Closing out the first half of the season in The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 10, Elena found out about Katherine, which caused her to flip out and flip her car.
Damon comes to the rescue. Not overly concerned about the fact that she could well be dying, her response to him is “I look like her.” When she wakes up in Georgia, Elena tells Damon he has kidnapped her, and she’s not going to Georgia. Except she’s in Georgia. Without her magic little necklace. Stefan calls on Elena’s phone, which Damon answers, and tells Stefan to have a good day and hangs up. Damon promises Elena she will be safe, and he will not do that mind control thing on her. He, however, will not promise that she can trust him.
Stefan heads to Bonnie, hoping she can use Elena’s necklace to make a connection. Nothing. There’s something wrong with Bonnie.
Damon’s destinaton: a bar outside Atlanta. He starts making out with the first woman he sees. She seems to know him. Turns out she’s a witch.
Bonnie fears that her powers are gone. Her grams warns her that she’s not going to find anything in any books. Whatever has her so scared needs to be cleared out.
Damon’s mission is to get into that tomb, but Bree tells him there’s no way in without a crystal.
When she goes out to think, Bonnie falls into a hole in the ground. Her grandma trusts Stefan will keep her safe, although she doesn’t intend to invite him inside.
Jeremy has decided that vampires were merely a metaphor for the demons of the day, the Union soldiers.
Stefan has managed to locate Bonnie. He guessed where. She heard them down there behind the door of the tomb. Stefan assures her she’s safe because the crystal has been destroyed.
Bree’s called another vampire to the scene to attack Damon. He seems upset because Damon killed his girlfriend Lexi. Elena begs him to be better than Damon and not set him on fire. He obliges. Upon recovering, Damon kills Bree.
Stefan tells Elena that the first time they met was the day their parents went off the bridge, not that day in school. Her dad was still alive in that car, but he didn’t want help until Elena was helped. After that, he spent months making sure she was not Katherine, realizing she’s nothing like her in the process.
So why does she look like her? She was adopted.
Jeremy’s new friend Anna has dug up some articles. Every so many years, there’s a series of animal attacks in the area. All the people involved in those attacks have been drained of blood.
When she returns home, Elena gets an earful from Aunt Jenna about lying. That said, she has a question: is she adopted?
Alaric knows Damon’s face quite clearly. It’s the face of the man who killed the woman he loved.
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