The vampire diaries Always
pull these cheap tricks. They can never commit fully to a characters death. The
characters always return, in another form or just to drop in to say “Just
dropped in to see what condition my condition was in”,(a.k.a Alaric, Vicki and co.)

Really?! I think you missed a big part of the end. He hasn't left, he's going to take out a "vendetta"(his word).