Post season 4 finale. Michael wakes up in Company Headquarters, only to discover he has been in their clutches for months now. When everyone that Michael cares for is threatened, Michael is forced to work for the very organization that ruined his life. Will he find a way to escape, as he has so often in the past? Or will he accept his fate, and stay in Company clutches forever?

Damon's back, but Elena's memories of him are not. And now, thanks to Alaric's new mortality, they aren't coming back. Ever. If they even want to have a future together, they will have to start over from the very beginning. How will they cope? Will they finally call it quits once and for all? Or will they find a way to make it back to each other?