Chapter 4:

The Sacrifice

Once Elijah relieves Stefan's text, he gave Bonnie a signal to start the spell on the house. Damon arrived not to long after. When the spell was complete, Bonnie rushes over to Damon.

"are Caroline and Tyler ok? Did you find them? Where are they..." to shut her up, Damon places his hand over her mouth.

"there both ok. Yes, I found them. They're back at the Lockwood mansion. Now stop asking questions." he releases his hold and turns to Elijah. "I got the text, are we ready?" he asks. Elijah nods.

"yep, lets go."

"wait!" someone yells as the three exit the house. They all turn to see Alaric running after them. He doesn't get far though, because there's an invisible barrier on the house. "what the- Bonnie let me out!" she shakes her head at him.

"I can't risk anyone else getting hurt." she says. Alaric glances at Damon.

"sorry, Ric. Gonna go with witchy over here." and the three resume walking away as Alaric yells after them.

Elena is walking down a path with one of Klaus' witches to the ritual site.

"who are you?" Elena asks her.

"I'm Greta Martin." a dark, but kinda sweet voice tells her. Elena's eyes widen.

"wait, your Jonas' daughter? Didn't you know they were looking for you?" Elena wonders out loud.

"yes, I know they're looking for me." she explains. "all I know is there just wasting there time."

"so your saying that he and Luka died for nothing?" suddenly, the air thickens as they walk and the both stop talking. Elena starts stumbling over rocks because of the dark."ugh, I can't see anything." she complains. Almost immediately, fire flares up from torches that are around. Elena waits for her eyes to adjust to the light, but when it does, she sees a woman laying on the ground unconscious. Elena cautiously walks closer to the body to see who it was. When she gets a closer look at her, she almost screams as she runs over to her. Jenna! She wants to yell as she tries to wake her up. Jenna finally stirs and opens her eyes to see Elena.

"oh my god, Elena! Your ok!" Jenna's about to hug her, but sudden pain comes over her as she falls to the ground. Elena watches as Jenna, not knowing what to do. "what's going on? My head hurts. What's wrong with me?"

"Jenna, do you remember what happened?" Elena says.

"you called me. Y-you sounded so scared..." Jenna trails off. "ugh, I should've known it wasn't you." Elena adverts her gaze to Greta and then back. "the moment I stepped out of the house, something smacked me on the back of the head. I woke up here to a guy who was hovering over me."

"Klaus, it was Klaus." Elena realizes.

"I didn't have time to run before he fed me his blood. Then, I don't remember what happened." Elena gives a sad sigh. Jenna starts to panic. "where are we?"

"were at the quarry, Klaus brought us here." she tries to calm her to no avail.

"why can't I remember a damn thing?" Elena hesitates on her answer.

"Jenna... do you remember how someone becomes a vampire?" Jenna nods.

"yeah, if they feed you there" blood and you die with it in... oh god." her eyes widen in fear. "I-I'm a vampire. He killed me."

"and I bet your hungry." a voice from behind them says. They turn to see Greta walking over to them. When Elena sees what she's going for, she dives for the rock, but magic makes her fly backwards into a ring of fire. She looks for a way out, but there is none.

"don't bother." Greta suggests while picking up the stone. "the circle's spelled."

"Greta, please just... let her go!" Elena pleads, but Greta doesn't listen. She cuts her wrist with the stone.

"Klaus chose her." Greta states.

"no." Elena argues. Greta brings her wrist to Jenna's mouth.

"drink it." she commands.

"no, don't!" Elena starts to yell.

"I can't!" Jenna agrees, but is tempted. She leans closer to the wounded flesh.

"no!" Elena cries, but Jenna bits her skin, anyway. After a few seconds, Greta tears away from Jenna and drags her to one of the circles. Her circle also catches aflame.

"hey, Jenna!" Elena whispers. "Jenna look at me!" Jenna slowly turns her head to her. "it's going to be ok." Elena repeats over and over again, but Jenna's face vamps out as she shakes her head. "how are you feeling?"

"everything is brighter, but other than that, normal." she answers. "part of me wants to feel while another part doesn't." she explains.

"a vampire can turn off there humanity." Elena concurs. Jenna starts to cry.

"I'm gonna die, right?"

"no! I won't allow it to happen! I don't care what I have to do." suddenly they both hear screaming from the woods.

"who's that?" Jenna asks.

"that must be the werewolf." Elena predicts. Greta pulls a struggling Jules into the last circle and does the same as the others.

"what's happening to me?" Jules pants.

"I used a spell to slow down your transformation." she informs.

"I thought witches were supposed to balance nature. It's your duty to them, to not let this curse be broken." Elena throws at a smirking Greta.

"my duty belongs to Klaus!" she yells back. "my leader." Klaus suddenly appears out of nowhere with an evil smirk on hi face.

"glad to know I can trust someone." he says. He looks at all the girls in the circles. "hello, girls. Lets get started." Jules only responds by screaming in pain. "I've got the moonstone." he hands Greta the object. "I've looked for this for so long. I hate to part with it."

"the moon is in the right position, remember what to do?" she asks him.

"of course." Greta holds the rock over a stone bowl and drops it in, creating a spark. She starts to mutter Latin words(don't know what they are). Elena looks over at Jules, who is still screaming.

"everything I did, I was just helping Tyler." Elena realizes who she is.

"wait, your Jules?" she nods at Elena's question. Klaus walks over to them.

"shall we?" Jules' circle of fire dies down. She tries to attack him, but he maneuvers her attack and pins her to the ground. Elena and Jenna stare in terror at what he would do. He steaks her tears away with his thumb and yanks out her heart. Klaus walks back over to Greta and squeezes the blood from the torn out heart(gross) into the stone bowl. It catches fire. "is it working?" he asks.

"yes." she assures him. Elena starts pacing in her circle, thinking of what to do.

"you know when the lawyers called and said that I would be your guardian you know what I thought?" Jenna asks Elena who shakes her head. "isn't there someone else who could do this."

"Jenna there was no one else who could've." Elena remembers something. "listen," she whispers. "being a vampire intensifies your feeling, but it also makes you stronger, faster. You can fight back. I'll be ok, I'll get through this, but I need you to promise me, when the fire is gone..." she mouths the next part. "run." Jenna nods. Klaus walks up to her.

"hello Jenna." he says. The two girls stand up.

"let her go." Elena pleads, on the verge of tears. "I understand that I have to die, but she doesn't."

"Elena, don't." Jenna worries. Elena turns to her.

"no Jenna! Jeremy needs a family." She glances back at Klaus. "I did everything you wanted, just please let her go." Klaus starts to smirk.

"well well, I don't recall you being invited." for a second, Elena and Jenna don't know who he's talking to until they look where he's looking. Elena gasps when she sees Stefan.

"I'm hear to talk." Stefan tells him.

"very well then." Klaus jumps up to the top of the cliff where Stefan is.

"what's going on?" Jenna asks.

"I-I don't know." Elena stutters. "you can hear anything, just try to hear what they're saying." Jenna listens and is shocked at what she hears. "what is it?"

"Stefan wants to take my place." Elena's face turns blank. Shit. "Elena..."

"this can't happen." Elena cuts her off. "there's got to be something else." she starts to pace again.

"quite the predicament." Klaus and Stefan appears out of nowhere. "well, you want to save Jenna and here's Stefan, granting your wish."

"Stefan..." she whispers, sadly. He just nods.

"it's ok." he whispers back.

"well, take your pick, Elena." Klaus points at the other vampires with a stake.

"no!" she shouts, defiantly.

"there's actually no choice." Klaus rushes behind Stefan and sticks the stake in his lower back, causing him to crumble to the floor.

"no! Stefan!" she screams.

"I have... other plans for your boy-friend. Whenever your ready Greta." he yells to her. The flames around Jenna collapse.

"no." Elena mutters under her breath.

"don't worry, Elena. I know what needs to be done." Jenna speeds up behind Greta and bites her in the neck. Klaus runs over and stakes Jenna in the chest. He slowly lays her to the ground.

"Jenna no!" Elena cries out to her. "just turn it off Jenna! Turn it off." Elena pleads. "you won't be scared." Klaus slowly climbs on top of her and plunges the stake into her heart. "JENNA NO! NO JENNA!" she screams at the top of her lungs, but she was gone. Elena falls to the ground, sobbing. Stefan finally becomes conscious again, seeing Elena so broken.

"no." he knows what happened. He turns his head to see Greta pouring Jenna's blood in the stone container. "I'm so sorry." he apologizes to Elena. She only shushes him.

"there gonna kill him." she turns her attention to Klaus as he walks back over to her.

"it's time." Klaus announces. The fire dies down for the last time and Elena slowly stands. Klaus holds out a hand, but she just walks past him. he follows behind her. She keeps her gaze at Jenna until he places his hand under her chin to turn towards him. "thank you, Elena."

"go to hell." she snaps. He vamps out and sinks his fangs into her neck until she's rendered bloodless. She falls to the ground next to Jenna, completing Klaus' transition. Klaus suddenly feels a sense of power as he walks past the dead body.

"it's working, I can feel it." his bones start to snap as he falls to the ground. He starts to yelling pain. Suddenly, Bonnie emerges from the woods, shouting and chanting a spell. Greta tries to stop her, but Damon kills her before she gets the chance. Bonnie walks up closer to Klaus, using as much power as she can. "you were dead!" he screams louder. Damon picks up Elena's body and brings her over to Stefan.

"Elena." Stefan whispers. Damon walks around and rips the stake out of his back. "I need you to keep her safe."

"you?" Damon asks.

"I'm not going until Klaus is gone." Damon picks Elena up again and bolts to the old witch mansion. Stefan struggles, but walks up next to Bonnie while she lets Elijah take over. Elijah slowly walks up to him.

"Elijah." Klaus whispers.

"hello brother." Elijah punches into his chest and grips his heart. "in the name of our family, Nicklaus."

"they're not buried at sea, Elijah." Elijah's expression shifts.

"what?"

"they're bodies are safe." Klaus pants.

"don't listen to him!" Stefan yells.

"if you kill me, you'll never see them. I give you my word I will take you to them." Klaus pleads.

"do it and I'll take you both out." Bonnie chimes in.

"but you'll die." Elijah reminds her.

"I don't care." she gives a stern face, but Elijah makes up his mind. He turns to Bonnie and Stefan.

"I'm sorry."

"NO!" they yell after him, but he disappears with Klaus.

Damon arrives at the mansion, with Elena still in his grasp. Alaric and Jeremy run to the vampire and see what happened. Damon places her on the couch as the three boys wait silently to see if the elixir really did work.

"how is she?" Jeremy asks.

"I don't know, yet." Damon answers.

"what about Jenna?" Alaric questions. Damon only gives him a sad look and Alaric immediately knows what happened. "no." he says.

"I'm sorry Ric, Jeremy." Damon turns his attention back to Elena. Alaric sadly walks down the stairs as Jeremy and Damon wait for Elena. Suddenly, Elena gasps and leans forward, trying to breath. Jeremy runs over to her and Alaric walks back in.

"Damon." she breathes.

"how do you feel?" Damon says.

"I feel fine." she's still panting. She looks at Jeremy.

"hey." he whispers. She hugs him. she then turns to Alaric, who is in tears, and runs into his arms. They both cry on each others shoulder.

Elena is back in her room, getting ready for the funeral. Jeremy knocks on her door and walks in.

"I'm almost ready." she states.

"yeah, take your time." Jeremy tells her. He starts to leave.

"Jeremy..." she trails off. He turns to her. "I'm so sorry. I'm sorry you've lost so much."

"I will always have you." he pulls her into a hug. He pulls away and leaves so she can finish up.

Everyone, even Caroline, comes to the funeral as Elena carries three roses. She places one on each grave. Jenna's, Grayson's, and Miranda's. She cries the whole time. When she arrives home, she heads to her room and falls asleep for the rest of the day. Trying to find some peace of her own. Not knowing what tomorrow will bring.

Next chapter will tell you what the elixir does and I bet no one will see it come, or maybe someone, I don't know. Did you like, love, or hate this chapter? Do you have any questions, comments, or concerns? Please review if you do:)