2. Never Let Me Go

Complete story — includes the ending

In present day, Caroline is held prisoner at the Salvatore mansion by the Heretics. She is bound by vervain-soaked ropes, but escapes from Enzo. The Heretic girls capture her again before she can leave the house and proceed to torture her. Valerie seems to protect her by putting a spell on her which makes her skin vervain-like to vampires. It's discovered that Matt was made owner of the home and compelled to forget the fact, so Damon and Stefan can't enter their home without being invited in. They get Bonnie to temporarily stop Matt's heart so they can enter the home and rescue Caroline. Unfortunately, Caroline's vervain-like skin slows the rescue, and Stefan is forcibly ejected from the house when Matt is revived. Damon is told by Enzo that the Heretics have Elena. Lily and the Heretics perform a funeral ritual for the heretic killed by Damon and Bonnie. Lily threatens Damon into admitting to the murder of the Heretic and tells him to keep away from Mystic Falls. Bonnie chides Alaric for not coming to her instead of random psychics when he shows her an object known as the Phoenix Stone. When she examines it with her magic, her head is filled with violent images of murder and death. She tells him to destroy it. Later, Alaric tests the Phoenix stone on a corpse in the morgue. Flashforward: Three years into the future, Caroline is seen working at a TV station in Dallas, Texas, when her assistant informs her that she got a call from her fiancé saying he is planning a trip back to Mystic Falls. When Caroline hears that, she says they cannot go back there. Later, when her assistant tells her that she got a call from Stefan, she responds angrily telling him to never accept calls from him. She and her assistant are then shot with stakes by an unknown person.