Chapter 41

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Mystic Falls Old Cemetery
[Esther is lighting candles inside the Salvatore tomb and preparing for a spell.]
Elena: Ric, this isn't what you want. It's not who you are.
Alaric: You don't know who I am, Elena. You only know the weakest parts of me, the man who lost his way befriending vampires instead of killing them.
Elena: You don't mean that.
Alaric: They're all monsters. The blood of their victims is on my hands. Jenna's blood is on my hands.
Esther: When you are ready.
Elena: No Ric, please don't. Don't do this. I won't help you, I'm not gonna give you my blood, you're gonna have to kill me!
Esther: That won't be necessary. [Esther gestures towards Elena. A cut opens up in Elena's hand and starts to bleed. Esther grabs Elenas wrist and holds it above the bowl and the blood pours into it.]
Esther: Drink. And let it be done.
Elena: No Ric please, don't.. No! [Alaric drinks the blood in the bowl and puts it down.]
Alaric: Is it finished?
Esther: Not just yet. [Esther stakes Alaric with the indestructible white oak stake.]
Everyone glares at Esther again.
Elena: No!
Mystic Falls High School
[Alone in the classroom, Bonnie grabs a map from the wall and puts it on the teacher's desk and turns on the table lamp. Klaus and Damon enter.]
Damon: Here. Jeremy made a little Gilbert blood donation for your locator spell.
Bonnie: I have to do this with you two lurking over me?
Damon: You're still mad at me for what happened to Abby. Let me apologize. I'm sorry Elijah forced us to turn your mother into a vampire to save Elena's life. Didn't exactly have a choice.
Bonnie: There's always a choice. Whenever you make one someone else suffers.
Klaus: Let's cut the dramatics and begin, shall we? [Bonnie pours the blood onto the map and starts chanting.]
Bonnie: Phasmatos Tribum Nas Ex Veras, Sequita Saguines, Ementas Asten Mihan Ega Petous. [The blood forms a circular pool that doesn't move.]
Bonnie: Esther is fighting me.
Klaus: Esther couldn't possibly have this much power. Unless she's channeling something.
Bonnie: A hotspot?
Klaus: Get the humans ready. I know where she is.
Mystic Falls Old Cemetery
[Alaric is lying on the floor of the Salvatore tomb. Elena pulls the indestructible white oak stake out of Alaric.]
Esther: He'll wake soon. When he does he may for a time be his old self. If so you can say your goodbyes before his transition is complete.
Elena: You said you wanted to undo the evil that you created, but this... This is just as evil!
Esther: Alaric will never be what my children became. I have granted him enough power to complete his task. Then when the time is right, he will die.
"She's clever. You can't take that from her." Said Layla.
Elena: How, if he's immortal?
Esther: All you need to know is that when this is over we will have rid the earth of vampires once and for all.
Elena: Yeah, but you'll be killing the good along with the bad, you're no better than Klaus!
Esther: Am I not? I desire a world where you and your loved ones will not suffer at the hands of vampires, like your Aunt Jenna did.
"What kind of logic is that? Humans kill humans every day. So what? Are you gonna kill every human, too?" Said Bella.
Elena: Don't you dare use Jenna as an excuse for what you've done.
Esther: You may draw comfort knowing that your aunt is not in the place that I was. She doesn't know the torment of The Other Side. Though made a vampire, she remained pure. She knows peace. Which is all any of us can hope for. [Esther hears a noise and walks outside. Matt and Jeremy are there pointing a rifle and a crossbow at Esther.]
Matt: Don't move!
Jeremy: Where's Elena? [Elena comes outside ]
Elena: Jeremy!
Jeremy: Let her go.
Esther: How foolish of you, to risk your lives in defense of those who will kill you. But if that is your choice. [Esther uses her powers and makes Jeremy and Matt turn their hands and point their weapons at each other.]
Jeremy: Matt! Matt drop your gun!
Matt: I can't! I'm not controlling it!
"Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!" Chanted Kol amd Bella.
Elena: Esther stop it! [Alaric comes up and stabs Esther from behind. He is temporarily his old self.]
Alaric: Oh my god. Where's my ring? Tell me what happened.
Mystic Falls High School
[Klaus and Damon are standing outside the school near the entrance to the gym hall.]
Klaus: You know this is your fault. You set us on this path when you released my mother. I wonder if revenge will prove worth the cost.
"True. This, everthing is their fault." Said Bella.
Stefan: Oh, I'm done with revenge. As far as Esther; we've stopped her before, we'll stop her again.
Klaus: We're strange bedfellows, you and I. You know, all of this, reminds me of our time together in the Twenties.
Stefan: You say that like I'm supposed to have happy memories about it.
Klaus: Well, there were moments. Real friendship. Brotherhood. [Damon walks up.]
Damon: Well, he already has a brother. Not to be, you know, territorial or anything.
"He has brothers and sister, too. Not to be terrritorial or anything." Said Bella, glaring at Damon. Klaus looked at her amused.
Klaus: Oh no, of course, the Salvatores. And their unshakeable bond. I wonder what'll happen when Elena finally makes her choice. Will we see you shake just a little bit? [Bonnie comes out of the school.]
Bonnie: It's done. Esther's not fighting me any more. The boundary spell is broken. [Klaus tests the boundary with his arm, and seeing Bonnie's words are correct, rushes away.]
Stefan: Thank you, Bonnie. For everything.
Bonnie: I didn't do it for you.
Klaus' Family Mansion
[Klaus is in the room with the five coffins. One is closed. He gives bloodbag to Bella and she starts to wake up and grabs another bloodbag.]
"She dessicated you?" Asked Hayley.
"That was only way she could stop me. Snapping neck works for little time and daggers don't work on me." Said Bella.
[Klaus then speaks to Esther's body in another coffin.]
Klaus: Your trap failed, mother. I live and I will go on living. Let your beloved spirits try to preserve you again, I dare you to come after me! I will build an army so big, no one will ever touch me. My survival will haunt you through eternity. You will never destroy me!
"And she took the challenge." Said Bella.
Mystic Falls Old Cemetery
[Damon is sitting next to Alaric who is unconscious and breathing heavily. Alaric stops breathing. Damon drinks the rest of the whiskey in the bottle, puts it down and exits the tomb. Outside he sees Bonnie. There's a full moon in the sky.]
Damon: What are you doing here? [Bonnie is walking blankly towards the tomb. She doesn't show any signs of noticing Damon.]
Damon: Hey, Bonnie... What, are you sleepwalking or something? Bonnie?
[Bonnie turns around and lifts her hand in the air towards Damon and gives him a headache. He clutches his head and falls to the ground screaming in pain.]
Damon: [Screaming.] No! Bonnie! No!
[Bonnie enters the tomb, looks down at Alaric's body, then stabs one of her palms with the indestructible white oak stake and puts her palm to Alaric's mouth. He starts drinking. He wakes up, revealing vampire teeth. He pulls Bonnie closer, bites her neck, and drinks. He throws her body to the floor, gets up, and holds the stake.]
Everyone glares at screen.

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