Alyssa groggily awakes feeling the back of her head. Her eyes are adjust to her new surroundings. She takes a look at around and sees a sink, toilet, and no windows. She realizes she's sitting in a tub and goes to sit up and hits something soft.
"Bonnie," she leans forward slightly shaking her, "Bonnie!" when she didn't get a response she felt for a pulse and found one though it was faint.
She slowly stands up and climb out of the tub walking over to the sink and grabbing the towel hanging on the rack. She turns on the faucet wetting the towel.
She walks back over to the tub and presses the towel to Bonnie's forehead as the door opens and Elena get's pushed in. Bonnie starts to wake up and Alyssa turns her attention from her sister to Bonnie.
"Elena?" She was the first person she saw when she opened her eyes and Elena kneeled down beside the tub.
"You're okay!"
"My head.."
"Come here." Elena pulls Bonnie upright.
"Oh my god! Ben is a-!"
"Shhh." Elena gestures at her ear and points toward the door. "They can hear."
Elena got up and turned the tap back on. She kneeled back down next to Bonnie.
"I'm so stupid!"
"No, he had all of us fooled!"
"What's going on? Why are we here?"
"It must have something to do with the tomb and Emily's spell book." Alyssa guessed.
"Spell book?" Bonnie looked between them confused.
"Damon said it could be used to open the tomb." Elena told her.
"Why didn't I know about any of this?"
"I was trying to keep you out of it," Elena replied, "hoping it would never come to this.
"Come to what?"
Elena looked to Alyssa who answered, "they need a witch to break the spell and let the vampires out.
"No way!"
"I know."
Ben bursts through the door. Elena grabs Bonnie's shoulders protectively. Ben turns the tap off.
"You're wasting your time," said Bonnie, "I'm not gonna help you.
Ben smiles devilishly and Alyssa moved in front of Elena and Ben grabs Elena pulinl Elena away from her.
"That's why she's here." He answered. "Motivation for you to behave. You know, you shouldn't be so desperate. You made it too easy."
Ben pushes Elena out of the room, roughly. Bonnie gets up from the tub. Ben shuts the bathroom door.
Alyssa kept her eye on Ben for any sudden movements while trying to think of a way of it.
"You're probably wondering why you're here." Ben said to Alyssa after sometime had past and she had yet to take her eyes off of him. "Bonnie's needed to open the tomb. Elena's here as an extra incentive to Bonnie so why I am here? You're probably asking yourself right now. What's my role in all of this? It's pretty simple. Damon's seem to taken an interest in you and that could come in handy in negotiations."
"Is that what she said?" She asked to keep him talking until she could figure out a safe way to get them out of the mess they found themselves in. "Anna, it's clear she's the boss. She tells you when to jump and she says how hi. It's pretty pathetic for a vampire to be an errand boy."
"You don't know what you're talking about."
"Maybe, but I do know that you weren't the only one working for her. Noah, I believe his name was. The guy always in a hoodie and boots. Paid a little visit to Elena on several occasions. Well that was into a drove a stake through his heart and watched him decicate on the cafeteria floor."
He started towards her but was stopped by a knock on the door and Anna calling out, "I'm leaving." Ben opens the door and leads them out. "Keep them buttoned down. Compulsion won't work. Just use violence."
"Right. I got that." Anna leaves. Ben pushes them onto the bed. "Sit. Behave" to Bonnie "So you're the key to this. Literally. The one who opens the door. Tell me, how long have you been a witch?"
Instead of Bonnie answering Elena asked, "Is there anything to drink here?"
Ben gets up and walks over to Elena. "Are you offering? There's water on the night stand."
"Hey. Can I have a sip?" Bonnie asked.
Elena pulls the glass away from her mouth. She hands over the glass. Bonnie takes it and tosses the water on Ben. Bonnie turns the water into flames. Ben yells and pats the flame down on his arm. They waste no time making break for the door Bonnie was the first to make it to the door and opened it Alyssa a close second, but Ben grabs Elena before she is able to make it out.
"Come back in!" Ben called out with a firm hand on Elena. "Shut the door!"
Bonnie slide's back in "Don't hurt her!
"Don't make me! Lock it!"
Bonnie does as she's told and deadlocks the door.
The resume their seats on the bed and Ben starts pacing.
"Witches don't have eternal life, right? So you guys can die."
"Yep." Bonnie answered. "We can die"
"Ah. That sucks."
All of a sudden, Stefan kicks the door in. Ben screams as the sunlight starts to burn his skin. Stefan rips the curtain open, allowing more sunlight to pour in. Ben hides in the dark between the two beds.
"Stefan!" Elena called out happy to see them.
"Let's get outside!" They follow orders quickly rushing outside.
Alyssa was surprised to see Damon waiting in the parking lot with his eyebrows knitted in the usually way when he was contemplating or upset about something. When he saw her come out, he looked over and she could tell he was assessing her for any damages.
"I'm fine," she assured him. "Let's just get out of here."
They left going back to the boarding house where she sat in the conservatory with a drink.
Damon joined her on the couch lifting up her leg as he came to sat down and placing them on his lap. He refilled her glass and she took leisurely sips.
She watched Damon reach for something on the table beside him and see him hold a gold locket which she accepted wondering what the occasion and reasoning until she smelled the herb coming from it.
"Vervain?" He took a sip from his cup wordlessly and she hooked the pendant around her neck not asking anymore questions than that.
She looked down at the pendant startled when he finally decided to speak, she looked up. "They say why they wanted you for."
"You. I was there insurance policy for you."
He phone rung before he could respond to it and she saw that it was a text from Elena.
"Elena got Bonnie to agree to opening the tomb," she said in disbelief and Damon wasted no time in getting to the church.
When they arrived, they see over a dozen students drinking and chatting.
"The Duke party. I forgot. I hope they stay clear of the church."
Matt and Caroline walk up to them.
"Lyssa?"
"Matt, hi." She didn't expect to see him there. "I thought you had to work."
"Got off early. Thought you weren't coming."
"Changed my mind."
Matt nodded to her and looked at Damon holding out his hand to shake. "Matt, there's a reason we haven't met. You and I are going that way." He Elena's arms and starts dragging her away. She looked back at Matt and Caroline as she's being pushed along.
"I'll call you later." She called out to Matt as she forcefully got pulled away.
"Elena. Brother. Witches." Damon strides past them with the grimoire, Elena trudging along behind him. Damon descends the stairs into the tomb.
"You okay?" Elena asked Alyssa.
"Yeah I just want to get this over with."
Sheila lights the torches at the tomb. Bonnie stands next to her and Stefan, Damon, Elena, and Alyssa all watch from the entrance.
"Air. Earth. Fire."
"Water…" Bonnie holds up a water bottle and Sheila takes it, sprinkling the water on the floor.
"That's it?" Alyssa looked at her skeptically. "Just water from the tap?"
"As opposed to what?" Sheila asked.
"I don't know. I just figured maybe it would have to be blessed or mystical or something."
Sheila smirks at her and Damon pulls out a blood bag and unravels it.
Stefan asked, "what's that?"
"It's for Katherine. Gotta have something to get her going. Unless your girl's offering a vein to tap." He looks back at Elena, who looks at him, unamused.
Stefan sighs and Damon whispers his next sentence to him. " Admit it - you can't wait to get rid of me.
Stefan chuckles, "I can't wait to get rid of you."
"Hmm."
Bonnie looks up at them from the ground and signals, "we're ready."
Bonnie and Sheila start reciting a spell at the tomb, their eyes shut and hands interlocked.
Damon asks, "What are they saying?"
Stefan answers, "sounds Latin."
Alyssa disagrees, "That's not Latin."
After a few more seconds of the witches reciting the spell, the torches flare up. Elena grabs onto Stefan's arm. "What's happening?"
The door to the tomb creaks open. Sheila and Bonnie stop chanting and look up.
"It worked!" Bonnie exclaimed surprised.
"Of course it worked." Sheila said not doubting that it ever would.
"We have some fires to build." Damon says to Stefan.
He looks back at Elena, gently touching her shoulder, "I'm gonna go get the gasoline, I'll be right back."
Elena nods and Stefan ascends the stairs out of the tomb. Damon looks from Bonnie and Sheila to Elena. "You ready?"
"What?" Alissa and Elena said in unison.
"You think I'm gonna go in there by myself so you can seal me in?" Damon said to Bonnie and Sheila. Damon grabs Elena.
"I'll go." Alyssa volunteered.
"No," she nods between him, "she goes."
"I'll bring the walls down." Shelia said.
"You'll bring the walls down if I don't." Damon said. "You think I trust you?"
"As much as I trust you."
"Enough," Elena looks between the both of them, "both of you. Look, he needs leverage. He needs to know that you're not going to shut the door when he gets inside. I get it. I'll go."
Damon grabs a torch from the circle. "May I?"
Elena nods at Sheila and Bonnie, reassuringly, and follows Damon into the tomb.
Alyssa stands by anxiously awaiting their return.
"Hey, you're not going in there!" Alyssa turns to Anna descending the stairs to the tomb.
"You think you can stop me?"
"Bonnie…" Bonnie steps aside at Sheila assistance and Anna grabs a flashlight from the ground and runs into the tomb.
Bonnie turns and looks at Sheila, angered. "Why did you let her go in?"
"Because she isn't coming out, baby. None of them are."
Alyssa walked towards her, "what do you mean none of them are coming out?"
Stefan came back with the torches, "where's Elena?"
"Damon took her inside." Bonnie answered.
"What?!" Stefan runs towards the entrance of the tomb.
Sheila grabs his arm. "Stefan! If you go in there, you won't come out."
" What did you do?"
"Opening the door didn't remove the seal, it just opened the door.
"What's the seal?" Alyssa asked.
"Some seals keep vampires from entering. This one keeps them from coming out."
"Elena's human. She can leave." Stefan said putting but the pieces together. "Anna and Katherine can't."
"Damon can't." Alyssa said turning her attention to the tomb.
"You were never planning on breaking the spell, were you?" Stefan said
"I told you. I will protect my own. Elena can get out. That's all that matters."
Stefan turns to the tomb hearing Elena's screams echo through the tomb. He dashes into the tomb. Bonnie chases after him.
"Stefan!" Sheila blocks Bonnie from entering the tomb. "You can't just leave him in there, Grams!"
"He made his choice!"
"No. Here." She picks up the grimoire and looks desperately at her Grams. "Just show me what to do. I'll do it."
"We are not strong enough. Even if we were able to bring the seal down, there's no guarantee that we could get it back up again."
"You said it yourself, many things can fuel a witch's power. Help me or I'll do it alone."
Seeing the determination on her granddaughter's face, Shelia makes a decision to do as she ask and together they start looking through the grimoire when Elena exits the tomb.
"Elena, Stefan…" Bonnie said not knowing how to tell her best friend that the man she love was know trapped in the tomb.
"He's right behind me." Bonnie and Sheila look at the entrance to the tomb. Elena turns around and sees Stefan standing in the doorway.
Elena walks up to him, worried. "Stefan, what are you doing?"
"It's gonna be okay. We'll fix it." Bonnie assured her.
"What is it?" She asked confused
"I can't." He answered but it didn't clear up her confusion.
"Can't? Can't what?"
"The spell's still up. We can't get them out yet."
"You went in there not knowing if you could come back out?"
Stefan looks down, not answering.
"Oh, my God."
"I heard you scream." Stefan explained.
"We can't leave him in there." Alyssa stepped forward.
"I know." Stefan answered her with every intention on getting his brother out.
"Even if we're able to break through the seal, we won't be able to hold it for long." Shelia said.
Stefan goes back into the tomb to find Damon.
Sheila and Bonnie are reciting the spell to lift the seal as Alyssa circles around them.
The torches flare up and Elena looks towards the tomb. "I think it's working."
Alyssa turns to the tomb to see Anna exits with Pearl, who is still weak.
"I just wanted my mother back. Jeremy's fine. He's outside. I won't touch him." Anna and Pearl leave. The torches begin to falter.
"Bonnie, keep going!" She urges and to Elena she said, "they better hurry."
Alyssa saw the torches extinguish themselves knowing that they didn't have that long before the veil drops back down she runs inside of the tomb.
"Damon, we need to get out of here."
"It doesn't make sense. They locked her inside."
"If we don't leave now, we're not getting out."
"How could she not be in here?"
"It's not worth spending all of eternity down here. She's not worth it!
"No!" Damon angrily pushes Stefan away. Alyssa rushes into the room.
"Damon! You have to go" Alyssa called out to him pleadingly to leave the tomb. "She's not worth it."
Stefan turns to Damon to see that the plea from Alyssa worked and together they leave the tomb
Damon first followed by Alyssa then Stefan. Elena runs to him and hugs him. The door to the tomb closes and the torches die out.
Stefan and Elena leave the tomb followed by Damon and Alyssa. Stefan runs over to Jeremy, who is waking up and kneels down next to Jeremy. "He's alright. He's okay."
Alyssa turns to Damon after hearing her brother is fine to see him looking completely miserable. She walked over to him and grab his hand. "I'm sorry."
Elena carries a glass of water and an Aspirin into Jeremy's room and hands it to him while Alyssa stands at the door.
"How's your head?" She asked once he took it.
"Uh- it's alright. I just...I wish I knew how I passed out. I didn't drink that much, I swear."
"And you don't remember anything?"
"The whole things pretty cloudy. I just...I know how this looks. I'm - I'm sorry."
"No, Jeremy, don't be sorry. You didn't do anything, okay?"
"Yeah, okay."
"I've got to head on over to Bonnie's for a little bit, but is there anything that you need?"
"No, I'm just...I'm gonna crash."
"Okay, well, Jenna's here and I'll be back soon."
Alyssa leans up from inside the door as Elena walks out, "I'll give you a ride."
"I just got to Bonnie's"
"Everything alright."
Alyssa walked inside of the boarding house in search of Damon overhearing Stefan on the phone with home she could assume was Elena, she walked into the parlor.
Stefan turned as he heard her walk in and she acknowledged him briefly looked before walking over to Damon and sitting beside him. Stefan got up leaving them alone and she linked her fingers through his sitting her head on his shoulder.