Bonnie and Damon were back in her dorm room as the clock struck three a.m. Alaric had been tucked into his bed hours earlier.

'Witching hours are over. Time to sleep,' muttered Damon, tossing on the bed.

Bonnie's head was still in the grimoire, filled with a newfound determination to prove Alaric wrong.

'Is my breathing bothering you that much?'

'Watch it, witchy. I'm only looking out for you.'

'Sorry,' she sighed, 'It's just- what Ric said earlier-'

'Oh, come on. You're not actually taking his words to heart, are you?' interrupted Damon, both baffled and amused.

'No. Yes? I don't know. Jo's body expired weeks ago.'

'So? Ric can keep paying the pathologist. I'll compel him if he decides to rat us out.'

Bonnie looked up from the book, the gentle flicker of the dim light shadowing her soft features.

'It's not that. This whole thing is so messed up. It's unnatural, Damon. It's necromancy,' she shuddered.

Damon raised his eyebrows. As a dead man who had been alive for centuries, he couldn't empathise.

'It didn't bother you this much when we revived Oscar.'

'Oscar wasn't pregnant with twins. And you saw his blood lust. What if that happens to Jo? And her unborn babies?'

'Ripper babies on a rampage. Donovan would have a hell of a time running after them,' he smirked.

'It's not funny, Damon. Grams always said that spells concerning life and death had side-effects. We've seen one. It's like when you have to read the small print before signing a contract.'

'Except, we didn't do that so Oscar went a little loopy.'

'Yes. I'm guessing the small print is this little bit I can't translate. I got the first sentence - 'The one who wishes to harness the power of the phoenix stone must be prepared to shoulder the consequences which will arise'.'

'Spooky,' Damon commented, shining the torch on his ghostly face.

'The rest is written in different handwriting. Pretty bad handwriting.'

'The blood lust was the consequence, clearly.'

'Consequences. Plural,' she stressed.

'You're just being pedantic.'

'Maybe. It can't be that important if it's just a note in the margins, right?'

'Right. Maybe someone just really likes annotations.'