Just Don't Be A Stranger, Okay?/Transcript

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==Salvatore Boarding School For The Young & Gifted==
The Salvatore School holds a memorial service for Ethan on the front lawn of the grounds. Lizzie comforts MG, embracing him in a hug. Hope places a single red rose at an altar with his picture. Cleo finds and embraces Kaleb in a hug. Wade also comforts Pedro with a heartfelt hug. Some of mystic falls gang and mystic falls gang kids is talking to some of the students. Alaric exits the school and watches over all his students and friends mourning their friend's sacrifice.
==Hops Dorm Room==
(Hope retrieves the spear out from under her bed as Finch: knocks and enters her room)
Finch: Wade said to tell you he signed for this. It's from New Orleans. 
(Opening up the box, it's the urn that holds her father's ashes)
Finch: Is that what it looks like?
Hope: Depends. Does it look like my father's ashes?
Finch: Probably my first guess.
Hope: You know, he funded this school for me, so that I'd always have a place to call home. I figured I'd honor that by scattering them here.
Finch: That's really nice, Hope. I'm glad you get to do that for him.
Hope: You doing okay? Any word from Jo?
Finch: No. (chuckles) I sort of thought she would have found her way back to us by now. I guess I'm not sure what my role is here without her.
Hope: Well, if you're looking for a way to help, maybe you can, uh, tell me what I'm supposed to do with this. 
Finch: The only weapon on this Earth that can kill you? No pressure.
Hope: If I leave it out in the open, people are gonna come for it, and if I hide it, then I'm the only person who knows where it is.
Finch: Isn't that a good thing?
Hope: Not if I ever lose my way again.
Finch: I don't see that happening.
Hope: Yeah, well, no one should have that kind of power. Especially not a Mikaelson.
Alaric (over P.A.): All students, please report to the grand hall for assembly.
==Grand Hall For Assembly==
Alaric: Thank you all for being here. You know, I made Ethan's mother a promise. The same promise I made your parents when they enrolled you here, that I would care for you as if you were my own. But here we are, memorializing yet another student. And that is not what this place was meant to be. The Salvatore School was founded with a single mission: To create a safe space for young supernaturals. In reality, it's anything but. And achieving our mission statement... My mission statement... Has proven impossible. ( clears throat ) And because I can no longer keep my promise... the Salvatore School must close.
(Hushed chatter)
Alaric: I have nothing more to say. Other than I'm sorry.
==Old Mill==
(Ben wakes up having celebrated their victory with Jed. As he rolls over, Jed is missing from by his side in their bed. Ben finds him looking out into the woods)
Ben: (grunts) Hmm. Good morning.
Jed: We slept through Ethan's memorial service.
Ben: Such is the nature of war. The living must celebrate their survival before they mourn their dead. (coming up behind Jed, grabbing him by the waist) And I, for one, could use a little more celebrating. (starts kissing Jed's neck)
Jed: (chuckles)
Ben: (stop kissing his neck and lets go of him) Oh, uh... Hey, I'm sorry, I don't mean to be insensitive about the death of your classmate. 
(Jed and Ben are holding hands)
Jed: I know. It's not just that. Something's off with me. I... I feel different.
Ben: (he puts Jed's hands on hands on his waist) (laughs softly) Well, you... did spend last night with a demigod. I'd be a little offended if you didn't. Oh. But if you think less of me as a result, then...
Jed: (he holds Bens hands) No, no, I... I feel great about that. About us. Emotionally, I have never been better. (laughs softly) But physically, like I said... something's changed.
Ben: Okay. Well, then, we shall figure out what that something is.
Jed: Okay?
==Lizzies Room==
(Lizzie packs a bag as MG knocks on her door)
MG: What are you doing? Are you seriously going to accept this without a fight?
Lizzie: I'm tired of fighting. So I'm gonna go visit Josie. You can come with if you want.
MG: Of course I want that. But what about everyone else? If this school closes, some of them won't have anywhere to go. 
I was hoping that you'd help me make your dad see that.
Lizzie: I can't. Because I agree with him.
==Alaric's Office==
Hope: Are you out of your mind? You can't just make this decision without consulting anyone.
Alaric: And what makes you think I haven't?
Hope: Well, you didn't consult me. If you did, I would have told you that we need this place. I need this place.
Alaric: Hope Mikaelson, if there is one person I am confident will find a new path, it is you.
Hope: I don't want a new path. I just got back on this path. 
Alaric: This path leads to dead kids and almost dead friends. Take it from a former bourbon drinker: Just because something feels good doesn't make it right. Saying goodbye to this school will hurt. If we keep doing what we have been, the pain will only get worse.
Hope: Maybe we don't need to close. Maybe we just need a headmaster who can handle the pressure.
(she leaves)
==Art Room==
(Kaleb joins Cleo in the art room)
(Though her canvas is blank)
Kaleb: What you working on?
Cleo: (exhales)
Kaleb: Oh, okay. Pretty minimalist.
Cleo: (sighs) My mind is cluttered with thoughts, but my hands will not express a single one. First it was my powers. Now my art is blocked. I...
Kaleb: Come to Atlanta with me.
Cleo: (chuckles) I see you are not blocked.
Kaleb: Don't get me wrong, I want the school to stay open. But in case it doesn't, I want you to come home with me. Make it your home, too.
 
Cleo: That is kindest thing anyone has ever said to me.
Kaleb: There is one condition, though. I need you to know exactly what you're getting into. Warts and all.
Cleo: Okay, so tell me.
Kaleb: I can't. We're all the heroes of our own stories, Cleo. If I tell you mine like you've been asking, I'll just end up spinning it to get you to say yes. Which is why I want you to use those powers of yours to see for yourself.
Cleo: I do not know if I'm capable of such a thing anymore, if I wish to be...
Kaleb: Please try. I'm willing to open my mind to you, my life to you. But only if you want it.
Cleo: (laughs softly)
==Hops Room==
♪ Come to me ♪ 
♪ I'll give you rest ♪ 
♪ Gardens of sweet violets ♪ 
♪ Eat until your soul's content ♪ 
♪ Come to me ♪ 
♪ I'll give you rest... ♪
(Hope returns to her room, lost. Seeing her father's urn, she gathers a few supplies, candles, chalk and a knife. With her grimoire and preparations made, she positions herself the sigil with a photo of her and Landon, cutting her handle to offer a few drops of blood. Hope begins to cast her spell)
==Limbo==
(Meanwhile in Limbo, Ethan joins Landon at the Zied's bar)
 
Landon: (sighs) Can I get you anything else?
Ethan: That depends on what you have to offer. What exactly is this place?
Landon: Uh, it's sort of a filling station for lost souls. All of which I'm in charge of now.
Ethan: Yeah, I wasn't talking about the bar, dude.
Landon: You are in Limbo. And recently dead, obviously. But don't worry. Because of the sacrifice you made for our friends, we should have you on the boat to Peace in no time.
Ethan: I'm sorry, there's a boat?
Landon: Yeah. Leaks a lot, hard to steer. You'll see it for yourself when we figure out what's holding you back.
Ethan: I already know that. I-It's that I don't want to go to Peace. I want to go back to life. I mean, I was just getting good at living.
Landon: I'm afraid that's not an option.
Ethan: Why? Didn't you bring everyone else back?
Landon: At a price. I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but I know Nature won't let me do it again.
Ethan: So what am I supposed to do?
Landon: You're the only one that knows that answer to that, Ethan. But I'll be right here to help you figure it out.
(Landon disappears in a quick flash of light)
♪ Don't you ever go to sleep at night... ♪
==Hops Room==
(As Hope continues the spell, Landon appears behind her)
Landon: It's been a minute since I've been summoned. You've become incredibly powerful.
Hope: Look who's talking. I heard you're The Ferryman now.
Landon: It's weird, right? We've come a long way from milkshakes in the square. 
Hope: (laughs softly) 
Landon: What do you need, Hope?
Hope: I need to see my father.
Landon: That's a big ask.
Hope: My father's in Limbo, right? The Necromancer said that he can't find Peace until I do, and let's be honest, I mean, I'm the opposite of peaceful.
Landon: Actually, I don't know. Limbo's kind of a big place.
Hope: You're The Ferryman now, though, so you can find him. I mean, that has to be, like, a million times easier than what you did for our friends.
Landon: What I did came at a cost. One that being here is making me realize is steeper than I thought.
Hope: What kind of cost?
Landon: I don't feel anything. At least not things I should be. Everything's muted on this plane of existence. Dull, like a bruise.
Hope: Including your feelings for me. Well, then, from my experience, it sounds like the cost was your humanity.
Landon: I don't think it's that simple. Because I know I love you. (scoffs) That's about the only thing I'm sure of. I want to give this to you. Why your dad? And is it worth losing yet another piece of me?
Hope: On a surface level, I... I need to figure out where his final resting place should be, because apparently, this school is no longer an option. But going deeper, I just feel like I've screwed up so much recently. But going deeper, I just feel like I've screwed up so much recently. If I can get this one thing right, then maybe I could fix everything else that's been broken. But it's not worth losing you again. Not even a piece. Not to me. So just forget I asked, okay? Um, while you're here, do you mind if I ask you for one more thing, though?
(He nods and she embraces him in a hug until he disappears in her arms)
==Art Room==
(Cleo recoils from Kaleb)
Cleo: (gasps) (panting)
Kaleb: That bad, huh?
Cleo: I... I'm unaccustomed to my new powers, so I did not yet see your past.
(She slowly backs away from him)
Kaleb: But you did see something, right?
Cleo: I believe it was our future.
Kaleb: Still bad?
Cleo: Kaleb, it was... beautiful.
(Cleo's demeanor changes and a smile creeps on her face. It was beautiful)
Kaleb: (Laughs softly) Then why do you look so scared?
Cleo: (Exhales) Because we're not destined to travel down this path together.
(Abruptly leaves)
==Limbo==
(Landon returns to Limbo, finding the bar empty except for Ethan)
Landon: Where'd everyone go?
Ethan: Look who's talking. When you disappeared, I decided to hop behind the bar and take over. I listened to what the lost souls had to say, the same way that you listened to me. Most seemed to have solid breakthroughs. They'll be back to talk about what those are with you. I hope I didn't overstep.
Landon: No, you did great. You deserve Peace, Ethan. So whenever you're ready.
Ethan: I'm not sure that I want to.
Landon: We talked about this.
Ethan: No, actually, we haven't. My life taught me that there's no shame in being the sidekick. Though I'm not sure "Ferry kid" works as a name. That's all right. I prefer "Rescue Guy."
Landon: That's perfect timing, actually. I need help tracking somebody down.
==Meeting Time==
MG: I've brought you both here to talk some sense into you.
 
Lizzie: Milton
MG: Don't Milton me. Milton is a name wielded by bullies or my loved ones, and right now, y'all are stuck dangerously in the middle. 
 
Alaric: This seems like a private conversation.
 
MG: You can't close the school, Dr. Saltzman, because each one of these files is a person. (Shows them a stack of files) With a life, who needs a home.
Lizzie: Face facts, MG. This school is dangerous for every person in that pile. Every time we solve a problem, another one just pops up.
MG: Their problems are why they ended up here in the first place.
Alaric: To be safe.
MG: The world is not safe for supernaturals. What we have here is a home. A family. You are breaking up the Squad.
Alaric: Do you really think that I want to do this? Caroline and I built this school, for our daughters and are friends kids too.
Lizzie: We've all been through too much. We need a fresh start.
MG: (Scoffs) That is a load of crap. You are running from grief because you don't want to hurt anymore. And in making this decision for all of us, you're doing exactly the thing that you promised Landon you wouldn't. When Josie left, you made some bad decisions. So you'd rather cling onto her than stay here and face a life that's different? So yeah, like I said, load of crap.
==Schools Hallway==
(Lizzie bumps into Hope in the hallway)
Lizzie: Where do you think you're going?
Hope: If I told you, that'd defeat the point, because I'd like to be alone.
Lizzie: What's the rush? We're all gonna be alone soon enough.
Hope: If everyone had accepted that, they wouldn't be looking at me like this. Like I can find a way to keep the school open.
Lizzie: You, too? MG's puppy dog eyes hit below the belt, let me tell you. And I, like you, had a solid plan B, which was running away. Until I got this letter from Josie. 
Hope: What did she have to say? 
Lizzie: You need to read it. Because there's something in it for you, too.
(Lizzie hands her the letter)
==Geertruida And Buttercup Dorm Room==
(Finch is walking down the dorm room hallway's until she hears that Geertruida and Buttercup are leaving. She going to their dorm room to see if is true)
(Buttercup and Geertruida are box up and labeling their stuff, Finch walks in and she see the boxes)
Finch: You two can not go and stay fight for the school.
Geertruida: Sorry Finch, But my parents got a job in France. I am going to their school there. Buttercup can not help you guys to save the school because she does not have a roommate to look after her and she have to go to far away hospital for her magic outburst. 
(Geertruida phone start to ring and she answer it. Buttercup phone start to ring as will and she stop out the room to answer it)
Geertruida: Ok mom, I will see you and dad tomorrow bye.
(Geertruida hang up the phone and Buttercup finish talking on her phone)
Geertruida: I am stay.....
(Buttercup stands in the doorway, snap her fingers, Geertruida disappear with her boxes that had her name on it into line air to France way she moving at and she us her own block spell to block Geertruida prominently from her from the school and everything else that she can think of)
(Finch turns around and gave Buttercup why you did that look and she walks in the room)
Buttercup: I just find out today that someone put a stop from me going to that bad hospital. I also find out that Geertruida wants to marry me so I won't go back to that bad hospital, that's way I use my own blocking spell on her prominently, I am going to stay and fight for the school.
Finch: I think that someone is a God that help us on the other side of the battlefield, Geertruida will not make a good wife for you
==Alaric's Office== 
(Alaric sits in his office and contemplates signing paperwork for the dissolution of the school. While doing school, Hope barges in)
Hope: Did you get two witches to put a double barrier spell around your office? 
Alaric: I bribed Pedro and Alice with a candy bars. Apparently, I overpaid them.
(Hope shuts the door with her magic and sits down to talk)
Alaric: Look, Hope, if you are here to change my mind, it's like I'm telling everyone. There's no point.
Hope: I came to thank you, actually. For helping bring my humanity back.
Alaric: I can't take credit for that. That plan was really...
Hope: Josie's? I know. She cast a spell on this pendant that I gave her, and sent it to my family in New Orleans. That's how my humanity was able to break through. Anyway, she doesn't need it anymore, and she asked me to give it to someone who does, and I thought... that person could be you. Just in case there's a little voice inside of your head, trying to break through all that fear. To be heard.
(Alaric takes the necklace as Hope leaves his office)
(door opens) 
(door closes)
==Limbo==
(Ethan returns to the bar)
Landon: Any luck?
Ethan: Sort of. Word on Limbo Street is that he already left town. I thought that that was a good thing.
Landon: Of course, it is, I just, I was just hoping I could help a friend with something they really needed. But the only way to contact Peace is to actually be at Peace. Which isn't an option for The Ferryman, so... Unless...
Ethan: Unless what?
Landon: You change your mind about how you want to spend eternity.
==Garden==
(Out in the garden, Ben picks some wolfsbane)
Ben: Is this going to hurt? Finch told me that wolfsbane, and I quote, "Burns like a bitch."
Jed: Yeah, that's the whole point. Drop it in.
(Ben to drop the sprig of flowers into his jar of water. Ben does as he's asked, takes the jar and swirls it around)
Jed: (He uncovers his forearm) Okay. Hit me.
(Ben tests out the wolfsbane)
 
Jed: Well, that answers that.
Ben: Why are you not in pain?
Jed: The only reason I could think of is that I died yesterday. So I thought, "What if being brought back to life reset my curse?" Kind of like your dad dying broke yours? Dwight Kennedy us his curse on the other side of the battlefield to keep everyone alive, he was taken out by someone, some how trigger Dwight's immortality and that also triggered him to be the New Thor. Dwight is know longer cursed but his body is going through some differences being the New Thor.
Ben: You don't think you're a werewolf anymore.
Jed: Well, I know I'm not, now.
Ben: And how do you feel about that?
Jed: Well, I know I'm not, now. And how do you feel about that? I feel... like I've changed a lot lately, in ways that I'm really proud of. Being a wolf and leader of the pack has always defined me. So maybe this is someone's way of telling me I'm supposed to find out who I am without that.
Ben: As someone newly freed from that which defined him for millennia, I understand. But... if... you're going to be searching for something... please just consider letting me be a part of your quest to find it.
(Jed doesn't respond, instead he embraces him in a kiss and wraps his arms around Ben)
♪ Oh, I'm obsessed ♪ [i]♪ With the way your head is laying... ♪
==Dock==
Hope: This place is special to me. It's where I come to think. Cry when I need to. Make out with my boyfriend, who's dead, so don't worry. So are you. I just don't know if you'd think this place is special, too.
♪ Oh, I'm a mess... ♪
Hope: I'm just trying to make the right decision, Dad. But if I scatter you here and the school shuts down, then we're just gonna be ripped apart again, so I don't know.
♪ Help me catch my breath... ♪
Hope: Give me a sign or something.
(Landon appears to her)
Landon: Sorry to interrupt.
♪ When I look at you, that's the end... ♪
Hope: Sorry for sending you on a fool's errand. No luck?
( Landon tilts his head no, but offers his hand as compromise. She joins him as he leads her away from the dock)
♪ This is more than anything ♪
♪ I've felt before ♪
♪ You're everything that I want ♪ 
♪ But I found the one I love. ♪
Lizzie: Are you ready to have this conversation right now?
MG: That depends. Are you ready to say something that won't make me mad?
Lizzie: Josie sent Hope her pendant. Remember? The one that makes quiet things heard? Well, it got me to thinking somehow, deep inside of you, even the smallest voice finds a way to speak its truth. That's one of the best things about you. I have always had a million voices in my head screaming to be heard. When you died, a part of me felt like there was no one left in my life who would want to help me sort them all out. The good from the bad. I'm sorry it took that happening for me to tell you that, but... you're my pendant.
MG: Better late than never. So where do we go from here?
Lizzie: Josie found another school she wants to go to in Europe. She sounds happy. So of course I wanted to jump on a plane and chase after her; Chase that happiness, too. But you were right. I wouldn't be running to her, I would be running away from everything else. And that's not who I am anymore. So if you want to fight to save this school... I'm your Squad. If you'll have me, that is.
MG: (Taking her hand) I have always wanted you, Lizzie.
(Doors opening)
Lizzie: Go away!
Caroline and Lizzie: I've been gone long enough, don't you think? Judging by the looks of things. Mom?
(Lizzie is ecstatic at seeing her mom and vamps to hug her)
Lizzie: (lughs) I'm sorry, I suck at vamping. 
Caroline: We'll add it to the list of things we need to work on. Won't we, Milton?
==Gymnasium==
(Finch cleans up in the gymnasium)
Jed: You don't have to do that. You're not the pup anymore.
Finch: I know. But I'm only resistant when someone's trying to make me do it. So it's cool.
Jed: (Chuckles) How's the pack taking the news?
Finch: You know wolves. We're not as emo as vamps and witches. So held a little workout sesh to get their minds off the fact that the sweet gym and all-you-can-eat breakfasts aren't gonna be available to them anymore. Yeah.
Jed: Yeah. You know, if the school closes, that doesn't change anything else for us. Pack sticks together, right?
Finch: If that's what the alpha says.
Jed: That's why I asked. And before you say no, at least acknowledge the fact that you've already been acting as the alpha. I've been pretty wrapped up in god stuff.
Finch: How wrapped up are we talking?
Jed: Ben asked me to leave with him, and I said yes. Only if you say yes to me.
Finch: I don't know. I... (sighs) I never wanted this. I...
Jed: Which is why you should be the one to do it. So if things with the school go the wrong way, you'll be able to keep 'em together.
Finch: So if things with the school go the wrong way, you'll be able to keep 'em together. I will acknowledge it's weird how much this place has come to mean to me. So I have to challenge you, right?
Jed: (removing his flannel) (chuckles) Sure. But, uh, I'm not as strong as I used to be, so... pretty sure you're gonna kick my ass.
Finch: You're stronger in other ways, Jed.
Jed: Thanks, Finch. So what'd you have in mind? Wrestling, boxing, some Tae Bo...
Finch: (Finch grips him in a tight hug) First one to let go loses.
==Old Mill==
(Landon brings Hope to the Old Mill)
Hope: You're making me nervous. What's with all the suspense?
Landon: First things first. Your dad found Peace. Which... Great news, right? But also not so great news because it means I wouldn't be able to bring him to you. But then I thought, I'm the frikkin' Ferryman. I am a metaphysical miracle. So with our two brilliant, magical minds combined, we should be able to get you what you really need.
(Landon has set up a screen)
Hope: I don't need to see Star Wars again.
Landon: Okay, well, this is something even cooler, I hope. You remember when we had the Matrixmarathon, and then we got into the whole debate about whether or not the spoon was actually a spoon?
Hope: (soft chuckle)
(wind whooshing)
(He asks for her hand, which she gives, and he covers it with his other hand. Landon's hands begin to glow and the screen flashes to life with significant moments between her and Klaus. Hope is amazed)
Hope: That's me. How are we doing this?
Landon: The screen is not a spoon.
Hope: Mm.
♪ ♪
(Ethan eventually appears on screen)
Ethan: Hey, Hope. Greetings from Peace. Landon, I think this is what you wanted, so I hope this works. And thank you. You were right. It's... it's incredible here.
(He disappears)
Hope: What the hell? Bring it back.
Landon: Wait for it.
(Klaus appears to her from the screen)
Klaus: My dearest Hope. My littlest wolf. My miracle child. What a gift to be able to leave you one last message. So please carry it with you in the years to come. I want you to know this. You will make mistakes in your life. That comes with being a Mikaelson. You will go through hard times. For no one with your power always knows how to use it properly. You will find love... and you will lose it. For such is the burden of immortality. But the most important thing about your life is that you live it. I know that you will be there for your family and the new Mikaelson's that will came to this new world. Because you are my Peace. And I regret a lot of things, but I don't regret a single moment I spent with you. I love you so much. Always and forever.
(Klaus disappears. With tears in her eyes, she turns to Landon)
Hope: Thank you.
==Cleo's Dorm Room==
(Kaleb finds Cleo sitting alone in her dorm room. He's brought her easel and some paint)
Kaleb and Cleo: Hey. What is all that stuff for?
Kaleb: You said that there'd be a lot of roadblocks we'd have to overcome, so I figured we'd start with the one that I know about. That artist's block of yours.
Cleo: (chuckles) You don't give up, do you?
Kaleb: It's only fair. You've inspired a lot of people here, Cleo. I just want to return the favor. In two ways. First way by telling you that I'll be damned if I'm gonna let some vision put me off of the best thing in my life. Because at the Salvatore School, we fight for the things we love.
Cleo: What is the second way?
Kaleb: I'm gonna pose for you. I'm gonna pose for you. Hmm. Yeah, I thought that since you needed some inspiration, I'd go ahead and give you a little bit of it. I figured what'd be more inspiring than all of this dragon?
(He unbuttons his shirt)
Cleo: (laughs) Well, I'm definitely feeling something.
Kaleb and Cleo: (both laugh) Do you remember when I had that vision of the school burning down, When I told you that you were... A good man.
Cleo: I'll never forget it.
Kaleb: I was wrong.
♪ ♪
(Embracing him in a kiss)
Cleo: You're the best man. At least for me. I love you, too, Kaleb. Whatever comes next.
(As they continue to kiss, Cleo causes the paint to burst, covering the canvas)
==Alaric's Office==
 
(That night, Hope returns to Alaric's office)
Hope: You can't close the school.
Alaric: Hope...
Hope: Look, I know, things have not gone the way that you imagined them to. And yeah, maybe your mission statements failed. But that just makes you like the rest of us. No matter what you founded it for, the Salvatore School is a place for second chances, to not be perfect. I may be the world's only Tribrid, but I'm one of countless scared supernaturals around the world who need to be understood. So maybe our mission statement just needs to change, along with us. Okay, I'm done. You can talk now. But you're not gonna be changing my mind.
Alaric: (chuckles) (while showing her the pendant) Well, that won't be necessary. I've been thinking about the future, too. Listening, actually, to, uh... this little voice in my head. It's telling me that you're right, by the way.
Hope: You're gonna keep the school open.
Alaric: Yes... And... no.
==Ethan Machado Memorial Hall==
(Lizzie helps MG set up a plaque to memorialize Ethan's sacrifice–the Ethan Machado Memorial Hall)
MG: Is it okay to say that your mom kind of freaks me out?
Lizzie: (chuckles) I've never had a real boyfriend. She won't make it easy for you.
MG: (exhales sharply) Boyfriend. Now, that has a nice ring to it. Are you sure it's not too late for us to join Josie in Europe?
Lizzie: Very funny No running, remember?
MG: Mm
Lizzie: Besides, we'd hate Belgium.
(As they're about to kiss, Alaric interrupts them)
MG: Uh, um... the...
==Grand Hall For Assembly==
Alaric: We meet tonight under happier circumstances. The Salvatore School won't be closing its doors.
(cheers and applause)
Alaric: But I will no longer be your headmaster anymore.
(concerned murmurs)
Alaric: The school's founding purpose was to protect you from the world, but now I believe the world will and must get to know you and your abilities. Because the truth is you deserve to be known. So, with your permission, it would be my great honor to tell those stories by writing the definitive history of the supernatural beings I have known. So when that battle comes, we will all be better prepared. Armed with the stories of the ones that we love, and those who we have lost along the way. Are there any questions or objections? Uh... Wade.
Wade: Yeah, we all probably have the same question. Who's gonna be our new headmaster?
Alaric: Don't worry, we'll be keeping it in the family.
(He points to Caroline. The students turn to find her standing at the top of the stairs, admiring them all)
==Nighttime==
(That night, Alaric packs up his Jeep, but not before being stopped by Hope)
(owl hooting)
Hope: I thought you were leaving tomorrow.
 
Alaric: Which is why I'm leaving now, while everyone's asleep. I've had enough goodbyes in my life. If anyone knows what that's like, it's you.
Hope: Are you gonna be okay?
Alaric: Are you?
Hope: Yeah, I think so. For the first time in a long time.
Alaric: (sniffles) Good. Then this school wasn't... Wasn't such a failure after all.
(Tearing up, Hope takes Alaric into a heart-felt hug)
Hope: Thank you... for being the, um, second-best father a girl could have.
Alaric: (sniffles) Well, thank you... for being the third-best daughter.
Hope: (laughs)
(Hope sees him off, as he leaves the Salvatore School)
Category:Legacies Chapter Four
Category:Crossover