Author's Note:

Sorry! I would have update yesterday(Monday). But I had to study for three different quizzes...school is a pain in the ass. I swear. Here's your well deserved chapter... Thank You for the 60+ reviews:)

Oh and I apologize for any typos or missing words, I was in a rush so I'll edit them out later.

Chapter X: The Sacrifice

"So you don't remember anything?" Bonnie questioned after she heard Sophie's story. She had told them mostly everything leaving both Katherine and Klaus out of it. She basically told them that she woke up in a cave with no memories of people that she knew.

"For the love of god. If I did I certainly wouldn't be here drinking." Sophia answered, slightly irritated by the witch's interrogation. But then again she really didn't like witches anyways, Bonnie included.

Elena placed her hand on her friend's shoulder,"Relax Bon, she's just confused. She can't help but be frustrated." Aria smiled a real smiled, the show that showed her dimples. She started to take a liking in Elena, maybe it was because she seemed more caring than her own mother.

Bonnie shook her head and looked towards Stefan who hadn't said anything, "What do you think about this?" Stefan looked at Aria with his eyebrows raised, "How do we know you're not siding with Klaus?"

"Klaus?" Aria repeated as she concentrated on the name.

Lucian said my father's name as Niklaus, but my father introduced himself as Nik.

Without thinking she groaned and all eyes settled on her.

Better make something up...

"His name sound familiar but I just can't put my finger on it. Do I know him by any chance?" She sighed, rubbing the side of her head.

Stefan nodded seeming to believe the girl, "No. I just want you to stay away from Klaus. Do not go near him, Soph, he's dangerous." Stefan warned as he let his hand run down his neck.

"Speaking of, Sophie why don't you stay at Boarding House?" Caroline suggested.

Damon glanced towards Sophia, who looked back at Damon,"It's your call. Whatever you think is the best for me. I don't even not what this Klaus guy looks like." She said placing her head against his chest as Damon wrapped his arms around her.

Elena moved her head towards the side in interest as to why Sophia addressed Damon in that matter but shook it off when Bonnie started to talk, "I personally think that's the safest place for her. Plus we can keep an eye out for her."

Damon nodded, "Well cheekbones looks like you're moving in."

Great! Spending time with strangers that I barely know and trust. My boyfriend?-Damon. Included.

"That's great and everything but my clothes-"

"Don't worry we'll go shopping for new ones." Caroline interrupted.

She really is too perky for her own good.

Stefan was about to say something when he was cut of by a loud scream. He winced and looked towards Sophia, who was currently hugging a stranger that seemed to appear out of nowhere.

"Luican." She said, "This is Caroline, Damon, Elena, Bonnie and Stefan."

"Guys this is my protector, the only person that I remember, Luke."

The man seemed to make Damon uneasy, considering that Damon must have done something stupid if he was. Stefan couldn't help but wonder if it had something to do with the way Sophia curled up to him earlier.

"Seriously! You have your own protector. That's so cool." Caroline said, "Does everyone have some type of guardian?"

Lucian shook his head and laughed at the innocent child, "Only a few gifted have one and to answer your question. Aria didn't pick me, I was assigned to her at the day of her birth."

"I don't understand. What are you exactly? Do you protect Sophia from everything?" Damon said, he wanted to attack him, torture him to tell him something that could help Elena.

"I only protect her from what I think is right?"

"And you don't know what happened to Sophie when she was unconscious?" Bonnie said.

Lucian could feel Aria's eyes burning into his soul, "That's something that Aria will have to find out for herself." He stated before disappearing.

(later that night)

"So you're just going to leave me here? I wanna help guys." Sophia questioned as Stefan and Damon both headed towards the door.

"Now way cheekbones. Stay here. We'll get Elena back from Klaus." She want to pout or do something to get them to take her but she realized it was no use, they wouldn't take her near Klaus. She felt useless. She wanted to save Elena but she couldn't do that without disappointing her father. She stood at a hard place. It was either Elena or her father.

Or I could just sit back and see what happens. She smirked.

Klaus walked into the building turning his attention towards Katerina. "Where's Maddox? He should have been be back by now."He said walking over to his computer and pulled out his phone out of his pocket.

"I don't know," Katerina answered, sitting backwards in a chair, resting her chin against the back. Klaus connects his phone to the computer. "What are you doing?" When he doesn't answer, she tried another approach. "Where's Elena?"

"I sent her off with Greta," Klaus answered, engulfed in whatever was on the computer screen.

He turned the volume up and to Katherine's surprise she hears a girl struggling. "It's almost time." He stated practically smiling. The door suddenly burst open and Katherine jumped at the sound, realizing that Damon Salvatore had just burst in, and possibly to his doom.

"I wasn't aware you'd been invited in," Klaus said slouching back in his chair, pressing the pause on his computer, not even bothering to look at Damon.

"I've come to tell you that you have to postpone the ritual," Damon answered.

"Didn't we already have this conversation?" Klaus sounded bored, but somewhat amused.

"Yeah," Damon says. "But that was before I rescued your werewolf and vampire…and killed your witch and have your daughter as my hostage."

Klaus gets out of his chair and turns to face Damon. He was absolutely pissed off. How dare he keep Aria? But that was not his main concern.

"Excuse me?" he was beyond pissed.

"And you can kill me for it," Damon says, unflinching. "I don't care. It was all me."

"Katerina," Klaus says, not taking his eyes off of Damon. "Give us a moment."

"I've heard about you. The crazy, impulsive vampire…in love with his brother's girl Now tell me, Damon, what do you have with makes you want to protect her" Klaus smirks and walks away. "I knew one of you would try to stop me. Duh, they're both in love with her. It was just a fifty-fifty guess on who." Klaus leans down and presses play on his computer and the screaming girl starts up again. "The nice thing about werewolves is they tend to travel in packs." Klaus shuts his computer and throws his phone to Damon. "Need a closer look?"

Damon snatched the phone and looked at the woman on screen.

"Jules," he says with no emotion in his voice.

So when you spend a thousand years trying to break a curse," Klaus walks towards Damon and starts to circle him around him. "You learn a thing or two. First rule: always have a backup. Backup werewolf…backup witch…"

"Backup vampire," Damon sighed, finishing Klaus' sentence.

"And about Aria. I've got her covered too." Klaus then proceed to attack Damon, who fell onto the floor of the apartment knocked out cold.

Aria was currently hiding behind some bushes, waiting for her chance to help. Curiosity had lead her there because she was planning on stay home like Stefan and Damon had convinced her to. But her mind had other plans...

"Greta," Elena was pleading with the witch. "Witches are supposed to maintain the balance in nature. It's your duty to them to keep this curse sealed."

"My duty is to Klaus," Greta responded arrogantly as they entered the clearing. "The new order."

"Glad to know I still have a dance partner," Her father smirked, then looks around at the three women restrained by the rings of fire. "Hello, my lovelies. Are we ready?"

Sophie moved to get a closer look, when her foot accidentally stepped on a twig, drawing Klaus' attention.

"Aww. Aria, my dearest daughter, have you come to watch?" Klaus said flashing towards Aria while grabbing her wrist.

"Stay here," He demanded. "Don't move. When I turn, you'll go straight to the apartment to where Katherina is." He then turned his attention to Greta. "I've got the moonstone. I spent five-hundred years looking for this. I'd hate to part with it." He pulled the clear stone from his coat pocket and handed it to her.

"The moon is past it's apex," Greta smiled. "Remember everything you must need to do?"

" Of course I remember." He answered.

Greta then processed to drop the moonstone into a pit and it catches fire, and she starts to chant in that hypnotic magic language, only parts of it, Aria was able to understand.

The fire around the werewolf disappeared and Klaus stepped towards her. Jules tried to escape, but he caught her and ripped her heart out. Aria watched in horror. She wished she could have done something.

But this is what Jules deserves, she killed Rose. Sophie reminded herself.

Taking the werewolf's heart, he walked back over to Greta, who was still chanting. Afterwards she went towards the fiery pit and squeezes the blood of the heart into the flames.

"Does that mean it's working?" Klaus asked.

"It's working," she reassured him.

Klaus walked over towards Jenna with a stake in his hand as the fire diminishing as he approached.

"Hello, Jenna," Klaus said with the face impassive.

"Let her go," Elena pleaded. "I understand that I have to die. But she doesn't-" Elena stepped forward and the fire flared up.

"Careful," Klaus admonishes her.

"Elena," Jenna warned. "Don't."

"No, Jenna," Elena says with fierce determination. "We can't leave Jeremy without a family." She looked over at Klaus. "I followed your rules, I did everything you asked. I didn't run. Please?"

Aria couldn't tell if her father could tell that a vampire was in his appearance or if he was ignoring the vampire.

"Well, well," He finally spoke, turning around. "I don't recall you being on the guest list."

Stefan just happened to be Klaus' unwelcome guest. Stefan stood up on the ridge looking down at us.

"I'm here to talk," Stefan explains.

"Very well, then," Klaus said flashing towards Stefan within a matter of seconds. "What can I do for you, Stefan Salvatore?"

"You don't need to kill Jenna," Stefan said. "I'll take her place."

Aria glanced over to Elena, who was no doubt trying to hear what they were saying.

"Oh, I don't know," Klaus' face gave nothing away, meaning he was going to surprise Stefan or actually use him."I rather appreciate the symmetry of three women…three goddesses sacrificed at nature's alter." That is when Aria knew Stefan wasn't going to be of any use to her father.

Klaus was circling Stefan like a predator about to pounce on it's prey. He was probably trying to find a way to attack him.

"Don't play games with me," Stefan said trying to be confident. "You'll get what you want anyway."

"You're quite the hero, aren't you?" Klaus says sardonically. "Yeah, I've heard that about you."

"Just make the trade," Stefan pleaded. "Me for Jenna."

Sophie's attention turned back to Elena and Jenna.

"Elena…" Jenna trails off, trying to calm her.

"I have to do something," Elena says, pacing around her fire-enclosed space. "This can't happen. None of it."

"Quite the predicament," Klaus' unruffled voice interrupts her rant. "You know, it's funny, all this talk about preserving family…and here's Stefan, granting your wish."

Stefan had come off of the ridge and was walking towards Elena.

"Stefan," Elena sighs, tears in her eyes.

"It's okay," Stefan tries to assure her.

"Well," Klaus says, waving the stake in the air. "Who's it gonna be Elena?"

"No," Elena was adamant.

"Oh, don't worry," Klaus says. "There's actually no choice."

Klaus staked Stefan in the back and broke off a piece of the stake in his back, making Stefan struggle.

"I have other plans for your boyfriend," Klaus explains. "I want him alive. But for now…" Klaus trailed off while snapping Stefan's neck, who passed out in no time.

"Whenever you're ready, Greta." He smirked.

Greta starts to chant again and the fire around Jenna goes out.

"No," Elena was close to tears.

"Your turn," Klaus turns towards Jenna.

"No, Jenna," Elena pleads. "No."

"It's alright Elena," Jenna says. "I know what I have to do."

Jenna then rushes towards Greta and buries her fangs into Greta's neck, only to be stopped by Klaus and thrown into the sacrificial altar.

"Jenna, no," Elena was crying.

Klaus flips Jenna over and jammed the stake into her chest, right where her heart would be.

"No!" Elena screamed. "Jenna!"

Jenna went still and turned gray. She was gone. Dead.

Greta was still chanting and pouring what looked like blood into the fire. Jenna's blood,it was time for the final step of the ritual.

"It's time,"Klaus announced while heading towards Elena, where the fire going out around her.

Klaus held out his hand to her and she stood up and walked towards the altar, ignoring his offered hand.

Once on the altar, she looked over at Jenna's lifeless body laying there, and she looked like she tried not to show her emotions. Her lips in a pressed line.

He then grasped her chin and making her look at him.

"Thank you, Elena," he whispers.

"Go to hell," Elena retorts before Klaus bite into her neck and drinks until she falls to the ground dead.

Her father had done it. He did what he was after for thousands of years. He was now a true hybrid. Now all she had to; was escape before anything happened to her...

A/N:

Here's my burning question(s):

So should I take Aria along with Klaus or leave her with Damon and Elena?

Do you guys ship Stebekah? or Stelena?

Do you like Lucian? Should I place him in more scenes?

~Jenny