‘The Vampire Diaries’: Trouble Ahead For Damon

He may have been a good boy (well, sort of) this year, but Santa won’t be rewarding Damon Salvatore in the mid-season finale of The CW’s “The Vampire Diaries.”

While some members of the Mystic Falls gang are trimming their trees and sipping eggnog, Damon will be one of the ones leading the fight against (returned-from-1994-purgatory) sociopathic witch, Kai (Chris Wood).

“While everyone’s celebrating Christmas, Damon is getting his a** kicked and running around trying to stop the madman, so, you know, typical Mystic Falls Christmas,” Ian Somerhalder told reporters, when AccessHollywood.com visited the show’s Atlanta set recently.

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And it sounds like Caroline Forbes (Candice Accola) will have a less than perfect holiday too, according to Executive Producer Julie Plec.

“In the midst of everything that she’s been going through with her crumbling relationship with Stefan and trying to get past that feeling of falling for someone who doesn’t necessarily seem to share the feelings for you and really trying to find her strength on the other side of that, she’s gonna get hit… with a curve ball before our mid-season finale is over and that’s gonna tell us a lot about where she and her character are going to go once we get back from the holidays,” the EP said during the same set visit.

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There is good news on the horizon. Plec confirmed Bonnie (Kat Graham) won’t be in purgatory forever. When Access asked if Bonnie will be back this season, she replied, “Yes, eventually. I won’t tell you when, but eventually, before the season is over, we will see her back in the real world.”

The “TVD” EP also said that when Bonnie does get back, she may be a different woman.

“She’s always been the one that’s ready to kind of lay down for everybody else and dive in to to help everybody else and put everybody first over herself and I think after a long period of seclusion and isolation, it’s gonna change her,” Plec said. “She’s gonna come back different and I think different in an exciting way because we’ll get to kind of shape Bonnie in a whole new way and maybe we’ll see her kind of demanding that she be able to put herself first for a while.”

“The Vampire Diaries” airs Thursday at 8/7c on The CW.

— Jolie Lash