This week on The Vampire Diaries, Stefan and Valerie do all that they can to save the lives of Caroline and her babies.

In Louisiana 1842, Rayna questions her father about his hunter’s mark. She refuses to eat until he teaches her to fight. He gives her the Phoenix sword.

Fifteen years later, they are practicing when her father is called to the local village. She asks to go with him, but he refuses.

In modern day, Rayna breaks through the glass barrier Enzo has her trapped behind.

Damon’s one-night stand dances around the house. Damon hears Bonnie’s car lock beep and shoos his lover out the door. Bonnie doesn’t see her. She tells Damon that Stefan killed Julian. She also tells him that Enzo stole Rayna’s corpse. She then finds Damon’s date’s corset on the couch.

Stefan finds Caroline unconscious. He compels the doctors to do an emergency C-section, but the babies deflect the scalpel, wanting to stay in Caroline’s magical body. Stefan is upset because he left Caroline while she was sick. He still hasn’t told anyone else that Damon killed Elena.

Bonnie teases Damon for his sleazy night. Damon feels guilty, but Bonnie tells him it’s okay. Elena told him to live his life.

Enzo calls Damon looking for Bonnie. He wants the Phoenix sword. Bonnie tells him no. Enzo threatens to tell Bonnie about Elena if Damon doesn’t bring him the sword.

Back in Louisiana 1857, Rayna goes looking for her father when he doesn’t come home. She finds him being tortured by Julian. She stops Julian from killing him by reminding him about the hunter’s curse. Julian compels her to kill her father instead. Her father tells her it’s Julian’s fault and not to blame herself. He tells her to carry on his legacy.

Damon tells Bonnie he needs the sword, but won’t tell her why. Bonnie threatens to leave Elena a detailed journal entry about Damon’s one-night stand, but he won’t give. She gives him the sword.

Caroline regains consciousness. Stefan tells her that the heretics are going to create enough magic outside of Caroline that the babies will be drawn to it.

Damon and Bonnie bring Enzo the sword. They find him tied to a chair. Rayna made Enzo call them. Rayna asks for her sword. When Damon makes a smart comment, she shoots Bonnie in the gut with an arrow. Damon throws the sword out the window and tends to Bonnie.

Back in 1857, a shaman holds a ceremony for Rayna to inherit her powers. The natives kill themselves to give her many lives. The shaman charges the Phoenix stone in her sword, then kills himself.

In England, 1903, Rayna finds Julian with Beau, Nora and Mary Beth. She stabs Beau through the throat. It doesn’t regenerate. Julian fights off Rayna, then tells Mary Beth to have Lily book passage to New York that night.

In modern day, Rayna collects her sword.

The heretics cast a spell around Caroline. Alaric is upset that he can’t be there, but he’s on his way. He asks Stefan to watch over Caroline and the babies. The doctor is able to make the cut. Suddenly, Beau’s throat scar opens up.

Nora calls Bonnie to ask if Rayna got the sword. She says Beau’s scar opening means Rayna’s coming for him and won’t stop until she gets him. She says Rayna will also kill every other vampire who gets in her way, including all of Bonnie’s friends at the hospital.

Nora and Mary Beth leave the hospital with Beau. Valerie stays to protect Caroline and the babies. Damon calls Stefan. Stefan tells him off for giving Rayna the sword. Bonnie asks why Stefan is so mad. Damon says he screwed up and has to make it right.

In 1903, Julian plans for the heretics to cross the ocean in pine boxes. Rayna arrives and stabs Julian, putting his soul in the Phoenix stone. The other heretics run.

Outside the hospital, Rayna stabs Beau, taking his soul. Mary Beth and Nora run, leaving Rayna to enter the hospital.

In the operating room, Stefan enters Caroline’s thoughts to distract her from her birthing troubles. Outside, Damon and Bonnie pull up. Bonnie enters the operating room and tells Valerie that Beau didn’t get away and that she thinks Rayna is inside.

Damon takes on Rayna. Bonnie pleads with Stefan to help Damon while she watches over Caroline. She says Damon’s so insistent on fixing things with Stefan that he’s going to get himself killed. Alaric arrives and Stefan goes to help Damon. Bonnie helps Valerie with the spell.

Rayna tries to kill Damon, but Stefan gets in the way. Rayna stabs him superficially in the chest. Stefan knows Rayna will hunt him down. He knows he has to run to protect Caroline.

Damon threatens to kill Enzo. Enzo stops him by telling him Elena’s alive. Tyler brought Damon to a decoy coffin. Elena wasn’t in it. Elena is in New York being protected by Enzo’s friends.

The babies are born with no more complications. Alaric is overjoyed. Bonnie breaks the news to Caroline about Stefan.

Damon calls Stefan and tells him about Elena. He swears he will kill Rayna to bring Stefan back.

Caroline calls Stefan. He apologizes for leaving and tells her he loves her. They hang up and Alaric comes into Caroline’s room with the babies. He’s named one Josie for his wife, and one Elizabeth for Caroline’s mother.

Three years into the future, Caroline has the kids in the car. They’re headed for New Orleans to visit a friend.