Just before the ceremony starts, Kelly Donovan goes looking for the bone dagger made for Katherine, but she’s too late. When he sees it is Elena's old necklace, he rips out Sybil's heart and leaves her to die. Eventually, she must let him go but the two share a passionate kiss and he tells her he will never stop fighting for her.

You saw light in me when all I saw was darkness. Returning from hell, because Kelly Donovan is not alive, guys, and she hasn’t been for a while.

Inside, the twins are keeping her alive by siphoning her magic.

Jump ahead eight seasons, and it might not be a June wedding, but it’s definitely a wedding. Not yet. Dorian shoots Stefan, but then regrets it and tries to get him to a hospital. With that, Kelly Donovan dies, Bonnie’s unconscious, and if I were to wager a guess, hellfire is headed for Mystic Falls. Seline babysits the twins on her day off and takes them to the carnival. Sorry, to be more specific: Kelly makes her way to the bathroom, where she coughs up something that looks like blood but is black and then kills an innocent bystander because she says murder is a short-term remedy for her condition. Back in the tomb — which is giving me so many flashbacks — Stefan and Damon have a bit of a heart-to-heart while they retrieve the bones of the first Petrova doppelganger who stole their hearts. Melinda Clarke was a delight as this unhinged version of Matt's mother with a murderous streak.
First, she leaves a present for Caroline — a tiara — before Ric stops by and drops off the girls. Bonnie explains to Caroline that she won’t attend the wedding because she can’t watch Stefan be happy.

At this point, we better hope the Salvatores have enough gas in the tank to go one more round with the formidable (and sexy) Katherine Pierce.
Follow him on Twitter. Matt is awarded with a bench in his honour for saving the town that night and announces that he’ll run for Mayor.

Damon stays with Katherine in the tunnels under the Armory to make sure she is in hell when Bonnie does this; Stefan comes forward to sacrifice himself instead, and Damon refuses offering to give up his life instead telling his brother he loves him and tells him to tell Elena he did it for her then he compels Stefan to leave.

Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Caroline (Candice King) began their much-anticipated relationship, which was complicated by Ca… She eventually gives into her darkness so Stefan takes her to be fed on by Cade. Du gehörst mir / Today Will Be Different.

On another side, Virginia St. John had escaped and gone straight for Seline.

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Damon stops Matt at the eleventh ring, which stops hell from burning the town, but allows enough power for Cade to come to the real world. Bonnie is devastated about Enzo's death and her mother, Abby, comes to her house to console her. But considering she needs a Maxwell to ring the bell, well, it’s a good thing that the curly-haired mystery woman of the hour isn’t Katherine… but instead, it’s Vicki Donovan! I liked Peter's optimism about this clean slate with his baby mama.

However, Stefan is able to override the compulsion because he had vervain in his system and then hurries back into the tunnels, where he injects a syringe filled with his blood into Damon, making him human and then dies while making sure Katherine is in hell while her body is destroyed. Sybil uses her powers to make the class tie themselves to trees with one remaining student to set them ablaze unless Caroline retrieves an old bell for her for a mysterious reason.

Taking us quite literally through all the seasons, Damon says Katherine is the one who sent them down the path of “Ripper sprees, the Originals, the cure, Silas, the Other Side, prison world, Gemini twins, Heretics, and don’t get me started on doppelgangers…” But Stefan is quick to remind his brother that “we had some good things happen to us, too.”. Update Episodes for Season 8. The Vampire Diaries: 15 Best Episodes... RANKED! When Caroline can’t get over how many people will miss her wedding day — her mom, Elena, Bonnie, her girls — Damon hands her Elena’s necklace.

The Vampire Diaries is an American supernatural-fantasy horror television series. Alaric rings the Maxwell bell to weaken Cade while Stefan goes to kill the devil; however, Kai calls him and reveals his intentions to kill the twins and so Alaric must deal with that and since he isn't ringing the bell, Cade overpowers Stefan. It was ridiculous to realize that Kelly died around two years ago and no one seemed to give a damn. Her arrival in Mystic Falls turned Elena’s life upside down.

Not surprisingly, Caroline “the control freak” Forbes is none too happy about her happy day being hijacked to kill Katherine, but not even she can be as bummed out as Bonnie right now. A list of victims named Sarah Nelson ("Nelson" being Sarah's assumed surname) appears and Stefan, Caroline, and Bonnie go to the real Sarah's apartment to protect her from Damon and Enzo, the former of who is knocked out by Sarah with vervain upon their arrival. Bonnie finds out that she has psychic powers and tries to contact Enzo. Alaric and Matt attack Damon, because of the former's belief that it is necessary to keep his kids safe and Alaric stakes him in the heart. Damon and Sybil meet up with Seline and the twins at a diner. And after more than 100 years, there’s a good chance he’s going to vomit. Afterward, Seline offers another deal, which involves Matt ringing the bell twelve times in order to release hell on earth and kill everyone in Mystic Falls. Bonnie was prepared to give up her life in order to be with Enzo, and I just could not deal with it. Offers may be subject to change without notice. And when no one objects to the union — not going to lie, that would’ve been a great entrance for Kitty Kat — Damon moves forward with the ceremony, even though neither Stefan nor Caroline prepared vows. Stefan puts Damon in his coffin to hide until they can defeat the sirens. “Because I’m gonna need a best man,” Damon tells him. Bonnie takes Enzo back to their cabin to work on restoring his humanity.

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In the present, Stefan is determined to make the most out of his final day with Caroline over a Christmas Eve dinner.

And now I’m crying again. Matt finds Tyler's body, confirming Damon killed him.

Cade later reveals that his mission for Stefan was also to kill a hundred people or Elena.

Everyone expects Katherine to interrupt the ceremony, but she doesn't, so Stefan and Caroline say their vows and actually get married. Cade frees Stefan from captivity and sends him on a mission. But we still don’t see her face. Meanwhile in Mystic Falls, Caroline's job sends her to her old high school where she discovers Sybil has used her siren ability to get herself a job as a teacher.

The wedding was beautiful, and I’m loving every single brother moment we have left.

When Damon and Sybil leave the party, Damon gives her Caroline's present, not having known what it was.

This page was last edited on 26 October 2020, at 17:13. Vicki's return was already spoiled weeks ago on Twitter. I’m ready now.” (A season 6 finale reference.) Alright professor, how do we get rid of the Queen of Hell? (Not literally; that seems to be what it takes to become a Donovan these days.). Damon can't seem to rid himself of Elena's necklace, even going after it after throwing it out the car window, showing that he has enough humanity to care about Elena. Sybil introduces herself to Bonnie and Caroline and she tells Bonnie that she must choose between the two men.