"Won't you give it a rest? I heard what happened and decided to help out Hayley. I'm going to leave soon anyway, we made a deal years ago. And I intend to keep that deal." •• It has been years since that day in the woods. Stefan was dead. Elena was alive. Bonnie was finally happy. And Alaric had opened up a school. And Caroline? She felt as if she had no purpose in Mystic Falls. Until she received a call from a number she hadn't heard from in in years. Hayley Marshall's number. And what she had to say, had Caroline out the door in minutes.