Damon P.O.V
I had to walk away from Elena I was really pissed, the way she reacted with my concern over Star. I mean who the hell did she think she is? I know I care deeply for Elena, but sometimes I wanted to snap her neck for being stupid. When she reacted like this it drove me insane, I really didn't understand her problem with Star. Couldn't she see that I cared for her? Or did Elena see it as that Star a woman and of course because the she was the opposite sex, that I've probably pounced on her, or have feeing for her. Star is stunning without a doubt and I guess people would have thought I would do that, but no it wasn't like that with Star. Yes I love her, but I love Star like a sister nothing else. Then with her asking me to take the cure with her? She clearly had me mistaken for my brother. Once upon time there was a moment when I did want to be human more than anything in this world, but knowing the fact to cure myself of vampirisms means the death of my friend that something I would never want.
So put Elena and our raging argument to one side, and tried to look for Star, and to be totally honest I didn't have a clue where to start. I began to walk round in the wildness with hope of finding something to find her. I began to walk threw a clearing and something caught my eye I walked over to the tree I touched it, I moved my hand away and it was blood. All of a sudden I felt a sharp pain in my neck and I totally blacked out. I came around and my head was killing me I looked around and I was daylight, I groaned in pain as my throat and wrist were burning. I looked down and my wrist were blinded together, then I saw some jack ass who was crouching over a campfire. I began to struggles against my bonds, groaning in pain, I don't know who the hell he is, but I'm going to kill him for doing this to me.
"Something botherin' you?" Oh great is he kidding me right now! What the hell did this dick want with me?
"Would you believe me if I said mosquitoes?" He clearly knew what I was, he used vervain ropes to hold me down which meant that he was fully clued up on vampires.
"Aye, I would. How does it feel when a relentless eating machine is draining the blood from your veins?" That was a clear dig, and his so going to get it when I finally free myself.
"Itchy." I tried to hid my anger, this highlander stopping me from finding Star who was about to do something incredibly stupid. She had been lied to all her life of her purpose of wake up this bad guy, and I need to tell her the truth once she knows it will change everything.
"Your friends from Mystic Falls think you're funny, Damon?" How the hell did he know my name and where the hell I came from?
"You obviously know who I am, and where I'm from. Have you been spying on me?" He looked over and me and began to smirk, I wanted to tear him apart right now.
"Aye, I have." He gets up. "You and Stefan, Elena, your witch, Bonnie. Do you need her to cast the spell written on your pal, Jeremy's hunter's mark—" He sits down again. "—the tattoo that looks exactly like this?" I looked at his tattoo and it was identical to Jeremy, so he was a member of the five. "You're pretty close to a very dear friend of mine, who I've been looking for Star." Of course he knew Star, didn't she like help these hunter dicks fulfil their destiny or something.
"You wanna know something, just ask." He didn't just vervain me for any reason, there had to be a meaning for him holding me hostage like this.
"I've been killing vampires my entire life. Still, this thing refused to reveal itself to me. That was, until three days ago, and it just magically completed for no apparent reason." So when Jer killed Kol and his mark revealed itself it did to all the other member of the five too!
"Come on, man. Do I look like I know anything about tattoos? Look at my skin. It's flawless." Like I was really going to help this jack ass out, I didn't care that he claimed to know Star. I know she would be overly impressed with him if she knew what he did to me.
"Ah! You're not taking me seriously." He walked over to me. "I don't blame ya. You don't know me" He holds up a pointy wooden stick that he's been holding over the fire. "So let me introduce myself" he stabs me in the neck with it, I groaned in pain. "My name is Galen Vaughn, and you'd better start talkin' and tell me where Star is." Well if he looking for Star and wanting answer from me his at a lost cause I don't have a clue. What worried me is now, if Star been taken, and she really important to this awakening of Silas who the hell else is on this island?
Star P.O.V
Right now I literally wanted to scream, it wasn't meant to plan out like this, but it looked like that dick Shane had this all planned out. All I remember is fall asleep because Damon was right I felt exhausted, then been woken up to some guy with tribal paint on his face calling me Ophelia. I wanted to question him, but then Shane the bastard turned up and it was all planned. He had Bonnie, Jeremy and I split us away from the group so that he could raise Silas. Damon had said he was shady from the start, and he was right all he cared about is raising him and bring back his wife a kid. Unfortunately I can't let that happen, somehow I need to think of a way to screw up his plan, but the closer we were getting to where Silas laid the weaker I was becoming. We had been hiking through the wilderness for hours, and we had finally come to an opening of a cave, it felt strange I would hear whispers around me, but I couldn't make out what they were saying. It was freaking me out a bit I asked the others if they could hear it, but they looked at me like I was crazy apart from the witch who had brought us to Shane.
We all walked towards the cave entrance, Shane leading the way inside, we reach the hole where we had to climb down into. The whisper began and I had a strange overwhelming feeling come over me when I looked down the hole.
"You can sense him can't you?" The witch asked me I looked at him, I knew who he meant by 'him' I nodded my head and looked back down in the hole. I couldn't believe after all years I'm actually going to be doing this. "This is as far as I go." The witch announced he snapped me out of my trance I looked over at him.
"We're on the brink of a monumental event in human history. We're going to raise the most powerful immortal creature that ever was. Come on, our work's not done yet." Shane spoke with excitement, while the three of us stood there not amused, Shane was clearly deluded with all of this.
"Mine is. You said get them and I did. I wanna get paid now." The witch stated firmly then Shane opens his bag and pulls out the tombstone. He walks over and hands it to the witch he looks over at us. "I'll say a prayer for your souls." He leaves quickly, yeah praying for our souls like that's really going to help.
"That's what the tombstone was for? To pay off a mercenary?!" I shouted at him he made such a big deal about it all, and that all it was use for to capture us to bring us here.
"The core of that tombstone is made up of Qetsiyah's calcified blood, you know how special blood can be Star, like how yours is." Every single part of me tense up as he mention that, both Bonnie and Jeremy looked at the both of us confused as they had no idea my true reason for being here.
"Why is Star blood special?" Bonnie questioned him, Shane looked at me with a smirk on his face, which got Bonnie even more alarmed. "Star what is he talking about?" I looked down the hole I could hear a name been called 'Ophelia' it echoed in the cave below.
"I'm going down first." I need know why this name Ophelia kept on be mention; I picked the rope from the ground, that crazy witch called me Ophelia and now some creepy voice keeps saying it.
"Star why won't you answer Bonnie question?" Jeremy demanded we both looked at each other intensely now wasn't the time to talk about this, but could I really keep avoiding it?
"Star is not some kind of mentor for the five—" I glared at him, he smirked he was loving every moment of this. "—she, and she alone can waken Silas... I think that enough information for now." Shane teased, if only I was a little closer to him I would push him down the hole. All I know now is I'm even more certain to get us away from him, there no way in hell Silas is going to be walking around not if I have anything to do with it.
Stefan P.O.V
This trip to this island has become too crazy the whole reason we came here was to get to the cure, not to lose Jeremy and Star well I say lost them more like taken. I worried about Star I had notice that she didn't seem herself since we came on this god for sake island, in the pit of my stomach I knew none of this felt right. I could see from my brother behaviour he knew a little more than he let on in front of everyone. When Rebekah and I returned back the campsite there was only Elena apparently Damon had walked off after an argument. I didn't know what was going on between Elena, and Damon right now, but since it all came out about them sleeping together Damon had stay clear from her. Which isn't like Damon, he had finally won Elena flat out admitted she was in love with him, but Damon was acting very un-Damon like. We found out that we had been screwed over Professor Shane, he had taken the tomb stone. Rebekah was flipping out, and things got heated between Elena and Rebekah and once again I had to intervene.
We decided to go back to the beach and get cell reception to call back home, and speak to Caroline and see if she could anything from Klaus. That phone call went pretty well apparently Klaus was willing to help more than ever after hearing that Star had been taken, he had requested for Caroline and Tyler to get his sword from his home while we sent over the picture of Jeremy markings. I knew the only reason he was doing this was down to Star, no matter what we did to him, and how he would love to seek vengeance on us all right now. His main priority was to find Star, and her safety this was the one time we all saw that Klaus still had some humanity left in him. So we were waiting for a call back from them back home with some kind of coordinate to finding Silas. I watched as Rebekah is raising her cell phone in the air to try and get a signal and gives up. I was sitting on a piece of drift wood looking out into the ocean, just hoping that we could find anyone right now, I saw Elena approach me and sat down next to me.
"And once again, everyone's life is in danger looking for this cure, because poor Elena can't deal with being a vampire." Why did she think that all of us was here for her? She was totally wrong we were here all for our own reasons, not everything was about Elena Gilbert.
"No. Everyone's here, because they want to be. Not just for you, but for themselves too." I snapped at her before I looking back out on the ocean, it wasn't always about Elena Gilbert. The one that were here wanted the cure for themselves, or to guild a hunter, or to raise this guy Silas it wasn't about her.
"Stefan, why didn't you tell me that you wanted the cure for yourself?" Elena broke me out of my thought and I turned to her, that was a silly question for her to ask me considering she knew how badly I took to vampirism.
"I mean, why wouldn't I want to take it? I've seen every side of vampirism there is. The power... the misery, the guilt. In the long run, even the good parts kind of suck, too." I think it would be best for everyone and myself if I was human again, I couldn't control my bloodlust.
"Yeah, I mean, I know why you would want to take it, but what I'm saying is... Why didn't you tell me?" Was she being for real? After she tore my heart out I'm going to tell her out of all people that I wanted to take the cure.
"Because it had nothing to do with you. I mean, you know how much I wanted a human life with you. Being human myself, being normal -that's something I've wanted since long before I met you." I tried to keep my voice calm as I spoke to her, but it was difficult. To look at the person who I thought would never hurt me by falling in love with my brother and be calm about it all.
"Well, I'm glad you told me now." I couldn't help but give a small smile no matter how much I wanted to be mad at her, I couldn't, this was Elena.
"Yeah, what's a deeply buried personal secret between friends, right?" I joked to her and she smiled back at me.
"Between friends? I like that." There no point of me trying to hold resentment to her, because I can't no matter how much she had hurt me, I can't hate her. I may not be with her, but friends is better than nothing. Right now we both want the same thing to find Jeremy and Star, and get to the cure then we will take things from there.
Damon P.O.V
This dick Vaughn had been dragging me around like I'm his freaking pet vampire puppy, I was really losing my patient with him, but he was after the same thing I was and that was Star. He didn't explain to me why he needed her, but I'm guessing the fact that she needed for resurrection of Silas, but I'm not going to let him know that I knew all of that just yet. So I was still bound by the vervained ropes, leaving me no choice, but to walk with Vaughn through the forest not knowing where he was taking me.
"Mind telling me where we're going?" I spoke to him annoyed, and he continued to walk he was really pissing me off dragging me along like this.
"At the wishing well lies an entrance to a crypt. In the crypt lies Silas. And with Silas lies the cure, which I need our dear friend Star to waken him. So that it will allow me to kill Silas, bring the mission of the brotherhood of the Five to an end. You're my leverage, Damon; I use you to get your witch friend to open the passage to Silas' crypt for me." He seriously thought that Bonnie the witch would even care what he did to me? She hated me guts.
"What a minute, you're using me to get to Bonnie Bennett? Whoa, brother, ha! You picked the wrong vampire." He stopped and looked at me a little amused, like he knew some kind of personal joke that I didn't.
"I guess we'll see about that, but Star will not allow anything to happen to you, I know how close the two of you are." He was really beginning to freak me out knowing a little too much about me, maybe I could reason with him so things didn't have to go nasty.
"Here's the deal, Shrek. My witch friend will open the passage for you. No leverage necessary. We don't care about Silas. All we want is the cure, so you cut us in on your share, and we'll get out of your hair." I didn't give a crap about the cure, but if this was the only way to get to the cave and them being there I'll go along with this game.
"You really don't understand, do you?" What the hell was there to understand, this guy was really starting to annoy me.
"No, I don't understand, so why don't you explain it?" I spoke in a slight accent mocking Vaughn's which he didn't like.
"Silas is immortal. I have to cram the cure down his throat in order to kill him." Yeah ok I knew this Star told me that he had to take the cure, and one of the five had to kill him. I didn't get his issue with us wanting the cure too.
"Yeah, what does that have to do with me and my friends?" He continued to walking while dragging me along with him, and groaned in pain as the ropes burnt my wrist and throat.
"I need to use the cure against Silas. Your friends, they can't exactly have it, now, can they?" What the hell did he mean by that?
"So you use it on Silas, and we'll use it for whoever wants to use it." I didn't even want Silas to be woken so there won't be a freaking cure for anyone to have, if it mean the death of Star to wake someone that she didn't know that was her father. "You don't want to share it with us?" I spoke to him smugly and he stopped at a halt.
"Even if I wanted to, I couldnae." There something I'm missing here from this story about the cure. "So it is written...There is only one dose." He really had to be kidding me, why the hell didn't Star tell us that there was only one dose? I swear when I find her we are going to be having serious words, I just hope I'm not too late.
Star P.O.V
I was lowering herself down into the lower chamber of the cave in a harness attached to a rope, the whispering became louder 'Ophelia, suddenly I lost my grip and fell the rest of the way down. I landing painfully on my hand I felt like I broken it or something, I looked to see it was bleeding and the throbbing sensation was excruciating. Jeremy and Bonnie who were already down, rushes over to me.
"You okay?" I looked up at him and Bonnie and both of their faces were filled with concern, it was strange to have people care me who didn't know who I was.
"Yeah, I just slipped." I lifted my hand and groaned, my glove was torn and bloody, and Jeremy rips off a strip of his T-shirt and Bonnie pull off my glove off gently. My hand is bleeding profusely I've never seen so much blood come out of me before in my life. Jeremy uses the fabric to make a quick tourniquet for my hand.
"It's okay." Jeremy spoke gently, I looked up at him and smile. The whispers kept echoing in the chamber I kept looking around to see where it was coming from, but it was bouncing off the walls not giving me any indication of the source.
"Thanks do you hear that?" I asked as I unhook the rope for my harness, the both of them looked at me a little confused, maybe I'm losing my mind being on this island.
"Hey, guys, I'm coming down." Shane calls out from above the opening, I forgot about that dick being here.
"What do you think's gonna happen once I cast a spell on Jer tattoo and there's nothing in between Shane and Silas?" Bonnie questioned me I looked between the both of them I knew we were close to the where Silas rested, I kept having this eerie feeling like he was watching me which is impossible I know as he stuck in a tomb for the last two thousand years.
"Look I know you both have a lot question right now about me, but I need to know in you trust me?" I looked between them both Bonnie looked at me sceptically I knew that meant she didn't trust me in the slightest, after Shane comments who could blame her.
"Yeah, of course without a doubt." Jeremy spoke with sincerity in his voice. He was a good kid, and I knew he had trust in me after the things we had been through in such a short space of time.
"Then trust me when I promise you that I won't let Shane raise Silas." That was one thing that wasn't going to happen, Silas wasn't getting raise so he can wreak havoc on the earth. I'm not giving up my life for that, Jeremy looks up briefly as they hear noises from above.
"Just don't do anything stupid Star. If Bonnie Expression gets out of hand, Shane is the only one that could help her keep it in control." I knew that she had gotten herself mixed up in Expression, but I couldn't believe that Shane had taught her it. Anya taught me that magic when I turned 16 as far as I was aware only unum praeditos could keep it under control if a witch's over the centuries have died using it.
"Please tell me you haven't been using expression." Bonnie looked at me worried just confirming what I already knew. "Bonnie expression is not good magic—" Before I could tell her that she didn't need Shane that I could help her through it she cut me off.
"Don't worry about me. I'm fine. But if Shane tries to lift a finger on his hand to hurt either one of us... I'll kill him myself." She really meant it I could tell in the tone of her voice, it looks like we had nothing to fear and maybe our Shane problem going to be dealt with sooner than later.
Stefan P.O.V
Klaus came through and found the location of where Silas is buried, this was Klaus the hybrid who didn't give a dam about anyone, but we were all wrong. The one person who he did care about was Star. Star fallen for two totally different people Klaus the guy who was only after anything for self-gain, then there was me to be honest I didn't know what she saw in me, but the one thing Klaus and I had in common was we were both in love with Star. Rebekah had spoken to them on the phone and Caroline sent to coordinate to Rebekah phone, we had been hiking through the frost. The tension between Elena and Rebekah was still there, I wish they would stop this feud even for a few hours. Or just until we find Jeremy and Star. Rebekah looked at Star like a sister and she was clearly concerned for her, as Elena was with Jer. But who I'm kidding it will never happen they will be at each other's throats till the bitter end hell will freeze over before these two got along.
"What did Caroline say?" Elena questioned Rebekah here we go again, this will break out in to something major.
"I don't know. We lost the signal. Come on, this way." We came to the edge of a cliff and stop, Rebekah was holding up her phone. "We need to get down and across. Advantage, vampires: all we have to do is jump." Rebekah was about to take a leap, but Elena stopped her.
"Wait, wait. Um... maybe you should leave the map behind. In case you fall, you don't want anything to happen to the phone." Rebekah looked at her with anger in her eyes, I didn't need these two be arguing while we are so close in finding Star.
"Are we doing this again? I thought we were a team?" Rebekah spoke bitterly which she had a right to be as Elena wasn't helping with the situation right now, I needed to intervene.
"Guys, we don't have time for this. Elena, you go first. We'll be right behind you." Elena hesitates before she takes a running leap off the edge. After falling a huge distance, she lands on her feet, stumbling only slightly. I was about to jump when Rebekah throws out her arm and stops me.
"There's something you should know about the cure." Rebekah spoke with seriousness in her voice. She explained to me that Klaus had discovered in the marking that there was only one dose of the cure. In that moment I didn't know whether to believe it all or not, Klaus was trapped in that house he would do anything to mess this all up for us.
"So you're sure that Klaus is telling the truth? That there's only one dose of the cure?" Rebekah gently nods with sadness in her eyes; she knew how much I wanted this as much as I knew how much she wanted it too.
"There something else Stefan—" I cut her off I didn't want to hear anymore I had heard enough.
"Well, I guess that's what happens when you're dumb enough to hold out hope." Why did I think that I could actually have a break by having a normal life? I looked up at her and her face was filled with sorrow.
"There's still hope for one of us. But even if I felt pity for you, if I wanted to ease your pain so I gave you the cure to take for yourself, you'd give it to Elena, wouldn't you?" I didn't reply. "That's what I thought. Well, I'm sorry that it couldn't work out the way that we all wanted it to." I looked at her confused, and Rebekah got hold of my neck and I heard a snap then I fell into darkness.
Star P.O.V
When Shane came down he was looking for some kind of sign to the passage to Silas tomb, I kept looking at a cave wall where I could hear some calling me by my name Star. There was a mixture of my actual name and this Ophelia I didn't know who the hell Ophelia was, but hearing her name was annoying me. So Bonnie began to cast the spell on Jeremy I watched as his marking began to fade away, as they did the place began to shake both Bonnie and I began to scream. Jeremy grabbed Bonnie and hid for cover, while I went in a different direction to try not to get killed before to need to be. After a while it all stopped I got up from the ground and looked around I notice that a cave wall that I was drawn to was opened now.
"Bonnie! Jeremy!" I called out into the chamber as I got up onto my feet, please don't let anything of happened to them.
"We're fine." I heard Bonnie call out from behind a rock, I walked over "We're here. Look! It worked!" They both got up from the ground they look over to see that a new passage has been revealed.
"You did it." Jeremy said while grabbing his shirt, these two did make a pretty good team.
"We did it!" Bonnie announced Jeremy puts on his shirt I notice a little bit of chemistry between these two, we move towards the new passage way when we heard Shane grunts in pain.
"Hey, guys, I need a hand. My leg's broken." He spoke breathlessly I turned to him and I notice that the bone was sticking out in his right leg, it was like someone was watching out for us by taking him out.
"Best to stay off it, then." I turned back the Bonnie and Jeremy and indicated to us to move on.
"Bonnie. Wait, wait. Don't-Come on. Bonnie! Help me! Come on, please! Help me!" He cried out, Bonnie face filled with guilt and I didn't need her to feel sorry for him, he deserved to stay where he was and die a slow death.
"Bonnie leave him to rot, if you're worried about your expression I can help you." Bonnie looked at me unsure, Shane had frighten her so much that she really thinks it can't be controlled without him. "I first to use it successfully in year 978, trust when I tell you that you're the one in control. Not him. Okay." She nodded and I put my arm around her, and the three of us walked down the tunnel, we were moment s away from finding Silas. I could feel the adrenaline right now I don't know if it was the fear of what about to do, or the excitement of knowing it will all be over with.
Damon P.O.V
After hearing about their only being one dose of the cure it got me thinking, did Star know this whole time that the cure was only meant for Silas? Right now I didn't know who the hell to believe and what to believe. All I knew right now was I needed to get the hell away from this dick, and find Star. Screw the cure; screw Silas, all I cared about it getting hold of Star and dragging her ass back to Mystic Falls. I was still tied up and pulled like a puppy we arrived outside a cave and Vaughn pushed me in and I staggered into the cave with Vaughn behind me. I saw the ropes attached to a beam with the rope dropping down into a lower chamber, that really not a good sign seeing that.
"Well, here we are. Looks like someone beat us to the punch." He didn't look overly amused with me telling him that, but I had enough of this dick now.
"That's a shame, Damon. I have no use for you anymore. Hate to kill ya." Right that was his plan all along, he didn't give a damn all he wanted was to get Star and spill her blood over that dick tomb. So he can play hero and save the world from evil.
"Ditto. You know that pesky hunter's curse and all." Vaughn nods. "All right. How do you want to do this?" I was ready to tear this guy apart, but not kill him of course because I didn't want that hunter curse I just need to slow him down so I could get to Star.
"I'll make it quick and painless." He seems pretty confident with himself, but hell no is he bring me down. He pulls on the rope tied to my neck, but resists and grabs onto the rope; the vervain in it sears my skin. I forgot about the pain and thought of my reason why I'm doing this.
"Wish I could make the same promise." Vaughn cuts the rope at his end and flings it toward me, I pulled the rope off my neck, groaning in pain, I pulled off the ones tied to my wrist. "I'm gonna kill you. And then I'm gonna get to that damn tomb and stop Star from doing something stupid." Vaughn was loading up his gun then he pointed it at me.
"Your attachment to your friend will be the end of you." We hear footsteps from the cave entrance and for once in my life I was grateful to see an original, I couldn't help but smile.
"You don't know my friends—" Rebekah appeared. "—Or my enemies" Rebekah and I stood on one side of the cave, Vaughn on the other training his gun on us. "Are we gonna dance, or are we gonna play?" Vaughn kept on looking between the both of us he didn't know who to go for first.
"You know he can't hurt me, Damon, unless he's got the white oak stake." Rebekah spoke quite proudly like I said before I was happy she turned up.
"Oh, he doesn't, but he's got other toys." Vaughn shoots Rebekah 3 times as vamp- sped at him and grabs his throat, but Vaughn sticks something into her chest Rebekah looks down at it. Vaughn holds up the fuse that he's pulled out, and the grenade detonates, sending the wooden spikes into her body, all the way through to her back. She falls down, neutralized. I vamp-speeds at Vaughn, engaging him in hand-to-hand combat, Vaughn withdraws another weapon and fires it at me; this time it throws a lasso-like device covered in vervain. Which secures me by the neck to a pole behind I groaned and makes choking as I couldn't breathe, the vervain sneered my throat making it even more painful to be
"Damon!" I heard Stefan call out, that's when Vaughn grabs onto a rope going down the shaft, slides down it quickly and disappears. That asshole! I saw Elena and Stefan enter the chamber just in time to hear Vaughn reach the bottom. Stefan tries to get the rope off of my neck while I groan in pain, it was very difficult as the vervain burns Stefan's fingers as well.
"You're wasting time. Just get to Star stop her. Go." Stefan looked at me confused while Elena stood there stunned like she was last night.
"We're not gonna leave you." She stated stubbornly I hated when Elena was like this, she knew what it meant if Star got to that tomb, that getting that cure means Star's death.
"Why do we need to stop Star?" Stefan asked with confusion I looked at Elena I knew she hadn't told him.
"Elena didn't tell you?" Stefan looked between Elena and I even more confused than before.
"To get to the cure Silas need to be woken. There only one way to wake him and that by the blood of unum praeditos and I'm not talking about a drop of it. We talking about Star death. So how badly do you both want that cure now?" Stefan stood there completely stunned and Elena couldn't even look at me, I didn't understand why she hadn't told him. I had no idea what going on with her but right now, but I didn't care. What important right now is that my brother and I stop the girl we both care about killing herself for something she doesn't need to do.
Star P.O.V
We were walking through the passage Jeremy and Bonnie were holding flash lights so we could see our path, I felt kind of weird the further we walk through the passage. I felt kind of light headed a couple of times I nearly fainted luckily Jeremy caught me each time. They both became a little worried as apparently I wasn't looking great, well I definitely weren't feeling great. So I had Bonnie on one side and Jeremy on the other holding up so I was steady on my feet.
"This way." I pointed, I could hear the voices getting clearer still calling out a name and that Ophelia still.
"How do you know?" Jeremy asked I got out of his and Bonnie grip and walked towards direction I told them about, I felt drawn to go there I just couldn't explain it to them.
"I just know." I walked into a small chamber suddenly Alana appears at me smiling after 982 years she here right in front of me.
"Hello, Star." I hadn't heard her voice for all this time, I didn't know whether to smile at her, or cry, just at this moment I realised how much I missed her, the woman who brought me up.
"Al-Al-Alana." I could barely say I her name I felt all that guilt from running away from her all those years ago. "What are you doing here? How are you even here?" I couldn't believe my eyes I've wanted to see her so many times when I needed answers about the path I was choosing, and here she was the last place I expected her to be.
"This place allows the living to talk to the dead" I stood there speechless as I took in what she said, she looked exactly how I remembered her nothing had changed.
"Star, what's going on?" I heard Jeremy say, but I didn't want to ruin this moment with Alana, there was so much I want to say to her.
"I am so sorry about what happened, I shouldn't have never run off like that. I've never forgiven myself." I felt the tears rolling down my cheek all that guilt I've been holding for a thousand years just coming out.
"It's okay. You're here now. And you are this close to bringing me back to life for good." How would that be possible I'll be dead like her?
"How?" I questioned her she began to approach me with a smile.
"Silas can do it. All you have to do is reach him and feed him your blood, and everything will go back to the way it was." Alana starts to lead me into another chamber, I knew what I had to do this is what Alana told me to do over a thousand years ago. It was now my time to fulfil it.
"Star, stop!" Jeremy grabbed me, and turns me around to face him. "Hey, you're not seeing your Alana. If she were here, I'd be able to see her, and I can't. It's not her ghost. It's a hallucination." He held my face in his hands as he spoke. "What you're seeing isn't real. It's me. Alana isn't here. I'm here. I'm real, okay?" I looked at him and listen to everything he was telling, there's a whooshing sound, I looked around and Alana was gone.
"What happened?" Bonnie questioned him, Jeremy let go of me I didn't understand what the hell was going on right now.
"Silas. He was in Star head." He turned to me gave me a worrisome look. "He was trying to control you." I remembered about Shane seeing his dead wife that he bleed into the well and that was how she appeared it all to do with the blood.
"And Shane. Illusions of his wife. That's how Silas controls him." Jeremy nodded that freaking asshole Silas was one nasty piece of work, I can't wait until his put down for good.
"You need to block him out of your mind. Close your eyes." I did as he told me and closed them. "Listen to my voice, and only my voice." I took in deep breath before grabbed Jeremy's hands, right now I felt scared if Silas could get into my head what else could he do? "Bonnie and I are gonna get us there." He held my hand and they both leads us further down the passage. I let him into my mind I knew now how weak I've become, I've never been this weak and I hated it.
Stefan P.O.V
I woke up to Elena feeding me blood I couldn't believe that Rebekah broke my neck, actually I could she knew that no matter there was only one cure that I would give it to Elena. The reason why is because that she never wanted any of this, I still remember that day at the top of the cliff when she cried to the thought of becoming a vampire. I feel to blame that she is what she is, if I just saved her instead of Matt none of this would be happening. Then I'll be dealing with a grieving Elena so I don't know what would be worse. After I had some blood I felt more on form all I knew right now was to stop Rebekah from taking that cure and finding Star, I notice that Elena looked a little freaked out when I told her that there was only one dose. But no matter what between Damon and I we were going to get that cure for her, cause we both cared for Elena no matter what bad blood been shared between us. So Elena and I made our way down from the cliff and found a cave entrance, we began to walk through it and I could hear someone in pain so I called out Damon name.
We went further into the cave and I saw Rebekah dead on the floor and Damon tied to a pole, I tried to free him but the vervain ropes were burning me, I didn't care about the pain I wasn't going to leave my brother here. Damon was more concerned about stopping Star which I didn't understand what he was talking about, then he told me the only way to wake Silas and to free the cure was that Star fed her blood to him every single drop. I stood there completely stunned apparently Elena knew all about this and she didn't tell me a thing, she couldn't even look at either of us knowing what she did was wrong. I actually felt my heart stop for a moment thinking of that she was doing this and was going to die, but Star was like us she was immortal. When she got hurt she would heal I had witness it all with my own eyes.
I freed Damon eventually and he began to tell me what Star had told him, how this was her fate that she was meant to take down Silas, but what Star was unaware about was the fact the witch who put Silas there had a very sick mind. Silas and his lover had a daughter called Ophelia and only her blood would wake him, but then Damon explained how Star is actually Ophelia. That Star had her mind wiped in thinking that she was a thousand years old when in fact she was over two thousand years. Her whole life had been a lie, I literally didn't know what to say to any of it, all I knew that we had to stop her. I know in the past I put Elena before Star when she was dying, but right now Star life on the line and I didn't care if Elena got cure. All I cared about was that Star is alive and with us after learning about how messed up her life has been, Damon and I are going to make sure that her present and future is going to be filled with joy rather than further pain.
"All right, come on. We have to catch up." Damon groaned on the ground he was in a pretty bad way, I went into my pack and pulled out a blood bag. "Here." Damon gave me a small smile and drank from it, I went to speak to Elena but she weren't here. "Where—" Damon cut me off.
"Right now I don't give a damn where Elena gone." I turned back to him and he was getting up from the ground. "All I care right now about is finding Star." Damon rushed over to the hole in the ground and jumped down, Damon seemed really pissed and right now I didn't blame him either, I followed him down the hole. Damon began to walk towards a passage it was the only way we could really go so I followed him.
"Hey, I don't suppose you'd want to share a little of that vampire blood?" I heard Shane voice say, I turned around and I saw him on the ground with injured leg.
"Where are they?" I demanded Shane looked up with a strange expression across his face
"I have no idea." One moment he was on the ground the next Damon grabbed Shane by the collar had him pinned against the wall.
"Stop lying!" Damon spoke with danger in his voice, I knew my brother was going to do something stupid right now cause of his emotions being at all-time high.
"I'm not lying... But if you help me, I will take you the rest of the way, I promise." Shane was gasping while Damon held his throat tightly I knew Damon was about to do something and I rushed over to him.
"Damon." Damon turned to me. "We can't waste any more time" Damon let Shane go and he dropped him to the ground. For the first time in 147 years I saw genuine fear in Damon eyes when we realise that time wasn't on our side right now.
Star P.O.V
After Jeremy brought me back from the mind control that Silas had me under, I felt ashamed with myself that I allowed myself to fall for that. If I was still the same person from a week ago that wouldn't of happen. I could feel my heart accelerate the closer we were getting to Silas as much as I wanted to do this, a part of me wanted to run away, because I will admit I was afraid of dying right now. After all of this time it all was reality I was going to die. Even if you're prepared for something like this that you know that your meant to do this, how could anyone be truly prepared for death.
We approach a side chamber containing Silas's tomb. It was shaped like a human figure lying on a table, covered in vine -like decoration. Its hands are holding a small box on its chest. I knew that small box contain the cure that Jeremy had to use on him. Now I had to let them both know what we had to do.
"Is this it? This is the cure? How is that supposed to cure every vampire in the world?" Jeremy asked looking at the small box that the stone corpse of Silas was holding.
"I don't think it is, Jer." Bonnie said a little concerned while Jeremy starts trying to wrest the box out of the figure's hands.
"It's stuck. Help me move it." Bonnie helps him and they both pull as hard as they can, but there was only one way that was going to be realised. "It's, like, fossilized in place. It's like trying to bend stone" They give up now I knew now I had to tell them the whole point to all of this is.
"Guys there only one way to get that cure." They both looked at me.
"What?" Jeremy asked as I kept looking at the entombed figure knowing that any moment it was all going to be over. "What, Star?" Jeremy raised his voice at me snapping me out of my thoughts.
"He's been frozen like a vampire statue for 2,000 years. There's only one way we're gonna get the statue to unfreeze..." My voice shook while I spoke, I never knew that I was going to be this frighten to do this, I wanted to tell them the words weren't coming out.
"How's that?" Bonnie asked looking at me a little worried.
"We have to feed him my blood." Jeremy turns around to look at me horrified. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner, but only my blood will wake him, he has drink every last drop of it to wake." They both stood there stunned as they tried to absorb what I was telling them. "To free the cure out of his hands, we... we have to wake him up, but Jeremy there only one dose of the cure, you have to give to him and kill him, to fulfil the quest of the five." I finally told them and they both stood there staring at me speechlessly, I felt every part of me trembling knowing I'm going to be facing death at any moment.
Author P.O.V
Star had finally informed Jeremy and Bonnie what they needed to do to free the cure, that only her blood would unfreeze the fossil of Silas. She was still unaware of the fact the man lying there the evil that she had be told was her own father. The tension in the room was rising as Jeremy felt betrayed in a way from Star by not telling him sooner what was meant happen down there, and the fact of their only being one dose of the cure. All there friends and love ones had betrayed each other in search of this cure people died and there was one dose, and it had to be used on Silas himself. Jeremy couldn't wrap this around in his mind, he wanted this cure for his sister because of her curse of vampirism. That all Jeremy ever wanted from all of this, but now knowing what he knows he not sure if he could do what Star had requested.
He ignored her request and began to violently strike the tomb with a rock "Ah, come on!" Jeremy shouted out in frustration there had to be a way of getting the cure without waking him.
Bonnie was trying to absorb it all in, she may not know Star well, but she could sense that she was a good person. She also sense fear from her even though Star spoke with confidents she was scared of what she had to do. All that kept running through Bonnie mind did anyone know about this? Did the Salvatore brothers know that she was giving up her life for such a cause? So many question filled Bonnie mind but what she did know is that they had to be another way to get to the cure without Star giving up her life. "There's got to be a way to do this without raising him." Jeremy nods and continues to strike the tomb, she turned to Star who stood there looking at the tomb of Silas wide eyed filled with fear. "We'll find a way –" Bonnie wanted to reassure her, but then she cut off as Vaughn drives a knife into her back she fell to the ground.
Vaughn had been searching through all the tunnels looking for Star to complete what he had been trained for, he had been told that Jeremy Gilbert with her, but he wasn't trained like him. That when it came down to it Jeremy wouldn't be able to do it. He was right he walked in on the witch trying to convince Star that there was another way, but there wasn't the only way to raise Silas was of the blood of Star. "Don't listen to the witch, we have to raise Silas, and we have to do it now." Vaughn demanded while he grabbed hold of Star arm.
Jeremy turned around and saw Bonnie injured on the ground "Bonnie!" He runs over to her while Vaughn heads towards the tomb dragging Star, she tried to get out of his grip, but there was no use he slices open her hand with a knife Star cried out in pain. Jeremy turned to see what this mad man was doing to Star "What are you doing?" Jeremy cried out he could see that Star was frighten, he had never seen her looking like that the whole time he knew her, she had always been strong and confident.
Vaughn looked up at Jeremy "What you shoulda done already. I'm gonna rise Silas..." He drips Star blood into the figure's mouth "Then I'm gonna kill him." Jeremy attempts to attack Vaughn from behind but Vaughn throws him off easily. They engage in hand-to-hand combat. Vaughn gets Jeremy into a choke - hold.
Star stood there feeling overwhelmed she watched as the two of them fighting, she couldn't watch them fight over this. She had to do what Vaughn said this was the whole purpose to the five. "Stop it, the both of you." She screamed at the both of them but they continued fighting.
"You're a bit confused, Mr. Gilbert. We're on the same team here." Vaughn and breaking his hold on him, Jeremy manages to get a grip on Vaughn from behind.
Jeremy didn't want to be on any team that meant the Star had to die, and the fact that this guy stabbed the girl he loves. "You stabbed my friend!" They tussle a bit more and Vaughn throws Jeremy over his head.
"I don't mess around with witches." Vaughn warned him Jeremy was crouched on the ground
"You can't use the cure on Silas" Jeremy didn't want to waste the one chance of making someone human on a being that didn't deserve it.
Vaughn notices that Jeremy weren't informed about their purposes. "It's what it's meant for!" They combat hand-to-hand some more until Vaughn downs Jeremy, who falls to the ground groaning in pain "What else would you use it for?" He retrieves his knife from the ground and nods knowingly "Your friends... Your sister... Sorry, lad. It wasnae meant for that." He looked over at Star who stood there frozen watching the two of them "You never told him did you?" She shook her head and Vaughn turned to Jeremy once again "Nothing personal." He bends down toward Jeremy, but suddenly Elena swoops in and attacks Vaughn, about to go for his jugular.
Star Saw Elena come into the room but it wasn't Elena it was actually Katherine, but Star was unaware of this. "Don't! The hunter's curse!" Star screamed she knew the first time Elena didn't take to the curse to well, and even though the girls didn't get on Star did not wish that on her. Katherine instead throws Vaughn to the ground knocking him out unconscious, she went helped Jeremy up.
Katherine was stunned to see Star after all of these years, she had been told that she had gone back to Mystic Falls, but Star had saved her from the hunter curse. "You okay?" Star nods weakly Katherine kept gazes at Silas's tomb she knew that the only way to get the cure is to let Star blood spill into the mouth of Silas. She turned round to look at Jeremy, who was crouching over Bonnie.
Jeremy watched as the girl he loved was in pain, but his sister was here now and she could save her "Elena's here now, okay? Everything's gonna be all right"
Bonnie could feel the pain in her back from where she had been stabbed. "We did it." She spoke weakly to him and they both smiled at each other.
Katherine hated this mushy stuff, but the witch was down already and she needed to deal with Jeremy, she used her super speed to pick up the knife and stabbed Jeremy in his side. He buckled back in pain on the ground and she turned to Star, who stood there looking stunned by her actions. "Twinkle, twinkle, little Star."
Star looked at who she thought was Elena and realised it wasn't her it was Katherine, after 147 years Star had finally seen the woman who drove her away from the Salvatore brothers. All that angry and hatred Star had for Katherine came all to the surface. "The bitch is still alive." Star spoke with venom in her voice.
Katherine did have time to waste she grabbed hold of Star. "It's been too long, little Star." Katherine held Star head over the mouth of the figure and slit her throat Star screamed in pain, her Screams echoed through the tunnels the figure starts to move. "Sorry the reunion is gonna have to be cut short." Katherine watched as the figure's arm swings up and holds Star in place. Katherine sees the box containing the cure, freed from the figure's grasp, and takes it, vamp running out of the chamber. The figure grabs Star throat, strangling her before it snaps her neck. She falls to the floor dead.
Damon and Stefan had been searching through the tunnel but they wasn't having much luck they kept finding dead ends. They had found Elena unconscious in one of the tunnels, and blood on the wall. Apparently they were not here alone, that Katherine was on the island too. She had attacked Elena in the tunnels; they heard Stars screams all three of them used their super speed and followed the screams.
The brothers and Elena arrived at the cave where they heard the screams as they walked in they saw Jeremy and Star on the ground, Elena rushed over to brother and saw that he had a knife in his side and that he was still breathing. "Jeremy." His eyes fluttered opened and Elena pulled out the knife before biting into her wrist and put it to Jeremy mouth. Elena couldn't lose him not after everyone she had lost already. She could hear his heart beginning to steady beat she sat him up and looked a lot better, his eyes averted to the other side of the room. Elena followed his gaze and she saw the Salvatore brothers hovering over the dead body of Star. She could see the sorrow in their eyes while the tears rolled down both of their cheeks.
The Salvatore brother's was totally devastated finding Star dead on the cold floor on the cave the brothers were not there in time to save her. Damon picked up the body of this dead friend and began to walk out of the cave; Stefan was still knelt on the ground with the haunted image of the girl he loved dead. They all left the island, they had been looking for Bonnie as she disappeared from the cave, Jeremy wanted all of them to stay to look for her, but Damon flipped out at him because of the fact that Star was dead and was going to decompose. After a very long and emotional journey back to Mystic Falls none of them spoke, they were all grieving in their own the death of Star, the cure being taken and a missing Bonnie.
At the boarding house Stefan was down in the parlour he was a complete wreck, he had never gotten the chance to tell Star how he felt. That he was still in love with her, he would never be able to tell her those three little words again and it broke Stefan heart.
Meanwhile up in Damon bedroom Star dead corpse was on his bed, Damon kept pacing back and forth in his room he didn't want to bury Star body in an unmarked grave. He didn't want his friend to be buried like that, everything was swirling around his mind he had never had to bury anyone as important to him in his whole life.
Elena walked into the room she was really concerned for Damon, she wasn't sure how she was gonna tell Damon that Star had vampire blood in her system. That maybe she might wake up, but Star weren't human in the first place, would vampire blood in her system even work the same? "Damon." She spoke with concern in her voice as she watched the man who she was in love with looking broken, she approached him with caution as she didn't know what state Damon mind was.
Damon wasn't in the mood for Elena right now, he knew she wanted to make sure he was ok, but he wasn't Star was dead nothing will ever be ok with him anymore. "What!" He spoke to her harshly while sat next to his dead best friend on the bed beating himself up that he hadn't got to her sooner.
"I'm just checking on you. Its ok." Elena sat down next to him on the bed, she was actually happy that Star died that she couldn't be that thorn between her and Damon, and if she would have come back as a vampire it would of happens by now.
Damon turned to her. "Are you being serious, It's ok? You think you telling that everything going to be ok, I'm going to magically going to be ok!" He got up from the bed right now Damon couldn't handle any of this, he knew that Star was going to die, but he wasn't ready, Damon would never ready for his friend to die.
Elena was taken back by Damon harsh words to her, the guilt was eating her up about the fight that her Star had, and with feeding her blood she had to tell him. "Damon listen to me...ok please something happened that you don't know." Elena knew once she told him that thing between them will change forever, Damon will hate her for she did.
Damon turned to her he didn't have a clue she on about. "Elena seriously I'm not in the mood, I'm angry, and I have a funeral to plan." As soon as he thought about the funeral it hit him. Damon had to tell Klaus what had happened to his wife. "Arhhhh and I have to tell the original hybrid that his wife dead... so Elena whatever you want to talk about can wait." Damon looked over at the bed and he saw Star fingers moving, he rushed over to see them clearly moving, he touched her face. "Star?" His heart began to accelerate as he wasn't sure he imagine that he saw her move.
Damon was being hectically and Elena began to worry more about him. "Star had vampire blood in her system." Damon eyes began to widen to what he had heard. "We got into a fight, I kinda attacked her after I saw what I did I healed her." Elena knew after him hearing that he was gonna kill her.
"You did WHAT!" Damon screamed at her, a lot of stuff was running through my mind right now but hearing Elena attacked Star was the last thing he expected to hear. "You attack Star, why the hell did you do that for Elena?!" Damon raised his voice once again he couldn't believe what Elena was saying to him, right now this felt like some terrible nightmare that he was going to wake up to the days before this whole cure fiasco had all happened.
"I'm sorry, she was comparing me to Katherine and things got out of hand..." Elena wasn't gonna let him walk over her, Elena felt that she had a right to attack Star after all the cruel things she said. "She started to compare me to Katherine, I told her to stay away from you and she didn't listen."
Damon couldn't believe what he was hearing. "WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TO TELL HER TO STAY AWAY FROM ME!" Damon voice echo through the house, he couldn't believe Elena attacked her because she compared her to Katherine, then to tell his closest friend to stay clear from him.
"Don't scream at me! I was telling her to stay away from you, because we couldn't be together because of her!" Elena screamed at Damon, she looked at him and saw rage building up in his face towards her.
Damon began to breathe heavily to control himself from attacking Elena, he couldn't believe that he actually having the urge to break Elena neck right now. "We are not together, because I chose not to be with you, because Elena I'm choosing not to be a dick brother for once in my life and consider my brother feeling with all of this!" He raised his voice once again. "I see why you attacked her it wasn't because she said your another Katherine which right now the way your behaving you ARE! You felt threaten by Star, that's the truth isn't it?" Damon couldn't even look at her right now this was the girl he was meant to be in love with, and she hurt one of most important person in his life.
"What the hell going on?" Stefan burst into the room looking at the both of them he had heard the screams from downstairs, but he was too emotional right now to even listen in one argument between Elena and Damon.
'Damon please she was telling me to stay away from you...I know that you want to be with me, but Star is gone... We can be together, because I love you, because you love me. Just like Isobel said." Elena walked up to him cupping his face, she was trying to make Damon see it all from her point of view that they weren't together was down to one person and she wasn't here anymore.
Damon moved her hands away from his face all he felt right now was pure anger towards Elena, she was behaving like a lunatic, she reminded Damon of Charlotte with her crazy behaviour. "I could never love someone like you Elena." He glance up and saw his brother standing a few feet away stunned by his actions, Damon focus was taken from his brother as he see Star shot up grasping for air, his eyes widen before rushing over to her. "Star?" She sat there with no expression looking directly at Elena.
"You fucking bitch!" Star scream at the top of her lungs as she tried to go for Elena, Damon reacted quickly and held Star back. She was a lot stronger than Damon remembered, in fact she may have been even stronger as he was struggling to hold her back.
"Star?" Elena spoke her name with fear in her voice, she wanted to be with Damon now Star alive!
"Everything is fine Star." Stefan zoomed over to Star gently stroking her cheek, he wanted to make sure this wasn't a dream. That she was actually here, but Star focus was on Elena not on the brothers.
"Star I'm sorry." Elena screamed as she could see the look of murder in her eyes which frighten Elena more than anything.
Star looked at all them confused for a moment, before she looked down at her hands and they were trembling. "What wrong with me?" She spoke with fear in her voice she felt strange like something was growing inside her, she was meant to be dead, she didn't understand how she could be here with the brothers.
Damon looked over at Elena then back at Star he had to explain to her what happened. "You have vampire blood in your system, we don't know how it got there." Stefan frown at Damon as much as he hated Elena right now he knew if Star got hold of Elena she will kill her.
Elena didn't understand why Damon was covering for her. "I fed her the blood." she announced and Stefan looked at her frowning as he couldn't understand anything that was going on right now. "We got into an argument bout Damon and I attacked her." Elena spoke honestly she knew if Star was back as a vampire whatever she compelled her would return.
Star began to remember everything that happened in the woods on the island, how Elena attacked her, bit into her throat savagely that she force her to drink her blood them compelled her. She got out of Damon and Stefan grip, grabbed Elena by the throat. "You did this to me!" she screamed at her. "I never wanted to be a vampire, I wanted to die and you did this to me!" Star threw Elena in the bathroom Elena hit the marble wall and cracking it, as she slump to the floor.
Both Stefan and Damon grabbed hold of her they knew they had to keep her calm to help come to terms with what was going on with her. "Star you need to calm down, your emotions are heighten." Damon tried to calm her down she kept shaking her head, she tried to go for Elena again and between Stefan and Damon they held her back but it was difficult they were using all their strength to stop her. "Star please calm down" Damon pleaded to her he just got her back he didn't want to see a death match between Star and Elena.
Star turned to Damon tried to listen but her hatred towards Elena consumed her, she turned back to Elena who was on her feet. "I'm going to KILL YOU" Star Screamed as she fought the brother of her, her rages was engulfing her she had never felt this much anger towards one person.
Elena had enough of Star she wanted to put her down once and for all. "Not before I kill you!" Elena screamed then she pounce on her, they both started to pull each other's hair and scream Stefan arm went around Elena waist, but she kicked him in the crouch making Stefan fall to the ground in pain.
This was getting out of hand Damon tried to keep them apart. "You both STOP!" Both girls stopped he looked at Star she stood there looking blankly like the lights were on but nobody home. "Star?" She look at all three of them before walked out of the room "What the hell just happen there?" Damon was surprised by Star behaviour and it began to concern him deeply.
"What are you on about?" Elena hated the fact that Damon was more concern about Star than anything else.
"Elena let me just updated you... you see that girl who walked out, both Stefan and I care for her a great deal. Now you fed her vampire blood, and Katherine killed her. What you both didn't realize is the fact the girl you killed was Silas daughter. The real evil guy who roaming around right now." Damon was about to leave the room to go and find Star as everything he just revealed had him worried, but Stefan got hold of this arm.
"What are you trying to say Damon?" Stefan didn't understand why he brother looked so terrified by all this. Damon looked at his brother and could see that he was worried about Star as much as he was; he turned to Elena who had really pissed him off with her actions.
"That what I'm telling you, and how many new vampires wakes up with that kind of strength without having one drop of blood." Damon looked at his brother and he stood there speechless, then he looked directly at Elena "I think you've chosen the wrong person to be your enemy."