TVD 9x02 (part 3) Enjoy =)
Cut to – Damon and Darius arrive at the site and see Matt.
DAMON: Donovan, where are they?!
MATT: Damon, you need to leave. Let us do our job.
DAMON: If we leave it to your smurf squad, this story will most definitely end up in a tragedy; so, no. Now tell me what the hell is going on!?
MATT: Damon, step aside, I’m warning you…
DAMON: (Grabs him by the neck) Listen, Donovan…
DARIUS: Damon! (Uses his powers to stop him, drops him unconscious) he said, step aside.
MATT: (Knowing he is involved in some way) Actually, what I said (shoots him with a tranquilizer gun) was to let us do our job! (Drops to the ground) Quick, cuff him!
POLICE OFFICER 2: And what should we do with this one? (Referring to Damon).
MATT: Just leave him here, when he wakes up he’ll know what to do.
As the Police Officer is cuffing Darius, he disappears, they all drop to the floor, unconscious. Darius comes out of the cave entrance.
DARIUS: The arrogance! Gets to me every time.
Cut to – Alaric, Sergei and Radka arriving at the hospital, they go into Bonnie’s room, it's empty. They see Damon’s phone. Alaric gets a call from Elena.
ALARIC: Elena! Are you O.K? Where are you guys?
ELENA: I’m headed back to the school to meet you…
ALARIC: Well, you won’t find us there, we just got to the hospital… what the hell happened?
ELENA: Damon didn’t call you?
ALARIC: No, he left his phone here…
ELENA: Typical! Ric, Bonnie disappeared, Darius tried to do a locator spell, got a hint on the location, they were both headed there, and I was supposed to meet you back at the school…
ALARIC: Elena listen, turn back and meet us here, we’ll go find them together.
ELENA: O.K, turning around, be there in a few.
Cut to cave scene – Damon and Matt wake up in a cell.
DAMON: Donovan?
MATT: Damon? What happened?
DAMON: I think it’s safe to say, we’ve been trapped.
MATT: We need to get out of here fast!
DAMON: No shit Sherlock…
MATT: No, you don’t understand, this place… (drops unconscious again, Bonnie walks to the cell door).
BONNIE: Oops, I hope he didn’t hit his head… too hard.
DAMON: Bonnie?
BONNIE: Let me guess, my response should be: “one and only”. Sorry, but I’m a bit tired of the predictable. Why don’t we go with “Hello, brother… from another mother” Ha, that actually wasn’t bad… Mmm, maybe it was…
DAMON: Who the hell are you and where is the real Bonnie?
BONNIE: Why is it so hard for you people to believe me? I am Bonnie! Hello?! Don’t you recognize me? It hurts me that you don’t, I wasn’t gone for that long. (Reenacting the desiccation scene) This hurts me… This hurts… This hurts me… that’s what I want you to remember, that you hurt me. Enough proof? Who else would have known that, Damon? We were the only ones there… Oh, and your “letter” by the way… pathetic. “Just like she did…” Really?
DAMON: What do you want?
BONNIE: From you? Nothing, yet. I mean, let’s be real, you are pretty much useless like this (referring to him as a human).
DAMON: Where is Bonnie?!
BONNIE: This again… O.K, I’m getting tired with this conversation so time for a little “time-out” before it’s your turn to play. (Damon drops unconscious again).
Cut to –Alaric, Elena, Sergei and Radka arriving near the cave entrance area.
ALARIC: Are you sure it’s here Elena?
ELENA: I’m pretty sure… look (points at the cave entrance).
ALARIC: Everyone wait here; let me go check it out.
SERGEI: Alaric, perhaps I should go instead. (Sergei walks in, comes out a few seconds later). Nothing, it is a dead end, look for yourselves… (They walk in, it is just a closed cave, no pathway, they walk out).
ELENA: It has to be here, I saw it on the map…
RADKA: Maybe it has some kind of protection, cloaking spell?
ALARIC: Maybe… Hey, can you feel that? Wait… (they all drop unconscious except Sergei).
SERGEI: What kind of sorcery is this? Oh lord, this is no good omen… (His eyes daze, he goes into a trance-like state, a pathway opens).
Cut to cave scene - Bonnie is in a cell, lying on the floor. Wakes up very confused. Darius is with her.
BONNIE: Darius? Where are we? What’s going on? (Grabs her head) My head, I can’t…
DARIUS: I know. Just relax Bon-Bon, everything will be fine, trust me.
BONNIE: What… what’s happening?
DARIUS: We have been waiting for you, for a very long time, Bon.
BONNIE: What? You’re not making any sense; did someone drug you or something?
DARIUS: Don’t worry, just close your eyes and shut your mind… it’s O.K Bon, this is your destiny…
BONNIE: What the hell are you talking about!? (With clear signs of pain) My head, my head… (she goes unconscious again)
DARIUS: (Kisses her forehead) I know Bon-Bon. There, there, just relax … it won’t be long now…
Cut to – Damon wakes-up, tied up, in some weird lab like place inside the cave.
DARIUS: You should have trusted your intuition, Damon.
DAMON: (With a hate look) Where is Bonnie?
DARIUS: She will be with us soon, don’t worry. But she will need some motivation, and, for the life of me, I just can’t understand why that is you… You can thank me later for this (injects him with something, Damon starts to convulse, pupils dilating, veins thickening, looks like he is in a lot of pain.)
DAMON: What are you doing to me!!?? Ahhh!!!!! (Damon passes out for a moment).
DARIUS: (Slapping him) Damon, Damon? You with me? (Damon wakes up, very confused). Uff, thought I lost you for a second there…
DAMON: What happened? What the hell did you do to me?!
DARIUS: I just gave you back your life purpose, not to mention your sense of humor and tolerance for alcohol. So, I believe a thank you is in place. Of course, I do expect something in return; but first, we need to make sure this worked…
Darius feeds him a blood bag, Damon devours it, he is even more confused.
DAMON: How? This is impossible…
DARIUS: I assure you, it’s not. It just takes an incredibly gifted Biogenetics Scientist witch-psychic, plus centuries of research and trials, but alas... an antidote. Not really sure about the side-effects though, but what the hell, can’t be worse than what happened to the last one… I’ll be honest Damon, it was not an easy task to accomplish, but then again, neither was creating the cure or the immortality serum… granted someone else took the credit for that. Maybe I should have registered? Well, I always had a soft spot for Qetsiyah, so I let it slide. You see Damon, the Bennets and I go way back… but I got to hand it to you, Bonnie is by far my favorite one.
DAMON: … You’re immortal…
DARIUS: You picked up on that, sharp! Maybe your stupidity was related to the human thing…
DAMON: Why are you doing this? What the hell do you want from us?!
DARIUS: You are just a pawn, that’s all. Bonnie, however, is quite literally the star of the show… me and the munchkins, the co-stars.
DAMON: Well, you cast the wrong lead, Dr. Doom, Bonnie will kick your ass with a blink of an eye…
DARIUS: I’m well aware of her capabilities Damon, but even the most powerful ones have a weak spot.
DAMON: If you think I’m going to help you, with whatever it is you are planning, you failed at casting a lackey too. Your little Frankenstein experiment is useless; if anything, you just made the worst mistake of your life…
DARIUS: Nop, I was wrong, it’s not a human or vampire thing, it’s a Damon thing. Trust me, I was prepared for this, which is why I’ll need you to flip your little switch off.
DAMON: (Sarcastically) Sure, your wish is my command! (Blinks in an I dream of Jeannie way).
DARIUS: Oh, trust me, it is…
“Bonnie” walks in, looks as though she is in a trance.
DAMON: Bon, get out of here…
DARIUS: Oh, she can’t see or hear you. Now, switch it off or I will rip her heart out and force feed it to you… you’re into that kind of thing, right?
DAMON: You won’t kill her… so you’re going to have to come up with something better than that. And here I was all worried because you are supposed to be some sort of genius…
DARIUS: Again, with the arrogance and just plain idiocy. No one knows better than you that there are things much worse than death, Damon. I wonder what your precious Bonnie would do if she saw you kill one of her best friends? (“Elena” walks in, also in a trance-like state) Oh, and she can’t hear or see you either, so…
DAMON: You can’t make do anything…
DARIUS: I believe you knew an old friend of mine, Cybill? Hot, wasn’t she? I reckon she would disagree. I taught her and Selene everything they knew, my old pal Cade too.
DAMON: Then why all the for-play? You could have just controlled me when I was human, or even now… guessing that the student does surpass the teacher...
DARIUS: I know I could have, but, much to my regret, I can only use you in full vamp ruthless mode… and unfortunately, the switch thing does require free will. You switched it while you were under Cybill’s control because she found something that scared the hell out of you. I, on the other hand, have something even better. So, once again, switch it off now, with no collateral damage, or wait for that push that will, beyond a doubt, destroy the person you love the most… and I’m not talking about Elena… (Darius puts his hands on Damon’s head, he goes into utter disappear and desperation, tears running from his eyes). You see, I got you just where I want you… so, unless you want me to turn that into a reality, turn it off, Damon.
DAMON: I swear, I will …
DARIUS: Yes, yes, I know, rip my heart, bla, bla… ready?
DAMON: (In his mind) Bon-Bon, if you can somehow hear me… you need to fight through this… I am so sorry, I have no choice… don’t let go…
DARIUS: Ah, sweet words, Damon, really. But like I told you, she can’t hear you. You have 3 seconds until I make your worst nightmare come true…
DAMON: (With a hateful look) This isn’t over… (Damon closes his eyes)
DARIUS: Yes, yes, whatever… off you go!
Damon opens his eyes and has his signature switched off look. The “Bonnie & Elena” images disappear, they were never really there.
DARIUS: (Looks straight into Damon’s eyes) Glad to have you on board, pal. (Grabs his forehead) Now, all you need to do is give our friend Bonnie a little push, make her feel that you are with her on this and that it’s for the best that she lets go; she needs to let go, understood? No matter how hard she fights back, and trust me, she will, you need to follow through (unties him).
DAMON: Piece of cake, Bon-Bon and I have a special bond.
DARIUS: That’s why I chose you for the job “pal”. Now, we need to get things started.
Darius takes Damon to a place deeper inside the waterfall cave. A group of people in hooded capes are surrounding a mystical symbol. Inside the symbol the missing students are placed at a cardinal point, each one holding an object representing the 4 elements, they are in a trance-like state.
MAN 1: Everything is in place, I presume?
DARIUS: Almost, we just need our friend here (referring to Damon) to bring us the keys and the link. Damon, you see, the final pieces of the puzzle can only come inside the circle on their own free will, so we’ll need you to lure your BBF and the twins here… make it seem as though you are rescuing them, understood?
DAMON: Yep, sure thing.
Damon leaves.
MAN 2: Are we sure this vampire is trustworthy?
DARIUS: I made sure he was, we have nothing to worry about. Once he has played his part, I will deal with him.
WOMAN 1: And you are certain you have “the chosen one”, let’s not forget what happened last time…
DARIUS: Trust me, she is the one.
Damon comes back with the twins and the real Bonnie, who believe they are being saved by him.
BONNIE: (Seeing what they just walked into, and still weakened from whatever Darius gave her) Damon? What is this?
DAMON: (His face changes to the switched-off Damon) Sorry Bon-Bon, didn’t you see this coming? I thought you were psychic…
BONNIE: (To Damon) How could you? (To the twins) Girls, don’t let go of my hand… no matter what…
DARIUS: Ah, Bon-Bon… always the martyr. But now, it’s finally time for you to become the goddess you are meant to be…
BONNIE: Stay away from us!
DARIUS: Stop fighting Bon, deep inside, you know you want this, and even if you didn’t, there is nothing you can do to stop it. That cocktail I gave you, made sure of it… but the spotlight is not on you, yet, first we need the keys… (against her will, she lets the go of the girl’s hands).
TWINS: Aunt Bonnie?!…
BONNIE: Girls!! (To Darius) Stop! (She tries to use her powers but is unsuccessful).
DARIUS: (To the twins) Don’t be scared, it’s O.K. Now, aunt Bonnie’s voice asked you to do something, remember? Stand right here, and do exactly what she told you… I promise you and your auntie will be just fine. Now, repeat what your auntie says…
BONNIE: I won’t!!
DARIUS: Oh, Bob-Bon, you just don’t get it. You can’t be a God if you think like a human. Your ethos has always been your weakness… you don’t ask for people’s permission to access their mind, you just do. That’s what makes us different.
BONNIE: So, why me? Why not just do it yourself?
DARIUS: I’m flattered that you would think I have that kind of power, but I don’t. My craft lies more in the illusion realm; you, however, have limitless potential, reason why you are the chosen one.
BONNIE: Chosen for what?
DARIUS: To release this world of its toxicity… to purify and restore balance.
BONNIE: You are insane!
DARIUS: I might be, but trust me, Bonnie, this is for the greater good.
BONNIE: Listen, just let the girls and the students go; you and I can settle this on our own.
DARIUS: We can’t do that, the munchkins are literally the keys to open the portal… and the students, the sacrifice. That’s just how it works Bon, I didn’t make the rules. Now, we really need to start. Girls, repeat after auntie Bonnie.
BONNIE: (Trying to resist, but just can’t, she starts chanting) Vas matos ostende nobis lucem tuam divinam unum…
TWINS: Vas matos ostende nobis lucem tuam divinam unum…
BONNIE: Vas matos ostende nobis lucem tuam divinam unum…
TWINS: Vas matos ostende nobis lucem tuam divinam unum…
BONNIE: Vas matos ostende nobis lucem tuam divinam unum…
TWINS: Vas matos ostende nobis lucem tuam divinam unum…
The place begins to shake, as if a terrible earthquake was taking place, suddenly and overwhelming beam light rises from a rock and it cracks, the portal opens, the alpha-omega crystal is exposed.
DARIUS: Excellent girls! Thank you, your work here is done (the girls collapse unconscious).
BONNIE: Girls!
DARIUS: They’ll be fine Bon, don’t worry. Now, it’s your time to shine. Close your eyes and concentrate really hard… Let it in and let go…
BONNIE: (Trying to resist as hard as she can) I said no!
DARIUS: Thought you would fight it, so I brought some motivation (points to Damon).
BONNIE: Guess you aren’t that good of a psychic, I really don’t care what happens to him…
DARIUS: Oh, Bon-Bon, stop pretending, I know you do. But… if you say so... (snaps Damon’s neck, Bonnie doesn’t know he has been revamped)
BONNIE: No!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Lashes a huge psychic blast that releases the energy source from the crystal; Darius injects her again to be able to control her to perform the linking spell).
DARIUS: Ahhh, there it is! I knew this would work! Now, it’s time to prove just how special you really are (grabs her by the temples and starts chanting) Repeat after me… Vas matos sunt universi, ut alpha et omega
BONNIE: (Chants, resists) Vas matos sunt universi, ut alpha… No…
DARIUS: Come on Bon! (Damon wakes up) Quick, Damon, look into her eyes and tell her what I told you to say…
BONNIE: Damon? Is that really you? How? I...
DAMON: I’m here. I’m real... (Through his thoughts) It's me, Bon, I’m not going to leave you... look at me, sense me... don’t let go...
DARIUS: (Keeps leading her into the chant) Vas matos, sunt universi, ut alpha et omega…
BONNIE: Vas matos sunt universi, ut alpha et omega…
DARIUS: Vas matos, sunt universi, ut alpha et omega…
BONNIE: Vas matos sunt universi, ut alpha et omega…
The energy from the crystal is absorbed into Bonnie’s body; her eyes turn white as if they were pure light. Damon drops to the ground, can’t hold eye contact.
DARIUS: There it is!! The goddess has risen!!! Now, think of them, all of them… they don’t belong here… set them free… (Bonnie’s eyes start turning black).
Damon communicates with her through his thoughts: Bon-Bon, I’m here, not going anywhere… we are in this together, no matter what... (she hesitates).
BONNIE: (Through her thoughts) Damon? I thought...
DAMON: I know… do you trust me?
BONNIE: I do…
DAMON: Don’t let go, Bon. Doesn’t matter what this psycho gave you... you are stronger… believe in yourself…
DARIUS: (Bonnie starts gaining her power again and resisting, Darius senses they are communicating telepathically) I have no idea how you are doing this, but I warned you (hits and stakes Damon).
DAMON: Bon-Bon... I...
BONNIE: Damon…No!!!!!!!!
(Lashes an even stronger psychic blast, her eyes now completely turn black, her power grows uncontrollably, she is beyond herself, completely merged with the source… The hooded people, Darius, and the students drop to the ground, the entire place turns pitch black... total silence).
TVD 9X04 (part 1) Coming soon. Hope you stop by, read and enjoy! =)