"Is this it? This is the cure?" Jeremy asked as he stared at the small box trapped between the two hands of a frozen immortal. "How is that supposed to cure every vampire in the world?"

"I don't think it is, Jer," Bonnie said with a quiet voice.

Jeremy turned to look at his friend who was standing behind him. He couldn't believe it. After all the troubles they've been through, they did all of this for nothing.

He turned back towards Silas and tried to get the cure, but as strong as he was, he couldn't free the box from Silas's hands.

"It's stuck. Help me move it," he said.

Bonnie did as he asked but she realized it was useless. "It's like trying to bend stone," she told him, defeated. "Oh my God," she breathed out.

"What Bonnie?"

"He's been frozen like a vampire statue for two thousand years. There's only one way we're gonna get this statue to unfreeze. We have to feed him our blood."

Jeremy looked at her like she had lost her mind.

"If we want to get the cure out of his hands, we... we have to wake him up," she said like it was the end of the world. Like it was the worst idea she ever had.

But it was the only solution to the problem.

***

"How do you know all this?" Elijah asked Katherine as he followed her inside the dark cave.

"I met one of the Fives," she explained. "He led me here. He's the one who told me there was only one cure. We have to give it to Silas or we will all die."

"So, Silas is the first immortal?" Julie asked. "I thought you were," she told Elijah.

"So did I."

"The cure is the only thing that can kill him. He's more powerful than anyone else we've ever met."

"More powerful than Nik?" Julie asked, skeptical.

"Yes. He's immortal and he can do magic. We need to kill him. I hope you don't have a problem with that."

"Not at all," Julie said. "That's what Kol wanted."

Elijah looked down at her, feeling guilty. Katherine was right. They had no choice but to kill Silas. Kol knew he was dangerous, he lost his life trying to stop them from getting to this island.

Katherine was right, killing is the only solution sometimes, and he couldn't protect Julie from it. But at least, she won't be the one killing him. At least, she'll be safe.

"After we're done with Silas, we need to find Rebekah and leave. I don't want to cross paths with the Salvatores," Elijah said.

"If I see anyone of them I'll probably lose it," Julie admitted, knowing very well she was in danger of losing herself in darkness. She needed to stay in the light, and it was a hard thing to do in this cold and dark place.

Suddenly Katherine and Elijah stopped, as if they had heard something.

"Little Gilbert met my new friend," Katherine said.

"What's happening?" Julie asked Elijah.

"It seems Jeremey Gilbert is fighting against the hunter. The witch is hurt."

"Bonnie?" Julie asked, and Elijah nodded.

"Well, that's where I do my part," Katherine sighed as she turned around to face them. "Don't I just look like Elena," she grinned.

"You do," Julie frowned. "It's not a good look."

Katherine laughed. "I know, right?" she said before she vanished.

Julie sighed. "Let's go."

She wrapped her arm around his neck as he lifted her off her feet.

"Close your eyes," he said.

She nodded, then rested her head on his chest. As soon as her eyes were closed she felt the wind on her face. A few seconds later, she could hear someone scream. A few seconds after that, she was back on her feet.

The first thing she saw was Katherine holding Jeremy by the neck, feeding his blood to Silas. Then, she spotted Bonnie lying hurt on the floor.

"Julie?" the witch panted.

"What happened to you?" she asked.

Bonnie's eyes moved to the hunter's unconscious body in front of her.

"Don't worry, Elijah's gonna help you," she said in a voice that made it doubt that she actually cared about her wellbeing.

Elijah nodded, half relieved she didn't want to let her former friend die.

"Katherine that's enough," the Original vampire said as he gave his blood to the witch.

"Buzzkill," Katherine mumbled as she let go of Jeremy who fell on the ground. She took the cure and opened the two thousand year old box and stared at it for a while.

"Don't!" Jeremy yelled.

"Shut up," Julie told him as she walked past him. She looked down at him and he could see pure hatred on her face. He had never seen anything more terrifying.

"Julie."

She heard a familiar female voice call her name. She looked up at where the voice came from and saw a woman standing in front of her, at the other side of the tomb where Silas was lying.

Julie's eyes grew bigger, and both vampires could hear her heart starting to beat faster.

The elemental couldn't believe what she was seeing. She thought she was hallucinating, that she had lost it. That maybe, she was dead.

"Mom?" she whispered in a weak and trembling voice.

"Julie?" Elijah called as he stood up, away from the witch.

"She's hallucinating," Bonnie told him. "That's what Silas do, he made me see my grandmother, but it's not real."

"Julie, I miss you so much."

"Mom..."

The next second, Elijah was standing right behind her. He put his hands on her waist, trying to get her attention.

"It's not real," he told her.

"Julie, don't do this. Silas can bring me back. We can be together again."

"You're dead," Julie breathed out as a tear fell down her cheek.

"Yes, but Silas can bring me back. He rewards the people who help him."

"It's not real," Elijah repeated as he took her face in his hands. "It's not real," he said as he wiped the tears off her cheeks.

She locked her eyes in his and took a deep breath. She knew it wasn't real, she knew she was hallucinating.

"I know," she nodded. "I know."

She turned around towards Katherine and ran a hand through her hair.

"Do it. Now."

The vampire nodded. She broke the box and shoved the cure through Silas's throat.

"No!" Jeremy yelled.

"Get me out of here," she whispered as she buried her face in Elijah's chest.

"I'll find your sister," Katherine said. "See you on the boat."

"Heal him," Elijah ordered her.

Katherine rolled her eyes and sighed before she bit her wrist.

Elijah brought Julie into his arms before he vanished.

"Get away from me," Jeremy growled as Katherine crouched down to give him her blood.

"Don't be such a baby."

"Take it, Jer," Bonnie said as she made her way to him.

"How did you get here anyway?" Jeremy asked the doppelganger.

"What makes you think I'm gonna tell you anything?"

"We needed that cure," Bonnie said.

Katherine looked up at the witch and scoffed.

"And I thought I was the selfish one."