chapter 058 - memorial

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"before we begin the mass, we'd like to open the floor to anyone who would like to share a memory about our late friends on the town council. i know that april young wanted to say a few words about her dad. april? april? are you still here, honey? is there anyone else who would like to share a recollection or a memory about pastor young?" carol asked before elena stood up.

"come on up, elena." carol said as elena got up on stage.

damon sat beside may and stefan when he walked in and he noticed elena didn't look well.

"she doesn't look so good." damon said.

"maybe you should have told me she was rejecting all food sources." stefan said.

"jealousy's beneath you, brother." damon said.

"oh, bite me." stefan replied.

"are you guys 12 years old?" may asked them to make them shut up.

"i, um, when i talked to april earlier, she was kind of nervous about coming up to speak, and... now that i'm up here, i'm kind of nervous, too. the worst day of loving someone is that day that you lose them." elena said.

all the vampires in the room froze when they smelled blood.

"do you smell that?" caroline whispered.

"blood." tyler whispered back.

"nobody move. don't turn around. it's a trap." damon said.

elena kept staring at the blood that was dripping from the top floor and she was stumbling around so stefan went to go get her.

after that, the song began and elena was freaking out.

"hey hey, hey." stefan said to her.

"the blood. stefan, the blood, i can smell it. there's so much." elena said quietly.

"it's all right, just remember what we talked about. focus, push back. come on, you can do this." stefan said.

"what's wrong with her?" matt asked.

"she's hungry. she hasn't fed." stefan told him.

"so get her out of here." matt said.

"we can't. there's somebody watching us." stefan said.

"i'm gonna go rip his head off now." damon said.

"are you crazy?" may asked.

"you do that, damon, and you risk exposing all of us." stefan said.

"well, i think the risk will be slightly diminished when i, you know, rip his head off." damon said.

"stefan, i'm losing it." elena said.

"you have 10 seconds before i go old fashioned on the new guy." damon said.

"don't do it, damon, please." stefan said.

"3,2,1, bye." damon said but matt spoke up.

"wait, wait, wait. elena. feed from me. it's ok. everyone will think you're upset, just feed from me." matt said.

elena turned to matt and she fed from his neck and elena realized the blood must've been coming from april.

tyler decided to get up in front of everyone and speak until he got shot with a stake in front of everyone making the torn scatter.

the gang went to help tyler while may and damon went after the hunter who was named connor.

they saw connor getting into his truck and damon ripped the door off his truck.

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connor quickly grabbed his stake gun, shooting may with one.

may fell to the ground in pain since the stake went into her side.

damon tried to kill connor but he was a lot stronger and when stefan showed up, connor took off but not before shooting damon with wooden bullets.

"ow." damon said before stefan went over to him.

stefan punched damon in the face before pulling the stake out of may.

"what was that for?" damon asked.

"you know what." stefan replied before him and may walked away from damon.

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after the memorial, stefan texted everyone to meet up at the school.

"what are we doing here?" damon asked.

"i don't know. ask stefan." bonnie replied.

"stefan. what are we doing?" damon asked him.

"we're finishing the memorial we didn't get to have earlier. we need to start healing, damon. we've all lost so much especially recently. i think we're numb to it. we push it away, we make a joke out of it, ignore how we feel. we never just let ourselves grieve." stefan said.

"so you're lighting lanterns." damon said.

"yeah, yeah. we need to do this." stefan said.

"what we need to do is find out who this hunter is and what he knows about the death of the council. we have more important things to be doing right now than this." damon said.

"not tonight, we don't. this is for my uncle zack. my friend lexi. for alaric." stefan said lighting a lanterns before passing the lighter to matt.

"this is for vicky." matt said before passing the lighter to caroline.

"this is for my dad. and tyler's." caroline said before passing the lighter to may.

"this is for my mother. my brothers and my friend lexi." may said passing the lighter to jeremy.

"this is for our parents, for vicky, anna, jenna and alaric." jeremy said passing the lighter to damon.

"no way. i'm not doing that." damon said before he walked away so bonnie took the lighter.

"this is for my grams." bonnie said leaving just elena to go.

"this um... is for my mom, my dad and... jenna. everyone that you've all lost. everyone that this town has lost. and for me. i guess." elena said before everyone let their lanterns float up into the sky.

"this is definitely one of your better ideas." may took stefan as the two of them smiled at each other.

-

"so what is all this?" stefan asked.

damon had a bunch of boxes in the living room and when may walked in, she noticed stefan staring at a stake the hunter made.

"yeah, is this a garage sale?" may joked.

"some personal items that i snaked from the vampire hunters rv. may he rest in peace." damon said.

the vampire hunter was now dead since damon and klaus blew him up in the hospital.

"or pieces." may said as stefan glared at her.

"tough room." may said as she sat down with a blood bag in hand.

"i'm searching for a supernatural handbook." damon said.

"you know for a fact he was supernatural?" stefan asked.

"definitely wasn't natural. the guy magically appears just as someone blows up the entire founder's council. he's covered in a tattoo that only jeremy gilbert of all people in the world, seems to be able to see. klaus mentioned something about him being one of the five. and then he kamikazes himself with explosives. seem natural to you?" damon asked.

"what's the five?" stefan asked.

"that's what i'm hoping is in the first chapter of the handbook." damon said as his phone rang.

"do you know anything about what klaus is talking about?" stefan asked her.

"no, but i'm definitely intrigued to know more." may said.

"liz forbes, my favorite sheriff. what? that's... concerning. keep me posted." damon said on the phone.

may and stefan both looked at damon, waiting for him to explain.

"what, you're not going to tell me?" stefan said.

"i can't tell you. it's private. we're in a fight." damon replied.

"you're in a fight, i'm not in a fight. i'm over it. i've been over it." stefan said.

"you're not still mad at me about elena?" damon asked.

"you two sound like a couple of teenage girls." may said.

"you let her feed on you. i'm always going to be mad at you. but we're not in a fight." stefan said with air quotes.

"very well, then. they didn't find any remains at the explosion site." damon said.

"so connor's still out there." stefan said.

"apparently so. i'm going to need you to get on this today. i have to take elena to college." damon said.

"i'm sorry, you have to do what, exactly?" stefan asked him.

"i'm teaching her how to feed. she needs to learn snatch, eat, erase now more than ever. we're not in a fight, remember?" damon said before he walked away.

"if i were you, i'd talk to my lady." may said to stefan.

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