Chapter 14: Nothing ever ends until it… does!
the sun was signaling the new day as the three cruisers pulled away from the Lockwood mansion. Chaos was left behind them.
The kitchen had been converted to a makeshift hospital where Elliott was patching up Liz's throat where the thin chain of Elena's pearl necklace had broken the skin of Liz's delicate throat.
On the dining room table Carol was laid and Stefan kept compressing her chest while Damon was feeding her small gulps of his blood for the second time that night and Charlie used a pair of long tweezers to extract the bullet from her left lung.
In the living room Tyler paced angrily begging a God he had stopped believing since his first full moon to save his mother.
Bonnie and Lucy kept performing every single spell they knew to incapacitate the puppet master in the backyard asking Matt to use his knowledge of drinks to help them with the necessary potions.
Near them Rebekah and Klaus were cutting themselves to pour as much blood as the witches would need to end it all.
Tracy was writing down every single lie she could think off to explain the events of the night. How could she effectively explain the possible murder of Carol? How could she explain that three people had committed multiple murders and yet they could walk free if the local witches succeeded in freeing the puppets?
Jeremy ran to the garden holding an old book in his hands.
"Found it"
he panted and thrust the old leather book in Stephenie's hands. She fingered the page he pointed and smiled.
"What is it?"
Lucy asked taking a break from spell casting allowing the tied puppet master a moment of victory as Bonnie was too weak to keep the torture by herself. Jeremy pulled an orange crystal from his pocket attached to a long gold chain.
"Emily's talisman"
Lucy said pleased
"But I threw it in the flames"
Bonnie wondered out loud. At Lucy's smirk and Jeremy's accusing eyes she realized her cover was blown. She walked backwards and fell to another chair next to the now freaking out puppet master.
"I don't know why I said that"
"cut the crap Emily"
Lucy accused her ancestor and turned to face the woman next her.
"As for you..."
"I have an idea"
Bella interrupted her and pointed inside the house with a move of her head. Lucy puller a small bundle of sage and burned it before she followed Matt, Bella, Klaus and Rebekah inside the house where Joseph was hugging his ancestors close.
"They did it! They saved Carol"
he was astonished. matt took off to the dining room where carol was still unconscious but her very human heart beat loudly and Elliott was stitching her chest close. Liz's throat was bandaged and Charlie held a wooden box.
"your idea?"
Lucy asked Bella. the younger girl was grim.
"Feed her to the vampires"
her tone was absolute and it was a shock to everyone that knew her except Damon. she was as absolute as the night she told him he could punish Phil in any way he liked for trying to rape her the night he killed her little brother. the night Damon saved her and let the house burn to flames. The night he wiped her horrible memories simply because Renee was connected to the Salvatore family tree.
"I found these in Dad's journals. he mentions them in an entry of the last founder anniversary"
Stephenie was just as grim as she pointed to the items in Charlie's hands. the vampire compass and the Gilbert device.
"but these are for vampires and werewolves, not witches"
Caroline was confused but Liz nodded.
"if we recreate 1864 we'll be rid of her. however that is not my choice, or the council's. its yours"
she addressed Klaus and Rebekah. after all the puppet master was their mother.
"Do it"
Rebekah voted. She loved her mother, she really did but the woman had tried to kill her only a week ago.
"with one condition: burn down the white oak tree too"
Klaus agreed with his sister and set his own terms. the council members looked at each other and Charlie nodded.
"I'm sorry"
he apologized and set the device on as Lucy threw water on the burning sage. immediately a loud ringing, able to be heard only by vampires, werewolves, hybrids and dogs brought almost the entire town population on their knees. With a text deputies gathered the fallen bodies and transported them to the tomb underneath the old church.
Lucy used the Bennett medallion and set up the magical barriers trapping inside every hybrid Klaus made, every victim of his brothers, every rogue vampire in the city.
when they all woke up pissed and hungry Klaus tossed his mother inside ignoring her screams.
"Hey Tyler!"
"What?"
"I think its time for you to put yourself and your family's needs over mine"
Tyler's jaw went slack. Caroline's baby blue eyes wide as Klaus walked away
"You set him free, why?"
"Its the right thing to do... Are you going to go on a date with me now?"
"No!"
it was hit turn to remain jaw slacked as Bella walked away winking at a smirking tracy
The next morning the paper featured the breaking news.
"Killer has been caught. The brutal murderer responsible for many killings in the town of Mystic Falls has finally been caught and was shot to death last night. Read inside for more information"
Beneath it was a large picture of a man no one knew but everyone seemed to recognize thanks to Jeremy's drawing skills. He had sketched a face based on his friend's characteristics, Damon's eyes, Rebekah's eyebrows, Elena's smirk, Tyler's ears creating a person that everyone knew but never existed.
Esther Michelson had used her medallion to control Elena Gilbert to help kill her children.
Alaric's mental state since the time his body had played host to Klaus had been bad. No one realized he was the killer of the Founding Members.
Emily Bennett had sent thoughts to fellow witch Meredith Fell and herself took control of Bonnie's Bennett mind and body to stop Esther.
Their actions over the past year led the four humans in the mental hospital where they spent the rest of their lives in padded rooms
In a hidden room in the newly built town Elliott Forbes, Tracy Fell, Charlie Swan, Jeffrey Lockwood, Joseph Salvatore, Stephenie Gilbert, Elisabeth Forbes and Carol Lockwood signed with their blood the order of the new Founder's Council.
Their supernatural descendants took their rightful place as the town's protectors
"Although inspired by true incidents, the above story is fictional and does not depict any actual person or event"
THE END