Vampire Diaries (Aria Gilbert )

Catch me if you can

*Woods,It's nighttime. Matt is frantically running for his life. A vampire is chasing him. He stops and hides behind a tree. He looks behind the tree, and when he turns his head back, a vampire attacks him. Jeremy shoots the vampire in the back with an arrow as the vampire drinks Matt's blood. The vampire falls over.*

*Zanadew Lounge*
Jeremy: No way. I'm not doing this.
Klaus: What makes you think you have a choice?
Damon: You have to kill vampires to complete the hunter's mark. Mark equals cure. You're in a bar full of almost vampires, so get your hunt on.
Jeremy: Screw you. You said I wouldn't have to kill any innocent people.
Damon: Jeremy, they're not people.
Klaus: Enough! Have at it, or else.
Jeremy: I don't take orders from you, dick. (Jeremy drops a stake.) Hunters can't be compelled.
Klaus: (laughs and walks up to Jeremy) You're right. I can't compel you. But if your conscience is getting in the way, then allow me to make this easy for you. Because, I can compel them.(They look at the vampires in transition; a few compelled humans are feeding them their blood.)
Klaus: I'm gonna give you a two-minute head start. Then I'm gonna send every vampire in here after you. You kill them, or they kill your friend...Matt.
Matt: Wait a second!
Damon: No, no. You turn them, he kills them. That was the deal, Klaus.
Klaus: I'm taking artistic license.
Damon: You know he can't take them all on at the same time.
Klaus: With you as his coach, he'll be fine. It's Matt I'm worried about.
Damon: Ah...Jeremy, go get the weapons out of the car. I'll be right behind you.(Jeremy runs out of the bar.) Both of you. (Matt follows.)
Klaus: (Shouting after Jeremy and Matt.) If I hear an engine start, I'll kill Matt myself!(Most of the transitioning vampires have been fed blood and are standing.)

*Woods,Jeremy is holding a piece of fabric to Matt's bleeding neck. Matt is on the ground.*
Jeremy: Are you okay?
Matt: Yeah, I just need a second.
Jeremy: We don't have a second. They can smell your blood. We need to go.
Matt: I know it might sound crazy but is there any way you can call Aria?
Jeremy: I can but she might not make it in time(Jeremy hears something behind him. He swiftly turns around, holding up his bow, but it's Damon. Damon deflects the bow.)
Damon: Don't hesitate! You're lucky it was me. Otherwise you two'd be dead.
Jeremy: You set us up.
Damon: I was trying to get this thing over with. You're the one that pissed off Klaus. Now you have to fight your way out of it. Or call Aria and maybe she can calm Klaus down but I doubt it since she might be busy with Barbie Klaus.
Matt: All right, where are the other vampires?
Damon: They're newbies. They're still trying to figure out how to track, which means you have two seconds to get ready to fight.
Jeremy: (turns to Matt)The lake house is this way. If we can get there, they won't be able to get inside.
Damon: Wait, you want to run?
Jeremy: They're going to kill Matt.
Damon: (Hesitantly) Fine. Get out of here. I'll slow them down.(Jeremy and Matt run to the lake house, and a vampire charges at them. Damon rips out the vampire's heart and looks at it. The vampire is dead.)
Matt: (running) Jeremy! Where are you?
Jeremy: Keep going. We're almost there.(A vampire trips Matt, and Matt falls to the ground. The vampire stares at Matt hungrily and drags Matt closer to him by Matt's feet. Matt screams and struggles. The vampire is about to bite Matt, but Elena snaps the vampire's neck and throws him backwards.)
Elena: Are you okay?(Elena helps Matt up, and Jeremy is running towards him. Elena looks at Matt's blood covered neck.)Oh my god...
Jeremy: Get to the house! Hurry!(The three run to the house and make it in.)
Elena: Jeremy, what's going on?
Jeremy: They're coming.(Elena looks backwards, and a group of at least six vampires arrive. Elena closes the door)

*Gilbert Lake House,It is the following morning. Jeremy is placing a gun down while Elena is cleaning Matt's neck wound.*
Jeremy: Sun's up. They're long gone.(Damon enters.)
Elena: What the hell were you thinking? (Gets up.) All I asked you to do was to teach him how to fight.
Damon: He's not the best student in the world.
Jeremy: Wait. Now this is my fault?
Damon: Stop talking. Look, I know you're angry, but my way was the easiest, fastest, and safest way to complete his mark to get you the cure.
Elena: I don't care about the cure, Damon. Not if it means putting the people that I love in danger.
Damon: Hey, there would have been no danger if he hadn't gone all bleeding heart.
Elena: He killed someone. These were innocent people.
Damon: The mark grew, didn't it?
Jeremy: more than it should have.(they turn around to look at him) there's something I haven't told you guys about a couple nights ago, I was asleep when suddenly I woke up and noticed that my mark had grown.
Damon: what? How? By sleeping!?
Jeremy: I don't know!
Elena:(sighs) Okay. Look,we can figure that out later,right we need a plan. There's a group of compelled vampires out there, and as soon as the sun goes down, they're gonna come after Matt, so we have to find a way to protect him.
Damon: Yes, I know. (Damon walks over to Jeremy and puts his arm around his shoulder.)But there will be no problem when big Jer and I here go on a hunting expedition.(Elena doesn't look on board with the plan.)Elena, I know, it's tragic. I get it. But we also agree that he had to kill them. Now, we have added incentive. So you take the least most valuable player home; Jeremy and I will finish this.
Elena: I'm sorry? Are saying I should leave him here with you?
Damon: Trust me. I will keep him safe. Okay?(Elena looks at him warily before nodding her head 'yes.')