Was This the Monster You Saw?

Aurora and Lizzie road trip to find more information about the Gods and track down Jen. Hope returns to the Salvatore School, just as Alaric returns from the hospital, with the goal of finding an army to take down the Gods with. The Super Squad is not ready to accept her proposal, but she is set on getting them to. She destroys Ben's bracelet and a monster attacks the school that they must defeat. The monster can bite people and make them relive their darkest moment. Flashbacks reveal Jed went through a very conservative and strict upbringing which caused him to repress who he really was. His father wanted him to fight his childhood friend and crush Trey to the death, but he ended up killing his father and triggering the curse. Hope's bite takes her back to when she turned off her humanity, and she confronts her conscience. Finally ready to be himself, Jed confesses to Ben that he knows what he wants now and that he likes him and they kiss. Alaric and the students grudgingly agree to work with Hope, just as her conscience appears to her in the real world.

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