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So, this is the final chapter of my Three-Shot, Truths. I hope you liked it. :) This is pretty much fluff and suspense, I guess you could say. R&R, as always! Thanks for the support. -H.E.831
The Tomb
Damon's eyes shot over to Katherine and Stefan. Stefan was staring down Elena, while Damon was cringing against Katherine's smirk. His hand tightened ever so slightly around Elena's, just now realizing that their fingers were entwined.
"We're ready," Bonnie interrupted the quartet's stupor. They all turned their heads towards her, "Damon, Elena, you might want to stand back," added Luka.
They both nodded, migrating to the south of the cave. All they could do now was wait.
It took almost an hour, but Bonnie and Luka finally lifted the spell. Stefan and Katherine walked out of the tomb tentatively, at first, but then regained their usual gaits as they moved closer and closer towards the exit. However, they were halted in their tracks when a familiar face appeared before them.
"Hello, Katerina," Elijah smirked evilly, "you look well."
"I do," Katherine nodded solemnly, in agreement.
"Now, Luka," Elijah smiled nonchalantly at the young man to his right, "would you please retrieve what I asked you to bring?"
Bonnie's eyes grew wide as she turned to face Luka, not as surprised as her façade showed, "You're working with Elijah?"
Luka only nodded, throwing Elijah a stake, "Oh, and stop calling me Elijah," Elijah said, catching the stake in his left hand.
"Why?" Elena's eyebrow rose slightly.
"You stupid girl," he rolled his eyes at her insultingly, "I am Klaus," Damon, Stefan, and Elena's mouths dropped to the floor, "Oh, don't look so surprised, young ones. Katerina, here, already knew…and, apparently she didn't tell you," he shrugged, "Oops."
Stefan's eyes grew wide as he stared at Katherine in disbelief, "It's true," Katherine frowned, "I probably should have told you."
"Yeah, kind of," Stefan whispered.
"I'm sorry," Katherine's frown deepened.
Klaus rolled his eyes, looking at his watch, "I have places to be, so can we get this show going? Luka, take care of your gorgeous," Klaus looked Bonnie up and down, "temptress."
Luka nodded, following a similar path up and down Bonnie's body that Klaus had taken. That just made Bonnie want to kick his ass even more.
"Katerina," Klaus had gained Katherine's attention, compelling her, "come here," she took a step towards Klaus, unaware of Stefan's hurt expression. When she reached Klaus he then directed her towards Elena, "Get her, now."
Damon stiffened beside Elena as Katherine started walking towards them, "Don't," Elena whispered to him as she squeezed his hand before releasing it.
She stepped towards Katherine, taking Katherine's hand and walks towards Klaus.
Now would be the time when Damon would pounce on Klaus, but Elena had told him not to. So here he was, stuck doing nothing while the woman he loves goes on another suicide mission.
"You didn't even put up a fight," Klaus pouted mockingly, "That is so unlike you," he looked from Stefan to Damon, and then back to Elena, "and your knights in shining armor."
"It saves time," she bit sarcastically. She squeezed Katherine's hand, as Katherine came out of her trance. She looked at Elena, confused, for a moment, before realizing what she was trying to do, who she was trying to save.
Katherine smirked slightly at the irony of the situation before whispering to Klaus, "Go ahead. Kill us."
Klaus pulled out a dagger calling to Luka, "Luka, get the Moon Stone from the witch," then to Katherine and Elena, "Ladies, hold out your hands."
They did as they were told, both flinching when their palms were sliced down the middle. Katherine could feel that the blade had been soaked in liquidized vervain, and Elena was human, of course it hurt.
Meanwhile, Luka and Bonnie were having a battle, so to speak. Bonnie was using her intermediate, yet strong, powers against Luka's pro, yet weaker, powers.
"Can't you just hand over the Moon Stone?" Luka asked, flicking away the fire she threw at him with a splash of water.
"Why do you need it?" she asked, moving out of the way as a bolt of lightning that whizzed by her head.
To Bonnie, it all happened so fast. Luka got a livid look in his eyes one moment, then he started chanting, and the next moment he had the Moon Stone in his hands.
Chuckling softly he whispered, "Well, I guess you'll have to wait and see," he threw the stone to Klaus, who caught it swiftly.
"Now we're ready to begin," Klaus called to Luka.
Luka walked to stand beside Klaus. He started chanting and the Moon Stone shined in the light of the full moon. Elena and Katherine floated into the air, in some type of trance.
Klaus lifted the dagger above his head and brought it down right into Luka's heart.
He gasped in pain, looking at Klaus disbelievingly, "Why, Master?"
"Sacrifice," Klaus shrugged, and returned his attention to the doppelgangers as the boy fell to the ground dead. Bonnie looked at his lifeless body, horrified.
Bonnie, running over to Damon, chanted in a low, raspy, whisper as she took both of Damon's hands.
Suddenly, a brilliant light shot from Bonnie's chest, stopping Klaus's ceremony in its tracks.
"NOW!" she screamed as the light from her body dimmed slightly.
Damon ran towards Klaus, taking his head clean off, reducing him to ash on the cave floor. Stefan tackled Damon to the ground as the Moon Stone exploded into a million glassy shards.
Elena and Katherine dropped to the floor, unconscious. After a few beats their eyes fluttered open.
Katherine turned her head towards Elena smiling sluggishly, "He's dead."
Elena gave her a heavy-eyed smile, "I see that. I guess Bonnie changed her mind," she squeezed Katherine's hand.
Damon and Stefan were there instantly, Damon helping Elena up and Stefan helping Katherine up.
Elena hugged Damon close to her, kissing his cheek with a smile, "Hey," she said as she pulled back to look at a misty eyed Damon Salvatore, "don't do that."
He sniffled and chuckled, "Usually I'm the one telling you that," he took her face in his hands and kissed her softly on the mouth.
"Ahem," Katherine interrupted, "can we go back to the Boarding House? I'm hungry and overtly tired."
"Me too," agreed Elena with a smile. She took Damon's hand as they left the tomb, as did Stefan and Katherine. Bonnie followed behind them quietly.
The Boarding House
When the group arrived at the Salvatore brothers' home, Bonnie disappeared up the stairs. Katherine and Elena went to sit before the fire, basking in their newfound understanding. Stefan and Damon went to the kitchen to make dinner for their lovers.
"So, you and Katherine, huh?" Damon smirked with his eyebrow raised as he sliced some cheese for the chicken parmigiana that Elena loved so much. He could make this recipe in his sleep. He had even taught Stefan how to make it.
"Yeah," Stefan smiled, fixing a large glass of blood for Katherine and one for himself, "and how about you and Elena? You finally got what you wanted."
Damon stopped cutting to stare at Stefan. Jokingly he asked, "Is someone bitter?"
Stefan looked up at him, "No. I love Katherine and you love Elena. It's just, you could have waited until I was out of the tomb to start something."
Damon laughed mirthlessly, "You're the one who had sex in the tomb. Elena and I did no such thing. The first time we truly kissed was tonight, little brother," he started chopping some vegetables.
Stefan smirked, "I should have figured you would know."
"You should have," Damon nodded in agreement.
"You do know Stefan and I had sex in the tomb, right?" Katherine asked after a calm silence between her and Elena.
Elena looked at her with a small smile, "Yes."
Katherine raised an eyebrow, "How?"
"When you two came to meet us at the opening of the tomb," Elena laughed, "your clothes were a mess, and you looked totally blissed out."
Katherine smiled at the memory, "I was," her face turned serious, "I do love him. You know that, right? You won't be a crazy ex-girlfriend, right?"
They both chuckled at the irony of what Katherine was saying, "I do know that. And, I won't be a crazy ex-girlfriend," she blushed lightly, "Besides, I love Damon."
"You're, like, the last to know," Katherine smirked at her.
"I know," Elena nodded, "I do love Stefan, and we are good together, but…I don't know how to put it. We never fight, I guess," a crease formed between her eyes, "or we fight too much."
"Is it like that Taylor Swift song?" Katherine joked.
"Exactly!" Elena smiled, "It's just, I'm with the guy I'll fight with until 2 AM, not the one I never fight with," she laughed at the convoluted explanation.
"I think I understand how you feel," Katherine smiled.
The Salvatore brothers decided, at that moment, to come in with food for them, ending their conversation.
Elena sniffed the food on the plate that Damon handed her, "Damon, this looks, and smells, so good!"
Stefan handed Katherine a tall glass of blood, earning a grateful smile from her.
"Where's Bonnie?" Elena wondered aloud after taking a heavenly bite of her chicken.
"I don't know," Stefan frowned slightly, as he took a sip of his blood.
"I'll be right back," Elena left the room, running up the stairs to the bathroom, "Bonnie?" she called.
When she found her, she knelt beside Bonnie and held her closely. Bonnie was engulfed in a swell of tears on the bathroom floor.
"I thought he-" Bonnie cried into Elena's shoulder, unable to finish her sentence.
"Shh," Elena held her close, "let it out."
When all of Bonnie's tears were dried, for the time being, the two girls walked down the stairs to the den. Bonnie took a seat on the couch beside Elena, Damon on Elena's other side. There was a second plate of chicken sitting on the coffee table.
Bonnie took it gratefully, "Thanks."
Damon nodded at her as Elena picked up her own plate of food, sitting it on Damon's lap, and resting in the warmth of his arms as she ate.
"Where are Katherine and Stefan?" she asked after she finished her food.
"They went to bed while you two were upstairs," Damon ran his lips along her jaw and then whispered to Bonnie, "You can stay in the spare room tonight."
Bonnie nodded, standing up, "Thank you," she left the room to go upstairs. She was out cold by the time her head hit the pillow, too tired to cry anymore.
"Let's go to bed," Damon smiled at Elena.
Taking his hand, Elena led the way up to Damon's bedroom. They each stripped down to go to bed. Elena went to sleep in a camisole and boy shorts, and Damon went to sleep in his boxers. This had become the usual for them.
The last thing Elena heard before she drifted off into a peaceful slumber, in the arms of the man she loved, was, "I love you, Elena." She slept contentedly with a peaceful smile gracing her features.
THE END.
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