Stefan has his own ideas about Elena’s new plan for the future. He tries to contact Isobel and gets in touch with Jonathan Gilbert who comes home in the end. While Damon tries to get the truth of how to cure a wolf bite out of Jules, he asks Elena to keep an eye on Rose, a situation that turns unexpectedly dangerous, almost fatal to Elena when Rose mistakes her for Katherine.

Although Rose struggles to cope, she wishes she was back in her home with her friends and family, “being” human again. Caroline and Matt try to be honest about their feelings for one another where they both confess love to each other, and Tyler’s reaction to Caroline’s generosity comes as a surprise to her. Meanwhile Rose escapes from the Salvatore house and kills three people before Damon and Elena are able to find her.

Damon carries Rose back to his room where she gets worse and is in more pain. Rose tells Elena that Damon wants to care and when he does he runs away from it. Damon intervenes in Rose’s dream placing her back in her homeland as a human. In Rose’s dream Rose reminds Damon that while she could not have any friends or family, he does and then realizes that she might see them when she dies so she isn’t afraid anymore. Hearing that she is not afraid anymore Damon gets get ready to stake her, as Rose counts down to a race, Damon trembling and crying stakes her, giving her a peaceful death. Damon admits to Elena that he knows she is his friend and that he does feel because it was suppose to be him that dies not Rose.

Elena realizes he feels guilty but Damon responds that that would be the human thing and fo her to just go home but before she does she hugs him as he struggles not to cry. He confesses that his big secret is that he misses being human to a stranger on a road, named Jessica, who is compelled “not to move” and when he lets her go, he bites her. Tyler meets Jules at the Grill, where she informs him that she knows he and Mason are werewolves, Mason is dead and that Caroline and her vampire friends were behind it. Tyler disagrees and she tells him there are more werewolves out there and that they’re on their way.

“The Descent” is the twelfth episode of season 2 of The Vampire Diaries and the 34rd episode overall. It first broadcast January 27, 2011 on The CW Network.

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