Beyond the screen: Vampire Diaries

Fool me Once

Elena wakes up and finds herself in a strange hotel room. She sees Luke sleeping on and tries to slowly sneak out, but Luke wakes up. Anna arrives and drags Elena to the bathroom locking her in. Elena finds Bonnie lying unconscious in the bathtub. She tries to help Bonnie and Elena informs her that Luke is with Anna, and they want to open the tomb, but they need a witch to do that.

Meanwhile, Stefan looks everywhere for Elena all over Mystic Falls, but cannot find her. He goes to Damon asking for his help but Damon, who is still mad at him, does not want to help. Damon leaves Stefan alone and goes to Bonnie's grandmother, Sheila, asking for Bonnie but Sheila knows really well who he is and tells him to go away.

Back at the motel room, Anna explains Elena that she wants to get into the tomb to free her mother Pearl who's trapped in there. Anna calls Stefan and asks him to bring her the Grimoire otherwise she will kill Elena. Stefan does not have it but promises he can get it and they arrange to meet Damon at a public place.

While Anna goes to meet Damon, she runs into Jeremy who invites her to a party. Anna tries to avoid him at the beginning but changes her mind when she hears where the party will be — near the old cemetery. She takes off to meet Damon. Damon insists that he works alone but when Anna threatens to kill Elena, the two of them get to an agreement.

In the meantime, Stefan appears at the motel room and helps Elena and Bonnie. As they run out of the room, Stefan warns Luke to leave town otherwise, if he sees him again, he will kill him. Anna comes back and finds Luke hiding behind the bed to avoid the sunlight. Luke tells her that Stefan came, and he couldn't do anything. Anna realizes that she may have lost the witch, but Damon will open the tomb no matter what and she must be there when it happens.

Bonnie, Elena and Stefan are at Sheila's house talking and Elena thinks they do not have choice but to help Damon get Katherine back. Sheila agrees to open the tomb as long as the rest of the vampires are burned.
Allison installed more power into the Bennet witches so that maybe Sheila might survive.  I tried to do that without them noticing. Elena has to earn Damon's trust back and leaves to go and find him and talk to him. She finds him at the Salvatore House, and she convinces him to trust her again. Stefan, Bonnie and Sheila wait for Damon and Elena at the church ruins. Stefan brought along arsonist tools. Damon, who brought and IV bag of blood for Katherine, and Elena arrive, and Sheila and Bonnie start the process to break the spell and open the tomb. Stefan runs outside to get his arsonist tools.

Meanwhile, Jeremy gets at the party and looks around for Anna. Anna shows up and the two of them go for a walk away from the crowd. Anna tells him that she is leaving town with her mom and Jeremy kisses her. Anna's face begins to show that she is a vampire and Jeremy asks what is going on when Luke appears and knocks him out. Anna tells Luke to drag Jeremy close to the tomb so they can use him for Pearl to feed on when they'll get her out of the tomb. Caroline was with Matt at the Dukes party, once again she was left out of Elena's drama, but deep down she was glad to be without it. She enjoyed her time with Matt and wished that Allison wasn't so busy so that they can have some bonding time together.

Stefan runs into Luke  while he is getting his tools. Anna also appears and tells him that she will take her mother out and gives Stefan a choice. He can try to stop her or save Jeremy from Luke. Stefan lets Anna go and stays alone with Luke, who attacks believing himself stronger. Stefan uses the arsonist tool and burns him.

Allison snuck into the Bennett's house and used a spell to find the book she needs. She then replicated the book and then she left as soon as she could. The tomb vampires will cause problems soon. Kol said that she did not need to put herself in danger and she do not need to get involved with doppelganger business.

Meanwhile, Bonnie and Sheila keep chanting the spell and the tomb's door cracks open. Damon, to be sure that Sheila won't seal him into the tomb, grabs Elena and takes her with him in. Inside the tomb, Elena hears whispering and asks what is happening. Damon informs her that they can sense her, but he runs off to find Katherine leaving Elena alone. Elena searches for him while she stumbles over the desiccated bodies of the vampires and freaks out.

Anna arrives at the tomb finding the door open. Bonnie wants to stop her, but Sheila does not let her, so Anna gets into the tomb. Bonnie wants to know why her Grams let her in and Sheila says that no vampire will come out of the tomb. They managed to open the door but not break the seal spell so whoever vampire gets in, is not coming out. Stefan comes back and wants to run into the tomb when he hears Damon took Elena with her, but Sheila stops him, explaining why.

Inside the tomb, Anna finds Elena and explains her how Stefan and Johnathan Gilbert are responsible for her mother's imprisonment and that's why she decided that it would be Gilbert family's blood that will bring her mother back to life. She bites Elena who starts screaming making Stefan run into the tomb to find her. Anna feeds Elena's blood to Pearl but Stefan gets there in time before Pearl kills her. Elena runs away to get out of the tomb.

Bonnie wants to help Stefan get out and she begs Sheila to lift the seal just for a while so Stefan can come out. Elena gets out and Bonnie tells her about the seal. Stefan gets to the door but cannot step outside and Elena realizes that he got in only to save her even though he knew. She also remembers the promise they gave Damon and Stefan goes back inside to find his brother. Bonnie and Sheila do a spell to lift the seal and Anna comes out with her mother.

Damon is still in the tomb yet cannot find Katherine anywhere. Stefan comes to him and realizes that Katherine is not in the tomb, never was. Damon is frustrated and throws the IV bag of blood against the wall breaking it. Stefan urges him to hurry so they can get out before the seal closes again. Elena runs in to beg them to leave. The three of them get out just in time before the door closes again.

Bonnie and Sheila go back home while Sheila looks exhausted over the energy she spent for the spell and goes to lie down. Elena and Stefan rush to find Jeremy who is waking up and he is fine. Damon is shocked for not finding Katherine and Elena hugs him telling him she is sorry. Elena takes Jeremy home who says he cannot remember anything but when Elena leaves to go to Bonnie, Jeremy starts searching on the Internet about vampires. Jeremy then went to Allison's house to talk about his feelings for Anna and how tonight went to shit. Allison invited him in and almost instantly put a brownie in his hand, he truly missed having her in his life. They talked about school and Anna. She said that Jeremy needed to start taking defense classes to be safe.

Anna brings her mother at her motel room where they find Damon waiting for them. Damon grabs Pearl threatening to kill her and accuses Anna of knowing the whole time that Katherine was not in the tomb. Anna admits that she did know but she did not tell him because then he would never help her open the tomb. Pearl explains to him how Katherine got away and Anna tells him that she saw Katherine few years ago. Katherine knew where Damon was but didn't care to find him. Damon is heartbroken over the information and leaves.

Bonnie goes to check on her Grams, but she finds her unconscious. She starts yelling for help while she desperately goes through the spell book to find a spell that will wake her and Elena calls 911. They went to the hospital. Allison then heard the news from Jeremy and she silently prayed that Sheila was okay.

Later the night it was announced that Sheila was alive, just dehydrated. Luckily my spell worked.  The next morning, Sheila Bennett was at my door. She thanked me for saving her life and that she owed me one. She was planning on moving to Florida and this tomb business was what she needed to make the move. Allison said that the favor she needed was Bennett blood. Sheila reluctantly gave some of her blood in a glass and said they were now square.

Back at the tomb, a vampire manages to get to the blood bag Damon threw against the wall and he feeds on its contents. He gets up, slowly gets to the door sliding it open and exits the tomb revealing that the seal spell did not work.