Into the past

Chapter 17

AUTHOR'S NOTE: I am going to apologize for the late update. I logged into my account today to continue re-editing earlier chapters when I realized I didn't pre-schedule an update on the 11th and 18th. I am releasing all the remaining chapters of season 3 this week. 

*Warning this is a really long chapter and a continuance of Elena & the rest of the mystic falls gang pov's from earlier events. The timeline is all over the place instead of a straight timeline. If it doesn't make any sense or if I rewrote some scenes, Please don't hesitate to inform me.

RECAP:

GILBERT RESIDENCE

Meredith: knocks on the door.

Alaric: answers.

Meredith: I know what this looks like.

Alaric: Yeah, well, I sure as hell don't. You shoot me, you have me thrown in jail, and then you have me freed?

Meredith: I did it for you, Ric. I forged the coroner's note to clear your name.

Alaric: Oh, you know what, people are right. You are psycho. starts to close the door, but stopped by Meredith.

Meredith:  stops him. No! Now that you've been cleared, they'll look somewhere else, they won't look your way again. Please. You have no reason, but I need you to trust me anyway. If you let me in I can explain.

Elena: is upstairs in her room, reading Samantha's journal.

Samantha: I don't feel like myself. I'm losing time. As though I'm going mad.

AT THE SALVATORE BOARDING HOUSE

Stefan: So you think Samantha Gilbert is still alive, running around Mystic Falls, killing Founders?

Damon: It's not possible, if she became a vampire, we'd know about it, right?

Stefan: Then she must have had a ring that brought her back to life, I mean she was a Gilbert, right? Those rings were passed on for generations.

Damon: Yeah, but even if she had a ring, she wouldn't be alive today. Doesn't protect her from old age.

Stefan: Johnathan Gilbert only made two of those rings. Jeremy has one of them and the other's....

Damon: Alaric's.

GILBERT RESIDENCE

Alaric: is looking through a folder with crime scene evidence. Meredith is with him.

Meredith: Like the Sheriff said, the victims were killed with your weapons.

Alaric: Yeah, but I was attacked.

Meredith: With your own knife. A wound that could have been self-inflicted.

Alaric: It's impossible! I would know if I were killing people.  

Meredith: Would you? Have you had any blackouts, instances of lost time?

Alaric: You're insane.  

Meredith: No, but I think you might be. You wear a ring that lets you cheat death, Ric. How many times can you die before it changes you?

Alaric: sits down.

Meredith: sits down with him. I think you're sick and I want to help you. This has happened before, almost 100 years ago.  

Meredith and Alaric see Elena standing in the doorway.   

Alaric: Elena.   

Elena: Ric, I think she's right. shows him the journal.