TEXT: [The Woods] (Stefan is doing push-ups. He's on speakers with Caroline) Caroline: What do you mean, you're not coming? I don't need to remind you that your miss Mystic Falls attendance record totally sucks. Besides, you're a founding family member. By definition, you have to be here Stefan: Elena and I broke up. By definition, I don't need to be anywhere Caroline: Did that sound as depressing to you as it did to me? Stefan: I'm not depressed. I just want to rip into someone's artery and feed until I can't breathe anymore Caroline: Well, you can't. As your sober sponsor, I'm not going to let that happen. Try and sublimate Stefan: She said she has feelings for Damon Caroline: What? She can't have feelings for Damon. He's... Damon, and you're you, and I'm... Revolted. You know, I'm gonna talk to her. I'm going to shake some sense into her clearly diseased brain Stefan: Yeah, well, I don't know what good that'll do. Elena's right. Being a vampire really has changed her Caroline: All the more reason you need to cure her. Look, I got to go. Be careful and remember, there's sublimating and then there's insanity Stefan: I'll be fine. Bye (Klaus arrives and strangles him from behind) Klaus: In what world do the words "tell no one" mean "tell your brother and every teenage sycophant in town"? Stefan: The secret's safe. No one who knows about the cure would endanger us. Trust me. You know I want to find it more than anyone else Klaus: Well, then I suggest you find some vampires for Jeremy to kill before I'm tempted to offer you up as a victim. And try to keep this one to yourself, would you? [Salvatore's House] (Stefan is about to leave. Damon is here) Damon: Where have you been? Stefan: Oh, you know. Out Damon: Where you going? Stefan; Out Damon
SUMMARY:
The Miss Mystic Falls pageant is back, and Elena and Caroline help April find something to wear. Meanwhile, Caroline calls Stefan and Stefan tells Caroline about Elena's feelings for Damon, which Caroline objects to. Klaus shows up shortly afterwards, questioning Stefan's trust in him. Damon and Stefan's relationship is even more strained, but they continue their search for the cure to vampirism for Elena's sake. Caroline and Elena are suspicious of Shane, who Damon decides to confront. Ever since awakening as a hunter, Jeremy has been having nightmares in which he kills Elena. Stefan uses criminals to create vampires for Jeremy to use to complete his tattoo. Hayley and Tyler work to break the sire bond of Klaus' hybrids. Caroline is stressed by a favor she owes Klaus- a date, which Klaus convinces Caroline to let him escort her to the Miss Mystic Pageant. Klaus manipulates her into feeling jealous of Hayley and Tyler's friendship, while also charming her. She asks if he ever wanted to be human again, and Klaus shares with her that he considered being human momentarily while looking at a hummingbird and contemplated the fragility of mortality and how struggling to stay alive would make every day you're living that much more meaningful. Caroline bonds with Klaus as Tyler jealously looks on with Hayley. Jeremy's hunter instinct- a hatred of vampires- develops to the point that he attacks Stefan. Damon asks why Shane showed up in Mystic Falls in the first place causing Shane to reveal that he is a vampire. Jeremy arrives at the pageant and attacks Elena, nearly killing her. She is rescued by Stefan and Matt. Stefan reveals to Elena he provided vampires for Jeremy to kill, to which she replies that she doesn't want her humanity back if it costs her brother his. Matt moves into her house and Elena decides to stay in the Salvatore House. Stefan then decides to leave, unable to stay in the same house as Elena. It is eventually revealed that Shane and Hayley are working together to break the sire bond with Klaus's hybrids. Later, Elena has a talk with Damon, which leads to a dance between the two and passionate sex afterwards, all while Caroline and Stefan figure out that Elena is sired to Damon.