Walking into my childhood home for the first time in a long time, I head upstairs to where Jeremy's corpse is. In the doorway I see Meredith check over Jeremy's body, she looks my way then over my shoulder where I hear Elena's footsteps.

"Elena?" She gasps when Meredith says her name then mine "Autumn?"

"Meredith?" Confusion in Elena's voice as I go over to sit down next to Jeremy's corpse, the Gilbert ring—a family heirloom is on his finger "What are you doing here?" Closing my eyes as I take Jeremy's hand, tears run down my face as a pained gasp escapes me when I feel nothing but a cold corpse "No, Autumn. He's not gone, the ring will bring him back"

"He's a Hunter" reminding her when I opened my eyes to look down at Jeremy "the ring works on non supernaturals"

"And he's no longer supernatural" she shows me his hand where the mark isn't there "the mark isn't there which means he'll come back. The ring will work. Meredith? What are you doing here?"

"I came to check on your brother" she looks between us

"Rick went through the same thing" Elena stutters "um...he always came back. He started to loose his kind after four times and Jeremy has died a few times too. Three. I think. So we'll have to keep an eye on him since I don't want him to go crazy like Rick did"

Leaving my brother's corpse as I find Caroline and Stefan in the kitchen "Where's Galen?" I ask

Stefan and Caroline share a look "We don't know" Stefan came closer to me "one minute Galen was with us the next we lost him along with Jeremy and Bonnie and Shane, we found Jeremy's body but...Bonnie and Galen are still on the island"

"So there's hope" nodding my head as I clasp my hands together in a prayer putting them to my lips "Hope that my husband is still alive, that Bonnie is still alive" then the thought comes to mind "Who did this?"

"Katherine" That mother fucking bitch, of course it was her "She got the jump on them, we told Elena not to go since we don't know what to expect since Silas can make illusions of people..."

Kol tried to kill Jeremy so Galen and Jeremy killed him, Elena managed to lure him to the house but I wondered if it really takes an Original to die. Or if it takes an old immortal who has killed multiple vampires, but it worked with Kol. The Hunter's make was complete and Jeremy and Galen left to kill Silas, the others went along since they wanted to cure.

They think I could somehow make more of it since I'm a paragon and my power delves into nature but I don't think it works like that. Jeremy and Galen both agreed to destroy the cure with Silas, once Silas takes the cure and is mortal he'll be killable and they will end him. Once they end him, everything will be alright and Galen and I will live the rest out of lives in peace.

"This is magic!" Stefan ran upstairs as Matt arrived, I go upstairs after him as I see Stefan holding Elena "Bonnie will fix this! She has to! Someone just get me Bonnie!"

"Elena" she looks our way "how many more times" I demand "will you think death can be cheated? Death always demands a price"

"Then I'll pay it!" She screams. Matt looks to Jeremy and he gulps, tears well in his eyes "No, no. Matt, it's fine" Elena went towards Matt who began to cry.

"Don't" he backed away from Elena "don't Elena"

"Matt?" He looks to me and he and I hug, looking to Meredith "Meredith? How much longer until"

"A few hours at most" she says

"No!" Stefan pulls Elena away "No! He's not dead! He's not dead! They have to stop acting like he's dead! Bonnie will be here soon and she'll fix everything and everything will be fine!"

Setting my bag down, I start packing things that belonged to Jeremy like his drawings. I also pack up photos since photos are needed. Elena is spiraling and I know she's going to do something horrible, so I need to pack shit up. Matt takes Elena out of the house so this gives me a good amount of time. Caroline, Stefan and Meredith watch as I pack things up.

"What are you doing?" Caroline asks

"Elena is spiraling" I say "so I'm packing things up that mean something to me and Jeremy, to our parents and to Aunt Jenna and...I'm packing things up. Important things"

"Could you bring Jeremy back?" Stefan asks "since you're a paragon?"

"Death must have a price" looking at the both of them "you can't bring someone back without killing someone else, it's possible for me to bring Jeremy back but it should have been hours ago and when his body wasn't decomposing the way it did. If Bonnie did come back, it wouldn't matter since she wouldn't have enough power and it's dangerous"

When I'm in the attic, Stefan finds me and says "Damon found Bonnie"

"What about Galen?" I ask

Shaking his head no "No, Rebekah promised to find him since Damon is bringing Bonnie home. She knows how to bring Jeremy back"

"I'm not going to ask her to do that" putting the things in the trunk of my Lincoln Navigator, Elena is back and she's inside the house next to Jeremy's body.

When Damon is back with Bonnie, we hug briefly before I ask seeing Damon's face "What? What's going on?"

"Rebekah found Galen" Damon says as Caroline and Bonnie head inside "I'm sorry Autumn, she's on her way back with his body but...according to her, Galen was in a fight and he lost"

"No" falling to my knees sobbing as I cover my mouth, feeling arms around me I look over seeing Caroline. Pain goes through me as a soundless sob escapes my mouth.

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Walking into Castle Volterra, Caroline is back in One Tree Hill with the twins protecting them from Silas. I used a powerful boundary spell so that only those without malicious intent may enter my home.

When I see the receptionist "Demetri, I'm here to see Demetri" He looks up from his spot, Demetri told me how sometimes they have male receptionists "Is he here? Right now..."

"Does he know you're coming..." he asks me. My heart pounds in my chest as I process everything, I want him here. Galen. I want Galen back "Miss?"

Blinking back some tears "Demetri? Um...no, this is an unexpected visit" I show him a photo of me and Galen, but he wouldn't know Demetri is a doppelgänger "this is a picture of me and...I need to see him. We're friends and I just want to talk to my friend"

"What's your name?" He asks

"Autumn" I say "he'll...he'll know who I am, I know he's a vampire and this castle is filled with them. I just...I just need to see him. Talk to him"

"He's most likely in the upper guard suite" he says "this way"

We walk through the corridors and vampires look our way as we walk through the place, once at the upper guard suite he knocked on the door and popped his head in and looked my way "He's here" I go into the room and many vampires look mg way but I look at Demetri who is by a pool table looking at me shocked.

"Autumn?" He asks "How did you get here?"

"I walked" I say "I got a plane ticket and then a taxi cab and then I walked, I saw the receptionist and came here. Where's Carlisle Cullen?" Looking at the other vampires "I'm Autumn, I know your vampires since I come from a long line of vampire hunters and my husband was a member of the Brotherhood of the Five" 

"Autumn" Demetri is before me "What did you mean was? What's going on?" He has me sit down when I don't say anything, my eyes go to this one vampire who was playing pool. He has short dark brown hair, red eyes and pale white skin. Pale white very muscled skin to go with his very large body, he's bigger than Emmett. Wow "Autumn" looking back to Demetri when he got my attention "What's going on? Why do you want to find Carlisle?"

"More specifically Alice" I say "Caroline is watching over the twins and where's Alice? Where is each Cullen?"

"Carlisle created a coven" Demetri doesn't look at anyone but me "Autumn, what's going on?"  Closing my eyes as all I can see is Galen's body.

Damon brings me to the morgue where Galen's body is, a white blanket covers his body from the waist down. His body is covered in bruises and cuts, his face unrecognizable.

"Autumn?" Opening my eyes to Demetri, placing a hand on my face "talk to me"

"Galen's dead" Demetri's eyes widen as tears run down my face "He's dead, Jeremy's dead, Elena burned my childhood home to the ground then turned off her humanity" a laugh escapes me as I stare at him "Carlisle's coven is the reason my husband is dead, why my brother is gone. I want you to find them all and tell me where they are, I'm going to rip apart each Cullen into a bunch of pieces and rip off their eyelids forcing them to watch as I torture their human pet who they love so much and when they think she's being given a sense of relief of death I'm going to make sure she's healed with vampire blood then start the process all over"

As I laugh like a mad woman, Demetri looked over then to me "Come here" he pulls me into his arms holding me as I laugh, grabbing his shirt as the pain sets back in a choked cry escapes me and I close my eyes sobbing in his chest.