The Vampire Diaries Boss Answers Our Biggest Burning Questions

Matt Davis, Candice Accola

Where exactly areThe Vampire Diaries' Bonnie and Damon? Viewers are finally about to get that highly anticipated answer.

"We'll figure it out in the next episode," executive producerCaroline Driestold a small group of reporters following a screening of the Season 6 premiere. "They're discovering it along with the audience. [The final scene was] to tease people [and say], 'Don't worry we haven't forgotten about them.'"

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But before that glimpse of Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Bonnie (Kat Graham), the premiere picked up months after Season 5's fateful events:Elena (Nina Dobrev) began a hallucinatory hobby, Caroline (Candice Accola) was out of college while Tyler (Michael Trevino) began, Alaric (Matt Davis) was teaching at college blood bag now in tow Matt (Zach Roerig) took up a new sport in Mystic Falls, Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) made out with a new girl and Stefan (Paul Wesley) was a mechanic down South. Although some of the gang has attempted to move on with their lives, it's clear that others are desperately holding onto the past. For Elena, the pain is too much to bear, and by the end of the season opener she asks Alaric to compel her to forget that she ever loved Damon. Will he actually grant her wish? Read on for Dries' answers to that question and more.

How will Alaric respond to Elena's request for compulsion? Dries:That's a big part of the next episode. Damon is his friend too, so for her it's a hard decision, but for him it's like, "I don't know if I can do this to my friend." So, that will be his emotional journey in the next episode.

What's going to develop between Alaric and Jo (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe)? Dries:What we wanted to explore is that he is a vampire hunter who was turned into a vampire and went crazy and died. Now that he's back, he'll have some emotional baggage. But he's also an adult figure in the show. So, as Elena is going through her drama and Jeremy [goes] through his drama, he can't just sit there and mope about his problems. So, he internalizes a lot of stuff. One of the conflicts he's having is he hates being a vampire ... so how [does he] go on a normal date or be a normal guy again? She's going to bring that side out of him and that's what the struggle is going to be. And I like that he's so overtly flawed. We're not going to play a blood lust story for him. It's more [an] "he's uncomfortable in his own skin" story.

What's the deal with Tripp (Colin Ferguson)? Dries:He came about because we wanted to show Matt thriving in Mystic Falls without supernaturals. Every episode Matt is having his life in jeopardy or someone is threatening to kill him. So, what's Matt's life like when he cannothave a death threat every five minutes? We wanted to give him a father figure, so that's where Tripp came out of. But it's Mystic Falls:Not everyone is who they say they want to be, but he'll ultimately become an interesting, layered character that's not necessarily a good guy or a bad guy, but represents a normal person's point-of-view unlike the whole vampire world.

Where is Enzo and what's his role now that he's a a series regular? Dries:We'll answer that in the next episode, but he is up to something that's on point with what's going on in the Damon-Stefan story. Damon is his best friend. He's Damon's soul mate, so Damon dying obviously took a toll on Enzo, which we never actually saw. We saw Stefan has given up [Enzo] won't give up on [Damon]. His view on Damon is in direct conflict from Stefan's view, so it's going to continue to be this love triangle with Damon, Enzo and Stefan, where Enzo and Stefan continue to be at odds. [As for Caroline], Enzo is super charming. We'll continue to have that dynamic between the two.

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The Vampire Diaries Boss Answers Our Biggest Burning Questions