Episode 14: “Be My Valentine?”

Previously on the Vampires in my Diaries 

Damon, Stefan, Elijah and Rebecca kill all the ten tribesmen from Haiti in order to save Elena.

Jeremy offers Katherine as a replacement for Elena in the ritual to lower the veil. Lucy links Katherine and Elena and uses them both for the spell.

The spell is completed and Bonnie and Qetsiyah walk into the land of the living. Xoro dies during the ritual. Something is wrong with Katherine as she chokes to death.

Welcome a new CHARACTER, PROFESSOR NICHOLAS BLACKTHORNE, assumed to be played by actor SEAN BEAN.

Now read further: Episode 14: “Be My Valentine?”

It was a bright sunny morning. The cool breeze outside was pouring love into the air. After all it was the Valentine’s Day. Elena was cuddling in Damon’s arms as they slept on the couch near the fireplace of the Salvatore residence.

“Did you miss me, Damon??” asked Elena.

“Of course I did. Did you... miss me??”

“You bet, I did. You know, Damon”, continued Elena, “until last night I was thinking how could Stefan do this to me?? To us?? I thought he had turned off his humanity again. I had no idea that it was Silas. While Stefan... he... he was suffering being locked up in that safe in the quarry.-”

“Ditto. Even I thought that the ripper 1.0 was back in action when he bled me dry and locked me up in the basement. Had it not been your baby bro Jeremy, I’d be all bones and no blood by now-”

“I don’t understand after all that Silas did to Stefan... did to us... how could he forgive him so easily??” wondered Elena.

“Yeah, I don’t understand it either. When I asked him the same question, I received a theatrical heroic dialogue in reply. So, Elena... please don’t bother asking him again-”

“I won’t. But, Damon I’m having problems adjusting to the fact that we’ve promised the two thousand year old Silas a peaceful death, knowing that he’s the one who’s been the cause of all our miseries-”

“And on top of that, we now have his two thousand year old girlfriend to deal with.. huh-”, scoffed Damon.

“Unless we don’t-” said Elena.

“Elena, what are you thinking??”

“Damon, don’t you think rather than granting Silas his peaceful-death wish, we shoul dhelp Qetsiyah avenge her old score??That way we can all be even-”

“Now that’s the Elena I like. But we have to keep this a secret. I think I have a plan-”, said Damon gently. Just then, Caroline filed in.

“Whatever secret plan you two have”, spoke Caroline solemnly, “I’m afraid you guys need drop it right now” Elena and Damon were taken aback.

The cops had gathered around the spot where the previous night an entire coven of witches had been wiped out by the well known vampires of Mystic Falls- Stefan, Damon, Rebecca and Elijah. The place had been cordoned off under Sheriff Forbes supervision.

“Get those bodies to the forensics. Inform me if something comes up-”Elizabeth Forbes ordered one of her inferior officers. Moving away from the crime spot, she then took out her cell phone and dialled a number.

“Damon, this is Elizabeth. I don’t know if I should thank you for the information or charge you with the mass-murder of eleven witches. You have to understand that it becomes practically impossible to cover-”, Elizabeth Forbes stopped as she saw a man standing right in front of her.

“Damon, I’ll call you back-”, she hung up.

“Excuse me, but this place is restricted. I can’t allow civilians here-”, she said to the stranger.  

“Sheriff Forbes, hi I’m Professor Nicholas Blackthorne. You could call me Nick. Well, do you know what happened here??” asked the man. The man was tall, with the body of an athlete. He had good looks, white hair, intelligent green eyes and a fair complexion.

“Look Professor Nick. We are still figuring out who are these people and what animal attacked them”

“You think this was an animal- attack?? Anyways, I guess I might help you with something here. I think I know who these people are-”, he said smilingly.

“So you know these people?? Who are.. I’m sorry, who were they??”

“Would you laugh if I say these were witches??”

“Witches?? Professor Nick, I’m sorry but have you been drinking in the morning?? This is twenty first century where there are no witches and wizards. Anyways, jokes apart what did you say you were here for??”

“I teach occult at the Whitmore College. Research brought me to Mystic Falls. Myth says that this place is infested with all the supernatural creatures that go bumping in the night. Though my field of interest is just the witches”

“And trust me, Professor it’s all myth only. Anyways, good luck finding your witches-”

Lucy, Bonnie and Bonnie’s father, mayor Rudy Hopkins were having their breakfast at the dining table.

“Lucy, thank you for coming. You can stay here as long as  you want. In fact, Bonnie’s going to love your company, wouldn’t you, Bonnie?”  Rudy asked Bonnie.

“Of course, dad-”, Bonnie replied smiling.

“Okay. You two have fun. I gotta go. Being the mayor of the town is a hard nut to crack”

“Oh, come on, Rudy. You are doing perfectly. Catch you at dinner”, said Lucy.

“Okay. Bye, Bonnie. And happy birthday once again”, said Rudy. He kissed Bonnie’s forehead and departed in haste.

“So, Bonnie... where’s Silas?” Lucy asked.

“Somewhere safe. Damon won’t tell me his exact location”

“Did you give him the cure??”

“I gave it to Stefan. I told him to give it to Silas”

“If he’s taken the cure, then we two are caught up in the crossfire between two of the most powerful witches that ever lived-”  

“i know. Thank you, Lucy”

“For what??”

“For everything”

“Caroline, you have planned a party tonight??” asked Elena.

“Yes, Elena. Why does that sound so strange to you??”

“Caroline, because we are not exactly in party-like environment right now”, added Damon.

“I know that right now, we’re stuck in the war between two witches. But we need to celebrate”

“Celebrate what??” asked Elena.

“Elena, there are so many reasons- we rescued you, Bonnie’s back and guys... today’s Valentine’s Day and also it’s Bonnie’s birthday”

“Oh, I completely forgot. So is Tyler coming??” Elena asked Caroline.

“I don’t know-“

“Is Klaus??” asked Damon.

“Huh... I... I don’t know that either, okay?? Now if all your investigations are over, would you two mind helping a girl out??”

Stefan was in his house when his cell-phone crackled to life. He picked it up.

“Yes, Bonnie. Where are you??” He said over the phone.

“Going to my own surprise birthday party. Are you coming?” Bonnie said from the other side.

“Yeah, I’ll be there or Caroline would kill me”, he smiled.

“Of course. Stefan, did you give Silas the cure?”

“Yes, he took the cure but even so we have to keep him away from Qetsiyah. Where’s Qetsiyah??”

“I have no idea. All she told me that she would contact me”

“Damon, where are you??” Elizabeth Forbes was speaking over the phone. She was in her office. Her tone was low, taking care that no one else could overhear her conversation.

“As a matter of fact, Liz. I’m at your house. Your daughter has thrown a grand V-Day party. Why?? Is everything fine??”

“Yes, Damon. I closed the file under the title ‘Animal-attack’ again. But, it’s getting tougher now.  With ten dead bodies, come hundred questions you know but that’s not why I called”

“Yes, Liz. Tell me, I’m all ears-”

“Today at the spot, I met a man called Professor Nicholas Blackthorne. He is a professor of occult at the Whitmore college but to me he seemed more than that. Damon, I don’t know but he somehow knew about those were witches from Haiti. I am digging about him, I’ll keep you posted if I find anything but I just want to say that you too keep your eyes and ears open”

“Of course. Thank you, Liz. I’ll look into this creepy professor. I hope he’s not a witch himself”

Damon and Elena were dancing at the Valentine’s ball party Stefan and Caroline watched them from distance. They were all dressed in black. Stefan and Caroline held a glass of champagne each. 

“So Caroline, Tyler ditched you or anything??” Stefan asked her.

“Sort of. He bailed on me to chase Klaus. As Elijah and Rebecca took Klaus back to New Orleans, I don’t see Tyler returning any soon”

“In other words, you’re single too. Welcome to the club. Cheers-”, the two of them smiled as they drank the toast.

“Speaking of singles, you know I was wondering if we should have invited Qetsiyah and Silas to this Valentine’s Day Ball?? After all they are the oldest couple in town. Oh, I’m sorry... Two oldest singles who were never a couple” Caroline giggled. Stefan joined her. But their smiles and giggles were short-lived.

“What the hell?? How did she come here??” Stefan was shocked to see Qetsiyah enter the hall. Her eyes were searching for familiar faces. It was when she caught a glimpse of Bonnie dancing with Jeremy. Qetsiyah swiftly moved to them.

“Caroline, what’s Qetsiyah doing in the party?”

“Stefan, I don’t know. I... I didn’t invite her, I swear. I didn’t even know how to reach her. How can I.... wait. Oh, my God. No, no-”  

“Caroline, what is it??”

“It was Elena and Damon. Earlier this morning, they were discussing about some secret plan concerning Silas”

“So if Qetsiyah’s here-”, Stefan left the sentence unfinished as his eyes fixed at the new guest who was now entering the hall.

“Silas. Oh my God, Silas is here too. Stefan, what do we do now??” Caroline and Stefan were taken aback at the sudden turn of events. The two of them now looked at Damon and Elena who were now looking back at them.

“Enjoy the party”, Damon lipsed the words and winked at Stefan.  

Joshua Garfield quietly entered his home. He walked to his bedroom; it was dark. He switched the lights on. He was terrified to find someone seated at his study table. All Joshua could see was his back.

“Who... who’s that?? I am calling 911”, Joshua warned. The man got up and turned to show his face.

“Professor Nicholas Blackthorne?? What are you doing here in Mystic Falls?”

“I’m here to right the wrong. I gave you one little job and you failed. Now, can you see why I hate witches??”  He grabbed his neck. Joshua’s breath began choking.

“Ni... Nicholas... Leave... leave me-”. He tried to free himself but Nicholas’ grip was very firm. Joshua’s pale face turned red as the blood accumulated all over his face. Nicholas freed him.

“Ugh... ahhhh”, Joshua began coughing.

“I.. I don’t understand. Why do you hate witches when you’re one of us?” Joshua asked bewildered.

“Don’t call me a witch. I loathe witches-”

Read Episode 15: "Games Of Blackthorne"

Episode 13: “Fate Of The Doppelgangers”

Previously on the Vampires in my Diaries 

Qetsiyah comes to know of Esther’s plan of visiting the side of the living. She leaves Esther and Linda with Kol to prevent Esther from making the visit.

Katherine tells Stefan about Elena’s location but she has plans of escaping from Mystic Falls to never return. But before Katherine could run, Silas and Jeremy kidnap her.

Rebecaa and Matt are free from captivity; Elijah and Hayley join them.

 Klaus is lying unconscious in the deep freezer at Melissa’s (Lucy’s friend’s) house and Melissa is frightened to find a stranger at her house.

Lucy tells Elena about Bonnie’s death and about their spell to bring her back from the dead. Elena agrees to sacrifice herself for her best friend, Bonnie.

Is Elena dead??

Will Bonnie escort Qetsiyah to the other side??

What is in store for Katherine Pierce??

To know read further, Episode 13: “Fate Of The Doppelgangers”

Silas and Jeremy had been driving to the spot where the spell was being performed. Jeremy was at the steering and Silas was on the back seat with the unconscious Katherine.

“Hey Silas,” spoke Jeremy as he handed over a syringe filled with what appeared like blood, “Take this and inject it directly to her heart”. Silas took the syringe.

“What’s this?” asked Silas.

“A generous donation from Stefan. Just do it-”

“Okay. As you wish”, said Silas as he jammed the syringe near Katherine’s heart and emptied the whole syringe.

Stefan and Damon had reached the spot where the witches were performing the spell. Lucy had been rubbing a giant sharp knife against Elena’s tender neck to carefully collect the doppelganger blood in a silver chalice.

“Elena!!” shouted Stefan and rushed to help her but he couldn’t get past the circle formed by the tribal witches.

“What the hell?? Why can’t I get past?” Stefan mumbled to himself.

“What’s wrong??” asked Damon.

“We can’t get past the circle... This imaginary circle formed by these witches. I think it’s... it’s bound by some spell”

“So break the circle”, suggested Elijah as he joined them. He was escorted by Rebecca.

“So what are we waiting for??” asked Rebecca.

And soon the four of them- Stefan, Damon, Elijah and Rebecca began the mass killings of the tribal witches from Haiti. Biting them, ripping off their hearts from their chests or simply twisting their necks. It took them no time to kill all the ten witches, who now lay dead. It was like history was repeating itself.  Centuries ago, at the same place, a hundred witches had been rounded up and brutally massacred- burnt alive at the stake.

Joshua Garfield observed this violent mass-murder from a distance. 

“This is not gonna work. If they find us, we’d be dead too. We’ll find some way to bring Esther back later-” he explained. Moments later he and his men dispersed like ghosts disappearing in the darkness.

“Elena, you can’t give up like this-” said Jenna.

“It’s okay, Jenna. I have been cheating death since very long.  I have lost a lot of people along the way... I lost you, Bonnie, Ric and... amd John. Jenna, John sacrificed his life so that I could live a normal... human life. But... but what did I do? I.. I failed him. I failed all of you.  

“No, you haven’t failed John”, spoke Alaric, “and you haven’t failed us, Elena. Well at least until now you haven’t. But if you’re gonna give up now then... then it is certainly going to fail all of us-” Elena broke into tears.

“I have seen a lot of people die around me. I... I can’t keep burying the people that I love. And today... today if I choose to live then it would mean that Bonnie-”, Elena couldn’t finish as Qetsiyah cut her in.

“Well Elena”, said Qesiyah, “I think your friends love you a lot. Look, they have found a way to keep you from dying”. Elena turned to look.

Jeremy had brought Katherine as a replacement for Elena.

“Lucy”, said Jeremy, “you needed a doppelganger. Now we’re offering one”

“I don’t know if this would work... We have already started the spell”, replied Lucy.

“What’s wrong in trying??” asked Stefan.

“Okay. Bring her into the circle”, Lucy said.

 Jeremy placed the unconscious Katherine inside the fiery circle. Lucy made a deep cut on Katherine’s wrist and began collecting her blood in the same chalice where she was collecting Elena’s blood. Elena’s wounds had started healing but she was still unconscious. Her heart was still beating. Lucy began mumbling a spell to herself.

“Whoa, whoa”, said Damon, “I thought your spell needed a doppelganger’s sacrifice?? We know Katherine’s human but cutting her wrist won’t take away her life?? What’s made you all merciful toward this merciless Katherine Pierce??”

“I have linked Elena and Katherine. As we now have two doppelgangers, I’ll use them both for the spell and none of them has to die”

“But we all want Katherine to die. That’s the whole point”, said Damon.

“Damon, no...  We don’t want Katherine to die”, defended Stefan.

"Seriously??” Damon was surprised at his brother’s kind-heartedness for Katherine.

“Fine”, said Damon, “but I don’t want any part of it. So I’m going-”

Saying so Damon departed. He went straight to where his car was parked. Standing next to the car, was Silas. He had been standing outside his own car waiting for all this to get over.

“So you’re allowing Qetsiyah to cross over to this side?? I thought you wanted to stop the spell??”

“Yes, so had we planned. But it seems that older Bennett is trying hard to bring back the younger Bennett from the other side. Well... we need Bonnie, so..”

“Okay”, said Silas.

“Wait. Are you scared of your two thousand year old girlfriend??” asked Damon.

“You don’t know Qetsiyah or you would be scared of her too-”

“Yeah well... Don’t worry, we’re here. We’ll deal with her together. We’ve dealt with much worse. Now how bad could this lady be??”

The chloroform had started losing its effect and Katherine had started gaining consciousness. But Elena was still lying unconscious.

“Aghhh.. Huhhh...”, she moaned.

“Aghh...Wha... what are you doing??” Katherine shouted.

“Hi, Katherine. You were not thinking about leaving Mystic Falls, were you??” smiled Stefan.

“Bonnie”, said Qetsiyah, “ it’s time-” She held Bonnie’s hand and Bonnie held Elena’s and the three of them began crossing past the lowered veil and the veil began rising up after them.

“Take care of each other”, said Jenna as they began parting away.

“Merhabaa”, Xoro greeted Qetsiyah as he dropped the rock that contained calcified blood of Qetsiyah . The rock had turned red with the blood that had flown out of it.

Qetsiyah walked forward and placed a hand on Xoro’s shoulder. Moments later, he fell dead.

“What did you do?” Bonnie asked in bewilderment.

“Nature demands balance, Bonnie”, she replied calmly.

Suddenly something went wrong with Katherine.

“What... what’s happening to me??” Katherine’s breath began choking. Everyone was bewildered to watch Katherine begging for breath. She was struggling very hard to catch her breath but to no effect. Eventually, her body gave up and her heart stooped beating.

“Lucy, what did you do??” Stefan asked concernedly.

“I... I didn’t do anything. I only unlinked her from Elena”.

Back at Melissa’s house, Klaus suddenly sprang back to life. Xoro had died. So the spell that he put on Klaus had worn out. As Klaus was back in his senses now, the mystery of Katherine choking on her own breath was now clear. Klaus had compelled her not to move out of his house but she had been moved out... moved out to be sacrificed. And though unintentionally, but she had been sacrificed tonight.

The five hundred year old Katherine Pierce was dead ??

Klaus got up and found Melissa standing at the corner staring at her. He, at once,  rushed to her and grabbed her neck.

“Tell me, where is Lucy??” he asked her threateningly.

“I... I don’t know”, replied Melissa.

“Tell me the truth. Where is Lucy??” he asked again. This time compelling her to say the truth.

“I told you I don’t know-”

“Very well. Then you have absolutely no use for me now” With a twitch, he cracked her neck. Her lifeless body dropped on the floor.

Read Episode 14: "Be My Valentine?"