the Vampire

Diaries


This is a Vampire Diaries recap of the episode The Last day, I hope you all enjoy it, It was just something me and a few people put together for fun. I plan on finishing off the episode so there will be more chapters to come! Please tell me what you think this is my first story, tell me what you liked and didn't like thanks!


The Last Day

ORIGINAL AIRDATE: 2/7/14

Conflict over how to save Elena pits

Stefan against Damon, until one

brother uses a wooden stake to end

the battle.

Chapter 1

Sunlight dappled through the pristine windows in rough-hewn beams into the oldest Salvatore's room as Damon laid motionless on his bed. His icy blue eyes were fixated on the ceiling as his train of thought abruptly stopped to invade an incoming conversation happening in the living room. He narrowed his eyes acutely as he heard below, Elijah, Stefan, and Elena talking among one another, probably about a plan.

"Tonight is a full moon, we should assume that Klaus is prepared to break the curse."

Damon heard Elijah say in his ever so polite voice. He stubbornly decided he had heard enough, and wanted to make himself officially apart of the conversation that Stefan had so kindly left him out of so he hastily got up from his bed to make that thought a reality.


In the expansive living room of the Salvatore boarding house sat Stefan, on a brown leather armchair. He was slumped forward, his elbows gently propped upon his spread apart knees, as he listened attentively to what Elijah had to say. Elena, the beautiful Petrova doppelgänger, sat next to him on a leather sofa, engulfed in the conversation as much as he was.

"Elena said that the sun and the moon curse is fake?" Stefan said, looking from Elena to Elijah. "That it's actually just a curse placed on Klaus?" he continued, his voice lilting.

Stefan wanted to better understand what Elena was getting herself into and exactly how dangerous this whole ordeal was before agreeing.

"Klaus is a vampire born of werewolf bloodline, the curse has kept his werewolf aspect from manifesting, but if he breaks it. . . he'll be a true hybrid." Elijah said as he stood before the two, rolling his wrist as he spoke. Stefan turned to look at Elena with a brooding expression, as he watched her absently nod to the news.

The information given worried Stefan, he knew nobody would be safe if Klaus was able to complete the ritual. He could tell from the look on Elena's face she was worried as well, he was aware they both shared the same compassionate feelings towards protecting their loved ones and he didn't underestimate her determination on doing so.


Damon entered through the archway of the living room, he had just so happened to be eavesdropping on the entire conversation and was fully up too par.

"Then why are we letting him break the curse?" Damon expressed with irascibility.

He could clearly see there was thick tension from Stefan upon his arrival.

"We kill him today," he went on, flickering his gaze to his younger brother. "With Bonnie!" He stated receiving an instantly surprised stare from Stefan.

"Damon. . ." Stefan warned him in attempts to shush him when a concerned Elena interrupted, boldly retorting Damon's idea.

"No. Bonnie can't use that much power without dying." She proclaimed in her friends defense, shaking her head vigorously.

"I'll write her a great eulogy." Damon facetiously responded.

"It's not an option Damon." Elena riposted, tight lipped as she received Damon's angry grimace as he shook his head full of disappointment, ready to argue with her further if need be.

He knew Bonnie was a great candidate for the job, she was clearly powerful, and expendable whereas Elena was anything but. Judgy little Bon Bon could succeed or die, it was a win win either way because he could keep Elena in the clear, she would be unharmed. Damon's younger brother must have seen enough of their idle bickering, deciding to butt in before things got completely out of hand, him being Saint Stefan and all.

"Alright, so how do we break this curse?" Stefan said enthusiastically trying to change the subject.

"Well the ritual itself is relatively straight forward. The ingredients, so to speak, you already know." Elijah answered in his oh so perfect accent, while passing Damon.

With that being said, he watched as things instantly began to piece together for his brother Stefan as he fully understood what the original had meant as 'Ingredients' as if it weren't already obvious.

"The Moonstone. . ."Stefan uttered even toned.


Hearing him speak the word aloud, instantly triggered a memory for Elijah of his brother Klaus. He pictured him vividly in his mind with the moonstone in hand, a sly smile dancing across his lips, he tried to submerge the image with no luck as he began to explain.

Presently in Alaric's Apartment. . .

One of Klaus' witches, Greta, held the moonstone in her mocha colored hand admiring it's milky white beauty.

"A witch, will. . . channel the power of the full moon,"

Klaus walked up behind Greta snatching the stone from her hands with a devilish grin.

"To release the spell that's bound to the stone,"

Klaus began to walk away, with an upset Katherine watching from the corner of the room seated in a chair with a deep frown.

Present time at the Salvatore home . . .

"After that, Klaus being both werewolf and vampire will sacrifice one of each." Elijah told them.

He watched Elena furrow her brows, her mouth forming an 'O' shape in slight confusion.

"And, where do I fit in to it?" She faintly chimed in.

"The final part of the ritual," Elijah said, walking over to a bookshelf taking out a wooden box from one of the lower shelves.

He had, had the item inside the simple box for over a century and never got to use it due to past altercations with Katerina Petrova one of the doppelgängers he was well familiarized with from half a millennium ago. Elijah had high hopes it would come in handy this time around, though there was a possibility it would not resurrect Elena as it's powers had claimed. He had not yet informed her of Klaus' intentions of draining the life from her, but soon would as the words began to spill from his lips.

"Klaus must drink the blood of the doppelgängerー to the point of your death."


This had gotten Elena's full attention making her look directly at Elijah, fear set in her eyes as he told her the outcome of the ritual, with a calm, even look set across his face. She blinked rapidly, taking a deep breath trying to possibly process how she could initially end up dead. She would soon be a corpse and there was no evading it. The room was eerily silent as Elena felt strong hands wrap around her own. She barely noticed it at first but the simple gesture brought her ease. She looked to see Stefan with a distressed expression, thinking of her feelings he tried to comfort her by holding her hand.

Elena knew the dangers that Klaus brought and what could happen if things went awry, but the quick fright that the sound of death had given her somewhat dissolved when she thought of everyone she loved, everyone who held residence in her heart and what would happen if she didn't do what was needed. They would come before her needs any day, the way she saw it she lived on borrowed time. She should have died the night her parents did but fate handed her a different set of cards.

"And that's where you come in." Elena willingly broke the silence, turning her attention away from Stefan to look at Elijah with a hopeful, pursed smile.

He began to open the wooden box delicately flipping the lid, pulling out a dainty, perfectly cut crystal bottle.

"This is an elixir that I acquired someー500 years ago for Katerina, it possesses mystical properties. Resuscitation." He said to inform them, raising an eye brow.

Elena knitted her brows, pursing her mauve lips together, tighter.

"So. . . I'll be dead?" She asked timidly.

"And then you won't." Elijah piped in.

The brunette looked at him unsure of his idea, raising both her brows in suspicion.

"That's your plan?" Elena heard Damon say in a crude manner before she even had the chance to speak. "A magical witch potion with no expiration date?" He had turned to her as he continued.


"You wanna come back to life. . . What about John's ring?" Damon crinkled his forehead, quickly trying to explore other options.

"Those rings only work on humans. . . the doppelgänger is a supernatural occurrence odds are. . . the ring won't work." Elijah knowledgeably stated.

"Well, I'll take those odds over your elixir," Damon ridiculed the whole 'elixir idea' looking to Elena again, worried. "What if it doesn't work, Elena?" He asked with intent care watching her briefly close her eyes trying to think of a logical answer. He observed her take a deep breath, exhaling it sharply.

"Then I guess I'll just be dead" She said looking to him.

"Whaー?" He began as he turned to look at Stefan to see if he agreed with Elena's outrageous antics.

He blankly watched as Stefan had nothing to say, his younger brother only gave him a simple soft shrug. Damon expressed a dumbfounded look to Stefan's ignorance towards Elena's life. How is it he could be so nonchalant? He was so hellbent on letting her decide, make her own choices and yada, yada but this was ridiculous, she was becoming suicidal. Damon shook his head at the silence in disapproval, shooting daggers at Elijah as he began to leave the room, having heard enough of this.

"Do we know if Klaus has everything he needs to do this? Does he have a werewolf?" Elena slightly tilted her head, as she asked in a meek and naive manner after Damon had left.

Elijah looked away providing an always accurate answer to her question.

"Klaus has been waiting to break this curse for over a thousand years. . . If he doesn't already have a werewolf, my guess is by tonight. . . he will." Elijah confirmed conclusively.


At the Lockwood house, Carol Lockwood had called Tyler's phone only to be forwarded to his voice-mail.

"Tyler? Hunny, It's your mother. I don't know where you are but I need you. I've had an accident and I'm in the hospital. Please Tyler, come home." She said while walking up the huge staircase in the foyer, coming face to face with Klaus' witch Maddox, who lipped the four last words she had just spoke along with her in a memorized manner. She gave him a sudden confused expression as she hung up her phone. It was as a look that signified she had no idea what was going on.

"Why'd I say that?" She looked to him frightfully.

"Because you've had a terrible fall. . ." He said sinister like, using his powers to throw Mrs. Lockwood over the banister like a rag-doll, hitting her arm off the railing on her way down, slamming onto the marble flooring with a sickly thud. Maddox leaned over the banister as he made sure she was out cold with an evil smile spread across his lips, part one of the plan was complete.


In the backyard of the Salvatore boarding house was Damon drinking a glass of bourbon, sulking to himself. He heard Stefan's footsteps approaching and he knew he was probably in for a lecture.

"Breakfast of champions, huh?" Stefan said jokingly, making his way around him.

"I'm surrounded by idiots, I need all the help I can get." Damon replied rudely.

"You know you're not helping."

"Elijah's an original vampire, Stefan. One we tried to kill, you're gonna believe this guy?" Damon hissed, widening his eyes, trying to convince Stefan of the obvious dangers.

"What do you want me to do, Damon? Elena made her decision, she's choosing to trust Elijah. I'm gonna put my faith in her." Stefan said wholeheartedly.

He always put his trust in Elena, he wanted for her what he never got with Katherine; a choice, but since when did it go as far to letting her sign her own death wish, Damon wondered.

"Why? she's gonna end up dead!" He retorted thrusting his glass forward at Stefan.

"'Cause she put her faith in me. She chose to trust me in spite of what I am, if I'm gonna bet on somebody's instincts it's gonna be hers." Stefan sincerely explained, gesturing both hands to himself.

Idiot! Damon inwardly cursed.

"Well then, that makes you the biggest idiot of them all." He said with disgust.

"She chose to trust you too." Stefan pointed out.

"Then maybe you shouldn't be so sure about her instincts." Damon glowered, thunderheads in his eyes, it was a look of angry frustration. It was a dangerous thing to disappoint him. He took a sip from his drink arrogantly, splashing out the rest on the ground as he went back inside, leaving Stefan out there alone.


Back in the luxurious Salvatore living room, Elena approached Elijah, running her hand over the crystal bottle that held the elixir inside. It still sat ever so neatly in its box.

"You'd think he'd understand why I'm willing to do this." She said to him, while grasping the bottle gently with her hands.

"Why are you?" He questioned.

"I'm the key to breaking the curse. Klaus is here because of me I-if I don't stop him, he's going to hurt people. It's that simple." She said after a moments pause with a hint of an upset chortle nearing the end.

"You know there's a possibility this elixir won't work. I don't wanna mislead you." He blinked being honest with her.

"I know the chance I'm taking." Elena openly admitted, her tone edgy and serious.

She was aware the elixir may not work, regardless she was willing to sacrifice herself to protect everyone, she would put them first. Like she said, Klaus was brought to Mystic Falls because of her, no one else needed to be punished, it was as simple as her being the distraction to get his guard down. Elena was then abruptly startled, tearing her gaze off Elijah when she heard a door slam. She turned her head, moving her hands away from the elixir with her brows set in deep confusion at all the noise.

"Get out, get out!" She recognized the voice as her Aunt Jenna's.

"Jenna," next she heard Alaric, "Get out!" followed by her Aunt's repetitive plea.

Elena, hearing enough, worriedly made her way to the front door to see exactly what was going on.

Elena and Stefan in unison rushed to the front hallway, the current scene was laid out before her: there stood her Aunt, with a crossbow in hand, pointing it directly at Alaric, for a reason Elena had yet to discover. Jenna peered at Alaric with terror evident in her green eyes.

"Jenna, put the crossbow down. . . Okay, it's me!" Alaric had his hands up as he pleaded, attempting to reason with her.

"Stay away from me!" Jenna demanded shakily.

"What's going on?" Elena asked, jutting her palm forward trying to soothe the current panic.

"It's me Elena, I swear, Okay! he let me go. Klaus let me go!" Alaric tried to convince Elena as Damon walked over from down the hall.

"Prove it." Damon lazily said upon his arrival.

"Okay, uh. . . First night you and I spent together, Jeremy walked in right when I was,ー" "Okay! it's him!" Jenna loudly overlapped Alaric, interrupting him from the brash embarrassment as her face quickly began to flush a deep red. The room grew impeccably quiet as everyone looked at the two with raised eyebrows.

"Why did he let you go?" Stefan broke the awkward silence, asking Alaric.

"He wanted me to. . . deliver a message," Alaric drew in a deep breath. "The sacrifice happens tonight." Elena felt everyone's eyes practically burning holes into her, she turned around to look at Elijah helplessly.