Just when you thought The Vampire Diaries has had its fill of heartbreak this season, the show decides to wrench more hearts when it returns on January 22, 2015.
Executive producer Julie Plec tweeted 12 spoilers in hopes of giving fans something to look forward to (or maybe not!) next year:
1. There will be a merge: but with which witches?
2. There will be a gorgeous episode directed by Paul Wesley.
3. We will finally meet the REAL Sarah Salvatore.
4. Bonnie will return.... but when? And how will her experience have changed her?
5. We will get to meet Young Caroline and Young Stefan (in separate flashbacks, obvi)
6. There will be kissing. A LOT of kissing. By more than one couple.
7. There will be a hook-up, a break-up, and a make-up. Not necessarily by the same couple.
8. There will be blood.
9. More than one person will die.
10. Bonnie has a birthday.
11. Matt Donovan gets a life calling.
12. Tyler Lockwood takes a stand on behalf of his girl.
13. We get to see an 1858 Damon Salvatore.
14. Stefan Salvatore fixes a friendship....and then some.
15. Elena Gilbert gets a proposition that could change her life forever.
16. Jeremy Gilbert applies to art school. No really.
17. Alaric Saltzman falls in sweet sweet love.
18. Enzo meets a girl.
19. Caroline Forbes ponders the functionality of vampire blood.