AN: This fic is set S03E03, when Damon and Elena go to Chicago and Stefan finds them in his flat. Kol has also been un-daggered already. This is a Kol/Elena/Klaus fic, weird combination but I thought it might be cool to experiment with. Warning, this chapter will contain main character deaths.

Chapter 1

Damon's POV

We shouldn't be here, Elena shouldn't be here. I shouldn't have brought her here; she is in way too much danger. I can't protect her from Klaus.

"Didn't you miss your ripper days Stefan?"

Shit, Klaus is outside. I quickly grabbed Elena and dragged her into the cupboard. I could tell that she was about to say something so I put my finger to her lips and shook my head. I saw her eye widen with fear when she heard his voice.

"Wow, nobody has been here in a while. You might want to get a maid or something." Crap, he's in the kitchen. There is no way I can get Elena out of here. I can't let Klaus know she's alive.

"Well I kind of blacked out for most of the 20's, sorry about the mess." Stefan's here, I felt Elena try to get to the door but I stopped her. I shook my head at her again.

Crap one of them was walking toward the closet. If it was Klaus we would both be dead but if it was Stefan, Elena might make it out alive.

The door opened to reveal Stefan. I heard Elena let out a sigh of relief. Stefan's eyes snapped towards her and he vamped out. No, no, no! This can't be happening. I tried to block Stefan but he pulled a stake out. He wouldn't, if he was ever going to kill me he would have done it already.

He lunged for Elena but I put myself between them. I heard Elena scream, and I saw the look of shock spread across Stefan's face. I could feel the pain spread through my entire body. I could feel everything and nothing at the same time. It was like everything was in slow motion but speeding past me. I felt myself collapse against the wall and then slide down it. I looked down and saw the stake sticking out of my chest. Oh god, this is it. I'm dying, again. But this time there isn't some magical cure. This time I'm gone for good. 160 odd years and now it's over. But that's okay, because I've lived, I've fallen in love, I've got my humanity back and saved the town a few times. It is time to go when I've done so many great things. I died trying t save the one I love; I died trying to save Elena.

Elena's POV

NO! Damon, my Damon is dead. Stefan killed Damon! Klaus is outside and I'm going to die. Damon died trying to save me from his own brother. Damon died in vain; I'm still going to die. Oh Damon, I love you. I'm sorry that I didn't tell you before. This can't be happening, it's all a dream. I'm going to wake up in my bed or in Damon's bed back in Mystic Falls. This never happened; it can't have happened.

But the look on Stefan's face was so real. This really is happening. Damon is really dead.

I looked up from Damon's body to see Stefan vamped out. He grabbed my top and pulled me to him. For one second I thought he was going to hug me, but then he pulled my head to the side and bit down, hard. I let out a scream, even though I knew I shouldn't, there was a slim chance that Klaus didn't know I was here but now he knew.

Klaus's POV

What the hell was taking Stefan so long?

I heard a scream coming from the cupboard that Stefan went into. That scream, I know that scream. That is the lovely doppelganger's scream. But that isn't possible. I killed her, I drained every last drop from her body. I have to see who it is.

"Stefan, you should learn some manners. It's rude not to offer your guest a drink." Stefan half carried half dragged a brunette from the cupboard. I could see the blood on her neck, he had gotten her good, he was becoming his true ripper self again. He grabbed her hair and pulled her head back exposing her throat. He bit into her wrist, offering me her neck. It was my lovely little doppelganger. She survived, and stayed human. She was barely able to stand on her own feet. Stefan was going to kill my doppelganger. "Stefan, stop! She's my doppelganger to do with as I please." He wasn't stopping; I knew her blood was delicious but he should still obey me. The doppelganger's knees buckled, the only thing keeping her up was Stefan.

"Hello Nicklaus, I heard the ripper party was here. Elena?" He was going to kill her, I won't allow that to happen, she's MY doppelganger to do with as I please. I tackled Stefan to the ground, ripping his heart out instantly. Kol blurred over to my doppelganger just in time to catch her. He quickly glanced over to me before biting into his own wrist and feeding her his blood.

I walked over to the sink to wash the Salvatore's blood off of my hands. Kol picked my doppelganger up and put her on Stefan's bed before walking into the cupboard. "Nicklaus, the other Salvatore is in here with a stake through his heart. I guess that explains how Elena got here then. I'm surprised that Stefan actually staked his brother, and attacked Elena. Wasn't he meant to be in love with her?"My doppelganger has lost both of her bodyguards and Kol saved her. What a weird start to the day.

"I compelled him to turn his emotions off so that he could become the true ripper he was. But this means that we have to go back to Mystic Falls. I'm guessing that they told there witchy friend and the other vampire friends where they were going. I don't want to have to deal with them coming after us. So Kol, fancy going on a road trip with me and my precious little stubborn doppelganger? And for god's sake, would you stop calling me Nicklaus." I turned to him, waiting for my answer.

"Yes, I would love to go on a road trip with you and Elena, Nik. What are we meant to do with the bodies?"

"Take them back to Mystic Falls, make it look like they were attacked and died defending my doppelganger. Who will be taken to hospital where we can easily take her but compel the nurses into thinking that she ran away after remembering that Katarina killed the Salvatores."

"You know, you won't become any more feared by blaming Katarina." Kol said while walking over to the bed.

"No, but it will lure her out and make her venerable. I'll go grab the car, take the bodies out back then come back for my doppelganger."

Kol's POV

Nik slammed the door closed behind him as he left. I don't know why I felt the need to save Elena from Stefan; I don't understand why I don't want to leave her even for only a few minutes. I don't know why, but I care for Elena a lot. It really annoys me that Nik keeps calling her his doppelganger. She isn't anyone's and she has a name, not just doppelganger. I looked over to Elena; it was weird how peaceful she looked even though she had just been attacked by her boyfriend, which she had just tried to save. I didn't want to disturb her but I had to get her and the Salvatores out of here so I just grabbed the Salvatore bodies and dumped them outside before running vampire speed back to Elena's side. I gently picked her up, bridal style, and she snuggled into my chest. I walked slowly so that I wouldn't wake her up. By the time I got back outside Nik had already put Damon in the boot and was picking up Stefan.

"Bloody hell, how long does it take to get one doppelganger?" He slammed the boot door and got into the driver's seat. I glanced down to check that Elena was still asleep before opening the back door to lay her down on the back seat. I just put her down and was about to move away when she grabbed my shirt, I quickly climbed in the back and rested her head on my lap. "Ha, she's turned you into one of her lap dogs already." I sighed, Nik wouldn't understand. He can't love, he doesn't believe in it. All he wants is an army of hybrids that follow his every word and worship him. He lost his humanity so long ago, probably about 1000 years ago.

The car was silent for a very long time before Elena took a deep breath in before bolting upright and pressing herself against the other door and began scrambling for the door handle even though we were going faster than 100mph. She pulled on the handle and the door swung open, she almost fell out before I grabbed her and pulled her back in the car. The car swerved and she landed on my lap. Nik stopped the car and jumped out before ripping Elena from my arms.

"Jesus Christ! Why the hell would you jump out of a car going 150 miles an hour? And if you killed yourself now you would become a vampire, do you want that doppelganger?" Nik asked Elena like she was stupid. Which on this occasion she was but I understand why she did it, after everything that Nik had done to her, I would have done the same thing if I was in her position but I could have got up and walked away unlike Elena.

"W-what happened? Where are we? And who is he?" Elena's back was pressed against the car and Nik was mere centimetres from her, his fangs were showing and his eyes were glowing. I hadn't seen his vamped-out werewolf face before, and it was bloody scary.

"If you must know we are on the way to Mystic Falls and he is my brother and he saved your life." Nik gently brushed a lock of her hair behind her ear. If it had been anyone other than Nik I would have thought he actually cared about Elena and that he was jealous that he hadn't saved her himself. But it was Nik and he didn't care about anyone but himself.

"Thank you for saving me Kol. Um may I ask why we are going back to Mystic Falls? And I'm presuming Stefan's dead." I saw jealousy flicker across Nik's face for a second. Maybe he did care about Elena. How does she know my name, Nik didn't tell her.

"It's no problem, no need to thank me. Yes Stefan is dead, Nik killed him. Now Elena I want you to go to sleep and not wake up until you are safe in hospital. I want to say that Katarina attacked the boarding house. Stefan answered the door and she ripped his heart out. She tried to attack you but Damon tried to protect you and got staked. You tried to stake her but she broke your wrist and drained you. That's the last thing you remember." I didn't want to compel her but we needed a cover story and I knew Elena was uncomfortable around Nik. And I needed to talk to him anyway. Elena nodded before collapsing against the car and Nik caught her.

"Kol, I didn't know you to ever manipulated a girl like that." He gently picked her up and laid her down across the back seat.

"You care about her, don't you?" This conversation could end up with me getting daggered again but I had to know.

AN: Sorry for leaving it there but it was only the first chapter. Please review. I'll upload an new chapter next weekend.