The Vampire Diaries: Trinity

Chapter Thirty Four: The Descent

In the woods, Jules wakes up naked with blood on her lips. She stands to see mutilated bodies around her. She dresses up with some of the camper's clothes and puts the limbs together so she can make a fire. She's starting the fire when a policeman arrives. She pretends to cry.

He gets out of his car walks towards her. "Good morning. Is everything alright here?"

"It was an animal. A wolf. It came at us in the night."

"Are you okay?"

"Yes. But my friends...they're all dead."

"I'm calling it in." He begins to walk back to his car but Jules hits him with a heavy branch. He falls to the ground and she hits him again, killing him.

Elena walks into the Stefan's bedroom. "Stefan? Stefan?" She stops. "You're standing right behind me, aren't you?"

"Yep." He grins. She turns around and kisses him. "Good morning."

"I don't want us to be apart anymore. Ever."

"Me neither, but..."

"Don't ruin the moment." She kisses him again and Stefan pulls away. "You're about to ruin the moment, aren't you?"

"I'm totally ruining the moment. Look, I can't just pretend like everything is okay."

"Katherine's locked away in the tomb."

Stefan's face darkens a bit when she says Katherine's name, thinking about her relationship with Trinity. "I know but we still have this pressing little issue of you being Klaus' human sacrifice."

She opens one of Stefan's drawers and takes out a vial of vervain. She pulls the cap off. "Yes but Elijah promised to keep me and everyone else safe as long as we play by his rules."

"Right. As long as you play by his rules."

She pours the vervain into a glass. "Please don't go after Isobel."

"Katherine said Isobel could have some answers and I just have a couple questions, that's all."

She adds water into the glass and takes a drink. "Stefan, I made a deal with Elijah."

"Right, you made a deal with him. I didn't make one. You should keep your deal."

"Why would you trust her anyway?"

"Because she was trying to prove a point."

"What?" She asks.

"That she really does care about Trinity. That she's not just using my best friend."

Elena looks shocked. "Trinity? She and Katherine are..." He nods. "But she told me that it was over. That she's not in love with her."

Stefan looks at her. "You knew?"

"When I went to talk to Katherine, she wasn't going tell me anything. I was going to give her blood and she chose to walk away...until Trinity told her to talk."

"Just like that?" He asks, skeptical.

"Just like that." She nods. "So they're still together?"

He sighs. "She said that as long as Katherine is trying to kill her friends, no. But the moments in between...yes."

"When did she tell you this?"

"When I was in the tomb. She came to visit me, or Katherine...or both of us, I guess."

"Where is she now?"

"Probably still there." He tells her. "She was asleep when Elijah let me out."