The McKnight family are Witches apart from their oldest. The Black sheep. After the sudden and mysterious deaths of the McKnight parents, their oldest disappeared. Where were they all this time? And why are they back in Mystic Falls after so long?
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Several days later, Alaric lies on an MRI couch, about to go into the MRI scanner at the hospital with Elena and Meredith in the control room, preparing for the scan. "What are you looking for?" Elena asks, looking at the Doctor.
"I don't know," Meredith replies, looking at the computer. "A tumour, vascular anomalies, anything physical that might explain his behaviour. If it's medical, I can treat it."
"And if it's not?" She wonders, glancing at Alaric, growing worried about him.
"Well, then we'll deal with that too," Dr Fell says as the technician slides Alaric inside the machine. Alaric stares at his reflection in the mirror above him, feeling overwhelmed with everything happening lately.
"When did you suspect him?" The Doppelganger asks the older woman. "That it was Alaric who was killing all of those people?"
"It was after he told me about his ring," Meredith answers, looking back at Elena. "I remembered a story my grandmother had told me about Samantha Gilbert and her secret journal. I don't know if you know this, but we Fells are notorious busy-bodies."
"But then, why did you protect him?" Elena wonders, not fully trusting the Doctor.
"Because I'm a Doctor, I don't like to see someone hurt by something they have no control over," she explains. "And because when he and I first met, I felt like...I don't know, I- I just kind of want to help him." Meanwhile, Alaric continues staring at his reflection in the mirror of the MRI machine. The reflection glares down at him, but the history teacher isn't making the same expression. Alaric starts to panic, and Meredith notices in the control room. "Everything alright in there?" Meredith asks him through the speaker. Alaric closes his eyes briefly before opening them, staring at his reflection again, the same expression mirroring his.
After the MRI scan, Alaric is led into a hospital room, getting ready to leave, when Elena comes in to check on him. "Meredith says that everything is normal," Elena announces, overseeing him.
"Yeah, well, everything is normal because there is nothing wrong with me," Alaric argues, still denying the facts. "I didn't kill Brian Walters, I didn't kill Bill Forbes, and I sure as hell didn't shove a hunting knife into my stomach." Alaric looks down at the ring, the only thing he doesn't pick back up. "Or I did, and I've gone insane, just like your ancestor who wore that ring."
"Look, I'm gonna call Bonnie, the rings were made by a Bennett Witch so maybe a Witch can reverse the damage." She tells him, trying to help, but he pushes the ring towards her.
"Take it. I don't want it any more," he replies, and she takes the ring, looking at Alaric when Damon enters the room.
"You ready to ditch this House of Horrors? Oof, you look terrible," Damon teases his only friend.
