The History Teacher

The Vampire Diaries

Season 3 episode 20 "Do Not Go Gentle"

Dear Diary,

Life is a lesson in tragedy.

They stood in the candle light. A silent salute for the man they loved. The man who had saved them, befriended them, took care of them, believed in them, died for them, drank with them.

This was the last stand of Alaric Saltzman.

In his final moments, Alaric, the hunter, sat with the vampire he had come to town to kill. The vampire who, to prove a point, had killed his teaching predecessor.

The vampire who since then had become his murderer, his confidant, his drinking buddy and best friend.

This moment was only for Alaric and Damon. Two men, who both had been damaged and consumed by the Petrova women they had loved and somehow survived. Who had both had found a life there, in Mystic Falls.

As a single tear rolled down his face, he took one last drink.

Alaric was ready. He was prepared to die, if it meant protecting the people he loved. And in his life he had found love. He had found a friend. He had found a family. Two children, as lost in the world of the supernatural as he was, who needed him in their lives, just as much as he needed them in his.

He would have given his life for them, and so, with his last act of freewill, he did.

What he couldn’t have known was that this would not be the way his story would end.

His sacrifice stolen by a mother who could no longer allow the monsters she created, her very own children, to live.

Life is a lesson in tragedy.

At least for the history teachers of Mystic Falls.

Be Still Alaric Saltzman,

Hannie Bee.