Valerie awoke the next morning with a weird feeling erupting in her stomach. It was as if something bad had happened.

She quickly woke everyone else up so that they could continue to hike. After a few groans of frustration, the rest of them woke up.

"Guys! Where's Jeremy?" This question startled Elena, who had a confused look spread across her face. "I spoke to him last night, he couldn't of gone far."

Bonnie became worried "I'll try a locator spell." She walked off to find her own space. Valerie walked into the shed where Damon was, he had Shane sat in a chair whilst he questioned him.

"Where's the cure?" Shane glared at him "Does it matter? I think we both know you'd rather just torture me. Torture gives you a sense of control, especially with your relevance slipping away."

Damon calmly breaks a metal rod in half as he stares him down. "And look at you. Here you are, hours from Elena breaking her sire bond. You're starting to freak out a little bit. Listen, you want my advice? Leave. Go. Don't put yourself through this."

Damon whacks Shane with the halves of the metal rod "Agh! Fine. Okay. Let's say her feelings for you are real. How does that end? She's human. You're a vampire."

Damon strikes him across the face with the rod; Shane groans in pain. "It's doomed, Damon. See, you're not torturing me, man. You're torturing yourself by helping them find the cure." Damon growled "I could kill you. Then no one would find it."

Valerie gasped and tried to interrupt but Shane started talking again.

"We've established that you can't kill me without sending Bonnie off the deep end. You can leave the island. Have a modicum of self-respect. Don't stay here and watch Elena walk away from you."

Damon smirked "Right. Because if I'm not here, then I can't get in between you and whatever you're planning with Silas. Well, I'm not that easily manipulated, professor. And there is one flaw in your logic." He bends down to talk in Shane's ear. "I don't give a crap about Bonnie Bennett."

Damon grabs Shane's head like he's about to snap it, but suddenly Elena vamp-runs in and pushes him away from Shane.

Valerie simply rolled her eyes and left the small shed to find Bonnie. She saw her slowly following a thin trail of fire that had spread across the woods.

She decided to follow her in case she lost control of her magic.

After a long walk through the woods, Valerie came across a small clearing where Shane and a stranger she had never met before stood with a passed out Jeremy. She gasped quietly.

Bonnie stumbles upon the three of them. "How did I get here? What the hell's going on?" Shane grinned "I see your locator spell worked."

Bonnie looked back and furrowed her eyebrows as she saw Valerie. "Valerie did you follow me?" She nodded and walked closer to her. Bonnie just sighed. "The path behind me--" Shane smiled as if he had done nothing wrong.

"Magically disappeared? You can thank the talents of Massak. He's a witch. Should you try to escape, he'll ensure that you never find your way back. So, the gang's all here. Silas awaits."

Valerie glared at him. "I never trusted you."

Shane, Bonnie, Valerie, Jeremy, and Massak are walking towards the cave entrance, Shane leading the way. Inside, they reach the hole they have to climb down into.

"This is as far as I go." Shane sighed "We're on the brink of a monumental event in human history. We're going to raise the most powerful immortal creature that ever was. Come on, our work's not done yet."

Massak glared at him "Mine is. You said get the kid and the witch. I did. I wanna get paid now." Shane opens his bag and pulls out the tombstone. He walks over and hands it to Massak. Massak looks over at Bonnie and Jeremy.

"I'll say a prayer for your souls." Massak leaves quickly, and Bonnie turns to Shane. Angrily she spat out. "That's what the tombstone was for? To pay off a mercenary?"

"The core of that tombstone is made up of Qetsiyah's calcified blood. In some witch circles, that stone's more valuable than the Hope Diamond. So...so who wants to go down first?"

After Jeremy and Valerid went down, Bonnie starts lowering herself into the lower part of the cave in a harness attached to a rope. Suddenly, she loses her grip and falls the rest of the way down, landing painfully on her hand. Jeremy rushes over to her.

"You okay?" Bonnie groans "Yeah, I just slipped." She lifts her hand and groans; her glove is torn and bloody. Jeremy rips off a strip of his T-shirt and helps Bonnie pull off her glove. Her hand is bleeding profusely. He uses the fabric to make a quick bandage.

"It's okay." Bonnie smiles at him. "Thanks." She chuckles as Jeremy helps her up; she unhooks the rope for her harness.

Meanwhile, Valerie is looking for a small opening or a door that could lead to Silas body. "Hey, guys, I'm coming down." Valerie rolled her eyes at Shane.

Shane joins them in the new chamber, all of them holding flashlights. "It's just amazing, isn't it? Once we raise Silas, all of our sacrifices will have been worthwhile; we'll all have what we want." Valerie scoffed "Or he'll kill us all."

Shane kept his face neutral. "Listen, you're going to see I'm right. Just so you don't get any ideas, remember, anything happens to me, something a lot worse will happen to you." Jeremy sighed, "All right, where is this stupid magic passage she needs to open?"

Shane looked around the cave "Just look for anything that looks out of place, all right? Anything not occurring in nature like a - like a drawing or an inscription or a geometrically perfect circle!" He exclaimed. Shane crouches to the ground and brushes away dirt and debris to reveal a circle carved into the ground.

Shane slaps the ground. "This is it! This is the spot." Jeremy, Valerie and Bonnie share a look.

Bonnie puts her hand on Jeremy's chest as she starts chanting. Shane tries to keep her calm with words but all it does is irritate Valerie.

Suddenly, the rocks start falling down slowly and Valerie backs up a little. All at once, the rocks fall down and knocks them all down.

Valerie groans as she calls out to Bonnie and Jeremy. "You guys okay?!" She heard quiet 'yeahs' and sighed in relieve.

"Hey, guys, I need a hand. My leg's broken."

Bonnie glared at him "Best to stay off it, then." Valerie kept in her laugh as Shane had a panicked expression on his face.

"Wait, wait. Don't-- Come on. Bonnie! Help me! Come on, please! Help me!" His pleads became quieter and quieter as the group walked through the entrance that had appeared.

"Look at us. Newbie hunters and a witch who needs adult supervision. How are we the ones that made it this far?" Jeremy smiled "I'm glad we're here together."

Bonnie smiled back "Me, too."

"Well, I don't know about you but I knew I'd make it this far." Bonnie just shook her head in laughter at the girl. "Where is "here," exactly?" Bonnie points in the right direction "this way." Jeremy furrows his brows "How do you know?"

"I just know."

Valerie was keeping her focus on Silas when Bonnie whispered out. "Hi, Grams." Jeremy turns his flashlight towards the place Bonnie is looking at, but doesn't see anybody.

"What are you doing here, Grams?" Valerie frowned as she couldn't see anyone there. "Bonnie, what's going on?" Bonnie ignores Jeremy "I am so sorry about what happened."

"How?" Valerie realises it's Silas messing with her head because if it was a ghost, Jeremy would be able to see it. Bonnie starts walking suddenly and Jeremy drops his flashlight and rushes after her.

"Bonnie, stop!" he grabs her and turns her around "Hey, you're not seeing your grams. If she were here, I'd be able to see her, and I can't. It's not her ghost. It's a hallucination."

He holds her face in his hands. "What you're seeing isn't real. It's me. Your grams isn't here. I'm here. I'm real, okay?" Bonnie, visibly upset, stares at Jeremy. There's a whooshing sound, she looks around and her grams is gone.

"What happened?" Jeremy sighed "Silas. He was in your head. He was trying to control you." Bonnie frowned and realised "And Shane. Illusions of his wife. That's how Silas controls him."

"You need to block him out of your mind. Close your eyes. Listen to my voice and only my voice. I'm gonna get us there."

As they turn the corner they gasp as they come across what they assume to be Silas body. Jeremy steps forward as sees a small box laying on top of it. "Is this it? This is the cure? How is that supposed to cure every vampire in the world?"

"I don't think it is, Jer." Jeremy starts trying to wrest the box out of the figure's hands. "It's stuck. Help me move it." Valerie joins him and they both pull as hard as they can. "It's, like, fossilized in place. It's like trying to bend stone." They give up as Bonnie realizes something. "Oh, my god."

"What?" Bonnie backs away, looking at the entombed figure. "What, Bonnie?" Bonnie frowns yet again. "He's been frozen like a vampire statue for 2000 years. There's only one way we're gonna get the statue to unfreeze." Jeremy confused, asks "How's that?"

"We have to feed him our blood." Jeremy turns around to look at her. "If we want to get the cure out of his hands, we...we have to wake him up."

Jeremy violently strikes the tomb with a rock. "Ah, come on!" Valerie shakes her head "There's got to be a way to do this without raising him." Jeremy nods and continues to strike the tomb. "We'll find a way--" Bonnie is cut off short as Vaughn drives a knife into her back. She falls to the ground.

"Don't listen to the witch, boy. We have to raise Silas, and we have to do it now."

Jeremy and Valerie both run over to her. "Bonnie!" Vaughn heads towards the tomb and slices open his hand with a knife. "What are you doing?" Vaughn glares at him "What you shoulda done already. I'm gonna raise Silas..." he drips his blood into the figure's mouth. "Then I'm gonna kill him."

Jeremy attempts to attack Vaughn from behind but Vaughn throws him off easily. They engage in hand-to-hand combat. Vaughn gets Jeremy into a chokehold.

"You're a bit confused, Mr. Gilbert. We're on the same team here." Jabbing Vaughn and breaking his hold on him, Jeremy manages to get a grip on Vaughn from behind.

"You stabbed my friend!" They tussle a bit more and Vaughn throws Jeremy over his head. "I don't mess around with witches."

Jeremy, crouched on the ground. "You can't use the cure on Silas."

Valerie rushes over to him and kicks him in the leg making him tumble onto the floor, but he simply gets back up and throws her to the floor.

"It's what it's meant for!" He stomps back over to Jeremy and continued fighting like before. They combat hand-to-hand some more until Vaughn downs Jeremy, who falls to the ground groaning in pain. "What else would you use it for?" He retrieves his knife from the ground and nods knowingly. "Your friends...Your sister...Sorry, lad. It wasn't meant for that. Nothing personal."

He bends down toward Jeremy but suddenly Elena swoops in and attacks Vaughn, about to go for his jugular. "Don't! The hunter's curse!" Elena pauses and instead throws Vaughn to the ground, apparently unconscious. She helps Jeremy up.

"You okay?" Jeremy nods weakly.

Valerie gets up, feeling weak and ashamed that she couldn't fight more. "We've got to help Bonnie!" Jeremy rushes over to her once more.

"You need to give her your blood." Elena growls. "Ugh, I forgot how much of a brat you were." She then shoves Valerie to the floor and she falls unconscious as she hits her head on a large rock.

She cuts his wrist open and forces it over Silas body. Once he's taken enough blood she pulls him back up and sinks her fangs into his neck, draining him of his blood.

His body falls to the floor, as Bonnie watches not able to do anything.

Katherine takes the cure and flashes away and Jeremy's eyes close for good.

Hope this was long enough, lmao.