The Sheriff investigates Vicki's "disappearance," but Stefan, Elena, Germ and Pudding Pop don't give her anything to go on. The assumption is that she's taken off, which isn't a new addition to her repertoire. Because Germ was enthralled by Damon, he's not only good with this, he's great. He's clean, sober, and devoted to his school work. Elena, who last week said she didn't want to stop feeling whatever it is she feels for Stefan is back to wanting to avoid him. But that's okay, his female, be-fanged BFF (FBfBFF), Lexi, shows up to celebrate his 162nd birthday. The FBfBFF doesn't kill people, but she does drink human blood she gets from a phlebotomist (er... from his work, not his veins). She's older and stronger than our pretty brothers, and relishes in reminding Damon of that fact when he makes himself a pest. She's kind of delightful, so of course she's a goner.

Elena changes her mind about Stefan, AGAIN, and goes to see him, but he's in the shower, so the FBfBFF lets her in. She is shocked by Elena's resemblance to Katherine, and Elena is shocked that a blonde in a towel is answering her erstwhile boyfriend's door. She leaves in a huff and the FBfBFF and Stefan have a still-heart to still-heart conversation about the Elena/Katherine conundrum. He's in twu wuv and tells the FBfBFF all the ways in which Elena is superior to Katherine. When Caroline (who is again enthralled by Damon during a chance meeting on the town square) throws a party at the grill, Elena dithers because she knows Stefan will be there, and eventually shows up. Damon, who has been "helping" Sheriff Forbes by giving her Vervain, knows that the Sheriff is reexamining the possible vampire suspects, so he attacks a young couple he finds making out behind the Mystic Grill. He kills the boy and hypnotizes the girl, who later describes their attacker to the fuzz -- but since Damon "compelled" her, she thinks the FBfBFF killed her beau. She's-the-Sheriff and her storm troopers march into the Grill and inject the FBfBFF with Vervain, and then drag her out of the bar while she's incapacitated. Because she's so old and strong, the FBfBFF almost gets away, but she's stopped by Damon... and the wooden stake he plunges into her heart. Stefan sees this and vows to kill Damon, but Elena tries to talk him down -- not because she cares what happens to Damon, but because she's afraid what wreaking that sort of vengeance will do to Stefan. At Mossy Manse, Stefan beats Damon silly and then stakes him...in the gut. Since Damon saved his life, Stefan has spared his, but he declares they are now done.

In other news, Damon wants the amber crystal back, so he sets Caroline up to get it from Bonnie, but Bonnie's grandmother told her that it's her talisman and she must never let it go. When Caroline fails to retrieve it, Damon berates her; she gets drunk, and Pudding Pop takes her home -- and crawls into bed with her! Bonnie has a wild dream, which sadly doesn't involve Pudding Pop, but she does wake up somewhere unexpected.

I'll hit all the gory details in the full weecap, on the flip side. In the meantime, come on over to the forum, and for the love of puppies and birthdays, don't make out in alleyways, dears, it's just tacky.

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