I know it sounds crazy that I'm following some psychic dream, but it's the only lead that we have.
It doesn't "sound" crazy, it is crazy. But I'm open-minded.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Ok...train's leaving the station. Choo-choo.
You ever play the "What If" game? When you're calcified for 2,000 years you learn to entertain yourself with these little brain teasers.
I don't want to hurt you, so get away from me, before I rip your throat out.
Hello to you, too. I brought dinner. A vampire doppelganger who's burdened by a conscience. Now I've seen everything.
Love bends the rules of possible. Silas and I were the two most powerful members of a gifted people called Travelers. When we were engaged to be married, we decided to reach even further.
(flashback) I don't ever want to be parted from you, even by death.
We wanted to find a way for our love to last forever.
Yeah, look. I know the story. Everything was great for Silas until some witch named Qetsiyah or whatever came by and screwed him over, right?
Wrong. You don't know the story. Silas convinced Qetsiyah that he loved her so she would make the immortality spell, but when she found out that he was just using her, she dumped him in a tomb with a cure, hoping he would take it and die because she had created a supernatural limbo to trap his soul.
Like any other sane, rational, well-adjusted woman would do.
Which catches us up to today. Now Silas wants to destroy that supernatural limbo. Once the other side is gone, he can take the cure, become mortal, and die, and finally pass on and find peace.
Look. If you really are Silas' one true love and you're not dead, then why don't you just do us a favor and run off into the sunset together?
Silas was my true love. I never said I was his. I'm Qetsiyah, that sane, rational, well-adjusted woman you seem to know so much about. Clearly you've heard the man's version of the story, the one where I'm a back-stabbing lunatic who ruined everything for Silas, a raging bitch witch whose obsession with vengeance created a whole new dimension of suffering in the afterlife.
What are you doing here? I thought you were dead and on the other side?
I was for 2,000 years, but I came back... For you.
So Silas was the first version of me and your friend was the first version of Elena?
Amara was hardly a friend. When they drank the immortality elixir, they violated the natural law that all living things must die, so nature found a balance by creating mortal shadow selves.
Doppelgangers.
Like you and Katherine and Elena, all caused by the ripple effect from Silas and Amara's sin.
Wait, what? No. She almost killed you!
We don't have time for a detour, Damon - Stefan's hurt. Find him.
Wait, no! Stop. Just...wait. Any sign of trouble, you let her go - do you understand me? I don't care how bad Silas wants Katherine, she's not worth a hair on your head. You got me? Okay. Kiss me.
Have you not been listening to me? I have trust issues. I'm controlling and paranoid and a little crazy. And that's working out just fine.
What are you doing to my brother?
I'm frying Silas' brain. No one said it would be pretty.
Don't flatter yourself. It was like watching a soap opera, except boring and with no volume control.
You said you were hungry.
For food, not packaged poison.
Tell me what Qetsiyah said back at the cabin.
She told me that...we don't stand a chance.
And what does she know about us?
Well, she told me a very interesting little story about the history of Doppelgangers; how they're fated to fall in love with eachother. Basically, the universe programmed you to fall in love with Stefan, not me. Which means...we're a lost cause no matter what we do. (pauses) I'm paraphrasing.
..."The universe"?
Her words, not mine.
So...she's crazy.
Maybe. Maybe she's not...
Look. I know I spent the last couple days focusing on trying to find Stefan, but that has nothing to do with how I feel about you, and I'm not gonna let Silas' 2,000-year-old ex-girlfriend screw things up between us.
You think I am? I mean, no one tells me how I live my life, no one tells me who I love. Especially not some vindictive, prehistoric witch and definitely not the universe. And I'm not gonna let someone else's idea of destiny stop me from loving you, or being with you, or building a future with you, because...you are my life.
(Elena leans in to kiss Damon, Stefan wakes up)
Welcome back, Brother.
Stefan... We missed you.
Uh, I'm sorry. I--I have no idea who you people are.
Nada?
I know "nada" means nothing. I know what day it is, I know what year it is, I know this car has a V-8 engine, and yet I am two journals deep, and I have absolutely no memory of who the hell I am.
Brutal.
(holds up blood bag) Is this supposed to fill me up?
Well, yes and no. Technically yes, because you're a vampire.
Weird.
Realistically no, because you're, you know, you.
Ahh, yes. The insatiable and blood-lusting vampire ripper of Monterrey.
And we're only in the 1920s, baby.
Well, sorry, but this is a lot to process. (starts to toss the empty blood bag out the window)
(grabs it from him) You're a vampire - not a cave man.
So let me get this straight. I helped you steal this car, I found out I was a vampire who killed his own father, and yet I don't litter?
You're a man of principle, Stefan, who had his memories erased by a 2,000-year-old witch.
Yeah, well I bet that 2,000-year-old witch probably drives a little faster than you.
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