."

Morgana rushed to stand, snapping Jolene's neck, letting her dead body fall to the floor.

The pitcher of coffee fell, shattering against the floor.

Damon looked at Morgana in shock. "Oh!"

Morgana looked at them. "Like Elena said, consequences. That's one body you're responsible for. If you keep trying to fix us, there'll be a second, a twentieth, and a hundredth. It's your choice."

Elena shrugged lightly, standing, stepping over Jolene's body, walking toward the door.

Morgana raised her eyebrows at Damon and Stefan, turning around, stepping over Jolene's body, walking toward the door, leaving with Elena.

Stefan and Damon watched them go in complete silence.