As Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Caroline (Candace King) struggle to help Bonnie (Kat Graham) since she's fading away, she wakes to find herself with Elena (Nina Dobrev) who's lying on the bed and they both hug, but Elena says she shouldn't be here cos it's not her time. Bonnie says it is and Enzo (Michael Malarkey) says it's not as he drags her away and back into her life, or should that be back to life. Vicky (Kayla Ewell) must ring the Mystic Falls bell until it rains hellfire and Matt (Zach Roerig) wants to stop her but she won't let him. As Damon (Ian Somerhalder) throws her out of the bell tower, but she still returns and then breaks her neck as an experiment and she returns again. He says he's got to help Stefan and Bonnie find a way to stop Katherine so Matt must stop his sister. Of course she's dead already as Damon said but she tells Matt she doesn't want to return to that hell and would rather just die for good and burn in the fire, which isn't really what he wants, but he can't stop her.
Bonnie finds the research that Alaric (Matt Davis) and Dorian (Demetrius Bridges) were doing where he had the idea to make hell implode, well not the right word, but you get the meaning and Bonnie thinks that the hellfire could be Mystic Falls saving grace if they can get Katherine in hell at the time the fire destroys the town. That will be hard work but Stefan says he will do it. Katherine meets with Damon who thinks it's Elena and Stefan stabs her with the bone weapon, but it only sends her to hell momentarily. At least it shuts her up as Damon says, for a while. Bonnie tells Stefan the plan: uh-oh another plan and the last one for the show which will of course backfire in some ways. They search for Elena as her body's not in the coffin and Stefan finds her int he boiler room but he can't bring her out cos of the spell which Bonnie must also find away to break.
As said,Bonnie tells him about the fire in the tunnels and how she'll channel it there and he will be the one to keep Katherine there and go to hell with her, saying he's already there anyway and it's what he must do for his redemption. Alaric leaves town with the twins to the Armoury and tells Caroline to come too. She must help search for Elena and will join them later. He tells her he knows what it's like for Caroline to lose a mother and he's not going to tell the girls the same thing. She promises she'll be there. Katherine shows up again like a bad smell from hell and torments Damon some more. He knows of the plan now and she tells him how if she were Elena, she'd chose Stefan cos he's the better man. He always was the better brother too. Next time he sees Katherine she shows up in the tunnel and he tells her that the tunnels are only 7 miles as the crow flies so the fire will get here quicker than if it travels across the town. That's where he'll be with her and they'll both wait for it in hell.
Cue Stefan as he comes to rescue big brother and tells him he will be the one cos he has so much to live for and Elena too. But Damon wants this to be his sacrifice since he's come a long way and must do this, eve if it means Elena will no longer be with him and vice versa. As Stefan's human now, Damon compels him and makes him go as he takes another flying stab at Katherine by throwing the bone in her back. Stefan leaves and we're meant to think that he's gone, but obviously he hasn't, knew there'd be more to this than Damon getting killed. Matt evacuates the town with another gas leak and he tells Peter (Joel Gretsch) about Vicky. Peter's not here to talk her out of it but wants to say goodbye to his daughter. She tells him he's 15 years too late. Matt tells her Bonnie has a plan and they want her to ring the bell.
Bonnie chants the spell and as the bell strikes, her nose bleeds again and she says she can't do this alone and needs Grams help. Enzo appears and tells her she is strong enough and that she's not alone and now is her moment to live! As Grams (Jasmine Guy) joins her along with the other Bennett witches. Driving the fire through the tunnel and finally it goes out, leaving a charred bell tower. Stefan sees Elena at the school, fitting as this is where they had some of their memorable moments and she tells him he shouldn't be here. But he tells her about how as a human he didn't go without vervain and he wasn't compelled by Damon, returning to the tunnel, where he gave Damon the cure and he knew he would desiccate and would be in hell. He whispers to Elena to tell Caroline something, Also telling her how he had to save Damon and for the first time in over 200 years he realized what he was really like as a person and how much he had changed. He had to do this for him and wanted Damon to live for him too. As he leaves in a flash of light and meets with Lexi (Arielle Kebbel) outside, telling her "it was epic!" Stefan feeling a pang of guilt no doubt for turning Damon in the first place, now it was only fitting and apt that he return him to his human life.
Alaric tells Caroline the plan when they're on the road and he says he had to do this and leave, thinking of his family but it doesn't mean he doesn't care about Damon or Elena. Caroline calls Stefan and leaves a message telling him to call her and how he loves her forever. Elena appears to Bonnie and she tells her she broke the spell so they're both going t o live.
Damon and Caroline say goodbye to Stefan
Brother - Husband - Friend
Born 1846
Now At Peace
He ask Caroline if she believes Stefan is at peace and she says yes. One day they'll see him again and will be together again. Caroline and Bonnie have their moment with Elena as she tells Caroline that Stefan said to tell her he will love her forever. So she replies he got her message and heard her. As Elena and Damon are finally reunited and kiss.
Each of them tells them what they did later as a diary entry. With Matt becoming sheriff and remaining one, even getting a bench in his name. Alaric and Caroline open their school for gifted children, calling it after Salvatore, cos Caroline said Stefan would've wanted it that way and had help from Dorian and Jeremy. Caroline also getting a donation from Klaus with a letter, we knew it was from him. As they'll probably meet up later on. Alaric calling that another story. (Maybe she'll end up with Klaus in The Originals.) Hey everyone uses that ending, even I used it in one of my books.
Tyler (Michael Trevino) and Vicky walk away. Bonnie says she will live her life and enjoy it until the day she's reunited with Enzo and as she packs she forgets her passport which he whispers to her and takes his necklace with her too, sensing him there for a moment. Elena says she went to medical school and returned to Mystic Falls cos it's her home. As she and Damon walk off together, thorough the years, she lets go of his hand and he vanishes, and she finds her family, all of them at home.
So that was Mystic Falls and this was The Vampire Diaries finale. Don't know what you thought of it, a little rushed,a little more could've been made of it. But one of the brothers had to die and it had to be Stefan, probably cos this is where the story started and how he was turned by Katherine and then turned Damon. He was the one who went through it all, all the changes, meeting Elena, the love triangle, the Ripper years and he came round full circle to save the town and to end Katherine, even if hell was meant for him. He made Damon change too and get his redemption and Caroline tells Damon she doesn't believe he'll end up in hell. As Damon and Stefan reunite at the end, "hello brother!" How it all started and ended. So what did Damon end up doing all the time Elena was studying.
Did you all cry, any tears, one tear. Boy am going to miss this show, maybe the characters and actors more cos 8 years is a long time, it's like an eternity! Watching all the events unfold, heck now I'll have to write my own sequel: what happens next. Though some may already be doing that right now. Just for my own satisfaction in my own mind!! It was EPIC!!
A bit of a turning point in Katherine having Cade under her thumb as soon as she entered hell, which means she would've had some massive powers over him or was just one bitch, as Damon would say to have taken over! Which is why he wanted Stefan and Damon, said that too considering Cade didn't really know them from Adam!! Ha, sorry, but that means the sirens plan to deliver Stefan and Damon to Cade in exchange for the twins wasn't even their plan either! It's also revealed that Kai's sleeping spell also had other means of waking Elena up and didn't involve magic. However Bonnie succeeded in breaking it. Matt also considers running for Mayor which was a nice touch cos it was his home, the only one he's known and he knows what's best for the town. That was Matty Blue Eyes epic ending!
Though Damon and Elena were probably married, we don't know if they had children. Also they had a farewell memorial to Stefan in their usual spot in the woods which was a nice touch too in their final fond farewell to him, now he's truly at peace! Then again...who knows. Damon doesn't get to speak in this episode like the others telling us what he did! Ahh miss that! Also we don't know if hell being destroyed marked the end of monsters and the like, but it shouldn't cos that would make The Originals redundant! Nor do we know what happened to Katherine, whether she was destroyed in hell like Cade.
Sheriff Forbes (Marguerite MacIntyre) makes an appearance for Caroline, as does John Gilbert, (David Anders) Jenna (Sara Canning) Miranda Gilbert (Erin Beute) Lucy (Natashia Williams) Jo (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) Grayson Gilbert (Jason MacDonald). Elena grows old which is what she wanted after all, "that's the promise of peace, that one day after a long life, we find each other again." Yeah let's have a warm and cosy booze up with Damon and Stefan by the fire!
The epsiode title was said by Lexi in 1.8 162 Candles. Stefan says it here and elean makes reference ot it too. The epsiode where Stefan turned 162 so it was an epic ep for him! Some choice quotes in this ep too like Daom: "poor Sefan, persecuted through throughout eternity by his depraved brother." Which all changed now int he finale. Bonnie telling Elena she's a witch and here she uses all ehr powers as that same withc ot save the town!
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