Chapter 8: Do Not Go Gentle

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KLAUS' FAMILY MANSION

[It's daytime. In the living room, Klaus is being creative working on an abstract painting on an easel, while Ash is watching him. Rebekah/Esther enters.]

Klaus: What took you so long?

Rebekah/Esther: Alaric didn't want to hand over the stake. [Shows him a stake.] Luckily I'm quite the charmer.

Klaus: That's it?

Rebekah/Esther: The last of the white oak stakes that can kill us. Do you want to do the honours or shall I?

[Klaus puts the paintbrush down, takes the stake from Rebekah/Esther and throws it into the flames in the fireplace. The flames flare up around the stake. Ash smiles.]

Rebekah/Esther: Well that's that then.

Klaus: Pack your bags, we're leaving.

Rebekah/Esther: Today?

Klaus: Why not? Nothing is keeping us here. We'll grab the doppelgänger and be off by sunset.

Ash: [Exictedly] YES FINALLY! Oh, I can't wait! First, we must visit Paris, then New York. Oh, and I heard Amsterdam is wonderful this time of year!

Rebekah/Esther: But tonight is the decade dance.

Ash: So?

Rebekah/Esther: So, I'm head of the committee, we have to go.

Klaus: I'm not going to any dance.

Rebekah/Esther: Caroline will be there.

Ash: Oh well then we must go. I have to say goodbye to her. Nik, we're going.

Klaus: Okay, fine. One last hoorah.

Rebekah/Esther: One last hoorah, Nik.


LATER ON...

[Rebekah/Esther walks in as Alaric has finished his call with Damon.]

Rebekah/Esther: Quite the cunning liar.

Alaric: Well Damon is too arrogant to think his only friend would betray him.

[It can be seen that they are in a room with open caskets.]

Rebekah/Esther: Just as Niklaus would blindly accept an invitation from his beloved sister, unaware that he is heading to his own death.

[Rebekah/Esther dips a silver dagger in a glass bottle of white oak ash.]

Alaric: Did you give him the stake?

Rebekah/Esther: He burned it without hesitation.

Alaric: So where's the real one?

Rebekah/Esther: You'll get it when it can no longer be used against me in this body.

[Rebekah/Esther opens a coffin revealing Esther's body.]

Alaric: So how do you...

Rebekah/Esther: How do I return to my true form? With a little magic and some help from a vampire hunter.

[Rebekah/Esther hands Alaric the silver dagger. Alaric stabs her in the heart and she collapses on the floor. A few moments later Esther gasps and wakes up in the coffin.]


MYSTIC FALLS HIGH SCHOOL

[The party is in full swing in the gym hall with lots of students dancing to the music, including Bonnie and Jamie. Caroline walks up to Matt who is restocking the drinks table with ice.]

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