I choked awake, coughing and I sucked in a huge breath. What happened? A grip tightened on my arms and I realized that it was Jeremy, that I was resting my head in Jeremy's lap in some dreary room. What the heck was going on?

I looked over at my brother and I grabbed him and almost pulled him down onto the dirty floor with me. "Thank God, you're awake," he breathed.

"What happened?" I asked. I let loose of Jeremy and turned to see John, Damon, Alaric, and Elijah standing near us. It all flooded back. "Oh no. Oh no, Jenna! Did you get Jenna?" Damon solemnly shook his head at me. Jeremy helped me to my feet and I kept ahold of his hand. He helped steady me. "Where are we?" I slowly asked. "How did I get here?"

"This is where Bonnie can draw the power of those witches," said Jeremy. I took another look around. The place was dilapidated but I had to admit that I felt safe.

"Elijah brought you," said Ric. My gaze landed on the Original in the room and he solidly looked back at me. I immediately conjured up an image in my mind of him carrying me inside the house and of him finding me dead on the porch. He might've lost his cool for once in his long life. But I knew he hadn't. He'd calmly found me, relayed the problem to Damon, who was the one who did the fretting, and carried my body here to be with my brother.

"Thank you for all you've done for me," I said then. I meant it more sincerely than he probably knew. Elijah had come to my rescue more often than he hadn't.

"You are very welcome, Vivian," Elijah responded. "I just wish I had reached you sooner."

"Well, Vivian, what happened to you?" asked Damon. He'd almost advanced on me when I'd looked at him earlier and I could tell he was worried.

"Jenna answered the house phone," I started slowly, "and Elijah was on the phone with you or Stefan, I think. Then I got up to ask her who it was and she started walking to the front of the house but I didn't think anything of it until she said that Jeremy was in trouble. She walked out the front door and I tried to stop her. But oh, my God, I think she's dead." My hand covered my mouth and Jeremy wrapped his arm around my waist. I played what happened over and over in my mind. I'd heard someone break her neck… and then, they broke mine. "They broke her neck. It was a guy."

"It was Klaus," said Elijah. I stared over at him then and he didn't seem pleased with what was going on. He actually seemed angry.

"But you're alright," said John. "You're lucky." I nodded and rubbed my hands over my face.

"Why did he kill Jenna?" I asked. I looked at Alaric then for some sort of confirmation. He looked upset but not as upset as I would've thought.

"Jenna's not exactly dead," said Damon. His abnormally light eyes filled with guilt when he was looking at me and I didn't understand. "I freed Caroline and Tyler so that Klaus wouldn't be ready for the ritual. He improvised." Jenna was going to be the vampire he killed.

"No," I said. "No, you can't be serious." I looked at Ric again and he looked openly torn up about it.

"He could've taken you," said Damon. "I say we count that as a success."

"He killed me anyway, Damon!" I responded.

"Well, Stefan is gonna offer himself instead of Jenna. Hopefully Klaus will want a vampire who's a bit more valuable." My jaw almost hit the floor. He wasn't being serious, was he? I didn't want Jenna to be sacrificed but that didn't mean that I wanted Stefan to take her place. Elena would never stand for it. But of course, she probably doesn't even know what's going on.

"He can't do that," I said. Damon gave me a solemn look.

"He's not asking for anyone's permission." I breathed out a sigh and Jeremy moved away from me. "You're alright so we have succeeded in something and John here is finally good for something. He knows of a spell to spare Elena."

"But it will kill him," said Ric. Damon had clearly wanted that information left out. I turned to John then, my biological father, and I simply stared.

"I don't know what to say," I said to him. He only shrugged.

"I've been a terrible father to you both," John began, "and maybe by doing this, it will somehow make up for the mistakes I've made."

"You don't need to die!"

"I'm at peace with it. It's the only way to ensure that when she comes back, she'll be human." I should've figured that that was his prime motivation, trying to make sure that neither of the twins ended up one of the undead. But now Elena and I will have lost both sets of parents. We would only have each other and Jeremy. My mind was set on Jenna's death and how completely unavoidable it was. It was our faults anyway. If we'd told her earlier about everything we knew, this all might've been avoided.

"Then thank you for making the sacrifice." I noticed Elijah diagonal from me and he had a strange look on his face. Either he didn't understand my response or it had surprised him.

"Well, I hate to break up this happy gathering but we've got a hybrid to kill and an aunt to save," said Damon.

Jeremy looked at me reassuringly for a moment and when I nodded at him, he walked off to get ready. Alaric quickly followed him and I took a minute to brace myself for what this would hold. I'd been killed, Elena will be killed, Jenna or Stefan will be killed, and hopefully, Klaus will be killed.

"You're going to stay here with John, Jeremy, and Alaric, okay?" Damon's voice shook me from my thoughts and I turned to him then.

"Yes. Do they know they're staying?" I responded. Damon half smiled at me. Of course they didn't know.

"They'll know when they can't get out the door. Bonnie's spelled it the way she did for Elena a few weeks ago." Right then, Bonnie rounded a corner and saw our group. She nodded at me but didn't smile. She was prepared to do what she needed to do.

"It's time, right?" she asked. Damon nodded in response. Immediately after, I grabbed her and hugged her. Bonnie slowly hugged me back, her small arms clutching my back anxiously, revealing to me that she was more worried than I had originally thought.

"Be careful," I whispered and then I let her go. She nodded and stood back from me.

Damon came forward now and even though I could tell he was putting up a good fight, he could hardly wait for me to be in his arms. He held me close much longer than Bonnie had and I felt myself shake against him. Damon pressed my hair down firmly and five seconds later he'd put three feet between us. "Be careful too… and save Stefan or Jenna or both," I said. He nodded knowingly but didn't respond.

Lastly I turned to Elijah and awkwardly, I walked forward. I heard Bonnie say something to Damon about the plan and he responded but I barely heard what they were saying. "I still don't understand why you're helping us but I'm incredibly glad that you are," I said. He sort of smiled in that way he had, like smiling was way too much effort.

"Klaus took my family from me," he said slowly. "Scattered them across the seas is what I've heard him say. I'll be glad to see that he doesn't take yours as well." I nodded at him then, my hands on my hips. I glanced sideways and I saw Damon make a face and nod at me. I snapped back to Elijah awkwardly.

"Well, I'm sorry to hear that but thank you. I hope that you find them. But nonetheless, I'm grateful for everything you've done for me and for Elena. Just um, thank you." I didn't think and I reached forward and hugged him. He clearly hadn't been expecting it and I knew my hair was touching the side of his face. It was strange and I felt weird touching him. Damon had egged me on for this and I felt like a fool, falling for another of his tricks. But right when I felt like a complete idiot, I felt Elijah's hand on the small of my back, grabbing hold of my shirt but letting it go just as quickly. I backed away and when I looked over at Damon, he gave me a small thumbs up.

The rest of the night passed in a blur. Bonnie, Elijah, and Damon left. Jeremy and Alaric screamed at them from the doorway for leaving them here with me and John. I sat with John for a while until he began feeling strange and I knew the spell was working on him. I felt a lot of fear for Elena, knowing it was our twins' bond. I tried to spend the night with him, knowing it would be the last time we ever talked. Alaric paced and Jeremy fretted. Soon night became morning and I heard people enter the house. Damon strode past me carrying Elena's body and the shock that went through me almost incapacitated me. She was dead, really and truly dead. There was no life in her body.

I saw John move toward the door and I followed him. He gave me a solid nod before walking outside and I felt something. John dropped to the ground and I gasped. But I knew that Elena was ultimately okay.

When I ran back into the room where Elena was, she was awake. I practically pushed Jeremy out of the way to hug her close. That's when I looked around the room. Damon was here, Bonnie was here, but Elijah wasn't. That's when Alaric and I finally realized something. Stefan was here too. That meant that Jenna had been killed. I looked between Elena and Jeremy before slowly succumbing to tears.

Damon explained everything to me over the next day. Elijah had been ready to tear Klaus' heart out when Klaus had mentioned that he could take Elijah to his family. Therefore, he let Klaus go with that vague promise to reunite them. Damon called Klaus a manipulative bastard and that was a rich comment from someone like Damon. Elijah had been tricked and we'd all paid for it. Although, had I been in the same situation, I can't say I wouldn't have reacted similarly.

Then at Jenna's funeral, as if I wasn't enough of a wreck, Damon revealed to me and Stefan that Tyler had bit him when he'd released him and Caroline. As far as we all knew, there was no cure. Stefan promised the both of us that he'd look but Damon was reserved to his fate. The only person who would possibly know anything about a cure was the hybrid Stefan and Damon had tried to kill only a day ago. Stefan would be taking a huge risk by approaching him. But he did it anyway.

I stayed with Damon while he went through the pain of the cure and Stefan went to Alaric's apartment to talk to Klaus. Damon escaped from me after a while and approached Elena in town, evidently hallucinating that she was Katherine. She luckily brought him back to the Salvatore house and the both of us stayed with him. I tried to give them some time alone since I knew how much he loved my sister and Elena was clearly distraught about it.

Some minutes after I had left them alone, Katherine breezed in the door and I took off after her. She was holding something and oh my gosh, what if it was what we'd wanted?

I arrived in Damon's bedroom right behind Katherine, completely breathless. I stopped beside her when I saw what was going on. Damon had broken out in a sweat hours ago when he'd begun hallucinating and he was laying on his bed, trying hard not to cough. Elena was visibly crying where I'd tried to conceal mine most of the day for both of their benefits. But what I was seeing absolutely blew my mind. Elena was kissing Damon.

"Well, you can thank me," Katherine said from beside me. She was holding a jar filled with thick red liquid and tossed it to Damon. "That's the cure."

"Were you released from compulsion?" I asked, openly relieved when Damon shot back the liquid in the jar and immediately started looking better.

"Yep," she responded. "The cure is Klaus' blood, by the way."

"Why did you come?" asked Damon.

"Oh, I figured I owed you one."

"Where is Stefan?" asked Elena finally.

"Are you sure you wanna know?"

"Yes," I said. "Yes, we do."

"He gave himself up to Klaus to save his brother. They're leaving town together. He's got Stefan back on human blood. I expect they'll be gone in an hour, once Klaus secures that coffin for Elijah." My heart almost stopped. Of course Elijah had been daggered. God. "But I guess I'll be checking out. Oh and Elena, it's okay to love them both. I did." Then she turned and sauntered out of the room with a last wink to me.

Whoo! Season two is officially done! I'm really excited to start into season three and stuff with Klaus so hopefully I'll update really soon. And if you have a tumblr, mine is cougarontheprowl. I have a lot of Vampire Diaries stuff so I figured some of you may be interested.