Alaric began a romantic relationship with her adoptive aunt, Jenna. Following Jenna's tragic death, he seemed to step into his step-father role to Elena and is a father figure to her brother, Jeremy. He is also Damon's best friend alongside Bonnie, Damon even calling Alaric "brother" on occasions.
Through overuse of the Gilbert Ring, Esther manipulated his spirit while he was on the Other Side before he would resurrect, and as a result he developed an alter ego, called The Darkness by Bonnie and Dark Alaric or Evil Alaric to others, that hated vampires and vampire sympathizers, killing members of the Mystic Falls Founder's Council who protected the secrets of vampires.
Alaric became an Enhanced Original Vampire through Esther's magic so he could kill her children with the last, and indestructible, White Oak Stake, to make the vampire species extinct before his death, his life having been linked to Elena's. This lead Rebekah to kill her to stop Alaric. Alaric is now resurrected as his Original Vampire self, while his alter-ego appears to have gone away for good upon his resurrection. He temporarily dies from the stab wound that killed him before his transition, when the magic that made him an Enhanced Original was stripped from his body.
Jo Parker revived him with her medical skills, but upon resurrection, Alaric has reverted back to his human self, as the spell that made him a vampire was stripped away completely upon his temporary death. A day or so later, he goes with the group to a stream where the white ash tree is.
They come upon the tree, unfortunately they are too late as it is engulfed in flames and black smoke, leaving Alaric devastated. After realizing Klaus compelled Tyler and Caroline, Alaric drives the group back and still thinks of possible solutions in his head on the way back to campus. He then pulls the car over on the side of the road as Bonnie receives another dream. He listens as Bonnie describes her dream to the others, being worried at what is going to happen.
As they arrive at the campus, he joins in with the others to kill the remaining Vitale vampires. The group follows Elena into the woods when she finds an aura, and after seeing it's Damon, Alaric and Bonnie support the victim Damon was feeding on between them and walk away. He attends Bonnie's birthday party and it's revealed that he and Meredith have been married for six months. He listens as the guests make speeches to Bonnie about her growth over the years.
After the party, the couple drink some tea before going to bed at their home. As she studies for her mock trial, he massages her back and muscles. After she sleepily said she wanted to taste all of the tea's ingredients, he carries her off to bed.
After the death of Elena and Stefan's pet cat, Sammy, Alaric uses a small brass triangle with a crystal on a chain, and states that he's not picking up any paranormal resonating anywhere in the room.
As the group meets up with Jack , Alaric watches as Zander and Meredith examine the weapons. He heads with the group to find Solomon , but they end up being attacked by compelled humans. On another night of hunting down Solomon, Alaric accompanies the group and they encounter a storm caused by Solomon. After the storm caused them to stop pursuing, a day or so after, Alaric joins the group again with a weapon to go after Solomon near the Plantation Museum.
After Trinity is possessed by Solomon, Alaric looks at the missing poster of Gabriel Dalton, the previous body Solomon was using. He is deeply in sleep when Meredith arrives back home after her ordeal with Jack.
As he lays asleep, Meredith realizes she is a vampire and can hear his heart beating. The two later go to a steakhouse for a date night, he asks if Damon is alright and wonders what is wrong with Meredith.
She lies to him, not wanting to tell him her predicament, and he smiles, continuing to talk during their date. He then has a look at an artificial vampire that Damon caught with the others and suggests that he should try finding Jack's history so they could learn more about him.
He is equally surprised about Meredith's decision to go to Atlanta to talk to Darlene, but softens his expression in understanding, kissing her goodbye the next day. He invites everyone who is still in town to a meeting at his apartment to discuss the new information that he has found on Jack. He reveals a piece of newspaper that is in Swiss and the name at the bottom being Henrik Goetsch.
He reveals that Henrik is Jack's real name, and that the woman on the paper is his fiancee, Lucia. After Bonnie performs a spell to find the vampire whose blood is responsible for Henrik and the artificial vampires, Alaric mutters a charm of protection as the group gathers to hunt the vampire down. After getting home from teaching a class at Dalcrest, he wonders why Meredith wants the light off and he listens as she tells him everything about being a vampire, and being with Jack, not in Atlanta as she said.
While she thinks he's going to leave her, he embraces her and says they'll get through, with a cure or not, as they both love each other. The next day, Matt brings a heart charm bracelet for Meredith and Alaric helps her put it on as she chokes up with tears.
Before getting ready to go after Siobhan , Alaric overhears Elena and Meredith talking about the bottle of water from the Fountain of Eternal Life and Youth, and thanks her. He stands next to Meredith and the rest of the group, ready to attack Jack and his vampires at the warehouse, while also meeting Siobhan in the process.
He goes with Meredith, Bonnie and Jasmine, managing to rescue Matt, who is leaning heavily against Alaric and ask if they used the poison yet.
Arriving back at Elena and Damon's apartment, Alaric suggests they should stop hunting Jack and keep away if they don't have a chance of killing him. He was on his way from an academic conference to Elena's apartment as she has been slowly dwindling due to Jack's death and protecting Damon. Matt Davis as Alaric Saltzman. In the television series, Alaric Saltzman is portrayed by Matthew Davis. Alaric "Ric" Saltzman is introduced as the new history teacher for Jeremy 's class and also knows that vampires exist in the small town of Mystic Falls.
Once he learns of Mystic Falls, he becomes a hunter. While vampires can easily overpower him, he has an athletic strength and is shown to able to defend himself in a fight. And because of his wife, Isobel who studied Paranormal activity, he knows what weakens vampires and uses it.
He was until recently dating Jenna Sommers , Jeremy's aunt. However, he has recently become a human again. The Vampire Diaries Wiki. The Vampire Diaries Wiki Explore. Outside references Transcripts. Saltzman Matt Honeycutt. She remembers it was the first time she noticed how sexy he was. But erasing that doesn't change things. They go through every moment she can come up with but none of them undo how she feels.
She quits. Alaric then calls Caroline for help figuring out when Elena fell in love with Damon. Caroline knows immediately, it was when she was still was Stefan. Alaric finds Elena in her dorm room, leaving a desperate message for Luke. He confronts her about falling in love with Damon while she was with Stefan. He knows she never betrayed Stefan and it's okay to love them both. Elena remembers Katherine used to say the same thing. Elena finally admits the day she fell in love with him, her birthday after she and Damon spent all summer looking for Stefan.
He gave her the necklace Stefan gave her that she had lost. She knew how much it hurt him but he still gave her and decided to be selfless. In that moment she loved him. Elena tells Alaric she's ready. He rewrites the memory, and she remembers the night ending with Damon snapping Jeremy's neck in front of her. Finally, she doesn't remember Damon as her boyfriend, but as a monster who died. In Black Hole Sun , Alaric is first seen when Elena goes to see him, asking about her life that he had compelled away.
Alaric gives her a box full of her things that contained things that reminded her of Damon. She finds a letter that she had wrote to herself, detailing why she had gotten Alaric to wipe her memories of ever loving Damon. Alaric asks her is she wants to remember, she replies with no, not yet. Alaric takes hungover Jeremy to the hospital. Jo comes over to help, Alaric asks her if he could a STD test on him as a joke, sense shes already insisting a full workup.
Once Jeremy had gone to pee in a tube, Alaric fails to flirt with Jo while over viewing a man with a bloody face. Alaric and Jeremy then go to the woods to work out their issues, fighting. Jeremy doesn't think the fight is fair to Alaric practically being an practically being an Original Vampire , but Alaric counters that Jeremy had killed an Original before.
Alaric's new mission is to get Jeremy healthy again. Jeremy feels like he has a right to have a problem right now since Bonnie died to save everyone else and told him about it over the phone.
He has resentment issues, and Alaric, wanting to say what every adult is thinking, is like, "I have YEARS of resentment, you entitled teen prick. The moral here is, "We find a way to keep going. He tells Elena at the end 'Damon might be gone but I can still find pleasure in judging his life choices'.
He also asks her if she's changed her mind about Alaric compelling to which she replies no. She asks him to come to a the party. Later, alone at the collage, Stefan goes to see him.
Alaric doesn't look very happy to see him. Stefan tells him that Enzo turned Ivy into a vampire and he needs him to compel her to leave him. He refuses, saying that it's his responsibility and he can't compel and it's not that easy. Stefan says it was when he compelled Elena to forget Damon. Alaric says he forget him first.
He threatens him to leave before he 'compels him to be the guy he used to know instead. Alaric shows up at the maze, sees Jo, and goes up to talk to her. Tyler drives his truck through the maze, hurting many people, including Alaric. Jo wakes up next to Alaric, he quickly takes a wooden stake out of him, she leans to look but it's gone by then and she's confused. They start helping people but he has difficulty resisting blood. Later at the hospital.
Alaric and Jo have a heart whelming talk. Alaric attempts to compel her. Telling her that she doesn't want to kiss him, however, to his astonishment, Jo kisses him, revealing that shes impervious to compulsion.
She rescues. He agrees and tells her he'll wait until she asks him herself. He also tells her to find out about Jo and why she can't be compelled. Later, Matt tells Caroline and Alaric about Enzo getting caught. Caroline's angry that he didn't tell her before but he says he was confused about who was 'good' and bad. Stefan comes in and tells them he was the one who handed Enzo in.
Later, Damon asks Alaric to undo the compulsion but he refuses. Elena calls Alaric who tells her he'll get him back and to not worry. Jo comes to Alaric and tells him that she knows he tried to compel her. Alaric says its a bad time but she continues and he lashes out saying his best friend is about to die again and he has to save him. Stefan starts to break everything apart in the engine to stop it working in anger. Alaric says it's okay because he gave up on Damon too, and explains how much he hates being a vampire and his constant hunger, noting how ironic it was that he had become the very thing he used to hunt.
They see the van coming and Alaric waves to stop it. He then asks for a lift. Once Tripp had refused, he smashed the window in holding onto the van. Tripp steps on the accelerator, making the car thrust forward, hitting Alaric's car and over the border of Mystic Falls. Tripp loses control of the van, making it swerve and tip over. Alaric is found laying over near the van. Stefan has only time to save, both Enzo and Damon, however, Jo comes to the rescue, attempting to stop the bleeding from his heart.
Jo is determined to save Alaric from dying and refuses to get him across back the border. Alaric, for a short period, dies. But is later revived by Jo. He wakes up feeling different. He quickly comes to a conclusion that he is again human and freed from the curse of being a vampire. Later, Elena phones Alaric in hospital, he tells her he's happy to be human and apologizes to Elena. She says its okay because she had the chance to get her memories back.
She says she'll have to live with herself now. Jo joins them and invites Alaric as her date to the hospital fundraiser, where Elena will also be with Liam.
While at the fundraiser, Alaric watches Damon fail to rekindle his relationship with Elena. Alaric acknowledges that it was his fault since he shouldn't have compelled her but Jo reminds him that it was Elena's choice.
Alaric embraces being a human again, despite the pain he's still feeling from his injuries. They're in Portland to track the Gemini Coven and to make Stefan feel bad that he was the only one not invited to Friendsgiving.
Damon, Stefan and Alaric arrive to the location when the Gemini Coven is meant to be. While walking up to the empty field, Damon starts using Bonnie's bear, Miss Cuddles, to taunt Stefan. Stefan then grabs the bear form Damon's hands and kicks it as hard as he could, unveiling a cloaking spell on a house.
Alaric suggests that Bonnie has put her magic inside of her bear. While the only human there, Alaric is the only one to enter the house, suggesting that someone lives there. Alaric looks around the house, bumping into Liv and Luke's father. He then shakes Damon's hand, causing Stefan and Alaric to disappear out of the house and also cloaking the house once again while Damon was still inside.
Alaric then calls Jo, hoping that she will tell him how to get back inside the house. Her father, then gives her a migraine form his house causing her to collapse. While in pain, she invites them both into the house and tells Alaric that there is a knife in a tree stump in front of the house containing her magic. Stefan then, with vamp speed, grabs the knife and throws it in the direction of the house, unveiling the house once again.
They rush into the house, stopping Joshua from killing Damon, resulting in him disappearing in thin air. Alaric later before getting into the car, says he won't let Jo die, Damon says that so there's no way they're getting the Ascendant from her and risk letting Kai out.
So naturally, Damon compels him to get it, revealing that for some reason, he isn't on vervain. In I Alone , Alaric and Jo have dinner and it's revealed that Damon compelled Alaric to do whatever it takes to get her to discuss about the Ascendant. Afterwards, Alaric gets the Ascendant and hands it over to Damon and he compels him to forget that what he did never happened. A day later, Jo is looking for the Ascendant and when he keeps telling her he doesn't have it, Jo is convinced Damon compelled him to get it and Alaric believes Damon wouldn't do it, as he's his friend.
Jo then challenges him and says if they cross the Mystic Falls border and if he crosses and the memory comes back, he was compelled, if not, then Damon is his friend. Alaric meets up with Damon at the cemetery and punches him for compelling him. Damon tells him they were trying to get Bonnie back, and Alaric says getting her back was never off the table, but having be compelled and steal from Jo was off the table since they promised her they would keep Kai locked away.
When Damon tells him that Kai is out, but it wasn't their fault, Alaric punches him again and walks away. In Christmas Through Your Eyes , Jo calls Alaric and tells him she's going to have to cancel their plans as she has many patients coming in, and he promises to save her dinner.
A day after Alaric calls Elena and asks her if she's seen Jo, to which she says she hasn't since the day before and Alaric says it was Kai since she knew he would come after her and he did. When Damon tells him that he should've kept an eye on her, Alaric asks him sarcastically if he would compel her to stay put and Elena interrupts them, telling them they need a plan to save her.
At Alaric's apartment, Alaric is saying what is happening doesn't make sense and Damon is wondering why, to which Alaric tells him that Jo needs her magic for the merge to work, but she got rid of it back in Damon tells him that he had hid the knife and they tell Alaric that Kai was born without the ability to do magic.
Alaric says that if the only way to restore Jo's back is to reunite her with the knife, Kai will come looking for it, but Damon tells him that he'll kill him and reveals he hid it behind a picture frame, but when he opens the back, the knife isn't there as Kai had already found it. Alaric and Damon then arrive at the cemetery and Damon is complaining that even though they are going up against Kai together, Alaric still won't talk to him.
Damon tries to apologize to him and when he scoffs and walks off, Damon vamp speeds in front of him and apologizes, and Alaric tells him to go finish Kai. When Damon distracts Kai, Alaric comes behind him, grabs him and puts a gun to his head. Damon tells him to kill Kai, but Jo tells him not to as she doesn't want Liv and Luke to do the merge since it would be unfair to them.
Jo pleads with him not to kill him and that she's going to train to be able to defeat Kai in the merge, to which Alaric knocks Kai out with the butt of his gun. Alaric then walks Jo to his car and he says they'll just lock Kai up she and him merge during the next celestial event.
He gets a blanket out and wraps it around Jo, to which she tells him to be careful and he drives his car up the border and gets out. Damon asks why he keeps compromising for some girl he just met, which Alaric tells him that he's a real dick and Damon tells him he feels bad for leaving Bonnie over in the prison world but he's in the real world, to which Alaric tells him that he should stop pretending that this is about anyone else but him, and Damon throws a rock at his tire and punctures it.
When Kai is doing sucking up all the magic from the border, he gets up and levitates Alaric and slams him into a tree. When Kai disappears when Damon tries to punch him, he goes over to Alaric and gives him his hand, and he accepts Damon's apology, but asks how he isn't dead as he's across the border.
He tells her that he wouldn't want to watch her trying to practice witchcraft being sober and Stefan asks why the regimen they are doing is happening in his living room, to which Alaric tells him Damon feels guilty. Damon calls Alaric to tell him that Liv is gone and he needs a witch to help him. Jo volunteers and Alaric protests at first, but he lets her go so she can cloak Damon and save Elena from Kai. After Jo and Damon rescue Elena, Alaric and the rest are at the Boarding House and Alaric tells Damon that Jo is a keeper and that he thinks she's going to have a handle on the merge.
Damon tells him she's not strong enough since Kai absorbed the traveler magic, and Alaric tells him they'll keep Kai down until his magic drains away. They then toast to women who make screwed up decisions and loving them even more for it. When Elena is ready to bring Jeremy to the airport, Alaric offers to take him instead since she should go be with Liz. Alaric and Jeremy then arrive at a bus stop outside Mystic Falls and they joke about it being the airport.
He tells him the bus will stop about 30 miles north of Santa Fe and that he can't confirm if there or animal attacks or something else, but Jeremy says he's on it. Alaric tells him that he's going to have to do some art so Elena won't be on to him because if she finds out that art school is one big lie, she's not just going to kill him, but she's going to kill Alaric too.
Alaric tells him he'll send him leads and not to do anything stupid. He hugs Jeremy and tells him he's proud of him and he promises he'll call Jeremy if Bonnie ever comes back. He tells her that the vegan dish she had did her in and he says that maybe they should skip the funeral, but she says they are going. When the doorbell rings, he goes to the door and sees that Kai is there. He tells Alaric that he knows that he hates him, but he needs to see his sister, but when he tries to close the door, Jo appears and he tells her he's sick.
When Kai starts vomiting blood, Alaric gives him a bucket for him and Kai tells her he doesn't think she has food poisoning, he thinks it's because he didn't merge with her and that if he dies, she will and the rest of the coven does too. Jo is checking Kai out and he asks if Alaric has to be there, and Alaric tells him that he's not leaving her alone with him so he's going to have to deal with it.
When Kai tells Jo that he needs her magic, Alaric grabs his hand and threatens to break some bones and Kai then explains that if the leader of the Gemini Coven dies, the Prison Worlds collapses and Alaric then is shocked that there is more than one. Jo and Alaric then talk and she tells him that she has no choice and he tells her she does, as it's her to give or not.
He tells her that if she wants to fight and keep her magic, he'll fight with her, if not, and tells her he loves her regardless if she's a witch or not. When Jo is ready to give her magic to Kai, Alaric asks what the other prison world is.
He tells him that it is a place filled with people like him and that he's saving their miserable lives from oblivion. When Jo gives all of her magic to Kai, he congratulates her and after he leaves, Alaric asks what he whispered in her and she tells him that Kai told her she was pregnant.
He then asks her to marry him and he takes out a box with a ring in it. He tells her he bought it the day after Luke died, and that he was trying to plan for the right moment. He tells her he would like to have the baby and that the moment isn't a pity proposal.
He tells her he loves you and he kneels down and opens the box to reveal a diamond ring. In A Bird in a Gilded Cage , Alaric is at the medical center and talks to Jo about keeping Sarah out of harm's way until Elena's blood is out of her system or else she'll become a vampire. Jo starts to think they should elope and Alaric jokes with saying the same thing.
Alaric mentions that she was compelled to forget the night before and will be back at Duke, to which Jo says the name is a little obnoxious but cute. Alaric becomes alarmed that she has been thinking of baby names and Jo asks if he hasn't been. He tells her that he has, but Jo knows that he really hasn't. Alaric is at Whitmore in his office writing down baby names and Jo calls. He tells her he has a few and she tells him that someone with the name "Alaric" shouldn't be allowed to name another human.
He tells her he didn't name himself and he vetoes Duke. Enzo interrupts their conversation and comes in. Alaric asks what he is doing there and Enzo says that he's hoping he has enough vervain to get Caroline and Stefan to the Salvatore cellar without any drama.
Alaric tells him he's a human and going against two no humanity vampires isn't a good idea, but Enzo says that he would become a cowardly father and it would affect the child. Alaric then sighs and tells Enzo he has weapons in his apartment. Enzo and Alaric then arrive at the dorms with a crossbow and a stake-shooting rifle in their hands. Alaric asks why he wants Stefan's humanity back on as they both hate each other and Enzo tells him the game is better with two players.
Alaric tells him Sarah had an involuntary splenectomy because her brought her into his life and he tells him that he needs to reevaluate his obvious loneliness. They come next to another room and a vervain grenade rolls down the steps and Enzo grabs Alaric by the collar and vamp speeds away, and the grenade barely misses them.
Alaric and Enzo are unconscious and Caroline moves them out of the way while Stefan says they should send a message. Caroline stops him from killing them and points Alaric's stake rifle at his chest. At the medical center, Alaric is getting checked by Jo with a pen light and his face slightly scratched up from the vervain grenade.
She tells him she's marrying an idiot and that he could've died. He smiles and says "fine" to her. They are playing cards and Jo tells him that she got them into the cute bakery for their wedding cake and he tells her at first he had no idea what she was talking about.
She tells him right next door to the bakery is a tequila bar and he tells her he won again with the card game. She kisses him and they begin making out passionately until Elena shows up, looking surprised and uncomfortable. Elena clears her throat and they break apart, looking at her, then at each other. She tells them she's there to relieve them of their shift. Alaric tells her supplies are there and cards are there just in case she gets bored.
She tells him that it's really nice to see him happy and he says thanks. Caroline is then heard grunting and groaning miserably and he leaves her to watch duty. Alaric approaches Stefan and asks about Caroline. Stefan tells him that she doesn't want to see him and Alaric tells him that every emotion she pushed away just came back at least miles an hour.
Jo then joins them and tells Stefan that maybe he should let Caroline decide what she needs. In I'd Leave My Happy Home For You , Alaric is at his desk grading papers when he gets a call from Jo and she tells him that tonight is her last shift as a single woman and she can't wait to marry him. He tells her he's counting the days and they hang up their phones. Alaric goes back to grading papers until he hears a creaking noise out in the hall and goes to investigate after seeing a dark figure go past.
He is about to go back into his office until a black hood is thrown over his head and he tries to break free, but to no avail. Alaric is seated in a chair with the hood still over his head and when it is ripped off his head, he looks around in a daze and is confused until Damon, Stefan and Matt shout "Happy Bachelor Party!
Alaric realizes what's going on and smiles happily, and notices there is room full of beautiful women and copious amounts of alcohol. While Alaric's bachelor party is raging downstairs, he and Damon talk at the bar. Damon had told him he offered to take the cure and Alaric tells him if he takes the cure, he won't be able to become a vampire again and that Damon is now getting cold feet.
Damon gets frustrated and asks Alaric if he wants to spend his last night as a single man debating his crisis. Alaric is concerned and asks Damon if he told Stefan he was going to take the cure. Damon tells him he will Alaric finds Matt out on the back patio drinking straight from the bottle of liquor he stole.
He sits down next to Matt and passes him the bottle. Matt asks him if he's really doing this, meaning taking a plunge and start a family in Mystic Falls. Matt tells him that he has 30 stitches in his side and all his friends are killers except him. He says it's a miracle he's still alive and he's a dick if he's okay with bringing the baby into the supernatural mess. Alaric sarcastically tells him if that's his bachelor toast then it sucks and Matt tells him to leave town, take his fiancee, his unborn baby and his miracle life and get out while he still can.
At the hospital, Alaric arrives and Jo starts running towards him. Alaric asks her how Bonnie is doing and she tells him that Damon gave her some of his blood. He asks her how she is and the baby, and Jo pulls a sonogram out of her pocket and shows it to him. Jo tells him they're having twins and Alaric is stunned as he looks at the sonogram.
Jo tells him that even if Kai never escapes his prison, her family will try to take them from them. Alaric tells her they won't find out and she asks how, to which he tells her after the wedding they're going to disappear and where her family can't find them.
He tells her she and the babies are his life and all he cares about is keeping them safe. He meets Elena outside of the hospital where Jo was admitted to after collapsing due to a panic attack. Elena tells him that her first instinct was to give her vampire blood, but since she was human she couldn't do that anymore.
Alaric asks her if she is having second thoughts, but Elena tells him she doesn't and that it feels amazing to be a human again. Later on, before the wedding, Alaric calls Jo and asks her how her vows are coming along. He tells her that it was big of her to invite her father despite the fact that he tried to kill her.
The wedding begins, and Alaric delivers his vows to Jo. He promises her that he will be with her, that he will love her, and that he will dodge fate with her. Tearfully, Jo started to say her vows until she suddenly stops and gasps.
It is discovered that she is being stabbed, and she falls into Alaric's arms. Jo's brother Kai appears before them with the dagger, having been disguised by a cloaking spell. Alaric is on the ground, holding Jo's unconscious body. He is crying and pleading for help. Kai comes up to Alaric and apologizes to him for killing the babies, but he didn't feel like competing for leadership with them. Alaric doesn't respond to Kai, and continues to sob.
Afterwards, Elena and Alaric share a special moment out in the woods. Elena tells him not to give up, but he tells her he has nothing left to fight for. Later on, Alaric is carrying a body bag to his car. It is revealed that Jo is in the body bag as Alaric zips it up. Alaric gets into his car and grabs a gun out of the glove compartment. He is then approached by Kai, to which he immediately gets out of the car and shoots Kai five times.
This had no effect on Kai, who healed due to his transition into a vampire-witch hybrid. Alaric points the gun to his own head and pulls the trigger, but there were no bullets left. They are interrupted by Tyler , who attacked Kai and bit him. When Alaric let's Elena into his thoughts to say goodbye, it flashes back to their special moment in the woods. They are in the woods similar to where Alaric trained elena how to fight years prior.
Elena is hugging him and telling him that he can't fight it, can't change what happened and that he has to let himself drown in it so he can learn to swim and grow stronger from it. Alaric glimpses at Elena in her coffin, but is interrupted by Jeremy, and him and Jeremy embrace.
Alaric didn't want Damon to be his babysitter but Damon assured him that he was there to get his mind off of Elena and Ric's own grief was a good distraction for him. While on the trip, he got drunk regularly, apparently trying to drown his sorrows away.
When they heard about trouble with the Heretics back in Mystic Falls, Stefan called and asked Alaric about how to make a bomb, since he was going through his weapons and needed something that could take out the Heretics all at once.
Alaric said he would call him back when he wasn't in such a public place. Alaric then excused himself, acting drunk, when it was revealed soon after that he was actually just drinking tea and pretending it was bourbon. In actuality, Alaric was stone-cold sober and went to a psychic, showing him a red stone. He asked if the psychic had ever seen one and then asked if the psychic could communicate with Jo's spirit. Needing something of significance to tether to her, Alaric offered the psychic his wedding ring.
When Alaric realized the psychic was a fraud, having handed him a fake ring, he grew irate and volatile, especially when the psychic told him his wife was better off dead. Alaric beat the psychic with his bare hands in rage. When they returned home from their trip, Alaric went to the hospital morgue and demanded to see Jo's body. Despite the hospital's policy, Alaric paid the pathologist off to keep Jo's body longer than was allowed. In Never Let Me Go , Alaric taught his class full of students about fables of monsters, hoping he could get the teens to stop sneaking into Mystic Falls for amateur monster hunts.
He told them that the most terrifying thing they would find there is a trespassing ticket. Bonnie spoke to him after class commenting on how the evacuation plan didn't go as well as everyone had hoped. Ric told her that they turned it into a ghost town but ghost towns draw the college kids and the Heretics had killed ten people already. She asked him if he was okay and that Damon filled her in on what he was doing in Europe.
Ric told her that he was over it. Bonnie admitted she was a little offended that he didn't come to her first about contacting Jo in the afterlife.
Ric asked her if she'd ever heard of the Phoenix Stone. Later in the dorm, Ric showed Bonnie the Phoenix Stone and told her about its supposed resuscitative powers. He explained that got it the night they were in New York when he pretended to pass out, but had actually sneaked into the Maritime Museum because the Phoenix Stone was on display there and he stole it.
Bonnie didn't feel any magic from the stone but told Ric that sometimes witches would conceal a powerful talisman by hiding the magic inside it. Bonnie started getting horrible, bloody, violent visions and dropped the stone, telling him that she saw people dying and that there was something wrong with the stone, something evil. She told him that he can't mess with that kind of magic and he needed to destroy the stone.
In his classroom, Alaric dissolved a regular stone in hydrochloric acid and was glad to know that it worked. However, he couldn't bring himself to destroy the Phoenix Stone as he gazed at a picture of him and Jo. He later lied to Bonnie, telling her it was destroyed and then went to the morgue again and set the Phoenix Stone on a dead man's chest. The man came to life, startling Ric who quickly removed the stone, causing the man to return to his former state.
In Age of Innocence , Alaric dealt with Damon living at his place and asked why he hadn't just compelled himself a better home. Bonnie arrived, having had more nightmares from the Phoenix Stone, and asked Alaric if he had destroyed it like he said he would.
Alaric lied, saying he had seen it dissolve in acid. He then went with Damon and Bonnie to Myrtle Beach to try and track down the only Heretic that had escaped from the prison world but wasn't accounted for in Mystic Falls.
They wanted to capture Oscar and exchange him for Elena, whose slumbering body had been taken by Lily. They found Oscar and discovered that he had been sent on a mission by Lily but had abandoned it to indulge in his new-found freedom. When they asked him to siphon the magic of Bonnie's violent visions away, he discovered that they knew about the Phoenix Stone. Alaric questioned how he knew about it but Oscar demanded to know where it was before knocking them all out with magic. Oscar took the stone from Alaric when he was knocked out.
When they awoke, Bonnie realized Alaric had been lying to her about the stone. Despite her anger, Alaric explained that she and him had both come back to life; and that he'd do anything to let Jo have that same chance. Bonnie reminded him that their circumstances were different and The Other Side was gone. Alaric didn't care, saying that he had to try, even if there was a minimal chance of success.
He didn't want to live the rest of his life wishing he had just stayed dead. They found Oscar fighting Damon and while Bonnie kept him at bay with magic, Alaric shot him with vervain darts, successfully taking him prisoner. The stone fell out of Oscar's pocket and Bonnie returned it to Ric, telling him to never lie to her again.
Later, they researched the Phoenix Stone together. Bonnie warned him that it wasn't a matter of raising a magical veil to ghosts, it was actual necromancy. Alaric decided to show her the morgue where Jo was kept and told her how he'd been paying them to keep her body longer than regulated. He asked for Bonnie's help in reviving Jo with the stone. Later, Alaric watched Damon propose the trade of Oscar for Elena. However, they were then met by Damon, who hadn't seen Ric in some time.
Alaric dug out a stake shotgun from the cabinet and cautiously checked on his daughters, finding Damon standing outside the door. Damon noted that Alaric seemed to have gotten everything he wanted and threatened to start causing some chaos to his perfect life unless Alaric invited him inside, which Alaric seemed very hesitant to do. Back in the present, Alaric, with the Phoenix Stone in hand, again paid the mortician to let him keep Jo's body in the morgue a little longer.
Alaric and Bonnie prepared to use the stone to try and bring back Jo, but were interrupted by Damon with Oscar's dead body. Needing Oscar alive to get Elena back, Damon asked that they instead use the stone to bring Oscar back first.
They put the stone to Oscar's chest and watched as Bonnie tried multiple spells to try and bind his soul to his body through the stone.
After many unsuccessful attempts, Oscar awakened from the dead but with no apparent memory of what had happened to him, and desperately craving blood. They watched as the Phoenix Stone seemed to resurrect Ric's late wife. In Live Through This , Alaric sat beside the revived Jo as she rested, having been asleep for twelve hours since her resurrection. Bonnie arrived with his term papers to grade, reminding him that he still had a job to do.
Bonnie wanted to learn more about the power of the Phoenix Stone and the magic it involved, asking Alaric for the stone back. He didn't see the point in learning more, now that it had worked and his wife was back but gave her the stone back anyway. Jo awoke and Alaric discovered that Jo had memory loss after her revival just like Oscar had. He tried to help her adjust, and to help her recover her memories. However, he later learned that she wasn't Jo but a vampire soul that had been trapped in the Phoenix Stone.
When Bonnie explained this to him, Alaric found "Jo", and asked if they could talk. The vampire inside Jo's body confirmed that she wasn't Jo, and Alaric still promised to help her. In Best Served Cold , three years in the future, Damon told Alaric that Caroline was in danger now that Stefan's scar had opened up and the huntress had returned.
Back in the present, Alaric watched tapes of his wedding and got a call from Bonnie asking to come keep an eye on "Jo". Her nose started to bleed and Alaric realized that a vampire soul not being in a human body would deteriorate since it couldn't contain the essence of the vampire soul.
As "Jo" started dying, she told Alaric about the sword that had killed her and trapped her soul in the Phoenix Stone, and told him she remembered that her name was Florence. Alaric apologized for putting her through that in his efforts to bring his wife back to life.
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