Recap: Adelina made a deal with Jeremy that if he helps them find the cure, he'd take the dagger out of Kol. Katherine stepped in, using Jeremy as bait for Silas, takes the cure leaving Jeremy to die.
Adelina just sat there looking at him, her best friend, cold and dead on the floor. She didn't know what she was feeling, she was numb, she honestly couldn't feel anything, but tears kept falling. She looked at the pyre, Silas was gone, and she'd failed.
"Jeremy!" Elena's scream echoed through the cave. Elena ran over, seeing that Jeremy's ring was on, breathed a sigh of relief. "It's okay, you're going to wake up, you're going to be okay." She cried, cradling his head, rocking back and forth, mumbling that everything was going to be fine. Stefan came in, seeing Adelina just blankly staring at Jeremy's body.
"Adelina are you okay?" Stefan helped her stand, she didn't even look at him.
"Yeah," Her eyes finally moved to Stefan's, "I'm fine." She left the cave, only to see Damon.
"How did this happen?" He asked,
"It was Katherine, she was following us this whole time." Stefan explained,
"What about the cure? Or Silas?" Damon said,
"If there was anything in there, its long gone now." Stefan explained,
"Where the hell is Bonnie?!" Damon kept asking questions,
"I don't know, she went last night to go look for Jeremy and she never came back. Look Damon, Elena is in there waiting for the Gilbert ring to bring Jeremy back."
"It's not." Adelina added,
"What do you mean it's not? And where were you in all of this?" Damon said,
"Jeremy is a Hunter, the ring only works on non-supernatural beings. Jeremy's gone, and he's not coming back this time, the sooner all of you accept that the better." Adelina said, flashing out of there, needing to get as far away from this island as possible.
Adelina got back to the Gilbert house, Caroline was there cleaning the floor. "Where's Klaus?" Adelina asked, Bonnie's spell wasn't supposed to wear off till tomorrow. "He's gone, took his brother's disgusting body with him." Caroline said, Adelina was already on a short fuse, she zoomed over, grabbing Caroline by the neck. "I should just snap that pretty little neck, but seeing that Klaus has a thing for you, I won't. But," She squeezed her neck harder, "If you ever talk about my husband, in anything short of a good light. I won't hesitate to make your life a living hell." Adelina let Caroline go, and zoomed out of the house.
She got to the Mikaelson mansion, Kol's coffin was in the living room. Adelina ran over shoving the coffin open to reveal, nothing. The body wasn't here, only Jeremy could get the dagger out. But Bonnie's spell failed with Klaus. "Kol!" She ran upstairs to their bedroom, it looked the same as it did when she last saw it. She called Kol's phone, only to get the voice mail.
"Klaus?" She ran down to Klaus' drawing room, he was sitting on the couch, drawing in his sketch book.
"Adelina, to what do I owe the pleasure?" He greeted not looking up from his sketch pad,
"Where's Kol?" Adelina asked, her voice panicked.
"In his coffin, where else would he be?" Klaus said, confused.
"He isn't there! The body is gone!" Adelina said, Klaus shot up, running over to the coffin to reveal the same thing. He called him, "He's not answering." Adelina said, just as Kol's phone went to voicemail.
"I'll have my hybrids search for him." Klaus said, slightly panicking.
"Search? Where? He could be anywhere, and with Silas on the loose-" Klaus stopped her tirade,
"Adelina, I will find him. I will find my brother and bring him home. I swear." Klaus promised, and Adelina believed him. Klaus was a man of his word, especially when it came to family.
Adelina found herself back at the Gilbert home, because frankly she didn't have anywhere else to go. She saw Caroline and Stefan in the kitchen. "How's Elena?" Adelina asked,
"She hasn't said anything except that she's waiting for him to wake up." Stefan said, "Why aren't you with Kol?"
"He's gone. I figured Bonnie's spell wore off Klaus so I went to him and he was gone. Klaus and his hybrids are out looking for him, and I-I didn't know where else to go." Adelina said, wiping away a tear that threatened to fall.
"But he's not going to wake up, she knows that right?" Caroline said, Stefan silenced her by putting his finger to his lips. He walked over turning on the sink,
"I think deep down she has to know that, but it's Elena we're talking about. She feels grief more powerfully then any of us, her denial is the one thing keeping her from letting it all in." Stefan said,
"But she can't stay like that forever." Caroline said,
"I know, but we can't do anything until we know Bonnie is safe and we get Damon over her to you know,"
"Use the sire bond to convince her that everything is okay?" Adelina added.
"I'm not in denial." Elena said from behind them, "I know that he's supernatural. But his tattoo is gone, don't you see? The tattoo held the spell that opened Silas' tomb, with it gone, it means he's fulfilled his supernatural destiny. He'll go back to normal, it's possible right?"
"It doesn't work like that Elena," Adelina said softly, trying to break through the denial.
"It's possible. It's minuscule but it's hope; and I'm going to hold on to that hope because there's no way that m-" Elena stopped, not wanting to let in the inevitable. "There's absolutely no way that my brother's dead. I'm not in denial." Elena turned walking into the living room.
Adelina made her way upstairs, slowly walking into Jeremy's room. Seeing his body lying on the bed. She sat on the edge, just looking at him, if she didn't know any better he could be asleep, he looked that peaceful. She lightly moved a hair out of his face, "You're an idiot, you know that?" She sniffed, she knew talking to a dead body was pointless, but maybe his spirit was listening.
"You are the most dumbass person in the world; but I guess you're my dumbass." She smiled to herself. She sighed deeply, knowing what was coming, "You asked me if I had feelings for you, and you were right. You were that little light in my life when I needed someone. You were always there when I needed you." She pulled out a small carved pendant from her pocket.
"My mother made me this when I was in transition, to protect me on the Other Side; to help me find peace, you know?" Adelina slipped the pendant around Jeremy's neck, "I guess it'll help you more than it will me." She touched his cheek, it was cold. She leaned down and lightly kissed his lips, "Goodbye, Jeremy." She whispered, knowing somewhere he could hear her, and left.
Adelina sat outside, not wanting to be in the house. Caroline walked out handing her a mug of blood. "I'm sorry about Kol." Caroline said, Adelina smirked,
"I'm sorry about Tyler, heard Klaus ran him out of town." Adelina said, just setting the blood on the ground, she couldn't think about eating.
"We need a cover story." Adelina said simply, Caroline agreed,
"I'll call my mom, she'll know what to do. We need a cover story or a funeral or both. I'm gonna make a list, or bake a casserole or whatever it is people do in this situation, I'll-" Caroline stopped her rant, "What's that smell?"
Adelina stopped as well, turning toward the house, she knew that smell, a tear slipped out that she wiped away quickly, "It's his body. He's starting to decompose. Tell your mom to get Dr. Fell over here." Adelina said, Caroline nodded, immediately calling her mom.
A few hours later, Damon brought Bonnie back to the house. Adelina was still checking her phone for word from Klaus or Kol. Bonnie sat everyone down, explaining to them how she could bring Jeremy back, by dropping the veil to the Other Side.
"Bonnie, you can't." Adelina said,
"Why? She can bring Jeremy back!" Elena said,
"Yes, but at what cost? Every supernatural being that has ever hated us? Tell them what you have to do Bonnie!"
"I have to perform another sacrifice of 12 people." She said,
"Bonnie! You are talking like a crazy person! You are not killing 12 people!" Caroline objected, trying to talk some sense into her.
"But I can do it, I can bring everyone back; Alaric, Jeremy, Vicky." Bonnie tried to explain,
"Along with every person who's tried to kill you!" Adelina agreed with Caroline. The arguing was interrupted by the phone. Elena got up to answer it, it was April asking for Jeremy, "I'm sorry, Jeremy can't come to the phone, he's not-" She stopped and just gave her the real answer. "He's dead." Elena hung up the phone and walked upstairs.
Elena came back down stairs, rushing and panicking. Damon came down, carrying Jeremy's body to the couch. "Guess we're going to do the old fashion way." Elena said, grabbing lighter fluid, pouring it all over the kitchen, dining room and living room, over Jeremy's body.
"What are you doing?" Stefan said,
"We need a cover story right? Well what are we going to say; animal attack, tumble down the stairs? No, we burn the house down with him inside of it."
"Elena stop it!" Adelina said,
"Why? Because you all want me to not be in denial? Face the truth? This is the truth, I don't want to live here anymore!" Elena continued to pout lighter fluid over pictures.
"We don't need this bourbon anymore, Alaric isn't going to drink it, not unless you want to release ever supernatural being on the Other Side to get him back. Would you?" Elena looked at Damon, "I know you want your drinking buddy back, would you, Damon?" Elena walked up to him, "Because I wouldn't." Elena walked over pouring the bourbon on Jeremy's body. She poured over more pictures,
"There's no room in the house, there no room on the Gilbert family plots because Jenna and John took that last ones." Elena smashed a picture of her parents and smashed the bottle on the fireplace. She grabbed a match, lighting it,
"Elena stop!" Stefan tried,
"There's nothing here for me anymore Stefan! This house is filled with all the people I love that have died. My mom, my dad, Jeremy, John, Alaric, they're all dead! Everyone is dead!" The match burned too close to her hand, she screamed dropping it. Stefan caught it before it ignited the bourbon. Elena just dropped to her knees sobbing uncontrollably. Damon finally went to her, telling her to turn her emotions off, and she did. Elena grabbed a match,
"Elena, this is your home, what if when this is all over you want to come back?" Adelina asked, trying to get some humanity out of her. Elena looked at Jeremy back to the match,
"I won't." Elena dropped the match, the bourbon igniting and all of Elena's humanity was gone along with that house.
Kol woke up, gasping for breath, he was in a dark, musty cave. He tried to stand and was able to, but was too weak from the dagger. "Well, well, look who finally decided to grace us with his presence." A voice said from the darkness.
"Who's there?" Kol groaned,
"A ghost," The voice said from behind him, torches around the cave lit up.
"What do you want?" Kol asked, seeing a man standing in the shadows his face covered by darkness. He stepped out to reveal Stefan. "Stefan?" Kol asked,
"Ooh, good try, but guess again." He smiled, Kol's heart dropped, "Silas." He gasped, Silas smiled, slowly walking toward him, trying to back away, Kol fell and was trying to inch away. Silas kneeled down in front of Kol as he was backed up against a rock. "What do you want with me?"
"Oh, I have big plans for you Kol Mikaelson, big plans indeed." He smiled.
Adelina was sitting on their bed, looking through old photos from 1900's New Orleans. That happiest time she could remember. The lights, the parties, her wedding. She looked down at her wedding ring, twirling it on her finger. "Lina?" She knew his voice, she looked up, seeing Kol like the last time she saw him.
"Kol!" She ran into his arms, he breathed a sigh of relief holding her in his arms.
"Where were you?" Adelina grabbed his face in her hands,
"Feeding." He said simply, she didn't have time to question him, she was just glad he was alive. "I love you," Kol said, holding her against him, his lips brushing hers.
"I love you too, forever." She said as they fell to the bed, caught in the throes of passion. While kissing down her neck, Kol caught his eyes in the mirror, but it wasn't Kol staring back, it was Silas.
A/N: Ah! Silas is loose! And disguising as Kol! What does Silas have planned for Kol? Will Adelina find out that it's Silas? Will Elena stay a heartless bitch? (Probably). Review and tell me what you think!