On last week’s awesome episode of The CW’s The Vampire Diaries, we saw Vicki morph into a vampire. So how does she fare in her new incarnation? Well, this behind-the-scenes photo—taken from the upcoming Halloween-themed episode airing on Oct. 29—serves as a little peek.
In this shot, Vicki (Kayla Ewell) and Elena (Nina Dobrev) are at Mystic Falls High’s Halloween bash. Elena’s channeling her inner nurse, and yes, Vicki is looking rather vamp-ish here, but The Vampire Diaries executive producer Julie Plec assures that “it’s just a costume” at this point—no one else knows yet about her true transformation into a blood-sucker. “Elena and Stefan’s whole goal,” she continues, “is to make sure that nobody else knows what’s happened to her.” READ FULL STORY »
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