it had been four months since they lost damon and bonnie. stefan was off somewhere trying to find a lead to get damon back.
may hadn't heard from him in months. if it hadn't been for caroline, she would've lost her mind.
the two of them were still trying to find a way to get the spirit magic reversed from mystic falls.
caroline and may were meeting with alaric since they all wanted to go back home.
caroline had a stack of books and she slammed them down on the table.
"you already read all that?" alaric asked.
"cover to cover." caroline said.
"she's not kidding, i saw her do it." may said.
"with no mention on how to undo an anti magic force field. and if me and i are going to single handedly take back our town i'm gonna need a little more to go on." caroline said.
"got it. all right, well i brought ancient witchcraft volume two." alaric said.
"i read it." caroline replied.
"okay. how about the art of hexing: an element of magic?" alaric asked as caroline took the book from him.
"fine. thank you. so how's stefan?" caroline asked him.
alaric was the only person who stefan was still speaking too.
"he's okay." alaric replied.
"that's vague." may said.
"how often do you talk to him?" caroline asked.
"i don't know. couple times a week." alaric told her.
"oh. huh." caroline said with an annoyed look on her face.
"i'm gonna go out on a limb here, caroline. is something bothering you?" alaric asked her.
"he didn't say goodbye. damon and bonnie died, and he just left. no phone calls, no emails. just disappeared into thin air. and i haven't heard from him in months. i actually convinced myself that he was in some remote mountain region and couldn't accept my calls." caroline said.
"or maybe he just doesn't wanna bother you with every half lead that goes nowhere." alaric said.
"sounds like stefan." may said in an annoyed tone.
"yeah, or maybe i just need to get over it. thanks for the book." caroline said before she got up and left.
"thanks, alaric." may said with a smile before she went to find caroline.
while caroline was reading the book, she caught elena feeding on a person.
she learned that luke was giving elena herbs so that she could see damon and those herbs were making her really thirsty.
the girl had run across the boarder and matt had to bring her to caroline so she could compel her.
to say the last four months have been hard would be an understatement. sure they were able to bring back alaric and tyler but they still needed to grieve their losses.
every member of the group was finding different ways to grieve.
caroline was in an apartment on the boarder, elena was using drugs to hallucinate damon. stefan was gone and he hadn't talked to anyone but alaric. tyler was trying to get through life as a human again. alaric was trying to get through life as a vampire. jeremy was trying to get over bonnie and matt was trying to make sure vampires couldn't enter mystic falls ever again.
