The pack arrives in
Boston, and Nick is racked with pain. The change is trying to take
him. Cain and Jeremy arrive, and Elena bristles at the sight of the
mutt, but Clay assures her that they came to an understanding. Cain
is with the pack for this. Nick asks about Logan, and Jeremy has to
break the bad news that Logan died at Aleister's hand, that he died
with Rachel by his side. She is still back at Stonehaven, when this
is done they have to return to bury him. Elena is wobbly on her feet.
She remembers Savannah's prophecy, none of them are okay. If they
don't stop the undoing they will never be alright again. Paige tells
them that to get to the boiler room, they need to be with a coven
witch. Cain asks for clarification. If Savannah is the bomb mechanism
for the ritual, can't they just kill her. Elena makes it clear, that
she's innocent, and Aleister is the target. All of the pack heads in
except Nick and Jeremy. Jeremy tells Nick to get it together. He has
every intention on going in, and not changing. He confesses to Jeremy
that he saw his mother, and he found out how much his mother loved
his father. He wants what they had, what Elena and Clay have, what
Logan and Rachel had.
Paige sees that
Aleister put a spell on the doors. Cain wants to muscle through them,
but Paige cautions him, warning of his death if he does. Paige isn't
sure she can do anything. Clay grabs a nearby pillar and throws it
through the glass, Paige checks. That worked.
Ruth feels Paige
enter the building. Aleister, Clara and Savannah make their way
through the boiler room towards Ruth. Ruth crushes a beetle in her
hands, and Aleister is stricken with pain. Clara sees that she's
progressing too fast, they need to kill her before Aleister is dead.
Savannah senses Paige. Clara tells Aleister to distract Paige while
she kills his mother. Aleister casts a spell.
Paige gets hit with
the spell, and she turns bitter towards the pack, telling the wolves
to get off her. Shots ring out, and they're sent scrambling in all
different directions, but all headed down. Jeremy and Nick run in.
Jeremy kills the guard firing the shots, and Aleister has one less
follower.
Paige and Elena head
down the stairs. Paige is bitter, and tells Elena that she's rushing
towards her death.
Clay and Cain take
the elevator down, but it won't go back up without a key card. They
head off in search of stairs. Cain points out that they're unarmed.
He showed him mercy, but he's not willing to take a bullet. Clay has
to find Elena though. Cain points out that Elena isn't sitting around
upstairs, she's headed for the boiler room, and they should be too.
Nick continues to
fight the change, and Jeremy smells humans. They search for the
source, its coming from the Elevator. They brace themselves for the
onslaught. The doors open and they fight through them. Jeremy jumps
into the elevator, and the doors close. Across the hall another
elevator opens, with more guards. Nick is forced to fight them
himself.
Ruth continues her
ritual, smearing ash down her face, and causing Aleister more pain.
He can't find Ruth. He turns on Savannah, but Clara tells him to go
into his blood. The sacred ritual floors are beneath them. Aleister
reaches out for the door, but Clara stops him, only a coven witch can
open the doors. Clara grabs Savannah. Aleister tells her to open the
door for him. Clara warns him to lock her down first. Aleister
insists that she's a shell already even with her talisman, but Clara
is unsure how the Coven Powers will effect her below. Aleister does
the “I am the lock,” and Savannah answers with “I am the key,”
but as she does so something crawls beneath the skin of her arm. She
uses her talisman to open the door. Aleister heads straight in, with
Clara pushing Savannah along.
The elevator doors
open, and Jeremy takes the fight back into the hallway. He kills both
of the guards, and then goes in search of Nick.
Aleister makes it
down to the coven alter at last. He announces that he's come home. He
got her message, and she's glad. Clara drags in Savannah telling Ruth
that she lead them right to her. Ruth tries to reason with Savannah
warning her of their intention, that they plan to steal her body.
Aleister tells her that Savannah is already gone, under a deep ocean
of calm. It is a place that Aleister knows well, one where he had to
go to many times to escape his father's abuse. Ruth never meant for
him to have a life of pain. She never meant for him to have a life,
but Aleister used his powers and killed that man. He asks if she even
knew who his real father was, calling her a whore. Ruth tells him to
say it to her face, and Aleister approaches the circle. Clara draws
him back. If Ruth gets his blood in her bowl, he'll be dead in
seconds. Clara knows Ruth won't break the circle, its the only thing
protecting her. Ruth strikes slashing Aleister's palm. With the
circle broken, Aleister drags his mother out. Now she's going to die
along with all the rest. He casts a spell on her.
Elena tries to get
Paige moving, they need to get to Ruth. Paige, snaps, grabbing Elena
by the throat. Elena reasons with Paige, telling her that she's under
a spell, but Paige doesn't believe her. She thinks she can actually
kill Elena. Elena throws her back, and holds her down, trying to
bring her out of the spell. Paige goes all exorcist, and throws Elena
back with a Darth Vader throat hug. Even choking, Elena tries to pull
Paige out of the spell. Paige fights it, and vomits up black stuff.
She comes back to herself, lost for a moment, not knowing where she
is. Elena tells her that Aleister had her, and then the two continue
their descent.
Aleister tries to
make her bleed like he did his father, but nothing is happening. He
has no power down there. Clara tells him to kill her, and Ruth
silences her with a spell. Aleister takes Ruth's ring from her
finger, and the black that was marring his face disappears. She
failed, and now she's powerless. She couldn't do the one thing she
should have to save her witches. Ruth failed him, she could have
protected him. She should have, and she's sorry. Clara eggs Aleister
on. He thinks she's not sorry for what she did, but because he
survived.
Clay and Cain find
themselves at a dead end. Cain thinks that they can throw the phone
booths and break the windows. Clay thinks outside brings them back to
square one, but its closer to Elena so he's willing to give it a
shot. Before they can rip either booth from the floor, a guard
arrives, and opens fire on them. Cain and Clay move between the
booths for cover.
Paige and Elena make
it to the boiler room, and to the coven door. Paige tries to open it,
but is too weak to do so. It must be close to dawn. Elena urges Paige
to try again, they have to get in there. Paige does, and the door
opens. Elena asks if Paige can keep the door open for the others, but
she can't once she goes through it'll seal. Elena tells her to wait
for the others while she goes in. Paige stops her, she knows they
will do whatever it takes to kill Aleister, but she tells her that
Savannah is the conduit. If she has a chance to stop the undoing she
should take it so that they can all help stop the undoing. She tells
her to be prepared to sacrifice Savannah. Elena doesn't say a word
before she heads down, that's not really an option.
Clay and Cain are
stuck between the booths. Clay thinks that he should change to
distract and take down the guard. Cain points out that he may not be
able to change back, but its a chance Clay feels he has to take. Cain
knows that if he does that then he'll never be with Elena, and for
guys like them, that's a fate worse than death. Cain moves forward,
and Clay stops him. He's gonna take out the guard. Cain rushes
towards the guard as he reloads his weapon. He fires several shots at
Cain, but goes down just the same. Clay rushes to Cain's side. He got
the key card. He tells Clay that he had better make his sacrifice
worth it. Clay frets over Cain, but he tells him to go get Elena. While things aren't looking so hot for Cain, I'm hoping the big guy pulls through and shows up in Season three, I have a feeling the pack is gonna need some extra muscle.
Ruth talks to her
son, telling him that there is still time. Elena creeps in. Ruth can
undo all the pain, and give him what he always wanted. Aleister leans
into her touch. Clara brings him back to his malice, telling him that
she's lying. Aleister calls Ruth a liar, and knocks her out. Elena
rushes in, knocking Ruth's ring from his hand. He threatens to bleed
the life from the wolf, but Elena realizes that he's powerless in the
room. Elena tries to appeal to Savannah. She tells her that Aleister
is controlling him, but that she's stronger than him. Aleister and
Savannah do the lock and key thing. She's gone he tells Elena,
drowning in her blood, and there's no way to save her. Elena kicks
Aleister around. Clara kicks a knife towards a down Aleister, and he
stabs Elena in the stomach. In the end, he says, she'll die to
protect them. Elena crawls to Savannah. It's not the end, and she's
sorry but this is the only way Elena tells her with a knife raised at
her throat. But Elena doesn't slash her throat, but her arm. Elena
digs under her skin and pulls out a demon worm. Savannah wakes up,
she doesn't know what is happening. Elena tells her not to let them
control her, before she falls to the floor. Clara drags a screaming
Savannah from the room.
Nick continues to
battle the guards, and the change. He jumps and flips around on the
stairs, trying to avoid them. He takes one out, but the second
continues after him.
Clay finally finds
Elena, but she's badly injured. She tells him to go after Aleister,
that there's still time. He refuses to leave her. She cries, choking
on her own blood. She tells him that she loves him so much, and dies
in his arms. Clay screams in agony. Wait how the hell did Aleister,
Clara and Savannah manage to get past Paige, and Clay? Where is
Paige?
Nick runs through
the boiler room with guards hot on his tail. He tells Paige that she
needs to get out of there, but she has the door still open, and they
can go down together. She tells him that Clay and Elena are down.
Nick tells her to go down, he's unsure how long he can hold the door.
Jeremy continues to
search for Nick. He heads down.
Ruth wakes up, and
Clay is crying over Elena. Paige rushes in for her mother. Clay lays
Elena down. Oooh, Aleister is in trouble now. He asks where Aleister
headed. Ruth points him deep into the catacombs. Clay begins to strip
down. There's no point in staying human now.
Jeremy reaches the
boiler room, and he can hear Nick's calls for him. Jeremy rushes
towards him, and sees Nick hold the door against the guards. He warns
them to back away, and they do. They really shouldn't have let two
wolves into the same room with them.
Ruth grabs Elena and
her ring. Paige tries to stop her, stop what she's doing, but she
knows its the right thing. She puts the ring on Elena's finger. Paige
begs her to conserve her strength, but all of this is because of
Ruth's mistakes, and she needs to make this one thing right. Paige
tells her that she won't let her. Ruth tells her that the ring is
already in place, and she needs to accept it, its already started.
She's doing this because she loves Paige. Ruth anoints Elena with her
blood, whispering the spell over her. Paige tries again to stop her.
She needs her. Ruth continues the spell.
Deep in the
catacombs, Savannah gets out of Clara's grips. Clara is unhappy
Savannah is out of the spell, but Aleister thinks she's harmless. He
has her talisman. She vows to make him suffer for what he did to
Elena. He tells her that she had to pay for her defiance, just as she
will. Clara tells her that once the undoing is complete, there will
be no one left to save her, and she will possess her body. Savannah
will not let her in. Aleister tells her that she will try, but she
will lose. Once Clara is in possession of her body she will kill the
rest of Elena's family, she'll have lots of fun with her body she
promises. Wolfy Clay arrives, and put the fear of God in Aleister.
Ruth urges Elena
back, as she continues her casting. The spell takes hold, turning her
eyes white, and arching her back. Paige is not ready for this, but
Ruth is sure that she will shine. Ruth falls back in death throes.
Elena comes back with a large gasp. Paige tells her that she was
dead. She gives Paige her mother's ring, asking if she can be saved,
she can't. Paige tells her that Clay went after Aleister as a wolf,
and Elena races to meet him.
Clay has Aleister,
Clara and Savannah cornered as he growls at him. Aleister uses his
powers and they work to hold him off barely. The catacombs are not
protected if the Coven Leader is dead. They assume that it is dawn.
Clay jumps at Aleister, and makes it through the spell. Clay slashes
his side before he can stop him. With Aleister down, Savannah
snatches her talisman from his pocket. Clay makes another jump at
Aleister, but his power is greater now. He flings the wolf aside.
Savannah uses her powers to choke the life out of Clara. Aleister
didn't think she had it in her. Before she can do the same to him, he
gets her in a choke spell of his own. If the undoing is complete, he
no longer needs her. This is the way the world ends, he tells her.
She raises her hand in a choke of her own, and its a choke off.
Aleister breaks his hold to focus on the greater threat, Elena. He
thinks its only fitting that it comes down to the only male witch and
the only female werewolf. Savannah gets up to resume her choke on
Aleister and he knocks her away, breaking his hold on Elena. She
grabs his talisman, flinging it across the room,a nd then she does
what Clara should have done years ago, she drowns him. She kills him
as dawn breaks. She's not sure she killed him in time to stop the
undoing. Savannah rushes off to find Paige, while Elena goes to Clay,
who's still down.
Elena knows that
Clay did this for the right reasons, that he thought all hope was
gone. She cries. If she didn't do this in time, if all hope really is
lost, she's sorry. Clay starts to stir as she tells him she loves
him. Jeremy finds Elena. She confesses that she doesn't know if it
worked. If Paige is okay, them maybe. Jeremy isn't sure. She let him
in, but he was in the corridor, and didn't see her. Elena thinks if
she had just been one second faster then she could have saved them
all, but the dawn came too fast. She wonders if this is it. Paige
comes in, telling her that its done, over. Clay changes back.
The sun rises over
the city. The wolves clean up the bodies. Jeremy thanks Paige for
what her mother did to save Elena. Savannah cannot believe that she's
gone, but Paige tells her that she's not gone. She's in this place,
in them. Jeremy once turned her away when she asked for help, but he
promises to be there for her whenever she needs him, she's now
family. He asks that she let him clean up this mess. Nick has cleaned
up everything, asks if he stay with her, help her with her grief.
She'd like that, but they need time to heal, to build. She thanks
him. Neither of them knew it at the time. After she and Savannah bury
Ruth she will become leader of the coven, and any chance of them
together will be gone. But for one moment, he showed her what love
could be, and she thanks him with a kiss on the cheek. Jeremy gathers
up Nick. Elena says a silent goodbye. Clay cannot wait to get home.
Elena thought that this place would be the end of them. Clay knew
that that wasn't possible. Fate, magic, there is something that
protects them. Elena knows that its love that protects them. Clay
kisses her.
Savannah blames
herself for everything that happened. Elena tells her not to blame
herself, but she does, she let him in. Elena points out that she let
her in too. She is very powerful, and she tells her not to forget
herself. Savannah knows that. She feels like for the first time in a
long time, she's herself. Elena shakes her hand, glad to meet her.
When their palms touch Savannah has a vision.
Stonehaven is on
fire. Elena is covered in blood, striking matches. It's all very
Carrie, minus the screaming Prom goers. Elena sits in Jeremy's chair.
Savannah looks at
Elena in fear, and Elena saw it too. And that is how Season 2 ends.
What a season!
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