TVD part 11

Everything was happening at once. Bonnie had been trying to do a spell that loosened the ropes on Damon's and Stefan's hands and feet since she had woken up moments ago. Bonnie watched as the ropes that were binding Stefan and Damon fell to the floor. Damon and Stefan were beside Elena in an instant. Damon kneeled down next to Elena. He gently stroked her cheek. He leaned down and gave her a kiss on the forehead. When he brought his head back up, Bonnie noticed that he was crying. He wasn't just crying though. Damon was entirely drained. He was looked absolutely hopeless, as though life was no longer worth living. Stefan was beside Elena too. He was holding onto her hand as if he would never let go. He could barely bring himself to look at her. He looked down at the ground and began to sob. Stefan was shaking uncontrollably. Alaric had untied Jeremy and taken away the gag. Jeremy was sitting next to where Elena's body was at on the floor. He gave Elena's other hand a tight squeeze. Tears were streaming down Jeremy's face. "No" he cried. "Elena. No, not my sister too. Now I don't have anyone" he sobbed. Bonnie and Caroline were crying too. Tyler stood back, in the far corner of the room. He was stunned. Tyler could not even move from the spot that he was in. Nobody noticed that Klaus was still in the room. Suddenly, Damon seemed to become aware of his surroundings. Klaus was standing in the living room laughing. He seemed to find something amusing about this situation. Damon quickly got up from where he had been kneeling beside Elena. He ran towards Klaus, grabbing a bloody stake from the ground. Klaus merely dodged his attack. Then before he could do anything else, Klaus had left.

Damon looked around. Elijah and Jonas were nowhere to be found as well. It had been about five minutes since Elena had been killed by Klaus. Suddenly, Elena's eyes began to flutter a little. Then Elena took a deep breath , gasping for air. Everyone was in shock. In an instant, Damon and Stefan were at her side, helping her to breathe. "Elena you're alive!" Stefan exclaimed.

"Elena are you okay?" Damon asked. The people surrounding her, all had the same question. How?

"It worked, it worked! Caroline yelled ecstatically.

Bonnie gave Caroline a scolding look. Immediately, Caroline regretted saying what she had. Damon rushed over to Caroline. He pinned her against the wall. "Ok start talking now!" What did you guys do?" he demanded. It was hard for Caroline to breathe. "Damon let go of her!" Stefan yelled. Damon released his grip on Caroline. It took Caroline a few moments to catch her breath. Bonnie raced over to help her. Bonnie answered Damon instead. "I made Elena a ring. Well I had help from Lucy but we made her a ring like Jeremy and Alaric have" Bonnie explained. Everyone was listening intently now. Stefan looked at Elena, as if for confirmation. Elena said "Yes, it's true" very softly. This was the first thing that she had said since she had woken up. Elena was rubbing her neck. She had a feeling that it was going to be sore for a while.

"Did you guys ever think that letting the rest of us in on your little secret might be beneficial? Damon asked accusingly. This time it was Caroline who responded.

"Elena knew that she was in danger. She realized that Klaus wanted to kill her. She wanted to be prepared just in case he did" Caroline explained. It was as though she were explaining a complicated movie to children. "Ok there is just one problem with that. I don't see a ring on Elena" Damon pointed out. Stefan looked surprised. He hadn't noticed one either. Slowly, Elena took out a chain that she had been hiding underneath her shirt. "I didn't want Klaus to see it" she explained. Damon was furious. He wanted to kill Bonnie and Caroline for letting Elena do something this stupid. Stefan must have sensed that Damon was about to do something insane, because suddenly, he said "Come on we have to get Elena home. She needs to rest" Stefan said. Then they heard a noise coming from behind them.

Um- hello. She's alive. Yay! Let me jump for joy! Oh wait I still have stakes stuck

in my legs and vervain ropes on my hands and feet" Katherine said sarcastically. Stefan got up and walked over to Katherine. He pulled the stakes out her legs. He noticed the gloves that Elijah had left lying on the floor. He picked them up, and put them on. Then he proceeded to take the vervain ropes off of Katherine's hands and feet. Katherine stood up. "Thank you" she said to Stefan. Then she walked over to Bonnie. "You had better be grateful, you little witch, that I am not going to hurt you for forgetting to do your hocus pocus with my ropes and the stakes" Katherine said, threateningly to Bonnie. Then Katherine walked over to Elena. "Well that was a clever little stunt that you pulled" she said. She actually sounded semi impressed. Elena looked up at Katherine. "Um- thanks" she said, nervously. "I told you that you are more like me than you thought" Katherine said to Elena. "So are you going to help us now?" Stefan asked her. Katherine smiled deviously at Stefan. "Oh Stefan, you're so naïve" she said, smugly. "You should know by now that I only look out for me" Katherine said. Katherine proceeded to get closer to Stefan. She leaned up and gave him a kiss on the cheek. Then she whispered in his ear "I know that you still love me Stefan, I will be seeing you again sometime." Then she turned to Damon. "Goodbye Damon" she said, using her sweet seductive voice. She walked closer to him and stoked his cheek with her hand. He stared at her, wondering what her angle was. Instead of playing along, he simply said "Goodbye Katherine". Katherine walked toward Elena. "I know that in the end you will make the right choice Elena. You are after all, my doppelganger" she said, slyly. Katherine took one last look around the house at everyone who was there. Then she ran out the front door. Stefan and Damon stared out the door for a few more fleeting moments.

Damon was still very angry at Bonnie and Caroline for allowing Elena to do this. He tried to calm himself down. He needed a distraction desperately. That was not however, what he received. Stefan picked Elena up and placed her in his arms. Then he carried her outside and gently put her in the car. Damon walked out of the house without saying another word to anymore.

"I don't think that Tyler, Jeremy and I are going to fit in this car" Caroline commented. It was true. There was really only room for five people in Damon's car. This posed a slight problem for them. "It's ok" Jeremy said. "Jules left her car here" he told everyone.

"Well she's not going to be needing it anymore" Damon said, snidely. Everyone just stared at him in disbelief. "What? She's isn't going to be using it" Damon said, calmly. The drive back to Mystic Falls was a long one. No one really said anything. It was already afternoon two o'clock in the afternoon when they arrived back. Everyone was completely exhausted. Stefan and Damon dropped Bonnie and Alaric off at their respective houses. Then they took Elena back to the Salvatore house. Jeremy arrive a few minutes after they did.

Elena sat down on the couch in the living room. Damon was pacing back and forth in front of the fireplace. Stefan sat down on the couch next Elena. He turned to her and "Elena, what you did was crazy" he said, calmly. You could have been killed. You could have actually died and not come back" Stefan told her.

"I know Stefan. Please save me the lecture. This is why I didn't want anyone else to know. I knew that you guys wouldn't let me do it. I guess that it turns out that I was right, Stefan" Elena said, forcefully. Damon was waiting for an opportune time to tell Elena exactly what he thought about what she had done. He was still seething. Damon left for a few minutes. When he came back he had two blood bags in his hands. He offered one to Stefan. "Oh no thanks, maybe later" he told Damon.

"Stefan are you insane?" Do you not remember being staked in the chest earlier today? Does that not ring a bell for you?" Damon asked, angrily. Before Stefan could reply, there was a knock on the door. "Hey guys, it's Jenna. Can you please let me in? It's freezing out here" she said. Damon sped out of the room, so Aunt Jenna wouldn't see the blood bags in his hands. Elena answered the door. "Hey Aunt Jenna. How was work?" she asked.

"Oh it was fine Elena. I'm just glad to be back inside of someplace warm" she said. Aunt Jenna said hello to Stefan. "Where is Jeremy at? I haven't seen him since before he went to the grill last night" Jenna said.

"He's upstairs, in his room" Elena informed her. Jenna walked upstairs and went to see Jeremy.

Damon had returned to the living room. "I need to talk to you" he said, gesturing towards Elena. Elena glanced at Stefan. Who merely shrugged his shoulders. Elena followed Damon into the kitchen. "What were you thinking?" Damon asked, concerned.

"Damon I already had this conversation with Stefan. Do I really need to repeat myself again?" she asked, frustrated.

"Yes you do" he said, quietly. Damon placed both of his arms around Elena's shoulders. He looked straight into her eyes. "Don't ever do something like that again" he scolded.

"Damon I am not a child You need to stop treating me like one" Elena said, fervently. It seemed as though Damon literally wanted to shake some sense into Elena. He was still gripping her shoulders, not letting go. "Elena I have to make sure that you're going to be safe. I can't do that if I don't know what is going on" Damon said. He was beginning to calm down now. He took his hands off of Elena's shoulders. "I'm fine Damon" she insisted. Then he pulled her in close for a hug. Elena was unsure how to react to this. Stefan was in the other room. She didn't have any idea how he would react to this. Finally, Damon let go of her. Elena walked back into the living room. Stefan walked over to Damon. "You know that there is other stuff that we have to talk about. The full moon is tonight" Stefan, seriously.

"Yeah, and I remember all too well what happened the last time" Damon said. They were both trying to be careful and make sure that Jenna could not hear them.

Later that day, Jeremy said that he was going to the grill. Elena told Jenna that she was going with him. Damon gave Jeremy a piercing look. He seemed to be thinking seriously do you remember what happened the last time you went to the grill. Jeremy stared back at Damon. The Damon said "Hey Jenna you know what I'll drive them there. I need to go the grill anyhow" he offered.

"Yeah that sounds great" Jenna said. "Oh before I forget, is it okay for Rick to come over tonight?" she asked him.

"Yeah of course" Damon responded. With that Damon, Elena, and Jeremy got into Damon's car. "You know Elena, Klaus is not going to be fooled for long" he said almost as soon as they had left the Salvatore house.

"I know" Elena sighed. "I'm not going to be able to avoid Luka or his dad" Elena said. "My main goal was stay alive as long as possible before he finds out about the rings. Everything didn't really go as I had planned. I sort of hoped that if anything happened to me that it would give you and Stefan a chance to stake him" Elena explained.

"Hmm well I think that might have worked out better if you had let us in our little plan. Stefan and I were a little too busy thinking that you were dead to stake anybody. Excuse us for not being psychic" Damon retorted. Elena stared down at her hands. "Sorry" she mumbled. "But at least we got out without Klaus noticing" she said.

"Yeah that's true" Damon admitted. "We have to find out if he really broke the curse though. If he now has all of the powers that he claims to have that we are in more trouble than we were before" Damon said, ominously. By that time they had reached the grill. Damon, Elena and Jeremy got out of the car and walked into the restaurant.

Stefan was back at the Salvatore house with Jenna. "Hey Stefan um ok this is awkward. Alaric should be here in a few minutes. Do you think that maybe you could . . ." she didn't finish. Stefan immediately understood what she was asking. "You uh want me to leave so you can have some privacy" Stefan said, quickly. Jenna's face turned bright red. "Well tonight is sort of our three month anniversary" she said sheepishly.

"Why don't you just go over to Rick's place?" Stefan asked.

"Well too be honest, his place is small. And it's really cold because the heat doesn't work well there" Jenna said.

"You're right that doesn't sound very romantic" Stefan agreed. It was beginning to rain a little bit. A few minutes later, there was a knock on the door. Stefan answered it and Alaric came in. He was covered in mud. "What happened?" Jenna and Stefan asked simultaneously. Stefan couldn't help it. He laughed a little. Alaric explained that he had slipped getting out of his car. There was a pile of mud, outside of the Salvatore house. "Wow you and I are more alike than I thought" Jenna teased. "I thought that kind of thing only happened to me" she said. "Do you mind if I speak to Rick for a second?" Stefan asked Jenna.

"Yeah sure, of course I don't mind" she told Stefan. Stefan took Alaric aside. He warned him that the full moon should happen between 11 and midnight. "Be careful. If something strange happens you can call me or Damon. Do you have weapons in your car?" Stefan asked.

"Always" Rick answered. Stefan seemed to be satisfied with his answer. Then Stefan left the house.

Alaric walked over to Jenna. He attempted to give her a hug. "Um no Rick. Save it for later. Go take a shower first and then we can have fun" she said slyly. Rick reluctantly agreed with her. "Do you think that Stefan would mind me borrowing some of his clothes" Rick asked Jenna.

"I'm sure he'll be fine with it" Jenna said politely. Alaric gave Jenna a quick kiss on the cheek. Then he headed upstairs. After he had gotten into the shower, Jenna noticed that the fire was dying out. It was cold in the Salvatore house and she decided she would throw another log on it. There weren't any in the usual place, next to the fireplace. Jenna thought that she had seen Damon get firewood from somewhere else once. She remembered that he had gone to a closet that was underneath the staircase. Jenna went over the stairs. Sure enough there was a small door handle. She opened it up and walked into the closet. She didn't see any firewood. She saw that there was a trunk covered up with a tarp. Maybe it's in here she thought to herself. Jenna took the tarp off that was covering the trunk. She opened up the lid. Jenna nearly screamed at what she saw. Underneath the lid was bags and bags of blood. Terrified, she quickly slammed the lid shut. She pulled the tarp back over the trunk. Jenna closed the door to the closet. She was breathing very fast. Jenna turned around and saw someone standing behind her. "What wrong Jenna?. "Are you okay? Alaric asked.

"Yeah Rick you just scared me that's all. You got done really fast. Well I have learned to take quick showers since I grew up with three sisters" he explained. "Come on over here" he said. Alaric and Jenna went to sit on the couch. This was not the evening that Jenna had planned out. Jenna couldn't help but to keep thinking about what she had seen in the closet.