Vampire Diaries (Aria Gilbert )

The Sacrifice

*Gilbert Residence,Elena awakens from her slumber when she hears a noise coming from inside the house. Her bedroom door is slightly ajar. Elena lays back down, turns over in her bed, and shuts her eyes. In the bathroom, a towel is rustled by movement. Jonas appears in the doorway, looking at Elena. Elena is jolted out of bed, once again, when she hears a door slamming loudly. She sits up in her bed. Jonas has disappeared from the bathroom. Elena gets out of bed and slowly walks across her room. She quietly opens her ajar door and walks out onto the landing. Elena looks around the landing for anything suspicious and quietly approaches Jeremy's room, looking in through his ajar door. Suddenly, Elena hears a noise from behind her. She gasps and spins around. Alaric, shirtless and in his boxers, has also been startled by Elena's unexpected appearance on the landing. Elena and Alaric both try to catch their breath after the scare.*
Alaric: Elena. Ahem.(Alaric lowers the ice cream bowl he's carrying towards his nether region.)
Elena: I heard something.(Alaric chuckles nervously. Elena avoids his gaze, embarrassed. Jenna walks up the stairs, wearing Alaric's shirt. She runs her hand through her hair, embarrassed as well.)
Jenna: That was us. I'm sorry.(In Elena's bedroom, Jonas pulls out a handkerchief and collects some of Elena's hair from her brush.)
Alaric: We didn't think anyone else was up.
Jenna: But here you are.
Alaric: We were just-(Back on the landing, Jenna and Alaric try to explain the situation to Elena, but are failing in their attempt. Alaric sighs and holds out the ice cream bowl to Elena.)
Alaric: Chunky Monkey?(Back in Elena's bedroom, Jonas also grabs some of Elena's jewelry and places it in the handkerchief. He folds the handkerchief and places it in his coat pocket.)Well...(chuckles)  I'm naked. So I'm gonna go.(Alaric walks past Elena and into Jenna's bedroom, shutting the door behind him. Elena starts to walk back towards her room. Jenna, embarrassed, walks up the remainder of the stairs.)
Jenna: I'm really really sorry.(Elena turns around when she reaches her doorway.)
Elena: It's okay, Jenna, don't worry about it.
Jenna: I know he's been staying over a lot. Are you --- are you sure it's okay?
Elena: Seems like things are good.
Jenna: (smiling)They're extremely good.
Elena: Then I'm extremely okay with it.(Jonas, still in Elena's bedroom, grabs a picture of Elena in her cheerleading uniform, places it inside his jacket, and leaves the room quickly. Jenna and Elena smile at each other and go back to their respective rooms. Elena gets into her bed. Jonas quietly hides in the bathroom, waiting for Elena to shut her eyes. Elena curls up in her blankets and drifts off to sleep. Jonas heads out of the bathroom, stopping to take a hand mirror, before he exits, placing the mirror in the waistband of his pants. He exits the bathroom, walks onto the landing, descends the stairs, and exits the house without a soul knowing he was there.)

*Fell's Church Tomb,Damon and Stefan walk down into the tomb and look at each other.*
Damon: Let's do it.(They grab the stone door; Damon taking the right side, Stefan taking the left.)1,2,3.(They pull the stone door off the entrance of the tomb.)

*Gilbert Residence,Elena opens the front door. Stefan and Damon are standing on the front porch.*
Stefan: Hey. Uh, can we talk?
Elena: Why?
Damon: We went to see Katherine.
Elena: Come on in and I'll get Aria..(Elena steps aside and Stefan and Damon enter the house.)

*Fell's Church Tomb,Damon and Stefan successfully remove the stone door from the entrance of the tomb. They place it to the side and approach the entrance. Stefan and Damon lean against the frame of the entrance, waiting for Katherine, who comes around the corner*
Katherine: Please...come on in. There's plenty of room for all of us.
Damon: I'd rather poke my eyes out.
Katherine: Mmm, they're such pretty eyes.
Stefan: We're here for the moonstone.
Damon: Feel like tossing it over?
Katherine: Tell you what, you get your little witch to hocus pocus me out of here, you can have whatever you want.
Stefan: I thought you liked it in here. Nice and safe where Klaus can't get to you.
Katherine: I've had time to reconsider.
Damon: Meaning you're hungry.
Katherine:not yet,thanks to Aria but I will be, Damon. And dirty. But above all, I'm bored. (Katherine has progressively gotten closer to the entrance, stumbling and grasping at the wall as she does so.) At least running from Klaus wasn't boring - so here's the deal: you get me out of here, you get the moonstone and I'll disappear from Mystic Falls forever with Aria.(Stefan and Damon look at each other. Katherine starts to walk away.)Let me know what you decide.(As she says this, she holds up the moonstone and stumbles back into recesses of the cave.)