7. THIS ISN'T HAPPENING

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Another guy takes Tyler—who is now Julian, the Traveler—out of the van. He has chains on his hands. The guys hold Julian in front of Markos and Liz.

"Tyler!" Liz said. "Oh, that's not Tyler anymore. That's Julian, the Traveler who betrayed his people when he killed the doppelgänger and stopped the spell. A big, scary werewolf-vampire hybrid, and yet a little vervain, a touch of wolfsbane, and here you are—weak and all mine." Markos explained.
"You think you're some great leader because you pillage a helpless town? That makes you king now? Sorry, your highness, but I don't buy it." Julian told Markos.
"That's because you haven't set foot inside my kingdom." Markos told him.

Julian looks at him confused; Markos turns around.

"The spell the Travelers cast across Mystic Falls eliminates spirit magic, so while my people continue to have access to the Earth's purest magic—" He turns to face Julian/Tyler again. "—your friend Tyler will be stripped of everything the witches did to him, first his hybrid side, then his vampirism, and with no vampirism to keep him alive, he'll just be a boy with a werewolf gene, who happened to break his neck." He said.
"No, no! No!" Julian shook his head.

The men holding him try to hold him tighter as Julian tries to break free.

"Don't do this! No! No! Stop." Julian pleaded.

They force Julian to cross the city limit.
Julian loses his vampirism, he blinks his eyes while he's in pain, showing his werewolf eyes and then they turn back to normal. Then, his fangs come out and then disappear. Julian gasps in pain as his skin starts to burn. His head moves to his left in a quick motion, breaking his neck. He falls to the ground. Liz looks terrified.

"Oh, my God." Liz gasped.

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~WHITMORE COLLEGE: DORM ROOM~

"This list is getting uncomfortably long." Enzo said.
"Tell me about it, but Liv is going to do the spell but none of it matters if your mysterious Traveler doesn't show." Bonnie told him.
"Bonnie?" Tyler questioned.
Bonnie looks behind her and sees Tyler.

"Tyler, is that you?" Bonnie asked.
"How the hell did I get here?" He asked.
"You're dead and you're you. Caroline was right." Bonnie said as they walked closer to each other. "Dying eliminated your passenger."
"Hang on. Did you say I'm dead?" Tyler asked.
"I did, but we can bring you back." Bonnie told him.
"And the list keeps growing." Enzo rolls his eyes.
"I need you to trust me, OK?" Bonnie said to Tyler.
"Do I have a choice?" Tyler questioned.

Bonnie extends her hand towards Tyler. He grabs her and Bonnie winces in pain as Tyler passes to the Other Side.

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~WHITMORE COLLEGE: CLASSROOM~

Jeremy and Matt are in the front of the classroom when Damon walks towards them.

"Class is in session. First assignment—Anti-magic perimeter. Gilbert, whataya got?" Damon asked.
"I walked around Mystic Falls this morning to see where my hunter instincts disappeared."
"Meaning what, your biceps shrunk, and your brain got smaller?" Damon asked.
"Meaning that I have a supernatural urge to kill vampires, so wherever I hated you less, there was no magic." Jeremy said.

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