qetsiyah put her hands in some water and stood behind stefan. she started to say a spell and placed her hands on stefan's temples, making him groan in pain.
"i don't like this." may said looking away.
as qetsiyah continued to say the spell, stefan kept groaning in pain more and more.
they saw a circle of fire around stefan and qetsiyah and damon was getting angry.
"what are you doing to my brother?" damon asked.
"frying silas' brain. no one said it would be pretty." qetsiyah said before may saw blood come out of stefan's eyes.
"stop it!" may said before qetsiyah let go of stefan.
stefan's head fell back and the fire died down.
"all right. we're done here." damon said.
"you're right. we're done. it worked." qetsiyah said.
may quickly ran over to stefan's side but he wasn't waking up.
"damon, he's not waking up." may said.
"stefan. stefan. stef. damn it. whatever you did to him, undo it." damon said to qetsiyah.
"yeah, undo it now." may demanded.
"relax. i just burned through his conscious mind. he'll wake. eventually. you sure you want to take him home? you and elena were doing so well without your guilt getting in the way." qetsiyah said.
"spying on us from the other side?" damon asked her.
"don't flatter yourself. it was like watching a soap opera. except boring and with no volume control. you know, there was one thing worse than being on the other side... and watching silas resist the cure." qetsiyah said as may got stefan out of the vines.
"oh, yeah? what was that? realizing that your plan totally sucked?" damon asked.
"century after century, i watched versions of stefan and elena find each other. like magnets. always the same story. conquering all, falling in love. you didn't think your brother was silas' first shadow? destiny has been trying to get the doppelgängers together forever." qetsiyah said.
"look here, miss crazy. why don't we just dial down the destiny talk a notch, okay?" damon said.
"you don't wanna hear it, but the universe is working against you." qetsiyah said.
"well, that's harsh." may said.
"if you're trying to downplay your reputation as being a psychopath, you might not wanna say... you're a spokesperson for the universe." damon told her.
"you and i are the same, damon. the obstacle standing between two fates. silas had his true love and stefan has elena. we're merely the conflict that makes it interesting." qetsiyah told him.
"so, what are you suggesting? i leave him here with you i run off and live happily ever after with elena?" damon asked her.
"i'd keep him safe." qetsiyah said.
"you have a bad track record with men." damon said.
"i want to keep him safe. now that he's linked to silas, silas can't mess with our heads. and as long as stefan's in the way, you will never be with elena. take it from the woman who's had front row seats for 2000 years." qetsiyah said.
"no bloody way." may said.
"no one would have to know?" damon asked.
"damon, what the hell are you thinking!" may said.
"no one has to know." qetsiyah said.
"or you could just go back to hell." damon said grabbed qetsiyah by the throat.
she started to say a spell making damon let go and he grunted in pain. may was also being effected by the magic and they both got thrown into the wall.
they were both knocked out.
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when damon and may came to, they could hear elena in the distance.
"stefan? stefan?" elena shouted until she walked into the house and she saw him.
"stefan? oh, stefan. hey. stefan. hey. stefan, can you hear me? stefan? wake up. oh, god." elena said as she cried.
may finally got up from the ground and she looked at her best friend.
"you have to wake up, stefan. i'll kill you myself if you die on me." may said.
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they had lost katherine but they finally brought stefan back home.
they put him on the couch and elena put his daylight ring back on him.
elena and damon had gone upstairs and may was sitting beside the couch, looking at stefan.
"i know you probably can't hear me, but i just needed to vent. that first day you were missing, i thought you had just ditched me, heh. selfish, now that i think about it. but, i thought you went off to be alone and you had just left me in mystic falls. after a week, i thought wow, not even a phone call or a post card? it just felt unlike you. you had never neglected our friendship and i should've known that something was wrong. i kept having these dreams about you in that safe and i should've known you were reaching out to me. i was terrified that i'd lost another best friend. please just... just wake up, stefan." may said as she let out a sigh.
after she had finished talking, she saw stefan's eyes open.
"oh, my god. stefan... we missed you." may told him but he looked at her with wide eyed.
"uh, i'm sorry... i have no idea who you are." stefan told her making her heart drop.
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may and elena went to the grill to meet up with stefan and damon.
the town was celebrating some bell ceremony thing to honor the dead.
damon was trying to catch stefan up to speed on the last centuries of their lives and to see if he could jog his memory.
when may and elena found the boys, they were taking shots.
"wow, i'm sure this will help his memory." may said.
"and here we thought catching up on nearly two centuries would be a drag." elena said.
"may, damon has been telling me a lot about our friendship and about lexi." stefan said.
"good, i'm glad he isn't keeping that a secret from you." may said.
"remind me of your name again." stefan said looking at elena.
"elena." she told him.
"elena. right." stefan replied.
"you haven't told him about me?" elena asked damon.
"two hundred years is a long time." damon told her.
"right. well..." elena said grabbing two of their shot glasses, passing one to may and the two girls took a shot.
