Vampire diaries season 7 ending

Stefan informs his brother that the involvement of Josie and Lizzie is Caroline's decision. And speaking of that decision, hearing the pain in Bonnie's voice when she asked Caroline to drive faster, Caroline calls Ric about the girls. As he sees it, if the girls helping will reunite Caroline with her kids, he's ready to do it. As Damon and Stefan wait for Ric and the girls to get to the Armory, Stefan has a much-needed talk with his brother.

Damon wants to know what made him flip the switch. Just yesterday, Stefan was pulling a Damon — kidnapping Caroline to keep her safe no matter the consequences — and now, Stefan's back to his old self. What changed? As Stefan tells him, he realized that what he did wasn't about love. It was about fear. Stefan informs his brother that the night he put himself down, it wasn't because he loved Elena, it was because he was afraid he'd do something terrible and lose her forever.

And that fear overrode any love Damon had for Stefan, Bonnie, anybody. I refuse to be ruled by fear. I refuse to be you. I think it's fair to say Damon already knew that, he knew why he made the decision, but it was necessary for him to hear it, and furthermore, for him to hear his little brother say it. More on that in a moment. First, Josie and Lizzie successfully siphon the seal on the Armory with their tiny adorable hands.

And with that, Enzo calls Bonnie. His role in this plan is to quite literally keep Bonnie distracted. So he asks her to focus on chasing him, and so she does. Who's ready for a wild goose chase? Back at the Armory, the plan worked. The door is open, and just before Stefan and Damon go inside, Caroline stops Stefan. But whatever she has to say, he asks her to say it when it's over.

My only question? What if there is no later? Once inside, Stefan and Damon search everywhere before they realize that the only place the Everlasting could be is within the vault, a. Now, it's their only choice. Except Damon won't let Stefan go with him. Damon knows his brother can help him; it's what he's done over and over again. And over and over again, it's screwed Stefan over.

And in a moment that's been three years coming — in the show's timeline — Damon says, "I'm sorry I walked out on you that night. You're right — I was scared, and I knew you'd be mad, but I also knew that you'd be okay. I know my choices suck sometimes, and you like to be there to head them off at the pass, but this time I need you to believe in me, okay?

Damon tells his brother not to be afraid of what will happen. One way or another, Damon will be okay. Stefan agrees to let him go, but not without one last Salvatore hug that I will cherish forever. This makes him think that it would be best to take himself out of the equation as to no longer bother his loved ones, and it will all end tomorrow.

Stefan and Valerie pursue a herb that can hide them from Rayna. With help from Matt, Damon finally captures Rayna and kills her multiple times in order to die permanently. Bonnie and Enzo discover that once Rayna's lives are over, all of those she marked will die as well and inform Damon just in time before she dies permanently. Damon escapes and notifies Stefan of his intention to desiccate for the next 60 years, to Stefan's disapproval.

After an advice from Penny, Matt confronts Stefan and tells him and all vampires to get away from Mystic Falls, otherwise he will show the world the existence of vampires on a CCTV footage. Damon arrives at the storage unit where he plans to desiccate alongside Elena's coffin, but Bonnie shows up letting him know that she is extremely hurt with his decision.

She leaves him there and Damon finally lies down to slowly desiccate near to death with hopes that he has saved his loved ones from the array of bad choices he makes putting their lives in jeopardy. While doing so, they meet an accident that injures Matt badly. Alaric and Caroline decide on making the twins open up the Armory by siphoning off Bonnie's spell.

Penny's spirit makes Matt realize that he deserves better, making him vampire diaries season 7 ending his consciousness. The twins open the Armory. Damon and Stefan go inside. Enzo lures Bonnie to the cabin letting Damon and Stefan buy more time. The tiny cabin gets nasty as Bonnie, unable to hold her urges, holds a stake down Enzo's chest.

While searching, Damon and Stefan finally approach the vault which Damon decides to venture in, alone. He assures Stefan that in some way or another, everything will be okay. They share a handshake and hug and part ways as Damon finally gets inside the vault. Enzo recollects of the glorious 3 years as he struggles to the impale while Damon, just in time, finds the Everlasting's body, sets it on fire thus severing the link and lifting the curse off of Bonnie.

Outside, Alaric tells Caroline to stay back with Stefan and parts ways on good terms saying that no matter what, they will always be family. Stefan and Caroline get back together. A rejoiced Bonnie forgives Damon on the phone and while he's getting out, he starts hearing Elena's voice. Enzo and Bonnie warn Damon that it is the vault playing tricks with his mind but he keeps following the voice and something scary overpowers him.

Enzo rushes in to help encounter the damaged Damon. The monster takes Enzo as well. On April 6,it was announced that Nina Dobrev would be leaving after the sixth season and that Michael Trevino would only appear as a guest on the new season. McQueen would be departing the show. Nora and Mary Louise are described as extremely powerful and protective with each other, because it is the first same-sex couple in the series; additionally it is reported that Elizabeth Blackmore was chosen to give life to Valerie.

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November Learn how and when to remove this message. Flashforward: Three years into the future, Stefan is seen in a storage unit opening a casket containing a desiccated Damon. After reviving Damon against his wishes, Stefan proceeds to tell him that his scar opened up which means that "she's back" when they are attacked by an old yet unknown foe.

Flashforward: Three years into the future, Caroline is seen working at a TV station in DallasTexaswhen her assistant informs her that she got a vampire diaries season 7 ending from her fiancee that 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 citing to never accept calls from him.

She and her assistant are then shot with stakes by an unknown person. Flashforward: Three years later, Tyler is seen driving around in New York City when he gets a call from a frantic Stefan, who tells him that his scar opened up and that he needs Tyler to get hold of Caroline to warn her as she is not taking his calls. Stefan is about to leave town and sets his car on fire.

Flashforward: Three years later, Alaric is seen trying to fix a teddy bear revealing that he is the father to two daughters. When they become quiet, he goes to the front door and sees them looking at Damon, who threatens Alaric in order to be let in. Flashforward: Three years later, Bonnie is living in a mental institution and during a group session, expresses guilt for what she has done in the past.

When she goes back to her room, she finds Enzo, who remarks that she needs to come home. They then kiss. Flashforward: Three years from now on, Damon arrives at Rick's home to talk about his twins. While they are in deep conversation, Caroline, who is now a production manager at a news channel and engaged to Alaric, appears on television bloodied announcing there is a message for Stefan Salvatore.

Flashforward: Three years later, Damon and Alaric are seen on their way to find Caroline after they assume she is being held captive at the TV station. They argue on how to save her also mentioning Stefan, talking that his scar opened up and that he will try to interfere. Damon goes in to the TV station, however Caroline is not there and he is shot with vervain darts by an unknown person.

Flashforward: Damon is held captive by some woman whom he hallucinates as Lily and thus asks forgiveness for his harsh goodbye. In return, the woman tell him that he is hallucinating as Lily has long died and he too will die soon of werewolf venom. Then, she knocks him down unconscious. Flashforward: Three years from now in ChicagoStefan is with Valerie.

He has burnt down his Porsche, so he borrows her car to go to Dallas where Damon has been kidnapped. Valerie promises that if something happens to him, she will rain hell down on anyone responsible and they part with a kiss. According to higher orders, in order to take leave, he has to arrest union sympathizers. So he and his friend Henry leave for the mission but end up massacring the host family.

As Damon searches the basement, Lily shows up and he realizes it is all fake. Next, Bonnie brings back Damon who wakes up only to realize that Stefan, too, is stuck in hell-world and Julian's held his body hostage. He rushes to a miffed Julian who scorches Stefan's body. Lily shows up again. Damon quickly realizes all this is still hell.

He keeps shuttling between the war day and real life, in hell, on a loop unable to save the deserters. Eventually, under the influence of Stefan, Damon realizes that his messed up life basically roots down to him escaping guilt after having missed his mother when he needed her the most. Finally, Damon returns to the very first vision of hell he had and finds Lily in excruciating pain.

Overwhelmed by emotions, Damon starts sobbing and saying that he missed her and how angry he was at himself for not bidding her goodbye the way she deserved in the last two chances. He begs her to give him one last chance to serve her and receive her love but death intervenes. Lily dies in his arms and Damon is left devastated. This time he actually escapes hell, unable to believe that he lost his mother again and begs Bonnie to send him back.

As Stefan tries explaining to him that all of it was hell faux, he loses it completely and goes on an attacking spree over Stefan, Caroline, Matt and Bonnie. As the episode ends, Damon is mentally and emotionally drained as he staggers to stand still, looking around and realizing that this time it was real. Flashforward: Dallas news station: Matt has become rough.

He frees Caroline who was kidnapped and asks her to get out and stay out of sight until the huntress gets what she wants. Caroline is shocked at Matt's change in behavior and the fact that he is in cahoots with The Huntress. Flashforward: Three years from now, near the Dallas news station, Matt vervains Stefan after freeing Caroline as shown in the previous episode.

Inside the news station, the unseen vampire hunter is finally revealed to be a young Rayna, who looks on at Damon as he sits there tied to a chair weakened by werewolf toxin. Flashforward: Caroline and the twins who call her mummy are driving away to New Orleans. She needs to meet a friend. Flashforward: Caroline and the twins have come to meet Klaus at the same bar that Stefan was hiding.

Vampire diaries season 7 ending

A waitress informs her that it has been three years since Klaus has disappeared. Flashforward: Stefan is captured by Rayna who tells him that there is a Plan B and that she does not want to kill him. His mark can be transferred to someone else who deserves it. She mentions Damon, but Stefan says she is trying to get them apart and rejects, but Damon comes in and says it was his idea.

Three years have passed and The Armory is searching for Enzo and Rayna as they believe the former released the huntress, but actually Matt had freed her to get Stefan back into the Phoenix hell stone as the vampire had something to do with his girlfriend's Penny death. Alex has kept Nora and Mary Lou as hostages for these three years experimenting on the latter with Rayna's blood it is lethal to witches and eventually sending Nora to find Enzo in return of Mary Lou.

Rayna and a werewolf toxin-saturated Damon coax Stefan to do the mark transfer who eventually sets off on a run from Rayna. That goes especially for Matt and Alaric, who have morphed into plot devices where endearing characters used to be. I wonder where both of them will be next year, as Matt appears to have left town and Alaric and Caroline will have to renegotiate child-care responsibilities.

But that cliffhanger was pretty exciting, eh? Only a Bennett witch could reopen the Armoury doors, and did they even really want to do that? The vault monster was out and there was a huge risk by opening it up and potentially letting it out, as Entertainment Weekly recapped. All the awards to katgraham and iansomerhalder for this scene. Right now she was able to warn Caroline to keep driving and drive faster but the urge to kill her was getting stronger.

Sooner or later, The Huntress curse would completely take over. She needs to save her friend, and Alaric is happy for the twins to help if it means Caroline can be reunited with her family. With The Armoury opened by the siphoning twins, Enzo makes a call to Bonnie to distract her.